The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-14 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.

Last Night but Pour of Mr. DOWTON, who is re-engaged
for the present week.
Fifth Night of Mr. VANDENHOFF, who is engaged fora
limited. period.
Miss VANDENHOFF, of the Theatre-Royal, Haymarket,
is engaged for a limited period, and will make her second
appearance here, since her London engagement, This
Evening.
Mr. F. VINING, of the Theatre-Royal, Covent-garden, is
also engaged for a limited period, and will appear This
Evening.
THIS present TUESDAY EVENING. th'tith instant,
will be performed Shakspeare's Play of,
THE MERCHANT OF VEtiCE.
Shylock.... Mr. Vandenhoff. I Gratiano Mr. F. Vining.
Lurenzu Mr. G. Horncastle.
Antonio Mr. Gray.) Launcelot Gobbo.Mr. Baker.
Nerissa.... Mrs. 'relict. [ Jessica Miss Grant.
Portia Miss Vandenhoff.
• To conclude with Col Man's celebrated Comedy of
THE POOR GENTLEMAN.
Sir Robert Bramble Mr. Dowton.
Frederick Bramble Mr. F. Vining.
Mr. Charles Cropland, Mr. W. H. Bland; Lieutenant Wor-
thington, Mr. Gray; Doctor 011apod, Mr. Baker; Stephen
Harrowby, Mr. Slaiter • Corporal Foss, Mr. G. Horncastle;
Emily Worthington, Miss Faucit; Miss Lucretia Mac Tab,
Mrs. Clarke; Mary, Mrs. Tellet. •
On WEDNESDAY, the Tragedy of DAMON A4P
PYTHIAS. Damon, Mr. Vandenhoff; Pythias, Mr. W.
Howard; Hermion, Miss Cleaver; Calanthe, Miss Vanden-
holt —To conclude with the Comedy of THE RIVALS.
Sir Anthony Absolute, Mr. Dowton ; Captain Absolute, Mr.
F. Vining; Faulkland, Mr. W Howard; Bob Acres, Mr.
Baker: Sir Lucius O'Trigger. Mr. G. Horncastle ; Julia,
Miss Faucit ; Lydia, Mrs, 'Pellet; Mrs. Malaprop, Mrs.
Clarke. •
On THURSDAY, HAMLET, and HARLEQUIN IN
SICILY.
On FRIDAY, for the BENEFIT OF .MR. VANDEN-
HOFF. THY, WIFE, and the WHEEL OF FORTUNE.
Ou SATURDAY, HENRY THE FOURTH, and
HARLEQUIN IN SICILY.
The Tragedy of CATO having been received with most
distinguished approbation on Thursday last, will be repeated
in the course of Mr. Vandenhoff's engagement.

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DART.), will attend, Daily, in the Civil Court, during the en-
'suing Liverpool Assizes, and will furnish VEE:IIATIIi Reports
of Causes to Professional Men or others on( reasonable terms.
Having taken Short-hand Notes in the Courts of Law for
many years, he has attained a knowledge of law terms and an
acquaintance with the forms of the court, which enables him
to furnish minute Verbatim Reports of arguments of counsel,
evidence, &c.
Address, Mr. FOSTER, Standard-office.

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with for Lithographic Plates, price 2s. 61.,
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TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14, 1838.

The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this

morning at 5 o'clock.

THE WEST INDIES.—Since our last we have re-
ceived our usual files of Jamaica and Leeward Island
papers, by her Majesty's packet. Express, which
arrived at Falmouth on the Bth instant. The Jamaica
papers are to the Bth of July, the Barbadoes to the
9th of July, and the St. Thomas to the 17th, with
concurrent dates from the other Leeward Islands.

The Express had on freight 59,000 dollars. Sbeshas
made an extraordinarily short passage, having arrived
from St. Thomas' in eighteen days. This is almost
equal to the feats of the Atlantic steamers.

The papers are chiefly occupied with discussions
respecting the enfranchisement of the apprentices.

