The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-07-14 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS,

The letter signed "Bible Christian" is ably and powerfully
written; but we regret it is so lung that we cannot make
room for it.
We have sent the letter about the beer shops on Sunday to the
proper quarter.
In answer to "An Elector," we beg to state that for all borough
voters one shilling fur registration must be paid in erery year
along with the rates and taxes, on or before the 2Uth of the
present month July.

COE Eiberpool ,Stanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 14, 1835.

If England, holding as she does the key of the Medi-
terranean, from being in possession of Gibraltar, were to
enter into a treaty with Spain that no ships of any nation
should be allowed to pass that strait except those of the
contracting parties, or those who might obtain permission
from the British government, what would the other na-
tions of Europe say to such a treaty? The answer may
be guessed. In a state of peace the other European
nations would contend that the gut of Gibraltar was as
open to the flags of all states as the straits of Dover,
and that there would be as much reason and justice in
closing, taxing, or tolling the one, as in closing the
other.

What, then, is to be said with respect to the Pole,
under Russian constraint, shutting up the passage into
the Euxine, and interdicting the entrance of all vessels
other than Turkish or Russian into that sea ? The
Euxine is to Turkey, Russia, Persia, and the east, what
the Mediterranean is to France, Austria, Sardinia, Eng-
land, and Northern Africa. The Sultan of Constantino-
ple has no more command over the passage of the
Bosphorus than the King of England, in his fortress of
Gibraltar, has over the entrance of the Mediterranean.
Through the gross mismanagement of the whigs, how-
ever, the one passage is shut, and the other remains

open !
There was a time when the honour of England would
not submit to the indignity of being questioned. There
was a time, in better day*, when the trade of England
would not have been.left to the mercy oaeini7barharians
—when the slightest insult to our flag would have been
avenged in a voice of thunder—when a commercial
treaty formed against her interests or without her consent
would have been torn to rags at the muzzle of our guns,
and the conspirators punished in a manner that would
have furnished a wholesome example to the whole world.
Alas I these times are gone by ! Since Lord PALMER-
STON has had the control of the foreign department in
the government every half barbarian, as well as every
civiliied state in Europe, has deemed it safe to treat
England with contempt, and interrupt the advancement
of British commerce by the most insulting, arbitrary, in-
vidious, and unjust measures.
For many ages the Ottoman Porte had, in England,
her best and truest ally. She looked to us for succour in
the hour of danger. We maintained, as in duty bound,
the integrity of her rights, because we were parties to
treaties, the violation of which would have been injurious
to our commercial privileges. In 1829 the Duke of
WELLINGTON, then prime minister, trusting to the high
honour of the Emperor of Russia, allowed the conflict he
then waged against the Porte to take its course. The
noble duke, at that period, made a grand mistake.. He
permitted the Russians to pass the Balkan. He grati-
fied their ambitious vision with a sight of the fair fields
which gleamed in the sunshine of the south. They saw
from the mountains, what they had never seen before,
the isles of Greece. He, fatally fur the interests of
British commerce, allowed the Russians to dictate their
own terms to the humbled and deserted Sultan, and
trusting to the high honour of the emperor, be suffered
the belligerents to patch up a peace in the way most
agreeable to-the conquering party, and without reference
to the ancient rights of this country. In short, the Duke
of WELLINGTON instructed his subalterns in the foreign
office to state that he (the noble duke) had perfect confi-
dence in the " magnanimity" of the Emperor of all the
Russias.
At that time we reposed no confidence in this magnani-
mous security. We did not believe that Russia was
sincere, or that Turkey, or British interests in Turkey,
were safe. Events have proved that our suspicions were
well founded.
It is true, that had the Duke of WELLINGTON remained
in office be would most unquestionably have been a party
to the treaty of peace, or at least he would have taken
care that no secret articles were framed injurious to
British honour or trade. The noble
.duke never would
have consented that Russia should possess any control.
over the passage of the Bosphorus, or any veto uporf
ships of war, or otherwise, entering the Black Sea. The
Duke of WELLINGTON, however, was not a minister of
the crown when the articles of amity between the Porte
and Russia were under discussion, and, consequently, he
was no party to the disgraceful treaty which was after-
wards entered into and ratified. It was Lord PALMER-
STON, the immortal prince of the protocols, who had the
high honour to be secretary for foreign atThirs when the
treaty was executed. By that treaty the Russians agreed
to evacuate Adrianople and the territory of the Porte
the Sultan paving the Emperor the costs of the invasion,
and consenting that, for the future, no vessels of war,
belonging to any foreign power, in amity or otherwise
with the contracting parties, should be allowed to pass
the Bosphorus without permission first obtained from the
cabinet of St. Petersburgh
It will be said, perhaps, that Lord PALMERSTON is not
responsible for these ignominious and insulting comb-
dons, because the noble secretary was not aware of their
existence. This may be so; we are not combating Lord
PALMERSTON'S good intentions, but his ignorance. We
blame hitu for not knowing that which every merchant's
clerk in Constantinople knew perfectly Well. A corre-
spondent of the Morning Herald wrote a foil account of
the whole transaction, in which the exact terms of the
treaty and the secret articles were given to the letter.
'Phis intelligence was in possession of the public gene-
rally long before Lord PALMERSTON had received any ad-
vices from his diplomatic agents at the Porte; for when
asked in the House of Cemmons whether he knew any-
thing of the treaty, his lordship, with remarkable cool-
ness, replied, that he had received no despatches orr time
subject ; that he neither could admit nor deny the truth of
the statements published by the Herald, and that all he

