The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-17 00:00:00

SMUGGLING FOREIGN CORN.

For some time before the dismissal of the late government
their attention was repeatedly called to this very important sub-
ject, but without any beneficial result, indeed, without any re-
sult at all. " Inquiries should be made"—" This thin• should
be looked into".—" It would, no doubt, be found that there was
misstatement or exaggeration of the circumstances." These
were the evasions that were resorted to, rather than adopt any
measures to refi6Ve the agricultural distress of which the King,
in his speech to Parliament, had declared the existence.
This shuffling'systern has, however, fortunately for the coun-
try, ceased with the fall of the shufflers who delighted to prac-
tise it. A change has taken place. Instead of Lord Auckland
and Mr. Poulett Thomson the affairs of trade are now in the
hands of Mr. Alexander Baring and Lord Lowther, and the
first public measure of these sound and practical men was to in-
flict severe penalties on the owners of a vessel that had been de-
tected in smuggling foreign corn.

Mr. Poulett Thomson, of course, possessed the same power
to punish ; but then the exercise of it would I•ave interferred
with some of his thousand and one theories. Thank }Leaven !
we are no longer doomed to suffer under a merely theoretical
government. Theories are all very well in their way, but one
fact is worth a hundred of them, and it gives us thq most sin-
cere gratification that we have it in our power to call public
attention to such a fact'on the present occasion.-41bion.

A woodman employed in the forest belonging to the Abbey of
Afflghern, in the canton of Assche, in Belgium, was a few days
since pursuing a hare; when puss took refuge in a rabbit-hole at
the foot of an old oak. Ile set to work to dig her out, but in-
stead of the fugitive, discovered an earthen vessel filled with a
great quantity of Spanish gold coin of the sixteenth century,
which he conveyed asitefully home, and thus was raised to tom.
parative iffluence.

THE SPEAKERSHIP.

The following letters have been published from Lord J,
Russell and Mr. Richards

" Queen-street, Feb. 11.
"Sir,-1 hope Mr. Abercromby's friends will have the honour
of your support, as a sincere and zealous reformer, on the 19th
instant.—Your obedient servant, • ".1. aussat.L.
" Tu J. Richards, Esq., M.P.,
13, Cadogan-place."

" 13, Cadogan-place, Feb. 12.
"My Lord,-1 beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your
lordship's note, in 'which you express your hope that Mr Abet-
cromby's friends will have my support.' as a sincere and zealous
reformer, on the 19th instant.'

" I might fairly observe to your lordship that the whigs have
always taken credit for themselves 'as sincere and zealous re-
formers;' and yet, ha the first session of the first reform parlia-
ment,. they unanimously voted for C. Manners Sutton as
speaker. But I will not, on the present occasion, attempt to
shelter myself under the authority of the whigs.
" When Lord 'Althorp proposed .Sir C. Manners Sutton as
speaker, I for one, considering that eminent individual as au
anti-reformer, hesitated ; but conscious that I had then had no
experience in parliament, I acquiesced iu the recommendation
of the Kin'g's minister. The case is now widely different. l'sor
two years f have witnessed the conduct of Sir C. Manners Sut-
ton in the chair, and I can honestly declare that during those
two years I never saw' in him the slightest disposition to favour
any party at the expense of another. Then, as to experience iu
the business of the house, indefatigability, good temper, bland-
ness of manners, and easiness of access, lie appears to me, not
only as regards Mr. Abercomby, for whom I feel great respect,
but as regards the whole Mouse of Commons, ladle princeps.
For these reasons, as well hs for many others with which I will
not trouble your lordship, I shall certainly give my vote for the
re-election of Sir C. Manners Sutton.—l have the hollow to
be, my lord, your lordship's most obedient servant,

" To the Right Hon. Lord John Russell,
M.P., &c. &c."

'' J. RICHARDS.

ELECTION OF PEERS FOR SCOTLAND,

On Tuesday the election of the sixteen representatives of the
Scottish peerage took place in the picture gallery, at Holyrood-
house.

Perhaps on no former occasion was so great anxiety mani-
fested to obtain admission, and the galleries were very early
crowded in every part with ladies and gentlemen, there being,
probably not fewer than one• thousand persons present. The
business commenced about twelve o'clock at noon, and termi-
nated at three in the afternoon. The Rev. Dr. Grant and Dr.
Lee, two of the city ministers, were the chaplains who officiated.
Thos. Thomson and Adam Rolland, Esqrs. principal clerks of
session, attended, bearing the commission of- the Lord Clerk
Regisjer; and were assisted by Mr. Bruce, depute-clerk, Mr.
William Robertson, and Mr. Adam Thomson, deputy keepers
of records, and Mr. Macdonald, iu taking the votes of the peers
present.; and the magistrates of Edinburgh appeared officially
with their mace and sword.

