The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-04 00:00:00

nice diamond ring. BROOKE stays and plays another
fortnight. A troupe of Americans, who had taken the
theatre for a time, have been arranged with, so as to leave
the tragedian in possession of the stage. The theatre is
crammed nightly, and there were notices stuck on the
walls on Friday, stating that no more money could be
taken. Yet further, there was a day performance on
Wednesday, which was barely over, when preparations
for the evening performances became necessary ; numbers
of persons dined in the neighbourhood, and went again to
the theatre at night. The entertainment given to Mr.
BROOKE was styled a dejeuner but it turned out a mag-
nificent English dinner, and I believe not one of the many
distinguished guests present could travestie the words of
the immortal WILLIAM—
I have dined not wisely,
But too well.
I am no admirer of what SOYER denominates " ridiculous
gastrophau," neither appeared the guests at the BROOKE
gathering, for they did such justice to the eating and
drinking as indicated robust health in each of the artists
present.
The forthcoming season promises to be most musical.
BENEDICT, the well-known mid accomplished musician,
has undertaken to give a series of Wednesday evening
concerts in Exeter Hall with first-rate artistes; and Srms
REEVES, with a heap of other musical celebrities, go to
Drury-lane, for the purpose of giving Opera in English
JAMES ANDERSON, the actor, leaves London instanter for
Liverpool to embark for America, where he has got engage-
ments of a liberal kind. The last time he visited the
United States he cleared upwards of £lO,OOO, and lost
every penny of it in no time at Drury-lane. The little'
theatres are opened—some —some opening with much pro-
mise of excellence ; in short, the theatres are all alive.

DISASTER TO THE ISAAC WRIGHT
EffIGRANT SHIP.

THE packet-shipisaac Wright, Captain Abeel, which took
her departure hence for New York on the 20th ult., with 600
passengers on board, composed chiefly of German and Irish
emigrants, struck on a rock, about 40 miles south of Cork,
on Tuesday last, when seven days out. She had experienced
very rough weather, severe squalls, with heavy storms of
hail, from the time she parted with the steam-tug, which
took her out of the river, until she met with the accident.
There hail been a dense fog for several' days, but every-
thing had gone on well until about eight o'clock on
Tuesday evening, when it was found she was close in shore.
The captain, who was on deck, called tJ the man at the wheel
to put the ship about; but it was too late, for, as she was
wearing, her stern struck against a rock, unshipping her
rudder, and doing such damage to her timbers that she began
rapidly to make water. They succeeded in getting her into
deep water, and the sails having been reefed, all hands were
called to the pumps. The ship remained in this position until
Thursday, no vessel going to her assistance. although several
passed at a distance, when the •Ocnasta, Budfield, from St.
John's N.B. hove in sight and immediately bore down to her.
On being asked where he thought he had struck, Captain
Abeel said he believed it was Cape Clear; but Captain
Hadfield told him that could not be, as he was only forty
miles off Cork and thirty off the Head of Kinsale. They
consulted as to the best means to adopt, and it was decided
that the Ocnasta should make all sail to Liverpool, and send
a steamer to the assistance of the Isaac Wright, her captain
being of opinion that he should be able to keep her afloat in
the meantime. Although there was no accommodation for
passengers on board the timber-ship, Captain Hadfield took
off the cabin passengers, of whom there were ten in number,
including two Misses Harvey, of Cincinnati. U. S., Mr.
Moore, Mr. Neight, (a Welsh gentleman,) two servants, and
four children. When the Ocnasta left the Isaac Wright,
she was very deep, the water being up to her port holes. The
Ocnasta experienced rough weather until she reached the
Mersey. On Sunday night Capt. Dixon, master of the Fidelia,
belonging to the same line of packet-ships as the Isaac
Wright, left this•port in the steam-tug Constitution, in search
of the unfortunate ship, with a view of rendering assistance.
By telegraph we learn that the Isaac Wright was seen off
Holyhead yesterday afternoon, in tow of a steamer.