The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-11-19 00:00:00

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

THE FOREIGN RELATIONS OF ENGLAND.
(From tie Leeds Intelligencer.)
The Quadruple Alliance still squabble over the spoils
of Turkey.

1-1,.e have before adverted to the peculiar policy of
France <<nd Russia., The former upholds the Pasha of
Egypt, and. is evidently at the bottom of his obstinacy ;
while the latter professes to befriend Turkey, but is in
reality watching for opportunities of aggrandisement at
the Sultan's expense. The last advices state that England
and Austria have at length spoken out, and jointly de-
clared to the Sultan that they will maintain the inte-
grity of his empire, upon the basis of a few years ago;
that they will assist him in the recovery of Syria, con-
fine Mehemet Ali to the province of Egypt, and com-
pel him to restore the purloined fleet. We are not dis-
posed to give ministers credit for so much decision and
honesty, but if they have thus acted, they have taken the
right course, and deserve praise. The French are. carry-
ing on their double-deal-ing system all along the African
coast, yet the state of at-Fairs in Algeira (as they dub
their conquests) is anything rather than encouraging.
It appears by accounts from Paris that a terrible
mortality prevails in all the outposts of the French
army; that thousands have perished of want and dis-
ease; and that a still greater number are disabled.—
These statements are borne out, substantially, by the
evacuation of Constantina. The Duke of Orleans, it
appears, has evacr.ated that city. He found • his coun-
trymen perish in the very streets. He gave instant or-
ders for their removal to a place of shelter; and a te-
legraphic dispatch announces that his Royal Highness
ham brought of? the army, and its long train of sick,
and entered Algiers. The French Government now
sees, it is averred, that " Africa is the grave of French-
men," and is not worth to France one-half of what it
costs her in money, to say nothing of the lives of her
best and bravest soldiers.

LORD NORMANBY AND THE CHARTIST
INSURRECTION.

(From the Times of Wednesday.)
The Palmerston print of last night publishes the followin;
in a second edition :

" Whitehall, Nov. 9, 1839.
•
" Sir,—The Queen has been pleased to command me to
express her Majesty's high approval of your conduct, and of
the conduct cf the magistrates acting with you, on the occa-
sion of the dutrag,e recently coin itted in the town of New-

" To the resolution and courage of the magistrates, and of
the small military fares which supported them in withstand-
ing the unexpected and daring attack of numerous bodies of
armed men from the mining- districts, her Majesty ascribes
in great measure the preservation of the lives and property
of the inhabitants.
" Her Majesty is deeply concerned that any one of her
faithful and loyal suhjects should have suffered personal in-
jury in the discharge of his public duty, and in defence of the
peace of the town against lawle,zs aggression. And while her
Majesty cannot but regret that any loss of life should occur,
.it is a satisfaction to her Majesty to know that this loss,
which, under the circumstances, was unavoidable, has been
confined to those who were foremost in making thei attack ;
and that the loss was not greater or more indiscriminate, her
Majesty attributes to the judgment evinced by the magis-
trates, and by the officer in command of the troops, and to
the exemplary forbearance, steadiness, and good conduct of
the soldiers. I have,

