The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-11-12 00:00:00

TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 12, 1833,

We last night received advices from Bombay to the
14th July, by the Ranger, Captain MrrenrscsToN, being
nearly a month later than the previous dates. There is
no general news of interest from that quarter of India.
In business the imports remained in , the same state of
stagnation as by the preceding accounts ; and in articles
of export from thence there is no material change from
the last prices. In cotton little was doing, but the prices
were stationary. The supplies to China, which had been
very heavy to the middle of June, had, in the succeeding
month, up to the Ranger's departure, been limited. In
opium the season's trade was nearly over. The Elizabeth,
HALL, and one or two other vessels, were loading salt for
Calcutta. The John Stamp, for this port, sailed from
Bombay on the 6th July.

Our intelligence from Lisbon, via Falmouth, is to the
4th instant. It appears that Don Alt Gum. and his army
were in occupation of Santarem, a place naturally strong,
but which was daily becoming more so, by means of ad-
ditional fortifications. It was expected that the army
under Don PEDRO would be compelled to retreat to
Lisbon.

General STUBBS, who commands the Pedroite forces
in Oporto, in attempting to march upon Coimbra, where
he imagined he would be more secure, and where he
learnt the young queen was extremely popular, was un-
expectedly attacked by the troops of Don 'MIGUEL, and
repulsed with some loss. It is believed that Slitans,
now that PEDRO and his marauders are after other game,
and tolerably well provided for, will be staryed out of
Oporto altogether. The defeat of STUBBS in this in-
stance shows that the Miguelites have possession of the
whole country, with the exception of Oporto and the en-
virons of Lisbon.

It is also stated that Don CAItLOS, of Spain, was cn
the 23d Oct. at Castello Branco. His family was With him,
and he was invariably addressed as King of SPAIN.
The following is from our private correspondent :7

Falmouth, Nov. 9, 1833.

H. M. Packet Confiance arrived this morning from Spain
and Portugal. She sailed from Corunna, where she was de..
tamed by severe weather three days, on the 26th ult., from
Oporto the 28th, Lisbon the 3d inst., and 'touched again at
Oporto on the 4th. By the latest accounts of the armies, it
appears that Don Miguel's army holds possession of Santarem,
which, although naturally strong, they have fortified. They
have also possession of the mills which supply the place with
bread, and which are situated on an eminence that cannot be
wrested from them without a great sacrifice of men, if at all.
All the old men, women, and children have been sent out of
the town, it being intended to make a vigorous defence. The
Pedroites cannot, at this season of the year, long remain in
their present positions. near Santarem, and it is expected they
will be compelled to retreat and leave the Miguelites in quiet
possession of that place during the winter. Don Miguel has
received a great number of recruits from the provinces, and no
troops, Were ever snore faithful than
That Coimbra and Leiria had declared for the Queen is not
credited at Lisbon; at all events, no authentic intelligence to
that effect had been received there. It was reported there that
Alcacer Dosel had been taken by the Constitutionalists„ A
small reinforcement of troops had marched from Lisbon, to re-
inforce the army before Santarem, preparatory, it was sup_
posed, to an attack on that place.
Oporto is very likely to be occupied shortly by the Miguelite
troops. The garrison is too weak to defend it. Gen. Stubbs
made an attempt to march with his troops to Coimbra, but• was
compelled to retreat with some loss to Villa Nova.
The Soho, and James Watt, steamers, had arrived .at Lisbon.
Don Carlos was at Castello Branco on the 231 ult. with his
family. All those about him adressed him as King.

By the Christina, Captain HOGAIMI, arrived here
yesterday frcm Demerara, we have filesof papers and in
telligence down to the Ist October. At that period they
were in possession of ad vices from this port and London
of the 15th, and from Dublin of the 17th August, by the
Thames, Satrrn, from the latter port, and the Mar y,NEt-
sox, from hence. The latest debates on the abolition bill
known to them were those of the 14th August, when the
clauses, to No. 23, inclusive, were gone through. It

was on this occasion that the Lord CHANCELLOR made
that attack upon the Duke of CUMBERLAND, Which has
for ever established his Lordship's claiins to the character
of a gentlbman, "by courtesy."

