The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-20 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.

On account of the Races, the Performances will riot corn-2.
mence until Eight o'clock. The Doors to be opened at
Half-past Seven o'clock.
For the BENEFIT of Madame CINTI DAMOREAU.,Oa
which occasion she is encouraged to hope that MARSHAL
SOULT will honour the Theatre with his Presence and Plea.
tronaae ; and positively the Last Night of the Engagement
of the highly celebrated Vocalist Madame CINTI DAMO.
REAU, the extraordinary Pianist, Mons. DOE HLER,
Mademoiselle FORGEOT, Signor CURIONI, Signor
GIUBILEI, and Mr. BOCHSA.
THIS present FRIDAY EVENING, the 20th instant,
the Entertainments will commence with the new petit
Comedy of
P.P. ; OR, THE MAN AND TYIE TIGER.'
WITH
A GRAND MISCELLANEOUS CONCERT.
And Scenes, in character, from Auber's celebrated French
' Opera L'AMBASSADRICE ; and
Rossini's Opera Buffa IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA,
IN CHARACTER. -
Rosina Madame Cinti Damoreau.
Comte Almaviva
Figaro Signor Giubilei: •
To conclude with the National Anthem,` .
" GOD SAVE THE QUEEN,"
By Madame Cinti Damoreau, Signor Curioni, and Sign-or
Giubilei, accompanied by Mr. Boehm and Mons. DOeihlert..:,
Notwithstanding the very heavy expense attending the
above Engagements, no advance will be made in the regular
prices of admission to the Theatre; which- will remain 'as
usual, Lower Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. 6d. ; Pit, 2s. 60...;
Gallery, Is.
The Box-office will be opened Daily, when Places may be-
taken from Ten until Three o'clock. No Places can be
secured unless a corresponding number of Tickets are taken..
.
On SATURDAY, the Tragedy of MACBETH, and. the''
Melo-Drama of THE MILLER AND HIS MEN.

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ZOOLOGICA'L G-A-RDENS':'•

NEW INSTITUTIOAF ARTS,
FOR THE
EXHIBITION OF PAIk;ING-g-dNio SCULPTURE,

BY MODERN' ARTISTS,. '
IN THE GALLERY AND ROOMS, OVER THE UNION NEWS.
ROOMS, DUKE STREET,
TILL CLOSE upon .the,3lst inst. for the Reception of
PAINTINGS, &e.
J.' PALMER, &ere .
The Exhibition WILL OPEN: early is Angtist.
Liverpool, 16th July, 1838. • .

TO THE ADMIRERS OF THE' FINE:,!AR,T4SbuIq.

" TIN
Now Open at No. 8, BOLD-STREET, two doors above t e
Palatine Club, .. , • • !t
A SPLENDID EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS 4,.
BY THE OLD MASTERS,
Among which will be found one from the Pencil' of `the iii~
comparable
GUIDO ,
Value 2,000 Guineas, representin./
DIANA ON HER RETURN FROM TI-144 'CHASE.
[Life Size.] ytv
r HE PROPRIETOR feels an indescrilible pleasure in.
.I_ip being the humble instrument of introdicing. to the no-
tice
of a liberal and discriminating publiV, the inestimable -
production of departed genius. whose talents, like,a tne;eeri;
of transcendent light, have reflected glory ou the country of
his birth, and shed lust re.on civilized Europe, giting
to, and promoting that refinement of taste, veneration- fur
and elevation of soul which true greatness alone inspires,;
it is, therefore, with conscious pride that he invites the at-
tention, more particularlr of those who take an interest nr:;
improving the moral condition of mankind, by upholding
science, and giving encouragement to the Arts, the true a& "
mirers of which will experience a delicious treat in 'content.
plating the beauties of this specimen, in which the Artist hi •
displayed those appropriate and gigantic powers:of coneeto"
tions upon which he has established the immortality...ob/lire
fame ; language, however impassioned, furnishes,b4,,a
verty of words to describe, and which can' only be prepeilk "
understood through the medium of its .own silent; elequengeox
Admission, ONE SHILLING each.—Catalogues 64-eap.4 ~eq
Open from Ten till Dusk.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The favour of "D. F. P." is unavoidably postponed until,xf
Tuesday.

