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

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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.. (From the
Standard)
262 miles : light breezes and cloudy weather. We could wish to see a statement of all the money earned
wind
2.3 d S.l"
.... . . . .1:t. 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-
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 DAL, 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 half a century, but there is no corn-
-237 miles : strong breezes and clear weather. At 6 o'clock, plaint of this. Pleasant men," indeed, like the partieu-
a.m., exchanged numbers with the Creole, of Liverpool. larly Reverend Sydney Smith, may break biting jests p
26th.—Lat. 51 41, lon. 14 39, course S.E., wind S.E. and the bad faith of the cheats, but they have not aw ord to offer
easterly, 255 miles : light breezes and clear weather. against the " setters," for the cheats who encouraged the
27th.—At 5 30, a.m., Cape Clear bore N.N.E. -I; E. cheats by constant speeches and occasional guarantees, still
28th.—Arrived at Liverpool at 6 o'clock, a.m. less against that most unpatriotic greediness of the lenders,
PASSINGERS BY TIM STEAM-SHIP AIBERNIX. 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
abyss of republican treasuries in North America and South
Wood, and Mr. R. M*Lean.-10.
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. Steele, Miss will think that the money would have been better applied in
S. T. Pratt, Mr. George Pratt, Mary Myers, Mr. J. G.
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
and lady, Rev. R. H. Neale, Mr. J. C. Martin, Mr. Mere- market, and to secure some return for the outlay. Let us
suppose that the hundreds of millions that have been given
dith Colhoun, Colonel Sampson and lady, Mr. Thomas
away to stranger* had been invested in Australasia, the
Cook, Mr. Mr. Jacob Hittinger, Mr. Henry Eyre, Rev. R.
nadas, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, South Africa, how
Turnbull, Mr. 0. Haney Jocs, 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,
ful 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, ,
Mr. J. R. Willmer, Mr. J. H. 'Wilson, Mr. Stephen industrious and intelligent population, planted in a healthy
climate, and one fertile soil, in sufficient numbers for recipro-
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
Widdicornbe and infant, Colonel Oldfield, Mr. C. Hamel,
population are certainly intelligent and industrious, and they
Major M'Queen, H. Green, (D. A. C. General,) Judge
are said to be excessive : indeed, in a highly cultivated coon-
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
Sludeman, merchants trading in the colony, for an amount,
according to the estimate of some persons, as high as
£lOO,OOO to £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 £76,836, 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
1842 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. alive ; tea 3s. 6d.; bread Is. 2d. per
41b. loaf ; and pigs,, per carcass, 4id. per lb.

CAPTAIN CONNOLLY AND LIEUTENANT STODRART.—
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.
Baazu RETURN or M. Ews.—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 haul ton. In fact,
his short residence seems to hare worked a most friendly
feeling in favour of British interests, and tbere 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 1842 from Port Elisabeth
was in amount 905,7361 b., and the rapid progress cf 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 182-1 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 1842
£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 Brasilia, 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 English troops.
Abundance of rain had fallen in the neighbourhood of Caffre-
land, and for many years the country had not been 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 cn the
subject, in which he instructs the field cornets to destroy
every infected animal found at large, and exhorts the inha.
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.

SPAIN.

A telegraphic despatch received through Paris, and dated
Madrid, May 20th, gives the following intelligence :

--"1 The Cabinet is-formed—the Ministers of the Interior,
War, and Navy are Messrs. De la Serna, Hoyos, and
Cuetos. The Minister of State is not yet named. The
President of the Council has announced to the Congress the
suspension of its sittings until the 27th.
" There has been a great deal of agitation, but all is tran-
quil again."

TAR IiVEIEAT CROP.—The Cincinnati Gazette says :-
4' We feel well assured, by information from the wheat-
growing region, that the growing crop promises more than
an average yield. The frost has not affected it to any consi-
derable extent."
The Trenton Emporium says :—" A farmer, residing in
the neighbourhood of Trenton, informs us, that the wheat
and rye never looked more promising at this season of the
year. The prospect of an abundance of fruit, he also says,
is at present very good."
MILK IN BOSTON.—The consumption of milk in Boston
annually Is set down at 2,000,000 gallons, and in London,
with a population 15 times larger, the estimated annual con-
sumption is only 2.500,000 gallons. One man brings into
Boston, over the Worcester railroad, about 200,004.1 gallons
yearly.—New Orleans Herald.
On Sunday a shoemaker of St. Cloud, named Briet, on his
return home at eleven o'clock at night, from the environs,
where he had been with some shoes, found his wife and his
child, aged six years, lying murdered on the floor. Their
beads had been battered in with a hammer. The police have
commenced an active search after the author or authors of
this atrocious murder.—Paris paper.

