The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-19 00:00:00

MAY 19, JF,IS.

THEATRE•ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.

The NEW COMIC PANTO M INE having been greeted with
the loudest testimonies of approbation, will be repeated every
Evening until further notice.
Mr. KEAN, of the Theatres-Royal Coveat-garden and Drury-
lane,. is Engaged for a Limited Period. and will make his
Second Appearance this Season This Evening.
In consequence of the enthusiastic applause with which Mr..
Kean was received in the character of the DUKE OF GLOU-
CESTER, the Play of RICHARD the THIRD will shortly be
repeated.
THIS present TUESDAY, the 19th in nt, will be . per -
formed the Comedy of
A NEW WAY TO PAY 0 DEBTS.
Sir Giles Overreach
To conclude with the New Grand Co c Pantomime called the
MAN IN TH OON !
Or, HARLEQUIN LUNATIC a the EVENINO STAR
• The New Scenery Painted by essrs. Parker Johnson, and
Assistants.---The Machinery and Trick+ made by, and under
the direction of Mr. Willmore.—The Pantomime produces
under the Direction of the Brothers Ridgway.
Harlequin... .Mr. J. Ridgway. J Pantaloon.... Mr. F. Jonas.
Clown. Mr 'F. Ridgway.
Columbine Mademoiselle Marie.
TO-MORROW, (Wednesday,) the Tragedy of OT H E I. LO.
Othello, Mr. Kean ; lago, Mr. Stuart, principal Tragedian of
the Theatre-Royal, Bath, his first appearance here ; Emilia,
11 Mrs. Stanley; Dearlemona, Mrs. Shaw. With the NEW
COMIC PANTOMIME.

ZOOLOGICAL GAR ENS.
AIR. ATKINS, Proprietor of t • above Gardens, beg*
_LYJL leave most respectfully to a• 'ounce to the Nobility,
Gentry. and Inhabitants of laver! e .1, that the BAZAAR istri
FANCY FAIR will be held TH Day, and a grand exhibi-
tion of FIREWORKS, under the superintendence of Mr. L.
GTNGIML, of Vauxhall, will take place in the Evening: The
Gardens and principal Buildings will be splendidly illuminated.
A Montgolfier Balloon will ascend from the area of the Gardens
in the course of the evening.

Cbe Eibtrpool eStanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 15, 1835.

We have papers from New York to the 25th.ApriL
These contain an able exposure, by means of a parlia-
mentary committee, of the enormous frauds committed
under the sanction and protection of government in that
" glorious" republic. We give the following from the.
New York Daily Advertiser as a specimen :
The Washington Telegraph of April 21st contains a part at
the report of the Senate's Committee on Public Lands, on the
subject of frauds committed at the sales of such lands, and of
Indian Reservations. The committee, for the purpose of making
a thorough investigation of the affairs of that department of the
public concerns, were authorised to send for persons and paPera,
and to grant commissions to take depositions, where the at-
tendance-of witnesses before them could.not be had. In giving
an account of their proceedings, the committee say, "that most
of ILO persons who have been large purchasers of the public
lands, in connexion with combinations or companies of spaces-
lators, who were summoned to give testimony concerning the
frauds practised by such companies, have either declined or ea-
sitively refused to appear before the commissioners and testify"
And it is added, -that "Many of the speculators were persons
filling high offices in the states in which the public lands pur-:
chased by them are situated, and others possessing wealth and
influence, all of whom naturally united to render this investiga-
tion odious among the people ; and in this manner influenced
numerous witnesses to refuse their testimony to facts within
their knowledge, touching the matters into which the committee
were instructed to inquire."
They then go on to say, that the commissioners were in some
instances threatened with personal violence; that all who testified
were denounced and put in fear by those whose conduct was the
subject of scrutiny ; and that in one instance the life of one of
the commissioners was attempted, which failed,• but in the at-
tempt the assailant lost his own life.
These fraudulent practices have been carried to the greatest
extent in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. In the first of
those states it appears, that " an organized band of speculators
has been formed, with a large capital, on which immense pur-
chases have been made of the public lands and Indian reserva-
tions, in the tracts of country lately ceded, to the United States
by the Creek, Choctaw, and Chicasaw tribes of Indiana. The
first proclamation of the President of the United States-for the
sale of the lands acquired from the Creek Indians, by the late
treaty with that tribe, was promulgated only four wirksbefOro
the sales took place; and, consequently, the inhabitants of that
country had no opportunity of procuring the necessary fundet*
purchase the small tracts of land which they had settled and
cultivated ; nor, indeed, did they know, with a few exception?,
when and where the sales took place."
After reading this statement in the report, no person *ill be
surprised to hear, " that none but speculators attended those:
sales and made purchases, and that so great were the sacrifices
made-in the sale for the want ofbidders, that a single section ins&
Lid off at about eight-hundred dollars by the agent of a company
and sold on the nest day for as many thousand dollars as it he'
cost the purchaser hundreds." . .
That this department would prove, upon a ihoronifi
to be thoroughly'corrupt, we have not for a long time en-
tertained a doubt. ' This report will probably disclose map,
facts and transactions which will confirm this belief. Indeed,
the few instances contained in the part of the report which has
been published, go far to establish the impression that it is 01-
hued with fraud from end to end.

