The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-04 00:00:00

TO THE LOYAL PEOLPE OF ENGLAND

It is now nearly four years since (when the country was,
as it is again, on the eve of a general election), I presumed
to intimate an opinion that a trick upon the people of En-
gland was contemplated by her Majesty's ministers. I told
you that " an administration which had obtained office by
means politically dishonourable, which by an tundisguised
alliance with professed revolutionists had forced itself upon
the late gracious monarch, and that on the pretence of carry-
ing measures it had not carried—an administration which,
with economy on its lips, had squandered hundreds of thou-
sands of the public money on useless commissions at home,
and on worse than useless contests abroad—an administra-
tion which had become contemptible from impotence, and
hateful by its tyranny, which had stigmatised poverty as a
crime worthy of the bastile and its coarser food allowance—
that that administration was about to attempt, by a new
juggle, to re-invigorate its expiring energies." I told you
that their " cry would be The Queen and the Ministry, the
Queen and Reform, or some other phrase equally calculated
to delude." I added, that if you " could once more be
gulled, the seat of the minister was safe," but that " if you
were awake to the delusion, it would crumble from beneath
him." And I concluded by expressing myself confident
that " the trick would utterly and ignominiously PAIL,"
Was I right or wrong ? I was correct in every particular.
The Queen's name was paraded with the most indecent fami-
liarity in every whig newspaper, "and upon every hustings in
the country. It was openly insinuated that to vote against
a ministerialist was to vote against the wishes of her Ma-
jesty. But what was the result? You paid no attention to
hints so improper and unconstitutional. You had too much
respect for the sovereign to permit yourselves to inquire into
their truth or falsehood. You had a great duty to do, and
you did it. In spite of all the trickery of the most unscru-
pulous faction that ever struggled for ascendancy, you sent
into the new parliament a greater number of conservatives
than you had returned to the former. You had been asked
to strengthen ministers, and you replied by weakening them.
You left them no stay—nothing upon which to lean, but the
great Irish impostor, and the serfs whom he deludes and
lives upon. But you did more. You sent such a phalanx
of good men and true into the house as rendered even the
stay of that impostor unavailable to them. They have been
repeatedly .and disgracefully beaten, with him and all his
serfs at their back. And what is their resource now ? They
have the audacity to threaten another appeal to you!—to
you, who gave such an answer to their last, which was made
at a juncture more favourable to their hopes than any that
can ever occur again.
What then ? Do they think that you have, in some de-
gree, relaxed your hostility to their principles ? and that you
are ready to reverse your former verdict ? By what, then,
do they hope to have soothed you? With what " juggle"
are you about to be—if you are not already—gulled? CHEAP
BREAD! This is trick the second ; and, if you are the peo-
ple I take you for; it will be trick the last.
I shall not now enter into any examination of the present
corn-bill. Whether its alteration or abolition might, or
might not, be advantageous to the nation, is nothing to
my argument. I contend that you ought not to intrust the
decision of a question so momentous to a Government com-
posed of Quacks and Incapables. Just glance with me over
a few of their acts during the last ten years, and you will not
think my epithets too harsh. They gave you the _Worm
Bill, which they assured you would cure all your ills, physi-
cal and political. A vast majority of you, for a time, believed
and supported them. But who now boasts of its healing
virtues ? It is a failure, and its own authors confess it !
