The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-29 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET, Ocr. 28.

In our market the supply of Beasts was, even for the
t of the year, considered very extensive, the numbers
bespoke for last evening exceeding 4,000 head ; but a great
deficiency was apparent in -its quality. Notwithstanding
the attendance of buyers was very numerous, the Beef
trade was extremely heavy. H nwever, the pritnest Scots,
&c..sold at prices about equal to those obtained on this
day se'nnielit ; but those of the middling and inferior
breeds suffered a decline of quite 2d, per 81b., and a
clearance was not effected.

WALKS THROUGH THE EXHIBITION OF
THE LIVERPOOL ACADEMY, 1844.

WALK TDB SECOND.

We commence our peregrinations this day wheiT last
week we ended them, viz., at the Water Colour portion
of tl.e Exhibition, which contains several pictures, be-
sides those already noticed, of great merit. But first
let us dispose of one of the pictures in oil, contained in
the same room—
No. 544. " Morbid Sympathy," by E. Prentis.. The
subject here is happily chosen, as a hit at one of the
most revolting follies of the day. The painting is divided
into two scenes. In the first we see a ruffian just issuing
from tha house in which he has been committing a deed
of blrod. The features of the murderer, the midnight
scene, with the dark lantern shedding its baleful light
through the open door from which he steals, are power-
fully painted. In the second scene we see the same
tigu- e in the, cell of a prison, in which he is visited, as
an object of the " morbid sympathy" of the present day,
by two philanthropic ladies, and an elderly sentimental
male tabby of the same species. The features of the
hero of the dungeon, in the first scene expressing vulgar
briitality combined with natural horror, are here screwed
up into an ugly expression of self-satisfied vanity. The
murderer has become a " lion " for a time, and is evi-
dently making the most of his had eminence: The
whole painting is one of the most cutting and wholesome
satires, seriously conveyed, which we have lately seen.
Nos. 492, 493, 501, and 5022—portraits perayons of
Hopwood, Esq. of Hopwood, Lancashire, the Hon.
Caryl Molyneux, Miss Hopwood of Knowsley, and
Viscount Melyneux, by E. Warren,—are excellent
specimens of the 'art.

- 507, " Durham from the New Bridge," and 498,
" Durham," are very spirited drawings. The latter is
very good. The old abbey, standing out in bold relief
in the centre of the picture, is a noble object.
4J4, "The Pass of _Llanberis," by W. Collingwood,
is a spirited picture.
473, " Work and Play," by Mrs. W. Hawkins, is a
very pretty subject, well conceived, and executed with -
great skill and taste.

" Newhaven Pier," by apley Fielding, is a
picture of great merit, by an artist who seldom fails to
produce something worthy of praise.
396, " The Pedlar," by Miss Fairhurst, is a very
pleasing painting. The boy, who is bartering his old
shoe for some of the wares carried by the old crone, is
quite a character ; and the girl, watching the result of
her brother's bargain, is well painted.
380, " The Firstborn," by G. H. Harrison, is a ro-
mantic affair, well painted, but not very natural. The
rustic felicity pourtrayed here is not met with in these
hard, utilitarian times. Bowers of roses are seldom the
lot of agricultural labourers, or even of small farmers,
nowadays.

354, "Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogene," by
W. S. P. Hende, son, a painting in three compartments,
is the story of the old ballad excellently told. The
ghostly figure of Alonzo, in the third scene, is ably and
effectivelyconceived.

293, ‘:The Ferry Boat at Butterby, near Durham,"
by E. Hast ngs, is a pleasingly-drawn picture of a very
fine landscape. The sky, however, is a little ton
" beautifully blue" for our northern climate.—The same
artist has two other paintings in the exhibition, 231 and
144 ; the latter of which, " The Gamekeeper's Lodge,'
is infinitely the most talented. The older of the two
figures in this picture is a very racy specimen of the fine
Old English class of sportsmen to which he belongs ;
and the whole subject is well treated. The dog, how-
ever, is a sad drawback upon the picture. It is neither
a game dog nor any other breed with which we are ac-
quainted. We understand that this is the first time that
Mr. Hastings has contributed any paintings to the
Liverpool Exhibition ; and we trust that he will be in-
d'ueed to favour us ,with further specimens of his pencil.

