The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-15 00:00:00

CONTE.VPORARY

By the death of Sirßichard Goodwin Keates, a Grand
Cross of the Bath and the Governorship of Greenwich
Hospital fail into the gift of the GRAB ministry„
This government, vthich has always been, selected for
some veteran officer-4o whom it afforded a calm and
honourable retreat—i; destined for Sir Thomas Hardy,
than whom, perhaps, twre is not a better officer on ser-
vice—he, was,x4e Co.ptain of our Nelson, and received
his dying injtinctions, his parting ernbrace=but he is.
nearly the yotingest Admiral in the fleet. Why, then, is
Sir Thomas Hardy, full of vigour and activity, with years
of work in him, to have this ?—Because he ilas a seat at
the Admiralty Board, and because the Duke
.of Rich
mond wants that seat for a friend of his.
Is it not strange that this piece of patronage, so pecu-
liarly the King's—so peculiarly this King's, of the sailor
King who ,has himself served and fought, and who loves
the service to which he belongs—is snatched from the
royal hand to make a job for the Duke of Richmond?
Lord NavarinO looked for it—he felt that. shelving him
would be beneficial to all parties—but no, Sir Thomas i
to have it; 'and when the new Lord of the Admiralty is
appointed in his room, it will be seen that we are justi
fled in what we now say —John Bal.

If England and France be unwise enough to embrrk
in a war against Germany and Russia, for the sake of the
Spanish succession, the following comparison of the re-
sources of the contending parties will enable the .ob-
server to approximate to a pretty • unerring conclusion as
to the issue of the fray. We put Spain herself out of
the question, because it is a "divided house."
Population. Military & Navy.
Great Britainc3;:i,.- - 25,000,000 102,000 •
France
• ;ode - 57,0(10,000 552,000
Population. .
Austria* -
Prussia*
Germany
Russia 52,000,001 +MAU

110,000,000 980,000
* We have abstracted that portiOn of the military weans of
these two powers, which forms part of the armies of the German
Confederation, and is comprised under the third head.—Guardian
and Ledger.
It will be seen bydetails of proceedings which we give
in another part of this sheet, that the attention of our
citizens has this week been absorbed with the subject of
Corporation Inquiry. As this inquiry is proceeding at
the time we w rite, there are many reasons why we should
refrain from entering:into any commentary upon its me-
rits: but there are none to induce us to resist the strong,
inclination which we feel in common with every respect-
able citizen whose judgment is not warped, or whose
principles are not corrupted, by the influence of faction,.
to denounce the conduct of those who, in the exercise of
their old vocation, have seized upon the opportunity to
inflame the minds of the people, and to Fervert the im-
portant investigation to a party purpose. Liberals., par
excellence, although they be, we have seldom seen a
more striking illustration of that illiberal and infamous
principle of _ _

"Jeddart law— •
Where in the morn men hang and draw,
And sit in judgment after--"
than their conduct has displayed. The Corporation of
Carlisle is to 'ae plwerl upon its trial before a Commision
specially sent for the purpose; ancLno -sooner is that
Commission known to he approaching our city, than the
war whoop is sounded--popular clamour is aroused—
public odium excited—and by "Jeddart law," sentence
of condemnat ion is passed, ere any "sitting in judgment':
is ever begun. And this is liberality! And they who
practise it bawl aloud in praise of liberty, and make
high-sounding pretensions to right and justice!—Car-
lisle Patriot.

THE POPE—CHURCH ori STATE.,--The universal cry
of the -Whigs and Radicalsis against the union of Church
and State. Every Papist in the kingdom, as a matter of
course, has added- his voice to swell the echo of this cry,
and the anointed Bishop and the scapulared voteen have
blended their " most sweet voices" together in denounc-
ing that union in Church and State which they are
pleased to designate as "evils," and "adulterous." In
the midst, however, .of this uproarious cry, we have
chanced to stumble on the last " encyclical letter" of his
holiness the Pope, in which we find the following delici-
ous passage; and, thinking it a most savoury morceau,
we cannot resist the temptation of giving it the benefit
of our circulation :

