The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-02-23 00:00:00

Lord WILLIAM BENTINCK is totally incapable, from pity-
sitial debility, of performing - the onerous duties he has
imposed upon himself. We feel confident that his lord-
ship
would admit this if interrogated on the subject. Is
he, then, who has escaped the agtie, and the cholera, and •
the burning fevers of India, to allow hiMself to fall a prey
to the reform plague of Glasgow.? Most certain we are
that the vulgar importunings of the first depUtation from
his constituents, anent some corporation job; will send
him to his grave. These men give no quarter. They
can make no concessions to delicacy or bile. They
make no allowance for nerves parboiled in CalcUtta; and
brains hard frozen in Glasgow. The cabal aim at pro
fit, the representative at ease. He has something to
lose—they every thing to gain.
But is this a desirable state of things ? Do the great
body of electors, or reformers, if you will, in Glasgow,
or in Scotland, perfectly understand the curious if not
humiliating position in which they are placed? The
present ministry, which', is incontrovertibly a ministry
held in leash by an Irish rebel, and who wields their
powers, first for the extirpation of the protestant religion
in Ireland, and next for the dismemberment of the two
islands—this ministry, if properly explained and under-
stood, cannot be held in any shade of respect by tile, re-
flecting and intelligent people of Scotland. They must
see that it is based upon profligacy and corruption—that
it has raised its hand against the most hallowed and most
revered institutions of Scotland—that the refoimed esta-
blishments which our fathers founded, which our parents
blessed, and 7.hieli we received from them as a property
in trust for.thp benefit, of our children, are to be changed,
remodelled; fiittered away, and annihilated by the grasp-
ing and unprineiplecklmen now in power. Such is their
design. If the electorS of Glasgow. continue in the
same mind, they tvilt:c4i)ine to countenance and sup
port this moral and•redigiCiii revolution in favour of
popery and infidelity. But if they change their minds,
which we trust they will, and take a calmer view of
the awful consequences
.of the . principles they sup-
port, by sending Lora WILLIAM BE,NTINCIC to parliament,
the conclusion they must necessarily come to is this, that
they have been the victims of impostors and schemers—
of jobbers in chapels—of puritans who traffic in seats—
of brokers in religion who live by the embarrassments of
their fellow-communicants—of gross and venal frauds '
practised upon the poor in the name of independence and
gospel purity.
Such is dissent in Scotland, as it is to a great extent in
England. But there was always this remarkable differ-
ence. In England the dissenters knew what politics in
popular elections were. In Scotland they were entirely
ignorant on the subject. They knew nothing of the
rules or duties or moving motives of electors. They
were thus the more easily deceived; and hence it is that
such unsavoury and worn-out quacks as Lad WILLIAM
BENTINCK is enabled to be palmed upon the people of

Glasgow.

. We have nodoubt but that every nerve will be strained,
every stratagem employed, and every trick resorted to,
for the purpose of rescuing O'CONNELL from the charge
of fraud which impends over him. The question that is
most frequently asked is—will the select committee act
as fairly and conscientiously as if they were a jury sworn
at the Old Bailey to try a man indicted for embezzle-
ment ?

We answer, no man has a right to question the ho-
nour or the justice of the committee in this stage of the
proceedings. They are entrusted with a most important
duty, and in discharging that duty they are themselves
as much upon their trial as is the worthless man whose
character is in their hands. It is true they have refused
to make their committee-room an open court. This, we
confess, is suspicious. They-have refused to sanction the
publication of the evidence '.pending the inquiry. This
is also suspicious, and evinces extreme tenderness, to use
no harsher terms, towards tile accused. Still we have no
right to interpret this tenderness into an unwillingness
to make the public, at the proper time, folly conversant,
by means of an authentic and official report, with their
whole proceedings. At any rate theii conduct will as
strictly come under the review of parliament, and the
electors,of the; nation, as that of DANIEL O'CONNELL

