The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-12 00:00:00

CIVIC PROCESSION TO ST. PETER'S.

It being known that according to the revived custom of
late years, our newly-elected chief magistrate, James
Lawrence, Esq., would proceed with his friends, and the
civic officers, from the Town-hall, on Sunday morning, to
attend divine service at St. Peter's Church, where a sermon
was to be preached in behalf of that old and excellent in-
stitution, the Blue Coat Hospital,--a number of our most
respectable and wealthy citizens, and residents in the
neighbourhood, assembled in the council chamber to ac-
company his Worship, some arriving in carriages, and
others on foot, for about an hour before the time of start-
ing. At about a quarter before 11 o'clock, the procession
moved, by the usual route, along Castle-street and Lord.
street, in the presence of an immense assemblage of per-
sons. It was preceded by the Blue Coat boys : the town's
officers, bearing the regalia followed, and after them the
Mayor, Town-clerk, three officers in run military cos-
tume, clergymen, &c., and finally a long train of gentle-
men walking three-and-three. The bearers of the civic
regalia wore new cloaks of fine blue cloth, bound round
the two capes with gold lice, and with the Liver hand-
stritely embroidered in bullion in front at each side. They
proceeded somewhat slowy, and formed a very interesting
spectacle, reminding the spectator of what he had read or
seen of the municipal demonstrations and dignity in olden
times.

Amongst those who joined the procession or were in
attendance at the hall, we observed Messrs. James Aspi-
nall, G. H. Lawrence, Bramley-Moore, D. King,
Fletcher, Rogers, Jacques Myers, H. Holmes, Brook,
James E. Whitelegg, T. Bold, James Phillips, Robert
Gill, Mulleneux, Carter, Toulmin, the Rev. Rector
Campbell, Messrs. Turner, (bank,) Hutchinson, (late
Churchwarden,) Robinson, Royden, S. Holme, G. G.
Hornby, Cooper, Houghton, Barton, R. Horsfall, Wil-
kinson, Pemberton, Miles Barton, Dr. Grindrod, Sir J.
Walmsley, the late Mayor, Sir T. Brancker, Messrs. P.
Wright, IL L. Jones, Adam Norris, Adam Hodgson,
Raymond Houghton, Statham, J. C. Thompson, W. Bir-
kett, Ewing, Taylor, Tinne, Harbord, Ald. Turner, Buck
Lloyd, John Campbell, H. Banner and son, Rigby, &c.,
&c. The whole number of gentlemen was about 150.
From the anxiety to be present at the service, nearly
all the seats in the church, with the exception of some
pews reserved for the gentlemen in the procession, were
taken up before the procession reached, and many parties
who could not be accommodated were constrained to de-
part. The morning service was impressively read by the
rev. curate, previous to which a new version of the 100th
psalm, written for the occasion, was sung with great taste
and pathos. Before the sermon, a hymn for the occasion
(also bearing on the condition of the children) was sung
with equal effect. The sermon was preached by the Rev.
Rector Campbell, from Eeclesiastes, chapter v., verses 9
to 13 inclusive—a most appropriate discourse hearing on
the necessity and christian duty of the rich to assist the
less fortunate poor, and especially to aid them to the at-
tainment of a sound moral and scriptural education. He
concluded by a strong appeal on behalf of the children of
the Blue Coat School, whose temporal and eternal welfare
were strenuously attended to in that institution. A
collection was afterwards wade which amounted to £BB ss.

UNITED STATES.—The packet.ships England, United
States, St. George, and Southerner, which left New York
early in the last month, arrived here, the two former on
on Saturday, the latter on Sunday. By the England we
have received New York advices one day later than those
brought by the last steamer; but containing, however,
not an item of intelligence worth extracting, either of a
political or commercial nature. The passage occupied
twenty-four days.

I ust' SOCIETY.—A list of the sermons to be pre ached
for this excellent society on Sunday next, will be found
in an advertisement. We can only hope that the friends
of scriptural truth will liberally respond to the appeals
which will be made to their generosity.

BASE COIN.—A man, apparently a labourer, was yes-
terday charged before Mr. Rushton with having uttered
a base shilling to a Mrs. Jones, of Canning-place. He
was committed.

AFFRAY wren POACHERS.—A dreadful encounter took
place on Thursday night la,t on the Ravensworth Estate,
about three miles from Newcastle-on-Tyne, between a
panty of watchers and some keepers, during which two
of the former were so dreadfully injured that they now
lie in a most precarious state.

POCKET PICKING.-At the Police-court, yesterday,
Johu Dav:es, a youth, was charged with picking the
pocket of Margret Saville. of Temple-street, of.3s. 6d.,
while she was standing, on Saturday afternoon, at the
shop window of Mr. Kempe, of St. James's-street.
There were other boys with the prisoner at the time, but
they escaped.—Committed for trial.

On Sunday at noon the flag of distress was hoisted at
the Rock Light House, it was instantly seen by the Maga-
zines Life Boatmen who immediately went out and found
two vessels a-ground on Great Burbo, the one a brig
called the Fortune, and the other a schooner called the
Theodore ; though driven on the bank were no worse, and
both captains thought they would get off at high water.
LYNN.—Poott RATE.-At a meeting of the Court of
Guardians held on Wednesday, a rate for the relief of the
poor of the parish of St. Margaret, of ls. in the pound,
was laid. This, with the three rates which have already
been collected, makes thefpoors'-rate alone for the year
ss. 10d. in the pound on the assessment.—Cambridge In-
dependent.

