The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-11-15 00:00:00

that all that is, or is to be, must be right. Who are to be
benefited by this reform remains to be seen. It is clear
enough that the nation generally is not to be benefited.
It is clear that the Whigs have riot made'what the Scotch
call a "kirk and a mill" of this reform. It is clear that
the revolutionists have the game all their own way; and
we take the Duke of HAmILToN to witness, who has been
a Tory since the death of his brother, Lord ARCHIBALD,
of impenetrable memory, that the very scum and dregs of
society have been raised to posts of great responsibility
by the reform measure of Lord JEFFREY, commonly called
in the circles of Edinburgh the " Master of BRouon4M."
We say it in perfect seriousness, and with feelings of ir-
repressible melancholy, that " Caledonia, stern and wild,"
as the great magician now in his grave described her,
must, unless a counter-revolution take place, sink into
the abject condition of Ireland, which is beyond all clues-
tied the most-degraded and demoralised province in
Europe. The Whigs introduced the borough reform bill
'upon speculation, foolishly dreaming that they could
thereby advance their own hollow and party purposes;
but it has worked contrary to their expectations. A
peaceful country is devoted to the misgovernment and the
contentions of democratic factions; the Whigs have b-een
thrown overboard, and their worst enemies are now in
office, strutting in gold chains, 'ready to enact the part of
Sir JOHN KEY, and buy or sell patriotism, principle, and
patronage to the best advantage of the parties concerned.
Be it so-but let us return to England. Will the
Whigs, with this miserable failure before their eyes, and
radicalism in the ascendancy, attempt a similar reform in

England ? The Corporations of. Scotland fell without a
struggle. They had neither advocate nor apologist in the
reformed House of Commons. They were condemned
without trial, and consigned like carrion to the revolu-
tionary dogs. Is a similar fate to befal the Corporations
of England ? If the destruction of these municipal bodies
involved nothing beyond their twin chartered privileges,
the ,inj4stice would Oc Ilitgrcint cough ; but we contend
that:.this popular invasion of chartered rights involves
the
,very existence of every other institution under the
monarchy. It aims a deliberate blow at the crown itself...
The privileges conferred by the crown are or ought to be
as rigidly and sacredly respected as the rights and pri-
vileges possessed by the crown. If Parliament have a
right to turn the stream, they have a right to drain the
fountain. The latter may be a work of greater difficulty ;
but still the right of attempting it is as incontrovertible
in the last case as in the first. If they can sit in judg
ment upon the acts of the SOVEREIGN, they have the
same right to adjudicate upon the hereditary. faculties and
royal immunities of the Prince. Will this usurpe(l
authority be acted upon ? It is a step in advance, we
adinit, of the present measures, but the same power which
breaks a link in a charter, or a lock under a corporate
trust, might as legally break into Windsor Castle
WILLIAM the FOURTH holds the crown by the same
tenure that WILLIAM the Timm held it, and by no other.
He is litre to maintain the laws inviolate, and to pro-
tect the Protestant religion, and the ministers of that
religion, "established by law," in all their rights and
privileges. The Protestant religion, as was well ob-
served by Lord ELDON, has no safeguard or guarantee
whatever except the KING'S oath and the KING'S acts.
Every charter which has emanated from the sovereigns
of the House of Brunswick, has been specially framed
for the security of the church, and hence the exclu-
sion, until recently, of all persons from corporations
who were not members of the Church of England.
If these Corporations be opened up, there will be an
end to this sort of security. The KING'S prerogative
has already been invaded; but if charters are to be
violated here as they have been in Scotland, the Church
of England would be left without prop or stay amongst
any of the municipal institutions of the kingdom. She
/Mist sink into the condition of a mendicant church,
the Unitarian chapel, patronised by Lord BROUGHAM,
and the majority of his MAJESTY'S "ministers, becoming
the only recognised and legitimate house of prayer; and
this, to our thinking, is what the Whigs most anxiously
desire.

