The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-07-07 00:00:00

THE .I.4IVF.RPOOL ST,A.NrAftp.

.t:ery. flattering whole Some state- olthirig4. Hrid the
decrease been confined to the taxes we should have been
less surprised; but when we find a decrease in the Ex-
cise exceeding the increase in the Customs,
.and when
we observe 'a decrease in the stamps, with a very trifling
increase in the Postafice, we cannot help suspecting that
there is•something Seriously wrong in our pecuniary af-
fairs.

But where is Lord AL-racer—we mean the late Lord
ALTRORP ? Di he not promise us an immense increase
from the tea duties, and a flourishing excess of revenue
Over expenditure about this time of the year ? We wish
the noble lord, if he be alive, would do us the favour to
explain why all his golden dreams, and wise calculations,
have not btn realized. Out of a revenue tumbling
down at this rate how is Mt. SPRING RICE to manage to
make the two ends of the year meet, and fulfil all his
eery onerous engagements ? He has twenty millions to
provide for the West India compensation fund, and we
find by the Jimaiea papers that the poor colonists ex-
pect that the iponey will be voted before the end of the
present month. They are most cruelly deceived! We
shall be delightfully disappointed if it be voted at all by
his Majesty's present ministers. But if voted to-mor-
row, out of what fund is the money to come? Twenty
millions more of exchequer bills would reduce that arti-
cle below par, and make it a drug in the market. And,
besides, the twenty millions would absorb at least
£750,000 per annum of the national income. This alone
would raise the expenditure considerably above the gross
revenue. In addition to this we have the legion of com-
missioners to pay, the aid to Queen ISABELLA to advance,
a new ambassador for Russia to fit out, and several other
items of no mean importance in the scale of figuVes.
Where is all this to be raised without the assistance of
fresh taxes ? We wait a reply with exemplary patience,
if not with cool indifference.

POLICY OF THE WHIG MINISTRY.

(From a Correspondent.)

While in opposition, upcn no theme were the whigs
more lavish of their eloquence than in declaiming against
the. exercise of corrupt patronage. For their alleged
delinquency on this point the tories were assailed by
these burning patriots with unmitigable rancour. Upon
their accession to office a system of unparalleled pnrity
was confidently anticipated. But no saoner were these
disinterested personages comfortably squatted on the
treasury benches than they adopted, in all its nauseating
pruriency, a system of infamous nepotism and dishonest
influence. Amidst their vacillation of conduct, and des-
titution of everything resembling fixed political princi-
ple, the cui bono of their own party, the aggrandisement
of their own connexions, the promotion to lucrative ap-
pointments of their own numerous dependents, irrespec-
tively of any meritorious qualifications, were objects upon
which they had the most perfect understanding, and
which. they pursued with the most exemplary co-opera-
tion. Whatever heartburnings and dissensions em-
broiled their cabinet meetings, on this point they acted
with the utmost identity of feeling and purpose,—that
they should render their tenure of office as secure and as
durable as possible, by diffusing the good things in their
gift to a large retinue of famishing serfs, upon whose
most ,sweet voices- they might calculate in return. So
numerous, however, did their lackland hangers-on piove,
that they had to torture their ingenuity in order to fur-
nish them with the means of eating their crusts at the
expence of the public; Hence it became necessary to
have recourse to the modest expedient of creating for
their benefit a number of lucrative appointments. The
following statement will show to what an extent they
carried this system of securing adherents to their crooked
policy. During one short year of their blunderipg, ex-
pensive misgovernment, they actually promoted to offi-
cial situations—places to which they gave existence—
four hundred and twenty-five cringing sycophants and
briefless expectants, according to the subjoined scale of
renumeration for the principal of them :

