The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-10-07 00:00:00

TQ CORRESPONDENTS.

Owing to the large space occupied in our columns, this day, bYt.
the reports of the Festival, and the Annual Meeting of the
Arrricultural Society, we are under the necessity of omitting
several interesting articles, as well as-postponing the favors
of several correspondents.
We shall feel obliged,- if those ladies and gentlemen who may
attend the ball, this evening, will furnish us with their names
and the characters in which they appear.
The Poetry of " Cervantes" will not suit.
The letter of " An Old Whig" shall be attended to in our next.
" Impromptu," by "C. C.'—good, but too strong.
The s• Verses composed on beholding an infant sleeping" are,
we will vouch, perfectly original; but something more than
originality is requisite to make them acceptable to the public.
The lines are of all lengths, from six syllables to fifteen ;
and, to mend the matter, the accent is still inore capriciously
diversified.

Che Eiberpool ,S..tanbao.

FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 7, 1836.

We have received a file of Jamaica papers up to the
25th of August. The Kingston Royal Gazette contains
a proclamation, issued by the Marquis of Sligo, further
proroguing the House of Assembly to the 27th of Sep-
tember.
The following address of Sir Lionel Smith was deli-
vered to the House of Assembly at Barbadoes, upon his
appointment to the government of Jamaica :
" I have the honour to announce to you, that his Majesty has
been graciously pleased to remove me to the government of
Jamaica, and that I am ordered to proceed thither, by the ear-

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liest opportunity.
"Though I have been unwilling to disturb your prorogations,
I thought it my 'duty to call you together, to communicate this
information, and 1 avail myself of it, to offer to your honourable
house my parting good wishes.
"I pray that your hon. house may be animated in all your
proceedings by a sense of the weighty difficulties you still have
to contend v. ith, and that wisdom and forecast may carry your
deliberations to a successful issue.
" Whatever my future destiny may be, the happiness and
prosperity of this island will continue to constitute one of my
anxious hopes and wishes, and it has been in this spirit of good
will that I have faithfully endeavoured to discharge my duties

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as your Goveruor."
Immediately after the communication of this message,
the house adjourned ; and the members stepped in their
carriages, and proceeded in a body to the Government
House, to. pay his Excellency thf conipliwent of deliver-
ing to him thavtollowing address, which was read by the,
Speaker, the' Marshal standing nekt *to him with the

mace
" The House of Assembly had the honour of receiving, at
its last meeting, a communication from your Excellency, an-
nouncing that his Majesty had been graciously pleased to re-
move your Excellency to the government of Jamaica; and
that you intended to proceed thither by the earliest opportuni-
ty. The house desiring to evince in the most respectful man-
ner their feelings towards your Excellency, resolve to attend
their Speaker on the occasion of replying to your Excellency's

message,

"The house offers to your Excellency the best thanks for
the kind expression of your ' parting good wishes' to them ;
and while they cordially unite with you in praying that all tbeir
deliberations may be conducted to a successful issue, they can-
not but deeply deplore that, amidst the weighty difficulties'
which still surround them, they will lose the valuable assistance
and support they must necessarily have derived from your Ex-
cellency's wisdom and forecast.'
" It is highly flattering to the House of Asssmbly, and can-
not fail to be equally so to their constituents, to receive from
your Excellency the assurance that the happiness and prospe-
rity of this island will continue to be the subject of your an-
xious hopes and wishes.' Arriving amongst us at a period the
most eventful in the history of British colonization—selected
for the responsible task of reconciling us to a vast and most
hazardous change in the constitution of our Society, it was but
natural that in introducing the new order of things, your opi-
nions should come into collision with long established feelings
and habits, and certain that obstacles, almost unsurmountable,
should attend the discharge of duties so invidious and onerous;
but it has been your Excellency's part, by a firm, temperate,
and judicious exercise of the great powers entrusted to you,
to adjust these ditlerences, to conquer these difficulties, and,• by
determined resolution, to promote and enforce among our la-
bouring classes that industry, on the continuance of which the
success of the great measure of emancipation wholly depends,
to adopt the only means by which this colony can be saved from
ruin, and its inhabitants reconciled to the changes which it has
been their lot to encounter.
" The House of Assembly sincerely regrets the loss the co-
lony will sustain on your Excellency's relinquishment of its
government; but they must be permitted to congratulate you,
Sir, on the distinguished honour which -your services have
merited from our most gracious Sovereign; and their fellow-
colonists of Jamaica, on the prospectthey have of obtaining,
under the administration of your Excellency, ,the inestimable
advantages of just and impartial government.
" In conclusion, they beg to , offer to,yonr Excellency their
most earnest wishes, that you may succeed:in the fullest aecom-
lishment of the high duties on which you are about to euter,

believing that you will thus obtain your greatest reward, and
that on your retirement from the cares and anxieties of public
life, you may long continue to enjoy in the bosom of an affec-
tionate family the blessings of health and domestic happiness."
To this address his Excellency was pleased to deliver
the following reply :
" Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Honourable House of
Assembly,
"The position you have placed me in this day by the unex-
pected honour of the representatives of the colony waiting upon
me, with this laudatory address, is one I have just reason to be
proud of;. and I shall cherish the remembrance of the generous
spirit which dictates this course with long and earnest grati-
tude. The aim and the end of all government should be the
people's welfare. A governor should always he a public man,
void of private interests, of partialities, or prejudices—and tak-
ing these principles for his common guide, they will be sure to
carry him safely through his duties.

" It is, therefore, a great triumph to me, that your honour-
able house hai recognised my faithful exertions to administer
this government with justice to all classes. Whatever haul been
the difficulties you have had to contend with, I have always be-
lieved that the time would come when you Would feel that a
governor is but the humble instrument of higher authority; vet
it has never been the design of such authority, that he should
irritate by any bitterness of spirit those who, by the great voice
of the people of England, are doomed to risk the rights of
property.

'1 advert with sincere pleasure, to the integrity of purpose,
with which the legislature of this colony has yielded to the fla-

tiunal will.

" It is well known that I am a sincere friend to the negroes,
but I solemnly deelare my opinion, that to' insist on industrious

habits among them, is as essential to their own latippiness as it

is to your rights,

" Whenever this principle relaxes from any cause, they must
go back in the scale of civilisation.• The history of the world

proclaims, that there never was a people happy or virtuous

without industry.

"1 very sincerely thank your bon. house, for your congratu-
lations on his Majesty's gracious favour towards me, by placing
me at the head of the government of Jamaica—a situation far