A GLEAM OF SUNSHINE.
BY H. W. LONGFELLOW.

(From " the Gift" for 1845.)
This is the place. Stand still, my steed,
Let me review the scene,
And summon up the shadowy past
The fJrrns that once have been.
The past and present reunite,
Beneath time's flowing tide,
Like footprints hidden by a brook,
But seen on either side.
Here runs the highway to the town,
There the green lane descends,
Through which I walked to church with thee,
Oh ! gentlest of my friends!
The shadow of the linden trees,
Lay moving on the grass;
Between them and the moving boughs,
A shadow, thou didst pass.
Thy dress was like the lilies,
And thy heart as pure as they;
One of God's holy angels
Did walk with the that day.
I saw the branches of the trees
Bend down thy touch to meet,
The clover blossoms in the grass
Rise up to kiss thy feet.
" Sleep, sleep, to-day, tormenting cares,
4 if earth and folly born!"
Solemnly sang the village choir,
„ .

On that sweet Sabbath morn.
Through the closed blinds, the golden sun

I'oured in a dusty beam,
Like the celestial ladder

Of the ancient patriarch's dream.
And ever and anon, the wind,
Sweet scented with the hay,
Turned o'er the hymn-book's fluttering leaves,

That on the window lay.
Long was the good man's sermon,
But it seerne i not so to me,
For he spate of Both, the beautiful,

And still I thought 'of thee.
Long was the prayer he uttered,

But it seemed not so to me,
For in my heart 1 prayed with him,
But still 1 thought of thee.
But now, alas, the place seems changed:
Thou at•t no longer here ;
Part of the sunshine of the scene

With thee did disappear.
Though thoughts, deep-rooted in my heart,
Like pine trees dark and high,
Subdue the light of noon. and breathe
A low and ceaseless sigh:
This memory brighten's o'er the past,
As when the sun, concealed
Behind some cloud that near us hangs,
Shines on a distant field.

BATHING IN THE Dr' AD SEA,—Toe water of the sea'is
clear and shallow, and all the party, except the Arabs, un-
dressed to ascertain the existence of the buoyant property
attributed to it. The result of our observation asto•
nished every individual amongst us. When swimming, it
was scarcely possible to krep the fset below the water ;
when standing upright (treading water as it is called) the
shoulders were raised above the surface, and it was not
easy to keep this position, as the shoulders became top-
heavy. One of the party who could not swim, lay like a
corlc on the surface ; and indeed it required great exertion
to dive below. It was ludicrous to see one of the horses.
As soon as his body touched the water, he was afloat, and
turned over on his side; he struggled with all his force
to preserve his equilibrium ; but the moment he stopped
moving, he turned over on his side again, and almost on
his back, kicking his feet out of the water, and snorting
with terror. The taste of the water was detestable beyold
description—salt; bAter, and sulphureous : but the worst
of my bath was, that, after it was over, my skin was co-
vered with a thick glutinous substance, which it required
another ablution to get rid of; and after I had wiped my-
self dry, my body burned and smarted as if I had been
turned round before a roasting fire, My face and ears
were encrusted with salt; my hairs stood out, " each par-
ticular hair on end," and my eyes were irrittted and in-
flamed, so that I felt the effects of it for several days. In
spite of all this, however, revived and refreshed by my
bath, I mounted my horse a new man. It seemed to me,
indeed,that without it I could not have endured the fear-
ful heat of these low shores.—Library of Travel.
Tax Pools Or Soeomoer.—The celebrated Pools of
Solomon are really worthy of that great king : I had
formed no conception of their magnificence. These large,
strong, noble structures, in a land where every work of
582dep feet,th 2 theirs 39
0.1 has been hurried to destruction, remain now almost as
perfect as when they were built : there are three of them,
and 50 feet. They lie one above the other on the side of a
loefastthebrerespective ,
egitrhsgroe
hill, and are so constructed that when the water in the
of
t3eBs 245203 feaentd;
upper one has reached a certain height it flows into the
second, and thence into the third. Small aqueducts lead
from each of these cisterns to a main one that conducts
the water to Jerusalem by a very tortuous course, and
with considerable rapidity, as we could perceive by the
open places left inviatuteleyrse:aa
nndd
rtahveirnee.s, Fitrsolminethmeapyoboelsetso
Jerusalem cannot be much .
less than eighty miles by flight ;
than twice that length. A little to the
and when it is co n,tsoi dwearredds tthhaet the aoqnuoe
fd tpr aevn edr sseesa i sse a-
the
supported by great pillars of the natural
east
iiaer
nesrstya otolefafdrrtgohaecetkgpymroohoot iltrlsoel
rock, perfectly dry, without petrifaction or stalactites : it
is a complete labyrinth within, and, as in many of the an•
cient catacombs, a man might easily lose himself for ever
in its windings. It lies in the mountainous wilderness of
ragaddi, and is supposed to be the Cave of Adullaua,
where David received the mutinous and discontented spi-
rits of his days, and where, when Saul was in pursuit of
him, he cut off the skirts of his garment, and suffered him
to go away unharmed.--Library of Travel.