" The Mayor of
Surely the epi,-stle he
be a hoax

" NORMANBY.
;ors, 11-onmouth.E:hire."
attributed to Lord Normanby mus

To find the Home Minister describing the late proceedings
at Newport by the comparatively mild word "outrage,". will
startle, we think, equally those who have read the accounts
of those proceedings, and those who have contented them-
selves with merely ascertaining that there have been nume-
rous commitments for HIGH TREASON of persons engaged in
them. " Outrage," my Lord Nornsanby ! We pray you
to recollect you are not in :IRELAND HOW !
The second paragraph of the letter strikes us as a positive
insult to " the magistratee, and the small military force who
supported illemin withstanding the unexpected and daring
attack of"—(Here we have the Irish arboinistrator of justice
again) " numerous bodies of"--whom ? - itors, insurgents,
rebels, insurrectionist;?—Oh !- -" armed mhe
mininy distri6s :" and her Me' !.;ty is made to en
say,f rom
that,t to
the resolution and ceurege e'r " the magistrates, and of the
small artillery fOrce which supported them," she ascribes
" in a great measit7e the preservation of the lives and pro-
perty of the inhahitaets "In a great-measure !"—Wh,
in the name of honesty and common sense, what was it buyt
the resolutioa end the courage of die exemplary magistrates,
and of the emall but gallant military force which supported
them, that saved Newport? "In a great measure," forsooth!
Why not in accrue mcasure—whody—altogether ? We should
believe that the lacy Premier and his lissom Home Secretary
had been indulging " in a great measure" when they penned
this disgraceful epistle, if we did not very plainly see that its
whole end and object is to conciliate their Radical friends.
We should he glad if we conk! bring ourselves to believe that
this is the only inference to be drawn from the letter. But
we cannot. There is nothing in it to show that the authors
of it are very sorry that the insurrection had not larger range
—that the inaelstrates did not prove to have less courage and
less resolution—that the small m:litary force was.not smaller.
How slow the Ministers have been in sending military rein-
forcement to Newport and the neighbourhood can hardly
have escaped even the least observant of our readers.
Then look at the last paragraph of this precious document.
Her majesty is made to say, that she "is deeply concerned
that any one of her loyal and faithful subjects should have
suffered personal injury in the discharge of his public duty."
Can anything be more cold, more discouraging, more'ansuited
for instance, to the conduct of the mayor, "who stood among
the soldiers in the hottest of the lire, and after being wounded
twice, continued at his post till he fell fainting from loss of
blood." This brave magistrate is coolly told, that her ma-
jesty regrets he suffered any persoal injury. We do not very
well see what less he could have been told from her majesty,
if he hed merely got a broken head in defending the town
against "a lawless aggression," as our ministers mildly term
this attack on Newport : and the part of the O'Mulgrave
Anlo-Hiherian despatch sounds very like a caution to other
mayors and magistrates not to he quite so forward in the dis-
charge of their duty on similar occasions, as they will get from
the government in the name of their sovereign, merely what
covered with wounds, they have quite enough of at home—
" deep concern." Oh ! these dirty, dirty, whigs ! How
long will the people withhold from them the punishments they
have so richly earned, and drive them with ignominy from
the places they have so long disgraced ?

THE DUCHESS'S PAYMENTS TO THE COUTTS' FAMILY.
—ln 1836, a gentleman who knew her and Mr. Coutts, and
his daughters, met the duchess at the bank in the Strand
during one of the periodical settlements there, and saw,
amonz other papers handed to his friend, an account of
M
money which she had given to
r. Coutts's family since his
demise in 1822. It amounted to upwards of £380,000 in the
14 years; the interest of which he said for one year would be
£12,000, and he further calculated that the compound inter-
est, had the money been left to accumulate, would have
yielded upward of .C 20,000 a-vear, in addition to her income.
Memoirs of the Duchess of St. Alban's
SUPERSTITION or MR. AND MRS. COUTTS.
-- But the
most striking evidence of her superstitious prejudices used
to cause much wonder among the guests of the rural fetes
there ;—and this was presented on the steps; at Holly Lodge,
which, from the lawn to the hall door, are composed of beau-
tifulthe blocks of hate
marble, that a statuary might envy ;
but highest step Is disfigured by two rusty, old, broken
horseshoes fastened to it, which she and Mr. Coutts (who
was likewise superstitious) had found in the road, and they
had caused arse hidc•ous bits of rusty iron to be nailed ou
the ticreshold to avert evil, and bring good luck.--Memoirs
of the Duchess of St. Allan's.

ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY

INTELLIGENCE:

(From the Oxford Herald.)
On Thursday last the following degrees were conferred :
MASTERS OF ARTS.
Rev. Frederic J. H. Reeves, Merton College.
Charles Matthew Collins, Exeter College.
Rev. Charles Earle Harwood, Oriel College.
Rev. Jeremiah Smith Finch, Brasenose College.
Rev. George William Burrow Wills, Wadham College.
Rev. Robert North Maddock, Queen's College.
Rev. William Walter Rowley, Queen's College.
Rev. Charles Burney, late Demy of. Magdalen College.
Rev. John Rump, Trinity College.
Rev. John Curry Harris, Worcester College.
Flenry Holden, Balliol College.
BACHELORS OF ARTS.
Richd. Champernowne, Christ Church, grand compounder.
James Hay Waugh, Magdalen Hall, grand compounder.
William Gill, Magdalen Hall, grand compounder.
Edmund Peel, Brazenose College, grand compounder.
John L. Roberts, New Inn Hall.
John White, New Inn Hall.
Edward Trollope, St. Mary Hall.
Richard Tomlins, St. Mary Hall.
Charles Goodden, Exeter College.
Gilbert Sandbach, Brasenose College.
John Gordon, Brasenose College.
Eardley Chauncey Holt, Brasenose College.
William Lempriere, Christ Church.
Henry A. S. Bence, Balliol College.
James Alexander Hamilton, Balliol College.
Philip Lybbe Powys, Balllol College.
Joseph Harvey Spry, Jesus College.
David Parry Thomas, Jesus. College.
Richard Mence, Trinity College.
Robert Thomas Kent, Wadham College.
Robert Wynell Mayow, Magdalen Hall.
Arthur George Newbold, Magdalen Hall.
Frederic Green, Magdalen Hall.
Temple Walter West, Magdalen Hall.
William John Wise, Fellow of St. John's College.
Robert A. Bathurst, Fellow of New College. • •
Charles Bedford, Fellow of New College.
"Henry Sweeting, University College.
Ca .eton Dirs Kebbel, University College.
ohn A. Yatman, University College.
On Monday last Thomas Henry Lloyd, B. A. Probation-
ary Fellow, and Samuel Waldegrave, B. A. of Balliol Col-
lege,) were admitted Actual. Fellows of All Souls' College,
the latter gentleman being of consanguinity to the Founder.
On Wednesday last, at Brasenose College, Edwd. Pedder,
from Manchester School, and John Gibson Cazenove, from
Marlborouall, were elected Scholars on the Duchess of So-
merset's Thornhill Manor Foundation ' • and Henry Dums
bleton, from the latter, and John Booth, frpm the former
School, on the Somerset Thornhill Foundation ; and yester-
day, Vera Gordon Driffield. and Frederick Earnshaw Mar-
shall, Natives of Lancashire, Commoners of Brazenose Col-
lege, were elected Scholars on the Somerset Iver Foundation.
Yesterday, Messrs. John Peter Evans, Evan Thomas
Evans, and Robert Owen, Commoners of Jesus College;
were elected Scholars of that Society.
The Rev. Lancelot Arthur Sharpe, B.D. Fellow of St.
John's College, has been presented, instituted, and inducted
into the Rectory of Tackley, in this county and diocese, void
by the death of the Rev. Henry Thomas Jones, 8.D.;
patrons, the President and Scholars of St. John's College. ,
The Lord Bishop of Hereford has instituted the Rev. G.
W. Murray, M.A., of ,Alerton College, to the Vicarage of
Kinlet, Shropshire ; patron, W. L. Childe, Esq.
The Rev. Alfred Getty, M. A., of Exeter College, has
been presented to the Vicarage of Ecclesfield, orkshire,
vacant by the death of the Rev. T. R. Ryder ; patron, the
Edward Ryder.
On the 20th ult. the Rev. W. North, M.A. late of Jesus
College, Oxford, was installed Professor and Tutor of St.
David's College, in the room of Professor Rees, deceased.
At the same time the Rev. D. T. Jones was installed Pro.,
fessor of the Welsh language. The ceremony took place in
the chapel of St. David's College.
PROMOTIONS.
Rev. Wm. Lee Affieck Parker, late of Magdalen College;
Cambridge, to the Perpetual Curacy of Wednesfield, Wol-
verhampton,
_vacant by the death of the Rev. John Clare :
patron, J. Gough, Esq., of Perry Hall.
Rev. John Hughes, Curate of Lanbadarnfawr, and Vicar
of Llanbister, to the Vicarage of Tregaron, vacant by the
death of the Rev. John Jones.

