The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-13 00:00:00

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the midst of his anathemas, asked, " What was it to the
public if a dealer did buy a picture for five shillings and sell
it again for fifty pounds?" We say it is of matter; and the
public ought to be aroused until they become " wide awake."
Of the tricks played in vamping pictures up, Takinvthem

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seem what they are not, many very curious stories might be
told—one will suffice for the present. A dealer, some time
ago, met with a portrait which struck him as being very like
Handel, the celebrated composer. but it wanted the imple-
ments of the maestro's profession to stamp it with originality.
How was this originality to be imparted? Easily; and thus
was it effected : a scroll, on which a few bars of one of
Handel's compositions were scored, was placed in the figure's
lett hand, and a pen stuck in the other; the signature of
" Hogarth" was cleverly imitated on just such a place as he
was likely to have put it, had the portrait really emanated
from the easel of the great humourist. The work was sold
as a Hogarth, and actually lectured upon as such, eventually
passing into the possession of a gentleman of this town !
The dealers say, by such statements as this we awaken sus-
picion in the minds of the public, and those gentlemen who
are in the habit of laying out their money are deterred from
purchasing freely. Is it so ?—we are glad of it. Such is
our intention ; for it is the duty of those who know of impo-
sitions to give warning to others. " He who allows oppression
shares the crime ;" it is our object to warn the unwary, and
to make those who are credulous aware of the tricks of trade.
In saying this we do not mean to say that there are not ho-
nest dealers who will sell yon an honest picture—but to one
honest one there are dozens who would have no hesitation in
taking your money, and not a little sum either, for a genuine
town-made gem.

But," says the man who likes to have a picture hanging
nd we honour him who entertains such a feel-

pis room—

" bow am I to escape being cheated ?" We will tell
you ; buy a work from the easel of a British artist. If you
cannot afford to give Landseer, or M'Clise, or Etty, or your
townsman Linton their prices, look around and see if there
is nothing that will suit you in the present exhibition; if
there is not, you must be a very fastidious person, and so
difficult to please that you will fall into some wheedling,
cozening dealer's trap, baited with a finely-named, highly-
varnished, glossy, handsomely-framed " choice specimen."
Depend upon it you will do more good—to yourself, mark
you—to say nothing about the painter—in laying out £5O
with a living British artist than in purchasing a work of " the
old school." " But," says the reader, " I can't afford to
lay out fifty pounds, or even fifty shillings, in these bad
times."

Well, but you surely can a guinea ? " Yes, I can do that ;
but what sort of a picture can I get for a guinea, unless one
or two of your seven-shilling auction lots? "
Why, man alive, you can put down your name for a share
In the artist's fund, and you may become the possessor of the
highest-priced and best picture exhibited, or if you like to
have quantity, a lot of little ones; and if even you don't yet
anything, the excitement of the raffle is worth the money,
to say nothing of the assistance you have given by your
guinea in furthering and encouraging British arts. The
21st December is the day fixed for the drawing, and don't
forget it.

WIGAN-MONDAY NIG:

FIRE IN THE OLD CHURCIL—The congregation assembled
in the parish church of Wigan was thrown into a state of
considerable excitement and alarm, from a body of smoke

arising in the north aisle of the edifice, soon afte-r the com-
mencement of the morning service yesterday. The smoke
gradually increased for two os three minutes, and its appear-
ance indicated fire, being much different to that which occa-
sionally escapes from the stoves. But before any person
attempted to stop the impending danger, a flame burst forth,
rising a little higher than the partitions of the seats, This
was sufficient_ to heighten the apprehension and alarm of

those assemlad, and a general rush took place. Many
parties left the church, but the churchwardens, the mayor,
and corporation present, instantly repaired from their own
seats to the spot, and a little water being promptly procured,
the fire was soon extinguished, and the service afterwards
proceeded without interruption. The fire was caused from a
sheet of plate iron that was nailed to the pew front getting
hot, and the heat being communicated directly to the wood-
work of the seats a tire was easily kindled. The stove in the
aisle was sadly too near the pew, unless a flag or course of
bricks were erected to prevent anything of the sort happening.
Had the fire taken place between the services, or previous to
the morning service commencing, it is more than probable
that the whole of the woodwork in the noble edifice would
soon have been destroyed ; as it is, however, the darnagelis

