The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-06-14 00:00:00

contested heretofore, with some force, and certainly with
every sincerity, the justice of those plans that have been
proposed by Lord GODERICII and Mr. STANLEY in their
original shape; and we maintained then, as we do now,
that they were unjust in principle, and would prove im-
practicable in execution. Whilst we grant, that we take
a more favourable view of the question in its present
shape, that change in our opinion results more from the
admissions of the ministers, as to certain leading princi-
ples, than from any conviction, so far as we have informa-
tion of the intended details, that in practice it will operate
beneficially for the negro, the proprietor, or the country.
After all the casuistry that has been expended upon the
question of " man not being entitled to have any property
in man," it is now settled, that the negroes of the colonies
having been placed upon the soil under the sanction of
numerous laws of this country, in the distinct character of
" property," those persons who have exchanged for them
that which would have purchased property of any other
description, are entitled to compensation, as in all other
cases they would be, when an attempt is made to divest
them of that which has cost money, and to which a high
value is attached.

It matters little whether the deprivation be total or
partial, gradual or abrupt; the rights of property are
equally violated when uncontrolled possession ceases.
The question becomes, then, only one of amount, as re-
gards the compensation to be afforded for the injury
sustained. It is because the principle for which we now
contend, as we ever have done, is admitted, and that
most distinctly, by the fourth resolution above given, that
we consider the question, in its present form, improved.
The admission was very strongly made by Mr. STANLEY,
in his speech in support of the fourth resolution; and it
gave us some pleasure to find him making an effort to
redeem his political character from the odium which he
drew upon it by his original language last month. The
principle, however, is admitted; and West India pro-
prietors are not to have unqualified spoliation committed
upon their property, as was once proposed.

The whole affair, nevertheless, even under this im-
proved aspect, is beset with difficulties which, we fear,
will be found insurmountable. There are so many and
such varying, even contradictory, interests to reconcile,
that, in the adjustment of the compensation, a mass of
confusion, almost chaotic, may be expected to arise. The
mortgagee, the heavily or moderately encumbered pro-
prietor, the free planter, the private possessors of negroes,
the owner of one, and the owner of five hundred,—in
every shade and variety of position,—all will be strug-
gling for the preservation of their individual rights, as
all may be justified in doing; but, we repeat, it requires
no great foresight to discover that difficulties, almost
inextricable, must, of necessity, present themselves in
the adjustment of such an infinite variety of interests,
complicated, as those interests are, by every shade and
degree of complication. When we consider that in the
single island of Jamaica there will be found between five
and six thousand claimants upon the compensation fund;
and contemplating, as we may, the almost infinite variety
of circumstances under which the claims will be advanced,
it is not likely that we have over-rated the difficulties
with which the whole question is surrounded.

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

Wednesday Evening, Half-past Seven o'clock.

The Consol Market has not been materially affected during
the last two or three days, but there is a general appearance of
heaviness, and the quotation for the account has laden to 90i.
Little has been doing either in India Bonds or Exchequer
Bills; the premium on the former being 295. to 315., ant ou the
latter 50s.

The Foreign Market affords little matter for comment.—
Spanish Bonds, after being 19 20, are 1912.—Dutch Bonds
are 49i, and Belgian 911.
A. yacht bclouging to the Royal Club has arrived from
Oporto, but we do not hear of any news from this quarter.
The Portuguese Scrip is 112 discount.
We have a file of the St. Vincent's Royal Gazette, which
contain the following :
"DOWNING-STREET, Feb. 13, 1833.—5ir,--I am directed by
Viscount Goderich to acquaint you, that with a view to afford.
the utmost possible relief to the revenues of St. Vincent, Gre-
nada and 1 obago, their affairs will be placed under the more
• immediate superinteudance of Lieutenant-Governors, who will
act in subordination to a Governor, to be annually resident at
Barbados. The Lieutenant-Governors will receive salaries
very much reduced in amount from those which were enjoyed
by the officers hitherto holding the Governments of these colo-
nies, and ,as the reduced salaries will be entirely out of money
voted by Parliament, the colonial assemblies will no longer
be required to make any contribution towards the support of
the officers. At a period when the West India interest is suf-
fering so severely from various causes, it is matter of satisfac-
tion to Lord Goderich to he enabled to announce to you the
removal of any charge which can be supposed to have been
burthensome to the colony of St. Vincent. The Royal Gazette
asserts that Sir James Lyon was appointed Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief of Barbados, Tobago, Grenada, and St. Yin-.
cent, but ou receiving his instructions he found them so differ-
ent to what he expected, that. lie declined the appointment.
Capt. Taylor of the Royal Navy had been ultimately appointed,
Lieutenant Governor of that island.
Late accounts from Tobago, state, that General
the Governor of that island was about to depart thence in con-
sequence of the government becoming vacant, the island being
added as a dependency on the government of Barbados.