The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-08-12 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.

The last Night but One of Mr. 0. SMITH of the Theatre-royal,
English Opera-house.
Fourth week of Mr. HENRY HORNCASTLE, ofthe Theatre-
royal. Drury-lane.
Mr. VALE, of the Theatre-royal, Covent-garden, is engaged
for a limited period, and will make his sixth appearance here
this E
►ytHIS present FRIDAY EVENING, the 12th instant, will
AL be perforined a new Drama, in three acts, as produced at
the Theatre-Royal, English Opera House, with distinguished
success, called

LUCILLE;
OR, THE STORY OF A HEART.
St. Cyr - Mr. Stuart. I Michael... ...Mr. 0. Smith.
Izak Schuvp Mr. alter.
Miss:Faucit. I Julie.... ....Miss Chaplin.
After which (for the third time) ti new 'Farce of
LAW AND LI T .
Jemmy Mammoth...
(as originally performed by him in LondOn,)
Mr. James, alias Erasmus Epic Mr. I3rowue.
' Mrs. Mammoth. ' Mrs. Clarke.
Jane Miss Stanley.
To conclude with the romantic drama, called
PRESUMPTION ;
•
OR, THE FATE OF FRANKENSTEIN
The * * * Mr. 0. Smith,
(as Frformed by him in London )
•••• Mi.• Henry Horneastle.
rankenstein Mr. Stuart I Fritz Mr. Baker.
Cleryal Mr. G. Horneastle.
Elizabeth.. Mrs. W. 11. Bland.
To-inonuow, (Saturday,) ROBERT MACAIRE. Robert
Macaire, Mr.O. Smith ; Jacques-Strop, Mr. Vale; Marie. Mrs.
Stauley.—With the Comic Pantomime of HARLEQUIN
AND THE GOLDEN GOOSE. Harlequin, Mr. J. Ridg-
way; Clown, Mr. T. Riag,way; Pantaloon, Mr. Jonas; Co-
lumbine, Madlle. Marie.—To conclude (for the last time) with
PRESUMPTION.

TO CORRESPONDENTS

"A Lover of Justice" does not inform us whether the confes-
sion of the boys was obtained under the influence of a pro-
mise that it would be better
,for then; if so obtained, the magis-
trate was right.
We have no room for the letter of "J. F. J."
The communication of " A Constant Reader" does not possess
interest enough for insertion.
We cannot answer the questions about the birch-rods and fool's-
ca for the-corporation schoals; but we think that both these
articles would- be better bestowed upon the " education
committee."
"Advice to a Young Lady" does not suit us.

frbe ILiberpool eS.tanbartt.

FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 12, 1836.

Spain is on the eve of a terrible explosion. The city
of Malaga has been the scene of another of those ap-
palling events at which human nature recoils—at least
its better portion. In the night of the 25th ult. the
garrison revolted, and the civil and military governors
were both murdered ; nor does thete,appear to have been
any valid pretext for this outrage >law, order,.and ha.
manity, further than that which is to be discovered in an
organised plot for the depositions of the authorities, the
councilling the rule of the imbecile Regent Queen's go:
vernment, and proclaiming the constitution of 1812!
All this seems to have taken place simultaneously, or in
such quick succession as to leave no doubt of the depth
and extent of the conspiracy.
The Queen's party at Madrid, it is said, attribute the
whole affair to Carlist ityluence,—this is probable
enough, allowing the reign of anarchy to be almost
needful to provide the necessary establishment of sound,
regal authority. A junta has been installed, composed
of the following persons :—J. A. Escalanti, commander
of the carahineers, president; Francisco I'. Sancho,
commander of the artillery of the national guard; M.
Moreno, captain of the 7th of the line; J. Serrano, com-
mander of the 2d battalion of the national guard ; Anto-
nio Cabrera, colonel on the retired list, &c.
Proclamations have been issued to the people, and u
violent denunciatory address to the Queen Regent, at
tributing the terrible condition of things to the mistakes,
errors, and, perhaps, evil intentions of the advisers of
the crown and the agents of power. This is speaking
out boldly, and offers but a melancholy speciMen of the
favourable destiny for Spain, which Lord Palmerston
said, " he believed hovered over it from above," on the
occasion of his recent conflict, wherein be essayed the
• facetious and would-be-pathetic knight against Mr.
Maclean !

There appears to us to be no other resource open to
stern the progress of bloodshed and misery in this most •
unhappy country, the proceedings in which are a dis-
grace to a civilized age, a dishonour to the human spe-
cies, and a foul blot on the page of history, than the
surly establishment of the monarchy of Charles the Fifth
at Madrid. Compare the proceedings in nearly every
other part of Spain with the happy condition of the peo•
ple, allowing for the casualties of war in all those pro-
vinces under the authority of the King; and let men ho-
nestly decide thereon who has the fairest pretensions to
wield the sceptre of government. Perhaps Mr. Villiers,
Lord Palmerston's nuncio at the court of Madrid, may not
feel inclined to wait fur the "dispensation" from above
after this display of feeling at Malaga. He may, ere
long, be glad to pray for a good pair of heels to enable
him to reach the passage, or some other port on the
Coast, with a whole skin on his way back to narrate to his
patron the triumphs of Isabella Segundo ! • - •

