The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-12 00:00:00

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TUESDAY MORNING. SEPT. 12, 1848.

THE question is now occupying a great portion
of the attention of the public—" how are we to
put a stop to that flood of talk in the House of
Commons which impedes all legislative progress
and mocks the wants and patience of the nation ?"
And well it may ! After a session, such as that
which has just closed, which has added to the
pages of Hansard some thousands of profitless de-
bates, and consumed nearly ten months of the
public time, we have a just right to ask how it is
that the business of Parliament is left to so great
an extent unperformed, and to devise means for
abating the nuisance. In part the question has
been solved by the evidence taken before a Com-
mittee, appointed to enquire into the mode of con-
ducting the debates of the House of Commons.
The opportunities given to honourable members by
the forms of the House for the display of their
oratorical powers are in the first instance very
much too great, as will be shown by the following
extract from the evidence of Mr. Lefevre, the pre-
sent Speaker. The enquiry made of him was, how
many are the questions, on which a debate may
ensue, which are ordinarily put during the progress
of a Bill through the House, and the answer of the
honourable gentleman was "eighteen."
" Sir R. Inglis.—Will you have the goodness to specify
the 18 questions ?-1, that leave be given to bring in the
bill ;' 2, that this bill be read a first time ;' 3, that the
bill be read a second time on a day named ;' 4, 'that this
bill be now read a second time ;' 5, that this bill be com-
mitted on a named day;' 6, 'that this bill be committed;'
7, that the Speaker do now leave the chair.' Then, after
it had passed through the committee, 8, that the report
be received on a named day ;' 9, that this report be now
received ;' 10, that this report be now read ;' 11, that
these amendments he now read a second time ;' 12, ' that
the house Ivree with their committee in the said amend-
ments ;' 13, that this bill be engrossed ;' 14, that this
bill be read a third time on a named day ;' 15, ' that this
bill be now read a third time;' 16, that this bill do pass;'
17, 'that this be the title to the bill;' 18, 'that Messrs.
A. and B. do carry this bill to the lords.' "
Here is latitude for speech with a vengeance ! In
addition, however, there are the questions which
may be raised whilst the Bill is in Committee, up-
on every one of which a debate may, and frequently
does arise. Then, it is in the power of any mem-
ber to provoke a debate by moving an adjourn-
ment, by speaking to order and in various ways.
In short, the floodgates which are available to let
in upon us the wordy deluge, of which we com-
plain, are innumerable.
It is beyond our purpose here, and we are scarcely
sufficiently conversant with the subject, to speculate
upon the remedies which may be applied. Cer-
tainly, however, it does appear to us—and we think,
with the above extract before them, it will be the
opinion of our readers—that many of the formal
questions put to the House during the progress of
a Bill might be dispensed with. But then there is
another difficulty to be met—the propensity of
members to make long speeches. This is an in-
tolerable and, unfortunately, an increasing nuisance,
from which the public are in some measure spared
by the kindness of the reporters for the press.
Those of our readers who have occasionally attended
the debates, and, when anticipating the rising of
some of the really eminent members of Parliament,
have been kept on tenter-hooks for an hour or two
by some of the bores of the House, or by some
" unaccustomed speaker," who having got on his
legs, keeps spinning out his quarter of an idea un-
til it is as transparent as gauze, dreaming all the
while of its astounding effects of the one auditor in
the gallery—a constituent or a friend—and the sen-
sation it will create in his borough or his county,
will have a notion of the extent of the nuisance.
How this practice is to be put down we do not
know. Some of the witnesses before the Commit-
tee suggest a limitation of the time allowed to each
speaker, as practised in America. Mors. Guizot,
who was examined, explains the French plan, but
acknowledges that it has not prevented debates be-
ing extended to fourteen sittings. To us it appears
inherent in the representative system, which offers
a premium to talkers, rather than business men.
Itis, in part, the fault of the public themselves, by
a portion of whom a speaker is estimated not so
much for the amount of good sense which he says
as for the number of words which he uses in saying