CLNVCR FRACDS.—The Journal de Calais of the 24th
instant states, that an ingenious fraud was discovered by
chance at Boulogne
.during the last week. A quantity of
British lace, inclosed in leaden boxes, conveyed by fishing
boats, was thrown carelessly on the shore and covered with
sea weed. At a convenient opportunity persons were sent
to carry the boxes into Bologne, which was done by conceal-
ing them in carts. of sand. At Calais, a quantity of British
mule concealed in beer barrels, constructed with a double
was discovered hy a Custom-house officer, who,
'some suspicions, pierced them with a sword.
NOIIANIA CURD.—The Belgian journals relate the
havingbo
100/12 E
following strange occurrence :—" A gentleman, named B—,
a native of Holland, has been confined in a madhouse at
Brussels for religious monomania. He one day got loose,
and climb u one of the Those trees, with the design, he said, to
go straight ed
to heaven. below who saw him climbing
up feared a fall, and the director of the establishment ordered
mattresses to be placed under the tree. Before this could
be done, be ju,mped down, came on his feet, and was but
little hurt. The shock, strange to say, cured his mental
alienation, and a few days since he left the madhouse per-
fectly well."
Two men, named Martin and Cantavella, both Spanish
s' were tried at Montpellier on the lith inst., for the
rneltuurgdeeerof two
.Poles, named Adamousky and Schesky. It
was provekin evidence that the deceased were quietly play-
ing cards with another Pole, named Vezyk, in a cabaret at
Cette, when the prisoners came in, and, after asking the
landlord some questions, inquired who the persons were who
were playing. On his replying that they were Poles, the
Spaniards exclaimed that " all Poles were pigs !" On hear-
ing this Adamousky rose, and, going up to the intruder, told
him not to come quarrelling there, but to leave them quiet.
The other immediately drew his knife, and stabbed the un-
fortunate Pole in the stomach, who fell lifeless on the floor.
His comrades immediately rushed forward, and Schesky
was stabbed in the belly so severely that his bowels pro-
truded, whilst Vezyk was wounded in the hand. With
great difficulty the prisoners were got out of the house.
The third Pole ran and gave information to the police, and
the Spaniards were arrested on board a boat in the harbour.
The two Poles died the same day; Adamousky, without
having spoken a word, and the other, after having given a
full account of the transaction to the juge d'instruction. On
the trial the prisoners endeavoured to make out that the
Poles had commenced the attack, but this was most fully
disproved. They were condemned to hard labour for life,
and exposure on the pillory.

HORRIBLE CIRCUMSTANCE.-If the following statement,
given by a Radical paper, the Limerick Reporter. be a cor-
rect version of the affair, the " peaceful demonstration" at
Nenagh, has been attended with loss of life under; these cir-
cumstances :—" Mr. Brereton, who, resides near Nenagh,
directed two of his men, one of them an Orangeman, to
watch his plantations on Wednesday night with fire-arms
suspecting that some persons might have recource to them
for green boughs, to adorn their houses at the approach of
Mr. O'Connell yesterday into Nenagh. It would appear
the interposition of Providence prevented any of the people
from having recourse to the premises of this, their well-
known friend, or dreadful, indeed, would have been their lot ;
for, horrible to relate, the Orange watchman having, it is
supposed, mistaken his fellow watchman for one of the peo-
ple, tired at him, shattering his abdomen all to pieces. On
last evening the unhappy victim of this sanguinary wretch
was not expected to survive many hours. We understand
Mr. Gason and Mr. Poe, two protestant gentlemen, Mr.
Fitzpatrick, of Millview, and other neighbouring gentlemen,
Protestant and Catholic, afforded large quantities of green
boughs, and in many instances whole trees for the occasion."