The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-05 00:00:00

Such proceedings were formerly unknown in Great Britain
But it is of a piece with other proceedings which have taken
place within these few years. A hue and cry is got up—false-
hood, calumny, and misrepresentation are directed against
any one particular system and class of men, possessed of just
privileges and property, in order to irritate the public and
lead it to rob the owners of such property. So the colo-
nies were abused and robbed—so the superiorities in Scot-
land were wrested from their lawful owners—so the Irish
church is persecuted and traduced, that it may be plundered—
so the municipal corporations have been assailed, that they may
have a similar fate—and so the church of England and the
church of Scotland are beginning to be attacked, that they
may he plundered and subverted—and so the Canadian timber
merchant—so the fundholder—and so the landed proprietor,
and every man of any property in the country will speedily be
assailed, and a like fate may await them at the bands of igno-
rance, injustice, oppression, and folly.
If the ebnservathes, howeVer; remain at their posts, and do
their duty, they will make municipal reform (carried into effect
in the spirit of truth and justice) as fatal to Lord John Russell
and his party, as his late proceedings and conduct proved to
him when he last sought the suffrages of the electors of South
Devon. Liverpool and such towns had better be on the alert,
and look around them, for if Lord John Russell succeed in
throwing the management of their affairs into the bands of the
unprincipled factions which he has in his eye, adieu to their
further improvements and prosperity; their increasing and
large revenues will become a shadow, and their debts the shadow
of a shade. The security for both must vanish, for under a
prostituted and profligate ten-pounder legislation, no revenue
would have been forthcoming, and no money advanced nor im-
provements made.

The House of Commons was engaged to a very late
hour on Wednesday morning in discussing the ballot.
That there should be twenty sane men in England who
would waste precious time in gravely debating any such
subject is to us matter of astonishment, and says but lit-
tle for the march of intellect. At two o'clock the house
divided, when there were—
For the ballot
Against the ballot. 319

Majority

The list of the minority on this occasion has very pro-
perly been published, and such a collection of worthy,
honest, and upright men has, we venture to say, never
been seen. There are five O'CONNELLS to begin with,
an O'BRIEN, an O'CONNOR, and an O'DWYER. PEASE
the quaker, and WILES, the pious Mr. WILES, vote for the
ballot, that is, vote for a system which HENRY LORD
BROUGHAM has said is calculated to make the whole life
of an elector a LIE! That the ballot would do so, it is
impossible that any reflecting man can doubt ; and yet
honest JOSEPH PEASE and pious JOHN WILES vote for
the ballot !

We should like to string together a few of the names
which shine in this minority just to give our readers
some taste of their quality. We make it as select as
possible by keeping out the Irish.

John Gully,
Whittle Harvey,
Ben Hawes,
Dr. Lushington, -
J. A. Roebuck, .
Mark Philips,
Sergeant Wilde,
Sir S. Whalley,
Thomas Wakley,
T. R. Kemp.
What do you think of these for a sample of the "wisest,
virtuousist, and best" of the "collective wisdom" of the
nation ?

Dr. Bowring,
Torn Bish,
Silk Buckingham,

Sir E. Codrington,

-tom Dunemiilie,
William Ewart,
E. L. Bulwer,
Joseph Hume,
Alderman Woodi
W. D. Gillon,

We beg to call attention to a petition which is in
course of signature, and in favour of the Liverpool
police bill now before the House of Commons. It will
be recollected that Mr. EWART, a fewdays ago, presented
a petition to the House against the bill, which he said
was signed by some ten thousand persons. Who these
persons are we defy any man to tell. We believe the
names were, for the most part, written by boys in the
catholic chapels on Sundays. Few rate payers signed
the petition.

We are obliged, however, to Mr. EWART for bringing
such a miserable document into so much notice, for it
has roused the inhabitants, who do pay rates, to express
their sentiments on the subject. The petition will, we
are confident, be numerously and most respectably
signed. Each person is required to state his place of re-
sidence, and to his residence is added the amount at
which he is assessed in the parish books. A copy of the
petition will be found amongst our advertisements.

