The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-02-05 00:00:00

THE RENEGADE!

A TALE OF FLORENCE.
Count Belipi Mr. J. F. t.
Ruberto Mr. Melville.
Piero Mr. How .
Larry O'Bother aymond.
Florio ...... ...Mrs. Rai d.
Countess Belini s. Herbert.
After which there will be a CONCE in 61iich the Misses

Smith,,Mr. Smith, and Mr. Binge will appear.
The INDIANS-will also go through their novel performances,
Ta-conclude with a Farce called
IIOW TO GAIN £3000!
Belfield Mr Binge.
Fanny Miss Smith.
Charlotte Miss J. Smith. _

Doors to open at Half-past Six, the Curtain to rise at Seven
o'ciock.—Boxes 35., Secon4l Price 25.—Pit 25., Second Price
ls.—Gallery 61.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.

Greet Hit of the Grand Drama of the JEWESS, or the,Cpunell of Con-
,. stance.—Twenty Thouscind Persons have already visiZed the Thealre to

witness it.
r HIS present.FßlDAY, the sth instant, and every Even-
." ing till further notice, the highly popular Spectacle of .

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THE JEWESS;
which will be presented with entire New cenery, Dresses,
Banners. Decorations, Trophies, and Mr. van's magnificent
Stud of Horses, Poneys, &c. In order t give due effect to the
Gorgeous Processions, Entries, Mari s, &c., the Stage and
Circle have been united, forming on st arena. Upwards of
200 persons, attired in the most sup Costumes, appear on
the Stage at the same time.
The Unrivalled EQUESTRIANS in the CIRCLE will per-
form a variety of wonderful feats, peculiar to themselves, defy-
ing alt competition. Stage Manager—Mr. Stirling.
On MONDAY, a Nautical Drama, entitled the DOOMED
PIRATE, or the.,Spectre by Sea or Land; with new Scenery
and Dresses.

THEATRE RiOt.
A T ADEMOISELLE DE ANG LI has the honour most
.111._ respectfully to inform the 'obility, Gentry, and the
Public, that her BENEFIT is ti ad for TUESDAY, the 9th of
February, on which occasion the grand Opera, LA GAZZA
LADRA, by ROSSINI, will be produced for the first time this
Season, with other Entertainments.
The Box-office will be open from Ele n till Three, when
places for the Boxes may be taken.

/FASTER HUGHES, the CAM lAN ,HARPIST, begs
_VI leave respectfully to return th• ks to his Friends and Pa-
trans for their liberal support of hi ecent Concerts, and to in-
form them that he will have the °now% by the desire of nu-
merous Friends, to give a Farewe CONCERT in a few days.
Full particulars will be duly announced.

Eije ilibcrpoot g.tanDarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 5, 1836.

