The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-25 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL.

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It is by mere chance that wo ever read any of theatriCal_.
critiques of our contemporaries, for, generally speaking; it
would be a sad loss of time, and, when it would not'be ge,Ove
had rather form and express our own opinion of actors and.
plays as they are than, by reading a good criticism,
hazard of adopting the thoughts of and plagiarising 4 Conlein"
• porary. Casting our eye over the columns of the Chronicleaf
Smut day last, we observed the title of the Standa; d, and Were
thereby induced to read the rubbish which usually aiip4r+.
in the theatrical notices of that paper, and we found .that a
great part of that which professed to be a critique of the per-
formances at the Theatre-royal was a criticism of our theatri-
cal notice of Friday last, wherein we thought fit to find fault.,
with Mr. Cooper's performance of Macbeth. It drat el: for Us
to say what consideration induced the learned critic of critics,
who " does" (to use the elegant phraseology of this critic!).
the theatrical puffs of the Chronicle to bespatter its with the
filth of his wrath, and apply to us the hard words'" stupid."
"malignant," &e., for saying that Coopee was- ‘.'''d'rriere- re-•
hearse,. of sentences." After saying that I"Chiiper' could
not compass the great characters of ShakSpeare"ift'6, were
" evidently beyond his grasp," and that "•it was no woniM4
seeing that for the last twenty years be had bet:6.'6161
secondary characters" that he• could not perfertictteira .
principal—after thus comfortably knocking lidOT ,Th4OP,:E
down, he attempts to •help •hitn' up again' .7 qfrii,r
us for saying that he could not play Macbeth,:an 14144
" the wonder is that he is so good, consideritigliii.:prevlOP,
career!" And yet the man who wrote this chn'acdiseaitother
of " giving expression to trash"! What have lei- do WO.
Cooper's 'previous career? He takes upon himself, as star;
to play Macbeth, and by his performance of that character.
must be judged, not by a round of secondary characters,
which he can play well. If any Jack Sweep, by accident,
should be allowed to play Othello at the Theatre-royal, and
were, as in all probability he would, to do more than murder.
Desdemona—murder the whole part---be a " mere rehearser
of sentences"—" like a steam•engine piston, work away
without variation of expression, feeling, or'paSsion,"•ate-We
therefore to puff Jack Sweep's Othello because " the wonder
is that he is so good considering his previous career"—.-" see"
lug that, for the last twenty years, he has been wOrking..in
totally different element And yet this is prettiSely
this " genius" says—who " does" the puffing for the Chroniclei
—we are to do with regard to Cooper ! IS it dot 'rich',
the fellow who wrote such rubbish as this'iVldld call our
critique of Friday last " trash," " malignant," ."
stuldd",
If it were "trash," it is indeed the "'pan' callingketl„
kettle
black." But enough of our contemporaries?' It is rat .the
first time we hare heard they have been peCtititiartg„:,-
However, the poet's distich shall comfort
weighty infliction—
" Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue,- •
But, like the shadow, proes the substance-time. ,
eitted
Our business in our theatrical notices' IS. with sik
and not with our contemporaries, add hencekoith'rie
leave unnoticed such " trash" at adorns the "pfag-es or
Chronicle. So long as the critical editorshiplsTentruitek
us, we shall give our opinions freely and 'fairly;
" fear, favour, affection, or reward"—of men as ther-iii•e'4,o
of actors as they perfom, without " considering thethireo.(!e.
career." This week Mr. Morris Barnett, the atithorYric,r4
is engaged, and plays in several of his-favourite piedei.
visitors of the theatre will net yet have forgotten his thrilituf..
representation' of Mons. Jacques, in his drama of that name'
when twelve months ago he visited Liverpool.
Mn. BLAND'S BENEFIL—The managers of the Theatre"
Royal have considerately allowed Mr. Bland to take his hen.q..
tit before the usual time on account of his recent berea,,,Ts
meet in the tnelancho!y death of Mrs. W. IL Bland•
benefit is announced for Wednesday, with the tragedY
" Werner," followed by the drama of "The Station 11"use'
in which Mr. Morris Barnett plays. We heartily wish hial
a full house.

ACCIDENT.—On Monday last, a man fell from the figi°,„"lLA
of a ship in the Waterloo Dock, carrying with biro
weighing 32tbs„ between which and the deck hisleg
crushed, the bones protruding through the skin: ii:t;eet
taken by the Police to the Northern Hospital, Leeds'
„.„,„
DREADFUL that
ACCIDENTS.—We understand 8 the
dents occurring on board steamers, were received intr. be
Northern Hospital, Leeds-street, on Sunday morning.- °I. to
one ease, ato the leg and thigh were literally brol loth
pices; in the other, the hand suffered a like fate. • •

underwent amputation and are likely to Jo well. •41
p ri
:11stotinlsI,),oeri.eicbEroCuoguhat Tu.p—cYhaersgteerddlavy„,hatteht)htley!Trlpalfiticeer4g,
with being diso.erly ; in all 195 persons taken into cust°
in one day ! • 01
THE. LATE EXPLOSION AT NEWTON.—We retr,f the
that since our last two other persons have died irn—ono-
effects of the late melancholy accident at the Viadu.ct
dry, at Newton, making nine in all; and another PO! of
ltes
without hope of recovery. The following are the names
the sufferers, and the particulars of their families:-- •
DEAD. •
re.
Joseph Dangerfield—wife and seven children ; one a crIP•
Samuel Appleton—wife and seven children; wife a criPP
James Parker—wife and one child.
William Wells—wife and One child.
John Dean, William Dean, George razakerley!
and Thomas Price—all single.
HURT—NOT EXPECTED-TO RECOVER.
John Wilson—wife and two children. otal<
We are glad to learn that a subscriptioii- has need
„rifir
foot for the relief of the families of 'the itiffereis•by.ol%;
estrous affair, and shall be exceedingly glad -to forwAryrim,
any means in our power. Any Innis' -entrusted 0' bu,,lep
shall be handed over to Messrs. -Junes,, Ewing;
the employers of the tinforittnatelueo Athii hitile 15.61.1601