The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-04 00:00:00

FROM OUR

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

dence, falling_ back a step himself, and handing his daughter

a step forward to illustrate:- his question :

I ask you simply

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as between man and man,,you know, DID yoik ever hear of
such damned nonsense as putting_ Pet into quarantine ? "
The preceding_sketch, it,will, beperceived, is replete with the
tenderness of handling and minute fidelity for which the

writings of " Bee' acquired.se deserved a celebrity.. -
The "Midsummer Night's Dream" has been,re-produced at
Sadler's-Wells Theatre with good effect. In the-part of Puck
IliiSB Kola EDOIIIN has made a "hit," as his-also Miss JANE
DlAnssox in the character o Hermia. _Bottom, Mr.

PHELPS was eminently successful, his performance being. fall.

of racy humour. At, the Princess's, Mrs.. INCIIBA.LD's,
comedy. " Every one has his Fault" has been revived with a
strong, cast and good: sate' ess. MadP.p3o. Jznrzur Lzlfit
GOLASCHMIDT has arrived in London, and, will make her ret.

appearance on Mondv next in the. Oratorio of the
" Creation."

USES OE'SLT. GEORairS'-114.LL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARII.

see it noticed in some of your eontemperariestliat
certain Town Coot hors are opposed to the grauting,:of St.
George's-hall for: the meetings of say societies, except-thosi
to which the 'public at large shall have unrestricted; adniis-
sion. This suggestion certainly has the merit of originality,
for it has not been supposed hitherto that the, rabble in the
streets of a great port were inclined to seek intellectual
provement, or that they would contribute much, to the com-
fort and reiularity of a meeting, even if they:were. There
is nothing more certain than that when St. George's-hall grew
out of the-idea of a mere music-hall, a prominent ideawith the
public was-that it should be-a sort of home, for learning and
the fine-arts, affording facilities for their promotion and culti-
vation such as are greatly wanted in this town. It would appear
that,.after an expenditure of money, the fulli extent of which
God only knows, we are, to go back to. a mere music-hall,
afford.no facilities for literature or science, and rely for the ele-
vation of taste and character on what our Scotch neighbours
tersely call the "Kist whistles." Every one has heard of
the.dog in the manger which could not eat hay, and would
not permit the oxen to.do so ; and the conduct of those mem-
bers of our municipal body who. intend to obstruct human,
progress (it is to be, hoped they are few in number) is of the.
same kind. Their- ideas of a palle.institution are evidently
taken from a public house ; all ideas of the effect, primary
and secondary, being ignored, and nothing looked to but the-
fatal facility of admission. 'The. late Mr. Ewbank, of Everton,
once delivered a lecture on " Common Sense" at the Collegiate
Institution. It is, a pity that it was not published, or some
copies of it might have been advantageously bestowed upon
those Town Councillors who propose to "advance backward"
in the latter half of the nineteenth century.—Yours, cto.
26th Nov., 1855. ONE OF THE PUBLIC.