The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1832-12-25 00:00:00

FIRE DEPARTMENT.

In addition to the benefit of the late Reduction in the Rates of
Premiums, this Company offers to Assurers the advantage of an
allowance for the loss of Rent of Buildings rendered uutenanta-
ble by Fire.
The Returns for some years were from 10 to 25 per cent, on
the' Premiums paid.
Policies, falhng due at Christmas, should be renewed within,
fifteen days from that period. '
The Company's Rates and Proposals; may be had from any
of the Agents in the'Country, who are 'authorized to report on
the appearance of Lives proposeerjor ASsurance.
HENRY DESBOROUGH, Secretary.
Cheapside, London,. December 1832. . '
'AGENTS. ' ..
Liverpool E and T. SWAINSON, 3, Dale-street.
Appleby ' . E Allinson. . .
Ashton-under-Line
Blackburn R Wilding.
Bolton . C :Briggs. .
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Burnley and Todmorden T..... E. Hamerton..
Bury Richard Lomax. - ' - •
Chorley ' J Latham: . . .
Clitheroe : ... , W. L. Oddey. , ,-• ...• i
Lancaiiter Thomas Albright. '• • .
Macclesfield R Turner.
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Manchester . ..... , - ,
Oldham ' John Duncroft.
Preston .... - - • William Lancaster.
Rochdale James Hartley.
.Stec art W, Downall.
St. ton's R Speakman.
Uleerstone W. Postlethwaite.
Warrington Thomas Leigh.
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ITigan J Hilton.
Vacant-Colne, Garspng, Ortaskirit, and Prescot.

he ELECTIONS
n FRIDAY neNt,
E ROOM, GREAT

APUBLIC DINNER, in eclebraLion u
of LORD, SANDON, will be givit
the 28th instant, in LUCAS'S LAI;
CHARLOTTE-STREET.
CHAS. LAWRENCE, E
Dinner to be upon the Table at Ha
No Servants to be admitted.
Tickets, One Guinea each, may be had on Monday next, at
the Waterloo Hotel.
Liverpool 21st December, 1832.

in the Chair..
c-past Five precisely

THE LIVERPOOL COMMERCIAL BANKING COM-
PANY will commence Business on TUF biy, theelst of
January next, at their Temporary Office, N . 29, Harrington- .
chambers, North John-street.
The Provisional Committee sit dail the Office of MessrB.
LACON and LItTLEDALg, Solicitor Harringtoh-Chaiiabers,
where applications for Shares may .b ade.
CHRISTOPHER A.WDON, Chairman.
Committee Room 21st Dec:, 1832. - • -

LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL AND DOUGLAS
NAVIGATION.
NOTICE is Hereby Given, _that • at' the next GENERAL
- ASSEMBLY, or MEETING of the COMPANY. of
I
PROPRIETORS of the CANAL' N VIGATION froM
LEEDS to LIVERPOOL, which will be hel at the 'Falba Inn, in
Bradford, in the county of.;York,^ it " leven o'clock in the
forenoon of Friday,-the 12th day of ril next, it will be pro-
posed that an alteration be made, in c 'Tolls,. Rates,-and Du-
ties of Coal, Slack, and Cinders, w eh ,shall be earned upon
the said Canal; and that part of the Douglas Navigation be-
tween Wigan and Newborough,' or upon any .part or parts
thereof, respectively, in the county palatine of 'Lancaster,•and
in the county of. York, by reducing .the said Tolls, -Rates, and
Duties upon- such Coals,- Slack, and Cinders, or upon .such
part or parts thereof,.as the said Proprietors shall think proper.
By order, . . . •
' SAM HAILSTONE,
Law Clerk to the said Company:
Bradford, November 23d, 183'2. •

