The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-02-26 00:00:00

COLONIAL QUESTION.
xcellent speech upon this subj,
ID, of Arnhall, at a late meeting
:flub, at Laurencekirk
i the Colonial Question is ndt m,
never was a subject on which
warp and deceive the mind.
. limited measure of information
n ignorance. It has been usut
tress themselves as if fearful to in
connected with that part of thr
ving done anything in that count
wet. I was concerned for mot
ever was in the West India Col
f, in any instance, being instru,
in the punishment of a negro, wl
harge myself with severity. 07
hirty-two years' continued resid
,s expressed, my attachment to th,
breast did not warm at the sight
iut I would not admit that my
le ashamed of being a Colonist.
ry who carried the African to tl
and created the present state of ,
it fond of speaking of myself, but
the Colonists be judged by th,
mmunity, exhibited want of fee!
l believe me guilty of cruelty ti
part of a savage during the be'
ly act his part with general app;
me society, With permission Ii
lone sufficient to lead men to refl,
,ble the inhabitants of Britain art
'the West India colonies. Whe
of the Lords' House of Parliai
ed that a negro on one of my est
, rear food sufficient to suppoit
c. prove this, I quoted historical
s, who wrote upon subjects uncon.
my first day's evidence, most of
it committee thanked me for, am
; what I had delivered. His Grac,
vas in the chair,- I understood fi
Id his approval in the most flattl
iese noblemen must have been
; expect that ministers will-act
of this country have long been
vill satisfy but the destruction oft,
cen coerced by them into the m,
;ures ; the wheels of governmen'
3uld only move according to the
ere gratified in their extravagant
the negro will be found to labour
e benefit of the master, if immedi.
igh these same men have levie,
o an immense amount, and throe
iv ed and expended millions in va
tve that these people will become
have failed in every instance; i
sr been brought together capable
e colony of Sierra Leone was
'riled on with this view for upwa,
cost this country several millions.
ifficial despatch from the Coast
ndigo plant grew wild in the strel
e) ; but was ever an ounce of ii
duce, brought from thence? '
lifficulty than is generally imagined.
re not to be changed by an order in corn'
British Parliament; he is a different',"
he white. Practical facts tell us more
mbject. There is not any instance of,,
'cm one extremity of that continent to '
d and brought into civilized society; and
e philanthropic experimentalists should
i t n some one of the various attempts may
at the negroes in their present state are PI
ithout practising their hypothetical prole
West India colonies. Every farmer 100
re of depression in any branch of our mall
ffects the price of cattle. What then
n this respect alone to the landed iuterf
' a market for five millions of British got
colonies ? (The speech was received I'.
by the party.)

egislature of Tobaga have resolved, tb
'anion Chief Justice Bennett is whollyl
the duties of his station as chief justice

-A hackney coachman was charged be{
Magistrates, on Friday, with having 11
language to a gentleman who had /1'
Piccadilly to Brompton, for which
mid him 2s. (6d. more than his legal
ssatisfied, said, "I wish the next time,
coach you may break your neck !"
m forty shillings.

BILL—The petitions in favour of
iwns of Great and Little Bolton, are II)
[n Great Bolton the petitions are signeuo,
ergymen, 70'2 tradesmen and shopkeepe.
) operatives; only 14 objections to sigh.,
in the whole township. In Little Bolt',
medical men, 3 clergymen, 300 gelit,
,pkeepers, and 1200 operatives. We 133'
fusal.—Bolton Chronicle.
ESS.—On Monday evening the Cheval
'red FitzherbeTt, Dart., alias James 8011,,
swindler, who had lately figured at t,
s brought before the magistrates of
ace, by a serjeant belonging to the. F...)
rvice, (who on that day had enlisted hit
having him attested. On this occasiollj
iuming the plain name of James Montaro;
by the late gales of wind to the shippiugat
ious. Up to twelve o'clock on Friday,
twenty wrecks had been received at Llo)
.pest and oldest trees in the Mall, in
wen blown down by the recent storms. 'r
first year of the reign of James the Fie6b'
i Friday morning, in the laundry bei
As soon as it was discovered, th.
sting of drums. The engines were
was extinguished;_ but not before

injured, and all the linen burnt.
P.—The following notice is from
:—" The arrangement made by Mr
s business orders free of postage,
o very reprehensible." Dues this
a Wigan ? and is he the same ge'
ndon papers have conferred the h(
Richard Potter presented a petiti,
ikspeare tells us that " some men
greatness, and some have greatne,

ock on Wednesday last a gentlem,
r an English house, was stopped on
instown, by six fellows, four of wh/
the fifth with a carbine and a pit
A only. They demanded his arms
none, they asked him why he tray 1L
le was not arras;-nevernavntg aol
eighbour. The leader of the party
of his gig, and, asking him for th
miffed it and every part of the vehit
ing any arms, they proceeded to se
hey did not want money ; he was tl
is gig, without their having taken
had upwards of £2OO in notes and so•
ken ny Moderator.

