The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-14 00:00:00

GREEN.

Useful Twankay

Good Middling Hyson-kind, pale brightish leaf—re-
commended
Full Flavoured Hyson, brightish leaf—recommended
as quite good enough for family purposes..
Superior Hyson, long twisted and bright leaf 6 0
Cowslip Hyson, of very choice quality. This Tea is only fit
to be mixed with Pekoe Souchong, its main quality
being flavour .
Canton-made Young Hyson
Ouchain, or Real Young Hyson—reeommended . .
Canton-made Gunpowder
Ditto Imperial Ditto
Fine Ditto Ditto
Very choice Gunpowder, bright shotty leaf 7 6
Persons buying an original chest, of SOlbs, or a half-chest,
gain the merchant's overweights, which vary from 2 to 31bs
on a chest, and from 1 to 2lbs on a half chest.

5 6
5 0
5 0
6 0

We must now draw your attention to the other branch of
our business, viz., Coffee, which we regret to say is as se-
riously adulterated as Tea, and, if possible, to a more alarm-
ing extent, which is easily shown by the fact that the con-
sumption of Chiccory has within the last three years increased
fully fifty fold; and about a twelvemonth since several retail
tea dealers and grocers were summoned by the excise officers
for having large quantities on their premises. Since which
(we suppose upon the same principle that duty was allowed
to be paid to government upon the four thousand chests of
tea that had deen wrecked, then brought to Liverpool,
washed, and dried on kilns) government has allowed the free
use of it upon payment of a small duty, therefore it is now
used with impunity ; and the value of it, duty paid, not being
more than 5d per lb, offers too great a temptation for the
generality of dealers to resist it; consequently, we advise
Families to purchase their Coffee in the berry, thereby en-
suring a genuine article, assuring them the small outlay of
buying a coffee-mill will soon be repaid. We shall roast
our Coffees twice a week, viz., Tuesdays and Fridays.
Our present prices (which, like our Teas, will vary as the
market value changes) are as follows :

COFFEES,
Whether ground or in the Berry, will be genuine

Good Ceylon .
Strong Berbice
Good Jamaica.

s. d,
1 8
1 10

2 0
...
(A very useful Family Coffee, and recommended for general
pur
Jamaica
(As fine a Coffee as need be, used.)
Mocha, the finest parcel imported for some time..
(Chiefly used by Connoisseurs.)
Relying upon the judgment of the Public for that support
and patronage which is necessary to the maintenance of an
Establishment upou the principles on which its foundation is
based, we are

servants
Your faithful and ohedainednV
; butilothree mies
SNOWDON
insure P.S.—Our Vans will deliver all Goods, ZYVN LOW.
of the Liverpool Exchange, free of charge
de-
livery the same day, the order must be given not later than
four o'clock, as the Vans will start their rounds at five. ga-
milies and Shopkeepers, resident in the adjacent towns, may
rely upon punctual attention to their orders per Post; LiTas
our terms are Cash only, it will be necessary to enclose about
the amount of the Goods. or an order upon some person in
Liverpool for payment.

COBBETT AND RoEnucx.—The late Mr. Cobbett was one
day dictating an article (as was his custom) for his Register,
of which the member for Bath was the subject, and happen-
ing to mention the words, " my little learned friend Mr.
Roebuck " several times, his amanuensis, wishing to be sure
whether Mr. Cobbett meant to say " little learned " or
" lea • nd ", said to him, " Did you say ' learned
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Patent,

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS

TAKEN BY THE
REFLECTION OF LIGHT,

AT THE

MOUNT GARDENS

ST.-JAMES'S WALK,

LIVERPOOL. .
THE Proprietors of the REFLECTING APPARATUS,
by which FAITHFUL MINIATURE LIKENESSES
of the Human Countenance and Person are "wo from the
hand of Nature" in the short space of a few secon s, respect-
fully announce to the Nobility, Gentry, and 1 abitants of
Lancashire, that

IN A FEW DAYS THE EXTRAORVARY PRO-
CESS. WILL BE OPEN TO TH ÜBLIC.

The Corporation of Liverpool having anted the site of
the late. OBSERVATORY, ST. JAMMS'S ALK, a neat and
elegant EuiWing has been erected thereon, in which the
PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, tile discovery of which
is ranked among the greatest scientiTc achievements of the
present age, will be in DAILY OPERATION.

THE PRICE FOR EACH PORTRAIT, INCLUDING
A FRAME, IS ONE GUINEA.

JOHN RELPH, Manager,

The Invention was recently introduced into England, at
the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, LONDON; and
the following are a few extraets from the leading Journals
relating to its merits :
(From the Times.)

