The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-30 00:00:00

W.S.W. and S.W., 260 miles : light breezes' and clear FOREIGN LOANS AND BRITISH COLONIES.
weather.
22d.—Lat. 47 51 D.R., lon. 40 34 D.R., course N. 79 E.,
wind S.W., 262 miles : light breezes and cloudy We could wish
weather.(From the Standard.)
to see a statement of all the money earned
23d.—Lat. 48 57 D.R., lon. 36 56 D.R., course N. 76 E., by the labour of Englishmen, and, we grieve to add, of Eng- I
wind S.W. and southerly, 270 miles : light breezes and thick lish women and English infants, that has passed from this
weather. country without return in the course of the last 20 or 25
24th.—Lat. 50 17 D.R., lon. 27 11 D.R., course N. 73 E., years. We know that it would amount to some hundreds of
wind variable, 274 miles: strong breezes and thick weather. millions sterling, to more than the Church and the Crown
25th.—Lat. 51 38, lon. 21 31, course N. 64 E., wind S.E., have cost the country for
237 miles : strong breezes and clear weather. At 6 o'clock, plaint of this. " Pleasant men," indeed, like the partieu-
a.na•, exchanged numbers with the Creole, of Liverpool. larly Reverend Sydney Smith, may break biting jests upon
26th.—Lat. 51 41, lon. 14 39, course S.E., wind S.E. and the bad faith of the cheats, but they have not a word to offer
easterly, 255 miles : light breezes and clear weather. against the " setters," for the cheats who encouraged the
27th.—At 530, a.m., Cape Clear bore N.N.E. iE. cheats by constant speeches end occasional guarantees, still
28th.—Arrived at Liverpool at 6 o'clock, a.m. less against that most unpatriotic greediness of the lenders,
PASSENGERS BY THE STEAM-SHIP HIBERNIA. that dragged them into the trap set for them. Political
From Boston to Halifax.—Mr. W. H. Schwartz, Mr. F. economists can no doubt prove it an excellent thing to work
infants to death, in order that millowners may realise mil-
R. Starr, Miss Starr, and servant, Miss Isa. Hill, Mr. H.
lions, to be thrown into the sea, or the not less ungrateful
Shaw, Mr. C. D. Hunter, Mr. Jos. Yates, Mr. Almon
Wood, and Mr. R. .11I'Lean.-10. abyss of republican treasuries in North America and South
America, or new kingdoms like Greece. But whatever po-
From Boston to Liverpool.—Mr. Henry Oxward, Mr.
litical economists may prove in the case, common-sense men
Lorenze Papanti, lady, and servant, Mr. J. D. Staele, Miss
S. T. Pratt, Mr. George Pratt, Mary Myers, Mr. J. G. will think that the money would have been better applied in
aiding British men to add cultivated continents and islands
Ward, Mr. John Bottomley, Mr. William Lottimer, Mr.
to the British empire, to multiply customers in the British
Lewis Atterbury, Mr. B. B. Atterbury, Mr. A. Munkittrick
market, and to secure some return for the outlay. Let us
and lady, Rev. R.. H. Neale, Mr. J. C. Martin, Mr. Mere-
suppose that the hundreds of millions that have been given
dish Colhoun, Colonel Sampson and lads-, Mr. Thomas
away to strangers had been invested in Australasia, the Ca-
Cook, Mr. Jacob Hittinger, Mr. Henry Eyre, Rev. R. l i adas, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, South Africa, how
Turnbull, Mr. 0. Haney Joes, Mr. Wm. 0. English, Col.
very different would have been the result? We care not for
Thomas, Mr. Eugene Rousseaus, Mrs. T. S. Perry, Mr.
