The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-24 00:00:00

THURSDAY

On THURSDAY next, the 30th instant, at Twelve ' 406 k, at
• Whitaker, Carter, and Co.'s Office, Rumf -street,
2362 Bags BLACK PEPPER,
2237 Bags COFFEE, subje d. duty,
541 Bags PEARL SAGO
227 Bags SAGO FLOU ,
1067 Bags SUGAR,
Ex Lord Western, from Singapore.—Apply to MURRAY
•
SymE, and Co., or to
W HITAKER, CARTER, and Co., Brokers.

By Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent.
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS

TAKEN BY THE
REFLECTION OF LIGHT,
AT THE
MOUNT GARDENS, ST. JA 'S WALK,
LIVERPOO
9-1 HE Proprietors of the RIFLE ING APPARATUS,
by which FAITHFUL MINIATURE 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 the Extraordinary Process
WILL OPEN ON FRIDAY NEXT.
The Corporation of Liverpool having granted the site of
the late OBSERVATORY, ST. JAMES'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
.-,eat is placed, on which the party whose likeness is' to be
taken sits, with his head reclined baawards. 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 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 pe.rfect 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 OR Saturdey, 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 a
period varying from five to twenty seconds. We were de-
lighhted with the exhibition.
(From the Morning Post.)
The patentee of 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 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
y 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 he any thinE
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
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
approrriated 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 was
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. Ingennity, perseverance, and repeated experiments,
have at length completely triumphed over the difficulty ; and
miniature portraits, infallibly faithful, are now taken, from a
tatting of from five to tiventy seconds ; the time varying
according to the intensity of light.
(From Belt's TVeekly Messenger.)
EXTRAORDINARY FACT.—MINIATURE PICTURES.—Tt 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 *nide
other likenesses, whether in miniature, or in oil
furpaintingscopyingas large as life.
Speoimens may be seen,
and Orders received, at Mr. LA.
CRY'S REPOSITORY Of ARTS, 100, Bold-sireet.

FINE DUTCH BULBS.
By Mr. T. BRANCH,
TO-MORROW, (Saturday,) the 25th instant, at Eleven o'ck(c.li ,
at the Hanover Rooms,
A CHOICE Collection of DUTCH BULBS, j arrived
Cl.. from Haarlem, and comprising fine
qt/vari es of the
Double and Single Hyacinth, Tulip, Jon , Narcissus,
Anemone, Ranunculus, and other admired F wers.
To be viewed on the morning of sale, when Catalogues may
be had from Mr. T. BRANCH.

CHOICE PORT AND SHERRY WINES.
By Mr. T. BRANCH,
On TUESDAY next, the 2Sth instant, at One o'cl k, at the
Hanover Rooms,
THE following choice WINE S, iz : about
45 Dozen pale SHERRY,
60 Dozen gold DITTO,
40 Dozen brown DITTO,
63 Dozen PORT, of different vintages ecently bottled,
20 Dozen old crusted PORT,
20 Dozen fine sparkling CHAMPA 'E, of particularly
choice quality, just imported,
And various other WINES.
Samples will be exhibited at the time of sale, when Cata-
logues may be had from Mr. T. BRANCH.

By order of the Devisees in Trust,
By Mr. TROTTER,

On MONDAY, the 4th day of October next, at two o'clock
in the afternoon, at the Clarendon-rooms, South John-
street, Liverpool, (unless previously disposed of by Private
Treaty,) subject to such conditions of sale as will be thfin

produced,
-
ALL that well-accustomed PUBLIC-HOUSE/known
by the Sign of the STANLEY ARMS, and win the
occupation of Mr. Hamer, situate on the st side of
Haekin's.hey. in Liverpool, containing in front o Haekin's-
hey 6 yards 2 feet and 6 inches, and extei ng in depth
backwards, on the south side, 13 yards at 6 inches, and
being in breadth at the back 7 yards 1 of and 8 inches,
and extending in depth backwards, on is north side, 5
yards 1 foot and 1 inch, then turning o nan angle 4 feet,
and running further in depth .6 yards and 10 inches, be the
several dimensions more or less. _ _

The Property is Freehold of Inheritance, and, from its
proximity to the Liverpool Exchange and Docks, oilers a
valuable investment to a purchaser.
For particulars apply to Mr. HINDLE, Solicitor, Lord-
street; or to Mr. DODD, Solicitor, 4, James-street, Liver-
pool, where a Plan of the Property may be seen.

