The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-01 00:00:00

TO C9R4ESP9N.DENTS.

ALPHA'S" letter, if possible,ln our next.
We are welt rtare of the fact, that a considerable number of
aliens, who hate no right whatever to exercise the franchise,
`voted for Ewart and Motris•at the last election. This will.
perhaps, be prevented in future..•
lVe have heard something relative to a subscription to reward
certain barrister for his forensic eloquence, and his prying
eisposition, as per instructions, on,asiecent occasion ; but we
can hardly believe that anymemberof•the bar would submit
to such an indignity. At some batik would not be tolerated.
We shall, perhaps, as Lord Brougham used to say, "write to
the King,on the subject."-_

rbt'Efberpoot ,iytAnbarb.

FRIDAY MORNhVG, MAY 1, 1835.

' A:New York packet, the Orpheus, arrived yesterday,
after a tedious passage, bringing. files from that city to
tko.2d of April. They contain•nO news of any interest.
It would appear that General LiciaoN has declared him-
I favourable to the pretensions of Mr. VAN B u REN. as a
candidate for:tie president's chair at the next election.
Mr. JACKSON will probably, therefore, by means of a ft.--
fling delay, save himself the pain of making any apology
to the government of France. Is Mr.'l7.4"N BUREN a less
fastidious personage ?

We bane been favoured with the..folloWing extract of
it letter addi'essed to one of the first ruereintile houseS in
This town; 'the effects of the coloniaLetnancipatioti bill
%re rapidly coming .to rriaturity, namely the utter ruin of
our West India possessions, , and the. FRIGHTFUL
INCREASI?, •OF SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE'
'TRADE in tite-Spanish, French, and other settlements

• - • "Kt No sTirSt, 7th Midi, 1835: •
" I am truly sorry to inform you that there coutittnes a great
77,trit of confidence, as` the ne-gioes airs not ing mere than one-
win ur-tize work tbry Iflry irk duri-us
their own time formone.y. Timennsequenee is, prat our prodUee
isdiminished one-hall,and is fetching enormous prices. Coffee
was sold yesterday at 24 dollars per ewt.; sugar, 435:4d.; rum,
3s. lid. per gallon.. Unless goveiument adopt measures to en"-
foree labour this beautiful island in a very few tears will not be
Werth theiriOotection,' The slave trade is earrred.on to a great
extent in Cuba, no less than five vessels, with abtait from four
,to five hundred slaves iu each, have arrived there within this
month, itiad-two of..these vessels were sold here and fitted
i)Lit for the trade.: Our r"..uin, you perceive,•willdie the making
of our neigiihmira the Spaniards."

We have received Montreal papers to the 25th of
March. In the', Moittieal Herald of the 24th March we
. find the following

.
Let every man, that speaks the English language, read,
• ttark, learn, and inwardly digest the following extract from
.the
Quebec Gaxstre . -
Mr. Editor,—The following is cut out of, an Upper Canada
newspaper, giving. the debate in the. assembly of that province
on 111 r. Home's letter to the late Mayor of York... it is
stated to he taken from Mr. APKlenzie's Colonial Advocate, as
translated from the Montreal Minerve of the 16th February, 1832.
Similar sentiments have repeatedly appeared in the lifinerve,
the Canadien, and the Echo du Pays, at different times since
1832. Perhaps this extract may be- useful to some of your
readers who see the Vindicator and its declarations, that the late
elections were uninfluenced by feelings of nationality, and that
. there is among the Fzench Canadians no opposition to emigia-
-lion. It may also serve to illustrate the honour and loyalty of
those of the party who countenance and Supportsuch papers.
tiblished in tho' French language, and
.pay the editor of the
• vindicator for the purpose of deceiving 111 countrymen who do.
Uot read French. AN P.M IG It ANT.

EXTRACT :

" In examining with an attentive eve what is passing 'around
119, it is easy to convince one's self that our country is placed in
wry critical.eircumstanees, and that- a revolution will perhaps
e necessary to place it in a inure natural and less precarious
gitnation.—A constitution to remodel a nationality to maintain ;
these are the objects which at present occupy all Canadians.
" I repeat it', an immediate reparation. from England is the only
.
means of prereicing our nattonactty. Some time hence, when
°Migration shall have made our adversaries our equals in num-
more da.ring and less generous, they will deprive us of our
'betties, or we shall have the same fate as our unhappy coun-
trYulen the Acadians.: 'Believe me, this. is the fate.reserved fur
`1", if we do not hasten to male ourselves independent."

