The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-28 00:00:00

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been s

would I

likely to

which N

have v

ple of Ronan, praying
their lands ceded to tl

sion by the au
Sir John, in h'

to the people that
any account ; and

their land sh

asking them to p
venient that the Bri

+ out pl
fish si
e, the

commit themselv

King for such detail

prietors who sell
latter may buy it.
This ill-advised proceeding h
more, and if the same administration of affairs is c
the gordian knot will receive solution only from tl
The Hong-Kong Register '
there has been a slight
with another attempt to 1
factories. A party of

pli cated matte

—" Sin
e at Canton

oininz ti

.1 severe

wounds with

their cutlasses or bayonet
Trade continues altogetl

d, as the failur

season will recover the effects
terruption. Two of the schrof
and the credit of all three had

of this and the pre%

ms of Howqua,

very qiliet
restored.

at Canton, and c

,fidence, in a great measure

We regret to state that ael
- -

nts from Berlin and
3 cholera to

Frankfort announce the rap
Poland.

Ach of t

Marshal

It has resigned at la

and M. Guizot is now
trshal will receive the

President of the Council
governorship of the Invalides
Within the last few days a funeral stone has been placed

large cross has been merely cut in the centre.
• SOUTH AMERICA.--By the Alecto, arrived at Plymouth,
we have advices from Bahia to the 9th ult. There is no
change to notice in commercial affairs. Exchange on
England 271 to 271. In consequence of the plentiful sap-
ply of shipping freights had declined,—to Hamburgh 80 ;
for the continent, calling at Cowes, 75 to 80.
The Rev. W. A. Riedl, a Roman Catholic priest, at
Breslau, who has filled some of the highest offices in the
church. and was celebrated for his learning and great
attainments, MS nea Trona Vienna, and openly amounted
the Romish faith and joined ti -
has published an

Catholics

he Benedictine or&

close to the tumults
In Naples matters a

. .
hich convulse the Italian peninsula.
var to be nroceeding to deplorable

extremities

The Kii

is have for the moment put
ity-five of whom have been

down the insurrectionists,
put to death ; but the expectation of another revolt
general.

Dibats publishes a letter fro.
instant, which states that the

Berlin, dated the 15t1

of Pr

,sia had cam-

inanded that .a sum of 52
which bad been contribut

for the establishment of religious institutions in
lem, should be expended in founding
city for the reception of Christians o'
faith, with a preference for German
building a house for lodging
It is stated in
exists as to the mode in whit
lin obtained the poison

erusa-

aspital in that

f every profession of
nd likewise in

s and pilgrims.

roria-eil Circles, that no doubt no
the wretched Due de Prat

dently alleged that it was broug
the Luxembourg by a near rel
visit him, and who desired to

him in the prison of
who was allowed to

he famil

ignominy or tne IRMO a tieing put, w uraltu via Luc awaavau
like a common criminal. If true, this only furnishes
another awful proof of that state of degraded morals
which is indicated in Paris by the wide circulation of the
works of Victor Hugo, Eu '
Sir Edward Lytton Bul
DOUGLAS AND GAR

whom

desirous to imitate
-- -,,,,,,:...... T

(iarrisn.

now on an anti-si.

.ted at one of t'

Dougl
York A

Slavery

one st:

Antigua nearly 1000 imm

had arrived within a short

v of rain had

time, princip
fallen, and to

ed fay

NEGROES

TRA
WEST IND
rival at D
Comas
fron

lissioN or EIBERAT
Intelligence has been received of t

lesty's s

to reli

ut of the captured slaver, by
n free will, to the West India
are very much in request.

conveying them, of

Islands, Whe

Intelligent coloured nu
the coast of Africa to e:
are embarked that labo
Indies, and also the natu
scription of work on which they
This is the first trip of the Gi
at Sierra Leone 476 nee
who died no the p
eighteen day-

'oes befOre they

; are wanted in the West
of the passage, and the de-
to be employed.
)ok on board
twenty,

,e arrived at Demerara in

great v

ited it

whilst t

,uppliect

s this be checked t

ent meawres on the part o
olonies vFould be inevitably

at, the I

.ad the cu

g, on the
rench. H

instant, Colonel Thompson
:bleed what he considered a
article is bought beyond its

I more than

natural price, in Consequence (
.e not two losses for one gait

3me protection, ther
'he operation was agt

t Teal v

-Ist the public

_ ,hmen ate a
ien they could get-it ; and it was for them to
1, or they would get no dinner while they had
Tor three. If other nations had seen, as he

to bemg made instead of
English irc

-traders were

under all its forMS, and to prove t

s of progress ever
Rh, William Brown, Bag.,

At the third
spoke,

me evening w

ziven to the

i Free-trade Association, Count
Many spirited addresses were

en. The
members

trrivabene
nade ; and

day, Parliament was formally prorogued until
the 12th of October.

