The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-12 00:00:00

eountrymen. He is evidently quite at home in Hobart
Tou-n. All "tree` and "glorious" republics, he informs
0 us, are the creations of "new people;" and, although
delicacy restrains him from pointing out in an invidious
way the parent stock of the." new people," yet we are led
, to take for granted that they settled in the original colony
under peculiar disadvantages, and not altogether as free
' agents. But,he this-as it may, one thing is clear enough,
and exceedingly curious. There is obviously a strong
sympathy between the inhabitants of these distant settle-
' clients and the citizens of the United States. How is
this ? They have rarely. if ever come into contact.
They are situated on the opposite sides of the globe,
and yet we are assured by this New York correspondent,
that Four colonists " turn towards the freest country on
the face of the earth—the glorious United States of
' Ameria—as the nation with which to form the closest al-
liance." It is natural, we confess, for persons peculiarly
situated to desire the largest *share of freedom, and
hence the admiration cf the United States by certalb;
subjects of
,the King of Great Britain. But can any
one explain how this attachment happens to be recipro-
cal. The Correspondent says—" American ships are
most welcome here, and I am convinced that a commer-
cial intercourse most advantageous to both 0) people
might and would be established." • He then proceeds to
say, " Wheat is sixteen shillings the bushel, flour forty
shillings the hundred. You may now judge how far
this market would vat American ships to bring FLOUR I"
The gist of the; argdrnent is 'this. Theelleolonists of
Hobart ToWn, being " new people," are enamoured of
the free institutions or America, and the citizens of
America are in love with the, excellent market in Hobart
Town for wheat
_and flour! It iff libeitY in the one case
and dollars- the othei—FaErnasi versus FLourt!,----- •

But another question arises, which we beg leave to
submit to his majesty's Colonial
,secretary. Is it quite
fair that the citizens of America should be encouraged in
their scheMes of bartering don'', and republican princi-
ples at the same time, for money, in a colony belonging
to England ? If it be an advantagepus market, why
should not, the whole and exclusive benefit of it be given
to the subjects of the King of England ? The shipping
interest is not in so flourishing a condition that it can
spare any traffic to the shipowners of the United States.
We hope this question.will be asked by some member
of the House of Commons on an early day.

What is to become of Lord JOHN RUSSELL ? Will no
gentleman of genuine Whig principles, who is the repre-
sentative of a numerous constituency, make way for the
noble lord ? The leader of the house of, commons cannot
conveniently do his work without a seat in the houie,
and the man of the people, the parent of the reform bill,
will not surely fall so low, and become so small, as to
creep into the reformed parliament by one of its key
holes, the Duke 'of BEDFORD pushing him in on one
side of the door, and his lordship's nephew pulling him in
on the other. This would never do. It might form the
subject of an excellent, fancy sketch by H. .8., but it
would be too serious a joke to he attempted in -reality.
From Devonshire to a leap I Man-
chester would have been bad enough, but to fall so far
doWn as BirMingham would be like tumbling out of the
drawing-room into the 'coal-hole. And yet it is said that
Lord JOHN has tio other choice between that and
Tavistock, unless the scruples of Mr. MARK PHILIPS
could be overcome, itnd Manchester could be induced to
sanction a swop of its present member for a secretary of
state, which, .it is said, the electors would readily do,
inasmuch as' they would be gainers by the exchange.
Tonight; however, it is.probable that the intentions of
the noble lord will be made known.