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fm Demerara, with 610 Ms 3 tea 24 hf tcs strgar, l 1 canister arrowroot, Sandbach, Tinne & co-4 t )by, fin Demerara, with 111 hds 71 brls I tee sur, 5, 107 pns 4 hds rum, I 0 bags coffee, A Taylor P Dn, A Baillie-30 do, 10 brls coffee, T Porter-12., —l5 do, 15 pns rum, J J and K F H M'Kenzie-1 5 ilackay-32 pns rum, Douglas, Fraser and co—l 2 brls coffee, I bx cassava bread, T Frazer-0 id Cort-2 hds 3 brls rum, 6 ps fture wood, J C T Murray-4 tnks appri, Ics birds, T Gaskell- 4 Lp and brasses retd, Fawcett, Preston and co—l , order—G Dk CORRESPONDENCE. MR• BOOTH'S FREE TRADE, AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE PEOPLE. THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. la, -I have been reading the above treatise by Mr. Booth: i , appears___ to be very ably written, forcible, and perspicuous, .` 4l ingenious, and, so' far, highly creditable to the author; lit k id, although he has, throughout, assumed a bold tone of au trrity and dictation, as if his statements would not admit of ',tier doubt or appeal, I mean to take the liberty of questioning tillt nY of the presumed facts on which he founds his assertions. differing, as I do s from Mr. Booth in the views he takes, and 4e . conclusions he draws upon the very important subjects 'uch he has discussed, I might, as a matter of speculative in ,L.ltlitY alone, have been induced to question his statem ents ; but ` 414 desire is . much increased by the apprehension I entertain, lha t the very plausible and fascinating prospects which he holds tit), keeping in the back ground, or wholly omitting to state, W eevils with which I consider them to be pregnant, may in 4ee many readers, who take only a superficial view, to agree • his conclusions, to expect they may be realised, that they 41e it• ist and sound in principle, founded on facts, and of prat "able application, which I must dissent from and deny, though Z 4 without the hope that others more able and competent may found combating his views. His axioms I pass by as abstract principles, important, or k t, according to the nature of the propositions to which they tlla Y be applied. In my view of the subject, Ido not find it ne ,,,ssary to notice them further, my intention being t o address ''Yself to the common sense and practical experience of your e sders, and not to attempt to lead them into labyrinths of ab e„tttise or complicated reasoning, drawn from.the fine spun ' ll oories of political economists. If I rightly understood Mr. Booth, he requires us to protection 41301 agriculture, trade, and manufacture, and to adopt a free 411 d unfettered intercourse with the rest of the world, purchas ing Only where we could buy best and cheapest, witho ut pre 'erence or partiality for the productions or industry of our country and our colonies,-this, he flatters himself, would not ° nip be hailed with delight by those (of course, our fellow-citi 4-as of the world) to whom we should thus open our arms, and ettrrender our resources, but that we should lead them by our e-l ample to adopt a similar course of conduct towards us ; for 46 Purpose he deprecates the preference given to the timber o f our North American Colonies, and the sugar and coffee of 1:14 r tropical possessions, the protection afforded to our fisheries, to the aniCultural interest of the united kingdom, to the work jug of our iron mines and other minerals, and to our various ma nufactures, as being, in his mind, not only impolitic and un tecessary, but as peculiarly prejudicial to - the interests of "The ` - eople,' and finally assures us, (no doubt, the fruits of his qt 'ep reading and experience,) that if his advice is followed, the evils which now press, more or less, upon the country, 1 11°111 d' ere long, be dispersed and disappear,-that they would "e succeeded by sources for ample employment, with sufficient kni uneration to all classes, producing general prosperity, at 411ded by, and productive of increased intelligence, comfort, 411 l contentment ; in short, that we possibly might, ere long, and our country converted into something like another Utopia! To prove the practical correctness of these doctrines, he be -1t1413 by attacking the timber duties, and tells us, that he has mls co vered what those statesmen who made this subject one of lo ng and patient inquiry, faired to ascertain ; and who, after mul ch consideration, determined, as they thought, on national ft Utids, to prefer, and therefore, to a certain extent, to pro t' et the timber trade of our colonies before that of foreign c° Lintries ;-that such a course of policy was unwise and illibe rq, and that, in adopting it, they had sacrificed the interest of '4ll e People ;"-in order to mark this opinion more strongly, I d to aid him in' exciting a similar prejudice on the minds of 41e r5, he stigmatises the duty to which foreign timber is sub ikeet" and denounces it as a penalty on that extensive branch of : rei gn. trade from which a large revenue is drawn. Let us -",raine the facts. F or the timber obtained from our colonies about one-fourth 114 0 of the price it produces here is paid to the shippers, not in uey to be withdrawn from us, but in the manufactures and I; ll ntions of the mother country, and her other possessions. 11 7 .. 