The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-12 00:00:00

FURTHER. PARTICULARS.

The Marquis of Normanby, Mr. Fox Massie, Lord Ux-
bridge, &c. &c., remained in deliberation until past two
o'clock on the proper plan to be adopted in conducting the
examination of the prisoner. and arranging the evidence to
be laid before the Cabinet Council. During this time seve-
ral witnesses were called into the room, but they were not
examined upon oath, but gave their statements, in order to
regulate the course of proceeding in a snore formal manner.
Mr. Hobler is retained as solicitor for the prosecution, and
not for the prisoner, was at first supposed. At present, we
believe, the prisoner has no professional adviser.
Shortly after two o'clock Lord Melbourne, Lord J. Rus -
sell, Lord Palmerston, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
all the other Cabinet Ministers, arrived at the Home-office,
when what transpired during the inquiry this morning was
laid before them. The Ministers remained in deliberation
some time. after which they were joined by several members
of the Privy Council, and orders were given to bring the
prisoner (who was in an adjoining room) before them, it being
decided forthwith to proceed with the formal examination of
witnesses.

The prisoner having been conveyed before the Council, the
first witness was called in and examined at great length. The
examination of this witness was not concluded at the time I
sent this copy, but if anything further transpires, I shall for-
ward it for a later edition.

The Duke of Cleveland and a great number of the nobility
and principal gentry called at the Home Office during the
day, and evinced tl:e greatest anxiety to ascertain if any more
facts had transpired. or any further light had been thrown on
the horrible and revolting transaction, but no information
was given in any case. The greatest possible secrecy in
conducting the inquiry is observed We understand that
throughout the day the prisoner has preserved the greatest
possible coolness and composure of mind, and that when
he was taken •before the council his self-possession did not
for one moment leave him. He is very reserved, anti speaks
but little. It is said (but we do not vouch for the fact) that
in the course of the morning the prisoner told one of the
policemen that he received orders to tire, and he did fire ;
but he should not. disclose the name of the person who so in-
structed him, as. if any one was to die, it should be him,
and him alone. We give the above as we lave heard it ; and
we are the more anxious to do so, as it is said to agree with
some communication which has been made to the council
this morning.

We belic'e we can mention with certainty that evidence to
the following effect has been reeived by Lord Normanby to-
day, viz. :—that some middle-aged person, most respectably
dressed, was seen standing near the prisoner when he tired
at her Majesty and Prince Albert, and gave him (the pri-
soner) the word of command to fire. It is said the individual
alluded to can be identified, but he is not at present in
custody. If .this statement turns out correct, it is roost im-
portant, as it clearly proves that more than one person wits
concerned in the diabolic•:d attempt to take away the life of
our young and beloved Monarch.

COMMITTAL OF THE PRISONER FOR HIGH
TREASON.
The inquiry conc.luded this evening about half-past five
o'clock. Several witnesses were examined, but their evi-
dence, we understand, was not taken at any great length.
None of the particulars have transpired.
The witnesses having signed their signatures, we were in-
formed that the prisoner was told that he stood fully com-
mitted to Newgate, on a charge of high treason, and that he
heard the result with the greatest composure.
Some persons think the prisoner will he brought up again
before he is finally committed ; but we understand such is
not the case, and that he w►ll be conveyed from the Home
Office to Newgatr in the course of the evening.
The Solicitor-General was summoned to attend the Coun-
cil, but in consequence of the very dangerous state of Lady
Wilde, the honourable and learned gentleman was not able
to attend.

TIIE BULLET FOUND.
At about half-past five two poor boys, one of whom is
named James Jennings, found one of the bullets fired at her
Majesty. It was buried in the ground directly under the
wall, which was marked by it. On finding it, the boy put it
in his pocket, and was about to walk away with it, when he
was stopped by Mr. Manning, of 15, Great Portland-street,
Cavendish-square, who was standing near at the time, and
brought to the Palace. The bullet is flattened on one of its
sides, and is marked with red streaks, as though it had struck
against a brick. It is in possession Of the inspector, at the
Palace, who also took charge of the boys.

HOUSE OF LORDS-THURSDAY.