They gave you next the Corporation Reform Bill. What
did it do ? 'lt threw, for a year or two' all the civic power
into the hands of their own partisans, who have proved them-
selves as incapable as their leaders to occupy any station of
trust, and who have been already discarded, in most places,.
from the stations they occupied. The Corporation Reform
Bill is a failure, and its authors confess it ! Another speci-
men of Whig legislation was their Poor Law Amendment
Act, or what is uturally termed the New Poor Law. That
the old generous Elizabethan Act had been greatly abused,
or that it needed amendment, nobody -ever denied. But to
amend has not so magnificent a sound as to abolish, and to
produce something new. Accordingly the Whigs were deter-
mined to produce something new, and they did so. They
produced a measure which has neverl yet been worked out—
which never can be worked out—because the feelings of Eng-
lishmen will not endure it. "No relief but in the work-
house," which is the stern mandate of this new tyranny, is
not, and cannot be, enforced ; and if so, their New Poor Law,
too, is a failure! During these changes, the expenditure
began to exceed the revenue of the country • and by the way,
I suppose of increasing the latter, they reduced the Postage
duties. They gave you, lastly, the Penny Postage. This
was, they asserted, a boon to the poor. The hypocrites!
they talk of being friends of the poor, who had covered the
land with Bastiles for their reception ! But to pass this
over, has their Penny Postage succeeded? Not it. indeed.
The deficiency caused by this change, is four times the
amount they expect to raise by a scheme which will peril,
and may ruin, the agriculture of the country ! And this
brings me back to their " trick the last"—the Corn Laws.
Whether they are sincere in their professed intention of
substituting a fixed duty for the present fluctuating duties—
whether the announcement is a mere fraud, an electioneering
manoeuvre—or whether it is made for the semi-traitorous
purpose of embarrassing the future government of the
Queen, I shall not stop to inquire. I care as little about
their motives as, I trust, you do. I maintain that, be their
motives good or be they evil—be their inten ions honestly
entertained or be they not—be they the most patriotic, or be
they the least patriotic ministry that ever graced or dis-
graced the land of their nativity, I maintain that they are
incapable, utterly incapable, of carrying any view into effect.
Incapable, not from the opposition they meet with, not from
the impracticability, in every instance, of their designs, but
from sheer want of legislative ability. A majority of you
trusted them long, supported them long, believing them ho-
nest, and hoping that they would learn the art of government
from experience. But you have seen measure after measure
held forth as a panacea, and you have seen them successively
fail. In seven years you have seen more than seven millions
added to the national debt ,• and that they call retrench-
ment. You have seen hundreds of thousands lavished on
commissioners ; and that they call economy. You have seen
expeditions to Spain, to Egypt, to China ; and that they
call peace and non-intervention. To use a vulgar but ex-
pressive phrase—you have been LIUMBUGGED !
You have been humbugged for ten long and disastrous
years. But if these men give you the opportunity they
threaten to give, you will, I am persuaded, take ample RE-
VENGE. And revenge, in this case, will be a virtue ; it will
be one of the greatest of human virtues—it will be TRUE
PATRIOTISM. This revenge you will begin at the hustings,
and achieve in the polling-booths. You will tell the Whigs,
wherever they appear, that you have given them a long and
patient trial ; that your verdict is adverse to any renewal of
confidence in them ; and that you will choose men who will
neither be the vassal slaves of O'Connell, nor the betrayers
of a young, an innocent, and unsuspecting QUEEN !
ROBERT STORY.
Gargrave, May 25, 1841.

