The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-03-26 00:00:00

LIVER THEATRE.

Mr. Raymond's benefit, on Friday night, was a complete
cram : boxes, pit, and gallery were crowded to suffocation.
This being the last night of the se,ason, Mr. Raymond was
loudly called for, and, after a lapse of some minutes, he made
his appearance, and delivered a short speech to the friends
who had rallied in such numbers to his support. The past
season has been one of almost unexampled success, which,
it is scarcely necessary to say, has been well deserved. In
the course of the evening the following farewell address,
written by Monerieffe, was spoken by Mr. W. J. Hammond,
and received with loud applause :
" LADIES AND GENT'L'MEN,—The time for shutting up
our house having come at last, I hope you'll jist allow Sam
Veller to say a few vords on behalf of the Gowernors. Ve
don't part with you because ye wishes it, or because ye like
it, but because ve can't help it, as the folks said yen they
fell out of the balloon. The fact is, (and it's no use a-mincing
the matter,) ever since ye commenced our Peregrinations
this season, and I've been in my present sitivation, you've
bin sich werry constant wisitors, encouraging all our efforts
to amuse you, and never goin avay, without remembering our
perquisites, that no yonder ye found it too pleasant to last
long, as the laughing gas said wen it ewaporated. To be sure
we've done all in our power to make things comfortable as
the beadle did when he put the cobbler's legs in the stocks.
Our house certainly is ray-ther small, but then, as the mag-
got said, yen he got into the nutshell, it's werry snug ; and
ve're never so happy as yen ve're waiting on you, as the flies
remarked to the grocer ; and if von or two of our entertain-
ments have happened to be spil'd in the dressing, vy ye can
only say, as the gen'l'man said wen . his horse's eye vas put
out, it varnt our fault, but our misfortin.
" During the time ye shuts up shop the Gowernors mean
to make all sorts of improvements, that you may feel your-
selves still more at home : for, as the leaves fall in October,
ye hopes to see you all agin. Of course, I need't say I shall
be here to vait on you ; for my place has been made so werry
agreeable, that all my work's bin but play-ing; and, vatever
preferment I may get in a larger house, I shall never, for the
sake of mere lucre o' gain, forget my old friends here, for,
arter all, home's home if its ever so homely,' as the cricket
sung in the chimney corner. The Gowernors have already
commenced operations; they've engaged two or three fa-
vourite cooks to prowide the bill of fare ; and, in order to
prewent breakages, mean to follow the advice of the hull in

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the chaney shop, and look wery sharp arter the pieces.
" And now, having said those here few words, I've only to
return you all our werry best thanks for your kindness ; and
to wish you all possible health and prosperity till vee sees
you agin—as the telescope said to the comet wen they moved
him out of the obserwatory."

SUSCEPTIBILITY OF HORSES.—That the horse is a very
sensitive creature, or rather, perhaps, we should say, very
susceptible of excitement, admits of proof in many ways,
particularly in regard to the racer. Haiston, once the pro-
perty of the late Mr. Mytton, from whom he passed into the
hands of the late Mr. Beardsworth, and is now in America,
was apt to break into a sweat while preparing to start, and so
or many other racers which have fallen under our notice.
Brutandorf, if he heard the tinkle of the smith's hammer,
would tremble, and be soon covered with perspiration, under
the impression that his plates were going to be put on ; and
this horse, very fine in form, and in possession of superior
power and speed, repeatedly lost his races owing to the fear-
ful impressions which came upon him. He tore away from
the starting post and expended his powers improperly ; no
jockey could hold him together, nor take a pull at him, and
therefore he was vanquished more than once by nags of an
atferior:description.—:The Sportsman,

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

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ILLEGAL PAWNING.
On Friday a girl, named Mary M`Laiighlin, and an elderly
female, named Mrs. Ryan, were brought before Mr. Hall to
answer a charge, the former of stealing a cloak and silk um-
brella, and the latter for pledging the same, knowing them to
have been stolen. The complainant admitted that she kept
a disorderly house, and her evidence was not to be relied on
sufficiently to warrant the 'commitment of M'Laughlin for
trial, which would otherwise have been the result. It ap-
peared that the latter had gone to lodge with the complain-
ant. and had gone away, taking with her the cloak and um-
brella, and also a shawl. The cloak was traced to one pawn-
broker's shop, and the umbrella to another. The shawl was
not found. The elder prisoner, who received a good charac-
ter from both pawnbrokers, ani with whoni M`Laughlin lad
gone to lodge, had merely taken the articles to pledge at the.
request of the girl, who represented to her that they were her
own, and she was accordingly discharged. ,`Laughlin ad-.
mitted taking the articles, and raising money on them. The
shawl she had given to a little girl to pledge, and had lost they
ticket, so that she did not know where it was. It appeared);
that she had but recently suffered twelve months' imprison-7,
ment for pledging a carpet belonging to her master, while she-,
was a servant in Brownlow-hill. She was convicted of
gal pledging, and, in default of paying the penalty, was com-
nutted to the House of Correction for three months.