We have been favoured with the following interesting
letter from our private correspondent at Constanti-
nople :-
4‘ CONSTANTINOPLE, 6TH JANUARY, 1836.--The severity of
the winter absorbs all interest in commercial or political affairs,
The poor Turks, wliose feast (it is a fast) of Ramazan prevents
their comforting themselves with a dram, a mouthful, or even a
chibouk, from the rising to the setting of the sun, are more
busy in contriving to keep their shivering limbs warm over a
fire, or beneath huge yorgans or quilts a-bed, than designing to
impede the encroaches of their neighbours, the bears, who must
have sent the cold from their arctic regions to make this coun-
try appear more than ever their own. Never since the winter
of 1812—that which was fatal to the army and the glory of
Napoleon—has the cold been so intense; or the violence of the
snow-storms so terrific. The snow has fallen at intervals, and
has lain on the ground during the last twenty (lays to the depth
of from three to six feet; whilst the frost is so severe that the
thermometer stands at ten to fifteen degrees below the freezing
point even in the houses. Previous to the first falls of snow the
weather was very boisterous and foggy, the long continuance of
which foreboded an unusually severe winter, and caused the
greatest disasters amongst the shipping on various parts of the
in the Black Sea, near the Bogaz, the
entrance of the Bosphorus, tvhgre vessels were driven on shore
after vainly endeavouring to find the entrance. Since then
more accidents are heard of, similar in nature, and, what is
equally dreadful, vessels that have arrived in port have in many
instances had half of their crews frozen to death. One vessel
with passengers on board threw fifteen of them overboard froth
the same cause. On land, too, many sad catastrophes have oc-
curred. Shepherds with their flocks, travellers passing from
one village to another, overcome with fatigue and blinded with
the density of the snow which the storm blew horizontally in
small icy partieles, lay down to rise no more. A soldier was
found at his post near Vera, standing with his arms shouldered,
frozen to death. In crossing the Bosphorus, several boats have
been lost, or are missing; one containing the family of a rich
Armenian sheraff was amongst the latter, and was found on one
of the Prince's Islands, after three or four days search, in the
most deplorable condition despite the numerous pelises, all
well furred, which covered them. The man that carried the
news of their discovery to the shera.ff received a present of
15,000 piastres, about £l5O sterling.
`• The wolves are making gradual approaches to the neigh-
bouring, villag;es in search of food, the frost and snow having
destroyed or hidden their victims of the forest. Several bodies
have tieen discovered completely anatomized by these animals.
"Trade, from this weather and the holydays of the Arme-
nians, Greeks, and catholics, is at a stand still. On reckoning
up the number of British vessels that have entered this port
laden with manufactures principally, colonials, and iron during
the past year, it is pleasing to find a considerable increase; and
what is still more pleasing is, that this increase is entirely from
Liverpool, the number from London being' really less than in
1834—a year moreover notable for the great activity in trade
here. Two British vessels were loaded, by being laid on the
berth, for Liverpool. Of these, the schooner Anaxibia, Capt.
Pidgeon, was the first to/lead the way, none having ever ven-
tured before.

" The Capidan Pasha, with his fleet, is said to he returned,
and now at the Dardanelles. It is reported that he may be
hourly expected, a steamer having been despatched for him.
Nothing is said of what he has been doing. The Russians are
evidently trying to rekindle the jealousies between the Sultan
and ;Mehemet Ali. The bone' of dispute is the city of Bagdad,
which the Russians persuade Mehemet Ali he ought to have;
and then the Sultan must send a large army in that direction—
quite out of the way when the Russians come to Constantinople;
or, if the Sultan's troops be beaten, the bears must be kindly
caressed to come to their assistance-La pleasant office, which,
though the brute may look gruff at and askance, in his heart he
wished but to do."

We have'pri vale letters and papers from Van Diemen's
Land to the 3d October. The colony, we are happy to
state, on the authority of one of the most respectable and
influential settlers, who is also a member of the legisla-
tive council, is in a' very prosperous and flourishing
condition. The following extracts are taken from the
letter of the gentleman we have alluded to :

" Our intercourse with Liverpool is on the increase, and
have lent my feeble aid to promote it—not for the sake of Li-
verpool in opposition to London, but because I like competition,
and feel assured that the rate of • freight to London will be re-
duced by such rivalry. Our Dervvent Bank is iu a very flou-
rishing condition; our dividends being fifteen per cent.; with
an immense reserve."

Our press. is, • I think, tho most unprincipled .af_auy in the.
world ! There are but two exceptions, viz., the Launceston Ad-
vertiser and the Hobart Town Courier ; the rest of our public
press, one and all, are mendacity personified."
" I will relate to you a fact which I think you will do well to
make known in England. The New South Wales wool has
always had a higher character in England than our Tasmanian
wool. Many of our settlers and wool dealers are in the habit of
sending their wool to • Sydney, getting it packed and marked
there in the New SouthVates mode, and thus pass off in Lon-
don great quantities of our Van Diemen's Land as Sydney
wool, and get 25 per ,ent. more for it than it would fetch at
home as Tasmanian ! Thus you see the wool buyers arc more
influenced by the name than by the quality of the article. You
may rely upon this as an unquestionable fact."
" We have just pasSed an insolvent debtor's act, to which the
governor will give his assent,- that will prove a model which
your learned Sir John Campbell will do_ well to adopt in any
measure of that kind that he may contemplate bringing before
parliament."

