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

THEATRES.

ITALIAN OPERA.—Signor de Begnis takes his benefit this
evening, when Maser's grand opera buffa " II Fanatica per la
Musica" will be performed. But little need be said in recom-
mendation of Signor de Begnis's well known talents, or of his
claims upon the patronage of the public for bringing to the
town an Italian company, possessing a very considerable de-
gree of varied talent and excellence. The house during the past
week was well attended.
LIVER THEATRE.—The American Indians now performing
at this theatre are well worth seeing, as exhib,tions of some of
their national customs and peculiarities; their dresses are very
singular, and their appearance equally so. The one who
dances the hornpipe displays an agility and lightness of
foot that would not disgrace a Blais or a Silvan'. "The
Zingaro Girl," although not a novelty, will not fail to prove at-
tractive. Mr. Binge takes his benefit on Wednesday; he is an
accomplished singer, and deserves patronage. "The Jewess"
is about to be produced at this theatre with great splendour;
the principal characters will be sustained by Mr. and Mrs.
Yates, and Miss Betts. •

THE AMPHITHEATRE.—"The Jewess," a grand dramatic spec-
tacle, which created a "sensation" in Paris, and excited the asto-
nishment and admiration of all London, has been got up and
performed at the Amphitheatre with great success. Little can
be said of it except as a pageant, and% this respect the stage
manager has show❑ his judgment and taste in producing a good
pictorial effect in many of the scenes. The audiences since the
opening of the house have been generally very good.
MASTER Hun HES CONCE It T.—This celebrated Cambrian
harpist gives a second concert this evening, at the Music Hall,
Bold-street. He will be assisted by Mons. Pothonier, a piano-
forte player, whose performances were much admired at Master
Hughes last concert, and by the members of the Liverpool
Choral Society. The principal vocal performers Will be Miss
Leach, Mr. J. Stott, and Mr. Davies.

CONSERVATIVE DINNER AT UPHOLLAND,
NEAR WIGAN.

The conservative electors residing in Upholland, dined to-
gether on Tuesday last, at the White Lion Inn, John Holt,
wsq., of Bispham Hall, in the chair. Among the toasts iveas "The Established Churches of Great B itain and Irelagndn."
The Rev. Mr. Bird thanked the company on the part of the
episcopal churches of England and Ireland; and the Rev. Mr.
Mackenzie, a minister of the church of Scotland, also returued
thanks for the lhonour done that institution as one of the esta-
blished churches named in the toast. The following. passages
from the rev. gentleman's speech will be read with interest :
"It is questioned by the falsely so-called reformers and the poli-
tical volunteers, whether we can show and prove the propriety,
consistency, and utility of ministers of the gospel attending such
a meeting as this, and mingling publicly their political senti-
ments with those which kindred spirits entertain, and intimate
friends express. (Cheers.) My answer is ready, and it is
simply this. If the clergymen of our establishments consider it
their duty to support church and state, to believe in, and to
promote a national religion, why not advance its interests and
advocate its excellency in every place, on all occasions, and in
all companies? If we love, admire, and honour it, on a larger
scale, why not on a smaller one ? If we demonstrate the truth,
and draw the conclusion of a major proposition, we are fairly
and legitimately establishing the truth, and deducing the infe-
rences of all the minor premises with its range. If we intro-
duce heavenly wisdom in all her beauties and ornaments, charms
and attractions, graces and virtues, rewards and honours, into
the farni;y, the sanctuary, the senate house, and the royal palace,
why not to a conservative dinner, where there are men "who
fear God, who honour the king, and love the brotherhood ?"
( Loud applause.) "However diflereut in your age, or more
different in your circumstances," said the late immortal Har-
vey, a bright star of the church of England, "be unanimous, 0
men, in magnifying a Saviour who is no respecter of persons,
and who, fur man, proctkred grace unmeasurable, and bliss in-
conceivable. Bend, ye kings, from your thrones of ivory and
gold; and in your robes of imperial purple fall prostrate at his
feet who forsook a nobler throne, and laid aside more iliustrious
ensigns of majesty, that you might reign with God for ever and
ever." (Applause.) Gentlemen, the duty of maintaining, de-
fending, and protecting the sacred institutions of our country
in the present day, is more imperative and more important,
when attempts are made order the eye, and with the sanction
of his majesty's ministers, fur wrenching from its consecrated
place, the most radient gem that glitters in the royal crown of
Britain ; and for erasing the most splendid characters which
emblazon our national escutcheons, viz., the king, defender of
the faith, and the religion of Jesus Christ; and for displacing
the keystone of the magnificent, arch of the constitutional
monarchy of this realm, destroying the equipoise, or even
balance, of its component parts, leaving it without any inter-
mediate power or disturbing force to retard and stop the velo-
city of those rapid and destructive movements whose ultimate
tendency is to remove the chief cornerstone, by the separation
of church and state, and demolish that beautiful fabric which
has bean the glory and renown of England, and the wonder
and admiration of the world, into one heap of democratic and
republican ruin. (Three times three.) * * * *
If his Majesty's ministers were to issue an order in council to
discontinue and extinguish all the lighthouses on the coasts of
the British Empire and on the shores Of our colonies, where
there is most danger of either being shipwrecked or being cap-
tured by pirates, unless fifty English merchant ships minus one,
passed by /these lighthouses and enjoys the benefit of their light,
would not liberal cotton spinners and manufacturers of Man-
chester, and the shipowners and merchants of Liverpool be im-
mediately alarmed, and instantly meet to petition his Majesty
to dismiss his ministers ? And yet they are doing worse than
this, with the approbation, encouragement, and support of the
radical, papist, and voluntaries, by attempting to extinguish ;
hundreds of the lamps of divine revelation, where the pirates,
quicksands, and rocks of popery are capturing and destroying
their thousands and tens of thousands of immortal souls, one of
which is more precious than the whole world. (Applause.)
This is the doctrine by which they removed Sir R. Peel from
the helm of affairs, by which they replaced themselves into office
—by which they ascended to the ministerial benches—by which
they sit on these benches—and by which, perhaps, they shall
soon be hurled from them into the shade for ever and ever,.and
by which Sir Robert shall be carried again in triumph and in
honour, on the shoulders of a free and loyal, religious, and happy
people, and amidst the, general shouts and universal acclama-
tions of their plaudits and congratulations, into the high office
in which his sovereign had placed, and which lie so honourably
and ably filled, and from which he was so basely and shamefully
ejected by Lord John Russell and his faction. (Loud cheers.)
It is said that the father of Hannibal took him, when a child, to
the altar, and swore eternal hostility to the Roman republic. 1
conjure you, sir, and this numerous assembly, aed all who love
their God, their bibles, their church, their icing, their country,
and their friends; on the altar of our common faith and pro-
testant constitution, to swear eternal hostility to these infidel,
liberal, popish, and antichristian principles! I call upon you
to cherish and maintain an everlasting love, attachment, and
veneration for that religion which shed a lustre over the crown,
throne, and the constitution of Britain in 1688, as you see on
the wall here (pointing to a flag hanging behind the chairman)
which shall neither he obscured or extinguished by the united
energies, combined efforts, and secret machinations of the bat-
talion of Irish papists, and the band of English Auld Scotch ra-
dical, infidel, and political voluntaries I
About ninety gentlemen attended the dinner, which, says the
Bolton Chronicle, did great credit to Mr. ',Win Prescott, the
worthy host. Lord Skelmendale.presented the company with'
a good fat buck oa the occasion.