The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-11-22 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

.
Dec. 14, T. Marris and R. Nicholson, Barton-upon-Humber and
Glamford Briggs, Lincolnshire, bankers.—Dec. 10, R. Thomson and
T. D. Mildred, Sun-court, Cornhill, merchants.—Dec. 14, J. Strang-
man. jun., Queen-street, Cheapside, flour-factor.—Dec. 12, J. and A.
Morgan, and W. P. Paton, Sun-Court, Cornhill, and Singapore and
Batavia, merchants.—Dec. 10, W. G. Clover, Holborn. linen-draper.
Dec. 11, J. Quarterman, Wanstead,.Essex, coach-builder.—Dec. 12,
J. I. Winstanley, Holborn-hill, and Cranborne-street, Leicester-
square, hosier.—Dec. 12, C. L. Spitta, F. and G. Moiling, and 11. A.
Spitta, Laurence Pountney-lane, merchants.—Dec. 18, W. Butt,
Sheerness. Kent, linen-draper.—Dee. 10, C. Thorogood, New Church-
street, Lisson-grove, victualler.—Dec. 10, G. Carr, jun., Friday-street,
Staffordshire-warehluiseman.— Dec. 10. H. French, Whitechapel,
glass-cutter.—Dec. 11, J. Zimmer, Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square,
merchant.—Dec. 12, G. Duckworth, Fleet-street, printer.—Dee. 13,
H. Cooper, Upper Clapton, paper-manufacturer.—Dec. 11, G. Mole,
Bread-street-hill, merchant.—Dec. 10, R. Songhurst, Budge-row,
Watling-street, box-case-maker.—Dee. 11, C. Welman, Bridport,
Dorsetshire, linen-draper.—Dec. 10, J. and 1. Beckett, Bilston, Staf-
fordshire. t;rocers.—Doe. 20, J. Wilkinson, Sheffield-park, Yorkshire,
coal-m•-rehant.—Dee. 19, T. Wilgos, J. Dearden, and G. Hovland,
Sheffield, tile-manufacturers.—Dec. 11, W. Dawson, Yeadon, 'York-
shire, grocer.—Dec. 11, L Lewis, Newton-moor, Cheshire, cotton-
spinner.—Dec. 18, R. Newhouse, Huddersfield, plumber.—Dec. 17,
T. Dean, Manchester. publican.—Dec. 12, C. R. R. Wclby, Leicester,
banker.

CERTIFICATES, DEC. 10.
J. Drew, Manchester. anctioneer.—W. Ashwin, Redditch, Worces-
tershire, grocer.—J. Muirboad, Buxton, Derbyshire, innkeeper.—
N. Temperley, Villa-place. Northumberland, ship-owner.—J. ICorff,
Kirtley, Suffolk, ship.builder.,-J. Brodrick. Pivirnouth, rasuroh s..tk
W. T. Pinwill. Exeter, linen-draper.—C. 11. Byrne Liverpool, sail-
maker.—J. Dean, Liverpool, tailor.—W. Baxter, Oxford, printer.

It is asserted that Earl Talbot has at length purchased the
Tixal estate by private contract, for a sum little short of
£320,000. •

A QUA LIFICATION.-A merchant lately advertising for a
clerk " who could bear confinement," received an answer from
one who had been seven years in goal!
-

Sir William Blizard, at the age of nearly 100 years, has
tendered his resignation as surgeon of the Loudon Hospital.
The members of the University of Oxford are beginninu to
look about for a successor to Lord Grenville in the chancellor-
ship of that university. Various persons have Leen named,
including the Dukes of Beaufort and Wellington. the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, Lords Eldon, Sidntouth, and Carlisle.

PLATINA.—This metal is, as is well known, generally found
in Siberia and South America, in the state of small grain,;
though some considerable masses of it have been met with in
the former of those countries. In the Nishneiragiiskish works, be-
longing to the Deoridow family, four molten lumps, for instance,
weighing ten, nineteen, nineteen and a had, and thirteen
pounds, were discovered at different times. The smallest of
these is at present preserved in the Mineralogical Museum of
the Mining Institute at St. Petersburgh ; the others, in the
private collection of the liemidows in the same capital.

Mr. Stanley is about to pay his noble relatives in the north
another visit. The right honourable Secretary wiltleave Carlton-
gardens on Friday next, (this day,) for Knowsley. the seat of
the Earl of Derby, and Latham, the residence ~f Lord Skel-
mersdale (his father-in-law.) The new Under-Secretary for
the Colonial Department, Mr. Shaw Lefevre, Jun., appointed
by Mr. Stanley. on the resignation of N iscount Howick, will
perform, in catjunction with Mr. Hay, the other Under-Secre-
tary, all the routine duties of the right honourable gentleman
during his absence.

The few cedars remaining on Mount Lebanon, (about 200,)
20 of which are very large, are preserved with a religious. strict-
ness. On the day of the transfiguration the patriarch repairs
in procession to the Mount, and celebrates the " Feast of
Cedars."

The conservative club has taken possession of the whole of
the space so long vacant on the south side of Pall-mall, and
the necessary excavations for their new mansion are already
commenced. The terms upon which they helve taken this
ground of the public have not yet transpired.

