The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-09 00:00:00

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SERIOUS INJURY TO THE CROPS.—The weather, for this
season of the year, is unusually harsh and severe, and will,
no doubt, have the worst possible elrects on the young crops.
On Monday it commenced to rain about two o'clock in the
afternoon, and did not cease falling in torrents until this
morning. Such large quantities of rain fell, that we under-
stand tilled land, to the extent of one hundred acres, lying
on the banks of the Moy, between this town and Foxford,
has been most seriously if not irretrievably injured. We do
not recollect to have ever witnessed such severe weather in
the commencement of June.—Ballina Advertiser.
TUE CROPS.—Within the lust four weeks we have had an
opportanity of seeing the state of agriculture throughout the
entire of the province of Ulster. In general, the grain crops
present a luxuriant aspect; although the prevalence of wet
weather is inducing a sickly appearance. The potatoes are
not.yet all planted, from the wet season. A great breadth of
flax has been gown.--71Vortherri Whig.

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The largely increased and most respectable circulation,

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'dawn of the Ll\
STANDARD has obtained amongst the mercantil

body in Manchester 0,

ords its proprietors the fy-
iny of urging this, amongst- the other undeniable
claims which it Possesses, upon the furor of that portion
of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to
bring their advertisements before the notice of buyers in
the neighbouring manufacturing districts
the surrounding towns of Lancashire the' circulation of
the STAN DA RD is steadily increasing. In Manchester,
however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our
publication of Tuesday—occurring upon the most im-'
portant market day of the Cotton Trade, when its
Exchange and Hotels are thronged with country manu-
facturers, spinners, and calico printers—is firmly es-
tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased
and increasing interest.

In most of

Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to
receive an increased measure of support from the mer-
chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it affords
us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst
those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver-
tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability
to do justice to the interests committed to their care.

Ll)P?Liberpool g9tatilJarb,

FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 9, 1813

We have never concealed our dislike of the aggres-
sive policy of our Indian government. The incursion
of Lord Auckland into Affghanistan was A. CRIME, for
which, as we deserved, the British nation atoned in
blood. Our quarrel with the Chinese people can
scarcely he defended ; and we much fear that our re-
cent Scindian conquest is one, the origin of which is
not flattering to us as a Christian people. And yet, in
every successful encroachment of Great Britain upon
the liberties of the semi-barbarous nations which sur-
round her Indian empire, there can be little doubt
that vast benefits to the cause of civilisation and
Christianity are involved. We subdue, to civilise.
We subdue, to bring about that period when " all the
nations of the earth shall know God ;" and, if the end
could sanctify the means, then might we say to the
most aggressive of statesmen, " Go on ; you are but
the agents appointed to work out the mysterious will
of the Creator of all things."

We cannot, however, he content to hug ourselves
upon this loose philosophy. We cannot, therefore—
at' all events, with our present amount of information
upon the causes which led to it, we cannot—pride
ourselves in the morality which prompts our arms.
We make war to secure markets for the produce of our
looms—to secure an arena for British capital to display
its strength. We make war—oh, how humiliating is
the confession !—in the spirit of a pedlar—although,
in so doing, we only carry out the munificent designs
of the Eternal God! The motive is bad—radically
bad—though the end may he one at the contemplation
of which the angels rejoice !
We have, it may be true, numberless consolations
to reconcile -us to a policy which our conscience tells
is not defensible. In this Scindian conquest we have
the satisfaction of knowing that we have rescued a
people from a galling slavery, instead of coercing
freemen to submission to an intolerable yoke. The
Scindian population were the slaves of a turbulent and
oppressive tribe. It was not against the Scindian po-
pulation, that we fought; but against the oppressors.
We freed that population ; but do not let us conceal
from ourselves the fact that we did so, without the
motives which would make the action virtuous ! Our
object, sought in the first instance by negotiation, and
followed up by violence, was the possession of the na-
vigation of the Indus. It was a predatory object.
We sought to extend, by violence, the sphere of our
commercial operations in India. We were met in this
effort by opposition. We have overcome it; and what
is our position ? Why, our Scindian war, as the
Affghanistan war of the late ministry is one conceived
in injustice and in folly. And yet when we contem-
plate our position with respect to the people of India,
. how noble is it! A petty nation—numerically a mere
handful compared with the myriads who people India,
we yet rule over a third portion of the world. We
rule over it by our moral power—by our character as
a people loving and seeking justice. And to maintain
such a position we must do what we have not of late
done in our Indian policy ; we, must endeavour to
frame our course so that it can be vindicated and ex-
plained upon the principles which we profess to regard
as those of our especial love.

