The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-14 00:00:00

SATURDAY.

We visited on Saturday the scene of the week's festivi-
ties, which was being rapidly disencumbered of tents,
decorations, &c., under the active superintendence of Mr.
Councillor Fisher, and Mr. Moore, another member of
the committee. Of course the change in appearance since
W ednesday was most striking, the sight of the busy work-
men employed offering a most sorry contrast to the rank,
fashion, and beauty assembled during the festivities. The
grass throughout the park was much trampled, and be-
trayed the effect of the deluge of rain and the busy feet of
the assembled thousands. Beyond this, however, we
were informed by Mr. R. V. Yates, its owner, that no
damage of any importance has been done. Mr. Yates,
indeed, expresses his sense of the great consideration and
kindness of his fellow-townsmen in respecting, his pro-
perty—a consideration which is most creditable to them.
The festival closed on Saturday evening by a monster
concert, which was numerously and fashionably attended,
though not so crowded as we had expected. The Phil-
harmonic Society, the Choral Society, the Society Armo-
idea, and the Apollo Glee Club, all lent their valuable as-
sistance on this occasion to render It a monster concert
indeed—not less than four hundred performers—vocal and
instrumental—being engaged. The whole proceedings
passed off with great eclat, all the artistes acquitting
themselves with their usual consummate skill. Shortly
before the first part closed a pleasing incident occurred.
The band of the Blue Coat School, who had been sta-
tioned in the gallery and been hitherto unseen, took up
the air with an astounding crash of brass instruments, and
the gallant little fellows continued to play away during
the interval with splendid effect.
Before the curtain rose again, a gentleman in the boxes
proposed three cheers for the Mayor. Three hearty
cheers and " one cheer more" were enthusiastically given.
The Mayor bowed acknowledgment. A like compliment
was next paid to the Mayor's lady, and before the cheer-
ing had well subsided. the curtain rose.

We understand that, in consequence of the unfavourable
weather, many of the handsome medals provided by Mr.
Hausburg remain on hand, It has been suggested that
the masters of the several trades shall present each of
their workmen with► one of these commemorative tokens of
an event in which all have participated; and that the
pupils in the several schools shall also be each gratified
with a similar memorial.

Among the valuable contributions presented by Mr.
Castles, of the George Hotel, Dale-street, to the festival,
was a piece of the finest roast beef we ever saw, just re-
ceived from Cincinnati. In this country of roast beef we
could not produce anything like it. In the refectory at
the Fancy Fair it was the object of unusual admiration,
but as it was vendable it soon disappeared.
Although the detectives were numerous on the ground,
the light-fingered ger try were rather too successful in
their depredations. On Thursday afternoon and night
they robbed even the stall of the lady of the mayor to the
extent of £3O.

Three young men, named Davis, Thinnan, and Flanni-
gan, were brought up before Mr. Rushton on Friday, for
violently assaulting the police, during the Fancy Fair, on
Thursday night. Mr. Carruthers, a bystander, saw the
row, and stated that about fourteen young men were beat-
ing the police, who were bringing an offender from a booth,
and he assisted to prevent a continuance of their ill-treat-
ment. Davis did not appear to have been so culpable as
the others, and was discharged. Hannan was fined 505.,
or twenty-one days' imprisonment; Flannigan £5, or two
months' imprisonment.

We may mention as an extraordinary instance of de-
spatch in the music trade, that on Friday week a lady
called upon Mr. James Smith, music-seller, wishing to
have the song, the words of which we gave last week,
" For Charity's Sake,"
published for sale at the stalls of
the Fancy Fair by Wednesday morning. Mr. Smith had
only just time to write a letter by that evening's post to
his engraver in London, offering a premium for its accom-
plishment. The song requires eight plates, which were
engraved on Saturday, and sent per that evening's post
to Dr. 'Wesley, in Leeds, for correction ; and returned on
Monday morning. Corrections were made in the plates
by the engravers, 200 copies struck off, pressed, and for-
warded by Tuesday night's mail, and were selling at the
stalls of the Fair Traders on Wednesday morning ! ! !
Three hundred more copies were printed, pressed, and
forwarded per mail on Wednesday evening ; and by this
time the same song is, without doubt, what printers call
" out of print"—not a copy of the 500 to be sold !
Amongst other small but amusing publications given at
the fair was a little pamphlet, entitled, " What Stopped
the Subscriptions ? or, were the Funds of our Charities
Reduced at the very Time the Claimants were increasing ?
—Addressed to the Ladies and Gentlemen who attend the
Fancy Fair now holding." The writer quaintly but cle-
verly argues that the recent commercial and general dis-
tress is caused by " want of money," and concludes by
saying,—" We must have paper money before we can
have good times ;—paper money based on security ;—pa-
per money increasing with goods made, and cancelled
with goods consumed ;—paper money increasing with
wealth ; paper money stamped by government. The
first and great function of a government is to make a mo-
ney for its people. Mr. Pitt carried on great wars be-
cause he had paper money, and in his time the waste
lands were enclosed, the country was better cultivated,
and the towns were increased and beautified. Since the
peace, owing to gold money, we have bad fitful prosperity,
always followed by panics and bad times, and these bad
times coming oftener and lasting longer."