The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-29 00:00:00

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CONSERVATIVE SONGS

FHE QUEEN, IN A BUMPER!
in a Bumper !—We'll drink to the crown,
tre so ir.ildly held o'er us;
symbols or ancient renown—

e those
T dear

o our fathers before us !
spell that is in them falls dead

a heart of a Briton,
)ry of England is fled

ay's written

s no tyrant to fear,

on shall keep her a vassal !
free in his cottage—the peer
light of his castle ;

.._. .- - .
all not our Queen be, in word and in will,
•ee as her people around her ?
th to the traitors who, baffling her still,
tters would bind, or have bound her.

rHE WIVES AND MOTHERS OF BRITAIN
is glass, fill it high to the brim,
A is well worthy a full one;
;ive much for the feelings of him
I deem it a vapid or dull oue
he wine-cup deservedly foams,

Who s

y room he may sit in :
Womxiv, that brighten our homes—
san the Mothers of Britain!"

asive—it leaves no one out
art English hearth pleasant,
matron that, rosy and stout,

Tights the bold heart of the peasant—
a her to the dame of the stateliest hall
. .

Jility sit in

to the Queen,. who presides o'er us all,
Vives and the Mothers of Britain.
[ we foriret the sweet rose-buds that glow

ind eye of those mothers,

lose hearts are their own, yet not long may be so,
3nt devotedly, meekly another's.

at their sons will be patriots true,
i the room that we sit in ;

:here is reverence due
1 the Mothers of Britain!

CONTEMPORARY PRESS

LIBERALISM IN SPAIN.
(From the Morning Herald.)
teas been appointed President of the
acil. This man has now fairly revolted
wereign, and has forced her Majesty to
discretion. All that he desired is con-
. Espartero has crowned his career of
reachery by treason and rebellion.
"liberal" movement of Eipartero throws
ht on the value of those honours which
A have recently lavished upon him. Lord
.s associates have thought tit to be-
.,o the grand cross of the Bath, and to
gift with a letter, in which praise of the
.(nne kind is lavished on the imputed heroism
atriotism of this cunning cut-throat. The Duke
iex, too, of all men, was singled out to pen the
luestion ; and his royal highness, with that
bad taste which has, through life, distin-
'•l public exhibitions, contrived to render
a proceeding which no skill could have
its inherently offensive character. The
Assex lavished on Espartero's conduct terms
st fulsome praise. Amongst the phrases em-
y the royal penman were these—" Esteem for
rson, and approbation of your loyal conduct to
,overeign"—" your absolute devotion to your
i"—" the regard and admiration with which her
nic Majesty's Government views your political
ilitary career"—" a faithful subject, a true pa-
s man of honour, and a general as skilful as he
-shed." Such, we repeat, were the terms
-tern by the Duke of Sussex. What
think now of the Queen of

Spanish (

Melbourne and hi

r of the Bath on a man like Es-
to debase that illustrious order in so far
our " liberal" ministers might produce
result. The letter of the Duke of Sussex,
_ was more discreditable to his royal highness's
ministerial employers, than even the presentation of
rnia of the Bath to the suborner of the traitor
grosser violations of public decency
ction in all its bearings presents, have
even by our Whig rulers. Yet our
hiz rulers had previously bestowed the honour of mi-
xt on Colonel Evans—and they had
el O'Connell to the Bench !

BY the o.

than the tra

I to ra:

and at ecery stage of its progress,
eralism" .in Spain approves itself
Tar patrons in this country. The
'gland has been concerned, was a
war. The assertors of " liberalism"
rs anti robbers. They have made
,five of the Crown : they have plun-
d the great body of the people.

'he wretchedness and poverty of Spa-in have increased
exact proportion to the degree of success which has
ttended The 'cause of Spanish "liberalism." In sup-
ort of that cause millions of British capital and thou-
ands of British lives have been wasted. In attempt-
ig to support that cause, Colonel Evans contrived. to

_
tarnish the honour of the arms of England, and was
rewarded by Lord Melbourne. In directing the ope-
a " liberal" party, Espartero has contrived
e honour of the arms of England—and
by Lord Melbourne. In directing the
beral" party, Espartero has con-

trived to stain himself with crimes of every hue. For
the, perpetrator of these crimes Espartero has been ho-
noured by Lord Melbourne with the order of the Bath,
and flattered by the Duke of Sussex, in a letter which
his royal highness, we dare venture to believe, now

THE PRESENT CONDITION AND FUTURE PRO-
SPECTS OF BRITISH GUIANA.

