The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-08-02 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY.

Lord BROUGHAM, in order to remove doubts that had
arken on the subject, stated that he should positively bring
fhrward, on Tuesday next, the motion of which he had given
*ice regarding the " administration of justice" in Ireland—
a, motion to be founded on the evidence taken by their lord-
Alps' committee.
"The Earl of WARWICK entered into considerable explana-
tion in reference to Lovett and Collins's petition regarding
their treatment in Warwick Gaol. Some conversation on
the subject followed.
On the motion that the inland warehousing bill be read the
second time, Lord LYNDHURST presented petitions from the
London and other Dock Companies against it ; and moved,
by way of amendment, that the second reading be on that
day three months. The amendment was carried on a divi-
sion. The bill is consequently lost.

The remaining orders having been disposed of, their lord-
ships adjourned till Thursday. •

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY.

Mr. BLOUNT, one of the candidates who have been the
subject of a " double return" for Totness, " took the oaths
and his'selit at a subsequent period of the evening Sir G.
Clerk adverted to-the fact, and gave notice that he should
canttWryli to it on Wednesday.
Mi).?BlieNAL inquired whether there was any truth in the
stateniefavihae the negroes in Jamaica had declared their
detertnthlltfOirto pay no rent for their huts; and that they
were ttruilinit in order to resist their landlords.
Mr:lii.ifouClTEßE answered that he had no information to
warriiiiraity fears on the subject ; on the contrary, all the
intelfitelf&e:he had received was of a favourable character.
Mr. O'CoNitLt. observed that the Jamaica newspapers,
almost daily, asserted that the negroes were arming.
Mr. LABOt'CUERE that he had no such information, and
he had rid reason to believe that such was the fact.
The Lords' ainendments to the prisons bill (Scotland) were
agreed to.'
Sir C. GREY moved for leave to bring in a bill for esta-
blishing throughout England annual meetings of the people
in their parishes, and for securing to the industrious classes
a regular influence in the election of members of parliament,"
but the motion was ultimately withdrawn.
Mr. DUNCOMBE brought forward the case of Thorogood,
now imprisoned in Chelmsford, on account of 5s 6d for
ehnrch rates, and moved n long resolution on the subject.
Lord J.' RussELL admitted that it was expedient that the
preaent- system' of enforcing church rates should be modified
inoseita way, or other.
J.,Ttie.reSolutioa, in an amended form, was carried on a
46144;411m z brought under consideration the refusal of the
t!lkedtkiAeaderny "
.to return accounts of their income and
telidittlie,.and moved that, a, the academy is a public
dy itlicigitir public aid in the fOrm of free apartments, &c.
tliatPlite directors be required to present such accounts
"L'lbrtliwith."

INGLIs moved, as an amendment, that the said
4Mer be` dis Charged:
.7. Sonic discusSion ensued thereon, in which Mr. Howard,
Mr:Hasves, Mr; Warburton, the Chancellor of the Exche-
<liter, Sir It. Peel, Lord J. Russell, &c., took part. The
houie divided, when the numbers were-
-33

For the motion.
For the amendment
_ _ Majority for the amendment

.
Mr. R. D. BROWNE called attention to Sir John Doyle's
petition ; and moved an address, praying that such instruc-
tion should be given to her Majesty's minister at Lisbon, as
might procure satisfaction of the award " made by the
British government as compensation for personal injuries
and losses sustained by the petitioner under Don Miguel's
gov erratrient.
Lord PALMERSTON said, that additional papers, sent by
Portugal, relating to this claim, had been referred to the
Queen's advocate for his opinion ; and that it would be
theNefore better not to take any steps in the matter at
A went.
Otter some conversation the motion was withdrawn. Ad-
-10%.i,r4e4.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—WZDNKSDAY.
The. House of Lords did nut assemble to-day.

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HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNSSEAY.