The letter of "A Churchman" shall appear in our next publi-,
cation. . 4
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rije Eiberpoot 4.4antartit,

FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 20, -1 834.

{*"' The Publication of the STANDARD corninencid
morning at 5 o'clock. .

REGISTER ! REGISTER ! ! REGISTER !! !
THIS IS THE LAST OPPORTUNITY WE
SHALL HAVE THIS YEAR OF REMINDING
OUR CONSERVATIVE FRIENDS THAT ". THE
BATTLE OF THE CONSTITUTION IS TO. BE
FOUGHT IN THE REGISTRATION COURT,-
TO DAY IS THE TWENTIETH OFw. Jw,,,y,
SEE AN ARTICLE ON THE. SUBJEC;,A,
ANOTHER COLUMN.

15ziNol

THE WAR IN SPAIN.—CHRISTINO CRUELTIES.,-nz
The radical press in this country has takerkespsf4k
delight in dilating upon the cruelties said tohaytelrmy
perpetrated by the Carlist forces in Spain,..ie,spApatliy,i
in making war upon defenceless females;, but we„darytt
the ingenuity of any liberal scribbler in thekirlgil94-
to produce anything so utterly revolting to. tltn feel-
ings as the narrative which we are about to, detail,:tlie...
actors in which were Christinos—the especial favour;,;
ites of our present government. It appears a,
letter, dated Logrono the 4th instant, that tlreilike(A.,
Carlist officer, full of zeal for the cause of Don Qao.
los, employed herself in giving infornlatian,..and, rep,

dering other services to the cause which she-had,es,,, •
poused. A few days previous to the date ()Utile letter
she left Logorno, carrying about her an accoutt-of-rhe
movement of Colonel Zurbano to surprise the -ear=
lists. After about two hours journey she theewith
Zurbano's party, but, thinking they were Carlists, she .
told him her mission, with all the circumstances,:itimy.

let her continue in the belief that they were Oarlists,t
and conducted her to Logrono. On the motrnir .

was tried by a military commission, andcondeinireditii'':
be shot, but previously to' be marched tlirobgit Elie
town. Immediately on her'leai'ing the.prison, the.l. 87
sembled populace, not
.content with loading,her
abuse and insult, threw stones and struck.
clubs, so that, arrived at the place otexecution, it aas'
a corpse they dragged along, and there was no neeee-.
-illy for other means of death ; neveithdess;two shots

troubles had sprung up in a new quarter. For the
particulars we must refer our readers to the accounts
given in another column. They are calculated to im-
press us with any thing but a favourable opinion of
the state of Canada. A predatory sort of warfare is
likely to be carried on for some time in the less densely
peopled districts, unless a more formidable demonstra-
tion is made on the part of the government. The
reckless beings who are guilty of these continued at-
tacks upon the peaceable inhabitants appear to be little
else than a gang of desperate thieves, whose only ob
ject is pillage. It will require a very powerful force
and the most active measures to eradicate these ma-
rauders.

It appears that Governor Arthur had issued a pro-
clamation, interdicting all communication with the
American frontier in the vicinity of Niagara. This
is a very prudent step, as it will effectually cut off the
supplies of arms and ammunition from the rebels.
The Rochester Democrat announces that the
steam-boat Experiment had been purchased and manned
by the colonial government, to proceed against the
buccaneer Bill Johnson, of whose capture, and the dis-
persion of his piratical forces, we soon expect to
hear.

The resignation of Sir John Colborne is viewed by
the intelligent inhabitants of Canada-as a great mis-
fortune: He is represented as " a man who has
united-the Mildness of a parent and the energy of a
soldier," and as eminently qualified to improve the
condition of the colonies. These qualities are suffi-
cient to procure for him the contumelious hatred of a
man who can harbour as his bosom friends such cha-
racters as Turton and Wakefield.
For the state of the money market at New York we
we refer to the extracts in another column. Exchange
on England was quoted at 8 to 84, when the Sirius
left.

