The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-04 00:00:00

NEW STRAND THEATRE, LONDON.

On Monday night, a new .company of performers, under the
direction of Mr. -Wrench and Mr. 1. Russell, opened their
theatrical campaign in this little house. Before the commence-
ment of the regular performances; a short propitiatory address,
in verse, containing some well pointed allusions to the mono-
polizing pretensions of the patent theatres, and vindicating the
right of free trade in the drama, was spoken by the two ma-
nagers. The address is smartly written, and was well received,
the audience particularly testifying their approbation when one
of the new proprietors, in the spirit of fair r►valry, exclaimed,—
" Success to all ventures, whether British or French,
For, • live and let live' is the motto of Wrench."
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After the delivery of this address, the regular performances of
the night began by the production of a new piece, entitled
" The King and the Actor." It is a one act farce of slight pre-
tensions, copied from the French, the humour of which de-
pends upon the King (Frederick of Prussia) being mistaken
for the actor, and the actor for the king. It was well acted,
and met with a favourable reception. '1 he next' piece was a
musical farce, entitled " The Station-house," which is better
written, more amusing, and has greater claim to originality
than the first. Its success was accordingly more decided.
The principal characters in it were sustained by Messrs, Wrench
and Russell; the former of whom enacted the part of an attor-
ney's clerk with that happy air of easy impudence which always
makes his performances amusing. Thelatter, in the character
of a Frenchman, which he admirably supported, sang a song. in
which mention is made of the present amicable relations existing
between England and France. The part of a novel-reading
mantuamaker, in this piece, was very cleverly performed by
Mrs. Chapman. The farce of " What! the Devil again ?" con-
clnded the night's entertainments, which evidently afforded
great satisfaction to a crowded and respectable audience.

DISPOSITION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
SQUADRON,
UNDER THE COMMAND OP SIR YULTINRY MALCOLM.

(From the Private Corre.epondent of the United Service Gazette.)
Britannia and St. Vincent-12th July. off Tenedos, cruising.
Malabar-12th July, off Tenedos ; will, it is supposed, proceed to Con-
stantinople when the Russians leave.
Barham—off Tenedos, cruising.
Rover-12th July, off Tenedos, cruising.
Hind-12th July, off Tenedos, carrying despatches to and from Con-
stantinople.
Actaon—At Constantinople, Ist July.
Meteor—At Constantinople, 9th July; expected to be despatched to
the admiral immediately the Russians quit.
Rainbow—Off Tenedos, 12th July; about to sail for Nauplia.
Madagascar—At Nauplia ; returned from Turkey with King Otho,
after performing quarantine at Syra.
Beacon—At Smyrna, Ist July.
Mastiff—lmbro, 4th July; Lieut. Graves surveying near the Dania-
nelles, 100 miles from his ship Admiration.
Alfred—Malta, under quarantine ; arrived from off Tenedos, 27th
July.
Ceylon—Malta Harbour, with Admiral Brigg's flag.
Pelican—sailed froth Gibraltar, to order -home the Philomel from
Malta.
Scylla—At Tripoli ; sailed from Malta Bth July.
Raleigh—Malta, arrived from Tripoli 10th July, sailed again for the
Levant 17th July,
Cordelia—At Corfu.
Philomel—At Gibraltar.

Champion-27th July, off Tenedos, just arrived from Alexandria, and
about to be despatched to Smyrna.
Columbia—Arrived at Malta from Zante, 30th July, and carries home
mail 31st July.
Lady Emily yacht—Expected at Malta from Naples and Marseilles,
Bth August.
Scout—Arrived at Malta from Plymouth in 20 days, Bth July ; sailed
for the Admiral 13th July.
Volage—Arrived at Malta from Portsmouth, in 17 days, on the 11th
July.
Francesco Primo--Neapolitan steamer, arrived at Malta on returning
from Levant, 15th July ; sails for Sicily ar.d Naples 31st July.
July 31, 1833.

POISON FROM NEW HONEY.—A 'son of nine and a daughter
of six years, children of Samuel York, of Farnington, died a
few days ago, in consequence of eating new honey. They lived
about thirty-six hours. Honey recently gathered by bees at a
certain season of the year, from the flowers of some poisonous
plants, possess their deleterious qualities in a highly concen-
trated state, when fresh, and may prove fatal if taken in large
quail t iti e s.--A merican paper.

