The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-04-02 00:00:00

was no longer (to borrow the conception of our great painter)
the " harlot infidelity" with something like beauty ; and tricked
out in the ostentatious finery of prostitution; but the same
wretched creature, with features bloated and rutalized by ex-
cess, beating hemp amidst the vile inmates of the workhouse.
It was no longer Satan, under the form of the " archangel
ruined," but the foul and venomous " toad squatted at the rab-
ble-ear." We all recollect this vile crew (their dullness un-
fortunately for a long time operating as a protection) speaking
a language to which Englishmen had never been familiarized;
the mingled and virulent dialect of treason, blasphemy, " ma-
lice, hatted and all uncharitableness," assailing every order and
institution, around which the habitual and long cherished affec-
tions of Englishmen had been entwined. Again the magistrates,
men, who in defiance of every risk, at the peril of their lives
and fortunes, set themselves to stem the desolating torrent;
held up to general execration ; petitions hawked about from
one pot-house to another, thumbed by every greasy ruffian
whose name was enrolled as one of the sovereign people, call-
ing for justice on the devoted heads of their oppressors; and
those very petitions, presented to the Legislature by certain
" Knights of the Post," who were ready (in addition to the
damning internal evidence upon the documents themselves) to
add the still more damning evidence of their own personal testi-
mony. Again, the very judges of the land, bullied and brow-
beaten, and held up to detestation and assassination; one of
them, because he had declared his opinion in a charge to the
grand jury of York, " that the riots had arisen not so much
from actual distress as from acts of evil-minded persons," openly
prescribed; astonishment expressed that "none of the staring
thousands should raise his knife and plunge it into the bosom
of the monster, who could coolly insult his sufferings." Such
were sonic of thei symptoms at the awful crisis I have alluded to,
a crisis, however, when England's good genius prevailed and
rescued her from the most awful fate that God in his inflictions
ever sent upon a nation—the despotism of the mob.

After the passing of the bill of 1829, we all flattered ourselves,
(however we might have differed upon the accompanying mea-
suzes,) that at least that horrible goitre; the Catholic Associa-
tion, had been deracinated. Have our hopes been realized.
Has it not again appeared in a form, if possible, still more foul
and loathsome. Have we not the Arena pouring forth from its
vomitories at midnight, and through the heart of our metropolis,
groups, and such groups !! ! Spouters, whose style of oratory,
(if we must "squander away" such a term,) may be, for noise,
and filth, and fury, compared to those mud volcanoes of which
we havo lately heard so much. Poor wretched tradesmen
swindled out of their weeks earnings, and returning, maddened
by want, and riot, and intoxication, to their naked and famish-
ing families.

THE LONDON PRESS.

(FROM THE STANDARIL)

The following we believe to be a. faithful outline of the
plan for the settlement of the West India question.
A loan of TWENTY MILLIONS is to be negotiated upon
the credit of the colonies. The legislative assemblies
of those colonies which have any, are to be called upon
to guarantee this loan ; and in the colonies which have
not legislative assemblies, some agreement is to be come
to with the planters for the like purpose. The loan is to
pay an interest of five per cent. being reserved for the
creation of a sinking fund, and the remaining sum to be
payable to the subscribers.
We have not heard that the Government of England
is to give any counter-guarantee—but we presume that
as 18 or 19 millions are expected to be raised, such a gua-
rantee is to be given.
The money so raised is to be applied as follows, to the
immediate emancipation of the whole negro population,—
that is, if we may apply the term "emancipation" to the
shifting of the slaves from their present condition to that
which we are about to describe.

The planters are to be paid an ad valorem price, rang-
ing between £lO and £2O per head for their several
slaves. The slaves then, de facto, cease to be the
planters' property, and.become the indented labourers, as
it were, of the public. They are, however, to be held
in gangs upon the estates, in the cultivation of which
they are now employed ; they are not to be removeable,
or to be permitted to remove for any purpose whatever
from these estates, which are thus to be at once their
parishes [in the English sense], and their place of im-
prisonment.
These public labourers, and state prisoners are to be
compelled to work six days of the week, and the compul-
sory instrument is to be supplied by a numerous and effi-
cient white police, acting under a subordination of ma-
gistrates communicating with several colonial.governors.
This is all we know; but we presume that the slaves are
to be allowed some wages.
. The first objection in order of time to the scheme, and
the only one that we shall notice to-day is the expense.
Can the West Indians afford a million a year for the pro-
posed loan, and at least three times as much for a police
force sufficient to keep 800,000 refractory negroes work-
ing at a rate at which they have never worked 'before ?