The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-18 00:00:00

TO CORR.TESPONDLI.VTS.

Owing to a press of advertisements and other matter, we are
compelled to leave out, for the present, an article on the
Liverpool Custom-house, and several letters of minor con-
sideration.
The note concerning medical students is an advertisement.

MAYORALTY. /
THE FRIENDS of JOHN WRIGHT, Esq. are requested
to assemble at the HusTis:Gs, Tuts WI-, at Ten o'clock.

Ebc 'Elba:pool Atanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 18, 1833.

The latest accounts from Madrid are to the 6th inst.,
at which time that city was tranquil. The government
appears still to be under the direction of M. ZEA BER-
MUDEZ, in which case the utmost efforts will be made to
put down the Carlist insurrection. How far these efforts
are likely to be successful remains to be seen. It is cer-
tain that various important risings have already taken
place. The inhabitants of Toledo, a city only forty miles
south of Madrid, have declared for DON CARLOS, and at
Vittoria his highness has been proclaimed King by the
title of CHARLES V. In many other parts of Spain simi-
lar proceedings have taken place, and there is every rea-
son for believing that a majority of the people are in
favour of CARLOS.

The manifesto issued in the name of the QUEEN RE-
GENT, and evidently the production of M. ZEA BERMU-
DEZ, is by no means favourable to the constitutional or
republican party. We see nothing in it to raise the
hopes of that faction. It abjures all sweeping changeS—
professes to support all existing institutions in church and
state—adheres to the laws as they are, and the mode of
government with which the people have long been
familiar. This being the case, the QUEEN REGENT
does not seek the aid or the alliance: of the con-
stitutionalists, and, consequently, theSe people will
do nothing in support of her pretensions. In fact, the
struggle between the two illustrious claimants is purely
of a personal nature. Something, indeed, might be said
about the effect which the manifesto will probably pro-
duce in the minds of the Carlist party, inasmuch as its
favourable disposition towards the church may soften the
hostility of the ecclesiastics. This will depend upon the

faith they repose in the declaration. If they have confi-
dence in the QUEEN REGENT and her able minister, it is
not improbable but that they will be less anxious in fa-
vour of CARLOS. These, however, are mere specula-
tions, the result of which a few days will determine.
in the mean time the French are marching a powerful
army towards the Spanish frontier. Louts PHILIPPE
seems to be in a state of great perturbation. DON CAR-
LOS is his evil spirit. The citizen king is conscious of
his own weakness, and the calculation is, that should
CARLOS succeed, the dynasty of the three days will not
be worth three months' purchase.
The King of Holland is also preparing for a move-
ment. The Messager de Chambres says :

" We learn at this instant that the King of Holland has sent
by express orders to M. Fabricius, his Chargj d'Afraires at
Paris, to direct all the young Dutch soldiers who are at this
moment in Franee on congd, to return without delay to Holland.
As soon as this order was communicated to them, they left
France immediately for their country."
The Messager adds, that its " correspondent at Brussels in-
forms it that the King of Holland has ordered the new recruits
of the reserve to rejoin their reginaents. It is feared in Belgium,
that, profiting by the revolution in Spain, his Majesty will
make a diversion in attacking Belgium and Luxemburg. Dif-
ferent movements of troops which have taken place in Zealand
and Brabant Septentrional confirm these suspicions."

We have late advices from Buenos Ayres, which indi-
cate the continuance of those schisms which have long
distracted that district of country. The following ex-
tract of a letter from thence, dated 15th August, gives
some particulars which have not yet transpired :

" Very little business has been doing for the last few days,
the state of politics is a check to business ; the liberal party in
town have got the upper hand, and the "apostolic" ministry
have retired. We have now been some time without a ministry;
it is not all improbable that "Rosas" will return from the expe-
dition against the Indians in the south, with all the troops, and
reinstate himself absolute governor. We are never in want of
some watchword for division and strife. The Unitarians being
completely suppressed, the victorious party have divided them-
selves into " Apostolicos," at the head of which is Rosas—
and " Liberals," the head of which is Minister of War, "Mar-
tinez ;" the latter have declared themselves too soon, and will,
no doubt, be subdued, Rosas having got the physical force. We
hope that a struggle will be avoided, and that the present
governor will be induced to resign from the difficulties of his
situation. In the interior provinces all is tranquil ; the revolu-
tion which was attempted at Cordova appears to have had no
support from Quiroga, and is entirely suppressed."
" Exchange 64, rising a little."

