The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-04-17 00:00:00

APAIL 17. I9E3r

GRAND -NEW ITALIAN OPERA AND BALLET
THE Original Proprietors and Founders of the Liverpool
and Manchestet ITALIAN OPERA, having assured
themselves that the hopes which they bad entertained in
establishing OPERATIC ENTERTAINMENTS in this town have
since been realized by the enthusiastic encouragement of its
inhabitants, are anxious, if possible, to gratify the refined taste
for ITALIAN MUSIC, which they had the honor of forming,
and propose to unfurl once more their banners, provided a suffi-
cient number of Friends and Supporters can be obtained to
unite with them in so perilous and splendid an enterprise. They
hope that the manner in which the Establishment was conducted,
in the year 183.1, gave satisfaction to the Public, considering the
disadvantages under which it laboured, and can only promise on
the present occasion that their future efforts will be unremitting.
in order to form an effective OPERA COMPANY and
GRAND BALLET, such as may be wortls.l.lre patronage of
the second town in England.
The time proposed is the early part 44e next year, and the
Subscriptions for the Season, which will consist of Thirty-six
Representations of the MOST POPULAR MODERN OPERAS, will
be SEVEN GUINEAS—the Tickets to be Transferable.
The price of Single Tickets for the Boxes will be raised to
Five Shillings, in consequence of the enormous expense attend-
ing the undertaking.
Families who intend favouring the list with their names will
have the kindness to apply to Messrs. Rocrt.tvP and Due/L-
-yman-I, Stationers, Castle-street, to Mr. Wsrss, Music-
seller, Church-street, or to Messrs. litres and Son, Music-
sellers, Church-street and Castle-street, on ur before the2.stlr
April instant.

UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE WORSHIPFUL

THE MAYOR.

POSTPONEMENT OF THE FANCY FAIR.
In consequence of Chester Races taking place on the days
announced for the BAZAA4, the Proprietor has been
solicited to POSTPONE the Public Days until MONDAY,
the Ilth, and TUESDAY, the 12th of May next; the Fancy
Fair will, therefore, take place a week later than originally
announced.
LIVERPOOL ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
MARATKINS, Proprietor the • ive GARDENS, begs
.lave most respeetfully toofretnranimihanis to the Nobility
and Gentry, and to the Inhabitants of Liverpool a e vici-
nity generally, for the very flattering support 1. c his Esta-
bliihment has received since its commeu , and to inforip
them that the Season for 1835-6 will co ence on MONDAY,
the 11th May next, on which and the following day, the anni-
versary, of the Opening of the Gardens will be celebrated, as
usual, by a
BAZAAR AND FANCY FAIR;
the profits of which, together with a donation proportionate to
• the receipts, will be divided alpongst the
PUBLIC CHARITIES.
On the evenings of those days the Gardens and principal
Buildings will be
• SPLENDIDLY ILLUMINATED.
There will also be a
GRAND EXHIBITION OF FIREWORKS,
under the superintendence of an eminent artist.
" A FULL MILITARY BAND

will be in attendance on the opening days, and will perform
three days a week during the season.
Contributions from Ladies and Gentlemen of articles for sate
at the Bazaar will be thankfully received, and duly accounted
for at the Garden; where any further information may be ob-
tained.

" Subscription Books for the season are now lying for signature
at Mr. Grapel's, Church-street, at the Lyceum News-room, and
at the principal Hotels and Newspaper-offices, where Tickets
may be had.

Subscribers are respectfully requested to observe that, as the
season for 1834 expires with the present month, old tickets are
inadmissible on the opening days. Non-subscribers will be ad-
mitted on those days with an order from a Subscriber, on pay-
ment of Two Shillings, till Two o'clock ; after that hour, and
for the rest of the season, at the usual charge of One Shilling.
The following are the

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:—
Annual Ticket for a single Subscriber £1 1 0
Ditto for a Family not exceeding four persons 3 3 0
Ditto for any additional member of a Family above four 0 7 0
Ditto ditto above six 0 5 0
The terms for the admission of Schools, either for a single
visit or for the season, may be known on application at the
Garden.

Subscribers to enjoy the privilege of writing Visitors'
Tickets, without which Non-subscribers will not be admitted.

Tickets not transferable.

The Gardens are Open from Seven or Eight o'clock in the
Morning, according to the season, till dusk, throughout the
year.

