The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-17 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We have receivod, from an anonymous correspo'ndent the.
sum of 2s 6d for the mother of the young woman that vrir
lately killed on the railroad.

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TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 17, 1839•

By the arrival of the packet-ships, New York, CaPt'
Barstow ; Roscius, Capt. Collins ; and Westchester'
Capt. Ferris, we have received New York papers t°
tha 25th ultimo, inclusive. The New York sailed 011
the 19th ultimo; the Roscius and Westchester on tl►e

25th ultimo.
The British Queen steam-ship, Lieut. Roberts, 11.N.'
which sailed from Portsmouth on tki afternoon of the
3d of November, arrived at New York on the'everling
of the 231, having been twenty clays and seven Iwurs
on the passage. She was to sail from New York °II
the 2d instant, unless the agents determined on de"
taining - her until the 4th instant, in order to convec;
copy of the President's Message to. England. In
latter case, we may expect that she will reach Ports-

mouth to-morrow.
We now proceed to give a summary of -the nessli
brought by the latest arrivals. Of political news tiler:
is none of any great importance. The money roarlce
continued to be the engrossing topic of discussion at
New York, as well as in most other parts of the Stateg.
The Daily Express of Nov. 18 says that on the
leciS2.;
turday previous (the day the Great Western 88i re
specie was again plentiful at New York. There ire
daily receipts from the south, and the.banks 134`luie
much as they wanted. United States. notes, 1)2P.0
at New York, were redeemed there in specie °tle
equivalent. The money market, was growing a lite,
easier. Exchange on the great south-westernlnetrter
polis, New Orleans, was rapidly getting into a Ilet,e
condition. A fair crop was also coming forward to
drawn against. Of the British .nianufactured. g°°o
sent to the United States, the greater part relnait'd
unsold and in store. The goods_ that had been selz
by the Custom-house- authorities were crradually e
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the
actions The Courts of Law refused to sustain .t
actions of the federal authorities. Some comproirliseo
po
were taking place with the collector, and there Ivas.ci,
reason to fear the great losses on woollen goods ivitlej
had been previously apprehended.- Money-00160f
scarce at Boston. The news from Charleston "a ter
a very encouraging character—the throng of `si;aiti-
business having set in.. At Philadelphia O v 3
more business continued to be dull. •
the
The Daily Express of Nov. 19 states, that 011
101'
previous day (Monday) there was a little relief in
A b the
money market, and that stocks were inflnenC Yfears
improved condition of the money market. All to
as to paying specie were at an end. A large 1'
yball°l .
a
of specie had been received at New York fro' the
delphia. The resumption of specie payments bY— „
Cincinnati banks had not been attended by any

upon them. oaat-
On Tuesday, Nov. 19, the appearance of ra°l3eleal of
ters was much improved. There was a great ...i fa
buoyancy in the stock market. The New Th-srhe
this port, took out 30,000 dollars in specie' nes°
effect of the Philadelphia suspension, and the firal of
of the New York banks, had changed the carte tits
both financial and commercial affairs. The sevellea
of the commercial pressure at New York is descrl