It will be found, from our report of the proceedings
in the Common Council, that Mr. Samuel Holme, one
of the representatives for St. Peter's Ward, has retired
from that body. The motives that have induced him
to resign, he has himself so fully and feelingly ex-
pressed, that we need not dwell upon them here, fur-
ther than simply to state, that though he found he
could, in accordance with the letter of the law, pro-
fessionally undertake work connected with the Corpo-
ration, be could not do so consistently with his own
honourable and conscientious interpretation of its
spirit. He found himself bound, on this account, and
also in due consideration of the interests of those who
were hear and dear to him, to relinquish the public
post to which he had aspired in the indulgence of a
laudable personal ambition—an ambition, we verily
believe, to serve the town in those public improvements
which his practical knowledge so well enabled him to
point out, and which it is the legitimate province of
the Council to promote,—not to seek that meretricious
popularity by display within its walls which is, un-
happily, a too frequent incentive with candidates
for municipal honours. Knowing Mr. ,Holme to
be a man of the strictest integrity,-we apprehended at
the tine his eleCtiOn, that if occasion arose for his
Considering the clauses of die act, he would find theM
of such a nature, that. without (a sacrifice of that deli.-
cacy of principle which renders abhOrient even a sem-
blance of erasion, hoWever sanctioned by those leis
scrupulous, he would be.. under the necessity either. of
relinquishing his seat in the Council, or of abandoning
his professional pursuits. That necessity has arisen;
and, under the circumstances, he had but one alterna-
tive—that of a truly honest man, which he has adopted.
We honour his decision, while We deeply regret his
withdrawal from the Council of our borough. "We
could have better spared a better man ;" and in this
sentiment we feel assured we shall be joined by the great
majority of our fellow-townsmen. We were proud of
his election as of one who was born amongst us, and
who would do honour to any deliberative assembly.
With his practical experience, and his knowledge of
our localities and our wants, superadded to a cultivated
and elegant mind, we anticipated, through his influ-
ence, great and permanent benefits to the town. His
public career has been but brief, and :Beset with no
inconsiderable difficulties; but.he has done good ser-
vice even in thatshort and somewhat untoward period.

His retiteatent, though to be lamented, comes not
without. Soine'consolatory reflections, both to himself
and to his friends. He won his election through the
heartfelt good feelings of his townsmen ; even the op-
position journals. hailed his advent to the Council as a
circumstance of• good omen; he retires with the grate-
ful reflection, that he has taken the only upright course
without a sacrifice of principle ; all.parties will regret
his reignation ; those most adverse to him in politics
must admit that his conduct as'a councillor has ever

been courteous, candid, and forbearing; and, with re-

ference to his motives in retiring, they will be cow-

pelled to respect where they cannot censure. On the
other hand it, is gratifying to reflect that thelown may

joy th

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cipated from his recent admirable work on public
improVements; and we, have -further to rejoice that to
him will he intrusted the completion of a large and im-
portant portion of our noble new Assize Courts—than
Which we could not have a better guarantee for the
faithful execution of the work.
When Mr. Hohne had concluded the announcement
of his reasons for the steps he has taken, and which
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,ileied breyeetle Councilii‘,e(ta s,lviivilitliimtl7setenno,stsormesrewtfetiiil
merited compliments from btith of the parties com-
prising that body.

We' understand ►hat it is the intention to .place
Archibald Sinclair, Esq., of Hill-side House, Waver-

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tree, in nomination as Mr. Hohne's successor ; and we
have great pleasure in recommending that gentleman's
claims to the warm support of the burgesses of St.

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