The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-01 00:00:00

The council then separated, at two o'clock—being adjourned
till the 9th of November.
m' The following is a copy of the tribute of respect to the
Mayor, presented din ing the'rnorning, frbm the reporters pre-
sent, alluded to by Mr. Smith :
"To. W. War.i.Acit COERCE, ESQ., MAion, •-
" We, the undersigned, Reporters of the Liverpool Press,
ttt the termination of your mayoralty, cannot refrain from ex-
presSing our sense of the uniform urbanity and courtesy which
von. have ever shown to its, whilst in the diScharge of our duties,
and our obligations to you for the facilities you have always
afforded to us "

T. C. FOSTER, Standard
J. G. JONES.
DAVID ROSS, Chronicle.
J. B. HERBERT.
(Being the Reporters present.) •
Dated, Council-room, October 31s1, 1836."

Signed)

THE THEATRE.

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Mr. and Mrs. Wood terminated their successful engagement
on Friday evening last, when the Opera of "the Mountain
Sylph" was produced. For no continuous period during
the theatrical season has the house been so uniformly well filled
as during their stay, and the Liverpool play-going public appear-
ed determined to testify their sense of the merits of the English
queen of song on her farewell night by crowding the house to the
very ceiling: We have never yet witnessed so full a house;
and the receipts are said to have amounted to upwards of L 240.
The plot of the opezit performed wants unity. The first part
exhibits Donald (Mr. Wood) as the betrothed and enraptured
lover of Jessie (14rs. Bland,) when by a hocus pocus sort of pro-
cess, which is very blunderingly dove-tailed, and which is so
contrary to nature that it destroys the pleasing interest of the
piece and divides the attention, he becomes enamoured of the
Mountain Sylph (Mrs. Wood,) whilst Christie (Mr, G. IlOrn-
castle,) Donald's rival, and who before bad sued in vain for
the affections of Jessie, is by a similar rapid and easy tran-
sition of her affections, transformed into the wife of Chris-
tie. This is a fault engrafted on the ballet from which
it is taken. We are aware, however, that we ought not
to be too critical in the plot of an opera, that being
secondary to the musical department. This we need hardly
say, with Mrs. Wood as the chief cantatrice, was almost above
criticism. We have heard none speak of this lady's acting and
singing during her recent engagement but in terms of unquali-
fied approbation. In her singing she appeared to strive to
excel her former reputation; in her acting she is infinitely ins-
proved. We understand that, along with Mr. Wood, she is at
present fulfilling an engagement in Dublin, which will last a few
weeks, after which the managers of the .Liverpool theatre have
re-engaged her for a limited period. We cannot speak too
highly of Mr. Horncastle as an able supporter of the opera.
L-lis singing is at all times pleasing, and his acting lays claim
to a superior title.
Last evening Shakspeare's tragedy of " Macbeth" was pro-
duced, Macbeth by Mr. Stuart,. and Lady Macbeth by Mrs.
Stanley. As far as regarded the house, there appeared to be a
most terrible " re-action," there being a very " beggarly ac-
count of empty benches." Mrs. Stanley played well, and deli-
vered the noted sentence in the washing scene—" What's done
cannot be undone :—to bed, to bed, to bed," wiih much effect.
Mr. Stuart's enactment of the character of Macbeth we have
often admired : we were particularly struck last evening with
its beautiful elocution of the passage—
" I have lived long enough : my way of life
Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf:
And that which should accompany old ago,
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,
I must not look to have ; but in their stead,
Curses, nut loud, out deep, mouth, honour, breath,
Which' the poor heart would fain deny but dare not."
And also of the following:—
" Canst thou minister to a mind diseased;
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ;
Rase-out the written troubles of the brain;
And, with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff,
Which weighs upon the heart?"
"Macbeth" is a great—ti noble play, and it requires no ordi-
nary
conception of its poetry—of its power of thought to do it.
justice. It has been said by a great man that there is but one
step between the sublime and the ridiculous, and with the truth
of this remark we were last night much struck when we found
Macbeth addressing jbur miserable-looking followers who form-
ed his army in such terms, as "Arm, arm, nod out," &c. It is
too bad in the management thus to fight against an actor and
against propriety, and endeavour to make what is uttered bom-
bastic and ridiculous.

