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

PRESENT BADGES TO BE RECALLED AND MARKED.

43. The badges of the present carriers shall be forthwith
recalled by public notice, to be given by the Town-clerk,
whereby any present carrier shall be required to deliver
his or her badge into the hands of one of the superin-
tendents, and that such carrier shall have such badge re-
turned with a distinguishing mark thereon, or in lieu
thereof a new badge shall be delivered to him or her, each
such carrier first being registered as a market carrier by
the proper superintendent, or by the several proper su-
perintendents, if he or she shall desire to ply for hire in
more markets than one.

CARRIER TO WEAR BADGE WHEN PLYING FOR HIRE.
44. The badee shall be worn by the carrier when plying or
working for hire, affixed to the right arm, and the same
shall be by him or her kept visible and undefaced. 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 shil-
lings and sixpence, and for any offence subsequent to a
second offence, alleged and proved as such, the sum of
five shillings.

COMMENCEMENT OF THESE BYE-LAWS.
56. That these Bye-laws shall commence and take effect
upon the twelfth day of September next.
JAMES LAWRENCE,
Chairman of the Markets Committee.
By order of the Council and of the Committee,
RD. RADCLIFFE, Town Clerk.

MR. GIBSON, THE SCULPTOR.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—The writer of an article in a late number of the
Liverpool Courier properly lauds Mr. Gibson, the sculp-
tor ; but he is wanting in his facts, and falls short, in
some respects, in speaking of Mr. Gibson, who, by his
own exertions, has raised himself to distinction in his
profession.
Mr. Gibson's father was one of the warehousemen of
Messrs. Ewart, Rutson, and Co. ; he bound his son as an
apprentice to Messrs. Southwell and Wilson, cabinet
makers: whilst young Gibson was thus employed, being
acquainted with some of the young people in the employ
of Messrs. Franceys, the marble cutters, he was in the
habit of frequently passing his evenings in their workshop,
when Mr. Franceys, observing his juvenile efforts to
model, and being pleased with his manner, asked him
if he would like to learn their business, to which Gibson
is said to have replied that he would, but could not, as he
was then bound to Messrs. Southwell and Wilson ; in
consequence Mr. Franceys went to Mr. Southwell and
purchased his indenture, for which, it has been stated, he
gave a sum somewhere about £7O.

The young man was thus introduced into a field better
suited to his taste and genius, where he rapidly advanced
in his acquirements; he was patronized by Mr. Roscoe
in particular; and, whilst under Mr. Franceys, was em-
ployed by Mr. Gladstone to execute a marble chimney-
piece, that was placed in a house, belonging to that
gentleman, in Rodney-street, and for which mantel-piece
Mr. Franceys received the sum of one hundred guinesa.
To have kept Mr. Gibson in Liverpool would have been
placing a light under a bushel, and a purse was made to
send him to finish his studies at Rome, to which Mr.
Roscoe, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Lawrence, and others con-
tributed, and particularly a young friend of Gibson's, who
was then an apprentice in the office of llessrs. Ewart,
Myers, and Co.—Mr. Duncan Milligan. Mr. Gibson
went to Rome in 1817, and remained in Italy until the
present year, following up his profession with great ability
and high reputation. Undeniable, however, as his merit
is in his profession, he is not without a rival,—Mr.
Macdonald, who is also a resident at Rome, being consi-
dered by many judges to be fully equal to Gibson in
single figures and groups, and his superior in the execu-
tion of busts.

