The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-02-20 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

public peace and the institutions of the country.
The destruction of the national church in Ireland is
now openly acknowledged as a desirable event in
the eyes of Lord John and his party—as the price
which Great Britain will have to pay before she can
secure the services of a Russell, a Palmerston, and
a Howick in this country, and a Normanby, as the
liberator-general of gaol-birds, in Ireland.

But it is riot for their adhesion to this or that set
of measures, as those by which Ireland is to be
pacified, that we complain of Lord John and his
hungry supporters. There is nothing which these
men may do which could surprise us. There is no
amount of personal degradation to which we would
not expect them to submit, in pursuit of their dar-
ling objects—place and pay. But we do marvel at
the position in which they have, in this debate, ex-
hibited themselves at a crisis like the present. The
law has just declared the leaders of the recent
movements in Ireland guilty of conspiracy. Seditious
organs in that country have laboured, and are labour-
ing, to excite dissatisfaction amongst the people, at
the unanimous finding of the jury upon the facts,
and the unanimous expounding of the law by the
bench. Such dissatisfaction, dangerous to the peace
of the country and the integrity of her Majesty's
dominions, we did trust that men, so lately ministers
of the Crown, would have striven to allay. Yet we
have seen them pursue an opposite course ! We
have seen Lord John Russell and his fellow Whigs
labouring, in concert with the organs of the con-
victed conspirators, to spread the belief, existing in
the minds of an abused and an excited people,—
a people organized and ripe for revolution,—that the
Government had entrapped those conspirators—that
the jury had unfairly convicted them, and that the
judges had stretched the law and polluted the judicial
bench, to gratify party hostility, and cringe for the
favours of Government!

Such a course we did not expect of Lord John
Russell, mean and factious as we believe him to be.
Its consequences, however, will recoil upon him.
If an outbreak should hereafter unhappily take
place in Ireland—if the ignorant and excited people
of that country should take the hint thus held out to
them, that " the wild justice of revenge" is their
only defence—the people of England will not forges
to visit with their execration, and something more,
the factious and mercenary spirits who have been
engaged, and are now engaged, in pointing out to
rebels the objects at whose heads to direct their
weapons, and the men from whose hands they may
expect toleration for their violent deeds I

We beg the attention of our readers to an im-
portant letter, addressed by our townsman, Joseph
Sandars, Esq., to the President of the Stafford
Agricultural Protection Society, the Lord Talbot,
on the subject of the Corn-laws. To those who are
acquainted with the fact of the extensive experience
which Mr. Sandars brings to bear upon the question,
as the head of the most, extensive firm as corn mer-
chants in this pert, no commendation of ours will be
necessary to add weight to his opinion on the subject
upon which he writes : and to those unacquainted
with his standing in the world, we may safely leave
his facts and deductions to speak for themselves.
By the Cobdens and Brights of the Anti-Corn-Law
League, they are unanswerable; and we venture to
predict that they will not be attempted to be
answered.

We may, however, refer these gentlemen—we
may refer, also, our anti-monopoly goslings, (who,
on such matters, ought to know more than even the
parent geese of "the Port of illanehester,") (!)—to
the rates of freights as here given, upon the word
and faith of a practical man of long experience as a
merchant. How long have these gentlemen been
in the habit of gulling the world with statements
that the freight of wheat from any foreign port, near
or distant, was, of itself, sufficient protection to the
British farmer ? We have it here, however, dis-
tinctly stated that such freights, from the Baltic
ports, and from ports in the German Ocean, are
actually lower than the average of coasting freights
in Great Britain ; and, although from the Mediter-
ranean considerably higher freights are paid, yet
these are amply made up for by the much lower
rates paid for the article itself. We must not, how-
ever, forestall the interest of Mr. Sandars' letter by
further comment of our own. It will, we say again,
speak for itself.

The latest accounts from Stockholm represent the ill•
ness of the King of Sweden as still of a very serious cha.
racter.

The British barque Bolivar, from Sierra Leone to
England, with a cargo of timber, was lost off the Cape
Verd Islands on the 2d October. The crew were saved.

