The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-30 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

LOCAL NEWS.

LAUNCII.—On Tuesday, a fine barque called the Lau-
rina, and intended for the West India trade, was launched
from the building yard of Mr. P. Cato, Brunswick Dock.
She will be placed under the command of Capt. Barr, is
about 200 tons burthen, 90 feet in length, 24 in breadth,
and 15 in depth.
CAUTION TO PARENTS.—On Saturday, at High Tran-
mere, a female child, named Coker, set herself on fire in
playing with lucifer matches in the absence of her mother.
She lingered till the next day, and then expired in great
agony. An inquest was held the following Monday, and
a verdict of accidental death returned.
OFFICE BROKEN OPEN.—On Monday night, the office
of Mr. Deakin, coal merchant, Leeds-street, was broken
open, and the brass work of a large clock stolen there-
from. Some of the works were afterwards found in the
cellar of Cecilia Connor, Hodgson-street. John Morri-
son and James Enear were in the cellar at the time, and
said they found the articles. They were committed as the
thieves, and Connor as the receiver. Mr. Deakin said
the office was regularly broken open three times a year.
SAILOR'S `WRONGS.—On Wednesday, at 'Change time,
from five to six hundred men assembled in the Exchange
Arena, to impress upon the merchants their desire, which
was expressed in a memorial, that their cause should be
sanctioned by employers generally, so that by resort to
an economical and honest registry the men would be
taken out of the hands of those who make exorbitant
charges for shipping them, for cashing their notes, sup-
plying them with clothing, &c. Their claims were listened
to with much attention.

PUBLIC-HOUSE ROBBERY.—Between the hours of four
and six p.m. on Tuesday last, the house of Mr. Halliday,
sign of " The Letters," Fletcher-street, Toxteth-park,
was entered by thieves, and the sum of £7O in cash ab-
stracted from the bed-room. The following articles were
also taken :—A sea-green coloured cornelian stone, a sold
brooch, set with white stone, a gold brooch, hair taken
out, a virgin gold ring, set with crystals, a mourning ring,
a pair black ear-rings, two or three foreign coins, and
two crooked sixpences.
INGRATITUDE.—On Thursday week, Mr. Jos. Dunn
warehouseman, Fleet•street, whilst in the house of Mr:
Williams, Robert-street North, met with a person named
Thomas Evans, who said he knew many of his friends.
After some conversation, Mr. Williams invited him to his
house, and gave him a night's lodging, with parties sleep-
ing in the same bed. In the morning Evans departed,
taking with him the watch of his companion, who, being
unwell, was unable to quit his room. On Wednesday,
Williams met Evans in the street, when he seized him,
and handed him over to the police. On Thursday he was
committed for trial.
A FALSE ALARM.—On Wednesday evening last, a fe-
male, well known to the police, was found in the streets,
conducting herself in a disorderly manner. She was taken
into custody, and after reaching the bridewell, complained
that the pains of labour were coming upon her. Her per-
sonal appearance, as well as her behaviour, convinced the
officers that she would soon gin birth to another sublect
of her majesty, and of course a surgeon was immediately
sent for. When the medical gentleman arrived, the fe-
male burst into a fit of laughter, and during the paroxysm
was safely delivered of a quantity of cotton wool, &c.,
which she had concealed under her clothes for the pur-
pose of making her appear to be encienle.
THE CONVICT ROBERTS.—In noticing the execution of
this unfortunate man, the Liverpool limes says, " That
he died justly cannot be denied, for he had been the
means of hurrying into eternity a man who had done him
no injury, and who at the time he was killed was doing
nothing more than his duty to his employers." We are
glad to find that there is at least one even among the or-
gans of the Liberals that is not afraid to say that it is just
to take away life in punishment of murder. We are
happy to have such a corroboration of our own views,
and such a testimony against the sickly effeminacy of
those tender souls who think society cannot even spare
its murderers.

APPREHENSION OF SUPPOSED BURGLARS.—OD Wed-
nesday evening, in consequence of information received,
officers M'Comb and Ainsworth proceeded to the house
of Philip Maxwell, in Russell-street, where they found
concealed in a box twenty-six skeleton keys, a crow bar,
and other implements used by burglars. Maxwell, his
brother Henry, Joseph Haghan, and Joseph Ashton, who
were known to associate together, were found at a disor-
derly house next door, and taken into custody. Philip
Maxwell was sent to gaol for three months, for having
possession of the articles. Henry, who was identified as
being one of the party who made an attempt with George
Baker and " Nottingham Charlie" to rob the premises of
a poor woman in Copperas-hill, was also committed, for
three months. The other two were remanded, on suspi-
cion of beine engaged in robbing the house of Mr. Halli-
day, Fletcher-street.