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

.City, Wednesday Evening, Half-peat Seven o'clock.
That leviathan of gaming, our Stock Exchange, may be con_
sidered as having received a coup de grace, and, so far as "time
bargains" are concerned, has been put hors de combat. Since
, our last all attempts to extricate the market from the meshes
of the late foreign account have been in vain, and up to the
present moment no statement has been arranged. There is
from this prostration of the gambling principles of the Stock
Exchange, therefore, reason to hope that this monstrous ulcer
which has so long been preying on the strength of legitimate
trading, will, at length, he eradicated, and that those who have
heretofore looked to chance for prosperity and wealth, will, in
future, rely upon the more certain and more honourable, though
, more tedious efforts of their activity and industry. The libe-
rality with which the Bank has made its advances has tended
to give a considerable degree of: stability to the English mar
ket, and Exchequer hills have 'risen to 29 31 prem., and
India bonds to 12 preen.
It appears from the best accounts we can obtain, that there
is every prospect of an armed intervention on the part of Eng-
land and France in the affairs of Spain, or in other words that
these two powers, seeing the liberal cause in Spain alike
un-
supported by the soldiers and the people, intend interposing the
weight of their arms to deprive Don Carlos of his rightful in-
heritance. This is not altogether palatable to our capitalists,
and has tended to cause a considerable check to the reaction in
the English money market. Consols had advanced to 911;
but they have in consequence gone back to 90.
Our foreign securities present a fearful picture of the sys-
tem for so many years pursued there, and which has been
fraught with so much ruin to the many. Almost all the foreign
securities must be considered as without any real price, for any
attempt to sell extensively would have the effect of causing a
considerable decline even upon the present depreciated prices.
Instances of this have occurred to-day, where Portuguese for
the account was quoted at 99; but when a small parcel of
money stock was thrown upon the market, not more than 97
could be obtained. Spanish scrip, also, though nominally at
6 to 5 discount, was sold (also in a small parcel) at 7 discount;
and such is the condition of the market, that attempts to dis-
pose of any large amount would have caused a much more im-
portant depression, even if it could have been sold at all. The
delusion so long practised with regard to Spain has at length
been dispelled, and the prudence of Don Carlos, in personally
encouraging his gallant adherents, can no longer be doubted.
It is thought by many persons not indifferently informed upon
the subject, that the intervention of the French troops will be
more dangerous to the throne of Louis Philip than to the cause
of Don Carlos, and that joined to the monstre trial, it will
speedily restore to the ex-schoolmaster his exile. The mixture
of radical boastings with despotic actions, by which this regal
Charlatan has marked his reign, will cause his fate to be pitied
only try those who consider hypocrisy a virtue, and double
dealing the traits of an honest man.

By accounts from Buenos Ayres it appears that the govern-
ment of the province of Mendoza had received a despatch from
the prcsid(ut of Chili, relative to the operations of the Chili

poration reform in Scotland, and such will be the effects
in England if Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S bill be passed into
a law. But hear the Glasgow Courier :

Could we spare time and space:to analyze the whole 271 cor-
porations of England and Wales, we should lay before the
public a curious speCimen of whig chicanery and ambition, in
the results of the reform bill, and of which the projected munici-
pal reform is to be a second edition. Some idle day or other we
may undertake the labour. At the present we merely further
observe, that the municipal reform talked of is a pure whig job
for an impure political object! It is merely to break up all the
corporations so as to enable the whig satellites to seize the con-
trol of the property belonging to these corporations, in order to
strengthen their own party and to weaken the hands of the con-
servatives. The municipal commission is, altogether, one of '
the rankest and most shameless jobs we ever witnessed. So
great is its political profligacy, that Sir Francis Palgrave, one
of the commissioners, has not only refused to sign the report,
but has protested, in the strongest manner, against it, which
protest and evidence and references, occuqing eighty closely
printed folio pages, has lately been published by the House of
Commons, in which that honest whig shows how the commis-
sioners have not only reported contrary to the evidence taken by
them, but that they have suppressed, distorted, and misrepre-
sented it to an alarming extent in order to make a case for those
who have employed them.