The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-15 00:00:00

WALK THE FIRST.

On entering an exhibition, catalogue in hand, we natu-
rally turn to No. 1, conceiving that it must have been
honoured with this prominence from some superior merit,
real or supposed. We cannot, however, pay the commit-
tee the poor compliment of attributing this as their motive
for assigning its present place to Mr. Leahy's painting of
" Lady Jane Grey Summoned to her Execution," but ra-
ther conclude that it is ranked first from its being the
largest in the collection. We find no fault with it as a
painting. The grouping and colouring are good, and the
figure and face of Lady Grey herself, " in countenance
nothing cast down, neither her eyes moistened with tears,"
as described by her historian, but raised in humble confi-
dence and hope to [leaven, are beautifully given. But
there is nothing of striking genius throughout the compo-
sition ; and in part, perhaps, on account of its great pre-
tension, the impression with which we leave it is one of
disappointment.

.. .
No. 4.—A Portrait of a Lady, by Gambendella, is a
vivid painting, which cannot escape notice. The colour-
ing, however, might, with advantage, have been a little
subdued.

No. 6.--A little painting, called " The Standard Com-
bat," by H. Melling, is full of spirit and boldness of de-
sign and execution. It is, in parts, rather hastily drawn,
however, and affords us rather a specimen of what the
artist might be than of his present powers.
No. 10.—" The Ferry—Evening," by E. Williams,
sen., is a pleasing composition.
No. 11.—" The Highland Lament," by H. Johnston,
is a very striking picture. The colouring, which is singu-
larly gloomy, is in keeping with the wildness of the scenery
and the solemnity of the occasion. The figures are very
correct, and the piper in the foreground especially
imposing.
No. 21.—" Endymion's Dream," by P. Westcoll,
could only have been painted by one capable of appreciat-
ing the beautiful conceptions of the lamented Keats. The
dreamy nature of the poet has here entered into the artist's
pencil ; and the effect is a vision on canvas as etherial as
was ever presented to the wildest imagination. The spirit
of the moon—" that completed form of all loveliness"—
which visits the slumbering hunter, is beautifully painted,
as are the moon herself and the sky out of whose blue
depths she appears to have sprung. the untangible sub-
stance of beauty. The dreaming Endymion is scarcely
less beautiful in conception and artistic finish. The
moonlight is thrown upon his features with great skill and
effect. His tired dogs, in the foreground, are the only
objects in the picture which seem to belong to earth.
No. 37 is a very pleasing " Portrait of a Child," by
Patten, who has several other fine paintings in the exhi-
bition.

No. 49.—" Mount St. Michael, Cornwall," by C.
Mansfield, is a fine painting, displaying great artistic
power, and will be a favourite with all lovers of marine
views. The troubled ocean in the foreground is painted
with great skill, whilst the mist shrouded mount, and the
indistinct filling in of the background, are magnificent.
No. 95.—" The Lassie's Supply from the Spring," by
E. A. Gifford, is a beautiful little picture. The faces,
and one in particular of great archness, are perfect gems
of painting. The colouring and light are well managed.
No. 115.—" Facing the Enemy," by J. T. Eglinlon,
is a pleasing picture. We presume the spaniel is a
portrait.
No. 116.—" Cattle returning—Evening,"—by J. Wil-
son, Junr., is a pretty pastoral composition.
No. 123.—" The Fortune Tellers," by H. Room is a
pleasing portrait of one of the beautiful faces and forms
occasionally to he met with amongst the Gipsy race.
No. 125.—" The Gipsy," a sketch by T. Crane, is
drawn with force, but a somewhat forbidding picture. It
might serve for the opposite of No. 123.
No. 160.—" A scene on the Clyde," by Thomas Urea-
wick, is finely painted. The rocks in the foreground are
beautifully done.
No. 161.—" Rebecca unvailing," by C. A. Dowal, is a
plea,,ant composition.
No. 242.—" The Embarkation of James II," by H.
Oalas, is a very fine historical painting. The galley of
Louis XIV., in which the deposed king is being conveyed
on board the Soleil Royal, in which he sailed with his
armanent to Ireland, is beautifully drawn; and the group-
ing of the illustrious passengers on board very good, s
well as that of the figures in the foreground who appear
spectators of the scene. The magnificent vessel itself,
the Soleil Royal, is a striking object ; the colouring may
be objected to as somewhat too fresh,—a fault which time
in part will remedy. Altogether, this picture is highly
creditable to the artist.

