The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-08-16 00:00:00

AU6LST 16, 1838. THEATRE. ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. the The Publi c i s respectfully informed, that in consequence of numerous applications for Places, the Engagement of M'lle. Taglioni of the King's Theatre, London, hag been ex tended for three addition a l - bights, and that she will perform this Evening, and on Monday and Tuesday next. _ For th e B ENEFIT of Alit. and MRS. YATES, (and their last appearance) on which occasion they have the honour to announce the splendid aid of Mlle. Tag Hopi, assisted by Mons. Silvain, of the Academie Royale, and M'lle. Garbois. THIS p resent FRIDAY, the 16th instant, the performances will commence with the favourite Drama of VICTORINE Or, I'LL SLEEP ON IT. Alexandre, Mr. Yates—Victorine, Mrs.' Yates. At the end of the second act will be performed the Dance Which has raised the reputation of the principal performer to the h e i g h t of her profesvion, and which was composed expressly for her by Mons. Taglioni—Pere, Ballet Master of the Academie RM lie. oyale de Paris called La Tyrolienne, the characters by Tagiioni, Mons. Silvain, and M'lle. Garbois. To which will be added a Table Act, of an entirely' New ntertainment, never acted here, called, FATES' VIEIVS OF HIMSELF AND OTHERS. To be followed by the Dance so much in vogue, called La Mazourka, performed _by Taglioni, and Mons. Silvain ; in addition t o thi s, the Gentleman will kindly introduce, in the course of the Evening,, the celebrated Pas Anglois,. as danced hy him in th e Carnival of Venice, at the Academie Royale de Paris. To conclude with a Burlesque Comic Tragic Romance, never performed here, called, DON QUIXOTTE; Or, THE HUMOURS OF SANCHO PANZA. Don Quixotte Mr. Yates. Notwithstanding the unprecedented Expense attending . these E ngagements, no advance will be made in toe prices of admission. Lower Boxes 4s.—Upper Boxes, 3s. 6d.—Pit 2s. 6d.—Gallery Is. During Madame Taglioni's engagement, the Box-book will be open every day, from Ten till Four o'clock. No places can be secured unless tickets are taken. On Saturday, the favourite new Drameof Ellen W are h am . After which, the Romance of The FOrty Thieves. To conc l u d e 'with the : Belo-Drama of Robinson Ctusoe. TO OUR READERS. On Tuesday next the proprietors of the STANDARD will have the pleasure of presenting to all their subscribers, • who are within a reasonable distance, a copy of a Pamphlet containing an abridged, but still a 'very full, report of the Evidence given before the last. Cont . . mittee of the House of Commons on the late elections for Liverpool. The evidence, as well for the peti tioners at for the defence, is - Carefully given in almost the exact words of the witnesses. - .The greatest pains have been taken to be accurate, and the strictest im partiality has been observed. To every purchaser of !he STANDARD on . Tuesday next a copy of this Pam phlet will be given GRATIS. To our subscribers in the country, who take an interest in the local pitlitics of Liverpool, a copy will be forwarded to • their order, or delivered to any agent or carrier whom they may please to send. fie Etherpool FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, 1833. The New York Packet which in the due order of sail ing must have left New York on the 16th ultimo, was off Holyhead yesterday at noon. If in the file of papers w hich we expect to receive in the come of the morning, We find any intelligence worthy of notice, it will be given in our second edition. What will be found below is the latest news from Lis bon and Oporto. Up'to the sth instant the latter city continued to hold out, but a harrassing fire was going c a night and day against the town and the boats in the r iver. The unfortunate inhabitants were anxiously ex pecting that some movement in their favour would be made from Lisbon, and that the siege would be raised by the united exertions of Count NAPIER and VILLA FLOR. It did not appear, however, that Don PEDRO had any in tention to dispense with the services of these brave men, a nd in all likelihood Oporto_ will be left to its fate. In the mean while it is pleasant to observe with what gaiety the cx-emperor passes his time in Lisbon. The accounts inforM Us:that he was walking the streets, and enacting the part of a mountebank.. The idea of throw ing his sword into the sea, which happened at that mo ment to be ten miles distant, is worthy of the cockney Who lost his nightcap in a tremendous hurricane, and a terrible swell, off Chelsea . Reach. The ex-emperor having thrown his sword into the sea, and having desired the people and the police to sheath theirs, which was a right excellent precaution, he =relied into the capital with all the pride of a dancing4naster or a French drum major. The following is from-the Falmouth Packet, -re ceived yesterday by Mr. \S'ILLat Ea;-of-t1 n• s town : • " FALmoOTH, August 13, 1833. The Corsair watch, arrived here this morning from Lisbon, which place shl left on the Ist instant. The following news wi,l be interesting, and will shew the state of the public mind in that city. Don Pedro was publicly walking about with the greatest confidence, unarmed and unguarded, and was greeted with the warmest acclamations. A circumstance occurred on his landing which made him at once popular with the people. 'When he was stepping from the barge on shore, some of tLe Police endeavoured to clear the way with their swords, when he called on them to put up their weapons, and taking out his Own sword flung it out into the sea. About 800 police or mi litia had been raised for the protection of the city. The be haviour of all classes was beyond praise. "The conduct of Don Miguel's police had excited a great s ensation at Lisbon. It appears that the Duke de Cadaval, "with about three thousand police, after they had fled from Lis bon, retreated to Caldas, about twenty-five miles north of Lis "; and sacked the place for four hours, committing the great est depredations on the persons and property of the inhabitants. Pn the 31st July they were on the road to Luceria. `` A division of Don Miguel's troops, about 1500, had crossed t he Tagus at Valada, near Santarem, and a steamer was sent 'II P by Don Pedro to negociate with them. It was generally sup .pused that they would turn in favour of the young Queen. "The Corsair called off Oporto on the sth, but nothing of Importance had occurred since our lastadvices: The Miguelites, however, continued to harass the city by continually firing on the town, and at all the boats which came within the range of their guns. At Oporto they were anxiously expecting that the I , ll es of Don Miguel would be broken by troops from Lisbon. movement had taken place at Lisbon for that purpose, ar id in th e present state of affairs it does not appear likely that sufßeient force could be collected by Don Pedro. The con tending forces at Oporto must therefore fight it out." Y es, fight it out! DON PEDRO has once more got into eontfortable quarters, and it is of no consequence to him What becomes of the mercenaries whom he has left behind. They flay be shot by the enemy, or they may cut each 9ther up , f or any thing he cares. The war in that quar r, We suspect, is not yet ended. The infatuated men who have already plunged their unh appy families into comparative destitution, and who "ern bent upon exposing them to famine and disease on th e eve of winter, have had an interview with the MAYOR, i n the fallacious hope that his worship would or could in terfere to enforce their illegal and preposterons deinands. This interview was demanded by the members, or rather hY the Committee of the Trades' Union, and the MAYOR granted it from the most generous and commendable mo tj:es; but the proposals made and the terms offered were of a nature calculated to close the door against media tien, and render it impossible ,to grant their prayer, or become their intercessor. T he Operati ves professed themselves ready to return t ° The work, on condition that the masters should dis Nss th e men at present in their employ, and who being `,1.1 ni the bett er order of mechanics, are not members of the dins e n. In a printed address they state their terms *th The o peratives be g di s ti nct l y to b e understood, that while haltersare whqouite willi ng to resume the employment of those may be agreeable to dispense with the individuals who have been disgracefully talk, they filling their places during the dis cannot in any way agree to work with those persons oholta.re acted so lt is unworthy a p art " ! strange that the re Should among a large body of mechanic s be f ound even a dozen men so totally