"Nor can we augur mcre happy_ results, either to religion or
to monarchy, from the wishes of those who are anxious that the
Church should be separatel ftom the State, and that the mutual
concord of the Empire asd the priesthood should be torn asun-
der. For it is certain that these favourers at the most audacious
liberty do exceedingly fesr that concord which has ever been ad-
vantageously and salutary to both religious and civil interests."
Hear ye, hear xp„Al):ts,. good. Doctors Doyle and
-111`Hale, and All. ye ioria4towhO have been "railing with
the poison of asps npro*Anr tongues, againSt the union
of Church and Statelg—Aear ye this manifesto of his ho-
liness, whose Vesserg,,ye are, and be silent! He de-
nounces you as "favourers of the most audacious li-
berty," which, by the mass, is as-pretty a description of
a Radical as ourselves could have written; and he pro-
tests that this "concord between the empire and the
priesthood has ever been advantageous and salittary to
both religious and civil interests"—which is just our
opinion to the very letter.
Now all this is. very pleasant as it stands, but we fear,
aye, we fear that this statement, put forth ex cathedra,
has some deeper object in -view than at first meets the
eye. The Papists are rushing at present with mouths
foaming and rabid against cur Established Church, and
assisted as they are by our Whig ministry, by our liberal
Protestants and the whole family of radicalism and infi-
delity, they have some prospect of succeeding, and then
—what then Why, they have only to struggle for the
establishment of the Popish Church in union with the
State, and to refer to this encyclical letter of the head of
this church fort justification of their altered opinions on
such an alliance..--:Dublin Evening Mail.

MINISTERIAL HOLIDAYS, OR, NOTHING TO DO.

• His Majesty's minis .ers are still enjoying themselves
in different parts of the country, there being nothing of
any importance for them to attend to. To be sure the
King of Spain is dead, and a civil war isaboUt.to he com-
menced in that country, in which England is fearfUlly in-
terested; but that's a trifle! his Majesty's ministers are
pheasant-shooting ! A brotherly warfare, mutual slaugh-
terings, desolations of homes, destruction of British pro-
perty and interests, &c. &c. is going on in -Portugal ;
but what of that ? his Majesty's ministers are phea-
sant-shooting! The sturdy and honest. old King of
Holland (adored by his own subjects and sighed for by
the Belgians) has frightened Leopold and " cher
Louise" into fits, and snapped his fingers in Palmerston's
face; Brussels is on the eve of another revolution, and
Englishmen are assassinated in its streets; but no mat-
ter—his .Majesty's ministers are pheasant-shooting!
Henry V. is preparing to fight for the throne of his fa-
ther; La Vendee is ready for the uplifting of his banner;
Louis Philippe (discovered by his people tube more des-
potic than Charles X.) is about to seize Belgium, and
thus bamboozle and insult England; but what of that ?
his Majesty's ministers,,afte, pheasant-shooting! The
Sovereigns of Europe are toembled, their armies are in-
creased in numbers amiTpiesfected in discipline ; War !-
War ! -is no longer whistopfr#,' but hallowed in, our ears,
and England is the objeetllrte threatenings; but 'tis no
consequence-4is Majesty's ministers are pheasant-shoot-
ing! Associations in different parts of the empire are
openly formed for the purpose of refusing to
.pay taxes ;
the national honour (pledged to the fundholcler) is in dan-
ger ; the Law is insulted and bearded, and the Exche-
quer is empty ; contempt and scorn against the govern-
ment is uttered by every body; Ireland is committed to
the energetic government of a twaddling imbecile; the
Church is all bit fallen, and vested rights and property
are no longer respected: in short, gathering destruction
from abroad, and suicidal anarchy threatened at home,
sufficient tn rouse the attention of every one who has a
head to reflect or a heart to feel, are gaining strength
-:urichecked to shake the 'empire to its foundations; but
whit of all-this?—it matters little ;—his Majesty's mi-
pisters are pheasant. oti ng I !—Age.

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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.

