The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-10 00:00:00

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expense, let me of you, as tome amendcf, to send him to
Sierra Leone to bring WS some labourers. Do something for
your bread.

Mr. Schomburgk may be shortly expected. I doubt not
that he will bear credentials commanding your assistance. In
giving effect to these, you may promulgate to the wandering
Indians of our frontier the determination of the British go-
vernment to assert the rights and the protection its flags se-
cures. Hold out encouragement to them, and their labour
may be made available to the colony, for they will be too
glad to escape flora the ravages of the Cabannos, upon any
assurance of bcnefittiug themselves.
I am now writing to you on the banks of the river Esse-
quebo, upon an island larger than Barbados ; and when I
consider the resources of the scarcely-known portion of the
colony from which I address you, I am at a loss how to ex-
press the importance of the province under your charge.
Your trust is an important one—neglect it not.—Once more
let me remind you that it is never too late to do good.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient and most humble servant,
JONATHAN OLDBUCK.
Essequebo, 10th September, 1840.

We have been favoured with the following extract
of a private letter, containing the latest intelligence
from Monte Video and Buenos Ayres :

Extract of a letter ex Adriana,
Monte Video, 21st Aug. 1840.

We forward you the jVacional, wherein you will see the
particulars learned from Lavalle yesterday to the 14th inst.
The writer has conversed with Don Jose Varela, who is
come from the army, and he states " That Lavalle has about
4,500 men and 12,000 horses, that on the 14th inst. he was in
Arcisses, 30 to 40 miles from Buenos Ayres, and would march
on the following day towards the city ; that two of Rosas's
officers and some men had passed over to the invaders, and that
they were all sanguine of ultimate success." This informa-
tion coming from an interested party must be received with
caution ;—we ourselves are not very confident, but are of
opinion that Lavalle will have more to do than his party
would lead us to expect, and that affairs with him and those
assembled under his command are yet in a very uncertain
state.

Admiral Baudin has not yet arrived, but cannot now be
tnany days ; and our hopes mainly depend on the result of
the negociations which, we understand, be is authorised to
enter into with the government of Buenos Ayres.
For the information of your readers it may here be re-
marked, that Admiral Baudin resigned the command, and in
his place Admiral Macan was appointed, who sailed from
France towards the end of July. News has just been re-
ceived that the vessels under his command put into Goree
about the 18th August, short of provisions, and, therefore,

that he cannot well reach Buenos Ayres before October,—
so that the probability is that things will remain as they are
until the end of the year,—and if by that time Lavalle should
be defeated, it becomes extremely doubtful when the block-
ade will be laid, as the French king in his address to the
chambers seems not to anticipate a favourable result to the
negociations which the French minister who accompanied
Admiral Macan was, it is supposed, authorized to enter into.
Liverpool. 7th November. 1840.

Mr. Bolton has been elected mayor of Liverpool !
This is the very climax of radical impudence. The
elevation of this bigoted, ultra-liberal, intolerant enemy
of the Church of England to the civic chair, will con-
tribute, more than any other step ever taken by our
reformed Town Council, to the final overthrow and
downfal of the faction who have so long rode rough-
shod over the independent electors of Liverpool. The
election of Mr. Bolton was carried by a majority of
eleven only. If Mr. Sandbach had been present, the
majority would only have been ten. Sixty-three mem-
bers were present in the council-room, including the
sixteen aldermen. Among the representatives of the
people in the council-room, there was an absolute
majority of five in favour of J. S. Leigh, Esq. If the
councillors alone had voted, and Mr. Sandbach had
been present, the numbers would have stood thus—
For Mr. J. S. Leigh 27
For Mr. Bolton

Majority

From this statement it will appear that a gain of three
at the next municipal election will give the conserva-
tives a clear majority in the election of aldermen. But
our conservative friends must not rest satisfied with so
small a gain. They must endeavour to carry at least
twelve or fourteen wards next year.