the Weekly Herald as having passed. .arenc
On Wednesday, Nov. 20, a depression was aPr a at
the stock market. Much anxiety was extreiTsseeur-
the continued absence of the British Queen. v
col 1
account
p
rent money continued to improve in prices on ac
of its grOwing scarcity. rice °I
On Thursday, Nov. 21, the general appears „vie.
the money market at New York remained the 'd
tio,
The stock market presented a small business .c et-important fluctuations in price. In the domes"
change there was some little improvement.
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On Friday, Nov. 22, a fair amount of busine: little
done in the stock market, at prices showing ageeo
improvement. The non-arrival of the British
was the subject of much speculation. - se
The New York Morniny Herald, of S°v• '-'
,ions
that the sales at the stock exchange on
Saturday were not large, and at a general decli
an
eciinej
the rates of Friday. United States - Bank vanking
1 per cent.; and North America Trust and
es were
Company 1,1 per cent. Sales of Treasury ,notes _cud
made at / per cent. discount. Uncurrentil"wore
the from
was a little better, and the market was genera tYtirclol
easy than had been the case for. severlitit7uencleagin;
previously. 0' 311
At New Orleans, on the 14th ultimo, there 030 W,
arrival of 32,000 dollars in specie from Santa Meta fe.
and 60,000 dollars arrived at St. Louis from at
, York,
6AOt
diNal3o.sb,ile, on the 14th, exchange on Pie"' specie
was at 10
ille, Georgia,
Orleans at 7 to' 8 per cent. prerniusimgh.t
tpvears
cseenTnpgreamtitsimp;eracnednt. prerniurnln fseor
on the 17th, a
the Senate, to repeal the charter of the eentr,tate oA
bill was intronuci bolt;
and to deposit its papers in the Bank of the :liorio
Georgia for collection; and another bill to a ''
the P3Y.
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the negotiation of an extension of the time for na
PlOOll •`. ..h
meat of the 300,000 dollars due to the ,„(1 iv'.
of New York. For other particulars connec refer
the commercial affairs of the United States, 's"ril'eli.
he Stil t our readers to a separate article in another COl° of
News had been received from'Texas
November. The yellow fever had cotruni ieoc
nseqt .
In co- I he
ravages at Galveston nnd HOLIStOII.
frOl
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shipping at Galveston experienced serio
the Hi.
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many of the citizens had fled into the coont.ry.. 0
a heavy gale of wind that occurred on 51...
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families of German settlers, who inten e , A 0
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company of men had recently been despatched from
Galveston to Austin, to be stationed on some remote
°atPosts on; the Indian border; and measures were in
Progress to secure an adequate defence for all the
exposed points on the frontier.
Advices from Tampico and Metamoras had been re-
ceived at New Orleans to the last of October. The
tghteatest tranquillity prevailed throughout Mexico, and
tae
Was every probability that trade generally during
ae season, which had just commenced, would he brisk-
er than had been known of late years. The Tampico
toarket was bare of foreign goods, and the demand for
theili.was expected to be good there, as well as at Me-
!aistit Half a million of dollars had been lately
"I'Ped at Tampico for New York. A conducts of
'l)ecie arrived at Tampico on the 24th of October, from
,tlaadlaxata, Guanajuato, San Luis Potosi, and San
arbara. The amount was 735,499 dollars. On the
iiii
44 of September 260,000 dollars were received at
Vera Cruz from the interior.

The nuinbeToiCritninalS who received sentence in
°lle month, in the capital of Mexico, was set down at
19-15 of whom bad been guilty of homicide.
he visit of Admiral Baudin to Texas had attracted
the attention and excited the indignation of the •Mexi-
ca►is• The last instalment (200,000 dollars) of the
Indemnity to France had been paid over to the French
consul at Vera. Cruz.

A conspiracy was detected at Tampico about the
.niddle',of October, and several persons arrested. A
battalion of troops had been ordered to leave Vera
Cruz for Yucatan. On the 11th of October, the Mexi-
can Congress passed a law authorising the President
t° borrow 800,000 dollars to meet the deficit in the
revenue.

The Houston Telegraph states that Canales, the com-
mander of. the Mexican fideralists, had concentrated
1300 of his followers, about the 26th of October, and
1118 to move the next day for the Rio Grande. These
federalists "were the same who had, a short time before,
been driven from the other side of the Rio Grande by
Canaliza, the commandant 'of the" central forces in that
Part of Mexico. .
A.dvices from Monte Video had been received at
Poston to the 16th of September. They state that the
country remained in the same unsettled state as before.
'lle troops of Entre Rios, sent forward by Rosas, the
(lovernor of Buenos Ayres, to countenance any move-
inetit in favour of the deposed President, Oribe, to the
number of 5000 or 6000, were within about three days
March of Monte Video ; but no immediate attack was
-anticipated. Frutes Riviera, the President of Banda
Oriental, was in the interior with about 2000 troops,
encamped at a short distance from the Entre Rios
troops, and watching their movements. Several small
Parties had collected to Riviera, but had been dispersed
by the troopS of the government. The French squad-
ron were taking in three months' provision, in antici-
Pation of Monte Video being beseiged ; and it was
stated that they intended to land 1000 to garrison that

