The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-21 00:00:00

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of noniin
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opinion of OA, if
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the salary. of the,
:ing his opnieeehot
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extent of Arn'otbsi
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in London. 1I ,
r in Lontlooloaly
li Preferred hail
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mrse which 11,e lir
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llr. Hall to Pbrr,t,
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with him
Pretax, la Inapt in all things adapted for the situation,
Justiceilst, and in the vigour of life, who would temper
a geode wha kindness; firmness, moderation' and discretion—
ian who, schen named, would be allowed by all to
lisCentue Praise which he (Mr. C.) had bestowed upon
kis. begged leave to propose Mr. Edward Rushton,
re„;,s a barrister of not less than five years' standing, to be
filreahended to her Majesty's principal secretary of state
the ofEce°lne dePartment, as a fit and proper person to hold
r. of stipendiary magistrate of the borough o Liver-
, ul consequence of the resignation of Thos. James Hall,
Ntr.
sax, 4,.a.ststatv seconded the motion. It was unneces-
hee'ilLer kiln to say any thing after the eulogium which had
Passed upon Mr. Rushton by the mover, in all of which
Perf I
pot-, r Y concurred ; and thought that the gentleman pro-
way rom the knowledge which he had of our local affairs,
at47tetia.neylitty qualified for the situation.
,o a question from Mr. Bibby, Mr. CURRIE
Nil% Rushton had the honour to be elected, he
It willingly serve
PIas:I,9OPER. Proposed that a week's delay should take
re ry
47tore the selection was made. They were called,upop
ads Bald to nominate a gentleman, and a 'week s
Iv/ 1:0Juld not possibly do any harm.
opporrt,2llll Smrrn seconded the motion, in order that an
1.4 v ri,-"tiwtY 'night be afforded of consulting gentlemen in
1143:4071: quite as capable of filling the situation as Mr.
wiltigg to
". altlE.—lt does not follow that because they are
txe the situation they will be appointed
tratits.iLAWRENCE hoped that no delay would be.
atad that there would be an unanimous recommen
lis:Zt° Lord John Russell, who, he understood, was wil -
417rtiction their recommendation.
iea RzYwon•rn said that, delay was quite uncalled for.
l'herj,ought to be put out of the question in the case.
estiluld be something in the character of the gentleman
'astdd ilitu to the office, and he thought that Mr. Rushton
`'°oPer and Smith consented to withdraw their
tarried. eat, and the motion of Mr. Currie was unanimously
that it, to her Majesty and the privy council, praying,
Polite e• Rushton might be appointed to the vacant office of
the eugistrate, was then read, adopted, and signed by all
I,Nulcillors present.
utr• Is
Coith,;al lioLmxs proposed, " That the thanks of
dates'4l.7' be give t Th mas James Hall, Esq., for
-01111,d. inlPartia'nl manner in which he has fulfilled the
osoL,, Sup
..)4r. b endiary magistrate for the borough of Liver-
ID fir.
_,zovron seconded the motion, which was unani-
NZPted.
444 t business of the council occupied an hour.
minutes past twelve.

It termi-

consequence of the favourable state of the revenue,
the taxes on servants, on stock and produce, and on in-
come, would be discontinued, and some other taxes
modified and reduced in amount. The prospects of
this colony seem to be of the most encouraging cha-
racter.
We have
.also received the Graham's Town Journal
to the 28th of February. It congratulates the farmers
on the removal of the impediments imposed by the
above-mentioned taxes, and expresses a hope that the
capitation tax would also be abolished.
This paper is chiefly filled with distressing accounts
of the continued depredations committed by the Kafirs
on the cattle of the colonists. It is time that effectual
steps should be taken to put a stop to these marauding
incursions.

Major Charters and Mr. Shepstone, had arrived at
Graham's Town, by an overland rout, from Port Natal.
They confirmed the main particulars previously pub-
lished relative to the defeat of the Zoolas by the emi-
grants, and also as to the great losses sustained by the
former.

Accounts had been received at Graham's Town
from Port Natal to the 23d of January. The editor
of the Graham's Town Journal states, that he had two
specimens of coals, one of which was found near the
Zand river, and the other near Port Natal. They are
described as of very superior quality. This coal for-
mation is said to lie close to the surface, to extend a
considerable distance, and to be many feet in thickness.
We mention this as a fact of some importance, as a
company in London has determined upon the coloni-
zation of Natal. The presence of an extensive coal
field in this region, must be considered as an addi-
tional inducement to carry the scheme into speedy ex-
ecution. Having already prepared some remarks on
this new colonial project, we shall recur to the subject
in our next. No topic can be of more vital import to
the commercial public than the extension of our colo-
nial dependencies.

We have received a file of the Jamaica Royal Ga-
zette, to the 6th April. Our files of the Despatch,
Gazette. and Mercury, are again missing. The news
brought by this arrival is still of a gloomy character.

On the sugar estates the unsatisfactory manner o

working continues to distress and annoy the planter,
and he sees his canes rotting before his eyes, without

the possibility of getting the sugar manufactured from
them. On the coffee properties, ,where the crop was
still gathering, the same indifference to the interest of
the proprietors was shewn, although the labourers were
offered Is. Bd. per bushel for picking, which could be
easily accomplished in three hours. The Royal Ga-
zette expresses its sorrow that there has been so much
temporising with the people. If equitable arrange-
ments as to rent and wages had been generally en-
forced from the commencement, much of the bad feel-
ing now existing might have been avoided.
Several members of the Baptist persuasion are still
said to excite the labouring population, and to fill their
minds with nonsensical ideas regarding their civil and
religious liberty, as if attempts had been made to in-
vade either the one or the other.

