The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-07-16 00:00:00

TILE DRAMA.

Since our last notice of the proceedings at our Theatre-Royal,
the managers have successively produced " The Hypocrite,"
" The School for Scandal," the first part of " King Henry
the Fourth," " The Revenge," and, last night, the first part
of " King Henry the Fourth," and " The Kentuckian;" the
last piece for the avowed purpose of giving us "more last words,'
or a parting benedicite from our American friend, Mr. Hackett.
Sir John Falatuff is one of the few creatures of the imagina-
tion that has obtained a " local habitation and a name;" we
quote his sayings as those of a person that has lived or is living;
and so powerful is the charm of his wit that we become
enamoured of his very vices, and cease to wonder that Prince
Hal was in love with " that mountain of flesh," maugre his
arrant cowardice and barefaced rogueries. The revelries at the
Blue Boar in Eastcheap betray such a rich fund of humour that
he who can witness a representation of them unmoved must be
in every sense of the word a cynic.
All onr expectations were fully realized from Dowton's per-
formance of the " old fat knight.' We cordially entered into
the spirit of the scenes, fancied ourselves as almost joining in
his orgies, and re-echoed the laugh of his followers as if we had
been inspired by one of his own " cups of sack;" and we can
make no better comment on Dowton's Sir John than by adding
that this was the feeling of the most crowded house we have at-
tended for the season. This fact, the full attendance on
Friday night, is, we think, confirmatory of our opinion that the
admiration of the drama is not on the 'decline, and that where
it wants proper support the fault is owing to the erroneous
judgment of managers, who endeavour to substitute garbage for
wholesome food.

Vandenhoff wanted the fire of Shakspeare's Hotspur, to
convey an adequate idea of the fierce,_ untameable spirit of the
author's character, and we regret to be obliged to repeat that
this gentleman's greatest fault is, that his characters generally
sink in the comparison with the principal artistes, who are his
contemporaries, simply because he reserves his powers for single
passages, instead of supporting his part as a whole. He pos-
sesses all the requisites for an actor of the very first grade, if he
could be perstia4ed to call all his great powers into action.
Wallack left us on Friday night, and was succeeded lastnight
by Mr. Cooper, who made his first appearance on our stage for
the last seven years, in the part of The Prince of Wales, instead
of Wallack, and is in every respect his equal. Cooper's act-
ing is that of the gentleman, and lie is always correct to the
latter in his delivery—au excellence that is too little regarded
by ordinary performers. He soars far above mediocrity, and is
capable of going through a greater range of characters than
almost any of his compeers; we draw a very favourable augury
from his performance of last night, and look forward to much
pleasure from his future exertions.
Mr. Hackett closed his labours in' England last night by
performing Colonel Nimrod Wildfire, in The Kentuckian!'
We have already noticed this piece of Yankee gasconade ;
what passes for wit in one country may be stupidity or imper-
tinence in another. The Colonelis •avowedly a caricature of
his countrymen, drawn by the pencil of a native artist, and
bears the usual strong resemblance to the original—if on his
return he can persuade his countrymen to laagh at their own
absurdities, he will do more to quicken the march of civiliza-
tion and true refinement of manners than a thousand laboured
essays will ever effect; the most powerful weapon that folly
dreads is well-directed satire. We thank this gentleman for
the hearty laughs he has afforded us, we wish him every success
in his own country, and shall be most happy to see Lis place
supplied here by his equal—in his cwn or any other line.

The Bishop of Gloucester has augmented the two small
livings of Horsley and Upton-St.-Leonards, in his diocese, by a
perpetual payment of £l5 a-year each from the revenues of his
see; and the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty have met
these benefactions bya grant of £2OO to each of those benefices.
The Dean and Chapter of Gloucester Cathedral intend to
establish a sermon on Sunday afternoons in the Cathedral ; the
preachers will be paid by the members of the chapter. There is
a growing conviction that if the Established Church is to main_
tarn the honourable station she has hitherto held, her clergy
must exhibit an energy, zeal, and self-denial, commensurat
with the character of the times. This will be the most effectual
reply to the reflections now so lavishly cast on the ministers o
the church.—Worcester Journal.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard Office, Three o'clock.

We have just received a file of New York papers to
the 24th ultimo. They contain distressing accounts of
the prevalence of cholera. At New Orleans the inter-
ments are stated to have been eighty-one on the Bth of
June. The Boston Gazette of Saturday gives the fol-
lowing extract of a letter, dated Matanzas, June sth :
" You can have no idea of the gloom that prevails here in
consequence of that dreadful scourge, the cholera. In the ci-
ties it has nearly ceased, but in the country its path is marked
with desolation and ruin. On an estate having one hundred
slaves, every soul perished. Another with sixty lost fifty-five.
A slave ship lately landed four hundred miserable wretches,
of whom all but three died. Eight negroes were taken down on
an estate sixteen miles from this town a few days ago. The pro-
prietor, Mr. S., an Englishman, an old acquantance of mine, im-
mediately Caine to town to our house. His servant was taken down
after he got in, and died in the yard under my window.. The old
gentleman returned to his estate the day before yesterday, where
he found 38 out of 69 dead. He was immediately seized himself,
when a black boy was despatched to us with a note stating that
his master was dying. The boy had scarcely delivered the note
when he staggered, fell on the floor, and in a few hours was a
corpse. The old gentleman is dead, and the estate entirely de-
serted. This is a picture of many other estates.
HAVANA.—A postscript to a letter from Havana of the Bth
instant, states that the government had then resolved to sus-
pend the granting of clean bills of health."

The Times of yesterday contains the following para-
graph :
"The very thought of the possibility of the Tory locusts
coming into power has created a great alarm—we may say a
panic—in most of the great towns in the north. At Halifax,
Manchester, and Liverpool, the run for gold has been very great.
The ultra-radicals are in high glee, and the age of the " De-
structives " is approaching 1"

We lose not a moment in giving this statement the
most unqualified contradiction. It is a diabolical false-
hood altogether, and invented for the basest of purposes.

CORN EXCHANGE.
TUESDAY, Two O'CLOCK.

To-day our market has gone off without business, but
a fair retail business has been done in Wheats with the
dealers at full prices, chiefly in fresh red Irish, at 7s. 4d.
to 7s. 10d. as in quality ; also, in Canada, at Bs. to Bs. 3d.
for red, and 9s. to 9s. 3d. for white. Speculators would
have bought at a very small reduction. Oats were in
fair request at an advance, fine west of Ireland having
brought 2s. Bd. to 2s. 9d., Wicklows 2s. ald., and Scotch
3s. Oatmeal was dull at 235. to 235. 6d. for new, but
Irish Flour was 6d. to Is. dearer. In other articles there
is no change.

COTTON MARKET.

TUESDAY, Two O'CLOCK.

There is a good demand for Cotton this morning,
principally from speculators, by which holders are ena-
bled to obtain prices fully equal to those of yesterday ;
the sales may probably amonnt to 4,000 bags, the chief
part of which is for resale.
Arrived :-1 New York, and 1 Philadelphia.