The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-07-12 00:00:00

TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 183 G.

We have received papers from Hobart Town, Van
Dieman's Land, to the sth of March. They do not
bring any intelligence of an important nature. They
mention the arrival of the Asia with convicts from Eng-
land, the health and bodily condition of whom, it is
stated, was much better than usual since the recent ra-
tion regulation was adopted in the substitution of oat-
meal for cocoa.

We make the following extract from the Hobart Tows
Courier of the 2Gth February :
"The prisoners by the Asia have come out to us, through the
skilful care and attention of Dr. Leonard, in better health and
condition than those in the generality of ships since the late
ration regulations were adopted. Cocoa, like other diets to
which we are unaccustomed as was so fully shewn under the
melancholy circumstances that took place at the wreck of the
George 111., is so nauseous to some stomachs undergoing a sea
voyage for the first time, that it is entirely rejected. Dr.
Leonard perceiving this, had applied to the board for a supply
of oatmeal, which he gave to those en the voyage whose stomachs
could not receive the other. In consequence, the general health
in the ship was so good, that even opthalmia, the direct offspring
of the reformed rations, is not so generalin the Asia as informer
cases. The principle of straitened economy is however sadly
conspicuous in the clothing of the prisoners by this ship, who
to outward appearance, are the most miserable ragged set of
men that we ever saw. We believe it is the first time that ar-

titles of so coarse a quality have been used, so totally unfit to
protect the frame of the poor creatures in the vicissitudes of
weather during so long a voyage, and for the sake of humanity
we hope it will be the last. The mental distress of the trans-
ported prisoner should surely be sufficient to offended justice
without starving the body, according to this system, inside and
out."

The governor had intimated his intention to lay be•
fore the legislative council an act for the better regula,

tion of distilleries and for imposing a duty upon spirits
distilled in the colony. The use of stills of less size than
forty-two gallons was to be prohibited, and spirits were
not to be-removed from the distilleries in less quantities.
The colony had been visited with heavy rains, which had
overflowed the rivers and occasioned a loss of property
on the borders of the rivulet in Hobart Town, which
was estimated at from £2,000 to £3,000.

We observe without surprise that the ministerial prints
defend EVANS'S atrocious " general order" for the mur-
der of Englishmen who may be found favourable to the
cause of Don CARLOS. We say that we are not sur-
prised, because these detestable hacks of a hack cabinet
are ready, for dirty bread, to palliate and defend any thing
their masters may be pleased to perform. If they had
their will as regards the monarchy, and were to pull the
diadem from the brow of " WILLIAM the reformer," still

these reptiles would raise their voices in praise, and the
betrayers and destroyers of their country would be hailed
as benefactors and patriots.
We confess that EVANS has not disappointed us. We
knew the man before he knew Westminster, and a poorer
creature never set up as a liberal. The flooring he gave
CAM HOBILOUSE is the sole action of his life, so far as
we are aware—and we repeat that we know the man—

that is worthy of commendation ; but in that lie was
more an instrument than a leader. His political course
is a course of mere quackery. Even the rads had begun
to estimate him at his value. So he hit upon the expe-
dient of the Spanish expedition, where Englishmen are
immolated by thousands, that he may feed his vanity and
line his pockets.

Our readers no doubt remember the vaunts of this
military pretender previous to setting out. He did not
resign his seat, because, forsooth, he should not be absent
more than six months; by the end of that period of
time the whole affair would be settled, and Don CARLOS
duly accounted for and placed out of harm's way.
There were fools found to repose faith on this empty
boast in other places besides Westminster. So EVANS
was supplied with money, and, alas! with men—with
Englishmen—and he went forth, as he said, to the battle
of liberty with tyranny in his heart, and the cat-o'-nine-
tails in his sleeve, as JACK SPANIARD carries his knife.
British soldiers were openly called upon to desert and
join the legion, and thus escape the degradation of the
lash. These were dupes of this artifice. How were
they rewarded? Ask the echoes of Santander, for there
the lash fell upon their backs from early morn to dewy
eve sans intermission.

EVANS'S military capacity soon became the jest even
of Spanish generals, the worst in Europe, if not in the
whole world. In his first exploit he brought his troops
into action by instalments, and was, of course, beaten
in detail. In his second attempt to acquire glory he
owed his safety to a friendly fog. At St. Sebastian he
captured a couple of trenches and three or four old
houses at the cost of two thousand lives, and would have
lost his whole force had not Lord Joior HAY'S steam
frigates cleared the ground for him. At Passages his
dependence upon the British seamen and marines was
still more apparent and humiliating; and it is only
through .tlie4mme agency that he retains • his present
position. He dares not advance a mile beyond the reach
of Lord JOHN HAY'S cannon and marines; and the day
is at hand when he must again seek cover within the
walls of St. Sebastian or on board the British ships.
These are the exploits of Freebooter EVANS. Are
they not Written on the public memory ? The would-be
conquerer of Don CARLOS is himself as decidedly beaten
as an incapable can be who takes care to keep at a most
cautious distance from his opponents.
Now this is the man who issues a general order, by
virtue of which Englishmen suspected of being favourable
to Don CARLOS are to be shot as rebels to the King of
England !—he, (EvAxs,) the author of the abominable
order, being engaged in an alien service on precisely the
same principles that are acted upon by those whom he
denounces ! Under pretence of enforcing British law,
lie issues an order for wholesale murder; and, should he
be obeyed, he will be liable to be hung as an accessary
before the fact, if not as an actual participator in the
criminality of his wretched instruments.

