The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-08 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.

• ~ •..1,
T 6 Last Night but Three of the Engagement of Mr. JAMEg
SHERIDAN KNOWLES; of the l'heatre-royal, Cov,e,•,Te
garden, Author of the popular Plays of." The Wife," ,11111,
Hunchback," " William Tell," " Virginius " &c. and 'l,/
Last Night but Three of the Engagement of 'MISS 'ELL •
I.'ILEE,.of the Theatre-royal, Covent-garden. •
T—ins present TUESDAY, the Bth instant., will hc Per'
formed the popular Play called
WILLIAM TELL, 11-. e
With alterations, and an introduced scene by the Author Of t
ay.
Wallah! Tell Pl
Mr. James Sheridan Knowles
Geller ..Mr. Cooke
Anneli Miss George I Emma
..•' Miss Ellcu Tree ~
To conclude with tiirl'arce of
THE YOUTH FO QVEEN.,
Count D'Oxensteirn Mr. Andrews
Steinberg, Mr. Baker I Frederick Bury ....11r. CQ°l6.'
Emma . Mrs. Vining
. -
Christine, Queen of SWeden (beroriginal character) Miss E. Tree
. .
To-morrow, the Tragedy ofVlßGlNlUS.—Virgiuius, Mr. i'
S. Knowles; rains, Mr. Cooke;. Viinia Miss Ellen Tree 7
To conclude with the Farce of Nell Gwynne. 'King Charles
the Second, Mr. Vandenhoff; Nell Gwynne, Miss Ellen Tree"
%vial,:
On Thursday, the popular Comedy of the Hunchback,
the Farce of Perfection.'
On Friday, for the benefit of Mr. Knowles; and the last Die
of the engagement of .Mr. Knowles an 'Miss Ellen Tree, i",-.
last new play of the Wife, and other ' tertainments. ..
On Saturuay, a Tragedy and pop Farce.'
- ____.--;----7,'

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The letter of a "
.West Indian" must stand over till out
next.

For the same reason—the want of room—several otlicr
letters must be postponed.
Anti-Discord will be attended to.

Ebt 3Liberpool 4,tatalarb.

TUESDAF MORNING, OCTOBER 8, 1 831

By the packet-ship St. George, Captain TtiomPoo4l
we have advices and papers from New York to the 10,
September; but, excepting some newspaper and jobbil
speculations in cotton, and much palaver about bank ao
slaves, they contain, nothing of any novelty or interest.

. ,
It is now confidently asserted that the King of Spat'
at last dead in right earnest. His Catholic Majesty ,he,
so repeatedly shuffled ofF and resumed his " mortal coil;
that it would be hazardous to speculate upon the case-
quences, lest he should once more revive to smile at tile,
tears of his loyal subjects.

But if he be dead, as is affirmed, then we may expert
news of an important nature from Spain in a veil
few days. Don CARLOS, it is well known,"is at preset'
or was recently, sojourning in Portugal, taking an aetiv°
interest in the fortunes of Don MIGUEL. The right of 01
former to the crown of FERDINAND was undoubted a° •
unquestioned, until by a late decree the daughter of the
then reigning sovereign was declared the successor ()filer
father. This line of descent was fixed upon in
quence of FERDINAND having rid son.
For a very long periodthe Salic law prevailed in Spain',
and it was in full force when FERDINAND -himself came t°'
the throne. It was repealed solely to favoUr the female
issue of FERDINAND, and exclude his brother from what"
he was entitled to consider his natural inheritance. Ill's
question, then, comes to this :—Will Don CARLOS quietly
submit to the exclusion, or will he contest his title rvitb
his infant niece ?
From the part which this Spanish prince is playing int
Portugal, where the claims of a niece are set up agai°-,
the claims of an uncle, it is not unreasonable to infer OP
Don CARLOS will avail himself of the very first oppertiv
nity to dispute the succession. If so, a fresh note of disi;
cord will be sounded in Europe, and Spain be distract°
by the pretensions of its princes.

