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PRIVY COUNCIL, WHITEHALL.

IN THE MATTER OF LE COUTEUR'S BANKRUPTCY.
Dr. Lushington said that this was a petition tiled on behalf
of the London creditors of the above-named bankrupt, demand-
ing an appeal against the decision of one of the lower courts of
Guernsey. All he wanted to prove was that there were suffi-
cient facts to engage their lordships to entertain the question.
Le Couteur was a native of Jersey, established in business in
Guernsey. Early in the month of May last, Le Couteur pur-
chased in London goods to the amount of i.:1,000. On the 10th
of the same month he was arrested for debt, and, no bail having
come forward in his behalf, he remained in prison for the space
of twenty-one days. The custom in Guernsey, in proceedings
of this sort, is to have the bankrupt's property immediately at-
tached; and, in consequence of the act of bankruptcy being ad-
mitted by Le Couteur, he was declared a bankrupt in this
country. Previously to writing to Guernsey upon what had
taken place, Le Couteur's son was charged with this mission;
but on his arrival in Guernsey, he neglected to make the at-
tachment for the general body of his father's creditors. The
son, therefore, acted badly, as he did not perform the powers
intrusted to him: and the consequence of this was that the
Guernsey creditors attached the property before the attach-
ment had been made for the London creditors. On the 19th of
July a gentleman of the name of Faircloth appeared before the
royal court and claimed the property on behalf of the creditors
and assignees of London. The petition then went on to state,
that under the present bankruptcy act the bankrupt's property
was vested in the assignees, and that, as the Guernsey creditors
had not proved their debts, the law of attachment and sale of
goods could not hold good in that island. The Guernsey credi-
tors proceeded to a sale of the property, and in September the
matter was brought before the Guernsey court. There were
only present the bailiff and two other persons, and the court
directed a sale of the property so seized. The petitioner for the
London creditors then asked for an appeal to the full court, but
his request was refused. The petitioner complained of this,
and, in consequence, notice was given that the sale would net
take place till the 15th of September. The petitioner therefore
prayed for leave to appeal to a full court in Guernsey, and if
that court should decide in the same way that the former one
had done, then he prayed to lippeal to their lordships in privy
council to stay the same. The learned Dr. then said that the
only question to be determined was, whether this was a fit and
proper case to be heard by their lordships. It was to be seen
whether Le Couteur, the son, was not only guilty of a fraud
upon his father, but upon the London creditors, in the behalf of
whom he was sent to Guernsey, in giving private notice of his
father's bankruptcy to the Guernsey creditors.
Their lordships thought that evidence ought to be produced to
show whether Le Couteur the father and Le Couteur the son
acted in conjunction, and whether collusion on the part of
either was intended. In. order to have this evidence produced,
they consented to delay their decision, that the petition might be
amended.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, DECEMBER 29.
JOSHUA VOLLANS, JUN.'S BANKRUPTCY.
The bankrupt in this case was a partner in a firm carrying
ma business in Leeds, and in consequence of the discovery of
some extraordinary transactions which had created a consider-
able sensation in Vorkshire, a fiat was issued ogainst Mr. J.
Vollans,.jun., who decamped; taking with him, as was supposed,
considerable property belonging, to his creditors. The liabili-
ties of the bankrupt are estimated to amount to about £17,000.
The bankrupt having left England, application was made to
the Duke of Wellington, who immediately forwarded instruc-,
tions to the British ambassador at Paris, where Vollans had
proceeded to, in order that lie might be detained. The bank-
rupt, however, had proceeded to Lyons, having assumed the
name of Alexander Beaumont. At the instance of the British
ambassador a telegraphic despatch was forwarded to Lyons,
directing the arrest of the party referred to on his reaching that
place. At this place the bankrupt was arrested, there having
been found on his person about £560. The bankrupt will
shortly be brought to this country. In the meantime active
measures were adopted to secure property, which it was under-
stood had been removed from tile bankrupt's possession, and
the result of these efforts has been to discover bank notes to the
value of £5,550. It is expected that further assets will be dis-
covered. A considerable reward was offered for the apprehen-
sion of the bankrupt.
The first meeting of the creditors was appointed to be held
this day, for the proof of debts and the choice of assignees.
The commissioner, having been informed that the bankrupt
had been captured, expressed his gratification at the prompt
manner in which the authorities in France had acted, and
hoped that there would be a dividend of 14s. or 15s. in the pound
for the creditors, the assets secured being very considerable.
The choice of assignees was postponed in consequence of its
being intended to work the fiat against the firm in conjunction
With that issued against the bankrupt.

FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 2, 1835:

We have received letters and papers from Jamaica to
the sth November. We regret to say that they are re-
plete with despondency. The apprentices are incorrigi-
ble; are idle in the extreme, are constantly absenting
thernselves from work, and are all but in a state of
rebellion: The Kingston Chronicle, of the 7th Novem-
ber, has the following :
Our letters from Manchester are unsatisfactory. A respected
correspondent in that quarter writes as follows :—" Our sti-
pendiary, Lieut. Colebrook, has again resumed his duties, with
his usual determined and correct manner, after a confinement
.ciknearly two weeks." As regards the conduct of the appren-
tices he continues—" Unfortunately, the apprentices instead of
going to their grounds.as they formerly did (when the mana-
gers had the power over them) are now rambling to the
neighbouring parishes. Owing to the length of time they now
have, from half-past one on Friday until six o'clock on Mon-
-day morning, many of them who were never there before have
gone to Spanish Town. Surely his excellency the governor
has it in his power to issue a proclamation forbidding the ap-
prentices (unless they have a ticket) to leave their homes on
those days for the purpose of going a greater distance than five
miles, unless they are going to church or market. If not
checked immediately a famine must be the consequence next
year, besides leading the present well-disposed apprentices into
bad company. A suspicious character has been seen in the
Plowden district, supposed to be from town." In another part
of the letter of our correspondent, he writes (Tuesday)—" The
hospitals are now crowded, in consequence of the excursion
they, the apprentices, took. Our police have been most active,
partictilarly in doing away with nightly meetings. On some of
the persons apprehended at one of these meetings a ticket was
found inviting some of the parties to go a distance of thirty
miles. This must be put a stop to, or, beware of Christmas."
The same journal observes :

" The police has, in most cases, disappointed expectation.
Sinecure appointments have been given to incompetent govern-
ment officials, who pocket the salary and do nothing except
appropriating to themselvas the services of men paid to protect
the public interest! We are beset by persecution and injustice
on all sides, and it shall not be our fault if we do not shortly
cast off the coil of corruption ! ! on this subject—more anon !
" We call the attention of our readers to the governor's
reply to an address from the inhabitants of Trelawny. In that
document his excellency has promised to give his assent to any
measure tending to promote the improvement of the appren-
ticeship. A few weeks will prove the sincerity of his lordship.
Several measures of amendment will be laid before the other
brandies of the legislature, and the result of their deliberations
will afford the strongest testimony of his lordship's desire to
promote the interests of this colony."

The following appeal to "Christians and Englishmen,"
whircli we take f►•om the London Standard of Wednes-
day, will speak for itself:—

.- - •
di.Qhristians of England, whether churchmen or dissenters,
bssk-• to.,tlre letter of the Times correspondent, and the letter of
tie lioman catholic bishop, M' bale, to be found in our next
line: In these documents you will see the power put, forth
withont concealment, and without reserve, to force 'llion the
imperial legislature one hundred and five enemies of your coun-
try and your religion! You will see the priest, in his vocation,
denOUncing eternal punishment against any man, so forgetful
of his duty." as a trustee of the Roman catholic religion," as to
obey the dictates of gratitude or friendship ! You will see the
ruffian agitator, in his vocation, too, menacing with no less than
the midnight murder of the recusant and his family, every one
who shall not obey his, the agitator's dictation ! You will see
the terrors of the present and of a future life, wielded for
election purposes, with an impudence of contempt for the law
and the constitution, such as almost defies belief! Our readers,
however, have the facts and the indisputable truth before them.
But then, some one will say, what can English electors do? they
cannot vote against Mr. O'Connell or his nominees. No, but
they-can vote against his allies,—and if they do not vote
againikt every man tainted with that accursed alliance, they will
be partakers of all their evil deeds."

