The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-02 00:00:00

THE THEATuE,

The attractions df Mi'. ail(' Mrs. Wood has, drifiiig the hist
week, filed the theatre with fashionable audiencei. We con-
fess we are not surprised at this, though they have recently con-
cluded rather a lengthy engagement at this theatre, and th
operas performed have presented no new features of attraction,
but are those which have been many times repeated before the
Liverpool audience. None who have once heard MrA. Wood
pour out the volume of sWeiit sounds which she has at such per:
feet command can resist the desire, whet, the oppertunity:offers,
of again enjoying the treat. Notwithstatioing the immense vu'
lutne of melody, and unrivalled execution and tonnuand of
voice, which have, for mall' years, distingitished alts. Wood,
she appears to us to possess new beauties and attractions each •
time we hear her. From her recent absence truth the •tnglish
public she has burst upon them again, like the buttertly'frout
the chrysalis, in all the joyousness of untivalled song. We last
night heard the English version of the Italian opera,'" La Sons
nainbula," in which she played th'e pint of Amiga, the Sonhnm,
bulist, and though we have heard her in tile sante character
frequently before, we never heard her halt more delight, nor
ever heard her execution more brilliant and (baste, nor het
volume of tone more full and melodious. In annest every
song she Was rapturously and loudly app!-traded. Tte
line bass voice of Mr. Brodie', who played as Count li'u-
d
1,,h, told extremely well in the choruses. Several itirs
were also ,ttng. by Mr. Wood with great sweetness and tastes
Mrs. Bland, as Lit.a, played and sang in that way which had
established her in public opinion, as a unit pleasing ant
effective actr, ss. Mr. Horneastle, too, played as Ateviio, with
a natural simplicity and humour characteristic of consideiable
ability. To-night Mr. and Mrs. Wood take their benefit, id
the opera i.f " Love in a village ;" which is announced as theft
last appearanse. We cannot help thinking, however, so well
supported as th? theatre hai been, during the engagements ot
Mr. and Mis. Wood, that the management should have gut up
shine opera which would be new to the Liverpool public, rather
than repeat three or four operas in a continuous round till the
attraction of incident was lost, and nothing left but Mts.
Wood's unrivalled voice. We think the management ought to
have met the public with the sante liberal spirit which the i•ubs
lie has shown towa ds e theatre. Miss Faucit we see takes
her benefit on Monday, with Sheridan Knowles' fine Way of
" Virginias." We wiire much pleased with her Ophelia iii
" Hamlet," as an original and very talented performance. She
is an actress of no mean merit, htiil we trust she may have such
a house as will repay lter in stnne measure for the long fag she
has had through the sea Son. Mr. Andre*s, a most useful
stock actor, also, We perecite, take( his benefit on Tuesday
night.
THE Ltvna speaking of the lea)s of magi=
cians and ventriloquists there is generally a pretty considera=
b'e quantity of those flowers of rheti.ric which have not inaptly
been termed " bohnca.' We can assure our readers we are
not bouncing, hoWever, when we tell them that Mr. Sutton'i
exhibition at the Liver Theatre embodies some of the most ex-
traordinary and clever feats that can well be imagined. It
would lie impossible for us to describe the numerous tricks and
deceptions pracrs.al, which bailie the scrutinizing and vigilant
eyes of hundreds or earnest watchers; we can only recommend
those who have not seen him to go and judge for themselves.
We can assure them !hey will be both astonished and delighted;
, and some of the moor stipelStitiOUs-Willo we doubt not, be tempt.
• -ed to designate hint'whi.t we heard an old lady the other night
describe him as she was leaving the theatre, as " the devil," or
having " some dealing, with him."' His teats of ventriloquisni
are also most 'surprising. The house is crowded each bight..

TO TIIR EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL ST.,INDARA
• Sta.—As a friend of good order, permit me to call your ats,
tention and 'sonic, of the seeral members of our Town Council
(Messrs. Blickburne and Rathhone to wit to the numerous
venders of apples, oranges. &e. who crowd Chapel•street every
Sunday during the hours of divine service, contrary to decency
and respect to that day; and permit me to say that h4weNer
efficient the old police were, this evil was not tolerated by them-
Hoping ynu will insert this, so that it may meet the ees of the
ruling powers that be, and be the cause of abating the nuisance:
—I remain yours, A METHODIST.

• TO THE EDITOR 07 THE LIVERPOOL ST:IND.,IRD.
a,—Immediately preceding the last municipal election, the
editor of the Albion inserted in that journal a paragraph, in
which it w;ts stated that the I i:hop of Chester had discharged a
curate in his diocese, merely because he permitted his family to
attend occasionally a Methodist chapel, fur the manifest purpose
of endeavouring to catch a stray vote from amongst that res-
pectable body in favour of those men who,. under the mask of
reform. strike at the best institutions of the country.
If this statement had been true, it was scarcely creditable to
attempt to use it far the purpose the editor of the Albion applied
it, much less when it proves to he a nicked falsehood. '
• The Globe itself, under date 231 instant, having been brought
to give up the point, and assign a complet e'y differeiit reason
for the inlet ference of the Bishop (for it at peals ;hat the curate
was not discharged, but resigned), I expected that our supieht
editor would have had the candour, in his. paper of to-day, to
retraet the libel he promulgated. and so make a littl6 anOtids
for giving currency to such an unfounded ISSertion; hut no! in
the true liberality of his pad y, only seems anxious to do
justice when it his manifest interest to do so.
Liverpool, '26'ih Nov., 1866. B.
•