One of the objects desired, and, it cannot be den
anxiously looked to, in the discussions which have tAl'ee
place with reference to the affairs of the East India COI'
pany, is the contemplated change in the intercourse ow..
the "Celestial Empire." The Company fought, earneilt;
ly, to preserve to themselves the monopoly of the
11c
Chi% •
trade; a branch of their concerns from which it is Pe
affected to be concealed that.they derived the profits tbl.
made good the defalcations in other departments of the'
revenues. It cannot, therefore; be matter of surpri',
that the anxiety manifested by the company to perrtu:
ate this monopoly should have excited in those who wej;
opposed to its continuance a corresponding desire tobre°,
through it. The latter have succeeded. 'China is to
opened to the trader generally ; and, by accounts recevt,
made public, vessels will be permitted to clear out `°
Canton after the-22d April, 1834.
Many important'. considerations present theniselve:
likely to affect the private trade with China for sotneti° '
after. its opening, beyond the mere questiOn of the ,
occupied in the voyage out and home; arising, chie"lo;.
out of the state of the East India Company's
stocks of tea, and the prosecution of the trade by the fir.
after the period when its being- thrown open shall blla.
admitted the rivalship of the individual trader'.
these considerations, or the consequences to flout fr°
.them, we have not at present, any intention of enterio
whatever we may do hereafter'. IV. inert:lig-fit who e
barks in a branch of trade hitherto:so jealously guarde
without computing the contingencies, ordinary and cr
o
traordinary, to which itisexpDsed, must abide the res°oo
of Isis want of discretion, as in all other cases of merca°cei
speculation. But, without presuming to offer any ativrcil
ol y
we may be excused stating in the fewest number of "s°
a,
that the practice and experience of the Company's °eh.
blishment at Canton, the confidence inspired into `1";
Hong merchants—hitherto the exclusive medium uf eetto
inercial intercourse—with reference to the judgment chic
agents, and the perfect solidity of the powerful body
they represent ; these,and other considerations, art
Ic°
out of the peculiar character iwl
of the Chinese nation, h„. -
stitute the Company powerful opponents to those o's*""
private traders, may enter upon the competition• tit°
sufficient amount of judgment be infused into co.
multifarious details connected with the free Prose of , /,
tion of the trade, then must the superior ecnn°l4o.l'
the individual in his arrangements, and the
dispatch which will attend his operations, e'er
-him to surmount the difficulties which poSsessi_,°lloo
the ground, unsullied integrity in their transact.'enos
and that tact whiCh long residence and exPerloot
have given to the Company and their agents'
unquestionably oppose to his undertaking. Sod •
It frequently happens that all which foresight
judgment have determined upon, as conducive to a Mich
cessful issue in public affairs, and the measures
those qualities have dictated, as essentials to that ib,
are defeated or overruled by events or circumstayee
most fortuitous and unforeseen in their occurren'o ,sd •
their consequences. We shall not be surprised t,lB to'
this observation, a short time hence, strictly aPPlieliu,„•oe it
the China trade; and our reason for such a suprns'!' w
KPl3to to
grounded on the pyre's] of a series of roperl