The Mr. JANIES MORRIS who has, at this alarming and
distressing crisis, travelled no less than two hundred
miles in a stage-coach in order to represent the electors
of Liverpool, by whom he was not invited, made his first
appearance in Clayton-square, on Wednesday, at the
convenient hour when the working classes were going
to and from their dinner ; but notwithstanding the crowd
of people collected by this rather stale trick, it was a
" sorry sight." We do not believe there were five
hundred persons present who were electors, or took any
interest in the success of the new candidate. Mr.
MORRIS, however, addressed the people there assembled
in what the reporters very facetiously call a " speech,"
but such a drawl of words and jumble of sentences were
never heard before, not even from the eloquent lips of
Mr. WM... Ewaß•r. The new candidate is not devold of

cunning, for he took care to say as little as possible
about principles, although he professed a vast deal of
honesty, and boasted not a little, in exceeding bad taste,
of his commercial knowledge and his resposible situatio❑
as one of the managers of the Bank of England. The
meeting did not quite understand him, although the
committee by whom he was surrounded professed to do
so, and as they waved their hats on the balcony of the
Bull tavern, the hired brawlers below set up occasionally
a congratulatory yell. It was manifest from the ap-
pearance of the creatures that they were hired to shout
and attend the candidate in his peregrinations through
the town.

The meeting in Clayton-square having proved a
failure, Mr. MORRIS was next advised to try his fortune
at a window in the Exchange-buildings, and on his march
thither he brought with him the same respectable tail
which formed so conspicuous but so ragged an appendage
at the former• place. Such a group of curious-looking
and half inebriated artists was never seen in the precincts
of NELSON'S monument ; and the princely Rialto " where
merchants most do congregate" was taken possession of
by the scum of the beer-shops, and the elite of the
back, we had almost said black settlements in the vicinity
of ;Dale-street and Williamson-square.

At the top of a window, perched upon what we sup-
pose was a three legged stool, looking for all the world
like that comical little hero which amuses children in a
booth, but whom out of respect we forbear naming,—
at the top of this window, we say, Mr. MORRIS again
attempted to address the electors of Liverpool. We can-
not report his speech for the most satisfactory of all rea-
sons—not a word of it could be heard in the square.
He was followed by Mr. EWART, whom we have inex-
pressible pleasure in designating our late member. Here
we had the two Whig candidates face to face, and conse•
quently the most unequivocal proof of coalition. Here
it became manifest, beyond cavil or disputation, that the
whig and destructive factions—the masked plunderer and
the avowed, and more honest spoliator—had formed an
union in order to foist upon the electors of Liverpool
two men who are ultra levellers, who would, if they
could, make unitarianism the only religious system in
England, and who by pulling down the church, and ap-
propriating its revenues to their own uses, or to the
dissemination of that spurious and useless knowledge,
pilfered from other books, published by Lord BROUGHAM,
and patronized by some five hundred coxcombs in vari-
ous penny periodicals, would pave the way for the utter
destruction of the monarchy.

