The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-24 00:00:00

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scientific instruments, with which vocca
are tried. Professo4 Espy's chimney-to
smoky chimneys, as manufactured by

object worth the notice of thosL
" plague of life." Here are also
dels of locomotives, and specimens e
tent wire rope. In the adjoining
stuffed animals, birds, and fishes ; fe
rals ; butterflies and petrifactions. 1
the display of works by Liverpool arti
paintings already familiar to the public
three looking blacker and smokier that
talent and genius. 'Walters exhibits a
of the Cheshire shore ; Herdman some
sketches. The Hargreaves' have
miniatures ; one of Mr. Roscoe, by Mr. Hari
is worthy of notice as a faithful likeness of
Bishop has two or three good pictures ;
Westcott, a portrait ; Huggins, several studies
painted with his usual ability : the lion and hones
tal. Here are portraits of Dr. Formby;' Rev. Hugh
Mr. Mulleneux, Mr. Raymond, &c. In the lobby,
gille's pathetic pictures, illustrating the progress of dru
ness, are objects of much notice. The next apartment
tains curious manuscripts, cases of wax figures, Chin.
dresses, armour and arms, and iron ornaments from the Col
brookedale Company. The cast room is replete with in,
esting objects. The picture gallery and statue room r
sarily excite great attention. In the latter are nuw'
fine plaster casts. One marble figure, bv Gibson, c Cupid
is a beautiful and graceful specimen of this rnaste,
fountain, in the middle of the room, diffuse" li
freshness to the room. A stand foi•
by Mr. Horsfall, appears to be n.. t?
ture gallery we noticed many works o
but very few of what may be termed hit,
Christ, by Da Vinci, from the collection of it
worthy of remark. We noticed several Mm
the Slipper," by Maclise ; the " Bird's Nest, V
several Canaletto's, one Linton, a Gainsboroug.
works of the German, Dutch, and Italian master:
largest pictures are by Haydon. They are remarkably
its surprising effects, the other for its outrageous vu
style and composition. The former represents "The
Wellington and his Charger," the latter " The Anti
Convention." Besides these attractions, Mr. Robin
hibits twice a-day his dissolving views, and a railro,
canal are also constructed, on which experiments are t
In the yard of the institution Mr. Catlin has erected
pacious shed, in which his gallery of paintings, made
far west, are exhibited. This is truly an extraordinary
interesting sight. We are here made acquainted wit
life of the red man, whose race is fast disappearing.
Catlin has spent many years amongst the Indian tribes,
we cannot but feel grateful to him, while we admire his
severance and industry, for thus placing before us mattes
deep reflection. The paintings, or rather sketches, am()
to some 500 in number, and are all characteristic—they rel
sent portraits of chiefs and warriors, fights, dances, huntir
games, and ceremonies. A beautiful model of Niagara star
in the middle of the room. A tent is au object of great (
riosity. There are cases of implements used in war a
agriculture, fossils, &c., in different parts of the galley
Two persons in Indian dresses walk constantly about, al
describe the various objects. This exhibition is well wortl
the notice of every man, woman, and child, possessing
grain of intelligence or education.—Mr. Catlin is an Ame
rican artist, who, after eight years' toilsome travel, durin
which he visited forty-eight tribes of the aborigines of
native land, and traversed many thousands of miles, appea
ing to have crossed in nearly every direction the vast plai
which lie between the semi-civilized border and the Roc
Mountains, has succeeded in forming a collection which
truly terms " unique," and which ought to be so secured
the purchase of some government or other as to be rend(
what he fondly calls it, " imperishable." He thus exp/
the motives which induced him to undertake this labou
" Having some years since become fully convinced c
rapid decline and certain extinction of the numerous
of the North American Indians, and seeing also the va
portance and value which a full pictorial history of tb
teresting but dying people might be to future ages, I
alone, unaided and unadvised, resolved (if my life sl
spared), by the aid of my brush and my pen, to res
oblivion so much of their primitive looks and
as the industry and ardent enthusiasm of ow
could accomplish, and set them up in a B-
and imperishable, for the use and benefit of fut
A proof of the utility of his undertaking is the fa,
of the most singularly interesting tribes which I
the Mandans, who numbered 2,000 souls in 1834
since wholly destroyed, not a remant of their ray
and line, and language utterly extinct. Of th'
too, many thousands have perished since thr
visit, by the smallpox, which deadly disease
by wholesale, by ardent spirits, still der
among them by the traders and by v
seems doomed to inevitable destructim
philanthropist, no long period of time, it
elapse before he will exist only by the aid of tne
pen." Mr. Catlin has made 310 portraits of dish
individuals of the various tribes, and 200 other
illustrative of their manners, games, religious a
customs, as well as portraying some of the most r
scenery of the prairies and wilderness. They a
executed, but are the more valuable as being evidently
ful transcripts from the life. They occupy the entire of th
large room of the Egyptian Hall, covering the walls of
either side, whilst in the centre a long table is covered witl
Indian habiliments and weapons, which likewise hang
bears' and other skins in profusion from the ceiling, w'
the whole is crowned by a wigwam, a veritable
brought from the foot of the Rocky Mountains.
can any one with a spark of curiosity, not to name eothu
asm, in his composition, begrudge a shilling for the sight

