The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-10 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

Although perfectly willing to leave our controversy with the
Mail in its present position, and to allow him to " lay the
flattering unction to his" sores that he has had the " last
word" in that controversy, yet we cannot by any means
admit his right to the indulgence. If the Mail had, in the
first instance, contented himself with simply replying to
the article in our columns which " provoked the quarrel,"
we should not have disputed his privilege of the last word ;
but when, in that reply—which, by the bye, was a tissue
of scurrility, and no reply at all—a personal attack was in-
cluded, quite foreign to the matter in dispute, and entirely
unprovoked, the Mail himself became the assailant, and
the right of replication our own. We resign to him, how-
ever, this female scold's ambition without grumbling, be-
ing quite convinced, with our contemporary, that too much
useful space and time has been occupied already.
Our notice of " Hawkwood—a Romance of Italy," short as
it is, is unavoidably postponed till Tuesday.

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FRIDA Y MORNING, JULY 10, 1 840

We have received files of the Sydney Gazette and
Commercial Journal, to the 7th of March, inclusive.
They give a very favourable account of the prospects
of the colony. At the commencement of the month
there were upwards of a hundred craft in the harbour,
from the ship of 800 tons to the schooner of 50 tons.
At the same time last year there was little more than
one-half this quantity of shipping. This may be con-
sidered as positive proof of the rapidly increasing
prosperity of New South Wales, despite the many
oppositions to it in the formation of neighbOuring set-
tlements. Sydney promises to become the Liverpool of
Australasia. The rapid progress of its trade and com-
merce will soon render it the greatest emporium for
shipping in the whole of our colonial possessions.
The Sydney Gazette of March 5 contains a tabular
statement of the amount of tonnage that entered the
port during the year 1839, specifying the amount for
each month. The grand total for the year is 123,000
tons, of which 94,444 tons sailed from ports in the
United Kingdom. Supposing the freight obtained by
British shipowners to be, in round numbers, £4 per
ton, including passage money, it would give a total in-
come of £377,776. Again, allowing £2O as the value
of each ton of merchandize imported at Sydney, this
would give, for 63,534 tons, £1,270,630 for one year.
Allowing that each cabin passenger took out property
to the value of £2OO per head, this would give upon
2098 passengers, the number for last year, the sum of
£419,609. These few statistical details will afford some
idea of the vast importance of the trade of New South
Wales.

The Gazette strongly insists upon the necessity of
having a representative form of government introduced
into a colony of such first-rate importance.
'We subjoin from the Commercial Journal an ac-
count of the markets at Sydney

THE MARKETS.
TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 18,10.—The supply was tolerably
good this morning, in quality as well as quantity, and some
few articles in the fruit and vegetable line rather lower in
price. The followin- are the quotations :
FRUlT.—Yeaches,2d. to ls. per dozen ; apples, Is. to 3s.
per dozen ; grapes, 3d. to is. per lb. ; pears, Is. to as. per

dozen ; nectarines, 6d. to _9d. per dozen ; oranges, Is. to 3s
per dozen.
VEGETABLES.-011i0OS 2id: to 4d. per lb. ; cabbages
2d. to 9d. each ; carrots and turnips, 4d. per bunch ; potatoes
7s. to 10s. per cwt.
FLOUR is at our last quotations, viz.—First quality, 30s
to 365. per 1001bs. ; second ditto, 28s. to 30s. ; third ditto
18s. to 19s.
With a reduction of Is. for cash payments.
BREAD.-41b. loaf, Is. 2d.
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We have received a copy of the St. John's (N. B
Weekly Chronicle, of the sth ultimo. It does not cor
tain any news of importance.

We announced in our Tuesday's publication the
withdrawal by Lord Stanley of his bill to amend the
system of registration in Ireland. Indignant as we
are at the circumstances which have led to the adop-
tion of this step on the part of his lordship ; grieved
beyond measure at the galling disappointment which
it is calculated to diffuse amongst the great Protestant

bodies of Great Britain and Ireland ; we cannot still
entertain a doubt that it has been taken by his lord-
ship, and those with whom he acts, only after a full
and anxious consideration of its propriety ; and are
especially unwilling to believe that it has been induced
by any want of firmness or moral courage on his part
or on theirs.

