The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-07 00:00:00

OR, THE PROPHET OF THE CAUCASUS

The Spectacle on the Stage will be followed by
DUCROW'S
SPLENDID SCENES OF THE CIRCLE.
Presenting an Entire Change of Equestrian Novelties, and
Ninth Appearance in Liverpool of the Troop of French,
German, Italian, and English Riders, with extraordinary
Acrobat and Antipodean Professors, introducing an entire
new characteristic Entree, by Thirteen Horses and their
Riders, entitled The Flight of the Arabs; or, The Bedouin
Tribe, conducted by SiB,nor Hillier.
LE PETIT Ducßow as The Lilliputian Fox Hunter; or,
Young Mellonian.
My Grandmother on Horseback ; or, The Sweep and Millers.
Signor HILLIER will appear in a Characteristic Scene, en-
titled Recoe of the Alps and his Horse of Pastime.
Succeeded by Signor ALLARD; who will appear on a Single
Steed, as The Wild Horseman.
114.adame ALLARD, the Great French Female Equestrian, will

Mr. 6icrux will appear in his Military Delineation, on a
Single Horse, of The Death of a Soldier.
The ANTIPODEAN PROFESSOR Will occupy the intervals with
his Wonderful Exercises of Flexibility.
Riding :Masters, Signor HILLIER, Mr. WIDDICOMB, and
Mr. CHAPMAN.

To conclude with
TURTLE HUNTING

Principal Characters by Mr. H. Beverly, Mr. and Mrs
Weston, (their first appearance this season,) &c.

A splendid JUVENILE FETE, or Grand MORNING
PERFORMANCE, by Mr. DIICROW'S ESTABLISHMENT,
Will be given on FRIDAY next, the 14th instant, by desire
of several Families and Schools in the neighbourhood. Per-
formance to commence at Twelve o'clock precisely.

Private Boxes may be obtained nightly for Families on
application to Mr. CARMAN, at the Box-office, from
Eleven until Three o'Clock.

Prices of Admission :—Centre Dress Boxes, 35.; Side
Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d ; Lower Gallery, Is.; Upper
Gallery, 6d. Second Price, at Nine o'Clock :—Centre Dress
Boxes, 2s. ; Side Boxes, ls. 6d. ; Pit, ls. ; Lower Gallery.
6d. No Second Price to the Upper Gallery. Second Price
will be taken for Children under Twelve years of age to the
Boxes only.

Doors lo be opened at Half-past Six and the Performances
to commence at Seven o' Clock precisely.
Stage Manager, Mr. H. BEVERLY. •
_ _ _

Leader of the Orchestra, Mr. T. HUGHES, from the
Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane.

Ebt Zibtrpoot &tanban.

FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 7, 1842

The school question is at length happily settled, and
we congratulate all who are interested in the cause of
sacred truth, and the permanence of our most valued
institutions, on the result. The Conservative Corpo-
ration of Liverpool has honourably done its duty, and
leaves us, in the completeness of their work, without
any thing more to desire. It could not have been se-
riously imagined by any calm looker-on that a Consey-
tire Council would perpetuate a Radical system. Such
an anomaly, it would necessarily feel to be a foul dis-
grace—the burgesses would not tolerate—and yet, the
Liberals, in their despair,.did actually hope to main-
tain, reckoning chiefly on the division which they sup-
posed the question would create, or prolong, among
their opponents. They have reckoned without their
host ; their game is up ; the school question is now
decided against them by a' long chalk, and we wish
them all the compliments of next season. In the inte-
resting and animated discussion to which the question
gave rise in the council, and which we report at great
length in our columns, to-day, we find nothing so re-
markable as the confirmation given in various ways to
the resolution eventually carried. The very petition
presented against it, by Mr. Aikin, from the Radical
gentry (our old friend Sir Joshua Walmsley among
the rest) of Castle-street Ward, serves to show that
the inhabitants of Liverpool generally are decidedly
for it. We ascertain the existence of the rule by so
remarkable an exception. It was perfectly well known
throughout the town that on Wednesday the council
would pronounce fihally and conclusively upon the
question, and yet there is but one solitary petition
against it—but one petition signed by the stupendous
number of fifty out of all the numerous inhabitants
of this huge to,vn ! Mr. Aikin could not have adduced
more striking proof that the council were about to act,
and have since acted, in accordance with the wishes of
the great and overwhelming body of their constituents
—and we can state with confidence, that their wise de-
termination has given rise to a feeling of satisfaction
through the town which is all but universal.
Again, if we advert to the different speeches and
observations made in the course of the discussion, we
are proud to admit—from the utter absence of anything
in the shape of rational argument on the Radical side,
that no other step remained to be taken but that which
has been wisely and prudently taken in the matter. If
the solitary petition from Castle-street Ward, with its
paltry appendage of signatures, made it apparent that
all other wards, and all the rest of the inhabitants, or
nearly so, were acquiescent-in the conservative propo-
sitions—so the solitary champion (for we must
call him so) of the expiring system—Mr. Alderman
Earle—its boldest, bravest, wittiest, and, every way,
most accomplished orator, rendered it evident that the
thing itself was, altogether, indefensible. We have
never observed the alderman in greater force ; but
vain were all his gifts, profound knowledge, tact, and
experience in the attempt to uphold so bad a cause ;
and literally all his best exertions amounted to no more
than a few buffooneries, and laughter-moving grimaces
(seasonable only as a holiday pastime), over the already
defunct arrangements. He rambled a little, it is true,
about the history of the late system—the hatred borne
by Conservatives towards the Catholics—entertained
his audience with anecdotes, or would have done so,
had he been permitted to indulge himself at discretion ;
but his grand cheval de battaile was the minister
of St. Jude's Church. Mr. M'Neile, said he, ad-

vocates scriptural education, aye, even in our corpo-
ration schools; and let me ask you, gentlemen, will
you bear that ? Will you coincide in opinion with a
man who has absolutely turned your city upside down
with his preaching, add so infused the leaven of Chris-
tian conservatism through all ranks of its inhabitants,
that no radical candidate has a chance of representing
us—no municipal candidate of that ilk may hope here-
after to sit in this council, and I, even I Alderman

Earle, am here perhaps the very last of the Mohicans !
Gentlemen, on this ground mainly, chiefly and espe-
cially, I implore you to preserve the discipline of radi-
calism in your educational institutions. Is it not enough
to induce you to cherish and maintain it, to know

that this most troublesome and disturbing clergyman
condemns it. Abolish that system, and what will be
the consequence ? Why you will be found concurring
in sentiment with and approved in your practice by the
Rev. Hugh IVP.Neile ! Think of that! The Alderman now
fancied himself in a pulpit of his own, and became
exceedingly diverting. The part of clown was never
more amusingly performed. One of the members
having reminded him, that if Mr. M'Neile were pre-
sent to answer his observations, perhaps he might not
feel himself quite so valiant. " Tut,'? said our modern
Falstaff, " I encountered him once, and he ran away
from me like a coward" ! Such was the species of

farce with which this great and valorous champion of
liberal education concluded the case of his clients and
party. We now leave him in the hands of Mr. Bush-
ell, who has done great. credit to himself for the very
able manner in which he acquitted himself. His
speech was a continled triumph over all his oppo-
nents, and we congratulate him cordially on the im-
mortal honour he has gained for himself by the inde-

pendence of judgment, soundness of view, and elo-
quence and talent which he has manifested in no or-

dinary degree on this interesting and important occa-

To the same efficient hands we gladly consign

also that most incomprehensible of Conservatives, Mr.
John Smith. Really we wish his ward a better repre-
sentative; and fear we shall have to call upon his con-

stituents at the next opportunity to pause and consider