The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-04-12 00:00:00

LOCAL.

THEATRICALS.—That agreeable actress and accomplished
singer, Miss Fanriy Ayton, is performing at the Liver ThOatre.
Her style of singing is peculiar, and her execution is very
beautiful, and sometimes brilliant. She warbles through pas-
sages of considerable length with great rapidity and delicacy
of tones, sounding each note distinctly, and generally ending
in a swell of the voice that is at once rich and powerful. The
comic burletta of Cupid the God of Love, was well got up; and
the opening scene, which discovers Jupiter holding his court on
Mount Olympus, is exceedingly good. The wit of the piece
consists in making the Gods use the slang phraseology of St.
Giles, and we must do the author the justice of saying, that he
has culled the choicest flowers of that classic region of taste
and refinement. This does very well in cockaiyne, where vulgar
conceit is conspicuous, and, therefore, better understood than
we hope it will be for many a day in Liverpool. Mr. Hammond
is a good actor, but has no voice, and, therefore, should not
attempt to sing even comic songs and we hope, for the Jionour
of the provincial stage, that a better Apollo than Mr. Brandon
is to be had for love or money; bad the God of Song been.be-
hind the scenes, on Wednesday night, we should not' -like to
have been his bail for any serious amount, that he would not
have broken Mr. Brandon's head, and his Majesty's peace at
the same time. Mrs. Raymond dressed the part of Psyche
prettily, and performed it very well. She is a clever actress,
and a pretty woman into the bargain.
PARISH EcoNomv:—We are credibly informed that at the
Easter Vestry, in the neighbouring parish of Chifdwall, a Dis.
senter proosed a new Communion cloth in place of the old,
faded, moth-eaten one, which had covered the table for the last
huridred years, and that the Churchmen present out-voted him
-and refused the grant!

A FlRE.—About one o'clock yesterday morning one of the
bed-rooms in the Golden Lion Inn, Dale-street, was discovered
to be on fire. Although the flames presented a most alarming
aspect, /et, by the most strenuous exertions of some of the fire-
men, particularly the captain of the West of England engine,
assisted by Mr, Parlour, they were soon got under. The acci-
dent, we understand, occurred through the carelessness of a
gentleman-who put up at the hotel, who had left his candle
burning after he had gone to bed.

DAY OF THANKSGIVING.—Sunday next is the day appointed
for a general thanksgiving to Almighty God, to acknowledge
his great goodness in removing from us the grievous disease
with which several places in this kingdom have been lately
visited.

We are requested to correct a statement made in the Vestry
on Tuesday, by Mr. Turner, one of the overseers, relative to the
Low-hill Workhouse. lie stated that the cost of each pauper
there was 2s. lid per week; instead of the fact, that the whole
cost of 55 paupers for the last year was £450 lls. 3d., or 3s. 14d.
each per week, and that if the West Derby Workhouse ac-
counts had nut been credited with £4O 15s. 11d. for water rents
received from the neighbours, the actual cost of each pauper to
the parish would have been 3s. 51. each per week. The pau-
pers in our Workhouse, we see from the report, cost 3s. each per
week, including every expense, such as Fever Hospital, repairs
of building, insurances, &c.

MIRROR OF PARLIAMENT.—PubIic attention has been fre-
quently of late directed to a- publication hitherto but compara-
tively little known to the community at Yarge. We allude to
the Mirror of Parliament, being a full rep:at of the debates in
both houses, avid exhibiting, during each session, a complete his-
tory of the sayings and doings of the British legislature. • At a
vast expense, and by perhaps the perfection of the stenographic
art, this work has been matured to a pitch of accuracy scarcely
susceptible of farther improvement, and although not yet of-
ficially recognized by government, it is by tacit a,greement of
all parties, bOthin the Lords and Commons, invariably referred.
to as an authentic record of parliamentary proceedings.. These
reports remove a strange anomaly in our political literature,
there having previously existed no perfect collection of the de-
bates to which the public could refer with implicit confidence
and satisfaction. This national want is now supplied by the
Mirror of Parliament; and whether from the universality of the
i topics t embraces, or the fund of information elicited in their
discussion, we know of no work so well calculated to enable a
man (to use Burke's phrase) "to read up to the times." Every
man, indeed, who aspires to superior intelligence in this intel-
ligent age, will find it well worth, not merely an occasional re-
ference at the club or the news room, but frequent study and
consultation in the library. As a record, the Mirror of Parlia-
ment is invaluable, and will derive increasing interest from the
present period, an sera in our parliamentary history, when so
many questions of paramount importance are on the eve of dis-
cussion. A gentleman, we are informed, has arrived in Liver-
pool on the part of the proprietors, with a view to promote the
circulation of the work, and we gladly avail ourselves of the op-
portunity to offer our testimony of its merit. We hope so spi-
rited an undertaking will meet with encouragement from the
public spirit of our town, of which we have no doubt the leading
men will become 'subscribers. The work is published twice a
week during the session.