The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-02-26 00:00:00

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LIVER THEATRE, CHURGH-STREET.

Decided Sitece.ts of the JEWESS, Trarestie.
present FRIDAY, the 26th, and TO-MORROW,
(Saturday,) the 27th instant, will be performed
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THE ESCAPE OF DE LATI.J,DE...
PrinCipal characters—Mr. Melville, Mr. lt• Mr. Young,
Mrs. Herbert, &c.
. After which the Laughable avaganza,
THE JEWESS TVA 'STIE;

OR, LEAVE WITHOUT LICENSE.
Principal characters—Messrs. W. J. Hammond, Rayino4d,
and Mrs. Raymond.
To conclude with
THE BLEEDING NUN OF LINDENBERG. ..
In which Mr. and Mys. Leclercq. &c., will appear.

LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET.

For the BENEFIT of Mrs. RAYMOND.

(IN MONDAY EVENING next, the 29th in)taitt, the
V/ Drama called
FAITH AND FALSEHOO .
Principal characters—Mrs. Raymond; . s Hamilton, Mr.
Rayniond, Mr. W. J. mond.
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A new Ballet ed •- • ••
THE WATER ILY.
In which Mr., Mrs., and Miss Leclercq will appear.
To which will be added a new Farce, translated from the French.-
of M. Scribe, by Mrs. Raymond, called
THREE -HOURS' .COURTSHIP. '
Zoe • Mrs. Raymond.
Pierros Mr NV, J. Hammond.
To conclude 'with a new Farce called
__ -THE QUEEN'S OWN.
Piincipal characters—Mr. Rayniond;- Mr, Melville, Mr.
Young, Mrs. Raymond, &c. •
Tickets to be had of Mrs. Raymond, 30, NortOn-street, at
the Box-office, and usual places.

ORATORIO.
jt GRAND .SELECTION of SACRED MUSlC,_frona
AL the woiks of Handel, 114(in, Mpzart,-Beethor-
mei, &c., will be performed at the MUSIC-HALL,
on THRSDAY Evening, the 10th March, t!
applied in aid of the nods of the Blue Cua:

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d-street;
.;.usp,ristuacie.eds to be

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PATRONS.
The 'Worshipful the Mayor, W. WA_ ACE CURRIE, E.
The Right Honourable the Earl of DERBY,
The Rev. JONATHAN BROOKS, Rector. • -
Sir THOMAS BERNARD BIRCH, Bart, 8:e. Sze.
The Orchestra will be complete, and with the Chorus will
number about One Hundred Performers; including all the
Amateur and Professional Streligth of the Liverpool Musical
Society.

Leader Mr. GEORGE s
'E`irrog.

Conductor ..Mr. M. MAYBRICK:

Tickets, price 45.; and for Reserved ,Seats, ss. May be had
at the Music Shops, Newspaper Offices, &C Other particulars
will be duly announced.

TO COP.RESPONDENTS

The able letter signed " A LAYMAN" will; if possible, appear
on Tuesday.
" PROTESTANT'S" should apply to the clergyman alluded to.
We know the fact, but cannot at the present moment refer to
the best authority.

Vrbe iLl'Otrpool g:tanbatil.

FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 26, 1836.

By the packet-ship Europe, which arrived here on
Wednesday,
.we have received New_Yorkpapers to the
2d instant. By these it appears that the Pantaloon, car-
rying despatches to the British resident at Wash-
ington, arrived at Norfolk on the 25th January, and
that the offer of mediation was generally known in that
city on the following day. The latest .accounts from
Washington are to the 30th January ; but it is- remarka-
ble that, up to that date, no communication by the Pre-
sident had been made to congress, nor had any official
acknowledgment of the proffered mediation been made
public. Most of the papers and letters speak in san-
guine terms of the disposition of the President to accept
the proposals made by the British goverriMent, but we
are afraid they speak more what they wish than what they
fear. •
The IF:ashingtai Globe, the organ of the American
cabinet, has preserved a studied silence on the subject •
for four days, not the slightest allusion being made in •
that journal to the question which is occupying the at-
tention. of all the rest- of the community. This marked
silence is ominous, and shows that there are difficulties
in the way of commencing a fresh negotiation, or of sup-
plying explanations' to a 'neutral power; which it does.
not choose to publish. In the mean- time much specula-
tion in the. munitions of war is going on, of which
brandy seems to be a leading article. We are not too
colaftdout...4weyr, that it. is a more peaceful specific
than gunpowder.
The following are the only extiacts we can find room
for :
MF.xioo.—The packet ship Congress, Capt. Clark, arrived
yesterday front Vera Cruz. We, received, at a late hour last
night, files of the Vera Cruz journal, Censor, tile Bth du,
January. They contain the ftillowing account of the capture oE
Bejar by the Texians
Itrom.sl Naciimal of the Ist January.
" We feel the greatest pleaihre in making known that the
brave,aud honourable General Cos is safe. Compelled by the
forceOf circumstances and scarcity of provisions, he capitulated,
leaving the town of Bej in possessiOu ut the- rebel. Ile
quitted that place Ikith :5W men after having sustained a siege
of fifty-six days and fought uninterruptedly for six days. The
conduct of General Cos,- hiS offieers end soldiers, need no com-
ment; it does them as Much -hOriOtir as it they had obtained
.the
greatest victory. Eternal gory' to the brave Mexicans! The
nation has nothing to fear with such heroic defenders."
li, appears that on the 34 December, General Santa Anna
}tasted in review 6,000 men at Luis Potosi, destined to recover
Texas. immediately afterva.rds five generals, with '2,000 men,
took up their line of march, auCl.we find the van-guard, under
General Sestna, had reached Salinas, about thirty miles from
the Rio Brave del Norte, on the Bth of that month.
We'tind nothing more definitive in regard to their operations.
On the whole, we should say the Mexicans appear to hate
plenty of troops but little money, and •tiro continuance and
rapidity of the advance of the army of Texas will depend great-
ly on the means of transport and provisions they have at cona-
mend.
A conspiracy against the government was discovered in the
city of Mexico on the 6th December. The object is stated to
have been the assassination of Santa Anna and the ministers,
and to plunder the city. A great number of officers implicated
had been arrested, and the plot appears to have extended to
other provinces. It was,, however, totally extinguished.

