The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-08-20 00:00:00

Their Majesties continue in excellent health at Windsor.

The King came to town and held a Levee at St. James's on
Wednesday. His Majesty returned to Windsor in the evening.
On Friday. the King reviewed the third battalion of Grena-
dier Guards in the little Park. Their Majesties, besides their
official attendants, were accompained by the Dukes of Welling-
ton and Dorset, and Earl and Countess Brownlow. After the
review, his Majesty addressed Colonel Lambert, the Command..
ing Officer, in terms of the highest approbation of the appear-
ance and discipline of the regiment.

The Duke of Wellington continues at the Castle.

A LEITH CARTER V. THE REFORM BILL.—The other day
a Leith carter formed one of a party who were discussing the
merits of the Parliamentary reform biil, when, in reply to some
observations as to its efficient working, he exclaimed with a
most sarcastic sneer—" Reform, d've say—ma certie! I see
little gude it's dune. A' thing's as ill as ever! There, for in-
stance, ye canna ride on your cart o'er the Links, but your
lickit in for your halfcrown as fast as ever ! There's little re-
form there yet; and if the Parliamenters had been worth their
lugs, it wud hae been ane o' their first jobs to hae altered that,
I think !"—Glavow Courier.
KILDARE-PLACE SOClETY.—Notwithstanding the efforts of
the present Government to discountenance and put down scrip-
tural education in this country, and, necessarily, to eradicate
Protestantism out of the land, it will afford great satisfaction to
our readers to learn that the schools of the Kildare-place
Society are progressing with vigour and success. We have
much pleasure in quoting the following from a circular recently
issued by the secretaries of the society, accompanied by a copy
of the report of the committee to the last annual meeting:—
"The schools in communication with the Kildare-place Society,
throughout the country, were never at any time more efficient,
both in numbers and diScipline. The amount of scriptural
instruction afforded in them is very considerable, and is con-
stantly increasing; and the proportion of Roman Catholics who
attend the schools is fully as great as usual, and they appear
equally anxious with the other scholars for scriptural'. instruc-
tion." This is most consolatory to the hopes of the Christian
patriot, and if (as the circular proceeds to say) the suns of one
shilling per annum were contributed to the funds of the society,
by each adult Protestant in Ireland, ample means would ge
supplied to ensure the important national and Christian ob-
jects of these schools, and the combined efforts of popery and of
infidelity would be defeated.—Dablin Warder.
THE NATIONAL GALLERY.—" Who has the job ?"—PAUL
PAL—And so the scheme of a National Gallery of Painting,
which was to rival the Louvre, and raise England in the esti-
mation of the Continent, has vanished like the " baseless fabric
of a vision," leaving "no other wreck behind" than a pall!),
project to vamp up an old house for that purpose; including in
the snug little job, the desecration of another altar. They are
furious enemies to chapels and churches these Whigs; and we
expect, should they " hang long upon the tree," to behold West-
minster Abbey converted into a Panorama, and St. Paul's into
a Horse Bazaar. The truth is, these Itrreat men of mighty re-
source, are put to their last shifts to raise the wind—the sum to
he conjured up by letting off the Crown Lands around the King's
MeWs, is too tempting tor them to suffer it to'be applied to any
other purpose than their own necessities—so national taste must
be sacrificed to ufinisterial expediency. It is this contemptible,
narrow-minded, Palterin, vita the Arts, which in England keepsthem in their infancy ; but we are notdisappointed, we expected
little encouragement for them with the Whigs. They have other
arts to cultivate, than the Fine Arts—one of which is to secure
their salaries from whatever fund they can finger.
"The Whigs love the Arts2—and to found a fit Gallery,
They tax the poor Nation, and—turn it to salary."—'Age.

