The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-05-03 00:00:00

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FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 3, 1833.

WE have reason to believe that in case Sir John Mb-
house should not be re-elected for Westminster, and not
be returned by any other place, Mr. Edward Ellice, the
member for Coventry, and the present Secretary at War,
will be the new Secretary for Ireland.

IN a file of Jamaica papers, received yesterday, We
find the following relative to Lord Mulgrave, the Go-
vernor, in the Courant of the 15th March. It shows the
feelings that animate the inhabitants of that valuable
colony :

_" MONTEGO BAY.—The Blanche,' with Lord• b.tulgrave on
board, arrived here this morning, between ten and eleven. His
lordship was received by Dr. Gordon and Mr. Miller, the auto-
crat of Trelawny, and by a crowd of negroes, who followed him
through the streets yelling, and making a very great noise, but ,
not one gentleman of the place was there on the wharf to wel-
come his arrival in the ancient town of Montego Bay.—What
a falling off is here I
The rebel, Mudio, was executed on Saturday last. He met
his fate firmly, and refused to make any disclosure publicly.
On Fi'iday he sent for a woman of the name of M..‘Kenzie, and
admitted that he murdered a sailor during the rebellion; that
he was advised by the Baptists to murder all the "whites I which
he would have done, as they told him he was free!
"The 'Governor appe7red on the race ground to-day, but not
a hat was raised, fsor did one man 'move to meet him; nay,
more, he addressed a gentleman in the stand, who did not even
deign to rise from his seat. After he had been in the Stand
for a few minutes, his lordship went round the course with Sir
Arthur Farquhar. Upwards of one hundred persons had assem-
bled to cheer the commodore, but, as he was in bad company,
they refrained from doing so, lest it should be imagined that
the cheers were meant for the earl; and it is rather strange
that his lordship appeared to have no desire to quit the side of
Sir Arthur. At the termination of the first heat, the Governor
went up to Mr. a dismissed magistrate of St. Ann's,
and, with his usual affability, said, "Your snare appears fa-
tigued, sir." The reply was, "Your lordship's opinion differs
as well in this •case, as id every other, with that of every person
of rational understanding in this island."

The following extr\ct of a letter, dated St. Vincent,
14th March last, will also interest our West India read-
ers. The writer writes feelingly, but we greatly fear
that his apprehensions are too well founded:--
" In these Islands the distress is yearly-becoming greater, and
should your new reformed parliament in their mighty wisdom,
adopt any coercive Measures towards tlui colonial legislatures,
their ruin will be completed, hundreds of small estates must be
abandoned; and only the large proprietors will be able to hold
up their heads for a few years longer, and Great Britain may
find when too late in her diminished exports and idle shipping,
that in ruining the colonies she has cut off the right arm of her
strength. Yetit appears to be .e generally received opinion that
the attempt will be made. Let it be so, and a few years will suffice
to show these once flourishing and highly cultivated Islands,
converted into sterile deserts, inhabited by a parcel of wander-
ing, brutalised savages—to the honour and glory of would-be
philanthropists, who can be liberal at a:neighbour's expense, yet
would not perhaps give a shilling to save a fellow-creature from

starvation."

In our London private letter will be found some disas-
trous accounts of an earthquake in St. Kitts. The
shocks continued eight days, and almost every house in
the island, including the churches and publio buildings,
is more or less injurer/.

Sin JOHN Cut HOBHOIISE is no longer Secretary for
IrelVider Member for Westminster. He renounced his
seat and his place—his honours and his pay—at the same
but under such circumstances as to deprive his con
stituents of the power and pleasure of recording one vote
at least against his Majesty's Ministers.
Sir John's conscience was tender. Had he voted against
Ministers.he would have lost his pay—had he voted with
them, he would have viplated his pledge, and been
called upon to resign his seat. He, consequently, made
4. virtue uf- necessity, refused to vote at all, and threw
away honour and emolument at one fling.
This we suspect is a theatrical trick, Sir John perhaps
—for • conceit plays strange gambles.with people of his
calibre— flatters himself that the Electors of Westmin-
ster, in admiration of his independence, will -return him
once more—to parliament; and of course to office. But
these Electors wouldje blockheads, indeed, if they were
to do anything of the kind. Why did the worthy baronet
refuse to vote? Theonly answer that can be given is
—Sir John was a praceman. His oonstituents know that
during his whole political career, when he was a member
of his Majestys opposition, and when ha was a hopeless
opposition, he invariably decried those very taxes which
now. he refuses to repeal when he has the power of re-
pealing them. This is glaring enough. His trickery,
inconsistency, and hypocrisy Elie so ,conspicuous that the
very cabbages and carrots of Covent Garden Market
must perceive it, and instinctively fly at his head if he
ever should have tlittemerity to appear on the hustings.
It is gratifying to see quackery caught in its own 'toils.
But what of Sir Francis Burdett—of "Old Glory " as
Cobbett calls hint-? He too has voted with Ministers
and against his constituents, and in fact against all the
recorded opinions of his factious life. Has he resigned
his seat? Not a bit of it: He seems to have made up
his mind that this is the last time he will represent or ra-
ther misrepresent the people of Westminster, and he ac-
cordingly clings to the rotten timbers of that rotten bo-
rough with desperate tenacity. - He has made himself so
ridiculous and contemptible-that he fairly merits the ho-
nour of being included in poor Lord Grey's next batch
.of new Peers.

TILE last advices from Oporto are to the 20th ultimo.,
but they are unimportant. On the day the packet left a
tremendous firing was heard, which continued fora long
time, and was beard at a great distance. It is therefore
expected that the next arrival 'will bring sews of some
decisive nature.

THE Whigs; are doomed! They had a golden oppor-
tunity of redeeming part of their past blunders, and regain-
ing that popularity which thrciugh stupidity and ignorance
they had lost; but they allo,,ved.. the happy moment—
.the tide in the affairs.ofslip, and they are lost
for ever. Had they consented to reduce the taxes they