PITT'S TANFIELD MOOR COLLIERY, AND PRO-
PERTY AT WINLATON, IN THE COUNTY

OF DURHAM.
IN TWO LOTS

Pursuant to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery made
in a cause of Davis v. Pitt", with the approbation of
Sir (Nibs Wilson, Knight, one of the Masters of the said

Court.
IN THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER NEXT, Of which due notice
will be given, at the Public Sale Room, Southampton
Buildings, Chancery-lane, London,
ALL that well-kn Own current- going Sea Sale COLLIERY,
called " Prrr's OLD TANFIELD MOOR'', together with
all the Establishment of dead and fixed Stock of Machinery,
Workshops, Granaries, Stables, Storehouse, Agents' and
Workmen's Houses, &c., complete for carrying on e same,
late the property of William Morton Pitt, o 'ingston
House, in the county of Dorset, Esq., decease
This Colliery is situated in the Chapeliy Tanfield, in
the county-of Durham, and contains uproar aof 1000 Acres
of Coal Ground, in which ' several valua Seams of Coal
have been found by boring below the pre nt working seams,
and which may be won and worked at easy expense. The
Coals are shipped by the Brandling J ction Railway Com-
pany, by their drops at South Shiel , on the River Tyne,
they are of excellent quality, and ar a high price in the
London Market, they are also fi for the Foreign Export
Trade.

The Machinery and working Pits are in a good state of
repair, and the purchaser may enter immediately on com-
pleting the purchase, and carry on the Colliery without being
called upon to make any further advance of capital beyond
the amount of the purchase money.

Also, a Portion of the LORDSHIP of WINLATON, in
the said county of Durham,, which has produced an average
yearly income for ten years, ending May day, 1840, of about
£54.

Printed particulars and conditions of sale may be had
(gratis) one month prior to the sale, at the said Alaster's
Chambers, in Southampton Buildings ; of Messrs. °LIFER-
SON, DENBY, and LAIRE, Frederick's-place, Old .IZwry,
London ; Messrs. COOMBS and SON, Solicitors, Dorchester ;
Messrs. FARRAR and C 0.., Lincoln's Inn Fields Messrs.
H RICARDS and WALKER, Lincoln's Inu Fields ; Mr. BAD-
DLE, Colliery Viewer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; and Mr. BEN-
JAMIN ARKLESS, Taufield Moor Fitting Office, Newcastle,
who will show the Premises.

05-11VEit§iig,DENBY, and LAIRE,
Plaintiff's Solicitors

inOttratut got irt 5.

YORKSHIRE
FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

I.ISH

iIARTIES having Annual Policies falling d "on the 29th
-L September, are respectfully informed t t they should
renew the same within fifteen days from th date.
AGENTS :
JOHN ATKINSON, Fenwick ldings, Fenwick-st.
LATHAM HANMER, Jun., I Dale-street.
FREDERICK LAPAGE, ,
NATHAN LITHERLAND, 18, Exchange,Thfildings.

IMPERIAL FIRE OFFIC
THOSE Persons whose Annual Policies e renewable on
the 29th instant, are respectfully inf • ed that, for their
own security, they should be renewed ithin fifteen days
from that date. WALTER ARKS, gent.
High street, Liverpool, Sept. 22, 184 .