blind- Prineed to their ovvn interests, and so insensible to the first . iple s of justice, as to require that to be done which I n a d the fi rst place would be delib era t e crue lty, and whi c h, one, would in the second place reflect eternal disgrace up?n the e mployer s . I t i s strange that these guilty men tkee n, would be ch ar i ty to call them insane men—do not W that the restraints they would impose upon their fel withworkmen are tyrannical in principle, and interfere natural 41 411 ow rights, fr ee w ill , and the duty which every es to his family, his neighbour, and his country. denies them the right to combine ? All that we who for is that they should not interfere with those yv4 o o o do not combine, nor menace nor dictate to those who e to work—who prefer industry to idleness, and the 141911i tions of their own consciences to the despotic man dates of ignorant blockheads, and Self-constitued arbiters. The men who work du not say to the unionists " you shall work,"—the industrious do not command the idle to toil; but the idle say to the industrious, "you shall be idle as we are—get drunk (if you can) as we do—swallow abominable oaths as we do—ruin your families as we are doing—and beg at the workhouse door, or die in the parish hospital, as in all probability we shall beg and die before the end of the next winter. This is the infamous tyranny which we deprecate, and these the insolent decrees which we pronounce to be a violation of the laws of the land and of public liberty.— Such demands however have been properly met by the masters. They say in reply to the operatives : " Whilst they willingly admit the right of every man to refuse working for any employer whose terms do not suit him, they as explicitly deny the right of any self-constituted body to prevent others from accepting employment who are disposed to do so; and the discharge of those men who have so laudably attended to their duty be still insisted upon by the Union, the masters beg to say that they will not submit to such an absurd and unjust demand." For the present, then, we have only to express our re gret that this attempt to reconcile the operatives to their duty has failed; but we should not express any regret at all if the consequences of the failure were to fall exclu sively upon the criminal parties ; we cannot, however, conceal the apprehensions with which we look forward to winter, to families without a blanket, to starving children, to fireless grates, to empty. cupboards. It is a gloomy— a painful prospect ! Those men have much to answer for who thus interpose, wickedly and arbitrarily, be tween the bounties of a benign PROVIDENCE and the wants of their wives, their children, their mothers, and their sisters. They dash away, with impious hand, the stair of life, and trample under foot their daily bread. Such conduct is an insult to Heaven. It must originate with men whom a long career in vice has made imper vious to shame and dead to remorse,whose better feel ings, if they ever had any, have been benumbed by a life of inebriety, or soured into deliberate wickedness by the baneful influence of deistical . notions and revolutionary principles. Would we could say to them—" they know not what they do !" Among the evils of the present state of political affairs in the world at large, the misconstruction of passing events and the misapplication of titles is not the least prominent. Nothing can more clearly demonstrate this position than the recent occurrences in Basle. In the late disturbances in that quarter the citizens of Basle are designated as " insurgents," by the soi-disant liberal press. What are the facts ? The " three glorious days" of the French revolution led to disturbances in that once happy and always free canton. A new constitution, the offspring, in a great degree, of the contaminating influ ence of the proceedings among their powerful neigh bours, was proposed, adopted by the votes of a large majority, and sanctioned by. the Diet. The revolutionary party then interfered,to prevent its being brought into operation. A division on this point gave rise to renewed disturbances. The consequence was, a division of the canton into two parts, which was also sanctioned by the Diet. The revolutionists, in the true spirit of their re publican character, attacked the isolated villages on the town side. The villagers claimed the assistance of the capital, which was granted. An engagement ensued which, through the assistance of the Poles, terminated to the disadvantage of the town, and in favour of the revo lutionists. To whom, then, it may be asked, ought the name of " insurgents" fairly to attach ? Surely to the ag gressor, which is not the town of Basle, or the villages which sought its aid, but those desperate republicans, embued with the spirit of change, and urged on by the restless characters who have sought a refuge among them, which their inconstancy and utter worthlessness of pri vate character precludes their having in their native country. We beg to call attention to the following extract from an eminent periodical : " In our last article we expressed our conviction that, though objectionable in some of its details, the system of taxation in this country was bottomed ot sound principles, and ;bat no new system could be substituted in its stead, calculated to yield so large an amount of revenue, that would not be infinitely more objectionable. Such, being. our _opinion, we congratulate our readers and the public on the determination evinced by the Government and the House of Commons to resist all reckless attempts for the reduction, and all ill-considered projects for the commutation of taxes." The reader, unless he be in the secret, will, we calcu late, take a pretty considerable time to guess the name of the work from which the above specimen is taken. Had we not had ocular demonstration of the fact we should not have believed it possible that so high an au thority could have been seduced by the charms of office and the touch of gold into so much inconsistency. Apart from this ocular proof we should, from the peculiar phraseology, have inferred that the author of the article could be none other than the famous Mr. PLACE, the liter ary tailor of Charing Cross. It is not every concoctor of political essays that would light by accident upon the bright idea of taxation being " bottomed on sound prin ciples." Mr. PLACE, however, we believe, is not guilty in the present instance, for we have not heard that he has accepted office under the Whigs, or made any con tract with the slop department, and consequently he could have had no inducement to indite such nonsense for the sake of pay or party. But we must not keep the unitiated any longer in sus pense. The above extract, then, is taken from the last number of the Edinburgh Review, which has flourished and faded under the auspices of Lord BROUGHAM, tile Lord Advocate JEFFERY, FRANCIS HORNER, the Rev. SYDNEY SMITH, RAMSAY MACULLOCK, (as long as they paid him,) and TnomAs BABINGTON MACAULAY. The Edinburgh Review, which has, for the last twenty years, been the organ of the Whigs and the assailant of Tories and Tory policy, has at length discovered that the present system of taxation, devised by the Tories and condemned by the Whigs, is " bottomed on sound principles." In the same article the people who have raised a cry against the house and window duties are termed ignorant, fac tious, and unprincipled " destructives," and the 'ingenious Lord ALTHORP and the present patriotic House of Com mons receive unmeasured praise for resisting all " reck less attempts • fur the reduction, and all ill-considered projects for the commutation of taxes." ! ! In our time we have too often seen "assurance doubly sure," and insolence go great lengths, and impertinence take strange liberties, but this from the Whigs, from the tax-hating Whigs, from the standing-army-opposing Whigs, from the assessed-tax and stamp-tax Hating Whigs—this, from them, beats all the brass and brazen images in the world !...Shade of the injured and slandered Lord CASTLEREAGH, now art thou avenged! The " ig norant impatience of taxation," which was a standing text of abuse for many a day with BROUGHAM, MACK INTOSH, GREY BENNETT, BURDETT, HOBHOUSE, Lord JoHN,nnd others, is now found to be a very inconvenient "impatience ". by these ministerial gentlemen. The Whigs, in office, find it a pleasant duty to pilfer from the maxims of the Tories ; and Tom MACAULAY is, accord ingly, deputed to steal from Lord CASTLEREAGII, and write down all that Lord BROUGHAM had written up. Old GEORGE TIERNEY is now, if we recollect right, dead, buried, and forgotten by the present small beer writers