The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-04 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.

In consequence of the immense overflow last night to all
parts of the Theatre on the occasion of MR. CLARKE'S
Benefit, and numerous parties not having been able to ob-
tain admittance for want of room, the Public is respect-
fully informed that any of Mr. Clarke's Outstanding
Tickets will be received at the Doors this evening.
Second week of Mr. HARLEY. Second appearance of Mr.

and Mrs. KEELEY, who are engaged for Teu Nights.
Third week of Mr. F. VINING.

THIS present TUESDAY, September 4, will be per-
il_ formed Colman's Comedy of the

HEIR. AT LAW.
Doctor Pangloss Mr. Harley.
Dick Dowlas Mr. F. Vining.
Z,kiel Homespun Mr. Keeley.
Caroline Dormer Mrs. Baker.
Cicely Homespun.... Mrs. Keeley.
The original Epilogue, by the Char4icters.
After which, the Musical Drame:illed the
SWISS COrrAGIt;
Ott WHY uON'T YoIRAIARRY.
Nets Tieck Mr. Keeley.
Max Mr. G. Horncastle.
To conclude with the Farce of
FRIGHTENED TO DEATH.
Phantom Mr. Harley,
(As originally performed by him in London.)
Mumps Mr. Baker.
Corinna Mrs. Baker.
.Miss Grant

Emily
Patty Mrs. Tellet

On WEDNESDAY, the Comedy of WILD OATS.
Ephraim Smooth, Mr. Harley; Rover, Mr. F. Vinin;
Sim, Mr. Keeley ' - Jane, Mrs. Keeley. After which will be
produced, for the first time here, a new Farce' written by
" Boz," called THE STRANGE GENTLENIAN. The
Strange Gentleman, Air. Harley, as originally performed by
him in London. To conclude with a LOAN OF A LOVER.
Peter Spyk, Mr. Keeley; Gertrude, Mrs. Keeley,

nit iliberpoot gi:tantiarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 4, 1838.

The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this
morning at 5 o'clock.

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.—By the arrival
of the Great Western. in Kingroad, on Wednesday
night last, we are put in possession of news. from Ca•
nada to the 11th ultimo, and from New York to the
16th ultimo. This noble vessel made the passage
home in little more than thirteen days. Her outward
passage, it will be recollected, was only fourteen days
and a half. She thus accomplished both the outward
and inward passages in twenty-seven days and a half—
less than the average passage out of the sailing pack-
ets. The Great Western brought eighty-seven cabin
passengers, an immense number of letters, and some
freight. She brings home despatches from Lord Dur-
ham, in answer to those taken out by her. The con-
tents of these have, of course, not yet transpired. A

dinner was given on board the Great Western the day
preceding her departure from New York, by Mr.
Richard Irvin and Captain Hosken, to their friends,
which is described as a splendid affair. About one
hundred persons were invited ; upwards of fifty sat
down to table, which groaned with the weight of the
viands and wines. Among the guests were Governor
M'Duffee, the Hon. Messrs. Prentiss, Clark, Ver-
plank, and many strangers of distinction.
The New York Gazette says, " the Great Western
departs to-day, at four o'clock, on her sixth passage
across the Atlantic, and so little has the interest in this
noble vessel subsided, that her departure IN ill create
almost as great a sensation as her first return trip.
Her commander will carry with him the good wishes
of all who have had the pleasure of personal inter-
course with him, and her officers and men have de-
served, as they well received, the good opinions and
good feelings of our citizens, and they may carry
home the consciousness of having so deported them-
selves as to have maintained the high character of their