OTHER WHIG APPOINTMENTS.—Disgusted as our
readers must have Wien by the announcement that
Lord Durham had appointed the notorious Turton to
be one of his private secretaries, we are sure that they
will feel, if possible, a higher degree of loathing when
they learn that another individual, equally obnoxious
in character, has been added to the number of that
proud peer's official retinue. There are very few per-
sons in Liverpool, who have arrived at maturity, that
,
have not heard of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the per-
son 'that inveigled, by the most scandalous trickery
and deception, a young lady of the name of Turner from
a boarding school in this neighbourhood. The circum-
stances of that infamous abduction must be generally
known, as are also the subsequent particulars in the
history of the unprincipled deceiver. Is it not, there-
fore, a matter Of astonishment that such a man should
be selected to grace the mimic court of Her Majesty's
representative in*Canada ? Yet such is the fact, how-
ever my Lord Melbourne, as in the case of the inces-
tuous Turton, may plead ignorant of the appointment.
But this is not all. The catalogue of infamy does
not even end here. We learn that a person of the
name of Henry S. Chapman has received a commis-
sionership from government. This man has done all
in his power to bring about the Canadian insurrection.
He was once the editor of a paper in Papineau's inter-
est-at Montreal, and subsequently became the active
coadjutor of Roebuck, with whom he was connected in
preduting the celebrated but scandalous "Political
Pamphlets;! published under the name of the ex-mem-
ber for Bath. This revolutionary writer, as a reward
for his services in stirring the people to rebellion, both
at home, and in the colonies, is appointed a commis-
sioner to- inquire into the state of hand loom weavers.
It is impossible to reflect upon these appointments
without involuntarily exclaiming against the reckless
indecency of the Whig faction. What a compliment
to the innocent and unsuspecting Queen. of Great
Britain it is to select to offices of trust under her ad-
visers and representatives a convicted adulterer—a
condemned seducer—and a frantic republican, who has
tried his best to stimulate the subjects of Her Majesty
to rebel against her authority !

THE CORN LAWS.—We perceive that the Mercury
is determined to continue its warfare against the re-
strictive duties upon the importation of corn into
Great Britain. As the "desultory remarks" of our
contemporary are intended as a sort of reply to the
articles which appeared in our own columns, relating
to the same subject, we feel it our duty to bestow a
few further observations on the crude and undigested
nonsense of the Mercury. We have already shown
that the Mercury has adopted the unpopular side of
the question—that there exists no serious and preva-
lent desire for a repeal of the corn• laws—and that this
apathy is not owing to the alleged succession of abun-
dant harvests, but to a sincere conviction of the
int-
policy of adopting a free trade in corn. We shall
next proceed to offer a few " desultory remarks" on
absurdities of the article which was resumed in
the i:lferitry of July 6th. The following paragraph is
so very rich a morceau that we cannot resist the temp-
tation
of quoting it at length :
"It; however, owing to the treachery of pretended Re-
formers, the Tory faction be ever reinstated in i)ower,
woeful change would be the result, unless the
partv; re-
pudiating all the principles they have hitherto professed,
should entirely abandon their former line of policy. Judging
from the past, there is too much reason to apprehend that
they would seize the first pretext to involve the country in
war with some foreign power in order to divert the attention
of the people from those reforms at home which are de-
mended by the spirit of the times. Our commerce and
trade would experience such serious depression that the
people would become wide awake to the practical operation
of the corn monopoly, and unless prevented from publicly
assembling to petition the Legislature, as they were during
the sway of Castlereagh, the House of Commons and the
foot of the Throne would be besieged with remonstrances
against a pernicious System which artificially raises the price
of human food at least fifty per cent, above its natural
level."

