The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-17 00:00:00

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

The affairs of Switzerland appeared to be drawing to
an amicable conclusion by the force of the Diet's bay-
onets; when a new incident arose, which complicated the
question. Neufchatel, although comprised geographi-
cally under the term Switzerland, is politically a part of
Prussia. Following the example of Basle and Schytz,
Neufchatel declared it would no longer receive its laws
from.the Diet ; that it would separate itself entirely from
Switzerland, and be in name and fact Prussian. This
does not suit the Diet, which threatens to send a large
force to take possession of Neufchatel, unless it recog-
nises the supremacy of the Diet—the Diet even affects
not to consider the King of Prussia as at all interested in
the question. Now, as it is very probable that Nenf-
ehatel in its declaration of independence acted only under
instructions from Berlin, we may expect to see the Ca-
binet of Berlin and the Diet in collision ; for it cannot
ba supposed that Frederick William will allow himself
to be bearded by the Swiss Confederation. What then
wilt be the result?, No mezzo termine seems possible;
eithei the King or the Diet must cede, and it is not dif-
ficult to predict which must give way. Should, how-
ever, the Diet display that obstinacy so characteristic of
'the Swiss character, we may probably see several of the
cantons openly throw. oil the yoke, unite with Neufcha-
tel, and place themselves under the protection of Prussia.
Such an event would be hailed with pleasure by Louis
Philippe, as his whole policy tends to find 'employment
sufficient for the three powers to prevent their interfering
in his affairs —Guardian and Ledger.

THE HIBERNIAN CAPE A.—Alas, poor Ireland! you
are a devoted land—you have plunged out of the Angle-
sey frying-pan to fall. into the Plunkett fire. Scylla and
Charybdis are jokes compared to those two evils. The
act of placing'. Ireland in Lord Wellesley's hand, is sim-
ply' delivering it over to the voracity of the Hibernian
Hannibal Plunkett. Lord Wellesley is seventy-four
years old, and is very old for his age. But this
is the reason he was chosen ; for he is so past rea-
soning, that Hannibal will not deign to consult him.
Lt was necessary at all hazards to get rid of Lord Angle-
sey, and nothing but the extreme urgency of that mea-
sure could justify the appointment of Lord Wellesley.
He will go over attended by his dry-nurse, Colonel
Shawe, and will be received by his tutor, Mr. Jesuit
Blake, while Hannibal Plunkett, the voracious, will act
as head-master. Thus we shall have two lawyers govern•
ing the kingdoms of England and Ireland—Brougham
and Plunkett, par nobile fratrum ; for Lord Brougham
is to Lord Grey what Lord Plunkett is to Lord Welles-
ley: We do begin to think that there is some ground
for, the Repeal of the Union. Steil mockery, as this
would insult an idiot—a worm would fight. Nothing
but Whigs, aided by renegade Tories, could perpetrate
such political felonies.
Lord Wellesley, advised by Hannibal, began the at-
tack on the Protestants of Ireland—they are the gentry
and landlords of the country ; but they kicked and
thumped him, and trampled on his impotent questions.
While, however, this bush-fighting was going on in
front, Hannibal was sedulously employed behind in plun-
dering the country—in parcelling out among the little
gannibals all the forage as well as valuables he, and
they, and theirs, could lay their hands on. In the worst
of times of Irish jobbing, such devastation never was
committed—and that's saying a bold word!
The scene of destruction opened by the attack on Mr.
Saurin. In saving that he is the Wetherell of Ireland,
we say enough. They drove him from place to place,
but neither from power, nor from the love of his party.
When Lord Plunkett is hurled from the Government of
his Capua, will the same tribute be paid to him ? No;
if he is caught a kettle will be the honourable append-
age which the nation will affix to his person, and the
pond at Danybrook will receive the junior branches and
members of the Hannibal crew.
Lord Plunkett has done mischief, and because he can
do no more, is trusted with Lord Wellesley as his " lits
tie man of business," so that Hannibal and Mephisto-
philes Blake will play at battledores with this gaudy
shuttlecock, till Ireland's wrongs force the people to use
their shillelaghs and thruist them out of the land. Lord

Plunkett is a misanthrope, lives alone, knows nothing
of the world further than as it concerns himself—has no
friends. He looks on politics and administrations in no
other light than as a merchant does on a bale of goods—
how much profit will it produce to him individually ; so
says Hannibal. Did he not join Lord Liverpool's, Lord
CrOderich's, Mr. Canningls, and the Duke of Welling-
ton's Governments ? There never was such an Omnibus
Hannibal as this! All Switzerland would not produce
such a Swiss ! Affidavit Rice would swear that most.
conscientiously. He did join all those Governments,
and would join an Administration to-morrow, whether
formed by Wetherell, Whittle Harvey, or Sir John Key.
Lord Anglesey followed up the attacks on the Protest-
Gentry—then he armed them—then he stooped- to
O'Connell—then he got bothered—then passed Tithe
Bills—then he got laughed at—then he passed Grand
Jury and Jury Bills, which have put the sufferings of the
lentry of the country beyond all bearing, and they are
aving their native land in disgust It is a fact undeni-
able—the Protestants are leaving Ireland, having no
confidence in the Government under which they live.
The respectability go, the rubbish remains. We will
instance one county—the Yorkshire of Ireland, Cork.