THE MAHOGANY TRADE.—Since our last quotations
the periodical sale of Messrs. Chaloner and Fleming and
Messrs Duncan and Ewing have been held. The amount
of business transacted has been extensive, upwards of
172.000 feet of St. Domingo, 120,880 feet of Honduras,
with two parcels of Cuba Mahogany having been sold,
leaving the stock in first hands comparatively small. The
quotations, this week, are as follow :—Of 120,880 feet of
Honduras offered the whole was sold at from 54d. to 2s.
or 71(1. per foot average. Of three parcels of St. Do-
mingo offered 74,690 feet were sold, at from 81-d. to 55.,
or ls. 31d. per foot average; 73,000 feet at from 61d. to
Bs. 9d., or is. 2d. per foot average; and 24,400 feet at
from Bd. to Is. 11d. or ls. ltd. per foot average. Of
two parcels of Cuba offered one was sold at from 7d. to
101 d. per foot, the other from Qd. to ls. 7d. per foot.
Of three parcels of lancewood spars offered, 1,550 were
sold at from 9s. 9d. to 12s. each ; 450 at from 3s. to 4s. Gil.
each ; and 196 at from 7s. to is. Gd. each. The results
of these sales clearly prove that Liverpool still maintains
the position she has long held of being the first market
in Europe for the best assortments of rich cabinet-mak-
ing, machine-making, coach-building, and other fancy
woods.

ROBBERY AT WINSTANLEY'S AUCTION-ROOMS.—Be-
tween the hours of three and four o'clock on Sunday
morning last, the officer on duty in the neighbourhood of
Church-street discovered, on going his rounds through
Brookes'-alley, the back-door leading into Messrs. Thos.
Winstanley and Co.'s auction-room wide open, which, a
short time before, had been perfectly secure. He im-
mediately raised an alarm, and, on procuring assistance,
discovered that thieves had been on the premises, and
that they had succeeded in effecting their escape. It ap-
peared, from the state in which they had left the place,
that a serious robbery had been contemplated, and that
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to get into Brookes'-alley, and no tidings of them have
since been discovered. It is said that had they succeeded
in smashing the safe, they would have found a consider-
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NAPOLEON'S CHARGER, " SUPERDE," CAGED 38,)
NOW AT THE ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—This noble
animal was captured by General Orloff, in 1813, in the
disastrous retreat from Moscow. He was a great favour-
ite with the emperor, and the companion of many of his
most successful campaigns. He remained in the pos-
session of Orloff, at St. Petersburgh, till 1834, when he
was presented to the father of M. Tourniaire (now here),
then director of the Imperial Circus, and much esteemed
for his professional abilities, as well as respected for his
devotion to the memory of the late emperer. Orloff, in
presenting him, literally said,—" Jaques Tourniaire, you
were greatly attached to the late Emperor of France, and
your attachment honours you. You are known to be a
friend to horses ; and, satisfied of the care he will receive
at your hands, to you I confide this my greatest favourite.
Superbe is too slight for my use—l have grown too heavy
for him. To sell him to a strange master is a fate I can-
not think of subjecting him to. To you, therefore, I
entrust him ; and, as you loved him to whom he first be-
longed, you will, I am sure, cherish Superbe for the
memory of the owner, as well as for his own sake." This
trust was discharged with exemplary devotion by the
elder Tourniaire, who, on his death in 1839, left him to
his present owner—Mons. Tourniaire, whose tenderness
towards him is but evidenced by his advanced age. He
has frequently refused large sums for him. Superbe is a
white, or rather very light gray, Arabian, and is sixteen
hands high. He is now incapable of much exertion, and
little is assigned to him in the piece now being performed ;
but it is interesting to see him introduced on the stage
with one who is the very resemblance of his once imperial
but long deceased master ; and affecting to witness him—
his ear still quick to the martial tone of the war-horn—
join, riderless, in the mimic funeral procession of that ex-
traordinary man, with whom he was a great favourite.