Oct()Eta 8, 1833.
4/ 7,1.•

a sova.
. be made in the course of last year by the ship
4 !Worst, in the. Company's employ. We haVe long been
impressed with an Opinion, that the occasional interrup-
teleas.given by the Chinese authorities to the trade of the
oio°r°l3anY in teas, would, at no very distant period, lead
iosome endeavour being made to carry it on through
other channels than the solitary port of Canton ; and our
.t..notions were more decidedly confirmed upon this point,
the moment that the last interruption took place,
about tWo years ago. It is unnecessary for us here to
claire how far the voyage of the _Amherst arose out of
ilnat occurrence. It is sufficient to state that a Compa-
. ship—not only without the instructions of the Direc-
coirs at home, but evidently, as appears by the documents
question, to their great annoyance—did make • .tt voy-
age along the north east coast of d put into several
with the
did trade, and hold many communications
the Mandarins and other authorities of the " celestial
empire." It is equally clear, front the reports made by
two Persons in the Company's employ, engaged in the
v
t °Yege, that a strong impression exists on their minds as
2.the possibility of conducting an extensive trade upon
this hitherto untrodden and strictly-forbidden ground ;
and the details show that such a trade might be made to
ibclucle, among other things; large• transactions in teas.
'low far the course pursued by the -parties .engaged in
the Conduct of the voyage may have been consistent with
strict prudence, or whether that course was not liable to
fair objection in many respects, is a matter upon which
we may venture to express some doubts, not to be more
etPlicit. That, however, is a question upon which doubts
er opinions would now be'nflittle avail. The main con-
alderation at the 'moment is this ;—that, whereas the
.trade between the East India Company and China has
hitherto been carried on exclusively through the port of
C4ntotl, It has been proved, and that by persons in the
employ of the Company, that fine ports, populous cities,
extensive trading districts, and great facilities for corn-
1/?eree, are to be found along the north east coast of that
I,_°lllltrY• How far the jealousies of the government may
"I relaxed to allow of.such.c.iransnstances beinevrendexted.
available for commercial purposes, is a matter that the
future alone can determine. The fact is established that
those oPportunities and facilities do exist.
.The circumstances attending the voyage were briefly
these:--On the 26th of February, last year, the Amherst
sailed on the expedition—touched at several ports, and
reached Macao, .on her return, the sth of eptember, hav-
ing Occupied somewhat more than six months in the un-
(lertaking. Mr. HUGH HAMILTON 'LINDSAY; secretary,
and
the Rev. Mr. GUTZLAFF, a clergyman, long resident
in China, and an excellent linguist, accompanied the
tc,kern, and made their separate reports, bearing date
e lOth of October last, at considerable length ; particu-
arly that of Mr. LINDSAY, in the form of a journal or
narrative. It appears that the Court of Directors were
ttetittainted with these occurrences on the 6th of March
last;
since, on that day, they expressed their disapproba-
,°n of the mission, in a despatch to the President and
doeleet
Committee of Supercargoes at Canton; to which
ArPateh they refer in a more detailed one of the Sth of
waY, that can scarcely Vet.have reached its destination.
e mention these dates to show the recent 'character of
the whole matter. Whether the disapprobation expressed
rels founded chiefly upon apprehended mischief with the
lln"e
authorities, in consequence of so decided a (led-
a;°ll from the established practice of the Company—or
nether the spirit of monopoly, and dread of future con-
letlences to their commercial interests, through the en-
'PrizeZ of private merchants, had its full share in inducing
-e'l
disapprobation on the part of the court, are points
beyond our power to determine. There is, however, suf-
7.seent that is interesting in the despatch of the Court of!
Directors, as well as in the reports of Mr. GUTZLAFF and
fir.
LINDSAY, to induce us to give extracts front them, as
Lie and space may permit, preparatory to the publication
Il°rne important tables and statements, relative to the
:la and China trades, to which we intend devoting
bi
-111°12 of our succeeding publication.

