The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-03 00:00:00

Me OF
x.itvongst the most va.l ua-
whether regarded as conducive to wave,
purity and grace of aspect, or as auxiliary to feminine wtbe
liness, a beautiful set of teeth must ever rank amongst ce.
most important elements of a favourable personal a ppearBl/09
The embellishment and preservation of the teeth and g. d
have therefore ever been regarded with peculiar interest, be
among the mass of preparations suggested for these desirB
purposes, we could particularize ROWLAND'S ODONTOr uu,
PEARL DENTIFRICE, as unrivalled for its excellence inPaa
rifying, embellishing, and preserving those important ~
attractive objects.—See advt.
SHOP-LIFTING.—At the Police-court, on Wednesa,,elti
Amelia Jones, Alice Hughes, and Ann Smith, were char.,,f
with having stolen a pair of ladies' boots, the proPertY
Elizabeth Eden, shoe-dealer,:Byrotn-street. Isaac Joblie;',
shopman in the service of Mrs. Eden, stated, that on on,
day afternoon, the prisoners Amelia Hughes and AliceJonetg,
entered the shop, and said they wanted to try some b°m°
Jones sat down, but Hughes, who had a child in her 8/..r toi
walked about, and appeared to be lulling the child eel .0
keep it from crying, though the shopman observed the‘A
was quiet enough. In the course of her movements to et;
fro she went frequently to a shelf on which were
women's boots. After looking at several pair of boots, Jt,I.H
said, " There is a pair in the window which I thinkl;
answer." The shoptoan reached over to get them, and teed
doing turned his back on the two women. When be Pto
the boots on the counter, he saw Hughes leaving the
and be observed her go to the window and look in. Tale
to the shelf to which Hughes had gone with the child,
saw that a pair of ladies' boots had been taken therefrote;
" Where is your companion ?" said he to Jones. She Woke!
confused. He gave her the pair of boots which he had take:
from the window, and telling her to try them on, o:neat
signal for another assistant to go to the shop, and we," "a,
to look after Hughes. Ho saw her at a little distance stars
ing talking to the prisoner Smith. He told her that liereoPY
panion wanted her, and she returned with him to the ech°„l'.
He then went after Smith and brought her back also. 1%le:3„;
while Superintendent M`Donald, who happened to be ptiee',"„',;
was in the shop. When Smith was taken into the 5'7,
(and it was the first time she bad been in) a pair of bf'd
dropped from her person on the floor. These were identw.fie
as the property of Mrs:Eden, and had been stolen fronlw`he
shelf. All three were immediately taken into custody•
prisoners had nothing to say in their defence, and were COw'
tnitted for trial.

PEMONA
tes of beat

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE DUKE AND HIS HORSE

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD'

was rather astonished to read in your paper a eV'
ticism on the admirable print from the picture I had the 1)‘
nour to paint, for Liverpool, of the Duke and Copenhagen,
wherein it was said the engraver had supplied the zeal'
skill in the painter.

Upon tn; word, to say the least„ this is a modest infereqe:
and I believe no man would be more shocked than Nie
Lupton.
The writer does not seem at all aware of the position
painter and engraver; and that no engraver would ever &Le;
to supply the want of skill in the painter without °
painter's express approbation.
The last man to take such a liberty is Mr. Lupton, will
intense application, honest wishes, and eminent talent Wu
make him the first to feel its gross indelicacy.
The art of black and white is a very difficult art to the °rat
of colour; and when a picture is translated into blacic aoe
white, a different management is always necessary. Rabe!
used to make black and white finished sketches, for his
. gravers, and it would be well if it were done now.
The critic also talks of the empty space in my picture. ,e
Ile seems to take it as a portrait composition, where its;
man is all in all and the space nothing ; he forgets that it;,
a portrait composition where the man and horse arc but psi
of scene. The day, the field, the man, the horse, Preof
equally in the imagination, and are but component pares
the imaginative invention.
A bit of a column, or red curtain, or a cloak, or a beat
might render it more agreeing with portrait arrangement, u
would utterly destroy the poetry of the space.
The very emptiness is a part of the scene, and the pole
of the invention—the absurdity of the remarks made
picture, by the noodles of a portion of the London Pinj
about the hugeness of the picture, the size of the Duke l 0
the Horse, were perfectly ludicrous—in short, the reraerre
which are always made about the size of my pictures,
always ludicrously untrue. I never painted a portrait of 51'01
man in my life seven feet six inches, like Lawrence's re
George IV., which I measured a fortnight since; and thee
is no place so utterly unfit for any historical picture as °;et
English Exhibition—the tameness of the attitudes, the
of
of the expressions, the every day scenes, render any wokx,,f
foreshortening, or action, or vigour, an insanity; and s"'
figure only the size of life, a giant l u•tot
Above you is, perhaps, a lady in black velvet, with
ii"in n,
'her silk shoe doing the amiable ; on your right, the Pvor
William * *'s favourite poney ;on your left, Kensing.to
'gravel pits, and below you, Putney bridge!—in the 101..
comes Curtius, or Sampson, and people run out of the ro?,"
screetching what exaggeration !—Haydn's mad l—therelo,',
pray be on your guard against any London cockneyisre,e
about huge figures—big canvas—violent action—and
usual string of namby pambyisms, which a bewildeqe
'cockney puts forth, when he beholds a man in the air or t,U.,
clouds, leaping into a gulph, or standing on the field of Op,
terloo : and make every allowance for the remarks of tha.v
whose views extend not beyond Maiden-lane, or the lab
courts of Covent-garden. Liverpool will, I hope, be t,
Florencelof Britain, and it becomes its press to think I°
itself.

