The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-20 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL.

• Have you been to see Cerrito ? if not, you must do so.
When the enraptured lover saw Alice Grey he declared,
" She was all that fancy painted her," but we defy fancy the
most vivid to picture Cerrito. Words are but faint vehicles
to express the loveliness of this charming danseuse. She
appears before you like a fairy creature ; you are captivated
at once ; you welcome her—she bounds forward—now rises
like a rocket—only she does not go quite so high—and alights
like a flake of snow on a velvet lawn ; now she turns on her
charming little toes vith the velocity of a multiplying wheel,
seeming all the while
" Between two worlds, hovering like a star"—
then she gracefully sinks, with a sweet smile upon her face,
the very impersonation of a sylph, or " a peri just loosed
from its cage." Those who will not admit a genius in
dancing should, by all means, see Cerrito, and let them ask
themselves how many years it would take to teach them to
execute, one pas even, with her inimitable grace, and be able so
"To trip it, as they go,
On the light, fantastic toe."
The beautiful pas de Quatre, from the " Lac de Fees,"
was danced by Mademoiselle Cerrito, Monsieur Guerra,
Miss Webster, and Miss O'Brian. The figures and move-
ments are composed by Signor Guerra, and are extremely
beautiful and full of grace. Mons. Guerra is a splendid
dancer ; he is decidedly the first of the day ; his style is
superb, his maniere is manly and elegant, his entrechats are
brilliant, his a plomb is firm, while his pirouettes and tours
de force are wonderfully effective, and well managed. The
Styrienne is a charming dance. On Wednesday it was
encored. The concluding waltz is a most extraordinary, we
may say astonishing, performance; it is positively wonderful.
The applause it met with was immense. Mademoiselle
Cerrito danced a cachuca splendidly on Wednesday night, as
a Gitana. In fact, she has delighted all by her exquisite
skill, and wrung a cheer from those " all unused to the
cheering mood." Miss O'Brian is an excellent and talented
dancer. Miss Webster has only the misfortune to have an
English name—if she bore one from sunny Italy, Spain, or
anywhere but " this bright isle," she would be pronounced
an artiste of astonishing promise : that she is so, none can
aspossessed of great talents. Her
brilliant. Her dancing
styledeny is excellent, Welook
andpo upon n herle her execution
has not been thrown into the shade by being compared with
Cerrito's. While we indulge thus in speaking of new friends,
we must not forget old ones. Harley the versatile, droll,
gay, and mirth-stirring Harley, has been making "laugh-
ter hold both his sides," as Jack Humphreys, Lubin Log,
Torn, Billy Lackaday, and other capital characters. Be has
been well supported by Messrs. Baker, Holl, Vivash, Chap •
lin, and Shifter, Miss Honner,and Madame Simon.
This evening, the Opera Company make their appearance.
The house will be very full, no doubt. Go soon, and stand
not to the order of your going—those who wish to hear them.

SOLTTIT LANCASHIRE SUMMER ASSIZES

CROWN COURT.—TUESDAY.
(13efore Lord Chief Justice DENMAN.)
The business commenced at nine o'clock with the mint

KNOWINGLY UTTERING

John Dickinson, 38, and Mary Brice, 38, were charged
with having, on the 29th July last, at Manchester, feloniously
uttered to Mary Bailey a counterfeit half-crown, and with
having had in their possession eight other counterfeit half-
crowns.

The Attorney-General for the county and Mr. Pollock
appeared for the prosecution. On the 29th July last, the
two prisoners went into the Bird-in-hand public-house, kept
by Isaac Bailey, Great Ancoats-Street, Manchester, and pur-
chased three-penny-worth of liquor. They gave the landlady
a half-sovereign, and she . returned them two half-crowns,
four shillings, a 'sixpence, and threepence. Shortly after-
wards the female prisoner called the landlady aside, and re-
quested her td return the half-sovereign, and she would re-
turn her the silver which she had 'received, and make it up
ten shillings, as if she retained the change her husband would
spend it. She 'put the change into Mrs. Bailey's hand, and
Mrs. Bailey immediately discovered a bad half-crown amongst
it. She, of course, taxed the prisoners with having substi-
tuted a bad half-crown for a gOod one. They denied it, and
the male prisoner seized Mrs. Bailey's hand, and, after a
struggle, he took from her the bad half-crown, which she had
marked with her teeth. He immediately produced another,
and protested that it was a good one, which was the fact. A.
police-officer was called in, who took the prisoners into cus-
tody. Two good half-crowns were found upon the man.
The woman, on being searched, threw away a bag, containing
nine half-crowns, all cast from the same mould. Amongst
them was the half-crown which the man had taken from Mrs.
Bailey, which she had marked with her teeth.
The jury, after a long consultation, found both prisoners
guilty.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, the male prisoner had
been four times convicted, the female prisoner once. They
were indicted only fora misdemeanour. _ _ _

They were sentenced to two years imprisonment and hard
labour.

MAKING BASE SHILLINGS

John Fisher, aged 43, and George Barker, 25, were Charged
with having, at Little Bolton, on the 31st May, feloniously
made and counterfeited twenty-eight pieces of coin, intended
to resemble and pass for certain of the Queen's current coin
called shillings.

Sergeant Atcherly and Mr. Pollock for the prosecution,
and Mr. Wilkins for the defence.

The police constables of Bolton having received informa-
tion that the prisoners were coiners, went, on the 31st May,
to the residence of Barker, where they found the two prison-
ers, one of whom endeavoured to make his escape. Another
man did make his escape. 'Several materials and implements
used in coining were found on the premises. In a basin of
water, near the fire-place, were twenty-eight base shillings,
which appeared to have been newly cast. They had probably
been -put into the basin to cool, as both the shillings and the
water were warm. On each of the prisoners a bad sixpenCe
was found, and twelve counterfeit groats were found in another
part of the premises.
The jury found the prisoners guilty. Two witnesses were
called, who gave Barker a good character. His lordship
sentenced him to transportation for life, postponing the sen-
tence on Fisher, for the purpose of giving him an opportunity
of producing any evidence as to his former course of life.
His lordship deemed that there was some distinction in the
case of the last-named prisoner, as he did not reside on the
premises, and might have been unwittingly led into the
offence.