A deputation from the committee of deputies from the
Joint-stock Banks of England, Wales, and Ireland, had
an interview on Saturday with Sir Robert Peel and the
Chancellor of the Exchequer at the official residence of

the Right Hon. Baronet, in Downing-street. The de-
puties, 23 in number, were headed by Mr. P.M. Stewart,
M.P.

A deputation on the subject of Inland bonding had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Sa-
turday at his official residence in Downing-street. The
deputation consisted of Mr. Phillips, M.P., Mr. Tattoo
Egerton, M.P., Mr. Brotherton, M.P., Mr. Buckley,
M.P., with Mr. W. B. Watkins. Mr. Dean, Chairman
of the Customs, was present at the interview.

PERU.—The nature of the intelligence from Peru
which is generally known in the city, is of itself almost
sufficient to show that the price of Peruvian stock is kept
up by speculation rather than by any substantial ground.
The army of General Vivanco, under the command of
General Guarda, and composed of 3,000 men, infantry
and cavalry, has been destroyed by the opposing army
under Generals Castillo and Nieto, 300 men only esaping.
The letters state that the Vicvnco Government cannot
last, there is every appearance of anarchy, and yet the
stock stills maintains a high quotation in our market.—
Yesterday's Times. _ _

WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Yesterday morning the Queen
and Prince Albert took their accustomed early walk. In
the afternoon her Majesty and his Royal Highness rode
out in a pony phaeton, attended by Lord Charles Welles-
ley, Equerry in Waiting, on horseback. Their Royal
Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice
were taking a carriage airing, and the Princess Royal rode
out on her pony. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent visited her Majesty and her illustrious Consort, at
the Castle. This morning her Majesty and his Royal.
Highness Prince Albert, her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent, and the 'household, attended Divine service, in
the private chapel within the Castle. The Hon. and Rev.
C. Leslie Courtenay officiated.

THE FUNDS.—SATURDAY NIGHT.—The English
Stock-market has been well maintained throughout the
day, although the amount of business has not been ex-
tensive. Bank Stock left off 193 to 194 ; Consols for
money and the account, 971 to 1; Exchequer-bills, 69s to
71s premium : India Stock, 277 to 279; Three per Cent.
Reduced, 981 to ; Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Reduced,
103 to ; New Three-and. a-Half per Cents, 104 to 1;
Long Annuities, 12 9-16; and India Bond, 85 to 86
premium. In foreign securities pricss, generally speaking,
were firm ; but the dealings mostly appeared to be of a
speculative character. Spanish Actives closed at the ad-
vanced price of 238 to ; ; and the Three per Cents., 321
to id. Mexican left off 343- to ; the Deferred, 111 to
12 ; Peruvian, 31 to 32 ; Portuguese Converted, 444 to
45k; Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents., 55+ to 4; the
Five per Cents., 1018 to 1024 ; Danish, 87 to 88; Colom..
bian, 14 to 4; Chilian, 103 to 105 ; Brazilian, 784 to 798;
and Belgian, 106 to 107.

BANK OF ENGLAND.--In FI iday's Gazette we bad the
return of the average aggregate amount of promissory
notes payable to bearer on demand in circulation in the
United Kingdom during the four weeks ending on the sth
instant. Compared with the previous four weeks, ending
on the 6th of January, the circulation of the Bank of Eng-
land has increased from £18,964,000 to £21,828,000
being a difference of £2,864,000 ; the private bank circu-
lation in England and Wales has increased from £4,822,000
to £4,980,000, being a difference of £158,000 ; that of the
joint-stock banks in England and Wales has increased
from £3,234,000 to £3,446,000, beihg a difference of
£212,000 ; that of all the banks in Scotland has decreased
from £2,901,000 to £2,791,000, being a difference of
£llO,OOO ; that of the Bank of Ireland has increased from
£3,489,000 to £3,581,000, being a difference of £92,000 ;
that of all the other banks in Ireland has increased from
£2,361,000 to £2,429,000, being a difference of £68,000 ;
the total circulation of the United Kingdom has increased
from £35,774,000 to £39,056,000, being an aggregate dif-
ference of £3,282,000 (luring the four weeks. The bullion
in possession of the Bank of England has increased from
£14.638.000 to £15,480,000, being a difference of ,
£852,000.