THE PHOTOGRAPHIC MINIATURES.—The principle has
been so far perfected as to be almost incapable of further
improvement. The novelty attendant upon the fact of
being furnished in the short space of five seconds with a
more correct miniature likeness than the most accom-
plished artist could paint on ivory, after days of laborious
study, coupled with the fineness of the weather, drew
together a host of curious fashionables, at the Poly.
technic Institution, so many, indeed, that notwithstanding
the short period of time occupied in the operation, the room
was crowded for hours together, by parties anxiously waiting
their turn. The apartment appropriated for the magieal
process—for so it may be termed—is well calculated for the
object desired, being on the highest story of the institution.
From the roof, which is constructed of blue glass, of about
a quarter of an inch thick, a very powerful light is obtained,
and it is so ingeniously contrived as to revolve with the sun.
In a portion of the room, nearly in the centre, an elevated
seat is placed, on which the party whose likeness is to be
taken sits, with his head reclined backwards. In this posi-
tion the sitter is told to look into a glass box, in an opposite
direction, about five from him, in which is placed the plate
to be impressed with the portrait. Having done so for a few
seconds, he descends, and in a few minutes afterwards a
likeness is presented to him. The likenesses which we saw
were admirable, and closely true to nature, beauties and de-
formities being alike exhibited ; therefore those who are
ashamed of their personal appearance had better keep from
the-influence of photography.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)

When we formerly described this process, the time requi-
site for taking a portrait was, generally speaking, about four
minutes ; but in consequence of the great improvements that
have been made, the time has been reduced to about five se-
conds on a clear day; but during cloudy dull weather the
operation may require from a minute and a half to two mi-
nutes.

The portraits taken by this means are really extraordinary
as likenesses; they are true to nature, for nature here is her
own.delineator. The features are admirably marked out and
delineated, and the likenesses at first sight are so extraordi-
nary, that they are really startling.

_ .
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
PHOTOGRAPHIC LIKENESSES.—One of the most inter-
esting sights it is possible to conceive is now attracting
crowds daily to the Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street.
The patentee has christened it the " photographic mode of
taking likenesses." By this process, in the incredibly short
space of five seconds, the likeness of any individual is taken
down on a piece of metal, and the portrait is a perfect fac-
simile of the sitter. It is nature herself that is called in to
be the artist, and her performance is truly astonishing,
leaving immeasurably behind it everything that human skill
could effect.

(From the Morning Herald.)
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—We were present on Sa-
turday at the exhibition of the extraordinary process of
taking portraits by the reflecting apparatus, lately patented,
and now fpr the first time brought before the public. Br the
photographic progress, perfect likenesses are taken, in the
short space of from ten to five and twenty seconds ! We
say perfe'ct, because the prepared plate on which the objects
is reflected must of necessity produce a perfect transcript of
that object. The operation, therefore, being thus unerring,
the fault of even the slightest failure in likeness can only
be attributable to the person sitting, which, of course,
may result from an assumed or unnatural position.
Although the exhibition has been only of a private character,
and of some two or three days, we understand that it has
been visited by all the parties possessing the privilege.
Among other influential personages present on Saturday, we
noticed the Earl of Shaftesbury, who expressed his surprise
and gratification at the extraordinary invention.
(From the Court Journal.) _

PHOTOGRAPHIC LIKENESSES.—WO attended yesterday
at the private view given by the patentee of the reflecting ap-
paratus at the Polytechnic Institution, by which photographic
likenesses are taken, and with the greatest accuracy, in a
period varying from five to twenty seconds. We were de-
lighhted with the exhibition.
(From the Morning Post.)
. . . .

The patentee of this invention hal adopted the principle of
giving these " reflections" to the public at a very moderate
cost, compared to the ordinary price of miniatures, trusting
for his return to a general desire to possess them, which he
anticipates must be felt by all persons who would cherish the
best memento of a dear friend or relative.
(From the Courier.)

"Every line, every touch in the pictrue produced is from
the pencil of nature, without flattery or fallacy."
(From the Weekly Dispatch.)
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—We took an opportunity
on Monday cf again visiting the Polytechnic Institution, to
witness the astonishing manner in which portraits are taken
by the photographic process. The room was crowded with
nobility and gentry, among whom we noticed Lord Aber-
deen, and several other persons of rank, each of whom, in
the warmest terms, expressed their delight and astonishment
at the rapidity with which the portraits of different gentle-
men were taken, and the extreme fidelity in the execution.
It is, in fact, impossible for the portraits to be any thing
short of a complete copy of nature.
(From the Observer.)

