The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-09 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Liverpool Conservative Association,' India-buildings. L. in-
forms us that one B, or some one of the scrubs, is the guilty
party. It is needless to say that he himself is a vapouring,
;f .not desperate refurrner, and belongs to the gang; but be
shall be watched, and perhaps he will find that he has " Put
his foot" as well as his finger in it.

ILibtrpool ,S,,tanbarD.

TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 9, 1835.

His Majesty's brig Briseis, which sailed in eetnPanY
from •St. Thomas's with the Swallow packet, the latter
having on board the Jamaica mail, conveyed for the first
time to St. Thomas's by steam, arrived about ten days
ago at Falmouth. The Swalloiv packet, however, has
not yet arrived. We learn that the Briseis brought a
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few letters, but only one to a Jamaici house in this
town. We understand that at the latest date the weather
on the north side of Jamaica was unusually wet, whilst
on the south side and west end it was quite the reverse-
The negroes were quiet, but working very indifferently-
The number of acres calculated upon as being in canes
for the ensuing-erov, would not reach more than half the
quantity of previous years.

By the ship Parker, Captain RistEN, which sailed Oa
the 2d of May, we have papers from Demerara to the
end of April. The Guiana Chronicle contains the fol-

lowing very unsatisfactory article :
" The disturbed and unpeaceful state of the colony still de-
mands one unceasing attention. Wherever 'we have beheld
symptoms of an amended spirit diffusing itself amongst the la-
bouring population, we have been as anxious to record the
pleasing intelligence, as we have been alert, when our duty re-
quired it, to proclaim the reverse—and only a short time ag°
we indulged in the pleasing hope, that if the laws were allowed
to take their course, and the magistrates were not improperly
interfered with, peace, industry, and good order might airaiso
come amongst us, and crown with success the measure 01
emancipation. The continuance, however, or rather the in"
crease of an unquiet and dissatisfied feeling amongst the If--
bourers, compels us, for the present, however reluctantly, to
abandon these gratifying anticipations, and once more,with

the sorrowing eye of regret, and the sigh of despair, to view the
state of thazolony es it really it—not to indulge in hopes and •
speculations of what we wish it to be.
"At the present moment there are upwards of seventy
apprenticed labourers in the colony gaol, exclusive of the im-
mense numbers which Mr. Kellock every evening sends to cow
tinement from the Iluiniveld estate ; and, during the week last
past, no less than fifty-one culprits have been committed there
under sentences of varying punishments. Now, when we re—
collect that the prisoners. sent to the colony gaol do not, form.
one tithe-part of the number of commitments Made in both
town and country districts—nay, that for one committed Co gaol
twenty are otherwise and elsewhere punished,' we may fonts
some idea of the number of disobedient, idle, and refractory/
labourers in the colony ; and, in forming that opinion, we raaY
likewise come to a just conclusion as to the real state of thy
community, whether it be one of peace, or the reverse.
"We all know the great loss of time and labour which are
the conseqnences of bringing a negro up for pnnishwent before
a magistrate—we may, therefore, calculate largely upon_the
forbearance and pardon with which the majority of the offences;
of apprenticed labourers are passed over. Adding this deli
deration, however, to the number of gaol commitments, led W
the still greater number which, we contend, are punished elee4
where, it becomes really frightful to contemplate the amount
of crime and bad conduct amongst the labourers, and the vast-
loss of labour which must necessarily be occasioned by pettish'
ing the offenders.
" It is vain, then, to delude the community; as some would der
with assurances of improvement amongst the negroes, whilst 1
these evidences to the contrary exist to falsity spch eeserti4/14
The colony is still, we assert it—not without a certainty of
being contradicted, but with a full assurance that we cannot be
contradicted in a spirit of truth—in a state far, far reinovea:
from tranquillity, industry, and quiet."

On Friday night Lord JOHN RUSSELL introduced his,
bill of municipal reform to the House of Commons. We
have read his lordship's tedious speech with the greatest
attention, but it is to us altogether unintelligible. Ile
states general principles in language so obscure that we
defy any man to tell what he aims at, or what changes be
contemplates. For this reason we have been compelled
to omit his speech altogether, this being almost the only
instance in which a sense of duty has imposed upon us
so unpleasant a task. Lord JOHN is a minister of the
crown, and, as such, whatever proceeds: from him must
be interesting to our readers, and is entitled to the ut-
most courtesy at our bands. We regret, therefore, the:
impracticability of making that intelligible which other-
wise would be highly instructive; and to substitute for
the speech an abstract of „thc,bill lakes-•;fgoisr 114-I°sllnTr' •
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evening paper. That will be found in another place-
If that abstract be correctly drawn up, as it, appears to
be, the corporation reform of Lord Jour; Ku-88514: •
amounts to this : Ist, The exclusive rights and privr•
leges of burgesses by inheritance or servitude are to be
totally abrogated. 2d, The common council are to be •
elected by the rate-payers only, and the council so elected
are to elect the mayor. Every person who has resided
in the borough, or within seven miles of it, for three
years, and has paid the poor-rates during that period, is to
have a vote for common councilmen. 3d, Towns having
a population above 25,000 are to be divided into wards,
so that every ward containing 25,000 inhabitants is to re-
turn from ten to fifteen common councilmen. 4th, The
crown is to appoint the recorder, and the common coup- •
cil are to have the curious privilege of granting licenses
to publicans.
There are and must be many minor details, but these,
as far as we can understand the bill, are its leading enact.-
' ments. In short, it is a bill originating-with faction fOr
factious purposes, which is founded in glaring injustice'
which aims at wholesale plunder, and, in the name of re-
form, is a downright fraud and imposition.
It will be our duty to establish these premises, and, in "
doing so we shall confine ourselves to the borough- of
Liverpool.
In the first place not a word is said in the bill-about
the property belonging to corporations, about the respon-
sibility of partlts, or about the claims of creditors. At
one dash of the pen the zelations of borrower and lender
are changed, and the obligations to pay are transferred
from one class of persons to another without consulting
the many thousands of families deeply interested in the
transfer.
For the sake of illustration, let us assume that the cor- •
poration of Liverpool have borrowed, and, therefore,