The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-02 00:00:00

in the evenir

lie town of
scene of great riot and tumult.

.T FRIBURG IN BADEN

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Under

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etext of holding a public meeting, about 2000
mixed up with the lowest rabble, came to Fri-
3aturday, the 22nd ult. They were all armed,
1 guns, lances, scythes, bludgeons, &c. After the

meeting was over, which passed some resolutions of a re-
publican and communistical tendency, the whole mass
constituted itself into a regular little army ; the leaders

chosen, an attack upon the gates of the town was
le, and the town taken possession of by the
Troops were sent for, and after a bombard-
ment of more than seven hours, the town was retaken by
;form. A gieat many of the insurgents were made
)risoners, but the majority have taken flight. Martial
aw has been published in various parts of the duchy.
iyrnptoms of mutiny have appeared among the troops.
in artilleryman who had deserted was brought to Canis-

mile on Afonday, in order to be shot, when another artil-
leryman suddenly drew a large knife against an officer;
but the latter killed him on the spot with his sword.

'HE WEST INDIAN COLONIES

-The fate of the colo-

nies is sealed. Theory has triumphed over experience,
and facts have given way to falsehood. A more dishonest,
a more heartless course was never descended to by minis-
ter than that which has been pursued by the present go-
vernment in dealing with the West Indian colonies. And
mind what ministers now say. They will not admit that
our present ruin is attributable to free trade; but they
are pleased to ascribe it to the bungling properties of the
act of 1833. Who passed that act ? Are we responsible
for its errors ? So far as the unhappy victim is concerned,
it is immaterial whether the Act of Emancipation or the

s been

our ruin. But there is abound to loyalty as to every
other passion. Self-preservation is a powerful stimulant.
The colonists dwell too near a prosperous continent not
to feel the disparaging contrast between wealth under
one government, and beggary and ruin under another.
Ministers may persist in their ruinous course—they may
still doom our property to sacrifice, and still withhold
the fair remuneration that is due to us for its confiscation,
but they cannot hold us to our duties as British subjects
when every right of a British subject is denied us.—
Jamaica Dispatch.

OURT AND FASHION.

The Court still remains at the Isle of Wight.
Sir Robert Peel arrived at Osborne on Thursday, and
had the honour of joining the royal circle at dinner.

On Wednesday the DUchess Of Kent returned to town,
from the visit which she had been paying the Queen.
The Queen Dowager arrived at Portsmouth on Thurs-
day, from Madeira, in her Majesty's ship Howe.
Prince Albert left Osborne on Thursday, and proceeded

alter on boarC

:ss afterwards

Viscount Hardinge arrived on a visit to the Duke of
Wellington on Monday, at Strathfieldsaye, Hunts, from
South Park, near Penhurst.
We are authorised to announce that many ladies of rank
and fashion have resolved. di

season of

distress, to confine their purchases exclusively to articles
of British manufacture. We have reason to believe that
the determination has been made with the sanction and