The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-06-21 00:00:00

sition conciliate respect. The one engages the affec-
tions,—but avowed, and open, and honest adversaries
have hearts prepared for future friendships in happier
circumstances and in better times. With shabbiness
Honesty and Honour have no communion. There is
scarcely a ground of difference left between the more
moderate members of the Cabinet, and the great Con-
servative Leaders ;—from the Radicals, an inseparable
gulf divides them. Why, then, can there be no coali-
tion ? Simply, we answer, for this plain reason :
They are so shabby that we dare not trust them; they
are so despised, that we fear to meddle with their un-
popularity. Every Conservative feels an instinctive
abhorrence of the contaminating contact. Disgraced,
deserted, and despised, they will fall, alone and for
They haVe risen for a while to the height and
pinnacle of power, that- their fall may be more signal
and their destruction more complete. We trust the
Melbourne Ministry may be in its death, as it has been
in its birth and in its life,— a beacon to warn the
Statesman of succeeding times against the shoals of
shabbiness and fraud.

We have been led into these remarks by the very
peculiar exhibition of double-dealing and dishonesty
into which they have been betrayed by this Education
Scheme. We rejoice in every occasion which draws
the veil and strips off the mask of Whiggery, and ex-
poses its genuine features to the public gaze. This
Infidel Scheme is worth a whole quiver of lesser
It has thoroughly sickened whole classes of

arrows.

Evangelical Dissenters, whom Whig plausibilities and
ancient party ties had not ceased to enthrall. It has

unveiled many a Liberal Sophistry, and exposed many

a hollow pretence. We shall recur to it from time to
time, and endeavour hereafter to deal with it in more
detail than time and space have yet permitted. It is a

darling spawn of Liberalism : we believe it will prove a
. . _ _ .

parricidal offspring

Meanwhile let it be especially remembered, and we
here insert it as the 7th and chiefest of the incongrui-
ties and absurdities which we have time to enumerate
at present :—The Liberals, as they style themselves

par excellence, will only teach a part : we, the Exclu

sives, are resolved that we will TEACH EVERYTHING
AND KEEP BACK NOTHING ; hut especially that

which alone is of infinite and eternal consequence.

Such is Liberalism, and such is the merit and talent
of the 19th century ! In ancient times they did more
and professed less; there was less cry, and more wool ;
less shadow, and larger substance,—or England would

not now be Empress of the ocean, and first among

ie nations 'of the world.

We are rejoiced to find that the House of Commons
has adopted a tranqUil course in the question of
" Stockdale v. Hansard," and rejected the Rehoboam's
counsel of the exasperated Attorney General, and the
democratic Wilde. To have attached the Sheriff in

the involuntary discharge of his official duty, would
doubtless have been extremely congenial with Liberal
notions of propriety and justice, but would have con-
ferred no additional respectability upon the House of
Commons. As it is, that august and most popular
body has earned more leek than laurels. We mean
no offence to Mr. Williams Wynne (who ought to
have known better), but really they do forcibly remind
us of ancient Pistol, "By this leek, I will most hor-
ribly revenge ; I eat, and eke I swear -." They
will, however, be monstrously valiant next time. Next
time ! ! At Whig leisure, and on the Canadian ca-
lends. More of this hereafter.

By the packet-ship Sheridan, which arrived here on
Wednesday, we have received New York papers to the
25th of May inclusive. They do not add much to the
news brought by the Liverpool. The Boston Centinel
of the 24th ult. remarks that " the rumoured border
troubles, going the round of the papers, prove to be
no troubles at all. Mr. M'Laughlin, the British agent,
having started with a posse to St. Francis and Fish
Rivers, it was supposed at first that he was going there
to molest that settlement, which is within the jurisdic-
tion of Maine, and precaution was taken by Mr. Jarvis,
the Maine land-agent, to resist any such attempt. It
proved, however, that he was desirous to co-operate
with the Maine forces for the protection of the tim-
ber."

