The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-04 00:00:00

nted Obando as perfectly recovered,
tant from the city, which he threat-

In the provinces of Bona-
some towns had revolted: It had been
uniaated that Obando had attacked and

1 armed

Cauca

Popaya

he following

just observations from the Morning

ruesday last ; they are of general interest, and
; the character of the Anti-Slavery Society, and
nt of the West India body in their true light.

)f estates for sale was already
matances of the alarm caused

boYerament and uneasi.
which they might be carried
Property was unsaleable, anc

a of tt

re of the perfidious intentions of govern
I. as they would be by the last packet

at of tits question

of sales would t

was already beginning, and when the
n the sugar duties should become
that the panic will become so general
nation and destruction of property
For although the proposed letting
ower duties was negatived for this
'aye no security that the same pnea-
:ed again, and, if the ministry obtain
t parliament, surely carried. The
ian interests and property will then
long as labour is so dear there, from
3, and the impediments placed by the
)ortation of adequate supplies of free
aat British 'West India sugar cannot
rown sugar of other countries. The
)out Is. Sd. currency pc]
dical attendance, ant

ssories of

and at very low rents or none at
;lave labour in Cuba, for example,
; the heaviest item in the charge
led beef of the River Plate, called
jut half a pound of which is the daily
ro, exclusive of the banana and other tro-
grow wild and cost nothing. The interest
,1 a slave, which may be taken at about 500
addition be only some £7 or £8 per an-
Demerara papers remark that their chief
‘leating the designs of ministers were the
powerful anti-slavery body to the intro-
.o w n sugar, and the interest the members
, and which they had so often and warmly
;`, and to watch over the progress of the
cultivation by free negro labour. The
to be the more grievously disappointed
earn the inconsistent, slavish, and dis-
,hich the interests of the late slaves, and
)urers of the West Indies have been
y certain of the so-calling-themselves
v branches of the parent Anti-Slavery
'inch being composed of furious minis-
preferred sordid party interests before
.oes whose cause they pretended to ad-
re. It will be some consolation per-
the London society have not gone the
,erially compromised their former pro-
-1 of eloquence is always at hand among
leis, such for example as the ministe-
d to, and the spurious tribe of O'Con-
pie about the twenty millions of corn-
st India planters for slave emancipation.
orious national sacrifice in the glorious
but it should not be forgotten that,
lification to the planter, it amounted to
illings and eightpence in the pound, for
.t price of the slaves whose emancipation
as reasonably valued at above sixty mil-
gether, from the papers now received,
ed that the now advanced commercial
by the ministers will be productive of
cent in West Indian affairs, and ruin to
v. Let the Anti-Slavery Society look

ousty bet(

r heavy and conscientious responsi-
nore, they are capable of feeling and
sponsibilities, which her Majesty's mi-

AUSTRALIA

•t
-town papers of the 23d of January, advert to
f r.4spectable and wealthy persons about to leave
o account of the puerile manner in which the
is said to be administered, but this does not al-
ear to be borne out by the state of this part of
or the revenue returns of Launceston for the
.he sth of that month showed a gradual increase
with former years. In 1841 the revenue is given
5d ; in 1840 it was £30,591 14s 6d ; and in
1-;26,999 16s 9. The value of imports in 1841
5, whi e in 1840 they only amounted to £303,140,
:o only £230,392. The value of exports in 1841
1, while in 1840 it was £452,870, and in 1839,
I'he vessels entered inwards in 1811 were 250 in
35,851 tonnage, and 2,332 men ; and in 1840
nl, with 34,765 tonnage, and 2,403 men, and in
ere 188, with 22,135 tonnage, and 1,526 men.
mitered outwards numbered in 1841 2G3, with
Ige, and 2,583 men ; in 1840 263, with 36,017
2,525 men ; and 1839 134, with 23,276 tonnage,
en. In Launceston advices had been received of
:,ptance of bills to the amount of £7,000 drawn
ler, as colonial commissioner, upon the commis-
ondon. Flour ranged from £2O to £2B per
heat Ss to Os per 60 lbs.

p papers to the 14th of January notice a
10 per ton, in consequence of the unfavour-
Dieman's Land.

Three or four large mush-
yto emerge into the visible world, c-
lovel feat of displacing a large paving
nost crowded thoroughfares, on Tucs-
on% Examiner.

DI y AIIN

OSPECTS.—If the conservatives are
) themselves, they must and will be
' come when it may. ':smay, that in the list ofToes-
; found the names of all the
cturing county of Lancashire,
f Liverpool and Bria-
olitan boroughs, and
lass importance ; of members

iconnected with commerce, and
cacturing towns. They feel
opinion of these great
With still more
n they are compelled to place on record the
`-he common council of London, so long
and even now represented in perils-
rialists. a petition against the corn laws
ek strenuously resisted and with dia.
out of 140 members dividing against it,—
Ater! witiont preeedest is the annals of the

so, if the pub

on their side