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FATAL ORANGE RIOT.
LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, JULY 14, THREE P.M.—The
various °tang- Clubs in this town and its vicinity having
resolved upon a procession to-day, to celebrate the battle
of the 13,y0e, assembled at their respecive lodges at an
early hour, and proceeded to the place of rendezvous, the
stue of King George 111 , in the London-road. There
is a large space of ground at this spot, similar in some
respects to the square at Charing-cross. London, before
the fountains were erected. The aggregate number
could not be less than 2,000, and were probably nearer
3,000. The banners were fixed in " a species
of long low cart, that, being readily turned, can be
formed into an impassable barricade, at a cross street,
without a mom,,nt's delay. The officers of each lodge
had an orange and blue scarf, and each member was de-
corated with the same colours in festoons and rosettes.
Eight bands of music were engaged. But it was de-
ermined on the part of the Irish inhabitants of that
part of Liverpool that this procession should not be
allowed to pas., off quietly; accordingly many hundred.
of them assembled in the neighbourhood, armed with
pock-tfuls of stones and other missiles. The
" tylers," however, of the various lodges had each a
drawn sword, and as these altogether amounted to up-

wards of a hundred, and very isny of the. Orangemen
had also halberds, and others truncheon., while some
carried loaded pistols in their pockets, a desperate con-
flict speedily took place, which we regret to say, termi-
iiated in the loss of human life, the exact extent of
which we cannot as yet determin-; but one policeman,
one of the procession, and au Irishman are killed,several
dangerouily wounded, and many have received injuries
more or less severe.
As soon as the procession had got a little beyond Sey-
mour-street, the Irishmen saluted the Orangemen with
a volley ot hricknats and stones; the OratigerniAl ad-
vanced, those who had pistols drew them and fired upon •
• the crowd, while the swordsmen and halbardiers rushed
on to their assailants, wounding many and putting
them to flight. The scene at this moment it would be
impossible to deserioe; several were on the grourid wel-
tering in their Wood, others were hastily borne off by
their companions, and the Orangemen, being left mas-
ters of the field, coolly re- forrued, and proceeded through
the streets, the bands playing " cho Boyne Water."
They proceeded towards Toxteth-park, through Duke-
street, Great George-street, Rsuelsgh-street, Bold street,
Church-stre,t, Lord street, Castle street—in short, all
the principal thoroughfares of the town. The line ex-
tended a mile in length, with the swordsmen at intervals
throughout the line on either side, about 200 policemen,
with Mr. Commissioner Dowling at their head, formed
into a compact body, bringing up the rear.
Our reporter, after the fetal occurrence at the monu-
ment, inquired ot an inspector if it was intended to stop
the proce, stole but was informed, that unless they were
molested, it was intended to let them proceed quietly.
However, at Perk-lace some fresh rioting occurred,
without any very serious consequences. It was a re-
markable circumstai.ce that two soldiers cf the 28th

regiment were in the procession.
In Dale-street, a p ,ur fellow, not taking any part in
the procession, but who happened to have orange colours
rather profusely desplay, cf. and who, it was stated, had
just arrived by the train, was attacked by the anti-
Orange party, and a respectable householder who came
out to his a.sistance had a dead cat thrown at him,
which struck his sp,ctacles, knocking pieces of the glass
into his eyes, and he was carried off to the infirmary,
where the surgeon gave it as his opiniun that the bight
is wholly destroyed.
In Gloucester-street, Shaw's-brow, &c., there were
numbers of spectators who took no part in the affray,
but who received severe injuries from the indiscriminate
attAck of the armed procession. One man had a danger-
ous bullet wound in the fleshy part of the arm, another
bad his thumb nearly severed from his band, and scores
might be seen, bruised and bleeding, retreating from the
terrible conflict.
Near the Custom-house a man was left in the gutter
for dead, with a wound on his head between two and
three inches in length; still, for hours afterwards, the
procession perambulated the town, going over the same
ground, but no further riot had occurred up to the hour
at which our dispatch left (half past four P.M ). The in-
ngooteocheasvew
habitants, however, are naturally in great dread of the
approach of night. They know that tearful retribution
iisitoinntethodaetidh;adnothteaul"l3l,uocur per" on the docks returned to
work after the dinner-hour, and should the Orangemen
indeedill
ooilfy wouldtdh ei dispersed r4rvtsateienrdbrgieebbernelneeo.
spared
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separated from the main bed
or magistrates read the Riot
Act when the first '
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witnessed ibis proceediug
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m ede a rush at
one of the Itishmeu, who was dressed ltko a deck por-
ter, and .truck him on
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bh(eitit three hours afterwards.
tee back with his truncheon. Iu
a moment he was surrounded and knocked down, his hat
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seen in various
pares of tho town, evideetly contempla-
ting a rendezvous in tim course of the evening. We have
made inquiries at the last moment before closing our dis.
paten, but are unable to ascertain whtther any more

than the three lives which we hare already stated to be
sactifici d are loa, but a great number are in the hospital,
some of whoni are not expected to recover.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

;From he Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons•)
MONDAY, JULY 14.
SUPPLY.

