The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-20 00:00:00

TERRIFIC
ERUPTION
OF
V ES V

I U S

AND
GRAND
CONFLAGRATION
OF THE CITY OF NAPLES,
WILL TAKE PLACE
ON MONDAY NEXT. JULY 23d.
(WEATHER PERMITTING,)
AT THE
ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN"S.

NEW INSTITUTION OF THE FINE ARTS,
FOR THE
EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE,
BY MODERN ARTISTS,
IN THE GALLERY AND ROOMS, OVER THE UNION.

R.OONIS, DUKE STREET, . •
TILL CLOSE upon the 31st iust. for the Reception of
PAINTINGS &c.
• J. PALMER; Secretary.
The Exhibition WILL OPEN 'early in August.
Liverpool, 16th July, 1838. • • •

TO THE ADMIRERS OF THE FINE 'ARTS.

Now Open at No. 8, BOLD-STREET, tWO doors abOvp4o
Palatine Club,'
A SPLENDID EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS.

BY THE OLD MASTERS,
Among which will be found one from the Pencil of theitt-
comparable
G U 1110,
Value 2,000 Guineas, representing

.~, ..-

DIANA ON HER RETURN FROM THE CHASE.

[Life Size.]
riiHE PROPRIETOR feels an indescribable pleasure in
IL being the humble instrument of introducing.to the; no-
tice of a liberal and discriminating public, the inestimable
production of departed genius, whose talents, like' d'lnettor
of transcendent light, have reflected glory on the country,of
his birth, and shed lustre on civilized Europe, giving impetus
to, and promoting that refinement of taste, veneration for
and elevation of soul which true greatness alone inspires;
it is, therefore, with conscious pride that he invites the at-
tention, inure particularly •of those who take an interest in
improving the moral condition of mankind, by upholding
science, and giving encouragement to the Arts, the true ad-
mirers of which will experience a delicious treat 'in. innieni-
dating the beauties of this specimen, in which the A.rtist has
displayed those appropriate and gigantic,powers of concep-
tions upon which he has established' the untirartalitY or his
fame; language, however impassioned, furnishes but,rs po-
verty of words to describe, and which can only be properly
understood through the medium of its own silent eloquente -
Admission, ONE SHILLING each.—Catalogues,6d..eittli.
Open from. Ten till Dusk. .

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

•

The favour of "D. F. P." is unavoidably postponed until
Tuesday.
The letter of "A Churchman" shall appear in ournext publi-
cation.

Zbe ILibtrpool

FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 20;. 1838. Hl'

The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this
morning at 5 o'clock.

REGISTER ! REGISTER ! ! REGISTER :!.!
THIS IS THE LAST OPPORTUNITY WE
SHALL HAVE THIS. YEAR OF. REMINDING
OUR CONSERVATIVE FRIENDS THAT f' THE
BATTLE OF THE CONSTITUTION IS TO.. BE
FOUGHT IN THE REGISTRATION COURT"
TO DAY IS THE 'TWENTIETH OF JULY.
SEE AN ARTICLE ON THE'. SUBJECT.' IN
ANOTHER COLUMN.

THE WAR 1N SPAIN.-CHRISTINO CRUELTIESi."---

The radical press in this country has taken especial
delight in dilating upon the-cruelties said to -have been
perpetrated by the Carlist forces in Spain, especially
in making war upon defenceless females; bat-we defy
the ingenuity of any liberal scribbler in the kingdom
to produce anything so utterly revolting to the. feel-
ings as the narrative which we are about to- detail, the
actors in which were Christinos—the especial favour-
ites of our present government. It. appears from a
letter, dated Logrono the 4th instant, that the wife of a
Carlist officer, full of zeal for the cause of Don CaT,
lo,s, employed herself in giving information; and ren-
dering other services to the cause which she littrirf,
poured: A few days previous to the date of the' letter
she left Logorno, carrying: :Wont her an" account Of the
movement.Of Colonel Zorbano to surprise the Car-
lists. After about two hours journey she met with
Zurbano'S party, but, thinking they were Carlists, she
told him her mission, with all the circumstances : they
let her continue in the belief• that they were. Carlists,•
and conducted her to Logrono. On the morrow she
was tried by a military commission, and condemned to
be shot, but previously to be marched through the
town. Immediately on herleaving the:prison the as-
sembled populace, not content with loading- her with
abuse and insult, threw stones' and •strnck her with
clubs, so that, arrived at the place of eitecution; was
a corpse they dragged along, and there was no neces-
?ity for other means of death ; neverthelessiwp Shots
were fired at her The barbarity of these Wretches
did not each here. It was not sufficient for them to put
her to death,in a. manner the most revolting and
_ig-
nominious. Their revenge was not yetsatiated ; but,
with a brutality which could only be displayed by the
degraded slaves of Popery, they proceeded to tie the
body to the tail of a, horse, and it was dragged through
the streets of Logrono until literally only a morsel of
flesh was attached to the horse's tail. . .