PARIS, October B.t.The Paris journals of Sunday last,con-
Wined a paragraph worthy a prominent place in your cohIIMIS,
and of being printed-in capitals too. It was, to this effect :
"WitHIN THE MEMORY OF MAN SO MANY ENGLISH WERE
NEVER SEEN TOGETHER IN PARIS AS AT THE PRESENT MOMENT."
Let the tradesmen of Bond-street, Pali-mall, Regent-street,
Oxford-street, and Piccadilly,- while sitting in their deserted
shops,readthe above, for it is true. Let them ponder on it, and
let them tell the starving artisans depending on them for employ-
ment and bread to complain of that crying evil, absenteeism,
and to leave legislation on political subjects for the present to
persons better qualified to discuss, consider, and deal with them.
Let some patriotic member of parliament, early in the next
sessien, move for returns (as far as they can be made out) of
the number and quality of absentees from all parts of the
United Kingdom;" "the amount of money drawn thence by
them and spent on the Continent ;" "the number of them who
shall have ruined their fortunes, their credit, and their principles
by a residence abroad;" "the number of females whose reputa-
tion fur purity has been (not lest, for that would be invidious,
hut) enhanced by intercourse with the Continent;" "the num-
ber of British females who have married foreign scamps,
schemers, and swindlers, and been made consequently wretch-
ed ;" and having obtained or been refused these returns, let the
same member of, parliament move far "a committee to inquire
into the best mode of (not preventing emigration, but of) pre-
venting the impoverishment of tNe country by the continual and
increasing drain of money by absentee proprietors."
I may be toad that suet; a proposition would be ridiculous. - So
much the better. It would attract notice to a subject more de-
serving of consideration than nineteen-twentieths of the matters
On which the time and attention of your legislators are squan-
dered. How it is with the shopkeepers of the great leading
streets of London above-named at this moment I know not; but
I recollect when I passed through these streets at the same
season, four years ago, when absenteeism was by no means at its
present height, the sight of a customer in a shop was hardly to
be encountered. How it is with the mechanics dependent on
those shopkeepers will be conceived from the situation of the
latter. Let but a deputation of the \Vest-end tradesmen (in
particular) visit Paris at this moment, and if at every step they
take they meet not with former customers in crowds, at. every.
shop they enter if they see not English people purchasing as it
possessed, at every theatre if they see them not occupying stalls
and other of the most expensive places, if they find not all tile
taverns, hotels, lodging-houses, job-carri gee and horses, grooms,
footmen, and other servants, tilled, hired, and employed by them,
and by them nearly exclusively - if, I say, these things be not
seen, I shall be content to be set down hir the most arrant re-
tailer of falsehood that ever wielded pen.
If the deputation of the west-end tradesmen should subse-
quently enter those dens of iniquity leased qf the French Gorern-
ment—l mean the gambling-houses—they would find there hun-
dreds of English, Irish, and Scotchmen, of every class, losing
' their money, to the amount of thousands of pawn Is per day.
Let them attend the pawnbrokers' auctions, and they would see
British watches, jewellery, and other valuables, pawned by
those same English; much of it purloined, or taken by force,
by unprincipled husbands, brothers, and fathers, from their
wives, sisters, and children, after having sacrificed all they pos-
sessed of their own. Let them enter the debtors' prison, and
occasionally the Morgue, and they will find uumeious British
victims- of continental intercourse, who, whatever their weak-
nesses or their faults, still merit commiseration; for perpetual
imprisonment is a punishmeel, secondary only, perhaps, to
death; and suicide must be, or has been, preceded by indescri-
bable mental torture.

It is not my silly purpose to attempt reading moral lessons
to an entire nation. Al y sole objects are to call attention to the
disgraceful and ruinous system of absenteeism practised by Bri-
tish subjects, and incidentally to. suggest—not a re,rnedy, for I
feel not qualified to that great act—but merely that, however
free t..e indulgence in profligacy, licentiousness, vice, and 'crime
be on the continent, they arc not without their natural attend-
ants, poverty, disgrace, suffering, and death.—From Curve-
spondent ty. the Morning Herald.
AFRICA.

The following is an extract of a letter dated Tangier, Sep-
tember 6:—" It being well known that the Emperor of Morocco
considers himself the heir of the ancient C iliphs of the South,
unites within himself the direction of all religious as well as po-
litical matters; and being held by the Mussulmans of Africa in
the light of a patriarch, he, of course, cannot rest indifferent to
the occupation of a part of the African coast by infidels.--
Morocco is, therefore, the grand seat of intrigue, from whence
the chiefs of the tributary tribes of the interior of the Regency
receive their instructions, and from whence emanate the orders
for all the hostile measures offered to our troops and colonists.
Believe me our troop's will never be able to remain tranquil as
long as the means of creating disturbances remains at the dis-
posal of the Emperor of Morocco. A jew. from Gibraltar,
named Pen OHM, is charged by the' Morocco government with
the furnishing of arms and ammunition, which are forwarded
through the interior to Tremesan, and from thence to the en-
virons of Oran and Algiers. Diplomatic remonstrances will
never have the effect of altering the plans of the Emperor, for
on this side of the Mediterranean the Europeans are considered
as tributary to the Regency of Morocco. 17he presents which it
is customary for the European Powers to give to the Emperor
are looked upon as tributes; and they alone compose the civil
list. There is nut a Mussulman who will not tell you that the
expenses of the palace are suip,rted by the tributes from the
intirek. Why does not the *French government send an expe-
dition to Tang ier, the most accessible part of the regency, and at
once put an end to these intrigues of continual revolts and in-
subordination ? The appearance of an armament there would
soon change the aspect of affairs in Morocco."