PAGANINI'S CONCERT.
This extraordinrav artiste gave the first of two concerts at the
Liver Theatre last bight, in which he was assisted by the vocal
powers of Miss %Veils, and Miss Watson, and by Mr. Watson,
who accompanied them on the piano.
It is difficult, if not impossible, to convey an idea by mete
description of the Signor's feats on the violin. his instrument
appears to form a part of himself, and, like any member of his
body, obedient to his will, and giving expression to any sounds
that the exuberance of his fancy may suggest—in a word, with
his fiddle and his bow Paganini becomes a sort of magician,
possessing the power of doing whatever his will may command;
and almost every thing that he does appears to lie so impos-
sible, that we can scarce credit the evidence of our eyes and
ears while we listen and look upon him.
We perceive, with regret, that some attempts have been made
in other places to run this man down, on the supposed exorbi-
talky of his demands. This is at once illiberal and unjust. He
has as good a right to issue his notes in exchange for those of
the Bank of England as any other merchant or banker; and,
as they are not a legal tender, no one is compelled in take
them contrary to his inclination. We remember well when
the same stupid objection was raised against Catalani, whose
appearance in England did mote to improve and refine our
taste, even in singing our own music, than ever could have
been done by the- foreign studies of our own musicians; for,
until her singing became popular, we were content with what
we possessed; it was her fame and fortune that acted as the
spur to the industry of our native songsters, and rroduced a
Paton and others that are not far from being her equals.
Perhaps there is no country in the world that owes so 'much of
its. greatness and prosperity to the adoption of the manufactures,
arts and sciences of other countries as England. It is the pe-
culiar characteristic of English industry to imitate and im-
prove all that we can borrow from other nations—and to do this
is almost a part of our social system—hence any man, come
from where he may, who brings us what we did not before pos-
sess, is an acquisition to the body politic. We hope then to
hear. no more of this kind of narrow-minded reasoning with
respect to foreigners, the illiberality of which, we repeat, is only
equalled by its absurdity.
. To return to the concert, from which we have almost unin-
tentionally digressed, the house was but moderately filled.
This, perhaps, to the attractions of the Theatre-
Royal, where' was owing
Taglioni is still performing. It is almost un-
necessary to add that the performances were, as they richly de-
served to be, loudly applauded.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

(Written exclusively for the Liverpool Standard.)

Since our last the following meetings have concluded :—the
Lewes, Huntingdon, Wolverhampton, Oxford, Exeter, and
Burnley, all of which went off with much spirit, but,upon which
very little betting, with the exception of the btisinesi'done upon
the Wolverhampton alluded to in our last, was effected. The
Burnley (Lancashire) races terminated on Friday, and were
far from being contemptible. Col. Hargreaves and Charles
Towneley, Esq. officiated as stewards. The Burnley Stakes
were taken by Augusta, beating four others. This filly was
purchased the other day at York, by Mr. Richardson of Man-
chester, for the sum of £7O, after which she proved peculiarly
fortunate, by winning the Tradesmen's £5O, at York, and again
being successful at Burnley, thus amply redeeming the pur-
chase-money. The Tradesmen's Stakes were won by Jerry,
beating three others. The Habergain Eaves' Stakes were won
by Mr. Walker's Brown Stout, beating three others. The
Hunters' Stakes, by Jessy, beating five others.
The Burton-upon-Trent meeting, which opens this day,
(Tuesday,) promises excellent sport ; most of " the crack
horses" that run last week at Wolverhampton being entered.
Little else at present engages the attention of our sporting
arena." Some business was done on Friday, and yesterday,
(Monday,) upon the Great St. Leger, but principally at old
prices. •Mussulman and Rockingham get up, and the latter
enjoys much confidence, more indeed than Belshazzar, whose
running at York is thought nothing of. Rockingham not going
for the " Thirty Sovereigns" has improved his condition, and
procured him more friends. Marpessa is where she was—at 13
to 1. A great number of our sporting gentry, of Lancashire,
have not yet returned from the Wolverhampton meeting, and
it is supposed that they intend to make it their business to at-
tend the Burton meeting.
The following is the latest state of the betting in Manchester :
GREAT ST. LEGER.-5 to 1 against the Duke of Cleveland's
Muley.Moloch ; 61 to 1 against Mr. Watt's Belshazzar. (t) ;
81 against Mr. Walker's Mussulman; Bto 1 against Mr. Watt's
Rockingham; 13 to 1 against Mr. Forth's Marpessa, (offered);
13 to 1 against Col. Crawford's Mole, (t); 16 tol against Anne ;
20 to 1 against Mr. Rawlinson's Revenge, (t). None others
named. The latest betting at Tattersall's does not materially
vary from our Lancashire prices, with the exception of 2,100 to
100 being bet against each of 20 in one bet ; the horses selected
are the 8 above quoted in the Manchester betting, with Con-
noisseur, Jack Faucett, Tim, Tutor, Glaucus, New Fashion,
Lot, Laurel's Dam, Frankenstein, Forrester, Clearwell, and
Dancing Master; 1000 to 10 against MrsHouldsworth's Titus,
(t) ; 600 to 20 against Lot and Laurel's Dam, (t); 6 to 4 on
Belshazzar against Rockingham. Upon the Derby for 1834
the following bets have been made :-17 to 1 against Olympic,
and 18 to 1 against Comet, (t) ; and upon the Oaks the hating
is 12 to 1 on the field.

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BURTON RACES.—IIe Cup Stal;.es, 2 to 1 against Kalmia,
3to 1 against Independence. The Bretby Handicap, 2 to 1
against Her Highness,3 to 1 against Kahnia,,l to 1 against In-
dependence, 5 to 1 against Giovanni, and 5 to 1 against any
other.