CORONER'S INQUEST.—THE RIVAL CORONERS.—An
inquest was held on Saturday afternoon last, at the house of
Mr. William Norris, the Woolpack, in Mill,gate, on view of
the body of a little boy named Henry Gaskell, who met with
his death by his clothes taking fire, on Thursday last. From
the evidence adduced, it appeared that the child ran out,
about twelve o'clock on the day in question, surrounded by
flame ; a woman, named Ellen Hallam, saw it, and threw a
wet towel around it, and extinguished the flames as speedily
as possible ; but the poor sufferer lingered in great pain, from
the severe burns on its breast and neck, until Friday, when
death terminated its sufferings. The child was alone in the
house when the accident happened,—the parents being at
work in a colliery. The inquest was held by Mr. Grimshaw,
the newly elected coroner for the borough, who displayed an
ability adequate to the high office the duties of which he is
appointed to fulfil. The jury returned a verdict of Acciden-
tal Death. An inquest was also held on the same body this
afternoon, by 'Mr. Rogerson, at the house of Mr. APLachlan.

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—At the Privy Council held
by her Majesty at Windsor Castle on Saturday, a proclama-
tion was agreed upon for further proroguing of Parliament
from Tuesday next to Thursday. the 2d of February, then to
meet for the despatch of business.
UNTAXED BISCUITS FOR SAILORS.—The first advan-
tage uuder the act passed last session (and which may fairly
be called Mr. Hutt's act), for allowing the grinding of corn
in bond for victuailing ships, was made here this week. A
quantity of corn was taken out of bond, to be manufactured
into biscuits, and will be replaced by an equal quantity of
corn.—Hull Advertiser.

CHEAP PORK.—When pigs is scarce, there's plenty o'ways
of filling the pork barrel for them Britishers. You know
there's young porpesses, seals, and slick dogs, as well as
bears and posssums, and there's plenty of bones o'them pigs
as died in murrain time to put along with um . Them ere
pigs wa'rnt a no ase then—but now , we know better—we
sha'nt throw away nothing. But, man, it a'nt lawful to put
no young children in pickle.—American paper.

MURDERS.—Two ferrymen at Great Yarmouth, on Sa-
turday week, had a quarrel about some fish, and the one
gave the other a kick on the abdomen, from which the poor
fellow expired in about an hour. The other was appre-
hended, and has been committed for trial.—ln the same
town, on the following morning, a soldier went into a public.
house, and the landlord and he had some dispute, when the
latter was thrown violently down, and expired on Thursday.
The landlord has been taken into custody.
WILL OF THE LATE MR. JOHN REEVE.—The will of the
late John Reeve, the well-known comedian, has recently
been proved in the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of
Canterbury. The personal property of the deceased has been
sworn under the value of £4,000. The property is pretty
equally divided between his son and two daughters. Mr.
Sams, bookseller, of Pall-mall, who was killed by being
thrown from his carriage a short time since, was one of the
executors of the will.

A correspondent of the Morning Herald says that the
leading members of the late Scottish convocation have com-
menced addressing their congregations from the pulpit on
the approaching dissolution of the connection between church
and state, intimating their intention of leaving the church if
the grievances of which they complain be not speedily re-
moved by the legislature, and appealing to their several flocks
whether they would not follow them wben the crisis arrived.
Meetings are also held for devising as to the ways and
means to uphold the new secession church of Scotland.
YORK MINSTER.—The restoration of this noble pile is
proceeding rapidly and satisfactorily. A new roof has been
put on the north transept, the old one being in a most dan-
gerous state. The transept walls had been bulged by the
pressure which the decayed roof improperly brought upon
them, but have been brought in about three inches. The
new roof is to he ventilated and lighted, for the better pre-
servation of the timbers ; and will be covered first with Ky-
anised deal boarding, and then with copper sheeting. The
damage occasioned by the late fire is quickly disappearing
before the hands of the skilful renovators.—Leeds Mercury.
TREATMENT OF DISEASE FROM MINERAL POISONS.—
i In the Medical Times of last week, there is a very useful
article on the treatment recommended in cases of poisoning;
the principal object, in all the cases, is to excite vomiting,
and, at the same time, to neutralise The poison. The fol-
lowing simple rules may, in some cases, be found useful :
For arsenic—Emetics of sulphate of zinc, large draughts of
new milk, gruel, linseed tea. Antimony, tickle the throat
with a feather, large draughts of milk fluids. Bismuth, milk
and musillagenous fluids. Copper, large draughts of milk
and water, iron filings and water, whites of eggs in water.
Nitrate of silver, a tablespoonful of common salt in a pint of
water—a wine glass full every two minutes. Lead, lime,
vinegar, and other vegetable acids. Alercury' whites of eggs
mixed in water. Tin, draughts of milk copiously and warm
water. Zinc, the poisops of zinc seldom produce death by
their occasioning vomiting, which should be rendered easy
by draughts of warm water, or milk and albumen.
WOODEN RAILWAY BRIDGE.—A bridge has been cor-
structed near Mottram, a • f
ew miles from Manchester, which
attracts much notice. It is composed entirely of Memel
timber, and consists of three arches, the span of the centre
one being 150 feet, and the two others 135 and 120 feet re-
spectively. Each arch is composed of three ribs of laminated
planking, nineteen planks being placed on each other to the
thickness of live feet. The centre arch is the largest ever
built of timber, while that of London Bridge is the largest
stone, being 152 feet ' • and the Great Western Railway
Bridge, at Maidenhead,
is the largest in brick, 128 feet.
The height of this bridge gives it a most colossal appearance.
i
From the bed of the river to the parapet t is 140 feet ; and
a large manufactory on the banks of the stream has the ap-
pearance, when viewed in contrast withits gigantic neigh-
bour, of a good-sized doll-house; also a bridge of 60 feet
span, just below, which in itself is a respectable piece of ar-
chitecture, now appears really insignificant.