ER Y:',ll'F. .—Those who continually abuse their strength in
forced exercise, as huntsmen, dancers, wrestlers, &c. are par-
ticularly liable to erysipelas: Mental emotion will also excite
it.. On reading to a criminal his sentence of death, he was
seized with an erysipelas in the face, which protured him a re-
prieve of forty days.—Baron Alibert, in the Lancet.

On Wednesday last, the ceremony of consecration of the
Trinity Chapel, Paisley, was performed by the Right Rev. Jas.
Walker, D.D., Bishop of the United Diocese of Edinburgh and
Fife, in the Scottish Episcopal Church. , On this occasion the
Rev. 'P. Bissland, M.A., read prayers, and the Rev. Edward
Craig, M. A., minister of St. James's Chapel, Edinburgh,
preached an appropriate sermon from Ist Corinthians, iii. 11..
The cemetry was also consecrated, and the Rey. W. M. Wade
formally inducted into thethe pastoral charge of the congregation.
—Edinburgh Adeertiser.
• FEROCITY OF A RAT.—A singular instance of the ferocity of
a rat occurred last Wednesday night, inthe house of Mr. Swain,
of the Punch Bowl Inn, Thursday Market. After the family,
had all retired to bed, Mr. and Mrs. Swain' were awoke out of
their sleep by the screams of their three children, who slept in
an adjoining room. Mrs. Swain immediately went to learn the
cause ; and on entering the room she observed a large rat jump
oft' the bed. Her husband procured a light, and an unsuccess-
ful search was made for it. On examining the children, they
discovered that the eldest, about six years old, had one of his
liana bitten; another, about four years old, had one of his
knees so severely bitten that he was unable to walk the follow-
ing day ; and the youngest, about 14 months old, was so se-
verely-bitten on one side of the neck, a little under the ear, and
bled so profusely that its life was considered in danger. During
the time Mr. and.. Mrs. S. were in the room, the rat jumped up-
on the bed a second time, and seized the youngest child by the
forehead. The ferocious animal kept its hold until Mr. Swain
went. and attempted to catch it, but it eluded his grasp, and
finally made its 'escape.—Yorkshire Gazette.
RESIDENCES OF CHAUCER.—Chaucer resided at Blenheim
where he compiled his Treatise on the Astrolabe, for the use or
his younger son, Lewis, then only ten years of age. He after.
wards lived at Donninton Castle, of which nothing at present
is to be seen but a battered gateway with two towers and some
part of the'shattered walls. The grounds about it and the ruins
are choked with bramble and overrun with ivy. It lies half a
utile to the right of Spinhamland, the ancient Spina of Anto-
ninus, a mile beyond Newbury, Berks, on the same -side. As
you go from London, you pass over the river Kennett to the
village of Donnington, from which there is a pretty steep, but
pleasant ascent through a lane to a hill under the castle, where
stands a seat formerly 'belonging to the Countess of Sandwich ;
from hence arises the castle-hill, very steep, and not unlike that
whereon the observatory stands at Greenwich ; from this hill
there is a very fine prospect of several counties. The castle it-
sell stands in a pleasant park, in which there was a famous oak,
called Chaucer's Oak, under which, tradition says, he wrote
several poems. He lived here two or three years. Evelyn
gives an account of the place. He was a member of Cambridge
(Clare Hall), and Oxford Universities, and of the Inner Tem-
ple. his residence in London was at the sign of the Red Rose,
in Palace-yard, Westminster, on the site where Henry Vll.'s
chapel now stands.
EXTRAORDINARY PIECE OF MECHANISM.—M. SleVellard,
