The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-20 00:00:00

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PUBLIC 4-14tMENTS.

1 TKEATRE ROYAL—Last ei,. rang introduced the he
of a great theatrical name, to the Liverpool -Public, in
person of Mr. Fleury Betty, the son of the ceiehiated 11
Betty, the Young Itoscius of former years. Mr. Het
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Betty is the latest novelty on the stage, and the sr, i-
managers of the Theatre Royal have not waited long
"produce" him. Mr. Henry net' y has as fair prospec s
sue, ess in that profession which he has chosen, and ii
which be is just entering, as any young actor we kiii
Possessed of a tall, mauly, and graceful figure, chatacte, iz
by all the elegant elastic suppleness of youth, with a fine Yon
and good elocution, be watus'but the finish which practi
will give, and he will have all the requisites for embed
tug the conceptions of the mind—the very ket nel—t
soul of acting: and in this prime requisite Mr. Henri Bet
appears to be by no means deficient. Last evening he play
the part of Salm, iu the revived tiagedy of " Barbatoss
It would be unfair severely to criticise the afforts of so you
an actor; yet unmixed praise, where it is not wholly .
served and flattering, is to play an enemy's part, which
have no wish to do to Mr. Henry Beth. He is decide
not deficient in confidence; and bis elocution is good,
there is a degree of "r flicking" rawness about his actin
a want of that perfect finish which conduces to effect, wh
he will do well to study to obtain. Few men will then
sess more promising dramatic qualifications. He was int
duced by a short spoken address by Mr. Bland, which •
thought had better have been let alone. It would have h
very well to have so introduced Master Betty, but was pus
as an introduction to a young man. Mr. Stuart ably pla
the parlor The tyrant Barbarossa, and indeed constituted,.
his superior acting, the chief interest of the tragedy. 'I
acting of Miss Faucit was also marked by great talent. T
evening " Douglas" is to be performed, in which Mr. Be
will play Young Norval.

P
1 SIGNOR HUERTA'S CONCERT ATTHE TEMPLARS' HALL?
Last evening Signor Huerta, the celebrated guitar play'
gave a concert at the Templars' Hall. The concert
we w
sorry to see was not very fully attended. The principal p'
formers were Madame Palloni, Signor Paltoni, Mons. A. .
St. Maurice, and Signor Huerto. Several fantasias a'
duettos were sung selected from the operas of Rossini a'
Bellini, and front the music of Donnizetti. Signor Palter
possesses an exceedingly powerful,full-toned, bass voice. Vl'
heard him sing the aria " Largo al factotum," from Rosii
in fine style. Mons. Maurice also possesses a fine bass void;',
but of considerably less power. Madame Paltoni has asvr6!
cantata sort of voice of not much power. The gem of tf,
performances, however, was the extraordinary execution
Signor Huerta, on the guitar. He has certainly given us
"new light" regarding this instrument; we bad no idea thf
tunes so melodious could be produced from the "clangk
guitar," or that such an a mount of execution could be o
tained on it. We have nut time to give a detailed notice
the performances, though several of them are deserving r.
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more than this passing notice.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-Mr. Hughes, whose celebrate
feats of horsemanship, &c., hare justly rendered him a ft
vourite at this popular place of amusement, took his benef
last night, under the patronage of our worthy chief Magi:
trate, and we are happy to state that the attendance was ver
good. The whole of the performances were well sustained.
and elicited considerable applause.

CAUTION TO HOUSEKEEPERS.--Housekeepers would di
well to see that their doors and windows are fastened afte
dark. From the robberies which have, during the past week
taken place in dwelling-houses, it is evident, that a gang o
burglars are prowling about the town and the outskirts. Thi
robberies hitherto committed have not been to serious amount
and in no case have they been accompanied by violence
Still, while the police are active in endeavouring to prevent
robberies, or, where robberies have been perpetrated, to ap.
prebend the burglars, housekeepers ought, for their owr
safety, to take every precaution in their power to prevent de
predations on their property.

