The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-03 00:00:00

ARRIVALS.

Day, Huelin, Monte Video.
James. Pentengal, St. John's, N.B.
Lativ of the Lake, Harris, Figuira.
• British King, Adams, Savannah.
• Eliza Scotland, Seotland, Trieste.
A r thusa, Turner, Manilla.
Gleaner, -. Blakeney.
ruT BACK.

George, for Marantiam.
Corinthian, for New Orleans.

FREE Tn&ne.—lt cannot be forgotten that, late in the last
session of parliament, inquiry was more than once made rela-
tive to the iniquitous system of smuggling foreign wheat into
this country, into Liverpool in particular, from the Isle of Man,
and other of the Channel islands; and the connivance of the
government at this wholesale robbery of the British farmer was
more than suspected by their refusal to put the law in force
when injured patties broueht the most flagrant cases before
their notice. Mr. Pouletthomsou, of fructifying .notoriety,
may yet, we trust, be called upon to explain the extent to which
this smuggling has been carried. " Thanks to our patriotic
King," says the Cambridge Chronicle, "we have at length got
rid of the whole clan of free trade philosophers as rulers of this
great commercial nation; and one of the first acts of their suc-
cessors has been to protect the British farmer fimn the injustice
inflicted upon him try the wholesale smuggler." Mr. Baring,
the newly appointed President of the Board of Trade, in re-
turning thanks to the freeholders of North Essex for the .honour
of being elected as their representative, declared in the most
positive terms that, " if ever there was a government friendly
to the interests of agriculture, it was the present, not only from
the connexion of its members with agriculture, but because, in
truth, it was to that quarter it looked for its main support and
protection." And, as a proof that he did not speak vaguely and
at random, we are further assured from his own mouth, that "his
very first act, os President of t4e Board of Trade, was to detect an
abuse of importing foreign,eorn without duty through the Isle ofMan, and to put a stop to ' Mr. Baring is a cabinet minister,
and we have quoted his words as given by the Standard. If
after this the agrietiltural body should doubt as to the good in-
tentions of the present government with regard to them, we
have no hope whatever of being able to convince them of the
fact.—Felix Farley.
CULTIVATION OF THE TEA PLANT.—Now that the' China
trade is lost to the Company, and that the European public will
be exposed without. cnntrol to all the consequences of Chine&
fraud add ,mercantile ignorance, it has become a matter of the
utmost importance, in a financial point of view, to introduce
the cultivation of the tea plant into the Upper Provinces of
India. Many districts are admirably adapted to the purpose;
labour is cheap, and there can be no doubt that in no great
number of years the East India Company may export their own
teas once more, if they will only set about the establishment of
their plantations upon proper principles, and with a due consi-
deration for the effects of climate upon the quality of the
leaves.—Asiatic Journal.

THE New UNOER-SECRRTARY OF STATE FOR THE COLO-
NIES.—As we have taken the liberty to censure some of the ap-
pointments Trade by Sir Robert Peel in the formation of his
administration, it is only fair to record our unqualified appro-
bation of the recent nomination of Mr. W. E. Gladstone to be
under-secretary of state for the colonies, in which post he will
prove a most able assistant to that honourable and accom-
plished statesman, the Earl of Aberdeen. The nomination
cannot but be grateful to the great commercial and manufac-
turing interests' of the country, since Mr. Gladstone is of their
own order, and of a family the most distinguished even amongst
the princely merchants with which Liverpool abounds. His
hereditary experience moreover in colonial affairs is an incal-
culable advantage.—Merthyr Guardian.

OCR WHIG REPRESENTATIVES.—Sir John Campbell left
Edinburgh the moment he was assured of his return. Mr.
AbercrotnbV had the decency to remain till the day of declara-
tion. The learned knight is pursuing his professional avocations
in the courts of Westminster, and of course devotes much of his
time to the affairs of his constituents. We have not heard
what has become of Mr. Aheicromby. Doubtless, he is off to
Harrowgate! Certainly, we have a pair of most attentive re-
presentatives. The joke is, that not one of their so called con-
stituents knows where to address a letter to them, even for the
purpose of begging a frank. What a tine thing is the reform
bill ! —Edinburgh Evening Mail.

DINNER TO THE DCKE of BITE LEVCI-I.—The Duke of
Buccleuch is about to receive the most sp:endid testimony of
attachment and esteem trent the agriculturists that has ever,
perhaps, been witnessed in Scotland. The tenantty of this .
Three Lothians have invited his grace to a ripe dinner, which
is to take place in Edinburgh on the 13th of February. Consi-
dering the vast influence of the Duke of Miceleech in these
counties, his unwearied attention to the interests of the farmers,
his patronage of agicultural meetings, his uniform indulgences to
his own tenants, his public services as a lauded proprietor, and
his numerous private charities such a mark of respect is at once
worthy of the noble guest and of his kind-hearted entertainers.
No man in the three kingdoms has done more for the prosperity
of agriculture than his grace, and there is not ive believe
a landlord in the empire more generally or more deservedly
popular.—Glavote Courier.
A RADICAL ROTTEN Boum:nth—There is not a more rotten
or thoroughly close borough than Dundee, the very seat of Scot-
tish radicalism. • Sir Henry Parnell was accidentally taken
into the representation when he was rejected everywhere else.
Since he wa, elected, he has not deigned to look near his con-
stituents, or favour them with the slightest opportunity ofobtain-
ing from hint personally an explanation of his conduct. The
• whole air:air is managed in the snuggest manner imaginable. A
few radicals meet over a glass of whiskey-toddy, and, in the
name of the electors, who are never consulted in the matter,
they resolve that Sir ffeurv's presence is unnecessary. lie, of
course,- takes the hint, and stays away. And yet this is the ra-
dical substitute ter the old close system I Why, even though the
majority were disposed to dispense with {tits presence of a can-
didate, he is still bound to give the minority an opportunity of
ascertaining his sentiments, and questioning him upon his con-
duct. But in Dundee, no such opinion operates. ''he electors
have no voiee in the matter; and the result is, that their repre-
sentation is as rotten as ever was that of Gatton or Old Sarum.
—Edinburgh, _Evening Post.

Ti; GREAT SNOIIING COMMITTES.—It is usual to designate
parliamentary committees by the names of the bills which they
sit to consider. A few years ago a bill was introduced into the
House of Lords for enclosing lands in the parish of Great
Snoring, in the county of Norfolk and was in regular course
committed to a select committee. It is sometimes a practice to
Move that on a select committee all the lords who attend it shall
have voices; and Lord Eldon, then Lord Chancellor, one day .
rose with the
greatest gravity and said, " I request your Lord-
ships' serious attention to the motion I am Omit to rut; it is,
that all the Lords who attend the Great Snorit:g Committee
shall have voices."
Pao.rucTrin ALTERATION IN TtiE LfrENSING
consequence of a recent order* hem the treasury, the commis—;;
sioners of excise have employed several of their officers in the
work of ascertaining the amount of rate of each licensed vier
tualler's premises in the metropolis; and directions have also'
been issued, requiring that an account should be given of thro
various permits made out, specifying the quantity of spirits sent
to each individual during the last twelve .months, from which
proceeding it is inferred that the intention of the government
Is to regulate the sum to he charged for licenses in future he the
annual consumption of the house. The Maryhone district has
been visited, and the probability of the ahoy alteration taking
place is spoken of by the trade in terms of tho,greatest satis-
faction. •