Coat. Titanr,—lin consequence of an attempt that has irbett
made by some of the politic:tors to raise the price of their com-
have resolved to give the public the benefit of the-former price,
muddy, a resistance, it seems, has been made by others, who
quite sufficient to cover t he advance
of wages, made some time ago by the collie's, whelk a
considering that 14s 6'l is qu
shilling&
ton was put for that purpose.
Ruirtteitv.--Tb
ie counting-house of 11essrs. Charles Lew-
itt
le, iii,:vee
sc.i t litili i
8
box upon tie premises brokeu open. Fortanately there was tie
„„ntes• left there dud the only loss sustaitied consists of fur cu-
';!title' n Bridgewater-street, was entered into ha.
sday night last, amid almost every drawer and
itt,„,tte embroidetee scarfs, which itavebeen received Irony Con-.
stantinoele• tool by means of which it is not imprchable that
the depredators n av be 'wieder. •
To THtl Lovitif s IF FimitA.—'Chore -who delight in the pro-
ductions of that goddess, 'carol he highly grat fi d by be sight
of that unequaled( 'plant the I poiucea Hcosfitt;w, whit h is n 'me
in full bloom at Mr. Skirvine,'s, Walton -Nursery ; the rot of
one Itothume being coin plete• N •eererod with fifty spikes of firw-
ers, from two to four feet in length, of the brightest erti,ds to
ima4itiable.
N AVIG A TION OF THE XI ERSE v.--A bold plan has been devil d'
for the preservation and improvement of the navigation or tae
Mersey, and the clearing away of those sands awl sheets cv hi: ty
iujure the river, and, in the Ilpiniun of seine persons, ate likely
seriously to obstruct the commerce of the port. 't•ite pan pro,
posed is to form a sea wall from near Jackson's I) tin ue t., Gar-
stun, for the purpose of throwing the reflux 1 de with gr, ater
force into the channel, and in that manner, inereasiugtito
cleansing and scouring power of the current. 'Vtre believe
that Captain Denham is the author of this plan, which hYst
already been submitted to the Dock Committee. 01' its
efficiency there is little doubt, but the expcase of earyiug it
into of will tie very serious.
LElClisTittt CONsiiitV A T ivE SuomiY.—We have heed L.;
soured with a copy of the annual report of this Buries. A
select committee has been appointed to revise the censtitution of
the society, with a view to its greater efficiettcy, and unani-
monsly recommends the substitution of a declaration in lieu of
the former one, founded on the following propositions :—"The
maintenance Of the king's lawful authority and prerogative;
the independence of the House of Lords; the rights and privi-
leges of the Douse Of Commons; the inteerity, rights, and im-
munities of the Established Church, and its inseparable con-
nexion with the State." These propositions embrace every
subject which we, as Conservatives. are resolved to defend,
The happiness of the people is intimately connected with the
a
stability and integrity of the three estates the realm; an., f
oy
this. reason we rejoice .at the establishment of s llbleileanr ae.staali:
titions. The -Leicester Conservative Seciety
heart'dy enrols the
fished under the most cheering auspices;
it altreerit•v, and we
names of must of the resident noblemen
:wit agent
shch an ac-
shall snort congratulate our friends in 11,
("ethe machinations of
cession' of strength as shall at once defeat . . .
and peace thiougnout
their enemies, and tend to es,abLish order
the country.
.t F -3.-41 r. Sands, the late
q .ne' it teNp .
DlNNhic fn. Mit: ...,AN • • .
• E. •h W d
tive inteiest tot tit x, ,tttre a,
candidate on the c'onsttirs,taft„,,,,,n.
at the Welling.on Hotel,
gave a 'limier on Nlon a,:,,.
~
c.iii,pos„,i
his
committee
(livinic
to about forty gentleraert,
rih
rind several others. Mr. Sa• ds in
the late municipal electi,oi sD
awson ably filled the vice chair.
the chair. Mr. Bithar .
1 the t sti• 1 It •• I
Acloth was drawn: an' I, a )),1 toasts to pqnded
After the
a powellal and eltetuent spec. It, cuntradicted
to bar. Stint's, itt . . 1 . .
• ' valitted terms t te asse I turns contained in a Stan.
la thp mart tine •
d about the t
placard poste own tlfiritig the period of the
daltats
, 'cipal
tertian,vlec that he was desirotts of separilin church
late -l'uni . fro its bei i Y• •
ft
on,
~,,,,,. ;,„. . I 1., the opinion Ott Mr. S reds that
such a separation "as olesirelile, as stated by his o ponente
diii.i„g the Clllll 'St, he declared that, should it ever tare place,
the people of fietglatid might bid farewell to all their boasted
freedefit.
wilt)
Sectial excellent speeches' follow( din th • course
of the evett.n, and 11•-,
le company appealed ,oI e ani-
iiinted %%Oh a !gervent desite to forward the piogresS of , oascrva-.
tism.
11,01.1 A -tor ': I
11Ali.:s.--- Since Thursday last there I it-e beet.
five Prat class. and five second class trains on he Livsipool ana
Manchester 'Rolla ay,'besides a mixed train of first anti recited
crass carriage. at seven in the °Vetting. The first etas, trains in
futtite xv aloha; e Lit erpuolatid Maim heste rat se en, n'ne e etep,-
two, anll liVeo'elcal ; and the second class at , quartet-past
seven, ten, twelve, three, and half-past five.