The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-12-03 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE.-FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29.

INSOLVENTS.
Nov. 28.—John Bright, Much Wenlock, Shropshire, plumber.
Nov. 29.—Edward Baines Gibbins, Red Lion-square, lodging-house-
keeper.

BANKRUPTS.
William Scott, Finsbury-circus, merchant.
John Francis William Brewer, Star-corner, Bermondsey, victualler.
George Stockman, Portsea, linen-draper.
William Bradstock, Berrow, Worcestershire, farmer.
Frederick Fry and Henry Fry, Bath, butchers.
John Jackson, Lewis,, York, plumber.
Richard Smith Le Nottingham, lace-manufacturer.
Thomas Pound, Bishopstone, Wiltshire, baker.
John Schofield, jun., Rochdale, woollen-manufacturer.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
John Bryant, Wallington, Sussex, draper.

DIVIDENDS.

Jan. 2, T. T. Bernard, Pall-mall, banker—Dec. 2, J. Gaiger, Bea-
minster, Dorsetshire, grocer—Dec. 20, J. Thwaites, Austin-friars,
commission-agent—Dec. 20, J. Maberly, Bread-street, Cheapside,
banker—Dec. 10, IL Newark and J. Toms, Wood-street, Cheapside,
riband-manufacturers—Dec. 20, F. Taylor, Webber-street, Black-
friars-road. victualler—Dec. 27, J. Coates and G. Haworth, Ingletou,
Yorkshire, cotton-spinners--Dec. 21, M. Heathcote and J. Ileaocote,
Manchester, merchants.

CERTIFICATES, DECEMBER 20.
J. Chapman, Liverpool, hosier—J. Orbell, Great Henney, Essex,
miller—R.. Blow, Great Grimsby, merchant—S. M. Cox, Exeter, seri-
vener—J. Tansley, Little Dean-street, Westminster, ironmonger—J.
Newson, Silver-street, Wood-street, whitesmith— W. Miller, Bath,
grecer—J. Read, Bathwiek, Somersetshire. baker—W. Howells, Gel-
lyhave, Monmouthshire, shopkeeper—G. Watkins, jun., Limehouse,
builder.

SUGAR—The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending Nov. 26, is 295. Old.
per cwt., exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon
on the importation thereof into Great Britain. ,
GRAlN.—General Weekly Average which governs importation,
received in the week ended Nov. V.—WHEAT, 50s Ild ; B.VILLEY,
30s 8d; OATS, 19s Ild; RYE, 33s Id; BRAxs, 37s 4d; Pius, 41s 7d.

TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 3, 1833.

By the Lord Melville packet which arrired at Fal-
mouth on Friday evening last, we have received a file of
Jamaica papers to the 27th October, and private letters
of various dates. When the packet left, the House o'
Assembly was engaged in a rather stormy discussion of
the Slave Emancipation bill. On the 23th Mr. Mats
moved that the bill be passed under protest, but an
amendment Wel; moved by Mr. Cox, and ultimately car-
ried by a majority of 21 to 14 to this effect :—" That it
be recommended to the House to appoint a committee to
take into consideration his EXCELLENCY'S message of
the 15th instant, and to bring in a bill, or to recom-
mend such measures as may seem meet and expedient
ifor the preservation of the peace of the island, under the
altered system by the bill passed in the Imperial Parlia-
ment."

A committee of 24 members was subsequently ap-
pointed, seven to be a quorum The general impres-
sion is that the House will pass a bill for the immediate
emancipation of the negroes. The utmost gloom and
stagnation prevail. In several places the slaves had
already refused to work; a general cessation of labour
was apprehended ; the planters do not seem to place any
faith in the promised payment of the twenty millions,
and we seriously fear that both misery and bloodshed
will be the consequences.
The following are extracts from private letters re-
ceived by one of the most eminent mercantile houses
here :-

"JAMAICA, 22d OCTOBER, 1833.—The House of Assembly
are going on expeditiously with their business. The Slave
Abolition Bill will be brought forward on Friday next, 25th
instant. I understand there are no very material alterations to
be made from the bill sent out by ministers, which is tilled with
the most ridiculous absurdities; in fact, it cannot be termed
anything else but the West India Robbery Bill. It is under-
stood here that, if the Assembly were to reject any of the prin-
cipal features of the bill, the unprincipled ministry would at
once deny compensation.

JAMAICA, 18th OCTOBER, 1833.—Y0u will observe, by the
public prints, that our Assembly is now sitting, and that they
are going on mildly, at least so far as we have been advised in
the country parts. A copy of the act for the Abolition of Sla-
very having been transmitted me by the Lord Melville packet,
which arrived at Port Royal last Monday, I have thereby been
furnished with the most preposterous enactments that were ever
penned by a senator. Throughout the whole the immediate
and total ruin of the colonies are aimed at. As to compensa-
tion, I cannot see how the colonists can expect ever to get one
farthing,—the commissioners, lawyers, and their clerks ale the
parties to benefit thereby. By the time it can come to any kind
of adjustment we shall be dead; indeed, it appears that his Ma-
jesty's ministers never intended that we should receive any
part of it."