in the Edinburgh Review. He was, nevertheless, a very respectable Whig . and, despite his sarcasm and his sneers, which the present LORD CHANCELLOR coarsely imitates • at an humble distance, he was, by far, in all matters of finance, the cleverest and clearest-headed fellow of his party: - He was indolent, it is true, and despised the stupid people whose dinners he occasionally ate ; but, when he chose to open his mouth in Parlia ment, all the inferior dogs were sure to bark in his wake. Of this gentleman it will be remembered, that there never was a budget proposed by PITT, VANSITTART, Or any body else, during the long period he represented a rotten borough, that he did not condemn as senseless, impracticable,'oppressive, or unjust. He censured and reprobated the whole system. He proved, to the entire satisfaction of the Whigs, and the people whom they have invariably gulled, that every new tax was improvi dent, unequal in its pressure, and, consequently, impolitic and arbitrary; and he repeatedly attempted to demon-. strate that the same supplies could be raised with greater facility and at less expense by other means, which he sometimes condescended to explain. In these endeavours to instruct the Tory Chancellors of the Exchequer, and, to enact the part of arithmetical schoolmaster in the House of Commons, TIERNEY was seconded by BROUGHAM MACKINTOSH, ALTHORP, MILTON, and Lord JOHN in the house, and by JEFFERY and MAcuLLocit in the Review. They did not mince the matter at all, They recklessly, as THOMAS MACAULAY says, condemned the system — they foresaw nothing but ruin in the system, and they divided once or twice every year against the malt tax, the stamp tax, the tea tax, and against the taxes gene rally. We are not aware that any of these taxes have under gone such a modification as would render them palatable to the Whigs, if by some untoward event they were again compelled to resume their old position on the opposition benches. But their present position makes all the dif feretice. The Whigs are in office--they divide among themselves the emoluments of office—they have the patronage of the crown at their disposal—they have mitres to give to brothers—diplomatic appointments to cousins—jobs to tried and true friends—commissions to needy barristers—and numberless other good things to bestow upon kinsmen who are poor, or legislators who are servile; and, consequently, they are not in a humour to remember their old invectives, . or patronise their former opinions. The dirty work of making the Edin burgh Review eat its own words has, by special favour, been devolved upon Mr. MACAULAY. He is commissioned to cry up the taxes and cry down the reformers —to peck at the former principles of his party—to write "fraud" on the cover of the blue and yellow—to extol the present system, as being- " bottomed on sound principles," and to " resist all reckless attempts for the reduction, and all ill-considered projects for the commutation of the taxes." Bravo Tom! Bravissimo FRANCIS JEFFERY , and the Whigs ! • THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. LOCAL NEWS. The Worshipful the Mayor and the Magistrates for the borough have been.pleased to appoint Mr. James Woods, Surveyor of Buildings for district No. 1, the situation vacant by the death of Mr. Benjamin Cope. NEW COLLEGE, ISLE OF MAN.—The opening of the new Col lege near Castletown, took place last week. It is dedicated to William the Fourth. The Lord Bishop, attended by the Northern Deemster and many other respectable individuals was present on the occasion. As this splendid edifice is no finished, no formal ceremony took place. We hear that Mrs Quilliam, of Castletown, intends to present the College chape with a service of plate for the. communion table. The regula course of instruction commenced on Monday week to a numbe of most respectable pupils. A copy of a clause in the house duties bill, bestowing on the licensed victuallers the same exemption which is granted to shopkeepers. `And be it further enacted, that the exemption from one moiety of the said duties on houses hereinbefore con tained, shall be, and hereby is extended and applied to the oc cupiers of every dwelling-house who shall be duly licensed by the laws in frirce to sell beer, ale, wine, or other liquors therein by retail, although the room or rooms thereof in which any such liquors shall be exposed to sale, sold, drunk, or consumed, shall not be a shop or warehouse described in the said act pass ed in the 4th year of the reign of his said late Majesty." FORGING A REGISTER.—At the Chester assizes, on Monday week, Peter Williamson, of Lymm, was indicted for uttering a forged copy of his own baptismal register in the parish church of Lymm, with intent to defraud certain executors. The pri soner was entitled, under the will of a person named Edge, deceased, to a sum of £42 17s. lid., upon his coming of age. In the month of August last he applied to the parish clerk. of Lymm for a copy of his baptism from the register. It was made out, and bore date in the year 1812, showing that the prisoner then wanted fifteen or sixteen months of being of age. On the 22d of March last, the prisoner applied to Mr. William Edge, one of the executors, and produced the register to prove that he was of age, the date being altered from 1812 to 1811. He re ceived a sum,of £57 Bs. 4d., beinc , the amount of principal and interest to that date. Counsel for' the defence contended that this was not such a fraud as the law contemplated when it made the offence punishable, but the judge was of a different opinion, and the prisoner being found guilty, was sentenced to be im prisoned for two years. The March of Railwayism, like that of Intellect, continues on the increase. Pigs, instead of walking, ride to the slaughter house, and horses, instead of drawing, are drawn in carriages, and no doubt, ere long, we shall have locomotives and railways to convey us from the chimney-corner to the bedside. Among the vast number of these roads in progress, or in projection, the Edinburgh Advertiser informs us that "A Prospectus has been drawn up by Mr. John Strachan, of Port-Hoptoun, of a Railway between the Union Canal Basin, Edinburgh, and the Western Dock at Leith. The proposed line, commencinc , at the south east side of the Canal Basin, is to run along the north side of West Port and Cowgate,_hy the south back of Canongate into the King's Park, and Old Botanic Garden, through the proper ties of Sir James Montgomery and the late Baron Norton, and, passing by the west side of Lochend, thrOugh the Trinity Hos pital . grounds, entering Leith Links at the Gulf-house, thence crossing Constitution-street and Kirkgate into Yard Heads; and thence, by a line chalked.out by. Mr. 'Strachan, to the Western Dock at the Naval Yara. Some tunnelling will be required at starting from the Canal Basin and archings iu the intersecting-, of streets in Leith. The 'whole cost of the undertaking, includ ing purchases of ground, Etc., Mr. Strachan calculates at £1.20.000, and he estimates the probable revenue of £28,800 ; thus givin g twenty-four per cent. on the c apital e m pl o y e d. Th e projector admits that Ile is no architect, but states that he has submitted his estimate of cost to individuals of great experience in works of the kind, who gave it as their opinion that it far exceeds what will be the'actual cost.' The chief source of reve nue, Mr. Strachan calculates, will arise from passengers on the steam coaches; and he proposes two or three stations f or t a ki ng up and setting down passengers, both in Edinburgh and Leith. Supposing 3000 to pass daily on the average of the year, 2000 paying 6d., and 1000 3d. each, the sum arising from this source alone wi Ibe £19,552 lOs. per annum.' He then calculates on £5OOO per annum of feu-duty, on a double row of houses along the whole line; and the.remaining portions of revenue are to be derived from the conveyance of coals, stones, grain, timber, slates, and finer articles of merchandize." A profit of tw enty _ four per cent. is enough to tempt a saint. As money like ma nure does no good - until it is spread, we rejoice in the increase of those undertakings as having a tendency to increase its cir culatiOn. The more the better say we. 6S feet DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Monday last a numerous P ar t y of young persons ascended the Brecon Beacons, the highest summit of the Brecknockshire hills, which stands 2,8 above the level of the sea, on an excursion of pleasure. In a short time two young men, named Rees Davies, aged about 20, the son of Evan Davies, of Bailey Glees, Brecon, and Joh n . .Jones, aged about 19, the son of John Jones, a btiteher at Brecon, unfortunately began some active amusement on the top of the hill, in which, inadvertently coming too near the b row they wete both precipitated down the precipice, to a depth of 300 feet ; where their descent to a lower depth was checked by a projecting ridge. So directly perpendicular was the declivity down which they fell, that their friends, who looked down from the dizzy height above, could not discover them, and it was only by the (faring ascent of some persons (of whom immense n um _ hers speedily came from Brecon and other parts) from the valley beneath, which in that part was above 1,200 feet below the projection on which the young men were, that their mangled remains were extricated and borne to their friends. This search of Christian charity was made by night; and when the light of day broke upon the adventurous and resolute men who had made it, and presented to them the appalling and critical dancers through which they had been guided, they were seized with a sublime feeling of terror at the dangers they had passed, and of thankfulness to the Almighty hand that had upheld them.