In Blackwood's Magazine for the present month there
18 a review of the "Memoirs of Marshal Ney," in which
We find some interesting: speculations upon the great
vents in the life of NAPOLEON, and particularly upon his
'net:laced invasion of England. The reviewer ascribes the•
defeat of BONAPAIME'S plans'rnore to the-slemiervietarY;
of Sin ROBERT Cs.t.ime than to the splendid triumphs of
NELsos. That the invasion was seriously determined
upon is now adulated by those who were for years the
toast ineredulous on the subject, and the writer in Black-
wood is of opinion that it would have been carried into
efreet, hut for the accidental rencounter between VILLE-
-I:Ellviz and CALDER which prevented the French 'admirals
from concentratinfr their fleets in the channel, at the
tune when Lord NELSON was actually led away by a false
went in pursuit of the enemy, to the West Indies. On
b-cie grounds it is contended that Sir ROBERT CALDER,
by
"Inpelling VILLENEUVE to fall back upon. Cadiz,
entirely, though unconsciously, frustrated the " greatest
11nd best combined project ever formed by the Emperor
INAPotEosie' The point is ably argued by the reviewer,.
4 d although its admission goes to overturn the opinions
wn
hiCh have hitherto prevailed,, still this should not cause
tehq surprise, when it is considered that the evidence and
best proofs of the fact have but recently transpired.
that
Onliey painful part of the_now settled controversy is
which relates to Sir ROBERT CALDER himself. He
oad fou
ht
g VILLENEUVE against fearful odds, CALDER
NRc," °nly seventeen ships of the line, while VILLE-,
t* 'l3 had twenty-seven—fought and beat him—captured
Ca (!hi3 ships, and compelled the rest to take refuge in
si Notwithstanding this victory, for such it was,
fr: ROBERT CALDER was brought to a court-martial, dis-
aeed, and dismissed his Majesty's service. The adtni-
n.l!tration of that day were averse from bringing the
o`admiral to trial, but public opinion, speaking through the
uAuse of Commons, compelled them, as it usually does,
`l° an act of injustice, in utter ignorance of • the nature
d circlets of CALDER'S despised and condemned victory.
tAt we willingly turn, the leaf upon the melancholy. sub-
31e. et, and
allow air k_,HRISTOPHER NORTII himself, or his
ileUtenant, to Pursue his speculations upon those fiat-
outtotned boats and that terrible invasion which were
W°llt to scare the dreams of our childhood, when the men
of. 016 present day, then armed with swords of lath and
muskets of titaber, and sixpenny cannons, used to draw
themselves up 'in military order, and tit themselves for
the combat which was hourly expected. Ebony loquitur :
t; is a curious speculation, now that the event is over,
what would have been the, fate of England, if Napoleon, with
otte hundred and fifty thousandinen, had, in censequence of the.
itleCess of these combinations, landed ou the shores of Sussex.
We are now compelled, with shame and sorrow, to abandon
the doctrine which, till the list three years, we held on this
letject, tit d are decidedly of opinion, that he woald hare
7cltleved the overthrow of the British empire. Not that the mere
e of Napoleon's army, great as it was,
could have in the end
litNligated the descendants of the conquerors of Cressy and Agin-
enurt. The examples of Vimeira, Maida, Alexandria,Corunna,
dad Waterloo, where
treops who had never seen a shot
_r,!: in anger, at once defeated the veterans Of France, even-
-I_euert commanded by the ablest officers, is sufficient to prove the
see rile. England was invincible -if she remained faithful to her-
-18 Sot would she have remained faithful to herself ? That
.re goestion. The events of the last. three years, have awa-
ka"44 to the mournful conviction that she would not."
It,
words With shame and. sorrow"that we read these
in-rnackwood's Magazine. Is the old man getting
thM:tnish ? Has the mountain dew lost its virtue ? Is
to`retrlo breeze npon the. hills, no trout in the streams,
no :41,T: 10331.0 n Benvenue, no music , the bagpipes,
or in the peat reek Alas it would appear so,
. My our
with Wlai ancient ally of the north, who has battled
tip
NApoLgsoisian,:,J,,rob ins all his life, would not conjure
face of theE earth, itnl ° ;incibles," long since swept from the
hallowed cauldron of larnnevoaluntiaodnd.itional charm in the un-
We not only differ from our friend on this subject, but
We eutertain an opinion
vasic.n
of B__
APART with respect to the threatened in-
one,
althoug'hN
we E 2 Which is -by no means an isolated
we
aedne.ver yet seen it. avowed in the
discussion. It is,p Peace is
from our gate. t‘ desirable to keep war away
an attribute of religion, and we
e4rnestly prily that it may prevail in our time. It is our
national boast that for
teign foe has landed .upon a l
Our mg, period of years e f
ro-
Q.
4.1.i.ul
aao
Our homes we
reu, our hearths
c?Ilr kbyr.ss our altars

undesecrated, while the spawn of the French revolution
overit fortli as a band of robbers, and spread desolation
over the rest of Europe. For this we can never be
sufficiently thanl.ful.

