The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-08-16 00:00:00

THEATRE. ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.

the The Public is respectfully informed, that in consequence of
numerous applications for Places, the Engagement of
M'lle. Taglioni of the King's Theatre, London, hag been ex-
tended for three additional- bights, and that she will perform
this Evening, and on Monday and Tuesday next.
_ For the BENEFIT of Alit. and MRS. YATES, (and their
last appearance) on which occasion they have the honour to
announce the splendid aid of Mlle. Tag Hopi, assisted by Mons.
Silvain, of the Academie Royale, and M'lle. Garbois.
THIS present FRIDAY, the 16th instant, the performances
will commence with the favourite Drama of
VICTORINE Or, I'LL SLEEP ON IT.
Alexandre, Mr. Yates—Victorine, Mrs.' Yates.
At the end of the second act will be performed the Dance
Which has raised the reputation of the principal performer to
the height of her profesvion, and which was composed expressly
for her by Mons. Taglioni—Pere, Ballet Master of the Academie
RM
lie. oyale de Paris called La Tyrolienne, the characters by
Tagiioni, Mons. Silvain, and M'lle. Garbois.
To which will be added a Table Act, of an entirely' New
ntertainment, never acted here, called,
FATES' VIEIVS OF HIMSELF AND OTHERS.
To be followed by the Dance so much in vogue, called La
Mazourka, performed _by Taglioni, and Mons. Silvain ;
in addition to this, the Gentleman will kindly introduce, in the
course of the Evening,, the celebrated Pas Anglois,. as danced hy
him in the Carnival of Venice, at the Academie Royale de Paris.
To conclude with a Burlesque Comic Tragic Romance, never
performed here, called,
DON QUIXOTTE; Or, THE HUMOURS OF SANCHO PANZA.

Don Quixotte Mr. Yates.
Notwithstanding the unprecedented Expense attending. these
Engagements, no advance will be made in toe prices of admission.
Lower Boxes 4s.—Upper Boxes, 3s. 6d.—Pit 2s. 6d.—Gallery Is.
During Madame Taglioni's engagement, the Box-book will
be open every day, from Ten till Four o'clock. No places can
be secured unless tickets are taken.
On Saturday, the favourite new Drameof Ellen Wareham.
After which, the Romance of The FOrty Thieves. To conclude
'with the :Belo-Drama of Robinson Ctusoe.

TO OUR READERS.

On Tuesday next the proprietors of the STANDARD will
have the pleasure of presenting to all their subscribers,
• who are within a reasonable distance, a copy of a
Pamphlet containing an abridged, but still a 'very
full, report of the Evidence given before the last. Cont-
. . mittee of the House of Commons on the late elections
for Liverpool. The evidence, as well for the peti-
tioners at for the defence, is -Carefully given in almost
the exact words of the witnesses.- .The greatest pains
have been taken to be accurate, and the strictest
im-
partiality has been observed. To every purchaser of
!he STANDARD on. Tuesday next a copy of this Pam-
phlet will be given GRATIS. To our subscribers in
the country, who take an interest in the local
pitlitics of Liverpool, a copy will be forwarded to
• their order, or delivered to any agent or carrier whom
they may please to send.

fie Etherpool

FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, 1833.

The New York Packet which in the due order of sail-
ing must have left New York on the 16th ultimo, was off
Holyhead yesterday at noon. If in the file of papers
which we expect to receive in the come of the morning,
We find any intelligence worthy of notice, it will be given
in our second edition.

What will be found below is the latest news from Lis-
bon and Oporto. Up'to the sth instant the latter city
continued to hold out, but a harrassing fire was going
ca night and day against the town and the boats in the
river. The unfortunate inhabitants were anxiously ex-
pecting that some movement in their favour would be
made from Lisbon, and that the siege would be raised by
the united exertions of Count NAPIER and VILLA FLOR.
It did not appear, however, that Don PEDRO had any in-
tention to dispense with the services of these brave men,
and in all likelihood Oporto_ will be left to its fate.
In the mean while it is pleasant to observe with what
gaiety the cx-emperor passes his time in Lisbon. The
accounts inforM Us:that he was walking the streets, and
enacting the part of a mountebank.. The idea of throw-
ing his sword into the sea, which happened at that mo-
ment to be ten miles distant, is worthy of the cockney
Who lost his nightcap in a tremendous hurricane, and a
terrible swell, off Chelsea. Reach. The ex-emperor
having thrown his sword into the sea, and having desired
the people and the police to sheath theirs, which was a
right excellent precaution, he =relied into the capital
with all the pride of a dancing4naster or a French drum-
major. The following is from-the Falmouth Packet, -re
ceived yesterday by Mr. \S'ILLat Ea;-of-t1 n• s town :

