The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-13 00:00:00

THE ITALIAN OPERA.

On Wednesday night "La Gazza Ladra," a semi-serious
opera, was brought out at the Theatre-Royal. Ari,,etta, Fa.
brizio's family servant, Madame Kyntherland; Giannetto, a
young soldier, son of Fabrizio, Signor Deval; Podesta, Signor
Marani; Fernando, a soldier, father of Ninetta, Signor Bois-
raeon; Lucia, wife of Fabrizio, Madame Castelli; Fabrizio, a
ric's farrier, Signor Galli; Pippo, a country lad, Madlle. Cam-
pi ; Isaac°, a Jew pedlar, Signor Troyano; Antonio; tt,sailor,
Signor Cervalos. •
The hasty and ill-advised production of this operalsi.Ave
derstand, attributable to some anonymous and rather ungenerous
temarks which appeared in the columns of one of our contem-
poraries, charging the manager of the Italian opera with not
having kept his faith with the public, because he had not pro-
duced the exact number of operas " noted on the bond." To
repel this charge, the Marquis de Muti Papazurri, with more
valour than discretion, got up "La Gazza Ladra." The repre-
sentation thus prematurely forced on was, in truth, little more
than a dress rehearsal; and it would, therefore, he an act of
great, injustice to pronounce an opinion upon a piece performed
under. such unfavourable circumstances. This, indeed, ap-
,Peared to be the "feeling of the audience, who, although not
blind to tlle fact that scarcely one of the performers understood
his or her part, forbore to manifest any symptom of disapproba-
tion". We would suggest to the marquis, that this is a some-
what hazardous experiment, which we hope he will have the
good sense not to repeat.

NOTICE TO SHIPMASTERS, EMIGRANTS, PAS
SENGER AGENTS, &c.

TO THE EDITOR OF TILE LIVERPOOL ST.4.IrD,4RD.
consequence of a communication from R. W
.Hoy,
Esq., Under-Secretary of State for the Cotouial,i)epirtment,
directing Me, by-colon-land of. the Right lion. the Earl, of
Aberdeen; to make the following information generally fi.r %v n,
TIM, the tax ou cMigrauts proc.eet.ling.to 'Cower Pit-
nada has been renewed, and <s now in force,' . I beg,through
the medium of your paper, to'acquaint the .publie !herewith.—
Aseinain, sir;.your most: Obedient and vet y hunalile set vaut,
• Ii.QBT. LOW, Limit. U.N..
••11.111, Emigration Agent.
Liverpool:Government Emiiiretion Qffice,.
33, Union-street, 11th Feb., 1835.. • ,

ST. Baines Cu uticti.—lt will be observed. by. the- advertise-
thent in another cnlumn, that our excellent diocesan is to preach
in St. Bride's Church. (near the mount cemetary,) on Sunday
-next. Collections are then to be made in aid of schools about
to be erected iu Upper Stanhope-street, a neighbourhood with
a large hod increasing population, for which such' schools are
urgently required. We trust that his lordship's kind and able
advocacy will do much to promote so laudable an undertaking.
H THE WEATHER.—Extract of a letter from Gibraltar, dated
Jan. 7th.—`' Business has been quite at a stand for four
days, owing to the deluge of rain which has fallen, and pre-
. Vei;ted persons from leaving' their houses during that time.'
FIRE PinicE.-,—The superinteudant of the fire police (Mr.
Gallemore) having been dismissed by the commissioners, the
cause for which does not appear, a special meeting of the board
was held on Tuesday last, for the purpose of appointing his
successor, when a Mr. Williams moved that the duties of the
office, for three months, be performed by Mr. Whitty, superin-
tendant of the nightly watch, with a view to his permanent al)-
; peintment,'provided Mr. Whitty found himself competent to
'hold both situations; Mr. .JaCkson seconded the motion, and,
' after some discussion of no general interest, in which Mr.
••Hiudle, Mr. Wales, Mr. Keet, Dr. Collins, and Mr. Genre
:took part, the motion was carried by Mr. Whitty receiving the
appointment. An investigation into a charge brought against
'Mr. Gallemore by 'one of his men, arising out of some claim
Atiat,- the man Made for expenses at -fires, was subse.qUently
entered into, but as a motion by Mr. Hindle, to the effect that
MrAiallemore (who was man adjoining room) shouldbe ad-
mitted In explain away or rebut the charge was negatived by
the beard, we do not feel justified iu giving publicity to the con-
versation.

•
SEMOUS ACCIPENT.—On Saturday afternoon, about four
o!clock, as some parsonS were loading a lorry with cotton from
the third story of a warehouse in William-street, Dale:street,
the rope broke, and a bag of cohort fell upon the carter. His
neck,, we understand, Wasldiilocated, but Mr. Rowlawl, the
dentist, of Tithebarn-street; Saving reached the spot immedi-
ately after the accident, succeeded in reducing the dislocation,
by which the man's life was saved. He icas-llien sent off to the
.I'ort.h.ern Hospital, where he remain4l,in,a precarious state.