Yours, obediently,
B: R. HAYDON•

London, 28th Feb., 1843

[We have received the above rather wrathy commune
tion from Mr. Haydon on the subject of the notice, vijlbe
appeared, in the STANDARD a few publications ago, 01 be
engraving-from this picture. Mr. Haydon's assertion that.,
engraver Minot make up for the want of skill in the artist'
will not alter our opinion. We praised the picture high*?
and we thought even Mr. Haydon would have been satisfie_f
with what we said—but it seems no ordinary quantity:.
commendation will serve him. We did not say that Dri
Haydon wanted skill, we said, "An engraver made oP °Arno
want of skill in the artist," and so he does ; Mr. Ham,
may not know it, but we do, that nine persons out 01 to
• the
disliked the original picture when it was exhibited 10_,,,„35
Mechanics' Exhibition Room—while 'the same Pe"-,,f
greatly admire the engraving. As for Mr. Haydon's abtl4,;%
the press, that goes for nothing; and his complimentl:d
Liverpool as a modern Florence is really laughable, ant
shows a lamentable ignorance of the feeling towards fine 5"
in the town.—E.L.S.l

The Morning Chronicle says that " a story is rife 00
Lord Brougham is to succeed Lord Abinger as chief baron'
We mentioned a few days since that her Majesty had Fire
sented the munificent sum of £l,OOO to Christ's HosP"°h
London. It is a singular fact, that since the institution W 0
founded by Edwerd VI., no sovereign of this realm has elef
bestowed one farthing upon it

AN EXTRAORDINARY BAR OF IRON.--The largest barer
iron ever made was rolled at the Cyfarthfa Ironworks, ad,
Merthyr Tidvil, on Saturday last. and is, we are inforoled,,
for a house in Holland. It is a cable bolt, 25ft. in leof,.`rie
aid 6 inches in diameter, and weighs about 2,4001 b. to
pile from which it was rolled was about 7ft. long by 12 file'
square, and weighed upwards of £2,6001b5.
SOUTHAMPTON, March I.—The Oriental departed to,
morning for Malta and Alexandria with about 70 passerigf'or:
nearly the whole of them for India; and she will take
board the Indian and Mediterranean mails at Falmouth to'
morrow. She has on board a number of horses and earrioci
and a large quantity of harness and equipments for the deg`
transit in Egypt. The carriages are on two wheels of 1t.%
diameter, and with broad tires. The horses are
put to t'f,
curricle fashion. They are very light, elegant, and corowo
dious vehicles.