We believe it is generally understood that his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert will visit his Grace the Archbishop of
York, at Nuneham, on the 14th of tiext month. His royal
highness will doubtless honour his own university with his
presencer.— Oxford Herald.

Garrow, and John Lilly, hence at Bonny
A ship, supposed to be the Huddersfield, hence off ditto
Magistrate, and Lady Combermere, hence at Fernando Po
Currency, Parkin, hence at the Cape of Good Hope
Caledonia, Lawson, sailed from the Cape of Good Hope for this
port 24th March
Ciutra, Renfree, from Manilla for Sydney, N.S.W. Bth Dec.
Zoe, Holmes, from Calcutta at St. Helena, and salted Bth April
for this port
Lady Leitrim, Clements; Brigand, and Belgrave, hence at An-
..

tigua
Elizabeth, Wood, in 26 days ; lrlam, Morphew ; Alice, Anwyl
Martha, and Victoria, hence at Barbadoes
Camerton, hence for Trinidad, off ditto 22nd April
Swift (packet) from Falmouth, at ditto 29th April
Rising Sun, Christian, hence at Laguna in 45 days
Dart, Gray, hence at Ancona
Ariel. Dutton, hence at Trieste
Traveller, Boyce, hence at Pilau
Susannah Jay, Marshall, hence at Riga
Orion, Lundbeck, and Comet, Scott, hence at Wyburg
Cove, , from the Mauritius, off Portsmouth
Princess Charlotte, King, from Bon bay, off Cork
Alexander Liddle, Henderson, from Laguna, at Cove
Portland, from Savannah to this port, was spoken 16th May, in
lat. 43 0, long. 43 0
Trewartha, hence for Naples, was spoken off Gibraltar
Gondolier, hence for China, was spoken on the Equator
Agnes Ewing, hence for Halifax, was spoken 28th April, with
loss of foremast and jibboom
Rhoda, Matthews, hence for Leghorn, was spoken 15th April, in
Premier, - hence for -, was spoken 25th April, in lat.
4 0 N, long. 18 0 W
Mary Bulmer, from Bombay to this port, was spoken 7th May,
in lat. 23 0 N. long. 38 0 W
Couiler, Huntress, from Lima, at this port; sailed 7th Feb. The
Thomas Worthington was discharging. The Thomas Fielden was
to sail for the lee coast for light freight. The Bonanza was ex-
pected daily from the Chinean Islands, to fill up for this port. On
the 9th April, in lat. 22 0 S, long. 22 0 W, spoke the Matilda (late
Scott,) hence for Sydney
The London, from Yarmouth, N.S. at this port, sailed
3rd May. On the gth May, in lat. 43 o, lon. 63 0, fell in with the
Paragon, hence for Halifax, in a sinking state, having been run on
board by a large American ship the day previous, and took off the
crew. On the 12th, in lat. 43 0, lon. 50 30, the London struck an
iceberg, lost bowsprit, foremast, maintopmast, and stove her
larboard bow. Shortly afterwards heard a crash, supposed to be
caused by another vessel running against the ice, which it is feared
foundered, but the weather was too thick to distinguish her.
The Fortitude, Arbuthnot, from Buenos Ayres at this port. On
the 25th ult. at 5 a.m. in lat. 47 0, N. lon. 24 30, W. saw a large
steamer, without funnel, a crippled foremast, and large paddle-
boxes, painted of a dark colour, with a large topsail set on the
maintopmast, a topgallant sail on the lore-topmast, and with fore
and aft sails, about ten miles distant, steering to the N.E. and
making but slow progress.

THURSDAY, JUNE 3.—Wind N.W. fresh,

ARRlVED.—Princess Charlotte, , from Bombay—Charles
Eyes, Moss, from Valparaiso—Harriet, from Buenos Ayres
—Gracio, —, from Maceio—Ellen German, —, from La-
guira—Columbine, —; Joseph Cunard, Birnie, and Abbot
Lord, Nowell, from New Orleans—Marchioness of Bute, —,
from Mobile—John Bentley, Desbro, from Savannah—Gleneira,
, from Marseilles—Venus, 'Hinklell, from Gilboa—John &
William; Wuff, and Carl Christian, Birr, from Danzic—Henriette,
—, from Stralsund—Bellerophon, Schroeder, from Wismar—
Alert, —, from Naples—and Providence, Albrecht, from Danzic.
SAILED.—Rosa, Farman, for Dordt—Oxeubjerg, Dreyer, for El-
sinore—lsaac Allerton, Torry, and Sheffield, Allen, for New York
—Beethoven, Moore, for Valparaiso—Favourite, Harrison, for
Harlingen—and Caledonia, Harvey, for Riga.

The vessel seen by the Fortitude, and supposed to be a large
steamer, disabled, was in all probability the London, from Yar-
mouth, N.S. that arrived here yesterday—the dcsciiptlon and po-
sition of the disabled vessel agreeing with that of the London
Dart, Grey, hence to Ancona, was spoken 2nd May, in lat 37,
long, l E
Reliance, hence to Ceara, was spoken 27th April, in lat. 6 N,
long. 27 W
Black-eyed-Susan, hence to Beirout, was spoken 27th May, in
Mt. 49, long. 7 15
Australia, hence to Bahia, was spoken 14th ult. in lat. 38, long.
16
St. John, hence to Quebec, was spoken bth ult. in lat. 43, long.
49.
Grenada, —, from Calcutta, off the Wight
Swan, Hughes, from Alexandria, at the Cove
Goodluck, Payne, from Buenos Ayres, off ditto in 92 days. On
28th May, in lat. 48, long. 15, spoke the Queen Victoria, for Liver-
pool
Lady Adams, —, hence at Valparaiso
Leonora, b arrison, from Demerara, at Trinidad
Garland, Larkin ; Samuel, Kelly ; Elvirp, Wills ; Jessamine,
Jarvis; Donegal, Hardship; Wanderer, Dixon ; Thomas, Edmond-
son; Trial, Bell; and Margaret Parker, .Dunn, hence at New-
foundland
Buoyant, Stanley, hence at Newfoundland, lost mainboom
Sham, Scott, hence at ditto, lost mainyard
George Robinson, Lockyer, hence at ditto, mainmast sprung
Andes, , from Falmouth, at Trieste
Zeldenrust, Koning, and Alista, Brought, hence at Zwolle
Stour, Atkins, hence at Helvoet