'eonardo, a young Venetian pulite, • whose family name the
chronicler has suppressed, from respect for his exalted kindred,
being
.requested bye. friend to lend his apartments for a private
interview with a young lady, concea!ed himself in an outer room,
and thus saw the beautiful face of the frail damsel, as her lover
impatiently snatched off her veilnpon her entrance. Soon after-
wards a marriage was arranged for Leonardo with the only child
of a wealthy and powerful senator:—" The nuptial day arrived.
Towards sunset the relations and friends of both families assem-
bled in the mansion of the old senator. Leonardo, according
to Venetian custom, awaited the several guests at the door of
the palace, and was the last to enter the saloon. The nobles
Occupied seats placed around in guise of an amphitheatre. At the
further end a priest, in pontifical robes, knelt in fervent prayer
before a magnificent altar. Trophies of all kinds of arms hung
against the walls blackened by time, and the .brilliancy of the
abundant waxlights could scarcely dissipate the obscurity of the
ample .saloon. As Leonardo entered, the inner apartments,
Wherein the bride, encircled by noble matrons, awaited the
moment of celebration, opened. The bride steps forward un-
veiled, and, amidst the general exclamations of enthusiastic
admiration, the cry of Famed surprise which escapes Leonardo
at her sight is unheard; the beautiful girl, who comes forward
half-veiled in white drapery, with every symbol of sr spotless
life, is no other than the paramour ,of his friend. * * *
He hesitated a moment, whether publicly to disgrace her who
dared to bring him infamy as her wedding portion; but the
aspect of her father, the thought of his despair, pity for the..ex-
quisitely-beautiful girl herself, and the generosity of his soul, de-
termined him rather to incur the reproach of absurd capricious-
ness ; and as the bride, after receiving her father's blessing,
drew near to him, he receded a couple of steps, and command-
ing silence by a gesture, exclaimed,' 'She cannot, be my wife!
Never will I be her husband l"l'he rejected bride swooned;.
her infuriated kinsman rushed upon the insulting bridegroorn;
the festal scene, the nuptial altar itself seemed about .to be pol-
luted with blood. • The venerable senator, controlling his own.
anger, employed the whole force of his eloquence and of his'atir
thoritiy to prevent this outrage. Having succeeded, he thus ad= •
dressed Leonardo Go; I renounce all self revenge, con.rfnit-
ting redress to Him who punishes the wrongs done to grayhairs.'
A few days passed, Leonardo fell, mortally wounded by • the
dagger of an assassin.' "—Lettre cu Venezia, reviewed in the .dihe-
meant •

LIVERPOOL POL ICE.

(Before the MAYOR and Alderman P. Bounrit.)

IMPUDENT Srar.ET RounEitv.--An ill-looking fellow, call-
ing himself John Dixon, by trade a tobacconist, was placed at
the bar, charged by the mate of the ship Medura, of Baltimore,
with robbery in the streets on the previous night under the fol-
lowing circumstances. The- complainant stated that he• was
pas Sing along the street on Wednesday night about twelve
o'clock, when the prisoner joined company with him, and en-
tered into conversation. He shortly afterwards felt a hand in
hit pneket, and immediately calls out " Holln, messmate ! you're
picking my pocket;" upon which' the prisoner struck him on
the. head, .felled him to the ground, and ran :away. Complain-
ant raised the my of watch, and stop thief,-and Bernard Sands,
a watchman, secured him. He then foand that a silver pencil-
case and a gold seal were missing, and on the prisoner being
taken to Bridewell and searched, those articles-were-in his pos-
session. The prisoner denied the charge,.and said that he had '
worked with Messrs. Bullen and Hignett, tobacconists, in • this •
town; and, latterly, witlta Mr. Jones, iu the same business, at
Manchester.

BEN.R SH•WS, AND LORD BROUGHAM.—Patrick Hussey, who
keeps a beer shop in Prestou-street, was summoned before the
sitting magistrates for having people drinking in his house be-
tween the hours of twelve and one o'clock on Sunday morning.
Elliot, the constable, stated.that he served the summons on the
mistress of the house on Wednesday.
Mr. Crewe, who appeared,for the defence, asked Elliot what
was the woman's name.

don'ts nik,._ j.
Crewe.:::lill'Otol7efatir the court with this case. The
fact is, that Hussey has not lived in this house for six months
pakt.
, Ingram. thn consta.ble, in answer to the court, stated that the
name of Patrick HusSey was over the door, that he underlets to
a man named Carney, and that he has not lived in the place
these two years. He keeps a provision shop within two Tors
of it.

