The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-12 00:00:00

of coffee since yesterday !
By Mr. Smi

could, with a family of my own, t
-• • - o.n. and he c^:

in dist

times. I persuaded him to gu,
on the road, as he had no strength left

The ASSISTANT

d no further witnesses to

call Mr. I

street, and one of the Gt

sioNEn then said he should

tended the board on t
did not appear ai
Derby. I never saw

itton broker, living in Duke-
lians of this Union. I at-
December. James Parkes
he applicants from West
um in my life. I left the

I was there about two minutes. As I entered it, Mr.
Tristram had his back towards me, and his face to the
door enterin'- '-`

a tall man retiring thrOugclicC
, .

&s the door was part shut,

.ound and

was frightened and boitedv

made no remark (

Mr. I

conversation wi

bservation, being desirous to avoid
—• • -

A letter from Mr. Peers, address,
December 19, was then read and put 1
written after the death of Mr. Par)
Peers had taken the evidence of the gidow
basis upon which the board arrive he n
resulted in this inquiry, :and bla
lieving officer, for not b be
when the man applied for relief.
Hugh Parkes, husband of the witness, Jane Parkes,
and
brother of the deceased, was called, at the instance of Mr.
SMITH, and deposed to the bad state of deceased's health
for some time.

.
some other reason.
d to the board, dated
• This letter was
but before Mr.

It was the
At at the resolution which
imputed blame to the re-
rineinz the case before the board

was glen

Elizabeth Place, an inmate of the workhouse,
called by Mr. Tristram, and she stated' that Mr. Tristram
sent her from the waiting-room to find the man Parkes
after he had left the house. He was gone away, '_and she
was unable to meet with him. The man was very ill
when he was in the waiting-room, and said he had come
for a doctor's note. He did not say he wanted any othei
relief. Mr. Tristram sent her to look for the man
quarter of an hour after he was gone, and also asked her
to send a man after him. She did so, and the man ret-
turned, saying he could not find him.
The evidence here closed, and the inquiry terminate&
The Assistant-Commissioner will transmit the evidence,
and his report thereon, to the Commissioners, whose
decision will be made known in about a fortn;n4
The inquiry lasted fr.,— -1--

st five o'cloel

IMMENSE WATER COLOUR PAINTING;.
A stupendous picture is now being exhibited at the
Royal Assembly Rooms, Groat. George-street, which has.

. ~..txu our an, not
ev onl from its beig the
a,.. . visited him the following day between twelve and largest water-coloinurtration paintingever executed, but nas well
two o'clock. I found him very cold, in a state of exhaus- for its great merit as a work of art. The subject is—
tion, and with great difficulty of breathing. I considered, " The angel delivering Daniel from the lions ;" and the
from the symptoms, he had tubercles or abscess on the picture, executed by James M. Burbeck, Esq., and which
lungs. I did not, at the time, consider his case hopeless. has occupied him for about 13 months, covers an area of
I have seen many cases as bad which I have subsequently 240 superficial feet, being 20 feet long, by 12 feet high.
attended for years. I have had one in my own house, my The substance upon which• it is painted is paper backed
wife, for 25 years, as had, at times, as this. Ido not by a fine canvas.
think the man's life could have been protracted with other The object of the artist is said to have been to prove
treatment. I only saw the man once alive ;he died that what fine effects water-colour drawing is capable of pro-
night from the rupture of a tubercle or abscess. If it ducing. He has succeeded, however, in doing far more
were a large one he would be instantly choked. The wo- than this. In his mode of treating the subject, he has
man told me the relieving officer had offered her husband shown much grandeur of conception ; and the finish of
the house ; and the relieving officer could not have ad- this Mammoth picture will bear as minute examination as
wised anything better than a warm room and rest. many portraits of the smallest size. The figure in the
To Mr. PARKER.—The man was exhausted when I saw . foreground—Daniel, in an attitude of prayer or thanks-
him, and the exhaustion proceeded, in my opinion, from giving—is very fine ; and the angel, with out-spread wings,
the disease in his lungs. I have known many persons standing over him, is a most etherial piece of painting,
with asthma die suddenly.
executed so as to prevent that deterioration to which
To Mr. MOULD.—Mrs. Parkes told me they had no water-colour drawings are liable by the use of white
provisions or food in the house. I told her that was a paint, the white in this figure being brought out by the
case for the relieving officer, and I would report-it to him. original colour of the paper. On the right corner of the
after I had seen her husband. I advised her to put him picture, two lions are painted to the life ; and on the left
to bed, and give him the medicine I sent, and a little lis a group, two of them sleeninr. and .„„.......... • o trn n.. 1.11.1 r4,-..............1,. 01.. - 4.1.. l_PA_ _ _ tvr• ,

visited Parkes the next day, I found him living in a small
court in Back Bolton-street, Edge-hill ;he was sitting by
the fire, apparently in a state of exhaustion. I advised
him to go to bed and keep warm. I did not see a bed in
that rooni, and I should say there was only one room on
the ground floor. I saw two or three chairs. I did not
notice any other furniture.

:e of the angel, which is paintecito
- the rocky cave

,nd the fact

'lb Mr. PEERS.—Suppose the man had not had any food
from the Monday morning to the Tuesday night before
I saw him. Ido not think it would have been at all un-
favourable to his complaint. This man, in the early part,
must have had inflammation, and he had been ill fourteen
days before I saw him. Supposing, in addition to want
of food, he had walked the distance stated, the exertion
would certainly be unfavourable to him ; but of course I.
dont know, whether he had anything.

To the ASSISTANT-COMMISSIONER.—Parkes was 37
years of age. He had been labouring at the docks, and
had taken cold there 14 days previously. The witness
then described the personal appearance of the deceased.
Did not recollect his wife makiner any nhcpryntin„ ;„ +l,„

ub uy una:l v cil.ltnl 111 LllC
house to the effect that she had no gruel, and no means of
getting any. If she had, should at once have given her an
order upon the relieving-officer to supply her, but cannot
remember whether he gave her such an order or not.
Parkes himself said nothing about food. The tire was a
small one—in a grate made of bricks and bars. Nothing
was said to lead him' to suppose there was no bed in the

mouth of the d