it. We could almost pardon a return to the old
practice of " cockcrowing," whistling, and other re-
sorts, ny ouaz bores were put, tluu u
remember right—the first reformed Parliament. Or
within reasonable limits a few of the most out-
rageous of them might be reported by the press
verbatim, with all their interjectural " ali"—"ah"s,
and repetitions; or, as a less grievous infliction
upon the world, every honourable member below
a certain status, who should venture to occupy the
House above a certain and reasonable time, pro-
,portioned to the exact amount of substantial matter
he bad to communicate to the House, should have
his very name unrecorded altogether. We have no
hope in any more regular remedy.
For any reform, by which the public business may
be accelerated, we fancy that it will be desirable to
look further than to any change in the mere forms
of the House. For some years past we have seen a
gradual accumulation of business in the House of
Commons, whilst, until within the last few weeks
of the session, the House of Lords has been almost
unemployed. And when, at length, a mass of Bills
have been handed up for their consideration, we
have seen .them compelled to be thrown aside, in
part from a just sense of the Lords of the indignity
of thus being called upon to become the mere re-
cording agents of the other House, and frequently
from the utter impossibility of even the necessary
standing orders of the former being observed. The
remedy for a part of this evil will be to allow those
Bills presented to the Lords at the close of the
session, being discussed and passed in the follow-
ing session, without further reference to the Com-
mons. With respect to Private Bills, in which ex-
pensive enquiries have had to be gone through in
Committee, the justice of this course is obvious;
and, unless a dissolution has taken place in the in-
terim between the two sessions, there can he few
public questions which might not thus be set at
rest.

Another mode, by which the public business
might be' facilitated, would be to give to the House
of Lords, more largely than at present, the privi-
lege of originating important Bills, both private
and public. By this means the labour of legislation
would be thrown more equally on both Houses.
The great impediment at present is the jealousy of
the House of Commons—in many cases purely tra-
ditional—on the score of privilege, with respect to
those bills which contain what are termed money
clauses. That jealousy might, without danger, be
considerably relaxed, and a large amount of public
convenience secured. Indeed we don't know that,
with a few exceptions, every description of measure
might not he propounded in one House as advan-
tageously as in the other.
But an indispensable portion of any Reform
must be the placing of a compulsion upon ministers,
who now-a-days arrogate to themselves the initia-
tion and conducting of every public measure of the
smallest importance, to decide beforehand what
those measures are to be, instead of coming forward
continually with half-formed projects, based upon
half understood principles, and requiring Parliament
to lick them, into its own shape. When a Government
conducts its business in this way—when its policy is
merely tentative—when it is always either advanc-
ing, retreating, or dodging aside—above all when
its whole existence is staked upon the lucky turn-
ing up of the cards—when it requires to have four
attempts before it can produce a Budget and two
or three for a Sugar or a Sanatory Bill, as was. the
case with our present precious Government, there
will be talk, interminable sitting, and a heavy
amount of unclosed business left behind.

THE "JENNY LIND MANlA."—There is a vast quan-
tity of cant in this world of ours, which passes current for
sound sense—nay, even for philanthropy. What thou-
sands of people in this town have during the past week
been turning up the whites of their eyes, in pious horror,
at the enormity of paying a guinea, or even half a guinea,
to hear the dulcet warblinzs of this most sweet of singers!
At how many breakfast and tea tables has the mention of
Jenny Lind formed the text for a lecture on prudent
econon3y,ArAi a diatribe against the extravagance of this or
that neighbour, with a concluding wonder how he, or she,
could afford to indulge in so expensive a treat! What
numberless persons have been shocked at the thought
that so many guineas should be expended, " whilst so
many people were starving," and how many suggestions
have been made; as to the mode in which all these guineas
could have bcen better laid out--could have been " given
to the poor !" Yet there is not one in a hundred of them
censors of their neighbour's tastes, who does not, accord-
ing to his or her means, occasionally wander into equal
extravagance, in seeking the gratification of his or her
particular tastes, grosser perhaps, and therefore tar less
defensible. But then they have always " something to
show for their money,"—something for the body,—some-