But who can be surprised at this when it is seen that men aro
kept in offices of great importance who are not only altogether
unfit for their places but whose conduct proves that little or to
regard is paid to the laws, or anything else but the interests er
individuals' and the promotion of party •views and objects
Why is the postmaster-general continued at the bead of a de-
partment, after the repeated exposure of facts and transaction 4
under his superintendence, for which he ought to have been im-
peached and degraded by a formal sentence of the senate, nnless
it be on the score of personal favouritism, or because such
services as he renders are necessary to the party who rule the
country ? And when such gross misconduct it; disregarded bY
the executive power of the government, can it be a matter
surprise to any person that advantage should be taken of such
a pernicious example in other departments, and give rise to
frauds and every other kind of mischievous practice.
We have not commenced the publication of this report, rut
knowing what the length of it may be. If practicable, we 0,411
endeavour hereafter to give it in full, or at least to take such
further notice of it as we may find convenient..

The John Porter, Captain Jenkinson, arrived here btt
Sunday from Halifax, having been only fifteen days Ore
the passage. We have, consequently, letters and paper`
from that colony to the 3d of the present month, but thof
do not contain any matter of much interest.

We have also, by the Mountaineer, Captain Williams.
files of Jamaica papers to the Bt‘li April. " The same com-
plaints of idleness and insubordination are made, but the
colony was tranquil. The following is from the Despet.4
of the 6th April
We are sorry to announce the loss of his Majesty's schoofOr
Jackdaw, Lieutenant Barnett, on the reef off the north end of
Old Providence, on the 12th of March, four days after the Oil"
tog of the vessel from Port Royal. The officers and crew were
all saved, and arrived at Port Royal on Saturday in his
ty's barque Gannet."

We forget who tells the story, but it is some one wile
has wrjtten sketches of men and manners in the United
States of America. In iblit Wiik a singular and anus"
ing sort of rogue is described, who began life as a paltry
thief, amassed a considerable fortune by lying and cheat'
ing, became a citizen of powerful influence, built *
steam-boat, which, on its first voyage, blew up, he him'
self, its proud owner, being the only person who 1"14
killed;
We do not say that Lord MELBOURNE and his present
cabinet are like the man and his steam-boat in. the atm"
anecdote ; but we cannot help thinking that there ig
something in the conduct of ministers, and those iglu'
are intimately bUt secretly connected with them, %ilia)
must inevitably lead to a similar catastrophe—A BLOW
UP ! The suhint is not only a , painful one—it 'is one
which heaps inexpressible humiliation and deep (lisgra**
! upon the people of England.
,It places the British nrn.
tion in reposition which it has rarely been placed in be-
fore, that of countenancing as high and responsible O
cers of state, as ministers and legislators, or as the pa-
trons and protectors of ministers, men who have no re-
spect for truth—men who care not by what means they
accomplish certain ends,—and who, to cover the meal'',
they employ, resort to the beggarly and paltry vice of
falsehood. .
The good old English designation of the party guilt-1
nl,
of this vice is--LIAR. It is an ugly word, we admit, an
it is repulsive because it conveys to the senses all the m°-
ral degradation which the vice confers. The schoolmis-
tress who punishes or reproves a child for what she l
pleased to call fibbing, when she knows the child has hoe°
telling lies, encourages tire sin, and, to a certain estat', --•
makes herself a party. The French carry this mode of
arraying vice in an innocent garb farther than any °the;
people ; hence the most abominable offences are spokoat
'h,
Itrippingly by some soft name which has no relation to
ever to the vice or the crime. '''Englatrd; we regret
.t:
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