—Aferthyr Guardian. THE METHODIST CONFERENCE. — The sittings of the confer ence at Manchester terminated on Wednesday. The number of preachers has been 430, amongst whom the utmost harmony has prevailed. The religious services have been very numerou s , both in do ors and out, and the zeal of this zealous body h as glowed out with all its primitive fervour. The increase of mem bers, as stated on Sunday last, by the president, amounts to 27,289 in the United Kingdom and in the missionary stations, ofwhich the following is the return : Increase of members in Great Britain 23,848 In Ireland On the missionary stations 1,937 Total 27,289 This is exclusive of the returns from America, where the increase amounts to upwards of 40,000 members. Canada has become so important a station, that it has been determined to send out the Rev. George Marsden to that country. SYNOD OF ULSTER—BIBLE EDUCATION,—The Globe news paper has publicly stated that the Synod of Ulster has decided in favour of the new education scheme. We need only . remind our readers that a petition against the anti-bible project was presented to both Houses of - Lords and Commons a few days ago, from that venerable body. We presume the Globe has dignified the Arian and Socinian remonstrants, who form a separate synod in Ulster, with the title that belongs only to the original and recognised body. But in making such a state ment, does the Globe intend to constitute a new claim to the title of the " Cucumber paper," an epithet which it lately de clared a very " cool" statement; but if it indulges in many such, it has been suggested that the sentence, said to be pro nounced by the faculty against "cucumbers" should, forthwith, be' executed aga i ns t t h e usurper o f the name, and that the Globe, like the cucumber after it has been dressed, should be "thrown out of the window."—Record. CONSECRATION OF HILDERSTONE CHURCH, IN THE PARISH OF STONE.—This beautiful edifice was consecrated by the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, on Wednesday last, in the presence of a crowded and attentive congregation . When the service was over, his Lordship and about twenty of the Clergy sat down at the hall to a cold collation provided for the occasion. The whole exterior of the church is of stone. The length inside is 72 feet, and the breadth 32 feet. The edifice contains about 420 sit • tings, of which 220 are free. The patronage is vested in Ralph Bourne, Esq., the founder, at whose sole expense it was erected. The difficulties which have attended its erection have been great, but under the perseverance of the gentleman just referred to they have at length been overcome. The inhabitants of Hil. derstone and its vicinity, who were before well nigh destitute of religious ordinances, are now blessed with a near access to them, and it may be hoped that the benefits resulti ng f rom a c h urc h being built in this place will be experienced by every one con nected with it in each successive generation.—Staffordshire Ad vertiser POST-OFFICE.—We understand that an investigation has re cently taken place in the Post-office here, in consequence of al leged dishonesty on the part of one or more persons employed in under situations in the office. It is stated that a letter, con taining a large sum of money, in passing through the office, was kept up. On its not being duly delivered, complaint was of course made, and a prompt and strict investigation was, without a moment's delay, instituted. While the inquiry was pending, however, the money, which was in large Bank of England notes, was sent under cover to the person to whom the letter had been addressed, with a statement that it had been found. The letter which originally accompanied the money, however, was not communicated. We know not whether the charge of keeping up the letter wa s b r o ug ht h ome t o an y one i n th e office or not. But we know that two persons employed M the office have been recently dismissed.- -Glasgow Paper THE MYSTERIES OF PATRONAGE. We are not generally disposed to adopt very freely the representations of the employed against the employer; having a sort of impression that prejudice often consti tutes a leading ingredient in complaints of that nature ; but that same quality, prejudice, or partiality, or by what ever other name it may be known, is not unlikely to en ter occasionally into the proceedings of others as well.as of the mere servant. The master has, very properly, ex tensive powers. But the master's steward—not unfre quently the harder of the two—may have private interests to advance ; or may, perchance, suffer personal dislike, on the one hand, or partiality on the other, to sway him in the exercise of his duty. We will suppose a case. Let us imagine a noble Lord, or other individual, having a large establishment, who were good servants of his father or predecessor; each, in his sphere, performing his duty faithfully. My Lord chooses to appoint a new steward; and new stew ards, like new brooms, are supposed to sweep clean. Indeed, what is the use of either one or the other, un less a few dirty corners can be cleaned out ? My Lord's butler or head gardener happens to die or become past work; and, very naturally, the under-butler or second gardener, as the case may be, considers himself justified, from long and faithful service, in looking forward to oc cupy the vacant situation. But the new steward thinks differently. He whispers into his Lordship's ear that the vacancy may be more advantageously filled up by promoting to the office the under-butler or second gar dener of some family in the next county ;—that his Lord ship's wine, or his grapes and cabbages may be quite as safe; and the duties of the situation may be better dis charged by the new corner than by those more prac tised in his service. This, we grant, is no novelty in our days; for we happen to know a noble Lord who, in a fit of economy, recently placed two of his head ser vants, (although quite competent to the performance of their duties) on the retired list at nearly full wages, in order to advance his shoeblack—who, like others of the same craft, had done his dirty work, and had no better qualification—at double wages to do the double duty of his two old servants. But this is travelling from our case. My Lord's servants, hearing of the insinuations thrown out by the steward, naturally prefer a petition to their master, praying inquiry into their conduct and qualifications. Doubtless in such a case as this my Lord would institute an inquiry, and if be found that his old servants had, for 'Various periodi from ten to fifty years, well understood and faithfully performed their du ties he would continue them in his service, and his old under butler or gardener would succeed to the vacant place. If my Lord acted rightly he would do this. Any thing short of it would be injustice. _ _ _ This is our case. Its application, if it be applicable at all, we leave to others. We think, however, that all stewards should bear in mind, that the conduct of them selves and their proteges ought to be such as will bear the closest inspection. LORD SANDON. The session being nearly at an end, and the members exhausted by protracted discussions, may very naturally be anxious to enjoy some relaxation and a change of scene in order to re-invigorate wasted health and impaired en ergies. Among the number who have deemed it neces sary to make their escape from the expiring din of the House of Commons and the plagues of. the metropolis, we find our own excellent representative, Lord Sandon. During