Instead of speculating, without having materials be-
fore us, upon the proceedings or probable resulf the
great struggle which commenced yesterday in the House
of Commons, we beg to direct the attention of our read
ers to what has occured in our own local parliament.
The Town-council met on Wednesday last, and,
among other matters, was occupied with the considera-
tion of what is called a " Report of the Watch Commit-
tee." This is the first official document which has emana-
ted from the collective wisdom of Liverpool, and a pre-
cious document it is. The committee system is in full
work, and the jobbing upon a small as well as a large
scale has fairly begun. The printink and stationary ac-
count will, we fear, before the:end of the year, be a liberal
one in various ways. The favoured printer has taken
care to conceal his, name, by omitting it from the printed
report, which renders him liable to a penalty, and, in or•
der to prevent this trick frore being repeated, we hope
some poor man will lay an information againSt him before
Mr. Stipendiary HALL—the half of the fine goes to the
informer. The council who profess to do every thing

FEBRURAY 5,

openly should not allow their printer to have only the
wages, and not the public honour, for serving thenr.
The committee in their report to which we allude, and
which will be found elsewhere, state, that the cost of the
present day and 'night police for Liverpool,,includirrti
that for watching Everton, Kirkdale, West Derby, and
Toxteth Park, and the other new sections of the bo-
rough, amounts to £21,000. The number of men at
present employed in the old borough is 227, but we are
not informed how many men are employed in the new
parts above mentioned, although the expense of them
is presented in the estimate. They, however, propose
to increase the watch force from 227 to 350 men, the ex-
pense of which they estimate at £24,000. Of these men
about two hundred are to be on duty from ten o'clock at
night to six o'clock in the morning, and the remainder
partially on duty through the day. The executive of
this new watch establishment is to consist of a riding
head constable with a free house and £450 per annum.
An additional £5O a-year are to be allowed for the horse
on which Mt. Head Constable is to exhibit himself.
There is also to be a sitting commissioner with a house
and £450 per annum. There are to be four superinten-
dents with £l5O a-year each, twenty-few unfortunate .
inspectors at thirty shillings a-week, and two hundred
rtnd ninety men at eighteen shillings a-week, and six
pounds a-year fofind them in clothes and " a becoming,
good, and well-made uniform !" We have only to add,
that these unfortunate persons, in a "becoming uni-
form," thus exposed to temptation, must all be able to
write like Mr GODFREY BARNSLEY, and read like Colo-
net WILLIAMS.. From what part of Ireland they are to
come from we really cannot tell.
If an elEcient police force, taking also upon itself the
management of the fire department, by paying one shil-
ling extra per week to forty of the police, eanlie formed
at. an expense of £24,000, or even, £30,000 per annum,
the inhabitants of Liverpool will be under great obliga-
tions to the new town council. But it is impossible to
look at the report without seeing that it is a juggle from
.beginning to end: The gentlemen who authorise it,
either allowed it to be concocted by some person who has
most egregiously imposed upon them, or they themselves
did not know what they were doing. For instance, there
is in the expenditure of the present police an item £BOO
set down for election expences, but we find no provision
made for an election under the new system. We per-
ceive that the "incidental" expenses at present amount
to £2,500, while £2,545 only are allowed under the
new. Surely, if two hundred and twenty-seven men, in
a much narrower circle, incur incidental expenses to the
amount of £2,500, it is only reasonable to suppose that
three hundred and fifty men, much more widely scattered,
and, having heavier duties to perform both by night and
day, will incur at least £4,000 for incidentals.
Here, then, at the very commencement, we find un-
pardonable errors and omissions in the estimate. We
defy this handful of men to protect the peace of so large
a town as this, during.a contested election, without the
aid of numerous special' constables or the military. If
the reformers mean to resort to this last species of force,
on the score of economy, we wish them joy ; if not, we
beg the committee to add £BOO to their estimate. That,
with the omitted incidentals, will raise the cost of.the
police from £24,000 to £26,300.

