The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-04-01 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

We. regret that we cannot make room for the letter of VIATog
before Tuesday.

Eiberpool ,Stantiarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 1, 1836.

Demerara papers to the 13th February reached us yes-
terday. They are chiefly occupied with complaints re-
specting the inefficiency of the police establishment of
the colony, and the increase of crime among the negroes,
whose notions of meum and tuum appear to be growing:
more and more obscure and indefinite. This newly,
Created race of freemen, emboldened perhaps by their
elevation to that rank in' cit'ilixed life, rob on the high-
way at noon-day instead of being content with the
commission of petty larcenies in the night season. " The.
freebooter's maxim,— the good old rule, the simple
plan"—says the Guiana Chronicle, "is paramount
among us now, and, therefore, when more than every
second apprentice iu town cannot discriminate betweert
his own and his neighbour's property, it seems to us a
work of very great folly for the robbed in minority to op-
pose the robbers in majority—it would, we think, be bet-
ter policy in theinito swim with the tide, and make com-
mon cause with their depredators--for even if they did,
the next vice-regal speech would still compliment the
cOlony on the decrease of crime."

Jamaica papers have been received in London to the
2Sth February, ours only reach 'to the 20th. The fol-
lowing extract is taken rrbm the Despatch of the 27th.
" It is reported that the assembly will be convened on the
day to which it is prolongueil—the Bth of March, for the despatch
of public business; but how Lord Sligo is to meet his friends.
the members, we are wholly at a loss to imagine: but we say
this in truth and sincerity—that we shall not envy his lordship
the feelings which he must entertain on the occasion. Isis
lordship with that chivalrous feeling for which he is so cele-
brated, dares not, we think succumb to about forty West Indian
gentlemen, who have, in the plentitude of their authority as the
representatives of the people, ferretted out and exposed some
mistakes which appeared in his Excellency's correspondence
with tha Colonial °Tice. Of Lord Sligo personally, we shall
say nothing ; hut we cannot help lamenting, that as the King's
representative, he has been seduced by his toadies, to represent
our condition so differently to what it really is. We grieve for
this, for the future fame of our governor. We grieve for it
much more sincerly on public grounds, that his 1113je5!.:,-'s repre-
sentative will for ever remain charged with deceiving his royal
master, our beloved King, who has been among us, and who,
to this hour cherishes a fond recollection of Jamaica. We feel
this deeply, and we are delighted to find that misrepresentation,
coining from whatever quarter it may, is now understood in
England, and duly appreciated; as well as those who have bpen
the cause of our ruin, wish to cloak their infamous plans for
the miserable consideration of holding office a few month'
longer.

" It was reported very currently in town yesterday, that
Lord Sligo was preparing for his departure for England. Wfo
hope it is the case, as we are anxious to be able to wish his
Excellency a eery pleasant passage from our shores, and a
happy meeting with Buxton and the "other AldermanburY
• • • *,,

The Lord Bishop of JAMAICA, arrived at Barbadoes, in
the lleynard Packet, and was at the last accounts re-
ceived from his lordship waiting to return to Jamaica ir►
one of the ships of War.

The Commons, as we expected, have passed the Trish
municipal reform bill by a majority of 260 to 199. It
would be a waste of time and patience to call attention
to the arguments employed in the debate ; for on this, a 1 .
on almost every occasion since the-passing of the Roman
Catholic bill, the House of Commons, has'evinoed tilt;
utmost contempt for reason, .poliey',' consistency, and
itiirf -

By the vote of Monday night we consider Ireland con-
veyed in fee and settled in tail, as the lawyers say, ay
effectually and to all intents and purposes upon DANIEV
O'CONNF.LL and his priests, and their helm male, as that
portion of the late united Netherlands, called Belgium,.
was transferred from WILLIAM of Holland to the Prinde ,
of SAXE COBURG, late of Claremont House; or, iA
other words, from the protestants of Holland to the re-
bellious papists of French Flanders. We hope there i 5
nothing ominous in the analogy of the two royal narties,
and that what the one WILLIAM lost to conciliate popery
in the north, the other WILLIAm is not doomed to lose
in the west. At any rate, come what may, we are pre-
pared, and have long been prepared, for the.worst. If it
be the wish of the people of England and Scotland to
tirpate protestantism and place popery in the ascendancy
of supreme and uncontrolled power in Ireland, whys b°
it so.' "9.'.! are content, after offering our solemn protest
against the madness and the criminality of such policy'
to bear our humble share in the fatal consequences. if"
on a question of this kind, affecting the integrity of the
empire, only 199 conservatives can be induced to meet
the phalanx of revolutionists on the treasury benclie7
we see no chance of saving Ireland. It would be tnP('
more generous to leave the protestants of. Ireland to (1e;
fend themselves in the best, way then. can, than to .Iwiel
false signals and mislead.:them by hollow professions;
They will perhaps be t014.49put their trust tr thel4oes
of Lords. We advise them, to .do no such. thing. Oa'a
the bill been carried in a very'full.hpUse by a
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jority of some six or ten, the lords, consideringiiii4o, :,4;
a ministerial majority is composedof,,,euigke4loP(.'%,.."
couch led that the sense of the.commonskattl,W.olll42fltrt I..:ei
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