The great existing difficulty connected with this im-
portant subject seems to be the settlement of the
wages in future to be allowed to the Negroes. In
St. Thomas' in the East, (Jamaica,) the following rate
of wages has been determined on:—

s. d.
Head men, by the day, 2s; and for the week of five days JO 0
Several head people and Pradesmen ditto is 4d; or ditto 6 8
Second tradesmen and field people ditto, ls; and ditto 5 0
Second class field people, 8d ; and ditto 3 4
The Negroes to retain their houses and grounds,.

and to be provided with medicines and medical attend-
' ance in the hospitals when sick; when absent, time to
be deducted. A private letter from Kingston states
that the Negroes, generally, express themselves wil
ling to remain upon the properties and work for hire.
It then proceeds to remark—
The new system will interfere materially with the trade in
Osnaburgsand Penistans, so far as local►demand is concerned;
but, on the other hand, it will operate in favOur of the lighter
and snore showy articles of manufacture, such as cottons,
checks, &c. It will take at least twelve months before the
effect of the change can be calculated upon, and spoken of with
any degree of certainty. Some sugar estates must go to the
wall; this will benefit others situated under more favourable
circumstances, as a decrease in the quantity produced may
have the very natural effect of enhancing the market" price
for the little that may be made; again, I think that a strong
reaction will take place in England, and that West India en
gars, made by free labour, will enjoy more popularity than
East India sugars. Coffee property may, be easily kept on
under the new system, and with my limited knowledge on (he
subject, I would say at as little, or perhaps less expense than
heretofore. Our crops this year have been larger, and there
has been a scarcity of shipping for the produce made, and
sugar making has been retarded by the rains which visited
us last month in place of the one previous.

The prospects of the crops in all the Leeward
Islands continued to be very favourable, though the
state of the seasons had somewhat retarded their pro-
gress to maturity. Great complaints are made of the
deficiency in the small currency, not only in Jamaica,
but throughout the Leeward Islands. Great blame is
thrown upon the government at home, and most de-
servedly, that knowing the demand for small specie
would be increased, in the event of final emancipation,
some provision has not been made to afford a more
efficient circulation. It appears also that the Bank of
Jamaica and the Colonial Bank have had some dispute,
which mainly arises out of this deficiency in the cur-
rency of that island, and that the latter institution was
the holder of island checks to the amount of £31,000,
which.the receiver-general of the island could nut re-
deem, from the causes to which we have referred.

The only settlement in which the emancipation of
the apprentices, on the Ist of August, bad not been
determined upon was Demerara, but the bill for carry •
ing this into effect was then in progress through the
Court of Policy. There appears to have been no
foundation for the rumour that Sir Lionel Smith had
sent home his resignation. Advices had been received
at Jamaica from Santiago de Cuba, dated the 30th of
June, which mention that an insurrection had broken
out among the slaves, at Trinidad, in that island,
which had, however, been suppressed, without loss of
life. It was stated to be the intention of the authori-
ties of Cuba to interdict all communication between
the southern parts, if not the whole, of that island and
Jamaica, after the Ist of August, the day when the
complete emancipation of the negroes takes place.

"NON-CONSUMPTION BY THE IRISH PEOPLE OF ALL
TAXABLE ARTICLES."—The Cork Southern Reporter
has just published a most extraordinary document un-
der the formidable heading which we have prefixed to
this article. The document is said to have been trans-

mitted to Mr. O'Connell, to whOm it is addressed,
with a request that he will give "his advocacy and
support to the following means of obtaining redress
and justice,—viz., the non-consumption by the Irish
people of all taxable articles. The revenue raised in

Ireland amounts to at least £4,000,000 yearly. The
English people have sacrificed £1,000,000 already for
the maintenance of an obnoxious tithe system in this
country ; they will now have to pay £4,000,000 yearly
in addition for their apathetic assent to the perpetra-
tion of injustice to Ireland."

The address to Mr. O'Connell commences by stat-
ing that, "for three years past," the people quietly
awaited the result of his experiment for obtaining
"justice to Ireland," without again resorting to the
agitation of the repeal of the. union. That experi-
ment, it says, is now complete, and has turned out to
be a failure. The Act of Union must therefore be
"flung to the, winds," and Ireland become "a free
and independent kingdom ;" but a long period must
elapse before that " desirable result" can be obtained.
The address then proceeds :
"Pending the repeal of the union, we respectfully submit
for your consideration an intermediate plan, which, if cat vied
into general operation through your instrumentality, must be
effectual in wresting from the reluctant hand of England
speedy and ample justice for our ill-fated country. It is the
plan which marked the origin of the American revolution,,
and ledlo American independence. It is the plan which
was partially carried into effect by yourself in Clare, and just
now put into operation in the comity of Wexford; it is the
plan of arousing an -organised determination amongst the
whole Irish nation of abstaining frOm the consumption of ail
taxed articles."

