The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-02 00:00:00

Spain, who was recently driven to these shores under cir-
cumstances demanding every mark of consideration and
kindness. The editor says—" It is now notorious that
the pretensions of Lord Palmerston were such as to in-
duce the Duchess of Montpensier and her husband to quit
this country and repair to Holland, whilst a Dutch steamer
was prepared to convey the royal exiles to the coast of
Spain ; and when their royal highnesses called to take
leave of Queen Victoria, at. Buckingham Palace, on the
eve of their departure, they were not admitted, by the ad-

vice of Lord -Palmerston, who was sent for on the oc-
casion, to the honour of an audience. They left England,
therefore, astonished and irritated to no small degree at
the usage which the influence of a single minister could
cause to be inflicted on their rank and their misfortunes.
Thus it was they arrived in Spain •, and it certainly was no
very difficult task to persuade Queen Isabella that her
sister had been received in England with very little of the

been what might be anticipated. But this was not all.
Mr. Bulwer was ' recommended' to follow up these heroic
exploits, directed against fugitive princes, by a diplomatic
demonstration against the Cabinet, which had at any rate
beaten the mob and the revolution in the streets of
Madrid. In short, no means have, as it would appear,
Dstility

of the two courts and governments complete
ANOTHER REFORMER.—An appeal to the middle
classes on the " urgent necessity of numerous radical re-
forms, financial and organic," has been published by ➢lr.
F. W. Newman. No person acquainted with the writer's

in"Resolveduinous and hopeless cultivation. doe'
4.—That feeling assured that the au°, ooff
ment of sugar estates throughout this colony Inus"fliarY
beccme general, and, as a consequence, the Peet.' 0 of
affairs of its inhabitants be thrown into a conditt.e„sol-
fearful embarrassment, accompanied by wide-spread
vency, this chamber deems it advisable at once t°to the
memorial before the Governor, and recommends sting
different parishes a similar course for adoption, reVtb the
his Excellency to call together the Legislature IslAitioe
least possible delay, that the appalling financial con"
of the island may be considered. be
" Resolved s.—That it is the opinion of this o'4l:tiler
that in our present situation and prospects, all 1013
progress in the erection of new public Institutions
be at once arrested. are nqS
"Resolved G.—That the people of this island tbl°o
in a situation to continue to pay existing taxes, serie, t
chamber, therefore, strongly urge upon the Vie„stce ferf.
curtail their estimates of contemplated exPenaliort °
the ensuing year to the lowest possible limits, t
abandoning entirely the Parochial Institutions. song
" Resolved 7.—That it is an admitted maxim
all civilized nations, that whenever the state inva.`:, ipver,';
vidual rights for the public good, full indemnity 1' for t°o
ably awarded ; if, therefore, the British natie"'„Ang
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sake of cheap sugar, destroys her colonies by vc, 104
unrighteous crusade against her own subjects,
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invested their capital upon the faith and gear will la',
their Country's laws, they, as British subjects, to, cleof
their claim for full and ample compensation I°ToStice
struetion of their property,—a claim whichth°

the Brit

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