. .
Here is a specimen of the sort of warfare carried on
by the Christinos—the allies of England—no, not of
England, but of a Popish-ridden cabinet, and a'tadical
faction, who have done all they can to render the nan:e
of England despicable in the eyes.Of the whole world.
It is, indeed, high time that something should be done
to vindicate our national character IroM an imptited
participation in such atrocities. It is a burning shame
that the British navy should in any way co-operate
with such abandoned wretches as the Clristinos, and
that these cut-throats should be aided in their murder-
ous enterprises by supplies of alms and ammunition
from the English government. There is butone'vvaY
of doing away-with this scandalous allianee, and that
is by dismissing' from (ace the present unprincipled
ministry.

•UNITED STATES AND CANADA.--By the Sirius
steam-ship, which sailed from New York on the 30th
ultimo, and arrived at Falmouth on Monday last, we
are put in possession of news from the United States
to tire end of last month. The latest advices from
Canada extend to the 2Gth t.ltimo. We learn that the
Sub-Treasury Bill has been rejected in the House of
Representatives by a majority of 123 to 111. The
news seems to have thrown the New York press Into
ecstacies of delight. An attempt was made to procure
a le-consideration of the vote, but the motion met with
a still worse fate than the bill itself—having been ne-
gatived by a majority of 102 to 21. •

The Rochester Democrat—on what authority it .is
impossible to divine--gravely announces the iMpoet-
ant fact of Lord Durham's recall by the Home. GO.'
vernment. The alleged cause of this singular move
ment is said to be a warm reinonstrance addressed to'
the British Government by the present Earl of Set=
kirk, who claims the appointment of Governor over
the Canadian provinces. We shall not beStow'another
word on this absurd rumour.

The New York Evening Slur of June 30:11 an.,
flounces that the rebels had received a total defeat in
the neighbourhood of Short Hills, which are located in
the Niagara district. The standards and ringleaders.
of the insurgents were captured. A great number.of
Americans are said to have.been discovered among tho
prisoners. When the last news from- this quarter
reached New York the rebels were in- full retreat to-
wards the Grand River•road. . •
St; C(Aioiiies. tsat SOo°4o

roubles had. sprung up in a new quarter. For the
particulars we must refer our readers to the aetounts
given in another column. They are calculated to im-
press us with any thing but a 'favourable opinion of
the state of Canada. A predatory sort of warfare is
likely to be carried on for some time in the less densely
peopled districts, unless a more formidable demonstra-
tion is made on the part of the government. The
reckless beings who are guilty of these continued at-
tacks upon the peaceable inhabitants appear to be little
else than a gang of desperate thieves, whose only ob •
ject is pillage. It will require a very powerful force
and the most active measures to eradicate these ma-
raudera. .

It appears that Governor Arthur had issued a pro-
clamation, interdicting all communication with the
American frontier in the vicinity of Niagara. This
is a very prudent step, as it will effectually cot off the
supplies of arms and ammunition from the rebels.
The Rochester Democrat announces that the
steam-boat Expert.ment had been purchased and manned
by the colonial government, to proceed against the
buccaneer Bill Johnson, of whose capture, and the dis-
persion of his piratical forces, we soon expect to
hear.

The resignation of Sir John Colborne is viewed by
the intelligent inhabitants of Canada as a great mis-
fortune. He is represented as " a man who has
united the mildness of a parent and the energy of a
soldier," and as eminently qualified to improve the
condition of the colonies. These qualities are suffi-
cient to procure for him the contumelious hatred of a
man who can harbour as his bosom friends such cha-
racters as Turton and Wakefield.

For the state of the money market at New York we
we refer to the extracts in another column. Exchange
on England was quoted at 8 to 81, when the Sirius
left.

OTHER WHIG APPOINTMENTS.—Disgusted as our
readers must have been by the announcement that
Lord Durham had appointed the notorious Turton to
be one of his private secretaries, we are sure that they
will feel, if possible, a higher degree of loathing when
they learn that another individual, equally obnoxious
in character, has been added to the number of that
proud peer's official retinue. There are very few per•
lons in Liverpool, who have arrived at maturity, that
lave not heard of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the per-
"ll that inveigled, by the most scandalous trickery
06 and deception; a young lady of the name of Turner from
a boarding schoOl in this neighbourhood. The circum-
stances of that infamous abduction must be generally
known, as are also the subsequent particulars in the
history of the unprincipled deceiver. Is it not, there-
fore. a matter of astonishment that such a man should
be selected to grace the mimic court of Her Majesty's
representative in Canada ? Yet such is the fact, how•
ever my Lord Melbourne, as in the case of the inces-
tuous Turton, may Plead ignorant of the appointment.
But this is not all. The catalogue of infamy does
not even end here. We learn that a person of the
name of Henry S. Chapman has received a commis-
sionership froin, government. This man has done all
in his power to bring about the Canadian insurrection.
He was once the editor of a paper in Papineau's inter-
est at Montreal, and subsequently became the active
coadjutor of Roebuck, with whom he was connected in
.producing• the celebrated but scandalous "Political
Pamphlets," published under the name of the ex-mem-
ber for Bath. This revolutionary writer, as a reward
for his services in stirring the people to rebellion, both
at home, and in the colonies, is appointed a commis-
sioner to inquire into the state of hand loom weavers.
It is impossible to reflect upon these appointments
without involuntarily exclaiming against the reckless
indecency of the Whig faction. 'What a compliment
to the innocent and unsuspecting Queen of. Great
Britain it is to select to offices of trust under her ad-
risers and representatives a convicted adulterer—a
condemned seducer—and a frantic republican, who has
tried his best to stimulate the subjects of Her Majesty
to rebel against her authority !