The Commons met at 12 o'clock, for the purpose of con-
sidering, in committee, the Metropolitan police courts bill.
l'acio us amendments and discussions occupied till four o'clock.
It was recommitted in a subsequent part of the evening, and
then called forth much desultory debate.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQC sat presented the re-
port of the saect committee on the Metropolitan improve-
meitts bill.
The payment of rates bill was read the second time.
'The ecclesiastical districts bill was read the third time and
passed.
'On the motion that the poor rates collection bill be read
the second time, an amendment was moved to the effectthat
it should he read that day three months. The house divided,
when the original motion was carried. The Ayes were 88, the
Noes 29.

The report of the committee on the highway rates bill was
' received and agreed to. ...
- 'The report on the assaults (Ireland) bill was taken into
farther consideration, in committee ; as was the report of the
—1;1164) stealers (Ireland) bill. The reports thereon were or-
dered to be received on Thursday.
- The coatabulary force (Ireland) bill, on the motion of Lord
MORkTII, was considered in committee. The report ordered
to be presented on Thursday.
The admiralty court bill, the slave trade treaties bill, the
soap duties regulation bill, and the sale of spirits (Ireland)
bill, were afterwards severally forwarded a stage.--Adjourned.

The second reading of the Postage Duties Reduction Bill
has been specially fixed for Monday next in the House of
Lords, and their lordships ordered to be specially summoned.
THE MOORS.—In wending our way, says the Dumfries
Courier, through a wide extent of country, we have omitted
no available opportunity of inquiring into the winged statistics
of the hills and moors. Game of all kinds is more plentiful
than it has been for the last three or four years; grouse,
more especially, visibly on the increase, and blackcocks even
more so than most sportsmen wish. Hares have had an ex-
cellent breeding time, and such of them as were first ob-
served in March are at present as strong, and very nearly as
well grown, as their clams. In a hill above Greenock, the
heather of which has been let for the season at £BO sterling,
matiy of the coveys number from seven to eleven birds, and
matters, so far as had been ascertained, were nearly equally
palmy in the county of Dumbarton. Inverness-shire has its
own share of good luck ; but the partridges will be ready
before-the fields are cleared; and shooting, in all probability
will be common on the hills weeks before a gun is heard iu
the valleys. In the remote islands of Skye, the grouse,
which at one time were well nigh extirpated, are gradually
becoming more and more rife. In Sutherlandshire the price
of shooting grounds is decidedly on the advance—say in the
rate of from ten to twenty per cent. One proprietor signi-
ficantly hinted, however unwilling to come to particulars,
"'where I got £450 for a range last year, 1 can get with the
greatest ease, £5OO this." In Ross-shire the advance is
greater, amidst the loudest complaints that too much heather
was burnt. Popularly it is often said, that game gangs in the
highlands pay as well as pastures peopled by sheep. This,
however, is a decided mistake, although instances have re-
peatedly occurred in which a sheep-walk, let for £BOO per
annum, brought £4OO additional for the right of shooting
over it for the season. Deer stalking, with the aristocracy,
is preferred vastly to shooting grouse; and as may be readily
supposed, grounds adapted to this sport bring what may be
called enormous rents. In consequence of this, some pro-
prietors have entertained the project of restoring the deer,
• and banishing the sheep. But theory is one thing, and
practice another; and there are many who doubt whether
• forestry, as it existed in the olden time, will ever be restored,
;Ns unless it be for the express purpose of furnishing sleepers to

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THE TURKISH FLEET IN THE HANDS OF THE

EGYPTIANS.
The Moniteur of Friday, July 26, received by extraordi-
nary express, has the following important telegraphic de-
spatch —:

The Agent of Foreign Affairs to the President of the
Council. _

" Marseilles, July 25, three, p.m.
" On the Bth, the sultan's death was known at Alexandria.
On the 9th, a Turkish corvette, having on board Nezib Bey,
keaga of the capitan pacha, charged to announce to the vice-
roy the presence of the capitan pacha at Slanhio, sailing to-
wards Rhodes, and to propose to him to place the Turkish
fleet under his protection to guarantee it against the troubles
to be feared in Turkey on the sultan's death. The viceroy's
reply is not known, but he has sent the steamer, the Black
Sea, to the capitan pacha. On the 10th, Astriff Effendi, sent
by the young sultan to announce his father's death to the
viceroy, arrived at Alexandria."