411 the exception of duty paid here, landing charges, and or marY profit of the importer, the remainder, being the chief 7 , is paid for freight to British vessels that are built, fitted, 8 Provided with stores by British subjects, and navigated by EUROPE. , 41 seaman; thus the whole fruits of the trade are distributed /id Paid to our tradesmen and manufacturers, or, in other Lisbon, with 122 chats 156 hf chats oranges, to, 3 do, E Rae-30 do, 60 do, P Itigbv-51 do, to " The People ;"-this commercial navy, at the same -61 hf chats do, 6 hf chats lemons, j Collie - Yeoward-S Dk 144e 4 forming one of the most important nurseries for seamen fin St Michael's, with 71 large and 617. small to lt4tan our wooden walls when dangers assail from without! and co-K Dk Marseilles, with 29 csks madder, I Pryee an d 11 6t ti lese are not British Vects of great national interest, I know alder roots, J W Smith and co-127 do, L B „ 4 :` What are, or where capital can be more usefully, honourably, 3 brls Ibx wine, C L Bahr-abt 40 t rough 1-41 1 ; beneficially employed for the good of "The People !" I rs-1 hx soap, 3 bxs perfumery, 20 bags almcn, i i 4.lt e les 2 bxs conts unkn, '7O csks madder, order-G (t this on its merits an d se p ara t e British interests, without fm Bourdeaux, with 40 bale s cor k woo d , J e ll a reference to the immediate interests and natural claims 3randy, W Shotten-6 tea do, T Crowther-4 Po Of th e lhetwode-2 do, J Lund-1 do, R L ang t on -1 A L colonies, as branches of the national family, to whom brane, Knowles-10 cs wine, P Hope-3 d o 6, 74- ' Booth loudly complains " The People" are sacrificed' ndy, B Bretherton-16 hds wine, 1 cs lique% gapers, J G Oughterson--.3 hds Wi ne , D u fr-1 o r , t 'lit the British timber trade is only one branch of the whole, on-to csks verdigris, 10 csks argol, 6 tea vine 1; th • cs pictures, 15 csks 3 - ellow ochre, 40 bales cc , ot . ere is also, it is well known, a great annual importation W A and G Maxwell-12 es brandy, 1 , 1 1 ) kuber and deals from forei,zu countries, for which higher riaTrkIIIII , - ( 64bVe c s a c i o n r an kw d o y o . d, 2 J es Vl i n gu Z e e u l . 414, r: Ne e are paid to the shippers than those our colonists receive ; hds wine, 1 cs brandy, Ewart, Myers and c° - : 44 iMportations, particularly from Norway and Sweden, are 'an and Smith-7 hds wine, Alanson and Brant; dnson and Townley-40 do, 3 tea 9 brls vine o g: e i fr oi ,, ,s t wholly made in their ships, to the exclusion of British; . 13 hds 8 cs wine, 1 es brandy, 2 b a l es cor kw rrussia, by much the larger proportion, is brought in the at Dublin), 150 bales corkwood, 100 csks ape'. qr csks prunes,. 2cs perfumery, 1 bale liquor!, ot manner I 41141 roan and it . is from Russia alone that a greater number, war water, 14 - es 12 csks brandy, 3 bls almona' to . -4811 than foreign vessels are employed in the trade. The. 2 csks Ics liqueurs, 4cs maccaroni, csk cape , the shippers of this timber draw bills on the importers for where and as they please; we Moore and co-37 , fin Ostend, 3 Di do cks , u ft n ax te'r- 11 1 o e e°3 t, and expend the money Dk ship,. th at most of their vessels leave our ports in ballast,-their ilawburgh, with 29 hales tow, J Hadwen-43 c!" . are built, fitted, and stored in their own Torts,-they are prrall-1 csk hams, W Simmons-I cs qui?. " 44 4n..1 Dickson Ron, 7ps smoked beef, Ihf hx cigars, cs woo . , ii lto - ,r - Q by their seamen, to be,. perhaps, hereafter . converted -14 brls beef, 2 brls pork, order-(landed at Do i t hostile crews in the service of our enemies, and their r i olnap vinegar, k e s s , e l a 7 u ps s e t 1 of', Ph d r C i olo b 4 r, , 3 I c fi s r k s Se,!' ; fl t q , L '', after payment of port charges, are transmitted to their heat, 120 bags barley, 120 mats, 148 pine plan lY r -es - I ask, what advantages does " The People" of these Neste, with loose abt 25 t brimstone, H Pad an 418 reap from this trade ? and, why we ought to place it on Eastee-I bx wine, Seller and co-I pckge c h i d a, 95 mats, Castellain and co-I bx maresclnn -4 told . 12 '1114 footing with that of our colonies? But Mr Booth Nair and Dutton-I bale silk waste, J Bibby te r , • us, that the timber which our colonies supply is all of n, 0 Hepworth and co-68 bales hemp, II en - inferiorUt in ualit , •-let us inquire how the facts bear him Ibx r W es , bps tom.xse leaves, ie l2 c l o l nt b s gs un s k i n um o a r e je f assertion. oh 4, 4 ' ° re the present scale of duties was settled, many compe ,fm Ostend, with 194 bales flax, Tennaa,,, t wi t „ . W Jackson-53 do, Parry and Crosbie-437 eo -.eases were examined by a committee of the House of 8 Dk 1 1 . , t441 ° 1 t5, when it was ascertained, from their evidence, that i r s the -010- S ENTERED FOR LOADING. npson, fm Ktngston, Jamaica, with 454 Ws 162 11 ee, 69 hds 35 tcs I csk 51 brls sugar, 18 csks 2 ~,b1 oimento, abt 7 t II c logwood, 19 t 13 c fustic, I AY, 1 Port wine, I hd I qr esk rum, T Holt—l bale un—ll tcs coffee, abt 10 t Nicaragua wood, J . _ ,c" IO brls coffee, W Ker, Imrie and co—loo do, -G Dk sarsaparilla, D Grant—l pn rum, 2 brls sugar. UNITED STATES. nen, fin New Orleans, with 1084 bla cotton, G Gib !.e, fm Charleston, with 28 bales cotton, W ArtW jun and co-93 do, J Frv-32 do, W Stuart.334'" ad co-254 do, order—K bk ison, fm Philadelphia, with abt 120 t logwood, bees' wax, Cardwell Brothers-5 csks gum co? bales wool, Rathbone, Brothers and co-489 b les, abt 2 t horns, Leech and Harrison-21 bags ivies-10 brls coal, J Pollock-4 bxs plants, 1110 lay, Jones and co-1 do, and seeds, W Skirring d 11, J Hobson and Sons-1 brl apples, E FrodshasT T Hodgson-1 brl maps, Duckworth and Marsden a steam engine, Glendenning-93 t camwood, T—K Dk Lmmond, fm New Orleans, with 906 bales col and co—IC Dk French, fm Savannah, with 1966 bales cotton, C l co-100 retd