The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-12 00:00:00

IS NOW OPEN

The 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 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'ved. at Mr. LA-
CEY'S REPOSITORY OF AR'rs, 100, Bold-sheet.
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 :

(From the Times.)

THE PHOTOGRAPHIC MINIATURES.—The principle has
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 a
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, drew
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 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 keep from
the influence of photography.
. . .

(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 a minute and a half to two mi-
nutes.
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 admirably 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 Institution, Regent-street.
The patentee has christened it the " photographic mode of
taking likenesses." By this process, in the incredibly abort
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 Morning Herald.)
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—We were 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 an 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 Court Journal.)

OTOGRAPRIC LIKENESSES.—We attended yesterday
at the private view given by the patentee of the reflecting ap-
paratus at the Polytechnic Institution, by which photographic
likenesses are taken, and with the greatest accuracy, in a
period varying from five to twenty seconds. We were de.
lighhted with the exhibition.
(From the Morning Post.) . .

_ •
The patentee of this invention has adopted the principle of
giving these "reflections" to the public at a very moderate
cost, 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."
(Prom the Weekly Dispatch.)

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.---We. took an opportunity
on Monday of again visiting the Polytechnic Institution, to
witness the astonishing manner in which portraits are taken
by the photographic process. The room was crowded with
nobility and gentry, among whom we noticed Lord Aber-
deen, and several other persons of rank, each of whom, in
the warmest terms, expressed their delight and astonishment
at the rapidity with which the portraits of different gentle-
men were taken, and the extreme fidelity in the execution.
It is, in fact, impossible for the portraits to be any thing
short of a complete copy ocheature
(From Observer.)
PHOTOGRAPHIC Postll:Aim—The appearance of the
miniature thus produced is that of a mezzotint engraving,
the likeness being no question of opinion, but a plain matter
of fact, for nature in this, as in other similar operations,
makes "no mistake." There is such subtilty of touch and
tone in the likeness as might fill a Vandyke or a Lawrence
at once with delight and despair. Altogether this is a most
wonderful and extraordinary exhibition. Those who in por-
traiture are fond of being " flattered," will certainly not
patronise the photographic method of taking likenesses; but,
on the other hand, they who want the real thing, and we
presume them to be the majority, will unquestionably spend
a guinea with great willingness in the production of a minia-
ture portrait which their fathers and mothers, wives, sisters,
and brothers may " swear to." Separate rooms are also
appropriated to ladies and gentlemen, and a female attendant
waits upon the former to assist in arrangingl the dress so as
to produce the most desirable pictorial effect.
(From the Naval and Military Gazette.)

PHOTOGRAPHIC
PPORTRAITS.—FOT some time it was
operate satisfactorily doubted whether
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enable the artist t
the slightest to take an unerring and effective likeness,
motion inevitably destroying the picture in its
progrees. Ingenuity,
perseverance, and repeated experiments,
have at length completely triumphed over the difficulty ; and
miniature portraits, infallibly faithful, are now taken, from a
sittting of from
.five to twenty seconds ; the time varying
according to the intensity of light.
(From Bell's Weekly Messenger.)
EXTRAORDINARY FACT.—MINIATURE PICTURES.—II is
bodily and personally the individual who is the sitter. It is
as much so, as he sees himself in the most aceurate looking
Flan 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 an everlasting memo-
rial of the man at the moment it is taken—and therefore the
most precious gift that can 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
• bll part of a mi-
nute)—but it affords to artists themselves the surest guide
for copying other likenesses, whaber in ' • '
miniature, cn in oil
paintings as large as lik.

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utiful book, the " PROTESTANT ANNUAL,"
ar's demand, he has given it the above title, and
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PRICE'S PATENT COMPOSITE, or IMITATION
SPERM CANDLES. They give a brilliant and steady
light, without requiring to he snuffed, and are equally appli-
cable for family or counting-house use, and are now much
used in the Metropolis for Lighting Churches and Chapels,
and Public Buildings generally.
At One Shilling per lb.,
which, compared with the light given, is cheaper than the
commonest Tallow Candle.

These Candles are now supplied by most of the Chandlers
throughout the Country, but where they cannot otherwise be
had, on remitting £5 to EDWD. PRICE, and Co., Belmont,
Vauxhall, Surrey, any Private Customer may be supplied
with 1001bs., and no charge will be made for the box, the
value of which will, in most cases, cover the expense of
carriage. The bcx will be charged for any smaller quantity.
Any Person wishing to try these Candles, has only to send
E. P. and Co. a Postoffice Order for Ten Shillings, and a box
containing 9lbs. shall be immediately sent down ; the odd
Bd. being for the box.

BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT FOR ENGLAND
AND WALES, SEALED FEB. 26, 1810.

BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT FOR SCOTLAND,
SEALED SEPT. 8, 1840.

BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT FOR IRELAND,
SEALED NOV. 7, 1810.

ILNERS and COMPANY, '
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PROOF PORTABLE SAFETY BOXES, for the protec-
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various sizes, suitable for all purposes, from One Guinea
upwards in price.
Warranted to preserve their contents under the ordinary
circumstances of casual Fires.

SAFETY BOX WORKS, 18, SLHOOL-LANE,
LIVERPOOL.

" Liverpool, May 24, 1841.
" We, the undersigned, having, this day, witnessed the
testing of one of Miners' Patent Fire-proof Boxes, by its
having been placed in a large fire, consisting of wood and up-
wards of six hundred weight of coal, for the space of two
hours and twenty minutes, do hereby express our conviction,
that the fire-proof boxes manufactured by them are a perfect
security in all cases of ordinary fire. The box was filled with
commercial and other books, papers, parchments, and deeds,
(one of which, of the 16th Henry VIII., had five large thick
seals appended to it,) and within an inch of the cover, seve-
ral Bank of England notes ; and, previously to being closed,
was submitted to the examination of J. S. Leigh, Esq., R.
Frodsbam, Esq., L. Graham, Esq., and others present. The
whole contents in the box being taken out of the fire and
opened in our presence, were found to be in a perfect state of
preservation, the seals attached to the deed above-mentioned
not being in the slightest degree injured.

" This certificate is written on the deed of 16th Henry
VIII., abovementioned, which was submitted to the test.
" THOS. BOLTON, Mayor.
" J. S. LEIGH,
" R. FRODSHAM,
" L. GRAHAM,
" THOS. BRANCKER,
" BAR. PRESCOT."
The Box with its contents and the Deed above-mentioned,
are in the Master's-room, Exchange.

PITHY AND PLEASANT.—A recent writer, giving an ac-
count of British dependencies, thus speaks of Bonaparte's
" frightful rock," as he was wont to call it :7-" St. Helena.

on its first discovery, contained sea-fowls and some seals and
turtles, with a forest of trees and shrubs, all peculiar spe-
cies, with one or two exceptions. It is now a mere rock,
devoured by rats I"
WHAT'S IN A NAME ?—The real name of the Emperor
of China is seldom or ever known. Upon ascending the
throne he assumes a name by which, when spoken of, he
must be called ; for, to pronounce or write his proper one,
by accident or intention, is death to the divulger of the secret,
to his family, and, if a rich man, the confiscation of his pro-
perty ensues. A literary man, having accidentally used the
word " Ming" (which happened to be the reigning monarch's
name) in his work, suffered, with his sons, the extreme
penalty of the law ; his wife and daughters, with other mem-
bers of his family, were banished, and his estates confiscated.
So much for the mild, inoffensive Chinese, and the humane
government of the Celestial Empire.
MORTMAIN.—This is where the lands are given to some
spiritual person or corporation and to their successors ; and
because the lands were never to revert to the donor or his
heirs, and by that means the services and other profits due
for the same were extinct, therefore it was called a gift
mortud mane.—Dr. Hook's Church Dictionary.
TALENTS IN A NAPKIN.—A gentleman once introduced
his son to the late Rev. Rowland Hill, by letter, as a youth
of great promise, and as likely to do honour to the univer-
sity of which he was a member. "But he is shy," added
_ _

the father, " and idle, and I fear buries his talents in a nap-
kin." A short time afterwards the parent, anxious for the
reverend gentleman's opinion, inquired what was thought of
his son ? " I have shaken the napkin," said Rowland Hill,
" at all corners, and there is nothing in it."

