The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.--TnußsuAy

Her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing yesterday
afternoon, attended by the Maids of Honour in Waiting, in
a carriarze and four. Colonels Arbuthnot and Wyld were in
attendance on horseback.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel
Wyld and Captain F. Seymour, rode out on horseback yes-
terday forenoon.

The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace last evening
included the Earl of Liverpool and the Earl of Fingall.
The band of the Coldstream Guards attended at Bucking-
ham Palace during the evening.

The following -bulletin of the health of her Majesty the
Queen Dowager was received in town yesterday :
" The Queen Dowager has been much disturbed by cough
during the night ; but her Majesty is not worse this morning.
" WILLIAM FREDERICK CHAMBERS.
" DAVID DAVIES.

Sudbury-hall, Nov. 2."
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester gave a
dejeune yesterday afternoon to the Royal family, at Glou-
cester-house, in honour of the birth-day of the Princess
Sophia. There were present their Royal Highnesses the
Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princesses
Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, and Prince George of
Cambridge; and also his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of
Hesse Philippsthal
His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge arrived
at his residence in St. James s Palace, on Tuesday evening,
from Dublin.

The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Prin-
cesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, returned to Kew
yesterday afternoon. _ _

Mr. Murchison, President of the Geological .Society,
charged with despatches from the Hon. J. D. Bloomfield,
at St. Petersburgh, to the Earl of Aberdeen, reached town
last night, after an absence of seven months, during which he
has visited many distant parts of the Russian empire.
Mr. C. Franks, chairman of the South Sea Company, had
an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yester-
day, at his official residence in. Downing-street.
Lord Ellenborough had an
.interview with Sir R. Peel, at
his official residence in Downing-street, on Tuesday.
Sir R. Keane had an interview with Lord Stanley yester-
day, at the Colonial-office.
Lord Burghersh had an interview with the Earl of Aber-
deen yesterday, at the Foreign-office.

