The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

Jan. 19, 1841.

LOCAL MEETINGS.

HEALTH OF Towws.—On Tuesday evening last, a
meeting was held at the School Room, in Moorfields,lto
hear an address from the Rev. H. H. Hig,gins, M.A.,/in
connexion with the above subject. Sir Arnold Knight
was called to the chair, and several gentlemen, who take a
lively interest in the sanatory measures for the improve-
ment of the town, were present.
MEETING OF BREWERS.--On Saturday a meeting of
brewers was held at the Wellington Hotel, Dale-street, to
consider the propriety of raising the price of ale. The'
meeting was attended by upwards of forty brewers, and
was adjourned until Wednesday, when, we understand,
the price will be raised, as it has been in other parts of
the provinces, to 6s. per barrel, in consequence of the rise
in the price. of malt.
BREAD ASSOCIATION.—A meeting was held at the. Town-hall, Birkenhead, on Thursday evening, by the
promoters of a scheme for establishing an association, the
object of which is to reduce the present high price of the
staple food of man. The doors were thrown open at
seven o'clock, and in a few minutes the room was crowded
to excess with working men, principally those who are
employed in the erection of the new docks. Mr. James
Birrel was called to the chair, and a set of rules, in force
in a similar association in Paisley, was read ; the princi-
pal feature in these was, that the association were to pur-
chase flour and appoint a baker, who was to act as a ser-
vant of the committee.
HEALTH OF TOWNS' ASSOCIATION.—The monthly
meeting of the committee was held in the Clarendon-
rooms on Wednesday, Mr. Blackburn in the chair. , The
treasurer announced the receipt of a number of new sub-
scriptions and donations, among which was one of £lO
from William Laird, Esq., of Birkenhead, accompanied
with a letter expressive of the strong interest he felt in
the operations of the society, and a hope that a branch
association might be established at Birkenhead.
DOCK COMMITTEE.—At the meeting of this body, on
Thursday, the following gentlemen were present :
Messrs. Nicol (in the chair,) Molyneux, Middleton, Wood,
Horsfall, Mann, Aikin, Tobin, Kendall, Bold, Sandbach,
and Lockett.—The width of the six new north graving
docks was fixed as follows : 'two to be seventy feet wide,
two sixty feet, and two forty-five feet.—The Dock Sur-
veyor reported that he intended to lay the sills of the pro-
posed graving dock gates three-and-a-half feet below the
level of the Old Dock, the sills of the inner dock gates six
feet, and the sills of the outer dock gates six feet six
inches below the level of the Old Dock : the sills of the
Prince's Dock, being five feet eleven inches below the
level of the Old Dock. It was ordered that provision
should be made at the north outer basin for introducing a
gate seventy feet wide, in the event of the docks being ex-
tended hereafter to the north, the expense to do so at
present, being only estimated at £2OO, whereas, if not done
now, a far greater sum will be required if the gate should
be found necessary at sonic future day. The exact situa-
tion of the gate was left for future consideration. Mr.
Mann made a suggestion as to providing shipbuild-
ing accommodation near the proposed site of the gate.—
It was proposed that the double-road bridge at the south
entrance of the Prince's Dock was completed on the 27th
of December, and thrown open to the public. The old
bridge occupied two minutes, and required ninety-six
turns turns of the handle, in opening and shutting ; the
new bridge can be closed and opened in one minute, and
ouly requires forty

cn tne nandle.—it was reported
that Gower-street was filled up, levelled, and completed
Iccnrding to the act of Parliament.—lt was decided to
--a the claim of 1:4 15s. against the New Brighton
,an-packet Company, for damage done by one of their
steamers to the• river wall stage opposite the King's
Dock. The Company resisted the claim on the
ground that the steamer was towing a vessel which
was in charge of a pilot.—lt was resolved that double
gates, to open the same way, should be placed at the en-
trance of the north dock No. B.—The marine surveyor
reported, that during the past year 3728 vessels had passed
inwards through the rock channel, and 3953 outwards,
making a total of 7681 against 7910 in 1845. Through
the Victoria and Northern channels, 13,354 vessels had
passed inwards' and 14,096 outwards, making a total of
27,450 against 28,861 in 1845, being a decrease in the
traffic, including both channels' of 1640.—1 t was resolved
that the printing for the Albert-Dock Warehouses should
be given to Mr. R. H. Sherlock.—The Harbour Masters'
Sub-committee reported that they could not recommend
any increase in the salary (30s. a week), of the master of
Toxteth Dock.—A letter was read from the Dock Solicitor
•ti reply to a • e^nin -Munch." '-a,W, and

_ lab._ Jl, ',—
Blundell. The solicitor held that the Dock Committee
could compel every master porter to charge according to
the rates fixed by them, or dismiss him from hiS office,
and that the Committee possessed full power to make
what regulations they chose as to the porterage on the
dock quays.—A letter from Bibby and Son, as to Elias
Owen, a master porter, was referred to a sub-committee.
—A letter from William Wilson and Co., requesting to be
allowed the priority of a berth for the Havre steamer, was
referred to the Harbour Masters' Sub-committee.
SELECT VESTRY.—At the usual meeting on Tuesday,
the clerk read the minutes, from which it appeared that
on the 4th of January the number in the Workhouse was
1318, the cost of whose maintenance was 2s. 6W. per
week •, and. in the previous week there were 1316, at a
cost of 2s. 80. per week. The relief given for the
week
ending the Ist January was 4341 cases, •at a cost of
£527 3s. 10d. ; and compared with the, same period last
year, the number was 1116, and the cost £l6l more, cal-
culatinc, bread at the additional value of £2B 12s. 6d., and.
at £70.15., or £259 13s. 6d. more than for the corre-
sponding week of last year. On the Bth January, the
number. of cases was 4497, relieved with £46 10s. 10d. ;
and compared with the same period last year, the number
was 1217, and £165 7s. Id. more, or; calculating bread
and soup, £268 Ils. Bd. more than at the same period
last year.' The number of cases relieved during the last
six days formed a ,*and 'total of 29,417 -parsons. It was
-1-^ had contracted to supply
id, was desirous of relinquishinz

