The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-10 00:00:00

BLACK

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Sound Breakfast Congou .5..14-“,
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4 0
Useful Family Ditto, with strength—recommended 4 6
Superior Full Strong Pekoe Flavour Ditto, recom-
mended to all consumers as quite good enough for
general use 5 0
Very Rich Full Flavour Pekoe Souchong, long crapy
leaf. This is the finest Tea in the country 6 0

For the accommodation of connoisseurs' we shall keep a
supply of the choicest qualities of Flowery and Orange Pe-
koes, Ning Yong, Ankoi Pouchong, Tetsong, Howqua's Mix-
ture, and all other rare sorts, but do not recommend them
for general use, their peculiar flavours rendering them un-
palateable tr.) m6st persons.

GREEN

Useful Twankay .
Good Middling Hyson-kind, pale brightish leaf—re-

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commended 4 6
Full Flavoured Hyson, brightish leaf—recommended
as quite good enough for family purposes 5 0
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
Ouehain, or Real Young Hyson—recommended .. 6
Canton-made Gunpowder
Ditto Imperial Ditto
Fine Ditto Ditto
Very choice Gunpowder, bright shotty leaf 7 6
Persons buying an original chest, of 801bs, 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.
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 :

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COFFEES,
Whether ground or in the Berry, will be genuine.
s. d.
Good Ceylon 1 8
Strong Berbice
Good Jamaica 2 0

(A very useful Family Coffee, and recommended for general
purposes.)
Very choice-full-flavoured Jamaica
(As fine a Coffee as need be used.)
Mocha, the finest parcel imported for some time.. 2 4
(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 upon the principles on which its foundation is
based, we are
Your faithful and obedient servants,
SNOWDON DON and BROWAOW.
P.S.—Our Vans will deliver all Goods, within three miles
of the Liverpool Exchange, free of charge ; but to insure 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. Fa-
milies and Shopkeepers, resident in the adjacent towns, may
rely upon punctual attention to their orders per Post; but as
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.

EDUCATIOEDUCATION;:;/
A MARRIED CLERGYMAN, wh rttk ivar of
11 sdme standing and Member of tho- n )f Dur-
ham, will be happy to receive intO his Family FOUR
PUPILS, to prepare for the Wersities and the L earned
Professions. Terms moderate.

Address Rev
Durham.

A. M., Mr. SUTHERLAND'S, Book 3e11(

EDUCATION.
TO PARENTS and GUARDIANS/4bo are desirot :s o
placing their Children, or those e witted to their e ire
where they can receive the benefi f Education combil led
with the comforts of home, an, ortunity now offers its elf
in the Country Residence of a ady who has for some yea rs
been accustomed to Tuition. She is desirous of takit g
charge of FOUR YOUNG CHILDREN, to Board an. I
Educate, from the age of six years and upwards. It being
point so essential to have the health well-established in the
early stage of life, nothing can be better adapted to that
purpose than the present situation, where they will have every
advantage of exercise in a mild salubrious air, accompanied
with good and wholesome diet ; this, with a due regard to the
improvement of the mind, it is hoped, will not WI to give
general satisfaction.

Terms. including English in all its branches, Writing,
Arithmetic, and the French Language, Twenty-five Guineas
per Annum. Music and Drawing, if required, on the usual
terms.—For further particulars apply by letter, G. Z., Post-
office, Northwtch, Cheshire.

SEYSSEL ASPHALTE COMPANY.
" CLARIDGE'S PATENT'', ESTABLISHED 1838.
Principal Deplil.s., MARSEILLES; STA NGATE, LON-

DON; and LIVERPOOL
THE Parent Company having placed th, ORKS in
ASPHALTE, in the Liverpool District,
own management, solicit the attention of Engineers
tects, Builders, and others to the valuable propertie
Material, which has been extensively used in this County f
nearly Four Years, for the followi purposes :
FOOT PAVEMENTS, public N ROOM FLOORS ;
and other ; i ALT HOUSE FLOORS ;
KITCHEN FLOORS ; PIGGERIES, &C. &C. &C
BASEMENTS, where it is es-

't, and

, Archi-
s of the

sential to keep damps from COVERING OF RAI, ROAD
and other ARCHES, the only
effectual mode to prevent
the percolation of Water,
CARRIAGE DRIVES ; which also renders it very
COACII HOUSES AND STA- appropriate for the LINING
BLING ; OF TANKS AND FISH
PONDS.
DRAINS,•&C. &C.

GARDEN WALKS AND TER-

RACES

DOG KENNELS ;

BARN FLOORS ;

The Directors flatter themselves that, in their arrange-
ments for the execution of the foregoing works in Liverpool
and the surrounding district, they will be completed in such
a manner as to ensure for them the patronage not only of
Engineers, Architects, and Builders, but of the Public in
general. Testimonials of the highest description have been
presented to the Company, copies of which may be obtained
at the Works, and from Mr. \VimAxr BENSON, Architect
and Surveyor to the Company, No. 2, Commerce-court,
Lord-street, Liverpool.

Liverpool, June, 1841

J. FARRELL, Secretary

MMR.HARWOOD, PROFESSOR OF DANCING, 42, NEL,.
SON-STREET, respectfully announces to his Friends
that he bas commenced giving PRIVATE TUITION prior
to the opening of his Evening Classes. Those Gentlemen
and Ladies who may require his a§sisjance in this essential
accomplishment may depend upon cry attention being paid
to them, as Mr. Harwood's lonestanding in the profession
and the many hundreds who have profited by his instructions
will guarantee.

HARWOOD attends, on Monday and Wednesday, at
the Town-hall, Birkenhead.

By Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRALX-S.,

TAKEN BY THE
REFLECTION OF LIGHT,
AT THE
MOUNT GARDENS, ST. JA, 'S WALK,
LIVERPOQ

THE Proprietors of the REFL(TING APPARATUS,
by which FAITHFUL MINURE LIKENESSES
of the Human Countenance and Person are " won from the
hand of Nature" in the short space of a few seconds, respect-
fully announce to the Nobility, Gentry, and Inhabitants of
Lancashire, that

IN A FEW DAYS THE EXTRAORDINARY PRO-
CESS WILL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

The Corporation of Liverpool having granted the site of
the late OBSERVATORY, ST. JAMBS'S WALK, a neat and
elegant Building has been erected thereon, in which the
PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, the discovery of which
is ranked among the greatest scientific 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 extracts 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 magical
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.)

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PHOTOGRAPHIC LIKENESSES.—OLIC 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 for the first time brought before the public. By the
photographic progress, perfect likenesses are taken, in the
short space of from ten to five and twenty seconds ! We
say perfect, 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 pf 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.—We 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
period varying from five to twenty seconds. We were de-
lighhted with the exhibition.

(From the Morning Post.)

The patentee of this invention has 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 frog
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.)

s
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
at once with delight and despair. Altogether this is a most
wonderful and extraordinary exhibition. Those who in por-
traiture are fond of being " flattered," will certainly not
patronise the photographic method of taking likenesses • but,
on the other hand, they who want the real thing, and we
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 "S
doubted whether Photography could ever be brought 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 ditficulty;t d
miniature portraits, infallibly faithful, are now taken,eerifront i a
varying
sittting of from five to twenty seconds; the -1--e
according to the intensity of light.
(From Bell's Weekly
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