1 patronised. In tht

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The election of town-clerk of London took place yesteri
(Thursday) afternoon. It was confidently expected that IV
Sergeant Merewether would obtain the appointment.
It is stated that Sir John Guest is about to erect and
into blast two new furnaces. This augurs improvement
the iron trade.

Alderman Hooper and Mr. Jeremiah Pilcher, t
oil and lead merchant, of Southwark, will be
sheriffs of London for the ensuing year.

LIGHTNING.—On Sunday evening two fine boys, about
10 and 11 years ;old, sons of a man named Cabel, of the
parish of Kilmichael, were killed by lightning. They were
sitting by the fire with the remainder of the family, when
they were struck with the flash and instantly killed. James
Ryan was also killed about three miles distant ; the shock
passed through his head and burned his hat both in front
and behind.—Clare Journal.

FISHING EXTRAORDINARY.---olle day this week a
known disciple of Isaac Walton, residing in this city, v
trolling (with a dead gorge) in the river Thome
splendid trout of the extraordinary weight of VP
Chronicle

To PREVENT CATERPILLARS FROM DESTROY!:
GOOSEBERRY AND OTHER BUSHES.—Sprigs of broom c
twined around the branches puts an effectual stop to t
further destructive operations of this noxious inrct;
above has been tried with success in some gardens in Sutlu
landshire.

A gentleman who was very lame in one of his legs, without
any outward show of any thing, having sent for the surgeon,
he, more honest than ordinary, told him it was in vain to,
meddle with it, for it was only old age that was the cause.
" But why, then ?" said the gentleman, " should not my
other leg be as lame as this, seeing that the one is no older
than the other ?"

AN EMPEROR BECOME A BEGGAR AND A VAGRANT.
The emperor Henry the Fourth, after having been depos
and imprisoned by his son, Henry the Fifth, escaped fr(
prison; poor, vagrant, and without aid, be intreated t
Bishop of Spires to grant him a Lay Prebend in his cbur(
" I have studied," said he, " and learned to sing, and ni
therefore be of some service to you." The request was i
nied, and he died miserably and obscurely at Liege, of
having drawn the attention of Europe to his victories a
his grandeur. We may couple with this the (laughter
James the First (who married the Elector Palatine), in 1
attempts to get her husband crowned—she was reduced
the utmost distress, and wandered frequently in ci- •
a mere vagrant.—Recollections of Royalty.
Those whom God bath freed from the bondage disguise
should strive to free themselves from all thGeorrnaonVtZ
of ; but if they cleave still to anygohaftntadhnetdmhdef
may bring the whole upon them again._
sound argument betwixt Popery There
ness
Gospel, no more than betwixt light
and truth, God and Belial ; and thereforea , e afanl sbe
lei (
, especially that baptism (1,
can be devised betwixt them.—Many ignorant no reconciliat
in their minds Popish conceits, people barb
done, for they commo
:onfer grace upon all by the work
sacrifice3ok no higher.
, T
thathe
idniffaeis•eanecreifibeetween
.a sacrament
, an,
is
an offer
othffeerremisada
en
boyffeGr offering
two :
to God • in a sacrament there •
—Archbishop Usher. i3rirco'feistis
iioundgomf e