Offices of £3000....and under.... £6OOO .... 1
2000
10(A)
/ • _
600
. 400
200

. It may be worth while to notice in detail the working
of this system of extended patronage. This must be done
briefly, as it would be almost an endless task to pursue
it through all its ramifications.
Luckless barristers—innocent of a knowledge of their
profession—seem to have been the most favoured objects
of whig philanthropy. Witness their employment for
determining the boundaries under the reform bill—for
revising the lists of voters—for inquiring into the 'state
of municipal corporations—for administering the tyran-.
nical and degrading poor-law amendment act, &c. &c.
Here is jobbing in all its rank and poisonous exuberance !
Abuse the boroughmongers !—let the whigs contemplate
with anything but burning shame—if they can—their
own commissioner-mongering. If the people of Eng-
land should tolerate the ascendancy of these miserable
imbeciles much longer—which they will not—we may
expect to see batches of commissioners sent off, as in the
notable case of Canada, to supersede our consuls, lieute-
nant-governors, governors-general, ambassadors, &e., in
every quarter of the globe.
Among the minor officials called into being by the
whig ministry, with a view of securing their suffrages
at the expense of the public, we may advert to the in-
spectors of weights and measures appointed under Lord
EBRINGTOti'S act. These situations were intended to be
lucrative ones, though the machinery of the bill has not
proved in all cases profitable. Assuming, however, that
3,000 inspectors (an insufficient number) were appointed
for the kingdom, and that the emoluments averaged £4O,
there would be a sum of £120,000 imposed as a direct tax
upon the people. This statement will appear on investi-
gation to be considerably below the mark. Ye mock
reformers! would you submit to this enormous imposi-
tion under the head of excise, customs, stamps, or any
other ordinary mode of taxation ? And, after all, is this
paid-for effectual protection against fraudulent practices?
Notoriously not. This is the mode in which, under false
pretences, the wily whip insinuate their hands into your
pockets for the advantage of their satellites.
Allow me, in conclusion, to draw the attention of your
readers to another tax upon the public—the pensive,
gullible politic, at whom the whigs laugh, in theirilleeves.
This is literally a tax of the most obnoxious character—
a poll-tax, I allude to the shilling paid by every regis-
tered voter under the reform act. Taking the qualified
constituency at one million, which it will amount to if
we allow for the circumstance that many individuals are
entitled to vote several times, both in different tc,wns•and
separate counties, we shall find a sum 'of £500,000 pro-
duced from this source. For.whose benefit ? For what
Ultimate purpose? Radicals of Liverpool I look at this
imposition, inflicted by your sweet friends, the immacu-
late whigs, and then belch forth your filthy tirades against
the pension list.
It has been all along the policy of the whig ministry
to invest the people with as much power and influence
as possible with the view of perpettlating their own as-
cendancy. Did I say the people ? I retract the word:
—not the people—the educa►ed, intelligent, industrious,
honeSt, and plain-dealing people—who have English
hearts, English pride, English independence, and who
love the comforts of an English home, but the swinish,
characterless multitude, who herd together around gin-
palaces and similar resorts. These form the movement
party, whose insatiate craving they sedulously endeavour
to gratify. A signal proof of their wish to throw every
thing into their hands in matters of local interest is af-
forded in the provision which the bill now before the
House of Commons makes for granting publicans' licenses.
•Admirable sagacity I Let the brewers, wine and spirit
dealers, &c., who expect to get into corporate councils,
license theinselves and their relatives to the third and
fourth generations. Enough. But the people are begin-
ning to awake from their torpor; the startling cry of
" Beware the bear!" is already heard, and the un-
principled Whigs will soon be driven to their dens of
infamy; to pine in inglorious obscurity.

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

City, Saturday Evening, llUff-past Seven o'claik:

The fact that the quarterly dividends will be in the course of
payment in the ensuing week has occasioned a renewal bf
speculative business on the stock exchange to a greater extent
'than has been known for some time past. The improvement
in consols for the account has been from 9ti to 92k. The
heavy stocks have also improved half per cent. The prem. on
exchequer bills has advanced from 25 tct 31, and on India
bonds from sto Bank stock has rallied from 216 to 2161.
Prices of the Eniliilflunds at four o'clock?;,—Bank stock,
2161; red. 3 per cents., 91f ; consols, shut ; 31 per cents; red.,
991; new 31,per cents., shut; long annuities, leq; India stock,
shut; India bonds, I() prm.; Exchequer bills, 32 prm.; consols
for account, 921. .

In the foreign market, the half-monthly account was settled
on Tuesday last. The speculative business entered into within
the previous fortnight having been upon a limited scale, it
passed off without any novelty.
The foreign securities are higher to-day. Portuguese bonds
have advanced from 871 to 89; but the three per cents., after
touching 581, left off 571 ex. dividend. Spanish stock has
risen 1 per cent. in the course of the day, namely, from 451 to
461, and the scrip from 131 to 121 dis: The northern securities
are also rather higher, Russian bonds leaving off at 109.
Colombia bonds have advanced from 361 to 37; but fur Chi-
lian, Peruvian,. and Mexican bonds there is no demand what-

The foreign funds closed as follows :—Belgian, 99; Brazi-
lian, 831; Colombian, 37; Portuguese, 831; Portuguese (new),
89; Ditto 3 per cents., 57E ex. div.; Russian, 109; Spanish,
491; Ditto scrip, 121 die. ; Dutch 21 per cents., 55 ex. div.
SHAIIES.—AIten, 101; Bolanos, 1271; Unrecognised Real
Del Monte, 21; Canada, 35.