Electors of Liverpool! will you tolerate—will you
submit to this? Will you any longer suffer Mr. WM.
EWART to misrepresent the intellect, the intelligence,
the wealth, and the loyal sentiments of the inhabitants of
Liverpool ? Will you allow the obscure and fallen fac-
tion who support Mr EWART, to bring a perfect stranger
before you at an hour's notice— a man utterly unknown
—who has no standing in society—who may be an Ita-
lian image-vender for any thing you know—a man who
probably comes from the Cogers club or the Lumber
troop of London—will vou suffer such a faction to dic-
tate to you in the choice of a representative, and force
upon you this Mr. MORRIS who never until now was in
Liverpool in the whole course of his life ? This would
be compulsory wickedness, or glaring suicide. The
eyes of the whole nation are upon Liverpool, waiting
the issue of the struggle. If you, who are 'so much de-
pendent upon the commerce of the country—you who
have property to lose, or a subsistence to earn by your
honest industry—you who are the electors of the second
town in the empire, and the first in enterpriseand pros-
perity—if you return two destructives, or even one de-
structive to parliament, you will be guilty of an act of
as great folly and madness as if each and all of you were
to take a razor and cut your own throats. What gives
Liverpool its renown and its trade ? The immense ca-
pital of its merchants, the advantageous investments of
the corporation and the dock trustees, the unbounded
confidence that is placed in them, the unlimited credit
-they can command, and the matchless facilities they have
provided for commerce; and if once you allow a destruc-
tive parliament to touch one stone or one prop of your
local institutions, away the whole fabric would go to
ruin and desolation.

But, gentlemen, we beg pardon for this apparent dis-
trust. We have a far bettur opiuiou ("rpm. We know
that though there are snakes in the grass, and wolves
in the fold, and knaves in the garb of primitive simpli-
city—we know that though there be men who would buy
and sell you—who would bribe and betray you—who would
corrupt and degrade you—who would use and abuse you
—still we know that the majority of you are animated
with sentiments similar to ourown, and that when the day
of trial conies, and when you are brought to confront the
men who would have robbed you and your children, who
libelled you in the newspapers, who bore false witness
against you before a contemptible committee of the
House of Commons, and who, by every mean art and
base device, endeavoured to make you the scorn
and the reproach of the world—when that day comes,
and you confront your malignant slanderers, we feel as-
sured that the blood will boil in your veins, and that
with one cheer for the King and another for the protest-
ant church, you will instantly record your votes in favour
of your best friends, the conservative candidates.

To the burgesses of Liverpool whose battles we have
fought, and fought successfully, we have only this to say,
that ELEVEN HUNDRED of their number voted for Mr.
EWART at the last election. Think of this, burgesses,
and blush ! There are your names and your votes upon
the books—there you stand amid a halo of shame—there
it is recorded that ELEVEN HUNDRED of you voted for
the man who is your worst enemy, and who has now for
his leading supporters Mr. THOMAS BOLTON, Mr. WM.
RATHBONE, Mr. WYBErto, and others—men whom you
are bound to hold in odium and abhorrence as long as
you live.

We mention these facts " more in sorrow than in an-
ger." The finger of scorn is pointed at the transaction,
and we would gladly turn it aside, and by opening a
new leaf make your future conduct atone for past errors.
You cannot—you will not again vote for Mr. EWART.
You would not like to hear your boy say by the fire-side
—" Father, you disfranchised me !" You would not like
to hear your fair child say, " Father, I was once a free-
man's daughter !" No, if there be a drop of English
blood in your veins you would spill it freely rather than
be subject to so foul a reproach. Let us then have
no " misgivings. Of. the ELEVEN lIUNDRED who .voted
for Mr. EWART, We expect to have a TIMIThAND at
least to vote for Lord SANDON and Sir HOWARD
DOUGLAS. Do this and you will retrieve your character,
and gain immortal honour. You, by doing this, will
wipe out the stain, and in the pride of your heart you
will be able to tell your children that they are still the
sons and daughters of a free burgess of Liverpool. By
doing this the election is secure—it is secure already—
Mr. EWART has not a chance—but by doing this you will
return your friends by such an overwhelming majority as
would for ever extinguish the pretensions of a faction.
But we had nearly forgotten the coalition candidates,
Messrs. EWART and MORRIS. After they had addressed
the meeting from the upper window alluded to, they
descended to the realms below, and proceeded to the Ex-
change rooms, but here their reception beggars all
description. The hootings and hisses were so cordial
and universal that they will never forget the scene. They
were followed into the rooms by the tag-rag, which com-
posed their tail—by men without coats or shirts—by the
dirtiest set of vagabonds we ever saw. These people
professed to be operatives and freemen, but we strongly
suspect that many of them had been brought from Man-
chester, and we are confident that a large portion of them
were thieves. One gentleman had his pock et picked of
three sovereigns, another had his hat stolen, and several
others were deprived of their pocket handkerchiefs. This
is a new sort of electioneering in Liverpool—the sort of
free trade, perhaps, which Mr. MORRIS alluded to in his
speech. We think Mr. EWART and his friends are bound
to make restitution to the gentlemen who were robbed.
We do not say they did it, but we are sure they were the
cause of it.