No. 276 and 279.—Tw0 pleasing pictures by our towns-
man Mr. S. Walters.

No. 280.—" Castle Craig Borrowdale," and 281 `' Por-
tencross Castle, Ayrshire," the former by Miss Charlotte
Nalanyth and the latter by Miss Barbara Nasmyth, are
excellent specimens of two delightful Artistes.
No. 471.—" The Ploughboy," by W. Hunt—a Water
Colour Drawing of very first-rate merit. It is one of
the gems of this portion of the exhibition.
No. 538.—" Portraits of Mrs. Adev and the Misses
Adey," by Miss Al. Gillus, is a highly finished and beau-
tiful painting. The colouring is fine and very rich.

WHAT WORDS SHALL WE WIN ?
" What Wards shall we win ?" Papist journals say seven,
Whilst others, more gen'rous, give ten or eleven;
But both are at fault, as will plainly be seen—
We shall win our old number, " the glorious thirteen."
Thirteen, and one more,—for Exchange we shall gain ;
To contest it with us would be " labour in vain":
This to HoLtu ES is well known, so he flies from his post;
If he reckons on Lime-street, 'tis " without his host."
And thus to the Radical faction will fall
That spicy Arabia, delightful Vauxhall !
'Tis swarop'd by Repealers;—and Castle-street, too,
Is held in its hands by a like ragged crew.
But WOOLLRIGIIT, 'tis said, will St. Peter's obtain!
We have beaten him once, and shall beat him again :
Whilst St. Anne's—who'll believe it?—must fall to that pearl,
That pink of politeness, ex-Alderman EARLE!!!
Then, Tories, at once the red banner unfold,
Unite it with ensigns of purple and gold ;
For combin'd with King William's true Protestant lads,
You'll triumph o'er Papists, Socinians, and Rads!
E. M.
Roscommon-street, 14th October, 1844.

THE WEATHER.—We have had those alternations of
rain, wind, and sunshine, within the past week which may
be expected at this advanced period of the autumn. The
rain has, for the most part, fallen (and heavily too) du-
ring the night, the day being generally fine, with a drying
breeze. Yesterday evening, shortly after five o'clock,
this town and neighbourhood were visited by a brief but
violent storm of wind and heavy rain, accompanied by
several vivid flashes of lightning and loud peals of
thunder, which last excited no little alarm amongst the
timid. At the time of our writing (Monday night) the
weather is still stormy, and inclined to squally. Hap-
pily the field crops, with the exception of the potatoes,
which are yet in no danger, have nearly all been housed
in good order. The after-grass in the vicinity has been
in all warm and well treated grounds, more abundant
than was expected, and this accession to cattle food will
do much to make up for the deficiency of the first hay.
crop. The turnips also look well,—particularly the
Swedes, of which we have seen many fields—the bulbs of
a large size. We have also seen home fields of young
Wheat, presenting a very verdant and promising appear-
ance for the season.

