The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-09 00:00:00

rNCIPAL PERFORMERS

ISS EMILY GNT,
'From the TheMatre- Royal, Covent-Garden,RA and the Nobility's
Concerts, London ;
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MR. G. WEISS ;
IG NOR GIULIO REGONDI,
The celebSrated Performer on the Guitar and Concertina; and
MIBS KEALE.
Conductor-IVIr. JOSEPHROBINSON.
Reserved Seats, 36. 6d. ; Gallery, 28 ; Body of the Hall, is.
Tickets may be had at the principal Music-shops, and at
Miss KEALE'S Residence, 40, Palkner-street.
A Plan of the Reserved Seats will lie at Mr.JAMES SMITH'S
liusic-seller, Lord-street, where Places may be secured. ,
Concert to commence it Eight o'clock.

LIVERPOOL ACADEMY, 1847. THE
EXHIBITIONta:;:.Ie Nit Sof MODERN
N., -ARTISTS is_Diciw OPE t the Rooms of the Academy,
Postoffice-place, Chu street
atission : One Shiptg. Catalogues, Sixpence. Children
twelve years off age Half-price. Season Tickets :Gen:
Lrlek‘Alra, Five Shillings Ladies', Three
.and Sixpence Juvenile
-I*o 81 Two and Sixpence. Season :rickets, or Night only,
b
and Sixpence. Open from Ten in the Morning until dusk,
tumaY Gas-light from Seven to Ten, every evening except Sa-
WM. GAWIN HERDMAN, Secretary.

NADMISSION, Is.—RESERVED SEATS, 2s.
OW EXHIBITING, at the PORTICO, BOLD-
and MEET, at Twelve in the Day, Four in the Afternoon.
Elht in the Evening,
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THE BOSJESMANS,
..,„ OR, BUSH PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICA ;
tan.e nrlost singular specimens of that decreasing Race of Human
theAgs, consisting of Two Men, Two Wo en; and a Baby, of
that ,osjesman Tribe, from the interior outh Africa—a Race
vi.a.t, from their wild habits, could er before be induced to
soeueeß
1f,,1t a Dlace of civilization. Thi pportunity of gratifying the
k4lOl Science and the Student' of Zoology has only_ been ob-
whiled hy great personal exertion on the part of the Cientlemen
tot
breUght them to England at an immense outlay of capital.
the passage to Europe, a Baby was born at sea—thus adding
4he Moffattest thtt must be excited by their app.earance.
2.411 the Missionary's Work on Southern Africa, page
ft ~—"J` Poor Bushnian l thy hand has been against every one,
, every one's hand against thee. For generations past they
of ve,heen hunted like partridges in the mountains. Deprived
, flat nature had maide their own, they became desperate,
Wild,ti, fierce, and indomitable in their habits. Hunger compels
1,—e,111 to feed upon every thing edible. Ixias, wild. garlic mys-
" orY, antharnums, the core of aloes,gum of acacias, and other
plants and berries, some of which are extremely unwholesome,
Z-tire their fruits ; whilst almost every kind of living crea-
-"re is eagerly devoured, lizards, locusts, and grasshoppers not
excepted. The poisonous as well as innoxious serpents they
roast and eat. They carefully extract their bags or reservoirs
°f poison with which they cover the points of their arrows."
L_Mr. Robert Moffat, the son of the above-named Missionary,
'as thus written in the book of autographs, which may be seen at the Portico :