One of the most cruel deaths on record is that of Sir Thomas
Blount, of Belton, who had engaged with his kinsman Nicholas
in the attempt to restore Richard 11, to the throne in the ,'ear
1-1(0. He was hanged, says Burke in his "History of the
Commoners of England;" but the halter was soon cut, and he
was made to sit on a bench before a great fire, and the execu-
tioner came with a razor in his hand, and knelt before Sir
'1 homes, whose hands were tied, begging him to pardon his
death, as he must do his office. Sir Thomas asked, "Are you
the pers,,n appointed 'to deliver me from this world ?" The
executioner answered, "Yes, sir; I pray you will pardon me;"
and Sir Thomas kissed and pardoned him his death. The exe-
cutioner then knelt down and opened his belly, cut out his
bowels, and threw them into the fire. While Sir Thomas was
dying, one Erpvngham, the King's chamberlain, insulting
Blount, said to him in derision, "Go seek a master who can
cure you." Blount golly. answered...." 7'e Daum lasaansite
Blessed be the day on which I was born, and blessed be this
day, for I shall die inlhe service of my sovereign lord the noble
King Richard." His head wai soon after cut off, and he was
quartered.

- IMPUDENCE" NINE-TENTHS OF TIDE LAW, A. D. Ism !—A
curious incident occurred a few tlaYs ago, in the cuisine of the
* • • • * Hotel. Whiist considerable preparations
were in progress in anticipation of a large dinner, which was
fixed to take place on that day. an unknown person deliberately
walked into the kitchen, and was observed to notice very
closely the proceedings of the head cook and his assistants.
At first, the Intruder was gazed at with that species of happy
nonchalance and immoveable disposition with which the coun-
try squire, sitting by his fire-side after dinner, enjoying his
port wine and to-sting " Success to old England," views on a
sudden. with feelings of half anger, half commiseration, the
diminutive mouse—fearful and agitated---cross the threshhold
of his floor. After surveying with somewhat pertinacious in-
quisitiveness the operations which were then going on, he ven-
tured with the utmost sang froid (making use, it is said, only of his
eyes.) to enter the larder, wherein was stored a grand display of
game of al, descriptions, butcher's meat in abundance, and a va-
riety of other supplies, which, forthe sake of brevity, we will term
"desirables." Curiosity at teat, however, began t 7 rouse from its
slumber ; and the head cook, whose duty it was to protect the
property committed to his care, thought it would be well to
keep a close eye on the proceedings of the individual in ques-
tion. Amongst other occupations, the intruder had discernment
sufficient to perceive, that turtle soup was one of the objects
engaging the skill and attention of the maitre-de-citi.sine.
At length silence was broken, and, almost in one breath, these
questions were addressed to the head conk. "Pray where do
von pun hale your turtle? Is it caught in the river Mer-
sey ? And how much do you pay for it ?" Nettled and
annoyed at the ignorance that could dictate and the imper-
tinence that could ask such questions, from an utter stranger
too, the cook indignantly refused at first to reply; but, on
taking a second glance at the inquirer, and -believing his
intellect to- he disturbed, he merely retaliated by asking,
whether he had net observed boys on the steps of the Prince's
Pierhead, and at low water, on' the banks cf tie river, with a
large bait, attached to a iere of cord, endeavouring to catch
tnrtle ? The stringer-made no reply, but immediately inserted
the information in a sort of memorandum book. The cook,
however, had no time to idle, and thought it most advisable
to ask his visitor who he was, and what he wanted ? Thrice
were these questions put without eliciting a reply; but
.judgenf the surprise and consternation created, when the stranger
bristled up his back, and, regarding the head cook with a scorn-
Ail and haughty mien, exclaimed, "Don't 'you know me ? I
am the commisioners' cook!"

FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22, 1833.

The affairs of Don PEDRO are rather gloomy at present,
and the Regency stock is tumbling down, amid the con-
sternation of the Jews, gamblers, swindlers, or other
equally worthy persons of the Stock Exchange. The
Miguelites, contrary to all expectation, seem to be in
considerable strength in the neighbourhood of St. Übes,
having attacked the Pedroites to the number of 1,500
men, most of whom have been killed or wounded. This
intelligence, which is a striking contrast to that which
generally emanates from the camp of Pedro, may be re-
lied upon. It is contained in a letter, written by an Eng-
lishman of the name of BIRT, who calls himself a captain
of marines; but he is evidently a cockney, and very pro-
bably a man milliner. This "captain of marines" writes
to Captain NAPIER, whom he styles " my lord," as fol-
lows :

LETTER FROM CAPTAIN GIRT TO ADMIRAL NAPIER.

" St. Übes, Nov. 3.

