The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-10-19 00:00:00

FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. 19, 1838.

(*" The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this
morning at 6 o'clock.

IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE FROM CANADA.—RE-
SIGNATION OF LORD DURHAM.—The Great Western,
which arrived at Bristol on Wednesday, brings intelli-
gence from New York to the 4th instant. This splen-
did vessel accomplished the distance from New York
in 12 days and 101 hours. She brought 126 passen-
gers ! Her outward passage was accomplished in 16
(lays. The most important intelligence conveyed by
this arrival is the positive announcement of Lord Dur-
ham's resignation, the following particulars respecting
which we take from a leading article in the Times of

yesterday :
"Since the above was written we have learned that
Lord Durham has actually resigned. This the Cana-
dian papers brought by the Great Western put beyond
doubt. They are filled with accounts of the debates in
the House of Lords on Lord Brougham's bill, and
with reports of meetings, or rumours of meetings, got
up for the purpose of persuading Lord Dm ham to stay
where he is. His Lordship, however, considers that
he has been very ill-used by the Ministers and the
Parliament—by the former, because they did not more
strenuously oppose, and by the latter, because they
were so cruel as to pass, the bill which Lord Brougham
intro iuced for the purpose of correcting the blunders
of the Governor. It is even probable that Lord Dur-
ham is now on his way home. He is represented as
being in a towering passion—storming at one time
and weeping at another, for the edification or the
amusement of the deputations that have had the ho.
flour of an interview with him on the subject of his
resignation. If the following passage from the Mon-
treal Courier of the 23th ult. be true, our ministers
here must have been prepared for Lord Durham's re-
signation :
"' The British America arrived last night at 7 o'clock
She left Quebec at 8 o'clock on Wednesday night, and
brought us the Gazette, Morniv Herald, and our con espond-
ent's letter.

"'Captain Armstrong learned at Sorrel that the despatches
from Lord Glenclg, received bv the last packet from Eng-
land, were addressed to Lord Durham, or the perAon admiwis-
tering the Government. Captain Armstrong also learned that
Sir John Colborne will be appointed Governor-in-Chief, on
the departure of the Earl of Durham."'

" We select from among many speeches which Lord
Durham has made to deputations from various bodies,
and in all of which he declared his determination to
resign, the following answer to an address of the
deputations of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and
Prince Edward's Island :'—
"' It is impossible for me to express to you in language
sufficiently strong the feelings of gratitude and pleasure with
which 1 have received this address.

" ' Representing as you do so worthily the three provinces
of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward's
Island, this proof of your confidence in me, and approbation
of the principles on which my administration has been con-
ducted, is most gratifying to me.
"`I assumed the government of the North American pro-
vinces with the predetermination to provide for the future
welfare and prosperity of them all, never doubting that such
of provision would.he the best, nay, the only security for their
Permanent connexion with the British crown. In communi-
exlions which have taken place between us, and from which
L I,ave erived eqal plasure and information, you ave
een fully apprisedu of mye views and intentions. Theseh you
hate appreciated and recognized in a manner for which I
c," never be sufficiently grateful. 1 have, indeed, had a
`"Meult and laborious duty to perform. The result of my
eneb'avours, however, is one of which I need not be ashamed.
In the shortspace of little snore than three months I have seen
tranquillity restored, and confidence reviving. I have caused
tohstantial justice to be administered, tempered by mercy,
!. have carefully examined, with a view to reformation, all the
lostitutions of the province more immediately committed to
I°Y charge • and I was on the point of promulgating such laws
as would have afforded protection to all those great British
Interests which had been too long neglected. I had also, as you
well know, devoted the most careful attention to all subjects
\,_'hich could affect the general interests of all he colonies, and
had .brought nearly to maturity the plan which I intended to
submit in the first instance to the consideration of the provinces
Ind eventually of the Cabinet and the Imperial Parliament.
In this, I trust, useful course, I have been suddenly arrested
by the interference of the British Legislature; in which the
l'esPonsible advisers of the Crown have deemed it their duty
t 4 acquiesce. Under those circumstances, I have but one
step to take—to resign that authority the exercise of which
"45 thus been so weakened as to render it totally inadequate
t° the rave emergency which alone called for its existence.
Be assured, however, or this, gentlemen, that this un-
expected and abrupt termination of the official connexion
Which united me with the North American provinces will
not Weaken in my mind the feelings of deep interest which I
'hall ever take in their fate, or render me less anxious to
°Mite every faculty of my mind, every influence 1 may pus-
"'ls. to the advancement of their interests, and to the esta-
blishment, on the most lasting foundation, of their welfare
And prosperity."'