city.
The New York Daily Express states that " letters
from Hayti spoke of new tyrannical acts on the part
of President Boyer." After alluding to the difficulties
which .had arisen from a dispute between Boyer and
tbe House as to the formation of the Senate, the
•%.r,press proceeds to say that " Boyer insisted upon
,11°Iently and unconstitutionally putting into the Senate
44 own creatures, while the Republican members of
the House persisted in maintaining the constitutional
kirms. Boyer called out his troops, abused the Na-
tional Guard, roamed over the whole town like a mad-
-I,l'a; and placed .a force at the door of the House of
4ePresentatives, forbidding the entrance of such as
would not yield to him. The orders were.to let in but
One more than half the members, and to be careful not
to let the leading men get in. This violence had its
effect, and the House yielded, and five of the leading
opposing members were expelled. A proclamation
was issued forbidding people to talk about what was
Passing. AttemPts of assassination were made on the
Persons of _two of the members that had been so un-
constitutionally expelled." This statement must evi-
dently be received-min grano salis.
The news- from Canada extends to the 19th ultimo.

. • •
On the 18th, the Governor-General and suite left Mon-
treal for Torontoi, and his Excellency the Commander
of the Forces took the oaths of, and was installed as,
Administrator. of the Goveenrnent of Lower Canada
during the absence of the Governor-General. It is
stated that the object of the latter, in proceeding to
Toronto, was to get the Legislative Council and As-
7"trtbly• to_agraerto•-the
Generally, the business of both Upper and Lower
Canada- had been thriving the last fall. The army
expenditure in the country, derived from the British
treasury, had prevented any considerable mercantile
Pressure. It Would appear, from the correspondence
of the Quebec Gazette, that there was no ground to
el)ect any fresh disturbance this winter in Lower
Canada : but. it was anticipated that there might be
Predatory incursions of refugees and vagabonds from
the opposite side of the river in Upper Canada. At all
ereilts, while questions are pending with the United
States,,it is not likely that the British army and expen-
dituie in the North American provinces can be dimi-
. niched : nor in the present, and probably continued,
likely
of the agitators in both provinces, is it
IkelY that events may not arise which may cause the
el
anadas to be over-run by a foreign or insurrec-
tionary force.
The Quebec Mercury states that it was intended to
raise a corps of volunteer infantry in that city, for ser-
lice during the winter. It was to consist of between
'lOO and 500 men, formed into six companies, with the
usual proportion of officers and serjeants, and to be un-
der the command of Lieutenant Col. the lIOn. James
,11°Pe, of the Coldstream. Guards, who rendered the
‘4lleell's Volunteers such essential service laSt winter.
The Nova Scctla Royal Gazette contains a proclaina-
:ll by his Excellency Sir Colin Campbell, convoking
•=le legislature of thatprovince, for the despatch of busi-
. nes.% on the 31st of December.

,oid John Russell has been sending circulars to
members of Parliament requesting them to attend at
the °Pening of next Session, and stating that business
Of the utmost importance will be laid before them very
-6hortly after its commencement.
We certainly are not in the secrets of Government,
glut we believe there is little doubt that the urgent husi-
es3 to which the attention - of members is to be called
18 connected with the late proceedings in the case of
Stockdale v. Hansard.
The facts shortly are these. Stockdale, a short time
ago, brought a fresh action of libel against Hansard,
who, believing himself sheltered from all consequences
by the stringent resolution passed at the close of last
but
by the House of Commons, put in no plea,
uut suffered judgment to go by default. The plaintiff
accordingly issued a writ of enquiry, and the result
Was, that damages were awarded by the jury summoned
for, the purpose to the amount of f6OO. The largeness
(r this sum has, we believe, surprised everybody; but
)that i 8 a matter entirely for the consciences of the jury-
fien who gave Stockdale such heavy damages, and is
11°11Y beside the merits of the question as between
the Court of Queen's Bench and the House of Corn-
-111,.°11- The Sheriff of Middlesex had therefore a writ
directed to him, commanding him to levy of the goods
and chattels of MesSrs. Hansard and Son a sum equal
to the damages awarded and the costs which the plain-
tiff had incurred. He was then in this dilemma : on
the One hand was the resolution of the House of Corn-
rns, breathing summary vengeance upon all who
should be guilty of such a glaring contempt as that of
li lulcting their printer in damages for publishing de-
f'nat°rY
floor the matter, according to their orders—on the
fr other :was the well-known writ of feri facias issuing
Queen's Bench, which, if neglected, would
TalliblY be followed by an attachment. The Sheriff,
or rather the Sheriffs, for it happens that the tv:o Sheriffs
of
0 lLondon constitute the Sheriff of Middlesex, had the
sant alternative of two prisons-either Newgate,
in the eetntaittal of the Speaker of the House of Corn-
ffr'ns, or the Marshalsea, by virtue' of an attachment
rom the Queen's Bench.
so happened that the Sheriffs approved of neither
°°,grnent so kindly provided by the two clashing juris-
dictions,terawl accordingly they applied by counsel last
‘,041 to Mr. Justice Littledale, who sat in the Bail
eurt, to
enlarge the time within which the return to
the writ of fieri facias was to he made until after the
if
Neting of Parliament, in order that the two courts,
twve may so speak, might then fight the battle out be-
eerl them, and not severally make the innocent
f cutors of a peremptory writ the victims of their of-
:led dignity,