—The Shannons, the Thomonds, the Bandons, the Car-
_
berys, the Donerailes—all formerly residents, cum multis
allis—have. left the land. Messrs. Barry and Fergus
O'Conner remain behind and represent this opulent
county! It is exactly the same in other counties--:tlie
old families are leaving their native soil, discharging
their retainers and labourers, and trusting their estates.
to agents !
These are the fruits of the Anglesey and Wellesley
Governments—headed by Lord Plunkett and " tailed" by
Daniel O'Connell,

. .
Voltaire said he wondered " how two priests could
meet without laughing"—we wonder " how three law-
yers can meet without laughing," yclept Brougham,
Plunkett, and O'Connell.
Ireland, we pity thee ! We will makethy misfortunes
known to the English, in the hope of rescuing.thee from
the cannibalism of the Hannibul4.—.Age.

Our readers will have-seen that the Right 'Rev. Father,
iri God, the Lord Bishop of Hereford, has been presented
to,a Stall in the Collegiate Church of Westminster, va-
cant bythe death of Dr. Tournay.
That poor bishopricks should be augmented by other,
!referments we have never doubted, nor do we see the
slightest crime in the appointment of the Bishop of He'•
record to the Westminster Stall ; but we see a very great,
absurdity in it, taking the man for what he is, and what
has already occurred about him. The Bishop of Hereford
is my Lord Grey's brother; that, of itself, under the cir-
.curnstauces to which we propose to refer, is enough to
'make the thing ridiculous, or rather to make the Minister
ridiculous who, at the head of a Government, pledged to •
correct. the abuses of pluralities, to expose the inordinate
Wealth of the Church, and to check the influence of 'the
prelacy, confers a Stall, with twelve hundred pounds per
,annum, with an excellent house, upon his own brother,
whom he.had so recently made a Bishop.
Dr. Grey succeeded Dr. Bloomfield, the hopeful Bishop
of-London, as Rector of Bishopsgate ; to his parishioners
there we are content to leave themeritS of his character in
his pastoral capacity. He became Dean of Hereford.
'His brother thought, at least Bloomfield, the Bishop of
London, thought, that he ought not to hold both. If he
did, why should not Bloomfield himself have held it, with
London, and Dr. Grey give jt up ?
Dr. Tournay died several months since ; his period of
residence, had he lived, would have begun about this
period; the Stall was not filled up till everything might
be ready to serve the new Prebendary's turn ; and then
Lord Grey nominates his brother—Why ?—Why, be-
cause he says that being the junior Bishop, he is obliged
to attend constantly in the House of Peers to read
prayers, as " Boots," and as he cannot afford a town
house, this Stall gives him a desirable residence close at
hand.