The conduct of Lord Stanley, and of the entire con-
servative party in the House of Commons, as respects
this important measure, has been exemplary, and, be-
yond precedent, staunch and unbending. Opposed by
all the weight of government ; by corruption ; by me-
nace both in and out of parliament; by a powerful
court influence, unscrupulously used; and by factious
and vexatious obstruction unparalleled in the annals of
party ; Lord Stanley and the conservative gentlemen
in that house have presented night after night, week
after week, an unbroken, an unswerving, and an in-
corruptible phalanx, and fought with the steady bra-
very of veterans. the battle of the British constitution.
They have yielded up no position, suffered no defeat,
lost no honour; and although at the close of the•cam-
paign they may appear to a portion of their over-
sanguine adherents to retreat, whilst the enemy is still
in their front, yet they have created for themselves a
stronghold in the sympathies and affections of the
great body of the empire—a stronghold similar to the
lines of Torres Vedras, from which, like that illustrious
hero whose name is the pride and the glory of Eng-
land, they may rush at the opening of a new campaign,
with renewed vigour, unimpaired discipline, and added
numbers, to sweep before their victorious steps the
enfeebled and disorganised enemies of their country
and its liberties.
We grieve, then, at the circumstances which have
caused this apparent failure—=for we trust and believe
that it is only an apparent failure—in the attempt to
uproot the system of Romish craft and corruption in
Ireland. We should undoubtedly have preferred to
record its success in the present session. That suc-
cess would have been one step in advance—one bul-
wark added to the fabric of Protestant liberty—one
plate riveted to the shield which conservative loyalty
is preparing to interpose between the throne and the
treacherous and hollow sycophants by whom its young
and lovely occupant is surrounded. But, those cir-
cumstances existing, we cannot challenge the prudence
of the course which has been taken. Enough has
been done to assert the principle of Lord Stanley's
bill ; the people of England need no additional evi-
dence of its overwhelming necessity ; and although it
is true that a perseverance to the last might have added
a few more conservative victories to the already long
list of the present session, yet the admitted fact that
thOse victories could produce no result of immediate
usefulness—that they would be gained over factious
obstruction merely, and not in furtherance of the
object of the measure—is sufficient, we think, at the
present period of the session, to justify the noble lord
in declining to exact from his party a continued at-
tendance in parliament, which, from its close nature
and long duration, must now have become one of se-