•NittiTA—MiyErt Roniscramp;—This eminent modern
Israelite, and distinguished . European financier, in the.
trite and expsessive language 'of 'Holy Writ, has been
“gathered unto his fathers." His funeral took place on
Monday last, (see further particulars in another part of
our impression,) and was attended, independently of the
private members of his very numerous family, by many
gentlemen of •the Jewish .persuasion, and others, con-
nected with the monied and commercial interests of the
city of London, long the scene of Iris powerful influence.
bi the short, but very beautifully written biographical
memoir of this truly extraordinary Man, in the Constitu•
lion net French paper, Mr. Rothschild is described as
having been neither king, prince, philosopher, poet, nor
statesman; but as a man whose death cannot fail in pro-
clueing a very powerful sensation tlnoughbut Europe.
true with regard to his pretensions to
Traltiriks lasmPonti
gfesettYhose, who are generally associated with
ideas of human greatness,
as a tribute tetheir memories, after death,
and. honoured with laudatory
ether honourably or successfully filled a
cfoorm m
havingen dat i
.oni
place in the circle of great soldiers, statesmen, divines,
or politicians., He has, however, claims to notice of an
original and peculiar kind; and as such, is entitled to a
niche amongst the grave and solemn order of those, who
have been honoured with, a tablet in the sacred page of

biography.
Mr. Rothschild has surpassed all the great mentally
endowed, and even powerful characters of his time, by
obtaining the means in his own person, by his own in-
dividual industry, of commanding their interest for him-
self—of having them as it were rivetted within his. own
grasp, under the exercise 'of a quiescent power, for his
own peculiar benefit and personal enrichment, without
resigning life or reputation in any decided form to obtain
his end! He has been . almost a solitary powerful ma-
chine, in that vast and elaborate organization, compre-
hending human society, by means of which kings and

governments have been enabled to wield the destinies of
empire, and to control or compete with the varied con-
tingencies of weighty import, attendant on human policy,
skill, bravery, power, and ambition, however inflamed by
false judgment or regulated by opinion. Ile was,
therefore, a great man, ab-origine !
_ _

Mr. Rothschild affords another example of the extraor-
dinary use of individual power, resulting from the cir-
cumstances and changes attendent on great convulsions
in states and kingdoms. He formed one of the many
extraordinary men produced by the wide array of events
connected with the former French revolution, and who,
in his own hands, wielding, Napoleon's term, "the gold
of England," as an able,monied diplomatist, contributed
mainly to bring about the latter events under which that.
very revolution settled down in rest, or at least sunk
once more into the arms of legitimacy! True it is, that
lie was not either general or , statesman, in the usual
form; but he was a grave calculating gamester of his ,
own order, who, watching well the cards and dice, as
played by others, turned the game to his own advantage,
with tremendous effect. His immense fortune then, has,
at once, been derived alike from the pride, folly, and am-
bition of the European princhs and governments, and
fi om the latitudinarian, restless, and speculative conduct
of their subjects. "Great men," says Warburton, "are
made for the times, and the times are made for great
men." As the needful banker'sagent—nay, confidential
friend of kings and of gos ernments—the Chancellor of
European finance, Mr. Rothschild was a great man.
Money is the sinew of warand the talismanof diplomacy,
he wielded this two-edged sword almost single-handed,
and he has proved the extent of his power and his great-
ness by dying worth a sum exceeding, bur millions ster-
ling! His. first essay was! in the character of a mer-
chant at Manchester.

NEWSPAPER STAMPS' BILL.—The House of Lords, the
upright and independent majority of 61 peers, on
Monday night expunged from this bill of superficial inches,
after a very animated 4nd truly interesting debate, the
" Star Chamber" enactment contained in clause 11,
with regard to the proprietorship of newspapers' registry.
A more iniquitous, inquisitorial proceeding since the
days of the dark court of Record, or tyrannous renown
above alluded to, could not_well be conceived, than that
contemplated by this additional specimen of genuine
whig liberality, the amiable offering of the thrice liberal
member for Cambridge, and Chancellor of his Majesty's
Exchequer, to extend the freedom of the press—to
lessen the taxes on knowledge, and here artfully tacked
to a money bill for the v ry honourable and truly inde-
pendent purpose of depriving the House of Lords of the
privilege of revision, but which the searching sagacity
of Lord Lyndhurst penetrated at once, and held up to the
discredit (though, perhaps, not to the shame) of its
propounders and defenders, with his usual acumen and
powerful reasoning. In fact, to use a homely phrase,
his Lordship made " mince meat" of the ministers on
this occasion, assailing theM on every tack, and shaking
their flimsy arguments with unconquerable severity.
We hardly know which to admire the most, the
matter or the manner of the premises urged against the
clause, dealing with equal and terrible effect on its
grossly tyranous application; to say nothing of the glaring
injustice of the principle it involved, as .a Matter of
legislation. Englishmen have long beeri taught to re-
gard the•just and legitimate freedom of the press as the
paladitim of their liberties. This bill, if not corrected
as it has been by the generosity, the honeur, and the
patriotism of the House of Lords, would have reversed
the rule and rendered the measure, in the hands of the
government of the (lay, the restraining inquisitor of
_their civil privileges—their ordinary commercial advan-
tages, and rights of property as free subjects. We
proudly refer to the speech and the replies of Lord Mel-
bourne, the Lord Chancellor, and the Marquis of Lans-
down. Let our intelligent= ,readers exercise their own
analysis.
The Duke of Wellington and Lord Wynford sup-
ported the amendment, the latter in a speech displaying
sound legal tact, and the combination of really liberal
views on the part of the press. We must return to this
subject more freely and fully, and content ourselves now
by declaring our independent voice of approbation for
the conduct of the truly conservative estate, which
has by this proceeding put itself in a position with the
country that it will not easily lose. It has declared for
the people, destroying a coup d'etat contemplated by the
wily policy of the ministers, for the purpose of placing
the upright independent press and those who support it,
under the fangs of a power at once odious, tyrannous,
and unconstitutional.