The being unable to afford a house is curious, as we
are told, the Bishop—(who, and oh t what a prospect for
the country ! has thirteen or fourteen young Greys, male
and female, to be Orovided.for)—got.an immense fortune
.bv the last of his three wives; but what is more curious
still, is the reason why he should. have a house conve-
nient to the House of Peers, because he is the junior
Bishop. So ho is now ; but in the state of the Bench,
and with the luck of the Whigs about preferment, the
chances are,, that within a few months, nay, perhaps a
few weeks, another See will be vacant, and Dr. Grey's
juniority will have ceased.
The Duke of Sussex is extremely angry that his radi-
cal frien-d_Brown did not get the Westminster Stall. His
Royal Highness made what he calls a point of it; but
" self-preservation is nature's first law," and as Lord
Grey is perfeCtly aware of the place the Duke of Sussex
holds in the , Country and the sort of influence he pos-
sesses, it was quite natural that he should stick, if not to
his " order"—(" Orders Grey") at least to his family ;
and the result is, that Grey beats Brown ; and we have
another piece of preferment to add to the "List," which
has already created a tolerably strong sensation.
We do not blame Lord Grey—let him ride the country
right and left--let him fill the Cathedrals with his
brothers; the Pension Lists with his natural children;
Dublin Castle with his dependents ; the Treasury and all
the departmental offices with his sons and sons-in-law,
the War-office with his brothers-in-law, the Colonies
with his cousins, the navy and army with his younger
boys ; make Ambassadors of all his near relations, and
Baronets and Contractors of his swindling creatures and
dependents. Let him do all this—why not ?—The Con-
servatives say yes; so let it be; let it. come to a crisis;
it cannot go on much longer; let the King, blinded by
the false, sneaking, cringing hypocrisy of his Ministers,
who ridicule and laugh at him in their private orgies,
equ4lly submit to a thraldom, which those who know his
honest, straightforward English character, must know
his. Majesty at heart loathes and despises; for in this
country, such is the democratic power of the Constitu-
tion, that without the support of his people the King Can
du nothing. The Conservatives have tlinched—and those
who are really the friends of the King and Constitution
have paused in their duty, till they have permitted the
reign of jobs and corruption to last, at least till the begin-
ning. of another Session.
Conceive Lord Grey heaping upon his family, in all
its branches, sinecures, pluralities, and every species of
preferment, yet unscared at the consequences ; his brother
—a most gentlemanly man—Sir George Grey, who never
saw a shot fired, is decorated with the Grand Cross of the
Bath--extra ; himself, Lord Grey, decorated with the
Garter—extra ; his, brother made a Bishop, from a
Dean, in a few weeks, now favoured with a rich Stall at
Westminster ; his son-in-law, the Lord Privy Seal, re-
moved for ill-temper, but intending to return as Premier ;
another son-in-law, Captain Barrington, returnedto Par-
liament, labouring under mental infirmity—and retaining
until the blot was hit, his seat at the Admiralty Board,
which he was unable to. occupy; his son-in-law, Mr.
Charles Wood—he that appointed Key's son " in spite
of Church,"—Secretary of the Treasury ; Mr. Edward
Ellice, his brother-in-law—Secretary at War; and his
son, Charles Grey—(amiable and excellent in himself;
amno fault to be found with him for taking what he can
get,) his Private Secretary, with the command of a regi-
ment, and a seat in Parliament ; his next son, a Captain
.Aid-du-Camp in Ireland; and the next son to him, a
Commander in the Navy; Lord Ponsonby, his brother-
in-law, Ambassador (ex post facto,) at Constantinople ;
Richard Ponsonby, his brother, Bishop of Derry, with
about twenty thousand a-year. Sir Robert Adair, the
father-in-law of the Bishop of Hereford, Ambassador in
the Netherlands ; Lord Melbourne, his cousin, Home

Secretary; Sir Frederick Lamb, "the most genteelest
cretur upon earth," Lord Melbourne's brother, Ambas-
sador at Vienna ; George Lamb, his other brother, an
excellent person, and author of a farce called " Whistle
for it," Under Secretary to the Home Department ;
Lord Duncannon, Lord Grey's cousin, First Commis-
sioner of Woods and Forests; General Ponsonby, his
cousin, Lieut.-Governor of Malta; and Mr. Hedvvorth
Lambton (Coalman the younger), Lord Durham's brother,
Groom of the Bedchamber. We do not mention Lord
Howick, who was Under Secretary of State while Goody
Two-Shoes affected to be mistress of the department, be-
cause, like Lord Durham, it was found that his temper
would not suit—but there he was; and in addition to all
these we say, that Dr. Grey, the Bishop of Hereford, is
made a Prebendary of Westminster.
Now all this we can justify, because it i perfectly na-
tural that Lord Grey should.feed his family, and provide
for every soul of them ; and it isdone, in minuter points,
to a much greater extent. The Conservatives say we
do not like to turn out these people—and there is just the
plain fact—the thin-skinned are afraid of scratches, and
so the reign of Old Scratch himself goes on. Heaven
knows, it is a matter of the,most perfect indifference to us
who are " in" or who are " out.;" all we claim for the
dormant party is, that Lord Grey and his myrmidons
should not have the credit of disinterestedness or a love of
country, when it is proved to.demonstration that no peo-
ple ever more completely fulfilled their own determina-
tion, made three-and-twenty yearsago, to " ride rough-
shod" through the palace ; and that no minister, even in
the days of the most flagrant corruption in this country,
ever did so many, so extensive, or such dirty jobs as the
men who waded to office through the mud and puddle of a.
reform mob, whom they despise, laugh at, trample upon,'
and spy over, by means of a systernuf police, excellent
in itself, but perverted from its original constitution by
their meanness and depravity. Yet all this must be suf-
fered, and the Bishop of Hereford will probably read him-
self into his stall to-morrow, if he has not done so to-day
—Mal gre, Bon gre—there they are ; and we must say
the country has now presented, to its view the very acme
of the merits of a reform Government.—John

The remains of the late Mrs. Hannah More were interred
yesterday at Wrington, in the same vault as those of her sisters.
cwo mourning coaches and four, and several private carriages,
followed the hearse. We have heard that this benevolent and
„lamented lady has bequeathed a considerable sum to the fund
I Jur the building and endowment of St. Philip And Jacob's new
lchurch.,,Bristo/ Journal.

