The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-15 00:00:00

A FAVOURITE OPERA,

In which Mr. and Mrs. Wood, Mr. Giubilei, Miss Poole,
and Mr. Brough will perform.
With other Entertainments.

Tickets to be had and pisces taken at the Box-office, and
of Mr. Brough, 72, Great Newton-street.

LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET

LAST WEEK BUT ONE of the GREAT WIZARD OF
THE NORTH performing his mighty and supposed
super-human Wonders. The LIVER THE TRE is
NIGHTLY CROWDED—Boxes, Pit, and Gal y. Dur-
ing the WIZARD'S present visit, he has had e honour of
displaying his unrivalled and peculiar Featsio upwards of
36,000 wonder-stricken spectators, who, e and all, pro-
claim his transcendent powers to be tvi out parallel—his
wondrous doings more than mortal. D ing the conclusion
of his unparalleled and successful 4 on, he will perform
more Wonders than man ever yet achii ed. His GORGEOUS
APPARATUS will be brought int ' operation as on the oc-
casion when it was displayed, in a 1 its extraordinary bril-
liancy, before her MAJESTY. PRINCE ALBERT, and the
COURT. Remember! the WIZARD WILL SHORTLY VA-
NISH! All who wish to be witnesses of the Wonders
wrought by THE GREAT MYSTERIACIIIS, must not now
" stand upon the order of going," but go at once ; for as sure
as the WIZARD has put forth the announcement of the con-
clusion of his Season, as surely will it conclude at the an-
nounced time, without resorting to the hackneyed system of
a month of " Last Weeks !"
The TEMPLE of WONDER WILL BE OPEN EVERY
EVENING, where the WIZARD will appear and display all
his powers-zmortal and super:human._____ _
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THE SEVEN LANCASHIRE BELL RINGERS
will give variety to the performances in WS FASHIONABLE
AND NIGHTLY CROWDED SCENE, whose beauties can only be
imagined by the gorgeous relation of enchantments, as de-
scribed in " The Arabian Nights."
The WIZARD proving his love of novelty in catering for
public patronage, begs to announce, that he has engaged the
celebrated and only English Improvisatoye,
Mr. CHARLES SLOMAN,

(Author of " The Maid of Judah," " Daughter of Israel,"
&c.) who will make his FIRST APPEARANCE THIS SEA-
SON on MONDAY next, the 11th instant, and poetise in
extemporaneous verse on subjects proposed by the audience,
concluding with a Synopsis of Men and Manners.
Those who seek amusement must visit the LIVER THEATRE,
as a place of rational recreation. Behold the COMBINATION
OF TALENT:—THE WIZARD PERFORMS HIS WONDERS;
CHARLES SLOMAN POETISES EXTEMPORANEOUSLY; THE
SEVEN BELL RINGERS POUR FORTH THEIR MERRIE

PEALS
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oors open at Seven o'clock. The above unparalleled
Entertainments commence at Eight o'clock, concluding at
Half-past Ten or Eleven o'clock.
Prices of Admission :—Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, is. 6d. ; Gal-
lery, 6d. Second price at a Quarter-past Nine o'clock :
Boxes, ls. 6d. ; Pit, ls. No second-price to the Gallery.

TO CORRESPONDENTS,

We acknowledge the receipt of £1 from the Rev. F. Parry,
of St. Clement's ; £1 from E. Arnaud, Esq. ; £1 from
T. Garratt, Esq. ; and 10s. from G. Beley, Esq., for the
fund now raising to relieve the Rev. J. W. Gowring,
whose afflicting case will be found advertised in another
part of our paper.
A correspondent in the last Standard, in suggesting a supe-
rior mode of warming and ventilating the churches of this
town, describes Christ Church as being one of the worst
ventilated churches in Liverpool. We are informed, how-
ever, that considerable improvements have recently been
made in this place of worship, and that it is now admirably
warmed and ventilated, and one of the most comfortable
churches of the town. '
With reference to the letter signed " J. W.," which appeared
in the Standard of Tuesday last, a contemporary is in-
structed to say that it was addressed to us on Tuesday
week, but did not appear in our following publication. The
letter was not received at the STANDARD-office until a
late hour on Thursday night, and though marked for in-
sertion, we were compelled to postpone its appearance in
consequence of the arrival of the important news from
China.

