The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-21 00:00:00

and 11.00N1 CARPETS

His Stock offers advantages seldom to be met with, in
quality, pattern, and extreme lowness of price.
LONDON PAINTED FLOOR CLOTHS.

DRUGGETS OF EVERY DESCRIPTISKtiji;IDTH.
THOS. uR.QUHART,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL CARPET DEALER,
76, LORD-STE E ET.

-URINE BROTH ERS, at H AMBURGH, are now selling
.1.1 BONDS for the LOANS of the Austrian, Russian, and
Prussian Empires. They have remitted during a very short
time very large amounts of Dividends to their correspondents
in Great Britain. Dividends of £25,000, £lB,OOO, £9OOO,
£5OOO, 43600 to London ; £3600, £BOO, £7OO to Edinburgh ;
£3600 to Dublin ; £3600 to Beverley ; £3600 to Halifax ;
£l2OO to Porthleaven Harbour; £9OO, £7OO, and £6OO to
Liverpool ; £9OO to 1-1 ull ; £9OO to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ;
£9OO, £6OO to Manchester; £7OO to East Retford, Notting-
hamshire ; £6OO to Bideford ; £6OO to Cork ; £6OO to
Bradford.

All those desirous to PURCHASE Austrian, Russian,
and Prussian Bonds, or Bonds forsany other Loans contracted
by European Governments, may obtain the prospectus and
full information as to the amount of Dividends, &c. &c.
upon directing a line to

HEINE BROTHERS, at Hamburgh.
P.S.—Orders for less than £lO cannot be executed, owing
to trouble and postage being too large for smaller purchases ;
it is requested, therefore, not to write for the several prospec-
tuses if not desirous to become a purchaser for £lO at least.

SEYSSEL ASPHALTE COMPANY.
" CLARIDGE'S PATENT", ESTABLISHED 1838.
Principal Dept, Is MARSEILLES; STA NGATE, LON-
AT ; and LIVERPOOL.
THE Parent Company having taken the w ORES in
.A.SPHALTE, in the Liverpool District, under their
own management, solicit the attention of Engineers, Archi-
tects, Builders, and others to the valuable properties of the
Material, which has been extensively used in this County for
nearly Four Years, for the following purposes :
FOOT PAVEMENTS, public TUN Roost FLOORS ;
and other; MALT HOUSE FLOORS
KITCHEN FLOORS ; PIGGERIES, &C. &C. &C.
BASEMENTS, where it is es-
sential to keep damps from COVERING of RAII ROAD.
rising : I and other AiteitEs, the Only
GARDEN WALES AND TES

effectual mode to prevent
the percolation of Water,
CARRIAGE DRIVES ;
appropriate f which also renders it very
COACH HOUSES AND STA-
,
propor the LINING
01, ap TANKS BLIND;
PONDS. AND FISH
DOG KENNELS ;
DRAINS, Sze. Sc.
BARN FLOORS ;
arrange-
The Directors flatter themselves that, " 111 their
ments for the execution or the foregoing works in Liverpool
and the surrounding district, they will be completed in such
a manner as to ensure for them the patronage not only of
Engineers. Architects, and Builders, but of the Public in
general. Testimonials of the highest description have been
presented to the Company, copies of which may be obtained
at the Works, and from Mr. WILLIAM BENSON, Architect
and Surveyor to the Company, No. 2, Commerce-court,
Lord-street, Liverpool.

RACES

J. FARRELL, Secretary
Liverpool, June, 1841.

CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAI
IVOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, . that the
.111 GENERAL HALF-YEARLY MEETING of tut
PROPRIETORS in this COMPANY (under the provision
of the Act of Incorporation) will be held, at-the Clarendon-
rooms, South John-street, Liverpool, on TRUftSDAY, the
7th day of October.
The Chair will be taken at Twelve o'clo,;- -

precisely

WAI. DIXON

Chairman of the Bc
Birkenhead, 16th September, 1841..

.1 of Directo

BY HER MAJESTY'S ROYAL LETTERS PATENT

BROMWICH'S REVOLVING SAFETY STIRRUP,
(Patronised by His Royal Highness Prince Albert,)
MANUFACTURED BY
JAMES HEELEY AND SONS,
BIRMINGHAM.

THESE Stirrups are confidently recommended to the
notice of Noblemen, Sportsmen, and Equestrians as a
complete combination of every essential quality desirable in
a Stirrup. They may be procured, both in Steel and German
Silver, of the most respectable Saddlers and Ironmongers in
the Kingdom.

By Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS

TAKEN BY THE

REFLECTION OF LIGHT.

AT TH E

MOUNT GARDENS, ST. JAMES'S WALK,
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
WILL OPEN ON FRIDAY NEXT.
_

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, will be in DAILY OPERATION.

•
THE PRICE FOR EACH PORTRAIT, INCLUDING
A FRAME, IS ONE GUINEA.
JOHN RELPH, Manager.

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 tar 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.
Ina 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 winch is placed the plate
to be impressed with the portrait. Having done so fora 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 ; bu►t 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 short
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 frorn 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 OR Saturdey, we
noticed the Earl of Shaftesbury, who expressed his surprise
and gratification at the extraordinary invention.
(From the Court Journal)

PHOTOGRAPHIC 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. _