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UNPLEASANT ADVENTURE.—A few days since a
lady was returning from Bluetown to Miletown late in ,01
evening : it Was unusually dark, nothing being distill' ht
visible. As she was crossing the drawbridge, she thong.,
sho saw an object before her in human form (which, it °oil
pears, was a man idly sitting on the rail), and sudde_he
stopping short, thrusting out hr arms at the same time, sioßg
pushed him over the rail, and the poor fellow, after make
two two or three revolutions, found himself in three or four jot!
of mud and water. The lady, frightened at what she
itel
done, screamed aloud, and the man still more loudly croe
” Murder," which soon brought some men to the spotyo
of whom in a few minutes extricated the poor fellow fro.
his perilous and disagreeable situation. After thankintg„ot,
friends for their kindness, and blaming himself for his wbel
he returned home to take rest in a bed more agreeable w
feelings than the one he had just left, resolving never or
to subject himself to similar treatment„—Kentish paper'
GOOD FORTUNE.--Mr. Joseph Leman, of North Cae- e,
Sewells
has proved, in a court, his claim to the title, the
tate, and the immense sum of money in the funds, of theitfr,
Sir William Leman. Bart., of Norbert), Herefordshire. Jgo,
Leman's family have lived on or near the same spot in iiitO
mersetshire for upwards of 140 years. The property conitlOt
of the manor of Barns, commonly called Goodman's sii,nor
in London, consisting of Leman-street, Preseot-street. to
sel-street, Alie-street, and many others too nutnerousse,
name at present—including altogether about 8,000 110 f.
There is likewise in the county of Herts, the parish mi. le' tham, the seat of the late Sir William Leman, whic"o'rei'
eluding the church property, amounts to about 2000 sh-iis.
There is also the parish of Worboys, in Huntingdunrato
There is another property in Cambridgeshire, called gain
parish of Rampton : and finally, there is in the funds
it,rpee
amounting to £1,600,000, all of which Sir Joseph cl'cot'
Although an unanimous verdict was returned by the 'HO
fish court, the case will have to pass through the Eng 03
Court of Chancery, and the decision there given (unless i 0
appeal to the House of Lords is entered) will be final- tea
enormous property has since brought into existence °
claimants.

PERILOUS SITUATION OF A STEAMER.—MUD. **--erll.l,
fin sal:
ness was experienced on Monday night, owing to a rePe.tos,
circulation that a steam vessel was seen in a perilous t 31,00
tion off Rennies Bay, where the unfortunate KillarneY was
wrecked, on Saturday, the 20th of January, 1838. It
stated that aVout, five o'clock that evening, a messenger out
rived in town to endeavour to get a steam
vessel to Wl', ia
to the assistance'ot another steam vessel, which was ths
a disabled state off Barry's Point, near the Rennies, angle 0f
she was running on the rocks, as it was blowing a g fast
wind from the S.S.E., dead on the land. As night wBs,,rge
approaching, it was deemed useless then to forward a 'OO.
steamer, but Mr. Donegan, agent to the river steanlc4
pany, dispatched an express messenger to the Reorti;t:
distance of twelve miles, with instructions that if the B:ifee
ante of a steam vessel were necessary, and that he cone' to
such assistance could be given, he should at once proceed be
Passage and send off the " Tug," which was ordered tie
in readiness. Various surmises were given as to the nost
of the vessel, while that which was most relied on vialce
she was the Rhadtnanthus, which was expected to arri
Cove Harbour to embark a company of the 45th regimept..-"
cork Constitution. front
POPERY AND TILE ARMY,—The following extract IstaierS
a Roman Catholic journal. It lays down the law for guteto
and sailors of that persuasion, and clearly absolves riell
from all allegiance, sane what they owe to the functi?nt: leC
of the church of Rome :—" The citizen claims the rie 'bst4
him discharge the duties, of citizenship. The soldier 06
chosen his vocation ; let him walk worthily thereittoia
was not bound to have embraced the military life ; but, Pots'
embraced it, he is bound to do his duty, amid the innuci him'.
ble perils of soul and body, to which it has subjecte.,,A
Now, his duty is not confined to the person of hiscon7aw
ing officer, nor even to the Articles of War. Mifflin°
the aealm is more than both of these put together. "t 01'
red coat he assumed a new character, yet he did'a° 'WO
his coloured clothes, put away his former character. :twat
both soldier and citizen. He is not only soldier and caLoosal
he is Catholic. His duties to religion are ever Pa;'charg
to those he owes to the state. In endeavouring to "s
jhe 010
the latter he is bound to seek from the church 1.4 her,s
helps and counsels he is accustomed to receive trop ri(l"0
M
his other relations of life. Such are his duties.
are correlative with these. If he is bound to ask tIS
Rrt tbe"';
tions of his confessor, the latter is bound to inaaere io
`The lips of the priest shall keep knowledge.' j-P,OOll dt
reservation in that promise. There is yio dePar ouirfs,
duty upon which she priest is not authorised. nay'
to give counsel to his flock. Moral theology, ethics, !_'reoetut;
or by whatsrr names duty may be sought to be eitejr9,,
the penitep,e .`'bound to demand and entitled to reell
the confhsto al the solution of his doubts, and the"
eni.nent df his ignorance."