"My Lord,—l beg to inform you that the enemy attacked
our position at Alcacer on the morning of the 2d instant, in
three columns, consisting of infantry and cavalry, to the num-
ber of 1500, under the command of General Lemos. The
English and Portuguese marines under my command were sta-
tioned in front of the Constitutional troops as skirmishers, and
kept the enemy at bay till the cavalry charged them in three
squadrons, when we immediately formed into squares, and twice
repulsed them with great loss. We then prepared to charge a
column of infantry who were advancing, but the Portuguese
volunteers and 9th infantry, who were stationed in our rear, see-
ing the determined manner in which we were attacked, betook
themselves to rapid flight without firing a shot, leaving my men
with some of the Portuguese rharines to do the best we could,
when, finding ourselves overpowered by numbers, we com-
menced our retreat, keeping the enemy at bay, and covering
the flight of the Portuguese. I tried to persuade the Colonel
commanding our troops (who asked my opinion) to retire to a
convent, a strong position on our right, at which place we
might have made a good stand ; instead of doing this, he led to
the marshes beside the river, and here the scene was beyond
description ; the whole country was strewed with arms and ac-
coutrements, which the volunteers threw away in their flight,
and the enemy's cavalry closing on them, hewed them down in
all directions. I kept my men together, and made good my
retreat to the side of the river, with the loss of only three men;
but on coming to the river, for want of boats (the Portuguese
troops having taken all) the men were obliged to throw away
their arms and accoutreniente, and swim acmes under a heavy
fire of musketry from the enemy, who lined the north bank in
this place. lam sorry to say my loss was great, in consequence,
I fear, of some of the officers and men breaking off to the right,
and attempting to pass the river lower down. They were all
cut off. My loss consists of Mr. Ebsworth, taken prisoner; Mi.
Fitzpatrick, drowned in crossing the river; four non-commis-
sioned officers and thirty men killed and taken prisoners. I
assure your Excellency I cannot speak too highly of the gallant
conduct of my officers and men.
"The Colonel commanding lest all self-command, and gave
himself up to the enemy, and a great number of the volunteers,
when they found themselves surrounded, passed over to the
enemy, crying ' Viva Don Miguel.' The loss of the Portu-
guese in killed, wounded, and taken prisoners could not be less
than 800 men.

" The remainder of my men and officers are now on board
the Donna Maria, where I wait your excellency's orders.
" I have the honour to be your excellency's most obedient
humble servant, DIRT, Captain of Marines.
" St. Übes; Nov. 4."

By the Packet ships, Britannia, Captain SKETCISLEY,
and Carroll of Carrollton, Captain BIRD, which arrived
late on Tuesday, we have received files of American pa-
pers to the 2d instant. They do not contain any political
news of moment. The latest arrivals from Mexico, ex-
tend to the 29th September, received by the Express at
New Orleans ; the contending parties were less active
than they had been, but little prospect existed of early
tranquillity for the country. The following extract from
one of the latest New York papers is the only news
worth giving :
"Nrw ORLEANS, Oct. 12.—FRom AlExtco.—By the Express,
Capt. Bailey, from Vera Cruz, gazettes or letters have been
received to tl.e 29th ult. A letter of latest date (the 29th) de-
clares that they are without intelligence from the interior, and
that things seemed stationary. Cholera had disappeared from
Vera Cruz.

" Colonel Escalada was under trial. He is author of the re-
volutionary iroject of an arbitrary government, on which the
rebels acted.

"A serjeant hae pursued a deserter into the church of La
Marced, in Mexico, attacked, stabbed, and let him for dead,
near the foot of the grand altar ; an act which had called forth
the exertions of the Minister of Justice and Church affairs, Don
Quintana Roo, to punish the sacrilege.
"One Alford had hanged himself in prison at Vera Cruz, with
his own handkerchief. He had been put in prison for intro-
ducing false coin (quartillas) in the ship Robert Wilson.
"Tt looks to es as a had presage that Arista and Duran were
Mltifying theniselves in Guanajuato. According to Mexico
dates of the 17th and Dth of September, Arista directed the
administration of affairs in the state, as a dictator. Santa Anna
was at Quaretero, inactive.

"Gen. Gomez entered the city of Orizaba on the 21st Sept.
with a handsome division and piece of ordnance, in pursuit of
the rebels, who had retreated."

The National Intelligencer gives accounts in various
numbers of dissensions of rather a serious nature in the
territory of Alabama, arising out of some transactions
connected with the Indians of the Creek nation.

The writer of the following remark, taken from a New
Orleans paper, is a logician of the matter-of-fact school,
with whom debate would be supererogatory.
" Fao M Naw ORLEANS.—We yesterday received the papers
of the 1-1:h and 15th instant. On the subject of the health of
New Orleans, we find, in one of the papers, this remark :
" 'lt will be perceived from the list of interments that the epidemic
has not decreased within the present month, and we fear that It would
be as bad as It has ever been, but for the want of subjects. We must again
caution our absent friends to be cautious in venturing into the city too
early. Strangers and unacelimated persons will certainly run a great
risk in venturing into town before frost.' "
"The interments on the 13th, 12; and on the 14th, 21. Total
since the commencement of the yellow fever, 1259."

AUGUSTA, OUT. 2-I.—The tops of houses yesterday morning
were white with frost—its first appearance this season ; and
vegetation in exposed situations has suffered very visibly.