watch-maker, of Boulogne, has constructed one of the most
curious automatons ever witnessed. It is a small figure dressed
..in the Turkish costume, seated on a
.eushion ; before him is a
table, and on the right another with three cups on it, and a
hollow drum larger than the cups. The mechanism first exe-
cutes an overture; it is arranged for playing that of Moses,
'l'rancred, or the Spanish Barber. The air being concluded,
the little juggler rises and salutes the company, as every well-
bred juggler ought to do. He then takes two of the cups, passes
them from one hand to the other, and conveys three little silver
balls, which he passes in succession under the two cups, and
then collects them all under the third with admirable dexterity.
He then puts the three cups in their places; he lowers the
drum, strikes it thrice with his wand, raises it, and a little female
dancer appears, who dances in front of the table to an air played
by the music. The drum is again lowered, and when it is raised
the dancer is gone; then, the juggler, who during the dance ap-
plauded by his looks and action the little dancer, takes the third
cup which he had not yet used, he raises it and shows a silver
egg. From this egg is hatched a bird of the most beautiful
plumage, and inconceivably small; it perches on the top of the
egg, and seems delighted at its deliverance, flaps its wings,
turns its little head, and sings an air. The juggler then covers
it, and all disappears ; he now gravely puts the cup in its place,
salutes the company, and sits down like a Turk. A second air
completes the entertainment. We have never seen any me-
chanism so perfectly natural as M. Stevenard's juggler and
bird; the most perfect illusion is produced. We understand
this curious production of the arts, which cost the author five
years' labour, has been sold for £32,ooo.—Presten Pilot.
EXTRAORDINARY FORTITUDE.--A gentleman came from
Camborne, Cornwall, two years since, and consulted the medical
officer of the Plymouth Eye Infirmary, on account of a shot
which entered his left eye-hall four years and a-half before,
viz., in February, 1827, from a gun fired at a woodcock by
another person, producing instant blindness in the left eye, and
unceasing pain from that time. In exploring the eve for the
shot, through a fitulous opening in the schlerotica, a -bony and
crystalized lens was extracted, and with it the supposed cause
of his suffering, then attributed to the spiculm bone. In Fe-
bruary, 183.3, the same gentleman returned to Plymouth, and
said that the shot must still be lodged in the eye, as his pain
was most acute, and his fear of losing the other eye from sym-
pathy very great. A second operation was performed, at his
particular request, and the anterior part of his left eye removed,
and the vitreous humour scooped out. The eye suppurated and
sunk, but still no shot.was found. On the 23d instant he came
a third time to Plymouth, fearing blindness also in his right eye,
and requested to have the remaining portion of his left eye ex-
tirpated; this was done. In that part of the optic nerve which
expands and forms the retina, was found a duck shot, impacted
so firmly that a considerable effort was required to detach it
from its bed, in which it must have been fixed for six Years and '
six months, closely embiaced by the nerve. Such- was the
patient's extreme fortitude, that not even was his hand raised,
nor a syllable of complaint uttered during the whole operation,
certainly the most painful that can be performed on the human
frame. The patient is doing remarkably well, and already re-
warded with relief for his perseverance and fortitude.—:Ply-
mouth Journal.