rims inconvenience and great personal sacrifice.
It now becomes our duty, whilst recording the deep
gratitude which we entertain towards Lord Stanley,
and our admiration of the conduct of the whole body
of conservative members by whom he has been sup-
ported, to request from our readers—from the. Protes-
tant conservatives of England—that hearty and unani-
mous support which these noble champions of our
liberties have an undoubted right to expect. Yes,
gentlemen—brother conservatives—it is by your ex-
ertions now that the cause of the British constitution
must be asserted. You have a ministry, supported in
office by the offscourings of low radicalism—by gutter-
bred upstarts—by the crawling, abject slaves of Rome
and her mendicant bully,—which dares insultingly to
tell you that corruption and fraud in the constituent
body, and factious and venal obstruction in the repre-
sentative body, shall continue to set at nought and
laugh at the constitutional expression of your just
demands. You have a ministry so base and abject,
that shame cannot reach them ; so corrupt, that defeat
and disgrace cannot further defile them ;—a ministry
which clings to the putrescent body of office and pay
long after the vital principle—its power—has departed;
which preserves existence by tiring out its assailants,
from the very gluttony with which it receives chastise-
ment. Is this such a ministry as highminded Eng-
land ought to possess ? Assuredly it is not; and we
tell you now, that in your hands alone is the power to
dash down and trample upon the incubus which has
fastened upon your country, and is strangling the en-
ergies of its industrious community.
You have before you sufficient evidence of this fact.
In nine divisions out of ten that ministry were defeated
on Lord Stanley's bill ; yet still they hold office. Three
times in one night they were defeated upon measures
of their own ; yet still they cling to place. To obstruct
the passing of Lord Stanley's bill, they brought in--
these paltry, pitiful tricksters—their " Right of Voting
Bill." Where is it now ? Withdrawn. With the
same object they brought in a " Treating and Bribery
Bill." Where is that ? Withdrawn too ! Again :
they brought in their " English Registration Bill."
Where is that bill ? Withdrawn too !! And lastly,
for the same virtuous and straightforward purpose,
they brought in two bills—their government measure
for reforming the system of registration in Ireland.
That, at least, we should imagine (Lord Stanley's
measure being withdrawn) would now be pressed for-
ward. But no. It is dead and buried too, for the
present session ; but is to be galvanised by the mem-
ber for Ireland, and presented next session, in opposi-
tion to Lord Stanley's bill, as an embodied image of
corruption and obstruction. Evidence ? Fellow con-
servatives !—why it is an insult to your understanding
to suppose that you need evidence to convince you of
the unutterable infamy with which this mean and de-
praved crew are smeared until their very touch is con-

tamination !
Will you then, we ask, assist in the effort which is
alone required, and which your assistance can alone
render successful, to drive out this unclean thing from
amongst you ? If you wish to do so, look to your re-
gistration The battle of the constitution is now—
now, at this crisis especially—to be fought in the regis-
tration courts. In the name, then, of your religion—
in the name of your country—in the name of liberty—
such constitutional liberty as conservatives desire—
we call upon you to REGISTER! REGISTER ! REGIS-

TER!

We call upon you the more emphatically to do this
because we firmly believe that upon the event of the
approaching registration depends the fate of this minis-
try. No set of men who had not such an ultimatum
in view could have endured as they have endured,
without dissolving parliament or resigning. The pre-
sent constituency they cannot meet. We have that
fact avowed by their master—by O'Connell ; but they
hope, by the operation of their Reform Associations
and Protector Societies, and through the influence of
the Radical Corporations and Russell Justices, to suc-
ceed in swamping a portion of the honest constituen-
cies of England, by foisting upon the registers hordes
of Irish Catholics—hereditary hodmen and pig mer-
chants—whose votes will be carried in the breeches
pocket of the priest, and bartered for a confession or
an indulgence. Upon the result of the approaching
registration we repeat depends the fate of the ministry,
and, more than that—the salvation of the empire.
Let us then urge upon the great body of conserva-
tives throughout the empire to be up and stirring.
Your enemies, depend upon it, will strive hard and
are striving hard. They will fight and are fighting with
the tenacity of men who have only the alternatives be-
fore them of victory or extinction. They will leave no

trick untried—no influence unused—no machinery
idle. Meet them, then, we entreat ; meet them boldly
and zealously. Oppose virtuous exertion to dishonest
juggling, and depend upon it you will not make the
effort in vain.

It must, however, be borne in mind, that it is not
sufficient that you should be able to beat your oppo-
nents. It is of the utmost importance that they should
be well beat. Whatever be the result of the registra-
tion there is not a shadow of doubt that parliament
will be dissolved upon the next register; and it is not
sufficient that we should be able to return such a ma-
jority to the House of Commons as will ensure us a
constitutional Conservative government, but we must
'also send a good working majority to support that 'go-
vernment. Register, then, we repeat ; register both as
parliamentary and municipal voters, and thus place in
your own hands the power of redressing both public,
and local abuses.

Remember, the 20th, of July is the last day for re-
ceiving claims to vote for Members of Parliament
for the borough. CONSERVATIVES, BE AT YOUR

POSTS I.

