The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-10-07 00:00:00

TO. CORRESPONDENTS.

3.1374
Owing to the large space occupied in our columns, this day,Xy,
the reports of the Festival, and the Annual Meeting of! the:
Agricaltural Society, we are under the necessity of omitting.
several interesting articles, as well as postponing the favors
of several correspondents.
We shall feel obliged, if those ladies and gentlemen who may
attend the ball, this evening, will furnish us with their names
and the characters in which they appear. ~;,„ „uti
The Poetry of " Cervantes" will not suit. ...•
The letter of " An Old Whig" shall be attended to in our next.
" Impromptu," by " C. C.'--.good, but too strong.
The " Verses composed on beholding an infant sleeping" are,
we will vouch, perfectly original; hut something more than
originality is requisite'to make them acceptable to the public.
The lines are of all lengths, from six syllables to fifteen ;
and, to mend the matter, the accent is still more capriciously
diversified.

E'be Ltberpool eStanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 7,183 ff

We have received a file of Jamaica Tapers up to the
25th of August. The Kingston Royal Gazette contains
a proclamation, issued by the Marquis of Sligo, further
proroguing the House of Assembly to the 27th of Sep.
tember.
The following address of Sir Lionel Smith mit} deli.
vered to the House of Assembly at Barbadoes, upon his
appointment to the government of Jamaica:—
"I have the honour to announce to you, that his Majesty has
been graciously pleased to remove me to the government of
Jamaica, and that I am ordered to proceed thither, by the ear-
liest opportunity.
"Though I have been unwilling to disturb your prorogations,
I thought it my duty to call you together, to communicate this
information, and I avail myself of it, to offer to your honourable
house my parting good wishes.
"I pray that your hon. house may be animated in all your
proceedings by a sense of the weighty difficulties you still have
to contend Nlith, and that wisdom and forecast may carry your
deliberations to a successful issue.
" Whatever my future destiny may be, the happiness and
prosperity of this island will continue to constitute one of my
anxious hopes and wishes, and it has been in this spirit of good
will that I have faithfully endeavouted to discharge my duties

as your Governor."
Immediately after the communication of this message,
the house adjourned ; and the members, stepped in their
carriages, and proceeded in a body to the Government
House, to pay his Excellency the compliment of deliver-
ing to him the following address, which was read by the
Speaker, the Marshal standing next to him with the
mace :

" The House of Asseiribly had the honour of receiving, at
its last meeting, a communication from your Excellency, an-
nouncing that his Majesty had been graciously pleased to re-
move your Excellency to the government of Jamaica; and
that you intended to proceed thither by the earliest opportuni-
ty. The house desiring to evince in the most respectful man-
ner their feelings towards your Excellency, resolve to attend
their Speaker on the occasion of replying to your Excellency's