The address concludes by suggestidg that a single
year may be sufficient for this great experiment of
"national abstinence ;" and the Southern Reporter
adds, that " Mr. O'Connell's assent to the proposed
measure is not doubted, and the most effective means
will be taken in this cityancl county to give it practi-
cal effect."

This is certainly a new species of agitation, for
which, knowing as we do the habits of the Irish, and
their predilection for certain exciseable articles, we
should scarcely have felt prepared. That such a mad
scheme may be attempted by the arch-agitator we can
readily believe ; but of its ultimate failure we have not
a moment's doubt. The anti-English spirit in which
this new description of tee-totalism has originated, is
too palpable to deceive the most indifferent observer.

But what shall we say of the loyally of the prdpoged
measure ? It will be in the recollection of our read.
ers that, at the period of the last general election, the
Popish faction in Ireland were loud in their protesta-
tions of attachment to the British throne. Their
electioneering motto was The Queen and Reform,"
and a most liberal use did they make of the Queen's
name in their appeals to the passions of the rabble of
Ireland. With respect to this view of the matter our
very excellent contemporary, the Dublin Record has
these remarks:—" Such is the treason maturing
against the sovereignty of Britain—such is the attach-
ment of Popish apostates to Queen Victoria—and
such the return made to her ministers and servants for
governing Ireland according to the dictates of an ido-
latrous priesthood—namely, fur the "discouragement
of true religion and virtue, and for the encourage-
ment and promotion of wickedness and vice." Mr.
O'Connell has been consulted on this notable scheme;
and most probably advises it to be suspended for the
present—not having immediate occasion for it, but
will have it carefully kept in terrorem for his misera-
ble slaves in power. Such are the friends of those
who have discarded the church, and we may add, the
religion of Protestants. to appease the voracity of
hungry Papists, and the enmity of Satan. They are
rewarded according to their deserts, and they will be
turned out with Signal disgrace from their present
eminence. Only let not righteous Protestants move
a finger to assist them. As soon should they attempt
to avert the fall of doomed Babylon itself. Let such
come out from among them and be Separate, and leave
them to be dealt with as shall seem good unto the
Lord, unless they repent. Their time is now probably
short."

When will Englishmen open their-eyes to the real
character and objects of the Popish party in Ireland ?
When will they cease to bow the knee to O'Connell
and the agitating priests ?

THE " GLORIOUS NINETEEN."—AS we expected,
the " vulgar fraction" who indites the special origi-
nals of the Albion rejoices in the notoriety which he
has obtained by his connection with the independent
freeholders who have qualified as county voters from
the snug little property in -"Economy place," Can-
ning-street. Our pugnacious contemporary,-to whom
the war of words is the highest treat in the world, has
boldly taken up the cudgels for himself and his asso-
ciates. He is, however, wrong in supposing that the
formidable list of "Economy place" freeholders has
thrown us into a state of " dreadful trepidation." We
are just as liable to be frightened by this catalogue of
electioneering worthies as by the angry and petulant
ravings of the doughty hero of the Albion. We think

that the announcement of such an addition to the list
of county voters is calculated to produce no greater
impression on the minds of the public than the cele-
brated declaration of the " three tailors of Tooley-
street." The editor of the Albion and his brother es•
quires must have a very exaggerated opinion of their
own importance if they fancy that we care a farthing
rushlight for their interference with the franchise. So
far as they are personally concerned we have no ap-
prehension whatever that " the county constituency
will be swamped ;" but we certainly do think that if
many others iu each district could be found who would

be so unscrupulous as to follow the example thus os-
tentatiously set before them by the " Economy•place"
radicals, there would be some danger that the "re-
presentation of South Lancashire might.be divided."
This, however, we do not fear, as the exposure of this
nefarious attempt to "swamp the county constituency"
will deter others froM following the example. There
ate few men with so morbid an appetite as to desire
such an unenviable notoriety as the editor of the Albion
has obtained in this matter: •and there are fewer still
who would run the gauntlet against public ridicule for
the sake of gratifying such a desire.