PARISH EXPENDITURE.—The poor law commission-
ers, having perceived great discrepancies in the annual
expenses of this parish, called upon the Select Vestry to
furnish them with a return of the expenditure of the pa-
rish. This document having been prpared, we have been
enabled to obtain a copy of it, and now proceed to lay an
abstract of it before our readers --In 1840, the ordinary
exenditure amounted to £48,443 13s. 31d., exclusive of
extra payments, amounting to £2,919 9s. Od. In 1841,
the ordinary expenditure, exclusive of £1,230 Ils. Ild.
paid for extras, amounted to £50,387 10s. Od. Of this
sum, £11,492 13s. 10d. was for in-door maintainance,
and £20,451 12s. 7d, for our-door relief. The establish-
ment charges were £7,999 3s. 7d1., and the sum of
£10,443 19s. 111 d. appears under the head " other char-
ges." In 1842, the ordinary expenditure reached £51,822
Os. 3d., whilst the extra expenditure, including £1,023
ss. Bd. expended in parliamentary expenses, amounted
to £9,312 Os. 6d. Of the ordinary expenditure, £10,494
Bs. 7d. were for in-door maintainance, and £22,455 14s.
7d. for out-door relief. The establishment charges reached
£8,335 3s. 9d., whilst under the bead "other charges "
is an item of £10,496 13s. 7d. From the above state-
ment, it will be seen that, in 1841, the sum paid for the
maintainance of the poor was £31,994 6s. 5d., whilst the
expenses of management, &c., amounted to the enormous
sum of £18,443 3s. 7d., to say nothing of the extra pay-
ments, amounting to £1,230 lls. Ild ; and that in 1842,
whilst the expense of the poor was £33,050 2s. Ild., the
expenses of management, &c., were £18.831 17s. 2d, and
the parish was burdened with an expenditure of £9,312
Os. 3d. The contracts in 1841 only reached the sum of
£2,513 18s. 9d., and in 1842 they were £2,581 17s. Od.
In 1841, the law expenses, exclusive of £lOO annually
paid to Mr. Wainewright, of London, were £853 13s. sid ;
and in 1842, exclusive of £1,023 ss: Bd, for parliament-
ary expenses, and £lOO to Mr. Wainewright, they were
£915 7s. 2d.

SHIPMENT OF CIGARS TO THE ISLE OF MAN.—A di-
versity of practice having prevailed at the ports of London
and Liverpool, in regard to cigars allowed to be shipped
under license to the Isle of Man, the officers at the port
of London requiring that the shipment be made in pack-
ages of not less than 3001 b. weight each, whereas at Li-
verpool shipments are permitted in packages under that
weight; and as cigars may now be legally imported and
exported in packages of not less than 1001 b. weight net,
the Board of Customs have issued directions that cigars
be in future alloyed to be exported to the Isle of Man
under license in packages of 1001 b. net weight and up-
wards, and that the terms of the license be altered ac-
cordingly.—Globe.
PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.—We
have seen and carefully inspected several of Messrs. Simi,-
EON, ALEXANDER, and Co.'s Pneumatic Life-Presf?rt ers,
invented by Mr. F. Wilkins, an engineer, and registered
by act of parliament. This life-preserver may be pro-
cur,eodr ofas any
many size,
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ber of great strength, covered and protected on both sides
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by strong twilled cloth ; and it appeared to us to be supe-
rior to all inflating apparatus previously before the public,
first, from its simplicity, and the ease and readiness with
which it may be brought into operation ; secondly, from
its being so peculiarly portable that one of the largest kind
may be stowed away in a sea-chest, while its total weight
would not exceed 84 lbs. ; and, thirdly, from its being of
triangular form, so that it cannot be overturned in a sea-
way. These preservers are covered all over with strong
netting for hand hold, and being, however, stiffly inflated
as soft and elastic as a bladder filled with air, a child in
the water would receive no injury by being struck on the
head by one of the largest of them, thrown overboard. In
this latter respect they are greatly superior to cork life-
buoys, and infinitely so to anything of the tub kind, as
they inflict no blow or injury to the party seizing or using
them. They are, moreover, so manufactured, and put to-
gether in compartments by a strongly adhesive prepara-
tion of caoutchuc, forming a marine or water-proof glue,
without sewing, (which more or less weakens the cloth by
numerous perforations,) that they are not liable to be
damaged by coming in contact with a piece of wreck, or
other hard body ; or, indeed, to become, in any way, de-
ranged or out of order. They are usually half black and half
white, so that they may be more readily seen in a sea-way,
or during the night. They have been well tested both on
the Humber and the Thames, and are highly approved by
the officers of the admiralty, from whom Mr. Wilkins has
brought letters of introduction to nautical gentlemen in
Liverpool. He has also brought letters from members of
parliament, and other persons of high standing, to some
of the first individuals in the town. Numerous instances
may be cited weekly, and often daily, in which vessels
have been lost, and their crews, in part or in whole,
perished ; whereas, had this valuable apparatus been pro-
vided. either by owners or the parties themselves, they
would have been saved from a watery grave. Those who
go to sea, whether as passengers, or as mariners, and who
are of course exposed to the possibility of shipwreck,
foundering, or accidentally falling or being washed over-
board, would do well to give their best and early attention
to this important invention. The price of the article is,
we may add, comparatively low, and it may be seen, of
various sizes, at Mr. Tuff's, 19, South John-street.
ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—The historical and military
drama entitled " NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE," has been
performed every evening during the past week, and pro-
mises to have a run of a fortnight or three weeks longer.
The enthusiastic reception it has met with is as creditable
to the public taste as the gorgeous and perfect manner in
which it is got up, is to the talent and liberality of the ma-
nagement. The circumstances under which it is produced
invest it with an additional and peculiar interest, which
could not be attained by any other equestrian company in
the world. In the first place, it was written by Mons.
Caravello, who himself sustains a prominent character in
the piece; and after being played many nights, with un-
bounded applause, in all the principal towns on the con-
tinent, where it was acknowledged to convey a faithful
portraiture of the character and peculiarities of the great
military idol of France, is presented for the first time in
this country, under his superintendence. Secondly, Na-
poleon is personated by Mons. Benoit Tourniaire, an ar-
dent admirer of the departed hero, whose memory he che-
rishes with a devotion which a Frenchman alone can duly
appreciate, and who introduces one of the identical horses
(now 38 years old) which bore his prototype in many a
battle field. Thirdly, the dialogue is maintained in French
by the Emperor's adherents, and in English by his oppo-
nents. Fourthly, the double company, French and Eng-
lish, in strong numbers and in ability ; the identical
dresses worn by the French generals are put in requisi-
tion; the stud of horses also numerous and beautiful, and
lastly, the scenery and machinery new and most effective,
and the stage accommodation of such extent as to show
off the professional and military movements to the best
advantage. The drama embraces, in a series of tableaux,
the principal exploits in the eventful life of the great cap-
tain of France—from 1790 to his defeat at Waterloo in
1815, together with his illness and death at St. Helena, sub-
sequent to the funeral procession in Paris, and finally the
" apothesis." M. Tourniaire, who, so like the Emperor
in figure and face, that even those who have seen the best
authenticated portraits of tile deceased cannot help being
struck by the resemblance he appears to have caught of
the very essence of the character. It has been the fault
of all the performers we have hitherto seen in it, to exag-
gerate and prolong peculiarities—as, to wit, the rapid
taking of snuff, and the folding of the hands behind the
back in every case of motion or emergency—as remote
from nature as the general accounts of the individual.
Here there is no attempt at inordinate display or over-
ruling eccentricity. if there be aught, indeed, which we
should wish to see amended, it is the subdued tone of
voice and acting in the earlier scenes, and we certainly
think (though this may be construed into a matter of
taste) that the infusion of greater degree of energy and
animation into the part would convey an impression more
accordant with the taste and general perception of a Bri- '
tish audience. Happily the day has gone by when the
reminiscences of Napoleon's career can excite amongst us
feelings of respect, much less of animosity. It was our
glory to conquer him in the end, and any detraction from
his merits, whether as a soldier or a man, would but rob
us of our laurels. The enthusiasm of the French soldiery
on the return of the Emperor from Elba, is very toueli:
ingly represented : the dying scene at St. Helena is one
chastely and beautifully delineated, and the funeral pro-
cession at Paris (the body, conveyed in a classically de-
signed car, drawn by eight horses, and followed by the
veritable old Arabian charger, while numerous mourners
move in the foreground, and the French army, in scenic
illusion, is drawn up behind) forms an imposing sight,
true, we believe, to the facts. The other principal per-
formers sustained their characters with much credit to
themselves, showing to the last their undying devotion to
their monarch, and their deep regret of his fate. The
horsemanship in the circle still continues to be nightly
varied and interesting. The riding of Madame Klatt,
Madlle. Louise, M. Ferdinand, and Messrs. Tourniaire,
&c. is at once bold and graceful, and the two clowns are
extremely amusing. An amusing afterpiece closes each
evening's performance.

