The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-01-21 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL & MODERN ARENA Or ARTS,
WILLIAMSON-SQUARE.
R. SANDS'
AMERICAN EQUESTRIAN COMPANY.
HIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 21st inst.,
Mr. SWEENEY, the Original BANJO PLAYER,
and correct Personator of the Sable Race, will have the
honour of again appearing among his old Patrons, giving
some of his far-famed and truly amusing Ethiopian Me-
lodies, accompanied by his old Virginian Banjo.
TO-MORROW, (Wednesday). the 22d inst., a Grand
MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place at Two
o'clock.
Clowns, Messrs. PENTLAND and ROCKWELL.
Doors open at Half. past Six, Performance to commence
at Seven. Dress Boxes, 3s. ; Upper Boxes, ls. 6d. ; Pit,
Is. ; Gallery, 6d. Children under ten years of age, Half-
price to the Boxes only.
The Box-office will be open daily, from Ten o'clock
until Three, when places in the Lower Boxes may be
taken of Mr. GEORGE COOKE, Box Bookkeeper.
Equestrian Director, Mr. C. RIVEA ; Ring Master,
Mr. DECAMP; Leader of the Band, Mr. J. SWAN ; Se-
cretary and Treasurer, Mr. L. B. LENT, to whom all
communications must be addressed.
For particulars see Bills of the day.

THEATRE-ROYAL, CHURCH-STREET'.
THIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 21st inst.,
the admired Opera of

LOVE IN A. VILLAGE.
Young Meadows
Hawthorn.... Mr. Morley. I Rosetta.. Miss H. Gardner

Madge Mri. Malone Raymond.
After which, Signor BEBNASCHINA, the celebrated
Dancer and Pantomimist, from the Theatre, La Scala,
Milan, will introduce hiscelebrated ORIGINAL POLKA
and the BOHEMIAN POLKA, by Twelve Characters,
assisted by Signora BERNASCH INA, as Danced by
them at the different Fetes and Galas of Prague, Presburg,
Buda, and the neighbourhood of the Carpathian Moun-
tains. All the Characters in appropriate Costume.

To conclude with
THE CHIMES.
TO-MORROW,—THE BEGGAR'S OPERA

TWO GRAND CONCERTS.
THE Public of Liverpool are respectfully informed,
that there will be a GRAND CONCERT on FRI-
DAY Evening next, the 24th instant, and on SATURDAY
Morning, the 25th instant, at the Music Hall, Bold-
street, for which occasion the following distinguished
Artistes have been engaged :
Miss DOLBY,
Miss E. BIRCH, --
Miss WHITNALt,
Miss KEALE;
Mr. THALBERG,
Mr. REEVES,
Mr. CA LKIN,
and

Mr. JOHN PARRY.
Tickets, Reserved Seats 55., Back Seats 35., to be had
at the principal Music Shops, and at Messrs.ROCKLIFF
and ELLls'' 50, Castle-street.
Evening Concert to commence at Eight o'clock pre-
cisely, and Mo. ning Concert at Half-past One.

THE .
MR. and the MISSESPORTICO FRASER, proud to find that
their " MUSICAL and LITERARY EVEN-
INGS" are steadily increasing in public favour, as
evinced by their nightly-increasing audiences, respectfully
announce that they will continue their " EVENINGS," (seventeen of which they have already given), THIS DAY,
the 21st, TOMORROW, the 22d, FRIDAY, the 24th, and
SATURDAY, the 25th instant,
Mr. FRASER presents Mtisic and Poetry not to amuse,
but•to instruct, elevate, and refine. He contends, that to
present Music as amusement is to degrade it.
Programmes and Tickets to be bad of the Music-sellers,
and at Mr. FRASER'S Lodgings, 155, Duke-street.

LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.
A LIMITED number of SHARES and STALLS in
the NEW CONCERT-HALL will be ALLOTTED,
on application, to parties desirous of becoming Members
of the Society, but for whom the present building does not
afford accommodation. Priority of application will be
the title to preference for admission ; the Stalls still un-
appropriated will be allotted on the same principle.
The PLANS of the NEW HALL will lie for inspec-
tion at the office of Mr. MYERS, Exchange-alley,
every MONDAY, TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and FRIDAY,
between the hours of Twelve and Three, when the Sec-
retary will attend to receive applications. By order of the
Building Committee.

WM. SUDLOW, Hon. Sec.
Committee-room, January 7th, 1845.

NELSON-STREET ASSEMBLI ROOMS,
LORD NELSON-STREET.
SATUR DAY EVENING CONCERTS.
ON SATURDAY EVENING neat, the 25th instant,
Mr. JOHN SIBBALD,
THE CELEBRATED SCOTCH VENTRILOQUIST,
will introduce every possible Illusion in
POLYPHONY AND VENTRILOQUISM
of which the Human Voice is capable when favoured by
Nature and Art.
Body of the Room 3d., Gallery 60., Reserved Seats Is.
Tickets for the Reserver/ Seats may be had from the Se-
cretary, 6, Adelaide-buildings, Ranelagh-street. Doors
open at Half-past Six, and the Chair to be taken at Half-
past Seven.
The celebrated HENRY RUSSELL, from America,
will appear on Saturday, February 15, and SATURDAY,
February 22.

