The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-03-01 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

Wednesday Evening, Half-past Seven o'clock.

Yesterday a deputation of the West India body waited upon
the Minister according to appointment, to be informed of the
new scheme of Ministers with respect to the slaves. In con
sequence, however, of the pledges given by the deputation, that
they would not make the plan public, we have, with all our
industry, been unable to glean anything we can rely on upon
the subject. We have heard that the plan is very much like
that already put forth in the Liverpool Standard, but we have
heard in addition, that all persons having mortgages on West
Indian estates, will be offered ten shillings in the pound by the
government, they_ paying 3 per cent. interest for such advance
or payment. We confess, as stated to us, we cannot under-
stand, what is here meant, but, we have no doubt, some Utopian
project has been propounded, which the attempt at secrecy has
caused to be shadowed forth thus obscurely. The immediate
emancipation of the slaves and compulsory labour, under the
superintendence of an armed police, have likewise been put
forth as part of the intended plan. We hope by our next to be
able to give the full particulars.
Since our last communication, the books at Lloyds have
exhibited a fearful record of wreck and damage sustained by
the shipping during the late tremendous gales. On Friday we
had twenty-nine casualties then posted, on Saturday thirty, on
Monday about the same number, and yesterday twenty-six.
This day the accounts are rather better, not more than five or
six caualties being reported. Very great fears are entertained
for the safety of the Erin steam-boat, which sailed for Dublin
with about seventy persons on board, which was seen in distress,
but from the roughness of the sea, no relief could be afforded,
and she has not been since heard of. A premium of seventy
guineas cent. has been offered on her at Lloyds to-day and
refused. What causes additional alarm is, that several maho-
gany doors and various portions of a steam-boat have been
thrown ashore on the coast of Cornwall.

We have a file of Barbadoes papers to the 10th of January,
to-day. Considerable excitement had been caused throughout
the island, by the respite of a slave, named Robert James, con-
demned at the previous Grand Sessions to die for a rape. A
deputation of gentlemen, at the request of their constituents,
waited upon the Executive, and it is asserted, very insufficient
reasons were assigned for the extension of this mercy to one
designated in their accounts, as an " atrocious criminal'" The
matter was considered of such importance, that a public meet-
ing of the inhabitants of the island had been called for the 10th
of January, to take the matter into consideration.
This day the settlement of our Consol Account took place,
and it proved a bull account. The fluctuations during the
account has not exceeded 2 per cent., the highest price having
been 88 9A, and the lowest 86 N. The price for the April Ac
count during the chief part of the day was 87 '4, and the
closing quotation was 87 %. We had no defaulters today.
Little business has been doing in our Foreign Market, nor
has the variation been of moment. Russia Bonds left off at
104 4 105, Dutch at 45 % 34, Brazilian at 58 34 9,f , Danish
at 731 74, Greek 34 to 35, and Spanish at 17 % 34, Belgian
Stock left off at 85 Z.
We have a Lisbon Mail this day, but the letters we have
seen convey nothing beyond the intelligence communicated in
the STOP PRESS of the Morning Herald.

(From the Standard of IVednesday)

SECRET MARRIAGE AND PREGNANCY OF THE

DUCHESS OF BERRI.
We have received by special express the whole of the French
papers of yesterday.
The Moniteur of yesterday (Tuesday) contains, in the official
part, the following most important article. We extract it with-
out further comment:—
" PARIS, Feb. 25.—0 n Friday, the 22nd February, at half-
past five, Madame the Duchess of Berri delivered to the Gene-
ral Bugeaud, governor of the citadel of Blaye, the following
declaration
Pressed by my circumstances, and by the measures ordained
by the government, although I had the gravest possible motives
for keeping my marriage secret, I think I owe it to myself, as
well as to my children, to declare that I was secretly married
during my sojourn in Italy.
(Signed) MARIE CAROLINE.'
From the citadel of Blaye,
this 22nd Feb. 1833.'

" This declaration, transmitted by the General Bugeaud to
the President of the Council, the Minister of War, was imme-
diately deposited in the depot of the archives of the chancellerie
of France.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE DISFRANCHISEMENT PETITION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIR,—" A word in your ear," as the redoubtable Dicky Sam
says. Verily the liberal disfranchising heroes have met their
deserts, and, I suppose, will now be convinced that there is a
party in this town (and a highly respectable one, too) who are
determined not to be ridden roughshod over, and especially by
those who, under the garb of liberality, are in fact the most self-
willed of all tyrants. The recent petition against the attempt
to rob the ancient burgesses of Liverpool of their rights and
privileges, and which received in so short a space, say two days,
the signatures of above 7400 individuals, (of whom about 1350
are men of the first standing' in the town,) must show to the
Radicals that, let them rant and rave as they will, they are op-
ponents by no menus so formidable as in their own conceits
they imagine; and I think all parties will allow that the peti-
tion alluded to will lose nothing by a comparison with theirs,
which received in about a fortnight not one-half as many names
as that just sent to'London. That the House of Commons will
see through the venom of these insulters of the town's honour,
I doubt not; and I feel fully assured that they will get a quietus
from that body which they little expect at their hands. I can
not for a moment bring myself to believe, when our truly ex-
cellent representative, Lord Sandon, (assisted or not by Mr.
Ewart,) gets up in his place and exposes the disfranchising
gentry, that even a select committee will be granted for the
purpose of annoying both the representative and the repre-
sented. It is somewhat surprising that Mr. R— should be
thus endeavouring to stigmatise the freemen, by branding them
corruptionists, when it is a matter of notoriety that he was,
one of Mr. Ewart's active supporters at the election in Novem-
ber, 1830, when (though, I believe, never since) resort was had
to the purses of that party, without which Mr: Ewart never
would have represented (?) this borough. This same Mr. R—,
too, it should be borne in mind, when admitted a burgess, took
a solemn affirmation (which even he will, I suppose, think equi-
valent to an oath)' that he would protect all the rights and pri-
vileges of the burgesses, which oath or affirmation (call it which
you please) it is not too much to say he has scandalously vio-
lated. Of course I dare not call this perjury, dare I ? The
Common Council have the power to disfranchise him, and they
ought to exercise it, in justice to those who have been so grossly
insulted and libelled by him.
I could not help being amused at the two long columns of
laboured abuse an the last Liverpool Times, at one moment
asserting the greatest bribery, at another, that Mr. Thornely's
party might have secured him a large majority if they would
have given away a " glass of ale, a few shillings, or even a
ribbon." Verilythis goes to prove that if there was any bribery,
it was exceedingly trifling,—merely a glass of ale.
One word more. I see a petition in the Exchange Room
against Lord Grey's Bill for the pacification of Ireland. It
progresses slowly, and it is already whispered a counter one is in
preparation. I doubt not it would far outnumber the first,
although all parties are not equally lavish of their praise, or
forward in condeMning the Premier. He is, certainly, not the
man I admire, though I cordially wish this Bill success.—
Yours, &c. • ANTI-RADICAL.
Liverpool, 27 ill Feb. 1833.