The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-22 00:00:00

TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 1836.

We have received advices from Jamaica which reach
to the lGth February, but they are uninteresting. A
person of the name of TAYLOR, a baptist preacher, bnd
been tried and found guilty of fomenting dissensions
amongst the negro labourers, but the particulars are not
furnished.

The debate in the How of Commons on Friday last
is highly instructive: It will be seen from the humiliat-
ing' and melancholy confession of Lord PALMERSTOS,

that his Majesty our :King and his ininisters,.our execu-
tive rulers, are not considered as having any voice, or
possessing any infinence in the affairs of Europe. They
are treated by the governments of Austria, Russia, and
Prussia ascontrahand articles, orthe smuggle-, s of snc:t ar-

tides, that is to say, as if they were quite beyond the pale
of law, undeserving of any respect; and unfit to legislate
or decitb tipon any treaty in which,GreatA3ritain in her
better days had the honour' to' bevpmrOpKer) Y •
'tile subject under cliscussion.wmiAlliOmitlatiou of
Cracow by the Austrian,l4,4AVllNVtlprkfl:loops,
or the around, that certaiti.P.olish.re hAttling§taltat
city ae§i7Nl, V 194014 tOiktikkiiimice
rf.co ussii ro.l
with the rebels of t,heir ow.ulAmtion, tocatecia in various
parts of Europe. TheiCity of CraCOW w4oleclared to he
a free and independent republic by the fatlious treaty of
Vienna. The King. (if ,Englatid was a party to, that
treaty. He in conjunction I:vith his allies recognised its
rights, privileges, and liberties. It was stipulated that
no armed force should be permitted to enter it under any
circumstances, the republic at the same time contracting
that no deserters or suspected persons, or enemies to the
public peace, should find shelter within its confines.
So far as these stipulations go it is plain sailing. The
rebellion of Poland, however, in 1830, changed the as-
pect of affairs. The patriotic swindlers who distinguished
themselves in that catastrophe; after a cruel, unprinci-
pled, and frui tiess warfare, were scattered to the four winds
of heaven, and numbers of them took refuge in Cracow.
Had they betaken themselves to peaceful and honest pur-
suits they would have remained unquestioned and unmo-
lested. Had they confined themselves to a lucrative
traffic in old clothes, to cobbling or tailoring, or to any
fair mode of acquiring the means of subsistence, they
_ _

neverwould have been disturbed. But they added poli-
tical to their other habits of tinkering ; they became :li-
berals in prison; they established schools of sedition;
they sent emissaries abroad to preach rebellion ; they en-
tered into correspondence with the subdued rebels in
exile, and they bade defiance to the powers by whose
,mercy and clemency they were suffered to have a home in

Cracow.
What were the consequences ? The natural. ones.
The combined powers marched troops into the town and
removed the offending parties. Some have very pro-
perly beer transported to the land of liberty on the other
side of the Atlantic—some have had a locality, assigned
to them nearer home—and some have *en walked or
carted to we know not where. Lord PALMERSTON COlll-
-

plains that all this has been done without consultilv; hint?
and that the treaty. of Vienna has been violated by the
Wore mentioned! The noble
royal and imperial partiei
lord laments, most pathetiO#lliy, that Austrian troops have
been marched into Lt avow y4thonticiik permisSion—that
officially he is. ignorant of the transaction—and that the
seditious Poles have been xernoved with Out so much as a.
civil letter having been addressed to him on the subject !
This is very galling no doubt. It places England in
an exceedingly low position, as if she were a seventh-
rate nation, only worthy of being the football of Austria,
Russia, and Prussia. That his lordship has been treated
with very marked indignity and contempt we freely con-
fess. That he has been treated otherwise than he de-
serves is another question. That the. northern states
have insulted the present government of England cannot
be denied. That they have poured water on .a " drowned
rat" is obvious enough ; but that the noble Secretary for
Foreign Affairs is entitled to more courteous service at
their bands is an assumption which it is easy to question
but difficult to establish.
Lord PALMERSTON complains that the treaty of Vienna
has been violated. No doubt it has; but who was a con-
senting party to its first and most flagrant violation ?
Why, Lord PALMERSTON himself. If the Polish refugees
have been hardly treated they have the noble lord en-
tirely to blame. He is virtually an accessory to their
1 deportation. He helped to forge the chains which bind
them ; and yet he is ready to make war upon the other
states of Europe fiat att infrattion of covenants which he
assisted to breal: Wittiess for us the change of dynasty
in France, the itiAliffeefien in Belgium, and the infamous
spoliation of the tetfilorieS.of the King of .the Nether-
lands: Theft it ii'd# that the treaty of Vienna became rt