The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-24 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

YOU WANT JUSTICE, GO TO HEAD-QUARTERS'." (The
Old Soldier.)—A gentleman of high standing in the nau,
tical world has called upon us, and communicated the
following facts :—He states that a young man, a seaman,
in the employ to which he him =elf belongs (and than which,
we may say, there is not a more respectable in the port),
had the misfortune to lose his leg, and become disabled ;
and that he (our informant) called at the Town-clerk's
office to take out the usual declaration, so that the poor
fellow might &stain the allowance, or pension, that would
accrue from the Maritime Fund, upon which he had become
a claimant. The person who came to the counter treated
him in a haughty and repulsive manner, telling him,
" Oh, no ; we can't indeed ! We have refused fees to
the amount of 4:250 in similar-cases, and we can't !"
Our informant left the office in disgust, and mentioned
the circumstance to a gentleman whom he soon afterwards
met. That individual advised him to go to " head-quar-
ters," which he did without further ado, and, on his ap-
plication to the MAYOR in person, his request was politely
'
and instantly complied with. There is nothing more of-
fensive to sensitive minds than the insolence of " under-
strappers."
Owing to a press of advertisements, and the length of our
local reports, several articles already in type are unavoid-
ably postponed.. Amongst these is an interesting article
on " the West India Colonies" together with some edi-
torial remarks'on the same subject, iu reply to Mr. Scoble.
We shall insert Mr. Bevan's letter on Tuesday, accompanied
with some remarksin reply.

Jri "iLibtrpool (,tantlarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 24, 1840.

We have received a file of the St. John's (N. B.)
Weekly Chronicle to the 20th of March, inclusive. The
members of the House of Assembly had voted for the
payment of the members of the Legislative Council,
- at the rate of £lOO per annum for each member, with
an excepting. clause regarding the members of Coun-
c►l who hold any situation under Government with a
Yearly salary of £2OO or upwards.
Captains Battersby and Hawkshaw, of the engineer
depa►•tment were at Woodstock, selecting sites for the
erection of the new barracks, and such other works as
'night be deemed necessary -for the defence and pro-
tection of the place.
The House of Assembly had recommended that his
Excellency, the Governor, should order the Attorney-
General to prosecute the Weekly Chronicle for a libel
Published in that paper.

We have received a file of the St. John's (N.F.)
Times to the 11th of March inclusive. The papers con-
tain some very severe animadversions on the appoint-
ment of a Mr. Patrick Morris to the situation of Trea-
surer for the colony. This person's recommendations
for • the office appear to have been of very doubtful
character; but they were such as wonld entitle any one
to the patronage of the Whigs. Ile is a Papist, and a
thorough-going Radical, and has the further recom-
mendation of having been a bankrupt. A man who has
proved himself incapable of managing his own pecuni-
ary affairs, can scarcely be deemed qualified for hold-
ing a public office of so important a character.
flie Legislature of Newfoundland have granted
1,000 annually, or £3,000 in one sum, if preferred, to
encourage steam navigation between the island and
Halifax.

We have received a file of Halifax (N.S.) papers to
the 30th of March, inclusive. We learn from the
Halifax Jour►ial that the legislature of the province
!lad been prorogued on the 27th of March, after pass-
-1% an address to the Queen, in which there are seve-
ral passages strongly impugning-the conduct of the
(lovernor, Sir Colin Campbell, and praying his re-

moral from the government. This address was
Couched in terms not very courteous to her Majesty,

and highly disrespectful and insulting- to his Excel-
lency. In consequence of this extraordinary proceed-
ing, a public meeting was held the following day, to
give expression to the disapprobation of the inhabitants
of Halifax of the censure contained in the address of