The Albion labours hard, but very fruitlessly, to
establish its own consistency in now justifying the
propriety of what it formerly condemned. It would
be quite as easy " to wash the Et hiop white" as to dis-
prove the charge of inconsistency' brought against the
Albion. Our contemporary has, howeve►, been so
long in the habit of asser►ing that "black is white,"
to suit his own temporary purposes, that there is some
reason for believing that lie has, at length, lost the
power of discriminating between right and wrong.
We do not pretend to dispute the dictum of the
Albion, that the scheme under notice is "strictly
within the permission of the law :" but we would ven-
ture to ask whether such a wholesale mode of multi•

ing votes is within the intention of the law ? "here
are many things which the law permits Which the law
would never justify. O'Connell has repeatedly de-
clared that it would be impossible to frame a law
through which he could not "drive a coach and four."
The Albion has discovered it to be an equally easy
matter to drive a whole waggon load of electors
through an act of parliament.

" When bad politicians combine, pod ones must
associate" is a maxim which the Albion very com-
placently applies to the " Economy Place" batch Of
freeholders. What right such persons have to con-
sider themselves as coming under the category of good
politicians we cannot divine. Noscitur e socit's is an
excellent proverb, and so is its English equivalent
" birds of a feather flock together :" and if we may
judge of the " Esquires" of " Economy Place" by
their political associates, we should apply another
epithet than " good" to them. The partisans of the
foulmouthed bletherer O'Connell—the friends of my
Lord Durham, and his very moral councillors—and
the strenuous supporters of the present unprincipled
ministry—are not the men that the majority of Eng-
lishmen would take to be " good politicians."
Before we quit this subject, we would strongly urge
our conservative friends to inspect as narrowly as pos-
sible the published lists of the electors, both for the
borough and the county. They will, no doubt, find
many names on the list which have no right to be
there. A little activity now may save a great deal of
trouble and anxiety hereafter.

THE REV. T. D. GREGG.

TO THE EDITOR OP TEE LIFERPOOL ST./IND/IRD,

Ste,—lt is generally known that a short time ago the
Rev. Mr. Gregg undertook to defend and prove that the doc-
trines of the Church of England are based upon the word
of God; and that those of the Church of Rome are not
based upon the word of God, but are the most corrupt and
the most blasphemous ever taught by the enemies of Christ,
tending to drown immortal souls in everlasting perdition.
This discussion, sir, cannot be said to have been unprofita-
ble to the Protestant cause, but has produced effects on the
minds of many, who, doubtless, have been before it took
place, apathetic and regardless as to what religion they
attached themselves.

I believe, sir, that very recently a meeting was convened
by the Roman Catholic body of this town, for the purpose of
taking proper steps which way they should signify their ap-
probation of their champion, Mr. Maguire: and why should
not Protestants arise from their state of lethargy, and show
that they are not unmindful of the services rendered them by
the Rev. Mr. Gregg?
Efforts were made last evening by, I may say, a few ob-
scure individuals, possessed of no influence, but who, never-
theless rejoice in the cause of Protestantism, and would, by
all means in their power show their attachment to our Esta-
blished church, to obtain subscriptions for this end; but
Owing to sufficient publicity not.h.,ving been given, the pau-
city of their number frustrated their object.
Finally, Air. Editor, may 1, request, through the medium
of your journal, that attention be called to this subject, and
that some ofourinfluential clergymen take part in this cause.
—I am. &e.
.
August 10, 1838. JW.

THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER
RAILWAY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.4ND4RD.
Stn,—The observations of -a• ‘• Shareholder" in your
paper of the 7th instant, as to the last Ilepott of the Liver-
pool and Manchester liailvvay, evincing "an instance
of increased Railway traffic; which, instead of yielding
a proportionate profit to the proprietors, has produced a
colitrary result," is' well founded, although assuming the
figures given to be correct. there
appears o i.siency in the printed reports, the epitome
of whicnh isnc. asst
fotllows, anti presents a result of diminished profits beingsimultaneous
with increased receipts; from the great increase .of expense
of engines and carriages, amounting to £7.384 7s. 10,1.,
although these charges were previous' very heavy, and this
railway has been many years in operation,—Yours. &c., .

A PROPR I ETOR.
LIVERPOOL. AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY, 1838.
Comparison of July Half-year with the preceding Half-year.
IN FAVOUR OF JULY.
Increase of Receipt of July on January £3562 1 2
Decrease of Interest in that of July 3229 16 6

6791 17 8
eduction made in the paymentsto Shareholders 3056 12 6