The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-06 00:00:00

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consistencies , and, moreover, myrare. hut vitriolised and Lai-
hortent recognition of anything_which savouri of place, (which
rplihonoured uncle in Manchester Will confirm if called upon,)
peremptorily forbids my acceptance of .the per;wersely great but
naturally flattering honour which my friends wish to confer

upon me.
" The very name of mayor savours of reprehensible and ego-,
tistical, because of unphilosophical, autocracy. Adhesion to
anomalous and Unphlogistical distinctions is, as they say at
the'schools, from which you are most unjustly excluded, contra
bonus mores et operatibas et tenpounda bouseholderadibus, the
meaning of which is, that it is contrary to sound policy that
the senator should aspire to offices which are infra diynitate,
that is, opposed to his most perfect.-hallucinations or essential,
but properly adjusted, positions.' I am, as you well know,
formed for agregatal society, not for the administration of a local,.
precarious,, subordinate, and circumscribed commonwealth. I
wish well to Liverpool—her name is inscribed upon the base of
Canning, and the harmonious voice of millions tells me that I
am selected to work out his high, his noble, and his insuperable,
because philanthropic, destinies under another name.
" With unaffected humility, therefore, my very dear sir, I
I must respectfully decline the high honeur which my friends, in
the intensity of a sanguine but too flattering temperament,
offer to my Mercurial hopes and my AlbioniSed and re-baptised

"Give my dutiful regards to all my friends. Tell them that
I am, as Shakspeare says, With them though abseut,'—that
the warbling of the vernal songsters will intoxicate my plea-
sures with their presence in the coming spring, and that, short
though the years be, and tedious the hours in St. Stephen's, still
the ramifications of enjoyment in the performance of pleasant,
because pledged, duties, will account for the arbitrement of taste
and policy in most respectfully declining the high honour you
intend me, and as it within a few minutes of the post only
allows me to subscribe myself,
•' My very dear friend,
Your most faithful servant,
" W. EWA RT." ,
On this letter being read and duly considered, it was
resolved to withdraw the name of Wm. EwAnT, Esq.,
as,a candidate for the mayoralty. The meeting then
dispersed. _ '

We have heard, we cannot say with any -degree of
.surprise, that a letter has been addressed by Mr. Tuns.
BOLTON, of town-dues notoriety, to the CommenCouncil,
protesting, in language as forcible as he is capable of ap-
plying to, such a subject, against the provision 'intended
to be made by the corporate body for the clergy of t4e
.established church. We are gratified to say that this pro-
test is the entire production of one individual, and that
one individual Mr. BOLTON himself. We have not
been ignorant of 'his cankerous disposition,, and we are
at no loss to conceive where that feeling must lie which
would prompt him to object whilst every other dissenter
remains tranquil and quiescent. It is, however, with
feelings .6f- sincere gratification that we notice the firm
and dignified manner in which the proposition contained
in Mr. - BOLTON'S letter fell a Grutum fulmen to the
ground.

Greatly, indeed, do we wish and require that Mr.
BOLTON should furnish the radical piess with a copy of
this said epistle, piteously bereft in its expressions of
everything like gentlemanly feeling. It would, indeed,
be meat fot the carniverous ; and without it it is impossi-
ble to enter into a dissection of its merits. We do not
hesitate, however, to say that we have heard of much of
what it contained, and that we turn with infinite disgust
from a letter hypocritically pretending to be directed
to religious considerations, but which, in reality, vainly
and presumptuously pretends to compare the faithful and
uncompromising follower of our LORD and SAVIOUR with
the shorn and withered believer of the unitarian creed.
Nor is it within the powers of our pen too strongly to
deprecate the unparalelled presumption that would dare to
denominate our established church a
." sectarian in-
stitution'," an assertion which Mr. BOLTON desperately
advances; but the day of religious retribution will
arrive, when: human protests wily avail nothing:
It is unnecessary to notice Mr. Bolton's attempt to sus-
tain a cOmparison between the rights of the members of
the established church and the Claims.for his baker's bills
That comparison is in every sense odious, and springs frflm
no elevated mind ; and if the scriptures be, as:Mr. Bolton,
in' this letlet, asserts, addressed "to all mankind," we
would remind him that one of the most important, though
difficult and trying duties it requires, is " to love thy
neighbour
.as thyself:" •

LONDON LATEST NWS. •

City, Wednesday Ecening, Pg!fl,3q4*.geren o'clock.