the Assembly. The meeting was numerously and re-
spectably attended, and, after some discussion, the
following resolutions were agreed to :
Resolved, That apart from the consideration of the several
questions of colonial reform agitated by a party in this pro-
vince, this meeting sincerely -deplores the Address of the
"louse of Assembly, proposing to censure the administration
uf the Government by his Excellency Sir Colin Campbell, a
Censure as unfounded in reason as it is inconsistent with the
feelings of the majority of the respectable and influential in-
habitants of the province.
Resolved, That it is the opinion of this meeting that the
Administration of his Excellency Sir Colin Campbell, sur-
rounded as it has been with difficulties, and requiring the
exercise of a sound and vigorous mind in the selection of the
respective councils to meet the changes introduced through
the influence of the House of Assembly, has been conducted,
and the measures of Government carried out by his Excel-
lency with an anxious desire to meet the true interests of the
People, consistent with the duty of his Excellency, to our
host gracious Queen, and her Government.
Resolved, That it is the opinion of this meeting, that it is
the bounden duty of every well-wisher to the paternal Go-
vernment to rally round his Excellency at this time, and by
an expression of their dissent from the opinions of the As-
-Benibly, to evidence to our most gracious Queen, that
although there may be discontented spirits in the House of
Assembly, ever ready to find grievances, when few, if any,
exist, yet that the majority of the people not only duly ap-
preciate the conduct of his Excellency in the adm,inistration
of the Government, but are satisfied with the maternal care
of our most gracious Queen, and will be ever ready to support
her throne, and maintain the connexion between this pro-
vince and the parent state.
, Resolved, That these resolutions be embodied in an ad-
dress and presented to his Excellency Sir Colin Campbell by
a Committee to be appointed for that purpose.
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The following is a copy of the address which was
presented to Sir Cohn Campbell :

To His Excellency Lieut. General Sir Colin Campb&
K.C.8., Lieutenant Governor and Commander-in-chic!
M and over her Majesty's Provinces of Nova Scotia
&c.
May it please your Excellency,
We, the undersigned inhabitants of the town of Halifax
beg leave to assure your Excellency of our devoted attach
Ment to her Majesty's royal person and government, and to
the principles of the British constitution.
We have learned with unfeigned sorrow that the represen-
tatives of the people of Nova Scotia have passed an Address
to our Sovereign, imputing to your Excellency misgovern-
ment of this colony, and praying her Majesty to remove your
Excellency from the high office which you now fill.
The distinguished reputation which your Excellency had
acquired in fighting the battles of your country, had pre-
pared the minds and hearts of the people of this province, to
hail with satisfaction your appointment to the government of
thiS colony, and whilst we recognise with gratitude many
beneficial acts of your Excellency's administration, we re-
tain a high sense of the noble manner, in which shortly after
Your arrival, at a period when it pleased the Almighty to
scourge our country with a malignant pestilence, your Ex-
cellency, in person, visited the infirmaries, ministering to
the sufferers, and by your example and influence, inspiring
confidence and encouraging the inhabitants of this town to
exertions in the cause of humanity.
The dissolution of the old council and the subsequent con-
stitution of the executive and legislative councils, have sub-
jected your Excellency's executive administration of the
affairs of this colony to difficulties and embarrassments
that were unknown to, and unfelt by, your Excellency's
predecessors, and when adverting to the manner in which
Your Excellency met those difficulties of your position, and
endeavoured to carry out, with such means as were at your
command, the instructions that you received respecting the
composition of the two councils referred to, we are unable to
discern any design upon the part of your Excellency to
violate those instructions, we feel it a duty that we owe to
Your Excellency, to the country, and to ourselves, to come
forward at this peculiar crisis, unparalleled in the history of
Nova Scotia, and to assure your Excellency that our judg-
ments and our hearts entirely absolve your Excellency from
Such an imputation, which we are convinced is perfectly
without foundation.
Whilst we admit that it is not merely the privilege but the
aft of every British subject, whose home is fixed in a colony
subject to the British crown, to use every constitutional
means to render its institutions accordant, in principle and
Practical operation, with corresponding institutions in the
Parent state, we deprecate needless agitation, which has an
Obvious tendency, amongst other evils, to affect the high
mercantile character of this community, to check the tide of
na,migration, and to prevent the introduction of British capi-
ri into this province ; and when, at the present hour, we
bear, on the one hand, the phrases " official faction" and
family compact" applied opprobriously to men whose pri-
vate characters are respected, and confessedly respectable :
and, on the other band, reflect that of all those who are in-
vested with important public offices, it is not even pretended
. that any one has abused the trust reposed in him, or failed in
Performance of the duties attached to the office that he fills,
We cannot but consider, that the assumed circumstance of
competition for office not being perfectly open to all, does not
constitute a sufficient reason for jeopardizing, by extreme
Measures, the peace and tranquillity of this eminently loyal
andhitherto remarkably happy province ; nor do we believe
that the intelligent and reflecting portion of its inhabitants
will be prepared to give their deliberate sanction to the scn-
litaents expressed by their representatives in the address to
her Majesty, of which the prayer is the recal of your excel-
lency from the government of this province.