thing substantial to eat or to drink,—green peas at five
shillings a peck when, by waiting a fortnight, they could
have them at a shilling,—new potatoes at Christmas,—
or ices at midsummer. Little talk was there, whilst en-
joying these luxuries, of how much better the money t`ley
cost might have been laid out, and less still of giving it to
the poor. Looking dispassionately at the question why
is not the talent of the singer, so long as' it is united to
virtue and not employed for unworthy objects, to be with-
out its market price, even although that price be a high
one ? Why is the enjoyment, which the singer affords to
the lover of song, to be less valued than any other transi-
tory enjoyment, so long as he or she does not offend
against good morals or religion ? We cannot see why.
We know that by the medium of song the most potent
appeals may be made to the human heart, and the most
thrilling effects produced upon the finer feelings of that
heart. We know that music is a language touching above
all other languages; and we feel, whenever we hear it
thrilling from the lips ofJenny Lind, that its sweet waters
have flowed over a pure soil—that the Syren who enchants
U 3 has not stolen her spells from the evil one, and that
her sweet notes are not poured forth to lure us to a thought
of ill. But then, "Jenny Lind is a foreigner." Most
patriotic objection ! Most taking argument. ! Fair lady,
if such be the sex of the objector, will you be kind enough
to tell us whether the satin you prefer to wear is not a
French one ? Worthy male objector, assure us that a

_ glass of port, or Cognac, has never been preferred by you
to a glass of English brewed ale ! Both of you find us an
English songstress of Jenny Lind's quality, and we will
do our best to raise a guinea to pay her for a song. Above
all, before you censure your neighbours for buying their
pleasures from the foreigner at so high a price, get rid
yourselves of your habit of treating everything that is fo-
reign as preferable to the ordinary English commodity.
Cease to look upon your four-and-nincpenny hat as a
" Paris gossamer," and your excellent Paisley as a "French
shawl 1"

A PROSPECT FOR BIRKENHEAD AT LAST.—The secret
is now out. We know at last the reason of all the sweet
billing and cooing which has been going on between the
amiable Lord Morpeth and the Birkenhead Com-
missioners. We know why parks have been laid out and
docks built, and why royal yachts have entered them.
Birkenhead is a candidate, and a favoured one, for the
honour of being made the seat of government, and one
of the residences of royalty itself ! So, at least, as the
Journal informs us, " some gentlemen at Woodside
suggest," and our contemporary strengthens the claim in
more than a column of most logical argument, in which
the historical records of half the world are ransacked for
most cogent reasons. Our contemporary says he is not
at all in joke in advocating the claims of Birkenhead to
this distinction. By doing so we shall give to the go-
verning powers a more central locality, and burke the
Repeal question for ever. Besides he hints that we shall
withdraw our legislators from the temptations of that
villainous London ; from Brooks's and the Carlton ; from
the dangers of having their virtue " undermined by an
evening with a dowager, and the prospects of their
daughters at Almacks." At Birkenhead, too, we are
told that there will not be the same dangerous proximity
to Epsom and Ascot, and there will, in other respects, be
no such opportunities as London affords for honourable
members to shirk their labours. They will come there
ready made up for business. One advantage our con-
temporary has not referred to, viz.:—the opportunity of
procuring cheap lodgings for the Brothertons, George
Thompsons, and other representatives of the people.
Thus far we coincide in the justice of our contemporary's
views. We admit, too, the pungency of his statement as
to the example set us by America, in selecting for their
government " not New York or Philadelphia, but a kind
of Birkenhead, a Carthage—on paper,—Washington, a
city of great promise, but which has yet to be built and
peopled." Birkenhead's claims, by the bye, beat those
of 'Washington, both in its " great promises "—especially
"to pay "—and in the fact that it has not " yet to be
built," although its builders would be most happy to see
it peopled. There is another similarity, too, in the cir-
cumstances of the two places. " Everybody at Washington
knows everybody "—so says the Journal; and we fancy
it is somewhat the same at Birkenhaad. The fact, too,
of the existence, in all small places, of this generous
interest in their neighbour's affairs, is conclusive of the
argument against holding parliaments in large places; for,
by the latter practice, doubtless, it is that our honourable
members have got into the practice of looking after them-
selves alone. In one thing we differ from the Journal,
viz. :—in thinking that the private business of parliament,
of which this locality contributes so large a portion, would
be better conducted in Birkenhead than in London. We
assure him that there would be very little private business
at all in that case—very few witnesses to be found—very
few water doctors and amateur geologists springing up
from their previous obscurity to bestow their light upon
us. Consult any member of a local deputation, or any
parliamentary witness, on this point ! A trip to London
could not be dispensed with on any account. Of course,
our contemporary will enlighten us as to what is to be
done with the new houses of parliament in London, and
which fortunate possessor of land in Birkenhead is to
have the providing of the sites which will be required for
the royal palaces, gardens, stables, &c., and for the
houses in which parliament will conduct their delibera-
tions. Perhaps the Birkenhead Hotel might be made
available for one housa, very much to the satisfaction of
our own Corporation. And, as it would be only fair that
both sides of the pool should be made available, the
Commons might be cheaply accommodated on the green
Qf the Messrs. Parry, at Seacombe. But we shall, no
doubt, hear further detail. .1' the scheme by and bye, mid
learn whether Liscard, or Wallasey, puts in its claim to the
high honour to be bestowed upon our Cheshire friends.