THE CAPE of GOOD HOPE.—We have received a
"in of the Graham Town's Journal to the 3d of
August. These papers are almost entirely occupied
with accounts of the depredations committed be the
eafrres, Robberies of stock, cattle, &c., were of
latly oecurance; and the losses thus sustained were,
in many cases, rerr considerable. Treaties had been
%utered into with. their chiefs on the frontier, named
;'lto, Kama, and Kobe, which, it was hoped, might
Did to diminish the extent of these depredations.
According to letters from the vicinity of Port Natal,
It Was reported that Dingaan, the Zoola chief, by
wl•lorn the farmers and settlers had been so repeatedly
;olested and defeated, had himself been attacked in
rear by Zaposa, the chief of another tribe, and,
"lug at thesame time assaulted in front by the Boers,
farmers, was utterly routed, and a large number
of his Zoolas slain. In consequence of this success
was expected that the war would conic to a speedy
tXonination. The chief Macoma had requested to be
that
to occupy a farm within the boundary, alleging
that he could not control his tribe. Notwithstanding
, ese circumstances, many of the settlers were leaving
their
,
Mates of occupation ithin the governof the ment
.4eB to take up land on the outside border,
and
Iff in consequence the question of the policy of ex-
u r
htr. the jurisdiction of the governor of the Cape
w„d n'
been mooted. In all other respects the colony
it e every appearence of tranquillity ; as one evidence
44Pears that shares in the insurance companies had
ti,4,°lliy doubled, but nearly quadrupled in price, and
the those of the new bank were advancing nearly in
Aaroe ratio. At a meeting of the proprietors of
the `-ape of Good Hope Bank, on the 2'3111 of May,
so" unappropriated shares were offered by general
trutulletition to the shareholders who had signed the
1.,,8t deed of 1837, when the whole of the said shares
vil'irtle sold at from £9l to £1 01 per share, the nominal
ta3e of each share being £5O, on which the sum of
63 8d had been paid.

etcona:W EST INDIES.—We have received files of the
10th
(:'
l.(1, Gazette, Dispatch, and Royal Gazette, to the
that t,ast month, inclusive. We are sorry to say
pars tle news continues to be unfavourable. It ap-
6.that the negroes generally continue to be averse
vat,_ Id labour, and that they entertain the most extra-
of lint notions with respect to the fancied interference
oalf. ~,;I(susli people and government on their be-
Li( el" 'fie Papers abound with complaints against Sir
Smith, who appears to be very unpopular.
and,ngreat evil which at present exists in Jamaica,
thNsy deed, throughout the \Vest Indian colonies, is,
QrOve,, of a general scale of labour, agreed to by the
to _ nor and
ges , magi
stracy. To give different advan•
labourers on various properties gives rise to
T of
or_ ,Jeaionsy and discontentment.
condir our readers some knowledge of the actual
the
corrl" of Jam:dea we subjoin a few extracts from
"• ,n..4nce of the several journals before
From the parish of Westmoreland a correspondent
Writes thus to the Gazette of the Ist of September
I brought all my money (surplusage) from America
last year, and invested it in the purchase of the re-
maining term of apprenticeship of a jobbing gang; of
Course it is now all scattered unto the winds. Out of
85 labourers domiciled upon my property, 1 have not
one at work. They all say houses and grounds are for
them for three months, after the expiration of which
time they will work, but not before, and if " they the
first for work them Cot her say them spoil the free." It
surprises me that no legal opinion has been given or
demanded, and that the press has not once adverted to
the mode to be adopted in obtaining rent, to which we
must be entitled from the Ist of August. Are the
people to be allowed to sit down in indolence and defy
us, when it is palpably-.plain by being summoned for
rent before:t*6 Magistrates they would be saddled with