In sending to all our readers the compliments of the
season, and wishing them a happy new year, we feel

JANUARY 2, JS3S

confident they will cordially join with us in bidding a
hearty welcome to 1835. We feel no sorrow at the suP•
cease of the year which is gone. It has waned into deep
shade unlamented even by a parting tear. It has flitted
away like the images of a troubled dream, and it will
only be recollected by all real patriots as having re-
deemed in its ripe old age some of the errors of its
youth. It dawned when revolutionists and destructives
were in the ascendant, but it did not set until it had
consigned them either to a state of helpless despon-
dency, or of impenetrable oblivion; and we can ima-
gine we hear the survivors of the faction exclaiming in
a tone of the deepest sorrow, as an apostrophe to the
vicissitudes of public men, and the instability of popu-
lar favour—

Out ! out brief candle !
Life is but a passing shadow.

For " shadow" read " quarter day," and you have the
words of the poet made applicable to the recent disas-
ters in political life. The whips have had their day.
They have fed for four years upon the fatness of the land;
and but for their insatiable love of spoil—their deter-
mination to eat the very fences which surrounded them,
the props that supported them, the fold they slept in,
and the shepherd who protected them—but for this ra-
venous disposition, and this rabid appetite, the proba-
bility is that they would have been endured for another
session and another twelvemonths longer.
For ourselves, we can most truly say that we never
felt any undue anxiety for the dissolution of the whig
administration. We knew that the pretensions of that
very silly, very ignorant, and now very contemptible
party, were a thousand times greater than their com-
petency, and our only fear was that they might not have
a fair trial. Our readers will recollect how frequently
we implored the leaders of our own party not to accele-
rate their downfal by any opposition which might lead
to a premature demise. We stood their friend in the
gap between life and death. It would have been bad
policy to have stormed the citadel, which might have
been easily taken ; but we should have had the surrend-
ering band which we bad spared rising up in arms
against their conquerors and preservers. No, our po-
licy was to keep them in office—compel them to remain
at their posts, and perform the high and responsible du-
ties they had undertaken. This policy was adopted, and
what were the happy consequences? Why, they quar-
relled among themselves. They turned their despicable
arms against each other. "Hunger and the ague ate
them up," as SHARSPEARE, Dr. BOWRING, or some other
poet very beautifully remarks; and having no aid from
without, no courage within, no honesty in their mea-
sures, no talent in their camp, nothing but idle raving,
intrigue, conspiracy, and fruitless overtures with O'CON-
NELL—nothing but falsehoods to conceal their weakness,
and protocols to cover their deficiencies—they at length
fell by their own hands, in desperation and in drunken-
ness, the most repulsive suicides that evercame under the
notice of a political coroner.

