The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-15 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, LIVERPOOL

The New Opera of
THE SIEGE OF ROGHELLE
And the Mama of
THE JEWESS,
Having been received with the most enthusiastic applause by
a crowded audience last night, will be :repeated every Evlnt
ink; this week.
rinHE Public is respectfully informed, that arrangements
have been made with A. BUNN, Esq., Lessee of the.
Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, for a limited number of repre-
sentations of the popular Drama of The Jewess, which has been
produced upon the same scale of grandeur as in London, with
entirely:New Scenery, splendid Dresses, Real Armour, &c.
&c. Second Night of Balfe's highly celebrated Opera of The
Siege of Rochelle, with all the original Music, New Scenery,
Dresses, &c.

Mr. WILSON and Miss BETTS, z
Principal Vocalists of the Theatre Royal, Drury-jd-ne, are en-
gaged for a limited number of nights, and wi perform the
principal characters in The Siege of Rochel .
Mrs. YATES,
Of the game Theatre, is also engaged for a iced period, and-
will perform the character of t -rewess.
The Siege of Rochelle and the Jewess Ibe produced under
the immediate superintendence d direction of
Mr. YAT 'S
Acting-Manager of the Theatr oyal, Drury-lane.

This present TUESDAY, March 15, 1836, will be performed
the last new Opera, composed by Balfe, as produced this sea-
son with the greatest success at the Theatre Royal, Drury-
lane, called
THE SIEGE OF ROCHELLE.
(The Musical Department conducted by Mr. Aldridge.)
The Marquis de Valmour...Mr.
• Clara Miss Betts.
To conclude with the New Grand Operatic Drama of
..CHE JEWESS,
The real Armour, executed by Mons. Granger, of Paris. The
Dresses by Mr. Palmer, of the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane.
The Banners and Properties by Mr. Blamire, of the same
Theatre.
Eleazar.. ..(a Goldsmith) Mr. Stuart.
Rachel (the Jewess) Mrs. Yates.
Page to the Princess.. Miss Chaplin.
The Box-offic.l is open daily, when places in the Lower Boxes
may be taken of Mr. Parker, from Ten until Three. No places
can be secured unless Tickets are taken.
Lower Boxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, 3s. 6d.; Pit, 2s. 6d.;
Gallery, Is.
Doors to be opened at Half-past Six, and the Performance to
commence at Seven.
A limited number of Season Tickets, not transferable, and
not admissible at Benefits, to be disposed of: ApplicatiOn tO'be
made at the Box-office:
• Madame YESTRIS is engaged fora limited period, and will
make her Appearance at this Theatre (hi Easter Monday.,

GRAND SELECTION OF SACRED MUSIC.
UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF
THE WORSHIPFUL THE MAYOR,
AND OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE L ERPOOL•
FESTIVAL CHORAL socIET
MR. G. HOLDEN respectfully announ • s his intention
of giving a PERFORMANCE, on • extensive scale,
of SACRED MUSIC, selected from the st celebrated Com-
posers.
Priutipal Vocal Perfor ers :
IIISS BET'
(Principal Vocalist of the Theat oyal, Drury-lane,)
Miss HARD N,
(Of the Manchester Concerts,)
Mr. WALTON,
Mr. PEARSALL,
(Of the Birmingham Concerts,)
- And Mr. MACHIN.
Leader—Mr. ALDRIDGE.
The Band, (including all the leading talent of the town) will
be ConSiderably augmented, will be upon an extensive scale, and
the Chorus will be full and efficient.
The Performance will take place at the THEATRE-
ROYAL, on TUESDAY EVENING, the 29th instant, and parti-
culars, with the Scheme, will be given as soon as the arrange-
ments are completed.
44, Staibrd-street.

liibtrpool g.tanDarizi.

TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 15, 1836.

We have New Orleans papers to the 6th, and New
York journals to the 20th February, but they contain no
intelligence of a later date or of more importance than
that which we have extracted from the London papers of
Saturday last,

" Patriotism," said Dr. JOHNSON. " is the last refuge
of a scoundrel," and we might say almost as much of our
present popularity-hunters in the House of Commons,
their professed love of economy being an imposition
upon the public. Whenever we hear an old quack, or
an elfish coxcomb, jabbering in parliament about the tie--
cessity of extraordinary frugality in expending the peo-
ple's money,'we invariably set him down for a cheat,who
winks at the gross job and declaims against candle-ends.
—who is horrified at the odd pence in an estimate, but
who encourages unnecessary and profligate appropria-
tions in favour of some needy rogue at home, or some
community of swindlers abroad.