Order for Committee read ; Motion made, and Question
proposed, " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair :"
Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " That" to
the end of the Question, in order to add the words " con-
sidering the public impor ance of maintaining as national in-
stitutions the very valuable schools of medicine in Ireland,
which have derived their chief efficiency from the instruction
afforded by the Dublin hospitals; to the support of which for
a long series of years Parliament has contributed, it is unjust
and impolitic to reduce the amount of the annual grant
which was allowed in 1848 and the preceding years to those
hospitals," instead thereof.— Question put, " That the words
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question." The
House divided :

MAJORITY—AYES, 106.
Aglionby, H. A. Forster, Matthew Parker, John
Anson, Colo- -' Fox, W. J. Pennant, Colonel
trinst, oob, _ -n, Colonel Perfect, Hobert
Bagshaw, John Untastone, W. E. Price, Sir R.
Baines, M. T. • Glyn, G. C. Ricardo, Osman
Baring, sir F. T. Graham, Sir James Rice, E. R.
Barrington, Viscount Greene, Thomas Rich, Henry
Barrow, W. H. Grentell, C. Pascoe Richer is Richard
Bass, M. T. Grenfell, Charles W. Rumbold, C. E.
Bell, Jacob G. ey, R. W. Russell, Lord John
Bellew, K. M. Grosvenor, Earl Russell, F. C. H.
Bernal, Ralph Guest, hir J. dalwey, Colonel
Blair, Stephea Hall, Sir B. Scubell, Captain
Boyle, Colonel Hailyburton, Lord Seymour, Lord
Brockman, E. P. Hastie, Alexander Smith, R. V.
Brotherton, Joseph Hatves, Benj. Smith, J. A.
Banbury, E. H. Heywood, James Smith, John B.
,lardwell, Edward Hodges, T. L. Smollett, A.
Carew, W. H. P. Borman, Edward Somerville, Sir W.
Carter, J. B. Howard, Lord E. Spooner, Richard
Christy, S. Howard, C W. 0. • -..., Stanfield, W. R. C.
Clay, James Howard, E. G. Thompson, Colonel
Clifford, Henry M. Hughes, W. B. Thompson, George
Cockburn, Sir A. Hume, Joseph - - Thomely, T. ~
Cowper, W. F. Hutchins, E. J. Vane, Lord H.
Craig, Sir W.G. Labouchere, Henry Villiers, Charles
Davie, Sir H. Langston, J. H. Wall, C. B.
Divett, Edward Lewis, G. C. Walmeley, Sir J.
Duckworth, Sir J. Lushington. Charles Williams, W.
Duncan, creorge Lygou, General Wilson, James
Duncuft, John M.Gregor, John Wood, Sir Charles
Dundas, Admiral M`Taggart, Sir:J. Wood, Sir W. P.
Dundas, Sir David 4,lllner, W. M.
Ellis, John Mostyn, E. TELLERS.
Elliot, John E. Noel, G. J. Hayter, W. G.
Evans, John Norreys, Lord Hill, Lord M.
Ferguson, Colonel Ogle, S. C.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE
MR. AND MRS. C. KEAN'S BENEFIT.
(From the Morning Herald.)
Last night Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean toek their first
benefit as managers of the Princess's Theatre. The
house overflowed in every quarter, and during the eve-
ning numbers went away reluctantly trom the doors,
finding it totally impossible to gain admittance. The
entire space usually allotted to the orchestra was parti-
tioned off into additional stalls, to accommodate, as we
were given to understand, parties who were anxious at
any price to obtain private boxes. Had the latter been
trebled, all would have been in demand. Even the top
slips were occupied by box company in full dress, who
were unable to squeeze themselves into any.other lo-
cality. Here were rank, fashion, beauty, intelligence,
and, above all, numbers, from the nobleman of high
caste down to the simple mechanic, residents and stran-
gers, regular play-goers and chance contributors, fami-
liar faces and foreign visitors, from far and near, from
the West-end, City, and suburbs, congregated
together for one purpose sad with one feeling—
to evince the high esteem they entertain for the
two greatest performers now on the English stage,
and to mark their approval of a system of manage-
ment which promises to restore the best and brightest
days of our national drama.. Such a demonstration of
public opinion is not to bo mietaken. It is an impartial
evidence voluntarily given, equally flattering as a per-
sonal compliment and conclusive as a professional judg-
ment. It amounts to a vote of confidence, carried atm-
nimously and without a division. Neither is this an
isolated case—one full house as an exception to the
general rule, or a single green spot in the desert, but a
clitnsx to the steady tide of sucvss which has been
flowing in towards the Princess's Theatre ever since
Mr. Kean assumed the management in the commence-
ment of October last.
It has been supposed, and repeated loudly, until at
last it was believed, that the Great Exhibition was a
leviathan which swallowed up everything—a devouring
whirlpoolewhickattracted-eand- engulfed -within its
