The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-26 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-
CET'S REPOSITORY OF ARTS, 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 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 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 immeamrably behind it everything that human skill
could effect.

rFrom the Times.)

TILE 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 fashiouables, 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 aporouriated 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 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 Horning Herald.)

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—WC 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.
Anion 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.)
PHOTOGRAPTIIC 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."
(From Bell's Weekly -Messenger.)
EXTRAORDINARY PAM—MINIATURE PICTURES.—It is
bodily and personally the individual who is the sitter. It is
as much so, as he sees himself in the most accurate looking
glass, 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 part of a mi-
nute)—but it affords to artists themselves the surest guide
for copying other likenesses, whether in miniature, or in oil
paintings as large as life.

(From 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 of nature.

(From the Observer.)
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—The appearance of the
miniature thus produced is that of a mezzotint engraving,
the likeness being no question of opinion, hut 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 min;a-
tore 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 arranging the dress so as
to produce the most desirable pictorial effect.
(From the Naval and Military Gazette.)
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—For some time it was
doubted whether Photography could ever be brought to
operate satisfactorily on the human face and form, so as to
enable the artist to take an unerring and effective 'likeness,
the slightest 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.

THE LIVERPOOL INSTITUTION FCrk DIFFICULT
CASES OF MARRIED. LYING-IN WOMEN, AND
THE TREATMENT OF FEMALE DISEASES.
AT a Meeting of Gentlemen, held in Slater-street, on
Tuesday, the 9th instant,
JOHN CROPPER, Esq., being called into the chair;
It was moved by the Rev. Dr. RAFFLES, and seconded by
JOHN HOWARD, Esq.,
1. That the above-named Institution be formed.
It was moved by JOSIAH JONES, Esq., and seconded by
GEORGE LANGTRY, Esq.,
2. That the Gentlemen now named be the Committee
(with powers to add to their numbers) for the ensuing year,
including Treasurer and Secretary ; and the following La-
dies be requested to act as Visitors :
Rev. Frederick Parry, B.D. Rev. J. R. Connor, A.M.
Rev. T. Raffles, D.D.,LL.D. Edward Cropper, Esq.
Rev. C. M. Birrell Adam Hodgson, Esq.
John Cropper, Esq. Lawrence Heyworth, Esq.
John Howard, Esq. John Coward, Esq.
John Rigbv, Esq. James Steele, Esq.

Mrs. Frederick Parry
Mrs. George Langtry
Mrs. Rigby
Mrs Coward
Mrs. J. Pollock

LADIES V

I SITORS.
Mrs. James Steele
Mrs. Joseph Crisp
Mrs. Birrell
Mrs. Joshua F. Lace
Mrs. W. Medley.

TREASURER—SamueI
SECRETARY—W. L. Eden, Esq.
It was moved by EDWARD CROPPER, Esq., and seconded
by JOHN COWARD, Esq.,
3. That the following Gentlemen be the Medical Officers :

CONSULTING SURGEONS.
Thomas Blackburn, Esq. I Edward Batty, Es(
SURGEONS.

Geo. C. Watson, Esq. I John Roche, Esq.
It was moved by JAMES
_STEELE, Esq., and seconded by

Captain HOULDSWORTII,
4. That the Committee be requested to prepare Rules and
Byelaws for its regulation, to be submitted to a meeting of
the Subscribers.

JNO. CROPPER, JUN.
Mr. CROPPER then vacated the chair, and the thanks of
the Meeting were toted by the Rev. THOMAS DWYER, and
seconded by the Rev. F. PARRY.

Subscriptions will be thankfully received for the above
object by the Treasurer, SAMUEL Woons, Esq., 3, India-
buildings; by the Secretary, W. L. EDEN, Esq., Clarence-
street ; or by any of the Committee or Medical Officers.

LIVERPOOL INSTITUTION FOR DIFFICULT
CASES OF MARRIED LYING-IN WOMEN, &c.