There was in the Trafalgar-square Exhibition of this
season a spirited work of a high class, ropresenting a
hunter with his dog, executed by Gibson, for Mr. Henry
Sandbach, of Liverpool—and also a colossal statue of the
late Mr. Huskisson, understood to have been done at
Mrs. Huskisson's expense, and intended to be placed in
the long room of the Liverpool Custom-house, where it
will require a pedestal of considerable elevation to be seen
to advantage. The execution of this work does not ap-
pear to be a successful effort ; the likeness has been pro-
nounced by some who were intimately acquainted with
Mr. Huskiason in his lifetime as inferior, and the attitude
and costume do not appear to be in good taste.
These defects are the more to be regretted, as in the
event of the statue of Mr. Canning, by Chantrey, being
removed from the Town. hall to the Custom-house,
(which has been suggested, as a building for which the
town was indebted to Mr. Canning's exertions,) the
striking power and talent displayed in the execution of
that work will probably lead to a comparison which is
likely to be unfavourable to the effort of Mr. Gibson.
A subscription was originated by Mr. Gladstone to have
a statue of his late friend, Mr. Kirkman Finlay, of Castle
Toward, executed in marble, and placed in the Exchange-
room of Glasgow, and for that purpose about £1,300 were
raised. I believe that Mr. G. with other subscribers, as
well as the family of Mr. Finlay, were desirous that this
work should have the advantage of being executed by
Mr. Steel, a highly talented sculptor, resident at Edin-
burgh, who is now employed at the equestrian statue of
the Duke of Wellington, and that of Sir Walter Scott,
both to be erected in Edinburgh ; but a portrait painter of
Glasgow, Mr. Graham, a friend of Mr. Gibson's, and
a subscriber of ten guineas to the fund, though opposed
by the Duke of Hamilton and other local subscribers, was
so industrious in his canvass for proxies and local support
that he succeeded in obtaining a majority of votes for em-
ploying Mr. Gibson, who is to execute the work at Rome,
as I have been informed, from a model sent or to be sent
to him, made or making by a young artist under Gra-
ham's superintendence. For the satisfaction and credit
of the subscribers I only hope that he may be more suc-
cessful than he has been in Mr. Huskisson's colossal
statue. For this work, when finished and delivered some
three years hence, Mr. Gibson is, I understand, to receive
the whole money subscribed. If there should be any-
thing incorrect in what I have stated in this letter, perhaps
Mr. Gibson, should he happen to see it, may take the
trouble to set me right; but, in justice to him and to
others, I shall be glad that sou give this letter a place in
an early number of your paper.
I am, &c.,
15M August, 1844.

VERITAS.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S, THURSDAY.

TIIE EBOR HANDICAP.
6 to 4 agst Mr. Wreford's Franchise
5 1 Mr. Johnston's Rowena

THE ST. LEGER

500 even on on the field against Scott's lot (field for choice)
3 to 1 agst Mr. Salvin's The Cure (tk to £5O, and aft
offd)
4 1 Lord Stanley's Ithuriel (9 to 2 taken)
15 2 Mr. John Scott's Bay Momus
8 1 Mr. Vane's Valerian (taken to £5O)
10 1 Duke of Richmond's Red Deer (tk and aft
offd)
13 1 Col. Auson's The Princess (tk to about
£5OO
15 1 Mr. John Day's The Ugly Buck (ditto,
ditto)
35 1 Mr. J. Hampson's Lightening (taken)
To the above it is only necessary to add, that Ithuriel
and The Princess were in considerable demand, and that
although the prices quoted against The Cure, Red Deer,
Foig-a-ballagh, and Ugly Buck, were taken to a small
amount, the disposition to lay against them (the Buck in
particular) was general. Business on the whole was ex-
cessively dull.

'L ittraturr.

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POETRY.

THE MERCHANTS OF ENGLAND.

BY THE HON. G. S. SMYTHE.

The land it boasts its titled hosts ;—they cannot vie with these,
The merchants of old England,—the seigneurs of the seas,
In the days of Queen Victoria, for they have borne her sway
From the far Atlantic islands to the islands of Cathay;
And o'er one-sixth of all the earth, and over all the main,
Like some good fairy, Freedom marks and blesses her domain.
And, of the mighty emp res that arose, and ruled, and died,
Since on the sea, his heritage, the Tyrian look'd in pride,
Not Carthage, with her Hannibal ; not Athens, when she bore
Her bravest and her boldest to the Syracusan shore,
While the words of Alcibiades yet echoed wide and far,
" Where are corn fields, and are olive grounds, the Athenian's
limits are,"
And in each trireme was many a dream of the West, and its un-

known bliss
Of the maidens of Iberia, and the feasts of Sybaris ;
Not in those younger ages, when St. Mark's fair city ran
Her race of fame and frailty—each monarch's courtezan ;
Not Lusia in her palmier hour, in those commercial days,
When Nasco saild from Cadent, and Cambens sang his praise ;
Not Spain. with all her Indies, the while she seem'd to fling
Her fetters on the waters, like the oriental king;—
Not one among the conquerors that are or ever were,
In wealth, or fame, or grandeur, with England may compare.
But not of this our sovereign thought, when from her solemn

throne _ ... .
She spoke of the poor, and what they endure, in her low and

thrilling tone,
And offer'd a prayer that trade might bear relief through the

_
starving land,
To the strong man's weaken'd arm, and his wan and workless

hand;
And by the power, that was her dower, might commerce once

more be
The helper of the helpless, and the saviour of the free.
Then glory to the merchants who shall do such deeds as these,
The merchants of Old England, the seigneurs of the seas !