A HORSE KILLED IN THE STREET.—On Sunday even-
ing, about five o'clock, as a phaeton, drawn by a fine gray
horse, and a car were driving rapidly along Pembroke-
place, the two animals and vehicles came into sudden and
violent collision, and the horse in the phaeton was so
much injured that he instantly dropped, and died in about
three minutes. There were four persons in the car, and
several also in the phaeton, none of whom were, happily,
seriously hurt. We have been unable to learn whether
blame was to be attached to one or both drivers, or whe-
ther the contact was the effect of accident.
GRADUATES OF DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.—The Dublin
Statesman of Friday announces the following. We at
present doubt its truth. "We understand that more than
one of the English bishops actually refuse to ordain gradu-
ates of Trinity College, Dublin, though duly qualified in
every theological, and moral, and other respect. The
conduct is truly deplorable, and replete with danger iu the
present state of the united church of England and Ireland.
We have heard of one English prelate who goes further
still, and actually refuses to license as a curate in his dio-
cese any graduate of Dublin ordained by an Irish bishop,
though in full priest's orders."
CORK AND BANDON RAILWAY,—On Saturday
se'nnight, a meeting was held at Bandon, to take into
consideration a proposition to construct a railway on the
above line. Viscount Bernard took the chair. Mr. Bil-
ling of London produced estimates of traffic which showed
a certain profit of 10 per cent., and declared he was ready
to prove it would be much nearer 15 per cent. The line
would open a market at Bandon for all the Western Dis-
tricts of that great County, which had a large produce
from its agriculture, its mines, its fisheries, and other
sources—all of which would be concentrated into Bandon
as the great terminus for Cork. Mr. Sullivan said, that,
with regard to the farmers taking their produce from
Bandon on to Cork, he apprehended it would be much
more advantageous to the commercial interests of Ban-
don to have the line t ) go on to Cork than if a line was
merely constructed to deep water, but when gentlemen
came forward to advocate that project, the reply to them
was, we make, on this main line, two miles of the rail for
you to deep water, and it is not reasonable to suppose
that the line will be continued to the deep water. Now
on that part of the subject he would just mention one
fact, and it was truly said that one fact was worth a
thousand arguments. At this moment, and for the last
fortnight, his stores were full of corn. He had been try-
ing at Kinsale to obtain a vessel, and he could not under a
very high height, and he did obtain one at Cork at two
shillings per ton less than he could at Kinsale. He had
consequently been obliged to refuse purchasing any
more within the last two days. If the railway
was established and he had the facility of transit,
he could of course purchase from the farmers on
better terms than he could now. Bandon was unques-
tionably the great point of attraction for the whole
west of Cork, and it was the natural outlet for the whole
of its agricultural produce. Do what they would, the
town of Bandon stood in such a geographical position that
nothing could interfere with it. If they had lines from
Dublin to Cashel, and from Cashel to Cork and Limerick
and Waterford, was it reasonable to suppose that mer-
chants and capitalists would not find their way to. Bandon
when they had a railway there ? Several other speeches
were made.

CORRESPONDENCE.

ELECTION OF ALDERMEN.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlR,—The Munit ipal Election beill at hand, I obserse
there are six Whig-Radical Aldermen, whose time expires
on the Ist of November, and it is to the election of their
successors I wish to direct the council's attention. The
last batch of aldermen made by the conservatives were
taken not out of the council (which I contend is the legi-
timate mode) but from out of doors, and these, with one
or two exceptions, were gentlemen who had not been pre-
emintly active in the conservative interest though wishing
well to the cause. Now, 1 assert that the aldermen
should be chosen out of the council, by which means
they are the choice of the burgesses, having been sent to
the council by them, and election ought to fall upon those
conservative members of the Town Council who have
served the longest anti contested the wards they represent;
such is only just and reasdnable, and what common sense
dictates. It is not acting fairly by those members who
have fought at the hustings, and been at both expense and
trouble, to have brought into the council chamber, as
aldermen, gentlemen who have never aided or assisted
their party to entitle them to the honor, (if such it may
be deemed,) and who would shrink from a contest fur
councilmen.

A BURGESS OF ST. PETER'S WARD.
October 141 h, 1844.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sia,—l shall feel much obliged by the insertion of the
following observations in your valuable paper; the im-
portance of the subject will, I hope, be a sufficient apology
to yourself and the public for my intrusion.
The increase of our commercial prosperity, the regula-
tions adopted for the improvement of the health of the
inhabitants, and the protection afforded their persons and
property, are topic., agreeable to a mind that feels an in-
terest in the welfare of the community. But my friendly
feeling towards my fellow-townsmen must be allowed a
wider range, and to embrace objects higher and better
than these.

If it be true of a nation that it is exalted by righteous-
ness, it must be proportionally true of a town. I have
carefully considered the large amount of means in opera-
tion for the spiritual improvement of our vast population,
and endeavoured to form some sort of estimate of their
probable success. In this investigation my attention has
been directed to a society, entitled the " Town Mission,"
with the constitution of which I have made myself ac-
quainted, and after an examination and scrutiny of some
continuance, I feel constrained to entreat for it the special
attention, and particular inquiry, of the public, as to its
pressing and imperative necessity, the benefits which have
already resulted from its labour, and the loud call for an
enlarged and liberal benevolence for its support and
extension.

