The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-13 00:00:00

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ended sth April, 1847

789.872

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944,4943

1,016,383

858,806

840.06'2

Showing an increase on the year of .£36 ,184
to explain that our January return was only made up_to

.t down at

£380,00(

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This hoNiever does

not at all represent the real increase of business done in
the port.

IHE OLD GAS COMPANY AT
COMMITTEE

D THE

IEALTH

It is known that the above company are preparing to
before Parliament for an extension of the capital by an
ditional sum of £200.000. wh

th Corn

the Cot

1, of course, as previous

6t the rate c

.ecently been

in communication with the directors, and have urged
upon them that, in the face of a probable purchase of the
works, it was unfair both to themselves and the public,
by this step virtually to add an additional sum of £200,000

or, in oti

to lay a ten per cent

clause, to make 'the or

ial £200,000 into nearly double
that sum. The committee thought that they should re-
strict themselves to five per cent., as being fair to all
parties. The on dit is, that the company refuse to submit
to this proposition ; and that their bill is, in consequence,
to be hotly opposed in Parliament by the Town Council.

XHIBITION AT MR. GRUNDY'S ROOMS, OF
ANSDELL•'S PAINTING OF " THE STAG AT

BAY.'

We were fay.oured vesterday with a view of the above splen-
did painting, now being- exhibited at Mr. Grundy's rooms,
corner of Church-street and Postoffice-place, as well as
of several other fine paintings, which are in course of
engraving, by the same spirited publisher and patron of
the fine arts ; and we have rarely had a richer treat.

The picture by. Ansdell, which we understand, was paint-
ed for a gentleman in this town, is a noble composition,
bold in style and vigorous in execution. The scene is
laid upon the heights of one of the Scottish mountains,
whose summits are represented as half shrouded in mist.
The stag—one of ten tyers—is painted with his haunches
upon a small projecting platform of fissured rock, covered
with mountain verdure, with his head thrown back, until
the tip of his horns almost seems about entering the flesh,
Ile is bleec"-- ; 1 a large hound is fas

from one SIG, anc. _
tening the exposed portion of his throat. The frenzy of
the eye of the noble victim is wonderfully depicted ; and
his conqueror in the race of death is a fine specimen of
animal painting. In short, the pair seem to struggle on
the canvas itself. Another hound is climbing over a bank,
between which, and the shelf on which the contest is
going on, is a narrow ravine filled with water, interrupted

in its flow by a fallen larch tree, denuded of its leaves,
whose up-pointing branches seem to have caught in the
This part of the picture is beautifully

)f the stream

A specimen proof of the engraving from the picture—
which, however, is in an unfinished state—is also on
view •, and, so far is well executed, and promises to be ex
ceeded by no similar work of art.
. „

Another fine painting is on view at the same room, " The
ldier's Dream." by F. Goodall, a work which attracted

universal attention at the British institution *in 1845 ;
and, indeed, was considered the gem of the collection.
It is founded upon the poem of " The Soldier's Dream,"
by Thomas Campbell. In the foreground is the soldier

" Reposing that night on his pallet of straw,
By the wolf scaring faggot that guarded the slain,

the red light of the burning faggots bringing out the fea-
tures and figure of the sleeper most beautifully. In the
distance are the usual scenes of a lately contested battle
field. Over all hangs, most dreamily painted, the beau-
tiful vision of the poet :

" iNlethought from the battle-field's dreadful array,
Far, far I had roam'd on a desolate track ;
Twas autumn, and sunshine arose in the way,
To the home of my fathers that welcomed me back

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