The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-10 00:00:00

COVENT GARDEN THEATRE

The ruins of the late theatre have been a centre of
interest to a great number of royal and aristooratic
visitors.

At thalf-past three o'clock on Friday his Royal High-
ness Prince Alfred arrived at the theatre, attended by
Colonel Phipps, and was received by Mr. Pouteau,
treasurer and secretary to the theatre, by whom the
young prince was conducted over the ruins.
Prince Alfred had scarcely left when his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales arrived, attended by Mr. Gibbs.
Mr. Pouteau again acted as cicerone to his Royal High-
ness, accompanied as before by Mr. Superintendent Dur-
and Inspector Dodd. The prince desired to be led to
spot from whence her Majesty had viewed the interior of
building on the previous day--a request which was imme-
diately complied with. The prince expressed the deepest
interest in the painful scene, and selecting a few curious
relics from the debris of molten glass and other refuse
lying around, asked permission to retain them. The prince
viewed the building from almost every point of view, and
before retiring expressed his sense of the attention which
had peen shown him.

The numbers of the nobility who continued to arrive
throughout th 3 day—both ladies and gentlemen—kept the
officials constantly occupied, the dangerous state of cer-
tain parts of the building, rendering it necessary that no
persons should be allowed to approach the ruins unat-
tended. The chief commissioner of police, Sir Richard
Mayne, has several times visited the ruins, and on Thurs-
day, after consulting the surveyors appointed by the 18
and 19 Vic., cap. 122, it was determined that all such
portions of the outer and inner walls as were in an unsafe
state should be at once pulled down. On Friday 200 men
were laid on, and all access to the ruins will bp stopped,
as well for the safety of the public as not to impede the
operations of the workmen. The surveyors have con-
demned almost all the walls, both on the outside and in
the interior of the building. They are to be pulled down
at first to a level, which will render accident almost im,
possible, and then the ruins will be handed over to the
representatives of the proprietors of the theatre.

TIM POISONING OF CAPTAIN KENT.—The two assistants
of Mr. Connor, apothecary at Newry, have been convicted
of the manslaughter of Captain Kent, and sentenced to four

months' in

prisonmen

A court

-martial is ordered to assemble on Monday, at
Portsmouth, to try Commander Frederick Warren and itir.
Herbert, the master of her Majesty's late steana.sloop
Polyphemus, for the loss of that vessel in the Baltic last
month.

ITANESS or Tlf,E LORD MAYOR.—The Lord Mayor bas
been so much indisposed during the last few days as to be
unable to preside in the justice room at the Mansion House.
His lordship is, however, so far recovered, that he will be
able to attend to his magisterial duties on Monday, this day.
IMPRISONMENT roa DEBT.—OR Saturday, in the insol-
vent debtors' court, Ann Larkin, and old lady eighty years
of age, was brought up to be discharged on sureties till her
tearing in April. There was no opposition, and two friends
of the insolvent, one of whom was also eighty years old,
attended to enter the required recogni,ance for her ap-
pearance. The bail was accepted, and the discharge was
ordered.

ST. ANNE'S DISPENSARY AND EYE AND EAR INVEMART,
9, Rosp.—nit L.—New patients entered on the books last
week, v:z., 8 h March :—Relieved at the institution, 152 ;
relieved at their own dwellings, 77 ; total, 229. Visitors,
Messrs. E. Watts and T. Kirk. Hon. secretary and
treasurer, Joseph Kitchen, Esq.
LIVERPOOL ROYAL INFIRMARY. Week ending Bth
March, 1856.—Admitted : In-patients, 35 ; out patients :
; casuals during the week, 9. Discharged : In-patients,
cured, 15 relieved, and at own request, 4 ; made out
patients, 5 ; irregular, 2 ; dead, 3. Remain in the house, 174.
House visitors : William Carson and Charles Freer,
Esqrs., Physician and surgeon for the ensuing week : Dr.
Dickenson and Mr. Stubbs. House surgeon : Mr. G. B.
Halford. Junior house surgeon : Mr. Cecil Webster.
Chaplain : Rev. H. J. Garrod, B.A. Robert Hutchison,
treasurer.

"HEALTH'S TRIBUTE SoctuTy."—A fete in connection
with this philanthropic and peculiar society, exponetive of
the principles of which frequent previous notices have
appeared, was given nn Thursday last, at the house of its
hospitable propounder and founder, Henry Ormerod,
Brunswick-road. The occasion was move than usually
brilliant and gratifying. The companyt numbering nearly
seventy, had to congratulate each other on the enjoyment,
not only of health but of a comfortable share of the world's
prosperity. The feature of the entertainments of the night
was a dramatic performance by members of the parent and
branch societies, which went of with the greatest eclat.
The entertainment was produced under the management of
Mr. H. C. Cadney, and its getting up would have done
credit to a first-rate professional. The magnificent room
in whioi the performance took place was most elegantly
adapted for the occasion. It was gracefully festooned, and
hung round with the standards of the Allied powers, em-
blematical of our victories in the Crimea. A neat stage
had been contrived, and the cos'umes, scenery, properties,
and all other appliances, were admirable—in fact it was a
Drury-lane reduced to miniature. The stage manager was
Mr. T. Billing, leader of the orchestra, Mr. F. Sorge, and
prompter, Mr. W. H. Courtley ; the whole of whom
fulfilled their respective departments to general admiration,.
The first piece was the late Mr. Dowling‘s burlesque
burletta of " Othello Travestie," the whole of the characters
in which were most admirably sustained. Without invidi-
ousness,:it may be remarked that the Othello of Mr. Young, the
lago of Mr. T. Billing, the Roderigo of Mr. Openshiam, the
Cassio of Mr. Matthews, the Desdemona of Mr. G. Tilston,
and the Ghost of Desclemonq of Mr. W. 11. Courtley,
received especial commendation by the audience. So admi-
rable a she ghost did Mr. Courtley make, that he was (sailed
non twice to " revisit," not " the glimps of the moon," but
the glare of the footlights. . The other characters were sus-
tained thus :—.Thike of Trentep, Mr. Jas. Seddon ; Brabantro,
Mr. Thomas James; _bank°, Mr. C. Seddon ; Montana,
Mr. Leah ; and Emilia, Mr. Leech. " A Dramatic
Picnic,"—a "thing of threads and patches,"—made up by
Mr. Cadney and others, and abounding in pungent hits at
the follies and foibles of the day, followed the burletta, and
created amazing merriment. The whole concluded with a
ball, in fancy and private costume. Mr. Ormerod's hospi-
tality on the occasion was on his meal liberal scale, and a
nost interzsting and pleasant night was spent,

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