The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-04 00:00:00

ND, MR. F. CRAMER.
folin, Mr. LODER.

Double Basses.
Messrs. Dragonetti and C. Smart.
/1111,

Tayleure.

Flute..
Messrs. Nicholson and Brown.

Octave Flute.

Mr. Adams.

Oki.
Messrs. G. Cook and Hughes,
Scruton,
Smith.

Clarioneto.
Messrs. Willman and Tnakwell

Bauoona.
Messrs. Mackintosh and Tully,
liallwood,
Jones.

Horns.
Messrs. Platt and Rae.
Schmidt,
Thompson.

Trumpets.
Messrs. Harper and Hyde,
Pretty..

Tromboni.
Messrs. Smithies,
Smithies, Jun.
Edgar.

Double Drum,.

Mr. Chipp.
GEORGE SMART,
.e at the Organ,
rn added by Mr. Gray, qf Landon'

In redeeming our pledge to spare neither labour nor expense
in giving the fullest possible account of the proceedings of this
week of festivity and intellectual enjoyment, we cannot with-
hold our congratulations to the humane directors of the several
charitable institutions of the town, upon the fact that the very
heavy expenses attendant on the concentration of so much ta-
lent as the committee have brought together for the occasion,
has every appearance, in the outset, of being compensated by a
support which, in a pecuniary sense, will leave something con-
siderable for appropriation to the relief of the several classes of
our suffering and destitute fellow-creatures, the amelioration of
whose hard lot is the primary object of the establishment of
these periodical festivals in this and other parts of the country.
If anything can give a real zest to the pleasure derived by each
class of visitors, according to their respective tastes, from the
varied modes in which the committee have laboured to meet
their wishes, it must be the conviction that each, by his contri-
bution of money for the immediate object of personal enjoy-
ment, is also contributing to the direct relief of his less fortu-
nate brethren; in administering relief from the depressing
consequences of sickness and disease—in alleviating the mis-
fortunes of those who, from their birth, or by accident, are
deprived of those faculties essential to their successful prosucu-
lion of the avocations of life—and in protecting the orphan and
the helpless from the snares and dangers of the world, by sup.
port i❑ their younger days; and by the inculcation of those
sound principles of morality and religion, without which their
after life would promise but little advantage to themselves or
to society at large. With such direct objects, and the probable
cttendant results upon the proceedings of the week, he must be
over-scrupulous who, whatever the natural bent of his mind,
should find fault with any part of those proceedings,—various
though they be in their character, but all of them strictly inno-
cent—which the committee have arranged for the gratification
of the public taste.
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With this our sincere view of the question, we have not re-
garded without interest the preparations which have been
making, for some time past, for the accommodation of the
influx of visiters who are disposed to grace by their presence
the assemblage, and aid by their liberality the objects which
have induced the managers to provide a series of musical enter-
tainments of the highest order that taste and money can com-
mand, and by which the pleasures of the rich are, as we have
in effect just observed, rendered subservient to the necessities
of the poor. Nor are we disappointed in our expectations that,
whilst the inhabitants of the town of Liverpool are contributing
freely and liberally to the expenditure, it is supported by all
that is noble and wealthy in the neighbourhood, whether of this
or the adjoining counties. As might be expected, the trades-
men connected wide fashion have made great exertions to
supply the possible, or probable wants of their customers, ample
evidence of which is to be seen in all the shops from the Town-
hall through Castle-street, Lord-street, and Church-street, to
the upper extremity of Bold-street—which may be designated
as the Piccadilly, Regent-street, Oxford-street, and Bond-street
of Liverpool—most of them displaying rich assortments of ma-
terials for making new court, ball, or fancy dresses, or those
articles ready-made to arm the brave and the fair for mutual
destruction. The shops thus profusely filled called out daily
a host of pedestrians, some4to purchase and others to admire
those death-dealing instruments—those adjuncts of beauty,
flowers, feathers, gauzes, laces, ribbons, and jewellery,—giving
to the, streets an unusual degree of bustle and activity.
We should not be doing justice to the indefatigable exertions
of the committee, if we did not notice the success which has at-
tended as well their endeavours to cater for the taste of the pub-
lic, in the assemblage of high musical talent which has been
brought together, as the judicious arrangements which have
been made in the important requisite of enabling that public to
avail themselves of the enjoyment with the least possible degree
of inconvenience. Having, in our former publication, added to
the publicity wnich was necessary to give effect to those arrange-
ments, we may now proceed to notice, in the order of their oc-
currence, the various entertainments.