Rev. W. Powell to the Vicarage of Llanbistcr, vacant by
the cession of the Rev. John Hughes ; patron, the Bishop
of St. David's.

The Speaker has appointed the Rev. Gerard Andrews to
be Chaplain to the House of Commons.
It is stated that the Bishop of Tuam has presented to his
brother, the Hon. and Rev. Robert Plunket, the Incumbency
of Headfort, valued at £l2OO per annum.—John Bull.
Rev. John Ferrar, Curate of Skerry and Rathcaven,
Broughshane, to the Curacy of Ballingtoy, Antrim.
Rev. Francis Gregory Le Mann, M.A., of King's College,
Cambridge, to the Rectory.of Morton, Norfolk, vacant by
the death of the late Lord Walsingham : patron, the present
Lord Weis ingh aLr .
Rev. Randell Ward, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge,
to be senior Chaplain and acting Archdeacon at the Presi-
dency of Bombay.
Rev. D. T. Jones, Professor of Welsh at St. Dyvid's Col-
lege, to the Rectory of Llanddewi Velfrey, Breconshire, va-
cant by thQdeath of the Rev. Rice Rees. The Rectory is
in the patronage of St' David's College.
It is stated in the Globe of Thursday, that it is the Rev.
John Shafto who is presented to the Rectory of Brancepeth,
Durham, and not the Rev. Slingsby Shafto, as mentioned in
various papers.

Rev. W. A. Willis, to the Subdeanery of the Vicars Cho.
ral, Limerick.

Rev. Brook Kempson, M.A., of Sidney Sussex College,
Cambridge, to the Rectory of Stoke Lacey, Herefordshire,
vacant by the death of the Rev. Wm. Betham ; patron, John
Kempson, Esq. _ _

(From the Cambridge Chronicle.)
At a congregation on Wednesday last, the following degrees
were conferred :

DOCTOR IN DIVINITY.
The Rev. Benedict Chapman, Master of Caius college, by
Royal Mandate.
BACHELOR IN DIVINITY.
Rev. John Chapman, Fellow of St.• John's college, by
Royal Mandate.
HONORARY MASTER OF ARTS.
Sir Claude 'William Champion De Crespigney, Trinity coll.

MASTERS OF ARTS.
Roger Wood, Caius college.
Henry Clarke, Caius college.
BACHELORS OF ARTS.
John Bas Marriott, Corpus Christi college.
Gerard Neville, Catherine hall.
Alexander Woodward, Catherine hall.
James Limlarey, St. John's College.
Charles George Taylor, Emmanuel eollege.

REDUCTION IN POSTAGE.

TREASURY MINUTE, DATED NOV. 12, 1839.
My lords read the Act, 2 and 3 Victoria, cap, 33, for the
urther regulation of the duties on postage until the sth Oct.
.840.