This application, however, was refused ; and how-
ever much we may feel for the situation of the Sheriffs,
we think was properly refused. For after the solemn
adjudication by the Court of Queen's Bench, in the
case of the first trial between Stockdale and Hansard,
and their deliberate decision that the privileges of the
House of Commons should not stand in the way of re-
dress sought by a man who declared himself to be
aggrieved by the conduct of its servants, it would have
been indecorous and cowardly to have stayed the exe-
cution of a common law writ, for fear of some possible
offence which may be taken by the the House of Com-
mons, when it assembles in January.

The consequence was, that the Sheriffs proceeded to
act upon the order which they had received ; and, as
Messrs. Hansard and Son are determined in no way
to facilitate the matter by paying the money, they have
been obliged to proceed as in invitos, and have adver-
tised a public sale upon the premises for to-day, when
two hydraulic presses will be put up to auction, and
disposed of to the highest bidder, in order to satisfy
the damages and costs which Stockdale has obtained.

Such is a short outline of this unpleasant business;
and it now remains to be seen what course the irate
and offended House of Parliament, under the guidance
of Serjeant Wilde (who has hitherto been their Magnus
Apollo throughout the affair), will adopt. We suppose
the following events will happen. The Speaker will
issue his warrant to commit the Sheriff of Middlesex
to Newgate or the Tdwer for contempt. He will apply
for a writ of habeas corpus, and this the Judges of the
Queen's Bench will instantly grant. They are bound
to protect their own officer, who has acted in a minis-
terial capacity in obedience to them. The House of
Commons seems obstinately determined to abate none
of its lofty pretensions; and thus we. shall have, in
this nineteenth century, these two high and mighty
powers in the State, which ought never to interfere
with one another except in the way of harmonious
co-operation, brought into direct collision.
The result, we think, no man can doubt. Astute
lawyers like the new Solicitor-General may rake toge-
ther as many Musty precedents as they please, to prove
that the House of Commons has a right to what Mr.
Justice Coleridge so happily styled A MONOPOLY OF
SLAND.EIt ; but public opinion sets the other way, and
in the contest the Lord Chief Justice and his colleagues
cannot but eventually triumph.
What are the powers of the House of Commons ?
What force can it_ set in motion to compel obedience
to its warrants, if they are disobeyed ? It may doubt-
less commit for contempt of its privileges, but the only
persons who are bound to see that its warrants are
executed are its own servants. Far • different is the
authority of the Queen's Bench. The Sheriff of every
county is its officer, and, if its process is neglected or
disobeyed, " he may," in the words of Blackstone,
" command all the people of his county to attend him,
which is called the posse cornitatus, or power of the
county; and this summons every person above fifteen
years old, and under the degree of a Peer, is bound to
attend upon warning, under pain of fine and imprison-
ment." But before the House of Commons ventures
to break a lance with this all-powerful Court in a most
perilous encounter, we do hope it will pause and con-
sider. It is confidently asserted that more than one
eminent lawyer, who agreed in the first Report drawn
up by Serjeant Wilde, has seen reason to repent his
opinion.- If so, we trust they will have boldness and
manliness enough to avow it. Nothing would have a
greater effect in arresting the arm of the House,
stretched out in an impotent attempt to avenge itself
upon the innocent ; anti Members might then be better
disposed to listen to the counsels of moderation. Of
one thing we are sure—and it well behoves the House
of Commons to ponder the fact—namely, that in this
arrogant assumption of irresponsible privilege, they
are pursuing a course most alien to the wishes and
feelings of the people of Britain.

