The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-07-15 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.

FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. W. FARREN,
And his last appearance this season, on which occasion he will
appear in three of his original characters.
THIS present FRIDAY EVENING, the 15th instant, the
Entertainments will commence with, for the first time
here, a new Comedy, in three acts, written by Mr. Poole, Au-
thor of " Paul Pry," "Simpson and C 0.," &c., called
MARRIED AND SINGLE.
Beau Shatterly Mr. W. Farren,
(As originally performed by him in London.)
After which, the Farce of
UNCLE FOOZLE; OR, MY WIFE'S MOTHER.
Uncle Foozle, (as originally performed by him) Mr. W. Farren.
In the course of the Evening Mr. W. Farren will sing "
Old English Gentleman."
To conclude with the Farce of
UNCLE JOHN.
Uncle John, (as originally performed by him,) Mr. W. Farren.
On SATURDAY, the Tragedy of MACBETH. Macbeth, Mr.
Stuart; Macduff, Mr. Bellair, from the Theatre-Royal, Ply-
mouth, his first appearance here; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. Stanley.
—After which, for the last time, the Comic Pantomime of
HARLEQUIN AND THE GOLDEN GOOSE.

THE REGISTRATION.—EIectors should bear in mind that the
time of preferring claims for county votes commenced on the
.20th June, and ends on the 20th July ; and, with respect to
borough voters, it is required, before their names can be put
on the list, that all the poor-rates and assessed taxes due by
each voter, previously to the 6th of April, be paid before the
20th July.
In consequence of the great length to which our report of the
highly important and interesting meeting of Wednesday ex-
tends, we have been obliged to omit several articles of interest,
(one of considerable length respecting the reckless extrava-
gance of the town council,) and some long advertisements,
all of which shall, however, appear on Tuesday.

Ebe Eiberpool ,Stanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 15, 1836.

Judging from present appearances, the Carlists will
very speedily settle the war in Spain, unless the French
government can be induced to interfere with twenty-five
or thirty thousand men ; but of this we see no likeli-
hood, inasmuch as the temper of the French people re-
quires a strong hand and great circunispeztion.
The-insurgents are victorious on almost every,point ;
and the expedition to Asturias, Gallicia, and Leon, of
which we spoke in our last, bids fair to be productive of
important results; for although ESPARTERO has set out
in pursuit of GOMEZ, it is probable that he will catch a
tartar if be should come up with his active opponent be-
fore'he has completed his work of rousing the rural po-
pulation of those provinces in favour of CARLOS.
_

EVANS still lies in fallow near St. Sebastian. His of-
ficers are leaving him by little knots of threes and fours ;
his men also are taking themselves off to the enemy's
tines, where they at least find clothing and something to
eat.

CORDOVA is at his old game of killing time, not his
opponents. Nobody understands either his plans or his
motives. In fact, he has effected nothing, and does not
appear capable of doing anything. We suppose the se-
cret is, that he fears to trust his army in the sight of the
Carlists, as it is not in a condition to fight, and very
prone to change sides.
Under these circumstances we are not surprised at, be-
ing told in a French journal that the Queen Regent has
made proposals for an adjustment of differences to the
following effect :

" Ist. The marriage of the eldest son of Don Carlos with the
young Queen Isabella. 2d. The preservation of the Estatuto Real
with modifications to be hereafter discussed. 3d. A council of re-
gency composed of persons to be chosen by the two parties. 4th.
The Queen Christina and Don Carlos engage to withdraw from the
Spanish territory. each haring pensions, to be secured by the French
and English governments. And sth. A general amnesty,"

These propositions are said to have been offered to
VILLAREAL, the Carlist commander-in-chief, by CORDOVA
in person, the latter having demanded an interview for
that purpose. The reply of Don CARLOS is stated to be

this :
" Ist. That he has no objection to the marriage. 2d. That the
Estatuto Real cannot be maintained. 3d. Convocation of Cortes by
Estamentos to regulate the affairs of the kingdom. 4th. That be
shall not leave Spain, and does not require the Queen to do so."