The complicated blunders and palpable contradic-
tions- contained in the preceding extract are truly
la suable. We shall endeavour to tender it into in-
telligible English. If we understand the editor of the
MfrcYrY aright, he means to say, that if the Tories got
i,,QPerver once more, we should soon have war—that
would involve the country in war for the purpose
fditarting the attention of the people from certain
cie:447--that our trade and commerce would conse-
troeulitlY languish—that the depression of our trade
oper",rn4ke the people wide awake to the practical
appeal °h of the corn monopoly—and that irresistible
re4lB Would be made to the House of Commons and
e throne requiring the abolition of the corn laws.
hie we conceive to be the meaning of the passage.
'Vhat the learned. editor intends to prove by it we
cannot guess, unless it be his object to show that the
Tories are disposed to adopt a line of policy which
Would render inevitable the repeal of the corn laxs.
We doubt whether the Mercury gives them credit for
entertaining such a wish, but it certainly imputes as
much in the above very curious and "desultory" pa-
ragraph..
°the Mercury next alleges that unless the corn-laws
are repealed, the enterprise, energy, and intelligence
foEnglishmen, will gradually be excluded from the
reign markets. We defy him to prove that there is
411 Y sYMptorn of this sort of exclusion, excepting from
these countries with whom we have entered into re-
ciprocal commercial treaties. The free trade system
has certainly done much to paralyze native industry
and enterprize, and is likely to extend the evil. We
need only point to the ruin which it has already intro-
duced into our silk trade, which was at one time in a
state of great prosperity. There are many other
branches of our manufactures which are suffering in
like manner from want of protective duties.
In the last Mercury we have another rambling arti-
cle on the subject of the corn-laWs, in which the editor
_bestows the most lavish abuse upon• the Earl of Stan-
hope for espousing the cause of the people against
their Whig oppressors ; but as it does not contain a
single attempt at argument we shall pass it by with-
out a single remark. We shall look with anxiety for
the next prodigy- in the Mercury.

CARtnßiDGE.—Sunday, the Ist instant, being Commence-
Ment Sunday, the morning sermon at St. Mary's was
Preached. by the Rev. Thomas Tattershall, P. D. minister of
St. Augustine',, Liverpool, and the afternoon sermon by the
Her. Frederick Iliff, D. D., head master of the Royal Insti-
intion School of this town. Both these gentlemen have taken
the degree of Doctors in Divinity.
A GOOD LANDLORD.—The Rev. James Mainwaring, of
Broombrow_hall, Cheshire, on the celebration of the late
coronation, gave a ball to all his tenants, their wives, and
friends, at his mansion. The kind attention and cordiality
of the reverend gentleman and his worthy lady excited the
admiration of all present, and it was allowed by every guest
that happier evening was never spent. A superb supper
was provided, after which dancing continued until a late
hour. The day was the rent-day, and we should not omit to
state, that the reverend gentlenian observed his liberal ens-
ItiAl4„teturning ten per cent. 01 the fetttal to each te.440.
•

• THEATRE-RO VAL.

