The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-22 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.

Fifth Night of Mr. BUCKSTONE, the celebrated Dra-
matist and Performer, of the Theatre-Royal, Haymarket,
who is engaged for Ten Nights.
Third Night of Mr. T. P. COOKE, of the Theatres-Royal,
Drury-lane and Covent-garden, who is engaged for Eight
Nights.
Mr. Buckstone's new Drama of POOR JACK, having been
received on the first and second representations with the
most decided approbation, will be repeated •Tnts EVEN-
-

ING, and on MONDAY NEXT.
THIS present FRIDAY, May 22, 1840, the Performances
will commence with the Melo-Drama of a
•
TALE OF MYSTERY.
Count Romaldi
Stephano.. Mr. W. H. Bland. Francisco.. Mr: Chaplin.
Michelli.. Mr. Baker. Montano.. Mr. Gray.
Selina..... ....... Mrs. Baker.

After which, will be performed, for the third time here, a
new Drama, written by J. B. Buckstone, Esq., called
POOR JACK.
Jack Somerton
Tim Twopenny.... Mr. Buckstone,
As originally performed by them in London.
Sam Griffin ' Mr. Gray.
The Hon. Mr. Flummery....
Mrs. Colonel Fantod.. Miss Cleaver.
Eleanor.. Mrs. W. H. Bland. Becky.. Mrs. Tellet.
To conclude with the Farce of the
LOTTERY TICKET.
Wormwood.. Mr. Buckstone. Charles.. Mr. W. Howard
Mrs. Corset.. Mrs. Clarke. Susan.. Mrs. Tellet.

On MONDAY, May 25, the petit Comedy of the INN-
KEEPER'S BRlDE.—After which, the uew Drama of
POOR JACK.—To conclude with the Farce of ROBERT
MACAIRE. Robert Macaire, Mr. I'. P. Cooke ; Jacques
Strop, Mr. Buckstone ; Marie; Miss Cleaver ; Clementine,
Mrs. Baker.

GRAND CONCERT.
AXONS. DOHLER has the honour to announce a Grand
CONCERT of VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL
MUSIC, which will take place on TUESDAY Evening, the
26th instant, at the Royal Amphitheatre, Liverpool.
HERR MOLIQUE, the celebrated Violinist, whose
performances at the Philharmonic Concerts, London, have
created such an extraordinary sensation, will make his first
and only appearance in Liverpool on this occasion.
Vocalists, Mhs BIRCH, Miss DOLBY, and Signor
ZUCCHELLI.
• VIOLINIST HERR MOLIQUE.
PIANIST Mona. DOHLER.
. Mr:. GEORGE ErfON will accompany the Vocal
Pieces.
Full Particulars will be shortly announced.
Box places may be secured on application to Mr. WEISS,
Church-street.
Tickets for Centre Boxes, 55.; Side Boxes. 4s. ; Pit, 3s. ;
and Gallery, 2s. each ; may be had at the Music Shops and
usual places,
The Concert will commence at Eight o'clock.

Ebe 52.ibcrpool

FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 22, 1840.

The packet-ship Siddons, which sailed from New
York on the 27th Wain°, was signalled as being off
Point Lynas early yesterday afternoon, and notwith-
standing an adverse tide, reached this port about seven
in the evening. She sailed on the 27th ult. and conse-
quently had a passage of 25 days—having encountered
a succession of east winds. She nevertheless brings the
latest intelligence from New York, and we have to ex-
press our acknowledgments to Capt. Palmer for his
kindness in forwarding us a morning paper of the 27th,
and another of the 25th ult. They contain very little

intelligence of importance.
The packet-ship United States had arrived, bringing
dates from England to the Ist April, seven days later

than the previous,
In the Senate, at Washington, on the 24th April, a
memorial was presented by Mr. Buchanan, from silk
manufacturers of Dedham and Needham, (Mass.)
asking that a duty might be imposed on foreign silk.
Mr. B. said, that experience had demonstrated that
your soil, climate, and dry atmosphere, were peculiarly
suited for the production of silk; and yet strange as
all that might seem,. silk was not only admitted duty
free, but that, too, at a time when we were absolutely
obliged to borrow money for the wants of the govern-
ment. He stated that he would long since have origi-
nated a bill on the subject in the Senate, had such a
measure affecting the revenue been constitutional. The
memorial was referred to a committee of finance.
(From the New York Journal of Commerce, April 27)
Business generally is going on very fairly in all lines. It
is however largest in foreign shipments and in groceries.
MONEY AND EXCHANGES.--The transactions at the
Stock Board have been on a very moderate scale, and chiefly
in fancy stocks, not indicating actual investment to any
great extent. Large amounts of money are lying idle in the
banks, and they are abundantly supplied with coin.
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Richmond
Charleston .
Savannah
Augusta
Macon .
Mobile 6l a 10
N. Orleans
Nashville
London
Paris..