LATIONS IN SPAIN.--On Wednesday logi";€'
ived in the City of London, respecting theo
in Spanish ports. Sections 1 and 2 state..„rif
s of health will be allowed to enter at the Pr
he vessels entering Spain from places fori,ttet,
era morbus, to be subject to fourteen days
,arantine, and with susceptible goods tw`•,,P
from France and Cette, ten days' quaran`iio
late travellers by land. and impose a quariuY
usceptible goods from France are still subilie!
intine. Sec. 9, Frenchmen from the fronj
on showing from whence they come, and tb
pain. See. 10, the other regulations of the V
'main in full force.

dARY, FEB. 21st, 1833-
I ADMITTED.

31 In-patients . .
9 Out-patients . .
3 Casual during s I. P.
1 the last week 0. P.
. 2 Remain in the house

Concluded from page 219.
an experiment in representation; the issue of which it
Stave behoved ministers to have awaited ere they ventured
other experiments.' The hon. member concluded with
" That the order of Monday last, for referring the
• alt. li. Franks to the committee on corporations, be
Argea,,,
it
galy zttotre would oppose the hon. member's .Motion,
tolt the. ground that its adoption 'Would be, pro tan-
a_i,t,lanion of the house as to what subjects did or did not
of theinquiry into institutions.
the muuicipal institutions cif London aceembd the corpo-
ui the
, propel
ssecoPcealled, and the liverymen • a n an could
, n o
atues of liveryman but through those'charterd trad-
frocorampbanie; (if which the 'Merchant-Tailors'. Company was
-•=d the the least influential. 14 therefore,. this company,
iat power of making liverymen, it plainly was .a mu
gal that could not claim exemption from his
ref I'll' inquiry • (Heir, hear.) The hen. inember called
_ent rued house an experiment. Adinittetl; it %mean ex-
which had transcendently succeeded (cheers); which
;I_"nously falsified all the sinister auguries of the opponents
(Lontinued cheers.)
nit'. said that only, a Parliamentary inquiry could
alsetnedy for the abuses of almost all existing corPora-
outY te•he 2nd George I. these coorations wereentirelv
ether the 'control of the people, andtintil itwas repealed,
merit 3
ennt, provements introduced, it would be usies4ltylry
tr-"' any-cause, however -founded in justice, in West-
-he Y their charter the Merchant Tailors' Com-:
,al quoted the case merely as a practical instance of mu 7
eaterned "—were entitle& to charge 2s. 6d. for every appren-
within their body; they charged, however, some
tiliiPas• An action. was lately instituted agaiusl them
,b—"°h; the magnanimous company suffered judgment
it IY:default; he need not say why. (Hear, hear.)
that Nantitit'LL, having tniderstood the noble lord to
tile inquiries of the committee were to be eiclusive,
.baited to municipal institutions, moved as an amenu
`that it be an instruction to the Committee on Corpora-
)al righ
attend to such parts of the Petition only as relate to
ts:
;ft,°ll, agreed with the noble Chancellor of the Exche-
'' to adopt a motion like the present could have no other
de4oalts limit 'an inquiry which-those acquainted with cor-
hno,2ol-knew could hardly be too 'unrest ricted. (Hear.)
-e
it was sufficient to know that these trading. coin-
re governed by laws and, regulations of an obviously
~,eharacter to pronounce them strictly municipal (hear,
,44 it would appear to him- to be the grossest perversion
',age represent them as merely trading associations:
'',Arattorte felt that if he acceded to the hon. baronet's
whip's) amendnient; he should' be laying. down a pre-
m.' h ight be abused as a means of restricting such a
'Oily into corporations as the public interests impera-
' demanded.
G,atltnuips supported- the amendment.
`S ;W
said, 'that bne'great benefit to be
by the appointment of this committee,' whatever the
.0f some persons might be upon it, was that the affairs
fiteohlpany must become the subject of investigation, and
e whole subject of miniicipal rightS. would be brought
Consideration. (Hear.) The question was, whether the
.41,1 t Tailors' Company, and other companies in London,
~loane made the subject of inquiry- of this there could be
,te`.4; for, as this company he mentioned was so intimately
Se`4e.."l with the corporation of London, and was in the ex-
that municipal rights, there could be net the least doubt
_it must be subject to the same inquiry 'which the house
gie! to subject other trading corporations to. (Hear, hear.)
411.1ehnin had been bold enough to assert that the corpo-
had not exercised Municipal function; and enjoyedpal ,
rights. But was there any member able to- draw a
bod body 13 the -house from historical detail, what portion of
t y isll
connected with the corporation of London; and
portion of it is independent of them ? No gentleman,
ennse
even' the member who brought forward the motion, and
teetlernan could, by any. nossibility, draw such a line, and
queritlY, must be well acquainted with the subject—.
_oere the house must be incapable of giving any particular
ns in reference to this corporation • they must, there-
.°e under the necessity of doing one of two things ; either
eil[lpt the corporation altogether from the proposed in-
Y, or have the investigation committed entirely to the good
~:._and parliamentary knowledge and integrity of the gen-
r!tt_onaposing the committee. (Hear, hear.)
ejinehLrigfeosrtsH;
WARBURTON said, that this corporation must be subject
Wry as well as others for it was strictly muuicipaL The
'referred to a passage of the Roman
passage gave a clear definition of the
I;.lag of the word municeps "Et propriequidem reunicipes
isge<intur muneris participes, recepti in civitate, ISt muncra
spahra facerent." Municipes are those who undertake the
itientent of civil offices. The Fishmongers' Company exer-
k4eint municipal office by. clearing_ the fish market of stink- laugh);
and the Merchant Tailors' Company, in like
klio"had their municipal offices of inspecting and superin-
ig the cloth market within the city, and must be subject to
clutry
raised which is extended to the rest. The former company
£3 Itlie price of admission to their freedom from 3s. 4d‘.
at of ; If asked the reason of this, they would say they did
Ites poverty—from their feastings and drinkings; these ex-
-4t o„, -",'" all their accounts ought to be, examined into from
books. The committee would stultify itself by r
fo r K confin-
Inquiries to the limits pr o
.)posed by the hoaourable
ent (Sir E. Knatchbull
tiotetuceosier said that this
.question had been long in
441,,it 'and had become a subject of deep and general interest
hp 'Jut the country. He was, therefore, anxious that the
I %ills of the coshould be so directed as to gratify
kt.talies of the cliolumnittrve.e The duty. of. the committee was to
o w, hat the praciice was in existing corporations. t
litl4gilt to know what the corporations did, whether their
the sufficient, and whether their.jurisdiction was efficient
purposes for which it was given. All these points,
g discussed in order so see whether there was any-
ktaio,.e'°lls,_ and what, in the present system. When th.e
,"e had examined into these practical p9ints of mum-
klii:Pnrations, if the result of their examination should
the tact that these corporations were' insufficient for
'4lll:Poges for which they were intender!, and that they were
\at,- improvement, a great benefit would be obtained.
for improvements were to be made iu them remained
Ise; all the committee had to do was to•pOint 'out
:ions and wanted correction. (Hearj
's agreed with Mr. Acereromby.in stating that the
L this subject was not of recent growth. He had a
the subject from his constituents, which had been
Mme weeks since.
fiereneuLL said that he had proposed' his amend_ -
ie hope that it expressed the °plutons of the noble
ite, but as he found that it did riot, and that the
he house was acrainst him, he would, with permis-
irava his, amendment.
ATTWOOD briefly replied to the arguments of the
!Peakers and defended the course which he hadie
itself bound to take. on the present-occasion. 1
'vet', yield to the sense of the house, although his
s. remained unchangeed.
'n was then, by permission, withdrawn.
VOTE BY BALLOT.
Tg postponed from Thursday, the 28th of February,
' the 15th April, his motion that the votes at elec-
'Albert to serve in Parliament be oaken by way of