The preliminary indications of the working of this
measure bad shown themselves in the necessity which
had arisen fur issuing a proclamation by Sir JAMES C.
SMITH, Governor of the Colony. It appears, by the-
proclamation, that some negroes had been removed from
the left to the right bank of the river Nickerie, which
forms a part of the boundary line between Berbice and.
Surinam; thus, by the simple crossing -of the river,
transferring the negroes from British to Dutch jurisdic-
tion, under which latter authority it appears the said
negroes formerly lived. On the legality or propriety of
effecting such a removal, it is not necessary that we
should give any opinion. The Royal Gazette of British
Guiana of the 24th September, concludes an article on
the subject in these words :—" We wonder that they" (the,
parties charged with the attempt) "should so far aver:,
look their interest as to desire a removal; for the -com-
pensation price, which they assuredly will receive from,
the Government, will amount to more than the .price at
which they could purchase negroes in Surinam." We:
should certainly not express ourselves in terms of equal
confidence as to the question of the compensation reach-
ing their hands, -either in time or amount, considering
the slippery character of all the parties on this side, both
principals and agents.
The prospects of the Sugar crop were not the most
flattering, according to some accounts to the close of
September. The dry weather had 'tended to check the
cane in growth and richness.

After exhibiting such symptoms of mental and moral
obliquity, we imagined that the Reverend WILLIAM
SHEPHERD would be induced by the generous admonitions
of his friends to eschew politics and confine his pen to
some of the penny trashbags of the day. We were mis-
taken : he has addressed a third letter to the Liverpool
Journal. In his second epistle he boasted that he was
an " old soldier;" in this last letter he appears in a very

Terent character. He says he is not to be "withdrawn

from the quest of a fox by the trail of a red herring."—
How the foxhounds of Melton Mowbray must envy the
keen scent of the "parson
The obvious object of Mr. SHEPHERD, in his third let-
ter, is to convey a threat to Mr. FOSTER, the Town-
clerk. With this threat we have nothing to do; but Mr.
SELl;Pluttp must not flatter himself that he can escape
from our hands so easily. Our " trail" shall be his first
insidious and unjustifiable attack on the STANDARD, to the,
reply to which he has not favoured us or his anxious
friends with an answer. He complains of personalities,

but who began them ? In a former number of this paper
there appeared an article deprecating the fraud commit-
ted upon the public revenue and the fair dealer by the
conductors and proprietors of the' Penny Magazine of
Birmingham. That publication purports to emanate
from the political union in that town. We attempted to
show, with what success we leave our readers to decide,
that these frauds had their origin in the example set the
public by the projectors and patrons of the Penny Maga-
zine of London. This last work, which is devoted to the
scrapings of knowledge, is sustained by a systematic pil-
lage of authors ; it was tolerated by the government be-
cause its patrons professed to exclude from its pages the
discussion of political questions, which we have proved
they have not done; and it has been successful simply
-because it has been cheap in comparison with other
Works subjected to a vexatious stamp or-published under
no confederative advantages. This success, very natur-
ally, tempted other individuals, and other unions, to makei
a sunilar inroad upon the stamp laws, and circulate pub-
lications better adapted to the popular taste. If they
have sinned against the law, they ' have sinned in the
company and by the example of Lord BROUGHAM, Lord
JotiN RUSSELL, and others;

This was our argument in the article to which we have
allUded, and this argument excited the disapprobation,
and caused to be opened upon us the penny pop-gun
battery of. Mr. SHEPHERD. We had made no attack
Upon, or the most distant allusion to .111 r. SHEPHERD.
In-point of fact we did not even know that he was con-
nected with the Penny Magazine, far less that lie was
" chairman" of the Liverpool agency for promoting its
circulation, which he was aondeseending enough to an-
nounce in his first letter. Then, however, began the
personality of which he has the assurance to complain.
He singled out an individual svppo.yed to be connected
with the STANDARD, and addressed his defence, if de-
fence it can he Called, to him, which was liberally inter-
spersed with inuendoes of the most paltry nature. He
also dragged forward a gentleman formerly connected
with the STANDARD, and he lavished his abuse upon its
N'esent conductors. The Reverend WM. SHEPHERD dis-
dained to treat with the subordinate scribes and hire-
lings of the STANDARD ; he would only deal with " prin-
ctpals7! How aristocratical! How dignified in "par-
son SHEPHERD 1

But what right has he to assume such airs ? In
these days of levelling and equality such hauteur on his
part evinces not only the bad taste of a. vain man, but
it savors of anything but a Christian spirit. It shows
that the. professor of liberal opinions would be a despot
H. he could. Such arrogance is insufferable : we beg
to inform Mr. SHEPHERD that, among his fellow men,
he has no inferiors here or elsewhere.