message.
" The house offers to your Excellency the best thanks for
the kind expression of your ' parting good wishes' to them ;
and while they cordially unite with you in praying that all their
deliberations may be conducted to a successful issue, they can-
not
but deeply deplore that, amidst the `weighty difficulties'
which still surround them, they will lose the valuable assistance
and support they must necessarily have derived from your Ex-
cellency's ' wisdom and forecast.'
" It is highly flattering to the House of Asssmbly, and can-
not fail to be equally so to their constituents, to receive from
your Excellency the assurance that the ' happiness and prospe-
rity of this island will continue to be the subject of your an-
xious hopes and wishes.' Arriving amongst us at a period the We are furnished with the reports of the importan,
most eventful in the history of British colonization—selected
for the responsible task of reconcilingus to a vast and most proceedings at Birmingham, and Framlingham in Suf-
hazardous change in the constitution of our Society, it was but folk, simultaneously. These splendid gatherings render
natural that in introducing the new order of things, your opi- a postponement of our intended observations on the
nions should come into collision with long established feelings freedom of the press imperatively necessary ; and as we
and habits, and certain that obstacles, almost unsurmountable, feel a lively interest in the success of the conservative
should attend the discharge of duties so invidious and onerous; cause at Birmingham, we first -proceed to notice the re-
but it has been your Excellency's part, by a firm, temperate, sults of the meeting recently held at Dee's Royal Hotel
and judicious exercise of the great powers entrusted to you,
to adjust these differences, to conquer these difficulties, and, by
in that town, the particulars of which have been for-
determined resolution, to promote and enforce among our la- warded to us in a special form. Without desiring for a
bouring classes that industry, on the c3ntinuance of which the moment to disparage the efforts made and making in our
susses„ of the great measure of emancipation wholly depends, own borough, we do earnestly wish to impress on the
to adopt the only means by which this colony can be saved from attention of our readers, the objects of this meeting. To
ruin, and its inhabitants reconciled to the changes which it has our neighbours we say, here is a subject for your emula-
been their lot to encounter.
tion. Within five short years the black flag of revolu-
" The House of Assembly sincerely regrets the loss the co-
tionarranny was paraded through the streets of Bir-
y t v
lony will sustain on your Excellency's relinquishment of its ' -
government ; but they must be permitted to congratulate you, mingham—her churches were desecrated and her morals
Sir, on the distinguished honour which your services have broken down by encouraging scenes which disgraced a
merited from our most gracious Sovereign; and their fellow- civilized age, and by an association with principles at
colonists of Jamaica, on the prospect they have of obtaining, once base in design and ruinous in execution, polluting
under the administration of your Excellency, the inestimable tile very name of liberty. That she should now stand
advantages of just and impartial government.
forth high in her championship of the cause of our God,
In conclusion, they beg to offer to your Excellency their
our Church and our King, is to us a subject of the
most earnest wishes, that vou may succeed in the fullest aecom-
greatest hope, and of high exultation. We, therefore,
plishment of the high duties on which you are about to enter,—
LORD SANDOur noble representative is now on a visit
believing that von will thus obtain your greatest reward, and with no small degree of confidence call on the people of here, and has visited some of the festival performances
that on your retirement from the cares and anxieties of public Liverpool, who value the preservation of order, life, pro- We beg to remind our readers that Mr. Smith's new lectures
life, you may long continue to enjoy' in the bosom of an affec- perty, and religion, to imitate the noble example of Bir- commence on Monday evening.—See advertisement.
donate family the blessings of health and domestic happiness." mingham, in her determination to shake oil entirely, the of Nt Le have the viiiiiiiazsweenotfie announcingl
To this address his Excellency was pleased to deliver trammels of democtatical despotism,—that incubus which a number of troops on board, and, aesleshe hade not been heeasrditohf
tfeorrtsaLmeedtime,apprehensions of a very-.serious nature were en-
the following reply : .
" Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Honourable House of
lei
opnoosui position oonf
the
eu
representatives h a tare
oeffor her safety. She, however, reached Bombay en the
has pressed upon her industry, and which, destroying the
bonds of social confidence rendered her the sport of 16th June—all safe and well n board.' For this intelligence
Assembly,
we are indebted to the secretary of the underwriters room in
colony
o thist
°n day
waiting
ttihne nun: x - this town.
faction. Behold her now in. her mantle of Conserva-
d security—increased increased c nfi I n •
increase y oc e ce— in- LIVERPOOL MUSICAL FESTIVAL—We were glad to observe
pec"teTilh
ithne
me, with this laudatory address, is one I have just reasong to. °bile creased industry, and increased capital, blended with itn- thatdee rt.' eipiße r t ' s celebrated baud was, for the first time, intro-
