The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-10-11 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

PREFERMENTS.—The Rev. Robert Wilson Evans, Fellow
and late Tutor of Trinity, Cambridge, to the living of Tarvie,
near Chester. The Rev. Thomas Sheriffe, jun., to the rectory
of Henstead, Suffolk. At a meeting of the Governors of the
Free Grammar School in Bury, on Friday last, the Rey. John
Edward Kempe, M.A.,Fellow of Clare Hall. Cambridge, was
unanimously elected econd Master, upon the resignation of
the Rev. H. T. Thompson, M.A. The Rev. John_ Yardley, to
St. Chad, Shrewsbury. The Rev. E. Bimell, of Falmouth,
to the curacy of St. Blazey. The Rev. Joseph Mendham, to
tho chapelry of Meer Green, Sutton Coldfield. The Rev. Mr.
Cottle, to the Perpetual Curacy of Taunton St. James. The
Rev. Thomas Blackburne, Vicar of Eccles, Lancashire, to the
rectory of Prestwich-cum-Oldham. The Rev. F. Sturgis, of
Hornsea, to the curacy of Sutton, in Holdernese, Yorkshire.
The Rev. Stephen 'White, E.A to be chaplain to the Union,
at Warminster.
The, first stone of a new church to be erected in Sheffield
Park, to be called St. John the Evangelist, was laid last week
by Lord Howard of Effingham.
ORDINATION.—On Sunday, Sept. 25th, the Right Rev. Dr.
Percy, Lord Bishop of Carlisle, held an ordination at the
parish church of Dalston. The following gentlemen were or-
dained : Priest—The Rev. Joseph Irving, B.A. of Trinity
College, Dublin. Deacons—Henry Percy, B.A. of St. John's
College, Cambridge; Alexander Bath Power, B.A. of Cathe-
rine Hall, Cambridge ; John Dawson, B.A. of St. John's Col-
lege Cambridge ; John Wannop, B.A. of Trinity College,

YORK CA naA L.,—This noble edifice is now beautified with
a new spire at the south-east angle, in the place of the old one,
which was taken down a few years ago. It is about thirty feet
high, and though the base has not received its attendant enrich-
ments, yet its symmetry and the boldness of workmanship of its
ornaments are, we presume, in no wise inferior to the original.
Great credit is due to the Venerable the Dean and Chapter, for
their liberal spirit and desire to restore the decayed and tottering
parts of their church to theirpristine state ofstrength and beauty.
HEREFORD CATHEDRAL—This fine edifice has lately been
much improved and restored, chiefly under the direction of the
Very Rev. the Dean. Among other improvements is the re-
storation Of a beautiful chapel under the eastern end of the edi-
fice, which has long been hid from public view by the rubbish
suffered to accumulate around it.

DEATH OF THE VICE-CHANcELLOE OF OXFORD.—OH Wed-
nesday, the sth instant, at four o'clock. died, after a severe
illness of three weeks, the Rev. George Rowley, D.D., Master
of University College, and Vice-Chancellor of this University.
He was elected Head of this College in 1821, and took the
degree of D.D. June 15 in the same year. Was appointed Vice-
Chancellor just before Michaelmas Term, 1832, and as the office
is usually held for four years. that period would have expired at
the end of the present week. With the exception of Dr. Richards,
who died in 1803, there has not occurred a death of a Vice-
Chancellor here for uprwads of 50 years. Dr. Gilbert, Principal
of Brazennose College, stands next in rotation for this office.

THE LIVERPOO

GRAND ORATORIO.
rIIHE LIVERPOOL CHORAL SOCIETY will g it
1 Second Public Performance on THURSDAY EVENI t,
Oct. 13th, 1836, at the Royal Amphitheatre, Great Charlotte-
street.

The Committee of the Liverpool Festivil have kindly allowed
the Amphitheatre to remain as filled up for the Concerts, for
this occasion.

