The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-07-05 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL

During the past week a series of the finest tragedies of Shak-
speare and Sheridan Knowles have been enacted, and the
public have had the opportunity of a high mental treat in wit-
nessing the legitimate drama. We have been sorry, however,
to observe a barbarism in the taste of the public; for invariably
each evening, whilst the finest flights of imagination and genius
of the most gifted men of the human race have been well rein&
sented, the house has been thin, whilst towards the half-play,
in time for the tom-foolery and burlesque of the pantomime, got
up to please school boys, the house has begun to fill. We coo-
fess this is poor encouragement to the managers to get up plays
of sterling merit, and may account in some degree for the de-
cline of the drama. Mr:Stuart, of whose merits as a talented
tragedian we have often spoken, has played the chief characters
during the week, and has successfully represented Richard the
Third,' Virginias, TVilliain Tell, Rolla, and Hamlet. We wit-
nessed his Virginias on Tuesday night, and have little to say but
in commendation. The representation of the hot Roman, the
injured citizen, and the bereaved father was a masterpiece of
acting. In one scene only, where Lucitti first communicates
to him that Virginia is seized as a slave, did we think his repre-
sentation faulty. Nature opens not the floodgates of passion at
once, but by regular gradations of surprise and indignation:
the feelings must grow in excitement, as the clouds of summer
gather ere the storm can burst. Miss Faucit, as Virginia, had
not much to do, btrt she played the part well, and with less of
affectation and more after

" Nature's just standard, which is still the same,"
than we have frequently observed.
On Friday evening we witnessed Shakspeare's splendid
tragedy of Hamlet. We have seen a more finished Hamlet
than Stuart's, especially in the celebrated soliloquy in the
giave-scene. There was, however, much of originality in the
representation, and many of the difficult passages were given in
a style we have never seen surpassed. I'he part, "Do I vent
my passion in cursing like a very drab," and the whole inter-
view with the Queen was as tine a representation as we ever saw.
The pantomime, which has been played during the week,
abounds with the usual tricks. Mr. 'l'. Ridgway's imitation of
Mrs. Honey's song, " My beautiful Rhine," is admirable, and
has been nightly encored.
Mr. W. Farren has been engaged for a fortnight, and last
evening played Lord 09lebv, in the " Clandestine Marriage."
Mr. Browne, of the Dublin Theatre, has also been engaged, and
played the part of Brueh, in the same comedy.

The building of the new Medical Institution, at the corner of
Hope street, is expected to be opened in November. It will
contain a medical library, a museum, and other aids to medical
science.

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The income of the Liverpool Docks now considerably exceed-
inc, the expenditure, the Dock Committee have, it is understood,
conic to the resolution of reducing the rates 25 per cent. This
will cause a diminution of more than £50,000 per annum The
rapidly increasing trade of the poi t may render a still further
reduction practicable in a few years.
SERMONS AT ST. JUDE'S CHURCII.—We beg to direct at-
tention to an advertisement in another column, announcinc, a
sermon to be preached at St. Jude's Church, on Thursday even-
ingh next, by the Rev. Hugh M‘Neile, in aid of the funds for
erecting the new church at Kirkdale. One principal object of
the trustees is to provide a number of pews at a moderate rate,
and further to accommodate the poor of Kirkdale with a num-
ber of free sittings. We understand the church will he opened
for divine worship in about six weeks, and that the Rev. D.
James, late of Ahnondbury, near Huddersfield, has been ap-
pointed the minister.
SOUTH LANCASHIRE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION.— Pur-
suant to notice given to that effect, a meeting of the committee
of this association was held at the Legh Arms, Newton, ott-
Thursday last, when a letter was read from the Most Noble ths,
Marquis of Salisbury, accepting the office of president of the
annual dinner, which is expected to take place on the Bth of
September. A committee of 21 gentlemen was appointed to
make the preliminary arrangements for the dinner, and several
new members were admitted.

Tuic HOUSE OF Lonos.—On Saturday evening, a petition
to the House of Lords, signed by upwards of 2,150 respectable
inhabitants of Wigan, many of whom/have formerly professed
Whig opinions, was forwarded to Lord Lyndhurst for presenta-
tion, praying their lordships to be firm at the present crisis;
and thanking them for the decision they came to on the Irish
unicipal Bill.

The proposed new Court of Revising Barristers is looked to
with great eagerness by some of the whig commissioners, as a
refuge from the tedium likelyito be result of the termination the
of their former labours.

MANUFACTURES AT 111.11.1„—We observe, from the Hull pa.
bers, that the inhabitants of that town,—taking example proba.
ly from attempts making in Liverpool,—are endeavouring to
introduce manufactures of various kinds; and particularly of cot-
ton, into that town. A large meeting of the inhabitants was held
on Monday week to hear the report of a committee appointed to
make inquiries upon the subject, and to adopt such measures as
might be considered expedient for advancing the object in view.
The report strongly recommended the establishment of cotton
and flax mills on a large scale; and the meeting having concur-
red in this view of the matter, a company was formed, and up-
wards of £70,000 subscribed almost immediately.

