The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-01 00:00:00

THE LIVERY OOL STANDARD.

TEE LI cERPOOL 'PE'STIVAL.

Preparations-have been making for some time past for, the
accommodation, of the influx of visitors who are disposed to grace
by their presence, and aid by their liberality, the managers of
this splendid undertaking, whose objects are, ilist; to provide a
series of musical entertainments of the highest order that money
can command, and, secondly, to render thipleaSures of the rich
subservient to the necessities of the poor; but, although we have
placed this as the second, we should have been more correct in
designating charity. as the primary object of this Festival, at
which we shall be grievously disappointed if we do not meet all
that is noble and wealthy in the neighbourhood of Liverpool.—
As might be expected, the tradesmen connected with fashion
have made great exertions to supply the possible, or probable
wauts of their customers, ample evidence of which is to be seen
in all the shops from the Town-hall to the end of Bold-street,—
the Bond-street of Liverpool,—most of them displaying rich as
sortments -of materials for making new court, ball,,or fancy
dresses, or those articles ready-made to arm the brave and the
fair
.for mutual destruction. The shops thus profusely lied
called out yesterday a host of pedestrians, some to purchase and
others to admire those death-dealing instruments those ad-
juncts of beauty, flowers, feathers, gauzes, laces, ribbons, and
jewellery,—giving to the streets an unusual degree of bustle and
activity. _

Our province to-day is limited to the mention of the Ball at
the Wellington-rooms last night, which was initiatory to the
other festivities of the week. At nine, o'clock the company
began to assemble, and from that hour until eleven, parties of
from two to six followed each other in rapid succession, when
the rooms were supposed to contain about six hundred persons,
chiefly of the beauty and faShion of Liverpool and its environs.
At this time the ball-room, illuminated by its brilliant chan-
deliers, together with the other rooms of this fine suite, pre-
sented a scene of gaiety and animation that we have seldom
seen exceeded. Here " the witches" shone forth in all the
splendour of their charms; and, as if nature had not done her
part to make them irresistible, "the foreign. aid of ornament"
wa* not forgotten. We could not help .feeling, .in. some in-
stances, a strong inclination to remind them of the folly of
attempting "to paint the lily or perfume .the violet." About
ten o'clock, what we should call the business of the night,—were
not pleasure the object of all present,—was commenced by a set
of quadrilles, followed by waltzes, and succeeded by quadrille
parties throughout the room. The dancing was kept up, in all
its spirit and variety, until a late hour this morning. ;P.)-"
The music was under the direction of Messrs. Litolff and
Adams of London ; and the refreshments were provided by
Messrs. Lynn and Radley. Among the company present we
noticed the. Hon. Mr. and Miss Stanley Mr. and Mrs. Wilson
Patten; and other families resident in the town and neigh-
bourhood.

Referring to the programme, as detailed in the advertise-
ments which have already appeared, we cannot do better than
call the attention of the visitors to the following regulations
which have been laid down by the committee, and approved by
the Mayor, as likely to conduce to the general convenience;
and as the police have received strict injunctions to enforce
every part of them, the committee have earnestly requested that
gentlemen will give directions to their coachmen and servants
accordingly:—