But We cannot help thinking that NAPOLEON's threatened
invasion, bad it taken place, would have done good
service, and been a salutary example to the people of the
present generation. The writer in Blaikwood imagines
that the levellers of the present day are more numerous
than they were at the commencement of the present
century. This we must. take leave to deny. They are
numerous enough, Gud knows, but for our presentpoliti-
,
cal unions, composed of the scum of society, we had then
corresponding societies, the members of Which were of
a more respectable grade. There were two hundred
thousand sworn rebels and traitors in Ireland. We had
republicans in every street—wild enthusiasts, half mad,
worshipping the Goddess of Reason—shallow empirics
and desperate knaves shouting " liberty" in every pot-
house—and the government of that day had great diffi-
culty, in hanging a few of the leaders, transporting a few
more, and keeping in proper subjection the mass. We
have no such men now, at least in England. The men
who preach resistance to the taxes, no church, no King,
Sze. &c., are, hardly worth powder-and shot. The French
revolution has lost its charm. It came like an angel's
smile, and went like the vision of a demon—beautiful at
first, but all begrimed, horridly mangled, and covered
with blood, at last. Our countrymen have discovered
that it was a splendid fraud, like a 'murderer disguised in
a virgin's rObes. Its " freedom" was tyranny, fur it
ushered in the foulest despotism that ever was established
on the face of the whole world. The debased wretches
of Paris did not so deem it,.for they hugged their chains
like galley slaves; but the rest of Europe is not so easily
imposed upon.
It is after a mature consideration of these incontrover-
tible facts that we have come to the conclusion that a dash
of invasion would have heei4 useful
.to our countrymen.
Sir CHRISTOPHER thinks that an hundred and fifty thousand
,F-reachmea,..haeoled- thtinnpriaciplea .or the still
more unprincipled BONAPARTE, assisted by the EngliSh
jacobins and the Irish rebels, • would have overturned the•
government, and destroyed the British empire. The foes
from without, and the heartless foes from within, says our
friend, would have put an end to the British monarchy.
We respect age and good intentions, but we must vote
against the assumption. Our conviction beats the other
way. We are satisfied that the invasion of England would
have been, at a much earlier period, a more perilous one
to the fortunes onslarotaoN than his subsea cent invasion
of Russia proved to be. We will suppose, for the sake
of illustration, that two hundred thousand Frenchmen had
landed on the shores of Kent or Sussex, and that without
any materially opposing obstacles they had reached Lon-
don. Before reaching it, however, let it be borne in mind,
that at least one-half uf that " first city in the world" would
have been burnt or laid in ruins :—a serious calamity we
concede. In London the invaders, as a matter of course,
Would have been joined by all the towering jacobins and
republicans of the day. Old HARDY, the shoemaker and
patriot, now defunct, would have hoisted the tri-coloured
flag. HORNE TOOKE, the schoolmaster, would have taken
the oath of allegiance to BONAPARTE. WATT, who was
hanged, and Sxravrao, of the corresponding society, who
was banished, would have gone over to the invader. Poor
.WarrumaN, had he been Lord Mayor, would have pre-
sented the Corsican with the keys of the city on London
Bridge. THELIVALL, " who lectures as he goes," (we
quote the rhymes of CANNING,) would have joined
him. BURDETT Might also have been seduced into trea-
son, for which his bead and lands would have had to pay
afterwards. The HUNTS, FEARONS, PEARSONS. WHAL-
LEYS, BISHES, FAITHFULS, STEVENS, WOOLER% HARMERS,
and such like respectable persons, would have paid court
to the Emperor!- Some ten thousand thieves, swindlers,
and other rogues'in desperate circumstances, would have
gone over to the cause of " reason and freedom." The
gaols would have disgorged their myriads of true and
tried patriots. In the provinces, perhaps, a few thousands
of shirtless weavers would have joined the invader's " in-
vincibles." The rqublican!l of Liverpool, to:the number
of half-a-dozen dozens, would have followed the example.
Thirty or forty of the.aristocratic Whigs, perhaps, would
also have taken rank nrider NAPOLEON, 'and swelled his
-conquering tra sbor4 ire tvviitZl bate ensuarec"ftfie'
vilest portion of our population—caught all the bad—all
the felons—all the infainous of avast community.
Here, then, we give NAPOLEON a free passage for two
hundred thousand Frenchmen, (more than Blackwood
bargains fur) and fifty thousand more of the dross of our
countrymen ; and we moreover give him possession of
the remaining houses, the re-opened gin-shops, and the
ruins of the metropolis. What then ? The battle is
not half begun. We have got the invader on our soil.—
We have him housed in St. James's Palace. He is strut-
ting upon English carpets, eating beef from the fens, and
drinking wine from Portugal. But we have him, and his
resources are cut off: We have our mountains far north,
as the last retreat. We have five hundred thousand vo-
lunteers and militia. We have an hundred thousand
brave Orangemen in Ireland, whose fathers shed their
blood at the Boyne. We have twice that number from
Scotland. We have the northern counties of England
bristling with bayonets. We have hardy loyalists from
Devon and Cornwall, who would not do child's play in a
case of this sort. We have our . aristocracy, with the
exception of a few base Whigs, ready to waste their best
blood in a cause so dear to their patriotism. and their
household honour.

We have been faMiliarly speaking in the present tense,
but we revert to the past for the sake of correctness.—
Having given the invader the aid of- domestic traitors,
let us see how short would .have been his triumph. How
short ? A month ? ; we give him three months;
at the end of which period be would .have been cut to
atoms piecemeal, and not a single man of his invading
horde would have been permitted to return to France to
tell the fate of his comrades. NpxsoN-, returned from the
West Indies, would' have taken care of the channel. Our
fleets would have surrounded the island. No Frenchman
would have been spared by sea or land. The invaders,
in a very few weeks, would have been annihilated, and
BONAPARTE, instead of dying at St.' Helena, would per-
haps have found a grave in some convenient ditch on the
western borders of Yorkshire.

