The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-21 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL.

THE ZOUAVES.

These theatrical relics of the Crimean war made their
first appearance before a LiVerpool audience last night.
Their reception was most cordial, and due as much to
their dramatic talents as to the pectiliat• interest attach-
ing to them as the original Zouaves. They perform
the ladies in their plays, and sing and act with a grace
and precision which extort admiration. They will, no
doubt, become great favourites in this town ; 'and, as
their stay is necessarily limited, a visit to the Royal
should not be delayed.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.

MR. D. FISHER. AND MR. H. 'WATKINS.

3fr, 11. Watkins. the American comedian, who has
lately been introduced to a Liverpool audience, increases
nightly in public favour. He appeared last night (for
the fourth time in this town) as Jock°, (a deformed
negro slave,) in the drama entitled "The Pioneers of
America.," and was honoured with an enthusiastic call
before the curtain. Mr. David Fisher played William
in '" Black-eyed Susan,"--a part well celculated to dis-
play to advantage the talents of so popular an actor.
Miss Goodall, as usual, sang charmingly, and was, we
may also add, as usual honoured with a hearty encore.
To-night the proceeds of the performance are to be
devoted to an &lied, to which we doubt not the Liver-
pool pttblib need no invitation to give their hearty sup-
port. but were the object other than it.is—were there
no family of. a Robert Brough requiring assistance—we
think the names of the eminent and popular literary
gentlemen who are to conduct the entertainment would
of themselves be, a sufficient gnarantee for a crowded
house.

MR. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN AND
THE PHRENOLOGISTS,

Last evening Messrs. FoWier and Well's., plafenolo-
gists, publishers, authors, ,and lebttlieh, trade their first
bow to a LiVerpool audience.' in the Concert Hall.
There *vat A idrge and respectable attendance of both
seiet. The lecture of Mr. Fowler was at once instruc-
tive, entertaining, and illustrated with a very large
number of figure heads, principally portraits of dead and
living American geniuses and knaves, with a sprinkling
of illustration; from the philanthropic arid misanthropic
celebrities of the British Isles and continental nations.
The hearers were kept in one continued fit of laughter
and admiration. The names of Well-known characters
—Howard, for instance—were received ' with the
greatest applause, whilst the witty remarks of the
lecturer did away with, any and everything horrid
in the circumstances of Criminals incarcerated and
executed. At the dose of the lecture, three gen-
tlemen, selected indiscriminately by a provisional com-
mittee of Liverpool gentlemen from the audience,
mounted the platform in order to have their heads
examined, and their organic developthents made
publicly known. The first gentleman's name is
not known. The second was John Chapple, a por-
ter, employed at the Lime-street Railway Station. The
third was Mr. George Francis Train. The examiner
mysteriously handled his head, stroked his hair
in a very questionable manner, and after a -
few minutes' deliberation proceeded to pronounce Mr.
Train a man who cared for public opinion very probably,
but much more for his own : and to whom the dictates
of his own reason and his own philosophic deduc-
tions were of greater value than the teachings and
philosophic deductions of anybody else. He -was Com-
bative. He had probably seriously entertained the
idea of entering the army ; whether or not, in.
a good war he -would be in for a fight. Ha
carried out all his undertakings in a vigorous manner,
and was always successful. He was proud—very
proud. Of course he would bow to you if you bowed
to him, but your obsequity, indifference, or froWn, was
of no, material importance to his happiness. Mr.
FoWler enumerated a long list of good traits, to which,
from want of space, we cannot do' justice. • Mr. Train
returned thanks in a proper manner; assuring the
audience that his inward thoughts and secret powers
had been marvellously and correctly indicated, and
'finished by paying an eulogy to phrenology and
phrenologists. The lectures will be continued during
the week.