shooks, 6 oak planks, said Masi lover, fm New Orleans, with 165 bales cotton, IC -34 do, Peck and Phelps-71 do, G Green and SO 1 iigersole fm Savannah, with 151 bales cotton, Ss -20, do, Isaac Low and co-65 do, Bolton, Ogden ,r-P Dk s, fm New York, with 462 brls turpentine, Cearni j les and Evans-200 hides, T Birnas-450 brls ar and co-25 csks flaxseed, W Rose and co-296l Ogden and co-564 tcs flaxseed, G 111`Bride-53 P nd Trokes-50 brls apples, W and J Brown and Dyer, fm New Orleans, with 1328 bales cotton, 1 co-17 do, Ewalt, Myers and co-2 do, T any E 6 do, Roskell, Ogden and co-5 do, J Hobson BRITISH AMERICA. mette, fin Halifax, with 25 hds sugar, 32i c 25 Pt iy-65 c staves, abt 4 fms lathwood, 9f c 24 IS sen-48 hds 21 tcs 18 brls sugar, W Fairclough - ' ibb-1 c 18 oars, 7 spruce knees, said blaster--8 Stevenson, fm St Andrew's, N B, 256 pspine td i and deal ends, 12 spars or rickers, 12 Tickers ! , apples, Ips maple, abt fms lathwood, Cambil aye, fm St John's, NB, with 670 p pine and l c 26 deals, 73 c 10 staves, abt 10 fns lathwood, bxs smoked herrings, 36 oar rafters. W FairekA kn er, fin St Andrews, N B, with 462 ps pine ti [ deal ends, abt 10 fins lathwood, 12 handspikes, rs, Cambridge and Gray—Q Dk ry Cumming, Fore, fin St Andrew's, N B, with 8 ps pine wood, 331 c 6 deals, abt 10 fins lathwo d cers, 11 c deal ends, W Sharples—B Dk , fm Halifax, N S, with 35 csks oil, Cropper, 0 4 Willis and Swainson-1 csk 1 bx copper c o in, , .134 ps birch timber, 21 c 1 birch . planks, 33t. 1, I pn furs, 14 hds sugar, 50 bgs pimento-, W ews, 1 grate, 12 ps cast iron, 2 pckgs apparel, 00 fin Halifax, with 41 c 26 birch planks, 724 c der id, 52} c staves, 41 csks oil, W Fairclough—Q on, fin St John, N B, with 872 ps fir and 155,; 26 deals and deal ends, 26 c 26 staves, abt 11 1 ! G Glen—B Dk ice, fin Newfoundrand, with 3 t old junk, W I.oc l _. Mad wine, I bx caplin, 395 salted and 13 drs' s Dd fish, 275 csks train oil, Job, Bulley and co-- 0 SOUTH AMERICA. )n, fin Maranham, with 1 bale retd goOds, 1101 01 —lO4 do, T Hesketh-273 do, Moon Brothers _, -C Dk , fm Buenos Ayres, with 698 wet c and 0 hide A. ' P 1 if pipes, 1 brl tallow, abt 11 t c and o hor n s, J tallow, 16 bales emits unkn, 1 hale Vienna skics, , nts unkn, 3014 wet c and o hides, W Wil son an', enn-101 do, R Pairclough—abt 14 c and o nkn, 0 F:Angus and co-2762 dry c and o lii 4 t e and o horns, 4 bales vacuna skins, 100 1 111 ' is unkn, order—P 1)k from Savannah, with 315 bales cotton,• A Taylor one Brothers and co-154 do, Bolton, Ogden 6 right and Shiels-53 do, J Howard and Brothei l s and co-50 do, R Orrell—a quantity stone ball , ' said Master-3(X) bales cotton, order—G 1)k ,w, fm Laguna, with 206 t logwood, Buchan' in, fm La Guayra, Puerto Cabello, and Santa I L Guayra), 38 serous indigo, W Baxter and Son• co-47 do, Fort Brothers and co-47 do, J Fix artholomew and co-15 do, Baxter Brothers ant hio), loose aht 100 t copper ore, Falkner and c a), 105 bags cotton, abt - 135 t Nicaragua wood, Red hides, W Cator and Nephew—R el, fm Mobile, with 79 bales cotton, Roskell, ), Cropper, Benson and c 0—164 Wainwright ll and Courant—Q Dk MEDITERRANEAN. in Smyrna, with 44 bales madder roots, J Prreei t valonia, abt 5 t boxwood, 2 es gnm tragacanth!„ !s, 1 bx honey, 6 cs pomegranates, 2 clans 11' W ere - with the pine of Nova Scotia, And in that colony, k r h ..._ -- e qually durable with the fir ships built at Petersburg and Ri e • -4 g e n _ I; that the red pine, used for the frames of houses in h '4, and constantly exposed to the weather, had then en ..ted . ow .° 3 l' upwards of forty years without decay; that the yel p th1:11111 of Our colonies was much freer from knots than that ou r ~....,4 t le, and more easily worked, therefore preferred by t i o Yuen for many purposes. and particularly for the in atic'drwZ4ing of houses, without reference to relative price; tvi t h - rt la still more important, it is found equally durable i,l " e ign as far as experience has yet afforded authority to -4 ' ge With regard to our dock-yards, on which so much 14 i ht • pio g is laid by Mr. Booth, I believe pine timber is not much , tf inse the re ; the deck-plank of Dantzic is preferred on account l ie g r eater lengths and superior preparation, but the masts, ~, ' s, and red pin e balks of Canada are also approved and con . Toe'..e, much for Mr. Booth's accuracy. he s „,, 4 Y s ailse the duties on foreign and British timber, as pro "" °Y Mr. Booth, or even materially to alter the present WEST INDIES, &C. 168 Countess of Airlie, P, Port-au-Prince UNITED STATES. 366 Samuel Wright, P, Boston , 348 Fama, P, Boston & co, 259 John Welch, P, Montreal 264 Bowes, B , New York 341 Dryope, P, Montreal 444 Lowell, P, Boston co, Montgomery, P, New York SOUTH AMERICA. Et co, 165 Manley, P, Santa Martha Sr, tha _ _ 169 Mediterranean, G, Bahia EUROPE. 