The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-20 00:00:00

APPOINTED.

47. All carriers when plying for hire shall stand in such
part of the market as may from time to time be appointed
for that purpose ; and every person offending against
this Bye-law shall forfeit for the first offence the sum of
one shilling, for a second offence, alleged and proved as
such, the sum of two shillings, and for every offence
subsequent to a second offence, alleged and proved as such,
the sum of five shillings.

NEW MEDAL BY WILLIAM WTON.—The production
of a new medal by Wyon now excites as much attention in
the world of art as the appearance of a bust by Chantrey
used to do ; though until the fame of the English medal-
list spread abroad this difficult and delicate art was con-
sidered peculiar to the Continent. The medal has this
advantage over the bust that it can be multiplied at little
cost ; like a ccpper or steel plate, the impressions from it
are the test of the artist's skill. But the amount of labour
and skill that goes to the production of a medal is known
but to few : first, there is the invention and arrangement
of the designs—then the modelling of them in wax—and
last, not least, the execution of the dies. Nor does the
art stop here, for the striking of the impressions is a pro-
cess requiring great nicety and experience. The new
medal by Mr. William Wyon, of which a proof-impression,
in gold, is before us, is a massive one of large dimensions,
designed and executed by him for the Liverpool Ship-
wreck and Humane Society—we presume, to bestow upon
persons who have been instrumental in saving lives en-
dangered by shipwreck or accidents at sea. The obverse
represents a sailor kneeling on a fragment of a wreck,
rescuing an infant and its mother from drowning; a boat
in the distance appears manned by a crew similarly en-
gaged; and beyond is seen a ship on the horizon. The
composition of the principal group and the modelling of
the figures are beautiful : the mother with both hands lifts
her child above the waves, the sailor supporting her with
one hand while with the other he holds the half-dead in-
fant. The modelling of the man and the child is exquisite :
the vigorous action of the muscles of the back and arms
is represented with masterly anatomical skill; and the
rounded fleshy form of the child by contrast increases the
appearance of manly strength. The mother's head and
hands are only visible above the water. The style is
classic in its simplicity and purity ; and the effect of ro-
tundity in the forms is conveyed by the delicacy with
which the relief is graduated, so that the outline is not
harsh but partakes of the fleshiness of the surface. The
distant boat's crew is indicated distinctly, and with an
effect of aerial perspective quite marvellous, considering
the extent of the actual space between them to be con-
veyed in a metallic substance by form alone : the liquid 1
undulation of the waves, too, is beautifully represented.
The reverse is a crest, encircled by a wreath of oak
wrought with great richness and boldness of relief : the
effect of " under-cutting" is given ; though of course this
is illusion, as the prsssure of the die is vertical. Those to
whom this medal shall be awarded are to be envied the
possession of such a token of their courage and humanity.
THE WAGES OF PROSTITUTION.—SureIy there are no
sinners so earnestly commended by the loving kindness of
our Lord to the pity and charity of Christians ; for there
are no sinners who by the usages of the world are so
absolutely lost, so cast out of its sight, so abandoned to
the b.tterness of their own tormented soul. A fallen
woman the world counts it righteous to forsake and scorn.
Even her own kindred turn their backs, and shut the
door of home upon her. None meet a harder judgment,
or more unequal measures from the world. Great and
deadly indeed their sin has been, and fearfully. are they
made to answer for it. None are to be pitied more :
none are more sinned against. Even the most abandoned
were once purer than the possessed being by whom they
were betrayed. They were, perhaps, the weak and shrink-
ing objects of temptation. It may be, some base superior
who held them in check by fear, and awed them into
crime; or the vile example of a mother, or the hateful
trafficking of a parent was their ruin. Multitudes may
be said to perish against their will—decoyed or forced
into the pit. Sometnnes out of such beginnings, when the
habit of inward chastity has as yet been hardly breathed
upon, the whole is lost, and they are launched into a
career of daring and reckless profligacy. Shame, fear,
horror, bar up their return. The drop has fallen ;
behind them is a gulf they cannot pass; retreat is all cut
off. There seems now to be nothing left but to hurry
onward unto death ; to fling themselves headlong upon
the whirlpool, that they may stun the recollection of pu-
rity, the very consciousness of guilt. God alone is wit-
ness of the groanings which are breathed unknown, and
the burning tears which are shed in the very depths of
impurity. What harrowing recollections of faces dearly
loved, last seen in anguish, of the fresh years of early
childhood, and the hopes and joys and fair prospects of an
innocent and gentle life all seared and blasted, come
back upon them in the hours of unholy revel, to be their
mockery and torment ! No eye but His can read the
vision of home and happy days, which rise upon their
desolate hearts in the tumult and darkness of these
crowded streets, and the agonizing dreams of a blessed-
ness no longer theirs, by which their broken sleep is
haunted. None other but He cin know what unutterable
and by night from the loathsome
agony goes up by day
chambers and pestilential dens in which these homeless,
hopeless, decaying mortals hide themselves in misery to
die. And
what a death is the death of an harlot !—when
the baffled heart wanders in dreams of sickness to die in
the home of its birth, and wakes up from the happiness of
delirium to madden itself again in the sights and sounds
which harass its miserable death-bed,—when the eye
strains itself in vain for the vision of a mother's pitying
face, and the ear is sick with listening for the coming of
brother, husband, child, whose footfall shall be heard
never again! Then comes death ; and after death, the
judgment, and the great white tht one on which He sitteth
from whose face both heaven and earth shall flee away.
Lamb of God, that takest away the sin of the world, have
mercy upon them and upon us in that day !"—Archdea-
. con Sinclair.
WHY IS THE BRITISH SOLDIER CLOTHED IN RED ?
Red was always the national colour of the Nortbmen, and
continues still, in Denmark and England, the distinctive
colour of their military chess. It was so of the herdnaen
and people of distinction in Norway, as appears from
several parts of the sagas, in the eleventh century.—
Laing's Chronicle of the Kings of Norway.