The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-25 00:00:00

FRIVOLOUS SUITS.-LORD DENNIAN'S BILL.

House of Lords, " to repeal so much of an act of the
The following is Lord Denman's bill, presented t4o3dtloiet.
Elizabeth, intituled ' An Act to avoid trifling and frivolous. ,
Suits in Law in her Majesty's Courts at Westminster ' and
of an act of the 22d and 23d of Charles 11., instituled 'An
Act for laying Impositions on Proceedings at Law, as relates
to Costs on Personal Actions ;' and to make further provi-
sions in lieu thereof."
The preamble sets forth that
" 1. Whereas an act passed in the 43d year of the reign of
Elizabeth, intituled ' Au Act to avoid trifling and frivolous
Suits in Law in her Majesty's Courts at Westminster;' and
another act in the 22d and 23d years of the reign of King
Charles 11., instituled ' An Act for laying Impositions on
Proceedings at Law,' which recites that many good subjects
of this realm have been and daily are, undone by such suits,
contrary to the intention of the said statute of Queen Eliza-
beth; but the same evil notwithsianding doth still prevail
and increase; and it is expedient to consolidate and extend
those provisions : now be it enacted by the Queen's most
Excellent Majesty, by, &c., That the two said recited acts of
the 43d of Elizabeth and of the 22d and 23d of Charles 11.,
so far as the same relate to costs in personal actions, be and
they are hereby repealed.
" 2. That if the plaintiff in any action of trespass, either to
the person or to real or personal property, or for libel, slan-
der, or malicious persecution, brought or to be brought in
such plaintiff
recover
by the
verdict her
Majesty
of a
i jury
yC
less
stsd
damages
ages Westminster,than 4o s . ,
shall
shall not be entitled to recover or obtain, from the defendant,
such verdict, any costs whatever, whether it
in respect of
shall be given upon
any issue or issues tried, or judgment
passedoshtfiaellerhabveefore verdict shall be obtained shall im-
mediatelyby default, unless the judge or presiding
on the back of the record (if the
afterwards certify
the action was really brought to
that
action be in trespass)
right to recover damages for the
try a right besides the mere
which the action shall have been
wliom such
trespass or grievance for
brought.

taking the
INDIAN (C
iron hook oa
—Their mode of
tackle consists of is
The whole of
a very simple one.
salmon
SALMON. FISHING.
long, with a large
iron into his side
constantly trailingattached pole about twelve.feet . _
to the end. This machine they keep
the surface, by in the water, and when the fish approaches
say they take so
laud about three timesanY
quick and dexterous jerk they taste,n, the
side, and shake him off into the canoe. They
Sporting Excursions in the dayit to
fish that it is necessary for them to
deposit them.— To itiishen d's
much ;•as to the climate I rli
A SOLDIER'S LIVE IN IN Rocky Mountain.?.
; but. by
thinkex the reports which you hear
l—l like this country very
reset:Aerated. In the het hea-
ther it in England are greaotlpyr
ther the heat is certainly
suffer much more
immense punkahs kept constantly
w e t 1n o two ne
October,
anmeansyde4x tcthecepri
.otpcfeticht
euhat et.,
some (Dec.litl
liar construction of the houses,
than a hot day in England. As to the Reacher
day in he r noww
15,) it resembles a fine sunshiny
the sun is hotter and the wind cooler.
and go about all day at this period of the yeal:.
be astonished to see the queer houses we live in, You would
bigger than cottages. They look cold and desolate
sou just arrived from England, but one soon gets accustomed
per_
to them. We are all quite quiet in this part of the world,ed
since the arrangement of affairs in Cabool, and there seems
tobe no prospect of a war.—Private Letter from Barrack.
pore.