The following extracts are from the annual report,
under the head, " Instructions to Agents," and deserve,
I conceive, more than ordinary observation, as fully re-
futing the unfounded charges of Sectarianism, and every
thing like a disposition to proselytism, charges which
have been urged against it by those who are unfriendly
towards it, because mistaken as to its real intentions and
designs :—" You are aware that the object of the Liver-
pool Town Mission is, to promote the religious improve-
ment of the lower classes of the people." " Should sharp
or irritating language be addressed to you, remember that
a •soft answer turneth away wrath' ; but do not persist in
calling upon those who retuse to receive you." " Make
yourselves acquainted with the daily and Sunday schools,
and places of religious worship, in the vicinity, that you
may exhort the people and the children to attend them."
" Let your conversation with the people upon what you
read be plain, pointed, and affectionate ; skewing them
thus, with all simplicity, that life and death are set before
them in the word of God, and beseeching them to come
unto Christ that they may have life. To insist upon
topics of minor importance, such as modes of church go-
vernment, &c., with a view of making proselytes to a par-
ticular sect, would be a gross violation of your duty, as
an agent of this society."
There is in this town an immense amount of human
beings, of whom it may be asserted—and, alas ! it is no
libel—they have no knowledge of God ; who never enter
a church or chapel to worship or to hear of God ; and
amongst whom it may emphatically be said, " Satan bath
his seq.'

I hope my joy is not inferior to that of any Christian
man at the increase of places for the public worship of
God. My prayer is that the glorious Gospel of the
blessed God may be preached in them, with the Holy
Ghost sent down from heaven. But suppose these sanc-
tuaries to be increased in number and size to any extent
you please, it does not follow that the slaves of sin, and
ignorance worse than heathenish, will leave their haunts
of infamy and dens of depravity, to cross the threshold of
the house of God. Hence the pressing necessity of the
Town Mission, the great object of which is, to persuade
men, in plain, familiar, friendly phrase, to be reconciled
to God—to woo and win them to his public worship, by
forming in their courts and alleys, wherever an open door
presents itself, little neighbourly social meetings, for
prayer and reading the word of God, that an appetite
may thus be created for the bread of life—that they may
have the advantage of a little spiritual training, that the
transition may be easy and natural from the small meet-
ing in the courtimar alley to the great congregation in the
house of God. These unhappy outcasts of our species
cannot be reached by the means in ordinary use and ope-
ration. Experience has proved that nothing less is suffi-
cient than a moral invasion, and that an attack must be
made upon the camp of the enemy.
Mr. Editor. I feel encouraged, emboldened to propose
a question for public consideration. I ask, in the joint
name of religion, reason, and humanity, where an agency
can be found by which these merciful purposes can be
more successfully accomplished, than by the society for
which I plead ? As free from undue partiality as preju-
dice; and without fear of contradiction I affirm, that an
agency superior in spirituality, simplicity, and success,
remains yet to be discovered.
The agents employed are converted. devoted men—
taken from humble occupations, knowing nothing of cold
and difficult dogmas, nor fine inflated figures—their only
arguments are compassionate concern for perishing sin-
ners, and their only eloquence is derived from the Cross
and the Crucified.

Such are the men, and let the hand of Christian sym-
pathy and benevolence furnish the Committee with more
money, and God will doubtless find more such men ; and
by the blessing of Heaven upon their labours, and the
labours of the servants in the different sections of his
Church, our moral wastes shall be brought into cultiva-
tion, and Liverpool become more famed for its religion
and morality, than it is for its merchandise and riches.
Subscriptions and donations are received at the Borough
Bank' by John Cropper, Esq.. President ; James Stitt,
Esq., Treasurer ; Messrs. James C. Duncan and John
Oliver Jones, Secretaries, and any of the Committee.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your faithful and obedient servant,
MENTOR.

