The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-01 00:00:00

POLL BOOK.

We are glad to find that a complete list of the voters
polled for the election of Sixteen Councillors for this
Borough, on the 2d of November, is already in the
hands of the printers, and will be immediately pub-
lished. It will skew the duplicate qualifications of
the voters, and the wards in which they polled. The
list has been examined with the polling papers in the
possession of the Mayor. It will be found of great
value as a book of reference, and will prove of great
service in carrying on the canvass for the ensuing
year.

Ebr Etberpool k:lattbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1, 1340

We have received our files of the Guiana Times and
of the Guiana Chronicle to the 9th of October, inclu-
sive. The Court of Policy had been assembled, but no
business of importance had been transacted. The
Guiana Times mentions a rumour of the acquiescence
of Lord John Russell in the recommendation of the
absentee proprietors connected with the colony, with
reference to the postponement of all further action in
the Civil List matter to next year.
The same journal mentions as among "the ominous
signs of the times," the sale of Vreed-en-Hoop estate,
by the Messrs. Gladstones, of Liverpool, for £35,000
a sum much smaller than the former value of the pro-
perty. On this subject the Times offers the following
remarks :

" The intelligent, wealthy, and honourable house of the
Gladstones, is, we are grieved to say, about to be separated
from its connection with this colony. It has parted with one
of its fine plantations at a great sacrifice, and is anxious to
dispose of the remaining three. It is,' testifies a local-
government print, the opinion of the most experienced
judges, that he (Mr. John Gladstone) has sold it (Vreed-en-
Hoop) very cheap.' The circumstance,' says the same ex-
cellent authority, of Mr. Gladstone parting with his estates,
is not only ominous, but strongly indicative of the hopeless-
ness of our present condition.' These words, expressive of
the happy conversion of the local government to the true
colonial creed, deserve to be written in letters of gold.

" But the local-government people, it would seem, cannot
give utterance to those healthy opinions, without attacking,
at the same time, the inoffensive colonists. They cared no-
thing for Mr. Gladstone, so long as he was deeply interested
in the welfare of the province : on the contrary, they alone
held him up to the invectives of members of parliament and
the execration of mob orators. But, it appears, extinclus
amabitur ideas. The unprincipled and rapacious tyrant of
1838, is the favorite of 1840 : not that one fraction is cared
about the worthy gentleman's comfort or feelings, but it is
believed it will answer a party purpose, now venally to pa-
negyrize him, on whom, two years ago, the same parties in-
voked the•abhorrence of all humane and patriotic men. The
Gladstones we dismiss with this observation : that they are

sagacious and well-informed men of the world, whose inte-
rest was, we believe, all along divided between the East and
the West, but who may reasonably be excused for feeling in-
dignation and disgust, at the obloquy which the traitorous
portion of the press of this country, as fulsome in its adula-
tion as infamous in its calumny, attracted upon them, and
for carrying their capital to countries, in which it will yield a
sure and safe return.

" Surely a compliment might have been paid the Messrs.
Smith, without an insinuation being thrown out against their
fellow-planters. We remember too, that the independence
of the legal gentleman used, in former times, to excite the
sneers of the self-same set of persons who now affect to be in
raptures with his liberality of sentiment and love of mankind.
Whoever takes a philosophical view of the progress of society
in this province, mu 3t be struck with the facility with which.
the former slave-holders have accommodated their habits to
the system of general freedom. The failure, the lamentable
failure of the crops, is not to be ascribed to the planters or
yet to the local government : but is the natural result of the
measure of emancipation, which has so greatly depressed the
common prosperity, while it has augmented individual hap-