Honest JOSEPH HUME—Gon help the mark !—and the
worthy people who hold by his " skirtS in the House of
Commons—the WAKLEYS, BUCKINGHAM, BOWRINGS,
WASONS, and EWARTS, to wit—are of this order of mo-,
dern economists. They pursue their own selfish ends
with all the avitlity of vampires, and we never see them
rising to. censure any pecuniary vote without finding that
they are quietly promoting some act of folly and extra-.
vagance a thousand times more costly than that which,
they seemin such earnest to opp6se.

Economy is a good thing, but falseTconomy is only
extravagance in another form—it is folly in the garb of
wisdom. Look at the mock solemnity with which .TosEPH
and his clique cavil at trifles, dispute about farthings, and
waste more paper in printing returns than what they save
by their paltry reductions. In the Russo-Dutch loan.
NtE voted away in one night, needlessly and unpar-
donably, more money than he has saved to the state du-.
ring his whole existence, and he did so under circum-
stances of such glaring inconsistency, and for an avow-
edly factious purpose, as must for ever make his name,
and his character contemptible.
But the conduct of these sham economists with refer-
ence to the military stores lately supplied to the Queen
of Spain by the British government is equally disgrace-
ful, and shows how littlethey regard the real interests
of- the people, whose friends, par excellence, they profess
to be. The constituents of honest JOSEPH have, for some_
considerable time, been using their best efforts to obtain
a repeal of the window tax. One class of them seek
the repeal of the newspaper stamp tax ; another class de-
mand the repeal of the paper duty tax; but all agree that
the window duty is an unequal, partial, and unwise tax.
We perfectly agree with them; but how can they rea-
sonably expect the unhappy Chancellor of the Exche-
quer to be able to afford the remission of this duty so
long as their own dear patriots encourage such a waste.;
ful expenditure of the public money in propping the des-
perate pretension', of ISABULA of Spain ? By the re- .
turn laid last week upon the table of the House of Com-
mons, it appears that the value of " stores, arms, .and
ammunition" furnished by England to the de facto Spa-
nish Queen amounts to £386,777. Here then is consi-:
derably upwards of one third of a million of money—of
good English money—the " people's money"—absolutely'
thrown away, and as much lost to this country for
,evetr,.—
as if it had been in silver- bars thiiiiiCoVerioard in the,
middle of the Atlantic.

On mentioning this subject we protest that we take no
interest whatever in either of the parties who combat for
ascendancy in Spain. If we have any partiality at all
it is in favour of that party which evinces the greatest
disposition to reform, if not root out the debasing and?

accursed popery of the per.insala. But without compro-
mising our opinions on either side, we do contend that
these expensive subsidies, granted by the whigs, and
countenanced by the HumE faction, the liberals, and the
economists, are, in every sense of the word, scandalous
and indefensible, inasmuch as they show, on the part of
the present ministry, a total disregard of the wants, the
interests, and the demands of the people of England. -
It is impossible to look at the items of the subsidy with-
out seeing in them all the elements of a rank job, amount-
ing, in point of fact, to something like an advance of mo-
ney, just as if a man, having an abundance of plate but no
spare cash, were to lend his plate in order to be pawned.
The British government have, with the convenient
concurrence of our patriotic economists, sent in all about
250,000 stand of arms to Spain. They have sent at least
five muskets, rifles, and carbines for every man which the
Queen can possibly bring into the field. We have show-
ered down upon the troops of ISABELLA a perfect hail-
storm of guns. We have put in possession of every
available soldier of the Queen a musket in each-hand,;
one upon his back, another to support his tent, and a fifth

o serve as a poker at his watch-fires. Talk indeed of
the window duty !—the supplies to Spain shut out the
light from the hope:; of honest JOSEPH'S constituents.
Pistols, rifles, and carbines—congreve-rockets and 'brass - -
guns—powder, shot, and shells—harness, tents, bed-
steads, and beddink—waggons, carts, and cartridges—•
muskets, cannon, and swords—all stand in the way of
Mr. SPRING RICE'S contemplated reduction of ale)