The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-26 00:00:00

that the allegations of the select committee were proved ?
None at all. The house did not condescend to demand
evidence. They, therefore, condemned the accused with-
out trial, and deprived them of the right and privilege of
offering anything in their defence, or of pleading in miti-
gation of their cruel sentence certain facts susceptible of
direct proof.

What would the people of England say if a jury, sitting
in London, were tb convict a man of felony on the sim-
ple and unsworn representations of a bench of Essex jus-
tices of the peace ? Such has been the treatment awarded
to these men by the House of Commons. They were
committed upon the faith of certain oral representations
—denied bail—denied a hearing—repulsed, insulted,
stigmatised and degraded, without having an opportunity
to meet theit accusers-rwithout being placed upon their
defence. For anything the House of Commons knew Co
the contrary, these men might have been falsely accused,
—the committee might have been warped by prejudice,
misled by unjust representations, and excited by malicious
and unfounded rumours to make charges untrue in them-
selves and oppressive in their consequences.
It is a sad state of things when Englishmen can be
treated in this harsh and arbitrary manner by the House
of Commons without the slightest hope of redress. Who
will deny that this conduct does not indicate a rapid ap-
proach to despotism. Mr. RIGBY WASON, it is said, has
had influence enough to involve parliament in this most
anomalous and unconstitutional proceeding, but he may
depend upon it that it will not redound to his credit or
his:advancement in political life. We tell him, once for
all, that he sits for Ipswich for the last time.

In the House of Commons, on Tuesday night, Sir
JOHN CAMPBELL, his Majesty's Attorney-General and
first law adviser, asserted that. the rights now claimed
and hitherto exercised by the freemen, of this and other
boroughs—rights granted by former Kingi of England,
confirmed in_rnany case..s • by- special acts of parliament;
and more especially by. the Worm bill—were so many
usurpations which ought to l immediately abolished.
This the learned gentleman 'said he was prepared to
prove, both as an antiquary and as a lawyer.
We do not deem it necessary to waste many words in
refutation of Sir JOHN'S law, or in criticising hisideas of
equity and justice; we shall therefore content ourselves
with asking the learned antiquary, whether the right by
which his Royal Master sits on the throne of England is
less of an usurpation than the rights exercised by free-
men ?—whether the rights which he, as Attorney-Gene-
ral, enjoys in the execution of his office—those of filing
ex-officio informations, precedence at the bar over some
hundreds of gentlemen, his superiors by birth, talent,
and education, together with some other important pri-
vileges, are not greater usurpations of authority ? Whe-
ther any one of his official rights and privileges have
ever been confirmed by any act of the legislature ; and,
lastly, whether_he is prepared to forego them ? We
would also ask LOrd JOHIV RUSSELL, the parent of the
municipal reform, bill, whether his infant step-son has a
better right to sit in the House of Lords as Baron
RIBBLESDALE, when he shall have attained his majority,
than the son or apprentice of the poorest freeman of this
borough has, when he shall have become of full age, or
completed the term of his servitude, to' be enrolled a free
burgess of LiVerpool. As all titles of honour now en-
joyed were grants from the crown, we would ask
all those who inherit or hope to transmit them to their
posterity, how long this species of property will be held
sacred if the doctrine held by the attorney-general be
adMitted ?—or if they can be held only so long as it may
suit the caprice of a party, or be expedient to permit their
continuance ?

Sir JOHN CAMPBELL will, it is expected, shortly be
placed at the head of the peerage as Lord High Chancel.
for of England. His speech in the House of Conirons,
to Which we have been alluding, shows how admirably
he is qualified to fill that office—and shows also his nice
sense of equity and of justice.

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

City, Wednesday Evening, Half-iast Seven o'clock.