It has been objected that, as the Madrid Gazette con-
tains no notice of the overture, its truth is questionable.
We do not think so. It is natural that the intelligence
should get to France by private communication ; it is
not natural for the Spanish court to resort to publicity
in an affair of so much delicacy. We are not disposed to
place
undue confidence in the et.t.tnent. yet we see no
reason to dispute its truth, as to this complexion must
things come at last, or there will be a complete revolu-
tion—perhaps a republic.

The French journals of Saturday and Sunday are filled
with the details of the trial of ALIBAUD, the assassin.
Having been arraigned with the usual solemnities, the
President, Baron PAsQUIER, interrogated the prisoner in
the usual style of the French courts. A very short ex-
tract suffices to show the state of the poor wretch's
mind :

What did you wish to do 1 Did you not wish to arrive at the
Republic by a general overthrow of everything 2—Yes, I wished to
do so,"

" How long is it since you formed this detestable project?—(ln an
animated voice.)—Ever since Philip I. established the state of siege ;
ever since Philip I. trod under foot all his promises, and all our liber-
ties ; ever since Philip I. caused our fellow-citizens to be shot in the
streets of Paris and Lyons ; ever since the reign of Philip I. became a
reign of blood, a reign of infamy. That was why I wished to kill
him."
" The President. —Take care, Alibaud : you are not here to do any-
thing else than to defend yourself. You aggravate your position, if
possible. Why did you wish to kill the King ?—Because I was con-
vinced that I should thereby become useful to the cause to which I
had consecrated my life."

Consecrated his life to commit murder—to murder his
King and revolutionize the state We verily believe
that the sentiments expressed by this culprit widely pre-
vail in France, and that, such is the moral condition of
the mass of the needy young men in the capital, they
consider such detestable deeds a sacred duty.

ALIBAUD declared, over and over again, that he had no
accomplices, and with every appearance of truth. On
being called upon for his defence, he produced a written
rhapsody, in which he gloried in his crime, and denounced
the whole edifice of constituted authority as corrupt and
infamous. The President and the Procureur du Roi in-
terfered to prevent the assassin from reading his vitupe-
rative trash ; and he was pronounced guilty, and con•
demned to undergo the punishment inflicted upon parri-
cides—namely, death by the guillotine under circum-
stances of ignominy. No day was fixed for his exe-
cution.

So far all was right, and the government occupied its
for it is necessary that such an offender
proper position,
should be speedily brought to justice ; but the govern-
ment subsequently grossly committed itself by sending an
intimation to two of the evening journals not to publish
ALIBAUD'S absurd defence under pain of seizure of the
papers that might contain it. On the spur of the mo-
ment, the evening journals in question obeyed, but stated
the fact of the interference, for which there was no legal
authority; and the consequence has been that the princi.
pal journals have since published the defence verbatim,
and all France is busy in drawing inferences unfavoura-
ble to the government. If it be so weak as to dread the
ravings of a crazy man, well may it tremble.

In the House of Lords, on Monday evening, the
Chancellor's quack bill for abolishing imprisonment for
debt was set aside for the present session, on the motion
of the Duke of WELLINGTON, on the ground that there
is not time for thedue consideration of a measure involving
the interests of every class of society, and embracing a
great variety of nice detail. Lord ABINGER entirely
concurred in the duke's views, and vigorously supported
his motion. It appears that the bill was not printed un-
til the 30th June, and contains no less than 174 clauses,
roost of which require minute attention, and are likely
to give rise to keen debate. It were absurd, then, to
proceed in the existing state of the public business, for
although the Peers might get through the bill, the Com-
mons could not ; and if the latter stopped short, all that
the lords might do would prove so much labour lost.
Besides, it is well known to the Duke of IX:ELLINOTON,
and to the peers
gen"4"Y, that ministers intend to wrap
up the session as soon as t
Possiule, that they may get out
of parliamentary surveillance, and be at liberty to begin
their promised course of agitation out of doors, which
they deem of much more importance to them than the
passing, on public grounds, of the hest bill ever brought
before the legislature. His grace's motion was carried