The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-06 00:00:00

THE CHURCH.

NEM CHURCH AT HABERGHAU EAVES.—On the 10th inst.,
the Lord Bishop of Chester, consecrated the new church at
this place, which has recently been erected. The township,
which is in the chapelry of BUrnley, contains a population of
7,000 inhabitants, and until this church was built it had no
place of worship connected with the • establishment. The
church contains seats for 1,080 persons, one-half of which are
free for the poor. The Rev. 'l'. G. James, 8.8. has been ap-
pointed curate.—Manchester Courier.

The handsome Now Church at Tredegar was consecrated on
the 11th instant. The edifice was crowded in every part. The
Bishop of the diocese preached in the morning, and the Rev.
Chancellor delivered a sermon in Welsh in the afternoon.—
Bristol Journal.

BRIGHTON CHURCH RATE3.—Final close of the poll on
Tuesday, at Three o'clock :—For the rate, 704 persons. giving
1,702 votes; against the rate,994 persons, giving 1,359 votes.
Majority of votes for the rate, 313 ; majority of persons against
it, 293.

PRESrNTATiON OF PLATE. TO THE REV. ISAAC CLARKSON.
—On Monday week a handsome presentation of plate was made
by the parishioners of Wednesbury, to their vicar, the llev.
Isaac Clarkson, and on the salver a memorial was inscribed, of
which the following is a copy :—" Presented by the parishion-
ers of Wednesbury to the Rev. Isaac Clarkson, Vicar, the fol-
lowing pieces of Silver Plate; consisting of this salver, a coffee
pot, tea pot, sugar basin, and cream ewer, together with twelve
silver table forks, twelve dessert forks, eighteen-tea spoons, six
salt spoons, and four sauce ladles, as a small testimony of their
regard and esteem for his zealous and unwearied discharge of
his ministerial duties during the period of fifteen years.—No-
vember 7, 1811."—Leeds Intelliyencer.

Trts NEW CHURCH AT LnEns.—The excavators for the New
Church about to be erected at Mount Pleasant, in Leeds, have
already commenced, and are expected to he so far advanced as
to admit of the first stone being laid on Friday, the 16th inst.,
on which day the Bishop of Ripon will re-open Christ Church,
Meadow•-lane.—lbid.

The Bishop of Ripon has appointed the Rev. Charles Dndg.
son, Al .A., formerly student's tutor of Christ Church, Oxford,
now Vicar of Dareshury, to be his lordship's examining ehap-
lain. His lordship will hold his first ordination on the 15th of
January.—/bid.

Mr. Byng►'s splendid donation of £2,000 to the Metropolitan
Churches Fund ought not to pass unnoticed, and especially
furnishing, as it (hoes, so wide a contrast to the total absence of
whig liberality in so many other quarters.—lbid.

NEW PLAY BY MR. SHERIDAN KNOWLES.

On Tuesday evening, Mr. Sheridan Knowles's play of the
Wrecker's Daughter, was performed at Drury-lane theatre, to
a full though not a crowded house. The piece was received
throughout with the most enthusiastic applause, and the novel
character of the whole composition bids fair to insure it a po-
pularity of long duration. The following is a sketch of the
plot:—Robert (Knowles,) is a wrecker on the coast of Corn-
wall, but who, through the softening influence of an amiable
wife, has been, in some measure reclaimed from his odious pur-
suit, though at times his old propensities break out afresh. His
daughter, Marian, (Miss Huddart,) seeks to exercise over her
father the same influence as her deceased mother, but with less
success. The first act shows us an approaching storm, and the
preparations of the wreckers to avail themselves of the spoils
of a vessel, the inevitable destruction of which their experience
in these matters enables them to foresee. Norris (Mr. Wade,)
or Black Norris, as he is nicknamed by his colleagues, having
conceived a design on the daughter of Robert, lays a plan to
drive him away from the country, that the girl may fall a de-
fenceless prey to his machinations. He points out to the old
,man a body just washed un shore, and persuades bin to rifle it,
sending, meanwhile, one of his emissaries to assemble the other
wreckers and spread a report that Robert has committed vio-
lence- upon the shiiie reeked man. Robert, in the act of rifling
the body, is found by his daughter, who, with some difficulty,
persuades him to return home. lle promises to do so, and bids
her go on before while he collects his tools. Marian lingers on
an overhanging rock in expectation of her father's following her,
when Norris enters, and finding Robert's knife, plunges it into
the body, to confirm the suspicion of Robert's crime. While
in the act, a flash of lightning illuminates the stage and Ma-
rian, believing she sees her father commit a murder, swoons
away upon the rock. Robert enters immediately afterwards,
and being found near the body, with his knife still in the breast
of the dead man, he is carried before a justice, where, upon the
direct evidence of his own child, he is committed for the mur-
der. A highly wrought scene takes place between Norris and
one of his confederates, Wolf, (Mr. Diddear,) in the course of
which, it appears that the body washed on shore, was that of
Norris's own father, who had lived for some time after the mor-
tal wound had been inflicted on him by the hand of his own
son. The fourth act shows us Marian at the gate of her father's
prison vainly striving to obtain admission. Norris enters and
confirms him of the death of her lover, Edward, (Mr. Cooper,)
and promises that if she will now mart.)• him (Norris,) he will
save her father's life, and prove him innocent. Sho agrees,
with evident repugnance, to the sacrifice. The fifth act, 'whic.l;
is decidedly inferior to the preceding ones, presents us a forced
and highly improbable denouement. At the opening, we find
Norris and Marian preparing for their nuptials,
about a month
having elapsed between the two acts. Just before the departure
of the bridal party for the church, Edward,supposed to have
been drowned, returns unexpectedly, ad an agonizing scene
ensues. The last scene is in the church-yard, where the clergy-
man, the father, and the lover, vainly join in entreating Norris
to release the maiden from her' entreating
promise. On his refusal they
are about to enter the Church, when Wolf, whom Norris had
sent out of the country, suddenly appears. He bad been im-
pelled by the agonies of remorse to return, and now reveals the
crime of Norris, who now rushes furiously on him and stabs
him to the heart. The convicted murderer is then dragged
away, and the clergyman unites the hands of the two lovers.
Such is a hasty sketch of the story. Like most of Knowles's
pieces, it is full of beautiful poetry. The interest throughout
the first four acts is intense; but, in the fifth, the startling im-
probability of the incidents greatly tends to weaken the effect
of the earlier parts of the phy. The acting was excellent.
Miss Hoddart's performance of Marian justifies the high opi.
nine we had previeusly conceised of her talents. Knowles and
Warde also dhl full justice to the piece. There was alsd
aaa (he success of tine whole piece
. . sa st the same time that it bids
non's treasory.--Ear-

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