The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-05-28 00:00:00

TO OUR READERS.

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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD is presented to its - at.
and the public in a new form, under iMprovea
rangements, and with an increased size. Whg th
has been done will be easily explained in a fat' 10.
The support which we have received in so short a Peg
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as six months has been, we are proud to say, quite 00
precedented in the history of any provincial j'arri.7,,
The circulation of the STANDARD has steadilY la,
creased, far beyond our expectatiOns, ever since it it
established; and our advertisements, although of ip
0;
very highest order, and untainted by the ealPirl •
drugs and impositions of the day, are also increasy;
in a similar ratio. Encouraged by this success,/
ts,
which we beg to express our grateful acknowledgo
we have resolved to render our paper still more gel!,
rally useful, and a more convenient medium of eonl ,r
ing our political opinions to those who entertain
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sentiments, or are liberal enough to countenance
passionate discussion on the part of a political cirrt
ponent. The form which we have adopted we PI it
ourselves offers many facilities for tkise objects.
contains considerably more matter thdn formerly, belt.,
arranged, more easily referred to, and much-more O.,ci
veniently and expeditiously printed. We have nic
er,
moreover, a valuable addition to our commercial, tilted
canti le, and agricultural tables, and we have establish
so many agencies in all the large towns throughout 1m
,
three kingdoms, as well as in the colonies, and info
reign countries, as will enable us to supply a larifjr
oi
quantity of early and correct information than
other paper.
The peculiar advantages derived front the centrali..
Lion of Liverpool, with reference to all other rats
England, Scotland, and Ireland, and our waxer'
agencies, have induced us to publish a SECOND EDl'll°;
every Tuesday and Friday afternoon, containing 1
most important intelligence, political, commercial, a 71.„
agricultural, received by the mails of those days fru'l,
every division of- tliemp ire,.and by the nunielthz`
arrivals at this port from tilt q-uarteri of the st(ffoni,
together with the state of the General Produce,
ton, and Corn Markets, brought down to a late
which intelligence will be conveyed to all parts of I
three kingdoms by the mails of the same evenings al:
to the whole of the British colonies, the United gal":
of America, and other foreign countries, by the
_.,ol`ii;
merous packet-ships, and other vessels whose jeer- to
and systematic departure on fixed days. is peculiar
the port of Liverpool.
Each publication of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, the
fore, will be equal to one morning and one eottlia,
paper; and, in consequence of the universal cite° ill
lion which it enjoys, it presents advantages, both
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promptness of information and for advertiseosel
unequalled by any other newspaper.

Ebt Eiberpool 'tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 28, 1833.

It has been said by some one that " he would be a b°P
man who should attempt to tamper with the funded Ifil;
perty of this country." And questionless he would be
bold man ; but we, nevertheless, are of opinion that t
men who are tampering with property in the Wes
Indies are bold enough, or ignorant enough, to do Oi
thing, even to applying the annihilating sponge
,to the 4
national debt. We are, besides, of opinion,—an
which we do not express without due and calm conside;
tion—that the measure of his Majesty's ministers---blie
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promulgated by Mr. STANLEY—is calculated to inflict ii
much misery upon families as would, be inflicted by tof
besom of destruction if applied to the funds. Justice'
course, has nothing to do with either measure. To r°o
the fundholder would be a flagrant crime—to rob the
planter is a crime of an equally deep and imperisbaoo_L
dye. To rob the fundholder would be a crime, perborof
unattended with any sanguinary consequences, exceP.to,
a private nature, such as despair superinducing suicid
te
But to emancipate the slaves without giving ado:l°2lof
compensation to the slave-owner must lead to events
too fearful and heart-rending a nature to be rashly °r
prematurely announced.
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We have been particularly impelled to make these 0
servatious by the contents of a letter of recent date fr°
Jamaica, written by a magistrate of that island, and Placed
in our hands by a gentleman on whose credibility the
most unbounded confidence may be reposed. It °i a
later date, by two days, than any letter we have
Yet seeand therefore we attach more importance to it. The
following is an extract :

" Kingston, April 20tb'
"The election of members to the House of Assembly f°
this city took plaee on the 18th instant. Mr. Watkis and Sri
Campbell, both men of colour, were returned on the profess°
principles of the radical party, in opposition to Mr. Medal
and Mr. Bravo, who stood on the Conservative interest,
are both meu of the highest respectability, and of large PrAV
party. Mr. Mitchell, the mayor of Kingston, was the tb"
member, and he is elected on the Conservative interest. The
successful candidates, Watkis and Campbell, are men 1100"
no stake in the Island; this is the result of enlarging the cod
stituent body by a Jamaica Reform Bill, which has extee",
the elective franchise to all ten-pound holders of prePertr
without distinction of colour. These two men were retureodi
not on account of their talents or property, but on accotglt 6
their colour—by electors of colour."
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There are some parts of the letter of so combust.-:hi-
nature, and evidently written under great exciter() eovo
that, in the discharge of a responsible duty, We tte
thought it expedient to suppress: The return of 113;•
oolouredgentleruen ie one of the results of the Peruic:oo,
aystetu pursued by Lord Mulgrave. Here we ha"
of no property whatever, like some of the honourablol
solvents of our own-Parliament, elected by brother Pati ot*
pars, to legislate upon matters relative to the propertied,
ethers- Thus the servile war has already cornmencoo
An attack is made by the desperate and the needy tiPihe
the wealthy and the industrious. The agitator and woo
ac e
leveller are let loose, under parliamentary authority, °br
the peaceful and the Conservative. Those who
sop
something to lose are to be governed by persons ig it
have neither property nor character to peril. 11°`v.vihi
possible that society can hold together under such
and insane measure of reform ?