M. Bianqui, and Dr. Bowring,

POLITICAL VARIETIES,

On Ti

Mr. Grenville Berkel

AlTe understand the

committee during the last el

West Gloucester:—" To injury done my horse,
ling-home, in the cause, £2s."—Bristol Times.

THE GULDEN AGE RESTORED.—At a demonstration
last week at Gloucester, to celebrate the return of the
lion. Grantley Berkeley for the western division of the
county, that gentleman said, " They had seen every spe-

corruption cc

contest. In one polling-place on his canvass ne naa a
majority of 400, and, through bribery, that majority had
been reduced into a minority of nine. Gold had been

at a high premium. One elector who voted tor him held
in his hand fifteen sovereigns that he had received to vote
against him, and if he was the servant of the people he

much to be

feared, but the employment of those means
in a county election, is incredible. Mr. Grantley Berke-
ley must have been drawing- a little noon his imagination.

fruit of one of the greatest blunders ever committed by
Rnglish Chancellor of the Exchequer. The aggravated
'-s in which the occupant of this office for the time
was involved, about the year 1789, made him
grasp at any means of filling his coffers, Amongst other
expedients, he offered for sale the fixed revenues of the
state. The landowners were enabled to liberate themselves
f from a long-established, equitable, and far from heavy

then being

burden on their properties, at a very inadequate price, ny
the land-tax redemption act. This, however, is the least
part of the mischief that has been occasioned by the
measure. Had the land-tax been completely redeemed,
instead of partially—had the measure been compulsory,
and of universal application—it would have left the field
clear for the imposition of some more equitable tax. As
it is, however, it furnishes a never-failing plea against
imposing any further taxes upon land.
FREE TRADE BLossoms.—The Times, in noticing the
resolutions of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, which
set forth the ruinous effects of free trade upon that

are awar

the ac

does not mean that th,

al 'condition of England under the
of Sir Robert Peel's commercial reforms

fostering

we do not recollect t

)axone

Mr. Cobden, or at
mizlit look f

other fre

trader, told us that we

Jr such a state of things in 1847, or any other
The plaint of
_the Jamaica planters has,.come at

tation. Unparalleled calamities within our own shores,

aggravated by unparalleled rashness of speculation, have
left little room for sympathy. with a class of once

no longer taxed: as we

lave been

t. Whenßome had war at her gates she turned a
ar to " the groans of the Britons." We are much

41most every interest at home can

.eply to the

ppliants from Jamaica—You are carrying
on your trade at a loss ; so are we. You have to bear a
sudden flood of competition ;so have we. You talk of

re enormous, and taxation is ur bear-
We, too, have had a famine, and even now have
al abundance ; our taxes speak for themselves.

)u say,

capital you have sunk upon them. At home, too, sub-
stantial men are daily finding it necessary to abandon
once promising undertakings, to sacrifice shares for which
they paid dearly, and which they retained till fell necessity
compelled a surrender. Mills are closed, and business

y without

COMMERCIAL EMBARRASSMENTS,

ation into the state of the liabilities and assets
:eringhouse of Sanderson &Co.hasprived their
imand a surplus beyond all demands of from
120,000, allowing the bills which they hold
1 fannntinf

ability to coir
£BO,OOO to £

tney win. pay. "Lie
yment are variously stated, but it is understood that
they arose from the perverseness of a creditor, who de-
manded a change of security for the money in the hands
of Sanderson and Co., and this change being refused,
and the demand even at this time having become so un-
reasonable, the party insisted on cash, and was then

which it i 4

lorris's

t the ti

npany,

leath 2

'or the r

iecome liable on account

'Warn an hay

of a dissolution of partnership, or his retirement having
not been duly inserted in the London Gazette. The greatest
confidence is felt in the house of sanderson and Co.
is of £70,000 worth of bills in their bands were
riday, and of the whole which became due only
MS was dishonoured. The failure of the firms
s. Watson, Brothers and Co. of Liverpool, and
James Burt, Watson and Co. of Manchester

one for .#
of Messr

----- • ,
)m, and several ports on the South American

)er we ende

1 days of fai

in hand in March last, which he refused saying he
of take less than 2s. 6d. per stone. He sold the
t last week at is. per stone.-Tyrone Constitution.
Right Rev. Dr. Delany, the Roma!' Catholic

npointment in that di

pltof all re-
at tat the

ligious persu
Cork Assizes

3urke, t

;her with

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