THE RECENT ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE QUEEN•
--•- -

Viscount MELDOUB.NE, rose amidst the most profound
silence, to move an Address of Congratulation to her.Ma
jesty, expressive of their lordships' satisfaction at her Ma-
jesty's miraculous escape from the attack of the assassin in
the Park yesterday. The noble viscount said that their lord-
ships had doubtless heard with feelings of horror and indig-
nation of the, desperate attempt made upon her Majesty's.
sacred life ; yesterday two pistols were tired at her, and it is
only matter of wonder that her Majesty was not destroyed.
(Hear.) Upon all former occasions of the same melancholy
nature it has always been the custom to address the Throne
in terms of congratulation. (Hear.) Their lordships, there-
fore, will not be surprised that the earliest opportunity, and
that without notice, had been taken to call the attention of
the house to the subject. (Hear, hear.) He would not then
expatiate on the probable cause of the daring outrage upon
the Royal person ; it was at present the subject of inquiry,
and would hereafter become the subject of judicial inquiry,
therefore ho would be silent on the point. (Cheers.) He
should content himself by moving an address of congratula-
tion to her Majesty.
The address, couched in the usual terms, was then put
from the Woolsack and carried.
On the motion of Viscount MELBOURNE, the Duke of
Sussex, the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of Wellington,
Lord Privy Seal, the Lord -President of the Council. the
Bishop of London, Lord Brougham, the Marquis of Nor-
manby, and other peers, were named as a committee to frame
the address to her Majesty.

HOUSE OF- COMMONS.-THURSDAY.
THE LATE ATTEMPT UPON TIER MAJESTY'S LIFE.

Lord STANLEY said, that having given notice of his in-
tention to move to-day the order of the day for the committee
on the Registraticn of Voters (Ireland) Bill, and as the hour
for public business had arrived, he should have risen now to
make the motion, hut as he understood the noble lord, the
Secretary for the Colonies, would have to make an announce-
ment, on which it was desirable there should be unanimity on
both sides of the house (hear, hear),. as it seemed to him de-
sirable not to mix up that matter with any other discussion,
he (Lord Stanley) should abstain from moving the order of
the day, presuming that all sides would agree that the motion
of the noble lord ought to have precedence. (Loud cheers.)
Lord J. RUSSELL said he rose only to say that the noble
lord had rightly anticipated that it was his (Lord J. Russell's)

BRITISH GUIANA.

EXTRACT FROM A LETTER DATED DEMERARA, MARCH

STH, 1840.