When England is cursed with diiiinien and'fierce con-
tentions at, home, need we be "surprised at distractions.
471(1 threatened rebellion in her distant colonies ? While
the people oT these islands continue to tolerate a faction
ho seek the separation of. heland from the. British
er°"-tvn, and the ascendancy of popery on the ruins of
Protestantism, should it be a matternf wonder that Ca-
nada, a large.proportion of Whose population are French
`lll Irish papiiits„should be desirous to Aiolate its elle-
Riance, join the United States, or set up a': republic for
itself? 4

These deiections beyond die Atlantic are the natural
"nsequeneesrof the troubled state of the mother country.
When treason is openly taught with impunity, how is •it
Posible to aiert insubordination and rebellion ? If Irish
cletnagogues•ate• permitted to advocate the dismernber,
dent of the empire, and reCeivetribute for such advocacy
from the ignorant peasantry of Ireland whom they delude,
..to we be ati;azed at seeing ,k'iericli Jacobins, aided by
14:oglisli levellers; playing a Similar game on the shores
of the St. Lawrence ? • : .
We may. depend Upon it ' that, unless the gallows or
the bayonet 'interpose, and put down agitation and trea:
k°ll with a strong. arm, it will not be Canada alone, it
wlll net be Ireland only, which will be severed from the
4lritish crOwn.- The • democratic principle, when all
Powerful, Ss.it was in France a few.years ago, and as it
tg in Great Britain now, must inevitably lead to des:
PNism, most likely to military despotism. The. power
°J•flemocracy:is.the power of brute form, of unrestrained
Passion, of unthinking violence, of lawless confiscation,
11l which murder is-committed in order to silence the
tries of the plundered, and hush the murmurs of the
desolate. For some considerable time these principles
have made formidable advances, and they hie now ob-
14ined so strong a-h Old over the public mind, are in
.such
4ttive operation, and are rendered powerful by so marry
!kn. blnations, that we much fear that it will-be extremely
"rfEeult tii.'dounteiaet perniei.Ons influence. The
e of changais inherent inhtzman.nature.. Man seeks
urlapt4llloilS to 4is.eirpntriStanceS;;either from. neces-
-1"Y or caprice-,-as:ii,e •seeks.a:tliangeef :air or- exercise.
a strictly artificial country like this the inducement to
W experiments is exceedingly natural. He who
, a cottage where his father. .lived, and whose range
tii?efl not extend beyond the green fields which surround
4,411, trust feel fewer inducements to change his habits or
*elnr.nrnstances than 'an- artisan reared • in Ole atmo-

.s—phere of an iron foundry or Spinning factory.' The lat.
ter is a being.whia,iaa he is not in a natural, can hardly
be said to be in 'a healthy state, either as regards his
mind or his body.... His dietis 'as artificial -as his atmo-
sphere, and new desires are created by his infirmities as
well as by his associations.
Persons -so reared are the most difficult to govern.
They cannot understand why other interests of the com-
munity should also be entitled to the protective care of
the government. A cotton-spinuS, of Manchester can-
not see beyond his mill. He cannot understand why
wheat, and barley,' and cabbages should be grown bnt
for his exclusive benefit. A Sheffield manufacturer of
brass candlesticks sees by the light only of that which he
makes. There is.no other sun in his heavens. He can-
not 'comprehend arty 'reason why he should pay a tax
upon malt, or gin, or sosp, or foreign corn. This we
admit is only ignOrance, but it unfortunately works
injustice.

We are far from" saying that no change in our laws,
our fiscal regulations, or in other departments where
taxation presses upon industry, should take place. We
do not even say that what is called public opinion shOuld
be despised, because public opinion is generally, and in
this particular instance, decidedly wrong. In all matters
not involving 'sacred principles and obligations, we think
it the duty of the governMent to
.relax liberally. Men
are but children of a larger growth ; and there is policy
in indulging them. occasionallyand within proper limits.
Let us take in illustration the recent outcry against the
malt tax. We are of those who think that it should have
been repealed, not because we believed that its repeal
would be productive of any salutary benefit to the British
farmer, but simply because the speeches from the throne,
the speeches of ministers; and hundreds of speeches in
parliament, all admitted that the agricultural inOrbst was
and is suffering extreme distress. Having admitted the
fact, the government were bound to apply some remedy,
and though an inadequate one,-though in many respects
not a wise measure, still it would have silenced clamour,
and been an earnest of more remedial concessions in
future.