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6)111d say was, that when he last heard from Constanti-
nople the negotiations were in progress.
The fact is, the treaty was concluded,—the _secret arti •
cies were signed, sealed, and ratified, long before the ex-
quisite secretary knew of their -existence ! Happy na-
tion, which has for its foreign secretary' bestarched
dandy, who is called a lord, who is the last persolvin
England to know what concerns the' honour and the in-
terests of his country. Why is he in the enjoyment of a
large salary ?—WI“, is so much secret service money
granted to him annually, if he can only learn what
iS occurring at foreign courts through the newspapers?
Such, however, is the fact, and we must now abide by the
consequences-

. But the question arises—had the Sultan any right to
Concede terms conferring such extraordinary power upon
Russia ? By long usage the Porte exerted the right of
admitting and excluding such ships as she pleased to and
from the Euxine. Her right in law was never questioned,
although her power was challenged rather unsuccessfully
by a Whig admiral in the early part of the late war. But
it was never asserted that the Porte could transfer the
right of navigating the Bosphorus to Russia, or any other
state without the consent of all tbe states with whom she
Was in amity, and to whom she was connected by ancient
treaties. At any rate she had clearly no right to place
her commercial allies in a humiliating position without
their consent.
Now this is the very point in contention. England is
desirous to.send a steatn-vessel, for the purpose of con-
veying Mr. Ellis to Trebizond on his way to Persia
throOgh the. Black Sea; but she is told that before
such a vessel can pass through the Bosphorus, the
cabinet of St. Petersburgh must be consulted, and a pass-
port obtained Jove flee -Emperor -NiehOtas. This is sad
work! It places England in a miserably poor position in
the eyes of the world. The mistress *Witte seas is ex •
petted to beg the privilege from. Russia of sending a
steamer to the port of a friendly power in Asia. Russia
has not yet conquered Turkey.. She has not yet taken
possession of her towns on the southern shore of the
Black Sea. These towns and their connecting seaboard
still belong to Turkey, a nation in friendly alliance with
Great Britain ; and yet before we can visit any of these
towns belonging to our ally we must ask permission of a
third party who never had any authority in the Euxine,
and whom we cannot recognise as possessing the power
of granting or refusing us the rights of navigation !
We know not what the present minislry, composed as
it is of incapables, will do in this emergency; and we
can form no conjecture as to what the Earl of DURIIAM is
expected to accomplish at St. Petersburgh ; but this we
feel assured of, viz.; that if England condescends to ask
the permission of Russia to enter the Black Sea, in fa-
vour of a steam-vessel or any other harmless ship of war,
e will hazard her independence, dishonour the national
flag, and appear craven and degraded in the estimation
of the whole world. The only answer to the objections
of the Porte should be at the point of our guns. It would
_he humiliating enough to solicit the consent of the Sultan;
but it would be a million times more humiliating to ask
the same favour from Russia. If the Porte have, in a
moment of weakness or folly, dispossessed herself of the
•Power to exclude armed vessels, she must be taken to
have done so.in favour of all nations. We cannot con-
sent to a transfer of power. If Denmark does not choose
to levy a toll at the entrance of the Baltic, we cannot sub
mit to pay the said toll to the United States of America.
I)eurnark has no more right to transfer her rights in the
Cattegut than Turkey has to transfer those she claimed
in. the Bosphorus to the Russians. We trust the atten-
tion of parliament will be called -to this subject without
delay.
•

