The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-09 00:00:00

ROYAL AMPHII

lEATRE.-MISS CUSHMAN'S
ENGAGEMENT.

re of the past week's performances at this
Thehtre has been the production of Beaumont and Flet-
cher's Comedy of the " Scornful Lady," a play which
has not been represented in England for nearly 100 years,
and which was only revived recently in Lon•lon, to intro-
duce Miss Cushman in the character of the heroine. As

might have been expected by any party who has perused
the play in the original, and observed the pruriences
which it _ contains and which, however suitable to the

taste of the age for which it was written, would be revolt-
ing to playgoers in the present day, considerable pruning
was required ; and this was unexceptionably executed by
Mr. Searle. Great credit is due to the spirited manage-
ment of Mr. Copeland for the excellent manner in which
it was put on the stage at the Amphitheatre, and as well
to the Company for the efficient manner in which it was
cast throughout.
The play is one very different from the flimsy abortions
which pass current for comedy in the present day—full of
character, and of a fine scope for genuine acting.
The character of the Scornful Lady is especially adapted

to pertection. The changes of temper from the scornful
to the loving woman—from the mocking and obstinately
provoking to the dejected and almost despairing one—

were most truthfully depicted. Miss Cushman' acting
was, in fact, the great attraction of the play, the subordi-
nate characters, however, being excellently sustained. In

the Curate

som- ewl

lat too broadly fareiCal, perhaps

There is however, something still wanting in truthful-
ness in the pourtraiture of some of the characters. We
cannot, for instance, reconcile to our ideas of the tastes of
even a profligate in a civilized age the debaucheries and
coarseness of Young Loveless's companions. The Cap-
tain especially is over-drawn in his blustering ; and the
s little in keeping with even a younger
We cannot conclude our notice of
to the excellent acting of

remainder arc
brothe

gentility

Mr. Ruin in the last act. This personation of the Elder
Loreless's betrothed was a rich piece of comic acting.

Mr. Andrew Leighton has been appointed secretary to
the Roscoe Club.
On Saturday evening one of the Eastham boats, from
Liverpool, ran aground when opposite to Rock Ferry, and
as she could not be got off, the passengers were landed
there, and had to walk the remaining distance.

HEALTII OF TOWNS' BILL.-Mr. Councillor Walthew,
chairman of the liouseowners' Society, and Mr. Coun-
cillor Thompson, on behalf of the Builders' Society, have
proceeded to London, to oppose the operation of this bill
extending to Liverpool.

POST-OFFICE ORDER.—On Friday,
man remanded from the previous Fri-

day, charged with having forged the signature to a post-
office order for £2 l is. 9d., was again brought up. The
prisoner was committed for trial.
YOUGIIAL AND LIVERPOOL STEAM-PACKET.---We are

happy to learn t
cessful, and that

counties of Waterford and Tipperary are availing them-
selves of tne facilities afforded them, in the shipping of
cattle, butter, grain, &c., Youghal being a much nearer
Waterford or Cork. A splendid
_ t sails from Youghal on every
Ind from Liverpool on Mondays.—Clonmel

port for

Shipment tl
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Constitution
DEATH Fl

M A FALL.—An inquest was held on S
turday, before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Ma

Armstead, who
habit of going I

Deceased ;:vas in 11

s.. Ruth Edwards's public-'

lie fell i

ii up -_

.ared from a post mortem exazninati
I death

,on, concussion of

the brain

f the Liverpool

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Royal Institutic

Yates in the c

ir, Dr. Iligginson ro

tie asked if any geo-
t the statement that
upply derivable

ion on the subject of water supply
ogist present could satisfactorily n
he wells are inexhaustible, and that the

fully adequate for the wan.

lence of

Le believed, that the

wells wer

hausted

,ngines had

he Chairman

vent was

beitg made of the

produce of each well, to ascertain how many gallons are
produced in a given time. The Rev. Mr. Dwyer was
strongly of opinion that the red sandstone strata was not
ur wells were sunk in it,

wed symj

in external part for water till it was actually
'e had it not beneath our feet he had no doubt

THE NATIONAL CONFEDERATION AND FINANCIAL
REFORM ASSOCIATION.—The negotiations between those
two most useful bodies, undertaken with a view to a coali-
tion, have thus far, we regret to say, entirely failed. The
Finance Reform Association has definitely refused to
unite with their neighbour "on the question of local tax-
ation, although they desire to express their sincere sym-
pathy with the objects which the National Confederation
have in view." They will have "great gratification in
acting in perfect harmony with the National Confedera-
tion, in endeavouring to obtain the abolition of indirect
taxation for national purposes, and the substitution, in its
licit inforrr_a- I stead, of direct taxation,"

NEW CHURCH IN OXTON VILLAGE. —OH Sunday
week, the new church at Oxton, erected entirely by the
pious munificence of the Rev. Joshua King, patron and

v► wnicn ancient parisu,
forms an out-lying part, was opened. The prayers were
read by the Rev. W. Corkcroft. the incumbent of the
new church, which is called St. Saviour's, Oxton. Ap-
propriate and eloquent sermons were preached by the
Rev. T. F. Redhead, the respected incumbent of St.
Peter's, Rock Ferry Park. The church is built in a very
peculiar site, and seems admirably adapted to it. The
bell was presented by our respected townsman, Mr.
M'Murdo, timber merchant. The cost is about £1,400,
and there is accommodation for 350 persons.
ners' I SERIOUS COLLISION AT SEA AND Loss OF LIFE.—The

packet-ship West Point, Captain Allen, which arrived in
the Mersey on Sunday, from New York, reports having
been in contact, on the 27th ult., with the barque Cove,
of Quebec, which was on her passage from London to
Quebec. The mate and three men of the latter vessel
lost their lives during the collision. The remainder of the
officers and crew and two passengers, (in all 14 persons,)
after abandoning their vessel in a sinking state, were
brought to this port by the West Point. The West Point
showed a light which could not have been observed by the
Cove. The jibboom, head, cutwater-head, stays, &c., of
the West Point were carried away. The Cove was a com-
plete wreck when the West Point left her, with main and
mizen masts gone by the deck, decks swept of everything,
and stern off. .

TRIAL TRIP OF THE HIBERNIA.—This fine new iron
steamer, built by Messrl. Vernon and Co., of this town,
for the new line of mail steamers between Holyhead and
Dublin, made a trial trip to the Menai-straits on Tuesday.
She ran from the Rock twelve miles out in ninety-six
minutes, and accomplished the distance to the Great
Ormshead in two hours and seven minutes. The engines
were built by Messrs. Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy, and
are of 370-horse power. They are oscillating, 5 feet 9
inch stroke, 73-inch cylinders, and have two air-pumps
worked at an angle by the intermediate shaft. The en-
gines made twenty-two revolutions per minute with a
twenty-eight-feet wheel. They reflect great credit upon
the talented engineers who constructed them. The boat
herself is of 680 tons burthen, and is a very handsome
model. Her interior fittings are very beautiful.