•
" FALmoOTH, August 13, 1833.
The Corsair watch, arrived here this morning from Lisbon,
which place shl left on the Ist instant. The following news
wi,l be interesting, and will shew the state of the public mind
in that city. Don Pedro was publicly walking about with the
greatest confidence, unarmed and unguarded, and was greeted
with the warmest acclamations. A circumstance occurred on
his landing which made him at once popular with the people.
'When he was stepping from the barge on shore, some of tLe
Police endeavoured to clear the way with their swords, when
he called on them to put up their weapons, and taking out his
Own sword flung it out into the sea. About 800 police or mi-
litia had been raised for the protection of the city. The be-
haviour of all classes was beyond praise.
"The conduct of Don Miguel's police had excited a great
sensation at Lisbon. It appears that the Duke de Cadaval,
"with about three thousand police, after they had fled from Lis-
bon, retreated to Caldas, about twenty-five miles north of Lis-
"; and sacked the place for four hours, committing the great-
est depredations on the persons and property of the inhabitants.
Pn the 31st July they were on the road to Luceria.
`` A division of Don Miguel's troops, about 1500, had crossed
the Tagus at Valada, near Santarem, and a steamer was sent
'IIP by Don Pedro to negociate with them. It was generally sup-
.pused that they would turn in favour of the young Queen.
"The Corsair called off Oporto on the sth, but nothing of
Importance had occurred since our lastadvices: The Miguelites,
however, continued to harass the city by continually firing on
the town, and at all the boats which came within the range of
their guns. At Oporto they were anxiously expecting that the
I,lles of Don Miguel would be broken by troops from Lisbon.
movement had taken place at Lisbon for that purpose,
arid in the present state of affairs it does not appear likely that
sufßeient force could be collected by Don Pedro. The con-
tending forces at Oporto must therefore fight it out."
Yes, fight it out! DON PEDRO has once more got into
eontfortable quarters, and it is of no consequence to him
What becomes of the mercenaries whom he has left behind.
They flay be shot by the enemy, or they may cut each
9ther up, for any thing he cares. The war in that quar-
r, We suspect, is not yet ended.

The infatuated men who have already plunged their
unhappy families into comparative destitution, and who
"ern bent upon exposing them to famine and disease on
the eve of winter, have had an interview with the MAYOR,
in the fallacious hope that his worship would or could in-
terfere to enforce their illegal and preposterons deinands.
This interview was demanded by the members, or rather
hY the Committee of the Trades' Union, and the MAYOR
granted it from the most generous and commendable mo-
tj:es; but the proposals made and the terms offered were
of a nature calculated to close the door against media-
tien, and render it impossible ,to grant their prayer, or
become their intercessor.
The Operatives professed themselves ready to return
t° The
work, on condition that the masters should dis
Nss the men at present in their employ, and who being
`,1.1
ni the better order of mechanics, are not members of the
dins en. In a printed address they state their terms
*thThe operatives beg distinctly to be understood, that while
haltersare whqouite willing to resume the employment of those
may be agreeable to dispense with the individuals
who have been disgracefully
talk, they filling their places during the dis-
cannot in any way agree to work with those persons
oholta.re acted so lt is
unworthy a part" !
strange that
there Should among a large body of mechanics
be found even a dozen men so totally blind-
Prineed to their
ovvn interests, and so insensible to the first
. iples of justice, as to require that to be done which
Ina
dthe first place
would be deliberate cruelty, and which,
one, would in the second place reflect eternal disgrace
up?n the employers. It is strange that these guilty men
tkeen, would be charity to call them insane men—do not
W that the restraints they would impose upon their fel-
withworkmen are tyrannical in principle, and interfere
natural
41411 ow rights, free will, and the duty which every
es to his family, his neighbour, and his country.
denies them the right to combine ? All that we
who
for is that they should not interfere with those
yv4ooo do not combine, nor menace nor dictate to those who
e to work—who prefer industry to idleness, and the
141911itions of their own consciences to the despotic man-

dates of ignorant blockheads, and Self-constitued arbiters.
The men who work du not say to the unionists " you
shall work,"—the industrious do not command the idle to
toil; but the idle say to the industrious, "you shall be
idle as we are—get drunk (if you can) as we do—swallow
abominable oaths as we do—ruin your families as we are
doing—and beg at the workhouse door, or die in the
parish hospital, as in all probability we shall beg and die
before the end of the next winter.

