The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-12-04 00:00:00

FRENCH NAVY.

There are at the present moment the following vessels
armed or in commission, viz,:—ln the Mediterranean—•
One first- rate (a three-decker of 120 guns) the Monte-
bello; twosecond-rates (two-deckers of 90 and 80 guns,)
the Sliffren and the Duquesne; five third-rates (two-
deckers -,of 74 guns;) the Nestor, the Ville de Marseille,
the 'Scipiou, the Triton, and the Breslaw ; in all eight
ships of the ?iv. One-first-class frigate of 60 guns, the
Iphigenie ; one, second-class of 50 guns, the Arternise ;
four third-class bt:Al guns, the Viaoi re, the Galatee, the
Bellone, and the Circe; total six frigates. One corvette
of guns, the the "Circe; four smaller corvettes of 18
guns, the Diligente, the Cornelis, the Egle,-• and the.
Perle; total five corvettes of war. Ten brigs of 20 guns,
the. Alacrity, the Palinure, the Cvgne, the Alerte, the
Ducouedie, the Voltigeur, the Meleagre, the Dupetit,
Thous, the Grenadier,. and Bougainville; eight smaller
brigs of 10 guns; the Surprise, the Fleche, the Alcyone,
the- Coinete, the Eclipse, -the Sylphe, the Malouine, and
the VolaEze ; total 18 brigs. Five gailiots of 6 guns, the
Iris, the Dauphinoise, the Mesange, the Legere, and the
Estafette; one cutter, the Furet; one gun-boat, the Lia-
mono; in all seven light vessels. Six corvettesde charge,
the Rhone,- the 'Bonite, the Marne, the Caravane, the
Egathe, and the Fortune; eight gahares, the Finisterre,
the Durance, the Lionne, the-Emulation, the Lampoire,
the Loiret, the Menagere, and the Expeditive; in all four-.
teen transports. Eleven steam vessels, the Sphinx, thii
Croeddile, the Fulton, the Clihnere, the Salatirandre., the
-Castor, the Brazier, the Coureur, the Styx, the Vatitour;
and the Ramier; total number of vessels armed, or in
commission, in ie Mediterranean, 68.—0 n the seas, two
third rates, the Algesiras and the Jupiter; two first clasS ,
frigates, the Dixon and the Terpsichore ; two second
class, the Syrene and the Atalante ; three third class, the
Flore, the Constance, and the Hermione—total, seven
ft igates. Five corvettes of war,, the Ariaue, the 'Thisbe,
the-Heroine, the Sapho, and the Blonde; one corvette-
aviso, the Ceres—total, six corvettes. Two brigs of
20 guns, the Bisson and the d'Apas; three-of 18, the En-
dymion, the Inconstant, and the Cuirassier; one brig-
aviso,. the Lutin—total, six brigs.- One galliot, the
Hirondelle, and kyr other craft—total five. Three cor-
vettes de charge, the Abondance, the Allier, and the Dor-
dogne. Four gabarres, the Loire, the Charente, the
Recherche, and the Saumcn, five transports—total twelves
transport vessels. Twelve steam boats, amongst which
are the Ardent, the Meteore; the Africain, &c. Total
number of vessels armed or in commission on the seas, 50
—general total, 119 vessels.- Other ships are being built
or are. about to be so; for instance, at Cherbourg, the
Genereux; two at 13rest, the Jena and the Santi I'etre,
of 90 guns each.

JOHN BULL IN YANKEE TOWN.

From the Pictou (Nova Scotia) Observer.