But it is with the matter more than the manner of his
first and second letters that we have now to combat.
Mr. SHEPHERD defied us or any man to point out a " po-
litical article in the whole series of the Penny Magazine.
He asserted, in the most unequivocal terms, that the
discussion of " abstract theories," and " temporary ques-
tions that might agitate the public mind" were carefully
and rigidly .excluded from its pages. We accepted his
ehallen.ge, and proved to demonstration, by an appeal
to the contents of the work itself, that Mr. SHEPHERD
Wa:s,eitber entirely ignorant of the character of the ar-
*Fes for which he was willing to stand sponsor, or that
he was guilty -of misrepresentation and falsehood.
threw doWn the gauntlet; we took it up, and the readers
of the STANDARD will judge.whether we did not convict
him either of gross ignorance, or wilful misrepresenta-
tion.

Has Mr. SITEPHEUD deigned to defend himself against
these charges ? Has he impeached the evidence? Has
he denied the facts ? Has he offered an apology ? Not
he, and until he does so, he must be content to bear the
responsibility of the personality which he commenced,
and endure the exposure and discomfiture he has re-
ceived. Instead of defending himself he has shuffled out
Of his armour and retreated from his first position; and
conceiving that he is beyond our reach has directed his
pitiful rancour -exclusively against Mr. FOSTER. We
leave the public to judge whether this is conduct becom-
ing the woolsack, or the Attorney General's carriage.
Even the men in livery in Bcrkely-square, London,
would be ashamed of it.

The Leeds Intelligencer has favoured us with a report
of the speeches and other amusing occurrences on the
grand occasion of Mr. MARSHALL and Mr. T. B. MitcAu-
LAY making their first appearancO to render an account. of
their Parliamentary conduct to their constituents. The
repot t occupies nearly five columns of closely printed type,
so 'distressingly small, that one is almost tempted to be-
lieve -that it was invented by a joint stock company or
opticians. He who wades through it for the sake of plea-
sure is no ordinary sportsman, and he who is bound to
read it professionally has our warmest sympathy. To hear
'MACAULAY, MARSHALL, and Lord MORPETH talk is a
serious matter, but to read that talk, when fairly repined,
is what the honourable member fur Pontefract would call
"a nail in our coffin." •

Some of the incidents connected with this meeting are
extremely curious and instructive, and we are quite satis
fled, from what took place, that neither Mr. MACAULAY nor
Mr.MAnstrALL will be in a hurry again to court the scru-
tiny of their constituents. In the first place, there was
much difficulty in procuring a chairman, some of the
gentlemen who had been specially invited for that pur-
pose having declined the honour. So hard puzzled were
.4114 party-in this respect, that they_ were compelled to ac-
cept the services of a very humble person employed as a
clerk, in the gas-works, and 11e, a very bad type of his
profession, was any thing but brilliant.
This, however, was not the only mishap of the day. A
sturdy champion of the political union of Leeds who had,
at the election, been an able and valuable supporter of
the successful candidates, although refused a ticket, had,
nevertheless, resolved to be present. He was arrested
on the previous night at a late hour, and consigned to
„York Castle !! ! Another more fortunate member of the
union was present; but in order to smooth him.down into
amenity he was deputed to propose some of the- precon-
certed toasts. The opportunity thus afforded him, or ask-
ing some very pertinent and disagreeable questions, was
not entirely thrown away. He billy-rollered Mr. MAR-
SHALL in a masterly style, until the honourable member
was quailed into silence. He also applied the knout to
-MReAta.Av-7"Pdor Tom's a cold!"—without pity or re-
morse, until, we believe, he wished himself at Sierra
,Leone or Fernando Po. Lord MonPETII was spared on
the generous ground of his belonging to a respectable
1,j,.ami1y..; but as for the others, the unionist laid it on, hip a
' nd.thigh, as if they had been horse shoes or stock fish.
The chairman found it impossible to keep order—MAR-
SHALL was cut short in one of his " explanations"—and
the whole affair very nearly ended in a riot. We -are
happy to add that no lives were lost, and that the peace
was most miraculously preserved.