'ln conclusion, we beg leave respectfully to assure your Ex-
cellency that we are impressed with a conviction that
throughout the whole course of your administration of the
Government of this province, your Excellency has been in-
fluenced by a sincere and single desire to sustain the honour
of the Crown, and to promote the true interests of her Ma-
jesty's subjects in this colony ; and that your Excellency's
conduct and firmness on a late occasion, in refusing to make
important changes in the constitution of the province, upon
the Address of the House of Assembly, without first receiv-
ing her Majesty's commands on the subject, justly entitle
you to the warmest expression of our thanks; and we hum-
bly trust that the manner in which your Excellency has dis-
charged your public duties as the executive head of this Go-
vernment, will continue to receive, as we believeit merits,
the approbation of our most gracious Sovereign.

To which his Excellency returned the following answer :
GENTLEMEN,—It is most gratifying to me, to find that my
conduct in the administration of this Government has ob-
tained for me the approbation, respect, and confidence of so
numerous a body of the inhabitants of the capital of this pro-
vince. _ _

I have not language to thank you for the honour you have
done me, and for the kind terms in which you have been
pleased to express yourselves towards me.
It has been my most anxious desire to promote the wel-
fare of the people of Nova Scotia; and to concede to them
every just and liberal measure that would promote that end,
has been the anxious object of my solicitude and duty ; but
at the same time firmly to support the honour and dignity of
the Crown, and to resist any attempt to encroach upon its
peerogative, is a paramount duty I owe to my Sovereign, and
iu which it is most gratifying to me that you coincide.
I again repeat my warmest and best acknowledgments for
the flattering testimony of your approbation as conveyed in
your Address.

On retiring from the Government House the depu-
tation that waited on Sir Colin Campbell gave his
Excellency three times three cheers.

We should think that the present holydays will not
*urnish much in the shape of pleasure or ease of mind
:o her Majesty's incapables. They are released, it is
,rue, for a brief space, from the badgering which they

have endured since the commencement of the session.
They are still in office, and look forward to the coming
of another quarter-day. But a presage of evil lies
heavy upon their souls : the cup which they drain at
the social board maddens without exhilarating, and the
laugh with which they strive to efface the recollection
of defeat and shame is hollow as the forced defiance of
a bully when the gripe of 4he avenger is upon his
throat.

The ministry has escaped extennination fora season.
Like a mangy cur, it has yelped and wriggled its way
from amongst the feet of its tormentors, and can now

lick the mud from its well-kicked sides and enjoy its
temporary reprieve from the tanyard. It has run the
gauntlet through the ranks, been spit upon and de-
spised, but has not yet been finally drummed out of
the service to the exhilarating music of the " Rogue's
March." We willingly concede to the ministry the
enjoyment of any consolation which it can devise from
a retrospect of the past. The diseased quadruped to

whom we have likened it may as well hope to cleanse
itself from the leprosy which rankles in its blood, or
the dishonoured soldier to wipe off the shame which
has tarnished his laurels, as the members of that mi-
nistry to efface from the minds of the people of Eng-
land the contempt and loathing with which their deeds
and their very names are associated.

And yet what is the crisis which these degraded men
have to encounter—these miserable imbeciles to whose
keeping the interests of a great nation are committed ?
Abroad, war presents his iron front on every side. We
are entering upon a contest with China—with a people
whose resources we know are immense, and of whose
character we know absolutely nothing. We are at war
with Naples—a petty state, it is true; but who can tell
with what other powers .a war even with Naples may
embroil us ? We have Russia hovering like a bird of
prey over our Indian possessions, and ready to pounce
upon them the first moment she finds our attention
distracted from her movements; and in the western
hemisphere we have America panting for, and even
prepared to create, an opportunity of seizing upon our
transatlantic possessions. On every side hostility ma-

nifests itself towards the name of England, and on
every side that hostility is emboldened by the remem-
brance of past insults, endured by her with tameness,
and past wrongs, suffered by her to sleep unavenged.
The vantage ground which England once possessed—
which she bought, and dearly bought, with the blood
of her brave—has been yielded basely and treache-
rously, inch by inch;
.and though

" but yesterday
She might have stood against the world, now none

So poor as do her reverence."

And with what has England, under the present ad-
ministration, to meet this frowning array of enemies ?
Where is the lofty spirit of patriotism which, at the
call of a Pitt and under the guidance of a Wellington,
shook from his blood-cemented throne the conqueror of
a world ? We look around in vain for the evidence of
such a spirit.. Where are the buoyant energies which
enabled England to meet the va6t expenditure of such
a contest ? Look for them in our declining commerce,
our suffering agriculture, our almost bankrupt exche-