The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-06 00:00:00

TO. CORRESPONDENTS.

We are under many ;obligations to numerous correspondents
for their interestiug..instructive, and eveu amusing letters on
the suhject of the controversy which engaged our attention
last Friday, and we thank them. But they must see that if
we were to insert their communications. now that the man is
humbled and exposed, it would look like vindictiveness on
on: part. We have no ivish to trample on a fallen foe. • We
were attacked and we -resented, but We' have no desire to
'• slay the slain."
M. M.'s letter on the railway .is a curiosity—but it will keep.
The.expostire must come.

'rbt Eibcrpool *tanbarb.

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FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 6, 1835.

From Neer York we have advices to the 17th January.
The following, which will be read with interest, is from
a New york paper of the 16th January :

FIVIA MARA Nlll%l.l.—We learn from Mr. S. B. Harper, who
arrived here yesterday from Maranham, via St. Thomas, having
left the former place 18th November, that business of all kinds
was completely at a stand, owing to the distressing state of the
currency, caused by the introduction of counterfeit copper
coins from the United States by individuals, until the whole
country had been completely inundated with, it, and having at
length arrived at such au alarming extent, the provincial go•
vernment of Maranham adopted measures for the redemption
of the amount then in circulation. They accordingly issued an
order that all holders of copper then in the province should de-
posit it in the public treasury by the Ist of December, for which
provincial receipts should be given, and they be redeemed by
government paper to be sent from Rio de Janeiro, for that
purpose; and the copper, when redeemed by the government, to
be stamped and reissued at one-quarter its original value, and
the receipts of deposit, from the time of their being issued by
the treasury department, were to be made a legal tender in all
payments, custom-house duties, &c., &c., until the final redemp-

tion by the paper currency to be sent from Rio de Janeiro. The
merchants and residents generally, having confidence in the
declarations of the government, made heavy sales of goods in
anticipation of this paper ; and, also, bill transactions in England
to a large amount, and at an advance of 4d. per millrea. Five
days only were allowed to elapse after the issuing of these re-
ceipts, when the government ascertaining that they had already
received into the public treasury upwards of 800,00011000 of
copper, immediately issued an order to the collector not to re-
ceive the paper in payment of duties, but exact three-fourths in
silver as formerly, and the remaining one-fuurth of it in copper,
at the new valuation, (which was one-fourth of its original.)
The consequence was, that the foreign merchants (particularly
English) who had made heavy transactions in anticipation of
this paper became possessors of nearly the whole of the amount
issued. They immediately waited upon the president, and re-
presented the tendency of the measure, but received no satisfac-
tion or guarantee, and, consequently, had made application to
the general government at Rio de Janeiro fur the redress which
they sought.
Produce cannot be ottained, except at very high prices.
Cotton has risen from 8111.100 to 1011000 per arobe of 32 lbs.;
hides from 135 to 160; silver 95 per cent. premium; bills on
England 29d. per millrea; flour would not command mere than
1611(XX) per barrel, which was the highest of either of the two
last arrivals trom .the United 'States, payable in treasury re-
ceipts. Rather than accept this merchants preferred doing no
business until the Currency should become more settled, as at
present no value can be placed upon it.

O'CONNELL summoned his wretched slaves to a politi-
cal meeting in Dublin on Sunday last, and addressed them
at great length on the various topics which produce agi-
tation, engender malice, and lead to murder. How long
will the protestant people of these realms be insultc.. by
conduct alike harrowing to their feelings and audaciously
sinful in the sight of the Mon' HIGn ? Is it any excuse
to be told that the catholic religion does not favour ausr
terity on the christian Sabbath, but rather recognises it

as a clay of festivity and recreation—a day of joy after the
rehearsal of a mock atonement ? We do not quarrel with
the Roman Catholics about their doctrines or their peculia-

observances; but the protestant subjects of the King
ought not to be exposed to the pain of witnessing exhibi-
tions which are too public to be concealed, and which
it is the duty of the civil magistrate to suppress. Why
is it that the Jews are not allowed to open their shops on
the christian sabbath ? Simply, because the laws impose
on all men the duty of paying at least an outward respect
to the religion of the state. The laws of Ireland, as well

as the laws of England, are part and parcel of the pro-
testant religion, and it must, therefore, be the fault of the
magistrate if they are respected or profaned more in the
one island than the other. The Jews are compelled to
respect the laws, and dies- bold in regard, at least to the
extent of exterior forms, the religious observances of the
people of England; and among the respectable Jews
such a decorous respect for the feelings of others would
naturally be the result of their sense of propriety. In-
deed we do the Jews nothing more than justice when we
assert that no people on thti face of the earth are more
observant of the forms and institutions of those among
whom (alas for their Zion !) they sojourn as strangers
from a far, far land:

The Jews never violate good feeling, never lacerate
the tender conscience, never insult us on the Sabbath.
Neither do the Roman Catholics of England. An Eng-
lish Roman Catholic is as different from an Irish one as
an Irish priest is from

A good old English gentleman, all of the olden time."

Travel England, from " merry Carlisle" to the cliffs. of
Dover, and you will not find an English catholic who
would not deem himself mortally affronted if he were
classed with the O'CONNELL and WHALE catluilics of
Ireland. On the contrary they are all almost universally
loyal, and welhdisposed, and intelligent persons. We
have, it is true, a few thousands of the exports of Ireland
in these manufacturing districts, who are lawless enough
in their way ; but they are soon tamed on this side of the

water; they speedily become conscious of the superiority
of our habits ; and they progressively adopt them with-
out knowing by what unseen influence so great a change
is produced. Even in London, where the population,
from being more concentrated, and more numerously in-
termixed, are less under magisterial restraint than in
other parts of England, we see no such daring and shame-
less acts of Sabbath profanation as we do in Ireland.
Even the scum of London have some sense of decency.
The very pickpockets and loose characters of every de-
scription who haunt the metropolis abstain, to a very
considerable extent, from pursuing their professional avo-
cations and their career of guilt on Sunday. JOSEPH
HUME may or may not go to church or chapel on that
sacred day—TOM DUNCOMBE may or may not visit Mr.
Wri,xs at the Tabernacle •On that day—Mr. WAELEY
may or may not attend on the ministry of the "Devil's
Chaplain"—and various other equally eminent person-
ages may or may not listen to the disgusting reveries of
that poor snail of a cockney philosopher, Mr. CARLILE—
hut who ever heard of these people, or any class of them,
holding political meetings regularly on Sunday ? Who
ever heard of a political gathering on the Sabbath of the
great unwashed, of the unchanged and unchangeable
radical rabble of London, at the Croum and Anchor or
the 'form of Kennington ? They are mad enough, and