the whole of the longest session on record he has been unwearied in the discharge of his duties. On every question, directly or collaterally relating to the interests of the town of Liverpool, the noble Lord has been at his post, not as the representative of a party, but as the guar dian of the whole constituency; and we have every rea son for believing that his public conduct has secured the admiration and confidence of the electors. The following letter has been received by the Mayor : " London, August 13, 1833. " MY DEAR SIR S I think it due to the high station which you occupy among my constituents to acquaint you with my intention of sailing to-morrow for Calais, on a visit to the moun tains of Switzerland. The fatigues and anxieties of this protracted session have made a complete change of - scene desirable, and I see nothing in the state of public business to detain me. Every question of general, and, I believe, of local importance or interest, is now disposed of, and Parliament will probably be prorogued in about ten days. " All matters of private interest entrusted to me I leave in the hands of Mr. Wainwright, with whose zeal and experience in business the inhabitants of Liverpool are well acquainted. " Believe me, my dear sir, yours very faithfully, (Signed) " SANDON." " The Mayor." THE PROVINCIAL PRESS. Whatever the motive on the part of one ofout contemporaries, we are much inclined to thank him for drawing public attention to a parliamentary return relating to the circulation of the pro vincial press, so far as we are concerned. Unlike some of our neighbours, we have not to labour to prove that " but for such or such p. reason, our circulation would have been so and so." —We fight speak of the stamps we have used in addition to those which appear against the " Liverpool Standard"- in the return ; but all that -we throw overboard. We are perfectly content to rest upon our 37,000 copies; only begging our read ers to recollect that, although in a very thriving and promising state, we are still quite in our infancy; and at the date of the return in question we were precisely four months and eight days old. A simple rule in arithmetic will enable any of them to determine our circulation at that period; since when, only two of the four elementary rules of tbat science—addition and multiplication—have been brought into practice with us. The other two rules, which we need not name, we leave to the fa miliar study of our rivals. On the 23d of November in the present year we shall celebrate our first birthday; and our thanks will be most especially due to any right honourable or honourable gentleman who will, as speedily as may be after that day, move for a similar return of the circulation 'of the provincial press. It may be vanity—but we think such a return would be gall and wormwood to many we could name; and we will venture, by anticipation, to place our numbers against those of three of our contemporaries—we do not mean any one of three—but the three together. NEW HALF-TIDE CHANNEL IN THE RIVER MERSEY. We feel peat pleasure in being able to congratulate the en terprising merchants and ship-owners engaged in the trade of th?s port, on the success which has attended the exertions of Lieut. Denham, aided by Lieut. Robinson, (who were deputed by the Board of Admiralty to make a survey of the river,) in ascertaining the existence of a new half-tide channel, at once affording the most invaluable and increased facility of naviga tion in the approach to the port of Liverpool. It is scarcely possible to attach too much importance to the result of the in teresting and unwearied labours of these gentlemen, who have been most indefatigably engaged in their surveys since the period of their arrival in Liverpool. We are informed that the advantages stated to be comprised by the discovery of this new half-tide channel are these :—that a maritime intercourse may be pursued at all hours, and that a channel to seaward is progressively forming, which affords, at the present time, twelve feet water at two hours' flood, and seventeen feet at half tide; that a ship coming in with an easterly wind can stand up the Crosby Channel, approaching from the northward, at as early a period of the tide as the Rock Channel affords. Considering that Liverpool is about to enter on a new sera in the employment and extension of her trade and shipping to China, we hail this boon as the more welcome, coaling, as it does, at a period when vessels of a large size arc likely to be engaged in the China trade, and when every species of in creased facility and security to navigation generally, will be not only required, but called most fully into action. Prince Esterhazy has fulfilled, since his return to town, his enga g ementg to his creditors. The present month was origin ally appointed for paying the balance, and a sum nearly amount jug to £30,000, has been paid within the last few days. The final departure of Baron Nieutnann, the late Austrian Charge d'Affaires, is said to have broken off a contemplated matrimonial alliance between his Excellency and a wealthy Dowager Countess, still in the prime of life, and possessing many personal attractions. FATAL ACCIDENT OFF SCARBOROFGH.—This watering-place was thrown into great alarm on Monday. About noon that day, the James Watt steam-packet, from London to Edinburgh, hove in sight, when a coble, named the Friends, of Scarborough, Clayburn, master, put off with six passengers and their luggage, to proceed to the packet. The colale had also on board three seamen, and nine dogs belonging to one of the passengers, Proceeding to the Moors. When the coble arrived within about ten yards of the packet, then about a mile distant from the shore, the sea being very rough, the wind N.N.E., caused the packet to take a sudden lurch, by which she descended upon the Coble, and the paddle-box completely upset her. Two other cobles were at a short distance, and lent all assistance to those immersed in the water. The seamen on board the cobles ex erted themselves, and by their exertions, and those of Lord William Lennox, who was on board, the lives of all the passen gers, except one, were preserved: that one was Mr. George, Johnstone, Collector of the Customs at Hull, who had come to Scarborough the Saturday preceding, and was then intending to proceed by the packet to Leith. This gentleman was laid hold of in the water by Clayburn, the master of the coble, but while bearing him up, the packet took another lurch, 'and the paddle box struck Mr. Johnstone on the head, by which Clay burn lost him for nearly a minute. When he again caught him, Mr. Johnstone was floating with his face downward, and dis played no signs of life, though his eyes were partly open.— .Clayburn bore him to a coble, with the other passengers, but. he was quite dead. The other sufferer a gamekeeper, proceed ing to the Moors with dogs, was withmuch difficulty restored. The dogs were saved, and the greater part of the luggage was recovered. An inquest was held ou Tuesday at the Town-hall, hefore the coroners for the borough.' The veidict was—" We find that the deceased came to his death by the accidental up setting of the coble, caused by the lurching of the packet. We wish to express our dissatisfaction at the conduct of the captain of the packet in not coming nearer shore for the pur pose of taking in passengers, and we lay a deodaud of £2O on the packet." We understand the deceased was a widower, and has left five children. Lord Wm. Lennox came on shore with the sufferers, and paid them every attention. On returning to the packet he also had a narrow 'escape, for in seizing a rope which was thrown to the coble in which he was, he was dragged overboard, and was in the water several minutes before he could be got up, and then was much exhausted.