" I am sorry to say our prospects in this once flourishing
colony still continue very gloomy ; insomuch that many peo-
ple are trying to realize what little property they have in
order to quit it for good and all. This, however, is only
what was to be expected ; as, for the last fifteen years, we
have been so harassed and oppressed by the legislative enact-
ments of the Enother country, that the spirits of the colonists
have quite brolen down, hundreds of respectable families and
individuals have been consigned to ruin and beggary, and the
hopes of almost all completely and for ever blasted.
" It has been said that British Guiana remains a real terra
incognita; and with shame we must confess that we know
little indeed of the internal resources of this splendid colony,
which, unless some decisive measures be instantly adopted,
is, we have great reason to fear, doomed in no long time, to
become a second Africa, and its present inhabitants will be
ultimately exterminated altogether, or I have to fall back like
the North American Indians, to give place to their new
masters, the blacks, who amount to 80,000 ; and who, it is
not improbable, will be joined by those of Surinam ; in which
case, what would one, two, or three thousand militia, and it
may be six or seven hundred regular troops avail us?
" We know that in this warm relaxing climate, indolence,
like drunkenness, and all such pernicious habits, grows upon
those who unfortunately give way to it ; and although so
many slaves have been freed within this colony in the course
of the last ten or twelve years, there have been, compass-
tisely, only very few instances of free negroes, male or fe-
male, working in the field for hire. They consider it a dis-
grace to be so employed. Every river and creek now swarms
with idle and worthless free people, many of them very bad
characters. In this district alone (,Christianburg) there are
upwards of two hundred, not one in ten of whom has any
settled place of abode, or visible means of subsistence, inde-
pendent of hunting and fishing ; so that with this example
before our eyes, and with such an immense tract of unoccu-
pied country around us, to which the negroes may retire and
indulge in sloth and idleness, what can we expect but that
before many years shall elapse they will sink into savage life,
instead of rising to the condition of a respectable, happy, and
industrious peasantry.
" That there may be a remedy, however, for such a state
of things, 1 do not mean to deny ; and that remedy, it any-
where, is to be found in immigration. But even as to this
the planters' hopes are gone ; nor, as you may well suppose,
have the terms on which hr majesty's government have
offered them a bill to promote it, tended in the slightest
degree, to give them encouragement.
" At present, as I have already observed, we are acquainted
with only a very small portion of the interior of Guiana.
Inexhaustible in its natural treasures, it has been hitherto
most strangely neglected ; although a few thousand pounds,
judiciously expended in exploring it, would, there is every
reason to believe, be productive of incalculable benefit, not
only to science, but to the British nation. But, if such con-
siderations be insufficient, there is vet another and a higher
one. Are not the souls of the native Indians equally pre-
cious in the sight of God with those of the African race ?
And why, I would further ask, has so much money been la-
vished, and so many valuable lives sacrificed in a fruitless
attempt to Christianise the blacks on the coast of Africa,
and in endeavouring to establish a trade with the savages of
the interior of that pestilential country, whilst the poor be-
nighted, but mild and inoffensive Indians, inhabiting one of
the fairest portions of the globe, have been neglected and
left to perish, uncheered by one ray of hope or glimpse of
future happiness ? • For, until last year, not one missionary
has been sent amongst them, nor a single attempt made.to
instruct them in the right knowledge of God, or to extricate
them from their lamentable state of ignorance. I have been
protector of the Indians for Demerara river more than 21
years, and have frequently brought the subject forward ; but,
I regret to say, it was of no manner of use; and I now
almost despair of ever being able to benefit them, or to draw
attention to the resources of a country which could alone
furnish more than a sufficient quantity of the finest and most
durable timber in the world, for the use of all the ship-build-
ing establishments in Great Britain and Ireland."

AVERAGE PRICE OF WHEAT FOR FORTY YEARS.

Notwithstanding the increase of population, when we take
an average price of wheat for forty years, a list of which now
lies before me, said to be a copy from the London Morning
Chronicle, and which I take for granted is official, we shall
find that the last ten years have been much the lowest :--
1795, 738.0 d... 1805, 878.1 d... 1815, 638.8 d... 1825, 668.6 d.
1796, 76 6 .. 1906, 76 9 .. 1916, 76 2 .. 1826, 56 11
1797, 52 6 .. Iho7, 73 1 .. 1817, 94 0 .. 1827, 55 0
1799, 50 6 .. 1308, 78 11 .. 1818, 83 8 .. 1828, 60 5
1799, 97 6 .. 1809, 94 5 . 1819, 72 3 11129, 66 3
1800,110 6 .. 1810,103 3 .. 1820. 65 10 .. 1830, 64 3
1801,115 11 .. 1811, 92 5 .. 1821, 54 5 .. 1831, 66 4
1802, 67 6 .. 1812,122 8 .. 1822, 43 6 .. 1832, 58 8
1903, 56 6 .. 1913,106 6 .. 1823, 61 9 .. 1833, 52 11
1804, 60 5 .. 1814, 72 1 .. 1824, 62 0 .. 1834. 46 2

730 10

9n7 2 • 677 3
730 10

593 5
677 3

20) 1,638 0

20) 1,270 8

Av. from :795 to 1814, 81 17 Av. from 1815 to 1834, 63 6
Taking the ten years from 1805 to 1814, inchisive, the
average price annually was 90s. Bd. ; and from 1815 to 1824,
inclusive, after establishment of corn-laws, 675. Bd.,—lower
'3s. per quarter annually. And taking in the twenty years
from 1795 to 1814, inclusive, before the corn-laws, the an-
imal average was 81s. 10d. ; and from 1815 to 1834, after the
establishment of corn-laws, 635. 6d., or 18s. 4d. lower annu-
ally,

