The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-12 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1853.

BROUGHAM and VAUX incontinently perpetrated. Eery
one who could gain admission to these exhibitions, you
may be sure, was there. It was on one of those
nights, when discussion was drawing to a close, that
the Duke of SUSSEX rose to express his opinion.
Chance placed me near EDWIN CHADWICK, who
also had been drawn thither. The good-natured
prince referred to was a people's man,—be was a tolerable
scholar, certainly a good biblical one • yet he did not brag
of his learning, seldom quoted, and, if he did, the quota-
tion was " plain simple,' as exergue on a tower halfpenny.
On the night in question the Royal Duke, as a matter of
course, supported the bill, speaking about ten minutes,
making useofthe musty quotation "Vox populi," &c., being
the basis of all enactments. EDWIN CHADWICK did not
understand the poor bit of Latin, no, not after it had been
repeated to him by a neighbour, who had to spell it for
him. Yet quietly this man—ignoramus, if you like—was
working, not in the dark altogether. EDWIN was not—
is not a mole. Even then he had a remarkable faculty
for arranging desultory facts,—mind analytical, head
clear, at once perspicacious and perspicuous, qualities
EDWIN found, in the long run, far more valuable than
Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. He had been introduced to
BROUGHAM ; and, out of all the Whig hangers-on, after
the GREYS, the DURHAMS, the RUSSELLS, &C., CHAD-
WICK had been selected to condense, analyse, make conti-
nuous and clear the heterogeneous masses of returns made
to the promoters of the Poor-law Bill from all the ends of the
. .

three kingdoms and out of them also; for America was
quoted, France was quoted, Prussia was quoted, learned men
in BrusseIs,—QUETELET among them,—and othereminent
foreign statists were quoted, and the bill passed, Lord
BROUGHAM exhausting his hitherto supposed boundless
stores of eulogy when it so pleased him to open them.
Boundlessly he lauded EDWIN CHADWICK, as if he had
been another admirable CRICHTON ! I humbly remem-
bered vox populi CHADWICK—as all workhouses and
unions, and varmint that do inhabit them, and all rate-
paying people out of them know—got a good berth under
that same bill. Other bills, fringe-like, sprang out of
it ; CHADWICK had a finger in all of them. Discon-
tented and peevish, he has displeased Public Health Acts'
people, civil engineers nut a few, Office of Works' people,
Woods and Forests' people, General Board of Health
people, Commissioners of Sewers in city and out of it.
Men, likewise, who fancy they can deodorize, deputrify,
and what not, the yellow water of the Thames, and make
gold of it. PACTOLUS for ever ! When such men go to
CHAnwicx. and tell him of their schemes, they get
pooh-poohed, and come away almost cursing him. Still
the discontented bashaw gets on, rich and careful ; for it
is a saying, that " no one ever saw the froth of his pot."
But this may have had its origin more in spite than in
truth. EDWIN'S hand has been taised against every
man, and every man's hand has been raised against
EDWIN ; but he continues to prosper. He has amiable
qualities ; a friend to whom Mr. CHADWICK had been
in his early career obliged, applied to him to do some-
thing for a son—idle. The return of post brought the
lad a situation. Prompt and noble this, EDWIN, not to
forget your old friends. So be acted also with another
son of another friend. Mr. CHADWICK is looking ill ;
pale and flabby ; a bad combination.
Vast numbers of the elite called at Buckingham Palace
yesterday, to ascertain the state of Prince ALBERT'S health.
I believe there will be no more bulletins issued. The
attack of measles was caused by his Royal Highness's
almost hourly association with the PRINCE of WALES—a
mild-tempered, promising boy, though two or three years
ago he did not mind kicking up a row if he had not a coat
made like his father's shooting-jacket. He also wanted a
watch. The system on which he is educated, I have no
hesitation in saying, is perfect—strictness and kind-
ness—the Bible and the History of England forming
lessons for every day in the week, the former alone
however, on Sunday. The latter is not now, young
DOLYE'S edition,—a M.S. one executed by that clever
artist, when he was one of the illustrators of Punch,—
it had ❑eatly executed pen and ink drawings, in the mar.
gin, descriptive of portions of the history, which was
prettily written by the artist a few years since, himself
little else than a boy. He is the son of the famous H. 8.,
the caricaturist. The PRINCE OF WALES'S tutor seems
aware of the fact, that when weariness begins, edification ,1
ends.