A FEW REMARKS ON THE LAST COUNCIL

MEETING.

No. I.—A most unhappy advocate of close committees
Mr. William Rathbone proved himself, during the debate
upon the admission of reporters to the Health Committee's
sittings. It is unwise, Mr. Rathbone thinks, to " load
the public with information" as to the doings and sayings
in committees generally, because " the proceedings had
to come before the Council before they could be confirmed ;
and they ought to come before them in such a shape that
the public at large could understand them." This is con-
ceding the existence of the very difficulty of which the
public complain. The proceedings of committees are
confirmed before the public know anything whatever
about them. The prisoner at the bar—the public who
pays—is tried, found guilty, and sentenced, before he
knows either what crime he has been arraigned for, or
what evidence has been laid before the jury. This is, at
least, a very unsatisfactory course of proceeding ; but Mr.
Rathbone renders it still more so by telling us that half
the jury go out of court as soon as the trial comes on.
He says, with respect to the reports of the committees :
" It was rather curious to observe that a great clearance
of the Council Room took place as soon as they com-
menced being read; and when gentlemen thought the
details were over they began to creep in again." The
absent jurors of course vote by intuition after they creep
in, a mode of proceeding satisfactory to themselves, but
not quite so satisfactory to the public.
No. 2.—There must be something very soporific in these
reports, which half the Council will not stop to hear, and,
although all the reporters have been offered the chance,
only one hardy person, the Journal reporter, has ventured
to read, and he " cut it" as soon as he found an amateur
willing to eive him their substance in a more life-like
shape. The amateur in question, however, Mr. Rath-
bone complains, does not report quite correctly, which,
we take it, is a very fair ground forhaving the task handed
over to more practised hands, who have their note books
to refer to when honourable councillors mistake yards of
water for inches. Mr. Rathbone. we observe, is anxious
that the press " should not publish things which would
never be read by the public;" a matter he need not trou-
ble himself about. We suspect he fears rather that we
should publish some things which would be read by the
public, and remembered too.
No. 4.—Mr. Evans' notion that the proceedings of a
committee are " a raw material" is quite correct. But it
is not so true that the raw material in question "ought not
to be exposed in its crude and imperfect state." We
should like to expose some of these proceedings in their
crudity—the proceedings about the Pike particularly,
which we hope are not even yet in so perfect a shape that
they may not be slightly altered by the result of the No-
vember elections.
No. s.—Mr. Win. Earle was, as usual rich on the sub-
jut. The Journal's amateur reports of the Health Com-
mittee's proceedings he said were "all trash," au asser-
tion which may be made of amateur reports in general,
and in particular of those of the proceedings of the old
Council, in the concoction of which he himself was said
to have had a hand. We quite agree with him in his cen-
sure of the regular reporters of the present council's pro-
ceedings, by whom, "if any little squabble occurred
amongst themselves (the members) that was most faith-
fully reported, because it sold the paper." It is lament-
able to think that the press should thus pander to the
public want of taste, by reporting Mr. Earle's own ebul-
litions, for instance; but so long as people will consent to
part with their money to see a man get into a pint bottle,
or balance a ladder or a donkey on his chin, we fear that
we shall continue to offend in this particular. Mr. Earle
might aid greatly in diminishing our temptations.
No. 6.—Mr. Earle, further on, says,—" No doubt they
had heard that there was a great deal of agreeable chit-
chat at the Health Committee, and these reporters wanted
to get in." Only natural. Why should the Health
Committee keep all their "agreeable chit-chat" to them-
selves, andfurnislithepublic only with nasty statistics about
nuisanees and middens ? Agreeable chit-chat, now-a-
days, is rather a novelty, and would sell a paper even as
well as squabbles between town councillors. •
No. 7.—lt is not quite clear to us, that it is at all in-
cumbent upon the 'Water Companies to provide for their
old servants, after they have parted with the establish-
ments, upon which they were employed. We should
rather say that the council ought to give them :work, if
there is no reasonable objection to be urged against them.
The poor old fellows might at least, after so many years'
service, be worth their meat and drink.
No. B.—Mr. Alderman Hodgson probably did not intend
to he severe when referring to the small attendance in the
council, when the rating of the docks was last discussed,
he suggested that " this was a period of the year when
many gentlemen desired to be absent; and that it would
be better to postpone the subject for some time, in order
to secure a full expression of the opinion of the council."
We hope he did not mean that many gentlemen do not
find it convenient to give an opinion upon a subject-of
great interest with their constituents, so close upon the
period when they must seek a renewal of their confidence.
The public are rather anxious that the question should
not be postponed as suggested, on the ground that that
period is so very near, and that the votes of honourable
members in favour of or against rating, may have some-
thing to do with the way in which some other votes will be
, recorded on the Ist of November.