Our Irish contemporaries, and some of our best allies
on this side of the channel, have expressed their astonish-
ment and indignation at the conduct of Mr. LITTLETON,
in having cOmmanded,poor Lord WELLESLEY to remove
Colonel BLACKER from the commission of the peace for
the county of Armagh. That they should be indignant
is natural enough—that they should be shaken in their
confidence in the, government, s equally natural—and
that they should feel their loyalty beginning to chill is

THE LI VERPOOL STANDARD.

also natural; but why astonished is it not part of the
system ? Did not they see from the first that this family com-
pact—an Irish queen going to mass—a viceroy under the
subjection of his son-in-law—and that son-in-law forced
upon the Whigs by hard necessity, would lead to every
sort of insolence, petty malignity, and overbearing ty-
ranny ? If there had been any thing like generosity in
the character of Lord WELLESLEY, which there is not;
or any disposition to forget former annoyances or former
errors, which we believe is contrary to his nature, still
they should have recollected that they had Mr. LITTLE-
TON to deal with, who has private obligations to fulfil,
and expectant, and of course conditional honours to re-
ceive. Even if Mr. LITTLETON had entered upon the
' government of Ireland uninfluenced by the hope of
reward, and unbound by any express or implied cove-
; nants, still they should have called to mind who and what
Mr. LITTLETON is, and whether in his whole political life
they could descry any thing like consistency to take as an
index of his principles. Principle! Consistency ! "there
is no such thing," as Macbeth exclaimed at the disap-
pearance of the "air drawn dagger." He has, like a shal-
lop in the eddy of the tide, danced round to every point
;of the political compass—a sort of Tory to-day—a kind
of Whig to-morrow—a mere costermonger in the rear
of all parties, having a vote to give for a consideration,
and an adverse motion to make if that consideration were
refused.

Our Dublin contemporaries were remiss in not sharp-
ening their faculties by means of the singular reminiscen-
ces of the chief secretary's life. They were led into
ambuscade by the tawdry sophisms of Lord WELLESLEY
—by a conciliatory demeanour that was intended to de-
ceive—by the soft dalliance and sweet words of a hag
nurse, who admixes arsenic with the children's gruel.—
They gave quarter when they should have been armed
in proof, and when the convivial cup was full they be-
lieved in a miracle—namely, the sincerity of the illustrious
hero of the " bottle treason."

Under other circumstances, they might have placed
Some` dependance upon the influence of the CrOwn, and
the sense of fear or shame, which would be more or less
effective if the administration of Lord GREY were left
even the shadow of control. But the appointment of Mr.
LITTLETON was forced upon them. They were fairly upon
the breakers when the concessions offered to O'CONNELL
and the priests compelled Mr. STANLEY to resign. LIT-
TLETON was the last person they would have dreamt of.
He had no official knowledge—no character—no preten-
sions to talent. He had no avenue to the ear of Lord
GREY, except through the peculiar relationship that sub-
sists between Mr. LITTLETON and Lord 'WELLESLEY.
Even with this he was overlooked, until every other more
favoured and more trusty adherent had been applied to in
vain. The post was pre-arranged for Sir JOHN Hoe-
HOUSE; but he lost Westminster, his honours, and his
salary, owing to the unpopularity of the ministry. It was
next offered to Mr. ABERCROMBIE, who, foreseeing the
consequences., refused to abdicate Edinburgh. Mr. EDW.
ELLICE shrunk from a renewed and extremely doubtful
contest in Coventry, on the same grounds. POULETT
TuomsoN offered ; but he was considered incompetent
even by the Whigs, who profess to respect him. One
CARTER, of Portsmouth, or some such place, was canvas-
sed, but he durst not. In short, after much perplexity,
LITTLETON was selected; and, knowing well that he owed
his good fortune to dire necessity alone, he made his own
terms, and took his departure for Ireland, with a viceroy
of his own choice, and armed with more power and autho-
rity than has ever fallen to the lot of any man deputed to
preside over the distractions and the treasons of that de-
graded country.
There he is, and if his acts do not immortalize his fa-
mily we are much mistaken. .We have seldom been
mistaken in estimating the value of public men, or in
divining the catastrophe to which bad measures un-
avoidably lead, and we have therefore no hesitation in
prognosticating that Mr. LITTLETON, under the auspices,
or ruling the fortunes of Lord WELLESLEY, will be a con-
spicuous and perhaps an exemplary-figure in our history.
He has already done that in Ireland, which if lie had done it
in England would very speedily 'have quenched his light
and made shipwreck of his power. He has not had the
courage to make war upon O'CONNELL, peinaps for this
onq,good reason, that the Lieutenant de facto and the
King de futuro understand each other passing well.—
There is not enough of the hated Sassanach's blood in his
veins to encounter the descendant of an hundred Irish
Kings, the last fifty generations of which have been
wreckers and smugglers. The English gentleman, alas
for our order ! quails before the holder of a felon's brief
and the assassin's advocate, and consents to do abject
homage to him who, under the influence of the most ob-
noxious priesthood in Europe, wrings from the wretched
peasant his last penny, and converts into brass the very
salt that savours the labourer's meal.