The outre members of the Coalition Cabinet appear
determined to hang together : they are at sixes and sevens
touching Russia and Turkey, and literally acting on the
indisputable fact, that we know not what a day
may bring forth. The foreign events of the past week
fully vindicated my statements ; and matters, as far as
intelligence received at the Foreign Office and elsewhere
enables me to speak, remain in state quo—with this im-
portant difference, that Nick appears willing to draw in
his horns. Each succeeding day is expected to bring in-
telligence of a more decided character ; and RUSSELL
and CLARENDON cannot much longer remain mute,
though Lord BROUGHAM has come to their aid at the
eleventh hour. It is expected that in one month Parlia-
ment will be prorogued. Tile QUEEN is most anxious to
go to Scotland, as I have alieady stated ; and, from what
I learn, the visit to the Irish capital, which is certainly
postponed, is not abandoned.
The Earl of ABERDEEN is looking fagged, and, though
he appeared remarkably spicy on Saturday evening, with
the proudest and poorest of his orders—a Scotch one, I
need not tell you—resplendent on his person, he is not
well ; when ABERDEEN is at the trouble, he is the best
dressed member of the peerage, looking quiet but grand ;
—a total absence of foppery, in which regard he may be
compared to a very different EarI—CARDIGAN—a noble
fellow.

Touching matters theatrical, there is not much to
mention. There was a meeting on Saturday afternoon
of the proprietors of Drury-lane Theatre. The report
read was not so bad after all. Mr. SMITH, the present
lessee, has now sole occupancy of the house, at a yearly
rent of £4,000, for seven years, terminable by a six
months' notice on either side. He commences in October
with opera—daring man ! Meantime he appears desirous
of doing something notable ; he has got his last panto-
mime—Harlequin fludibras—or some such name, ren-
dered into French, and is either " going or gone," as
GEORGE ROBINS used to say, to Paris, to play panto-
mime there. TOM MATHEWS is the Clown. The
other metropolitan theatres are so so, with the ex-
ception of CHARLES KEAN'S, where Sardanapalus
fills the house four or five nights a week. VES-
TRIS closed her elegant temple a few evenings
since, not under the most favourable action of the till.
There was a goodly collection, comprising not a few of
the opera habitue's, on Saturday night, at the little
Olympic ; pit and gallery crowded, boxes and stalls the
same. Jt was droll to see the old fqmiliar opera-goers,
who scarcely miss a Saturday, sitting in the English
theatre, in comfortable trowsers of " hodden grey," with
waistcoat to match, laughing and applauding to the echo.
What was it all about ? How was it that your cor-
respondent was there, instead of listening to the ecclesi-
astical strains of the Prophele, with TEDESCO at the
R. I. 0. ? I confess to the seeming absurdity. WILLIAM
SHAKSPERE,—much-abused man,—wrote a play called
the " Merchant of Venice." THOMAS NOON TAL-
FOURD, author of the severe and classic beauties of
" Ion," and also one of Her MAJESTY'S judges, has a boy
who cannot let the immortal WILLIAM rest, who must
have been more anxious about the care of his bones than
his plays. He (TALFouRD fils) made a burlesque of that
awful play, " Macbeth," with success ; and he has
now tried his not " ' prentice hand" on " Shylock,"
though, I believe, this misdemeanor was perpetrated
before Macbeth. There is no question in regard to the
great—the remarkable talent—of a Mr. ROBSON, who
enacts the principal characters in TALFOURD'S concoc-
tions. ROBSON' was a tavern actor, giving recitations, I
suppose, as is frequently done, and well-done, too ; he
plays after a twofold manner ; you have the real
ground-word—SHAKSPERE represented well ;—on this
legitimate structure burlesque is raised. The combi-
nation is irresistibly exciting. Wink at the dramatic sin
committed, and constant laughter, natural and hearty,
follows. A cold breeze—aura, the Greeks called it—crept
over me, however, when I heard the beautiful speech of
Portia commenced in travestie,—
" The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven,
Upon the place beneath : it is twice blest,
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes."