PRESENT POSITION AND FUTURE PROSPECTS

OF ENGLAND.
[CONCLUDED FROM OUR LAST.]
(From the Colonial Magazine.)
But if we turn from the vast resources which England,
Ireland, and Scotland possess in the fertility of the soil,
and the highly civilized condition of the country ; in the coal,
iron, copper, lead, and tin, beneath its surface ; and in the
productive fisheries around our shores; if, while not over-
looking these and many other elements of wealth and power,
we view the transmarine possessions of the empire, " wide
as the poles-asunder ;" under nearly every parallel of latitude,
and beneath almost every meridian of longitude, we behold
myriads of human beings, of every creed, colour, and clime,
and an incalculable immensity of every thing that can tend
to promote individual comfort and social prosperity.

Do we require corn, whether wheat, barley, oats, maize,
or rice ; the vast plains of the Canadas, of Australia, and of
India, offer an inexhaustible supply, independent of foreign
countries, and of the casualty of adverse seasons. Every
species of timber, may be obtained from our American and
Asiatic possessions. The widely expanded downs of Austral-
Asia, now covered with flocks of sheep, are becoming the
wool country of the world. In the West and East Indies we
have the means of supplying sugar, coffee, tea, cocoa, spices,
&c. for all Europe.
Cotton, flax, silk, indigo, and dye-stuffs, are ready in
limitless quantities, and at the cheapest rate. Tobacco,
gums, hides, ivory, furs, &c. are among the staples of our
African possessions : fruits, oil, wines, and spirits, are ob-
tainable in the colonies of Europe, as also in those of the
southern hemisphere. India teems with gold, iron, copper,
lead, and coal ; and in almost every settlement the grand
adjuncts of commerce, coal and iron, abound. _ _ _

We dwell not at this moment on the innumerable advan-
tages which our colonies present : we advert briefly to them,
merely to indicate the riches that are at our doors, if we will
but wisely use them, and thus advance the happiness of man-
kind. With such unmined wealth—with such untasted abun-
dance, it is folly—nay, it is wickedness, to talk of England's
decay ; she is but in the morning of her existence, bursting
into light, and betokening a golden harvest, not only for
those of her own race and lineage, but for all who desire the
inappreciable blessings of a Christianized civilization.
And this brings us to a consideration of the hostility of
continental Europe. What has France, or Spain, or Portu-
gal to gain by the downfall of England ? Do they think that
constitutional freedom would be more secure against the en-
croachments of northern Europe, were the freest and most
powerful kingdom on earth destroyed ? Were there even no
Autocrat to threaten the people of the south and west with
swarms of cossacks, Portugal would soon become an appan-
age of Spain, and Spain, in turn, wouldbe added to the sove-
reignty of France, Sntil the Gallic nation, incapable of main-
taining so great a territorial dominion, would split into petty
republics or oligarchies,''arid civilization•would retrogade far
more rapidly than it has advanced. On the other hand;
would the despotic states of northern and eastern Europe
long withstand the onward lush of a crusade for political
liberty, if England were not at hand to check the misguided
zeal of rich theorists for freedom ? The determined enthusi-
asm of Germany, and the reckless courage of Poland, would
afford the means for kindling the flames of foreign and civil
war in Russia, Austria, and Prussia. There is no longer a
Holy Alliance in existence, to band nations together in self-
defence for some common purpose—the balance of power
among the different sovereignties of Europe is daily becom-
ing less and fess effective for the preservation of the rights
of each : and if peace is to be preserved in Europe, and that
war of opinion which Canning predicted is to be avoided, it
must be by England preserving her puissance, and acting as
the arbitress of the destinies ofmankind.