;hard, w

his contract; as owing to the great advance in the
•

flour, and the immense, and unexpected influx of Irish
paupers, he was losing by it. The subject was fully dis-
cussed, the vestry eventually resolving not to interfere in
the matter. After the medical report had been received,
the Rev. Rector Brooks drew the attention of the vestry
to the state of the Industrial Schools, of which he gave a
highly favourable account. A letter was received from
Mr. S. M. Phillips, secretary to Lord John Russell,
stating that the Government had no power to check the
immigration of the Irish into Liverpool. Some of. the
vestry suggested that a petition be sent to Parliament,
praying for a Poor-law for Ireland as most likely to meet
the exigencies of the case ; and one of the vestry suggested
that the Irish paupers should be sent by the cheap train,
and set down at all the large towns between Liverpool
" relieving Liverpool from the

and London, as a means of
burthen of supporting them

PICTURE FRAMES BY MACHINERY

(From the Art-Union.)
The ultimate desideratum in the popularisation of art is
to bring it as an educational ratans to the hearths of abodes
humbler than those under the roofs of which it has hitherto
found a restinglplace. It is not necessary to say that in
this case pictures are out of the question : we would here
speak of prints, of their multiplication, and of the best
method of rendering them available. Our own social
state owes little, as yet, to art • there is room for, and now
a
happily the means of, vast and beneficial amount of " in-
debtedness."

We have cheap editions of good books, and we desire
cheap editions of good pictures. We claim the merit of
the broad and steady advocacy of this principle, the fruit
of which is fast maturing ; and it is with such view that
we give monthly to our readers a transcript of some pro_
duction more or less valuable, and the value of which shall
be henceforth greater ; but such engravings have been de-
prived of an opportunity of effectively " doing their spi-
riting" from the circumstance of their being nnframed,
because the cost of a frame will be at least five or six
times that of the print. Towards the framing of prints
• - -

me invention we are about to notice effects, we uo nope,
thenrieestininvetnhtiisollioinsgtteasidoefralvtierd. object.Bietfe ;
and the result
at N'
is a really good and ornamental frame
at the
he arriveselowes
lowest prie (eiptpence per foot) at which the
meanest wooden shelter in which a work.of art ever found
refuge can be manufactured. This is as usual, effected
by machinery. Any of the common 'forms, technically
called ogee, ova:), bevel, hollow, &c., can be enriched with
the most delicate work similar to engine-turning, or by
relieved arabesques of any design. The principle is new,
as applied to manufacture of this kind ; it is simply to pass
any length of frame under a roller in which is cut the de-

sew incises, is turned out of a rough cast of gun metal, and
is driven by a steam-engine. The wood which is passed
under it is necessarily soft, say the best pine, and receives
at any length the impress of the most delicate tracery
which can be engraved on the metal. The advantages of
this are sufficiently apparent ; but there are yet others
which may be mentioned. - The wood comes from the ma-
chinery ready for gilding, or complete as an imitation of
ebony or Florentinebronze, and also in colours, and hav-
ing preserved on the surface the design in all its sharp-
ness, which would be deteriorated by the ordinary method
process is a patent, and so
of whitening and sizing. The
recent that. the extent of the operations is by no means,
developed, although the inventor will apply it to the ma-
nufacture of frames for pictures of all sizes. For many
years there has been no improvement in the manufacture
of frames ; at least, none to render an acceptable frame
accessible to limited means. The want has been a source
Of complaint, when so many of the most beautiful produc-
tions of the burin are no longer very costly. An outcry
may be raised by those employed in the manufacture ac-
cording to the old method ; but under the auspices of the
genius temporis, it is the good of the many we must advo-
cate ' • and considering the cheapneSs of good prints, of
that class likely to come into the possession of the middle
classes, this discovery is very apposite to the time.
The results of this machinery will soon be, if it be not
at this moment, such as to enable him who buys a print
for a shilling to place it in a worthy frame for another shil-
ling, or very little more. And when we speak of a shilling
print, let no one suppose that we allude to an inferior
work : some
admirable productions of art may now be at-
tained for that sum ; may we not refer to those which ap-
peariiin the Present number of our journal, and those which

The conseVience will be, 'ere long, that framed printd
will occupy walls that are now either bare or covered with
hijurious or unmeaning papers ; and that fine examples of
art will instruct the dwellers in houses where eXpensive
luxuries cannot enter.- We consider that to produce good.
and ch.— " - --ond only in importance to produc-

inmes
log prints good and cheap
'V We understand that the Messrs. Keys, of ri2; Bold-
street, have purchased the sole right of sale for Lanca-
shire for the aboye frames from the patentee, Mr. Biele-
feld, of London. We have seen some specimens which
surpass in beauty anything wo have ever seen produced at
six times the cost.