The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-21 00:00:00

hants, in their memorial of the 17th of January, that
the "deficiency in the last year's crops, in Demerara
alone, exclusive of Berbice, was shown to be no less
than £930,000," remarks that " some part of this de-
ficiency may be owing to the lateness of the season;
but no doubt can exist of the fact of a remarkable falling
of in the quantity cf produce during the first year of
freedom."

What we have already adduced is sufficient to stamp
Mr. Scoble as the most reckless and inaccurate
speaker that ever ventured to stand before the public.
We have before us a variety of documents which most
flatly contradict his sweeping assertions, the force of
Which he has been himself compelled to acknowledge.
We regret that want of space compels us to defer un-
til Friday a full and complete refutation of the false-
hoods to which he has had the hardihood to give ut-
terance. In the mean time, we would particularly di-
rect the attention of our readers to the letter addressed
to the Morning Chronicle, which we have inserted in
another column. It will be some time before we have
done with Mr. Scoble.

There is no saying in what dirty puddles your real
party man will not occasionally grope, or with what
strange bedfellows he will be content to sleep. The
most confirmed blackguard that ever outraged com-
mon decency may be elevated to the dignity of a mar-
tyr by refusing to pay a threepenny church-rate, and
respectable men will walk through Coventry with a
drunken hodman, or the sweeper of a crossing, if he
happens to profess the peculiar morality of the liberal
school of politicians.
On these grounds we have never been surprised at
the favour with which certain of our Whig-Radical
contemporaries have regarded the sayings and doings
of Lord Melbourne's protege; Robert Owen. AVe
were not aware however, of all his claims to consider-
ation. The founder of Socialism, we find, is a Corn-
law Repealer—one of the League—a brother in the
faith of the Gregs, the Philipses,. the Smiths, and,
" last, not least," of our own Aiken. A "great gun,"
however, the Socialist is not, inasmuch as he borrows
his thunder—we beg pardon, his rain—from that dis-
tinguished ornament of civilized society, the Mayor of
Manchester. We have to express our thanks to the
proprietors of the Liverpool Journal for raking this
gratifying fact from amongst the impurities of Friday's
Social orgies—a scavenger's occupation truly.

" The Mayor of Manchester, before the Premier,
had said"—we quote from our contemporary's report
of Owen's address—" that, for the last two or three
years, he had lost £150,00; he had still remaining a
large fortune, but (lid not know how long he might
have it, for he had a great number of working people
Whom he could not relieve; and, bursting into tears,
seemed overwhelmed what to do" .1 And again : " Here
mrs the Mayor of Manchester crying like a child, not
knowing how to prevent his workpeople from starva,
ti"" ► ! Horrible ! The Mayor of Manchester crying
like a child—Cannon-street flooded with tears—High-
street in hysterics7-and the Infirmary-pond trans-
formed into a salt lake ! Sad picture ! Thomas Pot-
ter "overwhelmed what to do" ! Prodigious ! And
that, hard-hearted old profligate, Lord Melbourne,
absolutely impenetrable The tears of a Mayor—a
veritable Mayor—not able to move him ! Oh! could
we Paint the sobbing Mayor led out by the deputation
to breathe. the pure and reviving air of Downing-street,
annd the waving of pocket-handkerchiefs and the
Bniffling of the sympathising Cockneys, how beautiful
a Picture we should have of the intensity of human
feeling ! Rachel weeping for her-children was nothing
compared with Potter weeping for his workpeople;
and, alas ! Potter's tears were equally thrown away.
He cast his pearls before swine !
There are, however, one or two features about this
new version of the deluge which seem to us rather
apocryphal. We do certainly know some little about
the weeping Mayor of Manchester, but were not pre-
viously aware that he had any large number of working
People to support. Our impression always was, that
hie "shop" was something in the nature of a slaughter-
4"se, a kind of purgatory for small traders, of which
the ultimatum was the Gazette. We can just fancy,
too, that bad. times may..be the harvest season of some
men ; and if our memory serves us right, our old
acquaintance the:Mayor of Manchester has been al-
Ways considered to glean from other.rnen'sscattering.
from his own account he has gleaned to some reason-
Ithle amount, all things considered; and we would,
with.every due diffidence, exhort him to moderate his
tears and leave well alone. A man who, in the prime
of life, can boast of having realised a splendid fortune,
has no right to kick down the ladder by which he has
,risen. A man who, under our existing system, has
become gr,,at; has no right to complain if he encounter
a little loss now and then. And, beside.s, consider the
danger which might arise from the mode of entreaty
Sorted to by the Mayor of Manchester. Downing-
street might be found some fine day in the Thames,
and all the little pet projects of Ministers floated out
of their fingers ! The clock at Whitehall might be
rusted with tears, and quarter-day never, never arrive !
May Fortune and the Mayor of Manchester avert so
dire a catastrophe !

