The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-10 00:00:00

An S A. pr L E G upon the D CC of Master R I and Miss
M AWN, lieink a par 0 D upon the L K G of Miss L N
G, of Q, by T— S—, punster laureate to her Majesty.
DaAsts.,Pens.—Harry, Caesar, Emma, Ellena, and Emily
• Oiven,•and an Exciseman.

(From ihe Staffordshire Gazette.)
The Sun shone forth in bright R A,
And gently flowed the waves of D
Young N bent his way
To seek the margin of the C.
With heat oppress'd, the youth undress'd,
Although he spies the tide R I I ;
Up 2 his chin he ventures in—
P T E should B so un YY.
His brother C C R, from the strand,
CCCC his sad un A P fate;
He calls in vain with beckoning tOr
But A his warnings came 2late.
A might", wave comes rolling on,
Like billow of E G N—C—
Or like the torrents of the Don,
O I 0, or Mrs. E P.
" Oda, bobs !•I C 'tis up with thee,"
Young C C R cries, with streaming I I;
"I CUR gone much 2 far,
So pray return, ir U R YY."
Says R I-0 N.', quite at EE,
Trusting 2 much 2 his own Y Z.
" CC R U' TT me, so, sir, please
- Give counsL only where 'tis pri-zed.”

E then S AA his chin 2 raise,
1 up above the curling spray ;
With Jags astride, and arms spread Y-d,
2 swim Itt made a vain S A.
No. N M E would wish 2 C,
His deadliest foe in such a flight ;
Hii gasping breath escapes in death,
And all his venCC swim in night.
His-sisters at the garden gate,
Fair L N A and M L E ;
From CC R searing of his fate,
Like ROO fly towards the C. .
C M A 2, with face so blue,
I XT C of woe repeat,
" R I, I fear, 0 brother, dear !
That U and I no more shall meet.
CC R,* who CC It swoon, would CC R,
'Ere 3 the ;round she fainting falls ;
" What can I do, alas •SEE her, -
Salts, brsaidy, hartshorn," loud he calls.
Not all R A B AA spicy grains
Nor hottest pep-1 Rof K
Nor can R K D A A sweetest sounds,
Give M A 0 'N life again.
Says CC R, as E CC tliem weep,
'• X L ent sisters B at PP ;
SNCL 'tis EE Er. keep,
Let this FMNAC CC. '
Poor R I's 80-Dy from the wave,
A brave X 11-man drags to land--
Then X cavates an I. Y-d grave,
To hold both corpses in the sand.

"This double grief makes my grief W,"Il
Says L N A to M L E,
" Make verses, so I'll trouble U,
2 write their double L E G.
* Ctesv—sees her—seize her. fi To ease.
If Double-you.

: Eas:

IMMIGRATION INTO THE WEST INDIES,

(From the Morning Herald.)

No doubt can exist that serious losses hae been incurred,
iu consequence of the indisposition evinced by the negroes
to sell their labour at a fair price. They have chosen rather
to cultivate their own patches of land, or to lead a life of
idleness, or to exact exorbitant terms from their employers
—terms which the price of West India produce has, by no
means, justified these employers in granting. These must
he admitted to be serious evils ;—and the question arises,
by what method their continuance may be prevented?
The immigration of free labourers into our noble West
_

Indian colonies would seem to be the remedy most generally
recommended ; and no scheme, undoubtedly, could be de-
vised more desirable, than a scheme by which free labourers,
who may be " superabundant" (to use the slang of the
day) in one part of the British empire, may, without
violence or fraud, be introduced to profitable and unfailing
occupation in other part of our dominions. But the question
recurs—on what principles, consistent with justice, may a
scheme of emigration to our West Indian colonies be con-
ducted

The answer to such a question, which the authorities at
the Colonial-office might be disposed to give, would, in all
probability be that with which Mr. Edward Gibbon
Wakefield has supplied them. Mr. Wakefield speaking of
these functionaries would, unhesitatingly, proclaim—" Let
the land, to which the title is vested in the crown, be hence-
forward sold—instead of being, as heretofore, given away.
The price may be applied towards defraying the necessary
cost of emigration ; and the result will be, great gain, on
the one hand, to a class of capitalists who, at present,
suffer from a scarcity of labourers—and on the other hand,
to a class of labourers, who now lack profitable employ-
ment."

There is much ingenuity in Mr. Wakefield's plan ; and
we may not deny, that many advantages might, in certain
circumstances, result from its adoption. Yet that plan is
liable to objections, and those of a very serious nature.
The tendency of the plan is to shut out the labouring classes
for ever from any property in land—because, as the land
would 'be sold, only at stated periods, and in considerable
portions, the sole purchasers would be companies of
capitalists, with whom the labourers would never be able to
compete. Now, the severance altogether of the labouring
population from the soil is an evil to be deprecated quite as
strongly as the too-exclusive attachment of the labourers
to the cultivation of the little patches of land which yield
them the means of semi-savage existence.

