The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-23 00:00:00

THE RIVER PLATE

The intelligence which we published last week of
the bloodless revolution in Buenos Ayres against
the government of General Urquiza, would seem
at the first view to destroy the hopes which were

entertained of advantages to our commerce by the
River Plate being open to free navigation; and
there is no doubt that commercial operations have
been considerably disarranged by this untoward
breach of so recent a settlement. There are circum-
stances, however, which tend, in a great degree,
to modify this impression ; and, perhaps, we should
hardly be justified in coming to a conclusion before
we receive further advices. It may be true that
the British, French, and American Ministers left
with the deposed governor for Santa Fe, and that
by far the strongest party of the Buenos Ayreans
are united against him ; but it is equally true that
the revolution has been a bloodless one, and an
amicable adjustment, therefore, more open to nego-
tiation. It is also said that the new government is
favourable to the free navigation of the River
Plate, so that much of the difficulty in the way of
arrangement is smoothed away. We can hardly
suppose that British interests are dependent upon
this or that individual, and we therefore deem it
probable, in the absence of further information,
that English commerce may yet reap the advan-

tages which were anticipated from the recent settle-
ment.

TRADE WITH THE UNITED STATES,

THE NEW PRESIDENT AND THE DEMO-

CRATS

THE arrival of the Europa, which, from the delay
caused by easterly gales, and subsequently by thick
fogs, we were only enabled to announce in a Second
Edition, last week, brought us the intelligence of
the election of General PIERCE, the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency cf the United States,
by a far more overwhelming majority than was
ever known on any previous occasion. The circum-
stance is significant in a political point of view,
as showing the extraordinary increase of the element
of Democracy in the model Republic, the strength
of which was believed to be based upon the equi-
librium which had been so long preserved between
the two opposing parties. It is no longer a defeat,
but an utter extinction of the Whig party—a term
which is synonymous with Conservative in Eng-
land; and the Democrats, triumphant in the State
as well as the Federal Elections, may now show
their ability, or inability, to govern themselves, un-
checked by the prudent restraint, and unaided by
the experience which they erstwhile received from
the moderate Whigs. The Election, in its various
incidents ; in its uncontrolled license of mob vio-
lence; the destruction of ballot-boxes ; personation
of voters ; and multiplication of votes, has also
afforded to the admirers of the Ballot and Universal
Suffrage in England, a notable instance of the
working of such institutions as a guarantee for the
freedom of representation, and will form a fitting
illustration when the Manchester party have a new
theme for agitation.
The result of the Election is, however, of far
more importance to England, and particularly to
Liverpool, with reference to its effects upon our
commercial relations with the United States. It is
well known that the policy of the American Govern-
ment has been of a decidedly protective character,
more especially as regards British manufactures, with
the view of stimulating the embryo manufactures of
the United States. President FILLMORE and his
advisers had the sense to perceive that England had
risen to greatness through protecting her own
industry, and taking tribute, not of her own
children, but of strangers ; and they endeavoured
to arrive at the same end by the same means. The
new President is said to be an ardent Free-trader,
and it is confidently predicted that under his rule
the commercial policy of the United States will be
of a far more liberal character than heretofore.
Should this prove to be the case—of which there
seems to be no reasonable doubt—then England
will come in for the largest share of the advantages
to be derived from the new markets, which will be
opened to her Exports, and we shall realise that
reciprocity of trade,—that virtual exchange of
calicoes for raw cotton and bread-stuffs, which
was held out as the great inducement for repealing
the Corn-laws. With the wisdom of such a policy

as, regards the United States, we have no concern.
As Mr. ABBOTT LAWRENCE, the American Mi-
nister to this country, justly observed, that, with-
out venturing an opinion on the policy of England
in opening her ports, it was for his countrymen to
take the advantage, which at that time they did not
think it wise to grant in return. If they now
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afforded, and we may therefore hail the triumph of
Democracy on the other side of the Atlantic as a

the prosperity which is said to

those chiefly upon a question to be brought before the
civil legislature. It must also be understood that no acts
of Convocation, however sanctioned, have the slightest
authority over the laity without the direct ratification of
an Act of Parliament, while we have the express
declaration of Her Majesty's Secretary of State that,
under no consideration, will he advise the sanction of the
Crown to any legislative proceedings on the part of
Convocation. The members of both Houses appear to
have confined themselves to questions altogether irre-
spective of doctrinal differences, and simply in the way of
recommendations for the abatement of admitted evils.
These, however, can have no other weight than would
attach to them from the character and respectability of the
parties who join in them, and under these considerations
the late discussions may be viewed in no other light than
as a mere elongation of the formal proceedings which on
previous occasions characterised the first day's meeting of
Convocation.

MR. HORSFALL AND
ELECTION

THE DERBY

THE first shot fired by the unscrupulous Radicals of
Derby against the return of Mr. T. B. HORSFALL, as their
Conservative representative, by a side-wind insinuation
against the purity of his election, has resulted in a failure.
They feared to petition directly against his return, because
that would provoke a counter petition, which there is
little doubt would result in unseating their own man Mr.
BASS. They adopted therefore a mean evasion, and with-
out complaining of the return of Mr. HORSFALL, instructed
the late Attorney-General to move tor a parliamentary in-
quiry into alleged charges of bribery affecting the Right
llon. W. BERESFORD, tho real intention being to unseat
Mr. HORSFALL, if by any means the charge could be sub-
stantiated. The experienced eye of the SPEAKER saw
through the shuffle, and ho rejected the petition as in-
formal ; and the discomfited Radicals are now left to the
alternative of abandoning their opposition, and declining
any further proceeding of their trick about the bribery
charge, or of petitioning against the return, with the moral
certainty that the counter petition, which will as surely
accompany it, will lead to the unseating of Mr. BASS. It
is almost needless to say that both Mr. HORSFALL and
Major BERESFORD court the fullest inquiry into the
alleged charge of bribery, for none who know Mr. Hoßs-
rrAtr, will believe him to be guilty of such combined
knavery and folly.