The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-08 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. ,

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

Saturday Evening, Half-past Seven o'clock.
The King of Spain, who had as many lives as a cat, is at last
dead, and we believe the accounts on this subject published in
the evening papers are for , once correct. This event has had
but slight efiect on the money market, consols which were
88i closing at 88i sellers; Spanish stock, which was at 22i
closing at 227, to 23 ; and Portuguese scrip, which was 22A
closing at 231 A. The northern bonds have been tolerably firm,
and Russian telt off at 1021 103; Dutch, at 44 496; and Bel-
gian, at MI. Greek bonds arc 38 to 40, and Brazilian 671 681.
Very little speculation.,has taken place in the market since we
last wrote.

Great doubts are now entertained whether the•recent intelli-
gence of Marshal Bourmont's resignation is correct, or, rather,
few doubts are now entertained of its •incorrectness. What
turn will be.given to the affairs of Don Carlos, by the demise
of his brother remains to be seen; but, beyond doubt, this must
have a very important sway over affairs iu the Peninsula and iu
Europe, generally.
The advises from Alexandria state; that the revolt in the
Hedjas was rapidly increasing, and that Turu Mines, who was
at the head of the revolters, had many thousand inen,under his
command, and it would require a strong army and much blood-
shed to subdue him, the inhabitants being universally in his
favour. He had already plundered several caravans. Mehemet
Ali was preparing an expedition against him. This chieftain,
on the return of his fleet from Syria, intended visiting Candia.
Letters from Gibraltar have been received to the 16th ult.
The cholera was understood to be approaching nearer to that
place, and the most strict examination of both goods and pas-,
sengers coming from Spain was observed there. The commu-
nication had not, however, been closed up to the above date.
Accounts from Malaga to .the 18th ult. inform us that the
crops of fruit were most.. abundant and that the prices were:
coming down in consequence of the Americans having made
their purchases at high terms. Oil on board was worth 1.:40 per
tun, and was expectedto be higher, as the crop was bad. These
letters make no mention whatever of the cholera.
By advice; from Batavia we learn, that the ports of Pontonaak
and Sambos; upon the eastern side of the. island of Borneo had
been declared free of all duties inwards or outwards from the Ist
ofJanuary,lB3l, from which time no foreign yessels Wotild be
permitted to trade on any portion of the eastern coast of Bor-
neo belonging to the Dutch. The bank of Java is said to be
in a very prosperous state. At the annual meeting it was an-
nounced that the net profit of the -last Jive years had been
466,935 florins.4Qing 2u-per cent. Ariumavapitatof 4iyarniLlienti,
The .nosertio.r-General orltatavia had ordained. that the duties.
of export upon the coffee crop of the Dutch India possessions
shouid be, it' l.y Dutch vessels bound to Holland, with a goaran.:
tee that it shiald not be landed in any other than a port of
Holland, two florins per pical; if by foreign vessels, four florins
per pleat; audoWithout distinction of flag, live florins per pical.
Accounts from Valparaiso inform us that the Government had
prolonged from. one to three years the term granted to the
foreign merchants for transit, and minced the transit duties to
3 per cent.

By accounts from Corfu, we find that Amen Pacha had
marched from Janina with a large body of insurgents with the
intention of attacking 'feplin, but he had been completely
routed and compelled to take shelter in the former town. The
insurrection, however. in Albania, seemed by no means likely to
have an early termination, as the Sultan's commanders were
not strong 'enough to assume the offensive, and were compelled
to limit their means or warfare to defending themselves when
attacked.

THE DEPUTATION SYSTEM-ASSESSED TAXES.

The London papers of Saturday contain an amusing account
of an interesting scene.between Sir William Horne and a de-
putation of his constituents for the borough of Marylebone, on
the subject of sundry prosecutions instituted in the Court of
Exchequer against certain of his Majesty's lieges by his At-
torney-General, for conspiring to obstruct the sale of good,
seized for the non-payment of assessed taxes, the said lieges of
his aforesaid Majesty being a portion of the £lO constituenc,
by whose suffages Sir Win. Horne was returned to Parliament at
the first general election of the reformed House of Commons.
The deputation was headed by a patriotic journeyman coach
painter, who was one of the unsuccessful candidates for the
honour of a seat in Parliament at that election, and, disdain-
ing to found his claim to this distinction upon any qualification
as to property, asserted his superior purity from being one of
the leaders of the political unions, through whose instrument-
ality his Majesty's Whigs had been retained in power for the
purpose of subverting the constitution. The principal spokes-
man was a Mr. Birch, whose moveable chattels had been seized
upon, who informed the learned Attorney-General that two
thousand- of his constituents had formed themselves into an
association for the purpose of resisting the payment of "ob-
noxious taxes', (doubtless a very pleasant piece Of information),
and after most pathetically and eloquently describing the
inconveniences arising from distress warrants of any kind, in-
formed
the learned knight that he was one of the parties pro.
ceeded against, and that