The papers before us furnish some further particulars
respecting the great advantages derived by the labour-
ers from their grounds and fruit trees. On many
of the properties of the Island, there are immense
quantities of cocoa-nut trees, more particularly at-
tached to the negro houses, and consequently claimed
by the labourers. It is generally supposed that a
cocoa-nut tree is worth from £4 to £5 per annum.
On a property not many miles from Kingston, where
there are a large quantity of these trees, the manager
has had the curiosity to count the fruit from a full-
bearing tree, and it appears that the result has been,
that the cocoa-nut tree his three bearings a year, at
each of which there was picked about 250 nuts, giving
750 a year. But taking the average of many trees to
give 400 annually, and that they can be very readily
sold at four for fivepence, it follows that each tree will
yield £2 Is. Bd. Now, it appears, that the negroes
possess more or less of these trees, and that some ac-
tually claim to the number of 47. The amount aris-

ing from 10 trees, would be £l2 10s. sterling—from
20 trees, £2s—from 40 trees, £so—and from 47 trees,
£5B 15s. With such an immense income the Gazette
may ask with great_ propriety, " what proportion ought
the proprietor to receive ? No doubt," is the answer,
" he would be considered a severe master to exact 2s.
per week, leaving a clear income to the renter of
£53 1 ls. sterling, per annum," from this source alone !
Silver and gold, as a circulating medium, were getting
more scarce every day ; and to mend the matter, pri-
vate • notes were " flying about the island like wild
fowl." Some of theSe were issued for 6s. Sd., 3s. 4d.,
Is. Bd., and even iod. each I The principal cause of
the scarcity of specie, is, no doubt, the constant 'drain
of the labourers, who have been, for some time past,
hoarding their wages and the money they derive from
the sale of the produce from their grounds.
We are glad to find that the monetary affairs of the
island are likely to be placed on a better basis. We
learn that a " Jamaica Loan Society, or Planter's Bank,
for making loans on crops, produce, lands, houses, and
other property," has been started. The capital is to
be £500,000, in 20,000 shares of £25 each. Four
thousand, nine hundred, and ten shares were taken in
a few days. Another banking company has been ori-
ginated in Liverpool, under the style and title of the
" Union Bank of Jamaica," for which application has
been made for an act of incorporation. At the head
of this company we find the names of our respected
townsmen, Messrs. John Crosthwaite, Jos. C. Ewart,
Robertson Gladstone, Charles Lawrence, Adam
Hodgson, Joseph Hornby, Thos. Berry Horsfall,
Chas. S. Parker, Thomas Smith, and William Smith.

Perhaps there is not anything in the world so exqui-
sitely absurd as a provincial patriot. Sure we are that
it happens to few men in any station of life so thoroughly
to " eat humble pie," or so thanklessly to discharge the
dirtiest and most, servile offices. And it is most mov-

ing to see an obscure individual, a bouryeois gentil-
hoinme, about whom and whose concerns no mortal
(except his customers) ever wasted a thought, glorying
in the display of his august personage in a public bal-
cony—thrilling with delight at the very sweet music of
his own most sonorous voice—big to bursting with the
destinies of the world--and fancying that all Europe
and part of Asia are intent upon the issue of the day's
proceedings. The frog imitating the ox was a mere
joke in comparison with your Monsieur Jourdain when
he is playing the statesman, and, like the hero of old,

' insignis spoliis Molasses opimis

Ingreditur, victorque viros supereminet mines.
Hie rem Romanam magno turbante tumultu

Sistet eques : sternet Peelum,—Toryosque rebelles."*
And it is wonderful how a metropolitan master can re-
concile it even to a whiggish conscience to put his
country cousins to so very absurd an use. But stupid
as it was to call a gathering of radicals together in
Clayton-square, and to hope even for a numerical dis-
play in this good constitutional town, it was really cruel
to throw upon the orators of Liverpool the burden of
discharging their own peculiar thunder on topics which
at head quarters had, long been abandoned in despair.
Really our good-natured friends should put off a little
of their localism in politics, and not be so far behind
the rest of the world as to wear the discarded habili-
ments of their employers, as the guerdon of their la-
bour and the garb of their vassalage. If their own
common sense did not point out to them, when they
had the parliamentary report in their hands, how the
real truth lay, and what candour and fairness demand-
ed
even of the keenest political opposition, yet we sus-
pect that Friday's papers must have filled full the mea-
sure of that chagrin which Thursday's proceedings
had engendered, by informing these great gods of war
that while Clayton-square was echoing to the wild ful-
minations of their provincial wrath, Lord Melbourne
had instructed his nephew to give their statements the
lie direct, and the walls of Hertford had already been
placarded with this announcement, " the explanations
which have taken place in Parliament certainly remove
all grounds for ascribing any but proper and loyal mo-
tives to the leaders of the tory party in their late nego-
tiations"—to which authentic statement was affixed no
vulgar name, but the most unexceptionably whiggish
signature of the Hon. W. F. Cowper, nephew to the
Premier, Commissioner of Greenyrich Hospital, and
ambitious aspirant for a renewelliaase of his seat at
Hertford.
And if anything more were needed to aggravate the
annoyance, and exasperate the vexation of our worthy
friends, we shrewdly suspect it may be found in the fol-
lowing passage from Lord Brougham's• letter to Lord
John Russell. Theparoage i •;nnewhat lengthy, but