•
We learn by the public papers that the Republicans of
New York, have been lately favoured with a rare oppor-
tunity of displazing their vulgar plebevianism. It seems
that the Marqurs.al Waterford and several gentlemen of
noble descent, had done that city the honor of a visit; and
as of course the New Yorkers are as fond of LIONS as
others, their head magistrate wished to establish his own
fame by entertaining such an. anamalous assemblage in
the States, as a 'small party of British noblemen. The
feast seems to have done credit to the worthy mayor's
hospitality, especially as we are led to suspect, that he
was chairman of the last New York Grand Temperance
Convention. However, the noble marquis and his lion.
associates, fancying themselves in the land of liberty, de-
spite of the known existence of Lynch-law, and brutal
Negro Slavery, took the unpardom.ble liberty of return-
ing to their lodgings without requiring of their enter-
tainer the protection of a posse comitatus. This they
were led to do from the custom of their own land; but
had they known the rancourous hatred of-Yankees to all
aristocratical rank, they would have asked of the myth-
that guard which he knew they required, to insure them
against insult.
It is quite obvious, from the chuckling and gasconading
of the American editors, that. the party was designedly
way-led:and attacked. The glare of the gaslight of free-
dom !!) was too inefible to fall upon such unhallowed
eves; and the'opportunity was too good-to be lost, to
pour upon the aristocrats of Britain, who by their pre-
sence- had honoured- their shores, the ugly slime of de:,
mocratic insolence. The worthy Functionary, forgetful-
of-the duty which is owing to a stranger of•rank, arraigned'
the whole party in the common room, and in common
with the basest culprits. In Bow-street, where the strict-
est justice is observed, the persons presiding, being gen-
tlemen, treat peculiar cases with delicacy and respect;
but here, instead of so acting,- we find a studied plan of
exposure; and, as we have said before, occasion taken to
throW the dirt of republicanism on the'bearers of honour-
able names. We by no means advocate impropriety of
conduct in, or from any quarter; but when we find the
use that has been made of John. Bull's unsuspiciousness,
we cannot but enter our protest against the low advan-
tage which has been taken of what must be called an in-
considerately wild -proceeding. It is possible that our
noble and right honourable country may have been try-
ing a slight experiment upon the American frolicking
system, but it might have been expected from any gen-
tlemanly executive, that a very different course of con-
duct should have been pursued towards them. The police
magistrate, however, may he one of the highly gifted
ranters with whom the Union abounds, and, no doubt,
being in season, expectorated his loathing of monarchy
and its appendages. •It sickens us, and fills us with the
most contemptuous contempt, to find this street brawl
referred to in connection with the little matter that ere
while occurred at New Orleans. The people that make
hickory nutmegs al e surely capable of making a hero of
the murderer of Arbuthnot and Ambister ; and calling his
name in question in relation to a gutter affray, is fully
worthy of' a canaille, populace. The accounts given of
the slight row which may have occurred at New YOrk,
bears absurdity and falsehood upon the very face of it;
and affords an additional evidence of the indwelling
-hostility which the people of that country bear to our
institutions. We thank our stars that we have nothing
to do with their stars and stripes : for were it so, we
should have to surrender the candour and gentlemanli...
ness of Britons, for the blustering insolence and low
braggadocying of illiberal republicans. In any other
country a fair and manl:- allowance would be made for
the extravagances or. excitement of youthful wayward-
ness; but in-Yankee-town no such feeling seem -to exist,
and a battle with the police affords a ground for crowing
out the national glory. The State which needs such a
mode of trumpeting, is deplorably low; and we are
strongly inclined to think, that those who are most
conscious of all want of title to respect, are those who will
dkresped others, Contemn the courtesies of society, and
become the braggart proclaimers of their own superior
excellence.

hIAKING THE MOST OF A COUNCILLORSHIP.

The public are aware that at the recent municipal
elections, several gentlemen, members of the council,
acted as sheriffs at the different polling stations. At
the time, we confess that we-felt somewhat surprised to
Jbserve indiViduals-in—theif Situation taking partin the.
election of their colleagues ; at the best, we could not
help considering such conduct very indelicate. Still we
were willing to pass over so anomalous and unprece-
dented a proCeeding, upon the ground that the parties to
whom we refer had undertaken the duties of sheriff with
a view to economy, and our impression was that they
had acted gratuitously. Why we had entertained an im-
pression so contrary to the usual practice of Whigs and
radicals, we can only explain by referring—with all hu-
mility—to our, well-know benevolence in construing the
conduct of even our bitterest and most suspicious oppo-
nents. We regret however to find that our charitable in-
terpretation of the proceedings to which we are adverting
has been wholly misplaced. The councillor sheriffs were
hired for the occasion—and each of them was paid at the
rate of three guineas per diem ! In point of fact, they
employed themseres; and a nice day's work they had of
it. Mr. Crooks and his worthy coadjutors could hot have
been more profitably engaged; but, seriously, we are
sorry that any respectable person should have so com-
mitted himself. But besides the indecency of such con
duct, we must remind the liberal Town Council that it
actually involves the violation of their own rules and re-
gulations. IlaYo they forgotten the self-denying ordi.
nance, by which every member of the council— Mr. C.
and his friends among the rest—became hound neither
to seek nor to accept any pecuniary employment at the
hands of the Town Council ? In seeking and accepting,
as the reform councillors did, the office of sheriff, and af-
terwards- receiving payment fur the performance of its
duties—all directly from the council—surely it will not
be denied thatlhey have broken their own voluntary en-
gagements with the public. The resolution emanated
from Mr. Black, and we therefore call upon him to cen-
sure •the delinquents; and not the less severely because
the pecuniary gain to them is of trifling amount. The
treasurer is bound to defend the principle which he in-
troduced into the council, in the hey-day of his patriot-
ism—and to show that "even in its ashes live its wonted
fires." A reformer ought to require nothing more than
this jog on the
,elbow ; but, at all events, we beg the
public to obServe and admire the equally disinterested
and delicate conduct of the self-denying patriots on this
occasion. It is quite clear that they know the value' of
that most soveriegn power—his majesty's picture in gold.
Alas! for the weakness of human nature. Frailty thy
name is whiggery I—Edinburgh Evening Post.