" I have been twelve yel,,%%3E.ignypstoivattht Hall,
Afrie aL,ottanddonc,
aJnulyce2rst.ify
that they are corre
At
fsgeccat.inens of that fast decreasing race, the
Bushmen of Southc
At Exeter-hall, London, Dr. Knox, edLecturer
" Ro Is a ILL palto
on the Littman Race, delivered a most thcieencteilfic discourse, be-
fore a crowded audience, on the singular habits of
_ THESE MOST EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE,
`eports of which may be had at the Portico.
..,..111 addition to the certificates of the Missionaries and others
;'") have visited the interior of South Africa, (which may be
-` en at the Portico,) showing that the Bosjesmans are as great
a curiosity in the Cape as they are in Europe, will be found the
' testimony of General NAPIER, the late Governor of the Cape of
G(4,e,d Hope, who visited them at the Egyptian Hall.
betne following Autographs of distinguished Visitors may also
rne'ccPected at the Portico, with a number of others, too nu-
1,. roes to insert in an advertisement :
The Grand Duke Constantine Rev. F. Blagden.
p„lcd suite. Rev. H. Wyatt.
'nee Louis Napoleon Bona- Rev. R. Meady.
wPorte. Rev. J. Balfour.
""te Duke of Newcastle and the Marquis of Douglas.
The Clinton. Earl Craven.
"e,Marquis and Marchioness Duke of Grafton.
si°, Normanby and party. Lord Cantilupe.
rh, Robert, Lady Peel, and Sir Wm. Massey Stanley, Bart.
htuditer. Lady Ferguson Davy.
,l-
tie Duke of Cleveland. Sir Robert Knox.
3"e Blake of Wellington.
ThenCY Lind. Lord Jocelyn.
Marquis of Northampton.
; _ e Earl of Harrowby. Lord Teynham.
rurd Skelmersdale. Sir H. Barnard.
kord Combermere. Lord Slane. •
hevalier. Bunsen, the Prussian Lord Forrester.
,T,Atinister. Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart.
4,tle Bishop of Norwich. The Dean of Bangor.jpe Bishop of Worcester. Mr. Justice Erle.
jaentois of Douro. Countess of Kinnoul.
Ii---r• Baron Parke. Lady Kinlock.
tord Stanley. Lady Charlotte Egerton.
Madame Grisi.
Gladstone. Lord Henley.
ucuarne Grisi. Mrs. Milner Gibson,
Krt. Charles Dickens. Lady Seymour.
Ved and Lady Beresford. Lord Granville.
boleount Noel. Col. Armitage.
;pi Cadogan. Lord Newport. •
if E. . Weky. Lord Henry Loftus.
filc Exmouth. Lord W. Thynne.
ei;"(Illis of Bristol. Hon. Miss Cotton.
lalados Pole, Esq. Lord Albert Conyngham.
1Y Bullen. Marquis of Ely.
i helquis of Abercorn. Lord Euston.
ri„oY Rolle. Hon. Capt. Lindsay.
/41,1 Y Barrington. Sir John Jervis.
LnlY Seymour. Lord and Lady Middleton.
If"Y Palmerston. J. S. Crawford, M.P.
orchioness of Ailesbury. Lady G. Baker.
rd and Lady Louth. Bransby Cooper, Esq.
bird C.
Phillips. Lady Anstruther.
Lorc.„ C. Scott. Earl Fitzwilliam.
11,1,,ruji. Scott. Lord Mountcharles.
1.,'• R. G. Lumley, of the Opera Lady and Miss Sykes.
Wicose. - Sir Richard Bulkeley.
The Baroness de Retzen. Lord Beauvale.
fize Ladies Kinloch. Earl of Arundel.
ThdjExmouth. Sir R. B. Phillips, M.P.
he' Rev. W. Goddard. Lord Burghley.
may
S. Madden. Gen. Wyndham.
Rev
J. Gibson. Marquis of Donegal.
Rey
J. Johnson. Viscount Lorton.
Rey.: L. Burke. Hon. Caroline Norton.
iit,. vh,,Dr. Smyth. Earl of Munster.
R"• S. Roe. • Lord and Lady Abingdon.
II". E. M`Neil. Lord Shelburne.
Rev, W. Cherlton. Sir A. W. Crichton.
1,2 Mousley. Lady Portman.
Rey A. Baldwin. Lady Hotham.
-.vv. A. ,
Cooper. Lord and Lady Fortescue.
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iktrort°ll TRH LONDON PRESS.—" In appearance they are little
ZExeter v the monkey tribe."—The Times. The audience at
e-hall were wonder-stricken at beholding them."—Chro-
bum; " Pigmy birds of wild men."—Post. " They live in
e 8 almost like in a nest,"—Herald.

LIVERPOOL ART UNION,

UPON PRECISELY THE SAME PLAN AS THE LONDON

ART UNION,
AUTHORISED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT.

THE GRAND PRI Z E upon the occasion is
VANDYKE'S very fine and well-known PICTURE of
CHARITY, valued at £1,000; size, 4 feet by 4 feet 6 inches.
A duplicate of this Picture is one of the great attractions of
the Dulwich Gallery, and is considered by connoisseures a
chef d'ceuvre of the Artist.
The Art Union will consist Twepty Thousand Shares, of
One Shilling each ; the d g to take place on the 15th of
November next, at th NCERT-HALL, Lord Nelson-street,
Liverpool, at Te clock, a.m. Subscribers of Ten Shares
will have presen d to them a fac simile of the Painting, en-
graved in the lifst Junin, style of Art, by Gambart, and Co., of
Pans, and Berners-street, London ; size, 14 inches by 12 ; each
Print carefully coloured in imitation of the original, being
worth considerably more than the amount of the Ten Shares
Subscription.

12:7- The scheme is nearly complete, and parties desirous of
becoming subscribers must do so before the 16th. Tickets and
the Engraving to be obtained of Mr. RICHARDSON, Printseller,
Lord-street; Mr. RENWORTHY, 28, Union-street, Liverpool;
and Mr. J. WHATLEY, 16, George-street, Mansion-house,
London.
Liverpool, October. 22, 1847.