The Music will be selected from Handers Oratorios, " Solo-
mon," and " Israel in Egypt," and from the works of other
eminent Composers.
Leader Mr. EYTON.
Principal Second Violin Mr. BRAND.
Principal Viola .. Mr. J. SCRUTON.
Principal Violoncello Mr. R. Dams.
Principal Double Bass Mr. WOODWARD.
Principal Flute ' Mr. BROWN.
Principal Clarionet Mr. LEONARD.
Double Drums Mr. BLENNERHASSRT.
CONDUCTOR Mr. GEORGE HOLDEN.

The Orchestra will he complete in every department, and,
with the Chorus, consist of upwards of One Hundred and
Fifty Performers.
Subscribers of One Guinea, paid in advance, are entitled to
four tickets, to each of four performances.
Single Tickets, for the Pit and Circle, 3s. 6d., for the
Boxes, 2s. 6d., and for the Gallery, Is, each, may be had at
the Music Shops.
Doins open at a Quarter past Seven.—To commence at Eight
o'clock.

Books of IVords may be bad at the doors.

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.

Mr. and Mrs. WOOD are engaged for a limited period, and
will make their second appearance in any Theatre since their
return from America This Evening, in the Opera of " THE.
MAID OF JUDAH."

Mr. BROUGH, (of the Theatre-royal, Dublin, and of the
American Theittres,) is engaged expressly to perform in the
Operas in which Mr. and Mrs. Wood will appear.
In consequence of the numerous rehearsals requisite for, the
production of LA SONNAMBU LA, the performanceof that
Opera is postponed until Friday next.
In compliance with the custom adopted in Liindon. on the
representation of the highly successful Drama of GUS'I'AVUS
111., the Visitors to the Lower Boxes will he admitted in the
Last Act on the Stage to join in the MASKED BALL, or as
spectators in the Galleries whieb•will be erected on the Stage;
'I he regulation and arrangement will be explained by the Box-
keeper, at the Box-office, to parties taking places for the Lower
Boxes.
/VII IS present TUESDAY Evening, October ii, will be
1. performed the Opera of
THE MAID OF JUDAH;
OR, THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS.
Ivanhoe.... Mr. Wood, (as originally performed by him in
London.)
Cedric.of Rotherwood....Mr. Brough.
Rebecca. (the Maid of Judah) Nlrs Wood,
(As originally performed by her in London.)
To.conclude with. the Grand Drama of
GUSTAVUS III.; or, THE MASKED BALL.
Incidental to the piece, THE MASKED BALL, for which the
entire of the stage will be fitted up so as to represent the stage
of the Opera House of Stockholm, and the whole of the flour
covered with a painted cloth prepared expressly for the occa-
sion, the Scene forming a Splendid Banquet Hall, brilliantly
illuminated.

To-monow, (Wednesday,). the Opera of FRA DIAVOLO,
which was received last night with reiterated plaudits. Fra
Diavolo, Mr. Wood; Beppo, Mr. Brough ; Zerlina, Mrs.
Wood. With GUSTAVUS 111.
The Box-office will be opened Daily from Ten until Three
for any of Mr. and Mrs. Wood's Nights, during the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Wood's Nights of performing will be Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, end Friday.
No places can be secured unless Tickets are taken.

TO CORIi,ESPO/41DUTS.

The later of " A Brother Bunk" in our next.

. .
N SUPPLEMENT is published.with this number of . the
LIVERpuOI. STANDARD.

Sije Eiberpool ,Stanbarti.

TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1836.

`We have been favoured with the following extract of a
letter from Buenos Ayres, which arrived here yesterday.
It relates the perpetration of a most barbarous act, from
which the mind revolts :

" The state of the country is perfectly quiet, but a most horri-
ble scene took place in one of our public squares a few days
ago. Seventy-two unfortunate Indian soldiers having been tried
and condemned for mutiny, were brought outand shot. In Case
that life should not be extinct, their throats weroalso cut. They
were carried away by sixes and seveui from the phine of execu-
tion, and thrown into a ditch dug on purpose for their reception;
The streets were absolutely streaming with Wed, and presented
a most frightful spectacle ; one Indian, not having been quite
killed, rose up from the heap of wretches, and vented impreca-
tions on his slaughterers. Some soldiers immediately despatched
him with the butt-end of their muskets."

