The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-04-19 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

LIEUT. JOSEPH WALKER, R.N. DECEASED.
L LJpersons indebted to LIEUTENANT :JOSEPH VAI,E.ER,
R.N. late, MA STER Of the FoIIMBY LIGHT Ho E, recently
deceased, or bolding any Property or Effects wh. I belonged to
him, are requested to pay or deliver the same Mr. THOMAS
H Solicitor-Union-court, Castle-spk, who is author-
ised by the Executor to receive and giVe. discharges for the
same.

And all p ersons having claims upon the Testator ate request-
ed to send in the particulars thereof to Mr. HARVEY, in order
that they maybe liquidated,

ine.,IJRSUANT to a Decree of the Court of C eery Of the
County Palatine of Lancaster, made in ause " Gill v.
Dobson," the creditors of RICHARD DO N, late of Li-
verpool, in the said county palatine, bro wino died on or
about the 9th day of June. ISA), are to c in •-; a prove their
respective debts before WILLIAM S , Registrar of
the said Court, at his Office, in Prest ,in the said county, on

or before the thirty-first day of , May, 1836, or in default there°,
they will be excluded the benefit of the said Decree.
ROE'!'. FRODSHAM, Solicitor for the Plaintiff.
EDEN, SON, and STANISTREET,
Solicitor§ for the Defendant.

COMPENSATION FOR MR. BUCKINGHAM M.P.
THE SHEFFIELD COMMITTEE, appointed for the
purpose of raising a Fund, by a voLuntary National Sub-
scription, for the Purchase of an ANNUITY for the joint
LIVES of Mr. and Mrs. BUCKINGHAM, as a Comp: sation
for the Losses he has sustained in advoCating the iberty of
the Press in India, and to remunerate him for • successful
exertions in opening the Trade to India and Chi a, entertain a
hope that Liverpool, which has so materially b • efited by those
exertions, will gladly contribute to the abov • und.
Mr. BENJAMIN SKIDMORE, their Delegay, is now in Liver-
pool, and will be glad to give information on the subject, and
receive Subscriptions at Miss LEwrs's, Clayton-square.
Subscriptions will also be received at the Banking-house of
Messrs. S. Hope and Co.; by Egerton Smith, Esq.,Mercury-
office ; Dr. Mackenzie, Journal-office; Messrs. Ross and Night-
ingale, Chronicle-office; Mr. H. C. Langton, 62, Dale-street;
Mr. Hodgson. Bookseller, Lord-street;
.and Messrs. J. Finch
and Son, 12, Sir Thomas's-buildings.

Vittoria; and, as they are reformers of the first water,
it is possible that Lord JOHN RUSSELL may feel some in-
terest in their situation. But we cannot discover any
connection between ships Of the line and hospital rations,
which last might much more conveniently be carried in
colliers or steamers. On the other hand _the simple be-
lief that the British government have determined to in-
terfere in earnest, and despatch a naval armament to the
assistance of the Queen Regent, are showy facts Well
calculated to advance the price of the bonds and make
them profitable to the, present holders. If then it be
only a sham interference, and the fleet is to proceed elie-
where, all we say is-4uccess to swindling!
The whigs are admitted to be the friends of peaee and
retrenchment, at least they profess to he this, and some-
thing more. Several sail of our first class of battle ships
cannot be sent to sea for a trifle, far less for a song. The
Chancellor of the-Exchequer, we apprehend, haS no
surplus revenue to spare, and yet he is pledged to make
some important reduction in the taxes. How then lie is
to meet an increased expenditure with a diminished in-
come we leave the honourable functionary to explain.
Surely he does not mean to make the unexpected cost of
this expedition the excuse for retaining the " taxes on
knowledge" for another year. If so, Grub-street will be
up in arms, HUME and MOLESWORTH will raise a tap-
room tempest, the penny trumpet will be sounded by
EWART and WAKLEY, and JONATHAN ROEBUCK, who
failed in a threehalfpenny concern, will make dog'S-meat
of SPRING RICE in the cause of still cheaper and nastier
literature.

But it is whispered that the destination of the aug-
mented Beet is the Dardanelles and the Euxine, and
that Russia is to he brought to her senses! This is too
grave:a subject for a joke. It is only a ridiculous sub-
ject from the absurd pretensions of one of the intended
belligerents. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, with the help of
DANIEL O'CONNELL and Lot d DURHAM, directing a war
against. Russia, would be absolutely a burlesque upon
Bombastes Furioso. Just imagine the author of Don
aterios.• hanging; up the jack-booty
" Who dares this pair of boots displace,
Must meet Lionibmtes face to face;
And thus I challenge all the human race."

Gol) forbid that we should question the gallantry of
our countrymen in anystruggle they may be called upon
to engage for the honour or the interest of our father-

land. But before the nation can be expected to approve
of even successful courage they must be first convinced
that the cause of quarrel is a just one. RusSia, we ad-
mit, has overreached and, perhaps, has insulted England.
But whatever privilege 'or possessions she has obtained
in European Turkey, in Asia, or in the Black Sea, she
has procured by treaty solemnly signed and ratified by
the two parties most deeply interested, namely, the Sul-
tan and the Emperor. If we allowed Russia to gain
these advantages over us, we did so with our eyes Open.
The Whigs were in .power-Lord PALMERSTON was at
the Foreign Office--Lord, DURHAM vas with his family
in St. Petersburg!). We deserted the Sultan in the hour
of need; we stood, by and saw his Egyptian vassal carry
his invading hordes within a week's march of the gates
of Constantinople; we bad power to restrain IBRAHIM
PASHA; a word from us would have kept him at home;
but, as we took no part in the quarrel, as we offered no
remonstrances, and as we took his cotton and swallowed
our leek quiescently, he had a clear right to suppose that
we were as favourable to his course of warlike policy as
was the governmenttof the Czar.
Theevil is done. Russia is mistress of the navigation
of the 'Bosphorus. Formerly the Turks commanded that
passage, and their permission alone was required to en-
able our ships of war to enter the Euxine. Now, how-
ever, we cannot pass without the permission of Ntcuo-
LAS, and to force the Dardanelles without permission, for-
tified as it is on both sides by Russian engineers, isquite