(From Mr

Resources of British Guiana.

ry terminated in Guiana on the first
bill having passed the Court of Policy,
ly, which had for its object the abolition of
iticeship on that day, unfettered by any re-
and unconnected with any subsidiary enactments.
►ected, that men who had been held, all
ipulsory labour, should be disposed to re-
nstances totally abstain from it; but it was
that in a colony like Guiana, where labour
as contrasted with that on a sugar
s islands ; and where,•besidas, every
►ich machinery could devise to ease manual la-
x introduced,—that the failure of crops would
iso frightful. The first decrease arose from unfa-
weather, and from the circumstance, that the negru,
amed to the new state of things, did not understand
,osition ; but it soon became evident that an irregu-

1838, b

tivel v e

labour existed, and that the planter could not be
)f the same number of labourers in the field two days
• ; and many of the negroos, after working for a short
their work in order to follow their own inclina-

Another dimunition arose from the indisposition
vomen to attend to field work ; and though on many
sates throughout British Guiana a fair portion of
is obtained, the decrease in 1838, as compared with
ge crop of six previous years, was 9664 hogsheads
The deficiency in the exports of the first quarter
is compared with 1838, amounted to 1238 hhds., and
Jed to the excessive drought, which lasted upwards of
without respite, in consequence of which the
eeks, or lakes, were dried up, and the trenches,
pply, were exhausted ; while the sugar canes
ut from the impossibility of conveying them to
I'he decrease In export for Demerara and Esse-
) continued, and amounted, during the second quarter
)", as compared with the average quantity of correspond-
afters of 1831,
.1832, and 1833, 4473 hogsheads of
r, 2565 puncheons of ruin, 4086 hogsheads of molasses,
,0601bs. coffee : however, " the lengthened drought
last and beginning; of the present quarter would have
diminished Crops m Essequebo and Demerara, under
system of labour. The coffee berry is
.ge harvest is anticipated." Thus reports
to the Marquis of Normanby, on 16th July,
)rts during the third quarter, namely, from
) the 10th of October, as compared with the
r the corresponding quarters of 1831, 1832,
lfortunately a decrease of 7720 hogsheads,
f sugar, 2116 puncheons of rum, 7309
Lases, and 1,271,87811)s. of coffee. The
offee crop after the large harvest which
ously was anticipated, is startling, and is
)f. that not only the unfavourable season,
!ss and want of labour, had a great
ate results of the first year of the

niahs, c

?.660.8

h produced that deficiency, I cannot do
opinion of one of the ablest statesmen

neral proposition to refer this
to the want of adequate wages as its
disputes have no doubt arisen : the
A. 4 all to seek : the engagements and
td left strong traces in the habits and
employer and negro ; the one, with little rea-
that the negro was, at all events, to carry on

sugar ; while the'other, with as little right,
in any case, to remain in undisturbed pos-
e provision ground. Aut a larger or more
led to the decline of cultivation of sugar
* *

round will produce provisions for a fa-
ns to sell at market, and bring, home
the negroes who earn high wags, buy
, and refuse to let their daily labour for

of land

stance, coupled with the indolence to which
Le negroes are prone, most be ascribed the
as and regular labour ; and consequently the
arts amounted, at the close of the year 1839,
ompared with 1838, which year in itself left
iemerara alone, exclusive of Berhice, to no
tan £930,000 :is compared with 1837. The
icious, that supposing the exports of sugar
reach only 35,000 hogsheads, the return in
ger than when the produce was at its great-
very important fact, that the expenses of
aead of sugar, are increased in equal ratio to
the market, does not leave sufficient profit
iterbalance the diminished quantity of
:ed planters fear that the falling off
,eat year will be much greater since
r was able to procure, was only
hile planting, drain-

vs the 1

acr tabour for securing future crops were 'leg-
it is therefore to be foreseen that the cultivation
which has been already neglected, will in a short
rely abandoned, it some remedy be not devised
lose labourers who have become independent, or
pursuits than field labour in order to procure

Ind free emigration alone is able to rescue
Guiana from its rapid decline. Emigration alone will
•-) reap all the advantages which this truly magni-
y offers ; a colony which, as at present situated,
a population of 100,000 labourers 35,000 hogs-
ugar ; while Jamaica, with 440,000 labourers, pro-
100hogshcath; ; and Barbadoes, with 90,000 coloured
23,500hoplieads ; a fact which forcibly points out
iperi9r fertility of British Guiana. This colony surpas-
equally in imports every other in the British West Indies,
nd the import of goods of British manufacture amounted in

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