In the confederacy of nations, as well as among the con-
stituency of a kingdom, there must he some chief acknow-
ledged, for the better upholding of the rights and privileges
of each. To which of the nations of Europe can that power
be more safely entrusted than to England? She belongs to
Europe, although not on its continent ; she forms a part of
the family compact of nations, yet has no personal interest
in the connexion. Were the whole of Europe instantaneously
engulphed by an earthquake, England would be no loser;terri-
torially, commercially, or socially. But it is for the honour
and advantage of England that Europe should be in peace—
that its sovereigns and governments should, by every possi-
ble means, extend freedom, knowledge, and commerce. She
has a common interest in the welfare of Europe, as it con-
tains the most civilized portion of the human race ; hut she
can have no views adverse to the internal prosperity of
France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Russia, Prussia, &c.
England can never become a great continental power : evert
if it were possible, the attainment of such would be fdreign
to her objects and interests : her dominion is on the ocean,
with her fleets and colonies she can command and control,
as she has before done, the coasts and commerce of all who
may proclaim themselves her enemies. But in no instance
has England ever waged an offensive war in Europe; when-
ever,she has been provoked into contests, it has either been
for the maintenance of her principles, or in self-defence--
France may desire to extend her boundaries to the Rhine,
Spain to re-annex Portugal to the ancient thrones of Castile
and Arragon : Austria avariciously grasps Italy; Russia daily
augments her territories from the dislocated provinces of
Turkey ; but England seeks nothing in Europe. Whatever
may be the extent of her acquisitions in other parts of the
globe, the white nations have assuredly no reason to fear an
encroachment on their territories and rights ; and by the ex-
tension of her colonies among the dark-coloured races of the
tropics, she is cheapening the luxuries of life, and enabling
all Europe to profit by her exertions.
We have thus shown that there is no just ground for the
hostility which the continental powers have expressed towards
England ; and our future pages will develope how little Eng-
land has to dread from the united hostility of every nation of
Europe, were it possible for them all to combine against her.
Foreigners never comprehend sufficiently our social state, or
internal resources. If, by any madness, England were to
be plunged into war, party feeling would soon subside, and
the energies of this mighty country would be put forth with
tremendous effect. We should, as before, strip every hostile
nation of their colonies, sweep the seas of their vessels, and
blockade their coasts. Autocrats or despotic sovereigns would
soon find that their domestic condition would not be favour-
able to the maintenance of their present power ; and that
which would but consolidate our internal strength, would, if
necessity required it, be made an instrument for breaking
their rule.
We desire not to dwell on this subject, and have not the
least intention of using minatory language ; on the contrary,
we wish to prove that it is the interest of every nation in Eu-
rope to be at peace with England, and it is for their direct
personal good that she should maintain her colonial power
and oceanic supremacy ; and when we come to discuss, at a
future period, our political and commercial relations with
our European brethren, we shall endeavour to show how little
England has to fear or to care for the hostility or friendship
of her Continental neighbours, apart from those general con-
siderations which we trust will ever sway a Christian kingdom.
There will arise so many occasions for an examination of
each and all the points adverted to, and for a minute inquiry
into the bases of our structure, as the oldest kingdom on the
earth, that we pass on to shadow forth a brief vaticination of
the future prospects of England.
Two proceedings, now in their infancy, are destined to
exercise a most important influence on the future condition
of this empire : the one is, the stream of emigration in the
direction of the Southern Pole ; the other, the flow of our
commerce towards the Eastern Hemisphere ; the one con-
taining millions of acres, in a genial clime, ready for the
plough; the other, myriads of comparatively civilized men,
ready to supply in exchange for our manufactures, all the
valuable and varied products, of the tropics, These two cir-
cumstances, in connexion with a sound monetary and fiscal
system at home, will make England young again, with all
the wisdom of mature age, and all the benefits of advancing
science and accumulated capital. There will thus be a new
spring to her existence ; whatever she has before accom-
plished will he trifling compared to her future efforts ; and
with 28,000,000 of free, educated, industrious, and religious
inhabitants at home, this small island in the German Ocean,
will hold complete sway over the entire Eastern world.
Nor will the Western or American hemisphere he neglected;
our possessions in the Northern and Southern portions of
that continent, on its Atlantic and Pacific coasts; and the
rich islands of its tropical seas, under the stimulus of per-
sonal freedom and constitutional liberty, will yet add ma-
terially to our resources, population, and power : and when
the immense advantages of the vast countries watered by the
Orinoco and Amazon are developed, England will be pre-
pared to participate in their enjoyment.
While our native land is intersected with railways, the wide
ocean will be traversed by our steam-vessels, reducing the
distance of months to weeks, and connecting by our floating_
bridges the continents of both hemispheres. Sooner or later,
the Anglo-Saxon language will become the universal medium
for communication between foreign nations, and thus give
to England a perpetual presence and identification with those
who now perhaps deem themselves our rivals.
By the aid of machinery, physical toil will be lessened, man,
in ceasing to be a machine, will become snore and more an
intellectual being, and, with a full perception of the duties as
well as the enjoyments of life, political privileges may be
gradually conceded, and the progress of society will be equable
and happy.
England, even now, may claim the designation of the
queen-mother of nations ; by a just policy, the offspring of
her loins will become the sinews of her strength, until, like
the banyan tree of the East, every fibre and shoot more and
more effectually shields, upholds, and adorns the parent stem.
Amidst the thousand million of human beings that now in-
habit this earth (independent of the myriads it is still capable
of containing), there cannot be one uninterested in the future
progress of England, if England act up to the Christian prin-
ciples which are the foundation of her religion. Those prin-
ciples are the preservation of peace, the liberation of the slave,
the judicious extension of rational freedom, and the perma-
nent establishment of Christianity.
It was doubtless for these great and holy objects that this
small island has been permittted to rise from a barbarian
colony of heathen Rome, where her children were sold as
slaves, to her present exalted state ; and if she be but true to
the dictates of that divine creed which has been revealed to
man for his temporal as well as spiritual welfare, we cannot
contemplate an end to her power, nor a boundary to her hap-
piness.
It is not, therefore, for the sake of the small territorial
speck called Britain, that we seek the extension and the per-
manence of her supiemacy ; it is because we believe that the
destinies of mankind are intimately blended with her weal or
woe, and that an awful responsibility rests upon the course
which, in the exercise of a free agency, she may for the fu-
ture pursue.
Cheerfully do we confess, that we feel no gloomy forebod-
ings ; there are even within this small island too many good
Christians to suffer despair to creep with its noisome weeds
around the heart; we believe that the salt of the earth is in
Britain, and that it contains the little leaven which will yet
leaven the entire mass of mankind—among whom our revered
ministers are everywhere spreading the light of a pure gospel,
avfi.reoiedeilopueogrreaching its comforts and blessings in every known
tongue.
Finally, we desire to be actively useful in aiding towards
the fulfilment of the high behests to which we believe Eng.
land is called ; we wish to cast our high mite into the general
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universe.

