The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-21 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL

A fashionable summer audience last night witnessed with
delight a series of surprising performances by Schreyer's troop
of dogs and monkeys. At the late hour at which We write,
we can only state that the whole exhibition is exceedingly
wonderful. The acting of the dogs is more talented, though
not more astonishing than that of the monkeys. Little
Jacob is, however, a host in herself. If the same monkey
performs the whole of the work for which this distinguished
foreigner is exclusively announced in the bills, we are of
opinion that a conviction with costs were easily carried by
any hedge attorney—the offence being indictable under Mr.
Martin's act for the prevention of cruelty to animals !
Amidst the shouts of the audience little Jacob sustained the
part of the waiter at the " Supper of -Lord Gogo," as the
waggish footman or train-bearer to Madame Pompadour in
the Gardens of Marly—the groom in an amusing four-
wheeled " upset" of poor Madame . Batavia in her ce-
riage, and went through exhausting evolutions on
tight rope, both with and without the balance pole
was this all: the same highly popular artist P.-
" Master of the Ring," and wound up her
the night as an undertaker, conducti
tried, c-.:nclemned,..and executed

,peared

s of a

It seems that this troop is ne
one,. but Schreycies " veritable
astonished the people of Paris, \
and the west end frequenters of ti
Royal, the St. James's. Of its precise num
nothing, but it comprises artists of every (
and shade, of monkey and Canine ability.
•clever and agile actress of " general utility,
tility and self-possession of a Vestris. She
teely.;
_seems vain of her figure and importance
from mien and manner is as graspingly deli
full share of applause. Several of the am
as they are highly trained. Men we have
nation—trying to walk, and occasionally sun
their fore-paws ; but the surprising ease with wh

Ler a divided nor a

with which he

Little Jacob is a

with t

rots of havi

.e as beautiful
en--of every

cr's dogs

aim at progressive

and "effect the same," to be appreciated
The entertainments are in three acts or parts, 'an.
concluded with performances which the bills do not es
gerate, by designating as most extraordinary
of the English bull terrier breed, sr 'ugs fry
clings with adhesive courage to a revs, -;nr
fireworks.

noble t
,e stage e

rings from t

'heel of ciazzlio

Upon the whole, these novel performan,
order of merit—merit of its kind. Tin
pleased.. To all juveniles, Schreyer's dogs

lators we

rilceys will

rove more entertaining and attractive than the ordh
f thi-eadhare pantomime. As times go, the
ikely to be patronised throughout the w;
ashionable audiences.
An intended notice of those pleasing, vocalists, the Miss
;miths and Mr. Barker, is reserved till Friday.

y are more than
;elc by full and

SIR ROBERT PEEL AND THE Nor,THri
VISION OF LANCASHIRE.

A. letter, of which the following is a copy, has been received
by Mr. Parker, M. P. for Preston, from the right hon. Sir
Robert Peel. It will be seen that the right hon. gentleman
declines to come forward as a candidate for North Lancashire.

Whitehall, April 22d, lE]

" My. dear Sir,—l request that you will express to ti
tlerhen who signed the resolution which you placed in
hand on Saturday last, my deep sense of the
-
they have conferred upon me.
Nothing could be more gratifying to me than to repre-
sent in parliament. my native county, and to have the oppor-
tunity of partly repaying the many obligations which I owe
to it, by the faithful and sedulous discharge of -
duties which that high trust involves.
" There is but one obstacle to nyv compliance with the n
quisition thus made to me, b
it arises from the influence of
would mat

ilour which

various

insuperable, 5-4 e, and
indred to thOsc which

connection

o rti y Lay

and -so satistractury to me. J. have te .
sented a constituency to whiCh I am bound by in
besides those which form the ordinary relation be
a member and leis constituents, and it would be so pl;
me, by any act of mine,. to relinquish the trust which t
their confidence and kindness Las been repeatedly renewe
that I must gratefully and respectfully decline to present m.
self as a candidate even for the Northern Division of Lan-
cashire.

ween a
nfnl to

"Believe me, my dear Sir, very faithfully yours,
" ROBERT PEE I

• li. l'ownlay Parker, Esq., M.P."

LIVERPOOL MECHANICS' INSTITUTION

LECTURES UPON ELECTRICITI

On Wednesday evening Robert Acidains, Es
most talontott air i jar:lectnr.ors of the da

course of ciglit lee

iineraus and attentive
itecl 4y a. nulAbe

s, upon this science, to an ex
His lecture w
conclusive exile

r.,nf

~..aferpo
pet'ketly:'rloVet detrition
Previous to the asyitrieticenietit of tlid
little was known of eiectricity, and electrical in
-upon as little else than philos
some surprising 'Pfli:ct be prc
1800, however, Professor Porter ti
science, by showing that water

'6l; some' of Ivhict

apparatus of the
indeed, w•as of a

sent clulturs

phical toys, with wine
[-aced. About the yef

/!:"'.111". I

of iti.inthience, ; and his exrerimel
those cf Davy Faraday and Other

utitie men, the me

brilliant and important discover'
we non consider• light, heat, mai
doe' to tl:e cxcrtiono electric
If we take a piece'of
a piece of P.1.1k, cat skin, or flan
of electrifying pith band, oil of communll
its electricity to them, ". pith balls, 1
each other upon hcia eleetrilied, and will

WO.); or r

.1; it will acquire file powei
portion o

stick of wax when it is held to them. Indeed, if we co
electrify a thousand pith -balls, they would, if autliciel
light, all repeteach other, and fly off to the greatest poss
distance. This is shown by electrifying a quantity of h
The electrifying ,machine which Mr. Addams
merely a morecenYenient mode (
as we produce by ifitibirig'd niece
nothing of the cause of the elects
and arc enabled to classify them. I shall adopt the t
that when a body is reditadantly electrified, it
positively electrified, and when it has not enoliE
sidered to be negatively. electrified. If a piece
cut into shreds, the a,:: shreds may be made to a
great distal:Cc from each other, by the coma
electricity. A couple of gold leaves may in lik
nade to separate by similar treatment, and the e
most delicate instrument, for indicating the
lass of electrieity, is thus eonstituted. Electricity ca
s way through the hard

of sealing wax

—we s

phenomena

said to fie

of paper be
parate to a

compa

a to suet

ugy and full of
of electricity,

,ocl conduct°

No bodN

otally to

. Atmospheric air is
ind resinous substaul