It would not do for such a man as the present chief
secretary for Ireland to enter the lists with the great
agitator and the greatest enemy of Ireland. No; he
professes liberalism ; he therefore leans to the side of
bigotry and tyranny ; he abjures Protestantism, and
takes the side of that faith which is based in oppression,
which revels in ignorance, which sets its brand upon free
thoughts, and which glories in making its dupes the in-
struments of its despotic aggrandisements To profess the
reformed faith in Ireland—that pure and gospel faith, for
professing which Luther was betrayed and murdered—
for professing which, our fathers were consigned to the
flames—for professing which thousands of Protestant
families in Ireland were butchered in cold blood, is now
a mark of political ignominy and an apology for every
foul wrong which the ministers of a Protestant king,
bound by oath to defend the Protestant religion, can heap
upon a true and loyal subject.

Be it so, for the present ! It is a trying period ; but
we humbly submit; not disconcerted—not downfallen—
not crucified from our alliance—not bating a single hair's
breadth of our loyalty—not dismayed either by heartless
apostacy, courtly weakness, imbecile concession, or by
the terrors or threats of venal and grasping statesmen who
are bleeding our suffering country under the mask of ad-
vancing her interests and consolidating her religious li-
berties—no ; we bear all this patiently, knowing that the
day of reckoning must come, when the outraged precepts
and the insulted justice of the English people, slow to
anger, but overwhelming as the burning lava when they
reconsider their errors, will demand atonement in a
voice that must be obeyed.
The day of.retribution is not far distant, and therefore
vre—carr well-alt'ord to wait its coming, as the shepherd on
the hillside waits the dawn. In the mean time, it. is ne-
cessary to put upon record that Mr. LITTLETON, the Lieu-
tenant of Ireland, has dismissed Colonel BLACKER from
the commission of the peace. No reasons are assigr.ed
_this is good ! It is done without reason, therefore are
we content. Colonel VERNER, a magistrate in the same
county, wrote to know the reasons for removing Colonel
BLACKER, and the object of his inquiry was to ascertain
the nature of his offence, in order that his bt other magis-
trates might know how to act—how they were to avoid
the supposed errors of Colonel BLACKER-110W they could
perform their duty to the Government without giving
offence. The answer was an insult. A greater insult
could not have been penned by O'CONNELL, or by Priest
DOYLE himself. " You are a private individual," says
Mr. Secretary LITTLETON, " and I decline giving any
information to you." Colonel VERNER next applies to
the LORD LIEUTENANT of the county—to my Lord Gos-
FORD. "You are," answers this sagacious Whig noble-
man, " a private individual, and I cannot condescend
to acknowledge your right to address me on such a sub-
ject." !

These are not the exact words, but they contain the
marrow of the answers. It is pleasant to observe that
Lord WELLESLEY does not appear in this genteel comedy.
He is passed over as one not worthy of any considera-
tion, and like an old dowager asleep in an easy chair
after dinner, the conversation goes on in an audible
whisper as if it did not signify whether she could hear it
or not. Colonel VERNER, of course, took nothing by
his motion, and in this uncertainty as to how he should
discharge his official duties, resigned his commission as a
magistrate. This was perhaps just what Mr. Secretary
LITTLETON wanted. To keep a magistrate in perfect igno
ranee of the duties which he is expected to perform is the

sure way to betray him. Colonel VEaNER saw that as
his coadjutor on the bench had sinned against the Govern-
ment unconsciously, he himself might fail into a similar
error, which would, of course, be followed by a similar
insult. He took the precaution, therefore, to throw up
his commission.

We take for granted that there will be no explanation
of this transaction until after the meeting of parliament.
But then an explanation must be given, and if that have
any reference to the protestant predilections of Colonel
BLACKER, the deeper will be the insult, and the more
perilous the consequences. The protestant population
of Ireland is the only portion of that vast population by
whom any thing like attachment to England or the
reigning family of the House of Brunswick is cherished,
and if by the mischievous petulance of Mr. LITTLETON,
and those who are about him, these brave and loyal men
are soured in their affections, or alienated from their
king, we might as well give Ireland up at once. There
is no tie which binds it to this country but that of reli-
gion. Destroy that, and dismemberment will follow as
a matter of course.

The question in every man's mouth now is, " Will
the Whig ministry succeed in shackling the press in Eng-
land as effectually as the juste milieu ministry of Loins
PHILIPPE have done in France? "

We say " No !" But before we assign a reason for
this answer, let us glance at the state of parties in the
respective countries. Old CHARLES Dix was expelled
from his dominions because he happened to employ a set
of ministers who might have passed for tolerable monks
in some secluded place where their hospitality to travel-
lers would, like charity, have covered a multitude of sins ;
but as statesmen or politicians they were the blindest and
silliest of mortals. They attacked the press, and confided
the enforcement of their ordonnances to an old marshal of
BONAPARTE'S, who might have made, at some period of
his life, a respectable cook, but who was never formed for
a general, although he had acquired some celebrity from
having lost Paris on three previous occasions. :'They at-
tacked the press; the press resisted; the printers barri-
caded their offices ; the people barricaded the streets ;
the women showered down paving-stones on the army of
the faithful; the shopkeepers fired upon the troops from
garret windows and from behind waggons ; the troops
mutinied; MARMONT Was beaten, and in the course of a
few days CHARLES the TENTH abdicated and was on his
march to England.
All this passed in an incredibly short period of time,
and at this hour it looks something like a dream. It
was an important reality, nevertheless. The republican
party, with Father Citizen LAFAYETTE at their head,
were once more masters of Paris, and they might, had
they been inclined, have re-established their favourite
form of government. But they looked back upon the
" reign of terror," and smelt blood. They had had a
surfeit of gore, and felt no desire to try an experiment
which might have had a similarly sanguinary end. They
called in Louis PRlLlPPE—dubbed him king—stitched
together a sort of charter—extended the political fran-
chise—annihilated the hereditary peerage—and amid the
blaze of tar-barrels and the roar of artillery proclaimed
themselves the happiest, freest, proudest, greatest na-
tion on the face of the earth !