vortex, !leaving the public and the countless thou-
sands who rushed up from the country with neither
time nor inclination to turn their thoughts to any
other amusement. The increasing audiences which
are seen nightly within the walls of this well-conducted
establishment show that this—with many others—is a
popular fallacy, disproved by fact. We rejoice that it is
so. True English acting of the highest class can never
entirely lose its attraction. It may be clouded for a
time by the caprices of fashion, the variations of taste, or
the influence of counteracting causes which rise and sub-
side from hour to hour as rapidly as the sands are shift-
ing when the glass is turned. But there is an inherent
vitality in the stage which sooner or later vindicates it-
self, and springs up with an elastic rebound, in spite of
prejudice or temporary neglect. During the last five or
six years, we have seen many theatres—rather ambiti-
ously than wisely—designated "homes for the legitimate
drama," houses of refuge where Apollo and his wander-
ing family were invited to take shelter, as in a haven of
security whence neither chance nor change could ever
more eject them—temples where the national stage of
England was expected to take root, like the Glastonbury
thorn, the moment it was planted, and blossom at once
with two-told fecundity. These edifices were built
on sandy foundations. They melted like the actors in
the pageant conjured up by Ariel at the command of
Prospero, " into thin air." The promised homes proved
to be but temporary lodgings, with very indifferent
accommodation. It appears to be reserved for the Prin-
cess's Theatre, under Mr. Keau's management, to realise
these shadowy promises, and restore the brilliant epoch
of Drury-lane and Covent-garden, when the stage really
flourished in a zenith of power and popularity—a
period which the departing generation mourns over as
never io return, and the " ingenuous youth" who are
stepping in their places laugh at, with characteristic dis-
regard of everything older than themselves, as exagge-
rated if not imaginary. Both (or we are mistaken) will
ere long change their opinions, and from the quarter we
have designated the new light is ready to burst forth.
The Muses are not dead, they only slumber, and will
start into life and energy when the Promethean torch of
animation is skilfully applied.
We have watched the progress of the season at
this theatre with constant anxiety and unmixed satis-
faction, although our notices, from many intervening
causes, have been less regular and detailed than we
could have wished in justice to have rendered them.
Several of Shakspere's noblest plays have been
produced and frequently repeated, with powerful
casts, end a most careful attention to all the accessorial
points. These minutite are too often neglected, while
they materially heighten the effect of the general per-
formance; and in this we should do well to take a lesson
from the continental theatres. Among the Shsksperean
revivals we may particularise Twefth Night, the Mer-
chant of Venice, Hamlet, in which Mr. Kean won.
early London laurels in 1838, and first established him-
self as a Shaksperean eactor, and Henry .117., rith she
Falstaff of Bartley, ba played at Windsor Castle.
The arrangements of this fine historical play, and the
entire getting up, with all the accompaniments of beau-
tiful scenery and correctly-studied costume, were more
complete and more uniformly excellent than we ever re-
collect to have seen during oar long experience. Among
the most prominent novelties there have been The Tem-
plar, a very effective play by a new author, and Love in
a Maze, a genuine comedy, from the practised pen of
Bourcicault—one of his most successful efforts, repeated
above sixty nights. These, with pantomime, farce,
melo-drama, and spectacle, in constant succession,
have administered to all tastes, and included almost
every form of dramatic composition. Every piece has
been produced with equal care and liberal expenditure.
A theatre conducted on these principles, with the well-
assorted available talent included in the company, must
succeed, and will advance in public estimation with cer-
tain progress. There are yet assisting influences pro-
ceeding from high quarters which might be brought in
to aid still further the cause of the legitimate drama,
and which might elevate its moral and political influence
tar beyond what can be effected by managerial tact and
acting ability. Of this we shall treat hereafter, when
we have more time and space to enter on what we con
cider a very important, and in many respects, a national
consideration.