TIE

total firbis.

The staves for the special constables of this town are
said to have cost above £640. _ .

A meeting of the Birkenhead New Dock Trust is to be
held in London, on the 26th inst., for the purpose of
adopting measures for raising the £50,000.
Mr. Samuel Marshal, cutler, of Sheffield, has presented
to Mr. I'. Littledale, Mr. J. A. Tobin, and the seaman
Jerome, respectively, a beautiful case of razors, inscribed
on the blades " In memory of the Ocean Monarch."
Lord Stanley has been laid up for nearly a fortnight by
an attack of gout. He was taken ill at the Duke of Rut-
land's seat, in Derbyshire, and was removed to Knows-
ley, where he has sufficiently recruited to go abroad again.
Messrs. J. and W. 'Walker, builders, Birkenhead, passed
their examination at the Bankruptcy Court, on Tuesday,
the commissioner remarking that the bankrupts had been
very honourable in all their dealings.
The Thistle steam-ship was launched from Mr. Napier's
yard on Saturday week. She belongs to the Glasgow and
Londonderry Steam Company, who also sail vessels be.
tween this port and Sligo.
The committee of the Liverpool Dispensaries have it
in contemplation to get up a grand fancy dress ball, with
a view of liquidating the debt which at present amounts
to £lOOO. Such a charity ought not to be allowed to
remain in such a position.
BODIES WASHED ASHORE.—On Thursday the bodies
of two men were washed ashore at Blackpool. On Friday
six more bodies drifted ashore—those of three women,
two children, and a man. On the same day a corpse was
washed ashore at Lytham.
RELIGIOUS CONDITION OF IRELAND.—We perceive
that a lecture on the religious condition of Ireland, its
real grievance and the remedy, will be delivered, in Is-
lington Presbyterian Chuch, on Thursday evening next,
by the Rev. Verner B. White, B. A. ,
CREWE.—On Sunday, the 27th ult., an impressive ser-
mon was preached at Crewe Green, in behalf of the Sun-
day School and Clothing Fund of that district, by the
Rev. E. A. P. Campbell, M.A., Domestic Chaplain to
Lord Crewe. and son of the Rector of Liverpool.
BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.—William Ellice, Esq., of Lon-
don, is appointed Chairman, and J. C. Ewart, Esq., (one
of the Commissioners of Wallasey,) Deputy Chairman of
the Birkenhead Dock Trustees under the new act. Mr.
Rendel will be appointed Engineer, to proceed with the
works, which, it is expected, will soon be resumed.
Herr Rosenberg, a Dutch artist, has forwarded to the
Liverpool committee for the relief of the sufferers by the
Ocean Monarch, a large oil painting, representing the
burning of that ill-fated ship. The committee contemplate
putting it up for raffle, and in the meanwhile it is being
exhibited in the Exchange news-room.
At the monthly meeting of the Royal Mersey Yacht
Club, on Tuesday, the closing trip of the season was
fixed for Saturday, the 23d. inst. A notice of motion was
given for the presentation of some memorial to the com-
modore, Thomas Littledale, Esq., for his praiseworthy
exertions on the occasion of the loss of the Ocean Mo-
narch.
THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—In addition to the con-
templated contests for the Ist November which we men-
tioned last week, we may state that it is intended to bring
forward Mr. Hindley for Mr. Lace, in South Toxteth ;
Mr. Dover for Mr. Royden, in Great George ; Mr. Fer-
guson for Mr. Stewart, in St. Peter's; and Mr. Fisher
for Mr. Lloyd, in North Toxteth.
M`Douall and Cuddy, with the other Chartist Corifede-
rates, complain of having only one hour in the twenty-
four allowed them for exercise ; but intimation has been
given them, that if the regulations of the separate cell
system were interfered with in order to comply with their
wishes, they would be thrown into the society of felons,
which they declined. Cuddy expects to be bailed out.
Amongst the passengers on board the Ocean Monarch,