FIRE.—On Friday, at about a quarter to one o'clock, some
cotton in the cotton kiln of Mr. J. Irving, in Fleet,treet,
became ignited by being overheated. The engines were sour
on the spot, and the fire was extinguished in about an hour,
with but little loss.
A STEAM VESSEL CONVERTED INTO A SAILING VES-
sEt..—Sonie weeks ago a steamer belonging to the St. George
Steam-packet Company, called the George IV., and which....
had been found, from the depth of water she required• to bek
01 adapted for the Irish trade,was as an expeliment,converted!'
into a sailing ship under the direction of Mr. R. Talbot, ship.''
builder, and marine superintendent for the company. Like[
most other steam-vessels, her sides were so constructed as tol
receive her paddle-wheels in a bay or recess; in other words,';
her decks oyerflanged about one-half the breadth of the paddle-'1
boxes. The latter being removed, four feet was cut off thell
paddle-beam, and she was sponcered up so as to render herp:
top sides straight. and maintain her full breadth of decki
throughout. She was also newly flush-decked and fastened,ll
so that her breadth, originaliy 20 feet 6 inches, became about',
31 feet., presenting proportionably one of the finest uninter-111
rupted decks of any vessel in the port. These alterations,llll
which added greatly to her strength, were completed underl
the inspection of Lloyd's surveyors. The vessel was then,
rigged as a three-masted hermaphrodite, having a brig's fore-
mast, and a main and a wizen mast rigged in the manner of.'
a schooner. Her length is 137 feet, and she teOsters aboutl
290 tons; but thus made into an elegant sailing vessel, she is
tound to carry upwards of 400 tons. ShH wade her first trip
(hence to Dub.m) about three weeks ago. Considerableit
coriosi. y was, as a mater of course, excited as to her capa-J
bilittes for sailing and resisting a sea way. Notwithstanding,
she was deeply laden, and had an adverse wind and a heavy
sea to contend with throughout, she behaved admirably, rising;
on the waves like a duck, and making good her port of desti-
nation in twenty-five hours. Another vessel that sailed fatll
Dublin with the same tide did not accomplish the voyage tine I,t
til four days afterwards The George IV. has, indeed, turned lt
out to be "a clipper," and is already a great favourite in
Dublin, where she has been visited by numbers of persons 11
interested in our mercantile marine. She is about to proceed ;
to the Azores Islands for a cargo of fruit, and will, we hope, 11
fully realize the high expectations which her first trip has
excited. She is (so far as we have learned) the first steam-
vessel of large burden that has been converted into a sailing- 1.
vessel; and the experiment is of importance in navigation,
in as much as there are numerous steam-boats in this and
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other pot ts, whose engines are worn out, or which are other- i
wise unavailable as steamers, that, at a comparatively small
expense, may, from this successful exemple, be made into
valuable sailing vessels. The George IV. might have been
purchased some months ago for a sum under £200; but her
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bottom was sound, and, with the repairs and alterations she
has undergone, her estimated value is now between four and
five thousand pounds.

It appears that the French troops are about to evacuate '!
Ancona, on condition that the Austrian troops shall leave
Home to itself.

REFUSAL TO PAY A ItEcrsrn!,ll.—On Wednesday last,
at a meeting of ley-pacers held in the vestry of the Parish
Church, Middleton, it was resolved that the Assistant over-
seer shuuld not pay the fees of the. registrar of births and
deaths, on the ground that his appointment was not in con-
formity with the act, he being, as was stated, neither a house-
keeper nor a rate-payer.—Blachbarn Standard.

The production of John Barnett's new opera, to be called .
Farinelli, which has been accepted by the management of
Drury-lane,
has been postponed.
COWISING EXTHAORDINARY. - Last Tuesday, as the
" Fleetwood" locomotive engine, on the Preston and Wvre
ralwav, was proceeding at a quick speed with a train of
waggons containing ballast fur the permanent road, about
hall way between Born Naze and Poulton, a hare got upon
the line and ran before the train in the same direction for a
considerable time, but was at length overtaken, when the I
spur of the engine struck the affrighted animal and killed it.
—Preston Pilot.

Tax oN STEsst-Bovrs.—The heads of a bill to be brought
before Parbament have been settled, by which is is to be
proposed that "all vessels engaged in the conveyance of pas-
sengers fur hire by water, when impelled by any other means
than s.tils or manual labour," shall not be impelled without 'T
a license. appottioned in its price to every 100 tons, nor
without paving a duty "for and in respect of every passenger,
at and after the rate of for every four miles, or fraction of
four miles." 11

EXTRAORDINAIIY FEAT.—On Thursday last, an individual '! 11
named Nicholson, residing at Appleby, better known by the' 1;';
cognomen of " The Marquis of Rockingham," undertook
fur a wager. to ea; a roasted goose, lasted with a pound of ~i;
tallow candles, together with half a peck of potatoes, but fi 0
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without any drink; after which saroury repast, he was to run C
a steeple chase of two miles against a horse that was bought - il
at Brig-hill fair, for the exorbitant sum of seven shillings q
and sixpence. The first part of the undertaking, as our '. '
readers may readily suppose, came df swimmingly. Many
bets were depending on the issue of the match, which was l'
won by. " the marquis" in a very superior stile. We un-
derstand this is nut the first of his very extraordinary per-
formances. [The marquis's heraldic device ought to be a ' •
trough with a pig-rampant—motto, '• per rentrem feci."]—
Westmorland Gazelle.