The New York Morning Herald of the 25th ultimo
says that " Canada is in a bad way. The peaceable
are fast leaving the colony and coming to the United
States. Sir George Arthur is returning to England,
and the whole province seems to have lost their senses.
Their last outrage is on a United States vessel that
touched at Brockville, The 16,000 British regulars
can hardly keep them in order." Respecting the al-
leged " outrage" on a United States vessel, the Daily
Commercial Advertiser has the following letter from

Le owner :

STEAM-BOAT " UNITED STATES,"
Lake Ontario, May 20, 1839.
Dear Sir,—ln accordance with your request, I proceed to
state the circumstances attending the seizure of the American
schooner G. S Weeks, by the collector, Col. Fraser, of the
port of Brockville, and her subsequent delivery by her mas-
ter and owner by the same officer.

The schooner is owned at Oswega, and was laden with
about 90 tons of merchandise, consigned by myself to owners
in Brockville, Morristown, and Ogdensburgh—the former a
Canadian port, the two latter American ports, on the river
St. Lawrence.

A part of the cargo consisted of a cannon, with its carriage
—the gun dismounted, the wheels taken from the carriage
and the whole placed on the deck of the vessel, and con-
signed regularly on her bills of lading to the captain of an
artillery company at Ogdensburgh.

The schooner arrived at Brockville about noon on Friday,
the 17th ; and, as is usual in such cases, reported her cargo
for Brockville to the revenue officer, and received from the
deputy collector a " permit" to land the Brockville con-
signments, and then to depart on her voyage.

While discharging this cargo, she was seized by the col-
lector, Col. Fraser, and taken from the possession of the
master. The latter, however, was suffered with his crew to
remain on board, but was not allowed to exercise controul
over any thing belonging to the schooner or cargo--not even
sa much as to work her pumps.
The cannon was now taken from her deck, and a mob suf-
fered to mount it, and parade it in triumph through the
streets. They were allowed to ransack the lading of the ves-
sel, to "start" casks of liquor on her deck, and break open
and pillage boxes of fruit, and to commit other acts of 'vio-
lence. It is true, these depredations in amount were incon-
siderable, but the circumstances seem to show dereliction of
duty on the part of the officer, Colonel Fraser.
On hearing that the schooner was detained at Brockville,
under circumstances as above detailed, Colonel Worth, com-
manding the United States forces on this frontier, proceeded
to Brockville in the United States steamer Oneida, 'with a
small military force, where he arrived on the evening of the
18th, and immediately addressed a communication to Colo-
nel Fraser, requesting to be informed why the schooner was
detained. In the absence of Colonel Fraser, the letter was
answered by his deputy, only to assure Col. Worth that Col.
Fraser would himself return an answer on the following
morning. No answer having been received at 2 o'clock,
p. m. of that day, (the 19th) Colonel Worth crossed the
river to Brockville in the Oneida, and without coming to the

perhaps in the other world, (for of that they and their
supporters seem to take but little note,) but at Whig
leisure on the Canadian calends. We suspect they
have exemplified the old illustration of " catching a
Tartar." They will close the Session with the keenest
remorse of which their minds are capable—the sense
that they have over-reached themselves, that they have
fallen into the pit they digged for others, that their
wickedness has recoiled upon their own heads. Many
and many a serious and reflecting man has had his
eyes opened to the inborn recklessness of Whiggery,
by their audacious interference in this Sacred Question.
We take leave to assure them,—the experience of their
party will richly prove to them, and it is the only ar-
gument there is the least hope of successfully address-
ing to their minds,—it never pays to insult the deep-
seated religious feelings of the English People.
There is another homely maxim which we despair
of bringing home to their conviction—we mean, that
Honesty is the best Policy ; and that fraud, however
artfully devised, or cautiously maintained, will in the
end be discovered. Lord John Russell may rest as-
sured that the 'hopeless unpopularity of decaying
Whiggery is chiefly owing to the vile chicanery and
stratagem by which it has preserved its equivocal as-
cendancy. The Whig party was strong in .1834.
Had the pure (!) old Whigs maintained a dignified
attitude of guarded support towards Sir Robert Peel's
ministry; had they acted upon their recorded pledges;
had they thought more of measures and less of men ;
above all, had they stood upon their own footing and
eschewed the vile contamination of the Lichfield House
Confederacy,—Lord John Russell would now have
been a far greater man, and the head of a far more
powerful and independent party. The people of Eng
land hate shabbiness. Firm friendship or manly oppo.