The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-26 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, JUNE. 2I.—A congregation was this day holden fur
granting degrees, Sze., when the following were cOnfe'rrtql--
Bachelom of Medicine.—R. Smith and P. Buick, Christ
Churcli; '3, A. Brown and H: Harding, University .College;
W. F. Soltan, Baliol College ; S. B. Watson, St. John's
College; C. B. Browse, 'Trinity College.
Masters of •llalhonste,' Christ ChUrch, Grand
Compotinder; E. Card-well, Grand Compounder, J. P. Muir-
head, and J. Capbell, Balliol .College; W. J. Mounsell and
Itev,.H.. L. Oswell,m Christ Church; Rev. E. Roberts, Rev. R.
H. N. Hughes, Jesias College;. Rev. G.. Carr, Merton College;
116 V. E.'Smyrh, 'Trinity College; Rev. A. H. Price, Wadham
College; Rev. T. nubile, Queen's College; Rev, E. H.
Bayley, and Rev. E. Hill, New-College; Rev. F. 'C. Polhill,
University College; Re'V. E._Pettinan, Trinity College.
Bachelors of Arts.—J. 1.11 Burr, Hon. H. Grnuston, C.. Beau-
clerk, J. Coley, and 31. W. W. Russell, Christ Church; W.
`Bedford and Slav, New College; F. L. Dick, St. John's
College; G. Levy, Queen's College; G. Rawlinson, 'rrinity
Garbett, Brasenose College; S. Hutton, Wadliam
College; E. Pring, 31a:2,1alene College; W. It. Hall, Balliol
College; T. Shadforth, University College ; J. Lawrell, Merton
College; W. F Cress‘‘ ell, Pembroke College; H. C. Brown,
Now Inn Hall.

THE VIXEN CASE.

( From the Timex.)