95 Sybil, K, Lisbon 107 R'ope, K, Lisbon 128 Plym, S, Lisbon Lowe, Q, Riga iwell, 105 Czar, S, Gibraitar 155 Mary, K, Hamburg,h 124 Leopold First, Q, Ostend THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.. scale, it must be evident to every one conversant with the trade, when the difference in distance between the sources of each supply is considered, that one of two results would arise, either to enhance the prices on the British consumer, in conse quence of the advantage that would be given to the foreigner, and the opportunity thus afforded him to rise in his demands, or the trade with our colonies 'would be wholly extinguished; whereby, as I have previously stated, many hundred sail of large British ships would be thrown out of employment, as well as many thousands of British seamen, together with the nume rous body of tradesmen and manufacturers of all descriptions, the fruits of whose labours they now consume, substituting, en couraging, and making us dependent on foreign produce, ship ping, seamen, and tradesmen, who give a preference to the productions and manufactures of their own countries, spending the money we pay them at home, where the necessaries of life are cheap and abundant, and taxation of small amount, thus giving them uncalled-for advantages over us, which our heavy taxation, and consequent artificial state, disables us from suc cessfully competing with. Is this, then, a consummation for " The People" of the united kingdom to court or desire? For the present I conclude, intending to follow up the other subjects of Mr. Booth's pamphlet for your next or following publication, and am, yours, &c., MERCATOR. 4th February, 1833. TENDENCY OF THE REFORM MOVEMENT. TO THE EDITOR OF TILE LIVERPOOL STSIVD.ARD. Sir,—Whatever were the motives of the Ministers, or what ever objects they had in view, in bringing forward their measure of reform, it is evident, that by the application of their political lever, they have partly succeeded in disjointing the British con stitution, and, that by throwing additional power into the hands of the people, that power may be used to move it from its base. As for their saying it shall be a final measure, deserves as much attention, as would the declaration of the man, who, having set fire to his own house, situated in the midst of a town, that the devouring element would confine itself to his alone : and I fear, sir, that the insubordinate spirit of " reform " engendered in this country is as much above the controul of Ministers in the one case, as would the conflagration be under the control of the fool in the other. You will perceive that the Lord Mayor of London was to hold a meeting of the new constituency on Monday, for the purpose of deliberating upon the propriet) of their petitioning the House of Commons, on the subject of the vote at elections by ballot, and the repeal of the septennial act. The leading ar ticle of Bell's Weekly Messenger in which this copy of the requi sition is embodied, has this passage in it, "perhaps amongst the other changes of the times we may yet live to see a senate in_ stead of an hereditary peerage; and perhaps there are many very large classes who may be easily led to accede to such a change." All that the press has now to. do is to point out, and all that the " people" have now to do is to follow its advice and to execute its commands ; and if one House of Commons will not submit to the spur of the " people," another will soon be easily selected that will; therefore, every succeeding House of Commons will be armed with fresh powers and instructions from the people, and will be prepared to commit fresh violations, under the specious covert of reform, on the British constitution, which will grow weaker from every attack until it be at last destroyed; like some admired and stately ship, the bearer of for tune and cause of happiness, which, having withstood the united efforts of wind and wave, and braved the tempest of years, is, by an incautious hand, steered. upon the shoals to be wrecked and plundered at leisure. We must not, Sir, be surprised that there are parties to be found in this country who are wishful to adopt the vote by bal lot, which is so at variance with the disposition of true Britons. Premeditated acts of violence, whether committed in the ascent to political power or in private life, require the support of se crecy, as the assassin does the mantle of the night. I appeal to history for the truth of the former assertion, and history is said, by Hume the historian, to be the "mistress of wisdom." In the reign of Charles I. (to which I adverted in my last, though it was written in mistake Charles II.) that age of political vio lence and religious cant, when the patriot was made the dupe of cunning and designing men, we shall find that the Parlia ment, for the purpose of securing the dowufal and destruction of the virtuous Earl of Strafford, condescended, in their wisdom and their love of justice, to deliberate with locked doors. The secret means adopted for the slaughter of that great man is one instance only preparatory to the many acts of violence com mitted in that reign by the parliamentary sticklers for liberty. Still, notwithstanding their glaring acts of violence and injus tice, they were the idols of the " people," and all opposed to them were considered traitors to their country. So much for popular clamour, intimidation, and the popular will. Have the importunate advocates of the vote by ballot no motive save that of pure patriotism—no interested object whatever—no intention whatever, to violate our religion, and to commit violence on our civil institutions? If not, why wish to give the vote in secret? The man who has not honour, honesty, and patriotism enough to give his vote openly and by the light of the sun at noon day; is not a fit person to be entrusted with the elective franchise ; and to call upon the legislature to protect the hypocrisy and cowardice of such a man, would be derogatory to the national character and honour. If Parliament must be called upon to check all the inconveniences that are likely to arise under the Reform Bill, the murderers of Ireland may still go unpunished, and the com mercial and agricultural interests of Gieat Britain may still be neglected. We have already suffered