Oct. 29, 1844.

PRICE OF ENGRAVINGS.—The greatest sum ever given
rer a print was for "The Madonna and Child" of Meso
e, ol
tFalifor ;lartreab. It was met with accidentally at Rom
, the reputed inventor of engraving from me-
tallic plater.
Ottley, the !ate curator of prints at the Museum,
porch ace
d by him for a mere trifle, sold by him to b!r.
Mark Sykes seventy pounds, and bought that the
Trent. collector's sale three hundred gwroas•
"hundred guilder" picture of Regobrandt`s, of our
viour healing the Sick, comes ntzt among the high price!
Eight impressions of the first d4te of this engr6ving.er:
icf,own to exist. In 1809, one of these. brought withal!
few shillings of forty guineas at Mr, ilibbett's sal!!
Thirty years after, the collection of its possthisof came to
the hammer, and this print was knocked down 10 a ilf!
collector at two hundred And thirty-ore pounds ;in hies
hands this costly treasure still remains. Rembrandt s
"Advocate Tolling" fetched two hundred and twenty
ppunds in 1835. and his " Copoenol" found a purchaser
at three hundred guineas in the same year, in Baron Ver-
stalk, the possessor of one of the three copies Of the
" Hundred Guilder" engraving, as it is called, which may
be said to be in the market, the other five being locked 11P
ofin inlito_nparlicceodllpecritriotsn,s.leSt
oust,sneeot,,tioiamt uthlteipsely the instances
in their author's life-time. Rembrandt's "MgeaLndosartricatelell
Child" obtained its soubriquet of the Hundred Guilder'
because it brought just eight guineas in its artist's life-
time. Albert Dauer was content to sell his " Adam and
Eve" for four stivers, about eighteen pence; his sixteen,
riots called the " Little Passion," for two shillings and
threepence; and his " Life of the Madonna," bis APoca"
lypse," and his " Great Passion," for juet six elang3
for each set of these large wood-cuts. The " Eulenspre-
gel," of Lucas Van Leyden, now worth its fifty pounds,
was purchased by Albert Durer, at Br ssels, for a stivcr,
fouraence-halfpenny of our money. The height of the ab-
surdity of the high-priced mania was the scramble for the
little sleeping dog of Rembrandt's, which he scratched in
beforewhich cboenes iost, e
ohgi his
engraved corner
workedoot off
thenela ptite;
as unique, it fetched one hundred and twenty pounds.--
The Print Collector.
Louts PH It !PPE AS PROF E',SOR.—After the battle of
Nerwincie in March 1793, in which the Austrians defeated
the French, the Duke of Orleans (Louis Philippe) com-
manded the centre in the 'French army, aid perceiving
that his life was in danger determined to sever his con-
nection with republican France and set off to the fron-
tier. He repaired in the first instance to Mons.,the
Austrian head-quarters, to obtain passports. There prince
Charles invited him.ta enter the service of the empire;
but he refused to carry arms against France, and, assum-
ing
Germany
tNhaienodnctoeSlswlqeiugtezi
oeourfl,aonirde. Reichenau,r
inHgeh
ing the name and appearance of an English traveller,
journeyed with some risk and slender resources through
impression
fugitive in the Grisons, when the Duke received a letter
ffersosmorMat.
state of his resources—he gladly accepted, and he was ad-
mitted in October, 1793, in his 22nd year, under the
name of M. Chabaud ; having undergone a rigid exami-
nation without being recognised by any one save M. Jost,
a which—sucht the m
situationsta
waseonf penniless
thereos-s
the President of the College, who had been made ac-
quainted with his real character. Here he continued to
teach geography, history, the French and English lan-
guages, and mathematics, for eight months, during which
time he inspired the inhabitants of Ri&lenan with so high
an esteem for his virtues and abilities, that they appointed
him their deputy to the Assembly of Coire. The intelli-
gence of his,father's fate over'whelmed him with affliction,
and he was compelled to seek change of scene- lie once
more became a wanderer, his whole property being a staff
and a knapsack. He proceeded to Hamburgh, thence to
Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Lepland, and the North
Cape, pushing his travels to within 18 degrees of the
Arctic Pole. Returning to Sweden, he revisited Den-
mark, and reached Hamburgh again in 1796. These
countries he had not merely seen, hut minutely examined,
his finances not permitting him to travel in any other
manner than that which alone brings a visitor into inti-
mate communication with the people of the country. At
Hamburgh the French Directory commenced a negotia-
tion with the illustrious exile, in consequence of which
the Duke (then of Orleans) consented to proceed to the
United States, and in September, 1795, he embarked on
board an American trader, and arrived at Philadelphia ill
October.. He was soon after joined by his two brothers,
the Duke de Nlonteensier and the Count Beaujolais.
Life of Louis Philippe.—[We give in another extract
the particulars of Louis Philippe's departure foul
America and subsequent visit to this country as a fugi-
tive exile.]
A dE MISSIONARY SOCIETIES LIBERALLY SUPPORTED.
—We are very apt to deceive ourselves, when we look at
the £300,000 or £1(10,000 now raised in Great Britain for
missions, and fondly hope that 01l this is the genuine fruit
of faith and piety. Whereas the simple truth is, that a
very large proportion of it is a mere levy on the ' respect-
ability' of the community, a poll-tax on a religious pro-
fession. A System of collection, a plan of or ganizing and
canvassing the population has been set on foot of late
years, which to former genereitions was quite unknown.
Five thousand out of our fifteen thousand clergy, are in-
duced to give their support to the Church Missionary So-
ciety, and to preach collection-aermons,form associations,
&c. It would be strange, indeed, if they could not raise,
angneraengaateveorfa average, each
his
per £
.1i
Wes-
leyan or Dissenting preachers take the same course, and
ion—uwmh. £lo—which
Fivet at
thousand oncefoms a
raise a similar sum. But let any take a collecting plate,
at the door of one of these churches or chanets, and see
with what reluctance the well-dressed multitudes drop
their shillings, ton often from mere shame to " ta,ts the
la'e," and he will say. with us. that a large proportion
indeed, of the total realized, is a mere tax upon respecta-
bility and on a profession of religion. And, when viewed
in this light, we have a right to compare it with the means
which the people haw at their disposal, which, as we have
seen, cannot be estimated at less than two hundred mil-