"PARIS, FRIDAY, FIVE, P.M.—The above news has pro-
duced a great sensation, and the diplomatic corps is in dismay.
" The Augsburg Gazette of the 22d inst. states, that the
two fleets, Turkish and Egyptian, will sail to Constantinople
together to overturn the new order of things.
_ _

"The Semaphore of Marseilles, of the 23d, announces the
arrival of the Prince de Joinville at Constantinople on the
Bth.

" Ibrahim's bulletin of the victory says, that he would pur-
sue the army, but be cannot find them.

" Letters from Alexandria of the 6th state great joy to pre-
vail there. On the 28th ult. M. Caine, the French envoy,
had not arrived at Ibrahim's head-quarters."

This corroboration of the defection of the Turkish admiral
with the fleet is bad enough. But worse and still more start-
ling tidings have, we fear, to be added to it. These are, that
the members of the new divan, or government, at Constanti-
nople, have taken a step similar to that of the capitan pacha,
and have written to Mehemet Ali to put themselves and the
sultan under his protection, offering him the hereditary go-
vernment of Syria and Egypt, and inviting Mehemet Ali to
Constantinople to reorganise the government.
A knowledge of the capitan pacha's defection—of an in-
surrection prepared at Constantinople as well as in Albania—
is said to have decided Khosrew and Halil to this surrender
of the empire and of their young sovereign. Their own dis-
agreement, their want of mutual confidince, and the com-
plete inexperience of Abdul Dedjid, are the motives which led
these ministers to submit to the Egyptian pacha, by a simul-
taneous, but, it appears, by no joint step.
Serious, however, as this event must appear, it loses much
of its gravity from the impossibility of any such results being
accomplished as that contemplated by the defeetionists. Eng-
land, France, and Austria are not rendered the less resolute
by these intrigues, to maintain the independence of the Otto-
man empire. Nor can either Mehemet or the divan act in
despite of them. It is not, indeed, probable that Mehemet
would wish to risk the enmity of all the world; for scarcely
less would be the consegtience of his entering Constantinople.
It may be thought, that, if the intrigues and gold of Mehetnet
have prepared the defection of the fleet, with troubles in Con-
stantinople and in Albania, Russian counsels may have
prompted the divan to fling itself into the arms of Mehemet,
in order to afford a pretext for 'Russian interference: This
we do not think. Russia is not prepared for so bold a cast
of the die ; and if she were so, never were the other European
powers better prepared or more resolved to prevent Russia
carrying off the prize.—Morning Chronicle.

NE.W SOUTH WALES.

(From the Chester Gazette)

We copy with great pleasure the follos;ing extract from
a letter received by Thos. Pal, Esq., of Stapleford Ball,
in this county, from an _intelligent gentleman filling a very
responsible situation in the government at Sydney. The
writer alludes with feelings of satisfaction to the health and
prosperity of Charles Boydell, Esq., late of Cam yr Alyn,
near Wrexham, and George Townshend, Esq., late of Tre-
vallyn, both of whom are extensive landed proprietors in the
colony. The following will give some just idea of the state
of the settlement :