greatly from the pro tracted labour of Ministers in bringing forth their bantling of reform; but Government, I hope, will now be prepared to try to adopt some means to check it in its waywardness, and in do ing which it will not, surely, allow itself to be startled at its cries. With respect to the duration of Parliaments, it is worthy of observation, that when the Tories were in favour, the Bill for triennial parliaments was passed in the reign of King William the 3rd, and that the Whigs in the year 17]6, in the reign of George the Ist., for the security of their faction in power re pealed it, and substituted the septennial act. Fortunately for this country there has been no stretch of the Royal prerogative since the reign of the Stuarts, otherwise the liberties of the people might have been imperiled by their resorting to that act. But since the last of the Stuarts, the parliament has been rising in power and importance; and by the passing of the Reform Bill, a power is thrown into the hands of the people, which it is admitted on all hands threatens the existence of the constitution; for it may be intemperately used. It will be ad_ mitted, too, on all hands, that it is as necessary to guard against the despotism of a House of Commons, which mostly has the support of the " people," as it is against the tyranny of a King. The House of Lords, if permitted to enjoy its legitimate func tions, has the power of restraining the violence of the Commons, and the King has the power of dissolving both. If the consti tution of the country is to be preserved, how can the people, spurred on as they are by a democratic press, be entrusted with greater powers, and which triennial parliaments would give them ? Triennial parliaments cannot now be required to check the prerogative of the Crown; and we are acquainted with the historical fact that a Parliament did compel King Charles to give his consent to a bill to make it perpetual, and that Parlia ment, as I stated before, was the idol . of the " people," and it very soon subverted the constitution. In answer to this, it will be said, that it is to prevent such a /recurrence that we enforce the necessity of the adoption of triennial parliaments; but then we may deduce from experience, that the people would not ob ject any more to the retention of a favourite Parliament, than they would to the retention, by compulsion, of favourite Minis ters. If the Whig Ministers should, - for the purpose of main- - taining themselves in office, allow these two measures—vote by ballot and triennial parliaments —to be prematurely passed into a law, the idea which is now merely suggested would be adopted, and the necessity of the establishment of a senate would be en forced, es it would be considered that the House of Lords would act in opposition to a House of Commons, the mere delegates of, the people's will; in which case, the affairs or business of the nation, through the obstinacy of the Commons, might be brought to a stand, and its peace endangered; whereas a senate, from its very construction, would act in concert; but how' long such a senate, and such a House of Commons, would sanction the presence of a King, it requires no great gift of foresight to predict. The rapidity of late events must have convinced every one that the well-wishers to the constitution of the country must be on their guard, and must be prepared to adopt, or to do their utmost to have rejected, measures which will follow one another in as quick succession almost as the waves of the sea. That constitution which has existed upwards of 600 years, and which it will be no trifle to lose, under which we have enjoyed such a share of liberty, happiness, and glory, is, I fear, about to expire, as presaged by the President Montesquieu ; that as Rome, Sparta, and Carthage have lost their liberty and pe rished, so the constitution of England will in time lose its liberty and perish: it will perish whenever the legislative power shall become more corrupt than the executive. But of our Ministers and their supporters, we may say, what Anthony said, in the words of Shakspeare, of the Murderers of Cwsar, " that they are all; all honourable men."—Yours, &c. Jan.. 2.1, 1833. J. M. , MR. E WART. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—Our worthy representative, Mr. Ewart, has already shown his consistency and independence by voting in the small but most respectable minority, composed of Messrs. Cobbett, O'Connell, and his tail, against the appointment of the Right Hon. Charles Manners Sutton, to the office of Speaker of the House of Commons. It is true that all parties in the House, have again and again lauded in the highest terms the character and the unrivalled qualifications of the right hon. gentleman : it is also true, that by his appointment to the office a saving is made to the country of I.:4,000 a year: but Messrs. Cobbett O'Connell, and Ewart, will have no tory in office, however ad vantagious to the country his appointment may be. This, no doubt, is a specimen of pure patriotism, for these men are pre eminently liberals; but in my simplicity I confess I should have pointed to this very act of theirs as admirably fitted to illustrate the natnre of pure partisanship. In saber earnest 1 do not think the town of Liverpool has much reason to boast of the part which her representative has perfonned in the opening act of the reformed parliament. NEMO. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. On Tuesday last, Sarah Sheal, alias Ellen Pye,. alias Ann Hoy, au impostor, was committed to the House of Correction for one calendar month, for receiving, under false pretences, at seven different times, relief from the Provident District Society. The following cases were also disposed of during the week:— Mary Speedy was committed for trial, on a charge of stealing a pair of shoes, in the shop of Mr. Richard Bouchier, White chapel: The prisoner went with another woman into the pro secutoes shop, about six o'clock on Saturday evening, y when they asked for a pair of shoes to fit the prisoner. Three pairs of shoes were handed to them, one of winch the prisoner tried on ; and, finding them to fit, inquired the price, which the pro secutottold her was ss. She then returned that pair of shoes, saying phe had not so much money and was about to leave the shop, Nitin . the prosecutor' stoppect her, and in her apron found anothot pair. of shoes, which he had seen her conceal.there ; and, in consequence, he sent for a constable and gave her into custody. Her companion in the meantime had walked off. On searching her in Bridewell, it appeared that she had no money about her. She said, before the Magistrate, that she was "in toxicated with drink" at the time, and did not know what she was abhut. STOLEN GAME.—Elizabeth Appleton was committed for trial, on a charge of stealing two woodcocks, two partridges, and two wild ducks, the property of Thoinas Skelton. The prosecutor is a defiler in game, residing in Hart-street, and on Monday morning last he found that his cellar window had been broken open, and two hares, three wild ducks, three woodcocks, and fuur partridges, which he had left there when he locked up the cellar at eight o'clock on Sunday night, were stolen. He gave notice of the theft to the several dealers in game, and, between seven and eight o'clock on Monday evening, the prisoner of fered to sell the six birds above-mentioned to Mrs. Mary M'Keown, in St. John's Market, who called one of the market lookers, named Best. The prisoner thereupon ran off, leaving the birds behind, but Best followed, and overtook her. She told him a lad, who lived in a cellar in St. Andrew-street, had given her the birds to sell, and that she was to have a shilling tor her trouble. Upon inquiry, however, he was unable to dis cover any such person as she described. Before the magistrate she said—" if they will look for the boy, they will find him." LONG-LOOKED-EOR CAUGHT AT LAST.—A young fellow call ing himself Charles Kiny was committed for trial, on a charge of stealing a pair of silver sugar tongs, the property of Mr. John Walker, of the Bull Hotel, in I'rueman-street. It ap peared that about seven o'clock on last Thursday evening, a man went into the prosecutor's house and sat in the commer cial room up stairs for about a quarter of an hour, and then he went away without having taken any refreshment. As soon as he was gone a pair of silver sugar tongs was missed out of the room in which he had been sitting. The same sugar tongs were pawned at Messrs. Moyle's shop, in Whitechapel, about eight o'clock on the same evening, by a woman calling herself Susan Green, who, on Saturday evening, went again to the same shop and offered a coat in pledge. The shopman, having in the meantime learned that toe sugar tongs were stolen, asked her where he got them, and she answered that she had been sent to ple e them by a young man. Halsall, the constable, was then s t for and took her into custody, and she told him that the young man in question went by the name of James Jack son, and was then waiting for her at a public-house in Charles street, having sent her to pawn the coat, Halsall accordingly proceeded to that house and there found the prisoner, whom the woman states she has known about twelve months, but had not seep him for about four months until last Thursday even ing, wen she met him, and he sent her to pawn the sugar tongs. His four months' absence was probably caused by his being concerned in another felony—the stealing a surtout coat belonging to Mr. Eadie, of the Throstle-nest Tavern, in Scot land-road, which occurred so far back as the 2d of October last. On that day, about six o'clock in the evening, the prisoner, in company with three other men, called at the - Throstle-nest, and sat iu a room up stairs, where they remained about twenty mi nutes. Shortly after they had left the house, Mr. Eadie missed his surtout coat from a room adjoining that in which they had been sitting; and he immediately gave information of the rob bery to the police. The next day, Thursby, one of the con stables, went round to the pawnbroker's shops, and found that the coat had been pledged at Mr. O'Donnell's, in Scotland road, for 275. 6d., a little before seven in the evening preceding. He had since been on the look-out for the prisoner, but had never been able to fall in with him. He was now, however, fully identified by Mr. Eadie as one of the party who were in his house, as before stated, on the evening when the coat was stolen, and, by Mr. O'Donnell's shopman, as the individual by whom the coat was pledged on the same evening. A young woman in the service of Mr. Alexander MlCenzie, who keeps a public-house in College-lane, also identified the prisoner as the individual who called at Mr. M'Kenzie's, on Friday even ing last, and was served with a glass of brandy,. with warm water and sugar, and left the house in about five minutes after wards, when it was discovered that the sugar-tongs, which she had left in the sugar-basin placed before him, were missing: they have not yet been discovered.