The truculent Agitator of Ireland is labouring earn-
estly in his vocation, and the venom with which his
black heart is. surcharged seems to rise up almost
quicker than the lying lips can give it utterance. A.
rabid fury seems to possess him at the very mention
of the name of Stanley, and he evidently writhes be-
neath the consciousness of declining power and ap-
Proaching retribution.
Our readers will perhaps pardon us for transcribing
the following very characteristic effusion, uttered by
this -fercicious madman on Tuesday last, at the Corn-
Itxchange of Dublin ; and remember that to the tender
Mercies of such a monster the peace of eight millions
of our Irish fellow-subjects is at this moment coin-
/flitted
" Stanley left his sick parent on the point of death—he
left the chamber of sorrow and sadness—he left that duty
which he ought to he performing towards his afflicted and
dying relative—he gave up the sacredness of sorrow and all
the gratification that sympathy has in it—he gave up all that
i 8 dear to the human heart and binding of the human affec-
ti°lla—lie trampled under foot the coffins of his deceased re-
latives, and, I declare to heaven, he would have trampled on
their dead faces sooner than refrain from, or stand back
fr°'n, attacking Ireland. Was not what I said a fact?
Were they not dying ? I merely hinted at it ; I said he ought
to be elsewhere, and a ruffian yell of malice, a malignant,
Paltry, scoundrelly shout was raised, and I was interrupted
in my defence for Ireland by a howl and screech from those
Who are opposed to everything that is noble or calculated to
benefit the human race. (Cheers.)"
Is there, we ask, on the face of earth, another man
capable of giving utterance to such disgusting and
infamous language ? The passage which we have
printed in italics surpasses, for its gross and reckless
profanity, anything which we have previousy noticed,
. even from the lips of O'Connell himself.
The object of the meeting at which this gross attack
was made upon a nobleman so infinitely superior to
him in every relation of life—as a son, a husband, and
father--was to organise a system of terror calculated
to overawe the deliberations, and to coerce the judg-
ment, of the British House of Commons, upon the
question of Irish registration. The standard of repeal
is to be unfurled, and three millions of tee-totallers to
by ranged under its folds. A National Association',
Is to be formed, to demand for Ireland " full and
prompt justice or repeal" ; and, as is inseparable from
every project *of this profligate ruffian, another drain
is to be made upon the people for funds to supply the
means of corruption.
And what, it will be asked; is the measure of justice
Which this " National Association" is organised to
(letnand ? First, then, the revenues of the Irish Pro-
testant Church are to be appropriated. Secondly, the
etlrporate property in Ireland is to be placed in the
i
lands of the Popish priesthood and their ignorant
;14VeS• Thirdly, the franchise is to he lowered.
rourthly, the number of representatives for Ireland
is to be increased. And, fifthly, she " shall obtain
an adequate number of representatives in the Com-
lii°ns' House of Parliament, to place her on a just
,k 3,. equality in this respect with the Parliament of Eng-
ili4;.l.,!Tul and Scotland" ; or, in other words, to vest in
.(118.„"PishIreland in a greater degree that effectual and abso-
410d,:tte control over the Government of England and Scot-
-I:4' and which virtually she already possesses. " Such,"
et,.6lelaims this new association, " is our definition of the
words JUSTICE TO IRELAND.' We demand this
justice, and we demand it speedily. It must be
l'rurnpt—it must be full and satisfactory. Ireland is