It is announced that Lord BROUGHAM is to honour
Liverpool with his presence on Monday next, to lay the
foundation stone of a building to be, called the
Me-
chanics' Institution." The parties who have invited his
lordship Clo not appear to have agreed as to the best
mode of administering soup, fish, and flattery to him
after the ceremony. One Satost proposed to dine the
learned lord in St. John's martet,. a -place capable of
holding at least ten thousand personi. This plan, being
found to be impracticable, was abandoned ; and then a
discussion arose whether the dinner tickets should be
fifteen shillings or half-a crown, and whether his lord
ship should dine in the presence of, instead of with, the
*°lling classes. One worthy proposed that the ex-
chancellor shorild be invited to a splendid feast on the
floor of the amphitheatre, and that the working classes
Should be admitted to the upper side boxes and 'galleries
I.° look on. They were to be admitted to see, not taste—
to have a glimpse of the wine, but to drink nothing but
Oratory. The propounder of this aristocratic whig
dinner, was of opinion that the operatives and the
humble lovers of education would be quite content to
see how the great man feeds, just as bumpkins are
Pleased to see the hyena fed, the great black bear, and
the' blue faced baboon in the Zoological Gardens.
-This' last proposition did not seem to go down, some
being of opinion that it would savour of insult to the
working classes, and the arrangements were left to a
committee of taste.
But whatever may be the nature of the second-course
honours in store for Lord- BROUGHAM, we can hard!)
tlsiok that there will be any difference of opinion, among
intelligent people, as to the first ceremony. The new
Mechanics' Institution will, we take it, be a counterpart 0
the present one, with this difference, that it will be fur-
ther removed from the centre of the town, and renderer
less accessible to the great body•of working mechanics.
for whose benefit it is said to be intended. Now, we all
know that mechanics' institutions are not frequented by
labouring artizans. They are seldom seen within their
walls, and that in few numbers. The majority or the
audiences who attend lectures are not mechanics. They
are generally adult idlers, who profess to be of a higher
grade in society ; prating old bodies whose education has
been neglected in their youth ; silly schemers who are
vain enough to imagine they will some day discover the
longitude; and a vast variety of twaddlers, who read the
Penny magazines, and wish to pass for curious inquirers,
if not for very profound philosophers.
It is these waifs and strays, set in motion by the poli-
tical economists, who constitute the vapid throng, who
fill the benches at mechanics' institutions, and of whom
it 'night well be said they are the nursing quacks of every
kind of humbug. • Lord BnotrorrAss, we admit, is a prince
among these people: . They idolize him as something
more than a wooden divinity. He is schoolmaster, tom-
clown, mimic, and thiniblerigger to all the modern
*1);"
Inites, and it is but fair that he should travel to exhi-
• 44. himself, All we have to beg of his lordship, when he
comes to Liverpool, is, that he will not write to the King
°fl the subject.
The Next showman, on this occasion, although of an
inferior order, and not very celebrated in stage classics,
i 8 our "excellent representative," Mr. Wm. Ewmr.
He writes the following elegant epistle upon a sheet of
Paper picked up in the vote office of the House of Com-
mons, and for which the people have to pay :
" House of Commons, July, 7. 1835.
1%1 y DRAR SlR,—Lord Brougham has just given an audience
Thornley, Mr. Rathbone, Mr. Harvey, and myself.
lie has accepted the invitation of the committee; and he
Proposes to be at Liverpool (to lay the foundation-store of the
?Ow institution) on Monday, the 20th instant, before Twelve
o'clock.
,e
pooby" His lordship intends to go by way of Manchester, an d to
ave that town for Liver I the railway train at ten
o'clock.
_I: I feel highly gratified, in common, I am sure, with all tends of our institution, with the conclusion at which his lord-
"h'1) has arrived.
feel most anxious to be present on this occasion; fraught
is With interest to Liverpool and important to generations
Yet unborn.
.ic Nothing but the indispensable necessity of personal attend-
e in the House of Commons shall prevent me from joining
'utt ; and I h4e to do so.
" I am, ray dear sir,
" Your most faithful servant,
" WM. EWART,..7

J. S. Radcliffe, Esq."

is
~.It of vast consequence to tell the public that Lerd
Rouuttam, the " great man," goes by way of Man-
ler. that he leaves Manchester at ten o'clock on Mon-
(l3.}' Morning, that he -travels by the steam wheelbarrow,

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and that he will arrive.in Liverpool before twelve o'clock..
Is not this all quackery ? Was Mr. EWART com Missio-
ned by the " great man" to give publicity to all his move-
ments? If so, he has cheated the newspapers of an
advertisement.