Since the prorogation of parliament, my lords have turned
their unremitting attention to the measures necessary for
carrying into effect the intention of the legislature.
The powers with which this board are invested by the Act
were recommended to parliment, not • only for the purpose
of enabling my lords to adopt such mode of payment as
might, on consideration, appear the most advisable, but also
to enable my lords to carry into practical effect this great al-
teratien, in the manner which might he least liable to derange
the regularity and the despatch of the correspondence of the
country, as now executed by the Postoffice.
My lords have always been aware, that the contempora-
neous adoption of the charging letters by weight, and the
reduction of postage to au uniform rate of one penny,- would
be attended with much practical difficulty. The time occu-
pied now at the large offices, and at the forward offices, in
charging and sorting the letters, has been reduced, for the
public convenience, to as narrow limits as possible. To alter
the mode of charge from that to which the officers of the
Postoffice have been long accustomed must of itself, for a
time, be accompanied with seine inconvenience, and my lords
apprehend it would be imprudent to increase that difficulty,
by adding, at the same moment, so large a number of letters
as must naturally arise from the immediate reduction to the
penny rate. My lords feel that, for a time at least, great
ireegularities would prevail, and much public inconvenience
result. However satisfactory, therefore, and however desi-
rable in many points of view, it might be to carry into exe-
cution contemporaneously the complete plan, their lordships,
upon a foil consideration, have come to the conclusion, that
by adopting some intermediate "measure, and bringing into
operation the mode of charging the letters by weight, previous
to the entire reduction of the rate 'of postage, their lordships
will not only avoid the risk to which the other course is lia-
ble, but materially facilitate the introduction of the remain-
ing parts of the plan.
With those opinions their lordships have, in communica-
tion with the authorities of the POstoffice, turned their .at-
tention to the framing such regulations as may introduce,
with as little delay as possible, the charge by weight.
Their Lordships propose to accompany this argument with
such reduction of postage as will be a material relief to the
public, and not interfere with the proper discharge of the
duties of the officers of the Postoffice as at present arranged.
By the regulations which, in conjunction with the Post-
office have been matured, and which this hoard propose to
sanction, my Lords apprehend material advantages will be
secured. A considerable relief will be given to the public as
regards the charge of letters. One of the great depart-
mental difficulties in introducing the penny rate will be re-
moved, and such information be obtained as will enable my
Lords to adopt with more security, and consequently at an
earlier period, the remaining part of the system.
In giving their sanction to the proposed arrangement, my
Lords comidei‘it as a temporary measure only, and as a step
to the introduction of the uniform penny charge, anti their
Lordships will continue their anxious efforts to give effect to
the whole of the intentions of the legislature, with as little
delay as is consistent with the due consideration of the pub-
lic convenience. Their Lordships are pleased to direct, that.
all letters posted on or after the sth December next shall be
subject to the following regulations :
General Post letters shall be charged by'weight as follows:
1. Letters not exceeding an ounce, one postage.
Do. 1 ounce, two postages.
Do. . 2
ounces, four postages.
Do.- ' 3 ounces, six postages,
and so on, adding two postages for every, ounce up to 16
ounces, beyond which no packet subject to postage shall be
received.
2. All single postage rates between places within the United
Kingdom, which now exceed 4d., shall be reduced to that
sum ; inferior rates to remain undisturbed, but the letters to
he charged by weight. Additional charges, to which general
post letters are now liable, if posted or delivered beyond the
limits of the general post free delivery ; as also, the addi-
tional half-penny on Scotch letters, and the additional.penuy
for passing the Menai and Conway bridges to cease.
3. All letters and packets exceeding the weight of one
ounce to be prepaid and delivered in at the window—if not
so prepaid and delivered, to'be charged double postage.
Foreign letters and packet letters will be charged accord-
ing to the preceding scale of weight.
Letters to and from the British West Indies to be charged
ls. per single rate, the same charge to attach to letters from
and to Gibraltar, Malta, and the lonian Isles, conveyed by
packet and not transmitted through France.
, My Lords, reserve, for future consideration, the whole
question of the rates on foreigif -letters, as their Lordships
consider, that it will be a proper subject for communication
with foreign powers, in the hope that such foreign powers
may be induced to make a corresponding reduction in their
charges on letters to and from this country.
All ship letters between ports of the United Kingdom, in-
cluding the Channel islands and the Isle of Man, to be
charged by weight,
.and according to the rates chargeable on
inland letters. Other ship letters to be charged by weight
according to the foregoing scale, the single sea postage rate
remaining as at present, and the inland rate being regulated
as for inland letters

My Lords have no intention, by the present arrangement,
to make any alteration with respect to newspapers, franked
letters, or Parliamentary papers, which will still continue to
enjoy the same privileges, and subject to the same charges,
as at present.

Transmit copy of this minute officially to the Postmaster-
General, and desire his Lordship will give the necessary in-
structions to his officers to carry the directions of my Lords
into effect.

Desire, also, 'that he will direct the Solicitor of the Post-
office to preparea draft of a warrant, in conformity with the
provisions of the Postage Acts, to be signed by my Lords,
and inserted in the Gazette.