BAILABLE OFFENcEs.—By the provisions of alate act of par-
liament, persons apprehended and brought to the police sta-
tions during the night on charges of minor importance, may be
admitted to bail, at the discretion of the officer on duty.
LIABILITY OF JUkYlklE,N.—Yesterday, at the borough ses-
sions, several jurymen were fined 20s. each for non-attendance.
The recorder intimated that it was discretionary with hint to in-
crease or decrease the fine. Ile then informed the jury that
jurymen would only be required to attend once a-year, and that
serving on the borough jury exempted them front attending as
jurymen at the county sessions.
THE REV. NV. R. HAY, VICAR OF ROCHDALE.—We are
happy to learn that the paragraph which appeared in the Man-
chester Herald of Wednesday, announcing the death of this
gentleman, is incorrect. It appears that the conductors of that
paper were misled by the statement of a man who called upon
several gentlemen of Manchester, friends of Mr Hay, with the
intelligence, and who said he was sent for the purpose of com-
municating it by the vicar's family. The man's object seems
to have been to obtain money or refreshment for his trouble.
FIRES.-0H Sunday afternoon, between five and six o'clock,
a fire broke out at the back part of the premises occupied by
Mr. Stripe, tailor and draper Whitechapel. Information was
given to the Fire-police station, the engines from which were
on the spot in a few minutes after the first discovery of the dis-
aster. The fire raged with great fury, and soon made its way
from the cellar, where it is supposed to have originated, through
the first second, and third floors to the roof. Under the direc-
tion of Hewit, the superintendent of the engines, such a quantity
of water was poured in from engines No. 4 and 5 that the build-
ing was soon completely saturated, and the water might be seen
oozing from every crevice of the edifice, which was exceedingly
old and rickety. In less than half an hour from the first dis-
covery, the fire was completely extinguished. Two other fires
broke out yesterday morning, between five and six o'clock, one
on the premises of Mr. Leicester, baker, Scotland-road, the
other at the house of Mr. Horsy, Queen-street.

ROBBERY BY A CLERK.—On Saturday three young men,
named John Palmer, William Walton, and William Stamp,
were brought before the magistrates, Walton charged with rob-
bing his employers, and the other two with being his accom-
plices. Inspector Martin stated that Walton was clerk to Mr.
Rigby, timber-merchant, in Warwick-street, and the afternoon
before he heard that he was going to Dublin, with some cir-
cumstances connected with it which excited his suspicion. He
went to Mr. Rigby's office, and they knew nothing of his
going, and one of the clerks accompanied him and he went and
apprehended Ilian on board the " Hibernia," along with the
two other prisoners who were with him. On Walton was found
£96 and some-odd silver, and it was found that he had paid the
passage of the other two prisoners as well as his own. The
clerk stated that the prisoner Walton had received £lOO ss.
that morning from Mr. Marsden, of Bolton, on account of his
employer, which he had not accounted for. The money paid
by the prisoner for his passage and that of his two associates,
with that found on him, nearly made up the amount of the de-
falcation. The case was remanded to obtain further evidence.
MANCHESTER MUSICAL. FESTIVAL—We observe by an ad-
vertisement which appears in the Manchester papers of Satur-
day, that a meeting of the general committee for conducting the
approaching festival, was held on Friday, when it was ascer-
tained from the reports of the several committees, that the pre-
liminary arrangements in each department were nearly
completed, which will be announced in detail this week. The
festival is to open with a ball on the evening of Monday, the
12th of September next; oratorios will be performed in the
Collegiate church on the mornings of the Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday, in the same week ; miscellaneous con-
certs will be given on the evenings of Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Thursday; and on Friday evening, the 16th, the festival
will close with a grand fancy dress ball at the Theatre Royal,
Assembly-rooms, and Portico, which will be connected for the
occasion, Back Mosley-street being temporarily converted into
a large hall. Rumour states that neither Malibran nor Grisi
is likely to he engaged. The latter is said to be in an " inter-
esting situation," which will cause her temporary retirement
from public life for some time; and the terms upon which alone
the services of the former can he secured, are such as the mana-
gers think they should not be justisfied in acceding to: we are
informed that the lady wants 2000 guineas for attending four
festivals, of which Manchester is one; and as the managers of
the Other three are not "inclined to give more than 300 each,
Manchester would have to Make up the indifference—a proposi-
tiort*hich, of course, cannot be entertained... Mi. Wilkinson,
has been appointed organiSt,° theafpf6bition' of Sir
George