The Viken case, from-a careful perusal of the papers written
and furnished by-Mr. Urquhart; which appeared in the Times
(if Thui;sila.v foretOld would prove a satisfactory con-
demnation i,f the Foreign Secretary. The evening's -debate
fulfilled the preilikion'of the morning. There never was acase
an irresistibly Submitted to any court of justice; there never was
'a;breach of equity and honour more disgraceful brought home
against a public officer; there never was trickery more tortuous
and shameful subjected to an exposure more complete; our
have we ever hearti id' a defence which, for unmanly selfikness
g and cowardice, so agravated the original transgression...,
The charge against Lord Palmerston on behalf of Mr. Bell
and others. nwhers of the Vixen, was, that he, the Foreign Se-
trataiyeit-GeeWisßritain, had, both by,his official subalterns, at
aorl'abißaCyfz., Mr. Strangewars, Under-Secretary of
State, cud Lied Porisdnliy, our minister at Constantinople, ap-
ProVed, encouraged, nay, urged by way of trying an experiment,
political as 'well as commercial, an expedition by a British mer-
chant ship to the coast of Circassia, and afterwards, when the
ship, impelled on her voyage under such auspices and direct
sanctiou of our Foreign Department,- was taken ,by a Russian
man-of-tvar--•--tliat lie, Lord Palmerston, left her owners without
any shadow of redress, alleging that Russia,-whose title to in-
terdict British commerce with Circassia he had, before the
voyage, in the plainest' manner denied, was strictly justifiable
,•in right-of her actual possession of that country, and that the.
:British. merchant whose voyage he had peisonally, and through
his interior officers, not merely connived at, but urged and for-
warded, had from acting, on such exhortation rendered himself
amenable to a lawful exercise,of Maritime force by Russia.
The charge aaainst Lord Palmerston on behtilf of Mr. Ur-
quhart was one of greas perional injustice, inasmuch as for no
other offence than that of expressing sentiments in which Lord
-ralrnerston had concurred, and co-operating with his lordship
in the furtherance of Mr. Bell's expedition, he was punished by
deprivation of his secretaryship of ernbassy, while Lora
Yensonby, who had exerted afar inure efficacious authority and
Influence in the encouragement of Mr. Bell, was continued in
his post of ambassador, and received Lord Palmerston's appro-
!bation,
ria7ard to Lord Palmerston's conffiret as between Mr.
Belland tlie Russian gover indent. it is imPossible to go beyond
'Pie atateurentS in .air. Urqiihart's correspondence, and the yea-
iinnin,gs upon them by Lord Stanley and Sir Robert Peel, for
Placing the whole case in the clearest light before the public.
.41 The independence of Circassia had been strenuously and
"unciSthprotnistngly advuiated for several months under the
eanctµrn.of Lord Palmerston;" Circassia "was marked as an
il.trlepetioent country, in a map. revised by Lord Palmerston."
HLlie indepeodeuce of Circassia was evidently assumed,by Lord
r altnerstoil when he referred Mr. Bell to the non-existence of
any notice of " blockade"- in the Gazette—a bi.;clcarie being .a
i.a,i;tmeasure between' hostile countries, not the municipal•regu-
.. 4',Uru of -a sovereigu power for its own territory.
to stl thipthart was recalled for having zealously." contributed
~nhe success of expedition, Approved and sanctioned by the
according to
that approval and sanction being, of course,
littbarrdt:s? to instructions, which according to nay" (Mr. Ur-
" own knowledge, had been brought to the knowledge
of the sinister for Foreign Affairs."
-,toi _o
lti;then. Lord Ponsonby HAD the sanction of Lord Palmer.his encouraement of the Vixen %/ovag e why was :dr.
Bell left without redqess, and why was Mr. Unrquhart punished
butlr otd
Ponsonhy was NOT so sanctioned by Lord Palmerston,
but acted (which we admit is incredible) on his own personal
_responsibility, why was not he recalled with Mr. Uurquhart,
instead of still overlaying and stupitying the whole policy of
rAgland in the East?
The fact is, that Lord Palmerston had an itch for feeling the
pulse of the Russian government iu the Euxine. and to this ex-
periment he sacrificed a British merchant. who was credulous
"Poot.th to telt' upOn his honour. Messrs. Urquhart and Bell
were treated. by Lord Palmerston after the fashion of a pair of
mice iu an air. pump.
'But they were not the only victims to the immeasurable sel-
Istinese or that placernan of 30 years and seven distinct admi-
nistrations. In striving to defend himself from charges, of no
Mie arnoni,-; which cOulri he attempt to deny the truth, tie "blew
'ID" his own subalterus, right and left. No one could say, "Mr.
Bell could. not say, that Ha (Lord Palmerston) had expressly
:nctioued or encouraged the expedition of the Vixen." But
Palmerston
Bell 010 -iav so, -and _insisted ou its truth. "He (Lord
) was not responsible" far what any person employed
in the whole foreign department .of
_the British empire -seal or
did, but for •himself alone, and his own deeds or exHressionS!
`1..3'?. my lord, then what means " ministerial" responsibility ?'
,
You be not responsible for-what Lord. Ponsonby said, who
advised the expedition, or for what Mr. Strangeways said, who
"exulted" in its issue, then why are, you there? Mr.-•Strange-
ways was notAisruissed, Lord Ponsonby was not dismissed,Lord Palmerston having the power to dismiss them both. His
lordship, therefore,, must be understood to have adopted the
Proceedings of both those functionaries. "Thou can'st not say
/dill it," was the apostrophe•of one celebrated, criminal; bat it
will not save a blasted reputation ia the present case inure than
to the former ttile.
Sr. Robert Peel's reproof of that iga!,ble shuffling which
could shift the Warne due to Lord Palmerston alone open tla4e
Who acted immediately under hi 4 orders would have struck any
hat a ease- hardened conscience to the earth: Lord Palinerston,
we Said, was invulnerable, and he has -proved so in•the sense
in which a mud fort is often impregnable—swallOwink the
enemy's fire—not repelling it.

LOSS OF ADMIRALTY PACKETS.

(From the Falmouth Packet.)