which was recently destroyed by fire off Liverpool, were
Mr. Bacon, the master of St. Luke's Workhouse, Lon-
don, and Mrs. Walter, the workhouse schoolmistress,
who had eloped together, leaving large families behind
them. Both of them perished, as well as the woman's
youngest child. which she took with her.
DEATHS IN PRISON.—Last week James Murphy, aged
19, and Mary Burns, 39, died in the Borough Gaol. The first
was committed to the prison as a vagrant for three months,
and the female was under sentence of ten years trans-
portation for felony. Murphy died in the prison hospital
on Friday, of chronic diarhea ; and Burns also died then
of pulmonary consumption.
ST. PETER'S WARD.—We understand that the Com-
mittee of the National Confederation in St. Peter's Ward
having unanimously resolved to invite Mr. Ferguson—the
respected churchwarden of the parish, and the chairman
of the Council of the Confederation—to become a candi-
date for St. Peter's Ward at the next municipal election,
have received from Mr. Ferguson a favourable reply to
their invitation, and his return to the Council is con-
sidered to be certain.
ASSAULT.—On Friday, at the Kirkdale Petty Sessions,
before Mr. James Lawrence, R. Alison, and R. Meek-
stone, county magistrates, Mr. Thomas Rimmer charged
Messrs. Thomas and James Ackers, brewers, and Mr.
W. Robinson, with having assaulted him. The case
lasted six hours. The magistrates decided that there was
no case against Mr. Robinson, that against Mr. James
Ackers the charge could not be maintained, but they bound
over Mr. Thomas Ackers in the sum of £lOO to keep the
peace.
THE SOLDIERY.—The camp at Everton will continue
pitched for several days. We believe that preparations
are in progress to get the military into temporary barracks.
Mr. Shaw's house is already occupied; and we believe
Mr. John 3tewart Is in treaty for Mr. Waterhouse's house
in Everton, the two large houses in Birchfields, and two
large houses in St. Anne-street. The War-office is in
search of a plot of ground, not less than twenty-five acres,
whereon to erect barracks, &c. It is understood that a
large military force will be kept in Liverpool permanently.
It is gratifying to have to notice that a handsome silver
cup was, on Thursday, presented to Captain Thomson, of
the barque Leonora, by his outward passengers to Deme-
rara, with the following inscription :—Presented by Mrs.
and Miss Lochart Mure, Miss Henderson, the Rev. Wil-
liam Brittain, Mr. J. Reid, and Charles Ward, M.D.,
passengers in the barque Leonora on her voyage from
Liverpool to Demerara, in May and June, 1848, to Capt.
Donald Thomson, as a mark of their esteem, and of their
grateful remembrance of his unwearied attention to their
safety and comfort.
THE AMERICAN STEAMERS.—The Herrmann, which
sailed from New York on the 21st ult., went ashore on
Monday morning, at three o'clock, at the Isle of Wight.
It was seen after got off without damage. The Acadia,
which left Boston on the 23rd ult., arrived in the Mersey
the same afternoon. Making allowances for the difference
in the distance, calling at Halifax, &c., the British vessel
has beaten the American one about twenty-four hours !
rather an extraordinary feat when it is recollected that the
Acadia is one of the smallest of the British and North
American line.
Mr. Macready appeared at the Theatre Royal, on
Thursday night, previously to his departure for America
by the Acadia. He played Cardinal Wolsey in Henry
the VIII., and Mr. Oakly in The Jealous Wife, Mrs.
Warner performing the parts of Queen Katherine and
Mrs. Oakly. The house was crowded. At the termina-
tion of the comedy, Mr. Macready was called before the
curtain, when he delivered a short and pithy speech ex-
pressive of his thanks to the Liverpool patrons of the
drama, fervently hoping that, on his return from America,
he should have another opportunity of appearing there,