" These prosecutions were instituted in the 'Exchequer, in the name
of the Attorney-General. Now, as Sir William Horne was his Ma-
jesty's Attorney-General, and as lie was also at the same time one of
the representatives Of the borough of Marylebonc, he (Mr. Birch) as
one or his constituents, and as one of a deputatioh from a large por-.
tion of the electors, be;y,ed to know what course he intended to take
in respect to these prosecutions I"

To this Mr. Birch might have ailied, "call you this backing
your friends, Sir William Horne :" The question was enough
to pose a wiser man ; it was, however, parried with great pro-
fessional ingenuity, for

" Sir W. Home replied, that if he were called upon by the glvcrn-
ment to give an opinion on the subject in question, he would give
that opinion, fearlessly and faithfully. lie would only be consulted
by the. government in his capacity as legal adviser to die crown, and
his opinion would only apply to the law of the case. With respect to
the policy of the law, he could not in that capacity say any thing. All
he could or would do would be to give his opinion as a lawyer, and as
one sworn to give an honest opinion. This he would fearlessly do.
4.4 Mr. Birch—But are you • not, Sir William, sometimes called upon
to give an.op.inion as to the policy of enforcing the law
Sir W. Horne repeated that his Majesty's government would only
consult him in his capacity•as legal adviser to the crown.
" Mr. Birch said that the Attorney-General. had the power, if he
thought fit, to prevent the prosecutions to which he (Mr. B.) had re-
ferred.

" Sir W. Horne said he was not aware that he possessed such a.
power; but on the act being' handed to him by Mr. Birch, he per-
ceived that he was so far empowered.

" Meesrs. Savage and BirCh observed that they thought that Sir
William might, in his capacity of representative for Marvlebone,
give expression to his opinions to his Majesty's government as to the
policy of this law as relating to assessed taxes." .

To which Sir William replied; that he could only do so in his
ljgislative capacity. Whereupon

" Mr. Birch, and other members of the deputation, remarked tha.4'
it would be as well that the.hon. and learned gentleman should know
that the spirit of opposition to the payment of assessed taxes was most
general throughout the metropolis, and that in scarcely any part of it
could there be found purchasers for the property seized for the non-
payment of these taxes. This was proved by late seizures made
m the borough, and other parts of the metropolis," •
" Sir W. Rorie, in reply to the deputation, said that any of the in-
dividuals cited in the Court of Exchequer could put in personal ap-
pearances without the necessity of employing a solicitor. He. how-
ever, expressed a hope that gentlemen. would not allow a spirit of
opposition to excite them to act contumaciously towards the law; for,
however. painful it might be to enforce the law, it would be necessary
to uphold•its. majesty.'

How very obliging in Sir William, to inform his Majesty's
contumacious subjects, whom in his official capacity he is called
upon to prosecute, how they can best
.go to work to maintain
the tight against his royal master. Poor .man, what could he
do ? He appears to have felt the difficulty of serving " two
masters, " and perhaps will own that there is some truth in
the text, "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon." How very
unkind it is in Mr. Baron Bayley that he' will neither die nor
resign his seat on the Exchequer bench. Shouldeither of these
events occur, which we should most seriously deplore, .we should
like to see Sir William trying his quondam constituents, and
compelled to listen to the evidence of Earl Fitzwilliain and Mr.
William Brougham on the part 'of the defendants: "C ! this
would be a glorious sight.tO see."

Sin PETER LAURIE declined to be put in nomination to serve
the office of Lord Mayor a second time, alledging that it would
not be acting forr to his brother Alderman. (I3v-the-way, Fare-
brother is an auspicious name for the new Civic Chair.), We
hear that the swindlers and swell mob intend to have a congra-
tulatory dinner upon the occasion of Sir PETER'S . retirement.
The new Lord Mayor, however, says that lie has been an auc-
tioneer, and he thinks he can hammer away at even such A bad
Sot u they are.-