The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-01 00:00:00

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.

The resources of M. Dejean's equestrian company and
horses are so very considerable, that he is enabled to
male a change in the performances thrice a week—on
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. We have been
surprised, often as we have been there, to find, in addi-
tion to the usual routine of the performers. that there
should be anything which is new ; but this is the case,
and, in fact, we question if there is any one of our readers
who has seen the entire performances which have taken
place since the commencement. Go when you will, there
is sure to be something fresh ; and we wish to impress
this circumstance upon our readers. But to resume our
notices :

M. L'ECLAIR is an amazingly smart fellow, and the
finest jumper we ever saw. He bounds and springs with
an elasticity truly surprising. There is much fine sym-
metrical proportion in his exquisite form, and his action
is graceful. The costume in which he generally appears
is that of a jester of the olden time—blue and red quar-
tered, which gives him a quaint and singular appearance,
looks capital, and quite in character with the man. His
humour is Eris bon and unique. He possesses not only a
light body, but an equally light heart ; for he keeps all
alive and stirring by his facetiousness. He is a powerful
auxiliary to the company, and his presence was much
missed during the time he was confined by an accident
which happened to him. His performance in the " Two
Clowns,' assisted by M. Braquet, is excellent. The
manner in which be keeps up the oddity connected with
the apparently dead man, is highly humorous. M. Bra-
quet doubles himself up in the manner of a two-foot rule,
which has a most ludicrous effect. L'Eclair is also a good
comic performer: witness the equestrian act, in conjunc-
tion with others, entitled " Mr. and Mrs. Dennis," which
is highly rich, and replete with the most comic drolleries,
calling forth roars of laughter. He is also an excellent
clown in the harlequinades. For his pre-eminence as a
jumper we must instance a feat which he generally intro-
duces during the performance of Madlle. Anato. He puts
some affront on one of the assistants, leaps over his head,
and at one bound springs upon the hind-quarters of the
horse, pursued by his adversary ; from this position he
turns a somerset backwards over the other's head into
the arena, finally making his exit with a flying jump
clean over the heads of other assistants at the entrance
of the circle. Jumping cannot go beyond this. L'Eclair
has also acquired sufficient of English words to make his
performance intelligible, which has a good effect.
M. LEROY offers a proof of the extraordinary things
which man may acquire by practice. Lying on his back
on an elegant couch, with his feet in the air, antipodean-
like, he performs a dance called the " Clog Dance,"
balancing a pole on his soles, and does all kinds of singu-
lar feats ; but the effect is capital, as he dances by this
means to the music, keeping excellent time. His " Cask
Dance" is another extraordinary performance, and must
be witnessed to be appreciated, for it is impossible to give
any description equal to the reality. M. Leroy is also
clever on the " Globe," in the manner of M. Felix, be-
fore described.