THE MANCHESTER ASSURANCE ' IMPANY,
jr(
For Assurance against Fire, and on Lives , d urvivorships,
Purchase of Annuities, Reversi , . So. Brc.
OFFICE, No. 98, KING-STREET, 4 NCHE R.
Capital, Two MILLIONS.—Estab,• d Mar , )824.

ni/
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
HIE Assured are entitled to one third of e profits, with-
out any liability on their part to th losses.
Parties intending to continue their P 'cies, falling due at
MICHAELMAS, mustrenew them withi fteen days from that
time, or they will become void.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
The Assured are entitled to two-thirds of the profits, with-
out any liability on their part to the losses.
The Premiums charged are lower than those of the ma-
jority of other Offices.
The business of the Life department is kept quite distinct
from that of Fire, and its accumulations are not liable to
make good any losses arising therefrom.
The Rates of Premiums, and all other particulars, may be
obtained on application to Mr. JOSEPH MORTON, Secretary,
or to any of the Company's Agents.
RICHARD DAWSON, Agent for Liverpool.
N.B.—Agents have already been appointed in most of the
principal towns in the kingdom ; but applications for Agencies,
in places where appointments have not yet been made, are
requested to be addressed to the Secretary.

BONUS.
At the Annual General Court of Proprietors, held on the
20th June, 1839, bonuses were declared to the assured in the
Fire Department of £lO per cent. on, the premiums received
during the five years previous to the 25th March, 1839, to be
paid on all insurances of two, or more, years' standing ; and
to the assured in the Life Department, on all policies for the
whole duration of Life, forfour, or more years standing, on
the 25th March, 1839, of very nearly 26 per cent. on the
amount of the premiums received thereon, improved at com-
pound interest, to be added to the sum assured by such
policies when they become claims, or an equivalent reduction
to be made in the annual premiums upon them, at the option
of the parties entitled thereto.

REMOVAL.
VISITORS TO LONDON.
-ATRS. WATSON, late 59, Fleet-street, respectfully in-
-al. forms Ladies and Gentlemen visiting tendon on busi-
ness or pleasure, who prefer a Private H • se to the bustle of
an Hotel, that they can he comfortably .mmodated at her
commodious Board and Lodging dishment, 31, ARUN-
DEL-STREET, Strand, directly op! ite Howard-street, two
minutes' walk from Temple Bar. Its easy access to the
Theatres, Inns of Court, and every conveyance by land or
water, form a no less important feature.
Terms—Bed, Breakfast, and Attendance, 3s. ; Tea, Is.—
Private Apartments.
*** Preserve the Address.

"YANG,"
THE CENTRAL FIRE

WWHEN Ke-shin,oi:Tllelreaded Hour," was appoint-
V V eel Commissioner at Canton, and every Journal headed
the intelligence then received with " Settlement of the Chi-
nese Dispute—Three Millions to be paid the English—Trade
resumed at Canton," &c., CAPTAIN PIDDING'S 18
years' experience of the Chinese told him that his country-
men had been duped : and he predicted that, " bough Ke-
shin might promise !pillions, he would neve y a dollar ;
that, instead of resuming trade, he woul orce its stop-
page, to keep the English without tea ; " d that " Elliot
would rue the hour" when he first relie on Ke-shin's pro-
mises. The public now know whose j dgment of the Chi-
nese has proved correct, CAPTAIN ELLIOT'S or CAPTAIN
; and they see that CAPTAIN PIDDING'S predic-
tion has been verified to the letter. " YANG," the Chinese
definition of whose name is " The Central Fire," has suc-
ceeded Ke-shin. " 1 ANG " has officially recommended
" the withholding all tea from the English, until their sup-
ply is quite exhausted," when he foretels that " they will
become reverently submissive, and give gold for the precious
leaf." Commodore Bremer's despatch mentions that " the
Chinese had removed all the tea from Canton," and the
statement ;that " 200,000 Chinese were ready to sack and
burn the city," is singularly prophetic of Yang's name.
CAPrAIN PIDDING still thinks that the force sent out will
be found insufficient to coerce Chirp, that no tea will come
out whilst bullets pour in, and that " teas will be dearer
than ever." CAPTAIN PIDDING'S Teas were formerly sold
under the title of " Howqua's Mixture," and " Howqua's
Small Leaf Gunpowder" ; hut hundreds of Grocers and Tea-
dealers, anxious to profit by the celebrity of tea which lie
alone imports, and which they found it impossible to procure,
have given the same title to rubbish of their own mixing, so
that there is now scarce one but has his " Howqua's,"
" Mowques," " Saoqua's," or some other mixture. Against
such imposition, the only security' is •
" CAPTAIN PIDDING'S NAME."
This they have not het forged, and his signature is on every
really genuine package. For country agencies, address Cap-
tain Pidding, 22, College-hill, London.
GEORGE CARLYLE, Repository, 38, Bold-street, Sole
Agent for Liverpool.
J. H. PYER, Confectioner, 32,: Great Homer-street, for
Everton and Kirkdale.
Bolton—G. J. French. Draper.
Burnley—T. Sutcliffe, Bookseller, 20,.5t. james's-street.
Blackburn—J. Parkinson, Chemist, 1, Church•street.
Bradford—John Pratt, Chemist, 33, Ivegate.
Halifax-4. W. Foster, 36, Crown-street.
Leeds—C. Lawson, Confectioner, 39, Commercial-street.
Manchester—John Ford and Co., St. Ann's-square. •
Preston—Thos. Green, Music-seller, Church-street.
Wakefield—J. Stanfield and Co., 130oksellers.

HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, are now selling
BONDS for the LOANS of the Austrian, Russian, and
Prussian Empires. They have remitted during a very short
time very large amounts of Dividends to their correspondents
in Great Britain. Dividends of £25,000, £lB9O, £9OOO,
£5OOO, £3600 to London ; £3600, £BOO, £7OO to dinburgh ;
£3600 to Dublin ; £3600 to Beverley ; £36 t to Halifax ;
£l2OO to Porthleaven Harbour; £9OO, 0, and £6OO to
Liverpool ; £9OO to Hull ; £9OO to Ne ..stle-upon-Tyne ;
£9OO, £6OO to Manchester; £7OO to Retford, Notting-
hamshire ; £6OO to Bideford ; £6OO o Cork ; £6OO to
Bradford.
All those desirous to PURCHASE Austrian, Russian,
and Prussian Bonds, or Bonds for any other Loans contracted
by European Governments, may obtain the prospectus and
full information as to the amount of Dividends, &c. &c.
upon directing a line to
HEINE BROTHERS, at Hamburgh.
P.S.—Orders for less than £lO cannot be executed, owing
to trouble and postage being too large for smaller purchases ;
it is requested, therefore, not to write for the several prospec-
t tuses if not desirous to become a purchaser for £lO at least.

SEYSSEL ASPI-IAI/11: COMPANY.
" cLAninoE's rATENT , ESTABLISHED 1538..
Principal Depdts
RSEILLES ; STAIVGATE, LON-
V MA
ON; and LIVERPOOL.
AHE Parent Company having taken the NI, ORKS in
ASPHALTE, in the Liverpool District, under their
own management, solicit the attention of Engineers, Archi-
tects, Builders, and others to the valuable properties of the
Material, which has been extensively used in this Cou ; for
nearly Four Years, for the following purposes :
FOOT PAVEMENTS, public TUN ROOM no° ;
and other ; MALT HOUSE FLOORS ;
KITCHEN FLOORS ; PIGGERIESOIC. &C. &C.

BASEMENTS, where it is es-
sential to keep damps from COVIMUTd OF RAIZ ROAD
and -Other ARenEs, the only
effectual mode to prevent
the percolation of Water,
RACES. ;
CARRIAGE DRIVES ; which also renders it very
COACH HOUSES AND S'rA- appropriate for the LINING
BLING ; OF TANKS AND FISH
DOG KENNELS ; PONDS.
BARN FLOORS ; DRAINS, &C. &C.
The Directors flatter thealselves 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
copies of which may be obtained
presented to the Company,
at the Works, and from Mr. WILLIAM BENSON, Architect
and Surveyor to the Company, No. 2, Commerce-cow'
Lord-street,- Liverpool.
Liverpool, June, 1841

rising ;
GARDEN WALKS AND TER-

J. FARRELL, Secretary