In the disastrous year which has gone, and whose de-
mise we have celebrated with due formality, we certainly
had the gratification of seeing that the peaceful but com-
pulsory system was completely successful. But while
we admit the fecundity of its November blessings it
would be vain to attempt to wash out or conceal the stain
which is engrained on its memory. Its most important
measure—that which the ministry exhausted all their
fading energies to carry—was one of merciless oppres-
sion towards the poor. The charity of England became
congealed under their influence; and all that was gene-
rous in the national character, and which had been truly
national and beneficent for centuries, was turned to
stone, while the maxims of christian philanthropy were
converted into the forbidding and cold axioms of modern
philosophy. The poor, whom the scriptures tell us " are
always with us," and must always'be with us, were, with
their motherless or fatherless children, denied any paro-
chial relief except in cases where neglect would be mur-
der. There was no compassion in the whig poor-law for
misfortun,e, or old age, or accident, or unforeseen inca-
pacity, or unexpected deprivation. No. The whigs
took great delight in grinding the faceS of the poor--in
degrading those who could not vote for them—who could
not augment the public revenue by sipping at their gin
palaces, and drinking the horrid poison distilled by- the
uuir.,..tily see on every whig hustings.
This, however, was their crowning measure. It was—
it is a measure of atrocious cruelty. We care not by
whom devised. All we have to say is that it is a bill
framed by a fiend, cold, heartless, and. passionless—a
monk hating humane society, knowing nothing but the
vices of society, and measuring his philanthropy by the
standard of frail credulity, and the easily augmented
number of his victims. If there were no other act in
the statute book of the whigs, this would alone consign
them to everlasting ignominy. The foul blot can never
be removed. They were the ostentatious and professed
friends of the labouring classes. They have proved
themselves to be their most pitiless and remorseless ene-
mies. In the pursuit of a principle abhorrent to human
nature they inverted the rules of prescribed liability, and
they made the victim of fraud and seduction—the help-
less mother of a guilt-begotten child—the only responsi-
ble party, and the only sufferer, in a case of conjoint cri-
minality. The feebler sex were, by the whig law, made
the scapegoats of domestic treason—of artful intrigue—
of shameless dishonour—of base perfidy and cruel de-
sertion. A bounty was given to crime. A bonus was
held out to the hoary seducer, and every female servant,
if poor, (as poor she must be in ninety-nine cases out of
a hundred,) was exposed to every temptation and fraud,
without the hope of redress—nay, without the chance of
sustenance, in a land famous for its liberality and its
christian charity.

This is the blackest spot in the ministerial proceedings
of the year whose wake we now celebrate, as they do
wakes in Ireland, with inexpressible delight. In fact,
it was the only measure of the session and the year that
we have any recollection of, or was of much importance..
Who would trouble himself to recollect one thousandth,
part of any one debate in the first reformed House of
Commons ? It was babble and twaddle, and cant, and
small talk, and chaffering and snarling from first to last.
One member accused another of falsehood on one
night; on the succeeding night the lie was flung back
with interest; and it was bandied backwards and for—
wards until it was clear that both were equally guilty.
Then came the ministerial intrigues with the beggar
O'CoNNELL, which commenced in'whispers, was conti-
nued under the grossest breaches of confidence, warmed
into bullying, and ended in the resignation of Lord
GREY. Such was the last session of the reformed par-
liament, which, thanks be to his Majesty, is no more!
What we havd stated is all we choose to remember about.
it, and the less the better.

In the third volume of MARTIN'S History of the Bri-
tish Colonies we see some notice taken of the eminent ser-
vices which Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS rendered to his
country while he was Governor of New Brunswick.
The author in order to show the value of stock in the
colony proceeds to state :
" Of agricultural stock, the number of horses are estimated
at 12,000; of horned cattle 87,000; of hogs 65,000; of sheep
105,000 ; while the number of acres of land under cultivation is,
about half a million. Heretofore grain and provisions have.
been imported, but it is to be hoped that New Brunswick is
now become an exporting country for the necessaries of life..
And it is but justice to add that the recent improvement in' the.
agriculture and cattle of the colony is plainly owing to thia.exer-.
tions of Sir Howard Douglas, the late able Lieutenant-.
Goveruor of that province."