We perceive, from the parliamentary reports, that

our excellent representative, Lord Sandon, presented,
on Tuesday last, a petition from Glasgow, praying the

-louse of Commons to take measures to encourage the

nnigration of labourers from all parts of the world to
)ur West India colonies. The mercantile interests of

Glasgow have done honour to themselves by this move-
ment. We trust that their example will.be followed in
other places, and especially in this town. Liverpool is
as deeply interested as Glasgow in the prosperity of
the West Indies. ' We hope that a similar petition will
be forthwith prepared for signature among our towns-

mete, and feel confident that it cannot fail to meet
with general approbation. The great experiment of
free labour must surely enlist in its favour all those
who have exerted themselves in the cause of negro
emancipation. They cannot, with any degree of con-
sistency, refuse their active co-operation in any rea-
sonable plan for rendering free labour productive.
They cannot more effectually subserve the cause of
universal freedom than by multiplying the facilities for
immigration into the British colonies.

We rejoice to find, from a prospectus which has

een recently advertised in the metropolitan papers,
tat a 'West India Immigration Society has just been
mmed. From the respectability of the names which
ppear in the list of the provisional committee we con-
dently anticipate that the project will meet with suc-
The-object of this society is to promote and en-
courage immigration into British Guiana and the West
Indies generally, especially into those parts of the
colonies where European and other artizans and la-
bourers may be most advantageously employed. It is
well known that in the mountainous districts of the
West Indies the climate is exceedingly salubrious—
perhaps more so than in any part of Europe. In-
stances of extreme longevity are far more prevalent in
such situations than they are in the most favoured parts
of Great Britain. In those parts of the West Indies
there is a fine field for British enterprise. They may

e entirely colonised by Englishmen. English artisans
nd labourers are not only exactly suited to the cli-
nate, but have been found capable of executing every
species of work required on every description of es-
state. English agricultural labourers are already ex-
tensively employed in the more elevated districts of
Jamaica, and hake been found to answer in every re-
spect. The labour required of them is much lighter
an that to which the English labourer is subjected in
The privileges enjoyed by the English
emigrants who have settled in Jamaica are unparal-
leled. Their provision grounds alone constitute a little
fortune in their hands. In short, they have the means
to render themselves, in a few years, totally independ-
ent of labour. One sugar estate in the island, Free-
man's Hall Estate, in the parish of Trelawney, has

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been entirely settled by German and English immi-
grants, who are working cheerfully, and who are in the
enjoyment of every comfort in life. There are hun-
dreds of thousands of acres of virgin land, of unsur-

passed fertility, in the mountainous regions of Jamaica,
British Guiana, Trinidad, Granada, Tobago, &c., which
may he brought into cultivation by European labour-
ers. The reclamation of these lands will naturally form
a prominent object of the immigration society.
The society will not, however, confine its operations
to British and other European labourers and artisans:
It will prove of signal utility in procuring supplies of

bourers from other parts of the world. By uniting
e West India interest in one compact body it will

gove, we trust, a powerful instrument in obtaining the
•emoval of the existing restrictions on the immigration

of the Hill Coolies into the • West Indies. Vis !mita
fortior is a maxim which we expect to find trium-
phantly exemplified in the operations of this society.
We trust that we may now safely congratulate the
West India interest upon the brighter prospects that
are beginning to dawn upon them. There is, at
length, a probability that " justice for the West Indies"
will be speedily obtained. There has been, of late, a
most decided reaction in the public mind in favour of
the persecuted and slandered planters. The popular
voice is now being enlisted in their favour; and that
voice must soon meet with an echo from the legisla-
ture.