This is the infamous tyranny which we deprecate, and
these the insolent decrees which we pronounce to be a
violation of the laws of the land and of public liberty.—
Such demands however have been properly met by the
masters. They say in reply to the operatives :
" Whilst they willingly admit the right of every man to refuse
working for any employer whose terms do not suit him, they as
explicitly deny the right of any self-constituted body to prevent
others from accepting employment who are disposed to do so; and
the discharge of those men who have so laudably attended to
their duty be still insisted upon by the Union, the masters beg
to say that they will not submit to such an absurd and unjust
demand."

For the present, then, we have only to express our re-
gret that this attempt to reconcile the operatives to their
duty has failed; but we should not express any regret at
all if the consequences of the failure were to fall exclu-
sively upon the criminal parties ; we cannot, however,
conceal the apprehensions with which we look forward to
winter, to families without a blanket, to starving children,
to fireless grates, to empty. cupboards. It is a gloomy—
a painful prospect ! Those men have much to answer
for who thus interpose, wickedly and arbitrarily, be-
tween the bounties of a benign PROVIDENCE and the
wants of their wives, their children, their mothers, and
their sisters. They dash away, with impious hand, the
stair of life, and trample under foot their daily bread.
Such conduct is an insult to Heaven. It must originate
with men whom a long career in vice has made imper-
vious to shame and dead to remorse,whose better feel-
ings, if they ever had any, have been benumbed by a life
of inebriety, or soured into deliberate wickedness by the
baneful influence of deistical
.notions and revolutionary
principles. Would we could say to them—" they know
not what they do !"

Among the evils of the present state of political affairs
in the world at large, the misconstruction of passing
events and the misapplication of titles is not the least
prominent. Nothing can more clearly demonstrate this
position than the recent occurrences in Basle. In the
late disturbances in that quarter the citizens of Basle are
designated as " insurgents," by the soi-disant liberal
press. What are the facts ? The " three glorious days"
of the French revolution led to disturbances in that once
happy and always free canton. A new constitution, the
offspring, in a great degree, of the contaminating influ-
ence of the proceedings among their powerful neigh-
bours, was proposed, adopted by the votes of a large
majority, and sanctioned by. the Diet. The revolutionary
party then interfered,to prevent its being brought into
operation. A division on this point gave rise to renewed
disturbances. The consequence was, a division of the
canton into two parts, which was also sanctioned by the
Diet. The revolutionists, in the true spirit of their re-
publican character, attacked the isolated villages on the
town side. The villagers claimed the assistance of the
capital, which was granted. An engagement ensued
which, through the assistance of the Poles, terminated to
the disadvantage of the town, and in favour of the revo
lutionists.

To whom, then, it may be asked, ought the name
of " insurgents" fairly to attach ? Surely to the ag-
gressor, which is not the town of Basle, or the villages
which sought its aid, but those desperate republicans,
embued with the spirit of change, and urged on by the
restless characters who have sought a refuge among them,
which their inconstancy and utter worthlessness of pri-
vate character precludes their having in their native
country.

We beg to call attention to the following extract from
an eminent periodical :
" In our last article we expressed our conviction that, though
objectionable in some of its details, the system of taxation in
this country was bottomed ot sound principles, and ;bat no new
system could be substituted in its stead, calculated to yield so
large an amount of revenue, that would not be infinitely more
objectionable. Such, being. our _opinion, we congratulate our
readers and the public on the determination evinced by the
Government and the House of Commons to resist all reckless
attempts for the reduction, and all ill-considered projects for
the commutation of taxes."

The reader, unless he be in the secret, will, we calcu-
late, take a pretty considerable time to guess the name
of the work from which the above specimen is taken.
Had we not had ocular demonstration of the fact we
should not have believed it possible that so high an au-
thority could have been seduced by the charms of office
and the touch of gold into so much inconsistency. Apart
from this ocular proof we should, from the peculiar
phraseology, have inferred that the author of the article
could be none other than the famous Mr. PLACE, the liter-
ary tailor of Charing Cross. It is not every concoctor of
political essays that would light by accident upon the
bright idea of taxation being " bottomed on sound prin-
ciples." Mr. PLACE, however, we believe, is not guilty
in the present instance, for we have not heard that he
has accepted office under the Whigs, or made any con-
tract with the slop department, and consequently he
could have had no inducement to indite such nonsense
for the sake of pay or party.
But we must not keep the unitiated any longer in sus-
pense. The above extract, then, is taken from the last
number of the Edinburgh Review, which has flourished
and faded under the auspices of Lord BROUGHAM, tile
Lord Advocate JEFFERY, FRANCIS HORNER, the Rev.
SYDNEY SMITH, RAMSAY MACULLOCK, (as long as they
paid him,) and TnomAs BABINGTON MACAULAY. The
Edinburgh Review, which has, for the last twenty years,
been the organ of the Whigs and the assailant of Tories
and Tory policy, has at length discovered that the present
system of taxation, devised by the Tories and condemned
by the Whigs, is " bottomed on sound principles." In
the same article the people who have raised a cry against
the house and window duties are termed ignorant, fac-
tious, and unprincipled " destructives," and the 'ingenious
Lord ALTHORP and the present patriotic House of Com-
mons receive unmeasured praise for resisting all " reck-
less attempts • fur the reduction, and all ill-considered
projects for the commutation of taxes." ! !

