The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-14 00:00:00

FRESH AND CHOICE ARRIVAL

DOLLS, GAMES, PUZZLES
MAGIC LANTERNS, &c.

Q ELLING OFF cheap, CHRISTMAS PRESENTS, in
ki splendid PAPIER-MACHE GOODS. DESKS, lOs.,
125., 155., ISs., 245., and 30s. TORTOISESHELL TEA
CADDIES, at 30s. and 355. DRESSING CASES, Ss. 6d.,
155., 225., 245., and 325. Splendid ENVELOPE and
PAPER CASES. WORK BOXES, 2s. 6d., 3s. 6d., 45.,
as.. and 7s.

GLASGOW HOUSE,
WO OLFIELD' S,
53, CHURCH-STREET.

MECHANICS' INSTITUTION, MOUNT-STREET.
TO-MORROW, (Wednesday,) the 15th instant, at Half-
past'. Seven, P.M., Mr. J. C. M'CONNELL, Engineer,
will deliver the Third of FOUR LECTURES on the
STEAM ENGINE. The Course to be illustrated with
Diagrams and Models.
Admission, to Non-members, One Shilling.

HIGH SCHOOL.—The Directors, having lately given
their special attention to the High School, with the view of
rendering its instruction, discipline, and general arrange-
ments still more worthy of public support, have now to an-
nounce the following important changes. Some of them
have already taken place, and the rest will be introduced im-
mediately after the Christmas Holidays.

I. The attendance on six different departments daily will not,
as formerly, be imperative on every pupil; but, wherever
circumstances require a departure from the prescribed
course, the master can appropriate a boy's entire time to
any FOUR or more of the subjects taught. In accordance

with this arrangement, the following Courses of study have

been prepared:
1. The COMPLETE Course, embracing, as at present,
English, French, Classics, Mathematics, Writing, Draw-
ing, Chemistry, and Natural Philosophy.
2. A more purely Emmisifbiirs Course, in which either Chemis-

try and Islaturl Philosophy, or Classics, or French,LrZy

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two of these branches may be omitted.
A more strictly COMMERCIAL Course for those Pupils

who are intended to leave School soon for business. r
A. more strictly CLASSICAL Course for those Pupils who
are intended to be members of any of the learned pro-

fessions.
11. To secure uniformity of instruction, vigour of disci-
pline, and sound scholarship, and to promote the gene-
ral interests of the Schools, a Head blaster will super-
intend the entire education of each Pupil.
111. Previous to the Midsummer Holydays in each year,
Prizes will be given to the most deserving Pupils in each
department, and in each particular class of studies.
These will consist of Philosophical Apparatus or Books,
together with Honorary Certificates. It has been fur-
ther resolved to confer annually life membership (value
Ten Guineas) on the most deserving Pupil in the High
School, provided he has been in attendance for a certain
number of years.
IV. The Apparatus for heating the rooms has been re-
placed by an entirely new one, upon an improved prin-
ciple, by which the health and comfort of the Pupils will
be promoted.
V. The stock of Philosophical and Chemical Apparatus
has been greatly increased • so that the facilities for
studying every branch of these important subjects are
now such as are rarely possessed, even by adult student
VI. An Assistant to the Teacher of Chemistry ha-

appointed, so that the time hitherto spent in manipula-
tion can now be entirely devoted to the purposes of in-

struction.
VII. Two Classical Teachers have lately been appointed,
from whose high qualifications, mild discipline, and pre-
vious success, the Committee anticipate the most favour-
able results. _ _ _ _ _ . _ _

TheWexiCl:L.ter will begin on Monday, the 3d of January
next, after the Christmas Holidays, which will commence on
the 18th instant. Terms, Ten Guineas per Annum, with
Four Shillings and Sixpence per Quarter for use of Books,
&c., paid Quatterly, in advance.
PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT.—Terms, Six Gui-

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neas per Annum, with Four Shillings and Sixpence per
Quarter, for use of Books, &c., paid Quarterly, in advance.
SOIREE.—It is proposed that the members of the Insti-
tution and their Families shall hold a SOIREE, in the In-
stitution, on MONDAY, the 2711 instant, on which occasion
THOMAS THORNELY, As+, M.P., has kindly con-
sented to take the chair. Tickets, including Refreshments,
Is. Gd. each. It is urgently requested that Members wishing
to attend will furnish themselves with Tickets as early as pos-
sible. The arrangements will depend greatly on the number
of persons intending to be present.
Tickets.are now issued at the Secretary's Office.

LIBRARY.—PubIic attention is solicited to the Library,
which now contains nearly Eight Thousand Volumes, in the
various Branches of Science and Literature. and which re••
ceives regularly Ten Monthly and Seven Quarterly Periodi-
cals. Each Member is allowed, Three Volumes of a Single
Work at a time, and the same Annual Subscription of One
Guinea (for Ladies 10s. 6d.), which admits to the Library
admits also to the Public Lectures and the Evening Schools.

A Donation of Ten Guineas, or upwards, constitutes the
Contributor a Life Member. Annual Members, One Guinea
(the Ticket dates from the time it was taken out); Ladies'
Tickets, Half a Guinea ; Sqns or Apprentices of Members,
Five Shillings; Apprentices of Non-Members, Half a
Guinea. W. B. HODGSON, Secretary.

By Her Majesty's Royal Leiters Patent.
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS

TAKEN BY TUE

REFLECTION OF LIGHT,

AT THE
MOUNT GARDENS, ST. JAMES'S it-Lc,
LIVERPOOL.

THE Proprietors of the REFLECTING 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
IS NOTIT OPEN.
The Corporation of Liverpool having granted the site of
the late OBSERVATORY, ST. JAMES'S WALE, 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 now in DAILY OPERATION.
THE PRICE FOR EACH PORTRAIT, INCLUDING
A FRAME, IS ONE GUINEA.
JOHN RELPH, Manager.

Specimens may be seen, and Orders reee;vod, at Mr. LA-
M IS REPOSITORY OF ARTS, 100, Bold-at:teat.
The Invention was recently. introduced into England, at
the ROYAL POLYTECSINIC INSTITUTION, LONDON ; and
the following are a few extracts from the leading Journals
relating to its merits :
(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 aminute and ahalf to two minutes.
The portraits taken by this means are really extraordinary
as likenesses ; they are true to nature, for nature hare is her
own delineator. The features are admirably marked out ;Ind
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 attractin:,
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 talum
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 principle lamer=
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 it
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, dre..v
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
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 2111 opposite
direction, about five from him, in which is placed the plate
to be impressed with the portrait. Having done so for .r 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.
Pisoitonitarnic loit.r
(Fr°"'itheellt°l7-S7-1%1 iffeewera-irde)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 perfect 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 air 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 on Saturday, we
noticed the Earl of Shaftesbury, who expressed his surprise
and gratification at the extraordinary invention.
(From the Morning Post.)
The patentee of this invention has adopted the principle 01

giving these " reflections" to the public at a very moderate
aost, 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 Bell's Weekly Messenger.)
EXTRAORDINARY FACT.—MINIATURE PICTURES.—it is
bodily and personally the individual who is the sitter. It is
as much 50, as he sees himself in the most accurate
likeness looking
glass, but with this difference, that the Photographic
is the image as if it were removed from the surface of the
mirror, and rendered perpetual. It is an everlast
thereforeing memo-
rial of the man at the moment it is taken—and
most precious gift that can be given to those who love him
while living, and will cherish his memory when dead. It
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 guide
for copying other likenesses, whether in miniatnre, or in oil
paintings as large as life,