The plan, might, howeve;, be tried or, a small scale, in
the first instance and in order to meet the urgent demand
in the West Indies for 'tabourers. There are: however,
many appliances, which might be used, either in aid of a
partial application of Mr. Wakefield's plan, or, as a sub-
stitute for it. •

In the first place, a comprehensive scheme of poor laws
ought to be enacted without delay—in conjunction with
stringent laws for the suppression of vagrancy. Emigration,
too ought to be rendered attractive to a class of British
subjects, who are little fitted to undertake the task of
cultivating the sugar plant. We allude to English me-
chanics and artisans of all sorts, who, if they could be
induced to transfer their ingenuity to our West Indian
islands, would speedily monopolise the sphere of industry to
which they have devoted themselves; and would by
superseding their coloured competitors, as skilled labourers,
add to the number of candidates for employment in the
department of unskilled industiy. Steam navigation pro-
mises to bring the West Indies within three weeks' sail of
England ; and thousands of our ill-rewarded artisans might,
we fancy, be easily induced to transfer themselves to a
region, in which their toil would be more liberally re-
munerated.

The freed negroes of the United States might, moreover,
be tempted by the high price which that sort of labour now
bears, to migrate to our West Indian colonies, as labourers
in the sugar fields ; and if no other plan can be devised to
meet the heavy expenses inseparable from the process of
moving a large body of men, the sale of crown lands would
seem to be desirable, at all events for some years to come.

IRISH PROTESTANT TENANTRY.

(Prom the Morning Herald.)

We are glad to perceive, that a society, styling itsel
" The Irish Protestant Tenantry Society," has entered upon
the attempt to check those fatal influences under which the
Protestant population of Ireland is so rapidly disappearing:
It was admitted recently in the Edinbdrgh Review, by Mr.
Macauley, that the tide of Protestant emigration from Ire-
land to England runs now as strongly as did the tide of
emigration from England to Ireland under the sway of
Olver Cromwell !
The founders of the society to which we have alluded,
proclaim most truly, that the only security which can be
devises for the retention of Ireland, as an integral portion
of the British empire, is to be found in the existence of an
extensive Protestant tenantry in that disaffected country.
The Protestant tenants of Ireland have, for many years,
been the subjects of a bloody proscription. Protestant life
has been sacrificed to an incalculable extent by the scheme
Of assassination which the Romanist priesthood would ap-
pear to have organised. Protestant property throughout the
'greater portion of Ireland has long been deprived of se-
curity. Perjury and conspiracy—witness the case of Mr
Sly—have been brought in aid of murder and fire-raising;.
and to crown the whole, the psnedo-protestant government
of Ireland has, since the restoration to office of Lord
Melbourne and his colleagues in 1835, lent its influence, di-
rectly and indirectly, to the schemes of the Popish conspi-
rathia against the interests of Protestantism, and the supre-
macy of England.
Need it excite surprise, that in such circumstances, the
anglo-protestant race, which has garrisoned Ireland so long,
should hasten to quit a country, in which they are marked
out for persecution by their Popish antagonists, and in which
they are systematically betrayed by the official guardians of
the interests of the British crown' The Irish municipal
corporations are, moreover, about to be handed over to the
Papists. These corporations possess immense estates ;
and preparations are already visible for the expulsion from
these estates of every Protestant occupier and cultivator !
The " Irish Protestant Tenantry Society " proposes
amongst other things, to open a register of all lands in Ire-
land that are to be let to Protestants, and on the other hand,
a register of all Protestants willing to become tenants of
land in Ireland. It proposes to procure on favourable terms,
large tracts of waste land, and to found on these spots, Pro-
testant colonies. It proposes, morever, to make the Pro-
testant tenants of Ireland better known to each other, and
to establish among them associations for mutual defence.
These are, all of them, most desirable objects ;—and we
do most sincerely trust that the founders of this society may
be enabled to carry out the ends which they have in view.
It is impossible, now, for the most apathetic observer to shut
his eyes to the dangers that threaten the empire from the
Popish faction in Ireland. That faction must be utterly put
down—or Ireland must speedily cease to form part of the
British empire. The designs of the Papists are but thinly
veiled. Their audacity has been increased an hundred-fold
by the fatal act of 1829—and by the scarcely less fatal ad-
vent of the Melbourne Cabinet to office. "Ireland her own
—or the world in a blaze" is now their motto; and the 'own'
alluded to, is nothing more nor less than absolute separation
from England. Even now, O'Connell, and his fellow-trai-
tors of the Rornish priesthood; are watching the favourable
moment for throwing off what they declare to be ' the yoke'
of Protestantism. Had the chartist insurrection in Mon-
mouthshire ripened into aught bearing the semblance of suc-
cessful rebellion, who can doubt that the Irish Papists
would have turned the melancholy event to their own di -
loyal ends' Who can, in like manner, doubt, that the mo-
ment England shall be engaged in war with any powerful
country like Russia, or France, the Irish Papists will seize
the opportunity to shake off their allegience to a Protestant
crown? What do the ribbon societies import, but treason'
If they had reference only to "agrarian" objects, there would
assuredly, be witnessed none of that mystery in which these
societies are enveloped ! There exists but one mode of
luietly, and inexpensively, baffling the hatred which the
rish Papists bear to Protestant England; and that ono
mode is to be found in the gradual increase of the Protestant
cultivators of the Irish soil—and in the establishment of a
system of government, under which Protestant life and pro-
perty may enjoy absolute security. If the Anglo-Protestant
settlers in Ireland shall he so far enfeebled as to prove un-
able to maintain the cause of English supremacy, then there
remain only the alternatives to which we have already al-
luded—either to abandon Ireland altogether—or to recon-
quer it!