—The prisoner was commit ted on.the two separate charges of stealing,—the sugar-tongs from Mr. 'Walker's, and the surtout coat from Mr. Eadie s. He denied stealing the sugar-tongs, and, with respect to the coat, he acknowledged that he pawned it, but denied that he stole it. Thomas Parry, a shop-boy, in the service of Messrs. Robert and John Bridson, ironmongers, in Berry-street, was committed for trial, charged with robbing his employers.—He had been about three months in the servive of the prosecutors; and dur ing that time they were constantly missing small parcels of knit es. On Saturday last they caused him to be apprehended, and three knives, which they identified as being their property, were produced, and it appeared that he had sold two of them at different times to a man for two-pence each, and had made a present of the third to another boy. He admitted that he had been in the practice of taking papers containing hilf-a-dozen at a time. BURGLARS CAUGHT. --John Evans Croucher and Thomas Wil liams were committed, for trial, charged with burglarious) y breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Mrs, Mary Woody in Church-street, and stealing therein a bottle of wine.—The wife of a car-driver living in Clayton-lane, was sitting up for her husband, between three and four o'clock on Tuesday morning, when she heard some persons walking up and down the lane. —She put out her: light, and looked through the window, and saw three men in the lane, two of whom got over the back door, and,into the yard behind Mre. M. Wood's house, and immediately afterwards shi heard the breaking, of a pane of glass, and a cracking noise like the breaking open of a door. She then called the watch, and the man who had remained in the lane ran away. One of the watchmen got over into the :yard, and opened the back door, arid then proceeded with his comrades to search the premises.. They found that a pane of glass had been broken in the back cellar window, by which means the hasp that fastened it was un hooked. The cellar door was found to have been forced open, and a tattle of wing had been taken out, which was found on the steps of the kitchen door in the 37ard. Several marks of vio lence were visible on: the kitchen door, caused by the forcible application of a crow-bar. The parties who had thus been dis turbed in their operations, had passed out through the front cel lar into Church-street, leaving the door open. While this search was making, the watchman of Williamson-square saw the two prisoners run along Tyrer-street, and pursued them, He over took Williams; Croucher, whose person he distinctly recog nised, made his escape, but was apprehended about seven o'clock, in bed in a house in Ben Johnson-etreet. On the per son of Williams was found a crow-bar which exactly fitted the marks in the cellar window and back kitchen door of Mrs. 'Wood's ; and the watchman in Cases-street; iden tified the prisoners as two men whom he had seen in that street, about sixty yards from the back door of Mrs. Woods' house, at half-past three o'clock that morning. Croucher was formerly employed by Mrs. Wood, as a porter, but left her service about three weeks ago .;—and ' —and a curious circumstance, corroboratiVe of the identity of Williams with one of the two men seen by the car-driver's wife to get over the wall,,is the finding of a coat-button in the yard adjoining Mrs. Wood's premises, close to the door which that witness describes them to have got over, which button corresponds (as to the maker's name and general appearance), with the set on the coat worn by Williams at the time when the watchman caught him, one of which set was missing from the right hand side of the breast part of the coat, having probably been rubbed off in getting over the wall. CORONER'S INQUESTS. MANSLAUGHTER.—An inquest was taken last week, before JAMES AsPINALL, Esqr., one of the Bailiffs arid Coroners for this Borough, touching the death of John Light.—The de ceased, the son of a poor widow, living in Zuill's Court, Cros bie-street, was twenty-two years of age. He had not been brought up to any sort of business or regular work, but went one voyage only to the West Indies, in a vessel called the Hall, a few years ago. About twelve months since he left home. and after he had been some time away, his mother received , a letter from him, dated New Orleans, stating that he had stowed himself away on board the Nimrod, at her de parture from Liverpool. He seems to have remained knocking about at New Orleans, where, in October list, he was pointed out to Captain Samuel Neale, of the bi g Caraboo, of this port, who was then in want of a cook, but rL fused to Alp him in that capacity. On the 14th of October, about half an hour before the Caraboo sailed from New Or leans, that vessel being one man short of her compliment, Capt. Neale called to the deceased who was lying drunk on board of a brig called the Eliza, then alongside, and asked him to come • on hoard the Caraboo, to which he agreed, and they sailed for Laguna. He was destitute of clothing, except the few things he had on, and the mate and some of the crew furnished him with an old jacket or two, a pair of trousers, and some few other trifles. He, of course, knew nothing of a seaman's duty, and he was in bad health, and some others 'of the crew appear to have been not the most effective of seamen; and, to add to their discomfort, they were ou very short allowance of provisions. Under these circumstances, perhaps, it was scarcely to be ex pected that much of good humour or .kindness should have prevailed amongst them; but, such