The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-04-17 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

ST. GEORGE'S H A LL.—We believe the undertaking is aban-
doned for the present. " A Subscriber" should apply to
those gentlemen who took so active a part in the starting of
the project. It, will be a great pity if so laudable a scheme is
Out cart ied into execution.
A Muactimwr.—We have seen the circular addressed to the
Montreal and Quebec Merchants, but think it would create
unnecessary alarm It ought to be looked upon with great
suspicion. In our opinion it is •` a weak invention of the
enemy."
The letter of Sir S. Halliday on " Negro Apprenticeship,"
appeared in the STA N DA It D some months ago.
We shall notice the subject of the erection of Warehouses on
the Dock Quays, in our next.
EttaATum.—ln the report of the John Ormond, Dickson, from
Oporto, there are 10 pipes of wine for E. Hargreaves, which
ought to be E. Sidyreaves.

, -Tog itiberpool ,Stantiarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 17, 1838.

The Publication or the STA N DA 11 I) commenced this morn-
ing at 5 o'clock.

BRITISH GUIANA.—We have been favoured with copies
of the Guiana Chronicle up to the 7th ult. From these
papers we learn that the Governor, Sir James Carmi-
chaelSmyth, Bart., died on the 4th ult. The following
is the account of this melancholy event given in the
Guiana Chronicle of March sth :

" Cie the eye of a single reader has rested on these lines, the
mortal remains of our Governor and Ruler, Sir James Car-
michael Smyth, Bart. will have been gathered, amid the regret
of sorrowing hundreds, to their kindred dust. Sir James de-
parted this life at Camp House yesterday afternoon, at 10 mi-
nutes past six o'clock, after a brief illness of but three days.
"In recording this melancholy event, that Journal which has
so often, from conscientious motives, opposed the late governor
in his policy, not only now and for ever forgets all former points
of difference, but also steps forward to bear a willing testimony
to the many good qualities of the deceased. Let his epitaph, as
we could inscribe it, bear record alone of his virtues and his
good acts—be his failing (and who are free from fault ?) for-
gotten as the earth closes over his mortal career.

" It cannot be denied that to our late Governor this colony is
indebted for vet y many highly beneficial measures. In the first
place, whatever may have been, and indeed still are, the differ-
ences of opinion respecting his Excellency's policy on the
eventful change in this Colony in August 1834, it is at least
certain that he succeeded to an eminent degree in successfully
carrying through this measure, with as little of popular com-
motion and human suffering as the most sanguine could have
anticipated. That a course of great energy at that trying and
critical time would have been more politic, is still our opinion,
and, we think, would have,,been attended with even more satis-
factory results, than ensued from the measures his late Excel-
lency then deemed it adviseable to pursue; the result, however,
if not as satisfactory as it was possible to have rendered it, was at
least sufficiently so to claim for his Excellency from this colony,
as it has already elicited from the Imperial Government, a warm
and la,ting gratitude, shedding a halo over his memory, and
gilding his name on his cenotaph as a benefactor of his kind.

• "Another favourable point in his late Excellency's public
career in administering the government of this colony, should
not be forgotten at this moment. He infused into the councils
of his administration a degree of energy and a spirit of reform,
which could alone have arisen from a strong mind and an able
head like his own. He struck at corruption wherever he met
with it with uncompromising determination--he reformed our
civil list in a spirit of rigid, but fair economy—and he abolished
various sinecure offices which had hitherto existed but as sources
of corrupt patronage. These acts of benefit did his late Excel-
lency perform to this colony,—and though we duly recorded
them when they occurred, yet it is now, at this sad moment, a
source of melancholy gratification to us again to dwell upon
these good deeds of departed greatness. And truly with what a
feeling of satisfaction may we not remember that the closing
act of his public career was one of pure benevolence and chris-
tian charity, and that when last in the Council Chamber of his
Government, he ordered relief to be granted to the widowed and
the desolate—he gave shelter to the orphans, and poured the
balm of charity upon the bruised spirit of the mourner. We
need not further particularize the instance we above allude to,
than refer. to the report of the colonial legislative proceedings,
where will he seen recorded the case of a poor widow, in arrears
fur taxes, to whom his late Excellency ordered relief out of the
extraordinaries. It was a trait of benevolence in his late /:x-
-cellency's character never to be forgotten. Party prejudice, or
political bias might have led him into errors of judgment and of
action, and for these the bent of education—the consequences
of peculiar associations, or the chapter of accidents alone are
liable, but here was an act of sputa aeons benevolence entirely
arising from a good heart and a charitable spirit.
f‘ We have hitherto ccnfined our itopet feet remarks on the

public career of his late Excellency to that period of his life
in which he governed here—and we need scarce extend them
further, as the annals of this country speak the rest :—they tell
of a brave and sagacious soldier, who closed hiS active life of
military renown and honour on. the same field that gave to Eu-
rope freedom, and to despotism a grave—the Plains of Water-
loo :—in which engagement we believe his late Excellency was
in command of the Engineers, a corps in which, if we are rightly
informed, he originally entered the service.

" We touch not the relations of private life save but to com-
mend. The sorrows there felt fur such a loss are too sacred to
cause aught but the deepest sympathy and the sincerest com-
miseration. The veil that shrouds the now desolate hearth of
the departed one is raised but for one moment tell the reader
how blameless he was in private life, and therefore how fit an
example for him to imitate.
" Peace be to his manes—may his virtues and his greatness
be recorded by abler pens than ours—no commendation, how-
ever, is so sincere as that which is willingly rendered to departed
worth by one who never flattered it when living.
" His Excellency's remains were this afternoon accompanied
to their tomb by almost every respectable inhabitant of the town
and its neighbourhood. He was, of course, buried with military
honours, as became a man who had lived and died a soldier, and
the thunders of those guns the departed knew so well how to
direct against the enemies of his country, peeled an appropriate
requiem over his grave. Every house of business in town has
been this day closed.

Respecting the successor of the worthy baronet we find
the following in the Guiana Chronicle of March 7th :

This forenoon, about half-past eleven o'clock, the Honoura-
ble the Court of Policy held an extraordinary meeting for the
purpose of swearing in Major William Nesbitt Orange, of her
Majesty's 67th regiment of foot, to the temporary governorship
of that colony—he being the senior military officer in garrison
here at the demise of his late Excellency Sir James Carmichael
Smyth, Bart. The customary oaths were administered by the
Chief Justice, with the usual solemnities, and amid the cus-
tomary military honours from the troops stationed outside.
It is surmised by many that Sir Stamford Whittingham, the
commander of the forces on this station, will, on the receipt of
the intelligence of the death of our late governor, hasten here
to relieve Major Orange from his charge. Others again have
stated that Colonel Bunbury, having been superseded in his
temporary government of St. Lucia, by the return of the go-
vernor of that island, Sir Dudley Hill, is speedily to be expected
here to assume the feigns of government. These are points of
niece conjecture, and are of comparative trifling consequence,
as during the period from the present time till the appointment
of a governor from home, it is not probable that many acts of
importance will be passed by our local legislature, it being the
custom, on such occasions, to confine the public business lo
mere matters of routine and of imperative necessity.
Immediately after the performance of the ceremony above
described, the following publication was issued, to inform the
community generally of what had been done :