INTERESTING ANECDOTE OF SIR ROBERT PEEL'-Ia
following authentic anecdote deserves, we think, to ?eh or
public, both for its own sake and for the profit whaßrv, a„,
ensue. A certain distinguished Irish law function
conservative
Yost inti
conservative member of parliament, who is on the„,h one day
mate terms with Sir Robert Peel, calling uponbert's study
(some months ago), made his way into Sir
.1 on his knees,
without being announced. Seeing the
Prenliselessly as he
he stood still for a moment, and then as!i After a short
could, retreated into the outer apartmeend him ; and, con-
e:ramarked,
period had elapsed, Sir Robert Peenl:y -"trtroutoitif‘lveire
scions that he had been discovered, rem but ti,e‘
the
dear surprised to find me at pr'whole weigh
dear --, I find that in reality t e boulders, which are
affairs of this people is laid upotj,erefore,
too weak to sustain it. 1 have,
,fiad it continuallyehanercerdioutt
source of strength for kelp! a, (.I_2.
" Weceg."' It is truly d
site, and only to be obtaine,duTeentic sour
it
impress upon
as we received it from an •
__T., would) .
been to
lightful to hear it ; and wenert Peel in this most effectt
Christian people to aid Sir Robt is their duty and privilege
as
some of the French jour
en as from the island of Cut
BLEACIII,
probable taieglir !
do.—cielaffesmc:anastsse.r
Eva:
ni:::
lately been practised here.
trader arrived with a carg
o
negroes, Whom be quickly disposed of; but '
'w. we find
strange atnhgee e.l,eaant sijaasve_tr .
Val afterwards the whole of these new F.
three wee
one night, and were never seen aga'
appeared
inquiries among' the play
afterwardsinirwecoAllmeeetreicdatnhasatileodnftohre
ja morning following
nteengdroceds,A
sOn making mum with GOOSE
invasion, t
peas Pass"
IPilio had boggelrit. these negroes, it was learnt that mo
them had become apparently subject to a disease, I
caused various parts of their body to turn white. A
ch
also deposed that he had furnished the American c
with a large quantity of nitrate of silver. Hence it i
tidently
so in
many vagabonds of all countries collected in the
than
American ports, who lent themselves to this new species of
fraud. This is the most likely, as, from their all speaking
either English, French, Spanish, or Portuguese, none were
sent to work in the fields, but were employed in domestic
services. Some few were appointed to be overseer or drivers.te
and were remarked for the severity with which they tr d
the negreas placed under them.—Galignani's Messenger

n. It

Majority against

Majority against,

330
-117

157
290
-133

,en, that, notwithstanding all the
3 frequently made of " converts
;lish principle (with the exception
mall number voted on the ques-

rery occasion on which. it has been
present division shows a majority

1 With that of 1833

ON-EXECUTION OF AN EARL OF DERBY

England in the Nineteenth Century.")
:on itself a new church, Immanuel, has
n Moor, Cannon-street, the history of
he vicar. A public subscription was
orith some plate, as a present for his
aol, &c., about four years since.
seven hundred pounds, which he
e basis of a subscription fir a
,eedily carried into effect, and
st of about £2OOO, or less, has
I. Large Sunday and infant
ite to the church. The new
several others in this town
—en benefitted by a grant, made
for the improvement of small in-
d John Russell's bill. A new eccle-
ust apportioned, and published by
. It divides the whole borough
here are churches and chapelries,
ing the life of the present vicar.
we ought to have mentioned Christ
chapel belonging to the Methodist New
,ter of which conformed last year, and
gallon to conform along with him. The
d to its value, and the father-in-law of
No new dissenting chapels
ars, but a splendid Catholic
and it is also reported