inhuman barbarity to a fellow -creature, as the treatment of this poor fellow, according to the evidence, displays, surely falls to the lot of but few of the unhappy wretches who, in a state of infirmity, are doomed to experience the tender mercies of an inadequate crew of an ill found merchant vessel. Two or three days after their arrival at Laguna, the mate commenced beating him with his fist; - shortly afterwards he proceeded to use a rope's end in beating • him, and continued that practice ei ery day. On the 29th 'Nov. they sailed from Laguna for Liverpool; and during the voy- - age home the ill-usage which the poor fellow received seems to have daily increased, until at length nearly all hands on board, from the mate down to the youngest apprentice, seem to have regarded him as the legitimate object of kicks and blows, and whatever other treatment the, humour of the moment , prompted them to bestow upon him—the apparent motive being, the general belief that his incapacity increased their quantity of work, while lie was also grudged the exceedingly scanty portion of provisions doled out to him. One night about the imddle of last month, the deceased craviLid below and lay upon the log wood in the hold, unable from sickness and sores on his legs to a remain on deck. The next morning the mate went down to him and ordered him to go on deck, and on his an- • swering that he was not able, said he was skulking, and ' then passed a rope round his neck, by which, with the as: sistance of the carpenter and one of the boys, lie hauled him . upon deck, and then, with the same rope, gave him upwards of forty strokes on the body, head, shoulders, and any part, in fact, on which he could make a blow tell. On a subsequent day he struck him repeatedly with a handspike, and also with a knotted rope. The deceased used to sleep, or some time, in the long-boat, covered over by the jolly-boat, with canvas to lie on and canvas also to cover him. On the 23rd and 24th of Ja nuary he was severely beaten by the mate with a rope's end, and on the 25th he was carried below in consequence of his alarming ill state of health, and the captain, "as he ap peared to be chilled," sent him down some rum. On Sunday morning the 27th of January, the vessel being then eoff the Skerries, he was found dead. One of the apprentices deposed, that on Friday night preceding, the deceased went forward to coil up the forebraces, and, the vessel lolling heavily at the time, he fell down forward, striking his head - with great vio lence against the spars. On Monday, the 28th of January, the vessel arrived at this port, and in consequence of the repre sentations made at the Police office, by some of the crew, an investigation was ordered. Mr. Lockwood, the surgeon, by • the Coroner's directions, examined the body, and found boils on the legs and thighs, the back very much bruised, and marks of ropes distinctly to be seen thereon,—two or three of them almost in a state of mortification ;—and there was also the mark of a rope about the neck. The face and head were swollen and the former much bruised. "On cutting through the scalp, he found effusion amongst the cellular membrane and ecchymosis in several places. On re moving the skull-cap and the dura mater, extravasation of blood appeared on the posterior part of the cerebrum and left side of the cerebellum, forming pressure on the brain, which would cause the death of the deceased; and on opening the lateral venticles of the brain there was effusion of water into both cavities, caused by inflammation; the vessels of the brain were also gorged with Mood." He was of opinion that the de ceased came to his death from the extravasation of blood on the brain, which had been caused either by a blow or a fall on the head. There were several marks of blows or falls, on the head.—After hearing the evidence, in which these circum stances were detailed with great minuteness, the jury re turned a verdict of Manslaughter, against Thomas Keswick, mate of the brig Caraboo, who was, in consequence, committed, under the coroner's warrant, for trial at the next Admiralty Sessions. Yesterday, an inquest was held on view of the body of a fe male, picked up floating in the river on Sunday afternoon.—lt proved to be the body of an elderly woman, who left her son's house in Gibraltar-row, one evening about three weeks ago, to return to her home in Barton-street North, and had not been heard of since.—Verdict—finmd drowned. MANSLAUGHTER. — Last Saturday week, an inquest vtas held at Prescot, before Williani Pemberton, Esq., coroner, on the body of Richard Holt, watch-tool-maker, Eccleston-street, The following is a summary of the evidence :—At twelve o'clock on Friday night Holt and his wife left her mother's, who keeps a public-house in the same street where he resided: they both went to bed and quarrelled ; at half-past one o'clock they both went down stairs with only their night-clothes On; a scuffle ensued, and he received a stab in the jugular vein on the right side of the neck : he immediately ran out of the house, bleed ing profusely all the way, and returned to his mother-in-law's, his wife following him, and screaming dreadfully. The door was scarcely opened when he fell, and. (lied instantly. Not more than five minutes elapsed between the fatal blow being given and his death. After an investigation, which lasted nearly five hours, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Margaret Holt, the wife of the deceased. She is com mitted to Lancaster Castle, to take her trial at the next assizes,