—lork Herald. LONDON LATEST NEWS. Wednesday Evening, Half-past Seven o'clock. Our consol market during the last three days has been very passive; the fluctuation not having exceeded a per cent. The closing price, both fur money and for the account, was 89i this afternoon. There has been an advance in 'Bank Stock, which closed this afternoon at 209-1 2114. India closed at 241 to 212. No material feature ha's been displayed in the foreign mar ket. Portuguese Scrip fell 1 per cent. this morning, but rallied to 232 3, at which it closed. The Bonds, after being 871, left off at 88189. The following were the closing prices of the other leading securities. Belgian, 961 ; Brazilian, 711; . this latter stock has been on the decline ever since the receipt of intelligence from Brazil of Au intention of the people to suppli cate lion Pedro again to play the despot there, prior to which. the bonds were 76. Danish - 7 , 11 75; Dutch, 514 2; Spanish, Russian Bonds are 1661. Advices from Bahia state that in consequence of some specu lation for Buenos Ayres, the market had for a time been left bare of flour, but that subsequently 1000 barrels arrived from London, 200 from Liverpool, BUO from Gibraltar, 200 from Trieste, 100 from Marseilles, and '72o' from Boston. Codfish was very scarce, and a cargo would fetch 12 dollars per drum. Salt was very high, and a cargo would bring 720 dollars per al quere. Sugars were abundant; the amount in the warehouses was 18,000 cases, and the whole amount received during the year was estimated at 50,000 cases. LONDON ELECTION. The election of a member of parliament, in the room of citizen, stationer, and alderman Sir John Key, Baronet, com menced on Monday, when Mr. Kemble was proposed by Mr. Thomas Wilson, who for several years represented the city, and seconded by Mr. Alderman Brown. Mr. Crawford, the other candidate, was nominated by Mr. W. J. Denison, and seconded by Mr. Travers. Mr. Kemble, in his address to the electors, said that in the course of his canvass he had been asked by an elector " If he would support the present ministry ?" To which he most dis tinctly replied, '• No, I will not." If to support the ministers was the understanding upon which his opponent sought to re present them in parliament, the electors would see whether they had not a less chance of an independent member in Mr. Craw ford than in himself. A subscription had been offered him (Mr. Kemble) to defray the expenses of his election, which he had. thankfully declined. In conclusion, Mr. Keuible said that he was favourable to the reform of any real abuses, whether in the church, the state, or the municipal laws. Mr. Crawford also addressed the electors, and in the course of his speech said that he had long known the advantages that Liverpool had over London. It had been long represented by a cabinet minister; and one of his principal reasons for standing there that day was, that he might have an opportunity of asking ministers those questions which he could not do elsewhere. He would with pleasure explain to his ,hou, opponent the hints he had heard respecting a certain sum. lie had a large family, and more than Iris own to maintain, and he objected to go into a contested election, the expenses of which he could not cal culate. He had now answered that taunt of his oppqnent, and he hoped it would do him much good. The first principles, which were the offsprings of his own reflections, were against Tory principles, which no longer governed the country. — Whatever they were, they were now matured in him, so that if now pleased with him, they need not fear he would desert them. A poll was demanded by the friends of Mr. Kemble, which commenced on Wednesday. LATEST PARTICULARS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Wednes . day Evening. This has been the first day of the voting for a representative for this metropolis, in the room of Sir John Key, baronet, whose "untoward" affair has obtained him the honour of the steward ship of the Chiltern Hundreds. Up to a late hour yesterday, notwithstanding the utmost exertions of the whigs, radicals, destructives, and all the other slaves of the bill, not a doubt was entertained of Mr. Kemble's success, from the vast number of promises he had received. But this day has displayed acts of treachery and political faithlessness, scarcely equalled even in any of the numerous displays of duplicity placed on record since " reform" came in fashion. Scarcely had the polling commenced, when it was found that numbers of those who had, in the most positive manner, given their promises to Mr. Kemble, were voting for his opponent; and this continued through the day, until the numbers at the close of the poll were For Mr. Crawford 2854 For Mr. Kemble • l5Bl Majority for the radicals It is supposed Mr. Kemble will retire from the contest. It will be seen by the above that the citiiens of London redeem their pledges much after the fashion of their late representative, the foolscap baronet, and that with them a promise is a mere mockery, and deceit a virtue. It must be remembered how particularly the whig-radical-LinERAL (!) candidate inquired into the probable cost of his standing the contest, and the very low estimate rendered him by the "cunning Isaacs". who sought to stretch his purse-strings. We have little demur in averring that the weathercock displays of this day will convince him that the estimate has been very much understated, and to so cool a calculator as Mr. Crawford this will convert triumph into sorrow, and cause him to turn with melancholy musing from the figures of his majority to those of his expenses. His victory, in fact, will resemble that of Pyrrhus, and his exclama tion will probably be the same. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (Written exclusively for the Liverpool Standard.) The Wolverhampton meeting, which opened on Monday last, drew from our sporting circles a tolerably large sprinkling of turf speculators, who effected business freely and spiritedly, both on the week's sport and the Great St. Ledger. Upon tne latter wel have few material alterations to notice. Belshazzar does not appear to have so many friends as at our last quota tions, and Rockingham less. The Mole creeps more into pub lie-estimation, and the odds against him have diminished to 13 to 1. Marpessa, who it was expected would make another sudden rise into favour; an.d perhaps overtop Mussulman and Rockingham, remains in state quo. The week's sport at \Vol verhamptop, to which much interest was attached in conse quence of the excellent entries and pod fields anticipated, went off with great eclat, although the knowing ones were some what taken in upon the two-year olds' race, for which Vittoria (the hitherto pride of the Lancashire sportsmen) was the de cided favourite, and 3to 1 was freely bet on her; she, however, was beaten easily by Mr. Edmund Peel's Yorick, against whom sto 1 was laid. Six started, namely, the winner, Vittoria, Mad Tom, Ileads-or-Tails, Shelah, and Enville. Vittoria's backers were much astonished at her losing, being one of the best two-year olds of the day. She has won no less than five two-year old stakes this season, namely, at the Liverpool Spring, the Chester, the Manchester, Liverpool Aintree, and Newton meetings. For the Trial stakes, Perseverance was backed at 10 to 1 against the field, and won easy, beating Philosopher. The Produce was won in a canter by Sir W. Wynne's hr. filly by Filho da I'uta, beating ch. f. by Sultan; betting, 5 to 4 im the winner. The Wolverhampton stakes, for which 10 started, including Mr. Beardsworth's Chester and Ludlow, were won by Mr. Mostyn's b. in. Her Highness. Russell wa s the favourite at 6 to 4 against him, and the betting against the winner was sto 1. The Maiden Plate was won by Dame Durdan, beating b. c. by Lottery and two others. The Thirty Sovereign Sweep, for which 5 and 6 to 1 was bet upon Caliban, were taken by b. c. by'Lottery, three paid. The Cleveland Cup was won by Perseverance, beating the adroit cup stealer, Lady Stafford, and Giovanni; the betting was even on the winner, and 3to 1 against her Ladyship. The Ten So vereign Sweep was taken by Bazaar, beating four others. The Wrottesley Stakes, of 10 sovs. each, were won by Mr. Beards worth's Wolverhampton, beating Harriett. The Holyoake Stakes, which excited much interest, were won by Her High ness, beating Manchester and Independence. Manchester was the favourite at 2 to 1 against, 3 to 1 against Her Highness, and 4 to 1 against Independence; won by about a neck, four paid. The Members' Plate of £6O was won by Traveller, beat ing Puss and Brother to Denton. The conclusion of these races ended the sporting transactions of the week, nothing hav ing been done on any other events than those named. The following is the latest state of the betting in Manchester, Thursday : DONCASTER GREAT ST. LEGER.-5 to 1 agst Muley Moloch ; 61 to I agst Belshazzar; 9 to 1 agst Mussulman (taken) ; 10 to 1 agst Rockingham (taken); 12 to 1 agst Marpessa (taken) ; 13 to 1 agst the Mole ; 15 to 1 agst Connoisseur ; 16 to 1 agst Anne; 1,0 to 1 agst Revenge ; 3U to 1 agst Tutor (taken) ; 35 to 1 against Tim (taken.) None others mentioned in the Man chester sporting circles this week. The latest betting received from Hyde Park, quotes Muley at 5 to 1; Belshazzar at 13 to '2; and Mussulman, The Mole, and Anne, had gained a point or two upon the last quotations; 6 to 1 was taken agst Mr. Wal ker's three; 1400 to 800 on Revenge agst Tim was taken, and 700 to 400 on 'rim against Forrester was taken; 700 to 400 on Tim agst Clearwell (taken) ; 750 to 50 agst Glaucus and Jack Faucett (taken) ; 750 to 50 agst Tim and Revenge (taken) ; 1000 to 50 agst Lot, Laurel's dam, and Frankenstein (taken) ; 250 to 200 on the field agst Muley- Moloch, Belshazzar, Mussul man, and The Mole. THE DERRY.