But we were told that the minister could not afford to
dispense with so large 'a share of the public revenue.
WhOt of that ? If pat liament agreed to repeal the tax,
it would have consented to a subatittite. Here is Ire-
land, for instance, where there are no poor rates, allowed
to send all sorts of corn, cattle, and other produce to
England duty free! Is that just towards the farmers of
England ? A farmer who has a few miles of land carriage
to his nearest market pays a larger sum for the transit of
his produce than do the corn and cattle dealers of Dub-
lin, Waterford, and -Belfast, trading with Liverpool. If
the loss sustained by the repeal of the malt tax were
replaced by a tax upon Irish produce; it would be a
measure of strict propriety and justice, The manufac-
turer would only. pay an 'increased price for his corn,
equal to .the reduced price of malt. He would 'hot be
injured; the farmer would be materially relieved.
Now for the policy and justice of the measure. The
poor-rates in- England amount to eight millions per
annum. In most of the large manufacturing towns these
enormous rates are caused by inroads of, the pauper and.
starving population.of Ireland. In Manchester and the
surrounding towns more than one-half of • the rates are
expended upon the lrish.. In.-Bristol it is worse. In
London a great portion of the poor are Irish. In Liver-
pool two-thirds of our t)oor-rates are paid to Irish pau-
pers, and the same may be said of various other towns.
Seeing; then, thrif the landowners of Ireland, and those
who poss-,..as property in that country, refuse to maintain
their own poor—refuse to relieve them in any way—but
on the contrary, encourage the se paupers' to migrate to
4'ngland—seeing .all this, we contend that it is only
reasonable-that we should- resort to some mode of remov-
ing so unjust a "pressure from without." Let us tax
,the.produce of- Ireland is the ratio of the burthens-she
imposes upon us, and then the British farmer would have
less cause to complain. • • • • •

This is one of the, many changes in our financial Sys
tem which-is demanded by the changes of the times
.ge-
Tierally, and the improvftents in steam navigation in
fuirtiouTero ale nut 4e le-e. up the aunt to d fait
irials.and makeinur: policy•applicable 'to the wants and
alterations produced by improvements which do not con-
tribute their fair share to the.revenue of the country, we
shall'most inevitably reduce the-farmers and labourers of
England to the degraded condition of the peasantry of
Ireland.

Lord JOHN RussEEL's exposed " calumnies of the Wes.:
leyan
,methbdists—witl; hope, contribute towards the
signal defeat of that petty falsehood-monger in Devon=
shire. Lord-Jomes -character is beginning to be under-
stood, and we are certain that the more' he is known
the more contemptible he will be coicsidered.

But base 'as were the caluMnies, the explanation or
apolOgy he offers is of a deeper degree of baseness. The
lcrdling scribe- says that he regrets having published
them; and that he had fallen into error through the repre-
sentations of other authors. .It is several years since his
book was written, and although be. has had many oppor-
tunities of retracting the slander, he has never until now
had-the candour to do it. Lord JOHN is or was an occa-
sional writer in the Edinlurgh Review, and we believe
that like most whip. of any influence, he was permitted to
review his own work, the work in question, in that once
celebrated periodical.• • No notice, however, was then or
there taken of the slander. li.bas been allowed to adhere
to the loyal and exemplary Wesleyans from that hour to
tins, and only recanted at the present juncture, when the
noble lord is soliciting the votes of the people he had so
maliciously injured.