The managers of this theatre, as an attraction for the race-
week, have engaged some of the first musical talent of the
metropolis. On Tuesday evening, between the perform-
ances of some light comedies, a grand concert was given, in-
troducing to the audience Madame Cinti Damoreau, a vocal-
ist of some celebrity, the pianist Doehler, who has created
quite a sensation in London, if we may gather an opinion
from the newspaper critiques—an undoubted authority !
Signor Curioni, the tenor singer, Signor Giubilei, the primo
basso of the theatre-royal, Drury-lane, and the inimitable
Bochsa, the harpist. The musical performances opened with
an overture by the orchestra, which was exceedingly well
played, under the direction of its able leader. Signor
Curioni and Signor Giubilei then made their bow to the au-
dience, and sang a duett from Bellini, " Suoni la Tromba,"
accompanied on the piano-forte, by Mr. Bochsa, of whom
anon. The qualifications, if we may so term them, of a pub-
lic singer, rest not alone in good voice, good ear, execution,
clear enunciation and knowledge of music; there is still
another wanting to ensure complete success; and that is an
appearance of respect for and desire to please the audience.
When this feeling is shown in a singer it engages the atten-
tion of the audience and gives it the predisposition to be
pleased, and to overlook slight faults. But when a singer or
speaker, or any one who solicits the attention of an assemblage,
comes forward with an air of nonchallance, as if careless
whether he pleased or displeased, and as if the audience was
an affair of very minor consideration to him, the feeling is
excessively catching and spreads like wild-fire, and a hundred
to one but every individual of his hearers feels in reality as
careless about him as he takes pains to appear of them; and
moreover there is engendered amongst them a spirit severely
to criticise, and first-rate talent alone can save the performer
from general disapprobation. If to this be added, in the can-
vasser for public favor, insufferable puppyism and affectation,
he not only brings down on himself disapprobation but
positive ridicule. To these faults, which we point out in a
spirit nowise unfriendly, do we attribute the hisses which
followed the singing of the first duetto. The coxcombical
bearing of Giubilei and the absurd affectation of Bochsa put
the audience into the humour for quizzical merriment rather
than for appreciating good music. The duetto. however,
,
was well sung; Curioni has an excellent tenor voice, and
Giubilei's bass is splendid—we never heard a more perfect
singing articulation than his. Madame Cinti Damoreau
next came forwards and sang a grand scena Francaise, by
Auber, " Nina, Jeune et Sage," from the opera of Acteon.
She is possessed of a voice of much sweetness and melody in
the natural tones, but, either above or below the scope of the
middle octave of her voice, she becomes reedy, harsh, and
unmusical. She has not much power, confined execution,
and is lamentably deficient in clearness of enunciation.
This was particularly observable in the comic English duet
afterwards sung by her and Giubilei, " When a little Farm
we keep ;" the clear and distinct utterance and piquancy of
style of Giubilei being strikingly observable in contradis-
tion to the mumble-jumble looping of vowels—" Well a li'i
far we kee"—of Madame Damoreau. The principal attrac-
tion was Doehler, who first played a number of brilliant vari-
ations on the piano-forte, introducing a favourite theme from
" Anna Bolena." We are not sufficiently pianists to de-
scribe his extraordinary feats on this instrument, but his
brilliant execution was really wonderful; and not the least
extraordinary part of it was his performance of a difficult and
rapid variation with one hand, together with the bass accom-
paniment. It was scarcely possible to imagine that
such a volume of tone—such an accumulation of sounds
rapidly produced, could be the execution of one hand.
He was rapturously applauded, and his modest, unassuming,
nay, retiring demeanour, made him not the less a favourite
with the audience; while it placed in a stronger light the
Baron Pompolino like absurdities of his instrumental com-
petitor, Bochsa, of whom it is now our turn to speak. No
one will deny that Bochsa is a great harpist—that he is the
master of his instrument, nor do we mean to call it in ques-
tion; but we will say a word about his mode of giving " a
touch of his quality." We wonder what Bochsa imagines
himself, or what he imagines the Liverpool audience to be -
for truly he took amazing liberties with both. If there were
any juveniles amongst the latter, we can imagine them
tempted to cry out to their mammas, " Some lord or some
duke, as sure as I'm born !" with an accent of wonder and
admiration, as the harpist gradually obtruded his ungainly
figure to its full development before them with such an air—
but that we can't describe. Well, Bochsa presided at the
piano forte while Damoreau was singing. The audience
were pleased with her, but were delighted at him. He rolled
himself back over the music stool with all the grace of a very
fat gentleman of 50, whisked one side of his coat over his
shoulder with a jerk of his thumb to show a white waistcoat,
stretched out his dexter leg, and balanced it on his heel, with
a slow and impressive movement raised his left hand and
gently placed back his straggling locks from off his brow as
if to let in the light of inspiration by the portal of his fore-
head,
" Turn'd the outside of his eyes to white,
As men of inward light are wont
To turn their optics in upon't,"
and finally leisurely surveyed the ceiling as poets do when
hoping to find a rhyme in the dusky corners of their apart-
ments. The audience tittered—well they might—who could
help it? Then came Bochsa's turn to play a harp accompa-
niment to Doehler on the piano forte. This afforded him a
very prominent opportunity of exhibiting the same absurd
affectation. Doehler went quietly and systematically to work,
and charmed the audience. Bochsa was continually behind
hand, skipping and joining ; Doehler did not give him time
enough
" To shake himself, and see what prowess
In scabbard of his arms sat loose."
Then he broke a string—lucky, very; called a footman to
bring a new string, and turned his head while executing a
rapid passage; had a fine effect, capital. Then he missed a
pedal with his foot, and struck a chord all in flats, which
ought to have been in the natural key—frowned and looked
savage at his harp, and pulled out the tuning key. Then
joined Doehler again, and executed well a rapid and brilliant
passage, and concluded amidst loud applause. The audience
was delighted with Doehler's playing, and was highly amus-
ed at Bochsa. The concert finished with the national an-
them by Madame Cinti Damoreau, accompanied by the rest
of the musical corps, and which she sully, most wretchedly.
The gods were vociferous for an encore, which was partly
acceded to, but the boxes were glad to escape from a second
infliction of " Go save the Queen," as Madame Cinti Da-
moreau no doubt thought it very clever to call it.