We are glad that the choice of the radicals has fallen
upon Mr. Unitarian Bolton. The selection of such a
man for the office of mayor will serve to disgust the
respectable portion of the liberals, to whom Mr. Bolton's
politics and personal deportment are alike objectionable.
For once we thank the " tyrant majority" for the step
which they have taken.

We are seldom tempted into a controversy with the
Liverpool Mercury; but we cannot resist the opportu-
nity afforded us this week of laying before our readers
a few specimens of the glaringly false and distorted
statement of facts which that journal is in the habit of
circulating in its leading articles and its reports. To
many, we are aware that even this will appear a work
of supererogation. The falsehoods of our ancient con-
temporary are so flippant and flimsy that they bear
upon their face their own refutation. It must be borne
in mind, however, that, to a great portion of the public,
the Mercury, from the circulation which conservative
supineness gives to it, is the leading record of passing
events in this great town; and that, to a great majority
of the lower classes, it is the only Liverpool paper
within reach. In its columns the weekly slander and
the oft refuted lie travel with winged speed, whilst the
contradiction creeps slowly after, and, in many cases,
never overtakes them at all.

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In noticing the proceedings of the late Municipal
Elections, the editor of the Mercury has chosen to take
from ourselves the text for his dish of weekly twaddle.
In our paper of Tuesday last, we endeavoured briefly
to show to our readers the comparative position of the
contending parties,—the one having arrayed on its side
the extensive patronage and influence of the Corpora-
tion, and the other relying only upon the conservative
and constitutional spirit of their fellow townsmen.
True, exclaims our contemporary, we do possess ex-
tensive patronage. We have the appointment of in-
spectors of police, of constables, of watchmen ; we
have in our hands the control of the public markets;
we have the letting of various contracts, and the giving
of various " snug berths;" but the disinterested purity
of our principles has always prompted us to bestow our
patronage upon our political opponents! It has never
been exercised "for the furtherance of the political or
personal views of those who hold it."—Nay, farther,
" We have heard many reformers complain that the
town council was occasionally blind"—only occasionally,
reader,—" to the interests of its own friends, and too
favorable to those of its enemies."
Indeed ! what a paragon of liberality must be the
reformed Corporation of Liverpool. In their hands
"patronage is anything but conducive to strength ;"
their " committees never exert their influence to pro-
mote the return of liberal candidates ;" and their apo-
logist, the Mercury, "challenges the STANDARD to
name a single instance,"—a challenge which, unfor-
tunately, is thrown away upon us. The committees of
the council do not collectively go out to canvass votes;
and, of their in-door proceedings, we are in some de-
gree of ignorance, no conservative member of the coun-
cil having yet been permitted to set foot within their
secret conclave. Under these circumstances, the Mer-
cury might safely challenge us to prove an instance in
which a committee of the council has exerted itself to
procure the return of a liberal member ; but that num-
bers of those committees, their agents, and their de-
pendents have done so, it would not be very difficult
to prove. The Whig candidate for Scotland Ward will
scarcely, we presume, deny that his most active can-
vassers were the servants of a committee ; the candi-
date for North Toxteth will not deny that his canvassers
were of the same stamp; and that his active supporters
have ever been the favoured recipients of whatever pre-
ference or patronage the market committee had at its
disposal.

It would be idle, however, to bestow further notice
upon such consummate twaddle as this. We could
give plenty of instances in which promises of patronage
and favour have been the means of deterring voters
from exercising their privileges; but had this even not
been the case, our original position would remain the
same. When the patronage of the old council was
upon the side of conservatism the Whig-radical party
were wont to attribute to that circumstance every de-
feat which they sustained; and, now that the council
is upon their own side, we can beat them nevertheless.
With respect to the wholesale "bribery, intimidation,
and free drink," we suspect that there are few people
so ignorant as to credit this customary charge of beaten
whiggery. We ourselves have rarely seen an election
upon which public opinion appeared less to require any
such inducements on the part of the conservative can-
didates.