The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-11 00:00:00

By order of the Board.
Brunswick-street, 6JAMES LISTER, Manager.
M January, 1842.

LIVERPOOL BANKING COMPANY.
NINTH DIVIDEND.
ADIVIDEND will be paid to the Proprietors for the
Half-year ended 31st ultimo, after the rate of Six per
Cent. per Annum, upon application at the Bank, on and
after MONDAY, the 17th instant.
By order of the Directors,
WILLIAM WILSON, Manager.

January 7, 1842

LIVERPOOL BOROUGH BANK.
ELEVENTH DIVIDEND.
THE Directors of the Liverpool Borough Bank give No-
tice to the Proprietors, that they berth} declare a
HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND, at the rate of 5-per Cent.
for the Half-year, on the paid-up Capital of the Company,
and that such Dividend will be payable at the Bank, on and
after the Ist February.

By order of the Board,
JOHN JERDEIN, Manager.
Dated at Liverpool, this 7th day of January, 1842.
The Transfer Books will be closed until the 2d February,
inclusive.
Each Proprietor will be expected to prodiice his Certificate
of Shares on application for his Dividend, if required.

By Her Mojeety's Royal Letter., Patent.
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS
TAKEN BY THE
REFLECTION OF LIGHT,
AT THE
MOUNT GARDENS, ST. JAMES'S WLK,
TLIVERPOOL.
HE Proprietors of the REFLECTING APPARATUS,
.A. by which FAITHFUL MINIATURE LIKENESSES
of the Human Countenance and Person are " wen from the
hand of Nature" in the short space of a few seconds, respect-
fully announce to the Nobility, Gentry, and lnhAitants of
Lancashire, that the Extraordinary Process
IS NOW OPEN.
The Corporation of Liverpool having .ranted the site of
the late OBSERVATORY, ST. JAMES'S WALK, a neat and
elegant Building has been erected thereon, in which the
PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, the discovery of whist]
is ranked among the greatest scientific achievements of the
present age, is now in DAILY OPERATION.
THE PRICE FOR EACH PORTRAIT, INCLUDING
A FRAME, IS ONE GUINEA.

JOHN RELPH, Manager.
Specimens may be seen, and Orders rece;ve.d. at Mr. LA.
CEY'S REPOUTORY OF ARTS, 100, Bold-sleet.
The Invention was recently introduced into England, at
the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, LONDON ; and
the following are a few extracts from the leading Journals
relating to its merits :

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
When we formerly described this process, the time requi-
site for taking a portrait was, generally speaking, about four
minutes ; but in consequence of the great improvements that
have been made, the time has been reduced to about five se-
conds on a clear day ; but during cloudy dull weather the
operation may require from a minute and ahalf to two minutes.
The portraits taken by this means are really extraordinary
as likenesses ; they are true to nature, for nature here is her
own delineator. The features are admirably marked out and
delineated, and the likenesses at first sight are so extraordi-
nary, that they are really startling.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
PHOTOGRAPHIC LIKENESSES.—One of the most inter
esting sights it is possible to conceive is now attracting
crowds daily to the Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street.
The patentee has christened it the " photographic mode of
taking likenesses." By this process, in the incredibly short
space of five seconds, the likeness of any individual is taken
down on a piece of metal, and the portrait is a perfect fac-
simile of the sitter. It is nature herself that is called in to
be the artist, and her performance is truly astonishing,
leaving immeasurably behind it everything that human skill
could effect.

(Prom the Times.)

