The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-23 00:00:00

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
THE EXTENSIVE ALTERATIONS that are
making in this Theatre, for the purpose of introducing the
GRAND FRENCH EQUESTRIAN COMPANY,
tom the Champs Elysees, Paris, are nearly completed; but it
being the determination of the Management, that nothing shall
be wanting in completeness of arrangement to aid the
UNRIVALLED AND MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY
of this Establishment, and 1 n he same appropriate and
distinguished position it sin Paris, the
OP ING NIGHT
'Will not be annou until the certainty of its effect cannot be
Compromised by the want of any necessary adjunct.

ADELPHI THEATRE, CHRISTIAN-STREET,

ISLINGTON.
SECOND APPEARANCE OF MR. BATTY'S

LONDON DOUBLE COMPANY OF EQUESTRIANS

AND HIS
IMMENSE STUD OF HORSES,
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THR PRESENT HIGHLY-POPULAR
DRAMATIC COMPANY.

'THIS present TUES ENING, the 23d inst.,
THE
XERCHAN ' STEED OF SYRACUSE
will be duced in the most magnificent style.
-NEW SCENE Y, NEW DRESSES, NEW APPOINTMENTS.
ASTONISHING FEATS OF EQUESTRIANISM
IN THE CIRCLE.
AND A LAUGHABLE FARCE.
BOXES, 2s. ; PIT, Is. ; GALLERY, 6d.

CONCERT HALL, LORD NELSON-STREET,
LIVERPOOL.
mISS JESSIE HAMMOND will make her first
appearance in Public TO-MORROW (Wednesday), the
'24th instant, on which occasion she will give
AN EVENING CONCERT,
and respectfully solicits the patro o.e of the Musical Public
of her native town.
ALISTS.
Miss WHITNALL, Mr. HENRI DISTIN,
Miss JESSIE HAM ND, Mr. W. DISTIN, and
Miss MORIATT ONNOR, Mr. T. DISTIN.
INSTRUMENTALISTS.
Mr. DISTIN (the first Trumpet Player in Europe),
And his FOUR SONS.
Conductor—Mr. WILLEY, jun.
Doors open at Seven, Concert to commence at Eight o'clock.
Admission to Side Gallery, Is. 6d.; Body of the Room, 6d.
• Tickets for the Reserved Seats, 3s. each, to be had only at
Miss J. HAMMOND'S Residence, 86, Chatham-street South.
Programmes at the Music Shops.

-3-rt. GOODALL'S FIRST ANNUAL PALL,
TwISDAY, 7th DECEMBER, 1847.
ROYAL ASsEaavcx-ROOMS,
GREAT GE -STREET.
(UNDER THE MANAOCIE;TT OF A cOMMITTEE.)
Gentleman's ticket 108.
Lady atrentleman's Ticket 15s.
Extra,L dy's Ticket 5B.
Refreshments included.
Tickets to be had of Mr. GOODALL, No. 14, Wilton-street.
Dancing to commence at Nine o'clock.

LIVERPOOL ACADEMY, 1847.
THE EXHIBITION of the WORKS of MODERN
ARTISTS is NOW OPEN, at tl oms of the Academy,
flld Postoffice-place, Church-str .
Admission : One Shilling, atalegues, Sixpence. Children
Under twelve years of ege,Half-price. Season Tickets : Gen-
tlemen's, Five Shillings ; Ladies', Three and Sixpence ; Juvenile
Tickets, Two and Sixpence. Season Tickets, for Night only,
Two and Sixpence. Open from Ten in the Morning until dusk,
and by Gas-light from Seven to Ten, every evening except Sa-
turday. WM. GAWIN HERDMAN, Secretary.

PORTRAIT OF THE REV. DR. M'NEILE.

ON VIEW, for the remainder of the Week,
dt BURLAND'S GALLERY of A arch-street, a POR-
TRAIT of the Rev. Dr. M`NE , painted in Water Colours
by FREDERICK TATHAM, .2 Of London.
Admission Free, on pr tation of Address Card.
There are now onl x Proofs (before letters) unsubscribed
for.

ADMISSION, Is.—RESERVED SEATS, 2s.
NOW EXHIBITING, at the PORTICO, BOLD-
STREET, at Twelve in the Day, Four in the Afternoon,
'and Eight in the Evening,
THE BOSJESMANS,
OR, BUSH PEOPLE OF SOUTy.-A.FRICA
_The most singular specimens of that decreaging Race of Human
Beings, consisting of Two Men, Tw. ' omen, and a Baby, of
the Bosjesman Tnbe, from the int or of South Africa—a Race
that, from their wild habits, c. . never before be induced to
Viait a place of civilization. is opportunity of gratifying the
Han of Science and the dent of Zoology has only been ob-
tained by great personal4xertion on the part of the Gentlemen
_Who brought them tp,England at an immense outlay of capital.
On the passage to Europe, a Baby was born at sea—thus adding
to the great interest that must be excited by their appearance.
From Moffatt the Missionary's Work on Southern Africa, page
'3 :—" Poor Bushman 1 thy hand has been against every one,
have very one's hand against thee. For generations past they
_v:_been hunted like partridges in the mountains. Deprived
vlildm,hfLetrztduarnedhadmade their own, they became desperate,
nibry amidhauplantsherrirrna indomitable in their habits. Hunger compels
Pan every thing edible. Ixias, wild garlic, mys-
, the core of aloes, gum of acarias, and other
constitute their ;i%rtlille of which are extremely unwholesome,
tore is eagerly devour-
excepted. The poisoneciil
;dwhilst almost every kind of living crea-
lizards, locusts, and grasshoppers not
roast and eat. They aswell as innoxious serpents they
of poison, with which carefully extract their bags or reservoirs
Mr. Robert Moffat, the theyso
cover the points of their arrows."
kas thus written in the bookn of
the above-named Missionary,
at the Portico : of autographs, which may be seen