Zoological Gardens, Derby-road, April 15, 1835.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

What a very silly question "John T." asks; it is hardly tit for
the Mercury. We refer him to the noun "Native" in John-
son's dictionary.

Zbe Eiberpool eStanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 17, 1835,

The latest advices from London state that Lord MEI:*
BOURNE had made no progress whatever in the formation
of his administration. Lord JOHN RUSSELL had been
suddenly summoned from Woburn to give his advice.
Lord GREY having withdrawn from the party altogether.
The news from Devonshire had cooled the ardour of Lot d
JOHN, and that from Cambridge had damped the cou-
rage of Mr. SPRING RICE. In short, Lord MELBOURNE
is beset by difficulties on every side, and it was confi-
dently expected that he would cause it to be announced
in the House of Cdtmilons, last night; that he liarfa.io-
in constructing a ministry. The King, our private cor-
respondent
.assures us, remains firm, and positively re,
fuses to concede any terms to the Irish agitator.

The foreign news is not devoid' of interest. The
death of one prince in Portugal, and the birth of ano-
ther in Belgium, are events of some importance to the
gossipping world; but the more important intelligence
has reference to the new aspect of affairs in Spain. The
adherents of Don CARLOS are increasing daily, and the.
Queen REGENT, fearing some sudden outbreak of po-
pular fury, has retired rather clandestinely from the ca-
pital. It would not surprise us to see Don CARLOS on
the throne before midsummer.

In France, Louis PHILIPPE is making war, as usual,
upon the press and the patriots who raised him to his
present rank of " Citizen King." He has proved him-
self to be the greatest despot in Europe.

The position of the ministry in abeyance, and the
mi-
nistry in expectancy, is perhaps the most curious upon re-
cord. It must have been foreseen from the first that the
failure or the retirement of Sir ROBERT PEEL would se-
riously embarrass the crown and interrupt the business
of the country. But the united factions cared for none
of these things. Like furious hounds upon a chase, they
dashed on through the gloom, reckless of the precipice
before them, over which the foremost were impelled and
destroyed.
This, we contend, is the situation of Lord JOHN RUE*
SELL and those of the whig party who have supported
him. They are politically dead. In other words they
are powerless ; and they have no more chance of form-
ing a government, which could exist for a month, than
JOHN GULLY has of being Lord High Chancellor of
England.
They will go all lengths, we are told, in their despe-
rate resolves, and their unconquerable love of place and
pelf. We know it. To obtain power, and provide for
the needy and the vile, they would take the crown from
the head of WILLIAM IV. and place it on the bead a
DANIEL O'CONNELL. To accomplish their base and fac-
tious ends, they would give Ireland to the popish priests,
and raze to the foundation every protestant ehurch io
that island. But will they be permitted to do all the acts
of wickedness which they contemplate, aqd t, Ater away
the rights of England fur the support which is promised
them in return by the Irish demagogue .? We hardly
think they will.
Let us see how the case stands. In November last the
King, in the exercise of his undoubted prerogative,
thought fit to dismiss from his councils that ministry of
which Lord MELBOURNE was the nominal head. He se-.
ected new advisers. His Majesty sought the aid of Sic'
ROBERT PEEL, who was not seeking office, and whn.baft
never in the slightest degree offered any factious opposi-
tion to the preceding government. A new pardiameat is
. summoned ; and upon an important question, involving
a constitutional principle, Sir ROBERT PEEL. is defeated
by a majority of thirty-three--a majority composed en-
tirely of Irish papists! The prime minister retires in
consequence of this defeat ; and here the. crown is once
more called upon to exercise its prerogative.
The King consults Lord GREY—Lord GREY recom-
mends Lord LANSDOWNE—Lord LANSDOWNE recom-
mends Lord MELBOURNE—the very man whom the King,,
had dismissed in November last! But pass we over this
—Lord MELBOURNE is sent for, and he, after consulting
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, consents to undertake the task of
forming a new ministry. Lord MELBOURNE knows that
the only mode of securing for his government a majority
in the House of Commons is by purchasing, silencing, or
neutralizing in some way or other, the sweet voices ofthe
knot of Irish papists who supported the confiscation clause
of Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Now, how is this to be done ?
O'CONNELL is not the man to throw a chance away. lie'
is not the man to work without pay. He will not take
office himself, for this simple reason, that the paupers and
assassins of Ireland are better paymasters than the King
of Great Britain, and because be would be a decided loSer