But we pray the attention of the youngest pupils of
the Mechanics' Institution to the fourth paragraph in
Mr. EWART'S letter. He says, " I feel highly gratified
with the conclusion at which, hiS lordship has arrived."
What does this advocate of education mean by conclusion?
Lord BROUGHAM has arrived at no conclusion. He has
only intimated an intention.. lie has promised to do a
certain thing, and the probability is he will, perform it.
If he come to Manchester, he will probably come, to Li-
verpool, and arriving here, by invitation, at half.p4st
eleven o'clock on Monday, the inference is, that the
"great man" will lay the foundation stone as announced.
What the conclusion may be we are not foreseeing
enough to tell.

The next paragraph is a morsel of beautiful bathos.
" I feel," says our " excellent representative,"—" I

feel"—

Twice he feels in two short lines--

" most anxious to be present on this oceasion,fraun ht as
it is with interest to Liverpool, and important to genera-
tions yet unborn."

Oh, dear ! this is sufficient to blow up a steam-engine!
A school where sticking unitarians are to be taught how
to measure the depths of the sea and extract lightning
from the clouds must be " important to generations yet
unborn." Would Mr. WM. EWART have—re'a'id as much
of a church dedicated to GOD, or an asylum for the des-
titute ? NO, ibre Penny Magazine is .a more valuable
book in his conceited imagination than the Bible, and
the Lord of VAUX a greater man than any of the apostles.
All this is very senseless quackery.

When the petition of the Liverpool burgesses was sent
to London to be presented to parliament, a copy of the
petition, and of the resolutions previously adopted at a
public meeting, were also transmitted to Mr. EWART.
By these last the honourable member was requested to
support the prayer of the petition in conjunction with
Lord SANDON.

The answer of Mr. EWART, acknowledging the receipt
of the papers, has been received here, and the only intel-
ligible part of it is in these words :
"Mir DEAR beg to acknowledge the favour of your
letter, and of the copy of the petition announced by you.
" The petition shall receive from me every possible considera-
tion."

It is impossible to infer from this what course of policy
Mr. EWART is likely to pursue in reference to the prayer
of the burgesses. On a recent occasion, when the bur-
gesses were insane enough to return Mr. EIVART to par-
liament, he and his party declared that they had redeemed
themselves, and had atoned for the criminal venality of
which he-had been the cause. The honourable member
for Liverpool, therefore, cannot, if be be an honest or
consistent man, suppart any measure which is calculated
to deprive them of their ancient rights and privileges.
After absolving them of all former offences, how can he
condemn them without a hearing, or treat as guilty per-
sons who had, as he has admitted, redeemed themselves?
The letter itself shows that Mr. EWART had not made
up ids mind on the subject. He had voted at least a do-
zen times for sundry clauses in the municipal reform bill,
but still the honourable member had not made up his
mind. He promises to give the
„petition the benefit of
his " every possible consideration," ergo, he is to consi •
der that upon which he has already legislated. It is a
bright statesman!

We take this, almost the last opportunity we shall
have this year, of earnestly exhorting all those who are
entitled to the freedom of this borough not to delay a
single day in obtaining their full qualification by enrol-
ment. It must be remembered that no freeman can be
registered by the barrister unless he is duly qualified,
that is, sworn and- . enrolled before the last day of this
month. We have_beard, and believe, upon good autho-
-rity, that;t4ore are -many hundred _young' men u...this
town who are entitled, but have neglected to take up
their frettylorn; I'lliB goadcl not be. Whilst the_radi-!-
cats are making •eV'ery exertion to qualify the occupiers',
of courts and. cellars, and besieging our parish offices
with the most nonsensical claims of persons who have
no more right to votes than the inhabitants:of Kam-
schatka, we would ask why are the burgesses, who have
gained their right by honest and laborious industry, not
reminded that they too have some c!aim to the elective
franithise ? We earnestly exhort every master, every
father, to consider what apprentices, what sons, are now
I
qualified to be admitted freemen, and to remind them to
take up their freedpm before the end of this month.