The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-05 00:00:00

shopocracy of the large lowns—the tendency of Whig

rule, than a direct appeal to their

ockets I

or the cost

of that expensive

plziythina

and bine illce lachrym

Raise money by taxes upon concur

aise it in-

directly to as great an amount as you please,
Whiggery fatten upon. the vitals of the cony

the honour of the country ; but it is wicked—'

wicked"

and very " vexatious

'—to compel the pure

and patriotic gentlemen, for whose exclusive amuse-
ment and profit the play has been enacted, to contri-
bute directly to the expenses, when they could so easily
OTHER BRETHREN OF THE WESTERN DIVISION OF
LANCASHIRE. be extracted, without . a disclosure of their amount,
THE Entire Receipts'of the. Evening will be appropriated from the pockets of the hardworking and industrious,
L (without any deduction) in aid of the
FUND OF BENEVOLENCE, who have no participation in the pleasure or the profit
For the Relief of Distressed Freemasons, their Widows, and of the scene. An income tax is very wicked, not,
Orphans. The Entertainments will commence with
NAVAL ENGAGEMENTS. however, however, because it will "bring all the inha-
Brother HENRY DODD has kindly consented to sing bitants of the towns to a full sense of 'the nature of
" PROSPER 'rue ART," the music by George Hargreaves,
the words by Brother James Stonehouse ; dedicated, by per- Toryism," but because it will drive these sensible and
mission, to his Royal Highness the Duke of Susstoc, Grand sensitive people to an examination of the exact cost to
Master of the Order of Freemasons.
After which the community and to the individuals of which it is
MILITARY PRO'MOTION. composed, at which a dishonest and imbecile Whif,l-
- conclude with
' ROBERT MACAIRE. faction may be permitted to riot in place and pay, and
The following will be the Prices of Admission for the above exhaust alike the patience and the resources of an
benevolent purpose (on this occasion only) :—Boxes, and
Stalls, 3s. (no Pit on this occasion) ; Second Price to Boxes abused country
and Stalls, 2s. ; Gallery, ls.—no Second Price.
Tickets and Places for the. Boxes to be had (on and iifter
Thursday, the 30th instant) of Mr. J. FOGG, at the Box-
office, and of Mr. WALusLEv, Bookseller, Church-street

GRAND OFFICERS, MASTER MASONS,
AND

It is not a little instructive to watch the proceedings

of the Manchester free-trade cottonocracy at the pre-
sent moment. But a few months ago, in their ardent
appeals to the working classes, these gentlemen were
loud in their protestations that the reductions which
they contemplated in the price of food were not sought
for to enable-them to /oWer wages to a corresponding
extent, and that they "Would not he attended With that
result. "The price of fond has DO connexion with the
price of labour" was reiterated, again and again; by the
organs of the league, in parliament and throughout the
" We shall giVe to the working man the full
benefit of the cheap loaf," was their constant rejoinder
to those who, acquainted with their selfish and grasp-
ing avarice, maintained that the benefit in question
would be transferred at once into the breeches pockets
of the tnillowners. And what do we see going on
around us now in the cotton manufacturing districts ?
Let us examine.

ROYAL LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET,

LAST NIGHT OF THE SEASON.'
(1N FRIDAY next, the Bth instant, for the BENEFIT
of Mr. It. M. RAYMOND, previous. to his appear-
ance at the TheatrerltoyalM4inarket,:on Thursday next.
The Public and .',Patron.44fif this Theatre are respectfully
informed that an account .of the Proceedings at Kirkdale
Sessions, (instituted by the Common Informer:4) to take
place on the Morning of Friday, the Bth instant, at Eleven
o'clock, will be given in the Evening to . those who are kind
enough to Patronise the Entertainments for Mr. It. M.
Raymond's Benefit.
The performances will commence with the very popular and
highly interesting Drama, in Three Acts, called
CHANGES AND CHANCES;
OR, WOMAN'S
In the course of the Evening an Address will be delivered by

