The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-01 00:00:00

ROSCOE AND GIBSON

Roscoe was one of the first who observed and encou-
raged the genius of Gibson, whose works asa sculptor have
since gained him such deserved celebrity. While Gibson
was yet a student, he was frequently invited to Allerton
Hall ; and he had free access to the various works of art
which Mr. Roscoe was delighted to look over in his com-
pany. And, in 1827, when Gibson presented a marble
bust of his first friend to the Liverpool Royal Institution,
he accompanied it with the statement :—" To that gen-
tleman I am indebted for what little merit I ally possess
as a sculptor."

MR. PANIZZI AND THE LATE WILLIAM RGSCOE.—
In a letter to Mr. Rogers, written in the year 1830,
Roscoe, thus introduces Mr. Panizzi to the notice of that

gentleman :—" This is intended to be delivered to you
by my highly valued friend, Signor Antonio Panizzi, pro.
fessor of the Italian language in the London University,
who lived some years in Liverpool, whence he is now

returning, after visiting the numerous friends whom he
has made during his residence here. He is probably

already known to you by his literary works, particularly
his edition of Bojardo arid Arrozcto, now publishing ; in
addition to which, I beg leave to add my testimony, not
only to his abilities as an excellent scholar, but to his ex-
perienced worth as a sincere friend, and to his character
as a man."

A LITERARY SAlLOR.—Amongst the large number of
persons who solicited the literary advice and assistance of
William Roscoe was a sailor, whose letter we are fortu-

nately enabled to append. The precious document runs

as follows :

" Kind Sir i take this oportunity of wrighting to you
being advised by a Lady of Liverpool to do so in order to

tell you i am a Britich Sailor iliat as Lately arived in
England after aving maid racy escape from the cost of
New 'Leland were i was ten years a prisner and is Most
beautiful( tattled over the face and body, and as wrote a

manuscript of every think Consirning the interior of New

Zealand, the wars, Mariaires, Borings, and the Discrip-
tions of every Animals cf Birds Beasts and Reptils and
Menney others of the South Sceas, the Manuscript is va-
luable and wok] make a Book of 200 Pages if wrote by a
Good Editor being such enformation as Never yet being in

print not aving the menes of printing it moy selfe i wish to
Dispose and being advised to wright to you Concerning it i

shoid wish for you to send me a Uwe wether i must atend

at your house or whether you will wait on me at Mr. Cal-

vest's Exhibition in the market Liverpool where they are

exhibiting me as a curiosity

Your obedient Servini,

" JOHN ROTHERFOOT:"

LORD'S DAY OBSERVANCE.-It has been said that
when slaves become masters, they are very much dis-
posed to tyrannize in their turn over their newly-acquired
property. This, perhaps, will explain the strange spec-
tacle exhibited at Drury-lane Theatre, when a knot of
workmen resolved to use their own freedom on the
Lord's-day, in such a manner as to require another knot
of workmen to toil upon that day for the amusement
of their new masters. Master Webster, a carpenter,
abused those who out of pure regard for the working
classes tried to shut up railroads and the Post-office
on the Lord's-day. Webster considers it a shame
that he should be deprived of a rest upon the
Sabbath ; he has no notion of working seven days for
six days' pay ; he intends to rest and enjoy himself on the
Lord's-day; but having thus become his own master on
that day, he is fully resolved that a few servants shall
work that day for him. Webster having thus become
a master, insists upon it that omnibus-drivers, and con-
ductors, and cabmen, and steamboat men, and railway
men, and waiters, and all sorts of slaves shall wait
on Master Webster on his day of rest. What cares
this carpenter set free whether the sweat stands upon
the brow of the engine-driver or the stoker of
a railway carriage ? Let the clerks be all in
their places to hand Master Webster a ticket, waiters
or waitresses to attend his beck and call. Let the
poor postman walk ten miles to bring him a Sabbath-
breaking newspaper. He knows something of theology
too : " The Sabbath was made for man," says he ; that
means for Master Webster, not for cabmen, omnibus
drivers, canal men, publicans, postmen, railwaymen, and
such vile public slaves. Let them get their Sabbath where
they can, two Sabbaths in the week, one for the masters
and the other for the servants—but let them not dare to
stand in the way of their lords and masters in Drury-lane
Theatre.