THE THEATRE ROYAL.—During the past week there
has been little of actual novelty to notice at this our
highest place of dramatic amusement, inasmuch as the
popular services of Mr. Buckstone and Mrs. Fitzwilliam
were again secured, and the two principal pieces in which
they were eminently successful, The Little Devil" and
"Josephine," were one or both of them repeated nightly,
and both, no doubt, partially known to our readers, as
they had been previously performed this season. The
first of these pieces is adapted for the British stage, from
a French operatic drama, by the talented lessee of the
theatre, Mr. Webster. The plot is amusing, though
scarcely belonging to the legitimate order of the drama.
The character of Nicolo, a Neapolitan youth and minstrel,
who in vindication of his (or rather her) sister's honour,
represents himself to a young rakish Spaniard, Vicentio,
(Mr. Buckstone,) as Asmodeus, (or, in other words,
" The Little Devil,") leading him into several strange ad-
ventures and predicaments in pursuance of his object ;
getting him again safely out of them ; and, in furtherance
of a previously extorted compact, demanding " halves" in
all his gains, even, finally, to half of his wife. A good
deal of fun is the result, intrigues at the court of Madrid
are carried on, and both the principal characters are placed
in jeopardy, through "the holy inquisition," for practis-
ing " the black art ;" but the denouement is happy, the
lovers being united. Mrs. Fitzwilliam showed that her
assumed appellation was not misplaced. The music, by
Auber, is very fine. The other piece, " Josephine," is
even more to our liking. The heroiners. Fitzwilliam)
is found, when an infant, in the field of battle, is adopted
and nurtured by one of Napoleon's corps, and becomes
" la fille du regiment," who become her " fathers," she
sharing their perils in many an encounter, assisting them
as vivandiere. When arrived at womanhood, her life is
saved by a peasant, whom she repays by her love ; but
having made a vow never to marry but to one of the 21st,
he (personated by Buckstone) enlists. About the same
moment, however, she is discovered to be a wealthy
heiress, is taken to her paternal chateau, arrayed in fine
garments, the incumbrance of which is next to intolerant,
is to be given in marriage to an ugly little duke, to sup-
port the family pride of her widowed mother; goes through
a drilling in fashionable courtship, but breaks down, or
rather out, in her lesson at the critical interview with her
ill-favoured intended, abruptly proclaiming him unfit
" even for a drummer.? After a lapse of two years, " the
regiment" returns to that part of the country, and the
sound of their music recalls all her affection to her thou-
sand fathers; all the perils she has encountered with
them ; and she bolts out of the window, rejoins them, and
returns with them in her own regimental habiliments.
Her lover, by his prowess, or rather by chance, has ob-
tained official promotion equal to the rank of her old
father, and her mother, after a strong exhibition of filial
obedience in her child, in consenting to marry the duke,
though at the expense of a broken heart, gives way in her
aristocratic notions, and gives her to the arms of her lover.
Buckstone in this piece, as well as the other, mistakes, we
think, the characters respectfully assigned to him, and
greatly mars both by a disagreeable cockney, or, more
properly, Yankee dialect, and noisy " inspiration" in
drawing breath. Mrs. Fitzwilliam was clever and ener-
getic throughout; she appeared to great advantage in both
characters, and sustained nearly the whole weight of each.
In "Josephine" she played, sang, beat the drum, &c.,
yet though in partly masculine attire, threw into the part
a feminine grace, gentleness, and simplicity truly capti-
vating. Her bye-play was also excellent. Mr. Compton
enacted the old serjeant in a most creditable manner. In
the first piece Miss Coveney, a rapidly-rising and pretty
young actress, sang delightfully in several solos, and in
duets with Mrs. Fitzwilliam. We have but room to add,
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(called " Le petit Mercure,") were introduced to a Liver-
pool audience, and were enthusiastically received. They
are engaged for a short period. Our old favourites, Mr.
and Miss Vandenhoff, are also engaged for this week.
They appeared last night in a new play, called " Love's
Sacrifice," which was received with great applause.