country

Mr. R. M. Raymond.
After which,
BLIND BARGAIN;
OR,'A MATCH IN THE DARK.
Miss Cuthbert will Dance an admired Pas Seul.
To conclude with
THE CHRISTENING;
OR, MY FIRST Boas.
Tickets and Places for the Public Boxes to be had of Mr.
J. FOGG, at the Box-office of the Theatre, from Eleven till
Three.
Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 25.: Gallery, 6d. (to which the number
will be limited).
Second Price.--Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls. Doors to open at
Half-past Six. Performance to begin at Seven. Second
Price at Half-past Eight.
This THEATRE to be LET for Concerts, Lectures,
Meetings, &c. after the Bth of April, on which day it closes
for the Season.

A bill is before the House of Commons which, al- '
though not that " total and immediate repeal of the
corn laws," which has been the object of the frantic
quest of the leaguers, it is acknowledged, will be at-
tended by a considerable reduction in the price of
bread. A new commercial tariff has also been intro-
duced, which will lower the, cost of beef, mutton, ba-
con, timber, coffee, and a number of other necessaries
of life to the working classes. And what is the course
which the free-trade
.millocracy are pursuing with re .
spect to these measures and to the wages of their ope-
ratives? Are they endeavouring to secure to the
working classes the benefits which they hold out ? No.
They are, on the contrary, endeavouring, by every fac-
tious opposition, to retard the passing of these mea-
sures and to prolong the existing commercial disorga-
nization, whilst, in the mean time, they are eagerly and
actively engaged in an effort to appropriate to them-
selves the full measure -of benefit which ought to ac-
crue, from them, to the depressed and wretched labour-
ers whom they employ. _ _

ROYAL

AMPHITHEATRE,

GREAT CHARLOTTE-STREET

Last Week but One of the Company's stay in Liverpool.
THIS present TUESDAY, and TO-MORROW, (Wed-
nesday,) April sth and 6th, 1842, the Entertainments
will cemmence with
The Pekin Guards, led by Messrs. Derious and Sands.
Mr. Sweeney, the celebrated Banjo Player, will introduce
a number of his Negro Songs.
-.Master R. Rivea will appear on horseback as the Tea
Picker of China, with a Chinese dance. _

Surprising Display of Agility, by the members of the
Company, in which Mr. W. 0. Dale, the celebrated Vaulter,
will distinguish himself.
Mr. J. Buckley as the Shipwrecked Sailor.
Cracakatoo ; or, Cocoa-nut Ballet—by Mr. C. Rivea, G.
Buckley, F. Rivea, and Master Rivea.
Mr. Sands will introduce his Wonderful Dog, Schodine.
Mr. E. Derious will appear as the Brigand Chief.
Mr. Sands as the Courier of St. Petersburgh.
Master R. Rivea will introduce his St. Swithen Chair.
Posturing, by Mr. R. Rivea.
The. Magic Sack, on two horses, by Mr. C. Rivea.
Mi. W. o.7Dale in a principal Act of Horsemanship.
Two Great Negroes—J. Sweeney. the Tall Nigger, on the
Banjo : Vanbramer, the Short Nigger, in which they will
present a -variety of Songs and Dances.
Grand Fancy Dress Cavalcade, led by Mr. Derious and
Mr. Sands. .
Admission throughout the Performance—Boxes, 2s. ; Pit,
Is. ; Gallery, 6d.

A Manchester contemporary (the Courier) of last
week informs us that "the reduction in wages proceeds
at a humming rate, and must be highly gratifying to
the liberal heart of every corn-law repealer. Indeed it
should appear we shall very soon rival our continental
neighbours in the matter of lowness of wages. We
have heard of large spinning and manufacturing con-
cerns, here and elsewhere, in which, during the last
fortnight or so, a saving of nearly 25 per cent. has
been effected in the cost of production."
A reduction of 25 per cent. in the wages of the fac-
tory operative and the starving hand-loom weaver ! We
knew that it would do so. We told the wretched
dupes, who were clamouring for cheap bread and cheap
beef, that not a penny of the saving would be permit-
ted to come into their, pockets ; and not a penny wild
they receive from these measures ! The millowner has
the working classes at this moment completely at his