RIVERS IN THE HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS.-At six hours
fifty minutes, we came ton the confluence of the Seepun and
et haseePa
duel):
formedur H efrreumthtebee
melting
r
precipices,
hundred feet into mural
gneiss rocks rise sheer se-
veralebr
ywthhi
ec I
uncon-
trollable manyueu
u.
voefntahseunsdnoeovrws tumble into
the gulf below, which has beennri
trough which they dash
are
elladbeleep c; attahraatctesf.
thTehepurbabvui
res
skirteddidtals:lte
eternally
quiveringvexe
vexed
tcragsoN
both, darkened into
of the whitest mists,
sabyssesplinterendf
gloom,itlto sharp
filied pinnacles,with,vitir
gaiweer of desolation.
breathless with
Ptiorningof the confluence is
and re-echoing the hollow thunderlswaoinfn
rents, which seem like the revelling
elevation delightTh i s is
and Himalayan
wonder. g r a nTdheeu r
e,
8,300 feet. There is a sango over the Seepun
at this place
of two narrow planks, thirty-four feet in length, and about'
twelve or fifteen feet above the impatient current. Here
some of our followers seemed to want resolution to crora the
perilous bridge. One crawled over on his hands and knees
another sat astride, and urged himself over by his hands;
while others were led by the vice-like grasp of their com-
rades. A Pariah dog, that had followed us from the plains,
and was a favourite with the camp people, who had given
him, on account of his enterprising disposition, the cogno-
men of Subahtoo, was, however, so frightened that he would
not hazard himself on so insecure a footing, and howled
Piteously, at being left behind. One of the mountaineers
recrossed, and carried him over in his arms,--Lloyd's Nar-
rative of a Journey to the Himalayas.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Three o'clock.