Now, taking the consumption of the United Kingdom, for
all nds of corn, to be 45 millions of quarters annually,—say
15 millions of Wheat
iSi
os
iyis3sitenii.illilniog—nslleessss
30 millions barley, oats, &c.,. at 18s., 13} millions sterling,
and for the
?0 years,
la ditto ditto,
630 mil-
for the twenty preceding yearsconsumption 'would have cost
tahnannuathileY.
at 125.,
Now mark this, ye mass of the people !—an amount more
•
than the whole national debt of Great
For if we allow the interest of it to Britain, at 5 per cent.
be
we have only to multiply by 20, which2B, or even a 0 minions,
will give 600 millions.
Now, here is a result taken from known.
as to amount, (the very reverse of dee
andin correct data, even
affording irrefragible evidence of the egregious
"Y statements.)
assertions, that corn-laws have beci tax fallacy of the
i a on the c
and have made corn dear. On the one side is a community,
statement
£600,000 gained, on the other side is a statement of of
lost, to the community !—a pretty prominent difference6l3o o°°
,
• and
if we proceed on the subject, we shall find a continual'
also, similarly prominent. The asserters of loss can t"'
never
have investigated the subject on its own • merits •
• they must
have been quite satisfied with imagination. And even Mr.
Villiers, in his prepared speeches, only gives the opinion of
men whom he calls authorities against the corn-laws, and
that no man of any consequence has given an opinion in their
favour. Does he consider the Queen's prime minister as one
of those men of no consequence, who, as his reason, (the
only thing useful in opinion), in a few words gave the ques-
tion the most suitable and correct definition,—in substance,
I believe, " that the man who would place the country in a
state of dependence on foreign countries for the necessaries
of life, must be a madman ?''
It is true he has a number of colleagues, who, in that re-
spect, are either madmen, or feign to be so, to keep up their
popularity with their supporters. The minister and they,
however, know that there are enough of sane men in the
house to prevent them from doing injury.
Again, Mr. Villiers says, there are eight hundred thousand
men
in the manufacturin g districts, who point to the corn-
laws as the cause of their sufferings, and to the repeal as their
cure.

If they imagine that the corn-laws are the cause, and the
only cause of bail business, and that the repeal of them is
only necessary to give them a great business, they will find
their imagination has taken a very superficial and a very in-
correct view of the subject.
The nations of Europe, availing themselves of the advan-
tage of knowledge which the results of the crusades of Bona-
parte afforded them, are proceeding in peace and security in
fostering and protecting their own industry and their own
independence. e have no power—we have no right, if we
had—to prevent them.. We have not prevented them from
obtaining our machinery and our skilful workmen, and they
will not give up one inch of their markets to us.
We have already furnished them with some six millions of
gold. Where is the great trade ?—still in the imagination.
And as to our competition being regulated by the price of
corn, it is mere babbling. Why, if our skilful workmen had
bread for nothing, it would not save above Is. Gd. per week.
And what bread does machinery eat?

STATE OF TRADE.

MANcnEsTER.—As usual during the Whitsuntide holidays,
and the annual stoppage of the canals, there was very little
business done yesterday ; bat that little, we are sorry to say,
was at declining prices for almost all descriptions of goods
and yarn, and the market wore a very heavy appearance.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JUNE, S.—
The market to-day has not been so brisk as it was on the last
three or four MondayS, but prices have undergone little or no
change. During this last month, while the demand has been
good, and the manufacturers for the Blackwater market have
met with a ready sale for their flannels, in the warehouses
there have been no extra orders given, or any improvement
in the demand worth mentioning. It is supposed that the
merchants have bought more freely of late, under an impres-
sion that wool was at its lowest prices. We have no altera-
tion in the wool market to-day. Prices yet continue firm.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, TUESDAY, JUNE 9.—There
was less business done at this market to-day than for some
time past; and as is usual on holiday market days, very few
fresh goods were brought in. Great complaints obtain as to
the up-hill nature of business—the want of that buoyancy
and elasticity which characterizes a profitable trade. Goods
are sold, and in tolerable large quantities ; but generally at
little, if any, profit. The woolstaplers especially have had
hard work of it for a long time, and have suffered great
losses ; and yet the price of the raw material is considered
too high. We have no change to note in prices, which are
generally very firm ; great caution being observed on all
hands. Business in the warehouses is not quite so brisk.—
Manchester Guardian.