SUFFOCATION IN A STEAMER.—James M(Mabon, of King's-
court, was suffocated while on his passage in the Irishman
steam-boat from Liverpool to Drogheda, last week. The night
was cold, and he went into the engine-room to warm himself,
when fie was shortly afterwards found dead, having imprudently
laid himself down to sleep too near the boiler.
Tue ROCHDALE HIGHWAYMEN.—There is very great inter-
est and excitement respecting the three convicts, Eastwood,
Bison, and Kay, whe were sentenced to transportation for life
at the Liverpool assizes in March last. The people of Bury,
Rochdale, Oldham, Middleton, and Ashton-under-Line are pre-
paring to bring the case before Parliament at the next session.
Ninety-nine out of every hundred believe the men to be in-

nocent.
On Tuesday, Lord Brougham went down from London to
Brocket Hall, Herts, on a visit to Lord Melbourne. His lord-
ship returned to Town on Wednesday forenoon. Our inform-
ant does not state that any express invitation was given by the
Premier to the noble and learned Ex-Chancellor, who, before
he left Town made strict enquiry if the curds of any of the
Cabinet Ministers had been left at his Town residence.
•NEWBURYPORT, SePT. W.—SCHOONER DOLPHIN, HENCE AT
PtcTou, BTH INSTANT.-10 consequence of an explosion in the
mines, iyhich killed and scorched a number of the miners, the
works would be at a stand for some time. 5,00(.1 tons of ship-
ping waiting to load, and the Dolphin would proceed to Sydney
to load for this port.—New York Advertiser.
THE UN HEIIWRITEIte A.ool4l.—This handsome room bas just
been repainted end decorated, and will be reopened to-morrow
for the use of the subscribers. The walls are painted stone co-
lour, and the ceiling French white, the pillars are coloured to
represent a dark marble. The tont ensemble is exceeding light
and elegant, and the improvements do infinite credit to the taste

of the committee.
VEsTrtv MEETING.—On Friday at 1 o'clock, a meeting of
rate-payers was' held at St. Nicholas's Church to receive the
usual half-yearly report of the Select Vestry, since the 25th of
March last—Rector Campbell in the chair. There were not
above a dozen persons present, including the officials, and
stete
meeting did not last more than LO, minutes A pooof
Is 6d. in the pound was laid including a Id of church rate, and
the meeting separated.
FAT AL ACCIDENT.—An inquest was, on Saturday, held be-
•fore Philip Finch Curry, Esq , on view of the body of Philip
Curry, a carter. He was riding on the fore-blade of the cart,
when, being somewhat intoxicated, a shake of the cart caused
him to lose his balance. In endeavouring to avoid the wheel,
be turned over, and pitching un the back part of his
head, fractured his skull. He died' instantly. Verdict acci-
dental. .
STA BRlNG.—Charles Dillon was, on Saturday, placed before
Mr. Hall, charged under the following circumstances :—Robert
Sloane, joiner, Naylor-street deposed, that on Saturda* night
week the prisoner, who had been in his employ, came to his
house, and conducted himself in a very riotous and disorderly
manner. Complainant told him to go away, or he would im-
mediately call a police-officer, and have him taken to Bridewell.
As be still continued violent and abusive, complainant went
for the purpose of putting his threat into execution. Prisoner
followed him out, and stabbed him in the left hip, with a chisel
or some sharp instrument. The prisoner was committed fur