We trust that we are as tender of human life, con-
sistently with our duty as citizens, as any of our
fellow-countrymen; but we are not on that account
prepared to abolish totally the capital punishment of
death, and least of all are we disposed to do so in a
crime of such heinous magnitude as High Treason.
We confess, therefore, that we are somewhat surprised
at the tone adopted by our contemporary the London
Standard on the present occasion, with reference to
the approaching trials at Monmouth. That justice
will be tempered with mercy, we make no doubt; but

it seems to us to be most unwise, at this stage of the
inquiry, to creprecate the idea of any capital punish-
ment following the conviction of any of the South
Wales traitors.

Disgust at the conduct of the Ministry in encou-
raging Chartism, has, we fear, caused a slight confu-
sion of ideas in our excellent and clear-sighted con-
temporary. So far as it is an argumentum ad hominem
to Lord John Russell, it may he very well to say that
he cannot suffer the execution of Frost and his com-
plotters of treason, without feeling that his conduct

has had no slight influence in bringing them to the
scaffold. But what have the public to do with that ?

It may be a good reason for subpoenaing his Lordship
upon the trial of the unfortunate men in lvlontnouth
Gaol, or impeaching him at the bar of the House of
Lords; but does not make the crime of High Treason
a whit less dark in dye, or render a public example
less imperatively necessary for the sake of tranquillity
and social order. The law has been outraged in the

most flagrant manner ; war has been openly levied
against the reigning Sovereign ; and if those who are
caught, fagrante delicto, with arms in their hands, are
to be assured of pardon before their trial, the forms of
civil justice become a mockery, and the 25th of
Edward 111. had better be expunged from the Statute
book. There is some talk of Ministers taking advan••

tage of the Queen's marriage to publish an amnesty,
and thns save the lives of their friends in prison; but
we hardly think they will venture on such a dangerous
expedient. As the lawyers say, it would be a prece-
dent pessimi exempli.

In another column we have given insertion to a
letter from the Rev. Hugh M‘Neile, addressed to Mr.
Rathbone, in which the Rev. Gentleman explains the
slight mistake which he committed in his speech de-
livered at Sheffield, and of which such greedy advan-
tage was taken by Mr. Rathbone on Wednesday last.
The logical deduction which Mr. Rathbone drew from
the trifling inaccuracy alluded to, is admirably exposed
by Mr. M‘Neile. The allusion to the altered tone of
the Liberals, while speaking of the working classes, is
also very happily introduced. Formerly, the working
classes were the objects of unbounded compliment and
adulation ; now they are superciliously designated as
" unfortunate ignorant parties." Such is the consis-
tency of Liberalism !

We have long suspected Mr. Surgeon Blackburn to
belong to the Jesuit order of politicians, and his con-
duct at the last meeting of the Council, with reference
to the Clergy and the Collegiate Institution, has fully
confirmed our previous impressions. Occupying such
a prominent position as a member of the Council Edu-
cation
Committee, Mr. Blackburn must be well in-
formed upon every important matter connected with
the Corporation Schools. How could he, then, under
such circumstances, insinuate that the Clergy are now
making a concession with respect to the Collegiate
Institution which they were previously unwilling to
make with respect to the Corporation Schools, when
he knew full well, at the time that he uttered it, that
the Rev. Rector Campbell had, on several occasions,
and several years ago, publicly declared that he was
willing to return to the Corporation Schools upon
similar terms ? Holding, as we do, that he who sits
quietly by whilst insinuations or statements are made
which he knows to be unfounded, is equally guilty, in
a moral point of view, with the person who breathes
them, we charge Mr. William Rathhone with the same
offence against the laws of morality and honour, of
which we have proved Mr. Blackburn to be guilty.
Unless, therefore, these gentlemen cone forward at
the first convenient opportunity, and make the amende
honorable to the Clergy whom they have been attempt-
ing to degrade in the public estimation, we call upon
their constituents to use every effort to eject them from
the honourable offices which they will then so unwor-
thily fill, so as to qualify them for Aldermanic distinc-
tions, or, in other words, for admission into the Re-
fuge for the Destitute.

On Monday, the 11th ult. R. S. Sowler, Esq. of Man-
chester, was duly admitted a member of the honorable society
of Middle TeloPle•