lions per annum. A levy of £300.000 or £400.000 per
annum, out of this vast income, is equal to rather less than
a halfpenny in the pound ! Cc nternplate the same fact in
another point of view. A few months hack, a plan was
proposed for making a new railway from London to York.
After being offered to th- public for a short period, it was
announced that the capital required would be five millions
sterling, and that applications for shares most be sent in
on a certain day. On that day the committee met, and
were able to announce in the next day's papers that the
whole of this vast sum was at once subscribed. In fact,
car more than the five millions was offered to them, and
that, although this was only one among fifty new ralway
schemes, then courting the public attention ! On the
other hand, how is a proposal for the evangelization of
China greeted. So soon as it became known that that
forward,om make
ed even
sitting ing the
a
vast empire was open to the gospel, but that the Church
Missionary ''o piety was unable, from the state of its finan-
ces,slniogbhlteesetxeaffmorptle, laid,anindcilvoiwdnuaalt c“anmett:
the sum of £6,009 for the maintenance of a mis=im arc in

that country. The committee, thus encouraged, came
before the Christian public with a special appeal. There
were, among its members, many hundr..ds of persons who
could l eve made a similar offering, without the sacrifice
of any one of the comforts of life. Not one such has re-
sponded.° the call. At the end of the year, the fait' er
sum subscribed for a mission to China, was little more
than fifteen hundred pounds. Fifteen millions,--aye, anal
much more than fifteen millions have been "invested,-

in railways during the year, and afarge—prouor:
tion of it by professing Christians :—fifteen hundred
Pounds is all that can he raised when the evangelization of
China is the object proposed !—Churchman's MonthlY

