The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-05-31 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAT„ LIVERPOOL.

The new Drama of OTLA.NNIGAN AND THE FAIRIES;
which was received throughout with the most distinguished
approbation on Friday and Monday, will be repeated To•
morrow Evening,
First Night of the new Drama of KING O'NEILL, written
he the Hon. Mrs. Gore, in which Mr. Power will perform his
original character of King O'Neill.
LAST NIGHT BUT THREE OF MR. POWER.
LAST WEEK OF MR. F. MATTHEWS.
ripHIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 31st instan
It will be performed the favourite Drama of
CHARLES XII.
Charles XII Mr. F. Matthews,
Gustavus de Mervelt..Mr. W. Howard.
Adam Brock .

. Mr. Slaiter.
Tiiptolemus Muddlework..Mr. Baker.
Ulrica Miss Stanley. f Eudiga....Miss Chaplin.
After which will be produced, for the first time here, a new
Drama, written expressly fur Mr. Pqr(rer by the Hon. Mrs.
Gore, and performed at the Theatr Covent-garden,
with the greatest success, caller
KING ON LL,
Capt. Dennis O'Neill, (King. by courtesy,) Mr. Power,
(As originally performed by him in -London,) in which character
he will sing the original Song of " The Boys of the Irish
Brigade.l _ _

Countess Dillon Mrs. Stanley.
Marchioness Clermont Miss F'aucit.
To conclude with the Musical Drama of
CLARI, THE MAID OF MILAN.
Rolamo Mr. F. Matthews. I Jocoso Mr. Baker.
Ninetta.. Miss Stanley. I Fidalma..Mrs. Stanley.
Clari Mrs. W. H.-Bland (late Miss Somerville.)
Vespina Miss Chaplin.
To-MORROW (Wednesday) the Musical Drama of BROTHER
AND SISTER. Don Sylvio, Mr. G. Horncastle; Pacheco,
Mr. Baker; Isidosa, Mrs. W. H. Bland; Agatha, Miss Chap-
lin; Rosanthe, Miss Stanley.—After which the new Drama,
written by Mr. Phiver, called O'FLANNIGAN AND THE
FAIRIES, which has been received here wish the most distin-
guished approbation on Friday and Monday Evenings. Phelitn
O'Flannigan, Mr. Power, as originally performed by him in
London.—To conclude with a new Faree, called A DAY
WELL SPENT. Principal characters by Mr. W. Howard,
Mr. Baker, Mrs. Clarke, and Miss Stanley.
The new Drawia of ETIQUETTE; written by Mr. Power,
will be produced on .Friday next.
Mr. Power's Benefit will take place on Monday next, June
6th, being the Last Night of his Engagement.

at if-Wet:pool ,Stanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 31, 183 G.

The dependants of the whips, especially those not yet
provided for, are knocking their heads together, in order,
if possible, to contrive some artifice by which ministers
may be extricated from the dilemma in which the Irish
beggar has placed them. He has, as the friends of mi-
nisters say, without consulting any member of the go•
vernment, entered a motion for the reform of the lords !
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, we are told, is in dismay at this
motion. He dare not for ten thousand times more than
he is worth support such a proposition, and yet he is per-
plexed with regard to the best mode of smothering it in
embryo, as popish priests do children in the nunneries.
The beggar, it is true, might be induced to eat his words,
as he has often done before, but of course he will expect
to be paid; and, as he has risen in his price for such fa-
vours recently, it is to be feared that the demand will be
serious, either in the shape of money down or some other
quid pro quo equally embarrassing.
But the cross, as they term swindling at a horse-race,
must be adjusted forthwith. The settling day is on
Thursday next, when Mr. GROVE PRICE brings forward
his motion to expunge the motion of the member for Kil-
kenny from the journals of the house. The beggar is so
situated that he must either consent to ask the permission
of the house to withdraw his motion, or he must resist
the motion of Mr. PRICE to the uttermost. In this latter
case he would have the support of his needy sycophants
The Tail, but would he have the support of any one of
his Majesty's ministers, or any respectable and indepen-
dent member of parliament ? Most unquestionably not.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, as we have said before, dare not
support any such insulting and treasonable proposition.
The King cannot for a moment allow any such question
to be entertained. It would not be more treasonable to
allow a member of the House of Commons to submit as
a motion " that the monarchy be electoral," than it is
for the lower house to assume legislative powers in re-
ference to the other noble and independent estate of the
realm.