MADLLE. AMAGLIA HADWIGER'S performance on the
bare-backed steed is most surprising. She must possess
considerable nerve and strength combined to do what she
does. Her figure is small, but smart and well developed.
In the daring of her art she is an amazon, and cannot be
exceeded. Her costume is good, with a dash of the
military about it :—a white skirt, with a dark crimson
body, buttoned close up to the neck, with sleeves hand-
somely ornamented with buttons and gold embroidery.
A very dashing cap with a plume completes her costume.
Her steed is a fine animal. of a very dark grey colour.
Among her performances, which are very exciting and
remarkable for their intrepidity, she rides on the tips of
her toes, springs from her knees to her feet, and balances
herself sitting on the quarter of the horse, all of which
show great skill and difficulty more than elegance. The
horse is then divested of his bridle, by the assistants, and
no sooner feels his liberty than off he starts with great rapi
dity, and appears to fly round the circle, with his mane and
tail streaming after him in admirable disorder. Stout of
heart and limb she then rises on his bare back (how we
cannot conceive) and abandons herself to this fearful
situation. She looks the picture of female heroism, and
terrific must be the effect to the delicate nerves f the
female portion of the audience. This feat invariably calls
forth thunders of applause. Madlle. Hadwiger is, we
believe, a German lady, and the horse which she rides of
the same country. It is with much regret that we per-
ceive that she seems to suffer from a weakness in her
eyes. We have to suggest to Madlle. Hadwiger that an
Indian style of costume would be admirably in character
with her style of riding, and then indeed her performances
as just described would be wild in the extreme, and quite
perfect.
LITTLE MARIE ANATO.—A fine little girl, with such
a pair of eyes !—the dark and gazelle-like eye of her
sister Palmyra, but more intense. She is an exquisite
little dancer,—a young Terpsichore—witness the finished
and admirable manner in which she executes, with musi-
cal precision, to the accompanyment, the castanet dance
"La Manola," while the horse travels round the circle ;
she concludes this performance by sustaining herself on
one leg, at full speed, during three complete revolutions.
The hauteur with which she makes her exit is capital.
Her dress is handsome, and in the Spanish style :—a gauze
covered pink body and skirt, edged with black and gold
vandykes, with crape and a pink rosette in her hair. The
rich saddle-cloth and other gear of the horse contrasts
finely with his dark rich brown hide. The " Garde
Noble" is another of her performances, and acted with
much effect, and the costume is most admirable. In con-
junction with young Loisset she performs several other
parts, which we shall more particularly allude to when
we come to his performance. Great pains must have been
taken by her instructor to have made so accomplished a
dancer of one so young as she is ; and some day we may
expect to hear of her shining at the top of her profession.
LITTLE LOUISE ANATO delights the juveniles in the
boxes by her daring feats of vaulting—she is a little
Cupid on horseback—and the pony she rides a famous
frisky little fellow. The talent of the Anatos' does not
sleep in her, and she will not be left behind some day.
H. M.

CONSEQENCES OF SEPARATING THE CHURCH

FROM THE STATE.

(From the Record.)

To the Dissenter, the plan of separating the Church
from the State naturally implies, the removing the Church
from her present high position,—the reducing her to the
rank of one among the various "denominations of Chris-
tians,"—and, however honourable men may dislike the
idea of spoliation,—it involves also a consideration, at
least, of the question, What is to be done, in future, with
what has been known in times past as " the revenues of
the Church ?" One considerable proportion of these
revenues is lost, at once, and ipso facto, by the Act which
ends the connexion between the Church and the State.
All church-rates, now amounting to several hundreds of
thousands per annum must cease, of necessity, the very
day the Church ceases to hold her national rank and posi-
tion. This is the first step in the matter; but it is very
simple and easy, and admits of not a moment's doubt.
But then comes the more serious question, What is to
be done with the landed property, the palaces, parks,
estates, and titles of the Church ? Does any man outside
the walls of a lunatic asylum really dream, that, separating
itself from all further connexion with the Church,—the
State will leave an Archbishop of Canterbury, with a rank
above the dukes, with two palaces, a revenue of £15.000
per annum, a large amount of patronage, and still larger
amount of influence,—and all this, cast loose upon the
Church, to be scrambled for by the ambitious, and con-
tested by the party-spirited,—the Government, all the
while, standing quietly by, without any power to interfere,
—at least, not until, as in Rome of old, the fighting was
extended from the Cathedral and the chapter-house, and
blood began to flow in the open streets ?
The thing is impossible. A Government that could so
forget its duties, as to leave the great and powerful
Church of England, as she is, and to set her free from all
State control, to follow any course that ambitious Church-
men might dictate, would be handed down to posterity,
as the most blind and incompetent body of statesmen that
ever allowed a nation to work its own ruin.
The separation of Church and State involves changes,
to which the Reform Bill was a mere Turnpike Act. It
extinguishes church-rates. It removes the Bishops from
Parliament. It takes from them all claim to the rank or
title which they at present hold and reduces them simply
to Mr. Philpott, Mr. Howley, or Mr. Blomfield.

A CERTAIN CURE FOR A DERANGED STOMACH, BY
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—Evan Evans, a person for many
years employed in the Dowlas Iron Works, near Merthyr,
had been suffering for a length of time from a disordered
state of the stomach, and had become so weakened in
body, that he was frequently laid up for weeks at a time;
indeed the poor man was not expected to rally again at
the time he commenced the use of Holloway's Pills,
which, however, to the astonishment of all who knew him,
effected a perfect cure. This is now more than six months
since, during which period hie digestion has never once
been deranged.

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