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

TVedsneday Evening, halj:past Seven o'clock

The Consol Market has become very flat, and the -Chasing
'nice of Consols for the Account was Sri ; Exchequer Bills .are
12 to 43; and India Bonds'.2l 23 pm. In the Foreign Market
there is great flail-less, and but little business doing. Russian
Bonds closed at 1021 3.-}; Dutch at 49 ; and Belgian at
911 95. Portuguese Stock has attracted less notice, 691 70
being the price of the Old Bonds, and 60 those of the New.
Spanish this afternoon suddenly advanced to 23 and closed at
23; By the accounts from Spain we learn, under date from St.
Sebastian, that the couriers froM Castile and Navarre had failed,
the roads being in possession of the Carlists. They had also
defeated a body of the Queen's troops near Guetaria. The
letters from Pampeluna state that a new emigration of the young
men of that town had taken place, to join the Carlist standard.
A patty of the Prince's troops or partizans had sallied out of
Aspaylia and advanced upon Toulouse, where they were met By
El Pastor ; but they vigorously attacked and defeated that
chieftain. At Penzo Blanco, and at Benabeto, in Leon, Don
Carlos had been proclaimed King : and the royalist volunteers
of Argando had suddenly disappeared from that town, it was
supposed to erect the standard of Don Carlos.
Letters have been received from Freemantle, (Western
Australia) to the 14th June. There had been no arrivals from
England since the Ist of Aril. A stoppage of the i irculating
medium had taken place in -consequence of the Lieutenant=
GoVernor Irwin having refused assistance to the bank, although,
it is said, his predecessor, Governor Stirling, on the establish-
ment of that institution, had promised such assistance. In
consequence of this, the Lieutenant-Governor had become
rather unpopular. The natives had caused considerable an-
noyance to-the settlers, and a yeomanry corps had been formed
to resist their attempts. Government had offered a reward for
the heads of four of the natives who had been most daring
in these attacks. One old chief, who had displayed .(Treat fe-
rocity, had been shot a. fear days previous, at Perth. The
colony, however, was on the advrice, despite of these impedi-
ments; the farms were rapidly improving, and the stock of the
farmers increasing ; but the want oftnonev was felt a great evil,
as few individuals in the colony, except the merchants, could
muster Lilt). Supplies had been received, in considerable
abundance, from the neighbouring colonies, Van Dieman's
Land, Sydney, &c., and more were expected from the Cape..
By the commercial advices from India we learn that at the
end of Jung freights at Bombay were at £4 ton, and nominal ;
at Bengal freight was from £5 ss. to £6.
By advices fiom Algiers we learn that the consuls of Eng-
land, Spain and Sardini,a had sent Charges d'Affaires to Bougia,
to represent those nations there, but that some demur had been
shown by the French authorities there. •

LONDON LATEST SHIPPING NEWS.
Lloyd's, Fire o'clock, Wednesday.
The Elizabeth, Jenkins, and the Hall, Hughes, have arrived

from Liverpool at Bombay.
The Ferdinand, Geucke, from Liverpool, bound to Stettin,
arrived on the 2d hstant at Elsinore; the Adolphine, Roggen-
rack, from Liverpool to Wismar, arrived at Elsinore on the
sth; and the. Helena, Schutterow, bound to the Baltic on the
came day. The letters from Heligoland state, that from the
*t to the dth,there had been very heavy and,squally gales from
N.W. and W.

The Betsey, -for Liverpool, arrived at Leghorn on the 3lst
ult. with a general cargo.
On the 26th July the-foll Owing were loading at the Mauritius
for Liverpool. The Margaret, Taylor, to sail in about a'week.
The ship Sir Francis Burton, Reed, bound from Bombay to
Liverpool, having undergone the requisite repairs, proceeded
on her voyage 27th July.
On the 2.5 th June the following vessels were loading at Bom-
bay for Liverpool. The Minerva nearly ready, with 2tYLA) bales
Of Cotton board. The Majestic, Ilero, and Diamond, had
10(x) bales of Cotton each. _ _ _

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The James Haddon and the Tampico, both for Liverpool,
lad arrived at Vera Cruz.

CHARITY SERNION.-011 Sunday next, a Sermon %via -be
preached at St. Augustine's church, Shaw-street, by the Rev.
A. CaMpbell, one of the Rectors of Liverpool; after which a
collection will be made for the benefit of the new free church
and the two free 'schools in Great Howard-street.
CAPTAIN loss.—lt was stated in the city, yesterday, that, at
the end of last week a 'Treasury order for VSOUJ was trans-
mitted from the Treasury to the Bank of I?mgland, to be naid
to the credit. of Captain Ross, for the discoveries that gallant
officer has made in the North Pole, and for the hardships he
has suffered.—Evening Paper.
Cnuncii RATE.—At a vestry meeting, held at the parish
church of Portsmouth, on Friday, the Sth instant, to make a
church rate of sixpence in the pound, Mr. Price, an Unitarian,
moved, as an amendment, that the same should be ,reduced to
threepence. Mr. P. having, by previously circulating printed
bills, occasioned a very numerous attendance of the parishion-
ers, the discussion was protracted to so late an hour, that the
chairman 'had not sufficient daylight left him to ascertain which
side predominated. A poll was, therefore, called for, which
terminated at the close of the following day, when it was found
Mr. Price's amendment was rejected. by a majority of more
than two to one.—Hampshire Te!egraph.
LIVERPOOL CATTLE MA R KET.—It has, for some time past,
been a subject of regret to many of the most respectable in-
habitants of Liverpool, that the cattle market should-be held on
Monday. The consequence is seen in the numerous droves of
pigs, especially those by the steam-packets from Ireland, driven
through the streets on Sunday, to the great annoyance of the
inhabitants, and the unnecessary violation of the sabbath. The
ease was the same in Glasgow formerly. But the magistrates
well
desirable
pleased
and council of that city, as trustees of the market, have this
klouth changed the market day from Monday to Thursday. We
Nye not aware if the magistrates of Liverpool have the power
'of carrying into effect an arrangement of a similar maitre. If
they have the power, we think the pubi
to see it exercised. If they have not, then it miglitl) e
no,; to lose the first opportunity which May present itself of °Er-
ic
world
be
taining the requisite authority for effecting the change.