But this would have been no triumph. His two bun
dr,tl thousand men would not have been a mouthful.—
We should have pitied them '; for to a dead certainty they
were entered, as soon as they landed, in our obituary rolls.
As to the English Whigsand Jacobins who joined BONA-
PARTE, they would have undergone the same fate, and the
same funereal rites. Such of them who did not fight—
and this would have been the minority—would have lived
to enjoy the honour -of being hanged. Perhaps a few
hundreds would have been shot, but the favour would
have been too expensive to confer upon all. Hanging
would have been the order of the day. London would.
haVe been purged of its scoundrelly and gallows-ordained
Patriots.- Its jurors, who protect murderers, would have
received a seasonable hint. • Its bankrupt shopkeepers
would have been taught a lesson. Its Philosophers would
have been drenched in the gore of republican politics.—
The scum would have been skimmed from the surface of
the waves of agitation, and as a recruiting serjeant once
said to the Mayor of Exeter, "I am a medical practi-
tioner in the physical world, sent to remove, by my re-
medies, the moral fever, which is as destructive as it is
contagious."

Whatever the timid, the. falsehearted, or the pluckless
may say, (Ctintsroputalinows what we mean,) we contend
that the invasion of England by BONAPARTE would have
been—his own ruin of course, and the shame of France
to boot, but also the glory of England, inasmuch as it
must have insured the annihilation of all.the gangrened
politicians who have lived to disturb public happiness
during the long period when our very existence as a
nation seemed to be at the mercy of a military robber.
But NAPOLEON is .dead, and with the dead we war not.
We thank him fOr k.Oping the degraded Parisians in
check and in chains—we thank him for grinding and
trampling upon them—we thank him for making them
slaves and tools-and when we have ari.Opportunity we
shall, in honour of 010 deceased, sprinkle .salt upon his
tomb,

We understand that some sort of a concert was given
last night at, the Amphitheatre, for the private benefit of
a remnant of those distinguished artists whose services
were so unboundedly rewarded during the festival. We
have no wish to underrate talent : but after such a tor-
rent of music, so well repaid by an exchange of sove-
reigns for notes, we had a right to expect some sense of
gratitude or liberality on the part of the performers.
The conduct of the managers of the festival, in ma-
king the reporters fur the journals pay for their admis-
sions, as if they were receiving instead of conferring a
favour, borders as much as possible upon what is called
shabbiness, and strews the very low'rate at which the Li-
verpool press has hitherto been estimated by the musical
committee. "They advertise with us !" Very true,
but very stingily ; so much so, that had they expended
twice as much in giving publicity to their intended per-
formances, their receipts would have been increased, and
they would have conferred a greater favour upon those
charities of which they are the patrons. They advertise
—why ? Because they are bound to do so—because pub-
licity is indispensable—and they pay for their advertise-
ments, because they cannot well avoid it. But are these
sufficient reasons for compelling the press to pay for ad-
mission tickets, in order to discharge an-irksome, a labo-
rious, and a very disagreeable duty ? A little acquaint-
ance with the fashionable world would teach gentlemen
that such treatment is unmerited, and extremely illiberal,
if not prejudicial to the benevolent object they have in
view. In addition to this, it has been represented to us
that the conduct of some of the directors, or subordinate
directors, was ill suited to the_ situation they filled, and even
harsh and uncourteous. We have no wish to go further
into details, nor shall we, unless -compelled ; but we hope
these blemishes will be corrected on the next occasion.

But if we have reason to complain of the officials of the
festival, we have.much stronger grounds for deprecating
the meanness of the performers, for whose benefit the con-
cert of last night was designed. TheSTANDARD had no re-
presentative present, for this plain reason, we have,had a
surfeit, and were not to be fleeced a second time. We have
paid endirgliTo7Variii.driy- already; and a C"olitribUtiOli from-
this establishMent to. Madame MALIBRAN, Signor DON-
ZELLI, and M. DE BERIOT, after the compensation they
Pave received, strikes us to be pitching the notetoo high,
and singing tremendously out of tune., We bid them
adieu with all respect, in the hope that the next time
they honour Liverpool with a visit they may better de-
serve the commendation we have bestowed and the for-
bearance we have shown. These people should not give
themselves too many airs.