This second revolution, then, was a revolution effected
by the press. Louis PHILIPPE was elected "King of the
French"—King of the Parisians would have been better
--by the newspapers—by their conductors, printers, pub-
lishers, compositors, pressmen, newsmen, and devils.—
But how did Louis PHILIPPE treat these men and instru-
ments to-whom he is indebted for his throne ? The journals
of the last two years can best tell. The liberty of the press
was tolerated by both the Bourbon kings of the restora-
tion. Louis XVIII never resorted to prosecution in
matters relating to himself. The censorship was occa-
sionally resorted to ; but this very censorship was removed
by CHARLES X when lie came to the throne. In the case
of Louis PHILIPPE, however, the press is more unmerci-
fully persecuted than it ever was during the whole dy-
nasty of the old Bourbons. There is hardly a day passes in
which some unfortunate editor is not dragged before the
tribunals. One journal has been prosecuted newly a
hundred times; and one poor man is in prison who, if his
several sentences be carried into full effect, is doomed to
linger there for fifteen years. About Louis PHILIPPE
and his paltry family—about his own personal matters :
about his private feelings supposed to be wounded—there
have been more prosecutions than would have kept the
bar of Paris in good practice, even if there had been no-
thing else doing in the courts. In short, there is nothing
like "liberty of the press" in France under the Citizen
King. The censorship would confer more freedom than
what exists under the present order of things. Under
the censorship every man is safe—no editor is responsible
—no damage is sustained. It is unpleasant, we admit, to
see leading articles mangled by official scissors—it is gall-
ing to see an illiterate brute of a police-officer sitting in
judgment upon the sentiments and writings of a gentle-
man—it is disagreeable to see a journal sent forth to the
world with one page blank—a type of the intellect of the
official tyrant ; but still we have no hesitation in saying,
that we should prefer even so odious and degrading a cen-
sorship as this, rather than live under the present libel laws
with such a king as LOUIS PHILIPPE—such an attorney-
general as M. PERSIL—or such a prime-minister as Lord
DURHAM.

But is there no remedy ? Yes. The potter who
moulded the clay can dash the utensil, the slop-basin,
or whatever it may be, to pieces. The press has the
power to drag down the puppet which it set up. The
men who made Louis PHILIPPE a king can unmake him,
toss him into the Seine, or hang him upon a lamp post.
But this would bring about another revolution—this
would lead to more bankruptcies—and drive away cus-
tomers from the shops of the badauds of Paris. A revo-
lution once every five years is often enough. Three of
the present reign only have past, and therefore it is but
reasonable to wait until the end of the term and abide
the events that are fast ripening. About that time, we
calculate, that HENRY THE FIFTH, not king of the
French, but king of France, will be on the throne of
his ancestors.

What the juste milieu ministers of France have done
and are doing in that country is about to be imitated by
the Whigs in England. Lord DURHAM has already com-
menced four criminal prosecutions against as many news-
papers. He has availed himself of the most odious and
objectionable power conferred by the libel laws,,And has
entered the courts, denying the allegations it- is true,
but taking at the same time special care that his victims
shall be prevented from proving their charges, if capable
of proof. He does not enter the court as most men do—
as all honourable men should do—and put the truth of
the accusations to issue before a jury of his country Men.
He does not meet his accuser fearlessly or bid him de-
fiance. He does not say, " Here am I, JOHN GEORGE
LAMBTON, Earl of DURHAM, an injured though an
honest man, the victim of foul slander, but being
strong in my innocence, I court inquiry, I desire
to stand before my accuser, and I challenge him to
prove his ord s, or be convicted before this upright
and intelligent jury." No; Lord DURHAM does no-
thing of the sort ; he only files an affidavit in the
court, swears that the allegations are false, but re-
sists a justification. This, we are aware, is tender
ground, and therefore we must speak by the card. We
do not assume that Lord DURHAM swears falsely,—God
forbid We do not even assume that the averments
could be justified, or that any portion of them is true ;
but we contend that, where justification is excluded, the
defendant is placed in a most perilous and helpless
position. Lord BROUGHAM understands what we mean;
he was counsel in the case of Bochsa!

