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

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"MR f$ UE :TER 'S WILL.
" The funeral of the late Mr.'Saninel Terry took place on
Sunday morning at seven o'clock The deceased was followed
to the grave by a large number of his ft iends ; and at his par-
ticular request, was buried with masonic honours. The hand
of the 50th regiment headed the
procession, playin
march in Saul. Mr. Terry's will was brought yesterdtheaye at
g d!d.
noon front the Bank of New South-Wales, (where it had for a
considerable tinte been deposited,) by Mr-Black, the cashier, to
the residence of the deceased, in Pitt-street, where it was read by
Mr. Unwin, in the presence of the executors, and all the mem-
hers of the fatuity. Three codicils had been added to it. By
the will it appears that the Sydney Bomal of upwards of
£lO,OOO a7veur has been left to Mrs. Terry for her life, and after
her decease to his sou Edward Terry for his iife, and to the
heirs of his body-; and in case of his death without lawful issue,
to the children of John Terry, and Mrs, John Husking, as
tenants in common. The-bulk of the.lauded property, estimated
at £150,000, has been left to Edward Terry, his son, fur life,
and to-the heirs of his body, and, in case of his death without
lawful issue, as in the case of the Sydney property. The per-
sonal estate, valtiej at £250,000, is• left, one moiety to Edward
Terry, and the other moiety to John Terry, of Box Hill, Mrs.
Terry Hughes, and Mts. John Husking, share and share alike.
Specific legacies are bequeathed to a considerable amount,
among which is £lO,OOO to Mts.. John Hosking, his daughter,
and £5OOO to Mrs. Terry Hughes, and one hundred guineas to
each of his executors. All. his charitable subscriptions are
desired to be kept up for 10 years from the date of his decease,
and various annuities are bequeathed to his relatives in Eng,
land. The 'dwelling-house in Pitt-street, and all his household.
furniture, carriages, &c., are left to Mrs. Terry. The whole
estate is valued at half a million. -Messrs. James Notion,
T. W. M. Winder, John Terry Hughes, and Mrs. Terry, have
been appointed executors and executrix, and Mr. unwin,
suti-
citor to the estate." „ , .
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After this we cannot feel any surprise at the alacrity
with which certain .classes of the. commtmity seize the
chance of being transported. , Surely there must be
something very wrong in the system of conducting our
penal.cOlonies, when such ad% antages fir realising Wealth
arc abno.q .exclusirelil possessed by the convicts. We

,F
nOnliiiWitliaithe respectable portion of the set-
tlers in New Sown \Vsdes should seek to rescue the
colony from the degradation of being a penal settlement.
With such- splendid •opportunities for the successful em-
ployment of capital, it certainly merits a better fate. At
present, it appears; from Dr. Lang's celebrated work on
the subject of penal
.colorries, that there is a species of
secret combination among the emancipated convicts
which enables them to secure the tnonOpol of the most
profitable trades, professions, &c. in New South Wales.
The sooner such a system is broken through the better.
Let there be an equal chance afforded to all who have
capital to invest or industry to employ.. •

The Sydney Herald of the Ist of March states that a
proprietary college was about to be established at New-
castle, by the settlers at Hunter's River and the adjacent
parts. This indicates a very rapid march in colonisa-
tion. We are glad to find that education forms one of
the most prominent topics of discussion in the New
South Wales papers, and that many of them strongly in-
sist upon having scriptural instruction as the basis of
any general system that may be adopted. This is a
healthy symptom, and one that justifies us in antici-
pating that the rising generation in this'interesting co-
lony wilt be characterised by a higher tone of morals
than the present appears to have any right to boast of.
The ',Sydney Herald strongly advises the establishment
of industrial schools, for .the maintenance, clothing, and
education of children out of the produce of their pxn
labour. Such schools, modelled after the systems pur-
sued in Switzerland—jhose of Fellenberg and Pesta-lozzi—woukl be_especially adapted to the circumstances,
and calculated to develope the resources, of a colony like'
that of New South Wales.

The Sydney Times of March sth contains some inte-
resting speculations on the immigration of Scottish
tenants into New South Wales, which appears to be
carried on with great success under the superintendance
of Dr. Lang. He had lately introduced, at his own risk,
fifty families of Highland emigrants by the Portland, and'
had fifty more on their way in the Jusiine 'from Havre-.
We are sorry that we cannot enter more fully into this
Subject at present; but we shall endeavour to give a few
extractsin our next, feeling confident, that they must
prove most interesting to those classes who may contem-
plate settling in this colony.