From the Charleston Illereurtf, January 22.
THE FLORTIIA WAIL
Frost Sr. MA irks AND Kgr,WEsr.—By the slarival.yester-
day of the brig Somerset, Capt. Parker, from St. Marks via
Key-West, we regret to learn that the Indians are extending
their ravages and murder to the Cape Florida and its vicinity,
and that three families and au overseer have been murdered be-
tween St. Marks and Tallahassee.
Au extra sheet from the office of the Key-West Inquirer, of
the 141 h just., after confirming ilie.had news front the Penin-
sula, speaks as follows:
The Light Ship's crew are now the nearest to the Indians,
but being some distance from the ,6130rer and provided, we be-
lieve, with arms and ammunition, they may :not be cOasiderei
in much dan,rcer. The next post is at Indian hey, about seyenty
miles from. Key-West, where preparations bane been made for •
defence by erecting embankments, in.iunting cannon, Rie:, but
the efl.tvtiye force is small—and it is Key-West alone, which by
the people from the main and other islands, is thought to be
safe from attack ; for in addition to .the number capable of
bearing arms, it is the farthest settlement from the Indians, and
the one with which they are the least acquainted, the others
being often heretofore resorted to for the 'imposes of traffic, 2,:c.
It is thought near 200 fugitives have arrived here within four or
five days.
In this crisis our patriotic citizens have not been backward in
their exertions 1,0 relieve the apprehensions of those who are
alarmed for the diStress of those who are in want.
The militia have been called out, and are now regularly or-
ganized and ready for duty at'a moment's warning. Patrols on
land and wafer are nightly kepti•• and a vessel has been char-
tered and sent to Havana with a gentleman authorised to pro-
cure a further supply of- arms; and 'charged with letters from a
committee of the citizens and the collector of the port, soliciting
visit from anY•4l:our mallick-wax.tbat my be in that harbour,
and we have since learned that there were two there two or
three days since.
We have 'to express to our friends at a distance our candid
opinion, that the probability of ouilai`ng 'attacked is not great
but still, to enable the inhabitant; of the i,lands and the
main land to return to tbeiruSual• avocations, and in order to
insure our safety, we have to repeat that a strong necessity ex-
ists for immediate action on the part of the government in this
quarter. • ' •
No definite accoant can be obtained of the number of Indipns
in the neighbourhood of the Cape, hot, from their fires and
other circumstances, it is thought they spay at present amount
to two or three hundred warriors.

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Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S Marriage 13111, framed for the
purpose of relieving the religious scruples of, irtain dis-
senteis, is a very amusing production ; but we Suspect it
is doomed to briGr martyrdom like his ONN n Carlos.
The enactments of the bill ai'e so ridiculously absurd,
that we demand its rejection, by the house,. in the.naine
of tlqt limited common sense of the country.

'For several years there has been an immense excess
of fustian perpetiated in petitions, at public meetings,
and in both honses of parliament, relative to the afore-
said scruples. The unitarian press has repeated the stuff
at stated intervals—libmals have talked abont it on all
occasions—and patriots, flushed with eloquence,: and
something else not quite so dry, have raved, and blus-
tered, And banged the tables about t;,cse scruples; hot
we declare, in perfect candour, that we never met or
heard a'man amongst them who could give a rational
reason for the clamour abut dissenters' marriages, or
prove that dissenters,suffer any
It is said that the unitarian f.atAit3ll, ohjectto the titles
of the Trinity being used in the. ceremony. frSome other
sects object to be married in eitKFAttialey going thole
they ran any risk of encounteringpeßta tr, or seeing
the ghosts of those whom they iAnCt446.lftigt,t tiers bad rob;
bed. This last would be 44a4n/iplieblrfttseruple sur
enough, but- that ego Wit object on 'any strch griiiund's°