The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-25 00:00:00

Year ending Jan.s, 1831—Total revenue..£s4,Blo,l9o
1832 ..£50,990,315
On this we are told there is an increase of £546,169, for
the year edning Jan. 5, 1833, which increase, according,
to the London Standard, appears to be owing to the arti-
ficial elongation of the year, by the bills being made pay-
able at sight, instead cif at twenty days. If this be true,
instead of an increase there is a decrease on the year.
But if not, taking matters at the best, our income is now
less, by above £3,300,000 than it was under the Duke of
Wellington's government. Is this a statement satisfac-
tory for the present, or encouraging for the future ?
Doubtless it is difficult to persuade the Radical jour-
nalist, who flourishes amidst the general desolation, that
this is otherwise than it should be. Nis advice to the
people is, to continue in the course of agitation.• They
may, if they will, estimate its probable result—a gradual
declension in every branch of prosperity, until we attain
to the happy consummation of a national bankruptcy.
For, if the projects of the movement be pursued, the re-
sistance, they may be assured, will be obstinate and un-
remitting, and the conflict will probably break up the
foundations of our social system.

If in the midst of these dark prognostications, in this
default of human means of defence, we look to Provi-
dence as the hope and strength of England,—why, then
we have Mr. Hume, posted in the House of Commons
by the electors of Middlesex, to tell us, that any Ouch re-
ference is " cant, humbug, and hypocrisy:"

CITY OF LONDON MEETING—The plot thickens—an
immense assemblage of the Electors of London,, took
place on Alonday last, at Guildhall.
The proceedings were of so striking a nature, that we
invite the attention of our readers to the report that will
be found in another page. First, we' have a supposed
tory Lord Mayor courting mob popularity, at the ex-
pense of his well-known political sentiments—not that
we blame him for consenting to call the said meeting,
when so powerfully urged, nor do we quarrel with him
for presiding on so glorious an occasion, (though half
inclined to do so) but we cannot extend our approbation
to his gratuitous boast of having out-stepped the limits
of his very liberal pledges, and in that exact measure,
stimulated the already too prone disposition to agitate
questions of so dangerous and vital a character.
Our main cause of quarrel with the Lord Mayor, is,
rather, in his having neglected the first opportunity that
was afforded him of dissolving the tumultuous assem-
blage, when, after various orators had declaimed in fa
your of the subject matter, Sir Gregory Lewin in vain
attempted to obtain a hearing—because, forsooth, he was
supposed to disapprove of the objects of the meeting.
If the Lord Mayor was sincere in professing his impar-
tiality, the best proof of it would have been in his refus-
ing to allow resolUtions of such importance, to be carried
in so unfair a manner. The resolutions themselves and
the means used to carry them, will not surprise most of
our readers, however much they may astonish and per-
plex. our "final" Government. Little did its mouth-
piece, Mr. Stanley, dream of the abuse that was to be so
ungratefully showered upon him and his colleagues,
when.at Lancaster he lauded to the skies this very con-
stituency of London, and boldly appealed to the return of
its members for a confirmation of the wisdom and finality
of his pet measure ! One of those four gentlemen cer-
tainly did Y'enture to remonstrate—but on what ground ?
Because the leading object *of the.meeting was to peti-
' tion for measures that he considered would shake the
basis of our social fabric, and substitute a demoralizing
hypocrisy for the manliness of Englishmen ? No—he
adopted a much more gentle tone. "Trust in Ministers"
says Mr. Alderman Waithman—" they have done much,
do not embarrass their comfortable possession of office,
and rest assured, they will iri due time do all you wish !"
Such is the purport of this final gentleman's remon-
strance ! So infantine an attempt, although probably sane-
tioned
.by the Government, met with the fate its folly and
its temporising purport so well deserved.

The resolutions were triumphantly adopted—the Go-
vernment defeated—but alas! to the verification of all
that has been long foretold them, by those who depre-
cate their imbecility.

INTIMIDATION OF VOTERS.-Our readers will perceive
that Captain Hart has been dismissed by the Lord Lieu-
tenant of Ireland, from his situation in the household,
for supporting Mr. Lefroy (for whom he voted in con-
junction with Lord Forbes) in the County of Longford,
against two repeal candidates. •
That is to say, an Orangeman—to call him by his most
unpopular name—friendly to the integrity of the empire,
is more hated by Lord Anglesey, than a repealer who is
sworn to its dismemberment. •

This, alone, were enough : but this is not all. It is
alleged by the Government of Ireland, that Mr. Lefroy
was objectionable, as a member of a political club. As
if that Government itself had not been supported through
all its struggles by means of Political Unions! As if
scores of its adherents had not gained their seats in
Parliament, both at this and at the last election, by
the agency. of Political Unions—nay, to consummate
all—as if Lord Anglesey himself had not declared in
favour of Sit 'George Rich, the conservative candidate
for Dublin, against the repealers, though Sir George
is not only a member but actually the treasurer of the
conservative society of Ireland !
Such is the consistency of this unhappy nobleman.
His conduct in politics, from the time when he appealed
to the sword, in the House of Lords, against the Catho-
lic claims, up to the present hour, has been, what he
would have known it to be, if his campaigns had been
military instead, of political—a series of blunders. Others
have eaten their own words; but he likewise has the fa-
culty of eating his own actions. The truth we believe
to be this : he is an uprightand honourable man, straight-
forward in his views, but very liable to influence from
without: he is now connected with a see-saw administra-
tion, excessively supple and pliant towards the rebels
and traitors, though generally rigorous enough as re-
gards the friends of order: the policy of his govern-
ment, in Ireland, has been and is, that of the bascule, or