The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-10 00:00:00

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS

THE Subscribers to this Establishment, and the. Public,
are respectfully informed the
FIRST GRAND OPENING FETE OF THE SEASON

will take place
ON MONDAY NEXT, MAY 16,
with the Novel and Extraordinary Exhibitions, and
PICTORIAL MODEL OF ROME,

the once proud Mistress of the World ; comprising, amongst
its most striking features, the Ancient Bridge and Castle of
St. Angelo, the Vatican, and Pontifical Palace, the Capital
di St. Spirito, and the vast and marvellous edifice of St.
Peter's. . . . .

This magnificent representation has been constructed from
the most accurate Designs, by the most celebrated Artists of
the day. The delineations are so strictly accurate, and the
proportions so stupendous, as to offer a perfect realization of
those Wonders of Architecture which still render the Eternal
City the most interesting spot in the world.
At dusk, this novel exhibition will be seen under the
aspect which the scene presents during the rejoicing in cele-
bration of II Giorno di San Pietro, when the whole vast
Edifice of St. Peter's is Illuminated, and every detail of the
glorious Architecture shines forth in lines of resplendent
light. It is on those festive occasions also that the celebra-
ted Girandola, or great FIRE WORKS of ST. ANGELO,
are displayed from the summit of the Castle, beyond all com-
parison the grandest display of Pyrotechnic Art ever invented,
being a fac simile of this GORGEOUS FESTIVAL. With
these will be given Cascades of Fire Fountains of Stars and
tremendous Flights of Rockets, forming a scene of the most
inconceivable magnificence ever attempted out of Italy.
Pyrotechnic Artist, SIGNOR SEMONA.

N.B.—Every possible care has been taken in forming a
first-rate MILITARY BAND, which, under the superin-
tendance of Mr. STUBBS, will perform during the Season.

ADMITTANCE, ONE SHILLING

in iefusing the Co-operation which is iiiiuested from ti:
by the Journal, for the purpose of urging forward this
absurd demand, we have another very sufficient excuse
for the disinclination which we feel to load our pages
weekly with the squabbles of committees, in addition
to the sayings and doings at the ordinary monthly
field-day. It may be pleasant enough to the Journal
to collate for the amusement of gossiping people the
bons niorceaux from such reports ; but, unfortunately,
the labour and expense is thrown upon our shoulders
of reporting them in full ; and we have, we can assure
him, in supporting our newly acquired title of " the
mirror of Town Council proceedings," (for which we
must express our thanks to Mr. Geo. Hall Lawrence,)
quite as much of this description of work as we re-
quire, without becoming, as well, the mirror of the
proceedings of the Watch or any other committee.

We have been flattering ourselves for the past few
weeks that, as a political body, the Anti-corn-law
League was, if not defunct, at all events in such a des-
perate condition that its resuscitation was hopeless.
Since the introduction of the measures of Sir Robert
Peel, the utmost feat which it has been able to perform
in Manchester, the scene of its past glories, has been
the plunder of a few bakers' shops and a riotous as-
semblage of its Irish bludgeonmen around the doors
of the parish office; and this, notwithstanding the
stock talent of the body, has been increased for a time
by the importation, from our own town, of that su-
blime of Illawworms, Mr. Lawrence Heyworth. By an
intimation, howevex, conveyed to us by a contempo-
rary, the .211anchester Chronicle, we are glad to find that
there is still life in the paltry thing—that in these dull
times the battered merry-andrew is still able'to writhe,
and howl, and play fantastic tricks for the amusement
alike of the Manchester cottonocracy and of ourselves.

The following is the announcement in question

"THE LEAGUE AGAIN.—The New Corn Law having
come into operation, the League have summoned a general
meeting of their body for Wednesday next, when a totally
new scheme of agitation is to be announced. We presume it
will be founded on the project we formerly alluded to—of im-
porting and liberating foreign corn, so as artificially to depress
the market and punish the home grower. The funds are said
to be provided."

" Importing and liberating foreign corn"
pressing the market and punishing the home grower".
(by giving bread for nothing, we presume, to the
starving weaver.) No, no ! Our friend of the Chro-
nicle must not attempt to tickle us with such a palpable
hoax as this. When the league gives anything away,
except its own mendacious tracts or the halfpenny ora-
tions of Mr. Richard Cobden, we will submit to
wear sackcloth for a month. If there is anything in
this importing scheme, depend upon it we are far more
likely to witness an importation of cheap labour or a
de-portation of some hundred of the ruffians in the
pay of the league, with Messrs. R. R. Moore, as their
Jack Cade, and Lawrence Heyworth, as his chaplain,
to kick up a row in some peaceable locality which has
the misfortune to be peopled with a race imperturbable
enough to resist the journalism and the spoutings of
this enlightened body.