FOUR .
THE ANATOFOR
MICALDAYS PARISIAN VENUS,
AT MR. LACEY'S Room, 100, BOLD-STREET.
THE Public are respectfully informed, that the demon-
strations on this Mode of
the HUMAN BODYtranscendent will POSITIVELYAnatomicaI CEASE on
THURSDAY next the 23d instant.
" A better idea of the functions and structure of the
Body is obtained by a short inaction of this Work of
Art than by hours and days of dull study."—Times.
" We twice paid a visit
_to the Florentine Venus, but
we decidedly consider this wonder of Art surpasses any-
thing of the kind ever before seen."—Birmingham AdvePtiser.

ABAWALLASEY LADIES' CHARITY.
LL will be held at the EGREMONT HOTEL, on
THURSDAY next, the 23d instant, in aid of the
Funds.
The Hon. Mrs. KENYON, Lady Patroness.
Geo. COMMITTEE.
T. Atherton, T. B. Hughes, J. Glynne Bateson, Harold Littledale,
T. B. Bourne,
James Braa James Logan,
cker, William Buchanan,
4, Thomasiliam Mann,
Murra
11 C. Buchanan,
~
John North, y,
C. W. Clay,
-- John Ripley,
Wm. Duncan,
William Rowson.
Jos. C. Ewart,
T. W. Sharland,
W. H. Gilliat,
S. F. Symonds, Geo. Grant,
G. B. Thompson,
John Halliday,
R. W. Houghton, H. Winch,
A. Woodward.
Dancing to commence
Ladi
each. To be had from thes 7s. 6d., Gentlemen 10s.
places. e Committee, and at the usual

Late Boats will be provided

'rHE ANNUAL BALL for the BENEFIT of the
FEMALE ORPHAN HOUSE and other CA-
THOLIC CHARITIES of LIVERPOOL will be held,
by permission of the Mayor and Town C
TOWN-HALL, on MONDAY, the 3d February ounl, at the
next.
LADY PATRONESS!.
Mrs. JOHN PEMBERTPN HEYWOOD,
Norris:green.
Tickets Ios. each, (refreshments included,) to be had
of Messrs. Ilociutrre.abd ELLts, Castle-street ; time
and Soh's, Church-street ;Mr PASONS, 80ld-street ;
Mr. Booicen. Ranelagh-street ; and at the usual places.
The Doors will be opened at Half-past Eieht_

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LIVERPOOL EXCHANGE-BUILDINGS.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the ANNUAL
GENERAL MEETING of the COMPANY of
PROPRIETORS of the LIVEArtoOL EXCHANGE
will be held, pursuant to Act ot,mrliament, in the Cotton
Sales%room, in the Exchange-buildings. in Liverpool,
on MONDAY, the 27th instant, at Twelve o'clock at noon.
By order of the Committee,
Dated this 18th
JOHN SUDLOW, Secretary.
—___________ day of January. iRArs

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4-I.A T a M iiTTN CTT ITf 7EIT.EIT;NIS; f7r:i\P 00 L
IMPORTERS of COTTON at this Port, called by
public advertisement, and held at the Cotton Sales Room,
Exchange-buildings, on the 15th January, 1845,
THOMAS SANDS, ESQ. in the Chair.
It was Resolved, on the motion of HUGH DUCKWORTH,
Esq., seconded by C. P. CARNE, Esq.,
" That in the opinion of this Meeting the present prac-
tice of allowing Samphs of Cotton to be taken from the
Selling Brokers' Office previousry to sale, is attended
With much loss and inconvenience.
" That with a view to,reinedy this evil, it is expedient
that the Importers of Cotton at this Port should enter
into a general resolution to instruct their Selling Brokers
not to permit Samples of Cotton placed in their hands to
be removed from their offices until after a sale has been
effected, so that all tunity of inspecting them."
purchasers may have an equal oppor-
Resolved, on the motion of WILLIAM WATSON, Esq.,
seconded by ROBERT HIGGIN, Esq.,
luti" Thntat, for the purpose of carrying the preceding reso-
on io effect, the declaration now read be adopted,
and submitted for the signature of all Importers of Cotton
at this Port ; but, if in the judgment of the Chairman of
this meeting, it shall not be signed within a fortnight by
this
in amount of the Importers of Cotton residing
in Liverpool, the same shall be notified by advertisement
ligned by him and published in the Liverpool newspapers,
in which case the parties signing the declaration shall be
considered releasen from that pledge."
The Thanks of the Meeting were voted to the Chairman
for his conduct in the chair.
The follow•ing is a copy of the declaration referred to
' Liverpool, 15th January, 1845.
" We, the undersigned Importers of Cotton at the Port
ST Liverpool, hereby declare that, in employing Selling
sdrokers in the Sale of Cotton, we will instruct them not
to allow the Samples to be removed' from their offices
before sale."
b e This e
nextngagement to come into operation on the Ist of
Public meeting this
day
.v,-..
, subject to the resolutions passed at the