The business of the day was opened with prave'r by Dr.
()rant, after. hich Mr. Thomson read the proclamation. for dip
election, and took the sederunt, when there appeared present—
The Duke of Buccleuch, Marquis of Tweeddale, Marquis of
Lothian, Earls Crawford, Bothes,. Morton,..
'Strathinofe, 'LaUderdale, Stirling, Airly, Leven, Selkirk,
Aboyne, Hopetoun, Viscount Arbuthnot, Lords Forbes, Sal-
toun, Elphinston, Colville of Culross, Elibank, Belhaven,
Ruthven.

The peers present having taken the oaths to government, the
following voted by proxy :—The Duke of Lenox by the Mar-
quis of Abercorn, Earls of Aberdeen, Rosebery; Glasgow,
Viscount Falkland, Viscount Strathallan, Lord Gray, Lord
Elphinstoun, Earl of Morton, Earl of Morton, Lord Elphin-
stoun, Lord Coleville, Earl of ltothes, Lord Forbes, Lord
Saltoun.

Signed lists were produced from the Dukes of Hamilton,
Gordon, Argyll, and Montrose, Marquis of Queensberry, Earls
of Errol, Mar, Buchan, Caithness, 'Moray, Haddingtou, Gal-
loway, Kinnoul, Dumfries, Elgin, \Vemyss, Dalhousie, Carp-
wath, Balcarras, Dundonald, Kintore, Breadalbane, Dunmore,
Stair, Viscounts Stormont, Kenmore, and Duubla►►e, Lords
Cathcart, Sinclair, Somerville, Torphicheu, Cranston, Reay,
Forrester, Rollo, Kinnaird.
Upon the Earl of Crawford being called for his vote, the Earl
of Lauderdale protested against the vote of any nobleman
whose title had not been jud►cially.recognised by the House of
Lords, and that the clerks had a right to judge of the votes
whether they should be received or not. The vote was however
in the mean time received. _

The same protest and objection applied to the reception of
the vote of the Earl of Stirling, which was made by the Earl
of Lauderdale on a former occasion, who stated that he saw no
occasion for altering the opinion he then entertained, to which
the Earl of Stirling remarked that he begged to refer the noble
earl to the former answer given in by him, whereupon the
Duke of Buccleuch stated that he also protested against the
reception of the Earl of Stirling's vote for reasons to be subse-
quently assigned. Lord Stirling thereupon asked the Duke of
Buccleuch if he had his titles or patent in his pocket (laughter)
and counter protested against his grace's vote, for reasons to be
also given in, in due time. On the votes of the peers present
being given, and that of the proxies as well as the sigued lists,
the result was as follows :—Marquis of Tweeddale, 60; Earl of
Morton, 56 ; Earl of Home 51; Earl of Elgin, 57; Earl of Airly,
51; Earl of Leven, 57; Earl of Selkirk, 52; Earl of Orkney, 46;
Viscount Arbuthnot, 53; Viscount Strathallan, 53; Lord
Forbes, 57 ; Lord Saltoun, 62 ; Lord Gray, 57 ; Lord Sinclair,
57 ; Lord Colville of Culross, 53; Lord Reay, 51.
The above sixteen' were declared elected. The only altera-
tion from the former list of the representives of the Scottish
peerage, is Lord Reay, in place of Lord Elphinstoun. The
undernoted peers had votes as below:—
Earl of Rothes, 22; Earl of Mar, 1; Lord Elphinstonn, 35;
Lord Elibank, 1 : Lord Buchan, 1;' Lord Cranstoun, 3; Lord
Belhaven, 1; and Lord Rollo, 1.
The return having been made in the usual form, the proceed-
ings were closed with prayer by Dr. Lee.
In the afternoon their lordships sat down to a sumptuous
dinner, in the Royal Hotel, Prince's-street, (Gibb's,) the Mar-
quis of Tweeddale in the chair, having on his right the Lord
Provost, and on his left Lord Forbes. Lord Saltoun acted as
croupier, having on his right Lord Elphinstoun, and on his left
Sir Archibald Campbell, of Succoth; and among those present
(not peers) were observed—Sir F. W. Drummond, Sir Patrick
Walker, Mr. M'Donald of Staffa, Sir John Hay, M.P. fur
Peebles, Lord Ramsay, Lord Fincastle, Principal Baird, Drs.
Grant and Lees, Captain Keith of Chesterhall, Mr. L'Amv,
sen. and jun,, Captain Sharpe, Captain Barclay, Captain
Arrow, :Loci many other distinguished personages.