Mr. Crewe submitted that the infOrmation could not stand,- in
as much as Hussey was-not the responsible person; but the
bench overruled this objection, Hussey having his- name over
the door, and having the licence in his name.
The case was then gone into. Ingram proved that there
were six persons in the house after twelve o'clock, and that one
of them, a woman, was in the act of drinking de at the time he
entered ; Carney then called several witnesses to rebut this
evidence, but they totally failed. • - • - •
. The Mayor.—Carney, do you live in.this house? - •
Carney.—l 'do; sir.
The Mayor.-And you sell ale?
Carney.--I do, -sir.
The Mayor.—Then I call upon you to produce your licence.
The supervisor is here.
This was a poser; Mr. Crewe and Mr. Carney viwe taken,
as sailors would sat, quite aback; said nuthing,liutsboek their.
heads.

Supervisor.—This man, sir, is in the condition of one selling
without a license. If you be good enough to call on him for his
license we will then know who are the' bondrnert. it is a regu-
lar trick far respectable persons to obtain a beer license, :,,std
then let the house to a poor person at an enormous rent. This
man, Ca my, would never have obtained a license were this
not the case.-

The Mayor.—There are now befote the magistrates ninety.
two cases of the kinti. • _ _

Mr. Alderman Bourne.—The evil is very extensive, and must
be put a stop to; a great deal of drunkenness is caused by it,
and the magistrates are blamed for what it is nut in their Rower
to prevent.
Mr. Crew.—Perhaps it were better if the beer act had never
passed?
Mr. Bourne:---I wish it had not; but it is one of the reform
measures. •

Mr. Crew.—lt is one of Sir Robert Peel's acts.

Mr. Bourne.—N), n 0 it was Lord Brougham's.
Mr. StattOnvottli.—Ves, the measure originated with Lord
Brougham; and not Sir Hobert Peel. '
Mr. Crew.—There's no doubt Sir Robertriseol was concerned
in it. • •

. . .
Magistrate.--If it were re-peeled .the-enthmunity would
be ail the better for it. (Laughter.)
The magistrates then lined Patrick Hussey,- the real owner of
the beer-shop, in' the penalty of 405., and.,said they should fine
bun-in a further penalty of ih if he did not procure-his license.
Gooss ASS.% ULT ON a Pot.ten - OFFICE:R.—A ruffianly fel-.
low, named Richard Webster, was committed to' Kirkdale for
trial-. for a gross assault upon Davison,-an active officer of police.
It appeared from the evidence of the complainant that ,nn the
10th risstent he had-occasion togo to the inthlie:tionse kept. by
Britton, a prize fighter in 'ritliebarn-street, where the prisoner
was sitting. lie had no sooner entered than the prisoner hurled
a half-pint glass in his face, which cut him severely about the
cheeks and eyes. The ruffian, it appears, had- au ill-feeling
towards Davison, in consequence of his having apprehended
him on several occasions for assaults and felonies..
Elizabeth Foulkes, a young woman of respectable appearance,
was charged with stealing a quantity of wearing apparel the
property -ef'Peter Blackburne. The complainant's wife, Sarah
Blackburne, who lives at No; 4, Vine-street, stated that on the
morning of the 10th instant, about eleven o'clock. she missed
from her house two ladies' dresses, two crape handkerchiefs, a
boy's jacket, a shawl, and merino cloak. - She had seen them
safe in the parlour about five minutes before missing them. •The
servant had left the front door of the house open, and some per-
son must have stolen them by enterin,, that way. A young
girl named Margaret Graham proved Elicit she saw the prisoner
abont the hour mentioned by the last witness coming out of the
complainant's house with a large bundle in her hand, which she
saw her open. and display dresses similar 'to those described.
A portion of thent the prisoner sent a sister of witness to pledge
at Mr. Giliiards, pawnbroker, of Brownlow-hill. The pawn-
broker stated that the sister of the last witness pawned the arti-
cles claimed by the complainant. Shelly, a police officer,
stated that he apprehended file- prisoner at a public-house in
Hood-street. She had then in her possession a dress and shawl
claimed by Mrs. Blackburne, The prisoner having nothing
more to urge in her defence than tbat she " did not take them'
was committed.

