The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-04-22 00:00:00

FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 22, 1836.

We received on Wednesday Demerara papers to the
27th February. They do not possess much interest.
The conduct of the stipendiary magistrates and the lax
state of the police are still the subject of complaint.
There is no question hut that crime has considerably in-
.creased in the colony since the passing of the emancipa-
tion bill. Highway robberies are frequent; and, in
places remote and once so peaceful and secure that it was
unnecessary to bolt the doors by night, burglaries are
becoming numerous.

The following is the most important extract can
find :

" We understand that the members of the Honourable Court
of Policy, during their present session, have taken into their
consideration the expediency of importing free negroes here for
labourers from the large number annually taken from the slave
ships and placed at the disposal of the mixed commission. at
Havannah. It has, in consequence, been determined by the
court to send an agent to Cuba for the purpose of making the
necessary arrangements to effect this object, and, for this pur-
pose, £l,OOO was voted, and Mr. Young, the government secre-
tary, named as agent, who, we understand, will forthwith proceed
on his mission."

We have received Jamaica papers to the 14th March,
but they do not possess much interest. We perceive
that the attention of the inhabitants of Jamaica has been
called to the expediency of establishing a colonial
bank, in an ably written letter, dated from Liverpool. and
signed "Mercator." The bank thus alluded to has since
been formed in London, the sum required having been
subscribed in a very few hours after the prospectusap-
peared. The hank is to have agencies in all the West
India colonies, but it is not to extend to Canada.

Our inimitable representative, Mr. WILLIAM EWART,
and that truly excellent member, Mr. THOMAS MTN-
comnE, remind us much of a pair of ill-trained and, con-
sequently, very stupid pointers. The duty of these ani-
mals, as all the world, including Lord MELBOURNE,
knows, is to point out the game to the sportsman. Good
dogs are keen but steady--expert but cautious—and they
never fail to please their master or his gamekeeper in
all weathers. On the contrary, the ill-bred dog is ever-
lastingly committing blunders, even though he he a dog
of good intentions. He either points too soon or be-
yond the proper distance, and lie consequently loses the
game; or, i❑ his awkward and stupid haste, he runs in
the whip ; but your ill-bred and innately stupid pointer is
upon the birds and drives them away before master can
possibly touch them. Pulling the ears follows as a
matter of course, and probably 2 liberal application of
incurable, and,is fit only for the turnspit.
We shall not put in any plea in favour of the elegance
of thiS metaphor; but we venture to say that no one can
read the debate in the House of Commons on Monday
last,' and particularly that part of it where our Mr. EWART
and Finsbury's Tom DUNCOMBE figure in so ludicrous a
manner, without thinking of two animals who either are
very young, of a bad breed, or whose education has been
sadly neglected.

On the night in question Mr.,DuNcomnE moved as an
instruction to the committee, " to repeal that portion of
the Reform Act. which requires in boroughs the payment
of poor rates and assessed taxes as a condition of regis-
tration ;" and, tell it not at the sign of the Bull in Clay-
ton-square, Mr. WILLIAM EWART—
SECONDED THE MOTION! !! !

That Mr. Thomas DUNCOMBE sympathises deeply with
all persons who have debts to pay, and Mr. EWART with
those who have no property, we can well believe; and
under those circumstances had the former member moved
as a resolution of the house that the man who owes the
largest:amount of debt, which he is unable to pay, is the
greateat.sufferer in the cause of his country, we should
not have been surprised ; but that the other member
should have allowed himself to sink so far as to second a
motion which strikes at the basis of every principle con-
tended for by the Whigs since they became a party, and by
every reformer of any:standing in the country, and which,
withal, strikes at the very root of the rights of property it-
self, we confess is to us astonishing, and would be the sub-
ject of regret could we have the slightest regard for the
character or intellect of Mr. Wm.' EWART. It can only
be accounted for by means and in the sense of the meta-
phor with.which we started. The poor young man does
ot know what he is doing.

That, however, is only our version of what we conceive