On Saturday, in the Bail Court, the Solicitor-General
applied for a rule, calling upon Mr. Moon to show cause
why a quo warranto should not issue requiring him to
show by what authority he claimed to exercise the office
of alderman of the ward of Portsoken, in the city of
London. He made the application on behalf of Mr.
Salmons, who had been previously elected, but who
declined signing the usual declaration, being a member
of the Jewish persuasion. The rule was granted.
THEFT FROM AN EMPLOYER.—Yesterday, at the
Plilice-conrt, a boy named John Fitzgerald, was charged
with having stolen six pairs of foreign made slippers
from the shop of Mr. Crossley, of 80ld-street, by whom
he had been employed as an errand boy. It appeared that
he had abstracted the articles from a box, in which were
msny others of a similar kind, and had offered them to
pledge at Mr. H. Cowen's shop, in Old Hall-street. Mr.
Cowen questioned him as to the ownership, and his re-
plies being contradictory, he was detained, and the owner
found. He was committed for trial.

WALKS THROUGH THE EXHIBITION OF
THE LIVERPOOL ACADEMY, 1844.

WALK THE THIRD.

206. The Moors beleaguered by the Spaniards in the
City of Valencia." P. F. Poole.—A sad want of good
taste has characterised the selection of this subject for the
display of the artist's undoubted powers ; and the skill
with which the subject is worked out is therefore thrown
away. We cannot enjoy a painting which harrows our
senses whilst we look upon it, and of which every detail
is revolting. In one point, perhaps, its production may
be attempted to be excused. It may be calculated to im-
press upon us the horrors of warfare, and to shew us how
heroism and patriotism themselves may degenerate into
cruelty. This is perhaps its only apology.
104. " Portrait of E. Rushton, Esq.' S. Gamberdella.
—The colouring and drawing of this portrait are both in
the artist's best style, but we cannot for all that say that
it pleases us. We should have much preferred a portrait
of the Stipendiary Magistrate of Liverpool in his every-
day looks and dress, to this swaggering and pompous tra-
vestie. Mr. Rushton's features are not ordinarily pos-
sessed of anything like the brilliancy here imparted to
them, but may, without intending the slightest offence,
be styled heavy.
126. " The Prisoner." James Buchanan.--A piece of
everyday life, excellently pourtrayed. The rueful visage
of the poor urchin who holds the hank, from which the
old dame is winding, is well painted, as are the expectant
faces of his comranions without, uho await his liberation
from his task. The stolid and imperturbable calmness
of the old woman seems to afford little hope of a speedy
fulfilment of their hopes.
193. " The Visit of Consolation." T. F. Marshall.—
A sorrowful subject beautifully treated. The poor victim
of that cruel malady, which seems especially to extend its
fatal force upon the lovely of the earth, is indeed charm.
ingly painted; and the whole family group is in excellent
keeping.
200. "Dinner Time" in the refectory of the Fran-
ciscan Convent of the Ogrie Santi, at Florence. S. A.
Ha'•t.—The subject of this painting is certainly not an
attractive one, but the most is made of it, and the result
is a very fine picture. The " tideless monotony of monas-
tic life," as poor Maturin styled it, must have flung its
shadow over the painter's soul, to enable him to impart
the expressionless character to the features which are de-
lineated on his canvass.
215. " The Wedding ['arty--the Departure." R. Red-
grave, R.A.—This is a very pleasing picture, well painted,
and the characters and detail beautifully filled up.
310. " Rebecca a prisoner in the Preceptory of Temple-
stowe.,' R. S. Lauder.—A pretty painting. The Jewish
character of beauty in the face of Rebecca is well brought
out.

355. "Jack Cade and his Rabble condemning the Clerk
of Chatham." J. Cutese.—A well executed painting,
well designed.

413. "Mary Magdalen, and Mary the Mother of Jesus
at the Tomb." L. Sebbers. A very meritorious picture.
554. " Death of the Duke of York at the Battle of
Agincourt" B. B. Spence.—ln this sculpture Mr.
Spence has produced a work of great excellence. The
mailed figure of the young Prince is well executed; and
the dying aspect and failing strength of the Duke of York
are given with great artistic conception and skill.
558. " A Bust of Thomas Sands, Esq., Mayor of
Liverpool." To be executed in marble. J. Jackson.—
With every deference to all parties concerned, we must
say that this bust is in somewhat bad taste. The Mayor
of Liverpool in his robes of office, or in his ordinary attire
as a British merchant, would be a subject fitting enough
for the sculptor's chisel, or the painter's pencil; but the
Mayor of Liverpool in the garb of a Brutus, a Cicero, or
any other character of Greece or Rome, is, in our eyes,
as absurd as if he were painted in the costume of a dancing
dervise or a chinaman. We cannot conceive why it is
that the sculptor cannot do what the painter can do,—
viz., give to his subject the form and attire in which he
can be recognized by his friends. As a contrast to the
had taste of this bust, and a proof that the garb of an
Englishman is not beyond the sculptor's skill to represent
faithfully and gracefully, we beg to point to a specimen in
the same room,—viz.,

556. "Miniature Statue of Count D'Orsay," by the
Count himself.—The faultless figure and superb tailor-
craft of this pattern beau of modern days are here per-
fectly and most artistically presented to us ; as are also the
form and countenance of Napoleon, in
No. 557. By the same artist.