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO HENRY LAWRENCE, ESQ

" Let your kind and generous influences, upon all occasions, de.
scend upon schools, which neither dispose men to division in
Church, nor sedition in state, but which train up their sons and
scholars to an invincible loyalty to their Prince, and a strict, im.
partial conformity to the Church."—Bis nor SOUTH.

Sta,—l take the liberty of addressing you, on the part
you have taken in the Council on the late discussion of the
education question there, feeling well assured, that your ob.
ject is only to do that which is right, and that your candour
will induce you to retrace your steps when satisfied that you
have been in the wrong. . _ _

I will assume, then, that an opulent person was induced
to give a sum of money to the corporation of Liverpool, an-
nexing to his gift a trust, " for the public benefit of the in-
habitants," the very words in the 92d section of the Muni-
cipal Corporation Act, with a direction that one-fourth of
the income should be applied in the education of the poor
children of the borough. In such a case, what mode of
education do you conceive that the Court of Chancery
would enjoin, if the direction of that court were solicited, for
the government of the trustees? I apprehend that that
which the court would lay down is precisely what ought to
be adopted in the present instance; for the Town Council
are not legislators, with power to create and establish of their
own will, but merely local executive functionaries, to carry
into effect that which the legislature has directed, with re-
ference to corporate estates.
Now we do know what the Court of Chancery has lately
decided in the case of Bury St. Edmunds ; and although
your kinsman, Mr. G. H. Lawrence, did not consider that it
had any bearing upon the case now under consideration, yet,
as I think it will be differently entertained by you as a
lawyer. I shall be at the pains of transcribing it for your
perusal before giving your vote on Wednesday.

Nocte interposita, inetior sententia surgit.
I am, Sir, your humble servant,
RANULPHUS PRICE, L,L.D
Hope-street, 12th Dec., 1842.

A charity had been instituted for the common benefit of a
parish and the parishioners, on an information filed for the
regulation of the charity, agreed that education should form
part of the scheme. Sir K. Bruce, V.C., although the pa-
rishioners were of various religious denominations, refused
to sanction a system of education in which it was proposed
that particular selections from the Scriptures should be read,
and the schools should be closed on Sundays, and in which
no special provision was made for the religious creed of the
schoolmaster.