The return of Captain Ross, and nearly the whole of
his adventurous crew, will equally astonish and delight
the whole civilized world, and we are only sorry that we
have not yet been enabled to state the extent or nature
of his polar researches. It is stated that the Discovery
was for eleven months locked up in the ice, and that it
and the other vessels were finally wrecked. The editor
of the Glasgow Courier conjectures that Captain Ross
must have reached the pole, but his reasoning is not very
conclusive. If, however, he has reached that hitherto
unapproachable point, the enterprise will be one of the
grandest in history.

" The number of noble and wealthy families," say the
newspapers, " who are at. present travelling, residing,
and, of course, spending their incomes on the continent, is
greater than ever was known at any former period."
This, reader, is our text. The allegation is true. The
picture is by no means overcoloured. Vast numbers of
the wealthy, like BROUGHAM'S schoolmaster, are abroad.
The nobles of our land, the leaders of our fashions, the
elite of our exclusives, the grandees of the empire, the
rich citizen exhibiting his daughters, the retired trades-
man touring and studying French in order to compensate
for his total ignorance of his native tongue—all these
persons are over the seas, expending upon foreigners the
incomes they derive from English estates, or the profits
they have acquired by English industry.
As to the parvenu portion of these emigrants, we put
them aside as undeserving of any notice. They cross
the straits to be cheated, and they come home to be
laughed at. They are the never-failing jest of the
stranger in all the capitals of Europe. are flattered,
hoaxed, and cheated wherever they ga. They are made
to pay dearly for their vulgarity, their insolence, and
their ignorance. This is as it ought to be. They go
forth to swagger, and they come home fleeced, ridiculed,
and despised. Upstart arrogance, like depravity, carries
with it its own punishment and cure. An Englishman
travelling the continent., inflated with pride, and carry-
ing his ideas of freedom, like a constitutional charter, in
his pocket, always reminds us Of SYLVESTER DAGGER-
WOOD in the play. His sentiments, like his bill of fare,
are received politely, and devoted to those purposes
which are well described by the motto on JEREMY BEN-
THAM'S tomb—for which, see the Westminster Review.
But we are departing from our subject. In the ques-
tion before us we throw the chance Wanderers and the
mere aspirants to fashionable life overboard. We do this
the more willingly, because we are disposed to join in the
lament that so many noble and opulent families are ab •
sentees, spending their revenues in foreign countries.
This is a sore evil under the sun. It is a blot upon the
reign of WILLIAM IV. It indicates a sad breaking up of
the old rules and maxims of society. It must do much
to convince the other nations of Europe that we are a
divided, distracted, and disaffected people. It demon-
strates that there is something like madness in our
patriotism, or that we are sowing the wind in order to
leap the whirlwind.
The migration has gone on to such an extent lately,
that it has attracted the notice of foreigners. Even the
people who mostprofit by it are 'surprised. The Gazette
de France says,—" It appears that persons capable of
forming a correct judgment fear for England a violent
and near approaching crisis. The British aristocracy
is at this moment emigrating in crowds to the continent.-
iThe writer means that our aristocracy are like rats leavi-
ng a sinking ship. They have an instinctive apprehen-
sion of some great calamity. They dread the breaking
n of the waters, and they are anxious to be beyond their

OCTOSER 18, 1834:.

reach. Bctter, they perhaps think, to be pinched ti-
cold in the passes of the Alps, than bludgeoned or burnt
alive in London.