ANECDOTE OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S YOUTH.
—During the government of Ireland by Lord Westmorland,
from 1790 to 1795, when the Hon. Arthur Wellesley was
attached to the Vice-Regal Court, then superintended by the
Hon. Mrs. Stratford, now the Dowager Countess of Ald-
borough, Mrs. Woodcock, confessedly the most beautiful
woman in Ireland, after spending a festive evening at the
Castle, found it impossible to obtain the usual conveyance of
a handehair to take her home, in consequence of an over-
whelming fall of snow, which compelled the desertion of
every stand. Her disappointment was visible, but was
promptly relieved by the Hon. Mr. Wellesley and the Hon.
Mr. Pery, the present Earl of Limerick, who gallantly volun-
teered their services ; and seizing a chair that always awaited
in the hall, carried their fair charge, amid a storm of drifted
and assailing snow, to her rather distant residence.
THE BRUNSWICKERS.—About this period we had a regi-
ment of Brunswickers sent to join our division, and one of
our least amusing duties soon consisted in watching them, to
prevent their deserting to the enemy. It was the prevalence
of this honourable propensity among them, I believe, that
induced Lord Wellington to distribute their force among the
different divisions of the army. These " death and glory
men," as we used to term them, from their badge of the skull
and crossbones, which were worn on their shakos and accou-
trements, were dressed in dark green, which but too fre-
quently enabled them to steal past our guards and join the
French, with whom many of their connexions were. Among
other attributes, with which these allies were gifted, was a
canine appetite, that induced them to kill and eat all the dogs
they could privately lay hold of. By this means the different
dogs of the division disappeared before the Germans with a
celerity truly astonishing, and we were in ignorance of their
fate until the fact became openly proclaimed and acknow-
ledged.—Costello's Adventures of a Soldier.
FREEMASONRY.—It is proved unto us by the existence of
many monuments whose ages are well known, that our bro-
therhood had its origin in those times when a few of the
initiated, filled with desire of true knowledge and a correct
interpretation of the mysteries of christianity, separated
themselves from the various sects who professed ie christian
religion • for in those times, a few wise and enlightened men
who could not agree to the heathenish customs and ceremo-
nies introduced into christianity, and perceiving that by this
unhallowed service neither peace, nor love, nor unanimity
could ensue, but that cruel wars must arise, united themselves
with an holy oath to preserve and maintain in its original
purity the hallowed origin of the christian religion, with its
benign influence on the hearts and consciences of mankind,
to bring the true light more and more out of darkness, and
to labour together in combating ignorance, intolerance, and
superstition, and to establish peace and happiness among
mankind by teaching and enforcing every human virtue.—
Freemasons' Quarterly Review.

PRACTICAL WISDO-M.—Bacon says—" In this theatre of
man's life, God and angels only should be lookers-on; that
contemplation and action ought ever to be united, a conjunc-
tion like that of the two highest planets—Saturn, the planet
of rest, and Jupiter, the planet of action." It is in this
conjunction, which seems to Bacon so desirable, that practi-
cal wisdom delights ; and on that account it is supposed by
some men to have a tinge of baseness in it. They do not
know that practical wisdom is as far from what they term
expediency as it is from impracticability itself. They see
how much of compromise there is in all human affairs. At
the same time they do not perceive that this compromise,
which should be the nice limit between wilfulness and a de-
sertion of the light that is in us, is the thing of all others
which requires the diligent exercise of that uprightness
which they fear to put in peril, and which, they persuade
themselves, will be strengthened by inactivity. They fancy,
too, that high moral resolves and great principles are not for
daily use, and that there is no room for them in the affairs
of this life. This is an extreme delusion ; for how is the
world ever made better? Not by mean, little schemes,
which some men fondly call practical ; not by setting one
evil thing to counteract another ; but by the introduction of
those principles of action which are at first looked upon as
theories, but which are at last acknowledged and acted upon
as common truths.
_ .

FRENCH BEGGARS.—The beggars by profession begin, as
soon as you are in sight, with a monotonous drawl of set
words, all pronounced on one key, and precisely the same to
every passer-by. Perhaps it is well for their own interest
that they generally ask you to give for the merit of the gift,
or the prayers they promise to breathe for you, for certainly
there is nothing in themselves to prompt it. How different
have I often thought it was from the genuine eloquence of
Irish beggary, which makes the heart ache so bitterly that it
would almost be a relief to give one's last sixpence ! The
begging in France is simply asking for money, while the
beggar often looks all the time as comfortable and well fed as
yourself. It is true they only ask for one sous ; but in the
valley of Campon, when you have given them that, they
make no scruple to ask you for another. Nor is this only on
the public roads. There is scarcely any place so retired but
you hear the pattering of little bare feet behind you, then
loud breathing which diffuses around you the perfume of
garlic ; and, as soon as you look around, the demand is
made and persisted in for a length of time proportioned to
the ability of the supplicant to keep pace with you.

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NUMBER of DRESS-MAKERS' ASSISrANTS IN LONDON.
--The number of young girls employed in dress-making and
millinery in London is much greater than the public have
any idea of. It is impossible to ascertain the number with the
exactitude which could be required ; but I have certain data
in my possession, by means of which we make a pretty close
approximation to it. The number of females whose names
are on their doors as the mistresses of dress-making and
millinery establishments, is nearly 1,000. It is no exaggera-
' tion to assume that the number of persons who live by these
branches of business without having their names on the
doors, is 500. This would make in round figures, the entire
number of " mistress" dress-makers and
milliners, 1,500.
The question that occurs—'What may be the average number
of young girls a mistress employs as assistants? In a few of
the larger establishments, the number so employed is from
thirty to forty ; in a very few it is less than six. In order
that we may err on the safe side, if we err at all, we shall
suppose the average number to be ten. Ten, then, multi-
pliedl,soo will make the entire number of young creatures
--Lights and Shadows of London Life,
so occupied cebuypied 13,000.