PIANa:FORTE.
FOR SALE, a most superior Rose Wood Cabinet PIANO-
FORTE, Six and, a Ralf Octav s. The tone of the in-
strument is equal to any Grand, and together it is warrantH,
and will be found one of the fine instruments in England.
Has only been u'sed twelve mo s. It cost 90 guineas, and
will be sold for 48 guineas. It s never been tuned since it
left London, and will keep in tune' for six months. 'lt is well
worth immediate attention to any one in pursuit of 'a very
powerful, fine-toned instrument.
Apply at No. 10, Oxford-street, Aborcrornby-square. •

NEW ZEALAND FLAX.-Dr.
.Hooker, Of Glasgow, has-just
published an account of the Phormium Tenax, or New Zealand
flax, with a figure of the plant. It seems hardy, for it has
withstood the winter of Inverness-shire in the open border, 'and '
has lately flowered near Birmingham. But what we deem most
important is, that the trade in flax with the New 'Zealanders, :
has greatly increased of late years. According to the statistical -
returns of New South Wales for 'lB'2B, Only 50 tons, valued at
£2600, were exported from Sydney to Britain during that year;
while, during 1830, (according to returns taken from the Cus-
tomhouse
books,) the quantities stated as the imports of it into
Sydney for the English market, were 841 tons; and, -in 1831, -•
no fewer titan 1062 tons. Its present price in London may be
stated-at from £l5 to £25 per ton, its quality and price varying.
The flax is prepared by the natives, and in strength of illixe,
and also in whiteness, far exceeds' any analogous material; so
that for cordage and canvas it' is invaluahla, ' Mr, BushVy,
civil engineer at Sydney, and a most Competent judge, l:econ- '
mends this trade to the-fostering care of Government, as being -
calculated to open a considerable demand for British manufac-
tures, and to yield in return an article of raw produee,. not ,
only valuable to England as a nianufaeturing country, but in-,
dispensable to her greatness as a maritime power; and '(he':.,
adds, in a spirit with which reany.of, our readerS-wid svnipa- ,
thize) apart from all motives of interest, it is deserving. cif . :
attention, from the opportunities it affirm's, of civilising,. and
converting to Christianity one of the most inteiestidg sees of
people which 'British enterprise -hai, yet discovered iii any
quarter of the globe."—Scatmen.
. ..
MOMIPICATION.—This is the name given by the inventors, :
Messrs. Capron and Boniface Abbot, of Paris, to the proceSs
which they. have 'discovered of preserving bodies, after the
Manner of the Egyptian mummies. At a recent meeting-of'
the French Academy, they exhibited a human body thus pre-
served, which it was impossible to detect from the real Egyp-
tian mummy. The deCeased, clothed in a rote de chambre,-
which left visible only the extremities of the body-, appeared 'to
weigh •no more than thirty or forty pounds.. 'lie violet-
cOloured skin, the -leaden hue, and the fleshless bones, pre- .
sented an object not very flattering to poor Humanity.
THE SMALL, FARMEUS IN IRELAND.—If there be a class of $
men deserving public sympathy, it is that of the small fariners .
Of Ireland. Their circumstances are fraught with all that is '
calculated to depress and ruin them; rents far above their abi-
lity,
lityt increasing poverty, -and bad markets. The land, ivilich :
during the, last war, might-have enabled the renter to pay three
pounds per acre, and yet still maintain himself with tolerable. :-
comfort, could not now pay more than 'one pound, or at the
most, one pound ten ; and yet, such is the infattiation of •taaid- • '
lords, that, in most instances, the terms of leases taken •out
then are rigorously exacted. Neither can' the' remission -of •
yearly arrears be said to strike at the root of the evils ,Under
which they suffer. The fact of the disproportionate rent hang-
ingover them, is a disheartening circumstance,that paralyzes
their exertion, and sinks their spirits: If a landlord remit -the
rent for one term, he deals more harshly with the tenant at the-
next: • whatever surplus, if any, his former indulgence leaves in
the tenant's hands, instead of being expended van his property
as capital, and being permitted to lay the iounuation of hope
and prosperity, is drawn from him, at next 'term, and the "poor
struggling tenant is thrown back into as 'Much' distress,'embaf-
rassmeut .and.despondeney as ever. There are, I believe; "feW
tenants in Ireland of the class I allude to, -who are :-not frinii .:
one gale to three in arrear. Now, how can it he expected, _dust . . •
such men will labour with spirit and earnestness to raise
.crons • ,
which they may never reap ? crops which thei landlord May
seize upon to secure as much of his rent as he can.--L'Even if -'
this be insufficient, worse remains behind. The facts of the
case'are these :—ln Ireland the whole support of - the- incon-
ceivable multitude of paupers, who swarm Ike locusts over the
surface of the country, rests upon the middle and lower classes, ,
or rather upon the latter, for thefe is scarcely such a thing in
this unhappy country, as a middle class. In not one out oP a '
thousand instances do the gentry contribute to the mendicant '
poor. In the first place, a vast-proportion of. our landlords are
absentees, who squander upon theirs own-pleasures or vices, 'in
the theatres, saloons, or gaming-houses of France, or'in -the
softer profligacieS-of Italy, that which ought to return- in some
shape to stand in the place of duties .so shamefully neglected. '
Thesepersons contribute .nothing•to the poorj except the va-
rious evils which >their absence entails upon- them. - -On the
other. hand, the resicknt gentry never, in, any case, assist a beg-
gar, even in the remote parts of the country, where there are
no rneridicity institutions. Nor .do the beggars ever think of
-applying to them. - They know that his honour's dogs would be
slipped at thorn ; .or that the whip might be•laid, perhaps, W the -
shoulders of, a broken-hearted father, with his brood of helpless
Children wanting food; . perhaps, upon the emaciated person of
a miserable widow, who begs for her orphans, only because the
handS that supported, and would haVe defended, both her 'and '
there, are mouldered into dust.—Traiti and St ' Irish-
Peasantry. -.- • ... • .
INQUEST
..AT SHEFFIELD .—The inquest tt lA, af,y tare
Victuals. who, were shot by the ,military cliar ,*,,t . 'ee le
riot,'wai resumed on Tuesday, when Mr 4 dok:
.._ *Ana-
gistrates, and the captain of the 18th rew.m.J..*;\..wv-faX.7*ingtr-
14
They clearly proved that every means w4srt,„ ~,,,„
to induce the mob to -disperse, previous till 1 , e‘,,To4l' - ,!'• 0
ing directions to the soldiers to fire, whiali.l4' 4g
done by'2o men and a corporal, from th4llfof:-4,*4 ' seS,,klti?
the five deceased persons were killed. Tilt,likott4h&d*it.,,se 44
and:the town became trafiil. The jury, atiti34.,:rtv a verdict of Justifiable Homicide. '