New Brunswick is indebted to Sir Howitunt for its
present flourishing university, which is conducted on
principles which have attracted towards it the young men
of the United States. Formerly the tide set the other
way, and the sons of our colonists were sent to Boston
and other towns in America for their education. This.
was a great evil, which Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS had the
merit of correcting, by founding a college where persons
of every creed are freely admitted, without any test
being required except from those who aspire to theolo-
gical degrees. Mr. MARTIN observes :
" In New Brunswick, as in other colonies, the schoolmaster
is now abroad ; grammar schools, partly supported by legisla-,
tive aid, are in active operation in several districts, and an ex-,
cellent college has been established under the paternal auspices,

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JANUARY 2, 1835.

of Sir -Howard Douglas : 6000 acres of contiguous excellent
laud are appropriated for the use of this noble institution, which
has the power of allowing the matriculation of students without
subscribing to the thirty-nine articles, except on taking degrees
in divinity for the church of England. Schools on the Madras
system are established in each settlement, with a legislative
allowance, £2O each ; they are under the superintendence of the
Governor of the Board of Trustees. Several excellent private
seminaries exist in different parts of the province."
We have only to add, that Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS, out
of his own private resources, has funded a certain sum of
money, in trust for ever, to furnish gold and silver me-
dals to the students who distinguish themselves at this
interesting institution.

It gives us great pleasure to be enabled to announce
that the Earl of WILTON has been appointed Lord
Steward of the Household. It was stated that the
appointment had been conferred upon Lord RODEN, but
this, it would seem, was a mistake.
Lord ERNEST BRUCE is made one of the Lords of the
Bedchamber,

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

City, Wednesday Ereniny, half:past Seven o'clock.

A severe struggle is about to take place here for the repre-
sentation of the metropolis, and we have seven candidates in
the field, the conservatives being Messrs. Lyall, Ward, and
Wilson; and the radical-whip candidates, Messrs. Wood, Grote,
and Crawford, to which is now added Mr. l'attison, governor of
the Bank. The latter party are in no pleasant mood at the
sudden opposition thus braving them; and this, added to the
publication of the names of those who, in defiance of mob law,
haVe enrolled themselves as supporters of the altar and the
throne, which list displays a record of commercial wealth,
talent, and influence not to be equalled by any nation of the
world, has had the effect of causing no little alarm among those
who imogitied tha4 by a due administration of clamour, they
would be allowed to walk over the course. The approach of
the election had caused the pressure for money, to which we
have before adverted, to be continued, and it is not probable
this will be removed until the payment of the dividends. The
effect, however, on the English securities is not of much mo-
ment. Consols for the account- cloged this afternoon at 9g,
and the 3 per cents, reduced at 94. Exchequer bills are steady
at 37 to 39.pretniara, and India bonds are 18 to 29.
The private letters from Lisbon of to-day speak, rather
more favourably of the State of things there. Commerce was
reviving, and confidence had in some measure increased. This
has caused an improvement in the Portugese bonds, which are,
at SCii 1. Li Spanish Lauds titero is likewise au advance caui-
pared with the price at the beginning: Of. business; but the
transactions have been very limited. In the other'stocks there
is nothing material to notice. Belgian at 971 to 981. Dutch
57 to 991 id. Danish 761, and Russian at 1061 to 1071.. In the
transatlantic securities there is an equal absence of speculation,
Chilian Bonds at 331 3.12. Columbian 311 321: Mexico 412,
Brazilian 781 79.

RADICAL-WHIG HONOUR, CONSISTENCY, AND
DILEMMAS.

