The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-24 00:00:00

REPRESENTATION OF LIVERPOOL,

TO rHE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlR,—Great as the efforts of the Popish priests and radi-
cals have been, to place on the register great numbers of the
lowest Irish, and others, by paying their taxes ; those efforts
are nothing in comparison with the exertions they will use
when the day of election arrives. They will then—where
they cannot persuade by their deceptive arts—use threats
and compulsion; and when these fail, they will resort to
bribery. lam credibly informed that a certain person of
that party has said he will spend £5,000 to return two mem-
bers for this borough. It therefore behoves every conserva-
tive to be upon the alert in order to prevent the partyfalsely
styling themselves " reformers" from accomplishing their
wish. It will doubtless be a great object with our present
chief magistrate to add M.P. to his newly-fledged honours;
but I trust he will not be suffered to obtain the honour of
representing Liverpool. I have heard it stated that he ac-
tually shed tears at the last general election, when chairman
ct) Mid
ttatite"RaArorlivgtittlemabOUt 600 out of 3,000 old freemen.
Every exertion will be used by the radicals to increase that
number at the ensuing election, but I have no fear of the
" old freemen" swerving from the cause of truth, justice,
and the real interests of the country, to vote for a candidate,
even if that candidate has added to his name " the empty
title" of Sir! ! !

Mr. Swart is peculiarly unfortunate in his statements;
he writes of " the free-grown sugar of Manilla, Siam,
Java, and China." The idea of procuring any con-
stant supply of sugar from the Phillippines or China is
absurd; and, although considerable importations
might take place from Siam or Java, we deny that it
would be of free-grown sugar. Slavery, such as that
of Cuba or Brazil, may not exist either in Siam or Java,
but compulsory labour does exist in both countries,
and it is that alone which produces sugar in either.
The many aggressions of the Dutch in the Eastern
Archipelago on British trade render the encouragement
of trade with Java impolitic.
One fact, in spite of Mr. Ewart, cannot be concealed ;
and it is, that our supply of sugar must either be de-
rived permanently from our own colonies, or from slave
countries. The immense fixed capital which the pro-
duction for the British market requires, exists only in
slave countries or in the British sugar colonies; so
that if we are determined to destroy the latter, we must
be dependent on the former. •

THE PROPERTY OF THE CHURCH.
• (From the Morning Herald of Tuesday)
The third reading of the Ecclesiastical Duties and
Revenues Bill was moved, last night, by Lord John
Russell
A lox

z discussion followed, in the course of which
dments were proposed by Sir Robert Inglis,
by Mr. Goulburn, by Mr. Acland, and by Sir Thomas
Acland. Those amendments tended all, more or less.
to limit the mischievous operation of the measure ; but
thing nor tinkering could suffice to neutralise

GOODWOOD CUP.
5 to 2 against Mr. Johnson's Charles Xll.—t.
Bto 1 „ Mr. Bowes's Hetman Platoff.—t.
Bto 1 „ Mr. Ramsay's Lanercost.
11 to 1 „ Duke of Orleans's Romulus.-25 to 1 laid
afterwards.
13 to 1 „ Fulwar Craven's Deception.-12 to 1 t
to £.50.
14 to 1 „ Mr. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury.

300 (laid twice) between Bloomsbury and Deception (t);
300 between Deception and Romulus (t); 1000 to 10 against
Charles XII. winning this and Maroon the St. Leger.

The carpenters on the river Wear, to the number of nearly
1,000, have struck work in consequence of their employers
announcing their intention to reduce their wages from 30s to
27s per week.

A few days ago, a most extraordinary pike, weighing 15-i
lbs. was caught in the river Ribble, near Settle. It was sold
in Settle at 10d per lb. Mr. J. Birtwistle caught it with a
live frog !
EXTRAORDINARY FLEECE.—Mr. William Bird, of Sutton
has shorn a fleece of wool from a ram five years old, purchased
of James Bisshopp, Esq., of Westburton, weighing upwards
of 121bs. It was shorn two days only after being washed
perfectly clean ; as regards merit, it can be shown in compe-
tition with any other fleece in the county.—Leeds Intelli-
gencer.

It is intended by the Admiralty to pay off six of the old
10-gun brigs, called by some " coffins." One of this class,
a few days ago, was paid off at Woolwich. The Opossum
Lieutenant Peter; the Reindeer, Lieutenant Dicker; the
Spey, Lieutenant James ; the Mutine, Lieutenant Pawle ;
and two others, when they return from their respective
voyages, will immediately follow.