He. Jells them that be will expunge the words from.
" the second edition." Honest Ltoo When did any-
thing that Lord JOHN RvsSgt.r. has written ever reach a
second edition ?. If the injured parties are to wait. for
absolution until Lord JOHN'S. scraps of history are re-
-printed they will never snrvive the duration of the ana-
thema. The:following squjb. is not without point :

" A CAS o.—Lord John Russell presents his compliments to
the Wesleyan methodists, and is sorry that in the second
of the• " Memoirs of Europe-'"lie 'should have said any thing
against them, touching.theirfanaticism or morality; but if they
will subscribe, and forward their subscriptions to his Committee-
Room, at the Half Moon, he promises to write a third volume,
• wherein he will say a great deal in their favour, and tell the
world that what hj,said in his last was a lie.—Conuaittec-Room,
Holf.Moon, April 25, 1835. Wotern Lumina? y."
.„ there is nu probability of the public subscribing
to a second edition, and asno.second edition will be pub-
lished until so subscribed for, the slander must. remain
where it; is, not unknown though in obscurity, not for-
gotten though unseen in the original text.
. . •
*As to the Devonshire election, ve admit its importance;
but notwithstanding all thdt we hear we are totaliytina-
ble to forni an. opinion as to its results. The utmost
exertions are making to raise subscriptions for Lord
JOHN; Colonel- Evass and Mr. JOSEPH HUMS have
given a pound each--O'CONNELL has put down twenty
shillings for the whole. tail, being about sixpence per
joint—one HAYDON, who calls himself an artist and an
Esquire, signs for half a crown—sundry persons give a.
shilling each--there are a few sixpences—and an Irish
hodman and patriot has cheated his priest and O'CoN-
NELL by subscribing a penny .

1! There is one thing to .be considered in this contest,
if' it be not favourable to the cause of the church
we greatly deceive ourselves. It is this. DeVOrishire
has uniformly been considered one of the strong holds of
the establishment. it containsß vast numberof resident
gentry, and it is not overrun by a manufacturing popu-
lation. The'clergy in Devonshire form a very numerous
body, and the Wesleyan, methodists in the populous dis-
ntricts (*Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehouse, are also
powerful alike in their characters and.numbers. With
such auxiliaries the church, we should think, has no
cause to fear—Lord JOHN not much to hope. If, how-
.ever; with all these appliances in our favour, we are de-
feated, and. faction, triumphs, then shall we be prepared
,to admit that a fearful if not mortal blow has been struck
at the institutions of the country, and That the.altar and
the throne are both-in danger.

We trust it is unnecessary to do more than. call
'attention to two articles .in the present sheet; one from
an American paper, 4;n thq ".dangers of popery," and
the other from our abl43.contntukor,aiy the Standard, con-

taining extracts from Mri E:slEAs MACDONNELL'S pamph-
let on the parliamentary oath taken 'by Roman catholics.

In all that Mr. MACDONNELL states we 'heartily con-
cur. Indeed, it is needless to say so,,for we have asserted
the same truths, (with less force,
.we admit,) and have
followed the same arguments before, but not with the
power which he supplies.
--We defy any man, no matter Who he is, to rise from
the perusal of the extracts we have given. without being
convinced—without the dreadful conclusion being deeply
impressed on his mind that every Roman catholic- who
voted for Lord JOEIN. RUSSELL'S motion, in reference to
the revenues of the established church, is guilty Of
FOUL PERJURY 1

These are strong words—this is a grave charge,—but
we are satisfied-that it is not more grave than true. The
author proves that the leading Roman catholics—the
leading clergy of the Irish Roman catholic church, ,be-•
fore Roman.catholics entered parliament under theprovi-
sions of the relief bill, knew the nature, tendency, and
object of the oath, and admitted that it denied them the
right and privilege of legislating on any matters connected
with the welfare—the spiritual or temporal concerns of
the church of England. They swore, when they.entered
parliament, to do nothing to weaken, subvert, or disturb
property within this realm, particularly property belong-
ing to or settled by law (by law as it vtood!) upon the
church of England.
Have they respected the obligations_ imposed upon
them by this solemn oath? Have they violated the
pledge made upon the canons of GOD in the presence of
the assembled commons of . England ? Let their deeds
bear witness. Let the motion of Mr. Sum, of which he
gave mitice, speak for itself. Let the votes of the
House of Comthons be examined, and let those who can
swear to the factsgiVe evidence at the bar of the house.
If the' facts be as we believe them to be, and if it be
true that thrty voted MLorti JOHN' 'S majority, which has
not yet beefi, and 'we think' never will be, quektioned,
then we say thati „serious and momentous duty devolves
upon the House of Commons. We do not call upon the
House of Conimon.s.tn. impeach them, for we are not cer-
tain if an impeachment would lie; but we call upon the
house to expel thew, whichlt has a dear right to do. .
Will the house do this? No, as atpresent constituted ;
but the proof of the crime should not be lost; the facts
should be established ; for, unless we are to be given
over immediately to revolution and destruction, in the
vortex. of which every institution of the country is to
perish, and every law and record of law consumed in the
flames, the House. of Commons will, sooner or later, be
called upon by the people of England, in a .voice which
they must obey, to punish the perjurers of the church of
Rome.

