The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-05-31 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We are obliged to our friend Ein Fischer for his very sensible,
but too critical observations ; but should be still more obliged
jf he would favour us with his own translation,
e regret that we have not room for the communication of Veri
Amtaor.

Ebe Libel:pool 'tanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 31, 1833.

Letters and papers from the Mauritius to the 27th
February have arrived, in which we are informed that
that colony is in a state of calm, but fearful apprehension.
An address by Sir WILLIAM NICOLAY, the governor, who
had arrived on the 31st January, and who had been
landed upon the island in rather a clandestine manner,
somewhat after the manner of a bale of contraband
g°l3fls, will be found under the proper head. His Ex-
cellency does not seem to relish his situation overmuch.
41e is anxious to conciliate the inhabitants, by removing
their suspicions, and preparing them for the reception
of a much more important personage, whom the Govern.
merit at home have taken under their special protection,
either from a desire to raise him as a favourite, or sacri-
fice him as a martyr, but his Excellency is greatly at a
loss how to gain their confidence or their esteem.
The planters meanwhile are quietly waiting the event
of Mr. JEREMIE'S return. That something like resistance
mean passive resistance—is determined on, may
be gathered from the compulsory silence of a newspaper
tinder the influence of the Government. This journal
is called the Balance, which we suspect is anything but
a just balance, seeing that it is conducted upon Whig
Principle; and advocates a line of policy inimical to the
interests of the planters. The conductors of this news-
paper have put forth the following advertisement :_..
hi consequence of certain reports, as well as of friendly in-
t.
"'nations, that menaces of vengeance on the part of some
Intnans whom the Cerneen has not hesitated to let loose
against the Balance (by reiterating the charge of anti-colonial
sentiments, the publication of which might have caused the
greatest of crimes), the editors of this journal have but too
muchmuchreason to apprehend that poinards are at this moment
destined to be, with regard to them, a substitute for the cen-
snr's scissors. They have therefore the honour to inform their
subscribers, that henceforth, until a new order of things, they
will not publish any article relating to local politics."
This of course- is their statement, and being theirs,
and moreover an ex-parte one, it can only be taken sub-
ject to a pretty considerable discount. It is quite pos-
Sible that the love of gain may actuate the editors as
as the fear of death ; for in such a community, where
the whole mass of the population is united against the
Government, such a paper can have few readers, and
n 0 profit but what are derived from the official adver-
tisements, from the contributions of Aldermanbury, or
the secret service money of the colonial office.
This indication of feeling, however, is pretty conclu-
sive as to the sort of reception that awaits Mr. JEREMIE,
backed as he is with the 9th regiment of infantry!
I-lave the Government no other employment for the
troops, that they send an armament like this to escort
and protect an odious functionary, who can hardly be
considered as holding a higher situation than that of a
Custom House officer ? We Wait the next arrivals with
much anxiety.

On Wednesday the ratification of the preliminary
treaty between Holland and the Conventional Powers of
England and France was received by his MAJESTY'S mi-
nisters.
It was expected that the order in council re-
rnoving _
the embargo, and releasing the detained ships
and
cargoes, would appear in an Extraordinary Gazette
of that evening.
Thus there is an end, for the present, to the idle and
contemptible negociations of Lord PALMERSTON. Holland
has only consented to do that which she offered to do pre-
vious to the march of the French troops and the storming
of the citadel of Antwerp. Are we then to,
consider that
the matters in dispute, or the question of the recognition
0131 LEOPOLD by the Dutch King, is nearer adjustment?
S. Yno means. WILLIAM of HOLLAND has not yielded one
ITgle point. Necessity, or awakening fear, or a sense
to conscious wrong, has induced the ministers of England
de to the wishes of the London merchants; but
`i all other respects the negociations are as far from be-
'nog concluded as ever.

The new, from Oporto is to the 21st of the present
factorl"nth, but it is
of so desultory, undecided, and unsatis-
.
ty
Our a
In the inter resties. If we were to believe the papers
of Don PEDRO, the rebels and other adven-
rers would be in Lisbon to-morrow ; if we had be-
lieved them, they would have been in that city six
months ago.