EAST CUMBERLAND ELECTION.—The Hon. Charles
Howard, son of the Earl of Carlisle, and brother of Lord
?4orpeth, was, on Monday, elected M. P. for East Cumber-
land; in the room of the late Major Aglionby.
Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Digby has been appointed to
the command at Sheerness. He is a whit';, but an officer of
high merit, and one to *hose appointment, we can, there-
fore, make no exception.—United Service Gazelle.

Sir Mark Singleton, who had been sojourniug at Sunning-
hill, where he h ately taken up his residence for the resto-
ration of his he t , was suddenly seized with illness on the
morning of Friday last, and in the course of a few minutes he
was a corpse.

A rumour prevails that the Conservative Club are in treaty
for the purchase of Crockford's Club-house, St James-street,
with ail its magnificent appliances. Nothing can be more
suitable for their purposes.
LIVING ON SMALL MEANS.—Dr. Alcott has just pub-
lished a very clever work on this interesting subject, the sub-
stance of which work may be summed up in the following
few words : For breakfast, two cents' worth of apples, with-
out drink. For dinner, drink a quart of water to swell the
apples, Take tea with a friend, and go to bed.—American
paper.

IMPORTANT TO AUCTIONEERS.—In the Court of Queen's
Bench, on Monday, an action was tried "Rainy v. Vernon,"
in which the question involved was, whether an auctioneer
who has been once engaged to sell a property is entitled to
his commission when the vendor succeeds in selling his pro-
perty before the day appointed for the auction, and before
the auctioneer has done anything. The verdict was for the
plaintiff, thereby deciding the question in the affirmative.
Comparing Oxford's fate with Courvoisier's, and especi-
ally the official pains taken to prove the former insane, there
are people wicked enough to say that ministers care more for
the lives of their uncles and cousins than for that of their
royal mistress.—Argus.

The Chinese, with unassuming modesty, term all nations
but themselves barbarians ; but the common epithet towards
Europeans is " fanqui," or •" white devils," " red-bristled
devils ; " our money is called " devil-faced money," our
language " devil's talk," and our country " devil's regions."

Wm. Prowse, Prowse, from Valparaiso, at this port ; sailed 16th
April. The Palmyra, Brown, was to sail for Iquique 17th April;
the Grecian in a few days for Coquimbo, and the Glanmalier, and
Andes, about 25th April, both for Liverpool. The Countess of
Durham, sailed for Arica 12th April
Friendship, Guy, hence to Archangel, was spoken 10th July, in
lat. 64 N, long. I E
Sir John Beresford, Threadgold, from Bahia to Hambro' was
spoken 2nd July, in lat. 40, long. 35 •
Emily, Carman, and Minerva, Brown, from Iquique, at Valparaiso
Columbia, Blayney, from Savanilla, at ditto
Ellen Jenkinson, Metcalf. from Leghorn, at ditto
Calista, Blampied, from Honduras; oft ditto, sailed Ist June
Berbice, Grayson, hence, at Berhice
Gipsey, Cresswell, from Valparaiso and Rio, at Swansea
Vnion, Jones, hence for St. Andrew's, was spoken Ist instant, in
lat 41, long 45
Thomas Hughes, hence, at Valparaiso
Grecian, Rowett, hence, at ditto
Mafia, Sproule, sailed from Valparaiso for Islay, 23d March
Cornwall, Butcher, sailed from Rio for Maceio, Bth May
Airey, Nicholson, sailed from ditto for Cape of Good Elope, 16th
May
Betsey Black, Jones, hence, at Trinidad
Reindeer, (packet,) from Falmouth at Barbadoes, 9th June
Helen Jane, M'Dowal, hence, at Jamaica
Sarah Birkett, Atkins, hence, at ditto
Sterling, Conn, and Spring, Fletcher, hence, at Havana
John Brooks, Smith, hence, at La Guayra
Speculation, Schmidt, hence, at Antwerp
Jane, Russell, hence, at Leghorn ,
Mary Ann, Lister, sailed from ditto for this port sth July
Globe, -, hence, at Valparaiso
Sisters, Short, hence, at Nassau
Sir Henry Parnell, hence, at St Thomas
Lady Campbell, hence for Africa, was spoken on the 12th instant,
in lat 45, long 10

On the gth instant, in lat. 43 0, long. 33 0, spoke the Hibernia,
hence for New York
Aigyleshire, hence for New South Wales, was spoken Igth inst.
oft' Bardsey