TX-1E LONDON PIES.

THE REFORM BILL-7IRELAND.

An evening ministerial paper is in a distres&ng state
of despondency about the Irish elections. It confesses,
that the great majority of members from that part of the
United Kingdom will he the opponents of ministers.
Seventy of them, at the least, will cones into the British,
Pai-liament pledged to a Repeal of the Union. Twenty,
it is also admitted by our contemporary, will be Conser-
vatives, equally hostile to the measures of his Majesty's
ministers. The remaining fifteen will form the Irish,for-
lorn hope of the Grey administration. Our evening
friend, after enumerating this catalogue of disasters,
finishes its lamentation with the following consolation:
"'Whatever be the result," says he, "this is not a con-
sequence of the reform bill !"
What !—seventy, repealers—seventv members for Ire-
land sworn to dismember the kingdom—seventy men
elected,by the priests and the reformers; who are pledged
to vote against the institutions of England—who are
bound to. destroy the Protestant church of that country—
if these be not the consequences of the reform bill, we
should like to know what other cause can be assigned for
this extraordinary opposition to the Government. Let
us take Dublin for instance, for which Mr. O'Connell
and Mr: Ruthven are returned,—would these persons, we
ask,.have had the slightest chance if the great portion of-
poor Protestant electors had not been disfranchised by the
reform bill ? Twelve months ago Dublin returned two
Conservatives with a triumphant majority ; now, it re:
turns two ultra-Radicals and revolutionists—men who
are the avowed and leading advocates of- a measure, the
object of which is to separate Ireland from the British
Crown.