In our time we have too often seen "assurance doubly
sure," and insolence go great lengths, and impertinence
take strange liberties, but this from the Whigs, from the
tax-hating Whigs, from the standing-army-opposing
Whigs, from the assessed-tax and stamp-tax Hating
Whigs—this, from them, beats all the brass and brazen
images in the world !...Shade of the injured and slandered
Lord CASTLEREAGH, now art thou avenged! The " ig-
norant impatience of taxation," which was a standing
text of abuse for many a day with BROUGHAM, MACK-
INTOSH, GREY BENNETT, BURDETT, HOBHOUSE, Lord
JoHN,nnd others, is now found to be a very inconvenient
"impatience ". by these ministerial gentlemen. The
Whigs, in office, find it a pleasant duty to pilfer from the
maxims of the Tories ; and Tom MACAULAY is, accord-
ingly, deputed to steal from Lord CASTLEREAGII, and
write down all that Lord BROUGHAM had written up.
Old GEORGE TIERNEY is now, if we recollect right,
dead, buried, and forgotten by the present small beer
writers in the Edinburgh Review. He was, nevertheless,
a very respectable Whig. and, despite his sarcasm and
his sneers, which the present LORD CHANCELLOR coarsely
imitates • at an humble distance, he was, by far, in all
matters of finance, the cleverest and clearest-headed
fellow of his party:- He was indolent, it is true, and
despised the stupid people whose dinners he occasionally
ate ; but, when he chose to open his mouth in Parlia-
ment, all the inferior dogs were sure to bark in his wake.
Of this gentleman it will be remembered, that there
never was a budget proposed by PITT, VANSITTART, Or
any body else, during the long period he represented a
rotten borough, that he did not condemn as senseless,
impracticable,'oppressive, or unjust. He censured and
reprobated the whole system. He proved, to the entire
satisfaction of the Whigs, and the people whom they
have invariably gulled, that every new tax was improvi-
dent, unequal in its pressure, and, consequently, impolitic
and arbitrary; and he repeatedly attempted to demon-.

strate that the same supplies could be raised with greater
facility and at less expense by other means, which he
sometimes condescended to explain. In these endeavours
to instruct the Tory Chancellors of the Exchequer, and,
to enact the part of arithmetical schoolmaster in the
House of Commons, TIERNEY was seconded by BROUGHAM
MACKINTOSH, ALTHORP, MILTON, and Lord JOHN in the

house, and by JEFFERY and MAcuLLocit in the Review.
They did not mince the matter at all, They recklessly,
as THOMAS MACAULAY says, condemned the system—
they foresaw nothing but ruin in the system, and they
divided once or twice every year against the malt tax,
the stamp tax, the tea tax, and against the taxes gene-
rally.

We are not aware that any of these taxes have under-
gone such a modification as would render them palatable
to the Whigs, if by some untoward event they were again
compelled to resume their old position on the opposition
benches. But their present position makes all the dif-
feretice. The Whigs are in office--they divide among
themselves the emoluments of office—they have the
patronage of the crown at their disposal—they have
mitres to give to brothers—diplomatic appointments to
cousins—jobs to tried and true friends—commissions to
needy barristers—and numberless other good things to
bestow upon kinsmen who are poor, or legislators who
are servile; and, consequently, they are not in a humour
to remember their old invectives, . or patronise their
former opinions. The dirty work of making the Edin-
burgh Review eat its own words has, by special favour,
been devolved upon Mr. MACAULAY. He is commissioned
to cry up the taxes and cry down the reformers—to peck
at the former principles of his party—to write "fraud"
on the cover of the blue and yellow—to extol the present
system, as being- " bottomed on sound principles," and
to " resist all reckless attempts for the reduction, and all
ill-considered projects for the commutation of the taxes."
Bravo Tom! Bravissimo FRANCIS JEFFERY , and the
Whigs ! •