The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-24 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.

FOR THE BENEFIT OF MISS VANDENHOFF,

And the Last Night of the Engagement of Mr. and Miss
VANDENH OFF.
Second Week of Mr. F. VINING.

1111 HIS present FRIDAY EVENING, the 24th instant,
will be revived the Comedy of
WIVES AS THEY WERE & MAIDS AS THEY ARE.
Sir William Dorrilon Mr. Vandenhoff.
Brouzely Mr. F. Vining.
Lord Priory.... Mr. Baker. I Lady Priory.. Miss Cleaver.
Sir G. Evelyn .. Mr. Bland. LadyMa►yßaffle.Mrs Clarke.
Miss Dorrilon Miss Vandenhoff.
To conclude with the Play of
THE STRANGER.
The Stranger .. Mr. Vandenhoff.
Francis Mr. F. Vining. Peter Mr. Slaiter.
olomon Mr. Baker. Countess Wintersen
Baron Steinfort.. Mr. Gray. ....Mrs. Baker
Count Wiutersen
....Mr. W. H. Bland. Annette Miss Grant.
Mrs. Haller Miss Vandenhoff.

TO-MORROW, the Tragedy of JANE SHORE. Lord
Hastings, Mr. F. Vining; Duke of Glo'ster, Mr. Stuart ;
Dumont; Mr. Gray; Jane Shore, Miss Fauc.it; Alicia, Miss
Cleaver.—To conclude with the Melo-Draina of THE
MILLER AND HIS MEN. Grindoff, Mr. Gray • Lo-
tair, Mr. W. Howard; Friberg, Mr. W. H. Bland; Karl,
Mr. Baker; Ravina, Miss Cleaver; Claudine, Miss Grant.

Mr. HARLEY, of the Theatres-Royal, Covent-garden
and Drury-lane, is engaged for a Fortnight, and will make
his first appearance here these two years, on MONDAY next,
the 27th instant, when will be performed, for the first time
here, Mr. Knowles' last new Play of WOMAN'S WIT;
OR, LOVE'S DISGUISES, as produced, last season, with
great success at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-garden. Clever,
(his original character,) Mr. Harley. Other principal
characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Stuart, W. Howard, Gray,
Chaplin, Granby, Webster, Miss Faucit, Miss Clea'ver, and
Mrs. Baker.—After which, the Farce of LOVE, LAW,
AND PHYSIC. Counsellor Flexible, Mr. F. Vining;
Labin Log, Mr. Harley; Mrs. Hilars, Mis. Clarke.—With
other ENTERTAINMENTS.

This Day is Published, in boards, Bvo. with four Lithogra-
phic Plates, price 2s. 6d.
A COMPLETE and PRACTICAL SYSTEM of
-tIL. SHORT-HAND. By T. C. FOSTER, Professional
Shoit-hand Writer, and Reporter for the LtyEuroot.
STANDARD.
London : WlturrAxEit and Co. Liverpool : STANDARD
OFFICE, and MARPLES. Manchester: Sow LER, and all
Booksellers,

gbe tiberpoot ,Stanbarti.

FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 24, 1838.

137° The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this
morning at 5 o'clock.
•

MExteo.,—We have been favoured by a respectable
mercantile firm in this town with the following extract
from a letter, dated Mexico, the 23d of June :—" The
Llama arrived off the coast of Vera Cruz a short time
ago, but the French would not allow her to communi-
Gate with the shore, or to land the correspondence
which she had brought, which is a most unjustifiable
proceeding, as all French vessels are allowed to anchor
at Sacrificios, and land their correspondence. I be-
lieve this vessel has been to the Havannah to await
orders. If this blockade lasts much longer it will be
the ruin of most of us : indeed it cannot be considered
a blockade against the Mexicans, but a plan to ruin
foreign commerce with Mexico, and if the French do
not take possession of some portion of the Mexican
territory to end this business, it may last a long time,
for the Mexicans can hold out for ever. Indeed, al-
though no money enters the treasury, every thing goes
on here as usual, with the exception that all business
rs suspended. Although all the ports are considered
under blockade, the prices may be considered nomi-
nally risen, for no goods have been sold to the shop-
keepers at reduced prices for cash. Several vessels
from the Havannah have broke the blockade, and have
got in safe: the fact is the French have not one-third
force sufficient to make the blockade effective in the
Gulf of Mexico, and if this blockade is to continue,
ZlTland ought to interfere. The French might just
as well declare all ports on the continent of America
to be under blockade. If they do not make the block-
ade effective it is highly ridiculous. Report here says
that the Baron de Faudis has gone to France for more
force, and that one of the frigates has gone to the Ha-
'linnet), and two small vessels to Martinique with sick.
It is also reported that, previously to the departure of
these vessels, there was a council of war held respect-
ing the taking of the castle and Vera Cruz, but it was
decided that their forces were not sufficient."
So far the correspondence with which we have been
favoured, The most recent intelligence, however,
from Mexico, will be found in the following extract :
"FALMOUTH, A cc. 20.—This forenoon her Majesty's packet,
Goldfinch, Lieutenant Collier. arrived here from Mexico,
having left Vera Cruz on the 28th of June, Tampico Ist July,
and the Havannah the 18th, with mails. She brings on
freight about 350,000 dollars and 75 bags of cochineal. At
the time of her leasing the blockade of the ports by the French
continued, and nothing had transpired indicative of a proba-
bility of its being early raised, the Mexicans remaining firm,
and determined in not being humiliated by surrendering to
the terms demanded. On the other hand the French are
quite intent on fully enforcing their claims, and now only
await an accession of maritime force, which was daily ex-
pected, previously to commencing a bombardment of
.Vera
Cruz. Hostile preparations are at work on shore, and if no
compromise should take place, to which I understand the
president is inflexibly averse, the ultimatum of affairs can
scarcely be contemplated. That the demands of the French
Will be shortly augmented is certain, from the increased ex-
penses they are now compelled to incur in consequence of
non-compliance to their terms, by which the necessity be-
comes imperative of increasing their force with the view of
an effectual bombardment. Bustamenti had asked the Chant-
hers to grant him extraordinary powers, which they had re-
fused; they were, however, passing a bill imposing au in-
ternal taxation to compensate the treasury for the deficiency
of duties, which had been set iously felt since the establish-
ment of the blockade. The once popular general, Santa
Anna, is still in apparent quietude at his seat near Vera
Cruz; but it is still thought that ambition strongly lurks
within him, and that he only waits the favourable moment to
quit his resting place, and again try the road to power;
ther the approximating storm may accelerate his desires,
time must develope."
Such, then, is the state of our commercial relations
With Mexico. How long is this state of things to
_Continue? Are the interests of British merchants to
be thus wantonly sacrificed to the cupidity of France
and to the grossly culpable apathy of our own govern-
melt ? We trust that one benefit at least will accrue
from thioblookade—that mercantile men will learn to
despise our present ministers, and withdraw from them
that confidence which they have so frequently and so
wantonly abuse&