AN ACCOUNT OF CATTLE IMPORTED INTO LIVERPOOL
FROM IRELAND,
From the 24th WI. to the 30th ult. inclukire.
Cows. Sheep Lambs Pigs. f Horses. Mules. I calves.
1314 f 2930 4981 1 19 I I 280

Emporto.

EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 4-c.

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Crown, cowman, fm Calcutta, with abt 6 t red sandars wood, abt 5
t Sapan wood, abt 160 bdis rattans, 295 bgs horn tips, 821 bgs saltpetre,
163 robins black pepper, 211,10 lags rice, 93 bxs sago, 517 turmeric,
88 bis cow hides, 12 his buffalo bides, 50 bls safflower, 79 bis castor
oil and linseed, 112 bxs shell lac, 320 bgs ginger, 292 bgs sugar, 3 cse
silk piece goods, Ibx pickles, Order--P .Dk.
Livingston, Cowley, fin Calcutta, with 1934 bgs saltpetre, 3700 ligs
rice, 450 bgs horn tips, 95 his cow and 2 his buffalo hides, 82 chts shell
lac, 34 bis munjeet, 170 bls hemp, Taylor, Potter and co-2 CS silk
piece goods, Order—P. Dk.

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WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA.
Mersey, Sharp, I'm Jamaica, with 8 hds 1 tee sugar, 2 pns rum, 2
cks shrub, abt 90 t logwood, 2 bxs 1 jar pickled pepper, Sir J Birch
and co-,-23 hds 19 tcs sugar, 27 pns rum, 'l' Rawson-03 pns Ihd rum,
Gibbs, Bright, and co-1 bx pickled peppers—T H Milner-3 kgs
tamarinds, /4.laster-6 pns rum C Lawrence and Son--30 hgs pimento,
6 pus lime juice, T and W Davids and co-35 hds 33 tcs 10 brls Ihf brl
sugar, 60 pns rum, 3 brls ginger, 8 Igs mahogany, 122 ps cedar, 50
lancewood spars, 23 tlO c logwOod, IN 12 c rustic, 5 pkgs presents,
Order—Q Dk.
Denison, Poole, fm Demerara and Antigua, with (fin Demerara) -81
hds 3 tcs sugar, 77 cks molasses, C W and F Shand-15 hds sugar 3
pus rum, 12 cks molasses, Waterhouse and co-10 do, H Porter(fin
Antigua) 100 hds 4 tcs 3 brls sugar, 66 pns molasses, 64 pns rum, C W
and F Shand-5 hds 7 tcs sugar, J Woodhouse-16 bids do, J Jones Sr,
co—ls hds do, Ewart, Myers, and co-6 do, Sir W L Thomas-5 do,
Swainston and co-1 ek rum, .1 Hamilton--1 pn do. 1 brl 3 bxs arrow,.
root, 5 bxs preserves. 2 kgs tamarinds, 5 bxs pepper, 1 bx plated
ware rotd, Order—P Dk.
AFRICA.
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Agnes, Dl'Gaa, fin Africa, with 1198 cks palm oil, 700 elephants'
teeth, 10 fms dunnage wood, I 0 Bold—P Dk.

SOUTH AMERICA.

Rebecca, Creswell, fm Bahia, with 30 cs sugar 2 eke tapioca, 2 b-xs
pepper 1279 bgs 'c•otn, Order-2 es conts unkti, R Latham-1 bx do,
Haigh and co—P Dk.
Rowena, Radcliffe, fm Puerto Cabello and Savanilla, with (fin Pu-
erto Cabello) with abt 125 t copper ore, J Bibby and co—(fm Savanina)
abt 9 t brazilletto wood, 90 Ills cotn, 275 salted hides, abt 170 t rustic,
abt 4 tliguumvitae, hers, Imrie, and co—G7 Ids cotn, W Cator and co
—lO2 do, abt 80 t fustic, Onler—K Dk.
John and Mary, Peile, fin Puerto Cabello, with 447 bls cotn, J
Kearsley and Son-2 pkgs coat unkn, Falkner, Ackers, and eo—ebt
140 t copper ore, J Bibby and co—K Dk.
Noma, Dott, fm hlaranham, with 400 bls cotton, J Rushton-10:2
do, T Hesketh-32 do, J M'Clure-200 do, Foster Bros-20 do. J Van
Zeller and co-350 do, J Haddon and co-531 do, 115 dry salted and 3
pps wet halted hides, Order—P 1)k.
Ring Mahon Castle, Barr, fin Rio de la Bache, with abt 120 t Nica-
ragua wood, Baring Bros and eo—S Dk.
UNITED STATES.

Nimrod, Atkins, fm Charleston, with 1216 bls cotn, 4SI brls tur-
pentine, A Taylor and co—b cs leaf tobacco, 6es segars, G Wildes and
co—loose' 84 ps Br goods retd, Order—G Dk.
Julia, Barker, fna New Orleans, with 19 hd.s tobacco, W Oxley-;--21
do, J Stewart-35 do, Evans and Trokes-2 do, 46 bls cotton, H Patry
and co-154 do, Cearns, Crary, and co-30 do, Order-256 do, A Tay_
for and co-12 do, IV H Gilliat-1 small box conts unkn, Baring Bros
—K Dk. •

EOrcgva; Owen , fm Richmond, U.S., with '3otbds 42 hf-lids tobacco,
W Oxley-402 Inls do, .1 Stewart-15 do, W Hlliat—K. D.
George, Bartlett, fm Richmond? U R, with 323 lids tobacco Hunter
and Alexander-47 lids 30 tcs do, 'W H Gilliat-75 hds do, J Stan:nit—,
,RilS do, W Oxley-33 do, W and J Brown and Dk.