Lsed for a Scotch chapel.
servant of God was borne in London
towne 1627 married Mary the daughter
of Breightmet 1635 with whome he lived
s & begot 4 sons and 6 daughters since
) the day of his death. In his time were
nd terrible alterations 18 years civill
many dreadfull sea fights the
land changed 8 times episcopacy
lon burnt by papists and more
many wasted 300 miles 200000
lin Ireland by the papists. This town
taken & plundered He went through
rs conditions found rest joy and happi-
_ the faith feare and love of God in Jesus
s 29th of Ap & lieth here buried 1684
s 0 come quickly "
his " servant of God," the great siege
Earl of Derby stormed the town and
.icans troops. This achievement was
g beheaded in the town. Lancashire
wars between Charles and parlia-

d Of Lng
res Lone

Lord Jes

..otice of Wigan of the gallant bear-
in that place, and also in that of
An account of his capture
letter to his lady,.then
I escaped a great danger at Wigan,
t Worcester; being not so fortunate
a that would kill me, and thereby have
each of envy and malice. Lord Lauder-
,ped, hired horses, and falling into the
,ot thought worth killing, but had guar-
ldge, a Lancashire man." lie adds
I thought myself happy in being sent
sere I might have the comfort of see-
and to find means of sending to you
here may cost me dear, unless Al-
a I trust, will please to help me some
oever come of me, I have peace in 1:11Y
no discomfort at all but the afflictive
f, and that of my poor children."
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tears, tha'°(.l,l
desired the blie,
ng, " I

ad said,

cinder or trouble you, pray

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the ba

al Chester to the scaffold at Bolton was
,rous displays of respect, affection, and re-
, people refused to strike a nail in
..eution, which was therefore delayed
On his going towards the scaffold, the
ied on every side." He calmly ascended
,n, and began to address those who were
ais uttering the words, " I die for God, the
ays," he was interrupted by a brutal trooper,
1, " We have no king, and we will have no
sturbance ensued, and the soldiers fell upon
; and, fearful of the consequences, the noble-
esisted from speaking, and handed his papers
with a command that he would make their
rn. The uproar was now over. The Earl
executioner, and extending his hand for the
3me, friend, give it into my hands, I'll neither
and it cannot hurt me, for I am not afraid
-d returned the instrument. He asked
not ready ; lifting his eyes towards
good Lord ! how long ?"
o pieces of gold, he added, " This is
work well, and when I am upon

here his coffin stood, he saw
Sir, remember me to your
dy, but the block is not."
_ , ou for your prayers and
.rd the one and seen the other." He
look„tal to be turned towards the church, de-
to live towards thy sanctuary while lam here,
iter this ini_9lY heavenly sanctuary for ever hereaf-
, I never
seatwook off his doublet, and saying, " how
aid s down one's head cut off, but I'll try how
er . himselfhis
work" with
block, and rising, bade the
f his friends who
were with care. Imploring the
plication in private, near, and having made a
Childrenneck
and the Lord bless
Finally he laid
on the block, saying,
be God's holy name 4 Amen. Let the
gave the signal ;
th be filled with his glrir.veritie
Bas severed from his bod -
but sighs, sobs, and prayers;- nothing was heard in
kis body was laid in the coffin, therewere the follow-
-one lie dead
intcoouirtabgyea;naullnkthnroewentheraendi:
,hroWn,
boun,Y, ,
..„1.,,,, hand, Vere s heart, and Ceeill's head." '

was conveyed to Ormskirk, and there
ivn 2d ancestors, to mingle his
ashes

A. woman of the name of Ockwell
pney, Cricklade, Wilts, has twenty.and the eldest only eighteen year:

moNAtrr.—An accident, which had
th fatal results, occurred at the Ba-
-cling, to a very distinguished ae.ro-
who ascended in a balloon from
ascertaining the practicabi-
produced by a inixture of
the

1 the oxyde of carbon, to avc
The balloon -
-,lrrounding sp,.
aerial traveller %
as which escaped from the info
Moon. Fortunately, however, the
a 1-1 of rye whilst M. Delcourt was
tv. After Nome time he recovered his

was enabled to quit the car, when some curiou
Itracted by the sight, began inconsiderately to drag
n, which they made a large rent,. and M. Del -
°ming enveloped in an atmosphere of gas, fell sense-
) ground, He remained several hours in this state
-house to which he was removed, but was at length
iy the unceasing efforts of the physicians who were
us assistance. This serious accident has confirmed,
rkable manner, the late experiments of MM. Le-
Dumas on the effects of the oxyde of carbon, of
e hundredth part mixed with Mr is sufficient to kill
1. Now that all danger is over, this may be con-
a important discovery.—Journal des Deliats.