ENTERTAINMENT TO LORD ELLENBOROUGH

On Wednesday evening the directors of the East India
Company gave one of the most splendid dinners that has
taken place for many years past, to celebrate the inaugur-
ation of Lord Ellenborough as Governor-General of her ma-
jesty's dominions in the East Indies. It was a recherche
entertainment, and was given at the London Tavern, and did
credit to the proprietors.
There was nothing wanting to render this inauguration
dinner the most costly and splendid of any that has occurred
since Lord William Bentinck was appointed to the high and
important office Lord Ellenborough is destined to fill.
There were present at the dinner the following noblemen
and gentlemen :
The chair was occupied by George Lyall, Esq. ; on his
right sat Lord Ellenborough, the new governor-general, the
Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Lincoln, the Earl De la
Warr, Earl Rossyln, Sir Robert Peel, and Mr. Goulburn.
On the left of the chair were General Sir James Law Lush-
ington, (the deputy chairman of the East India Company,)
Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of
Haddington, the Earl of Jersey, Lord Hill, and Lord Fitz-
gerald. Besides these there were numbers of the nobility
present. After the usual loyal toasts, the chairman gave the
health of Lord Ellenborough, with the warmest wishes for
his prosperity.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH assured the company that he felt
most deeply the importance of the trust which had been de-
legated to him ; but at the same time he expressed his grati-
fication in acknowledging histhanks to those who had thought
him worthy of the high appointment. He felt confident that
this partiality was in some degree owing to the opinion en-
tertained of him by those conversant with the affairs of India,
that he had endeavoured to promote the prosperity of that
country—not that there was any personal feeling in the
question. His object would be to give confidence and
strength to the government of that country. He should fail
in the great objects he had in view if he had not the confi-
dence of those who had delegated him to the trust. The noble
lord alluded to the connection which he had had with the
India Board, under the governments of the Duke of Welling-
ton and Sir Robert Peel, as shewing the confidence they had
in him in being delegated to the high duties he had to per-
form. He knew too well the great difficulties of the situa-
tion in which he had been placed ; and if he effected one-
tenth of the great objects he had in view, he, should be well
pleased. His qualificationsfor the office might be judged by
the fact of his desire to obtain an intimate knowledge of the
affairs of India ; and having had the confidence of the noble
duke (Wellington), he hoped that the interests of India, as
well as of this country, would be advanced by his exertions.
He felt he had to succeed a nobleman of great ability, and
united as he had been with Lora Auckland, and knowing the
great ability of the noble lord, he felt he had much to do in
conducting with honour the affairs of India. To terminate
the war with China beneficial to the honour of the country,
and to produce tranquillity on both banks of the Indus, re-
quired a skill of no ordinary kind. In a word, his object
would be to give peace to Asia, to give tranquillity to that
country, without which the influence of this country was
valueless ; to promote a liberal and holiest government, to
augment the happiness of the natives, to impart what we
know gradually and cautiously, having regard to the preju-
dices of the natives, and to elevate the character of that
mighty people. (Loud cheers.) Feeling that it would be
his first duty to promote the interests of the people of India,
as it would be to the interests of England, it would be his
duty to improve the resources of the country, as affording
the best means of obtaining remittances to England. By
this means the trade of both countries would be improved.
He had the most unbounded confidence in the army, in its
discipline, and the power of the government to command a
willing obedience on the part of a grateful people. Deeply
impressed with the importance of the duties he had to fulfil,
he hoped that he should execute them so as to produce good
to England as well as to India. Not having made one single
promise in assuming the office of Governor-General, he was
determined that the government of India should not be the
government of a party. He was anxious that he should be
able to do something for the good of the natives, and for his
own undaunted country. (Cheers.)
Mr. Lyall, after a few comments, next propsed " The
Health of Sir Robert Peel and her Majesty's Ministers."
The toast was received with the most enthusiastic applause.
Sia Robert Peel rose and said, it was his duty, on the part
of the members of her Majesty's Government, to return their
warmest thanks for the compliment which they had been
pleased to pay to them—a compliment which might be ex-
pected on ordinary occasions, it being in conformity with
general usage ; but on the present occasion it was enhanced
by the manner in which their names had been received.
It must be satisfactory to the Ministers of the Crown
to be complimented in a company, when so many were
present who had distinguished themselves in a military
and civil service in this and another country with which
the proceedings of that day were so intimately connected.
Yielding to none in his anxious desire for the prosperity
of India, it must be highly satisfactory to receive such
marks of esteem and confidence from those deeply inter-
ested in the affairs of India. Upon a mutual confidence be-
tween the authorities and this country and those of India,
must, in a great measure, depend the successful administra-
tion of affairs in the latter. As his (Sir R. Peel's) name had
been mentioned by the hon. chairman, he might say that,
although he had not been brought into immediate connection
to any extent with those connected with Indian affairs, still
he had felt the warmest interest upon the subject. He should
have been wanting in his duty if he had not required the as-
sistance of his noble friend (Lord Ellenborough) to undertake
the high and important office to which he had been delegated.
(Loud cheers,) After an acquaintance of 15 years, unche-
quered by a single misunderstanding or dispute—knowing
his high integrity, his strict honour, his great ability, his in-
defatigable industry and powers of expression, of which the
company had had a specimen that night, he (Sir R. Peel)
should be wanting in his duty to the country if he had not
selected him to undertake the high office to which he had been
appointed. When he asked himself the question if the East
India Company would accept him, or that the crown would
refuse the appointment, he felt confident that that great
man (pointing to the Duke of Wellington) would not with-
hold his consent. When he (Sir R. Peel) recollected the
knowledge of Indian affairs which the noble lord had, and
stimulated as he was to promote the welfare of that country ;
knowing,, too, the deep interest he took in advancing the in-
terests of the natives, founded, not on the narrow edge of
the sword, but upon the broad basis of general good, though
it deprived him (Sir R. Peel) of a valuable friend, yet he had
considered it a paramount duty to ask him to accept the ap-
pointment. (Loud cheers.) He (Sir R. Peel) breathed but
the wishes of all with whom he was connected that his noble
friend might return to his native land, after having success-
fully executed the duties of his high appointment, in health
and prosperity, to receive from a grateful people those marks
of approbation which are accorded to those who bonestly
perform their public duty. (Loud cheers.)
The Chairman then rose to propose " the Health of the
Duke of Wellington."
Drank amidst great acclamation, with three times three.
The Duke of WELLINGTON returned thanks for the ho-
nour done him. It was, said his grace, my anxious desire
to attend upon the occasion of this festival to my noble
friend, and I felt much gratified by the invitation. Having
myself served the East India Company when I was a
younger man, I have ever since felt the most lively anxiety
to promote the advantage of that excellent body, which I so
long had the honour of serving. Gentlemen, I must say
I have occasion to congratulate you on this appointment,
for not only is my noble friend known among the great
statesmen of this country, by his admitted sense of integrity,
zeal, and ability, but by his long and able administration of
the office of first commissioner for the affairs of India, and
the evidence he has given of having devoted all his talent to
the grand object of making himself master of all the details
of those affairs. My noble friend, therefore, unites all the
advantages of a distinguished statesman with the know-
ledge and experience that might be expected to result only
from a long residence. He has gained at home a knowledge
which other men could only have obtained from lengthened
personal experience in the country itself. Gentlemen, I say
that the confidence of the Court of Directors could not have
been placed in a person better qualified, and I fully concur
with her Majesty's Government in the wisdom of her choice,
for all must be satisfied that it is the wish of my noble friend
to further the welfare, contentment, and happiness of the
people, over whom he is to preside. My noble friend has
stated likewise that it is his anxious desire to co-operate
with the Court of Directors in promoting peace, commerce,
and the arts, and which I certainly hope and trust he will do.
I also hope that my noble friend may have the power to put
at rest that great question which has been in a state of un-
certainty in the north-west of India, as well as in Central
Asia, and thus give security to the possessions under your
superintendence and government, and enable you to apply
your great resources to promote still further the happiness
and prosperity of India. I feel great pleasure in acknowledg-
ing the compliment paid to me. (The noble duke sat down
amidst loud cheers.)
The band played " See the conquering hero comes."
Several other toasts were then given, and at the termination
of Lord Fitzgerald's speech, the Duke of Wellington quitted
the room, passing through. the long range of visitors with a
dignified or familiar bow to each, and with a tolerably firm
step, which left, however, the recollection of the duke's
emphatic words strong in the memory of his hearers, " when
I was a younger man." The cheering continued during the
whole of his grace's progress through the long range of
apartments, and was responded to by the multitude as-
sembled withont.