THE PHOTOGRAPHIC MINIATURES.—The principle has
been so far perfected as to be almost incapable of further
improvement. The novelty attendant upon the fact of
being furnished in the short space of five seconds with a
more correct miniature likeness than the most accom-
plished artist could paint on ivory, after days of laborious
study, coupled with the fineness of the weather, drew
together a host of curious fashionables, at the Poly.
tecnnic Institution, so many, indeed, that notwithstanding
the short period of time occupied in the operation, the roora
was crowded for hours together, by parties anxiously waiting
their turn. The apartment appropriated for the magical
process—for so it may be termed—is well calculated for the
object desired, being on the highest story of the institution.
From the roof, which is constructed of blue glass, of about
a enarter of an inch thick, a very powerful light is obtained,
and it is so ingeniously contrived as to revolve with the sun.
In a portion of the room, nearly in the centre, an elevated
seat is placed, on which the party whose likeness is to be
taken sits, with his head reclined backwards. In this posi-
tion the sitter is told to look into a glass box, in an opposite
direction, about five from him, in which is placed the plate
to be impressed with the portrait. Having done so for a few
seconds, he descends, and in a few minutes afterwards a
likeness is presented to him. The likenesses which we saw
were admirable, and closely true to nature, beauties and de-
formities being alike exhibited ; therefore those who are
ashamed of their personal appearance had better keep from
the influence of photography.
(From the Morning Herald.)
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—We were present on Sa-
turday at the exhibition of the extraordinary process of
taking portraits by the reflecting apparatus, lately patented,
and now for the first time brought before the public. By the
photographic progress, perfect likenesses are taken. in the
short space of from ten to five and twenty seconds! We
say perfect, because the prepared plate on which the objects
is reflected must of necessity produce a perfect transcript of
that object. The operation, therefore, being thus unerring,
the fault of even the slightest failure in likeness can only
be attributable to the person sitting, which, of course,
may result from an assumed or unnatural position.
Although the exhibition has been only of a private character,
and of some two or three days, we understand that it has
'eeen visited by all the parties possessing the privilege.
Among other influential personages present on Saturdcy, we
noticed the Earl of Shaftesbury, who expressed his surprise
and gratification at the extraordinary invention.
(From the Morning Post.)
The patentee of this invention has adopted the principle of
giving these " reflections" to the public at a very moderate
cost, compared to the ordinary price of miniatures, trusting
for his return to a general desire to possess them, which he
anticipates must be felt by all persons who would cherish the
best memento of a dear friend or relative.

(From the Courier.)
" Every line, every touch in the pictrue produced is from
the pencil of nature, without flattery or fallacy."
(From Bell's W Messenger.)
EXTRAORDINARY FACT.—MIeekly
NIATU RE PICTURES.—it is
bodily and personally the individual who is the sitter. It is
as much so, as he secs himself in the most accurate looking
glass, but with this difference, that the Photographic likeness
is the image as if it were removed from the surface of the
mirror, and rendered perpetual. It is an everlasting memo-
rial of the man at the moment it is taken—and tnerefore the
most precious gift that can be given to those who love hiT
while living, and will cherish his memory when dead. Irist
a discovery, which not only saves the sitter from the tedium
of being fixed in the same position for many an hourfTmn!..s
likenes, (or this is accomplished in the sixth part o
nute)—butf it affords to artists themselves the surest. I°F
for copying other likenesses, whether in miniature, in 111 C 4
paintings as large as life.