himself. If he should be allowed to escape through un-
fair means, or through ministerial influence, by a casting
vote or a majority of one, there are, we rejoice to say, a
sufficient number of honourable and spirited members on
the committee who will take care that their reputation
shall not be damaged by the corrupt or factious conduct
of others. The truth must be declared though the hea-
vens should fall. Stern justice must be clone, let the
.consequences be what they may.
It appears to us that the committee, by agreeing to the
proposals of the accused, were anxious that he should
have no cause of complaint in a matter, as far as they
are concerned, of subordinate importance. Next Mon-
day will be the last day of February. On that day
O'CONNELL is to appear before another committee—that
on the Dublin election—to whom he is to submit a pro-
position having for its object the re-opening of the in-
quiry before the Dublin commission. All our readers
perhaps‘do not know that the member for Dublin holds
his seat by one of the vilest tricks that ever was devised
by an Irish pettifogger or countenanced by the House Of
Commons. He has contrived to retain this seat, disho-
nestly procured, at the expense of the public, a Whole
year having'been wasted in inquiring into his fraudulent
votes and his perjured constituents. The commissioners
have presented their report to the committee, and it is to
be taken into consideration on Monday next. O'CoN-
NELL knows that it is exceedingly unfavourable to him,
and that if the committee act upon it they will have no
alternative but to unseat him. In this difficult,"if not
desperate predicament, DANIEL has determined to draw
largely upon the patience and the liberality of the com-
mittee. He is to show cause why the report should be
reconsidered in Dublin, and certain evidence admitted
which the commissioners had refused to receive. If he
succeed in this, his seat for another session may be con-
sidered safe; if he fail, out he must nzarch from the House
Of Commons before another fortnight !
Assuming, then, that the Dublin committee have bias
enough to favour his views, ha, will then proceed to de-
fend himself, otherwise unmolested, and in the best way
he jean, that is, in the most bullying and insolent manner,
before the Carlow committee on the RAPHAEL affair. But
assuming that the Dublin committee reject his proposals
for further delay, and declare his return for that city to
be illegal, then we suspect DANIEL will be counselled to
retire from parliament altogether, at least for such a
period as would render his expulsion from the House a
matter' of impossibility -for the reader knows that a man
canna be kicked,oyt of a room Who does not happen to
be: in" it. In t..his way, by retiring even involuntarily from
parliament, O'CONNELL, perhaps, would he able to
smother to a certain extent the proceedings in the matter
of the Carlow fraud.

LONDON LATEST ArEWS.

City, Saturday Eveuing, Hall-past Seven o'clock.

BY accounts from St. Thomas's to the 21st January, we learn
that-the rebels of Puerto Cabello had surrendered to General
Paez, and tranquility was once more restored at •that place.
The rebels were reduced to the utmost state of distress before
they gave in.
In the money market to-day there has been a slight tendency
downwards. money being in increased demand. Consols for
Accouut, which opened this morning at 911, have fillen to 911,
at which they closed, buyers. White most of the other public
securities have been on the decline, a considerable movement
upwards has taken place in Batik and India Stock, the former
having risen this afternoon from 2171 to 219, and the latter,
after touching 257, closed at 256. Exchequer bills have drop-
ped to 19s. prm., and India Bonds to 3s. pun
The accounts front the north of Spain received this day show
that Don Carlos is at the heed of a stronger and better organ-
ised force than was anticipated by the speculators in Spanish
• securities or the heroes of the Isle of Dogs. The fortress of
Balmaceda has been caitured by the Carlists, who are prepar-
ing to lay seige to Bilboa, to which place the diversion of
Generalissimo Evans is confined, apparently, to the great
amusement of the hardy followers of the legitimate monarch ok
I f
Spain. Under these distressing circumstances, Saish Stoc
declined fr0m.471 to 44 in the course of the day, antdit:3l%rcei:
action took place at the close-of the market. Portag e
were at 831. and the Three per Cents at 53; llassia-aulisoUds are
quoted at 1101, and French Bentes lueJf. Accounts from Am-
sterdam state that the Dutch securities are improving. In the
ie done.
South American securities nothing
StianEs.—Birminghata Bailiva)h" , 11'47, Birnpingbam
Derby, 131 ; Commercial Blackwall, 0-4; Great Western, 304;
Hull and Selby, 9; London. and Brighton (Sevenson's) lb;
Ditto Giblis's,) ; Ditto (Ilennie's,) x; Loudon and
131,clorall, 41; Gravesend, 21 g; Northern and Eastern, 43
' North IVlidiand, III; Preston anti W yre, 104•; Danube and
Maine, 8; Van Dieulan':j Land Company, 15.