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL,

Under the Manage?hent of Mr. CLARICE, Sole L•,ssec

During the remainder of the Season, the performances
will commence at SEVEN o'clock. Doors to be opened at
HALF-PAST SIX.

FOR THE BENEFIT OF MISS VANDENHOFF,
And the Last Night of the Engagement of
MR. and MISS VANDENHOFF.
THIS present FRIDAY, Nov. 5, will be produced, for
the first time here, 'Mr. Knowles' last new Comedy,
now performing at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-garden, with
distinguished success, called
OLD MAIDS.
Sir Philip Brilliant Mr. Vandenhoff.
John Blount .... Mr. Baker. Lady Anne... Miss Cleaver.
Thomas Blount. Mr. H. Holl.. Mrs.Blount.Madame Simon.
Robert Mr. Chaplin. Charlotte ..... Mrs. Clarke.
Lady Blanche Miss Vandenhoff.
At the end of the Play,
A PAS DE DEUX, by Master and Miss C. Webster.
After which, the Farce. of
THE LIAR.
. (the Liar).... Mr. Vandenhoff.
Mr. Henry Vandenhoff.
Mrs. Clarke.
To conclude with the Farce of
TEDDY THE TILER.
Teddy the Tiler

Young Wilding
Papillon.
Kitty

Miss ELLEN TREE and Mr. CHARLES KEAN will
commence an engagement of Ten Nights at this Theatre, on
MONDAY NEXT, Nov. 8, in the popular Play of the LADY
OF LYONS. Claude Melnotte, Mr. Charles Kean ; Pau-
line, Miss Ellen Tree.—To conclude with a favourite After-
piece.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
GREAT CHARLOTTE-STREET, LIVERPOOL.

TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS OF ARMSTRONG THE

SHIP WRIGHT.
FIRST NIGHT OF GUY FAUX !
ROARS OF LAUGHTER AT JACK THE GIANT KILLER !

THIS present FRIDAY, the sth, and TO-MORROW,
(Saturday,) the 6th instant, the Entertainments to com-
mence with an entire Nautical Drama, with new Scenery,
Dresses, &c., entitled
ARMSTRONG THE SHIPWRIGHT;
OR, THE RIVAL BROTHERS.
Reuben Armstrong
Thomas Dryrot.... (Temperance Tom) .... H. Beverly
Annis Mildred Mrs. Emery.
SCENES IN THE ARENA.
After which, a new Laughable Extravaganza, called
JACK THE GIANT KILLER.

Jack the Giant Killer, Master Arnold ; Clown, Mr. Guest ;
Giant, Mr. J. White; Giantess, Mr. Usher.
The whole to conclude with a Drama called
GUY FAUX!
OR, THE GUNPOWDER PLOT.

King James the First, Mr:.M`Gregor ; Sir Tristram Cony-

wabble, Mr. H. Beverly ; Guido Faux, Mr. Battie.
On MONDAY, a new Drama will he produced, with
various Changes in the Arena, and other Entertainments ;
also, in Preparation, a new Domestic Drama, of Thrilling In-
terest, in Three Acts, called the DEATH GRASP; or, a
FATHER'S CURSE.

NORTHERN MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.
SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS with Scientific
and Literary Recreations, established with the sole ob-
ject of affording Working Men an opportunity of spending
their Saturday Evenings in a sober and rational manner.

PRINCIPAL VOCALISTS

Mrs. JOHN PALMER, Mrs. RICHARDSON, 11"
EARNSHAW, Mr. HADLEY, Mr. CRANK.
Conductor, Mr. W. HOLDEN,
Who will Preside at the Piano-forte.
SATURDAY, November 6.
PART FIRST.

Glee—" Hark, the Lark"
Song—" M`Gregor's Gathering"—Mrs. J. Palmer.. A. Lee
Recitation—" Battle of Bleinhim"—Mr. A. Hay.. Southe
Catch—" Ah ! How Sophia"—Messrs. W. Holden,
Earnshaw, and Hadley Calcot
Song—Mrs. Richardson.
Recitative and Air—" All is lost now"

'—Mr. Earn-

shave
Song—" Sweetly o'er my Senses Stealing"—Mrs
Palmer
Glee—" The Winds Whistle C01d"....

Bishop
Bishop

PART SECOND.
Glee—" New Mariners"
Song—" Bay of Biscay"—Mr. Had1ey..........
Duet—" When thy Bosom"—Mrs. J. Palmer and
Mr. Earnshaw
" Go, Idle Boy"
" The Crusader's Bride"—Mrs. J. Pal-

Calcott
.. Davy

Glee--
Song—'

G. A. Hodso
Calcot

mer
Trio—" Forgive, Blest Shade
Song—Mrs. Richardson.
Finale—" God Save the Queen."
THE LIVERPOOL BELL-RINGERS,
Pupils of W. Thistlewood, jun., will, between the parts, an(
at the close of the Concert, play some of their favourite airs
Admission 3d. Reserved Seats 6d. Doors open at half.
past Seven, to commence at Eight o'clock precisely.
Members of the Institution admitted, with the usual pri.
vileges.
Parties capable of delivering short Lectures on the various
branches of Science, and having Apparatus for illustrating
the same, will be treated with by the Committee, on appli-
cation to the Secretary, S. RANSON, 18, Clarence. street.

fit Ribtrpool -ttanDarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 5, 1841