' Notwithstanding the Bank. of blogland issued; at the.latter
part of last week, a notice thiCadvauces, repayable on the liith
Jan. next, will be made on stuck and other approved securities,
at 3-1 per cent., on sums of not less than £2ooo,there has been
by no means an absence of a pressure for money, and the gene-
ral appearance of the Eu,glish Stock Market has been heavy.
The broker for the aceauntant-general purchased about £2(10,000
consols on Monday, and, we understand, will purchase a similar
sum on Friday; and the Bank is understood to have purchased
largely of late, both of Exchequer bills and India bonds, and
this has been matter for considerable animadversion here, where
every movement of this powerful body is watched with the most
vigilant jealousy. These latter securities have been very flat,
Exchequer bills touching on 10 pm., and India bonds being at
par; but there has been a slight reaction since, and this after-
noon the former closed at 13 pm., and the latter at I to 3 pm.
Ai may be expected, the "Raphael Letters" have been the
'subject of general attention and conversation, here. One glaring
fact seems, however, to have, in igreat measure, escaped notice,
and it is one adding much (if anything cab, add) to the iniquity
of the transaction. It appears; on reference to the papers of the
House of Commons, that the John O'Connell, who evinced such
hereditary vivacity. to clutch the bribe-Money, was actually one
of the committee apjunnted to inqaire into the merits ciao Carlow
election! It will be seen that the destructive press here are
sorely galled at the expose of the ex-Hebrew ex-sheriff, and
have not failed to discover that Daniel O'Connell, in the whole
of the cheatery, has acted a most virtuous and patriotic part.
In fact, these worthies would, if the big beggarrnan were de-
tected in filching the speaker's mace, defend their master's mas-
ter, and swear that he only did it out of compassion to the mace
bearers.

No material speculation has been done in our foreign secu-
rities. The dividend on Belgian and on Spanish active stock
is now in course of payment. Belgian bonds, ex dividend, are
at 1001, and Spanish, ex dividend, at 421
In the transatlantic securities the operations are on a very
limited scale. Colombian bonds ate at 314, Mexican 37 to 38,
and Chilian 42 to 44.

The chief speculation has been in railway shares, which, how-
ever, both yesterday and to-day have been rather flat, and have
declined in price. London and Greenwich, which have been
at 10 prern. 14ving receded to 7i, Great Western, which have
been at 17 pm., to 112 ; London and
,Brighton from 6 pin. to
and most of the others in proportion.
In the mine shares the prices must be considered as entirely
nominal.

Although any intended dissolution of parliament has been
strongly denied by the ministerial popish press, yet we have
reason to know that such was actually intended, and that we
believe we may venture to say that the contemplation of it has
not been altogether given up. The rumour of this intention
having got wind sooner than was intended has, we believe, led
to an attempt to hush it up, and it is not impossible that Mr.
O'Connell's Raphael correspondence, by bringing liberal
elections into contempt, may cause a further pause; but we
again repeat that the matter must be considered as still pending.
Whenever this event does take place, such men as Messrs.
Hume, Wakley, Roebuck, Duncombe, Ewart, Grote, &c. &c.,
will soon find the actual position they ought to occupy.
Some idea of the rapid progression of the Australian colonies
may be formeji when it is mentioned that the local revenues
were estimated to produce, in 1827,
At New South Wales £62,229
At Van Diemen's Land
The revenues of recent years, Without any material increase
of taxat►on, have been, at New South Wales,

1830 £104,602 •
1831
18:32
At Van Diemen's Land, •
1830
1831 .
71,067
1832
• . 1833
The expenditure had fallen so far short of the receipts that, in
the colonial treasury of New South Wales, nearly £47.000 had
accumulated, and at Van Dienien's Land £35,009. The atten-
tion of the bolds of the treasury having been directed to this, the
result has been the transfer to the cOlonial treasuries of
such charges as have " been • heretofore defrayed from the mili-
tary.chests for the police establishments, for gaols, and for the
colonial marines; not, however, including any charges imme-
diately connected with the custody and superintendence of the
convicts or the penal stations and medical establishments,
nor vessels employed in communication with the penal stations
and detached military ports. The expences entailed on the
colonies. by this transfer are estimated at £25,000 per annum
for New South Wales. and £12,000 for Van Dieineu's Land.
The advices from Madras reach to the 12th of July, and they
mention an attempt made at Jeynoore to murder Major Alves,
our resident, and•the,gentlethen (three in number) who accom-
panied him on tiis vtstt to the Rajah. The major was severely
wounded, and Mi.:l3l'oe, moist inhumanly murdered ' • .but Capt.
Sudlow and Mr. ht!NOithtea escaped. The major had reached
his camp, and it Was hoped would recover. A force
.of cavalry
had arrived at the 'camp from Nupurabed, and reinforcements
of infantry were on. their way from Deera. Orders from Cal-
cutta were waited for to direct further proeedfpgs. •