Ebt Etberpoot attanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 15, 1841.

There is no subject upon which the Melbourne and
O'Connell faction was wont to glorify itself more
abundantly than upon the results of its foreign policy.
Not only throughout Europe, but in every quarter of
the globe—not only in Spain or in the Mediterranean,
but in the furthest extremity of our Indian empire—
unmingled and pre-eminent success, we were told, had
crowned the efforts of our diplomacy and our arms ;
and whatever might be our internal position—however
disorganised our social condition—abroad, at least, we
had before us only a long career of peaceful and ho-
noured enjoyment of that lofty attitude which an un-
broken series of triumphs in the field and upon our
native element, aided by the superlative genius of a
Palmerston in the Cabinet, had won for us amongst
the nations of the world. Alas ! that we should ever
be compelled to awake from a dream so soothing to
our senses—so flattering to that national pride which
is deeply implanted in the breast of every English-
man !

Yet we are compelled to awake from it, and to con-
template, in sober, waking reality, a far different and
less gratifying picture. "Where is, we ask, this glori-
ous, this peaceful prospect ? Where is the " golden
fruit" of the non-intervention policy of the Melbourne
government ? In what quarter of the habitable globe—
Mercury, in thy goodness, tell us !—is situate the
modern Arcadia of the sublime ex-ruler of the Foreign
Office ? Is it in Spain—pacificated Spain ? Alas, no.
Is it in the Mediterranean ? Still, no. Is it in the
eastern or in the western hemisphere? In neither;
and, in sober sadness, we fear that it is not to be found,
unless we seek it in some terra incognita which the
genius of a Palmerston, a Ponsonby, or an Elliott has
not as yet operated upon—some " regio in terris nostri
non plena laboris-"
We can discover, in truth, not a vestige of any glo-
rious or even peaceful result from the ten years' pro-
tocolling of Lord Palmerston ; but, on the contrary,
we see much to excite serious and anxious fears for the
continued enjoyment, by Great Britain and the world,
of the blessings of tranquillity. In the eastern world
we greatly fear that the policy of the last ten years has
weakened rather than extended permanently the influ-
ence of British councils and of British arms. We are
scarcely more disposed to congratulate ourselves upon
our position with respect to the_ powers of Europe.
,Can we or dare we at this moment withdraw from our
present watchful attitude in the Mediterranean ? We
fear not; and yet what is our present position in ano-
ther quarter of the globe ? Obviously an insecure and
threatening one. Even whilst we write a blow may
have been struck in the United States which at once
and inevitably plunges us into a war—a war of supre-
macy too—with that country; a war which must de-
solate an entire continent, prostrate in ruins its cities,
annihilate a vast and mutually profitable commerce,
and strew the Atlantic with its wrecks ; and into such
a war we must embark whilst our fleet—the main arm
upon which we can rely for success—is scattered over
the eastern seas—(waging a freebooting warfare in
China)—or pent up in the Mediterranean to restrain
the aggressive spirit of France, whose millions pant
for an opportunity to break loose and trample once
more the battle fields of Europe.

In such a prospect surely there is nothing upon
which we can congratulate ourselves. We may, in-
deed, by the interposition of Providence, evade its
present threatening aspect. The mercy of an American
mob may stay the impending torrent in its course.
American law may prove stronger than Lynch law ;
and a legal technicality or a judicial quibble may
snatch our countryman McLeod from the clutch of
the harpies, who thirst for his blood, as the means of
precipitating a war between the United Status and the
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and contempt, which has thus reduced into dt :pendence
upon mere accident the momentous question tof " peace
or war" between two friendly nations, bound. up toge-
ther in a common interest, speaking the same language
and sprung from a common stock ; and frol n whose
hostile collision may flow such calamitous 11 sults to
the cause of true liberty, order, and peace, thro )ugliout
the world !

We have no fear of England, however, in such a
struggle as the implacable spirit of a portiwi of the