.... 7 a 8
5£27: a 5 30

Extract of a letter, dated Mobile, April 16.
Exchange on the north is very scarce, and we fear the
rates will further advance. The same is the case in New
Orleans, notwithstanding the large amounts of produce they
have to forward. Sterling has been sold at 14 prem. here,
and 15 per cent. We understand that the banks in New
Orleans intend to increase their issues pretty largely, for the
sake of propping up the banks of Mississippi, and this will
certainly not help the exchange. Several of the New Orleans
banks have been dealing largely in cotton this season. 60
day hills on New York, are 51ai ; some have been sold at ;
30 days, 7 per cent ; 1 day, 8 per cent.

Extract of a letter from Galveston, Texas, dated April 11.
" LOSS OF THE SHIP VIRGINIA, OF NEW VORK.—Capt.
Hamilton, of the ship Virginia, is now here, and that tine
vessel is a wreck on the bar at the entrance of this harbour.
She struck while in charge of the pilot, attempting to enter
the harbour. No blame can be attached to any one connected
with the vessel. It seems to be one of those unavoidable
accidents which sometimes attend the navigator. Capt. Ha-
milton is actively and industriously engaged in saving every-
thing that can be saved for the benefit of the underwriters."
The Virginia was owned by Messrs. Rogers and Co. of
this city.

IMPORTANT FROM TEXAS.

NEW ORLEANS, APRIL 17.—8 y the steam-packet Nep-
-110 I 9932 tune, Captain Pennoyer, we have received Texas papers to
594 the 13th inst. We copy below the only news we rind in
54/
1243 them.

From the Civilian Extra of April 12th .
IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE WEST.

By the steamer Dayton, which arrived this morning from
Houston, we have received intelligence that the Centralists,
under Arista, and the Federalists, under Canalos and
Zapata, have had a bloody engagement near Mier, on the
Rio Grande, in which the Federalists were totally routed,
with great numbers killed and wounded, the exact number
not being known.

THE CURRENCY —A bill requiring all the banks of this
state to redeem their notes at half of one per cent. discount,
either in New York or Albany, has passed both branches of
the legislature.

On the 25th April a bill was brought before the Senate by
Mr. Adams, for the imposing of a duty on foreign silk.

FROM THE PACIFIC.—The ship Congress, Capt. Water-
man, arrived here yesterday, after a very short passage,
having left Coquimbo on the 13th February. She brings a
cargo of the value of about 300,000 dollars, including 138,000
dollars in specie. The market at Valparaiso was overstocked
with American goods.—Brother Jonathan, New York paper
of 25th April.

We have received a copy of the St. John's (New-
foundland) Times of the 15th of April. The news
contained in this paper is of comparatively little im-
portance. It complains bitterly of the new burden of
taxation imposed upon the colonists—a complaint
which will meet with a ready response on this side of
the Atlantic.

It will be seen from our parliamentary summary that
the bill brought in by Sir P. Egerton, the conservative
member for South Cheshire, to enable the trustees of
the River Weaver navigation to provide out of their
surplus funds, an increase of church accommodation for
the population which the improvement of that river has
drawn on its banks, passed the second reading on Tues-
day evening by a majority of 76. We are glad to record
this evidence of an inclination on the part of the House
of Commons to despise the opposition offered by a
clique of canters in parliament, and brawlers out of
doors, to every measure the tendency of which is to

extend the usefulness and advance the cause of the
religion of the Established Church ; and we accept the
decision of the house upon this individual case, as a
favourable augury for the bill which is shortly to be
introduced by Sir Robert Inglis, the object of which is
defensible upon precisely the same grounds as the bill
whose second reading is now sanctioned, and whose
principle is thereby admitted.
Our readers will no doubt remember the clamour
which was raised,. by a few of the hacks of the minis-
terial faction, when it was first proposed by Mr. Tolle-
mache and others to apply a portion of the funds of
the navigation to the purpose of supplying the spiritual
destitution of that portion of the people of Cheshire
which is located in the' neighbourhood. The parties
by whom that clamour was made—righteous, pious
men !—had no idea that a population of boatmen and
flatmen could have any need of a church ; so long as
there were beer-houses and conventicles, hush shops
and dram shops, what need could this degraded and
ignorant class have of churches ? How prompt was
each Whig landowner or mill-owner to lift up his
devout countenance and exclaim against the proposed
application of these funds as a job, and—what in
their saintly eyes was worst of all—a church job !
Alas, alas ! After all these denunciations made upon