The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

GRAND CONCERTS AT THE THEATRE-

ROYAL.

The proprietors of this establishment provided, on the
evenings of Thursday and Friday, a musical treat, such
as has rarely been experienced within its walls, by the
engagement of Signora F. Lablache, Camillo Sivori, the
celebrated violinist, and only pupil of Pacranini, Piatti,
an ;Drivelled performer upon the violincello, Herr Doh-
ler, the celebrated pianiste, Madame F. Lablache and
Miss Steele, with Mr. J. Reeves, a member of our local
corps. To increase the attraction, the services of Mr. H.
Russell, the popular singer and song writer, were secured
for the occasion. On both evenings the houses, we regret
to say, were very inadequltely tilled, considering the
amount of talent provided, a cirouinstance which, in part,
may perhaps be attributed to the concerts taking place
during the excitement of our municipal election, when
many of our playgoers would be employed in the various
contests.

We have so recently had an opportunity of hearing and
noticing the singing of some of the party engaged, that it
would be superfluous in us attempting to give, so far as
they are concerned, more than a general verdict upon
their qu-lities as shewn in the present occasion. Signor
F. Laolache was in excellent voice, and executed all that
was allotted to him with his usual excellence. Mr. J.
Reeves also acquitted himself well, although his faults (and
he has some) shone out rather conspicuously when con-
trasted with the correct singing of the more experienced
artistes by whom he was surrounded. In the scum from
" Sommnbula" on the second evening he appeared to us
too much impressed with the difficulty of Lis vosition to
put forth his usual powers, and was occasionally out of
tune. Al r. Reeves bass good voice to work upon, and with
practice and study will achieve much more than he has
hitherto done. Miss Steele, who is a stranger to us, is a
Pleasing and correct singer, with scarcely power enough.
however, for a large theatre. She gave the pieces allotted
to her, however, with great taste and finish, as did Ma-
dame F. Lablache, whose fine voice has, since we heard
her, been aided by additional and scientific cultivation.
The most striking and attractive portions of the two
evenings' concerts were certainly the instrumental per-
formances of Dobler, Camillo Sivori, and Piatti, es-
pzcially the latter. A more wonderful command than
that of Piatti over an instrument, so unwieldy as the
violincello, has certainly never been attaiced. Pas.azes
of music, tones and effects which are considered difficult
to violin players of high excellence, appear to him perfectly
easy ; and the precision of his stopping is quite remark-
able. 11 is " G rand concertante duet" with Dohler, from
" Lucretia Borgia," was the most. masterly and beautiful
thing we ever listened to in a concert robat, dese. vedly
drew down continued and enthusiastic applauses from the
audience, of which, however, in justice to Herr Dobler,
we are bound to say that that great master of his instru-
ment was entitled to his full half. Dobler is certainly
one of the first, if not the first, pianist of his day ; and his
performances on both nights astonished and delighted at
the same time.

The merits of Camillo Sivori are too well known and
recognised to require any remarks of ours, especially as
they have so recently been amply discussed in this town.
We can imagine, however, an increased power of execu-
tion and a finer quality of tone in his playing than whelk
we last beard him. His " Andante and Carnival of Ve-
nice" brought the great magician Pa4anini so 'strikingly

to menicry,-that we had but to close our eyes to the stage
and imagine that he stood before us bodily.
Mr. H. Russell was indeed an addition to the evening's
performances. His "Maniac" on the first evening was
splendidly given, and little less striking, if at all less, was
his " Ship on fire," on the second evening. Both were
enthusiastically encored. The concerts went off on the
whole with the greatest satisfaction, and we only regret
that they were so insufficiently attended.

The Earl of Harrowby returned to Sandon-halL
S!affurdshire, fritn Harrogate, in great y improved health.
Viscount and Lady Frances Sandon anu fa ally are staying
with the noble earl.

MR. STURGE A TEETOTALLER.-CASE OF CONSCIENCE.
—A good deal of amusement. has been excited by the an-
nouncement in the last monthly Corn Circular of Mes,ira.
Sturge, that the firm intended in future to decline thcsale
of malt;ng barley !—Ttn Towns Messenger.

