The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-09 00:00:00

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FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9, 1840

By the overland mail we have received intelligence
from New South Wales, to the 18th of June. The
state of Sydney is described in the papers as most

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alarming, so many crimes having been recently corn
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mitted there. Robberies were almost of daily recur.
rence. Much discussion had taken place on the subjec'
of the Bushranging Act, designed to give securit]

against marauders. By the provisions of this act, an
man may seize and detain another who may be detecte

with fire-arms in his possession. It was alleged by
the governor, that the act would prove a great means
of preventing the excess of crime. '
. The merchants of Port Philip had convened a meet-
ing of the inhabitants, for the purpoie of memorialising
the government for the establishment in Australia Felix,
of a supreme court of civil and criminal judicature.
Further outrages had been committed by the French
on the inhabitants of the South Sea islands. A letter
from Tahiti states, that the French frigate which left that

)lace for the Sandwich Islands last year, had been at
he latter, and succeeding in extorting 20,000 dollars.
[le captain threatened to commence hostilities unless
its demands were immediately complied with, but

offered protection to all foreigners, except the Protes-
tant clergymen. The officers of two American ships of
war, just arrived from Tahiti, had drawn up and
circulated a spirited protest against the arbitrary pro-
ceedings of the French. It was also probable that a
memorial on the same subject would be presented to

the American government.
The Sydney Herald complains bitterly of the Irish im-
migrants that had recently arrived in the colony. They
are described as " the most troublesome, the least
useful, and the least prized of all those arriving by
government or bounty ships." It is added that all
the Irish immigrants are not of this character, but that
" the mass of those sent out from the Popish counties
are of the lowest grade of character," and that settlers
from the interior dread the risk of contamination by

bringing them upon their establishments. Most of
them were idle, dissolute, and reckless, having no fixed
employment, and possessing nothing in their personal
appearance to recommend them. They appeared to
have been taken from workhouses, or discharged from
gaols, in order to swell the ranks of the Popish faction
in the colony. We cannot avoid making one quota-

tion from the Sydney Herald, in reference to these indi-
viduals, and with respect to the indisposition of the
colonists to take them into their employ. That journal
says—" There is a moral reason which prevents re-
spectable settlers from engaging the services of such
men. There is a strong suspicion that many of these
men are shipped off for party purposes. Ireland
abounds with daring criminals at this day, and it is
strongly suspected that many of these are shipped to
Australia to be out of the way when wanted.' Who,
with such suspicions in his mind, confirmed by the
appearance of the men, would willingly receive into
his family the suspected burglar, murderer, whiteboy,
or bludgeon-man ? Who would willingly receive
under his charge the lazy, ignorant, priest-ridden zea-

lots, who have escaped the halter, the penitentiary, or
the hulks, by the misplaced lenity of the Marquis of
Normanby ? No one would wish to identify his esta-
blishment with their names.". These suspicions, we
have strong reasons for asserting, appear to be but too
well founded. The Marquis of Normanby, during his
administration of Irish affairs, systematically afforded
" a license for crime, an indemnity for felony, and a
bounty in favour of atrocity, manslaughter, rape, and
murder." Many of the criminals whom•he discharged
by proclamation, have been shipped to New South
Wales. This is the way in which the Whigs protect
the colonial interests of Great Britain. Under their
paternal care one of the most flo*ishing of our colo-
nies is converted into a den of emancipated thieves.
We hope that the colonists will send home a strong
remonstrance against this infamous system. If it is
allowed to proceed much further, there will be a com-
plete stop put to the emigration of respectable capi-
talists. It is a gross fraud upon the colony to appro-
priate the immigration fund to such a purpose as that
of sending out a horde of idle vagabonds, reeking

with crime, and tutored in all those mysteries o:
abomination which are so sedulously inculcated by the
ruffian disciples of Peter Dens.

The expiring effort of an enemy is always danger-
ous. The clutch of a drowning man drags down alike
friend and foe to share the watery grave which is clos-
ing over him ; and the downfal of a faction is ever
marked by the same desperate and blind struggle to
involve in a common fate its adherents and its op-

ponents.
Let our readers look back to the proceedings of the
Whig corporation of Liverpool during the last twelve
months. Let them examine the reckless shifts, the
fraudulent expedients, the deep artifices, the com-
pounded jesuitry and open dishonesty, with which it
has struggled to retrieve its fast-sinking popularity, to
strengthen its hold upon the public purse, to prop up