TO PROFESSIONAL GENTLEMEN AND
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cl" B. HEWITT, SHORT-HAND WRITER AND PRINCIPAL
• REPORTER TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, begs to
offer his services to Legal Gentlemen and others who may
wish to obtain SPECIAL REPORTS of any Cases for Trial
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mercy. The limit between subsistence and starvation,
and below which the Nvo rking man cannot he depressed
without becoming dangerous, is the present regulator
of manufacturing wages. Reduce that limit by de-

creasing the cost of food, and the working man must
descend too, and occupy that debateable ground be-
tween mere existence and famine, in which, by a few
days' or weeks' privation, he may be reduced into the
condition of an abject and dissited slave, an incendi-
ary or a frantic rebel.

It will be said, we know, by the millowner—" We
have no other resource except a reduction of wages at
the present moment. We are not resorting to that
step on account of the reduction by Sir Robert Peel's
tariff in the price of food, but on account of the depre-
ciation in the price of our goods and of the emhrrassed
state of commerce." The world, however, knoWs you
better, gentlemen, than to credit your asseverations.
And when your organs in the House of Commons—
the Cobdens, Gibsons, and Bowrings of your tribe—
get up, night after night, to retard, by every factious
motion within their reach, the progress of the govern.
ment measures, we trust that some public-spirited
member will rise and tell them that these dishonest and
disgraceful proceedings are only resorted to in order to
retard the returning prosperity of the country, arid to
give a colour to the efforts of the millocracy to grind
down the working man and to divert from his expect-
ant lips the good which a wise and beneficent govern-
ment offers to his acceptance.

In the notice paper of the council we perceive that
on 'Wednesday next Mr. Alderman Evans will move
" that the inspectors, appointed by the Council of
Education acting under government authority, he in-
vited, at their own convenience, to inspect the Schools
of the Corporation." Why, what Jesuit proceeding is
this, Mr. Alderman ? What earthly business has " the
Council of Education, acting under government autho-
rity," with the schools supported by the Corporation
of Liverpool ? None ! And at this moment, notwith-
standing the lofty opinion which we entertain of the
plausibility and cunning which are the distinguishing
characteristics of Mr. Alderman Evans, we have not

the most remote expectation that he can establish any
tenable ground for an interference so impertinent and
uncalled for.

If we remember right it was hut a few months ago
since this same enlightened gentleman was loud in his
complaints, that to municipal constituencies, such as
ours, much larger powers of legislation than they at
present possess were not committed. " Why trouble
the state legislature"—was the exclamation of the
Alderman—" with matters upon which the local legis-
latures are equally, or even . better calculated to de-
cide ?" And, in the abstract. there was much reason
in the question. If municipal bodies could be per-
suaded to lay aside their petty personal squabbles—to
legislate for the welfare of the population around them,
and not for the indulgence of party spleen ;--we might
admit that they were,Perfectiy fitted to deal with ques-

tions far more important than those which at present
belong to them. But though we cannot admit that
greater powers thaU they already possess may be safely
entrusted to local bodies, constituted like our own, we
were scarcely prepared to find Mr. Alderman Evans—
the advocate of local legislation—conceding, as by this

motion he does concede, that the collective wisdom of
the borough of Liverpool is unequal to the nzanagenzent
of a charity school Hide your diminished heads,
aldermen and councillors of Liverpool—fellow-towns-
men of a Ewart and a Thornely—of men who would

experience no difficulties, which their consummate
modesty would not enable them to overcome, in un-
dertaking the professorships of poetry, rhetoric, moral
philosophy, or political economy at Oxford, Cam-
bridge, Glasgow, or the modern Athens itself—
your diminished heads, for you are unlit—(Loans
seipse testante)—to direct even the initiation of little
boys and girls into the mysteries of A. 13. C., the Horn
Book, the Multiplication Table, and the Rule of
Three ! You are incapable of directing the charity
schools of the corporation, without the distinguished
supervision of Doctor J.' P. Kay, and the paid com-
missioners of the Council of Educaction