The orator of the night was, of course, Mr.
MACAULAY, whose " rich and teeming eloquence," as
Loid MoRPETH has it, "charms listening senates else-
where." A print of butter, speaking to a Cheshire
cheese, could not have expressed the oily compliment in
more-savoury terms. It was this modest eulogy which
induced us to read the speech of the Imnottrabic vgretury;

or whatever he is, of the India Board, and having read it
on this occasion, we are compelled to admit, much against
our inclination, that we had, strange as it may appear,
read it previously. Every word, almost every letter of
the speech, is to he found in the ministerial pamphlet,
entitled "The Reform Ministry and the Reformed Par-;

[lament." Mr. MACAULAY either wrote that stupid
pamphlet, filled as it is with false statements, invidious
comparisons, distorted facts, and glaring misrepresenta-
tions, or he has pilfered its contents, and applied them to
his own purposes.

The speech, however, contains some very extraordinary.
professions, and some much more extraordinary aver-
ments. Mr. MACAULAY, like the rest of the Whigs now
in office, is not friendly to triennial Parliaments t How
modest and consistent! Has the orator forgotten that
" triennial Parliaments" has been a standing toast with
the Whigs for the last thirty years ? What contemptible
shuffling is this ! Mr. MACAULAY knows, as well as any
gin horse does, that he has already gone round the mill
three titnes, and that, if triennialism were the order of
the day, a new appeal would have to be made to the
country, and that the Whigs, from the elder GREY, down
to the junior PLUNKETT,—that WOOD of the treasury,
Wool) of the tax-office, PARKES and RUSIITON of the
commissions, and all their colleagues—would be kicked
out of office. Air. MACAULAY knows this well—feels it
keenly—and therefore is magnanimously opposed to
triennial Parliaments
But let the man of ." rich and teeming eloquence"
speak for himself:—
" I think, as I said before, that the term of seven years is too
long; but I think more strongly than before tharthree years is tou
short. Consider, gentlemen, that whatever the time may be at
which yo.s fix the duration, you must always reckon it one year
less; for no government will have an election, if' they can avoid
it, when the country is in a state of agitation or of great distress;
and therefore if the year before the time limited be free from
those unpleasant circumstances, they will . dissolve the Parlia-
, anent then., because they know that next, year they will be
obliged to have recourse to it, it may be in a bad. harvest "tilue,
or its the middle of war, or invasion."

What a commentary upon the reforin bill and the po-
hey of Lord GREY! The subaltern here takes. strange
liberties with his commanding officer. The last and the
previous Parliaments were dissolved by the head of - the
ministry at periods of great excitement, of greater ex-
citement indeed than was ever before known in England,
and they were dissolved, especially in the first instance,
BECAUSE that was a period of excitement, a moment of
madness, a time of convulsion, and intimidation! The
only period, according to Mr. MAcAuLAY's present hy-
pothesis, when the Parliament ought not to have been
dissolved, was that when Lord GREY did dissolve it, and
did make his appeal to the brick-bats and bludgeons of
the political unions ! The, noble premier will not thank
the "rich and teeming" orator for this unfortunate at-
tempt to round a period, and impose upon the gudgeons
of Leeds.
Mr. MACAULAY is also a conditional advocate of the
ballot. He says:—
" It is desirable that voters should be subject, to the influence
of popular opinion, and if we could manage to obtain such a
system of election that a voter should be able to act under the
opinions of those whom he respects, but not under the restraint
of a tyrannical landlord, we should be in the happiest state pos-
sible, and I hope that by the mero force of public opinion we
may be able to gain that end without any positive legal enact-
ment. (Hear.) Yet I say that if the party who struggled

against the reform bill are determined to pursue their plan of
intimidating voters, come what will, the voter must be pro-
tected, and if it cannot be done without the ballot, the ballot shall
have my support. (Cheers.)"

