The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-31 00:00:00

ADDRESS

The humble Address of the Women of Liverpool, to her
Most Gracious Majesty Victoria, Queen of Great Britain
and Ireland, &c. &c. &c.
May it please your Majesty, _ _ _

We, your. Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the women
of Liverpool, desire to approach your Majesty, humbly to
express the deep and poignant sorrow and regret with which
we have learned that Mr. Robt. Owen, the head and founder
of a sect known by the name of " socialists," has been intro-
duced into your royal presence.
The regret which we thus express to your Majesty is
founded on the conviction which we feel that the pestilential
doctrines held and propagated by the above sect, in which
they denounce " marriage and parental affection, declare re-
velation to be a series of diabolical falsehoods invented by
the priests," are calculated to degrade our sex, to dissolve
the social union, to shake the stability of your Majesty's
throne, and, in short, by the overthrow of all order, virtue,
and religion, to introduce universal anarchy, and establish a
most revolting system of infidelity and atheism.
Your Majesty, we humbly presume to hope, will most
graciously condescend to receive this address with the cle-
mency which has always distinguished your illustrious house.
We have waited for some time in anxious expectation that
some more honourable and influential persons would have
directed the attention of your Majesty to a presentation
which was calculated to countenance a system of error, the
character and tendency of which, we are confident, must
have been unknown to your Majesty. If an apology be
deemed necessary for so unusual a step as this we now take,
it is found in our zeal and jealousy for the untarnished lustre
of your Majesty's crown, the safety and honour of your sa-
cred person, and the happiness and prosperity of your do-
minions.

As we are assured that these high objects can only be se-
cured on the basis of national virtue and piety, and by the
blessing of the Most High, we earnestly pray that Almighty
God may evermore inspire your Majesty's councils with
wisdom, and surround your throne with righteousness, pu-
rity, and truth.
With sentiments of the most profound respect and loyal
attachment, we subscribe ourselves,
Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects.

Whitehall, January 25th, 1840.
Sir,—l am directed by the Marquess of Normanby to in-
form you, that he has not failed to lay before the Queen the
address, signed by a very numerous body of the females of
the town and neighbourhood of Liverpool, which accompa-
nied your letter of the 10th instant.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
S. M. PHILLIPPS.
Mr Joseph Crisp*
38, Mil-oh-street, Liverpool.

ST. HEI.ENS AND RUNCORN-GAP RAILWAY.--A special
general meeting of the shareholders and bondholders in this
concern was held on Tuesday morning, in the Clarendon-
rooms, South John-street. There was a numerous attend-
ance, amongst whom was one lady. Seeing that other rail-
way companies think it advisable to permit the proceedings
at their special and general meetings to be given to the world,
our reporter applied for admission, but he was told that the
sense of the meeting was against it. We are not, therefore,
in a condition to state what was done.

SPRING ASSIZES.—Sir J. T. Coleridge and the Right
Hon. T. Erskine will go the Northern Circuit at the Spring
Assizes. The former will preside in the Crown Court at the
Liverpool Assizes, and the latter in the Nisi Prius Court.
THE SESSIONS.—The intermediate sessions for this bo-
rough will he held on Tuesday next, in the Crown Court, at
the Sessions-house, before James Clarke, Esq., Recorder.
The Court of Passage for the trial of civil causes will be held
on the following Thursday, in the Nisi Prius Court, before
Charles Crompton, Esq., Assessor.

THE BOTANIC GARDEN.—There is now in flower, in the
conservatory of the Botanic Garden, a tine specimen of
Musa Steelii, a new variety of banana, introduced into this
country by W. Steel, Esq., of this town, from French Guy-
ana. This variety will be a valuable acquisition to the culti-
vator of tropical fruits, on account of its dwarf growth, being
not more than six feet in height. There is also in flower the
Strelitzia Augusta, a South African plant, belonging to the
same tribe. It is probably the finest plant of its species in
Europe; and this is the second time of its flowering in this
country.