it is admitted by Lord PALMERSTON that the general
order is genuine ; and yet the noble lord compels the
King's forces to co-operate with such a man in a cause
altogether foreign to English interests. It follows
that, wicked as this EVANS is, the British government
are still more wicked, because they uphold him and enable
him to perpetrate his misdeeds.

With regard to the war in the north of Spain, that is
proceeding decidedly in favour of the Carlists, who ap-
pear to be ably led by their nvw general-in-chief, VILLA-
REAL. While qounovA is pursuing his old tactique,
skipping up one mountain and down another, VILLAREAL
is beating up various points of his positions, and taking
from him his resources. Moreover he has sent an.im-
portant expedition into the Asturias under GOMEZ, who
has beaten the captain-general of the province in a
pitched battle, and the Carlist standard is openly dis-

played in Leon and Gallicia, as well as in Asturias.
while in Valencia and Catalonia CABRERA and his lieu:
tenants have decidedly the mastery, and even threaten
Madrid.

Freebooter EVANS, then, will soon be back to England.
for he takes special care of his own carcase. Will the
Westminster radicals receive him ? We think not. They
are not particularly fastidious, but they cannot again
associate with the author of the " general order" of the
18th June—Waterloo day. They will most assuredly
send the buccaneer a packing, and we see no career open
to him but that of leader of the rebellion, which the mas-
ter of his Majesty's ministers is organizing in Ireland
under the plea of keeping those incomparable statesmen
in their places some six months longer.

Much as we detest and despise the "Magdalen minis

try," we cannot help pitying it, for never were poor
wretches of any sort reduced to a more deplorable plight.
Having failed in their attempt to bully the peers, they
turn tamely round and walk off under the impudent as-
sumption that the lords evince symptoms of compliance,
and that they have only to wait until next session to ob-
tain all they desire ! Then, too, the public mind is not
" ripe ;" yet that is also advancing to meet the conscien-

tious Lord MELBOURNE, the enlightened Lord JOHN
RUSSELL, and the patriotic Mr. O'CONNELL. Wait a
few months, they cry, and " justice to Ireland" will be
fully done. In the meanwhile, the working members of
the cabinet are to keep the machine of agitation agoing.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL is to dine and spout in several of
the great towns in England, Liverpool, we understand,
included. Mr. SPRING RICE promises to pad the hoof in
Ireland. " I shall make it a point," said he, in the de-
bate on Monday week, " to visit in person all the princi-
pal borough towns in freland, and I shall explain to them
what we (the ministers) were endeavouring to do towards
the relief of Ireland, and how and by whom we have been
defeated and disappointed—the people shall have the
whole case before them, and the lords and the kingdom
generally shall then hear the public voice." Gallant and
garrulous SPRING RICE, there is no end to thy triumphs !
The lords and the kingdom generally are to hear the pub-
, lic voice. Most wonderful ! Why, if the public should
shout for O'CONNELL, tile chances are in favour of the
public's hearing its own voice. But will the public so
shout? Aye, marry, that's the point.
" Glendower.—l can call spirits from the vasty deep."
" Hotspur.—Why, so can I, coz; but will they come when we
do call ?"

Oh no. Mr. SHEIL'S recent incantations signally fail-
ed, and that learned grimacer is nearly as mighty a ma-
gician as Mr. Superficial-knowledge SPRING RICE.
The plan of the autumnal campaign of agitation al-
ready begins to unfold itself.
We can state, on the best authority, that parliament
will be prorogued at the latter end of the present month,
if ministers can contrive to push their stamp bill through
all its stages; and they will wind up with a threat of
opening the next session so early as the first week in
November ; a threat, by the way, which they have no
intention of putting in force, because their real object is,
_ _

not to do " justice to Ireland ;" were that so, they would
give it poor laws, tranquillity, and manufactures; but
their object is simply to keep their places and salaries,

and these they are ready to retain at any sacrifice. We
verily believe that they would not hesitate to pull down the
throne if they had the power, and were impressed with
the belief that their retention of office was contingent on
that perpetration.
O'CONNELL takes his post as leader-in-chief; SPRING

RICE and Lord JOHNNY are his mere journeymen; while,

as the Times says, the play-actor lord and the novel-
writing lord, MORPHTH and MULGRAVE, the needy secre-
tary and the pliant viceroy, are held in requisition as
the dictator's humblest instruments; that which he pro-
jects they are ready to execute by hook or by crook.