Apropos to which was Master WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE
paraphrasiag the sacred volume. In Ecclesiasticus, c. 35,
v. 20, do we not read, " Mercy is seasonable in the time
of affliction, as clouds of rain in the time of drought."
And again, yet higher authority, in Matthew c. 5, v. 7,
" Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy."
Indeed the whole of the most exsuisite address of
Portia, in " The Merchant of Venice is Holy Writ. In
its delivery in TALFOURD'S burlesque, some decency was
attended to, the latter portions being omitted. In these
times theatrical managers cannot afford to be too nice.
Two or three novelties are announced as forthcoming at
those theatres which remain open in the dog-days, or
nights. Actors and actresses not in them are forming
themselves into little " loafing" parties for the country,
loafing being on the pari passu principle. As akin to the
foregoing, I may add that rude health appears happily to
distinguish nearly all the authors and artists now
in town. It must be the drive down to Chobham,
and the walk on the almost interminable heath, that
does it. DICKENS is brown as a berry in autumn ; all
the Punch-men ditto repeated ; JERROLD, if not fat, is
glorious; MARK LEMON laughs and grows fat; PERCY
LEIGH, one of his collaborateurs, and writer of the Comic
Latin Grammar, Perry's. Diary in Punch, &c., is very
jolly; Jolts LEECH looks as if he had £5,000 a year. Dr.
MACKAY, the sweet versifier, is, or was, an exception,—
he has been laid up for some weeks, but is now creeping
about, getting well. MICHAEL BURKE linsAN, after
life's fitful fever, sleeps,—he died a few days ago, after
having been foreign correspondent of pretty well all the
newspapers in London, and several volumes thereanent.
For light literature there is a ready market in London
circles. So also with artists. Long may it continue.

THE BRAZILS.
By the arrival, yesterday, in Liverpool, of the clipper
barque Emperor, Captain William Bruce, we have later
intelligence from Bahia.
The Emperor sailed on the 28th May, with 11 passen-
gers, in company with the Royalist, for the Channel.
The British barque, Ranger, had sailed for the Channel
on the 26th May.
The Enchanter, from Australia for London, had put
into Bahia for water, and sailed again on the 26th May.
The British brig Francesca, Draper, of London, from
St. Vincent, for Australia, foundered at sea on the Bth
may, in lat. 4'13 N., long. 18.9 W.; crew saved by the
Swedish brig Irene, bound for California, which arrived
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FINE ARTS.—The portraits of the Rev. Rector Camp-
be:l, and the Vett. Archdeacon Brooks, are still on view
at the Lyceum Committee-room, Bold-street, and dur.
ing the past week they have been visited by many of our
most influential citizens and lovers of the fine arts, who
have all expressed their admiration of Mr. Westcott's ad-
mirable delineations of two of our worthiest citizens.

PRODUCE.—There has been a very quiet market
for Sugar, and the sales are limited to 500 hhds.
B. P. and 700 bags Bengal, without change in
prices. Little doing in Foreign. In Coffee, the
business was confined to 30 tees. Jamaica, and
1,200 bags St. Domingo, at steady rates. 1,800
bags Singapore Pepper, on the spot and to arrive,
sold at 31d per lb. Of Rice, 3.500 bags Arracan
sold at 9s to 9s 9d, being full prices, and 4,000
bags Bengal, at los 3d par ordinary, to 12s 6d per
cwt., being 6d dearer. Rum, in very good demand,
at a slight further advance in price. In Tea, only
a moderate amount of business was transacted, but
previous quotations were well maintained, Turpen.