THE MEMBER FOR KILMARNOCK.-Dr. Bowring, the repre-
sentative of Kilmarnoek, has published lately a volume of tales,
entitled, "Minor Morals for Young People," with engravings
by Cruickshanks and Heath. The intention of the author is to
laeven youth with the principles of the Benthainite school, and
to urge upon them to seek not what is agreeable to the will of
God, or to the dictates of conscience, but what will promote the
"greatest possible sum of human happiness." This disciple of
Bentham labours to unsettle the attachment of youth to the word
of God and the dictates of conscience, the only foundations of
morals, and to substitute the ever-shifting views of human expe-
diency and utility, which appear one thing to youth, and an-
other to age—one thing to the ignorant, another to the learned
—which depend not on the feeltugs of the heart, but the know-
ledge of the head. It was on this principle of preferring always
the greatest possible good, however much violence may be done
to nature, that Bentham, in his will, left his body to be dissected
by the surgeoni. Dr. Bowring has probably much the same
ideas of superiority to vulgar prejudices, and may possibly con-
clude his career with some such frolic. Our Kilmarnock friends,
who have been so sadly taken in by this gentleman, would need
some one with the satirical talents of Burns, and his hitter scorn
of affected cold-hearted philosophers, who make no inure ac-
count of human beings than of mice in an air-dump•—to lash
this new school, and to turn the ridicule of the weavers and
mechanics of Kilmarnock against this bald and barren philo-
sophy, of which their new representative is a disciple and chosen
advocate.—Scottish Guardian

DEATO OF HENRY HUNT, THE EX. M.P. roe PRESTON...—
Mr. Hunt was suddenly taken ill on his arrival a few drys since
at the George Inn, Alresford, Hants. He was in the act of
stepping from his phaeton, when he was seized with a severe
attack of paralysis, and was with souse difficulty assisted from
his carriage to a private room. Medical aid was instantly re-
sorted to, and being immediately-bled, he found temporary re-
lief. He lingered on until liriday at half-past twelve o'clock,
when he expired without pain. He refused all medicine for
some time before his death. Mr. Hunt was a man of strong
and healthy constitution, and of very active habits. He had
very recently left London, in company with a female friend, on
a journey or business to the west of England, where he had a
considerable connection for the sale of blacking and annatto,
or cheese colouring, the latter being an article of much de,
mand with the farmers in the dairy counties of Somerset and
Dorset. Mr. Hunt was Lord of the Manor of Glastonbury, in
Somerset, and possessed freehold property in the city of Bath,
And also in the vicinity of Bristol. ite had been bred up a
farmer in Somersetshire, and was subsequeutly a brewer in
Bristol, about
.which time he commenced his political career.
During the last twenty-five years he had been a radical re-
former of the Cartwright and Cobbett schools. The property
he died possessed of falls to Thomas Hunt, the elder son,. Who
emigrated recently as a farmer to New York. His son Henry
lately married Miss Catherine Vince, of Storrington, near Pet-
worth, Sussex. These comprise the whole of -his imnietliate'
surviving relatives.

,
INCENDIARY PIREL—At the anneal meeting of the directors
of the County Fire-Office' London, on Thursday, Mr. Bnrber
Beadmont, the managing director, stated that during the _last.
year'there had been an increase in receipts of between £2OOO,
end £3OOO on premiums of insurance, but that the losses by tire .
had be9n larger than heretofore; these were to be attributed.to.
incendiary tires. If, however, the loss bad increased by men:us
of incendiary fires, it had diminished in other matters, and the.
losses through fraudulent fires were lower than formerly. He
was happy to be able to state that there would be no diminution
in the dividend of 25 per cent., which had been paid on 'all for-
mer occasions. Mr. Beaumont said it was a curious fact, that
in several districts where an incendiary had been convicted
and capitally punished the fires ceased, but where no one bed
been apprehended the burnings continued. The total loss to
the establishment by fires of this description in the past year
was between £7OOO and £BOOO. •

The church commissioners meet daily at their office in Par-
liament-street, and we hear that they are applying themselves
to their important inctuiry with every assiduity, and with all
that zeal which invariably distinguishes persons suddenly con.
verted. They have already, we understand, made considerable
progress, and we have reason to believe that, in a very short
time indeed, they will be prepared to make such a report as will
develop the principles which guide them in the applicatiOn
of remedies to the acknowledged abuses of our ecelesiastiCal
establishment,—Observer.

•
WEIGHTS AND MEASUItES.—At a petty sessions, held on
Tuesday week, at Williton, Somerset, John Ridler was fined
in the full penalty of £5 and costs, fo: selling corn by the old
Winchester bushel.

THE C4PERCA ttzlz.—The game season is now over; but we
may remark as a very extraordinary circumstance, that during
the present week no less than fifty of this epicurean bird (the
cock of the wood) have been received in this country front
Norway and Sweden, and have been disposed of at the very
low price of 10s. each.—London paper.

Letters from Rome, dated the 10th of January, announce
the death of the learned archamlogist Alexander 'Visconti,
younger brother of the celebrated Euuiles Quirinus Visconti.
THE Wm.. von THK DRED.—On opening the will, on Mon-
day, of a gentleman who had expended an extremely handsome
fortune. amongst other articles it contained the following :—" If
I had died possessed of a thousand pounds, I would have left it
to my dear friend, Mr. Thomas B—; but as I have not six-
pence, he must accept the will for the deed."—Merthyr Guardian.

REPEAL tIP THE MALT TA x.—The Marquis of Cbandos will
bring forward his motion for the total repeal and immediate
reduction of the duty on malt, on the earliest convenient day
after the oeuing of parliament, and' will be seconded by if.
Handley, &K., M.P. for (the Kesteven and Holland parts of)
Lincolnshire.--Bucks Herald.