" ' As the term education,' said his honour, `is properly
understood by all the parties to comprehend religious in.
struction, that religious instruction is an essential point to be
considered. In my judgment, this scheme does not provide
for religious instruction in the sense in which the expression
ought to be understood. Its effect is not that it does not
provide for religious instruction according to the doctrines
of the Church of England, but that it does not provide for
what lam able to consider religious instruction at all. If
education (of course including religious instruction) is to be
provided for, I apprehend it must be according to the doc-
trines and principles of the English church. I know no
other standard or guide to which the court can resort ; and
dissenting, as I do, from the present scheme, as far as it re-
lates to purposes of education, 1 must send that part of the
scheme back to the master for the purpose of review, unless
some other course can hereafter be suggested to the court.
If education is to be part of the scheme, it is clear, in
my judgment, that whatever may be the particular course
of instruction pursued, or whatever may be the course
as to exemption, if any, from any particular points of
instruction, the masters, mistresses, and teachers must be
members of the church of England. I do not think it
necessary to declare that either the masters or teachers
should be clergymen ; but that the masters, mistresses,
and teachers should all be members of the church of
England, and that no other course of religious instruction
should be adopted than such as is in conformity with
the church of England. I make these observations upon
the hypothesis that it will ultimately be thought right
that a provision for education should form a part of this
scheme—a matter upon which Ido not bind myself by any
opinion, and which, perhaps, may require reconsideration.
Therefore, in sending this case back to the master, I mean
to refer it to him to consider whether, having regard to the
nature of the charities, and the present state and condition
of the town of Bury, it is fit and proper that any provision
should be made for education ; and, if the master should be
of opinion in the affirmative, then to declare that there is to
be no master, mistress, or teacher who is not a member of
the church of England, and that no other course of religious
instruction shall be adopted than in conformity with that
church ! On the 24th of March last, Mr. Cooper informed
the court that all parties had agreed to modify the scheme as
to education as follows :—` That the masters and mistresses
of the schools should be members of the church of England ;
that during one hour, at least, of each school day, the masters
should give religious instruction to all the scholars—such
religious instruction to be confined to the reading and ex-
planation of the Scriptures ; that on every Lord's day he
should give instruction in the liturgy, catechism, and articles
of the church of England, to such of the boys whose parents
were in communion with that church, and that all the scho-
lars should be required to repair twice every Lord's day to
church ; provided, however, that any two of the trustees, by
a note in writing, might excuse from attendance at church
any of the scholars who were not in communion with the
church of England.' The Vice-Chancellor said, that if the
parties bad no objection to this arrangement, he had none;
but he wished to have it distinctly understood, that the
ground on which he had proceeded on the former occasion
was not a preference of one form of religion to another, but
the absolute necessity of adopting the course which he had
suggested.
P.S.—lt is industriously insinuated by the emissaries of
Rome that the Romish church is no longer tyrannical and
arbitrary, and that protestants have nothing to apprehend in
the present day. Protestants, however, should not forget the
Bull issued by Pope Pius VII against the establishment of
Bible Societies in Poland so lately as the year 1816, of which
extraordinary docpment a translation is given in Dodsley's
Annual Register of 1817, p. 244.

MILLINERS' AND DRESSMAKERS' ASSISTANTS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Silt,—Under the conviction that the truly philanthropic
are to be found in ereatest numbers under the banner of re-
ligion, pure and undefiled religion, I take the liberty of ad-
dressing the religious public, through your paper, as one of
their most efficient organs, on a grievance which, while it
remains unredressed, not only rests as a blot on the fair fame
of Englishmen as gentlemen, but cries aloud against us as a
Christian community.
_

We have emancipated in a short time thousands of human
beings in our colonies from the galling yoke of a body and
soul-destroying bondage; we have eased the chains of our
factory slaves at home ; and no one triumphs more than I
in these glories of Britain—brighter than her arms have ever
won her ! But Philanthropy, in her never-ending labour of
love, finds slavery, working bodily and spiritual death, in a
.young and fair, a respectable and well-educated portion of
our own community ;—I refer to the milliners' and dress-
makers' assistants in our towns. Young men have agitated,
assisted by the press and the pulpit, and have gained much ;
and shall it be said that these dear creatures have silently
and uncomplainingly bent and sunk under the yoke, because
there was none to speak for them? No ! by God's help, it
shall not be so.