country."
The continued success of the Great Western, has at
length seriously affected the immense interest em-
barked in the sailing liners at New York, and it ap-
pears there is a regular searching for causes of com-
plaint and dissatisfaction, which are spread about with
such assiduity, and so magnified, as doubtless, to have
some effect on the interests of the concerts. For our
own part, we are quite at a loss to understand how 120
people can be breakfasted, lunched, dined, tea'd and
supp'd, for fourteen successive days, with any satisfac-
tion at all.
The directors, it is stated by many of the paSsen-
gers who came home in the ship, have only to go on
their efforts ate appreciated, and so long as the pas-
sengers feel, as those we have conversed with, have
expressed themselves to feel ; that neither pains nor
expense are spared to make them comfortable, the di-
rectors have nothing to fear. Their ship on the next
voyage would bring 200 first class passengers, if there
was more room for them, from New York
The news brought by the Great Western is of very
little importance. We subjoin the most interesting
extracts from the Canadian papers.
(From the Quebec Gazette of Aug. 10.)
TORONTO, Aug. I.—Moreau, the Yankee.land pirate, was
executed at Niagara on Monday last,in pursuance of his very
just sentence. Owing to a want of the necessary precau-
tions in securing Mr. Ketch, who was a coloured man, be-
forehand, that sensitive functionary bolted, and, it is said,
narrowly escaped with his life; and, what is very unusual,
Mr. Sheriff Hamilton was obliged to execute his own duty
in p7opria persona—and, it is said, that the duty was well
done!

(From the Montreal Herald of Aug. 10.)
The New York papers of Monday notice the arrival, on
the day previous, of the brig Queen Victoria, from Bermuda,
bringing accounts to the 28th ult., which reports the arrival
of Her Majesty's ship Vestal, with the transported traitors,
who are, as we suspected they would be, admitted on their
parole, of honour to a residence in the main island, and do
not experience any interruption in their excursions to any
pan of it. We should nut be surprised if the Government
should open the prison doors in Canada and admit the mur-
derers and burglars in custody, on their parole of honour, to
a residence in the country. Consistency requires such a
course, but Whigs have "never been celebrated for that
quality. The Government could learn, with apathy, that
hundreds of the volunteers in Montreal, who took uparms
in its defence, were starving, and that their families had to
be supported by voluntary subscriptions fur soup kitchens,
without ever deigning to notice them; but no sooner are
a few hundred traitorous vagabonds caught in the act of
fighting against and murdering her Majesty troops and loyal
subjects, than a cry is raised annul the enlightened spirit of
the age, and they are forthwith let loose on society, or get; the
use of a ship of war to take them to Bermuda, where they are
treated as if they were public benefactors. We have always
ridiculed the idea of this lenient policy leading to any good
result, or making a single traitor loyal. No further back than
Wednesday afternoon there was a beautiful "loyal manifes-
tation exhibited in this city by the soi disant sons of liberty,
many of whom are but recently liberated from prison. They
met on the old racecourse, where they went through their old
pranks of drilling and firing at a target, after which they
marched into town, headed by a band of execrable music, and
carrying branches of the maple tree, which they recognise as
their national (!) emblem. Go on, ye brave enjans du sul,
until another 6th of November shall arrive, and see you again
scattered to the four quarters of the earth; but remember,
you will never again have the chance of returning to repeat
your rebellious game a third time. The volunteers who suf-
fered so much on your account last winter, have learned a
lesson which they must assuredly will not forget, and may ex-
claim with the .few in the Merchant of Venice, "The villany
you teach me I will execute, and it will go bard but 1 will
better upon your instruction."

The New York papers announce that Sir John Col-
borne had reached Montreal from Upper Canada, and
that he immediately proceeded to Quebec. Sir John
had been making a tour of examination along the Up-
per Canada frontier, as far as Sandwich, with a view,
it is said, to the erection of fortifications.

APKenzie's Gazette states that there are not, in
both Cauadas, more than 5,000 British troops, and
that the number will be reduced to 4,000 by desertion
and other causes before the close of the navigation.
We apprehend the " agitator" will hardly prevail upon
the Canadian insurgents to- give any further trouble
by such idle stories as the above. He seems entirely
to forget the enthusiasm of the loyal volunteers, who,
without any aid from the regular troops, drove him
and his misguided followers to take refuge in Navy
Island.

Lord Durham, it *is s id, has conceived the mag-
nificent project of opening a ship canal from Lake Erie
to the sea—a project much more easily conceived than