The same packet has brought some important news
from South America. We give it in the words of our
private correspondent at Fahnouth
'• The news from Carthagena is important. A French ship
has been there, from Martinique, for the purpose of dernanding
satisfaction for an insult to the French consul. She blockaded
the harbour. The British and French consuls interfered; the
blockade was ri 1 ed ; 'but a larger'force was expected about the
10th of November to renew it. The squadron intended to com-
pel St. Domingo to fulfil her treaties with France had been,
for a time, diverted from that object for this service. The Car-
thagenians were, preparing to act on the defensive, and great
excitement prevailed there. Ihe negroes, moreover, had shown
a disposition to revolt. It was hoped that the Supreme Go-
vernment at Bogota would avert actual hostilities.
" I regret to state, that the Lyra packet, which sailed from
Crooked Island thirteen days before the Melville, has not yet
arrived."

It is some consolation to know that the KING'S com-
missioners have gone hence. They have had for twenty-
four days, with the intermission of three Sundays, which
happily still continue to be days of rest according to law—
and GOD only knows bow long this law shall remain un-
repealed—these commissioners, however. have had twen-
ty-four days of as hard labour as ever TITUS OATES had,
in a' cause the comparative merits of which we must de-
cline stating out of respect for the Earl of DURHAM and
his MAJESTY'S ministers. Whatever they may Lave ex-.
perienced elsewhere, or are likely to experience, seeing
the high legal opinions which have been given against
them, Messrs. WILKINSON and HOGG, as the KING's corn-
missioners, have been treated respectfully and courte-
ously by the Mayor, Aldermen, and other officers of the
Liverpool Corporation. That they did, on many occa-
sions, evince an overweening partiality towards the op-
ponents of the Corporation is but too true. That they,
day after day, listened to the irrelevant statements of po-
litical mountebanks, in whom excessive vanity is a dis-
ease, and who imagine they combine in their own persons
the whole essence of popular opinion, as the ape before
a number of mirrors considers his own antics as so many
tokens of respect paid him by an admiring audience of
apes behind the glass—that they listened to mere gos-
sip—gave ear to refuted falsehoods—tolerated every sort
of hearsay and random opinion—and heard puling seni-
lity dwell on antiquated misfortunes, fiscal exactions, and
unappreciated patriotism and benevolence--is a fact re-
corded with their own pens. Their partiality was not
only in favour of the accusing parties, but it was con-
spicuous, on many occasions, in waiving the defence or
the explanations offered by the accused. The desire to
appear strictly judicial in their proceedings was sustained
theatrically; but to a calm observer and a disinterested
one, it was obvious enough that the duty they had to
discharge, and-the-4%20t they were commissioned to pro-
mote, were never lost sight of for a moment. They well
knew--and what man does not know ?—that the precon-
ceived notions of his MAJESTY's ministers were adverse
to the present rights and chartered privileges of all ex-
isting corporations. As lawyers, if they be lawyers,
which we much question, inasmuch as their names are
entirely new to us—but supposing them to be lawyers—
they must have known that they were trespassing beyond
the limits and the functions of judicial inquisitors. They
did not confine themselves to facts—they did not merely
inquire whether charters had been violated, or corporate
rights abused—they went far beyond this, for they re-
ceived opinions, listened to every idle tale, administered
encouraging stimulants to every obscure and.self-consti-
tuted publicist, attended lectures as if they had been lis-
tening to JEREMY BENTHAM, and seemed delighted with
the philosophical soap-suds of Mr. TAYLOR, and the po-
tential physic of Dr. COLLINS. They never forgot that
they were stipendiaries removable at an hour's notice.
They invariably had an eye on the legal quarter whence
their instructions emanated, and, like men wise in their
generation, they very naturally counted the trees by the
only wayside which they fancied could lead to prefer-
ment. There is a tide in the affairs of barristers as well
as other men.

But notwithstanding this too obvious partiality on the
part of the commissioners, the readiness with which
all their commands were complied with, the intuitive
truth which marked all the answers of Mr. FOSTER, the
Town-clerk, the clearness of that learned gentleman's
explanations, the minuteness and accuracy of his details,
must have astonished, and, had they been other men,
must have delighted them beyond measure. There
was no reluctance on the part of Mr. FOSTER to fur-
nish the commission with every information, not only
that which his own experience and knowledge could
so well supply, but 'also the certified copies of all