THE Conti LAWS.—We perceive that the Mercury
is determined to continue its warfare against the re-
strictive duties upon the importation of corn into
Great Britain. As the "desultory remarks" of our
ciitifeinporary -are intended as a sort of reply to the
trticles which appeared in our own columns, relating
to the same subject, we feel it our duty to bestow a
few further observations on the crude and undigested
nonsense of the Mercury. We have already shown
that the Mercury has adopted the unpopular side of
the question—that there exists no serious and preva-
lent desire for a repeal of the corn• laws—and that this
apathy is not owing to the alleged succession of abun-
dant harvests, but to a sincere conviction of the im-
policy of adopting a free trade in corn. We shall
next proceed to offer a few "desultory remarks" on
the absurdities of the article which was resumed in
the Mercury of July 6th. The following paragraph is
so very rich a morceau that we cannot resist the temp-
tation of quoting it at length:-
4,4H*, however, owing to the treachery of pretended Re-
formers, the Tory faction be ever reinstated in power, a
woeful change would be the result, unless the party, re-
Podiating alt the principles they have hitherto professed,
should entirely abandon their former line of policy. Judging
from the past, there is too much reason to apprehend that
they would seize the first, pretext to involve the country in
war with some foreign power in order to divert the attention
of the people from those reforms at home which are de-
manded by the spirit of the times. Our commerce and
trade would experience such serious depression that the
people would become wide awake to the practical operation
of the corn monopoly, and unless prevented from publicly
assembling to petition the Legislature, as they were during
the sway of Castlergnzh, the house of Commons and the
foot of the Throne would be besieged with remonstrances
against a pernicious system which artificially raises the price
of human food at least fifty per cent, above its natural
level."

The"complicated blunders and palpable contradic-
tions contained in the preceding extract are truly
laughable. We shall endeavour to tender it into in-
telligible English. If we understand the editor of the
Mercury aright, he means to say, that if the Tories got
into power once more, we should soon have war—that
they would involve the country in war for the purpose
of diverting the attention of the people from certain
refOrrni—that our trade and commerce would conse-
quently languish—that the depression of our trade
would make the people wide awake to the practical
oPeratiOn of the corn monopoly—and that irresistible
appeals would be made to the House of Commons and
the throne requiring the abolition of the corn laws.
This we conceive to he the meaning of the passage.
What the learned editor intends to prove by it we
cannot guess, unless it be his object to show that the
Tories are disposed to adopt a line of policy which
'Quid render inevitable the repeal of the corn lira's.
we doubt whether the Mercury gives them credit for
entertaining such a wish, but it certainly imputes as
11144 in the above ery curious and " desultory" pa-
rxgripb.
The Mercury next alleges that unless the corn-laws
are repealed, the enterprise, energy, and intelligence
of Englishmen, will gradually be excluded from the
foreign markets. We defy him to prove that there is
Ili symptom of this sort of exclusion, excepting from
ose countries with whom we have entered into re-
!iProcal commercial treaties. The free trade system
Ha! certainly done much to paralyze native industry
and enterprise, and is likely to extend the evil. We
need only point to the ruin which it has already intro-
duced into our silk trade, ‘vltich was at one time in a
bBt,"" of great prosperity. There are many other
nelles of our manufactures which are suffering in
like manner from want of protective duties.
'l3 the last Mercury we have another rambling arti-
e' on the subject of the corn-laws, in which the editor
ls
restows the most lavish abuse upon the Earl of Stan-
lope for espousing the cause of the people against
their Whig oppressors; but as it does not contain a
'ingle attempt at argument we shall pass it by with-
"t a single remark. We shall look with anxiety for
the next prodigy in the Mercury.

ThenClmur.inGE.—Sundav, the Ist instant, being Commence-
t
, —"Hotly, the in inning sermon at St. Mary's was
liireaeneri by the Rev. Thomas Tattershall, D. D. minister of
Augustine's, Liverpool, and the afternoon sermim by th.e
ev. Fredvrick Iliff, D. D , head master of the Royal Insti-
mtiou School of this town.' Both these gentlemen have taken
the degree of Doctors in Divinity.
„ A Goon LANDLORD.—The Rev. James INlainwaring, of
L'reombrow-hall, Cheshire, on the celebration of the. late
!oronatiou, gave a ball to ail his tenants, their wives, and
friends, at his mansion. The kind attention and cordiality
of the reverend gentleman and his worthy lady excited the
admiration of all present, and it was allowed by every guest
that a happier evening was never spent. A superb supper
was provided, after which dancing continued until a late
hour. The day was the rent-day, and we should not oniit to
81410, that the reverend gentleman observed his liberal ens-
torq of returuin ten per cent. ou. the rental to each tenant.