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LATEST FOREIGN

INSURRECT

Since the intelligence I

appears in anoti

maica, the Haytien schoo
Prince, brought the follos
from St. Dominzo

'' An insurrect

23rd of April
into the ca

, with a lar

and pared

their intention to depose tl
ther in his place. This was
sident sending a messenger t
by a detachment of soldi

but, every effort tc

)ortive, a serious cold
defeat of the insurgen

The bodies of the

vernment were removed c

mains of the insurgents

morning as a
off and their bo

manner ; many in whom life was s
jected to the same treatment. For
a person of colour was able to wa

,ssinated

being immediately as
to whom the utmost license
those so assassinated were c
beach, and there buried in de
the British and French Con:
and such protection as they cc
but the absence of a British s

The he

!e on the

3anied

crowded to excess

Elortly followed

These proceedings in Port-a.
by an insurrection in the south, .
dent Soulouquc had marched, it was reported, at the head
of 6,000 men, but the result had not transpired. Another
disturbance broke out at Miraguane, to which the Presi-
dent forthwith repaired at the head of a considerable force,
and meeting the insurgents on the 30th of April, routed
them with little trouble, and was thence on his way to
Aux Cayes. A proclamation had in the meantime been
issued :ay the Governor denouncing the following persons
as traitors, to be seized and shot without the slightest
ceremony, viz., Preston,—Colonel Guignard. Margion,
Bance, Chicitte, Barrott, Blockhurst, Paul Emile, Archer,
St, Armand (a barrister,) Mondesir, Sanilouge, Dumai
L'Espinasse, and Solomon Zamor. Most of these, how-
ever, are understood to have effected their escape. Among
the number shot by order of the President at Port-au
Prince were Dr. Marlet, H. Brouard, Landon, Le liar
monien," Francoi
Basquinat, Colonel Ize,
of the condemned insu-
board the the Frew+

au-Princc

CAPE OF GOOD HOPI

From Cape Town jou
that Sir H. Smith had fou
nifesto, addressed to the c
tory beyond the Orange River
criminal designs of some interested pc
ing his determination to maintain, bi
the British sovereignty, and carry out
that have been already issued. The _
observed as a day of thanksgiving throughout t
fcr the restoration of peace._

.pril, it ap

ary to issue a ma-

;rant colonists in the terri-

. ,
WHOLESALE HORRIBLE MURDI
on Saturday at the Home OffiE
New South Wales (Si Charlcsl
particulars of several revoltii
been perpetrated by Mr. The
wealthy settlers in the colony
took place at Grafton, in the
Early in the year 1840, Mr.
and took a very large allot ment

lons, and express-
trims if necessary,

the proclamation°

March was
to colony

tichices receive

iovernc

communicates the
s, alleged to have

TO ADVERTISERS.

We beg respectfully to call the attention of

Merchants, Brok

luctioneers, and others,

to the important fact that the

LIVERPOOL STANDARD

IS NOW THE

ONLY NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHED WEEKLY ON TUESDAY,

can be read on that day by the thousands
of Manufacturers and others attending

rHE TUESDAY'S MARKET IN
MANCHESTER.

The STANDARD is taken at all the Newsrooms
and respectable Inns in that town and the

surrounding manufacturing district

A SECOND.EDITION is published at Half-past
Two, in time for the North Mails, containing the
MARKETS, and any news of importance that
may arrive in the course of the morning.

Ebt Ethapool &tatibarb.

TUESDAY

MORNING, JUNE 6, 1848

Os Thursday evening, with the usual stage ef-
fect no doubt, the Premier, Lord John Russell,
rose in the House of Commons, and delivered him-
self of the following announcement :
" I wish to give two notices of motion. One is,
that I propose on Monday next to ask for leave to
bring in a bill to alter the form of oath to be re-
quired of members on taking their seats in parlia-
ment." There was, of course, the usual " Hear,
hear" in response to this weighty communication.