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—The appearance of the
miniature thus produced is that of a mezzotint engraving,
the likeness being no question of opinion, but a plain matter
of fact, for nature in this, as in other similar operations,
makes "no mistake." There is such subtilty of touch and
tone in the likeness as might fill a Vandyke or a Lawrence
once with delight and despair. Altogether this is a most
inderful and extraordinary exhibition. Those who in por-
iture are fond of being " flattered," will certainly not '
tronise tne photographic method of taking likenesses • but,
o the other hand, they who want the real thing, and we
a
presume them to be the majority, will unquestionably spend
a guinea with great willingness in the production of a minia-
ture portrait which their fathers and mothers, wives, sisters,
and brothers may " swear to." Separate rooms are also
appropriated to ladies and gentlemen, and a female attendant
waits upon the former to assist in arranging the dress so as
to produce the most desirable pictorial effect.
(From the Naval and Military Gazette.)
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—For some time it W3S
doubted whether Photography could ever be brougiit to
operate satisfactorily on the human face and form, so as to
enable the artist to take an unerring and effective likeness,
the slightest motion inevitably destroying the picture in its
progrees. Ingenuity, perseverance, and repeated experiments,
have at length completely triumphed over the difficulty ; and
miniature portraits, infallibly faithful, are now taken, from a
sittting of from five to twenty seconds ; the time varying
according to the intensity of light.
(From Bell's Weekly Messenger.)
EXTRAORDINARY FACT.—MINIATURE PICTURES.—It is
bodily and personally the individual who is the sitter. It is
as much so, as he sees himself in the most accurate looking
glass, but with this difference, that the Photographic likeness
is the, image as if it were removed from the surface of the
mirror, and rendered perpetual. It is an everlasting memo-
rial of the man at the moment it is taken—and therefore the
most precious gift that can be given to those who love him
while living, and will cherish his memory when dead. It is
a discovery, which not only saves the sitter from the tedium
of being fixed in the same position for many an hour for his
likeness, (for this is accomplished in the sixth part of a mi-
nute)—but it affords to artists themselves the surest guide
for copying other likenesses, whether in miniature, or in oil
paintings as large as life.
Specimens may be seen, and Orders received, at Mr. LA-
CEY S REPOSITORY OF TS, 100, 80ld-street.

On Monday the 23rd ult. some ladies from Loretto Con-
vent, Hathfarnham, who had previously taken the veil, sailed
for Calcutta, with the intention of founding a convent there,
at the earnest solicitation of the inhabitants. They left under
the care of the Rev. Dr. Backhouse, a missionary from India.
His grace Bishop Murray visited them on Satui day for the
purpose of bidding them adieu, and giving them his
benediction.

SOMETHING LIKE A Jon.—The public were informed some
time ago that a mansion had been purchased at Stapleton,
near this city, for the residence of the Lord Bishop of Glou-
cester and Bristol ; and we believe that his Lordship was
well pleased that a palace had been provided for him near to

so important a part of his diocese as the city of Bristol. It
was therefore matter of some surprise, a week or two ago, to
learn that " the greater part of the palace at Stapleton had
been taken down, by order of the Commissioners of Woods
and Forests, to be rebuilt upon an improved plan." But if
the public were surprised at the sudden demolition of a man-
sion pronounced to be a most eligible and convenient episco-
pal residence, what must have been the wonderment of the
Right Reverend Prelate himself when he found the Commis-

,oners of Woods and Forests pulling his house down about
is ears without even "by your leave !" That it was so, we

ave his Lordship's authority, who thus adverted to the ;tab-

ject at the Visitation Dinner on Monday ; when his Lordship
expressed the extreme pleasure which he experienced in find-
ing himself amongst his clergy on that occasion. "He had

hoped this year (he said) to take up his residence again in
this part of his diocese, but now feared he should be debar-
red from that pleasure for a long period by the extensive al-
terations which had, unknown to hinz, taken place at his re-
sidence at Stapleton. He had, on paying a visit there, ob-
served with regret that more than one-half of the palace had
been pulled down—a proceeding which he had no part in di-
recting, but, on the contrary, would have prevented, had it
been in his power." This affair is perfectly Whig-like. If
the Bishop had been the porter instead of the owner of the

mansion, he could not been treated with greater insult by a
public functionary ' • and if a Dissenting recipient of the
regium donum had been concerned, instead of a Prelate of
the Church, he would most likely have had his consent asked,
if not his wishes consulted. It is altogether, as we said be-
fore, Whig-like. After providing places for Consuls by the

score, putting ships in commissiiin-by the dozen, pitchfcrk-
ing Peers into the House of Lords, and rewarding unsuc-
cessful candidates by Knighthoods and Baronetcies, up to
the last moment of holding office, one cannot !wonder that
some Official of the Woods and Forests contrived to find a
job for a pet Architect, though a Bishop should be insulted,
his domestic comfort disturbed, and his episcopal duties ob-
structed.—Bristol Journal.

EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.—Perhaps one of the most extra-
ordinary feats in running was performed at Kendal on Wed-
nesday evening last, which has hitherto been made mention
of in the annals of pedestrianism. The match arose out of

one that was lately run by a person of the name of Dan
Fleming, of Stavely (a noted provincial runner), who was
backed to run a mile in four minutes, down an extremely
steep declivity in Peat-lane, leading from Sedbergh to Ken-
dal, when Dan lost the match by eleven seconds. In a short
time after this another match was made by a Mr. Faulkner,
of Kendal and three sporting characters of Staley Bridge,
for X5O aside, that Mr. Faulkner could not produce an indi-
vidual who could complete a mile over the same ground in
pe
four miles and fifteen seconds. Accordingly, on the day in
eessse n
ctlouewsonn Faulkner was at the appointed place with his man,
we r e p r
the race against time; upwards of 1000 spectators
son chosen t
i,z.and about six o'clock, p. m., Walker (the per-
distance in four
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seconds. Walker
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husbandmana: and about 28 years of age ; he is
of slender build, and never bfeen spoken of as a runner
before. When about 200
speed was so great, that a hack atrfoumll galloptli e winning icnonui ilidg i
ot post
keepl ds
up with him.

FOREIGN IN7'ELLIGENCI

WEST INDIES

Her Majesty's packet Petrel, Lieut. Crooke, arrived at
Falmouth on Saturday : her sailing dates were as follow :
.13arbadoes, July 25 ; St. Lucia, Martinique, and Dominica,
26 ; Guadaloupe, 27 ; Antigua and Montserrat, 28 ; Nevis
and St. Kitts; 29; Tortola, 30, arriving at St. Thomas's on
the 30th, where she remained waiting the arrival of the Lee-
ward Islands and the Jamaica mails until August 18. Ja-
maica dates are to the 10th of August: She had on freight
£lO6O. Passengers—Messrs." Wood, Cummings, Kelso,
French, and Galves. The trial of Dr. Schroeter, for infan-
ticide, which created intense interest throughout the West
Indies, had terminated in a verdict of " not guilty."
The brig Vesper, Stephenson, from Philadelphia, reports
that he got on Shore, on the 26th ult., on the Caicos Reef,
at midnight. lie had to throw over a quantity of corn to
lighten her, and finding the tide had left her, he lay to
until the next day, when he succeeded in getting her off,
and after being afloat, •he found her making water, and was
compelled to keep both pumps working. Spoke, off the Reef;
the brig America, of and from NeW York, bound to Car-
thagena, out 12 days, all well.

The following extract of a letter from Lima gives an excel=
lent idea of the heroes of the South American republics : •
Gen. Gamarra bids fair to last out his presidential term.
He has just succeeded in quieting an outbreak, in which 3000
men were in arms against him ; but, like true Peruvians, no-
body was killed on either side, and the chiefs of the party
that ran most (Vivanco, &c.) have escaped into Bolivia.
Santa Cruz is yet in Escuador, threatening a coalition attack
with Flores. I hope it may never take effect, as we are bet-
ter off with those we have than we would be with a change
effected in that manner."

We do not hear of anything of special interest by this ar-
rival.

LONDON MONEY-MARKET,

SATURDAY EVENING.-At the Stock Exchange to-day a
sort of dispute arose between the jobbers as to the accuracy
of the price made on a sale of 3 per Cent. Reduced, which
was effected by a special transfer, and which, it is thought,
will probably furnish a questio►► for the decision of the com-
mittee that superintends the affairs of that establishment.
It would, we are given to understand, have been brought
before the committee td-day, but the transaction took place
at such an advanced hour that it was impossible to summon
it, and, therefore, at present the matter stands in statu quo.
The relation of the affair is, that the price made is nearly
one half per cent. under what it usually is, as compared
with the other quotations, and as the jobbers could see
nothing which should so influence the value of this particu-
lar security, they are of course anxious to Know what could
induce a sale to be made at such a sacrifice. The quotation
made-is 981, which is exactly the same price as that for New
3f per Cents., which latter stock, it will be recollected,-is
not closed for transfer till the next shutting. In other
respects the government stocks were better, some purchases
of• New 34 per Cents. having been made on private account.
Consols for money closed 894 to 4 ; ditto account, 90i to 4 ;
India Stock, 2464 to 7 ; and Exchequer Bills, 12s. to I4s.
premium.

- Spanish stock was heavy all day, and closed 211 to 1 ; the
other foreign securities were not materially altered ; Dutch
21 per Cents., 511 to 52 ; ditto 5 per Cents., 1021 to I;
Portuguese 5 per Cents., 30 to ; ; ditto 3 per Cents., 18 to
4 ; Colombian, 201 to 211; and Mexican, 234 to 4; Danish,
79 to 80'; and Belgian, 102 to 103.