(From the Weekly Dispatch.) _ opportunit
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—We tookicsynsttsitution, tO
are taken
irai
ownitnNelsosntdhaey
crowded with
by the photographic process. The room
astonishing iasilnii ng n visitingiannet hrei nP°wllYntcehchp:(,arst
noticed Lord Aber..
nobility and gentry, amongwho.irnr:,k, each of whom, in
of different gente-
delight and astonishment
tdheee i
warmest
vtee rraml
s, otherexpressed persons
their
io f
at the rapidity with which the Purtrhiteslity in the execution.
men were taken, and the extreirniee
portraits to be any thing
It is, in fact, impossible for the
short of a complete copy
of nature.
(From
PORTRAIT'the Observer.)
appearance of the
PHOTOGRAPHIC that of a mezzotint engraving,
as in other similar Operations,
miniature thus producedo
tiou of opinion, but a plain matter
ot lfi efal likeness nfeosts bneaitnogrenoilq"th i,,
, There is such subtilty of touch and
might till a Vandyke or a Lawrence
tmoankeeisn ‘t.'hneolnik'iesrt'acka.sl,d despair. Altogether this is a most
at once with delightx traordinary exhibition. Those who in per-
are fund
photographic method of taking likenesses
wonderful and c of being " flattered," will certainly not
patroniseses ; but,
hand, they
tthbeeywllov‘'ant t!le real thin.' and
iraiture
the
~we
. . majority, will unquestionably spend
Pres.o With great willingness in the production of a minia-
ture guinea ".•which th '
r portrait heir fathers and mothers, wives, sisters,
on themeotthheerm
!uncle brothers may " swear to. Separate rooms are also
appropriated to ladies and gentlemen, and a female attendant
waits upon the former to assist in arranging the isass so as
to produce the most desirable pictorial effect.
(Front the Naval and Military Gazette.)
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—For some time it WIIS
dopubted whether Photography could ever be brought to
oerate satisfactorily on the human face and form, so as to
enable the artist to take an unerring and effective likeness,
the slightest motion inevitably destroying the pictare in its
Progrees. Ingenuity, perseverance, and repeated experiments,
have at length completely triumphed ever the difficulty ; and
miniature portraits, infallibly faithful, are now taken, from a
sittting of from flre to twenty seconds ; the time varying
aeoording to the intensity of light.

(From the Court Journal.)
PHOTOGRAPHIC LIKENESSES.—We attended yesterday
at the private view given by the patentee of the reflecting ap-
paratus at the Polytechnic Institution, by which photographic
likenesses are taken, and with the greatest accuracy, in
Period varying from five to twenty eeetards. We were der,
lighhted with the eathihioion.

ROYAL INSTITUTION- SOIREES-
THE SECOND SOIREE will take place THIS EVENING,
when P. F. WHITE, Esq. will deliver a LECTURE
on MUSIC, with Vocal and Instrumental Illustrations.
Single Tickets, and Sets for the Three remaining Soire'es,
may be had on application at the Royal Institution, Tuts
DAY, from Ten to Four o'clock, on the following terms :
For Gentlemen
Ladies ss. Od. the Set.
Single Tickets
GEO. FRECKLETON, M.D., President.
THOS. WINSTANLEY, Treasurer.
Colquitt-street, Jan. 11th, 1842.

FINE ARTS. EXHIBITION OF PICTURES OF
HIGH THE Public are respectfully informed, that the UNION
GALLERY, Slater-street, will be OPENED TO-
MORROW, (Wednesday,) the 29th instant, with a choice
Collection of PICTURES, by old and modern Masters, and
other WORKS OF ART.
A splendid " Larder," by P. P. Rubens, claims particular
attention ; as also a " St. Catherine," by Carlo Dolei; "Sea
Storm," Salvator Rosa; " Christ's Charge to Peter," Anni-
bal Caracci ; " Sea Coast," Richard Wilson : including the
Works of .Aonzo Cano, Spagnaletto, Berghem, Greuse Luca
Giordano. Egbert Ilemakerk, De Witt, A. Cuvp, Wouver-
mans, and other celebrated Masters. A matchless Work in
Marble, by Michael Angelo. Also, a curious Sedan Chair,
with Painted Panels, used by Frederic the Great.
This Collection will prove highly interesting to the lovers
of Art.
Open from Nine till Dusk, and by Gas-light from Seven
to Ten.

EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY,
AtOUN7' PLEASANT.
rir HE ANNUAL MEETING of the Friends and Sup-
1. porters of this Institution will be held on MONDAY
next, the 17th instant, at Eleven o'Clock, at the C:arendon-
rooms, South John-street, to receive the Report, and to ap-
point the Committee and Officers for the present year.
C. T. DUNLEVIE, Secretary.

LIVERPOL UNI BANK.
NOTICE LS HEREBOY GIVEN,N that a DIVIDEND of
FIVE PER CENT., on the Capital Stock of the
Company, for the Half-year eT ding the 31st December last,
(being at the rate of Ten per Cent. per Annum,) will be paid
to the Proprietors on and after the Ist of February.
The Transfer Books will be closed from the 14th to the
31st instant, inclusive.