These fears may be unreasonable, but this is a matter
of opinion. ThOse who have wealth have a right to spend
it where they please, and it is but natural that they
should spend it where they can live most securely and
are treated most respectfully. There are no complaints
in Manchester or Liverpool of the emigration of tbc
gentry. We hear no murmurs from Edinburgh,
Grlgow, or "merry Carlisle." it is in London alone that
the alarm bell is rung, and those who yell most tastily
are the sole authors of their own sorrows. And are these

people to be pitied ? Not a bit of it. For many centu-
ries these worthy citizens of London have been living on
the spoils of the British aristocracy. A large portion cr:
the wealth of the empire has been expended upon, anti
distributed among them. The produce of the soil, of the

mine, and of the. loom has gone to the capital to bewastec.
upon jewellers, milliners, tailors, and an innumerable
host of tradesmen. More money has been spent in
London in a single week in procuring dresses for the
QUEEN'S drawing-room, than would suffice to provide.
soup for all the cotton spinners of Manchester during
whole winter.

But let us not be misunderstood. We are not contend-
ing that this profusion is an evil in itself. That it.hv
had a pernicious influence is another question. This
profuse expenditure of money, however, has created a•
" wen," as COBBETT calls it, which is dangerous to the
whole corporate body. Ingratitude and rapacity go band
in hand as the ruling vices in London society. The veil-
classes who supplied this money have been the objects of
malignant slander and hatred by the great mass of the
people. The tradesmen who lived by this profusion vver°
the loudest in their ignorant invectives against the no-
bility. The word aristocrat is a term of reproach in the
metropolis. A nobleman is supposed to live at the pub-
lie expense. A landowner is represented to be an odious'

tyrant. The gentry are all pensioners and rogues.
These being the sentiments of the mob, the shopocraeY,
and the unionists of London, is it any w onder that the
aristocracy are upon the move ? The senseless wretches'
who have set up the cry against the• higher orders, little
know how dependent they are upon them. The pa'
triotic dealers in fustian are not aware of the ruin ,

they are bringing upon themselves and families. The
handicraftsmen, who splutter at political clubs, and
read penny magazines, do not see that the brick-bat
system must end in their pauperism. For every large
opulent familyiwhich leaves London, many families are'
either seriously stinted in their resources or left destitute-
These wealthy families have hitherto lived in London
from choice ; they are now leaving it from necessity'
They are expelled from their metropolitan residences by

the very persons who have been most dependant upon
them. The broken windows, and the iron blinds or:
Apsley house, tell a tale which will not soon be forgotten-
The ravages of the Reform Bill are still visible; and,
therefore, the sooner these dilapidated mansions are left
.
to the perpetual monopoly of the owl and the bat, the
safer will it be for those who have hitherto inhabited

It might, indeed, be complained, that these noble anct
wealthy absentees do not reside in the country ; but they
are scared from this by the flames of Nottingham Castle-
They deem themselves more secure upon the continent,.
and they are the best judges. At any rate they are gone
or going from Loudon, and this is a most gratifyingcon-
solation, inasmuch as it inflicts a just punishment on the
turbulent and stupid people who have driven them away►
and who must now contrive to beg or starve in their,
absence. So much for patriotism and political unions!

We have observed with much pleasure that all our con'.
temporaries have preceded us in passing their encomium*
upon his worship the Mayor, (CHARLES HORSFALL, EST')
whose year of office terminates to-day. These praise*:
emanating from men of all parties, are not more gePeraL
or cordial than they are well merited. The arduous du--
ties of our chief magistrate have been discharged during
the last year with mildness, urbanity, promptitude, anci
unwearied diligence. Moderate in his opinions; scrupw
lous in his integrity, courteous in his manners, Mt-
HORSFALL has given universal satisfaction ; and, bas'
maintained the dignity of his office, and supported the
hospitality of this great commercial town in a way that
may have been equalled, but never surpassed by anY •
his official predecessors. He has the satisfaction of re-
tiring from office with the thanks and gratefUl acknevfr
ledgments of the whole community, and we have only t°
say, may his mantle fall upon a magistrate equally up"
right and as much esteemed.