The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-03-12 00:00:00

LOCAL.

We regret to learn that the funds of the Liverpool Floral So-
ciety, are such as, it is to be feared, will not meet the heavy calls
which are likely to be made upon it at the approaching exhibi-
tion, which it is expected will be one of the hnest ever known in
this town. We trust our friends will not allow so interesting a
society to languish for want of a little pecuniary assistance.
The 'subscription being only Ws. 6d. per annum.
We earnestly call the attention of our readers to the adver-
tisement in our paper of this day on the subject of the intro-
duction of Ilobhouse's Vestry Act. We feel assured that we
speak the sense of the respectable portion of the inhabitants of
all parties, when we say that they are satisfied with the present
system of parochial government.

THEArnicALs.—That excellent actor, Mr. J. Rusiell, from
the London boards, has been performing the part of Pluto in
The Devil's Walk, at the Amphitheatre, during the last week.
This satirical extravaganza had a great run in London, and the
scenes are taken from Southey's poem of that name. Mr. Rus-
sell's acting is always gentlemanly, and in this character he
makes "The Prince of Darkness a gentleman. He was on
the whole well supported, and particularly so by Mr. Gardener,
in the part of Jeremy Knapp, the Devil's Footman, at his cot-
tage in the Regent's Park. On Saturday night, after " Scenes
in the Ring," we saw, for the first time, a piece called "The
Last Nail;" a melo-dramatic romance, intended to convey' a
moral lesson to drunkards. The incidents, so far as stage ef-
fect is concerned, are good, but we cannot help thinking, that
the introduction of fairies to reclaim a mere sot is worse than
useless, and that a domestic sketch of the effects of this demo-
ralising vice would have furnished better materials for the au-
thor to have worked upon. Mr. Davidge is a clever actor, and
his Adelich Starke, the drunken vagabond, is very good.
ANOTHER RADICAL PETITION.—Pray let us hear no more of.
Tory hole-and-corner petitions. - Another Boltonian—Coglonian
—anti-corporate • petition was, we believe, in due form, for-
warded to London on Saturday evening, under the special care
of Mr. James Mulleneux, spirit dealer, and Mr. Hobson. As
we have latterly become rather inquisitorial upon these sub-
jects, we beg to ask one or two questions respecting this impor-
tant petition.—lst. Where did it lie for signature? In the Ex-
change News-room ? No. In the Underwriter's-room? No.
In the Athenaeum, .Lycemn, or even the Mercury-office ? No.
Where then ? B-hind a screen, in a snug, quiet, retired corner
of the private office of Messrs. Booth and Walmsley, corn
brokers, Brunswick-street! Yet the Radicals (honest souls)
scorn a hole-and-corner petition ! -2d. How many signatures
did this petition obtain? • Twelve hundied Mr. Times? No. A
thousand ? No. Five hundred ? No. Well two hundred
then ? No. One hundred ? No, not one hundred !-3d.
wish to know who the parties are that signed the petition? We
can furnish a few, Messrs. Thomas Bolton, T. Coglan, D.
Hodgson, Hobson, Wales and Baines, W. Rotheram, James
Rawdon, Richard Bryans, and James Mulleneux. We make
no comment.