The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-07 00:00:00

the tendency of high finish in cabinet pictures is to con-
tract the focus of the mind and cramp ti

lion, so

that of fresco is to enlarge the conception and expand
the style. Fresco-paintingis the school of greatness in paint-
ing ; it daunts and depresses only the little mind ; it fires and
elevates the noble and aspiring genius; the artist works with
that grand gusto of which we hear so much and see so little.
Mr. Haydon tells us, and we can well believe, that there is a
fascination in the very manner of painting which is inspiriting
and stimulating to fresh exertions; and he now regrets not
having followed the advice given to him by the late Sir'David
Wilkie twenty years ago, to apply himself to fresco. Any
zealous artist might easily make the experiment; the same
means of information are open to all. The book authorities
for the Italian method, we are told are Vasari, Armenini, and
Cennini ; Messrs. Latina, of London, Bell, of Manchester.
and Barker, of Bath, are the artists in this country whom
Mr. Haydon consulted ; Mr. Lane, of whom we spoke, is not
we believe in England. The method is simple : chip off
the outer surface of plaster from a dry wall, and substitute
for it a coating of wet plaster, composed of two parts of river-
sand and one of lime, well mixed together with water to a
proper consistency : this applied to the wall will remain suf-
ficiently moist to work upon for hours ; no greater space
should be plastered at once than can be covered in that time.
Every touch is indelible ; but it may be gone over again
while the plaster is moist. The pigments used are of the
common kind, being earths, and are dissolved in water ; the
lime itself is the white : the difficulty is to allow for the change
of tint in drying.—Spectator.
HAMBUAGH, AUGUST 21.—Mrs. Fry, and her brother,
Mr. Gurney, delivered discourses yesterday evening, in the
" Old City of London Hall." The discourses were delivered
in English, and were translated into the German language
by Miss Amalie Sieveking and Dr. Asher. They were listened
towith the greatest interest by all present. Mrs. Fry described
the sad condition, both moral arid physical, in which she had
found the inmates of prisons in England when she commenced
her great work, and commented on the present superiority of
their management. Mrs. Fry expressed her conviction that
she never would have attained her philanthropic object by any
other means than by awaking and confirming the religious
feelings of the unhappy prisoners, through the medium of the
sacred. Scriptures. She communicated to the audience a few
instances of the great success which often attended her exer-
tions in this respect. She spoke slso of the prison disci-
pline of other countries she had visited, and where, 6
juiced to say, the treatment of the prisoners was now i.
more humane than formerly—for example, France and Bel-
gium, where chains are now abolished from prisons. In on'
German town, which Mrs. Fry observed she would not nan'
she had observed with regret, that individuals
shut up in solitary cells and fettered, who were merely unc
examination, and whose guilt or innocence was yet unproven
The benevolent lady expressed a hope that the works to which
she devoted herself would be the more likely to excite inter-
est and meet with co-operation in this place on account of its
being the native city of her friend, Dr. Julius, and because
she had with pleasure remarked how much had already
been done here for the alleviation of human suffering
by means of public institutions. Among those . institutions
she mentioned that established for the care of claildrrer6‘evrniciese
morals had been neglected. The observationts, of M
had reference chiefly to negro slavery.
found it to exist in the United States flocrtithsAertinbeerdiciat,aasnhdle'
thhee
the West Indies,
in the Spanish and Danish possessidonitslir
and contrasted with it the happy I of the emancipated
visited had
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the,
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last
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rs themselves from the change,
ad-
vantages derived by the p scoo
sufficient compensation from the
d a hope that the intelligent
English nation. _
would never pollute themselves with
having received a mffoereexthplaarnensse
traders of Hamb rg
utfic in slaves, however tempting its profits.
the disgraceful ma k on the subject of our prisons,
n
,He
ospitru nexti proceeded
si and churches,
to spcachurches, commending and encouraging the
forme have so long been made to extend and im-
M Gurney, in referring to our pro-
r r.
rOve the
lunatic asylum, tool: occasion to advert to the arrange-
mentsPete"those institutions, so far
of as concerns the treatment
rexertions
of their unhappy inmates. His principle is not to employ
the lunatics at compulsory work, but to use every means to
divert their thoughts.

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(Whom late I visited again),
Accept my thanks in fitful lay
In my own random off-hand way,
For friendship, undiminished, glowing,
More bliss than I can name bestowing ;
And now whilst tears begin to swell
I write my heartfelt " Fare you well."
St. Andrews, August 7, 1841.

HERE'S A HEALTH TO THE NINETYONE

A NEW SONG, INTENDED TO BE SUNG AT CONSERVATIVE

STIVALS

Here's a health to the Ninety-one !
The course of the Whigs is run ;
By honest votes and eloquent throats
The fight of years is won.

s a health to tl

Whose shout doth faction stun ;
The cheap bread troop, at one
t add gun.

fell swoop,