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, JUNE 1.
(From the Circular of Messrs. James Scott $. Son.)
Since this day week the imports of Grain and Flour from Foreign
ports have been pretty considerable, but quite trivial from Ireland,
and from ports Coastways ;—the demand has continued steady, and
although duty has been paid on about 6000 qrs. of Foreign Wheat,
sales have continued at fully the prices of Tuesday last for fine
fresh Wheat and Flour, and in some instances at a small increase,
but all other articles in the Corn Trade have experienced a very
limited demand at about our last quotations.
The duty on Barley, Indian Corn. Buck Wheat, Oath, and Beans,
from Foreign Ports, is this week increased is 6d per quarter; on
other articles no alteration, but the duty on Wheat will in all pro-
bability be Is higher next Friday ; some few parcels of fine fresh
Baltic Wheit have .changed hands at about 6s per 70Ibs. and of
American Flour at 225 6d to 23s per barrel, and of Oats at 3s to
3s Id per 451bs. in bond.
At this day's market we have had a thin attendance, and sales
only to a very moderate extent effected at a small decline on almost
every article in the trade ; and although we have little or no. alter-
ation in our prices current, a reduction of Id to 2d per 70 lbs. in
some instances was submitted to on the finer qualities of Wheat.
WHEAT, s. d. 5. d. PEAS, Grey 36 0@37 0
English
Scotch ' 8 9 9 6 BEANS, per quarter.
Irish 6 8 8 3 English 42 0 43 0
Bonded
OATS, per 451 b. RYE, per quarter 34 0 36 0
English
Scotch . 3 4 3 6 middling so 0 s 6 o
Irish 2 9 3 li FLOUR, English, per 2801 b.
Foreign, in bond 3 0 3 2 Fine 44 047 0
Ditto, duty free.. 3 4 3 6 Irish 42 046 0
BARLEY, per qr. Amer.* brl. free
English 33 0 34 0 Sweet 'U.5..... 34 6 35 6
Chevalier 35 0 36 0 Sour 33 6 34 0
Scotch, per 601 b. 4 9 5 0 OATMEAL, per 2401 b.
Irish 3lO 5 0 English 81 Scotch2d 0 26 6
Foreign, in bond, 0 0 0 0 Ditto, new 26 0 27 0
INDIAN CORN, 40 48011.. SHIP BREAD, per 1121 b.
Red 32 0 38 0 In bond 10 0 14 6
White 32 0 38 0

PRICES OF TIMBER AT LIVERPOOL

*Wool), Deals, 120 stand. m. duty paid

Archalngel
Memel 18 0 - 19 0
Gothenburg l4 10 - 16 0 . Not above 16 ft
Wyburg l6 10 - 18 0 1 F.. 19. B. P. 3.
Petersburg l3 10 - 10 10 ; 21 feet.
PLANKS, per foot of 2 inches thick. I £22...e2 10s.
Danzig, Deck - 0 4
British American Pine - 0 21 -'
LAVIWO on, per fathom.
Danzig, 4 feet 48 0 - 8 10 ;.'4 Ss.
British American 4 10 - 6 10 15s.
MAHOGANY, per foot of 1 inch thick.
Honduras - 0 9 ael 10s.
Cuba - 1 0 1 £5.
St. Domingo 1 0 - 2 0
()AK PLANKS, British American none. 15s per load.
TEAKWOOD, per cubic feet - 6 6 10s.
STAVES, per 1200.
Danzig, C. Pipe £l4O 0 -159 0 Not ab. 36 in.
Hhd. 7O 0- 30 0 XI 3s. B.F. 25.
Quebec, red, 4 inch thick, 1400- 63 0 '2 6 48.
and 51 feet long
Do. Puncheon l3 0 - 20 0
TIMBEa, per cubic foot. s. d. 8. d.
Oak 2 4 - 2 g
Pine, British Amer. common - 0 0 lOs
red 1 7 - 2 3 perload.
yellow - 1 10 J ,
Danzig,middling 2 1 - 2 16
Memel, middling 2 1 - 2 1k 1.e2 15s. *load
Riga, red 2 4 - 2 6
*There is an additional duty of 5 per sent. on these rates.