Well, well, we have for the present.made no exertions.
we expected—jobbing has succeeded—the unitarians and
popish priests, the former supplying the money and the
latter the slaves, have carried the day, and Mr. POULETT
THOMSON is once more the sitting member.
Well, well, we have for the present no exertions
The conservatives will learn from this that they must in
future trust only in themselves. Instead of being, as in
other towns, an organized, they are a distracted body,
all very ostentatiously disposed to make promises, but
sadly addicted to forgetting them. We hate heard.of
some names connected with some proceedings—but for
the present, respect for the honourable and the true,
and there are many such in Manchester, induces us to
forbear.

As to the conduct ,of the popish priests on last Sunday
and a few previous days, we have also learned some curi-
ous but characteristic facts. Talk of the march of educa-
tion indeed ! it proves nothing but this, that the educa-
tion of the present schoolmaster is pernicious, and that
?very thrives under the patrobage of socinianism.

LONDOY LATEST NEWS.

City, Wednesday Evening, half-past Seven o'clock.
We stated in our last that there was a hitch in the cabinet
•
and -at a fearfulprice has it been alleviated. It is understood
that the O'Connell faction have at length begini openly to show
their teeth, and they do longer.atrect to conceal that, as•their
tender is Vie -oldster of the ministers, they themselves are deter-
mined to tote.the sweets of office. "The tail', last week began
to display an intention of not wagging at the skirts of the ad-
ministration, and neither. the manifest repugnance of Lord
nor the more humble entreaties of my Lord John,
to the great agitator, availed a jot. According to his own ac-
count he has suddenly lost all influence over his landless fol-
lowers; they have suddenly set up on their own accounts; • and
he, whose nod has heretofore been law, and whose holding the
'power of "stopping the supplies" was an eternal check upon
any whiskey-inspired refractory, was, if his assertion could be
credite*-without influence to prevent "the tail" of the beast
lashing its feeble sides. However easy it was to see through the
shallow artifice, it was by no means so easy to prevent the con-
sequences of the rebellions display of the notorious band of O.'s.
The result was, that another of :" the tail" has taken office, and
Mr. O'Ferrell has become a Lord of the.Treasuiy, for which
office the Globe.,
.who 'has hitherto concealed this individual's
talents under a bashel, declares.lie is most titled. But this was
not enough to satisfy. the hungry maw of the arch agitator,—hedemanded another victim, and Lord Anglesea's Under-Secre•
tary of State, Sir William Cosset, • has been thrown to the
dragon, and Lieut. Druriamond, the late. private secretary to
Lord Abhor!), has replaced him. Against this Lord Melbourne
strongly held out; but alas, on no other terms could be obtained
the assent of Mr. O'Connell and his hungry satellites to support
the popish cabinet. This is but " the beginning of the end,".
and it is not until the whole tail has wriggled into office and
made way, after an Irish fashion, for the head to follow, that the
fidelity of these will be secured, and then it will be a -fidelity
beginning and ending only with themselves. Things are indeed.
in a desperate state with us; the ministers are in a state of the
utmost embarrassment, the radical members are pressing upon
them with a weight they have no means to resist; and we do
not hesitate to say that not only the church but the throne itself
is in danger.
It cannot be wondered at that this state of matters alarms our
capitalists and distresses the Money Market. Consols for Ac-
trOunt are 92, and all the heavy stocks are proportionably dull.
There has been great speculation in the transatlantic bonds
since our last. Colombian yestersply were chine at 44k, and tn.;
day they have been 51. Chiller] wet e yesterday 51, and to-day
they are 55. :Mexican Bonds fell yesterday to 45, and they are
to-day 49i..
By accounts from Salonica we learn that the plague had been
introduced there from Alexandria, and of seven cases four had
proved fatal. Much alarm prevailed.
We have no later arrivals to-day from any of the colonies.