The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-05-10 00:00:00

FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1833.

Wn have always been of opinion, that the premature
emancipation of the negroes in the West Indies, would
lead to extraordinary results in the slave districts of the
United States of America. This is a consideration
which we suspect has never once entered the minds of
our philanthropists at home. Cousin Jonathan, how-
ever, is more 'cute—more open-eyed—more awake to his
own interests; and we now find that the intended mea-
sures of the British government have excited a consi-
derable interest in the southern parts of the Union.
'We copy the following from the Raleigh N. C. Register,
of the 11th April last:—

"EMANCIPATION OF THE WEST INDIA SLAVES.—The news
brought by the late arrivals of the determination of Great Bri-
t lin to emancipate the slaves of her West India islands, without
compensation to their owners, is replete with interest to the
people of this Union. If such a measure be in contemplation,
and we see no reason to doubt it, can our government look quietly
on and see it consummated? Of course, the white inhabitants of
these islands would be compelled to abandon them, and we
should then have in our immediate vicinity, independent negro
sovereignties, w'tose contagion would rapidly spread into the
southern states. The irresistible tendency of such an event is
t ,o apparent to need illustration, and too delicate in its nature
to be carried on in all its bearings ! The next advices from
Europe will be anxiously awaited."

THE latest news from the city of rebels and pirates,
we mean Oporto, is to the Ist May. There has very
nearly been what, in these days of steam-boilers, we
might legitimately enough call a "blow up" among the
above gentlemen, and the cause of Don Pedro has, in
consequence, for the twentieth time been all but lost.
These outbreakings have all been caused either by the
cravings of hunger, or by those divisions which have
broken up many a more respectable band of highway-
men—the divisions of plunder.

We take the particulars from the friends of the ex
emperor, and, therefore, we may presume that what is
confessed is as much softened as possible, and hardly up
to the truth. It appears that a fellow of the name of
Magulhaes, who is, we suppose facetiously, called the
" minister of Justice," had become jealous of Solignac,
and had accordingly intrigued for the purpose of having
him cashiered, that is, sent back to France without his
pay, and for the further purpose of raising Saldanha to
the dignified rank of commander-in-chief. In this in-
trigue the editor of the Chronica had joined. Don
Pedro had, it appears, listened to the representations of
these persons, and Solignac was all but doomed when the
plot was discovered and the tables were turned upon the
unfortunate " minister of justice," (the rogue,) and the
still more unfortunate editor of the Chronica—the former
being dismissed from the " service," as they term it, and
the latter sent to gaol !

This matter being soldered up, the pirates and the re-
bels remain as per last, doing nothing, but talking un-
utterable things, and building "castles in Spain." The
most amusing part of the story, however, remains to be
told. The man of the Chronica who, we have heard, is
a runaway French tailor, was sent to gaol "without
trial," says the Morning Herald, "by either judge or
jury." What would our litterateurs say if they were
treated after this fashion in these liberal times ? The
editor of the Chronica, not being in-the "service," could
not of course be dismissed ; but this proves that Don
Pedro had no right to punish him without bringing him
to trial according to the laws of Portugal. But Pedro,
we suspect, altliwgh a liberal in profession, is no great
stickler as to forms, and has very crude notions of jus-
tice. Of this Sartorius is well aware, and has had the
address to keep a good space of sea between him and the
ex-emperor. No pay, no fig,l.t,—and if no pay, posses-
sion is nine parts of the law, and the ships pass from the
regent to the admiral :
'Tit, a good old plan
That he shall take who has the power,
And he should keep who can.

WE have heretofore given some account of the recep-
tion which Lord Mulgrave has experienced in his pro-
gress through the different sections of Jamaica. The
folloving, perhaps, is as racy as anything we have yet
offered. in the early part of February last his lordship
proceeded to review a militia corps; called the St. Ann's
western regiment, at a place called the Huntley Pastures.
Where these pastures are we know not, but this has no
thing to do with the subject. The noble governor, •on
his appearance on the ground, ordered the regiment to
form a square, which having been complied with, he ad.
dressed the officers and men in a speech that might have
suited the taste of a theatrical club, but which did not ap-
pear to be relished .by the people of Jamaica. At the
close of this speech the scene that followed beats Covent-
gat :len and the rotten cabbages thereof. Read, reader,
the following from the Jamaica Courant :

"As soon as he had concluded, a burst of indignation from all
quarters simultaneously thundered on his ears. Yells, shouts,
groans, and hisses, from officers, privates, and visitors. The seen
bro4c oat of the ranks—some threw down their arms—all was con-
fusion. The governor and suite retired to their original station :
they wen. all apparently much alarmed. The cheers for the
Colonial Union still continued—yells and screams of execration
againstlis lordship—Captain Phipps galloped about the ground,
entreating the men to fall in—the earl himself called to several
of the officers, begging them to get their men togethet,,',c,After
a short time, about 100 men fell in, and marched past:rittind
o review disorder—many of the privates throwing their trius
bets down as th-?y marched past; nor, during the whole round,
eid the yells and hisses cease from the body of spectators, now
joined by half the regiment, under the trees. As soon as they
had reached their ground, the regiment, such as it was, slid in
open column, his lordship, followed by his suite, rode rapidly to
the right, and desired Major Seinor to dismiss his men. Some
ether orders he intended to give ; but three lusty cheers for the
.tnious again drowned his voice. The companies in the rear were
fiowt, with fi..ted bayonets. Some of
tz;rnnitttous!y rushing to the
t':e °freers f, out had torn their epaulets from their shoulders—
s:gne. lied stripped off their coats, and were brandishing their
swords; and I fear some violence would have been attempted,
bad nut the co:l6e rude off in double quick time; and as long
as th:y. remained within heating, their ears were greeted with
-the burras of the victorious Westerns."