" The other is, that on Friday I shall move for
leave to bring in a bill to repeal so much of the
law as makes it necessary to pay the as-
in order to be on the register as an

existin

sessed tax(
elect

)r in cities and boroughs." The same equi-
vocal response followed; and the Premier sat down,
big in the consciousness of having astounded the
house and the country—done something to redeem
the former from the contempt intowhich it is falling,
and the latter from the suffering in which it is
steeped to the very lips. _ _

What feelings.

however, save those of indigna-
tion and contempt, ought to he excited amongst a
thoughtful people by this idle trifling with the
time of the legislature—this attempted mockery of
their wants—this astounding feebleness and blind-
ness in the midst of the present crisis of the na-
tion's and the world's affairs ? We stand upon a
heaving volcano ; the elements of disorder surround
us on every side ; pauperism, bankruptcy, and ruin
are spread over the face of the land ; and the go-
nment—if such a thing can be called a govern-
-to whom every eye ought to be turned for
succour and protection, think to cheer our hearts
by allowing a Jew representative for the city of
London to creep into the House of Commons by
the back stairs. Unemployed and exasperated
thousands, in the manufacturing districts, are arm-
ing and assembling for outrage and destruction of
property; rebellion in Ireland has thrown away its
bout to throw down the gauntlet to
the British government; and that government, in
the feeble hands of Whiggery barely able to main-
tain itself against the scamps and pickpockets of
London, thinks to calm the gathering tumults by
a petty modification of the ratepaying clauses of
the Reform Bill—by declaring it unnecessary to
pay, in order to secure a vote, what four-fifths of
the electors in cities and boroughs have never been
under any liability to pay. What a mighty weapon
is this with which to put down the Chartist rioters
lradford and Manchester ! What hungry
hs it will fill ! What shuttles and looms it
iet in motion. The Roman Emperor fiddling
lst the flames of burning Rome, must for a
s a pigmy in heartless absur-
dity, compared with Lord John advancing with
his smuggled Jew, and his mite of parliamentary
reform, to right the affairs of a nation, never before
o hopelessly tangled, and to heal the sufferings of
ople, never before so intense and appalling.

'nd is a

in out

ai
time be

We appeal to that people, and ask them here—
is it not time that this miserable farce of Whig

Government should be
willing—are they in a position
bination of

put an end to ? Are they
—to endure a com-
mingled trifling and recklessness of

The answer of every loyal and sensible
man, who has life and property at stake, must be
"No." It cannot go on. We must have a Go-
vernment, not a mockery of the name ; and there

never w

a time when it was more vitally im-
portant that the Government should be a strong
not an interest in the country, not
an institution, which is not disorganized, and
loudly demanding the intervention of wise, ex-
perienced, and, above all, of firm statesmanship.
This is no time for peddling paltry attempts to get
rid of the solemn decision of any branch of the
legislature by a side wind, or for entering upon the
debateable ground of Parliamentary Reform, with
trumpery concessions such as this of Lord John
Russell, When the captain of a vessel, driven
before a gale, sees sheet. after sheet stripped away
by the tempest, and breakers rolling beneath her
hould be amazed at his insanity if we
eizing such a moment to call upon his
ass a proposed alteration in the ship's
effect of an extra button upon a regu-
Yet this very insanity, in a worse
by the lethargy with
permit the most incompetent ministry
I at the head of the affairs of this great

!'here is

Pig, o:

now tc

r place

grimace and mouthe and meddle with
every settled institution of the country, at a crisis
like the present. We must tolerate it no longer.
Endurance is now becoming sinful. It is disloyalty
crown these wretched

to th

tricksters are perilling, dishonesty to the nation,
whose best interests they are jeopardising, and
heartless cruelty to our suffering working masses
whom they are sinking, by their dogged worship
theory, and their incapacity, deeper and deeper
ry day into misery and discontent and crime.
Fhe country must make an effort to release itself
resent position, and to get rid of these
ire an incubus upon its energies, and a
_ the eyes of the world to its intelligence.
lav be asked, with whom do we seek to re-
Our answer is that we cannot by any
men, and that we must, there-
ge. Give us a pilot whom
and bent upon running us
, and we can watch him, and per-
Leave us to the guidance of a
a crotchetty fool, and
osition of Providence in
om wreck.

place them

fore, benefit by a eh

to be

nothing but
our behalf cl

We call then upon the merchants, the trades-
men, the shopkeepers, the working classes ; we call
Upon the intelligence of Liverpool to come forward

in this emergency, and to make their voice heard
in a demand for the dismissal of these incompe-
tent men from the councils of her Majesty. There
t to be two opinions with respect to our
its matter. Some of us are confederation
reformers of our system of local tax-
we for any efficient aid from Lord
linistry ? We have no such hope.
st of us—desire reductions in the
[re, equalization in the pressure
idicious alterations in the mode
enue of the country. Do the
t such boons from these
ncapables ? No. Some of
nd the prospect _of con-

national e:

rcation, and

of levyin
most sar

g the r

us are sick with chat
timia

_..wale, A ministry, which seeks such
change, without the slightest notion of the result
to which it will lead ; which is ever bent experi-
mentalising, yet without experience to direct them;
whose legislative principle is the thimble-rig-
art, and whose only consistent and abiding
idea is the rule to be continually pulling down, or
pulling to pieces, gives us little assurance of that
abiding state of things, upon which alone commer-
cial men can base their confidence, and in which
alone they dare to put forth their speculative ener-
gies. Many of us are working men, depressed by
the times, heart-sick and hungry, with wives
and children at home, and no bread to give them.
Do any such men hope for anything from Lord
John Russell's ministry ? No. He has just of-
fered them his backstairs entrance for the Jews, and
his modification of the rate-paying clauses of the
Reform Bill. He has not offered them even a
stone when they cried for bread, but a bubble.
You cannot walk through any street in any town
in the empire; you cannot enter any company, go
upon any exchange, or attend any fair or market,

in which nine men out of ten that you meet, and
the tenth is some hungry expectant of place, or a
place man already—do not scout the notion of any
good thing being derived from such a set. They
are recorded failures—admitted humbugs of the
first water, and even worse. _ .

We call therefore upon the intelligence of Liver-
pool to bestir itself to get rid of Lord John and
his colleagues. Worse, we have already said, can-
not be found. Better, we trust, are within the
reach of this people. Let a public meeting be
called; let an agitation be set on foot, and vigor-
ously conducted ; and a memorial laid at the foot
of throne praying for the removal of the incubus
which is now oppressing us; and we shall be doing
five thousand times as much for our own preserva-
tion as all the confederations and associations
united could effect. Let her Majesty offer to the
premier a dukedom, the command of the channel
fleet, or anything else he likes ; pension off, no
matter at what price, Lord Palmerston, Sir Charles
Wood, and the rest; only spare the nation the
dreadful infliction of their presence in Downing-
street.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCIL—FRIDAY
(Sittings in Banco.)
NORRIS V. FRESH,

This was an action of trespass, to which the defendant
pleaded a justification. The question turned on the con-
struction of the Liverpool Improvement Act, 5 and 6
Viet., c. 106, by the 94th section of which it is provided
that " when any house or building, any part of which
now projects beyond the regular line of the street, or
beyond the front of the houses or buildings on either side
thereof, in any street within the borough, shall be taken
down to be rebuilt or altered, the same shall be set back
to the line of the street. or to the line of the adjoining
house or building, in such manner and according to such
elevation as the council shall approve of for the improve-
ment of such street ; and when the said house or building
shall not adjoin the house and building to be so taken
down, but shall be separated therefrom, then the same
shall be set back to the line of such street ; provided
always, that the council shall make compensation to any
such owner for any loss or damage he may sustain in con-
sequence of his house being set back according to the pro-
visions herein contained." The plaintiff was owner of
some houses, with areas in front of them, in a street
called Islington, at Liverpool, and after the passing of
the act the plaintiff pulled down the corner house and
commenced rebuilding it somewhat in advance of the
other houses, but not beyond the limits of the areas. The
corporation of Liverpool interfered to prevent this, and in
so doing committed the trespass for which the plaintiff
hrought his action. The learned judge (Mr. Justice
Wightman) at the trial construed the line of street to
mean that along which the public had a right to pass, and
not the line of houses, and therefore the jury found a
verdict for the plaintiff. A rule having been obtained for
a new trial on the ground of misdirection,
Mr. Watson, Q.C., and Mr. Cowling appeared to show
cause against this rule, and Mr. Knowles, Q.C., Mr.
Martin, Q.C., and Mr. Crompton, in support of it. A
model of the street, comprising the house, areas, gar-
dens, &c., was exhibited in court, and used by counsel to
illustrate their arguments.

The Court said there was great difficulty in compre-
hending the meaning of the act in question, in consequence
of the obscure, ambiguous, and doubtful mode in which
the sections were framed. They were, however, unani-
mously of opinion that the learned judge's construction
was right, and that the rule must be discharged.

THE BIRKENHEAD DOCK BILLS.-DECISION

OF THE COMMITTEE

At a quarter-past one on Monday afternoon, the Par-
liamentary Committee gave their decision in the case of
the Birkenhead Dock Completion Bill.
The Chairman, after the parties had been out nearly an
hour, announced that the preamble of the bill, empower-
ing the Woods and Forests to advance £150,000 to com-
plete the dock works at Birkenhead, had not been proved.
The promoters then prayed for a few days adjournment,
to consider what course they should take with the other
bills.

The application was granted.
The division in the committee upon the preamble was
—ayes, 4 ; noes, 5 ; majority, 1. The chairman did not
vote.