We have received
the sub , from an intelligent correspondent,
Joined letter from the Cape of Good Hope, rela-
tive to a vessel which has already attracted some notice
11 the journals. We insert it without comment :
" CAPE TOWN, 26 NlAacn, 1833.—We are at last enabled to
Zt'aPort the arrival of the long expected Jane and Henry. She
. Z.Me to anchor yesterday, we understand, in a deplorable con-
bti°ll, but the particulars have not yet transpired. She was
111..
rll.ht from the west coast of this country by an officer of
taken
taqk service. Both murder and mutiny are reported to have
~ -e
A rplace on board. An investigation is
taking
(‘lls place before
totn-house
' The vessel is not yet entered at the
; the ney-General.
moment she is, we shall look after your pro-
tve.ttY, if on 114 ed particula rs board, "
h and write you again wen we have ascer-
4.

It will be remembered by most of our readers, that
when the scheme of Irish national education was under
the consideration of Parliament last summer, and the
object of which nefarious and abominable scheme was to
deprive the protestant children of Ireland of the blessing
of scriptural education in.the schools, the assembly of the
church of Scotland were seduced into an approval of the
plan by what has since been considered a fraud. At
that time the assembly had prepared a petition against
the project, which was not persisted in on account of the
interference of the Solicitor General, who read a letter
in the assembly, purporting to be of an official nature,
and in which it was stated that Hi,s MAJESTY'S ministers
had no intention to discountenance the free reading of
the bible in the schools.

This letter, it afterwards turned out, was either a ficti-
tious document, or it, at best, did not speak the senti-
ments of the government. The assembly of the Scottish
Kirk were, therefore, in a most unwarrantable manner,
seduced into an approval of that which they collectively
and individually abhorred. The truth, however, has
come out, and they now, indignant at the imposition, re-
cord their sentiments in fearless and uncompromising
terms :

The following three resolutions were carried in the
General Assembly, on Tuesday, the 22d, by a majority
of 157 to 58 :
" Resolved,-Ist. That the General Assembly, being con-
vinced that the only sure foundation of sound morality and
useful knowledge is to be found in the revealed Word of God,
is of opinion that no countenance from the government of this
realm ought to be bestowed on any system of national educa-
tion of which instruction in the Holy Scriptures does not form
an essential part.

" 2d. That they have observed with much regret and disap-
pointment that a system of national education is still maintained
in Ireland, in which no adequate provision is made for the
daily reading of the entire Word of God, in the authorised ver-
sion, without note or comment.

" 3d. That they therefore feel it incumbent upon them, as
representing a branch of the Protestant church, to petition
Parliament against any further countenance being given to
such a system."

We have only to add that we have the highest possible
gratification in recording these opinions of our sister
church against the debasing and irreligious notions of
His MAJESTY'S ministers, and the insidious faction of
Popish priests by whom they are influenced.