the argument of partial failures upon a small scale, because
Joshua Leavitt, Mr. Leonard J. Wyeth, Mr. Crawford,
we know that these failures occurred because the unsuccess-
Mr. Charles L. Roberts, Mr. Alexander Urquhart, lady,
lid enterprises were partial, and because they were upon a
nurse, and child, Don E. Calderon and lady, Miss M`Leod,
small scale. This is the truth not to be disputed, that an
Mr. F. A. Campbell, Mr. H. W. Barlow, Mr. John Parrott,
industrious and intelligent population, planted in a healthy
Mr. J. R. Willmer, Mr. J. H. Wilson, Mr. Stephen
climate, and on a fertile soil, in sufficient numbers for recipi °-
Crocker, Mr. F. A. Huntington, Mr. Wm. A. Ryan, Mr.
cal aid and protection, and with an adequate supply of money,
John Maulson, and Mr. John Arrowsmith.-50. must succeed, and succeed rapidly. The British colonies
From Halifax to Liverpool.—Mr. Ed. Binney, Mrs.
present all the conditions required for success. Our native
Widdicombe and infant, Colonel Oldfield, Mr. C. Hamel,
population are certainly intelligent and industrious, and they
Major Nl`Queen, H. Green, (D. A. C. General,) Judge
are said to be excessive : indeed, in a highly cultivated coun-
Haliburton, Mr. J. Lewis, and Mr. J. Woodman.-10.
try, the farmer class must always be excessive, because,
though men multiply, farms do not. The money, too, has
been abundant to excess. Why, then, are we only beginning
a rational system of colonisation ? Because the foreign
swindlers, intending never to pay, held out a higher rate of
interest than, under a bad system, our own colonies seemed
to promise. Whigs and political economists held out the
republicans of the new world as men whose honour was above
suspicion, and as men whose liberal institutions—that was
the cant—would qualify them to cultivate the desert much
more effectually than it could be cultivated by the subjects of
the British Crown. As to the honour of republicans, we
refer for it to the Rev. Sydney Smith, and the other patriotic
holders of American stock ; but surely it was the strangest
notion in the world to entertain, that the most intelligent and
industrious people in the whole world, and the greatest foun-
ders of whatever colonies have prospered in the new, should
not be able to make as much of equally good land as Spaniards,
and Portuguese. and German, and their descendants. Our
old system of colonial government was very bad—scarcely
anything could be worse ; but still it was at least as honest
as the system of government upon the faith of which the fa-
cetious author of " Peter Plymley's Letters" hazarded the
profits of his living and his canonry—profits all created, let
it not be forgotten, by the labour of Englishmen. If the
successive governments of the last twenty-five years were
not otherwise chargeable with the prodigious waste of the
savings of the nation in foreign loans, it is impossible to ac-
quit them of the guilt of not having prevented it by invest-
ments to the British colonies ; to this guilt, however, the
whigs added the guilt of positively encouraging the prodiga-
lity by their guarantees of loans to strangers.

AUSTRALIA.
The advices received from Sydney reach to the sth of
February, and these state the failure of Messrs. Willis and
Sandeman, merchants trading in the colony, for an amount,
according to the estimate of some persons, as high as
£lOO,OOO to E 120,000. The report of the general condition
of the markets is, that although they have wanted the ac-
tivity which usually characterises them at this particular
season of the year, a moderate amount of business had been
transacted, while prices were pretty well maintained. For
wheat and flour there was no great demand, and there was
every probability of a further reduction in quotations. The
last rates quoted were ss. to ss. 6d. for wheat, according to
sample, and 13s. to 235. for flour. Manufactured goods
continued in fair demand at paying prices. An account of
the Port Philip revenue for the years and quarters ending
respectively the 31st of December, 1841 and 1842, had been
published in the Government Gazette. From this it ap-
peared that. the total amount of revenue for the year 1842
was £76,830, being an increase of 11,000 on the previous
year. The principal items occasioning the advance in re-
venue were £5,000 in Customs' receipts; £2,000 for fees at
public offices, and 2,000 increased assessment on stock.
Post-office department also showed an increase from £1,360
to £1,240. The land revenue exhibited a frightful decline.
The proceeds of such sales in 1841 reached £71,152, and in
1812 they declined to £2,729. The gross amount of revenue
for the year 1842 was £87,371, a decrease as compared with
the previous year of £56,230. The total quantity of spirits
on which duty was paid in 1842 was 67,139 gallons, an in-
crease of 7,000 gallons in the year.