TO THE EDITOR OF

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

MR. EDITOR,—I will thank you to have the kindness to
insert the subjoined correspondence between our chairman
and Mr. Batty, the senior surgeon of the Ladies' Charity,
and one of our consulting surgeons ; containing a copy of the passed at the Ladies' Charity joint committee of
February, 1841, certified by their then chairman, Peter
Serjeantson, Esq.
I am, Mr. Editor, your obedient servant,
W. LOXDALE EDEN, Secretary.
Lying-in Institution, Horatio-street,
Nov. 25th, 1811.

Dingle Bank, 24th Nov., 1841

MY DEAR SIR,—You are perfectly aware of all that has
now taken place in reference to the proposed Institution for
Lying-in Women, and you know that from first to last we
have relied on your assurance that the Ladies' Charity had
finally decided against such an appendage to their valuable
charity. May I request an explanation of the circumstance
that a notice appears in the Liverpool Times of yesterday,
to which your name is attached, expressing the hope that
the public will not support the new charity, since the ques-
tion has never been formally disposed of, but still remains
.under discussion ?

Believe me, yours faithfully,
JNO. CROPPER, JUN

Edward Batty, Esq

Stafford-street, 25th Nov., 1841.
MY DEAR SIR,---I received your note of yesterday, the
24th, requesting my authority for asserting that the com-
mittees of the Ladies' Charity had declined the question of
" adding hospital wards to their present charity." I beg to
transcribe the following resolutions, as passed, and entered
on their minutes :

At a meeting of the Joint Committees of the Ladies
Charity, Tuesday, 9th February, 1811,

. ., ,
" Resolved,—` That -the cordial thanks of the committee
be returned to the medical officers, for the able and interest-
ing pamphlet recently published by them, advocating the
addition of an hospital, or of wards, to the present limited
system of relief administered by the charity.'

" Secondly,—' That powerfully as the change is advoca-
ted, yet the committees are confirmed in their own opinions
of its ineligibility by the decided concurrence of a large ma-
jority of such friends of the charity as they have consulted,
and they cannot recommend its adoption to the subscribers
at large."
Respecting the prefatory observations in the Times news-
paper, I was completely ignorant of them, and the editor
had no authority from me to annex my name to them.

I am, dear sir, yours faithfully,

EDW

BATTY

Jno. Cropper, jun., Esq

I certify the above to be a true copy of the resolutions
passed by the committee 9th February, 1841.
PETER SERJEANTSON.

ST. BRIDE'S CHURCH NATIONAL SCHOOLS.
(IN SUNDAY next, the 28th instant, TWO SERMONS
kl will be Preached (D.V.) in ST. BRIDE'S CHURCH,
Percy-street, in behalf of ST. BRIDE'S CHURCH NA-
TIONAL SCHOOLS, by the Right Rev. the LORD
BISHOP of CHESTER. Divine Service to commence in
the Morning at Eleven o'clock, and in the Evening at half
after Six.

There will be an additional Service at Three in the After-
noon, when the Children will be Catechised and Addressed.

•
The Mayor and several of the Council have engaged to
attend.

LIVERPOOL FEMALE ORPHAN ASYLUM.
A SERMON will be preached in Sr. PETER'S CHURCH,
by the Right Reverend the LORD BISHOP of
CHESTER, on TUESDAY MORNING next, the 30th instant,
and a Collection made in aid of the Funds of this Institution.
—Divine Service will commence at Eleven o'clock.

CHURCH EDUCATION SOCIETY FOR IRELAND

UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
His Grace the Primate, and the Bishop: of the Irish
Chnrch.

AMEETING will be held, in the MUSIC HALL,
THIS EVENING, (Friday,) the 26th instant, for the pur-
pose of forming an AUXILIARY Assoct ATION to the Parent
Society in this Town, under the Sanction of the Reverend
the Rectors.

The Rev. W. A. BUTLER, A.M., Professor of Moral
Philosophy in Trinity College, Dublin, and the Rev. THOS.
WALKER, A.M., Dublin, Secretary to the Society, will
attend as a Deputation.

The Rev. HUGH NPNEILE will preside,
in the absence of the Rev. AUGUSTUS CAMPBELL, who had
promised to take the Chair, but whose health does not permit
him to do so.

Several of the Local Clergy are expected to address the
Meeting.

Chair to be taken at Seven o'clock, P.Nf.
There will be a Collection in aid of the Funds of the Society