The spirit to which Radicalism has to attribute the
complete overthrow which it has sustained in this
quarter, is, we are happy to observe, not confined to
it. The sweeping out of Radicals at the various mu-
nicipal elections throughout the country has been tre-
mendous; Radicalism is everywhere a declining cause;
Conservatism rides the winning horse in almost every
instance. A London contemporary, in commenting on
this gratifying state of things, attributes the change,
but we think incorrectly, to the influence of Sir Robert
Peel's government. It strikes us that Sir Robert
Peel's government has had very little to say to it; the
influential cause dates much further back than the very
recent period when Sir Robert Peel became invested
with the seals of oflice. The movement would have
taken place whether Sir Robert Peel were in or out of
office : and it is one of incomparably greater value and
moment, because it has not arisen from any temporary
excitement or the agency of any merely personal
power. The short of the matter is, Radicalism is a
worn out thing, and the desire to put it by as a cast-off
garment is nearly universal. The feeling has been long
gathering, and it obtains relief by exploding not only
at a parliamentary, but a municipal election, and upon
every occasion where it may legitimately show itself.
If the movement had been brought about by the influ-
ence of a ministerial admiration of the talents of any
individual, however eminent, or any adventitious cir-
cumstance, we could neither congratulate ourselves on
the purity of its character nor speculate upon its per-
manence. The country rejoices at being delivered
from the reign of Radicalism, and in the accession to
power of Sir Robert Peel ; but the new ministry has
been too short a time in office to have acquired any in-
fluence on its own account, much less an influence so
widely ramified and so deeply penetrating as to have
induced that happy revolution in the leading authority
of the municipal corporations which we have just wit-
nessed. So far from seeking prematurely to accluire an
influence of this sort, Sir Robert Peel, with a disinte-
rested forbearance which does him infinite honour, ri-
gidly abstained from the use or sanction of any one
expression which could by any means be construed
into a promise of great things to be achieved under his
administration. His object has evidently been to curb
and restrain extravagant hopes, rather than to raise or
flatter them. With the Conservatives he had no need
to use such dangerous expedients ; with others who
are accustomed to deal in them, not more for the de•
ception of others than of themselves, he might have
been more successful. But Sir Robert Peel is the
chosen of a principle—the minister of confidence ;
and he has used none of the commonplace arts of men
who seek to gain a hasty popularity to improve his po-
sition. His is the popularity which follows good deeds,
not that which is sought by the promise of them. We
conclude then that the cheering result to which we
have been alluding has been brought about, not by the
exercise of any ministerial influence upon the burgess
constituency, but by the same cause which brought
about the glorious majority of 91 at the parliamentary
election—namely, the growing disgust at Radicalism,
and the steady progress of Conservative opinion
throughout the kingdom.
There is a particular cause of congratulation on the
score of the late, municipal returns : it furnishes the
most satisfactory answer to a favourite dogma of the
late movement party, that Conservatism was something
which could not endure the air of town, and could only
flourish among the chopsticks of rural districts. There
The Board of Customs have iven directions that rough
is no reply to this absurd objection like a practical one ;
g
rice from the United States shall be admitted at ld. per qr. Conservatism, it seems, can accustom itself to a town
duty, subject to future confirmation by parliament. life, and does raise its head among the oppidan consti-
It is remarkable that us animal poison has effect upon the tuency, notwithstanding all the facilities which the town
hedge-hog.
The Earl of Home died at Hersell-hall, the family seat, furnishes to free-trade lecturers, anti-corn-lmv•facototirlyer-
yesterday week. men, dissenting preachers, and all other the pretended
At the Central Criminal Court, London, on Thursday, introducers of new eras, march of intellect, and
Robert Blakeslee was convicted of the wilful murder of James
ed with g
Bunion, a publican in Eastcheap, whom he char advantages which our ignorant world has hitherto ob-
upo
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hiallym detaining his wife, and sentence of death was passed stinately rejected. One fact such as this is, in truth,
SHOCKING DEATH OF TWO LADIES•—nIe Montreal well worth an hundred arguments.
Herald announces that the wife of M. Narcisse Benoit, far- We acknowledge that there was something rather
mer, near Three Rivers, Lower Canada, and her sister, Mrs.
M`Donald, went, attended by the husband of the former, to startling, on a superficial view of the case, in the cir-
see a mill at Bouville Mountain, when, melancholy to relate, cumstance that Conservatism flourished most in the
both sisters got entangled in the machinery, and were crushed
country—Radicalism in the town. Many causes might
to atoms, being drawn through a space not more than three
inches. he assigned for this. Many of our towns, it is known,