CORONATION PEERS.--A short time since we were told
by the ministerial organs, that a very large creation of
peers was to take place on the event of her Majesty's co-
ronation: ° In the first instance, it was ostentatiously an--
nouncedr.that about forty commoners would be elevated
to the peerage, besides a great number who were to be
promoted from one class to another in the peerage itself.
It was, indeed, boasted, that Lord Melbourne was pie-
pared to swamp the conservative majority in the House
of Lords—that majority amounting to something like
one hundred and ten. Shortly afterwards the tone of the
Downing-street journals was so far lowered as to admit
the probability, that only eighteen or twenty commoners
were to be pitchforked into the House of Lords----a num-
ber very far short of what would be required to neutral-
ize the conservative majority among the peers. The last
intimation we have had on the subject is, that some six
or eight commoners are to be invested with the honour.
The only parties named with any degree of confidence
are, Sir John Hobhonse, Mr. Spring Rice, Sir Jacob
Astley, Sir J. Wrottesley, and Mr. Paul Methuen. The
two first named gentlemen are considered as a " dead
weight" in the House of Commons—contributing only
to impede the motions of the cabinet, instead of render-
4)g as smooth as possible the course of ministerial policy.
Their bungling incapacity so frequently exposes them to
the ridicule of the house, that their absence is desirable
in the highest degree; but as ministers can scarcely
afford to lose two votes in either house, it is thought most
prudent to secure their influence, even after depriving
them of office, by sending them to vote in the Upper
House. To deprive them of their situations in connexion
with the govermnen', without offering any equivalent,
would be running too great a risk ; they are, therefore,
to be made peers. The three last named 'gentlemen
have the honour to be rejected candidate, like many
others who have been the especial favourites with the
radicals, in the dispensation of titles and emoluments.
They were considered unworthy or unfit, to sit in the
House of Commons; they are, therefore,- to be 'made
peers.

But zchy are ministers deterred from creating a greater
number of peerages? :Are they su Strong in the House
of Lords dim they need not any further accession to their
party among the peers ? Are they so delicately scrupul-
ous in bestowing titles and offices upon their friends that
they conscientiously shrink from indulging in too large
a creation ? Are they unfible to find any parties who are
willing to receive the dignity at their hands? Fai• from
it. Neither of these reasons has operated to prevent a
larger batch from being created. Ministers are still in a
woeful minority in the House of Lords. It would re-
quire some six score new peers to secure anything like a
triumph in the Upper House. Then, as to making it a
matter of conscience to refrain from swamping the House
of Lords, who could ever suspect the Crim-Connellite
cabinet of being under the influence of such a feeling?
This country has never witnessed so utterly reckless a
ministry as the present iu the exercise of their patronage.
There is positively nothing too shameless for them to
adopt for the purpose of strengthening their interest:
They will descend to the meanest expedient to purchase
a few additional votes, and seek to secure their places.
Nor is there the slightest difficulty in procuring parties
who are willing to become the tools of the whig. radical
cabinet in the execution of any dirty work. There is an
abundance of such, who would be very willing to be sent
into the House of Lords to vote black is white at the beck
of my Lord Melbourne.

Why, then, we, again ask, are there to be so few new
peers created? There are three insuperable obstacles
in the way—the Queen, the Peers, and the people. The
Queen is unwilling to render herself the tool of the
Whig radical faction so far as to secure their ascendency
in the House of Lords.—She is unwilling to debase her
royal prerogative for the purpose of keeping the imbe-
ciles in office. The peers also have, no doubt, given
Lord Melbourne a sufficiently intelligible hint that any
attempt on his part to degrade their order would be fol-
lowed by a powerful reaction among the aristocracy.
But "the people" interpose the insurmountable difficulty.
Lord Melbourne could not well find his new peers but
in the Hohse of Commons, excepting to a very limited
extent; and if thirty or forty vac4B74'Were.to take
place in the Commons, would " the people" supply them
with ministerialists ? Is it not quite possible that a
great majority of the new members might be Conser-
vatives? ,What would then become.of the "good work-
ing majority" of the Morning Chronicle
There can be little doubt that the ministers have.been
influenced in this matter more by their consciousness of
the weakness•of their party in the country, than by, their
own wishes, or by any other motive. This is tolerably
appatent from the very suspicious circumstance that no.
positive information has been yet given on the subject,
though the coronation is to take place this week. This
did not use to be the case when the party in power had
the sympathy and support of "the people."
We have only mentioned five of the number who are
to be elevated to the peerage. They are all the com-
moners who are spoken of as about to receive this
honour. The other parties named the four Irish peers,
who are to be raised to the English peerage, namely :
Viscount Lismore, the earl of Listowell, and Lords
Rossmore and Belfast. As there is a doubt of Lord
Rossinore'S elevation we are justified in estimating that
the new creation will not exceed eight. . . What, then,
becomes of the mighty boasts of the ministerial press ?
Where is tord Melbourne's carte blanche for swamping
the House of Lords ? Echo answers" where ?", Another
• proof has been afforded in this matter of the tottering
condition of the present ministry. Distrusted by our
gracious Queen—'-despised in the House of Lords—
bearded with impunity in the House of CoMmons—,and
laughed to scorn by the. people of Great Britain—they
cannot much longet be suffered to impede the course of
just and', Wholesome legistation,, or to .aid by their• pa-
tronage the ascentLincy of Popery.