We hear it stated that ministers intend raising seven mil-
-1 lions sterling on account of the West India Compensation
Fund, by the creation of a new 31 per cent. stoelcand-this has
caused our market to
,be flat, consuls being 91R, Exchequer
hills 27 to 28 premium, and India bonds 7 to 9.
We are informed that before the recent demonstrations in
favour of the young Queen of Spain, by the repeal of the
foreign enlistment act, our government insisted upon the re-
cognition of the republics of the new world, and that the Spa-
nish minister acceded to this, so that the speedy acknowledg-
ment of these states may now be looked for.
In consequence of the reported repulse of Zumalacarregy at
l3ilboa, and of his being severely wounded, our speculators
have endeavoured to force up Spanish stock, which they so far
succeeded in as to advance to 421; but the market has since
become heavy, and 411 is the quotation at the close this after-
noon. The scrip has been at 15 discount, and left Off at 16
discount. 'l'lle variation in our other securities is nut impor-
tant. Brazilian bonds are 821, Colombian 36, Dutch 5 per
cents. 100 i, the 21 per cents. 55a, Mexican 361:, Portuguese
5 per cents. 85, and the 3 per cents. 591.
We consider the condition of Spanish bonds desperate from
the immense mass of this security. (?) The overthrow of Don
Carlos, the termination of the civil war, and the most complete
possession of the Spanish territory would not, in our opinion,
give any stability to Spanish stock. The market is glutted
with it, and nothing but persuading the "patriotic" holders to
convert a large portion of it into cartridge papers, and thereby
relieve the existing pressure, can give any chance of perma-
nent relief.

Since our last the stock exchange committee has been strug-
gling with th, absurd position in which its blundering with
respect to the account of the 29th ult. had plunged it. To-day
this sagacious body decided that the parties whom they de-
clared defaulters on the 16th, and to whom they refused
extension of the seven days time then solicited, shall have this
stigma, like the sword of Damocles, suspended over their heads
fur the period of a month, to give them time for a final arrange-
ment. It is impossible to notice conduct so absurd as this but
in terms of reprehension; nor could we have fancied men
placed in such a situation as these individuals could have acted
so foolishly. Four of the committee resigned this morning.
We understand that such is the -failure of the crops in America
that corn and flour are both being shipped from this country
for the United States.
Up to the moment of writing this there is no confirmation
whatever of the defeat and wound of Zurnalacarreguy, on the.
contrary, the Paris letters state that the siege of Bilboa was
going on with vigour. It is probable that the victory and the
wound were both put in circulation that the unwashed corps of
the radical colonel for Westminster might not be frightened
from their pilfering expedition.
We have accounts from Malta; we learn that in consequence
of the cessation of the cholera at Marseilles, vessels from that
port arriving at Malta woulctbe subject to only seven days', in-
stead of fourteen days', quarantine.
By advises front Tripoli we leas n that a complete change in
the government of that territory had taken place. Cu the ar-
rival of the Turkish squadron, the comniandaut, Nagit Pacha,
landed a force of 50(X) men, with which he took possession of
the town. He then, sent for the Pacha Sidi Ali to come on
board his frigate, and, on his arrival, stated that he had the Sul-
tan's orders to send him to Constantinople, and to take charge
of the government in his stead. The utmost excitement pre-
vailed in the town among the people, who were much attached
to their prince, but so completely had they been disarmed, and
so entirely were the troops in the possession of the most impor-
tant fronts and of the artillery, that no hostile demonstration
could be made. Sidi Ali was about to set out for Constantinople
with his suite and family. The Pachalek had been in his family
for upwards of a century. On this change being made known
to the insurgents outside the town, with promises of an amnesty,
they had laid down their arms, and the chiefs had either tied to
the mountains or had taken refuge on board the English
shipping.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

IRISH BEGGARS.

In justice to Mr. Perry, the able and indefatigable ma-
nager of the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, we
insert the following, which will show that, so far as Mr.
Perry is concerned, everything is done to mitigate the
nuisance which we complained of in our last. It would
appear, however, from his statement, that some person or
persons, the owners of steam packets, make a regular
trade in these beggars during the summer months:—