The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-26 00:00:00

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" Who, in the name of Zernebock, are you

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I have reviewed myself incessantly—
Yea, made a contract with a kindred soul
For mutual interchange of puffery.
Gods—how we blew each other 1 But, 'tis past—
Those halcyon days are gone; and, I suspect,
That, in some fit of loathing'or disgust,

As Samuel turned from Eli's coarser son,
Mine ancient playmate bath deserted me.
And yet I am Apollodorus
I searchlor genius, having it myself,
With keen and earnest longings. I survive
To disentangle, from the kilning wings
Of our young poets, their crustaceous slough.
I watch them as the watcher on the brook
Sees the young salmon wrestling from its egg,
And revels in its future br ght career.
The book, from its originality and talent, has attracted
much attention, and rumour assigns it varied parentage.
Among those to whom its paternity has been assigned, is
the quizzical and able author of " The Glenmutchkin
Railway ;" an origin which the style, or rather the nume-
rous and all excellent styles of the poem, and the impri-
matur of the Messrs. BLicKwooD, appear to lend some
countenance to. Other literary novelties are promised to
succeed with coming days. Among these, " The Literary
Life and Correspondence of Lady Blessington," under the
editorship of Dr. MADDEN, author of " Travels in the
East," is promised shortly, by Newby. The authoress of
" Uncle Tom's Cabin" threatens a new novel, an edition
of which, from the press of Mr. Low, of Ludgate-street,
may be expected to appear simultaneously with the Ame-
rican one, notwithstanding the dense pecuniary cloud
which.' so speedily enveloped the same lady's " Sunny
Memories."

After a recess and a redecoration, the Adelphi Theatre
has been reopened by WRESTED. and Madame CELESTE;
and, among the marvels by which they seek to win the

popular applause, has been the reproduction of " Monsieur
Jacques," with Mr. Molars BARNETT as his inimitable
representative. The piece and the actor were both de-
cided favourites more years ago than it might be discreet
in me to plead distinct remembrance of ; but even yet the
merits and power of the representation are little, if at all,
impaired, and crowds are deservedly attracted to see and
welcome the " old man eloquent." At the Haymarket,
the Spanish Dancers retain the lead, and, maugre the
loss of Mrs. FITZWILLIAM, the house still fills. The
Sadler's Wells management promises a readaptation of
" Pericles, Prince of Tyre." If the pruning knife be used
with skill and judgmen, an excellent acting play will, not
doubt, result from this attempt.

CHESHIRE AND WALES.

EMIGRATION OF MORMONITES.-A large number of
persons in South Wales have left, and others are still pre-
paring to follow, for the Mormonite settlements in North
America. They make their way to Liverpool, Bristol, or
Plymouth.

oIIESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—Tho half-yearly
meeting of this company was held on Wednesday, at the
Euston-square terminus, Mr. S. M. Peto, M.P., in the
chair, when the report of the directors was adopted, and
a dividend of Bs. 3d. per share was agreed to.

BIRKENHEAD FREEHOLD LAND gOCIETY.—The mem-
bers of this society celebrated the taking possession of
their first estate with a procession, a public meeting, and
tea party, on Monday, last week. Considerably over 100
persons sat down to partake of refreshments, presided
over by Mr. W. Jackson, M.P. The secretary having read
a report, which showed the society to be in a prosperous
condition, the chairman proceeded to address the meeting,
and, in a lengthened speech, inculcated the observance of
determination, perseverance, honesty, sobriety, and indus-
try, as necessary to success. He hailed with delight the
prospect of seeing so many industrious and honest men
endeavouring to obtain a footing in the soil, and to have
property, and, consequently, political influence, attached to
them. He concluded by anticipating the utmost success
from the future exertions of the society. The festivities
of the day were closed with dancing.
DISTURBANCE BY EXCURSIONISTS IN BANGOR---011
Saturday week, Messrs. Brassey, Peto, and Co., treated
1100 of the men employed in their Canada Works, Bir-
kenhead, to a pleasure excursion to Bangor. They, how-
ever, behaved themselves very disreputably. Large num-
bers of them were in a state of intoxication, and made an
irruption into the Britannia-bridge refreshment-rooms,
taking and destroying everything in their way. Then
they set to fighting all the way along the Menai-bridge
road, and entered Bangor in a most riotous and disorderly
manner. Some of them went into the inns and seized
upon the porter and spirits, and others again began fight-
ing. The whole city, from the station to the market.
place, was scandalized, and the tradespeople were obliged
to close their shops, such a scene of confusion occurring.
The ruffians, who so disgraced themselves, were not con-
tent with inflicting violence on each other, but beat and
ill-treated women and children. The police at length
interfered, and three ef the fellows were captured and
kept fru the lockups till Monday, when they were brought
before Ike magistrates and fined.—N. Wales Chronicle.