SHIP-BUILDING.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

have recently seen in your paper a letter writ-
ten by a Mr. Robert Talbot, shipbuilder, wherein he
shows that which he considers essential, for strength,
capacity, and velocity, for seagoing vessels. His first
principle is that of the insecurity of ships from angle
chocks. As a shipbuilder he must be aware the adoption
is from necessity, in the want of crooked timber. This
of itself is of very minor importance as to security, when
compared with the disjointed manner in which the frame
timbers of merchant ships are erected. Let shipbuilders
carefully place together the sections of each frame, and
well bolt them, so as to have no filling timbers shuffled
in place after the ribands are around ; let all the bolts in
each floor be driven through the keelson, and clenched
on the underside of the keel; let the limber strakes be of
5 or 6-inch plank, well bolted through the bottom and
clenched, with a water-course on the floors ; let the gar-
board strakes be at the keel two inches thicker than the
plank of the bottom ; let the edges of the ceiling planks
be well fayed and caulked from the floor-heads upward;
let the beams be of a sufficient number and well placed,
secured at their ends by thick waterways and shelfpieces
well fayed and bolted. This, with the outside plank,
being well wrought and fastened, and the work duly per-
formed, not only the objectionable chocks may be pro-
perly applied, but all the ponderous iron knees and stan-
dards, together with the sister keelsons, may be thrown
overboard as useless limber, for it should be understood
that no ship is stronger than her weakest part. If, there-
fore, a ship, from the ricketty manner in which she has
been built, requires strapping with iron knees (which at
the best is a very uncertain security), through which
those weak parts are rendered less secure, and often the
sole cause of vessels foundering; let her frame be firmly
united from keel to gunwale, and from stem to sternpost,
with the other required securities, and there is no cause
of fear of the ship doing well, although the heads and
heels of the first and second futtocks (which are all that
require chocks) are chocked, together with the disappear-
ing of all iron knees or sister keelsons.
may be well for a vessel of from 200 to 220 tons, but the
Mr. Talbot gives a breadth for a given length, which
proportion would be too narrow for a vessel of 150 tons,
and too wide for one of 300 tons measurement. The sta-
bility of a vessel depends not on either her breadth or her
depth, but on her form and the correctness of her dis-
placement. As a proof, plane up from the same piece
two pieces of fir, say 2 feet long by 3 inches by C inches ;
form each in shape like the bottom of a vessel, with this
difference—the bottom of one to be formed with the
breadth of 6 inches, and the bottom of the other with the
breadth of 3 inches • that is, the breadth of the first will
be as listo 4, the Other as listoB, of their length. In
forming these two blocks, let them be of equal weight
when finished. Then take two slips of lead, of equal
weight, say 21b. each, which fix as keels to each bottom,
observing that they swim perfectly level. In each fix in
midships a mast, whose height may be 18 inches from the
water, and crosswise fix a yard of a foot long, and at a
foot in height from the water, when it will be found, by
applying at one end of each yard anything of equal weight,
that the narrow vessel is the stiffer of the two, and as
such will carry more canvass. This is not shown to re-
commend narrow ships, but merely to show that dis-
placement,
to show that Mr. Talbot's opinion is
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duced by referring to many of the masters of your Liver-
pool ships. One proof will suffice to fully establish this
fact. It is well known that a part of our navy is corn-

Oct. hl, 1844.

prised of what are termed three-deck ships ; the truth is
they have five decks, on four of which they have a range
of guns. During the last French war, we were under the.
necessity of blocking up their ports. If any remission of
this duty had taken place, the advantage accruing there-
from would have been lost; therefore our ships were
obliged to weather the winter storms, yet at times shelter
was required but in all cases our three-deck ships vier!,
the last that Asoght a harbour, and very often rernaifru
in the bay, and with less damage than frigates, boll
always considered the safest snips. By showing their
proportions, every obstruction in a merchant vessel, es
to height, sinks into nothingness. Their length as t°
breadth was as 41 is to 1 ; their draught of water, 22 feet;
their height, from the water to the poop deck. 35 feet;
extended on the four decks, from 100 to 120'guns, toge-
ther with above 200 tons of shot, anchors, and other beavf
materials, and above 800 men.
I remain, sir, your very humble servant,
JOHN COCK,
Author of a little work on Masting Ships
and I\lastmaking.
Pembroke Dock, October 2nd, 1844.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
should be gratified if any of your medics'
friends or correspondents would have the kindness to
solve the following queries. What is the most general
cause of "Catarrh," or what is usually termed " catching
a cold ? " What habit of body predisposes a person to
catch cold, and will a plethoric habit be more likely to
catch cold than a contrary habit—does full and free living
or an abstemious diet occasion a disposition to th►s
malady ?
Is cold usually caught by passing from heated air into t
lower temperament, or the reverse, that is, from a cold
atmosphere into a heated apartment?
NV.

The Jupiter steam-ship, on the 10th of October, at
halt-past 10 o'clock, a.m., of Donagadee, spoke the brig
St. Lucia, of Liverpool, making for Eetfast to repair
damages. She left Liverpool on the 7th of October.