Whenever ashie of war. is lost, or even meets with a serious
accident, though not a man should perish, the case is always
submitted to the strictest investigation ofa court martial; which
to empowered decide upon errors in judgement, as Well as
'Anon misconduct, and whose recommendation always claims
rjannectful attention. But ships may founder from their bad
"ti Itiction, and crew after crew perish without,any official
is4,l"'"Y being instituted; while the individual in..fault may re-•
t the • •
I)rs,,,aliumt complaints of the Service, and the Public, as a
111!sQndin, tack upon himself, and in sheer obstinaey, persist-
"lr crews btudangerous vessels to sea, to become coffins for
Whit ' •
hope c0:1(4164A could exist of the fate of the Briseis, and a
fortunate e cherished by the widows.aud friends of her un-
,a3sUmptioerew, we abstain from any rewarks. founded on the•
innger of her loss. • But this motive fur delicacy(-ties(-ties no
mire, dwe shall now have to comment upon tile Subject in
than one article.
the the winter of 1810. the Lads' Pellew, one of the packets on
tne old establishment, foundered with her crew. It ,liould be
°bserved, that she Was not built fora packet, but was a French
Prile hired into the service, —She was, however, the only Post.
°Mee packet which has foundered within the present century,
We are not sure but that we may add, within all memory.
Sixteen years afterwards, the admiralty packets began to he.
introduced. Since that time, what a changelnten years
"d a quarter,- 'seven packet gun-brigs, ALL oil THE SAME
ch",si• have gone to the lnittum every man on board,
t rulth- the number of that description employed at au one
one
"'"e in the service has scarcely ever exceeded twenty. In ad-
`lition to these, two other vessels have been thrown upon their
heal-ends, 'with the loss of part of their crews.
1 be following is the list, from the autumn of 1837 :
Hearty, loSt on her first voyage, to Barbadoes.
Itedpole, lost, on her passage from Brazil. . ,
• - Ariel; lost on her passage to Halifax.
• Recruit, lost between Halifax and Bermuda.
• Calypso, lost on her-Passage from Halifax.
Thais, lust oti 6r passage to Halifax.
Briseis, lost on her nassage to Halifax.
Quail,-cutter; thrOWn on her beam-ends, on her pas-
• Sage to Lisbon, and some: of hei crew washed over-.
board..
Star; thrown on her beam-ends, not having been al-
. lowed sufficient ballast, and her commander, and
At great. part-of her crew perished.
least three hundred persons perished in these nine vessels.
The victory of h
achieved with t e first of Jnne, which saved England, was
a smaller sacrifice of life.

• •
NCIFIE BIBULOUS LOYALTY.—A Scotch paper, referringin
a.roPabal made by a oorporme hotly to celebrate the corona-
inn 44 V by .11rinking her 11Lejestv's health in a glass , f port,
Pel th,tt •ao 'cot,/ aII wle of testifyin6 1 , will Hot be.
!‘ tao'd°etted,
and ;t1 'substitution of tchi.ky punch,
otter learnt stimulants.

THEATIipHOYAL, LIVERPOUL.

LAST NIGHT but Thi,e c,f Mivleluoi,ao CELESTE.

S p,resolit TUESDAY, June 26, will Lie pert:wined tile
Nautical Drama of

BLACK-EYED SUSAN.
After• which. will he acted, for the third time in Liverpnol,
the new and highly popular Drama, in two entitled the

. . .
CHILD OF THE WRECK.
Mauriee..(the Duwb Buy)..lll.adenkviselle Celeste
Written expressly fur, and Ori,,,inally perfortned by. her this
present season at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-laue, fifty sue-

_ .
Cessive nights.
The evening's entertainments will elude' with the Grand
Military Drantatic Spectacle, fuunde upon the late Conquest
of Constantino, called the •
FRENCH SP !

oR THE NALL OF coNsTANTINA.
Hamet..(a Wild Arab Boy)..Mademoiselle Celeste!
Henri. (a French Lancer) '.'Matleinoiselfe Celeste ! !

Vicioire .. (a French tarty) ... Mademoiselle Celeste ! ! !
On WEDNESDAY, the Musical Drama of NO! After
which, the Drama of ROSALIE; Rosalie. Mademoiselle
Celeste. To conclude with the favourite Drama of ST.
MARY'S EVE; Madeline, Mademoiselle• Celeste.