The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-28 00:00:00

K

SECOND PART
Overture.—" La Gazza Ladra"
Aria.—" In questo semplice,"-

'—Madame Caradori Allan
.... Donize

Solo, Violin.—" Andante and Rondo Russe, from De Beriot's
Grand Concerto in B Minor."—Mr. E. W. Thomas.
Romance Francais.—" La Croix des Champs,"—Midarne
Caradoti Allan, with Oboe Obligato, Mons. Barret....

Clapisson
'—Miss Bassano.. Crouch

Song.—" Kathleen Mavourneen,
Solo, Cornet ?t Piston,—Herr Koenig
Ballad.—" Molly Bawn,"—Mr. Crouch Lover
Duett.—" The Meeting,"—Miss Bassano and Miss Whit-
nall
Scotch Ballad.—" Jock azledean ,"—M de. Carado ri Allan.
Finale.—" God save the Queen."

The Orchestra, composed of the most efficient Performers,
in every department, will be as numerous as that of former

Seasons

Piano Forte

Mr. GEORGE HOLDEN

The Subscriptions for the FOUR CONCERTS, Reserved'
Seats, 255., and for Unreserved Seats, 21s. each, may be
paid to the account of the Proprietors, at the Bank of Messrs

nARNED and Co., Lord-street, until the 27th Decem
instant, when the List will be finally closed.

The Lottery for Reserved Seats will take place at tt
PORTICO, Newington, on the 29th instant, at One o'clock.

. .
Single Tickets, for the Circle, 7s. 6d.'; Upper Boxes, ss. ;
and Gallery, 2s. each, may be had at the Music Shops ; and
Books of Words at the Theatre, on the Evening of the
Concert.

LINENDRAPERY

GOODS

WILLIAM NELSON,
22, OLD HAYMARKET,
IS NOW OFFERING THE
REMAINING PART OF HIS STOCK
AT AN IMMENSE REDUCTION
PRIOR TO HIS FINALLY CLOSING
ON THE 31ST INSTANT
E PRICE WILI

NO REASON

UETHEREAS, my Wife, ELIZABETH GLOVER,
V V having absented herself from home without leave, and
)therwise misconducted herself, I HEREBY GIVE NO-
TICE, that I will not be answerable for any Debt or Debts
;he may contract after this date. Witness my hand, this
?ith December, 1811. JOSEPH GLOVER.
Witness—Jos. BARNES.

DISPENSARY FOR ASTHMA, CONSUMPTION,
AND DISEASES OF THE HEART.
ESTABLISHED 1N OLDHAM-STREET.
THE Poor, afflicted with Asthma, Consumption, and Dis-
eases of the Heart, obtain Advice and Medicine rani-
!ously, after Twelve o'clock on TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS
ind on WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS persons suffering
'rom Nervous Pains, from Ten to One.
Application to be made to Mr. CRONIN, at the Dispensary.

By Her Majesty's Royal Letters Paten.

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS

TAKEN BY THE

REFLECTION OF LIGHT,

AT THE
MOUNT GARDENS, ST. JAMES'S WLI
LIVERPOOL.

rpHE Proprietors of the REFLECTING APPARATUS,
1 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

IS NO If

OPEN.

Me 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, is pow in DAILY OPERATION.
THE PRICE FOR EACH PORTRAIT, INCLUDING
A FRAME, IS ONE GUINEA.
JOHN RELPH, Manager.
Specimens may be seen, and Orders received, at Mr. LA •-
CEY'S REPOSITORY OF ARTS, 100, Bold-stieet.
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 :
(Prom the Morning Chronicte.)

When we formerly described this process, the titne 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 tho
operation may require from aminute and a half to two minutes.
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 timirably 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 L►stitution, Regent-street.
The patentee has christened it the " photographic mode of
takine 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 Times.)
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC MINIATURES.—The princip.
been so far perfected as to be almost incapable of fur
improvement. The novelty attendant upon the fact
being furnished in the short space of five seconds with
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. drev
together a host of curious fashionables, at the Poi
technic Institution, so many, indeed, that notwitho-
the short period of time occupied in the open
was crowded for hours together, by parties anxiously
their turn. The apartment appropriated for the magic
process—for so it may be termed—is well calculated for
object desired, beinc, on the highest story of the institution
From the roof, which is constructed of blue glass, of abou
a quarter of an inch thick, a very powerful light i's 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 kaiip from
the influence of phOIOgTaPhY•
(From the Morning Herald.)
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—We were present on Sa-
turday at the exhibition of the extraordinary process o'
taking portraits by the reflecting apparatus, lately patente'
and now for the first time brought before the public. By
photographic progress, perfect likenesses are taken. in
short space of from ten to five and twenty seconds!
say perfect, because the prepared plate on which the o'
is reflected must of necessity produce a pt.”,
that object. The operation, therefore
the fault of even the slightest failure
be attribntable to the person sitting
may result from an assumed or
Although the exhibition has been only or a r—
and of some two or three days, we understand that .
been visited by all the
parties possessing the privii,
Among other influential personages present on Saturdey,
noticed the Earl of Shaftesbury, who expressed his surpris
and gratification at the extraordinary invention.
(From the liforning Post.)
The patentee of this invention has adopted the principle o
giving these " reflections" to the public at a very moderat,
cost, compared to the ordinary price of miniatures, trustima
for his return to a general desire to possess them, which h,
anticipates must be felt by all persons who would cherish thi
best memento of a dear friend or relative.
(From the Courier.)
"Every
of lin n
touch in the pictrue produced is from
the
nature, without flattery or fallacy."
(Froma, every
Bell's Weekly Messenger.)
pencile
EXTRAORDINARY PACT.—MINIATURE PICTURES.—It is
personally the individual who is the sitter. It is
act miluyc
as he sees himself in the most accurate looking
bodily and o
L 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 au everlasting memo-
rial of the man at the moment it is taken—and therefore the
most precious gift that call 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 past of.a..mi-
nute)—but it affords to artists themselves the surest wide
for copying other likenesses, whether in miniature, or in of -
paintings as large as life.

•ation, t

being thus une.
in likeness can

which, (