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time being. We are not anxious that any deposit of funds should be commenced until arrangements are quite ripe.—Ed.] Sir,—In your last week’s paper, in reference to the Photo graphers’ Relief Fund, you call “ narrowness ” to professional photographers objecting to make a mixed fund. Now I, for my own part, call your doing so disinterestedness, no matter from what quarter it may come; and the average of professional photographers had to labour hard to weed out such rubbish before, or nearly so, and not to commence now to sow a second crop. You also call it industry to join photography with other business, and I call this idleness ; and being actuated with a notion of making an easy livelihood is what makes us have such a number of muffs in the trade. Professional photo graphers are never jealous of each other, neither are they un charitable towards relieving their distressed brethren ; but they wisely and prudently disown any relationship or brotherhood with an intruding hand hedging on the borders of their pro vince. Let me not be misunderstood. I by no means allude to respectable amateurs educated in the science—I believe some of them to be gentlemen worthy of admiration—but I allude to an idle, niggardly lot, no matter whether they be profes sional or amateur, who are ruinous to the trade, and who style themselves photographers, which nature never intended them for. Longa, cst injuria longeaambagas. Let professional photo graphers know that photography, as a science, should not be coupled with business of a dissimilar nature, and that when respectably carried on in competent hands it affords its followers a livelihood quite adequate, if not superior, to the generality of other respectable professions. So, then, why should not any body of men be at option to exercise their own discretion, and not throw their weapons into their enemies’ hands ? I am a sufferer to an extent beyond description by this objectionable spoil-trade style of business, and had to suspend my profession for some time through its means, though being a portrait and general painter before I knew what a camera was. Photography, in a measure, having paralysed painting, and afterwards having taken the disease itself, discouraged many others at the time as well as me. Still, during my suspension of the black art, I viewed its progress and studied it all through with unwearied interest, and have continued doing so to the present moment; and if those persons who are working in the idle system were to work for improvement by laying a good foundation to base their success on (by at first undergoing a due course of training, and afterwards their own practice, if well studied, is about the best moans of improvement, together with the many valuable hints from time to time in the journals from several able photographers, both professional and amateur, which they can have for a mere trifle), they would very soon, if possessed of anything in the shape of artistic genius, turn their labour into gold ; while in their present state their work is a disgrace to them, and they may not take more than six tolerably good photographs in a year, and these by mere chance. Con sequently, their work is not deserving ot an ordinary price, perhaps 5s. or 6s. per dozen and less; whereas, if competent to do better work, they could charge from two to three times the price, and please their customers far better. So, Mr. Editor, lest you may think I am intruding too far on your valuable space, I shall conclude by requesting of you not to crop my letter this time as you did the last, and I shall not appear again. Though I may be a passable hand at my work, I know that I am a bad statesman, and will leave the subject in future to the more learned.—I am, sir, your obedient servant, , Clonmel, December 1th, 1868. Patrick O’Connor. [We excised from our correspondent’s last letter some passages which were somewhat strongly worded in reference to what ho regards as the “spoil-trado ” hangers-on. We shall not be suspected of sympathy with any who degrade the pro fession by bad work or low prices ; but in a benevolent under taking we deprecate a narrow spirit and any attempt to draw a line which might unintentionally exclude some worthy persons from interest in such a fund.—Ed.] Ulk in tbe Studio. Carrier’s Sensitive Albuminized Paper.—We have recently received from Mr. Solomon an example of Carrier’s permanent sensitive albuminized paper, for which he is the English agent. Our readers will remember that we gave a tolerably full report of the result of some trials we made some months ago with paper which had then been prepared several months. We have, within the last few days, again tried the sample which we received some time ago, and which has been prepared nearly twelve months. We found it perfectly un changed in all respects, without a trace of discolouration ; and printed and treated throughout side by side with that just re ceived from Mr. Solomon, there was no difference in result,both being perfectly clean and pure. The unchangeable character of this sensitive paper is thus proved beyond a question. Its qualities remain just the same as we before described them. It gives an exquisitely delicate and soft print, but lacks a little vigour, unless a negative with full contrast be employed. A special toning bath is recommended, which we before tried with success ; this time we used an old sulphocyanide of gold bath, made some months ago, with perfectly good results. The ex-President ok the “ Confederate States.”—We have received from Mr. Netterville Briggs some portraits of Mr. Jefferson Davis, who is now resident in Leamington, where, amid the magnificent Midland scenery, and the grand historic associations of the district, he rests in comfort after the years of terrible struggle which ho so bravely—whether wisely or well it is not necessary to say—conducted in behalf of Southern in dependence. The portraits are admirable photographs of a grand face : a purely nervous temperament, a broad, massive, thoughtful brow, keen, well-cut features, a powerful but not coarse jaw, a firm mouth, and thoughtful eyes, all contribute to present a man of mark. These portraits, without robbing the face of the traces ot what it has passed through in thought and feeling, give it much more refinement than we have seen in any of the American portraits of Mr. Davis. We have here the intellectual, cultivated gentleman, as well as the man of daring enterprize and indomitable will. Mr. Briggs has secured really fine and artistic portraits, photographs worthy of bis worthy subject. Members of British Association.—Mr. Sawyer, of Nor wich, has favoured us with a selection of the card portraits of the distinguished members of the British Association who sat to him during the recent meetings in Norwich. The photo graphy is good, and the portraits are excellent. Personal LUaGAGE.—A correspondent calls our attention to a decision, on the subject of “ personal luggage,” directly opposite to that we recently recorded in the case of Mr. Owen Angel. An action was brought before Mr. Spooner, Judge of the North Staffordshire County Court, by Mr. Collis, a com mercial traveller, against the North Staffordshire Railway Company, for tho removal of his luggage at a wrong station, causing him delay and loss, precisely as Mr. Angel suffered loss. Instead, however, of taking the luggage to Derby, the guard put it out at Uttoxeter, and convoyed it to Stoke-upon- Trent, Mr. Collis thus being deprived of the use for two days. He accordingly sued the company for damages for the incon venience thereby occasioned. Tho defence was, that the luggage ought to have been labelled or addressed by the plaintiff, and that as the claim for damage was mainly based upon the tem porary loss of price lists and account books, which were in one of the packages, and which were not in the nature of “ personal luggage,” the company were not liable. The judge held that it was the duty of a railway company, either by a uniform system of labelling, or by some other effectual way, to guard against tho possibility of such mistakes. The articles in ques tion were not such as to divest the portmanteau of its general character as “ personal luggage,” and he decided in favour of the plaintiff. Photoorapiiic Nuisances.—The Tomahawk says:—“We do not intend to follow the example of some of our elegant contemporaries, and puff the reigning Lais or Phryne of the day. But we wish to enter a strong protest against a custom, which has now extended to shops in the most fashionable localities, and which are much patronized by the mothers and daughters of society ; namely, the custom of exhibiting, in the most conspicuous part of tho windows, portraits of the most notorious courtesans of the day, amongst the Royal Family, the Bishops, and Primo Ministers, and other celebrated personages. We can readily believe that the young ladies of moral England may have some curiosity to seo authentic portraits of those whose manners, but not whoso morals, they so perseveringly copy ; but such a morbid curiosity it to us a sign of the gross degradation of society. It sickens us to see tho course, idiotic,
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