LIVERPOOL MARKETS.—THIs DAY.

CORN EXCHANGE.

Although the wind still continues to blow from the east, a
tolerable number of vessels have worked in since Friday,
containing a fair quantity of Wheat, Barley, and Flour coast-
wise, with several parcels of Wheat and Beans from the con-
tinental ports of Europe ; but of most articles a limited
supply only from Ireland.
At our Corn Exchange this morning the Wheat trade
opened with an increased degree of firmness on the part of
sellers, and rather hilher prices were required ; but not being
responded to sufficiently to establish any actual advance,
sales proceeded somewhat slowly, and in any instance it was
difficult to exceed the rates of this day week.
All sorts of free Flour likewise continued to move off spa-
ringly on the terms last noted. Of American in bond the
transactions since this day se'nnight amount to atout 2,000
barrels at 30s, and with some further inquiries to-day, 30s Gd
per barrel was refused. Of Grain under lock no sales of mo-
ment have recently transpired.
Malting Barley and Malt, upon a moderate demand, fully
maintained our last quotations, whilst grinding Barley, of
which a few parcels have arrived coastwise, appeared in li-
mited request, at former prices.
Beans, having been taken off more readily than of late,
were the turn dearer ; and Pease remained steady in value.
The Oat trade to-day appeared to attract very little notice,
and even fine qualities were rather lower than on Friday,
3s. lid. per 45 lbs. being the extreme rate obtainable.
Oatmeal also continued difficult of sale, and our last cur-
rency was scarcely supported.

ARRIVALS OF CORN.
From the 18th to the 24th February, 1840, inclusive.

inn- COAST- FO- UNITED!!
DINCRIPTION. LAND. WISE. REIGN, RTATESq TOTAL.
___---- - ....--__
Wheat Qrs. 1062 5776 2750 jI 9588
Barley Qrs. I 86 2231 I, 2317
Malt
Oats Qrs.l . 1707 . 7 . i. 1714
Rye Qrs. '
Beans Qrs, i'' 417 1740 I 2157
Pease Qrs. 271 If 271
Shelled Barley
Indian Corn . .
Rapeseed Qrs.l - r
Oatmeal .. . . Loads 2195 5 ,I 2200
Flour. Sacks) 914 2135 400 I I, 3449
Ditto . Bits. i I,
Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise, Oatmeal, 644 qrs.

7oastwise, Oatmeal, 614 qrs

EXPORTS. Foreign.—Barley. 9 qrs. ; Oats, 66 qrs. ; Beans, 15
qrs. ; Pease, 6 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 5 loads ; Flour, 251 brls. Ireland.
—Wheat, 559 qrs. Coastwise.—Wheat, 371 qrs. ; Barley, 337 qrs. ;
Malt, 180 qrs. ; Oats, 140 qrs. 1 • Beans, 91 qrs. ; Pease, 70 qrs.
Oatmeal, 130 loads ; Flour, 533 sacks, 244 brls.
Average prices of Grain, for the week ending Feb. 14, 1840.
Wheat.. 655. 3d. } Barley.. 38s. 3d. Oats.. 245. 3d. Rye.. 365. sd.
Beans.. 395. 7d. Pease, 408. 4d.
Aggregate average of the six weeks.

Wheat.. 655. 5d71 Biirley.. 395. od. I Oats.. 235. 11. I Rye.. 373.9 d.
Beans .. 40s. 3d. Pease.. 405. 2d.
Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week.

Wheat2ls. Bd. Barley 3s. 4d. I
I Oats '.... .. 128. 3d. Rye .. 14s. Od
I Beans, gs. 6d. Pease. gs. 6d. Indian Corn, 3s. 4d. Flour, 13s. 04
Liverpool Averages, week ending 18th February, 1840.
I Wheat. 1 Barley. Oats. I Beans. 1 Pease.
Qr 5..... 1205 628 733 115 0
Prices.. 765. 7d. 455. Id. 268. Od. 48s. 6d. Os. Od.