A MATCH von VAN ANIBURGH —The proprietor of a me-
nagerie. now exhibiting at Hamburgh, advertises an ele-
phant whom he has taught to dance upon the tight rope, and
to play the Jew's harp; besides which, he has a whole family
of tiger cubs, as lame as kittens, that allow the guests to han-
dle them as much as they

COLOURING DA WA AS.-At a show of the Colchester Hor-
ticultural and Floral Society, on Wednesday week, the:se-
cond prize tor twelve dahlias grown by gentlemen's garden-
ers was adjudged to Mr. Mallet, gardener to it G. H. Smyth,
Bart., hot was afterwards retained by the committee, in con-
sequence of its being discovered, that some colouring matter
had been put on the eyes of two of the dark dahlias exhibited,
evidently for the purpose of deceiving the judges.

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Roy At. EXCHANGE.—We are informed that the whole • .
mass of buildings ft out Finch-lane to the Mansion House is • '
to be removed for the site of this great civic and national
edifice; which, if it is not the noblest piece of commercial
architecture in the world, still be no honour to the city and
citizens of •London. At present, all ue know of the design 4
is, that it is to be an oblong square. 270 feet in length, by 140
in breadth, the longest sides fronting the Bank on one side, 4 :
and Cornhill on the other. The internal area of the Ex-
change .1
(where our merchants are to congregate) is to be of
the extent of 150 feet by CO feet. The dimensions are spa-
cious.— London Paper.
THE ARMY.—It is said that a very considerable augmenta-
tion to our present force Is in contemplation, in consequence
of the warlike aspect of affairs. This we have all along an -
tip.led, sensibly alive to the difficubies of carr}ing on the
duties with our present force, independent of all the cal:s now
made on it from every quarter. i

TIIE RUSSIANS IN Au AMNIA.— Erzeroom, until destroyed
by the Russians in 18'28-9, had been a flourishing place, and
he great mart of trade, particularly for the purchase of
European comtnodities by Persian traders, w ho used to come
here for their investments instead it proceeding to Constanti-
nople. But when the Russians overran the country, thee, by
a specious pretence of deliverance from Mahonietan thraldom
arnideetithe
their homes and enter the Russian terriories. Upwards of 1
~ f partly
this
prevailed
place,
orty
apbaort,,liy:
ninety thousand souls are said to have been thus carried off
front 'Turkish Armenia, of whom Wrote titan seven thousand
were front Erzereom: and from what I afterwards heard and lA.
saw, I do not believe this estimate is beyond the truth. They
were driven by the orders of Prince (the Count) Paskewitch
into Russian Armenia, the population of which had become
scanty under the miid parental sway, upon an understanding t
that they were to be distributed in towns and villages which
required such a transfusion of human life, and were to be pro-
tected and encouraged in the exercise of their several trades
and avocations; but by a singular and most heartless incon-
sistency, not only eas this virtual promise broken, but the
poor creatures were suffered to remain encamped and exposed
to the severities of the weather, without even a provisto
bread to eat, so that they died by hundreds of .mix
want. At last they were sent. to Akhiska and the provin
of the Black Sea, where they were disposed of in places -
already fully peopled. so that ;their condition, thus huOdled
up in crowds. was little improved, and their usefulness utterly
destroyed. Many mote died here frier' want and from dis-
eases -occasioned by the swamps of these places acting. on 1 ;
!f
constitutions accustomed to the free air of the upper plains;
yet still every apnlicaticn of the poor creatures for permis-
sion to return was rejected, and such as were caught deserting
were severely punished. It is, therefore, no wonder that the
feeling all over Turkish Armenia should be strong against
the Russians, and I believe it to be as bitter as possible. It is
said, now, that the escape of the poor exiles that remain, and
who are looked_ upon now as a charge rather than a benefit,
is winked at, though not openly permitted, and that many of
the survivors are gradually returning to their homes. 'Thus
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this barbarous and most inconsistently prosecuted measure of
state_ failed utterly of any effect, except that of exciting
hatred and dre'ad but it is an iecensistency by non.te.abat
without parallel or precedent in iOrsiselttical hislorY±nogr
ambitious aad arbit
go':e re ter's Winter Jaw

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