The machinery of the French steam ship Corner which
conveyed Louis Phillippe to this country was manufac-
tured by Fawcett, Preston and Co., of this town. It is of
most stupendous character.

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IMPORT FOR THE FLAX AND COTTON MILLS.--The
Oswego, a large American ship, of 800 tons' burden, for-
merly employed as a liner between Liverpool and Nevi'
York, arrived in this port yesterday, direct from New
cOortlteoannsm,ins.o
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THE SAFETY OP RAILWAY TRAVELLING.—At
recent inquest Mr. Wakley took occasion to observe,
that he had held the office of coroner for five years and a
half, and had the two great termini, and upwards ef
miles of the most extensive railways in the kingdom In
his district, and yet, notwithstanding the millions of per-
sons that must have travelled up and down those lines
during the period he h n eationed, he had never held 8
single inquest on a railway passenger.
TARTANS.—We perceive Messrs. John Cripps and Co.►
Maison de Lyon, 48, Bold-street, are making a splendid
display of the Scotti,h Clan Tartans, and at that establish-
ment we have just been shewn the Rothsay Tartan, which
has just been ordered by her Majesty, and which, for
beauty of texture and of colouring, exceeds anything that
we have as yet seen in this fashionable and useful fabric.
We may predict that their adoption during the present
season will be general.

NARROW ESCAPE IN THE RlVER.—Yesterday, about
noon, the ship Lucas approached the Prince's pier, and
was running up alongside of it for the purpose of
entering the dock, while a boat, containing four meal
happened to bs between her and the sea-wall. The men,
seeing that they were in danger, jumped into the water to
save their lives. Two of them caught hold of a rope at-
tached to the vessel, and were picked up by a boat. One
of the men was rescued when nearly exhausted, and one
had his knee much crushed ; but all were saved. The
precaution they had taken was not without grounds, as
the boat in which the poor fellows were was, soon after
they took the water, crushed to pieces between the ship
and the

EARLY CLOSING OF SHOPS IN ORMSKIRK.—At a.
meeting of the shopkeepers of Ormskirk, held in the
Town-hall, on Friday, the 11th inst., publicly called bY
the constable, in compliance with a requisition nu►nerousll
and respectably signed. Edward Boyer, Esq., in the
chair. It was unanimously resolved that the meeting con-
sidered that the hours of business in shops were unnecee-
sorily prolonged, and, therefore, deemed it advisable that
the shops should be closed at an earlier hour. And con-
sidered it necessary in order to afford time requisite for
exercise, recreation, and the acquirement of information,
that the shops be closed at 8 o'clock, Saturday excepted.
A committee was appointed to adopt such means as should
appear to them beet calculated to effect the object of the
meeting. A declaration was afterwards signed by all
present expressing their cord:al concurrence in the gene-
rat object of the meeting, and handed over to the commit-
tee, who were requested to obtain the signatures of those
persons who were not present. A :correspondent at
Ormskirk wishes to know why the attorneys' offices in
that town cannot be closed at an earlier hour. We see
no reason why they should not, for the honrs at similar
officers in this town have been very much curtailed without
inconvenience.

MR. ILLIDGES PORTRAIT OF LORD SANDON.—The Globe of
Wednesday last, says that this painting is a beautiful portrait of
Lord Sandon, painted by Midge, and mezzotinted by George
Raphael Ward, in the best style of each of these dist;nguislied
artists. The 'ikeness, we have had opportunities of knowing,
is most excellent, not only the similarity of features being pre-
served, but the mentalism of the noble lord maintained and
made palpably manifest, as far as the sister arts of portr iture
and engraving can accomplish that ultimate result of their
joint labours.

THE ART UNION PICTURES.—We have been much gratified
at viewing a very neat frame, manufactured in Papier Mache.
resembling the most graceful and elaborate carving in oak and
other woods, the style and design of which is particularly
adapted to the engraving after Danby's celebrated painting of
the '• Opening of the Sixth Seal." This frame is to be seen at
Mr. Keys' Show Rooms, 52. Bold-street, and judging from 'of
common carvings,) we have no doubt of its universal applic
elegance and cheapness, (for they are not quite the price
We advise our readers. particularly those in whose possessiOn
the engraving is,to visit the papier mache warerooms previously
to selecting a frame. ation.