MISUNDERSTANDING IN THE HOUSE.
lvek:u.ott of the EXCHEQUER, before the house se-
7ge& to call the attention of the house to the circum-
, during a debate that evening respecting military
ifficers having seats in both houses, expressions had
bat were calculated to create an unpleasant feeling
ids of the parties. He had no communication with
and was only influenced by a desire to remove any
impression that the observations might have made.
ill 'ember for Middlesex had expressed his opinion that
a, the armv and navy always voted with the government,
411 y 111„, time he said, that he did not mean any thing per-
Re fr„s'uensive. Those observations produced strong lan-
-11 tOts the hon. member for Gloucester (Capt. Berkeley,)
Pa 6 Ou• memer for Middlesex retorted and thrw the
"4 the "ack with b
contempt. He would appeal to thee house
incve:i!lestion. He was sure the hon. member for Middle-
ltate
hon
a personal offence, and that he would notje 1104. recall expressions which were calculated to give pain
411. ii,.and gallant member for Gloucestr. (Hear.)
; tae d 4a said that he would state what did take place dur-
liaio4 he ate referred to by the noble lord, and upon which
Is keel(111 r. Hume) had said that he hoped no expression
klke,,,,u give offence to any individual. (Cheers.) The
4llti,7uer for Gloucester observed, that his (Mr. Hume's)
441,1, such a dishonourable feeling. to officers in the army
4 What' he
arise from a conviction in his own mind that it
sillly e would do if in their situation. He (Mr. Hume)
the w threw the remark back with contempt. Contempt
iiittlttld he used. It was a word that was often used, but,
1 (114te
t/pe:( always impropeilyso, fur, in his opinion, it was a
i hly ,gh t never to be used in Parliament. (Hear, hear.)
Ilevtirct was to set himself right with the house. He
`lisposed to quarrel vitb any wan; he never wished

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