NEW LINE OF ROAD FROM SOUTHPORT TO LIVERPOOL.
—Application will be made in the present session of parlia-
ment for a new turnpike road from Southport to Liverpool,
through Birkdale, Ainsdale, Formby, Crosby, &c. in a direct
line, which will not exceed fifteen miles. This will be of
great service to this rapidly improving bathing resort, and
will also berrefit and improve the several townships which it
will intersect.
CAUTION TO THE MERCANTILE PUELIC.—A gang of
swindlers, resident in Glasgow, have for some time past
practised the grossest frauds on several houses in this town,
London, Leith, and Bristol, by writing to them for sundry
descriptions of goods in their particular line of business.
References are given to many of the most respectable houses
in Glasgow, who are known to be trading with the parties
thus applied to, but these references are invariably coupled
with the following paragraph in the letters, " send invoice
per post, deducting discount, and a banker's bill will be re-
mitted for the amount." In this way they have succeeded,
in several instances, in obtaining goods to a considerable
amount, and the property, on arriving in Glasgow, has been
readily disposed of in quarters not suspected, but serving
the purpose to complete the fraud, and to place the swindlers,
as yet beyond the reach of the police establishment there, who
are aware of it and on the watch.

TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO A CLERGYMAN.—We under-
stand that a subscription has been commenced for the purpose
of presenting the Rev. James Aspinall, M.A. late minister of
St. Luke's Church, and now rector of Althorp, in Lincoln-
shire, with a piece of plate, in token of approbation of the ser-
vices rendered by him to the corporation schools and the cause
of liberalism in Liverpool. The Reform Association are said
to be the promoters of this project, but the rev. gentleman's
late congregation pretty generally decline to encourage it, on
the ground that he paid no attention whatever to the school
in Cropper-street, belonging to the place of worship to which
he was attached.

NORTH-WEST OF IRELAND UNION STEAM-PACKET Co.
—The annual general meeting of the proprietors of the
North-west of Ireland Union Steam Company was held on
Monday last, at Londonderry, when the meeting voted the
sum of 30 guineas to Captain Clegg, of the ship Hudders-
field, and 20 guineas to his crew, for their humane and suc-
cessful exertions, in saving so many perishing fellow-creatures
from the wreck of the steamer, William Huskisson.

LIVERPOOL GRAND SUBSCRIPTION CONCERTS.—The
third of this series of concerts was given at the Theatre Royal
on the evening of Tuesday, and proved the most successful.
The vocalists were Madame Balfe, Signora Ernesta Grisi,
and Mr. Balfe ; and the solo instrumentalists, Mr. Lidel
(known formerly as one of the brothers Hermann) and Mr.
Thalberg, the first pianist of the day. Mr. Hermann ably
led the orchestra which was complete in every department.
The selection was of a various character, just adapted to
chew the peculiar merits of the several performers. Madame
Balfe and Signora Grisi sang their parts very well, although
both were suffering from colds. Mr. Balfe also sung with
much expression. Thalberg excited the greatest enthusiasm.
His modest and unassuming demeanour won peculiarly upon
the auditory. We borrow the following critique upon his
performances from a contemporary :—" We find it impossible
almost to convey an adequate idea of our admiration of his
surprising talents. His peculiarities appear to be an asto-
nishing power of wrist, a perfectly equalised vigour and ac-
tivity and extraordinary extension of fingers. These advan-
tages, regulated by a taste grounded on an intimate know-
ledge of musical theory, enable him to produce a richly-
figured " mosaic" of harmony, each constituent of which is
in itself a melody, while the leading subject stands out in
bold relief, distinct as if wrought by some separate instru-
ment. Another characteristic of Thalberg is the combination
of brilliancy and marked precision, with an admirably
sus-
tained legato. His remarkable touch, aided by the ready
answers of one of Erard's first-rate piano-fortes, pro
sostenuto effect, beyond perhaps what was ever
pulsatile.
any other performer, from an instrument merely
power,
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more
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