The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-17 00:00:00

THE CLIMATE

It being a part of the rainy season, we therefore saw it in
its worst aspect. The thermometer ranging from 78 to 83
deg. The sun rising in a bank of vapourish clouds. At
seven or eight o'clock, the sea-breeze springs up from the
east, and though it clears the atmosphere, the. sun is by no
means as oppressive as we frequently experience it in June,
July, and August. At the rainy season, at times, it rains
very hard for a short time, stops suddenly and clears up.
Sometimes it rains regularly every forenoon, and in the after-
noon it is clear : at another tune it rained every night, and in
the day scarcely a shower. On two different days while we
were there, it rained all day.*
* We were in the colony from the morning of the 21st of
January, until the 10th of March, seven weeks.

(To be concluded in our next.)

Taglinni is gone to Paris, but is expected to return about
the 23d instant to fulfil a short engagement previous to her
departure for the north of Europe. _ .

1` CLOSE OF THE PARTY WARFARE FOR THE SESSION."
—"There has been a murrain amongst the bills this week,"
sayethe Examiner, on Sunday, under the above head. There
has been not only murrain amongst the bills, but murder—
murder most foul as at the best it is, but in the case of Lord
John Russell's bills, most wilful and unnatural. Tom Thumb
was accused of making giants for the glory of killing them;
but the accusation is not supposed by our best critics to
amount-to anythhig more than that Tom told fibs ; whereas
Lord John is clearly guilty of the wanton cruelty of creating
monsters for no other purpose than having something pf his
own to.strangle, in polite exchange for the measures which
he chokes of his opponents. At the close of the session, it
would puzzle a lawyer from Philadelphia to say what par-
liament has done, beyond, by one of the most lazy operations
in the world, lumping an additional five per cent. on all
taxes' for an increase of revenue. The old tale about Torn
and Jack, in " Joe Miller," upon which Mr. Shiel was so
surprisingly witty last session when he himself had nothing
to do, has been verified over again, or, rather, improved
upon. Tom was doing nothing, and Jack's apology for idle-
ness was that he was helping Tom. Ministers would do
nothing, and their apology is that their time has been fully
taken up in preventing the opposition from doing anything.
This is the " party warfare" of the expiring session ; but, as
to its coming to a close, 4if there is any truth in a whio., the
public at present have only had a foretaste of it. Lord John
has counted up his speeches on the Reform Bill, ands finding
that he spoke on 62 successive nights in'favotir of 'it; viiws'
that he can and will speak a hundred and twenty-four nights
against Lord Stanley's measure next session as affecting it.
It has always been a question amongst the learned, whether
bellows were known in Vulcan's time, or whether he puffed
his own fire with his own lips. The authorities preponderate
in favour of the latter supposition, and the exercise of not
the best pair of lungs in the world, with which Lord John
promises to amuse us, will go pro tanto to confirm it as pos-
sible. All that Lord John has got to mind is,, that his fire
is not put out before the time comes for performing the feat.
—Morning Herald.

The CHEAP POSTAGE. BUBBLE.—The Post-office revenue
loses a million a-year by the inventions of the well-paid Mr.
Rowland Hill, which were to increase the revenue by the
reduction of the postage. What real, true, and unqualified
donkeys ministers must have been to listen to such an ab-
surdity—what rogues they must be to have ventured to talk
of the decrease of Post-office dues as a relief to the poor.
The poor never write—why should they, even if they could ?
What has a poor man, either mechanic or field-labourer, to
write about to. anybody; or when is he to find time if he
could write, and had anything to say ? Ihe reduction was
made to favour rich merchants, whose wealth may be natu-
rally calculated by the extent of their correspondence. A
house paying £2OOO a year postage, is proportionally so much
richer and more important than a house paying £1000; but
who complained of it ? Nobody ; and yet this absurdity is
brought forward as a boon to the people ; a boon so great,
and its effects so surprising, that it was thought that every
man, woman, and child. who could string three syllables to-
gether, would occupy all their time (to spare) in writing to
their friends, so as to make up the deficiency produceable by
the diminution. Mark the result—one million a year is cut
off the revenue by the Tom-foolery, with all its idiotic slab-
bering stamps, and its absurd and indecent envelopes—a
flagrant disgrace to a country of which a youthful lady is the
Sovereign. But what happens ? Why, to make up for this
deficiency, the people—that class of the people who really
pay taxes—are to be screwed, whether they write letters or
not. Surely this is hard upon people who never disturbed
themselves or anybody else about postage. and especially
hard upon members of parliament, of either house, who
never paid postage, and whose degradation and inconvenience
appear really and truly to have been two of the main objects
of the measure. However, as we have before observed, the
moment the people who do not write, and never—or if
ever, very seldom—want to write, begin, as they must
begin next year, to find the absolute necessaries of life taxed
and " dutified," they will become even more grateful to
the new poor law government than they are now.--John

imparts'.

SOUTH AMERICA

Wilberforce, (399) J Harrison, from Marauham, ig pipes 2 hf
pipes 22 cases 44 brls 15 bags Indian rubber, J Rushton-21 pipes
Iqr pipe 1 brl 2ld hhds do, order-3 pipes 1 brl do, W and J Well.
stood-25 baskets annatto, J Rushton-9 do, W and J Wellstood-
-894 bales cotton, J Rushton-120 do, W and J Wellstood-105 do,
Stockdale and Son-107 do, Moon Brothers-98 do, A Parlane-
-37 do, J A Murta-50 do, Duarte Brothers and co-60 do, C L Men-
dez and co-59 do, J Pennington-127 do, Mellor and Ryder-21
do, F M Guinez-255 do, 2 pipes 2 hf pipes 9 brls 4 casks isinglass,
1 case contents unknown, order-3 cases sweetmeats, 1 box con-
tents unknown, C L Mendez and co—l case sweetmeats, Rev. P
Wilcock—W D