The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-09-03 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.

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In consequence of the complete overflow Last Night to all
parts of the Theatre on the occasion of
MR. CLARKE'S BENEFIT,
And numerous parties not having bees able to ob
ly informed
tain admit-
tance for want of room, the publi respectful
that any of
MR. CLARKE'S OUTSTANDING TICKETS
will be received at the doors this evening.

Second Week of Mr. DOWTON and Mr. F. VINING, of
the'Theatres-Royal, Covent-Garden and Drury-Lane, Se-
cond Night of Mr. MACKAY, of the Theatre-Royal,
Edinburgh.
September 3, 1839
THIS present TUESDA Y, , will be
performed the admired Co med of the
HYPOCR I TE.
Doctor Cantwell. Mr. Dowton.
Colonel Lambert...... Mr. F. Vining.
Mawworm.... Mr: Baker.
Old Lady Lambert (first time) ‘-:'Mrs. Clarke.
Young Lady Lambert.... Mcet/Eaker.
Charlotte.... Miss ?weft.
To conc
G ith
ANNERING lude w the Musical Drama of
GUY M.
Dominic Sampson Mr. Mackay.
Colonel Mannering.... Mr. W Howard.
Henry Bertram Mr. Barker.
Dandie Dinmont Mr. Slaiter.
Julia Mannering Miss Grant.
Lucy Bertram.. Mrs. P. Crowe I Meg Merrilies.. Miss Cleaver
Flora Mrs. Tellet.
On WEDNESDAY, Shakspeare's Historical Play of
HENRY THE FOURTH, Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Dowton ;
Prince of Wales, Mr. F. Vining ; King Henry: Mr. Gray ;
Hotspur, Mr. Stuart; Francis, Mr. Baker ; Lady Percy,
Miss Cleaver. To conclude with the Scotch Drama of
GILDEROY. Jock Muir, (his original character) Mr.
Mackay ; Gilderoy, Mr. W. H. Bland ; General Bailie, Mr.
Vivash; Walter Logan, Mr. Gray; Mr. M`Tavish, Mr.
Baker ; Lilias Logan, Miss Cleaver.

THEATRE ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.
THE Public is respectfully informed that the celebrated
Pianist, MR. THALBERG,
Is engaged to give A CONCERT at this Theatre, previous
to his retirement from public, in which he will be assisted by
MISS BIRCH,
SIGNOR IVANHOFF, AND
MR. BALFE,
Who are likewise engiged for this occasion.
The Concert will take place on Friday next, September the
6th, when the performances will commence with a petit
Drama, in which Mr. Dowton, Mr. F. Vining, and Mr.
Mackay, will sustain principal characters. After which,
A CONCERT,,,,
In which Mn. THALBERG will perfkiin his LATEST
COMPOSITIONS.
Miss. BIRCH, SIGNOR IVANHOFF, and MR. BALFE,
will sing the most favourite Airs, Duets, and Trios, from
Otello, the Maid of Artois, The Gipsy's Warning, L'Eliser
d' Amore, Il Borgomostro, La Festa della Rose, Roberto
D'Evereux, The Siege of Rochelle, Marino Faliero,
I Puritani.
A programme of the Concert will be fully given in the bills
of the day.
To afford equal facilities in securing places the Box-office
for this night will not be opened until Thursday next, when
places may be taken from Ten until Three. No places can
be securad unless Tickets are obtained.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
The letter of " Verax" is unavoidably postponed.
Our " Literary Notices" shall appear on Friday.
We have to express our acknowledgments to the proprietor
of the Manchester Courier for forwarding to us a copy of
the second edition of his valuable journal of Saturday last.
We are indebted to the Courier for Sir George Murray's
speech.

rAg Zibrrpool gPtanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1939

Cordially as every Conservative-in Britain must echo
:he concluding paragraph of the Queen's Speech, it
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affords, nevertheless, very pregnant grounds for deep
and mixed reflection. If the agitation, against which
the powers of the Law and the slumbering energies of
the Queen's Attorney-General have been at last exert-

ed, had been confined to a few rural districts—if an
obscure and skulking gang of midnight ruffians had
been brought to the bar of public justice, and Swing
and Captain Ludd had been effectually suppressed in a
few weeks by the very name and terror of a Special

Commission—we should echo the language of Minis.