We have a mass of foreign news since our last publi-
cation, furnished by the French and Spanish papers, cor-
respondence, &c., the entire' of which it is impossible
for us to publish. We give as much as possible, together
with the latest London news. Our last statements rela-

tive to the alleged defect of Gomez are entirely confirm-
ed. This boasted victory has dwindled clown to nothing.
The reviews at Campeigne have gone off with safety to
the person of the French king, if not with eclat, who was
preserved frOm rude intrusion by the interposition of
a circular cordon of two thousand men. He entered the
sixty-fourth year of his age on the 6th instant, Thursday,
and is in good health. The diplomatic note of the new
French government is of importance, as it shows the de-
termination of the French government to act with sigour
in suppressing revolutionary societies, wherever its in-
fluence can be made to bear. The French papers do not
contain any intelligence of domestic interest, but they
put us in possession of this document, which is of great
moment, with reference to foreign policy, as the ultima-
tum of the present cabinet, delivered by the Duke de
Montebello, on the 27th ult., to the Swiss federative as-
sembly, suspending all diplomatic relations until
" France shall have obtained that satisfaction which
imprudence on the part of the Cantons had given
to her the right of demanding." This note, for
which we have not room to day, establishes the all-
important fact that Louis Phillipe, with his present mi-
nisters, as well as the Austrian governmeut, are not in-
clined to suffer a band of republicans to nestle on the
very centre of Europe, from which they may send forth
their agents and doctrines whenever opportunity pre-
sents itself. This proceeding, together with the defini-
tive disbandment or distribution of the foreign corps at
Pari, by an order of the day of Colonel Joise, may be
taken as a fair indication of the intended policy of the
French doctrinaire ministry, with respect to revolution-
ary Spain, and gives at the same time a broad hint to
our own.protocolic, temporising administration and their
protege king, Mendizabal, the eminent stock jobber !

. , . . . ,
Sir Robert Peel has; with gieat emphasis and truth,
observed, that " the battle of the constitution must hence-
forth be fought in the registration courts." The cot..

rectness of this declaration, on the part of the right hon...
baronet, is now fully established; and.with all those who
have at heart the welfare 'and the preservation'of the
British constitutional monarchy, and the blessings which
it comprehends, within the range of its rational dominion
and protective influence, that declaration will not only
be duly appreciated, but acted upon, with the vigour and
unremitting perseverance which the emergency and im-
portant interests 'concerned render necessary. The re-
form bill having become the law of the land, we are
bound as Englishmen, and loyal subjects, to yield sub-
mission to that bill, and to the measures and proiisions
it embraces, for the purpose of securing a defined, and,
we will presume, an equitable exercise of the elective
franchise under those provisions ; but whilst we feel
bound to yield to the equitable principle of the reform
bill, as a means of security against improper voting, it is
quite another thing to submit to the infraction of that
principle, which certain defects and imperfections in the
letter of this new charter,of elections throw open to the
selfish and ambitious, as well as!to those who are, avow-
edly, the enemies of the triiiijfk.-,:416 mixed.a.
balanced form of governmenti:esili.ji ,iter• petualliacts
as
a check to the impure rising 'Of -hidliiidUal interests. or
the undue pressure of associated bodies,.operatingagainst
the executive power in the state at'cinelliae;andragainst
the legislative authority at another.

We can hardly conceive that Lord Grey, who, notwith-
standing his emphatically declared respect for his order,
and his desire to' preserve it, shrunk back, apprently,
from the momentum of his own creation with horror, and
left the vessel of the state to flounder, and to be tossed
on the billows of that agitation which he had himself
mainly created, could still have contemplated the distinc •
ti6n of a balance of power under the working of the ma-
chinery of the reform bill ; hut, on the contrary, giving
him full credit for sincerity, in his various declarations,
whilst disputing the prudence of his policy, the general
tone of all his speeches goes to establish the desire be
entertained of securing the equipoise of power in the
state, but regulated by a theory of new principles, in
themselves difficult to comprehend, and still more diffi-
cult to regulate practically. It is of this theory of new
principles in the objects and working of our representa-
tive system that the whig and radical parties have availed