-17 to 1 agst the Duke of Grafton's Olympic (offered); 18 to I agst Captain Gardner's Comet (taken) ; 500 betted between.the two. OA ics.-200 even between Zulema and Louisa. FOOT-RACE FOR £5O.—A pedestrian feat, in the shape of a foot-race for £5O, between two " crack professors of the art," named Driukwater and Brigs, (the former better known by the classical appellation of Dickey Misfortune,) came off on Monday last upon Kersall-moor, Manchester. The race was two miles ' and such was th e i nterest man if este d b y t h e a d m i rers of feats of the kind, that several thousands of persons, from va rious parts of the county, were present to witness the perform ance, upon which some hundreds of sovereigns depended. The parties had contended• before at Liverpool, when the Pet of Harpurhey (Dickey) was beaten, or supposed to be, for many at the time entertained an idea that "the thing was a go," but that was not as Poor Richard said. He acknowledged himself fairly beaten, and was determined to redeem his lost laurels, and accordingly this match was made. Both men appeared in gocd condition for a race, but Isaac Briggs looked more Adapted for running than hi s competitor. They had a fair start, the cun ning Isaac trying for the lead, but was baffled by Dickey, who shortly headed him about two yards, which situation he main tained for the first time round, when he gained more ground, and succeeded in reaching the winning . post 60 yards or more a-head of his opponent, amidst the deafening shouts of the spec tators. The two miles was performed in S minutes and 22 se conds. The winner is open to run any man in England for £lOO. CRICKET.—On Monday last a match of cricket, between the second eleven of the Manchester Club and eleven of the gentle men of the Green Hevs' Club, came off upon the ground of the former, opposite the White House, Hulme. This was a long threatened match on the part of the Green Heys' Club, and ex cited considerable interest amongst the players. Some betting upon the game took place, which, at the commencement, was 2 to 1 in favour of the Manchester Club, but, in the second in nings of the Green Heys', it was about even. Manchester went in ffrat, and came out scoring 62, and the Green Heys', in their first innings, scored 34; Manchester, second innings, scored 54, and the Green Heys 75, Manchester winning by a majority of 7. Upon the whole the play was very good on both sides, and the auspicious weather greatly enhanced the delights of the day's sport. The Green HeYs'' Club, in the first innings, were peculiarly unlucky, th ree of "their best players being caught out in their first ball s; th e i r b att i ng was exce ll ent, but the fielding of the second eleven was by far superior. Manchester had also the advantage in bowlers, choosing in their number four mid dling, good ones, and Green Hevs' but two. The return match will be played the second week in September. A match is talked of between the second eleven and the Rochdale Club: the former are willing to play provided the latter will exclude the Sheffield player, \ incent. The Dean and Chapter of Durham have made choice of the Rev. T. W. Pelle, M. A., Incumbent of St. Catherine's, anti Head Master of the Royal Institution Schools in this town, to be Senior tutor and one of the three Senior Fellows of Durham College, which will be opened for the reception of students in October next. THE DRAMA. • Mr. and Mrs. Yates made their first appearance for seven 1 years at our theatre, on Mond a y night, in " Henriette the For saken," and i n the '" Sleep Walker," Yates sustaining the part of Somno, originally written for the display of Mathews's mimic powers. On Tuesday night they made their second appearance in " Victorine; or, I'll Sleep on it." This " peculiar and popular drama, as acted at the Adelphi, London," is, we suspect, of French origin, but; n' importe, come from whence it may, it possesses all the requisites for the display of good acting, and an interest that rivets the attention of an audience. The first scene opens with Victorine, an embroideress of nine teen, who is discovered in a garret, subject to the annoyances arising from the caprice of her customers, and an indecision as to whether she ought to accept the hand of her lover, an hum ble but honest h a rd- wor ki ng upholsterer, for whom he has an affection, whose means are too circumscribed for her ambition, or become the mistress of a Duke. To meditate on this point she tells the upholsterer, who is importunate for an answer, that she will "Sleep on it." - With this determination she retires to her couch, and in her sleep has a dream which is represented in the second and third acts. The second act opens after a supposed lapse of five years, and. presents the audience with Victrwinc, aged 21, in all the splen dour of the mistress of a man of fashion, and surrounded by ail the luxuries that money.can purchase. In the mere wantonness of her caprice she decides on having her rooms newly fur nished, sends for an upholsterer, and is waited upon by Michael, her former lover, in the capacity 'of the upholsterer's foreman. She offers him money, which he indignantly rejects, and leaves the room. At the close of this act she receives a letter from the Duke closing the connection between them, on account of her supposed infidelity. the third act commences after a supposed lapse of twenty years, and in the first scene Victo; in e appears as the ci-devant keeper of a low gambling-house, out of which she is about to be turned, saving lost all that she had in the world, and unable to procure even the necessaries of life. Two escaped convicts, who had been her companions, are traced t o thi s house, and Michael, now a Captain in the National Guard, enters in ptir suit of them, and again recognises in the person of the mistress of the house, where stolen property is discovered, the Victorine whose memory he still fondly cherishes. In a fit of distraction she rushes out, and is• supposed to have thrown herself into the Seine, when the scene changes, and Victorine is discovered lyingon her couch, awakening from the horrid dream which has been thus represented. Michael knocks at her door, is admit ted, and frankly accepted as her future husband. Having given this outline of the piece, in which several other good characters are introduced, and especially the one per formed by Mr. Yates, Alexand re, a roue, aged 35, in the first act, M. de St. Alexandre, a horse-dealer of 40, in the second, and Alexandre, a juggler and escaped convict, of 60, in the last act, we have to uvtice the performances of Mr. and Mrs. Yates, both of wiinni stand high in their profession. Mrs. Yates possesses an agreeable person, with a voice of peculiar sweetness, and in her acting reminds us of Miss Kelly. We can truly say that we never saw a more perfect perform ance than her Victorine. In the scene with Michael in the second act, she drew a fine picture of the workings of a mind roused to a consciousness of its degradation from following a vicious life;. and again in their second intervie‘v in the garret of the gambling-house, where th e re t ros p ect o f h er past life drives her to distraction. We cannot in this summary omit the scene in which she awakens from her dream, with a feeling of suffo cation, from drowning.. Her doubtS as to the reality of the scenes that had passed before her mental vision in her horrid dream," and her restoration to a consciousness that she was not the wretched being that she fancied herself, but the inno cent Victorine, were beautifully pourtrayed. Air. Yates is best known on the London boards as a mimic and a caricaturist, and is so happy in representing the extrava gancies of nature, that we verily believe he would be more at home in the character of a hog with six legs than in one with four. His style of acting is peculiarly his own, and excel lent in its kind. In' Sylvester Daggerwood he introduced some imitations of Young, Alunden, Kean, Blanchard, and others— his best were those of Kemble, Young, and Keau; but we doubt if the likenesses can be properly appreciated by a provincial audience. The great attraction of last night was the first appearance of Tagl,ioni, her "aide-de-dance," M. Silvain, and Mademoiselle Garbois. After the "new petit Comedy" of " Was Ito Blame," Mademoiselle Terpsichore made her first appearance in "Le pas de la Sylphide," and her salute to the audience