The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-01-22 00:00:00

SPAIN.

BARCELONA, JAN. 12.—This city has not yet recovered from
the effects of the dreadful scenes which were enacted in it on the
sth and 6th, and the accounts from Reus and Tarragona, two
considerable towns near it on the coast, continue to keep up the
public alarm. At the former the mob were preparing to rise
when the last Messenger came away, and it is still uncertain'
whether the authorities were enabled to preserve order or not ;
and at the latter the lives of the Carlist prisoners were alone
saved by the noble interposition of Lord Ingestrie, in the Tyne,
who, hearing of the intention of the brutal people to murder
tikein, hastened to offer his services to the governor, and agreed
to receive them on board his ship if they would claim his pro-
tection. The authorities were wilting to yield, but they dreaded
the mob vengeance, and they were absolutely compelled to come
to terms with the leaders of the tint, who, after a long parley,
permitted the prisoners to.be'placed out of their reach, on con-
dition that forty inhabitants, of whom they handed in a list,
should be compelled to leaVe the town at half-an-hour's notice;
and this dishonourable treaty was entered into—the unolfendiqz
fathers of fatuities separated front their homes, and the intended
victims saved front slaughter. The Tyne had scarcely received
the men on board when an order from Captain Parker, of the
Rodney, the senior officer of the station, recalled her to Barce-
lons, and Lord Ingestrie most humanely and honourably trans-
ferred his unhappy charge to a Frenchman-of-war at Terra-
gone, under the promise of the commander that he would not
give them up to the bloodhounds or their criminal masters.
As to the miserable people who were seized here under pre-
tence of being promoters in the proclaiming of the constitution,
they are at length taken out of the gaol into which the Rodney
and Childers were converted, and placed yesterday ou board a
Spanish ship, by her to tie removed to a kind of hulk which is
stationed lower down the coast, their ultimate destination being
said to he the Havannah. Can the worst days of the Reign. of
Terror furnish such a succession of horrors? One hundred and
seven prisoners murdered in the citadel by the connivance of
the governor, and twenty men expatriated for a nameless charge,
while the assassins walk the streets. The English gentleman
alluded to is fortunately out of her hands, the consul having so
far, prevailed on the local government to give him a passpot t,
on candition of leaving the country altogether, and the Chil-
ders having received him on board with the intention of trans-
ferring him to the first, ship she meets bound for Gibraltar.
This gentleman was seduced from his home under pretence of a
meeting, of consols being called at the governor's, and his pre-d,
sence, as acting Russian consul, being required; but he was
carried off with the other proscribed victims to the 'Rodney,
without the permission which he claimed being granted to him,
of communicating to his consul; and the strong remonstrance
which he has addressed to the governor, under the conviction of
his own innocence, has been construed into an insult, and Mina
has expressed himself in violent terms about it—the most amus-
ing part of the case beinc, that Mina and Alvarez are playing at
hide-and-seek about the' responsibility— the former, though
Captain-general, not having, as he states, vet taken officially
the government of Barcelona upon himself, and out of the
hands of the imbecile Lieuteuant-governor, who not only has
disgraced himself on this occasion, but allowed, when Governor
Besse was murdered, some months ago, himself to be dictated
terms by the mob, he being placed standing near the dead body,
and cautioned if he did not obey his new masters he would share
the same fate.

Again, I ask, is it for these scenes that the quadruple treaty
was made? or is it that a British subject shall be removed from
his home and his business never to return, without a moment's
notice, that we are the humble servants of the queen's govern-
ment,

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD VISCOUNT

SANDON,
May it please your Lordship,
We, the Committee of the Liverpool Guardian Society for
the Protection of Trade, have great pleasure in availing our-
selves of your loiliship's presence in Liverpool, to express to
you our grateful sense of the obligations under which we lie to
your lordship, for the many valuable services iendered by your
lordship to our Society, and to acknowledge the kind manner
in which you on all occasions have received our communica-
tions, the prompt attention which you have paid to them, and
the zeal and energy which you have always displayed in attend-
ing to and forwarding the wishes and interests of the committee
and of the Society at large.
The zealous attention which your lordship paid to our me-
morial to Sir Robert Peel, late Chancellor of the Exche9uer,
for the repeal of the receipt stamp duty on trading transactions,
and also the valuable support which your lordship gave to our
petition to the House of Commons on the same subject, demand
our warmest thanks, feeling as we do that to your lordship's
support and influence we are in a great measure indebted for a
partial success in the attainment of our object.
We beg also to thank your lordship fur your unwearied ex-
ertions on our behalf in our endeavours to obtain the removal
of the assizes to Liverpool, the benefit of which will be felt by
the inhabitants at large To the various memorials and peti-
tions sent by us on the subject your lordship paid the most dili-
gent attention and gave your best support; and we cannot con-
template the'advantirres derivatire-Trom the success of our exer-
tions without feeling that to your lordship we owe a share of our
thanks for the obtaining of so much desired and valuable a
measure. _ _

The support which your lordship also gave to our several
petitions against the nou-imprisonment tor debt bill, and to our
suggestions fur several aintndinents in it, are deserving of our
best thanks. . _ _

For the several valuable documents which your lordship so
kindly transmitted to us from time to time we have also to thank
your lordship. They have been of great service to the Society,
and the kind attention which your lordship has shown to us in
presenting us with them proves to us that your lordship is de-
sirous to forward our views on all occasions when in your lord-
ship's power.
For these and other valuable services rendered by your lord-
ship we beg leave respectfully to return our most grateful
thanks; and with the hope that your lordship will long continue
to render us services so valuable to our Society,
We have the honour to remain,
Your lordship's obliged and very obedient servants,
(Signed on behalf of the. Committee.)
J. ORANGE, President.

THE CATHOLIC ORPHAN SCHOOL.

TO JOSEPH SAJVD,IRS, ESQ.

Ste,—Your commendation in town council of a principle of
genuine New Testament christiantty, in reference to the tuition
of the Roman catholic otphans, cannot be too highly admired;
fur it reflected on the speaker nothing less than honour im-
mortal.

Such a principle, you would have told our Roman catholic
friend who answered you, was " more precious than rubies,"
and was the best guide to direct the children to true wisdom,
" whose ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are
peace."
You remind us of the criminal and cruel apathy with which
protestauts are chargeable, in having so long withheld the voice
of warning from our Roman catholic fellow-subjects, although
we believed they walked in darkness—having their fear toward
God taught only by the precepts of men.
Your candid brethren cannot regard you :is their enemy, be-
cause you tell them the truth ; and this, to be done effectually,
must be done openly. The noble system of a sound religion
you beautifully commended needs only the calm consideration
of an unprejudiced Christian to be generally adopted.—Yours,
Br.e. OMICRON.

The Gazette of Tuesday contains a notice of a fiat in bank-
ruptcy issued against " The Honourable Barbara Bedford, of
the Barns, near Dedrurd, and John Lord,.of Birtningbam, mer-
chants, trading under the firm of Beilfordand Lord."