In the Sydney papers we find a few extracts from New
Zealand, but they are not interesting to the general reader.
The Union, arrived from Port Nelson, gave a very unsatis-
factory description of the emigrants there, who are stated to
be suffering from the lowness of wages and the high prices
demanded for provisions. Rates in the domestic markets
averaged as follows .—Mutton ls. 2d. per lb ; beef Is. ; pork
Bd.; coffee 2s. Bd. per lb.; tea 3s. Gd. ; bread Is. 2d. per
41b. loaf; and pigs, alive, per carcass, 43/4d. per lb.

CAPTAIN CONNOLLY AND LIEUTENANT STODIIART.—
It is with great delight we have to state that we have seen a
letter from India, which flatly contradicts the report of the
murder of Messrs. Connolly and Stodhart by the barbarians.
The account comes via Meshio, and is grounded on letters
received by certain Jewish houses in that place. The
writer has no doubt of their veracity.—Dublin Evening
Post.
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BRAZIL : RETURN or MR. ELLIS.—Her Majesty's ship
Malabar has arrived with accounts to the Ist of April from
Rio de Janeiro, and the 11th March, from Buenos Ayres.
Mr. Ellis, the British Special Envoy, has returned in her,
after having received the most special marks of favour from
the Emperor and all the elite of Brazilian haut ton. In fact,
his short residence seems to have worked a most friendly
feeling in favour of British interests, and there can be no
doubt, we conceive, judging by the tone of the Government
organs of Rio de Jadeiro, that negociations will be imme-
diately opened in London for the purpose of effecting a new
commercial treaty. Prince Joinville had arrived in Brazil,
and the Court festivities on the occasion are described as
being very brilliant ; though it is proper to mention that Mr.
Ellis was an honoured guest upon these occasions. Ex-
change 26, and Stock 69. There were to be more paper is-
sues.

Cape of Good Hope papers of the 6th of August have ar-
rived by the Vernon off Falmouth. In reference to politics,
these journals afford nothing particular, except a confirma-
tion of the generally quiet condition of the north-eastern
frontier, and the disposition of the Boers to settle themselves
in their various occupations. On the state and prospects of
the new settlement at Algoa Bay the accounts are favoura-
ble. At the latest date there were 17 vessels in the port—
a criterion of the increase of trade, and the opening it affords
to extend the employment of the shipping connected with the
colony. The export of wool during 1812 from Port Elizabeth
was in amount 905,7361 b., and the rapid progress of the bu-
siness of the place is shown by the comparison of the value
of produce shipped from Table Bay and Algoa Bay for the
last 21 years. The Table Bay returns in 1821 gave the
amount at £130,578, and in 1842 at £167,134; while the
returns of Algoa Bay for 1821 were £1,500, and in 1812
£112,871. From Natal there is nothing worth detailed men-
tion. An official announcement of the government:in Hol-
land of its opinions and views respecting the affair with the
Boers had been published in all the journals, clearly showing
that the supercargo of the Dutch vessel Brazilia, who had
gone so far as to publish a pamphlet for distribution among
the disaffected, holding out hopes of succour from the Hague
were the contest continued, and attempting to establish an
indisputable right to their occupance of the soil, was not war-
ranted in giving utterance to such opinions, or encouraging
the malcontents in their opposition to the Eogli‘b troops.
Abundance of rain had fallen in the neighbourhood of Caffre-
land, and for many years the country had not bee❑ refreshed
by so copious a supply of water. The interior of the colony
had also received much benefit from this change in the wea-
ther, and the Fish River with the other streams were full for
future wants. The destructive disease known as the " glan-
ders" had again broken out at the Cape and some of the ad-
joining districts. The governor had issued a notice on the
subject, in which he instructs the field cornets to destroy
every infected animal found at large, and exhorts the inba•
bitants to put to death at once every horse showing symp-
toms of the contagion, and to use their utmost endeavours
to prevent its further progress.