But there re other expenses which curiously enough
are not allowed to enter into the estimate. Two large •
station-houses for " exercising" the men and " setting
the watch," are to be built, one in Duke•street, and the
other in Scotland-place. Each of those station-houses
is to " constitute a Bridewell or lock-up," and each is to
have two Bridewell keepers—the one a " marri•ed man
to reside with his wife in the Bridewell, and have 21s.
per week; the other to attend twelve or fourteen hours
each day, and to be paid 255. per week !" These two
new Bridewells are to be in addition to the three Bride-
wells we already possess. Of course they will have to
be furnished, supplied with coals and candler, and be
large, airy, and comfortable for the exercising of the
men. But none of these ,trifling items of expenditure
are calculated .upon in the estimate. Where the first
cost is to come from is not stated. The riding bead-
constable's horse is provided for, but who is to provide
the horse isnot explaiued. We beg to inform the watch
committee that horses do not live for ever. --

On the whole this will be a very convenient job. The
four superintendents, the 24 inspectors, the 10 Bridewell
keepers,' the eight constables, the four turnkeys, and the
two clerks, will all be thick and thin radicals, probably
distant relations of DANIEL the mendicant, and just the
sort of people to keep the peace, and protect property.
during a contested election. The best post in the job is
that of the sitting commissioner with a good house,
coals, candles, &c., and £450 per annum. What he
is to do beyond eating, drinking, and sleeping, we are
unable to comprehend.

The committee, in cutting out this board of patronage
for the benefit of their friends, have taken care that there
shall he no mistake. They have
.removed the present
superintendent, to make room for some nominee of their
own. We are not aware that there is not any charge
against Mr. PARLOUR. We have ever considered him an
able officer, who, the other day only, nearly lost his life in
his strenuous exertions to save property at a fire. He is
diSmissed, however, without even being accused, without
being treated with ordinary courtesy, without being
allowed to meet or explain any objection there may be
to him ; and it is said that Mr. WHITTY, the superin-
tendent of the night watch, is to receive the appointment.
Now, we have nothing to say against the qualifications
of Mr. WHITTY, as a police officer, for we have no means
of judging of them ; but we confess the pUblic will have
reason to suspect the purity of the motives which led to
his seiectien when they call to Mind that Mr. WHITTY is
a Roman catholic and a radical in politics. Besides, it
is 'not a little singular that the officer, thus favOured,
is the only man against the efficiency of whose depart-
ment anything like a tangible censure is conveyed by the
committee. In the report, speaking of Mr. WHITTY'S
night-watch, we find the following words Of the 130
watchmen now on the establishment the committee feel
it their duty to report, FORTY-FIVE unfit for the office,
and TWENTY-FIVE whose qualifications are very doubtful."
Whose fault is this ? Here we are told that more than
one-half of all the men employed in protecting the pro-
perty, of the town by night are unfit persons ; and yet the
very officer who has the drilling, the exercising, and the
superintendence of these men, receives a higher appoint-
ment, and is in future to be intrusted with the protection
of our property by day as well as by night. This censure
upon Mr. WHITTY is not ours. We pass no opinion
upon it, further than thus noticing its sin clarity.
Although we consider the treatment that Mr. PARLOUR
has received is harsh and disgraceful, considering the
circumstances under which he was brought to Liverpool,
the arduous duties he had to discharge, and the chances
of promotion, which he had in London, lost, still it is
some consolation that he is entitled to compensation,
and this compensation during his life time of several
hundred pounds a year, will help to swell the expendi-
ture upon. the new police. The peoPle of Liverpool,
however, will have to pay for it all.
We contend that the establishment of which we have
given the outline, taking all the facts, and all the neces-
sary outlay into calculatien, cannot be supported with
any thing like efficiency under £35,000 or £40,000 per
.annum, and even then it will be in many respects a non-
efficient and useless, if nut dangerous police.
Let us see how it will work in case of a fire. Forty
of the policemen are to he firemen, and are to have one
shilling a week extra for running the risk of being but nt
to death. Suppose that a fire should break out through
the night in Water-street. Some of these forty may be
on duty, some of them probably in their beds, at a dis-
tance of nearly two miles from the fire. Before these
last can be roused from their slumbers and brought to
the scene of action the work will be complete ; but sup-
posing the, whole of them to be by accident on night
duty, they will have to leave the district they watch and
hasten to the fire. In this case there would be at least
some two or three hundred streets in the town left
wholly without protection—as much so as if there was
no watchman in existence. _

rife inhabitants, who pav these watchmen, haye a
right to expect protection. They have as much right to
bwatched as the property of others, or the interests of
the.insurance' companies, have to be saved. But they
cannot have this under the proposed system ; and so
inefficient will these forty men be that it will not surprise
us to see the insurance offices increase the rate of their
• remiums. But we shah have more to say on this
Pulject.

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