The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-08-19 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL MUSICAL FESTIVAL.

We are glad to hear that the preparations for this grand pro-
vincial festival are advancing to maturity, and that the lovers of
harmony, resident in the good old town and its vicinity, will
soon he.put in possession of a prop anztne of the rich treat in store
for them." Our Manchester friends have challenged competition,
and threatened to " take the shine out of us" on the approach-
ing occasion. As far as Liverpool is concerned we have no fear
of the result; confidently anticipating that the most sanguin e
expectations respecting these interesting festivities will be
amply realized, and that the anxious solicitude for the entertain-
ment of the public, manifested by those spirited individuals wha'
are entrusted with the preliminary arrangements, will be fully
compensated by the satisfactory issue of their labours. We sub-
join the following extract from a London contemporary, to
shew the exclusive attraction which will be furnished at our festi-
val.

" Mendelssohn's new oratorio, Saint feel, is to be performed
entire at the Liverpool Festival, and not portions of it only, at
the Manchester Festival, as had been said by several of our
contemporaries. Sir George Smart, we believe, gave his advice
very strongly against performing detatched fragments of this
work, which would have been doing great injustice to the com-
poser, and only acquiesced in the plan of performing the. entire
Oratorio at the Liverpool Festival, upon'ascertaining that there
was time for its preparation for that Festival. The translation
of the poem, and the adaptation-of. the English words to the
music, have undergone the revision of a Geman gentleman of
well-known literary and musical attainments, who is, besides,
an intimate friend of the composer, and well acquainted with
the work, of the original performance of which at Dusseldorff he
gave a masterly account, a portion of which we extracted from
The Musical World, where it appeared. The Oratorio being in
the Handelian style, and less complex and elaborate in its score
than the music of the modern school, is comparatively easy of
performance ; while, on the other hand, the choral parts are to
be in rehearsal for some time previous to the Festival. And, be-
sides the ordinary general rehearsal before the commencement
of the performances, there is to be a separate rehearsal devoted
to this Oratorio alone. Therei is every reason, therefore, to be-
lieve, that this noble work will be brought out in a manuer wor-
thy f itself and its author."

FINING JURORS.—On Wednesday, in the Nisi Prius Court,
on the jury retiring to consult on a verdict in the first cause
which came on, it became necessary to impannel another jury,
when the following parties, summoned as jurymen, not being
present to answer to their names, were fined £5 each :—William
Hunter, Thomas Hunsworth, Thomas Bu., n Powey, William
Byrom, George Walker, Benjamin Walker, George Dixon,
Jonathan Whitworth, Edward Dean Walker, William Adams,
William Standish, Samuel Mea. James Hardcastle, Wood
Gibson, James Allison, Joseph Eastwood, and Henry Cromp-
ton. All jurymen summoned, if absent from court run the risk
of being thus fined.
TRIBUTE OF REseEcT.—Mr. Tyrer, late secretary to the
conservative operative association in this town, having been
obliged, on account of his business, to relinquish that situation,
has been presented by twelve of the members with a handsome
silver medal, as a mark of respect and gratitude for his 'indefa-
tigable exertions in the " good old cause."
THE WESLEYAN METHODISTS.—The following ministers
have-been appointed by the Conference to officiate in the Li-
verpool district during the next year :—Liverpool,, North?
(Brunswick Chapel, Ba.) Theophilus Lessey, William Hurt,
Edward Price;- James Bogie, Calverly Riley, Wm. 0. Booth,
Supernumeraries: Liverpool, South, (Pitt-street, Sce,), James
Dixon, Thos. Stead Robert Young; Jas. Anderson, Supernu-
merary. Liverpool', Welsh, David Williams, Rowland Hughes.
[N.B. The Superintendent of the Liverpool South Circuit is
airected to afford his counsel and assistance to the Welsh Su-
perintendent in the general affairs of the Welsh Circuit.]
Chester, Jan S. 4%inp, John Straw..Juhn Minis; Isaac Lilly,
Supernumerary. Holywell, (English,) J. Knowles, jun., J.
Davis, 2d; W. Renshaw. Supernumerary. Bangor, (English,)
John E. Coulson, Thos. Fitzgerald. Warrington, William W.
Stamp, Edward Jennings; Wm. Jones, Supernumerary. St.
Helen's and Prescot, Alex. Hulme, Joseph Sykes. Wigan,
Joseph Meek, John D. Julian. Ormskirk and Southport, John
Newton, jun. Preston and Chorley, John Fairbourne, John
Hannah, .jun., Robert Dugdale. Garstang, Thos. Kempshall,
Richard Petch. Lancaster, Thomas Savage, John Sumner,
jun. Wrexham. Hugh Carter, George Hughes; James Fussell,
Supernumerary. Whitcburch, (Salop,) Thomas Slugg, Levi
Waterhouse. JAMES DixoN, Chairman of the District. J. S.
STAMP. Financial Secretary.
CALEDONIAN SCHOOL.—We have seen a letter addressed to
the chaplain of this charity, creditable to the head and heart of
the writer, who, still a young man, has attained a respectable
station in Liverpool, which he modestly attributes to the edu-
cation he received in the Caledonian Free School. in support
of which he encloses a guinea as his first annual subscription.
THE TIMES.--By a new arrangement of the London Times
newspaper, that journal is now supplied from 48, Lord-street,
at the same price as charged at the office in London, and is
furnished to subscrib.rs at the breakfast table, the delivery gra-
tis.—On the 15th of September the reduction of the newspaper
stamp duty takes place, when, we understand that, the prices
of the three leading journals, the Times, Herald, and Post, will
be five-pence.
DEAFNESS CORED.—We invite the attention of our readers
to Mr. Gatdner's advertisement in another column. His emi-
n,:nt success, Mill, no doubt, recommend hint to all who may
be afflicted with this unpleasant complaint.