at the.commenceinent of our festival, at the
proud of; and I shall cherish the remembrancej of the generous proved moral feeling and religious repose, are the 'results balle giovetntisa tt otv n,
the Wellington-rooms. The company were
tism—
tsupdirei.t wil‘iiticehadiiinctaatneds tthhies
end of
avii•litttholvoenrgninneendt earnestshould
bgerat
the
of that change which has already been effected! '
the musricT
highly delighted with the performances. The airs selected
world
company.
for the occasion were exceedingly popular, and executed in a
these
privateprinc interests,i,principles
ft
hiso f leirtetertimanleittiielt seems, however, that a desperate effort has been egustsespentific manner; thlevy the ap.people's welfare. A governor should always be a public i
guide,s, or prejudices—and
hey
willl p s talent in
made, and is still making, by the Whig-radical faction i
I hasnO
and their socinian popish allies, to wrest from the Con- T
•OXTETH-PARK BAZAAR. We feel much pleasure in stating
be surem taa
to o,
carry him safely through his duties,
servatives, that preponderating influence they had tic- that the object for which this bazaar was commenced! has
logvi d o f
been attained in the most gratifying manner. 'I he Rev. Mr.
"It is, therefore, a great triumph to nle, that • din North Warwickshire, and which returned M
le, your honour- quire
r. Hassell and the committee of the bazaar have long been en-
able house has recognised my faithful e • xeiti•
ons to administer Dugdale with such a splendid majority. Stung with deavouring to raise a sufficient fund for the establishment of a
this government with justice to all classes. Whatever had been that they national school, in connexion with the church of St.
'John the
the difficulties you have had to contend with, I have always be- mortification,.
of 1
.._
should have . .
been so beaten in ❑
Baptist, and had obtained, by means
.of subscriptions, the
both divisions t its opulent and populous county, no amount of 1:800; the whole amount _ _
__. required, however, for the
lieved that the time would come when you would feel that a
600 In order to make
governor is but the humble instrument of higher authority; ,et expense has been spared, no means omitted, that bribery, estimated cost oftst the building was £1
deficiency, a bazaar was thought 0 , a
' f • nd it has answered
it has never been the design of such authority, that be should influence, and persuasion could employ, to obtain a every expectation. The total receipts, on Monday
.night,
irritate by any bitterness of spirit those who, by the great voice majority of votes in the registration. TO the honour of eaamronuinnte,
amounted
to
oy.iifes.ot
ttliteatbetnheevclhnotleobajmenotuonftthree=ttneatfeoer,
of the people of England, are doomed to risk the rights of
the noblemen and gentlemen, who represent so large a has fieeil obtained, and leaving also a surplus for any contin-
gency. Thb Queen's present, which was raffled for, brought
property.
- portion of the wealth, property, and moral intelligence loo.
"1 advert with sincere pleasure, to the integrity of pun •
purpose,
of the county, this underworkine
with which the legislature of this colony has yielded to the na-,', and unconstitutional PIANO-FORTES.—These delightful instruments, alike indis-
tional will. conduct, sustained by falsehood and promote by mix-
themselves a great improvement upon the old-fashioned harpsi-
"lt is well known that lam a sincere friend to the negroes, representation, has been met with a spirit at once chords have hitherto been constructed on very insufficient and
of the sounding-
but I solemnly declare my opinion, that to insist on industrious honourable to• Englishmen, and creditable to the citizens erroneousd principles. The faulty constructionaag
ed the attention of all
habits among them, is as essential to their own happiness as it of a free state. Could it ever have been contemplated theearp principal
nt. especially,ipal
makers.has
Mr. continually:itt re,
e of" Nos. 4, and 5, New Ca-
has at length disco-
is to your rights.
by the thousands ot credulous—generous-hearted Britons, vendish-street, Portland-place, London,.
of the organ
vered the true principle on which this vital
dresiliency,which is constantly and per-
proclaims,epen s, namely,
piano-
go back in the scale of civilisation. The history of the world '
of elastic. arches, supported by
machinery of the reform bill, that this boasted " Maxinza nianently obtained by means
that there never was a people happy or virtuous abutments in the case itself, thus securing the greatest strength,
Char la" would be employed as the engine of one sordid This soundin like that of the violin, produces a
sounding-board, .
judiciously , finer
without industry.
Mr. 'Leiner has secured the
"I very sincerely thank your hon. house, for your congratu- crafty legislation, for the purpose of promoting the de- quality of tone by use.bt ,
p tent for this extraordinary im
Wimps on his Majesty's gracious favour towards me, by placing signs of an ambitious oligarchy—the Wilma 7'huic of a fruits
p. ,7,f, his,t . iinngZutit;vio 4,oiinpettent judges have pronounced it
at the head of the government of Jamaica—a situation far , race of degenerate Whigs, or the lever of a combined as superior to all other piano-fortes as piano-fortes are to harpsi-
chords.

illation on which we can depend, that the entire army is
imbued with republican principles—at least that portion
of it which takes a political part, whilst the newly raised

levies are as much in favour of Don Carlos as Christina;
nor can the fidelity of the provincial juntas be depended

upon.