was an swered by a general round of applause. These preliminaries being adjusted, the dance commenced with great spirit, and perhaps a more beautiful display of agility, coupled with grace ful and classic attitudes, was never exhibited than those of Tao-lioni and Silvain. Many of them would have been fine subjects for an artist's studio, and this brings to our recollec tion that some of them have been copied and published. The dance was succeeded by the farce of "£20,000; or, London Love ;" when the dancers gave us another treat in " La Tyro lienne." The house was literally an overflowing one, and Mademoiselle Taglioni_ has had the honour of accomplishing what all the other stars that have appeared here have tailed to do. This, we suppose, bespeaks " the march of intellect" in Liverpool, and proves the vast superiority of operatic dancing, as an intellectual entertainment, over every other species of theatrical amusement. APOLLO VOCAL CONCERTS. The third of these concerts was held on Wednesday evening, at the concert-room, Adelphi H o t e l, b e f ore a very crowded and highly respectable audience. We suppose there were upwards of 250 present. Beethoven's Symphony in D was given with great effect on the piano-forte, by Mr. G. Holden and Mr. W. Combe. The overture to the second act (Frieschutz) we did not think so well adapted for a piano -forte, (even as a duet,) although it was evidently very well performed. " The Battle of Mute.," by Mr. G. Hargreaves, of this t own , was sung in a very judicious style by M r . Pemberton. It is a composition of very great merit; and, we have no doubt, with instrumental accompaniments would be exceedingly effective. The modulation into C minor, at the part—" But sorrow clouds the Moslem brow," was highly impressive, evidently showing r the gift of genius_ - •• (,fuel sembiante" was well given, but we do not think it exactly suited for a concert-room ; at least it is not one of Ros sini's happiest productions. Bishop's well known song, i " Tell me, my he ar t," was de servedly encored. , Indeed Mss Pott's gave it with a degree of sweetness that we have very rarely heard. " Crudel perche," by Miss Johnson and Mr. Caird, also re ceived a very general encore. We can only say that their voices assimilated so well that we could have listened to them with increased satisfaction a third time. The finale to the first act, "Cielo it mio labbro," was certainly the greatest morceau of the evening. Knowing the difficulty, the extreme difficulty, of this concerted piece, we were not a little astonished at hear ing it executed in such a finished style. We think, in selecting this composition,. the, conductor se eme d d eterm i ned to put the vocal talent of the town to the greatest possible test; but we are sure that he must (as did the whole of the company) feel the highest gratification and satisfaction at the result. Had it not been for the length of this quartet, and the feeling the audience had that it was almost unreasonable, an encore certainly would have been demanded. We beg to suggest to the conductor that this delightful quartet he repeated at the next concert, as we are sure it will be warmly welcomed by the whole of the subscribers. In the second act, Mr. Brown played Nicholson's twelfth Fantasia for the Flute in a very superior manner. The air, " Savourneen deelish," was given with a delicacy of feeling ana mellownese of tone that was extremely creditable to him. In the scena " 0, 'tis a glorious sight," Mr. Caird evinced considerable musical powers. At the part " Mourn all ye maidens," Mr. C. gave it with a pathos and tenderness of ex pression highly creditable to his profession. . " Lo here ! the gentle lark," was sung by Miss Johnson in an effective style,----she was deservedly encored, although we felt sorry, as she was evidently very much indisposed the whole of the evening. " Though he be now a grey grey friar," as the finale to the last act, would have been more effective had then) been a chorus, it seemed to be too weak as a finale. We can not conclude these remarks without expressing our congratula tion to the conductor, Mr. G. Holden, for his very excellent selection of mnsic for this concert. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAXD4RD. Sin,—The following extracts from Mr. Babbage's work on " The Economy of Machinery," may be of use to the Liverpool workmen, in enlightening them upon the probable consequences of their present combination. Of use, that is to say, if they would condescend to read or at - tend to them,. aud.if the directors of the Mechanics' Institutes would employ lecturers in instruct ing the mechanics in such branches or knowledge as these, in stead of geology and hydrostatics, and " the affinities of lan guage," they might do some ttood, instead of ministering to emptiness and vanity. Mr. Ba'bbage may perhaps be admitted as an authority, because he is " a reformer of the first water." " The effects arising from combinations among workmen are almost always injurious to themselvvs. There are instances in which the public suffer by increased price at the moment, but are ultimate gainers from the permanent reduction which re sults; while the improvements which are often made in ma chinery, in consequence of a strike,' most frequently do an in jury to that class that gave rise to them." As an instance, he says, about twenty vears ago the skelp-forgers in a gun-barrel manufactory stri".k for an advance of wages. 'the superintend ant immediately turned his attention to the subject, and dis covered a new method of forging them, which effected a great reduction of human labour, and rendered it the work of any common man, whereby all skill was excluded, and dexterity was no longer required. Again, the skelp welders struck for an advance some time af terwards. The consequence was, that the contractor bad re course to a mechanical plan of welding by rollers, which dis pensed with the necessity of human labour at all. Mr. Babbage then woceeds to observe, "That combinations among workmen are froductive of s - eri2us incenvenience.among themselves is admitted by all parties. The little capital they possessed, which ought to be hoarded for days.of illness or distres , , is exhausted! habits of idleness are formed • the kinder feelings of the heart are chilled, and passions are called into action inju rious to the happiness of the individual, and destructive of those sentiments of confidence which it is equally the interest of the master and his workmen to maintain. 'lf any of.the trade refuse to join, the majority too often forget the dictates of justice, and endeavour to exert a species of tyranny which can never b e per mitted to exist a f ree country." "In conceding, therefore, to the working classes, that they have a right to combine, it ought ever to be kept before their attention that the same freedom which they claim for themselves they must allow to others; and while every effort which kindness can dictate should be made to show them the true consequences which will result from their conduct, the strong ar,n of the law should be unhesitatingly applied to prevent them from violating the liberty of their own, or of any other portion of the community." Again he quotes from the evidence before the committee on the fluctuation of manufacturers' employment, "Any violence used by the workmen against the property of their masters, and any unreasonable combination on their part is almost su,re 11414 to.be iivurious to themselves," as the conibination Of the Ltiddites iu Is 4 ottinghauashire alone drove a great. number of lace frames from that district, and caused establishments to be formed in Devonshire. We know what has happened to the shipwrights in Liver pool, and that the ship-building trade has been bait driven from the port; and though houses roust be built, still the plasterers, and bricklayers, and joiners'may depend uPon it, that their present combination will eventually injure'themselves—inone diately, if they are defeated, but eventually, even if they should succeed for the_ present in gaining the victory; a victory,, how ever; which, opposed as they are by public opinion, it is impos sible they ever should gain. If; however,' thay - chnte to perse vere in combination, let them recollect that compul,ory combi nation is "a tyranny which can never be permitted' to' exist in a free country." There must be no oaths, no drawn swords; lire law must put this down.—Yours, 'UItD.EIt. The contest for the honour of collecting the parish rites of Liverpool ended yesterday at four o'clock, by the election of Mr. Zachaliah B. Houghton, who was declared duly elected. We beg to congtatulate this gentleman on his success.