The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-02-05 00:00:00

call their attention to the new, and, we fear, very seriolg
ture which has just taken place.
'As if determined not to be behind his employers in this:
try, Lord Mulgrave has dissolved the House of Assembly .
a constitutional question. The council sent and propel'
the lower house a bill, authorising vestfies to take prob
deeds, as well as magistrates. The measure in itself is,.
lieve, considered unimportant; but the lower house de
right of the council to the initiative power, which was
assumed, and from which, as is well known, our own il
Lords is precluded in reference to all money bills, tho

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as regards others. The ground on which the lower h
the exclusive right to the initiative, we will state in the
of a print not friendly to the West Indians, the London
of Friday, Feb. I.—"No instance" (of its exercise by t
vernor's council) "is said to have occurred since 1761, 'II
an interval of 130 years, though the abstract right was 01
in 1753." That paper also admits, that the council is DOt
independent body, like a House of Peers, as the menaba
the council are elected by the crown, and most of their re'
able at its pleasure." Now, if the lower house can auni
so clear a case in point of constitational law as this, it is
clear that Lord Mulgrave has acted most unwisely in dissa
them upon his own suspicions of their general intracts
and his conduct has tended to increase the embarrassuld
which we are involved. Most serious apprehensions of a
revolt were entertained throughout the island. But what)
be expected from such a man? - We are credibly infot
that on the very night which preceded this decisive ste
chose, in order to secure the solemnity and calmness of la
liberations, to give a splendid fancy ball ! Do our 0
I
know the qualifications by which he earned the gove
of Jamaica ? Was it skill or experience, or attention
ness, or general talent, or knowledge of the West I
benevolence, or piety which took him there ? We kn
He enjoyed much reputation in this country; firstly,
spectable writer of fashionable novels; and secondly,
mirable performer in private theatricals! Such was
chosen to meet the complicated questions arising out of
and to soothe the exasperated spirits of Jamaica. Wha
a surer presage of ruin, of certain, wide, and desolatih
than insanity? And what could be more truly insa :,
such a choice, at such a time, for such a purpose ? .
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LONDON LATEST NEWS.

Saturday Evening, Ha-past Seven 0:1
The West India interests here have been in a state
treme agitation during the week. First, in consequen
being generally understood that a plan for immediate e
pation was about to be brought forward by the Governor
at least that it was decided that in three or five years the
of the slaves should be emancipated. We believe that,.
doubt, such a scheme had been resolved on by the MI
but that, like other of their measures, it has been aba
after having been used to torture those at whose interests
aimed. The second cause of alarm to the West Indian
was, the receipt of intelligence of the dissolution of the
House of Assembly by Earl Mulgrave, the Whig govern
appears his lordship, under a conciliatory commencemeel
contrived to conceal, for a brief term, au air of superioriT
a.despotic mode of government, which, it was thouolit,l
probably force down the measures with which it was gel',
thought he was charged. This Mask of frank kindness ON
has early thrown aside, and, as soon as he was discove
his native colours, the House of Assembly began, as reP
tatives of the rest of the planters, to be extremely jealous
proceedings. One great effort to render permanent his t
was to attempt the originating of bills at the Board of (
to be sent down to the House of Assembly, instead of t
ing originated with the House. if the Board ever did
the right of thus originating bills, it has lain in disuse fer
than a century and: a half; but the House denied it ev
the right, and declared its determination not to receiv
bills from the Board. The latter body, who are put 10
the governor as his scape-goat, wax exceeding wroth 0,1
and declare they will not transact any further business we'
House, until an apology
is made. At this stage of the
the real personage joins in the dispute, and in a speech
ceeding length dissolves the Assembly. Every one here,
ing anything of Jamaica, avers that the same members el
returned to the next Assembly, and that the governor has e„
nothing, by his arbitrary mode of, procedure, but add'
dislike.
We learn by the latest accounts from Launceston, Val 3
man's Land,.that the quarterly return of imports to th,1,1
for the quarter ending the sth July were £23,.L83 gs.
Great Britain, and £6689 Ils. 3d. from New South WaLeg'
from the Mauritius £127 18s. Ild., making a total of lair,
£30,700 9s. 6d. The exports were to Great Britain £19,9
and £5407 Bs. to New South Wales. Of the exports to
Britain four-fifths were wool, and the greater part of
New South Wales were wheat.

By the various accounts we have from the East, it wool',
pear that the dissolution of the Turkish empire is near at.PA
The latest accounts from Semlin mention, that in conseqr
of the outrages of the Albanians in the pay of the 110:11
whom murders, violations, and pillage were uaily practi
people of Nissa, Alexinatz, Nazzasani, and Parakiu, tosl,
tuated in the principal route to Constantinople, as well
the towns and villages in the vicinity, were in open insurtlf,
against the government. The inhabitants of the prod
l
Castamounti had also addressed a memorial to the
Egypt, in which, after stating the tyranny of the Turkiio!
sellems and their violation of the laws of God and of the
phet, they announce that they had taken up arms, anti P,
the direction of El Hadi Moustapha, had driven thewl4.l
the confines of the province. They. solicit to be piacca'
the protection of the Viceroy.
We have had no very important alteration in the value!
public securities to-day. '1 he ciosing quotation fur the 0".
was 881 .%. India Bonds closed at 3436, and Excheqaelj
at 47 48 •

In the Foreign Market Mexican Bonds have been as h,g
301-2 closing at 312. Columbian left oil at 133 14, auu ,
at 17%.
The Northern Bonds generally have been inclining itP`s:
Belgian Stock left off at 794 %; Dutch at 45% Y ; DO:
72% 73, and Russian at 103% 4. The Portuguese Bona'
Scrip are both tolerably firm, at 502 fur the Stock, and
the Scrip. Spanish Bonds have been tolerably steady at
Biazilian Bonds cloSed at 501514, and Greek. at 28 to 30.

'CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.-At the conclusion of the 4
ination for St. John's College, on Tuesday. last, the first
of the third year was arranged in the following order:—
* Bullock, Rolfe,
Hey, Low,
Bryer, White,
* Giles, Coates,
J. Wood, Nevin.
* Bullock and Giles studied with the Rev. T. S. Bowstal
this town, and both are natives of the county. Sylvesil
second, and Bateson the fifth, in the first class of the id
year, are both of Liverpool.

TO CORRESPONDENTS. 4
T.
CONSERIATOR came to hand too late for this &et • „
WARERoUSE BUILDING.—S. D. is under consideration. 1
A DOUGLAS MAN is quite right in supposing
_the rumour
atm. to be " a weak invention of the enemy. '
A TORY inquires —"Pray who is DICKY SAM, a corre e
in the Liverpool Journal?" All we can state in reply, it' Rg.i
at this moment his name is not familiar to us; but, whatexuh
pretensions may be, as a writer he is certainly not "Witty' low
A LOVER OF MUSIC is informed that private concerts • 'err
ready arranged in this town,- and that the system on whic° e
are to be regulated is one Which may with confidence be ,•!011
mended to other families, who desire rational enjoyment a n°
cultivation of one of the- greatest personal accomplishments tip
day. ant
CusTos will be obliged if Mr. James Cropper, or any oft ide
dividuals who suuscribed to the undertaking, will infur°
whether there has been, any late letter from Mr. Bucking; ~
being rather unaciT about the fate of his £100! We rea4
get whether Mr. Egerton Smith, of the 'Mercury, pot th'e.
and puPd Mr. Buckingham ornot ; bitt'a reference tot ;
.at the Mercury-ojice, would- easily solve the mystery. • ,
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