terg, and be thankful that so unfortunate a source a

crime and annoyance had been got under.
But how stands the case at present ? Are the ene-
mies of public peace and public order now mere skulk-
ing, midnight vagabonds ?—are the Swings, and Rocks,
and Ludds—creatures who dare not even answer to

their own names or show their own ruffianly counte-
nances before the face of day=are they confined to
some remote and rural districts, without concert and
organization i—or are they bold, bad men, who pro-
claim their wickedness openly and make their boast of

it ?—who have earned for themselves their own unen-
viable notoriety by the shamelessness with which they
glory in the language of treason and sedition—aye, of
murder and rapine ? Instead of being seized behind a
hedge with blackened faces, are they to be seen, in
many instances, on the seat of civic power—mayors,
and councilnien, and justices of peace ? Have they a
confederacy wide and deeply-rooted in the most popu-
lous districts of the Empire, and prepared to go through
with their nefarious designs, no matter at what cost of
tranquillity and public happiness ?
If this view be unhappily the true one, it follows, of
course, that the means of escape from these perplexi-
ties are not so plain and obvious and easily at hand.
-The Liberals have long been accustomed to boast that
their glorious Reform Bill was a bloodless Revo!ution.
It was so, or nearly so ; but whither has it led us at
last ? To the obvious necessity of retracing nearly
every step that has since been made in the downward
progress of Mis-government. To adopt their own
cant phrase, we must, perforce, go through all the
stages of a Counter-Revolution. We have gone through
many of the steps of a bloodless Counter-Revolution.
From 1834 (not to say an earlier period) the tide of
Liberalism has been ebbing fast. If it were not so—if

Conservative principles •had not been gaining ground
most rapidly in England,—yes, if Conservative prin-
ciples were not now dominant in the hearts of Eng-
lishmen,—we beg leave to assure the Liberal advisers
of her Majesty that " her secure reliance upon the
good sense of her people, and upon their attachment
to the Constitution, for the maintenance of law and
order," would be a very idle subterfuge, and a sorry
mockery of men's sober reason.
But happily the , good old sound opinions are pre-
dominant, and, under Providence, they will save the
country yet. Ten years have the Whigs been upon
their trial before the people of England. They have
been winnowed and sifted. Their plausible pretences,
their hollow promises, their specious purity, are no
longer current. Whiggery is nailed to the counter,
like a pewter shilling. Whether the paltry placelings
will allow the present Parliament to reassemble we
cannot tell—(our readers are aware that the Ministerial
rumour being on one side has been a reason with us
for espousing the opposite opinion) ; but this we know—
with the present House of Commons, or with any
other they can ever hope to summon, their game is up.
Let only each Conservative Elector be active and alert,
and remember (when the auspicious moment shall ar-
rive) that never more solemnly than now did "Eng-
land expect every man to do his duty."

There are some individuals in the world who have i
the ill-luck to give satisfaction to nobody. " Oh!
Mr. Joseph (Surface, not Hume, in the School for
Scandal, not the School for Skimping) is an excellent
gentleman: everybody speaks well of hint." " Then"
(is the shrewd rejoinder of my uncle) " what a con-
founded rascal he must be !" Inverting Sheridan's
rule, we should necessarily arrive at the conclusion
that Mr. Poulett. Thomson was one of the most meri-
torious personages in the world. "Oh ! Mr. Poulett"
(the dialogue would run) " is an odious fellow : no-
body speaks well of him." "Then" (rejoins the saga-
cious Premier) " what a straightforward, uncompro-
mising statesman he must be !"
What the Electors of Manchester may think, we do
not presume to' know; but we should suppose several
of them have very good reasons for agreeing with the
Minister, and doubtless think that, since he has ma-
naged their own little affairs for them with such re-
markable dexterity, he is by far the fittest person in
the universe to reconcile the very difficult and per-
plexing embarrassments of Canada. Short-sighted
persons in the provinces, like ourselves, cannot rea-
sonably be expected to know much about the great
Gods of War and Peace whd figure in the metropolitan
Olympus ; but we should certainly have conceived that
the bare notion of sending out the Member for Man-
chester to Canada was merely designed as an ill-
natured sarcasm upon the very sensitive ex-Dictator.
We remember, when Earl Grey's Government affected
to resign, Mr. Whittle Harvey likened the occurrence
to a turn-out then subsisting among the Journeymen
Tailors, and said a similar remedy might be resorted
to in either emergency, viz., " a large number of old
women might be found to do the work as well." So
we suppose some wag, in ridicule of Lord Durham,
said, " You, like the Journeymen Tailors, have turned
out : no matter, Mr. Thomson will do the work as
well." And, in plain earnest, it is not possible he
should do it worse.

The announcement of Sir George Murray's name