It will perhaps be said that the whigs are not responsi-
ble for Lord DURHAM'S foolish and ill-timed prosecutions.
Perhaps not ; but there may be two opinions on the sub-
ject. It remains to be seen whether these are not sub
rosa, or, rather, sub toga state prosecutions. The em•
plovment of the Solicitor-General, who is, in point of fact,
Attorney-General, is rather suspicious. The over-zeal
in grappling with the Standard and the John Bull, who
were mere copyists of the offensive matter, is still more
suspicious. Simple people are easily imposed upon, and
a name goes a great way as a disguise. The W higs

NOVEMBER 22, 1833.

understand the trick well, and we shall be most agreeably
disappointed to learn that the Government are exonera-
ted from all share in this crusade against their standing
toast, " The liberty of the press." Liberty ! We bate
the very name of it, as BURKE once observed.

But, en passant, there are some rather singular cir-
cumstances connected with these extraordinary• if not
state, prosecutions which require explanation. How
comes it that at the very time when the Solicitor-Gene-
ral is applying for a rule in the King's Bench on behalf
of Lord DURHAM, some of the coal agents, and other
creatures of the noble earl, should be found committing a
most ruffianly attack upon the proprietor of the New-
castle Journal ? While Lord DURHAM threatens this
gentleman with fine and imprisonment, his agents go
more directly to work, and attempt to, maim or murder
him. What is the meaning of all this ? Do these peo-
ple wish to prevent the noble lord from wreaking his
vengeance in due form of law ? Is it their object to
forestal the peer, and cheat the lawyers ? It is a most
mysterious proceeding altogether, the particulars of
which, as detailed upon oath, the reader will find in
another column.

Upon the whole, Lord DURHAM is SO much identified
with the government, and hiS prosecutions or persecu-
tions have so much of a political and party tinge, that
the ministry will more or less be held responsible for
them. They will not be allowed to escape by any sub-
terfuge. Lord DURHAM is at any rate a Whig—a writer
in the n6wspapers himself—a liberal and a friend of liber-
ty—and therefore by committing himself he commits his
party, and drags into court, amid universal derision, his
and their professed principles. We should like to see
these alleged libels tried before Sir THOMAS DENMAN,
Baron BAYLEY, and Judge GURNEY. It would be enough
to make the lion and the unicorn blush.

In another page will be found the resolutions of the
Merchant Tailors' Company of London in reference to
the commissions of ingaity into municipal corporations.
These resolutions, founded upon the legal advice of Sir
.TAMES SCARLETT, Mr. FOLLETT, and Mr. RENNALL, ex-
press the sentiments we have entertained from the be-
ginning, and which we have more than once stated at
length. The commissions are illegal. No man is bound
by law or custom to pay the slightest regard to their
usurped authority, and we are strongly inclined to think
that those corporations who have yielded to their mandates
have not done strict justice to the freemen of their several
municipalities. The expediency of yielding is another
thing. In these times when the laws are trampled upon with
impunity, and ancient rights and usages are deemed of
no more value than an old almanac, it is difficult for pub-
lic officers to ascertain the safest course to steer'. Some
surrender from fear; others yield from conscious inno-
cence ; and some, perhaps, from sheer ignorance. We
have much to say on the subject, but the time has not yet
arrived.

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

ICednesday Evening, half-past Seven o'clock.

This has been a day of unusual dearth as regards foreign in-
telligence, independent of that published in the daily journals.
The consol market has been heavy, and the quotation of the
3 per Cents. is 87 8., Exchequer Bills have fallen to 40 and
41 premium.

In our foreign bonds, Portuguese Regency stock (!) has been
rather on the decline, the price having been at one time as low
as 591, and at the close it was 60A g. This has been caused -by
the defeat of Don Pedro's invincibles, and the bondholders
begin to think'that they may re-echo with respect to the divi-
dends the emphatic exclamation of Admiral Cape St. Vincent.
as regarded his forces, "As for the rest, God knows where they
are." Spanish stock at the close of business was 221 1. la
the northern bonds there is little doing ; Russian closed at
1024 i; Belgian, after being 911, closed at 951; and Dutch
closed at 49g There has been a decline in the Canada
shares, 46 10 to 47 10 having been the price this day.
Cz.pe of Good Hope papers to the Bth September have been
received. During the preceding fortnight there had been
a great deal of rain and very boisterous weather. The Berg
River had risen to a greater height than for many years.
Trade was very dull at the Cape.
We have also had Launceston papers to the 12th July.
Some idea of the value of land may be formed when it is stated,
that a piece of ground in the outskirts of the town had been
sold at above 6s. 6d. per foot. The bushrangers continued to
commit their burglaries in sight of the town itself, and set the
authorities at defiance.

The advices from Ancona state that it was the intention of
the Pope to place 6000 men at the service of the confederation
to be formed among the Italian States. The holy father was
also to advance a certain sum of money, and the same propor-
tion of troops were to ne furnished by the other Italian States.

LONDON LATEST SHIPPING NEWS.
Lloyd's, Fire o'clock, Wednesday:

The shipping intelligence received at Lloyd's to-day, relative
to the port of Liverpool, has been more meagre than we have
yet had to report. The only arrival of Liverpool vessels at fo-
reign ports is the Margaret, arrived at Naples, and neither speak
ings nor casualties have been posted on the board of the sub-
scribers' room.

A notice has been sent to Lloyd's from the Post-office, that
a mail for Cadiz, Gibraltar, and Malta, will be made up, to be
forwarded out by the Favourite, from Portsmouth. Letters will
be in time on the 22d.