A genuine English tragedy, such as the Gamester,
essentially sound, and universally applicable, so finely
Acted as it was last night in the two principal characters,
and so received by such an audience, is not- an occur-
rence of common-place interest, or confined in its effects
to the individual locality or single occasion. It bears a
refl?ctedinfluence on the stage as an instrument of
utility as well as entertainment, and becomes an era of
someimportance as regards the advancement of the
drama. It is a public lesson for the use of all students
in a refined, ennobling
art—a moral lecture in a caps
dusting form, delivered in a school of acknowledged
superiority. If we search the modern stage for a
specimen of living talent, less open to criticism or ob-
jection than any other, we may select the Baverley and
Mrs. Beverley of Mr. and Mn. Kean, and rest satisfied
;hat we have seen two very forcible dramatic conceptions
embodied throughout with a truth, a power, and stdistinct-
nese which can only be mastered by comprehensive
genius, joined to long experience. Mrs. Beverley is
drawn by the author as a natural, unaffseted personage,
as far as possible removed from a heroine, invested with
no regal loftiness of position to give solemnity to grief,
thrown into no extravagant dangers, and encircled by no
mantle of romance. Her sorrows are purely domestic,
such as the humblest can understand and feel the reality
of, and which may happen to any one at any time. They
erise from the fatal propensity of her husband for one
overwhelming vice, his only failing. She still fondly
loves and trusts him in spite of his follies and
infatuation. The very simpleness and familiar tone of
the character render it difficult for stage embodiment.
It requires the consummate ability of a great
actress to preserve the dignity and impressive
rireet of tragedy , under circumstances of every
day's occurrence, in the ordinary rank of educated life.
Mrs. Kean manages all this with surpassing skill and
delicacy. She can have derived scarcely any hints or
assistance from her predecessors, who had nearly all left
the stage before her career commenced. She could have
known little of them beyond traditionary description
and vague reminiscences. Her idea of the character is
entirely her own, and in seveaal points strikingly ori-
ginal. We may select her scene with Beverley in the
second act, where she surrenders her jewels on the first
hint that he requires them, and her interview with
Stukely when he ventures to lay bare his infamous de-
signs. Her answer to his assertion that the jewels have
been given to a mistress," I'll not believe it, produced a
sensation in the house 'which told that genuine nature
was there and recognised unanimously. It was one of
those master touches never to be forgotten: the refined
pencilling of genius which marks the wide distinction
between the simple painter sad the first-rate artist.
Mr. Sean's Beverley is deserving o. f equal praise.
Of the two the part is the more telling, as abound-
ing in superior bursts of passion and greater variety of
emotions; alternately swayed by excitement and repen-
tance, spurred on by hope, exasperated to frenzy, or
sunk down to the lowest depths of despair. His third
act scene with Stukely,, when driven frantic by his losses,
and his concluding act in the prison, after swallowing
the poison, are fearfully contrasted, and arrest the au-
dience in a manner we never saw surpassed. The men
held their breath in rivetted attention, and women sob-
bed with uncontrollable agony. If effect be it just test
of the actor's merits, as it unquestionably is, here is an I
instance in which it is most triumphantly exemplified.
An individual spectator may object to. a particular
passage, or a second may differ altogether
frreolimdintgheocronaception of the actor. Either may be right or
wrong; but the collective audience is the safest triounal.
The object is to produce effsct; and he who can produce
the strongest effect in the right place is certain to be
and is in all prebebility the
thheest.molsttrapr,olpyuhLairppeenc:.osr,
that the majority are wrong. or
' that then ands can be wrought up to simulten-ous ap-
probation unless the spark of genius has been ktudled to
inflsme them.
Mr. and Mrs. Kean should always be seen together
in the same play to be fully appreciated. Their styles
assimilate either by natural sympathy or long prac-
tice. Their powers are doubled by acting in unison.
Either deprived of the other would be like a general
without his right arm, or. a ship divested of rudder
and compass. Their combined talents were again seen
to grout advantage, and With extraordinary versatility,