This conditional but jesuitical fondness for the ballot is

now a rather stale Whig trick. Lord JouN RUSSELL.
when he dreaded the influence of the Tories in Devon

shire, which by the way they did not exert, sang the

same Bobadillian air. MACAULAY is merely the cricket
to Lord JOHN. He hums the same song, at a respect-
ful distance, in order to parry the thrusts or gain a stray
vote from among the members of the unions. But he is
only practising imposition upon his friends and quondam
associates of the unions. We tell him as Tories, who
have a right to speak somewhat authoritatively on the

subject, that the Tory party do not care a beggar's bles-
sing for the ballot. They take the high ground, as they
always have done, of daribg the Whigs to -bring in a bill
for that object. The Tories do not fear the ballot—they
do not fear the poor man, or the labourer, or the me-
chanic, disfranchised as they have been by the iniquitous
bill_ They have the mass of the -peopteon their side—
they have the disappointed millions on their side—they
have the great majority of the population who have been
robbed and defrauded by the reform bill on their side—
they have tie intense hatred of Whiggery which pre-
vails on their side—and they boldly declare that if the
Whigs will give them an appeal to the people they are
ready to abide the result, be it declared by ballot, uni-
versal suffrage, open or close election, or by any more
popular mode which they are pleased to adopt. We ad-
mit that the ballot would lead to fraud—we agree with
Lord BROUGHAM that it would make the whole life
of a needy elector, "a he"—we admit that it would en-
courage hypocrisy, dissimulation, and falsehood—that it
, would take from an Englishman his proudest boast, name-
ly, that he dares be honest openly, in the worst of times,"
and would make him the slave of secretoaths, the mouth-
piece of villanyi and the victim-of lawless clubs.- We
admit all this ; but still we contend that ive, as a party,
have nothing to dread from the defilement; .and that if
the Whigs who scout triennial Parliaments, now that
they are in office, and are fast bringing the. monarchy to
its sanguinary death scene, choose to introduce the bal-
lot, we may deprecate the policy upon principle, as de-
structive of the national character, and applicable only
to a nation of confirmed liars and hypocrites, but still in
the " lower void," as MILTON says, " there is a lower
still," and we are prepared to meet and defeat them
upon their own rules of injustice and demoralization.
Mr. MACAULAY has, on this occasion, been guilty of
another most unpardonable misrepresentation. He has
assumed that Tory landlords are the only hard task
masters in the kingdom—that the Tory aristocracy are
the only advocates of the Corn. Laws, and, consequently
the only oppressors of the poor—that the Tories are the
only invaders of the rights of free judgment and private
inclination. A more monstrous and unfounded libel
never was promulgated. The Whig.aristocracy are the
largest landowners in England, Scotland, and Ireland,
and upon their estates the loudest murmurs ate heart's,—
the greatest oppressions are practised. The Whig nobi-
lity of England are the largest owner's of what isealled ab-
sentee, property in Ireland. The reform bill,-framed• for
the purpose, haS placed almost every small anti nominal
borough, which still returns members to Parliament, in
the hands of the Whigs. In the boroughs under their
influence the worst corruptions prevail. The ancient
borough of Derby was, and, we believe, still is consi-
dered to he under the influence of the Duke of DEVON-
SHIRE, and there we have a corporation without books or
accounts, as will be proved when the Commissioners
make their inquiry. In short, we might go through the
whole list of boroughs, and all the rent rolls of estates in
the kingdom, and show that time Whig aristocracy arc of
that sort whose interests are most at variance with the
interests of the public, and whose maxims of liberalism
are invariably tinged with selfishness.. Under this mask
they commit injuries with impunityinjuries which, if
they were attempted by a Tory, would set the whole
Whig pm ess in an uproar.

We said nothing—but we could not help looking on in
silent sorrow at the easy credulity of the conservative
press of Ireland, and indeed of England generally, when
Lord WELLESLEY delivered his inaugural and conciliatory
address at the election dinner of the Loan AtiYott of:Dub-
lin. We knew our man, and therefore construed in.
versely the plausible sophistries of the- new Lotd LIEU-
TENANT. He was meditating mischief when he was
preaching peace. He was indulging party rancour, and
singling out his victims, when the words of meekness
and "divine philosophy" were on his lips ; for We have
IN ed long enough to know that the Jesuit is always cruel,
and that hypocrisy and injustice go hand in hand.
As we anticipated, the work of 'Protestant extermina-
tion has commenced in Ireland. The exemplary and
pious Dean CARTER has been removed from the commis-
sion of the peace; Colonel BLAGE has been