trial.
NuissNcE.—At the sessions court on Wednesday, the grand
jury presented two unfinished dwelling-houses, situated in South
James-street, and belonging to a person named Jones, as dan-
gerous to the lives of the inhabitants,. hi consequence of not be-
ing enclosed at the front. The Recorder directed that steps
should be immediately taken to abate the nuisance, and the
Town clerk undertook to lay the cireunastances before the
watch committee in all possible haste.
FATAL Acct DENT.—On Tuesday last, in the afternoon, about
five o'clock, the flat Phwhe was moored alongside the Hercu-
laneum Pottery, and was receiving coals, which were being
hoisted into the hold, when the crane gave way, and the tub,
which was suspended from the chain, fell on the hatchways, and
burst them open. A man, named William Abrams, was at
work in the bold below, and the tub struck him on the right
side, by which several of his ribs were broken. He was taken
up and removed to his home, where he was attended by a sur-
geon, but he died in a few hours after. An inquest was held on
the body on Wednesday, before P. F. Curry, Esq., coroner,
when the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death."
We mention for the information of the friends of the Rev. J.
Barry, Wesleyan Missionary, who, on account of ill health, em-
barked with his lady and four children at Bermuda for this
country, in the Friendship, wrecked on Friday last during a
heavy gale on the Welsh coast, that his entire family took
passage in Cork, (where the vessel called for orders,)in the
Ocean steamer for Liverpool, and arrived in safety on the very
morning on which the Friendship was lost. He left all
his bag-
gage, books, wearing apparel, with the amount of
.nearly
eZZuu
sterling, on board the Friendship, of which there is as y
t a 0
account. of notoriety,
THE BEDFORD,: FAGGOT VOTES.—It is matter
a to as many
that seven votes have been created by the Duke of Bedford, by
granting a rent charge, of forty
members of his family in one of hisshfi
Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury.
.v,
14 ll the objec-
rlelienhgosldvlouheo;efsthseitrueaytiesinitgl
barristers, at Gray's Inn Coffee-house,o
tions entered by the conservatives to these votes 'came on for
was expunged On the ground ofchaonsgo argument before Mr. Kean. The vote
ooff LroooriddeGne.oW. .IR,huessoebll.
I ined by Mr. Gregory for
jections to the ether six were ably 5„,.,.
and Bth
at William I.v.
on t%er I;litting votes; and, on the
the conservatives, chiefly
CI-ominous of 1802, against an
chap. 25, against conveyancest
standing order of the House
,be to repeal the act of
. orey sin
or peer of parliamentxtuesrefe()fntowmitmhGtohniees.gelnermcytiraorngsaoredr.ettuhranyt
of any member to the __
Mr. Keen, however,denied
ppeaarlrieadmefonrt
ntfhwe
William
toh
:Mr. Gregorf only appl.A
ie. to a point of
"to allow thesedcl virtuallyfowTlTlLheliddrron.rd
ilaalTsihinte law was no. onger applicable to the re-
that " the argumt
law. That part of t • •
votes, and the
which these
form act, which admits the principle of splitting
mode of the gift under votes were made being a le-
siativ, one, be should retain the votes."
a most extraordinary decision,
We confess, this a-
but it may be
pears to us. t
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peti-
tioned agains . h • i

A GOOD FIGHTING DI ST ANCE.—The French papers announce
that " the combat at Borada, in Catalonia, ou the '2d ult., has
yielded no result, it having been fought beyond gun range." The
account does not state how long the battle lasted, but it may be
presumed that night only could separate such heroes.
DEATH OF A Mtsea.—On Tuesday last an old man named
Cook, who has for years resided in an obscure lodging in Crown-
court, Gravesend, called upon Mr. James, a broker in High-
street, to inquire whether he would allow him to lodge with him,
as he had been uncomfortable for some time past. The request
was complied with, and in the evening he took possession. He
had retired to 'rest but a short time before he was taken ill, and
him medical men were sent for. Upon their arrival they pro-
nounced him dying, which was no sooner communicated than
he ordered an attorney to be sent for, as he wished to make his
will. An attorney was speedily in attendance. The old man,
raising himself in his.bed, be_queathed to his daughter 1;150 and
to three nephews DIO each. Upon bein asked if he had a wice,
he replied " No," but he had two brothers and anotherpdla, -
ter, who had all behaved very ill towards him, and
ihe
leavo them nothing. When asked to whom he lbefst r e
su,i)dgoul cel
kindness,"
of his property, he replied "to Mr. James for
which, upon
at the same time handing the attorney a pap
being opened, was found to contain sec_urritiaemseerfeo.rwehr
iasrdeseolei
£BOO in the Bank of England, so tha.J
legacies, make
executor, will, after paying the respective
up-
wards of £5OO by his lodger, who.condtainyuedTtho
died on the evening eg deceasedr w rvo
who
was 75, has been freqoufeinhtelyf;ell;rtOkpick *up bones and rags ip
the street and put them into his pocket, and at the time of his
death he was in a most filthy condition.—Standard.