ELECTORS OF LIVERPOOL.
I.—lf, in common life, a person should entice his compa-
nions and professed friends to join him in offending the laws
of the country, and should afterwards refuse to exert his in-
fluence to screen them from the effects of their indiscretion,
what would he thought of such conduct? Now, it is notorious
that the bribery which had nearly cost the freemen their fran-
chise took place during the contest which terminated in the
return, for the first time, of Mr. Ewart; and it is equally
notorious that Mr. E. has never exerted himself even in the
slightest degree to preserve the rights of the freemen; but has
kicked down the ladder by which he ascended, and has left, to
sustain the brunt of the battle, Lord Sandon, who was no party
to the original transaction!
So much for radical-whip honour!
Freemen! remember this!
2.—lt will be in the recollection of most people that, when
Mr. Denison, and afterwards when Lord Sandon, offered them-
selves as candidates for Liverpool, the cry of a certain party
was—" Elect a townsman—why hunt about the country for a
representative ?" Let it 'be remembered, also, that this was
the cry of a majority of the - very same party who now, with
wonderful consistency, present Mr. Morris to the considera-
tion of the electors! "So much for radical-whig consistency!
3.—This Mr. Morris has issued an address very carefully
composed—so carefully, .indeed, that it would suit almost any
shade of politics which Mr. M. might be recommended, on his
arrival, to profess. One sentence, however, is most decided,
and is printed in large type, it is this—"l am a most determined
opponent of the present administration." The prime minister
declares, in his address to his constituents, (and Mr. M. must
have read this long before he penned his own,) that he will
preserve the reform bill inviolate, and that he will "adopt its
spirit by carefully revieu;ing the civil and ecclesiastical institu-
tions of the country:" Mr. Morris is the "most determined op-
ponent of the administration !"
The new government- are willing to introduce a judicious
reform of corporations. Mr.. M. opposes them !
The new government declare that they intend to exempt dis-
senters front the payment of church rates. Mr. M. affords them
his determined. oppesition!
They wish (and all this may be seen in Sir R. Peel's address)
to "correct proved abuses and to redress real grievances."
Mr. M. promises to oppose them!
They "will not grant pensions but for 'meritorious services."
Mr. hi. will oppose them!
They area anxious to effect "au' improved distribution of the
revenues of'the church." Mr. hi. still itioppositien t
They &dare that they will "-infOrce ittrict economy, and care-
•fully consider what is due to all interasts—agricuitural, mann-
acturing, and commercial. But nothing will satisfy Mr.
`Morris 1 --
If Mr. M. be an-opponent of the government, he' must be an
.pporient to their policy—tbeir policy is Nsharrtinveltrgrintra-
-and Mr. M. either opposes those measures, or his declaration
of hostility amounts to nualtty !
Mr. M. may choose the horu of the dilemma!
If some Morris-danger:,should,say that the latter part of Mr'.
M.'s address prevents tig-conStructiou, I answer, either Mr.
hl. would oppose these-measures-when proposed by ministers,
or he would not. If he would, then he is au ultra tory; if he
would not, then is he not "a most determined opponent of the
.present government ?"
I leave the Mon-is-dancers to enjoy themselves in skipping
among the respective horns of these dilemmas!
So much fur radical-whip honour, consistency, and dilemma:,
and NO MISTAKE!

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF TILE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—Disappointed in my expectation that your sense of jus-
tice might have led YOU to volunteer the statement, for my ex
eulpation, I have ti; request a public reply to the following
query :—Did I or did I not ever furnish to the STANDARD, ver-
bally or in writing, any report or particulars of any meeting at
the Clarentlata-rooms or elsewhere ?—I am, &c.,
hurnai Qffice, Thuridely. R. S. MACKENZIE.
[ln justice to the above gentleman, who has been most shame-
fully traduced by some of his own envious party, we have to
state, in the most unequivocal and unreserved terms, that be
did not, verbally or otherwise, directly or indirectly, furnish the
report in question, or any other report, or any article or com-
munication whatever to the LivnepooL STANDARD.
We did not know that this disavowal pas expected, and we
did not consider that it was required, or what we have done
now would, with the greatest possible pleasure, and in perfect
frankness, have been done earlier. E. L. S.]