JUSTICE TO IRELAND.—In one of O'Connell's recent
objurgatory epistles, addressed to the " hereditary
bondsmen" of Ireland, and in which the " King of the
Beggars" animadverts in no very measured terms on
the amendments which the House of Lords had intro.
duced into the municipal bill, we find the following
choice specimen of double-distilled humbug :

"I am sick—l am heartily
not
sickof this political juggle
the cao.,e of Ire-
land with an uncongenial and
and delusion. It is in vain to
watchuns over
tnpathising Parliament.
Oh! what wretches we were who di :I..prefer ten thousand
deaths to the extinction of our domestic
iLegislature ! Irish-
men! blessed be God, there is
.a re,neitte(2. Whenever you
will be so—you shall
are worthy of being a nation. againo
be so. Unmoistened with tears, and unstained with blood,
W5B the first assertion of Irish Legislative independence;
"d each. and no other, must be the rcoevreeyr'yof our national
day convinces
Lights. For I distinctly tell you, that
tehnetrs hwettihs
re ittere and more that Ireland has no prospect of obtaining
Astice 1... G.--
It, . _-..- ...... a domestic Leg. isla.tuureE.
sated by the predominant faction 1.
~
°Pea hostility, or hypocritical swindling. ngAlanpdreesi
Ireland is treated by England "either with open
outlay, or hypocritical swindling," indeed ! We
tin
111411°ot-et present notice the glaring fact that " an
• 0. Parliament" allows
e
NibPnienial and unsympathism,,
"
' °°e-half the burden of taxation to be imposed
upoil 1.,
Ire h.,
.I'e "hereditary bondsmen" that is borne by
tW' 'hall
English. This is only a negative benefit.
b e fil;4ll> lather, turn our attention to the positive
the
enei
8' (With two or three exceptions,) which .
1111:: en° dominant faction" in the British nation
il- conferred upon the ungrateful rabble of the sister
hisliatt".We quote from the items granted in a com-
ee
PsuPPIY in the House of Commons:—
pee; (pentthe advance of Education in Ireland ..£50,000
per ll Foundling Hospital, Dublin
For a sii(mße of Industry, Dublin 20,000
Per thee);(3°l e name of which was not heard
100150
.or the Female, Orphan Hospital, Dublin
For the nit Hospttal, Dublin
Per 1),. 8/.141Z-in Hospital, Dublin . 1,000
For the' /,:eeenson's Hospital, Dublin
- ever Hospital and House of Recovery,
Por 10)1444 ..
For the PasPital Fur . Incurables.. Dublin
13t. the itealan Catholic College, Ireland 8,928
For the R°Yal Hibernian Society
Per th. Commissioners
Society Dublin 5,300
- "Minissioner; of the Charitable Donations
700
For than` Bequests in Ireland
Per r.t, Royal Academical Institution, Belfast ....
1135:39)
Poi, ex-'4lllnK Public Works in Ireland pot,
t, Pet!scs of Privy Council, Printing, &c.
11 Salaries of the Officers of the Household in
Poi. theil.pelarni .... . .
,
'Fur - Paymaster Of the. Civil Service in Ireland:
Publishes Proclamations and printing the Sta-
For detft:tel in
Ireland
dip the expense of Nonconforming., Sece-
31,719
Por der,l4lg; and Dissenting Ministers in Ireland. .
s.
~.. -,„all'inf the expense of Criminal Prosecution
66,700
ror Nyr °tiler Law Charges in Ireland
Offices in Ireland
.p.,..rt.%)li_Lr(l of Public Works in Ireland
7,000
For !,109ndary Survey in Ireland
147.7 ita.liwayii Commission in Leland
; on lee have a sum of £340,57,1 voted to Ireland
t' one night, and almost without a single word of
7Position. Indeed, the only opposition offered to
any Of these grants was that with which the nine
I°4Band to that infamous den, Maynooth College,
,
e"24 met by the Protestant party in the House of
hostile r"lons. This grant was opposed, not out of any
feeling towards Irelands but from a cousidera-