CHRIST CHURCH SCEIOOLS.—On Sunday. October
27th, two sermens were preached in Christ Church, on
behalf of the Christ Church National Schools ; that in the
morning by the Rev. Fielding Ould ; that in the evening
by the Rev. Dr. Byrth. The cellections (including a do-
nation of £5) amounted to the sum of £57. A handsome
ring was put into the box in the evening.
DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE AT SEA.—On the 14th of
October, the American trader, Llan Rumney, Captain
Simpson, of Hull, being on her way home from St. John's.
New Brunswick, was struck on the lartAiard quarter by a
tremendous sea, which washed the captain and the cook
to the further end of the ship with such violence as to
Cause their deaths shortly afterwards.
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY.—Yesterday, two boys, one
about 15 years of age, and the other only nine, ware
charged with stealing several handkerchiefs from a chop is
Sr. James's-street. The older boy was sent to the House
of Correction for a
.month. The parents of the younger
Mr. Rushton ordered to be brought up, remarking that
he could not punish such a child, as he was evidently an
instrument in the bands of bigger boys.
THE LATE GALE.—We were visited, on Friday and
Saturday by a terific gale from the southeast, which we
fear, must have done some damage to the shipping in the
channel, and on the coast of Ireland. The fine, first-
class American ship Sea, Captua Edwards, for Nnw
York, sailed, about three o'clock on Saturday morning,
with a full complement of passengers, snd, in about an
hour after, went on shore in Bootle bay. She was got off
at the flood of the tide, and was brought back to Liver-
pool, without having received any damage. She pro-
ceeded on her voyage on Sunday. The El.annr. for Tam-
pico, put back to Liverpool, on Saturday, to be surveyed,
hiving been on shore near the. Magazines on the morning
of that day. A letter was received front Holyhead, on
Smday, dated the 2,1 inst. which statets that the Eclipse,
Cook, for Ipswich to Liv:rpool, sank in that harbour
C e night befare. Further let lligence from Holyhead and
other places will be found under the head " Shipping
Intelligence," elsewhere.
THE IRISH MAILS.—The mail steamers, in tolerable
weather, make h r trips to and from Kingstown with
the greatest regularity in tvelve I ours and under. They
hay-, however, within the last few days, b. e • 134 fled by
bo ate sous head-winds and other causes, winch have in-
terte el with the r regularity. The Medina, which left
Kin s awn on Friday morning last, at a quarter past
seven o'clock, ought to have reached here, in ordinary
course, between seven and eight on Friday evening.
Owing, however, to the Formby Lightship having been
d •.ven from her moorings, she was detained outside, and
d d not reach Liverpool till a quarter past eight on Satur-
day night, having been twenty-five hours on her passage.
Fee Iron Duke, which left Kingstown on Friday evening
at a quarter put seven, and which ought to have been
here on Saturday morning, between seven and eight
o'clock, did not make her appearance till half-past two
o'clock on Saturday afternoon, having been nineteen
hours and a quarter cn her passage. She was etarded
solely 1 y the gale.
INQUESTS BEFORE MR. STATHAM, DEPUTY Bo-
ROUGH CORONER.—On Saturday, on view of the bolly
of Daniel Harrison. a working man, aced 52, which was
found on Friday, floating in the Queen's Dock. He had
been missed about a fortnight, and was rather addicted to
drinking. Verdict. " fouad drowned." Same day, on
the b dy of Alfred Fitzpatrick, a child of three years old.
who was left a short time in a kitchen by himself, in Salt-
ney-stmet, on Thursday last, when his clothes caught fire,
and he was SO much burned that. notvrithstanding surgical
attendance, he died on the following day. Verdict,
" Death from burning, but hew his clothes Ik!earrie ignited
there is no evalence to shoo'. —Yesterday, on view of the
The deceased was
Eboda'vradri nif Davidson,afla
tattlaiegeDduskoe.'s pier-head, on the
going
of
previous Monday night, when he fell from a ladder into the
ho7d, and sustained a fracture of the left leg. He was
conveyed to the Southern Hospital, but mortification set
in on Tuesday, and caused his death on Friday. The jury
returned a verdict of " Accidental death," accordingly. •
AN IMMENSE CHIMNLY.—The large chimney at the
works of Messrs. William fill and Sons, manufacturing
chemists,Vauxhall-road, is now corn pitted, and is certainly
the most lofty, and consequeatly the most prominent spiral
erection in our town—forming, in fact, a conspicuous
land-mark from the river, as well as the opposite Cheshire
shore for many miles round. Friday last was the " rear-
ing day," when the apeet-of this huge and tapering shaft
was surmounted by two British fa.s, which, though
large, appeared but the size or handkerchiefs. Through-
out the day numbers of pal ties ascended, in a bucket,
hoisted by a winch in the interior, to the giddy top,
%hence they obtained a magnificent view of the town and
neighbourhood, Cheshire, the sea to vast extent, &c.
They app,--ar.!d to the spectators below to be no larger
than dods popping their heads over the top cr capital.
The height of the shaft is 309 feet, being about 8U feet
higher from the ground than the spire of St. George's
Church, but springing from land apparently rather lower.
It is of perfect conical form, and was regularly plirn. med
by rule as the work proceeded, and not, as is sometimes
customary, merely by the eye of the workman. The
summer season of three years has been employed in erect-
ing it. It is forty feet in diameter at the base, (on r a
level with the ground,) and nine feet in diameter at the
top, where theta is an ornamental cornice and blceking.
The first course of bricks in the foundation was severs-
teen yards in diameter. The circular wall below is, ac-
cording to our own rapid measurement, about five feet
two inches in thickness. The whole has the appearance
of bei g perfectly smooth, and true in its bearings, great
pains having been taken to render it secure. The brick-
work, ("lough plain, is one of the best and firmest speci-
mens we have seen in any building of similar elevation.
The bricks are all without a flaw, and the mortar was
Iground by the engine in a manner rendering it equal to the
beet cements. It is generally found to be a difficult mat-
ter to accomplish such a work without its warping, and
consequent necessity of sawing.
the care and time taken have secured
But,t i n
heo tohst; s instance,ratifying
result. There are some chimneys in great Britain of a
lease,
strahmigohnegrelevation; hut this is entitled to rank, at
n
the highest. It is about the. same apparent
height as the too well-known soap• boilery establishments
at ltuneotn; hut short of that of Messrs. Tennints, Of
Glasgow, which
Glasgow, is,- if we remember correctly, abut 400
feet. After all, it is a very magnificent "bristle on the
back of nature," and great credit is due to the proprie-
tors ror their liberal and judicious ex. enditure in reader-
ing it at once an object of interest from its magnitude, and,
as is got ds the put:Lein the neighbourhood. perfectly safe.
The object is, of course, to carry off exhalations from
the wrote, so as rot to affect health or vegetation.
• al uompons tallow made a very inadeqeate offer for -a
valtrahle property; rod call ng the law day far an an..
ewer. ifapir-d if the nv.-rcr had eider lained his in-oposii-
" " -;ied the o her, " your propesiLiee has
entertained me."