My complaint is, Mr. Editor, that these poor girls are, in
most of our principal dress-making establishments, kept
daily close at work from seven or eight o'clock in the morn-
ing till nine at night, very generally till eleven, and, when
busy, often till one or two o'clock in the morning, sometimes
a dozen in a small, low-roofed room, at the most tedious
work in the world. What is waiting in a shop from eight
till eight compared to this ? Is the employment so unvary-
ing and disagreeable, the air so confined, or the position of
the body so injurious to the health? And yet how much
more has been spoken and written on the subject ! Shall
we, the male part of the community, any longer stand by in
silence, and witness the inroads made on health and beauty
in this way ? Shall fathers, brothers, lovers, see pallid
cheeks, and hollow eyes, and shrunk form, where once was,
and where still might have been, perfect health and beauty ?
Shall the ministers of the Lord Jesus Christ learn of the
total neglect of the immortal part, (which is, I would almost
say, the necessary consequence,) and be silent?
Where are we to look for the evil? I fear it must be owned
chiefly in the thoughtlessness and abominable selfishness of
those of their own sex who make use of their labours.
Ladies generally send in their dresses at the eleventh hour ;
the dress must be ready at a time named, as the fair owner
intends to appear in it that night. The manager of the es-
tablishment, under the dread of losing future custom, pro-
mises to let her have the apple of her eye at the time ap-
pointed, and what consequences are involved in her fulfilling
that promise? Oh, if the fair one who delights in anticipa-
ting, the beauty and symmetry of that garment could be
transported to that low, narrow room, where long after
midnight the unhappy victims of her carelessness are
at work—could she learn something of the throbbing fore-
head, the sick heart and the aching limbs, humanity makes
no doubt that she would forego all her pleasure to sooth their
pains. Does she rejoice in her youth ?—there are as young
as her losing the bloom of youth. Does she rejoice in her
beauty ?—there are forms as fair already under the blighting
touch of consumption. Does she rejoice in father, brother,
friend, or lover ?—oh, then let her think that hearts as fond
as her's are there longing for their society.
However, I do not mean to exculpate the mistresses of
these establishments ; a little firmness on their part in re-
fusing to sacrifice lives to avarice would never injure them
in the eyes of a candid and benevolent customer. Let the
ladies who may read this resolve from this day to be in abun-
dant time with their orders—and let husbands and brothers
put their relatives iu remembrance of these things when they
see them inclined to err, and the grievance may be remedied
without any other interference.
I am, Sir, yours, very truly,
PH ILANT H ROPO S.

Liverpool, Dec. 12th, 1842

THE INCOME Tar,.--The commissioners commenced
hearing appeals from the western district of the city of Lon-
don on Monday, and made such progress as to warrant the
conclusion that their labours will terminate in the course of
the present week. The number of cases disposed of in the
eastern district was very great, but the pressure of new busi-
ness has as yet prevented the clerks ascertaining the:exact
amount.

ELOPEMENT.—A few days ago Miss Manners, a young
lady, aged 23, of
great beauty, and possessing a fortune of
£5,000, eloped from the house of her brother, near Sidcup,
Kent, with a policeman of the R division. The lady was
missed at breakfast time by
her family (who are of great re-
spectability in the county). but a few hours afterwards a
messenger arrived with a letter in her own handwriting, an-
nouncing her marriage with the policeman at Woolwich
Church. It appears that in July last a fete champetre was
in company with her brother and
held on the grounds of Sir Thomas Marryon Wilson, at
ererssent ; and on which occasion the po-
Charlton in aid of the funds of the Royal Kent Dispensary,
as
some
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friends,
n'Md
sis, s
liceman formed one of the body on duty. The lady, after
several glances, took his number, and on her return home
wgeraennp
despatched a billet-doux to him at the station-house, Wool-
wich, in which she offered him her hand and heart. Asecret
correspondence was afterwards carried on until
un 1 it ended as
above described.—Observer.

A NAMELESS PRISONER.—On Thursday, before the mayor
and borough magistrates, a man, dressed as a countryman,
apparently about forty years old, was placed at the bar, to
answer a charge of smuggling tobacco. On being asked his
name, he said he believed it was Henry Yeo, or Yole, or
something of that sort. The Mayor : What ! don't you
know your own name? Defendant replied—Not exactly.
He didn't know how to spell it ; but he was called Yeo, or
something like it. He thought it began with aY, and that
there were three letters in it. Mr. Roe, collector of the
customs, said, from the man's statement, that his name was
composed of three letters, and that Y was the first ; the
officers had written it Yeo, to which the prisoner assented.
The bench asked if he was content to answer to that name.
He replied in the affirmative,—apparently feeling the full
force of the poet's query, " What's in a name ?"—and the
charge was proceeded with. It appeared that the " anony-
mous" arrived in the Lady de Saumarez, from Jersey ; and,
on his box being searchedby the officers, 1741 b. of tobacco
was found secreted under a false bottom. He was remandedtill Tuesday next, to afford time for communication With th•
Commissioners of Customs, a penalty of £lOO having zoisn
incurmd.—SortMainplox paper.

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