The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-22 00:00:00

sojourn of the Med

and in the

Rack &

ly looks as if Franc

Ransack every club

London, sou

litterateu

political re-

Friday morn

determined to be in the thick

of it, if it be not all over before

issue of the Livetpool Standard, one (
United 1-

glom—London especiall

-shall have

I refer to

the moribund pests,—BETTING OFFICES. Never was a
more stringent act passed since OLIVER CROMWELL had
a hand in the Government or ProteCtorate. Every penny
held by the varlets, in deposit on races however distant,

must be diso.o

,ices, for the most

ten or twelve

scamps, have been on the wane for the -
months ; the city magistrates, well piloted by WinTrLi
HARVEY, the Police Commiso-
them, as they had ruined many city 'prentice, porter and
clerk. The betting offices are pretty well all closed ; the
keepers of them know the " doubly

did much to ruin

azardous" game of

pg money, and those who have deposits to any amount
—cut ; I use their own language. lam not here to

betting

',etch fo]

space and time for perusing d
houses on Saturday nights.

gaming, when facilities pr

I have known I

;seriptions of these

Such is the fatal

at themselves, that

glily educated

is the world goes—

moral gentlemen, pay one of their last few sovereigns for
a bit of pasteboard, and high hopes of winning, which

i are qammoned (I again
es), shall we

caused. If such mt
use the appropriate language of the parts.
wonder at the juvenile clerk, the heretofore trustworthy
porter, the messenger, or servant doing the same ? No.
But betting houses are not to die; Boulogne's the word !
In brief, I am well informed that betting lists, even on a
more prodigal scale, are to be opened in that resort of
and other vagabonds. However, the
Pest is driven from our walls.

mongrel poodi

"re we never to have done with effigies of Sir
d their attendant absurdities ?

ROBERT PEEL

porters of the Right Honourable Baronet's policy—a
strange mixture—do not imagine that I would, could, or
should, breathe (a sigh ?) a word to the deterioration of
his posthumous fame ! It is art,—high art, in the city—
save the mark,—that now induces me to ink my thumb.
Most of your readers, who do not reside within the bills
of mortality, have visited the metropolis, and as certainly
have walked along Cheapside eastward. In the known
world, —world pre-adamite ultra-mundane—anything,
—there never was a more monstrous absurdity in art
than the equestrian statue of the great Duke of WELLING-
TON. I apply "monstrous absurdity" not to the com-
position, not to the execution—the details of the horse and
rider. The latter, as a portrait, is faultless ;—the former,
notwithstanding CIIANTRET'S sainted name—in art
canonized,—might have been more appropriate. The
poet who lisp'd in numbers"
the effect that—says some pretty words to

"Honour and shame from no condition riae."
This I know,—if I judge from the tenor of the Royal
AAcarcademy, lectures, delivered by living professors, Royal
ipow ev•

TrromAi; remark

teuverea by Sir Josuue, and Sir
acle by that eccentric genius, Fusnu

a VIII. ha Matte oy that heavy artist, Sir Joirx V;NBURGH:
the best draper of architecture that ever tried it ; remarks
made by that gentle creature DAVIE WILKIE, who would
have been P. R. A. if he had not been so anxious about it ;
this I know from these, that a bit from the chisel of
PYGMALION, of PurnrAs, of ALcAmANEs or his associates,
all of whose sandals CHANTREY would have been glad to
unloose--I say, were a statue from such hands to be
placed in the position of CILANTBEY'S one of WELLINGTON
in front of the facade of the Royal Exchange, it would at
once become a wart—supremely or simply ridiculous !
But referring to our friends proceeding eastward through
Cheapside, they are presented with the most remarkable
example of "fore-shortening" extant, either in stone,
bronze, or canvass. In short, the DUKE and his horse
are bundled up • nothing being seen but the head of the
four-footed anin;al. But the DUKE and his charger are

PEEL'S effigy—that is to be.
I went into the city two or three days ago, having been
apprised that certain " effects, " in theatrical slang,
were to be tried. There was TITE, city architect, Curt-
limartA.:st, clever fellow, BEHNES, the sculptor, and two
or three others. Oh, Dome of St. Paul's !in a few
minutes, a number of Irish labourers succeeded in placing
a piece of deal board, or pieces thereof attached, havine a

) Sir Rc

tiro' words, the eff

ered Dr ,—he on horseback. In
was triumphantly ridiculous ; not

in lath; but simply iron'
hers from the Mansion

nd both the Exchan
•cl

bes, policemen,
rs in bullion, bank
;, and, as a climax,
ith loud and long

chequer tallies, cads, cab d
orrespondent, inaugurated

gh to make THOMAS GRE:
ip his spindle shanks and hop
d. You will now have two en.

•re preposterous than that of HAYDON'S Curtius,
an boy, who sprung, horse and all, into the gulph;
as called Curtius lacus, as all classical scholars,
f LEMYRIERE, are aware. Super-
the bareheaded Senator foremost.
s time" riding behind
want of room in the

Idded. to the abi
and the " foren
What is the
eal
mostly ti
?vie authorif

ad uneducated eyes of certair

sorts of nude figures—mos
but do let the statues of public

with al

'lle ISialusionohous,
eotarnonlY abominations-
tol4 T._l public places be in prop,-
''' B‘),re—sast of the Exchar
'"', of the commmmittee, negatived,
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vas pri

vi-i;nTox and in proximit
-b"4 ""Of two men riding on ho;

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