IC. VISIT OF NANIIC PASHA, THE TURKISH AM-
, BASSADOi?,_TO uyERN9I4,

• • (Front a Correspondent.)
It gives us great pleasure to'hear that this personage is about
to visit Manchester, acid that be will be in Liverpool in the
early part of the ensuing week. His journey is undertaken
for ale purpose of making himself acquainted, by personal in-
spection, with the nature and elttent of the manufactures and
commerce of •this part of the country. Such an undertaking
deserves our warmest comniendatiou. . How v-cry significant is
this conduct on the part of his excellency, of the feelings and
principles that govern the councils of the 'present .divan at
Constantinople, in relation to British • commerce. England
exercises a powerful and salutary, moral as well as political,
influence over that country, through the means of her con-
nexions therewith. Turkey has long acknowletlkt•ed this in-
fluence as an essential element of her own well being, and the ,
fault is not hers if we have not hitherto profited more by this
advantageous position. However much the consequences of
bye-gone misrule tin Turkey are to be deplored, it cainiet fail
-te'encourage,ourlnticipationg Of future regeneration, when it
is known that our commercial ihtercourse with that country is
now 'recognised as the chief means for its accomplishment.
For these reasons we shall' welcome the arrival of a Turkish
ambassador among the intelligent and enterprising gentlemen
who combiet• the mercantile Business of this port. They will
be visited by the. Pasha, and he will thus have an opportunity
of gaining 11-4-ini the best sources some valuable lessons m corn-
Htnetcial diplomacy. He is a person of excellent disposition,
-courteous manners, and highly cultivated mind.
We have, no doubt that the merchants of Liverpool will afford
his excellency an opportunity of ascertaining, by some public
expression of their sentiments, the extent they are disposed -
to co-operate with him in the measures contemplated by his
government for extending the commercial resources of Turkey
to the enterprise and industry of the merchants•of this country..
A demonstration of •this character is,-in many respects, of great
importance at this moment. The knowledge of the fact at St.
Petershurgh and Constantinople,—that the merchants of this
town bad-entertained the Turkish ambassador for the purpose
of declaring their interest in the stability of tbe Turkish empire,
and their opinion that its integrity affords the surest guarantee
of the continuance of their own prosperous connexion with it,.
would, we feel convinced, avail more than the last twelve
months of diplomacy has done to unmoor our fleet front the
bay of Vourla.

THE NEW CHURCH AT FENISCOWLES,

BLACKBURN.

(Abridged from the Blackburn Standard.)
The interesting ceremony of laying the first stone of a new
church, to be called "Immanuel Church," at Feniscowles, was
performed on Thursday last, in the presence of a large con-
course of spectators of all ranks and classes of society, among
whom were the vicar, churchwardens, and other parochial
officers of Blackburn„the clergy of the district, Wm. Fieldeu,
Esq., M.P. fur the hotough, and Dearly all the gentry, resident
iu and near the town.
. .

_
As soon as the company had been areanged, the Children of
the Feniscowles Sunday schools sung the hundredth• psalm,
after which the cere:nony.of laying
,the foundation stone pro-
ceeded. A bottle coutaming the coins of his present Majesty's
reign, a copy of the specification of the works to kg executed in
erecting the church, the London and Blackburn newspapers,
&c., was then deposited in a small cell hewn out of a block of
stone five feet square, already fixed in the ground.. The cere-
mony,of pouring, in upon it a small quantity of corn, wine, and
oil, which was brought to the ground in silver vessels, was per-
formed by the Hey. Dr. Whittaker, vicar of I§lackburn, who
also read aloud the memorial engraved on the copper-plate
destined to cover the aperture. It was as follows ,;,:

D. O. 31.
Gloria in excelgit.

. •

. .
"The first stone of this church, intended to'.be called Im-
manuel Church, in Feniscowles, was laid by WilHain Feilden,
Esq., of Feniscowles, member of parliament for Blackburn,
'in the first two parliaments that sat since the town 'of Black-
burn :was made a borough town,_ on the fifth day of February,
A.D. 1835, beiug the sixth year of the reign of his Majesty
King William the Fourth. 'fhc entire expense of the building,
amounting to above £lOOO, was defrayed by private 'subscrip-
tion, inc.u(F,ig £5OO given by the incorpor iced Society for
building new churches. The site for the fabric' was given by
William Feilden, Esq., who also contributed £lOO towards the
funds for the building and endowment.
.•

John William Whittaker, D.D., Vicar of Blackburn.
William Alston,
Benjamin Briefly, Churchwardens of Blackburn.
Richard •
John William Whittaker, Architect."
The copper-plate, after its surface had been completely'co
vered with melted rosin, was then inserted in the groove pre
pared for it, so as completely to cover the aperture containing
the bottle and its contents, and was thoroughly covered with
melted rosin. 'l'he mortar was then spread by William Feil-
den, Esq., and the foundation stone, suspended by a crane,
was slowly lowered by the workmen and adjusted in its proper
place. After trying it by the rule, square, and level, William
Peihien, Esq., thrice struck it with the mallet, and Major
Morley made the following declaration in form :
"In the name of Cod. Amen.

"I hereby declare that this stone, being the foundation stone
of a church to be built in this place, has been duly, property,
and formally laid; and I hereby declare and pronounce that
this is the first and foundation stone of a church, to be built for
the honour of Almighty God, and consecrated to our blessed
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, under the name of Immanuel
Church, Feniscowles.