and stating that, when that opportunity arrived, he would
take his final leave of the drama. The applause which
followed the termination of his address was perfectly
deafening.
SALE BY AUCTION OF THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAM-
SHIP.—The announcement of the sale by auction of this
noble, though unfortunate, ship excited great interest
amongst our merchants and shipowners, and at the time
appointed for the'sale, one o'clock yesterday, the sale-
room of Messrs. Tonge, Curry, and Co. the highly re-
spectable shipbrokers, in whose hands she is placed, was
thronged with a most influential company. Mr. Tonge,
the senior partner of the firm, conducted the sale, and,
after a brief but pointed notice of the qualities of the
vessel, proceeded to read the conditions of sale, which
were most liberal. For some time, no bidder came for-
ward, and the broker put up the lot himself at £20,000,
which he had had bid in private before the commence-
ment of the sale. After some time, no other bidder ap-
pearing, the vessel was bought in at £45,000. Her original
cost was stated to have been £125,000.
BAZAAR AT Seacomee.—The bazaar in aid of the
funds for completing the new church of St. Paul, at Sea-
combe, commenced on Wednesday. It was held in a
spacious marquee, erected on the lawn in front of the
bowling-green at Mr. Parry's hotel. The splendid band
of the 81st Regiment of Foot was in attendance. There
were nearly 3,000 ladies and gentlemen present. In the
principal marquee the stalls were attended by Miss
Fetcher, Miss Wilson, Mrs. Mann, Miss Seawright, Mrs.
Herrmann, the Misses Sharland, Mrs. H. Winch, and a
number of other ladies. The stalls exhibited a profusion
of millinery, network, lacings, &c.. with costly and beau-
tiful works of art, principally the productions of the fair
vendors, who, we need scarcely say, exerted themselves
most successfully in getting purchasers for their wares.
The day's receipts were £4OO. On Thursday, the bazaar
was continued, when a large and fashionable company
attended, though not quite so numerous as on the preced-
ing day. A great number of articles were disposed of,
and the result was highly satisfactory,—the receipts
amounting to £l5O. Several beautiful flags were dis-
played from the marquees and other erections required
for the purposes of the bazaar, added to which, the per-
formances of the excellent military band, the tiring of
guns at intervals, and the gaily dressed company which
thronged the grounds, presented a scene of the most ex-
citing and pleasurable description. We need scarcely say,
that the arrangements made by the Messrs. Parry for the
comfort and accommodation of the visitors were such as
to call forth the most general and deserved approbation.
On Friday there was again a numerous attendance of
ladies, and the receipts, we understand, were far beyond
the anticipations of the committee. The total sum ob-
tained (exclusive of expenses) amounts, we believe, to
nearly £BOO, and there is yet a great number of articles
to be disposed of, which are to be offered to the public on
a future occasion. The promoters of this undertaking
did all in their power to further its interests; and all the
gentlemen and ladies in the neighbourhood—dissenters
as well as churchmen, so universally esteemed is the Rev.
Mr. Roberts, the incumbent,—vied with each other in
their painstaking and persevering efforts to make the
bazaar as lucrative as possible. The committee-men
were all active, polite. and attentive. Amongst other
articles which attracted attention was a neatly printed
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Seacombe. The plan is dramatic, the scene Parry's
Hotel and the green where the bazaar was held, and the
dramatis personae a Travelling Gentleman and a Seacombe
Commissioner, who carry on a conversation in rhyme.
Some of the passages are good and apropos. Two small
poems conclude the pamphlet.