EETOTAL PROCESSIONS IN IRELAND ON THE
TWELFTH OF JULY

It may be known to some of our readers that it was in
contemplation to have a Roman Catholic procession—ac-
companied with the party emblems which distinguish at once
Teetotalism and Ribbonism—on the 12th of July, at Auleek,
in the immediate vicinity of the spot on which was fought

the celebrated battle of the Boyne.
By the spirited remonstrances of our contemporary, the
Dublin Evening Mail, (for to no other cause can we attribute
so remarkable a feature in the policy of the Irish executive,)
Lord Ebrington has been induced to issue a proclamation,
cautioning Teetotallers to abstain from wearing any party
emblems, or carrying any party banners, under the pain of
their procession being treated as illegal and its progress
being interfered with by the magistracy.
We wonder whether his Excellency imagines that the
ribboninen or teetotallers of Ireland will pay any more at-
tention to his proclamation than just so much as suits their
own humours or more serious purposes. The threat of in-
terference with one of O'Connell's or Father Maguire's
processions, or as they are more truly designated "displays
of numerical strength," is pure fudge.

HALEWOOD BAZAAR.—This bazaar, which was adjourned
from Woolton Hall after four days sales, to the Music Hall
in this town, was resumed yesterday, for the disposal of the
remainder of the articles. Owing to the shortness of the
notice and some other circumstances, the attendance was
not quite so numerous as had been anticipated ; but con-
siderable sales were effected, and as most of the articles went
off, the bazaar was finally closed last night. The total re-
ceipts throughout are about £3300. On this occasion Mr.
Lynn of the Waterloo Hotel, kindly contributed iced creams
for the refreshment of the ladies and visitors, both at Wool-
ton Hall last week, and also at the Music Hall yesterday.
MELANCHOLY SUlClDE.—Yesterday an inquisition was
held before P. F. Currie, Esquire, and an intelligent jury,
on view of the body of Mr. William Richardson, a promisino•
young man of twenty-six years of age. It appeared from theb
evidence that the deceased, who was the nephew of Mr. John
Clifford Etches, of the firm of Etches and Wilson, cattle
salesmen, Prices-street, had for some time been in a de-
sponding state of mind, though his future prospects, through
the liberality of his uncle, were very promising. He had
been ten or twelve years with Mr. Etches, who had promised
some years ago to give him his business, and had latterly
made an arrangement by which he was inducted with it on
the first of this present month, with a considerable capital to
carry it on. It appeared that the deceased was derious of also
obtaining half of the commission buainess with Mr. Wilson,
and as that could not be accomplished, he appeared to
be thereby disappointed, Mr. Etches entered into another,
and as he conceived a better arrangement with Mr. Wilson,
by which he (himself) should have one-third of the profits,
which be stated lie should also give to /the deceased.'
He also reduced the rent of the house to the decesed, and
seeing him occasionally low spirited, did him other offices of
kindness and attention, with a view to rouse him from his
despondency. On Saturday morning last., Mr. E. observed
that the deceased was much changed, that lie did not take
his food as usual, and that lie appeared to be mentally
affected. Mr. Etches repeated to him the arrangement he
proposed in his behalf, with reference to Mr. Wilson's busi-
ness, and did not see him again until after he had committed
the act that prematurely terminated his existence. On the
same day, about half-past one in the afternoon, the deceased
retired to his bed-room, and shot himself with a pocket
pistol of the smallest size, the muzzle of which he had placed
in his mouth. When found he was insensible, and a surgeon
discovered a wound in the roof of the. mouth, but could find
no opening by which the ball or missile that had inflicted it
had escaped. The unfortunate young man was able to reply
briefly to the questions put to him on Sunday and Monday ;
but expired on Wednesday afternoon, about two o'clock.
On a post mortem examination it was found that the small
ball from the pistol had penetrated to the roof of the mouth
on the left side, had passed thence upwards near the optic
nerve, thence through the brain to the crown of the head,
causing a fracture of the skull from the interior, and then
rebounding had lodged in the brain. The ball was a good
deal jagged, but from what cause was not clearly apparent.
Death was produced by the injury sustained by the brain.—
Some other witnesses deposed as to the unsettled state of the
mind of the deceased, and the jury taking all the circum-
stances into serious consideration, returned a verdict to the
effect, that the deceased committed the fatal act, while
labouring under temporary insanity. The fact of his having
survived such a wound for four days is very remarkable.