FOREIGN STOCKS IN LONDON, SEPT. 13.
Austrian Bonds 5 per Cent., 10 Gu., per £ Ster..
Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto Bonds, 1829
Buenvi Ayres Bonds, t; per Cent.,
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent.
Columbian Bonds, (1824)6 per Cent.,
Ditto Bonds, £6 per Cent
Danish Bonds, 3 per Cent
Dutch 21 per Cent., exchange 12 guild.,
Greek Bonds, 5 per Cent,
Ditto BondS, (1825) 5 per Cent
Mexican Bond?, (1825) 6 per Cent.,
Neapolitan Bonds, (1824) 5 per Cent
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent,
POrtuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent 751 6
Ditto Regency Scrip, 5 per Cent
Russian Bonds, (1892) 5 per Cent., St lO2
Ditto Metallic,
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent 2ll 1 2
Ditto Bonds, (1823) 5 per Cent.,
Dutch, 21 per Cent., exchange 12 guil.
Ditto, 5 per Cent.
Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Cent
Russian Inscription, 6 per cent.,.
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. ex. is. 3d
French Rentes, 5 per Cent
soll Ditto, Exchange
French Rentes, 3 per Cent
Ditto, Exchange

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COURSE OF EXCHAN

GEI, LONDON, SEPT. 13.

Amsterdam c. f. 12 4

Do at sight
Rotterdam
Antwerp
Hamburgh Mcs. Bco l3 131
Altona
Paris three days' sight t 25 70
Do. g 25 95
Bourdeaux do tb., 26
Frankfort on the Main .. 152 i
Petersburg 4, rouble .... 10
Berlin cur. doll,

Barcelona
Seville
Gibraltar (per hard 47i
Leghorn
Genoa 2:5 85

31
Venice (per 6 Ans. Liv. ) 47
Naples 4O
Palermo 4y 0z... 120
Lisbon
Oporto rio
Rio de Janeiro 4O
Bahia 3l
Buenos Ayres
Maxims

Vienna, Ef. 2 m. flo lO 2
Trieste, ditto
Madrid
Cadiz
Pirboa ' pi

Publ4l,2l_ days' sight I
Cork do. 1

~ljippi ifs Entatigence.

FRIDAY, 13th September.—Noon, Wind S.—Rain,

ARRIVED :—Superior, Btown, frol4 Bombay, (sailed 20th April)--
James and Thomas, Ashbridge, Maranham, (sailed 4th August)—Fair-
field, Clarke, Jamaica—Stormont, Stormont; and Quayside,
Quebec—Halifax, Finlay, Halifax—Margaretta Hendrika;Werf, Har-
lingen—Concordia, Pott, Rotterdam—Jane, Eaton, Bordeaux—Jo-
hanna, Landt; Amsterdam—Concordia, Nagel, Dordt ; and Vriends-
chap, Kleen, Zwaal—David Morrice, Wright, Jamaica—Esther, Me'
Andrews, Trinidad—Ann, Henderson, Savanilla—Cordelia, Alf Mahon,
St. Petersburgh—Helena, Permian, Rostock—lndustrie, Sesath, Els-
tleth—Lucinda, Natick, Griefswalde.

Oscar, Cain, from Africa for this port, was spoken 29th.ult., in lat.
42 42, lon. 28 5.
Thomas Dempsey., Colon, hence, for Monte Video, was spoken 10th
irittatit, off Tus4r._ _ .

'lndustry, M'Neil, hence for Norfolk, Virginia, was spoken 10th in-
stant, in lat. 49 50, long: 12,
Andromeda, Willing, sailed. from Maranham for this port; 31st July.
Harriet, Mitchinson; and Norna, Dott, hence, at Maranham.
Duerte, Primeiro, from Maranham, at Lisbon.
Hankinson, Morrison, from Laguna, at Cork.
William Ewing, -, from St. John. N. 8., off Waterford.
Mary Cumming, Wilkinson, from St. John, N. 8., at Londonderry.
Rowley, ISl`Clarty, from Demerara, at Dublin.

SAILED :—Sarah Sheafe, Meant', for New Fork.Atholl, Malcolm,
Mauritius—Columbia, Abbott, Boston—Wilsons, Inglis; and Sand-
bacb, Bispham; Demerara—Charles Hamerton, Reynolds, La Guayra
—Miranda, Syms, Cape of Good Hppe—Grery Bogosloff, Moeller,
St. Petershurgh—Waterloo, Lowes, , Gulf of-Mexico—Twee Gehroe-
ders, Muys, Ostend--Mary, Hervey, Lisbon—Rachel, Potter, New
:Orleans.