We are requested by the proprietors of the Chronicle to state
h it the duty paid by them for advertisements inserted in th
Chronicle, between the Ist of January, 1835, and 30th Aprite
1836, amounted to £564 3s. Od.

EXTENSIVE FIRE. On Tuesday night, about half-past li
o'clock, some of the Dock Police discovered that there was a
fire in the top room of the warehouse of Messrs. Sands, Hodg-
son and Co., situated in Lancelot's-hey. The Dock Police
carried the information to Mr. Dowling, to the Town Police,
and also to Mr. Whitty. Mr. Dowling was on the spot almost
immediately. The flames at this time were extending rapidly
to the story below. Mr. Dowling directed the attention of the
police force in the first instance to securing the books of the
office, in which they succeeded, and to keeping back the crowd
which had collected. In about ten minutes the engines arrived,
and were quickly got into play. Immediately behind the ware-
house on fire is a bonded warehouse belonging to Messrs. Ewart,
Myers, and Co., said to be filled with rum, for the safety of
which there were considerable apprehensions. There was also
another large warehouse next door. The attention of the fire-
men was principally directed to confining the tire to the ware-
house in which it originated, and to preserving the adjoining
warehouses. Meantime the fire was descending from floor to
floor with great rapidity, and blazing out of the windows, and,
from the combustible nature of the goods contained in it, being
filled with cotton, was burning with great fury. The warehouse
of Messrs. Ewart, Myers. and Co. was broken open, and the
hose or one of the engines carried up stairs ; a hole was then made
in the roof,-from which the firemen played down on to the fire.
Other engines were placed both before and behind the binning
warehouse in various directions, and continued playing, the
supply of water being generally good. About three o'clock, in
the morning, a part of the front wall near the top which bad
been left uusupprted, the connecting beams in the interior
being burnt through, gradually projected outwards. The people
in front were cautioned by this, and kept out of the way; shortly
after the whple of the upper front fell forwards into the street.
About four o'clock the fire, having descended floor after floor
down to the last floor, began to be subdued, and was finally
mastered ; this' floor being saved, and the fire confined to the
building. Fortunately not any accident occurred. The pro-
perty on the first floor was all got out, though, as the fire was
extinguished beforeit had descended so far, it would not have
sustained any material injury,. There were in the upper rooms
upwards of 1000 bales of cotton which are valued at £15,000,
all of which are destroyed. The goods were insured to their
full value, the Royal Exchange Insurance Office being the
principal sufferer to the amount of £tiooo. The rest is covered
by floating policies, at various offices. The warehouse was the
property, we are informed, of Mr. Wade, and was also insured

The Duke of Wellington is expected to leave town for Wal-
mer Castle the latter end of the present week.
Lord Stanley is now on his annual trip to Ireland, for the
purpose of visiting his estate in the county of Tipperary.

The ➢Marchioness of Lansd3wne and Lady Louisa Fitz-
maurice arrived express from Germany in consequence of the
distressing intelligence of the alarming indisposition of the
Earl of Kerry. The Marchioness will accompany his lordship
and the countess to Lisbon for the improvement of his health.

The Prince of Oldenburg, ncphe* of the Emperor of Russia,
has deferred his ,departure from England until Wednesday
next, when he will embark for Rotterdam orHamburgh. The
young prince and suite returned to the Clarendon yesterday
from a tour of the watering places along the coasts of Sussex
and Hants. His Highness paid a short visit to the Duke of
Richmond's splendid mansion at Goodwood and dined with his
grace there.

WARWICK BOROUGH ZILECTION. - Sir Charles Greville,
having, owing to ill health, retired from the representation of
Warwick, a most active canvass has commenced, in favour of
Mr. Canning, a son of the late Right Hon. George Canning.
The radicals have brought forward) Mr. William Hobhouse,
a brother of Sir John Cam; but his defeat s ensured.—From
a Correspondent.

We are happy to state that the electoral lists for this borough
which are just completed, are (notwithstanding the inexcusable
neglect of various persons, who, in spite of reiterated warnings,
have disfranchised themselves )y omitting to pay their taxes,)
extremely favourable to the conservative cause. The number
of voter in the parish of Hove, of whom the tier greater portion
are, of eA9ifrill, conPervatives; is very greatly increased.--Brigh-
telt Olitttiffo