We contend that,we owe this, singular anomaly_ in_our.
affairs to that bill, which is filling the House.of Commons.
with empirics and charlatans—with a host of adventurers
utterly destitute of principle—with men who are willing
to ride upon the wings of revolution, and who, provided
they can preserve their popularity, are ready. to sacrifice
the best interests of their country at the shrine of theory
and speculation. There will, we concede, be many Con
servatives in the new parliament; but it would befool-
ish to deny that they will be outnumbered by their oppo-
nents. The revolution has, therefore, fairly commenced.
We have begun a series of changes, of which, perhaps, no
man now living will see the termination. The stone has
begun to roll down the mountain, and as it is impossible
to stop its increasing force, or retard its progress, to the
bottom it must go, demolishing every thing it encoun-
ters; and shattering to 'pieces every national monument
which stands between its original summit and its ulteribr
level. It is quite clear, that the aristocracy haVe no
voice whatever in the elections. Property has now lost.
its once potent influence in the state. Every law, every
settlement, every charter, every annuity, every office un-
der the Crown are at the mercy of this movement party.
Be the change for good or evil—and it can hardly be for
good—the very change pct. se will be productive of feat-
ful calamities. Every change in the law—every modi-
fication of our rules of commercial policy—must less or
more derange the mercantile transactionss-of the day,
pede the eltbrts of industry, and expose to greater priva-
tion the labouring poor..
The Irish demand the Repeal of the Union, and, of
course, the demand will, in the first instance, be resisted.
Rut. it is not difficult to conceive a possible and even a
probable state of things in which the ministers would he
compelled to yield to expediency, and grant that' at the
eleventh hour which they withheld at the outset. We
most assuredly do not contemplate any coalition. between
the conservatives and the. repeaters; hut in the-vast- va-.
riety of subjects which will be brought before the new
parliament it is not unlikely-that some one will be mooted
on which these opposite parties may he united: But be'
this as. it may, the repeal quesfion has gained such ground,
that the ministers will be forced to concede it or encoun-
ter civil war in 'lreland. In war, either foreign or do-
mestic, the present noodles of the administration are not
likely•tii distinguish them Selves, and perhaps they would,
.when driven' to an enriergeneV, esteem, it. the safer policy,
to surrender rather than fight—to swallow theirantipa-
tides rather than resort to coercive measures against
Ireland: •

The repeal, then, we shall suppose, is carried. The
union is dissolved, and the terrible contentions. of 1798
are recommenced. What then ? Are_ we to have a re-

newal of the venal, the turbulent, the corropt, and the
utterly useless bear-garden scenes which were enacted in
what were called de-parliaments of Ireland ? Is Ireland
to'have a legislature without having the power
,to give
effect to.' its onn measures ? Are we to-. have, long
speeches and eloquent harangues, but no acts or deeds
wifich are not sanctioned by the liritish ministers.? These
complicated qUestions spring up at the -bare' mention •of
the word repeal. The repeal is practicable, but the after
agonies of settlement are beset by insurmountable difa:i
collies. •It 'is easy to e.xpel, the Irish members, especially
at their own deSire, from their seats in the imperial par-
liament but it is quite possible, after, theyare . thus ex-
pelled, that they might be denied the honour of sitting in
any parliament of their own. We threw out thefie hints,
for the -benefit of those who sustain their national Character
by talking without thinking.--Guardian Publi Ledaer.'