The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-02-19 00:00:00

AMPHITHEATRE.

MOST BRILLIANT NIGHT OF THE SEASON.
FIRST NIGHT OF THE BRONZE HORSE.
For the BEN
gmN MONDAy
BENEFIT of Mr. ARMISTEAD, Proprietor.
Evening next, the 22d instant, the Perform-
anceskJ will commence with a Grand Chinese Tale of En-
chantment, entitled

THE BRONZE HORSE,
'Which Or, THE SPELL;
will be produced with New Scenery, We!
• Decoration F.
Mr. RYAN'S Superb STUD of H9(SES.
A Comic Interlude, calle
THE TINKER L D,
111 which Mr. ROMER, from the Theatr oyal English Opera
House, London, will make his F st appearance.
Brilliant Feats of HORSEMANSHIP by Mr. RYAN'S
The whole to unrivalled Equestrian Company.
conclude with, for the Last Time in Liverpool,

.sses, and

the popular Drama of the
. JEWESS;

Tickets Or, The COUNCIL of CONSTANCR.
aud Places to be obtained of Mr. A.nsitsTrun, at the

Box-office, al the Theatre.
Dress Boxes, 35.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 61
Stage Manager, Mr. STIRLING.

IVIASTER HUGHES'S FAREWELL CONCERT will
take place on WEDNESDAY, the 2d of March, at the
Bold-street, under the immediate Patronage of
the Worshipful, the MAyon; on which o imsion, by the kind
• permission of Lieut.-Colonel G. P. Be HAW, the BAND of
the 77th Regiment will attend, and rfornt several grand
Overtures.
Full particulars of the Concert will be duly announced.

Zbc Libcrpool *tanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 19, 1836.

We have received Jamaica papers to the 3d January.
We do not find in them any news of much interest. The
holidays had passed over quietly enough ; but we regret
to perceive that loud complaints are made of the unfit-
ness of some of the stipendiary magistrates, the ineffi-
ciency of the police, and the alarming increase of crime.
The assembly had adjourned for the holidays. We can
only make room for the following extracts :

(Front the Kingston Chronicle, 29th December.)
We have to congratulate our readers on the agreeable termi-
'nation of the five first days of the Christmas holidays, without
any txtraoidinary disturbance of the public peace. For al-
though the fiddling, firing., drumming, and dancing, interspersed
with all sorts of vocal discord, both sacred and profane, have
been incessant during day and night, still they have been of a
cheerful, merry, and hilarious character, and without tincture
of turbulent licentiousness or riotous excess; and if our ac-
counts from the country are equally pleasing, we shall bail
them as a proof that the population feel happy and content,
444 to pursue their usual avocations cheerfully at the
ootntnenceineut of the new year. Indeed, if they were not
teiled by mercenary hypocrites, we are convinced the negroes
of Sarnalca would be about the happiest race of people on the
1/1", of the earth. Their worldly cares and anxieties will not
commence till after the expiration of the apprenticeship, when,
should they be persuaded to abandiiin agriculture, their real
saaerings will begin ! !

( From the Kingston Chronicle of the 2d January.)
Nothing can be a stronger proof of the good policy of encou-
raging emigration than the fact of its not being partially recom-
mended by one particular colony or party, but that throughout
all the British colonies plans are in active operation to promote
this necessary measure as the only possible means of securing
future cultivation. At Grenada the agricultural society have
passed resolutions proposing a tax upon all employers who do
not import five Europeans to every hundred negroes, which, if
tarried int 6 effect, is likely to secure good discipline on the
estates, as the managers would naturally import persons skilled
in agricultural pursuits and capable of superintending and ex-
pediting; the manufacture of their produce. They would also
add strength to the militia of the land, and secure the proprietors
sszainst the rebel threats of physical superiority—the pride and
inertion of lazy, licentious paupers would be subdued; and nests
of thievish, indolent squatters would be rooted from their dormi-
tories and compelled to earn their bread by honest labour. The
Unprotected state of the land in this country, open as it is to the
robbery and plunder of every vagrant marauder, is the grand
evil proprietors have to contend against, as it is very certain
that whilst the negroes have the power of stealing the proprietors
produce with impunity, they will never trouble themselves to
Work A cordon of white yeomanry traversing the interior of
the country would tend in a great measure to check this dishonest
traffic, and, combined with a really efficient police, would give
security to the country. In short, we trust the very liberal grant
of our assembly will be so judiciously appropriated as to give a
beneficial stimulus to agricultural enter prise, calculated to induce
emigrants of the best character and quality to settle in the island;
and even those who cannot succeed in the smaller colonies may
be willing to emigrate to this.
Our files frpin Demerara reach only to the 12th De-
cember, and they are exceedingly uninteresting.

The committee to try the conduct of DANIEL O'CON-
NELL in the affair of RAPHAEL and the Carlow election,
was appointed on Tuesday, and will meet.to nominate a
chairman to-day. The speech of Mr. HARDY, the mem-
ber for Bradford, in stating the case against O'CONNELL,
Was clear and eloquent, and in point of argument,
irresistible. The defence of the accused was little better
than a confession of guilt, the denials being in general
terms, and the greater part of it wholly irrelevant. He
did not attempt to refute any of the charges, or explain
lu What way he conveyed the money to VIGORS his most
unprofitable accomplice.
As the man is now on his trial, we shall for the pre-
sent refrain from saying a word more relative to him.
AS to the committee we have no fault to find with it; for
tie care little what decision they may come to, provided
they sift the case to the bottom, and lay the whole evi-
dence before the people of England. Sir FREDERICK
POLLOCK is to conduct the inquiry, and Mr. Sergeant
WILDE, fit counsel for such a client, is to protect the in-
terests of DANIEL.

There is no game now-a-days that is worth the shoot-
ing, eating, or making presents of. Hares, partridges,
Pheasants, and muir-cocks are at a discount. What every
body can procure for a greasy half-crown cannot possibly
be Worth the dressing. To call such things delicacies
would be to libel every fishmonger and poulterer in the
three kingdoms.
But we remember the time in London when a dapper
shopkeeper of Cheapside, or an attorney's clerk, took a
ast delight in endeavouring to pass for a gentlemen of
fashion by walking westward with a brace or two of par-
tridges, and a conspicuous label attached, dangling from
Zl.e baud, while he carried a switch in the other, looking
th all
the self-importance of a newly-inducted church
beadle or a modern town-councillor. The label bore,
epr-, -4P% " A.DOLPHUS MUGGINS, Esq., with the Duke of
4rTZhALBAN'S Compliments."
e Cockney wished the world to believe that the game
v:-1- Present to himself from his friend the duke. The
however, probably never saw a duke in his life.
hail bought the birds at a sly stall in Leadenhall-
th "'tot, in order to "show off" under false pretences.
SVe understand, with much pleasure, that this nuisance
is considerably abated in the metropolis; and it is the
only advantage which has resulted from the reformed
game laws- Mr. WILLIAM EWART is one of the few
Persons we know who continues the practice, and pa-
rades bills in the House of Commons and elsewhere
which he does not choose to confess how he came by
them. We do not mean to say that they are not his own,
far
less do we insinuate that he steals them ; but never-
theless we should like to hear it explained how Mr.
EwArtr came by the game which be has been exhibiting
in the house within the last few days, passing it off as
killed on his manor in Scotland, and handling it with the
ecnplaeencv of ownership.
Re will understand what we mean. His bill for the
equalization of West India and East India sugar was
hatched by Mr. CHARLES GRANT, of Inverness, the pre-
sent Loid GLENELG. Our respected and liberal member
is only labouring with characteristic conceit upon ,a bor-