HORRORS OF WAR.—TARTAR CITY OF CHIN-KEAN"
Foo.—Frightful were the scenes witnessed by these men
among the houses and enclosures of the city, as gIOUP
after group of whole f irnilies lying stiffened in their blood,
within their own homestead, were discovered in the streets
occupied by the Tartar troops and mandarins, so mime."
rous and so painfully interesting in their revolting details,
as to impress with deep and lasting horror all who wit.
nessed this happily rare example of the miseries and fero-
cities of war. Tne bodies of most of the hapless little
choiulsders,
enawndhouglad faually wlliethn
fallen sacrifices
cha
ttb ontheres
enththeusiasm
orna,nrid:
h
mad despair of their parents were found lying within the
as if each father had assembled the whole of his family
before consummating the dreadful massacre ; but maul
corpses of boys were lying in the streets, amongst thol
of horses and soldiers, as if an alarm had spread. 30'
they had been stabbed while they had been attempting to
escape from their ruthless parents. In a few instances
these poor little sufferers were found the morninc, after
the assault, still breathing, the tide of life ebbing slovill
away. as they lay writhing in the agony of a broken spine'
a mode of description so cruel that, but for the most cer'
tain evidence of its reality, would not be believed. 13
one of the houses the bodies of seven dead and dying per-
sons sons were found in one room, forming a group which lot
loathsome horror was perhaps unequalled. The 1105
was evidently the' abode of a man of some rank and ;
con-
sideration, and the delicate forms and features of t"
sufferers denoted them as belonging to the higher order
of Tartars. On the floor, essaying in vain to put f°°a
with a spoon into the mouths of two young children et-
tended on a mattress, writhing in the agonies of deaths
caused by the dislocation of their spines, sat an old de
crepit man, weeping bitterly as he listened to the pi teo
moans and convulsive breathings of the poor infant`'
while his eye wandered over the ghastly
relics of mortality
around him. On a bed, near the dying children, lay "et
body of a beautiful young woman, her limbs and apPar_.
arranged as if in sleep. She was cold, and had been lona
dead. One arm clasped her neck, over which a silk sea
was thrown, to conceal the gash in her throat which '3;O
destroyed her lift. Near her lay the corpse of a vOn'ilie
somewhat more advanced in years, stretched on a 59na
coverlet, her features distorted, and her eyes oPe°„,,e-re
fixed, as if she had died by poison or strangulation. 'l"ber
was no wound upon the body, nor any blood tllicT the
person or clothes. A dead child, stabbed throligl!ning
neck, lay near her ; and in the narrow verandah ad.i°l.cied
the room were the corpses of two more women, susPeu4s.
from the rafters by twisted cloths wound round their rire,,',ea.
They were both young—one quite a girl ; and he. 'to
tures, in spite of the hideous distortion produced
.I,,uty
mode of her death, retained traces of their original t). been
sufficient to show the lovely mould in which they ha"..rvbie
cast: From the old man, who appeared by his !.! thus
arb to have been a servant or retainer of the family tbe
awfully swept away, nothing could be elicited as ,L,nible
mode or authors of their death—nothing bat unintelritoel
signs of poignant distress. lie was made to comp eL;
testified
the object of the interring party, and at once;nor
utmost satisfaction and gratitude for their human: %.ease
position, assisting to carry the bodies down the .:t.ai„„..
into the court ; where a shallow grave having beefle
_'lo
vated beneath the pavement, he tenderly placed
ml "'with
their sad resting-place ; and having covered thretrn
clothes, the stone slabs were placed over their
The two dying children shortly afterwards breathedap",',,,s
last, and were interred beside the grave of their
th, Zia
relatives. The old man remained in the now silent
of his lost chief, and was seen no more.—Lieut. J. (ix"
terlon,p's Chinese War.