COMMITMENT FOR HOUSE ROBBERY. -
Yesterday,Margaret Quin,Eliz. Lever, Jane Williams,young
women, Sarah Williams, an elderly female, and Williams,
her husband, were placed at the bar of the police-court, on
charge of robbing a house of a quantity of table and bed
linen. There being no evidence affecting the old man, he
was dismissed, and the charge was proceeded with against the
four femaleS. Mary Thomas said she was a widow and kept
the Globe Tavern, in Adlington-street. About half-past nine
o'clock, on the previous night, (Sunday) .the three young
women named came to her house, and had each some ale.
They were in the back parlour, and remained above an hour.
During the time the prisoner Quin went three times out,
and returned to the others. Soon after they left the house,
witness missed the articles out of the drawers in the room:
There were fine table cloths, four pillow slips, three bolster
cases, and a window blind, the whole of the value of £3.
She sent her daughter for police officer, and Campbell (135).
accompanied her daughter to a cellar in Standish-street,
where the latter had before noticed the girls. Cainpbell
stated that he found the elder prisoner, and the girls quirt.:4
and Williams. The other girl Lever afterwards catinV4oo
He searched the cellar. The elder prisoner opened' a
that he might look into it, but he found nothing there.,nlFFC
then looked in the back cellar, and was about to searthen
clothes tub, when the woman pulled his elbow, an&eidd
him, " Never mind these things ; they have nothingif,e,46.3
with it." He took the aticles out of the tub, AM, Weir
turned out to be those missing, and were identified fay S^i
Thomas and her daughter. All the prisoners Were Co ci
mitted for trial at the sessions. Quin strongly denied.tlitter
the old woman knew anything about the clothes,• as sheilifil
(she said) out of the cellar at the time.

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ANOTHER 'HOUSE ROBBERIL:4I.—r4 ff "•.i allow
Yesterday, a well-dressed young man, who gaveMlNl";g
as John Linacre, was placed before Mr. Hail, charged ' ti.
stealing a number of articles from a house in Wolfe-at' • -,H
It appeared that about ten o'clock on Sunday niglit,:'epori -ia,
constable saw the prisoner with a large bundle on his ban 4,,,
in Northumberland-street. He followed him and Saw h
go up a court in Derby-street. Having procured the assi.4=`
ante of another officer, he entered the house, and there.
found the prisoner with a pistol (now produced) in'his hand,
and which he appeared to be in the act of loadiug.,NYllen the
prisoner saw him, he took a knife from the chitgef4lece, -•
and threatened to kill the first man who toilet-1011m: He
was secured. The bundle was found in the hOuse. Jane
Kelly identified the articles, which consisted of. one bed; two
bolsters, one pillow, four shirts, three blankets, and a mini-
terpane, and were the property of James Kelly, • he.. cousin,
with whom she lived, in Wolfe-street, and who-Was-a joiner.
Inspector Poole afterwards searched the prisoner's house,
and found a crow-bar, a "jemmy" for forcibly open_
ing doors, also several files, and some ikeleten keys;'
He also found in the house in Wolfe-street, a hat w;.ich tile
prisoner claimed as his. In consequence of Mr. Hall btmg,
suddenly called to Manchester yesterday, owingto the illriesi'
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of his daughter, the witnesses will not be
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appear against the prisoner at the sessions. '' _,'‘?"‘• d:
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ENORMOUS SALMON.—Mr. Isaac, of No:16, S4t. JOIrnSPI
Fish-market, has, in his shop, a salmon which weighs tttlzal:
wamis of 411bs. This, we understand, is the largest saitisbiit'
ever brought toW Liverpool. It is, as the author Of !'inlMls.'
Spots of the est
expresses it, a " noble fish," 'and WI:.
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ha ,e seen it turn up its broad and silvery siue in the ripplifign
str ,am would have caused the eyes of that enthusiastic sporti--r
ma i to glisten and his heart to bound. It was caught.at
Ga liestown, in Wigton Bay.
BAPTIZING IN THE SEA.—Wc were witnesses, on Wed-
nesday last, to a rather unusual occurrence. Two bathing
machines were standing in the water, at Bootle Bay, elOiC
to' the landmarks. A minister of some sect of Baptists, bare''-f;
headed, and wearing a white surplice, stood up to his raiddll'h
in the sea. The machines contained females, to the uunibW,
we believe, of eight, some of whom were young' and
old, who successively underwent the ceremony of baptism,
by being immersed over head in the tide. The day was -gz-
tremely cold. The ceremony was performed too far friiin tie
busy haunts of men to attract many spectators : a few'Were,:
hOwever, attracted by its singularity, while many of the in-
habitants of Bootle watched its progress through telescOpes.
—Albion.
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THE REV. JAMES SMITH, A.M., LATE VICE-PRINCIPAL
OF BRAZENNOSE COLLEGE, OXFORD.-ItWas
some weeks since, in a portion of the LiYerpool'press, that
the Under-Graduates of Brazennose Coi •
raising a subscription for the purpose of
to the memory of their late much rest
the Rev. James Smith, A.M. This
sumed a more substantial shape, and
made to the Principal and Fellows for,
monument in the Chapel of the College
resolutions were passed, in which the
returned their thanks to the junior m,
and affectionate appreciation of the
league and friend ;" and expressed the:
operate with them by adding their own
who best knew the lamented individual
of respect is about to be raised speak-of
warmest esteem. Those of Liverpool
nected with Brazennose College will,
contribute to the testimonial. There
his townsmen, for he belonged original
would be glad to join in so gratifying a

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