The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-11-08 00:00:00

poor rogue is sent to the treadmill for three months for
publishing police reports on unstamped paper
We do not contend that Mr. WHITE has overstepped
the limits of the law but we do contend that if this man
Reeves deserves three months' imprisonment for unlaw-
fully retailing news, there is another man, Who is "by
courtesy" called Lord BROUGHAM, and some three hundred
of his agents and creatures, who deserve the same, if iot
a longer term of imprisonment and hard labour on the
treadmill. If such publications be fraudulent when sold
by the poor man, similar publications are much more
fraudulent when retailed by persons of wealth and in-
fluence. In punishing the poor man he is deprived of
his bread ; and his family, as in the present instance, are
thrown upon the parish, thus saddling the middle classes
with the burthen of their maintenance; but, by sending
his lordship and his friends to gaol, no injury would be
done to society ; for, in the suppression of their illegal
trade, additional work and profits would accrue to the in-
dustrious and deserving. If the needy only are punished,
and the affluent and powerful are suffered to escape, then
is there one law for the rich and another for the poor,. and
these two laws are of Whig origin, illustrative of the
sense of justice entertained by his MAJESTY'S ministers
and the reformed Parliament.

Here, then, we have another instance of the people
being tempted to violate the law by high and authorita-
tive example. The Penny Magazine, established and
patronized by Lord BROUGHAM, conducted by CHARLES
KNIGHT, compiled by a legion of needy hacks—poor
rogues who delight it paste and scissors—and hawked
all over the country by certain political flying-stationers
and by mountebanks of various kinds, is as much a news-
paper as the Police Gazette, for selling which the bro-
ken-down gold-chaser is sent to gaol. In fact, the former
contains political information, and discusses questions of
while the other confines its labours to the pure
science of reporting the wit and wisdom of stipendiary
magistrates. There must be an end put to all this un-
fairness and oppression forthwith.
By the way, why do not the radicals of London-, in-
stead of clamouring about it, bring the power of the
magistrates to issue by moving the Court of King's
Bench for a Writ of habeas corpus in the instance of this
man REEVES ? This would bring the act of Parliament
under review, and give the country the benefit of the de-
cision of the first criminal court in the kingdom.

We have spoken of one DANIEL in another article, and
lo another is on our hands in the person of Mr. DANIEL
WHITTLE HARVEY, M.P., &c., &c., &c. He has franked
us a letter enclosing a printed slip taken from theTinzes
newspaper, and he has moreover done us the honour to
request that the said slip, which contains matter exceed-
ingly interesting to himself, may be inserted in the
LIVERPOOL STANDARD. This is certainly an ingenious
way of advertising the honourable gentleman, but al-
though Mr. HARVEY be an attorney, we are too far north
for him !

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

Wednesday Evening, half-past Seven o'clock.

There has been no material operations doing in the consol
market since our last, but the price has been generally 881 for
the account, alternately buyers and sellers. Exchequer bills
are better, being at 45 pr., and India bonds are at 21 to 23.
Our various foreign bonds, as will have been seen by the
quotations, have been firm. Belgian bonds are 941; Dutch
per etc., 10i ; the 5 per cts., 94A ; Russian, 1031; and
Spanish, 2311 to 21. Portuguese regency bonds are at 601 to 61,
and the old bonds fluctuate between 69i and 70.
We have Newfoundland papers to the 16th Oct. His Ex-
cellency Sir J. Cochrane had prorogued further the meeting of
the House of Assembly from the Ist November to the 10th
January, then to meet for the despatch of business. Captain
Dogold Cowan, of the brig Euphemia, at St. John's, from
Liverpool, fell overboard a few days before the.advices left, and
before assistance could be procured he was unfortunately
drowned. The alarm being given, the stern boat was launched,
but, a heavy sea running at the time, she immediately swamped.
He had many years been employed in the Newfoundland trade.