The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-28 00:00:00

TO PERSONS VISITING LONDON

PORTRAITS, LANDSCAPES, COPIES OF PAINTINGS, &c.,
BY THE AGENCY OF LIGHT.

14. R. BEARD'S recent IMPROVEMENTS in the
DAGUERROTYPE INVENTION have been honoured
'with the following, among a variety of other notices, by the
leading public journals :
" We witnessed with great gratification the improvements
Mr. Beard has lately effected."—Morning Herald.
" The Portraits are now fixed on th aTein all their natural
hues of Colour."—Britannia.
" They exhibit a degree of ho ess, and stand out with a re-
lief, greatly, desiderated in al e earlier specimens."—Times.
"The fidelity of the lik ess is wonderful, and the effect im-
parted by Mr. Beard's w process of Colouring, is extremely
beautiful."—Critic.

"As family Port6its these Miniatures are invaluable.".
Church and State Gazette.

Portraits taken daily from Nine till Six, and Licenses to ex-
ercise the Invention in London or the Provinces, granted by
Mr. BEARD, (sole patentee,) at 85, King William-street, City,
34, Parliament-street, and the Royal Polytechnic Institution,
London.

MECHANICS' INSTITUTION
LECTURES.

ON WEDNESDAY EVENING, the sth Aftgust,
J at Half-past Seven o'clock, the First of a COURSE of SIX
LECTURES on PUBLIC HEALTH and th FLUANCE of
TRADES and PROFESSIONS on the ATION of LIFE,
gill be delivered by Dr. W. Guy, of ' ng's College, London.
To be succeeded by the followi ourses of Lectures :
Four on the Applications of achinery, illustrated by Mo-
dels. Drawings and Experi nts, being one on Type and Ste-
reotype Founding; one on, rinting and Printing Machinery;
and two on the Applicatitin of Machinery to Engraving, Car-
ving, and Sculptureyby Edward Cowper, Esq., Lecturer on
Manufacturing Arts and Mackinery,inKing's College, London.
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Six on Political Economy, by J. A. Lawton, Esq., Professor
of Political Economy, Trinity College' Dublin.
Six by Mrs. Clara L. Balfour, of London, being two on the
Influence of Woman on Society; two on the Obligations of
English Literature to Female Writers ; and two on the most
Distinguished Female Sovereigns of Europe.
Four on the Genius and Writings of Thomas Carlyle, by
-George Dawson, M.A., of Birmingham.
Four on the Undeveloped Characters of Shakspere's Plays,
by R. H. Horne, Esq., Author of " Orion," &c.
Four on Universities, their nature and tendency, by Professor
Newman, of Manchester.
Four on National Music, with illustrations, by C. E. Horn,
Esq , of London.
Three on the Life and Writings of Lord Bacon, by Hugo
Reid, Esq.
Twelve on Phrenology, by W. B. Hodgson, LL.D., Principal
,of the Institution.
Six on the Moral Poets of the present Century, by J. A.
Herand, Esq., Author of the "Judgment of the Flood." &c.
Six by J. W. Marston, Esq., of Lendon, Author of "The
Patrician's Daughter," &c., being on Real Young Eigland;
two on Nature and Circumstances in relation to Genius and
Morality; two on the Influences of the Affections, illustrated
by the Writings of Poets; and one on the Cause, Prevalence,
and Removal of Social Animosities.

Six on Recent Discoveries in Astronomical Science, by J. P.
Nichol, .LL.D., Professor of Astronomy in the University of
Glasgow-.

Siion Human Physiology, by Dr. Cox, of Edinburgh.
Four on Economic or Applied Geology, with details illustra-
tive of the Origin and Formation of Coal, &c., by .1. R. Leif
child, Esq., recently one of her Majesty's Assistant Com-
missioners in the Mining Commission.

Six on Modern BritisliLiterature, by George Gilfillan, Esq.,
-of Dundee, Author of °• The Gallery of Literary Portraits," &c.
With the view of affording additional accommodation to the
members and subscribers, the committee have resolved that
the Lectures delivered at this Institution shall, in future, be
•open to members and subscribers only, except in case of non-
residents in the town, who, when accompanied by a member
or subscriber, shall be admitted on payment of One Shilling
each, for each Lecture.