I n spite of all the vulgar insinuations in which the
ministerial press both of England and France have in_
dulged at the expense of the Duchess de BERRI, and in
spite of the brutal aspersions which these hirelings have
heaped upon her character, it appears that the statement
of that unfortunate lady, relative to her marriage, has
been, within the last few days, completely and most satis-
factorily verified, by the appearance of her husband in
Paris. The Count de LUCCHESI PALLI has had an inter-
view with the Ambassadors of Russia, Austria, and Prus-
sia resident at the French capital, and also a " long and
animated conversation" with LOUIS PHILIPPE. He has,
it is further stated, obtained permission to visit his wife,
and for that purpose has set out for the prison of the Cas•
tle of Blaye.
From this we are bound to infer that the French go-
vernment have been compelled to recognise the marital
claims of the Count; in which case they formally stamp
falsehood and slander upon the unmanly statements and
unwarrantable assumptions put forth by their organs of
the press.
This is what we, from the outset, believed would be
the result. An unhappy Princess, contending on her na-
tive soil for the rights of her legitimate son, the lawful
King of France, had, as too often happens, been plunged
into misfortune—betrayed by those in whom she reposed
confidence—borne down by the force of the reigning fa-
mily—confined to a dungeon without being In ought to
trial—condemned unheard—punished without being con-
victed—denied the advice or assistance of her friends—
and while in this state of helplessness she is loaded with
infamy, stigmatised as the most worthless of women,
held up to public odium as a violater of public morals,—
and why ? Because she was the treasurer of heruwn
secret,—because she did not—could not as a woman
of honour—expose her husband to any peril by a pre-
mature disclosure of his name and her own condition.—
Her unhappy situation was ferociously and cruelly taken
advantage of by her uncle, Louis PHILIPPE, and his
ministers. They kept her in close confinement—they
carefully eluded the justice of bringing her to trial—they
surrounded her by spies—they instigated their base and
revolutionary instruments to vilify and calumniate her
all over Europe, in the detestable hope that she would
die dishonoured—perish on the sick-bed where they had
placed her—and that with her death would perish also the
record of the oppressions and the concerted infamies they
had directed against her.
Truly, the House of Orleans, blood-stained as its his•
tory is, must be content, in addition to the wealth of the
murdered Prince of CONDE, to inherit a large share of
everlasting obloquy from this .transaction. It stands
black in the roll of past enormities; and we venture to
say, when the whole truth comes out, as come it must,
provided the Duchess escapes being poisoned, and is al-
lowed to leave France alive, that disclosures will be made,
and acts of base perfidy and injustice proved, as shall add
another wreath of immortal sable leaves to the coronal of
the son of Egalite.
We say that all doubt as to the Count LUCCHESI PALLI
being the lawful husband of the Duchess de BERRI is
removed; first, by his appearance and reception in Paris
in that capacity; and, secondly, by his having obtained
permission, which, questionless, he did through the in.
terference of the foreign ambassadors, to visit the prin-
cess at Blaye. Had there been " a loop to hang a doubt
on," as Othello jealously expresses it,—had there been
any flaw in the marriage contract, had there been any
legal bar, no matter how frivolous, to the Count's claim,
or his marital jurisdiction, we may depend upon it
that the " citizen king" would most readily have availed
himself of the objection, and retained his niece in her
present abode, under a renewed tempest of insult and
calumny. What has occurred, however, is so far for-
tunate, inasmuch as it will lead, unless some new intrigue
is set on foot, which would not surprise us, to the libera-
tion of the Duchess, and a history of the machinations
under which she has been so much reviled.

If ministers do not stop in their reckless career of confis-
cation and ruin—if the people of this country do notsee the
perilous situation in which they are placed, after reading
the speeches delivered at the great London meeting, on
Monday last,' then, say we, that not even an angel from
heaven could stop the one or save the other I
As a nation, we are placed amid more tremendous dif-
ficulties than we have ever hitherto been called upon to en-
counter. The fate of a mighty empire is in the hands of
a few wretched men, too ignorant to descry the danger,
and too impotent to resist the pressure of a faction of
fanatics on the one side, and revolutionists on the other.
For reasons only known to an inscrutable Providence,
they are placed at the head of affairs—the master-spirits
of reform—to ride in a tempest over which they have no
control—to be driven about they know not where, with-
out a compass or a helm. They are suffered, for the
same inscrutable reasons, to level to the ground the in-
stitutions of the kingdom, to play at football with our re-
ligious establishment's, and, as Pierre says,
" To cheat the people with a show of liberty,"
_ _

while in their hands the whole fabric of the monarchy,
the peace of society, the bases of national credit, the
sources of wealth, and the stimulants of industry, are
doomed to destruction.

Let us consider for a moment the contrast which the
meeting of Monday last exhibits when, compared with
those meetings which have lately overawed his Majesty's
ministers. Let us first take those over which such men
as Colonel JONES, Mr. HETHERINGTON, Mr. WAKLEY,
Mr. MURPHY, and others, presided in the metropolis.
Is there a man of real intelligence in the country who
could, under any possible circumstances, have any regard
for the character, public or private, or the principles,
concealed or avowed, of these obscure but poPUlar re=
formers? Of all the leaders of the mob there is not an
orator amongst them one tithe so respectable, in point of
talents or otherwise, as Mr. T. Arrwoon, of Birmingham.
In the large towns, numbers alone have given an im-
posing force to the argunients of these demagogues, and