It is stated that the Marquis of Sligo is about to proceed to
Jamaica as Governor of that Island, iu the place of the Earl
of Mu'grave, who has been ordered home.—Dublin Evening
Mail.

We understand that Mr. Ryan's process for the prevention
of dry-rot in timber has already met with much encouragement
here, for it is really distressing to hear of the havoc which this
disease is making in some of the lately erected public buildings;
and we must congratulate our fellow-townsmen, and the com-
munity generally, that there is now a prospect of a check being
put to so destructive au enemy.
EMIGRATION To ENGLAND.—The arrival of the ship Carroll
of Cairoilton, Captain Bird, from New York, within the last
two days, with one hundred and seventy-one steerage passen-
gers, would seem to indicate that the tide of emigration is flow-
ing from America to, instead offrom, England; at any rate so
great a number of steerage passengers in one vessel is an un-
usual circumstance. The cabin passengers were—Mr. Benja-
min H. Hart, Mr. Robert Essex, and Mr. William Binus, of
London ; Mrs. Elizabeth Quiller, Master William Quiller, and
servant, of Edinburgh ; Captain William Handley, of his Ma-
jesty's 11th Dragoons; Mr. Samuel Muirhead, of. Dublin, and
Mr. John Brown, of Sheffield.
The following came cabin passengers in. the ship Britannia,
Captain Sketchley, from New York :—Lady Langford, child,
and nurse; Mr. William Dawson, of New York; Mr. Charles
Denston, Mr. Robert Ibbetson, the Rev. James Folliott, Mr.
William Marston, Mr. Charles Buchanan, and Mr. William
March, of England; Mr. J. Hazier, of Jamaica, 'and Dlr. Theo-
dore Dewees, of Philadelphia.
On the occasion of the opening of the Chambers we feel it
our duty to repeat our protest, in the name of the constitution,
and thit equality which it established between the three
branches of the state, against that point of etiquette which
allows the King to remain covered when he addresses the
senators and representatives, who ale uncovered, and in their
own palace. The language uttered lately at Paris on the sub-
ject of the judicial authority, which was spoken of as if the royal
power was supreme over it, renders our protest still more oppor-
tune, if possible, than it was at the opening of the last session.--
Courier lielge.—[lf the tailors of Paris will not suffer their mas-
ters to enter the workshop covered, we see no reason why his
Majesty of Belgium should be permitted to wear his beaver.
The thing is clearly anti-revolutionary, and therefore ought not
to be tolerated.—Edit. Liverpool Standard.]
THE THAMES TUNNEL.---At the last sitting of the Academy
of Sciences, M. Navier announced that he had received a letter
from M. Brunel, the engineer of the tunnel under the Thames,
stating that the English government had decided upon grant-
ing funds for completing that great undertaking.—Fiench paper.
[We suspect that the English government has already carried
the grant system as far as they will be permitted to do, by their
friends the anti-tax associators.—Edit. Liverpool Standard.l
TILE TAILOR WAR.—Who can read and not admire the re-
solves of those brave tailors, " valiant as the wrathful dove or
most magnanimous mouse," declaratory of their fixed deter
nation to possess their full ninth of "The Rights of Man.
From a mass of other important foreign intelligence we select
from a London morning paper the following extract :—" A
letter from Hunan, dated the 10th instant, states that the jour-
neymen tailors are getting riotous there also, demanding to
leave work earlier on the Saturday, and to have breakfast and
dinner provided for them every Sunday !!" To hint that the
devil is among the tailors' or that cabbage :has beets stipulated
for as one of the edibles of this Sunday repast, might, in these
ticklish times, subject us to an ex officio visit from the Attorney
General :—therefore we forbear.

HOLYHEAD AN D LONDON Boan.—The surveyors of the turn-
pike trusts have afforded the greatest facilities to experiments
with the steam carriages, with the exception of the St. Alban 's
level from the town of St. Albans to Dunstable (about ten miles),
where not only were the required preparations refused, but ot-
rections were given by some of the magistrates to throw fresh
stones on the road, and to orate impediments which did not
previously exist—an order which was obeyed to the letter; and
large lumps of st,nie were so thickly scattered as .even to 1!lt•
peue the progress of the ordinary stage coaches. In the in-
tended excursion by one of Sir C. Dance's steam-carriages
front London to Birmingham, on,Fridav week, on its arrival at
the Wellington, near Highgate archway, one of the steam pipes
burst, which occasioned very considerable delay, and it was
nearly four hours before the damage could be repaired, and the
carriage again proceed. The roads- were in a very unfavourabre
state, and the average motion of the carriage was not aboye
seven miles an hour. It reached Stony Stratford (only fifty-so‘
from London) at se‘en o'clock iu the evening, where, in conse-
quence of some additional derangement in the machinery, the
attempt to pi osecute the journey was abandoned. Mr. Telford,
and several in her scientific gentlemen witnessed the expel,-
dent, and sic said to have expressed their decided opinion,
that although the engine had been Hit to a test beyond its talc
power, the practicability of the undertaking was complete,Y
established, and that engine properly constructed on
.the
same principles would be equal to whatever might be required
of it.--Cite.iier Courant.