It is extremely disgusting to hear the brayings of the
hired jackasses of the government press about this pro-
posed coercive reform of the peers. What would the
blockheads say if the upper house were to entertain a
motion to reform the House of Commons ? GOD knows,
reform in the latter house is much more wanted than in
the former. But that is apart .from the question. The
justice of the case has nothing whatever to do with the
argument so far as the commons are concerned. The
object sought to be obtained is power, by a detestable
demagogue, in favour of the hedge priests and bible
burners of Ireland, and the ultimate and undenied aim of
which is the extermination of the protestant religion in
that island. The scoundrel who makes this demand has
forty Irish members to back him, and this majority of
perjured men, whose word cannot be trusted, whose oath
cannot be respected after so many violations of it—this
majority; we say, is indispensably necessary to the ex-
istence of the present most miserable government that
England ever beheld. The Irish beggar must be pur-
chased, or the administration must fall; injustice must
he done, or the ministry must sink; every sort of vile
dissimulation and manoeuvre must be employed, or the
profligate would desert and the needy would despair.
But can this disgraceful system of intimidation, bribe-
ry, subserviency, and insulting fraud be much longer en-
dured ? We think not. We have now reached the cri-
sis when the ministry must either abandon their unfortu-
nate line of policy or persevere in it with the clear and
inevitable result of being swallowed up in its convulsive
devastations. We care not which side the present cabi-
net take. They are branded, doomed, and left for exe-
cution. On Thursday night, if not sooner, Lord JOHN
RUSSELL will be called upon to declare his intentions of
supporting or abandoning the Kilkenny agitator. The
noble spoonbill of the whigs must declare for the King
or the rebel—for the reformed religion or the gross errors
of the Romish church—and in doing so he has no alter-
native—he must either quarrel with his base popish ally,
or hazard the contumely, the instant dismissal, and the
marked censure of his incensed sovereign. Lord JOHN
RUSSELL can venture that which the head of the house of
BEDFORD cannot risk. He can afford to be impertinent,
and even insolent, simply because he has nothing to lose.
He is, in respect to property, only a forty-shilling free-
holder in Westminster, and his income otherwise is
merely the settlement which younger sons, and even
idiots, extort, or receive from paternal duty or benevo-
lence.

There is another point worthy of attention° The com-
mons have assumed the right of reforming the lords.
They found this right upon popular opinion—upon the
assumed supposition that the great mass of the people
are in favour of peerage reform. This assumption is
false. Its arguments, like O'CONNELL'S attacks upon
English female virtue, .:re based 01,on a lie. The peo-
ple of England seek no such reform. The people of
Scotland are silent, because they have not been con-
sulted ; and the people of Ireland are silent, because
they neither know the object which the demagogue seeks,
nor are they conscious of • the degree of ignorance which
he most profitably imposes upon. All this is bad. It is
so, however, in Ireland. It is fraud wherever that word is
understood, and we sincerqly hope that the result will
prove the truth of the surmises founded upon whispered
facts and the clearest indications.

There must be something surpassingly odious in any
proceedings which the reformed corporation of Liverpool
feel ashamed of. We are glad, however, that they arc
not utterly callous to th,l force of ridicule and the sense
of shame ; although it is far from being creditable to
them that they can procure that to be done by deputy
which they decline (king themselves. ,; •
We allude'to certain revived proceedings in fhe Rblts'
Court in which one TIMOTHY JEVONS and Councillor
THOMAS BOLTON, the unitarian, appear as complainants
against the late corporation in the matter of the church
endowment question. We have given elsewhere the
fullest report of the case which could be procured.

It will he recollected that when the intention of the
late corporation to endow certain churches became
known, the same parties in the present suit applied to
the then Master of the Rolls for an injunction to restrain
the corporation from borrowing the necessary fUnds upon
mortgage. TIMOTHY JEVONS and THOMAS- BOLTON
tailed in their application. They made a sort of eadif:..al'