" There is much in this colony upon which to dilate and
admire. Its climate is quite Italian, with a cloudless azure
at least four-fifths of the year. All the indigenous trees and
plants are in perpetual foliage ; and the forest, or bush, ever
blooming with flowers of every hue, and in every variety.
No frost near this coast; and the winter season is considered
the most delightful by Enropeans, who enjoy the bracing
coolness of the night air. We have many settlers possessing
50 to 100,000 acres of land, 40 to 50,000 sheep, 5 to 10,000
head of cattle, with a proportionate number of free and as-
signed servants ; and cultivation and sheep farming has al-
ready extended 500 miles from the capital, with every invita-
tion to proceed further, to an almost boundless extent ; and
when a sufficient number of farm labourers can be obtained,
this colony will be able to supply your market with sufficient
wool for your whole demand. We have, too, about 40 to 50
whaling ships out of this port, which will go some way in
supplying you with fish oil, and by industry and commerce
rapidly developed this will become one of the most valuable
appendages of the British Crown. Notwithstanding all these
natural advantages, however, we have had provisions of every
kind exorbitantly dear during the two or three last years,
owing more to the neglect of agriculture and horticulture
than to the arid seasons which have generally marked these
years. The passion for sheep-farming and cattle leading our
settlers so far iu quest of improved feed in the interior has so
subdivided labour, and prevented the good effects of concen-
tration, that little culture is to be found near this metropolis.
We are at length sensibly improving in supply, although so
many thousand emigrants have arrived, who, for some time,
must be consumers.

" The repeated shocks in your monetary system necessarily
affects the magic art allover the globe, where the bane of cre-
dit or paper money have extended; and hence we have had
many failures of magnitude. But we have no direct taxes or
rates to pay, (although with a revenue of half a million,) and
our internal resources are inexhaustible. Thus Australia
must advance, and will become, at no distant period, Queen
of the Southern Hemisphere."

THE INCREASE OF THE ARMY.

(From the United Service Gazette.)

In the Hc►use of Commons, on Tuesday eVening, Lord
John Russell announced, first, that government proposed to
add 5,000 men to the army, in consequence of the state of
the northern population ; and, secondly, that he was about
to bring in a bill for the purpose of enabling magistrates to
establish a constabulary force in their respective districts,
for the preservation of the public peace.
Our readers will remember that our predictions on this
subject have been verified to the letter. Long before the
army estimates for the present year were laid before the
House of Commons, we announced the fact that the army
would be increased to this extent at least. So perfect was
the general conviction that such would be the case, that
ministers were actually reproached in their places in parlia-
ment for their supineness or indifference on the subject.
The very uncertain tenure on which they held office at that
particular juncture, however, suggested to them that it would
le better to throw the onus of such an increase on their
conservative successors. If, on the other hand, a conjunc-
tion of favourable circumstances should enable them to hold
on throughout the session, and the proposed augmentation
became, as it was sure to do, even more imperative, they
had nothing to do but to come to the house with a great
show of good faith and say, " We desired to avoid this addi-
tional burden to the country, although a Ivised by yourselves
to impose it several months ago; but we find that ne were
wrong, and that you, for once, were right. We want the
5,000 men you would have given us at the beginning of the
session, and £lO,OOO worth of tools (in the shape of a police
uens-d'arnzerie), for our Birmingham chartist magistrates
to employ in the suppression of the riots they have fostered
and encouraged in that neighbourhood." The application
for an increase of the army, which ought to have been made
several months ago, and which has been deferred until mi-
nisters have satisfied themselves that they shall keep their
posts throughout the present session, has, of course, been
conceded to them without a murmur. The single feeling
that pervades all classes of politicians upon the subject is,
that the number proposed is too small, and that an increase
of 10,000, and that some six months ago, would have been
more in'accordance with the exigencies of the country. How
all these expenses, absolutely necessary as they are, and the
temporary diminution of revenue that must be looked for
from the adoption of the Postage Duties Bill, will be made
to square with the already impoverished resources of the
country, remains to be seen. The ministerial bed is evi-
dently not one of roses ; but the limbo is of Lord Melbourne's
own creating, and we trust that not even the aces of Mr.
O'Connell and his Popish frierids will procure him the re-
mission of a single peck of purgatorial coals.

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