ST. GEORGE'S-HALL.

THE great local event of the past week has been the
inauguration of St. George's-Hall, and that event has been
in all respects worthy of attention. Since its opening, the
question of the utility of the Hall has been put to
severe practical tests, and the result has more than
answered expectation. Its general elegance and beauty
were fully admitted by all who enjoyed the opportunity of
inspecting it during the progress of its erection ; many
there were, however, who entertained grave doubts 'as to
its fitness for some of the purposes to which it was meant
to be applied. Much dubiety was-entertained as to the
acoustic capabilities of the Great Hall, and not a few
ventured to predict that its numerous broken lines, deep
recesses, and intersecting arches would prove seriously
detrimental to it as a concert-room, by causing repeating
echoes and breaking-up the mass of sound. These doubts
we thoroughly dispelled by the first few bars of the
National Anthem, in which the clear, sonorous, and melo-
dious voice of Mr. SIMS REEVES rang in truthfulness
and beauty throughout the spacious and lofty vault,
the homogenousness being in no way disturbed by
the full orchestral and choral effects. The good
impression created by the first piece was fully
sustained by the succeeding Oratorio, and throughout the
whole six concerts which constituted the opening, as well as

by the testing ceremonial of its excellence. If the sounding
qualities of this magnificent hall have more than answered
expectation, its comfort as a place for the meeting of large
assemblies has been not less satisfactorily demonstrated.
On Wednesday evening, when every creek and cranny of
it were crammed, no inconvenience was experienced by any
of the multitudinous audience, from over-heat or antago-
nistic currents of conflicting temperature. Its vast area
was pervaded by an atmosphere at once temperate and
pure. Similar effects of well-regulated ventilation were
conspicuous, when the audience was less numerous and
the spectacle less exciting; and these were largely expe-
rienced and freely admitted at the soiree of the British
Association on Thursday night.

The meeting of this body of learned and distinguished
individuals, for the second time, in Liverpool, has afforded
another test of the practical value of such an edifice•
Here all the numerous sections of the British Association,
and their still more numerous and complicated committees,
have found ample and elegant accommodation in one spot,
and under one:roof, for probably the first time during the
Association's now somewhat prolonged existence.
The admirable adaptation of the law courts in St.
George's-Hall have formed a theme of gratifying remark
to the members of both bench and bar, ever since their
opening three years ago. If other evidence of that ex-
cellence were wanting, it would be amply furnished by the
regal &mute in which the gentlemen of the long-robe
threatened to resist their temporary exclusion from its
uxurious and seductive comforts. Viewed, then, in every
light, as to usefulness and elegance, the structure is a
triumph, and one which Liverpool is justly entitled to
be proud of.

While expressing satisfaction and experiencing just
pride in possession of the structure, can a high-minded,
not to say generous, community refuse a meed of honour-
able praise to those gentlemen to whose care and manage-
ment the arduous undertaking of superintending its con-
struction was committed, and by whom it was successfully
carried through? True, several parties, forgetting the
injunction,

Let those teach others who themselves excel,
have censured very freely the proceedings of those whose
motives and exigencies in the case they could but imper-
fectly understand. To find fault is an office at all times as

easy as it is ungracions,—it is one, however, from which a
generous mind recoils with natural aversion; and those
who judge of others as they would be judged, are slow in
the application of their censure. That the arrangements
for opening the hall would not give universal satisfaction,
never admitted of a doubt; but that the mode in which
those arrangements were carried out afforded just grounds
for complaint, is far indeed from certain. All are familiar
with the futile efforts of the old man and his son, who,
endeavouring to please everybody, pleased nobody, and lost
their ass into the bargain. Had the St. George's-Hall
committee emulated those obliging and good-natured indi-
viduals, such a course of proceeding would have gone only
a short way in infusing honey among the gall of their
censors. Some stress has been laid on an alleged precipi-
tancy in the ultimate opening of the hall. Those who
raise this objection must have been unacquainted with,or
regardless of, the murmurs against the presumed delay in
its opening, and which found vent in sarcasms as to the pro-
bability of its never being opened at all. Early in the year,
and up to the very moment of opening, the meeting of
the British Association in Liverpool was urged 4y all
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