O'CONNELL declares that he foregoes, for the present,
his scheme for reforming the lords—that he surrender
repeal, also, for the present, and that be will stick by the
ministry as the friends of " justice to Ireland."
Now mark how he proposes to stick by the King's mi-

nisters. Flinging aside the people of England, (who
were so lately the attraction of his homage, when he
flattered himself with the delusive expectation of being
able tohumbug thent,) he returns, like a dog to its
vomit, and again addresses the people of Ireland. He
begins with his old motto :

" Hereditary bondsmdn, know you not,
Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow ?"

He then sketches what he calls " the precise state o

rish affairs" at the present moment, in eleven proposi

tions, each of which contains several glaring falsehoods;
but he knows his market; the "hereditary bondsmen"
are not squeamish to a shade as to matters of fact. In
fifteen other propositions, he professes to explain the
causes of what he calls "the strange anomalies" in Ireland's
condition. Lord MELBOURNE, says he, is the first mi-
nister who has offered the " justice" which he claims :-
1. The amendment of the Irish reform act, so as to di-
minish the amount of the franchise, and thus, of course,
to extend his influence ; but, he adds, there is not the
least chance that the lords will pass that bill. We be-
lieve him.

2. An " appropriation" of protestant church property
to popish purposes ; in other words, the destruction of
the Irish branch of the protestant church. This bill, he
says, is doomed to meet its fate by being strangled in the
House of Lords. We believe him again.
3. The Irish municipal bill, the fate of which is already
sealed, despite of the mock thunder by which it was
sought to force the lords to gulp it. Hear the incen.
diary in his own person :
" Yet, with these concessions, the Lords contemptuously mu.
tilated, disfigured, destroyed the bill. Not a single vote was
obtained by these concessions—nay, they were used—and it was
retributive justice that they should be so used—as an argument
against the bill.
"Well—the mutilated bill came down to the Commons, the
ministers again made concessions—more concessions than in
my conscience lam now convinced ought to be made—l men-
tion these things as part of history, and to protest to the peo-
ple of Ireland, that I for one, will never again, directly or in-
directly, assent to any such concessions.
" But this moderation—this disposition for conciliation has
had one good effect; it has placed the ministry and the Com-
mons more in the right; it has placed the haughty and arro-
gant Lords more in the wrong.
" The Lords received these concessions contumeliously, and
contemptuously restored the bill to all its original mischievous
operation,-as it came out of their hands.
" Mark the consequences :
" Scotland enjoys reformed and popular municipal corpora-
tions.

" England enjoys reformed municipal corporations
" Ireland is refused any such reform.

" To this injustice is superadded insult.
"Is not the injury enough—is not the injustice sufficient—no
—one thousand times, no. Misery has been borne by Ireland
—injustice has been endured for centuries by Irishmen.
"But insult—daring, foul insult, has been superadded—in-
suit from the ungenerous and heartless tyrant Wellington—in-
sult from the mean and creeping Vesey Fitzgerald—insult from
the basest of the base, whose foul name shall not pollute my
page. Insult—lrishmen—insult.
" The lion in the fable was dying when the asses dared to
kick him. Ireland is not dying—neither sleeps she—nor shall
the asses kick her with impunity.

"The nations have fallen, but THOU STILL ALT YOUNG.'

" Yes, Ireland, my country—thou art young in the strength, the
energy, the patriotism of thy sons. Yes—by the concentration
of thy energies hest thou already burst the manacles of ages.
" But let us at once commence the organisation of the pub-
lic mind; the combination of the virtuous and the good. We
already succeeded in the strife where only some of the Irish
were interested in that success; where our efforts bore, in spite
of us, a sectarian character. Shall we not now succeed when
all Ireland—when Irishmen of every creed, sect, and persua-
sion are equally interested—when every Irishman that lives is
involved in one common injustice, and is tarnished and tainted
by one common insult ?
" Rally, then—let us rally round the king's government and
the rights of Ireland. Justice to Ireland is our watchword, our
motto, our daily cry, our only object, our great reward.
" Justice to Ireland—speedy, equal, complete justice to Ire-
land.
" Let us not consume one moment in reproach or in anger,
in expostulation or in resentment. The injury—above all, the
insult—is too deep, too degrading, to find any resource in com-
plaints or words.
" Let us be up and doing.
" We are degraded below the level of human beings as lotg
as the tout stain of this daring insult remains upon us.
" 1 have Leen amongst %au have led you alieadv to