" I have been twelve Egyptian Hall., London, July 25.
years in South Africa, and can certify
that they are correct specimens of that fast decreasing race, the
Bushmen of South Africa.
London, Dr. Knox," the
eBERT MOFFATT."
At Exeter-bali,
en the Human Race, delivered a most scientificlTittulget,nar:
tore a crowded audience, on the singular habits of
THESE MOST EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE,
'reports of which may be had at the Portico.
In addition to the certificates of the Missionaries and others
Who have visited the interior of South Africa, (which may be
been at the Portico,) showing that the Bosjesmans are as great
curiosity in the Cape as they are in Europe, will be found the
testimony of General NAPIER, the late Governor of the Cape of
Good Hope, who visited them at the Egyptian Hall.
. The following Autographs of distinguished Visitors may also
be inspected at the Portico, with a number of others, too nu-
Inerous to insert in an advertisement --
The Grand Duke Constantine'Rev. F. Blagden.
... and suite. Rev. H. Wyatt.
rrince Louis Napoleon Bona- Rev. R. Meady.
.liarte. Rev. J. Balfour. •
The Duke of Newcastle and the Marquis of Douglas.
Ladies Clinton. Earl Craven.
The Marquis and Marchioness Duke of Grafton.
of Normanby and party. Lord Cantilupe.
Sir Robert, Lady Peel, and Sir Wm. Massey Stanley, Bart.
Dau niter. Lady Ferguson Davy.
The Duke of Cleveland. Sir Robert Knox.
The Duke of Wellington. Lord Jocelyn.
Jenny Lind. Marquis of Northampton.
..The Earl of Harrowby. Lord Teynham.
Lord Skelmersdale. Sir H. Barnard.
Lord Combermere. Lord Slane,
Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Lord Forrester.
~._Minister. Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart.
The Bishop of Norwich. The Dean of Bangor.
The,.. Bishop of Worcester. Mr. Justice Erle.
atarquis of Douro. Countess of Kinnoul.
Mr. Baron Parke. Lady Kinlock.
Lord Stanley. Lady Charlotte Egerton.
Mr. Robertson Gladstone. Lord Henley.
—Madame Grisi. Mrs. Milner Gibson.
Mrs. Charles Dickens. Lady Seymour.
Lord and Lady Beresford. Lord Granville.
....v iscount Noel. Col. Armitage.
-bad Cadogan. Lord Newport.
Sir E. Weluy. Lord Henry Loftus.
Marquis E , _th. Lord W. Thynne.
marquis of wri.t.i. ..*. Hon. Miss Cotton.
.Cnandos Pole, Esq.
. Lord Albert Conyngham.
Bullen
Lady Marquis of Ely.
Marquis of Abercorn. Lord Euston.
Lady Rolle. Hon. Capt. Lindsay.
Lady Barrington. Sir John Jervis.
Lady Seymour. Lord and Lady Middleton.
Lady Palmerston. J. S. Crawford, M.P.
Marchioness of Ailesbury. Lady G. Baker.
Lord and Lady Louth. Bransby Cooper, Esq.
Mr. Com. Phillips. Lady Anstruther.
Lord C. Scott. Earl Fitzwilliam.
Lord H. Scott. Lord Mountcharles.
Mr. R. G. Lumley, of the Opera Lady and Miss Sykes.
House. Sir Richard Bulkeley.
The Baroness de Retzen. Lord Beauvale.
The e Ladies Kinloch. Earl of Arundel.
Lady Exmouth. Sir R. B. Phillips, M.P.
The Rev. W. Goddard. Lord Burghley.
Rev. S. Madden. Gen. Wyndham.
Rev. J. Gibson. !Marquis of Donegal.
_Key. J. Johnson. Viscount Lorton.
.nev. L. Burke. Hon. Caroline Norton.
Rev.l.
Dr. Smyth. Earl of Munster.
_lt. W. S. Roe. Lord and Lady Abingdon.
Am E. M'Neil. Lord Shelburne.
Rev. W. Cherlton. Sir A. W.'Crichton.
Rev. Mousley. Lady Portman.
Rev. A. Baldwin. Lady Hotham.
Rev. A. Cooper. Lord and Lady Fortescue.

FROM THR LONDON PRESS.—" In appearance they are little
above the monkey tribe."—The Times. " The audience at
Exeter-hall were wonder-stricken at beholding them."—C hro-
" A pigmy race of wild men."—Post. " They live in
bushes almost like birds in a nest."—Herald.

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