The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-05-17 00:00:00

FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 17, 1833.

AN American packet was telegraphed yesterday as be-
ing off Holyhead, but she had not entered the harbour
when we went to press. If she should bring any intelli-
gence of importance, it will be given in a second edition.

We have a file of Jamaica papers to the 29th March.—
The following, from the Courant of-the preceding day,
will be read with interest:—

" We received yesterday a file of Trinidad papers, to the sth
inst., and we regret to observe that misrule is fast hastening that
beautiful colony to destruction. Sir Lewis Grant is universally
detested, and although the Spanish laws, which are very sum-
mary, are in force, he has not the means of controuling the pub-
lic feeling which has been excited against him in consequence
of his implicit obedience to the wishes of Young Stephen and
his faction. It was reported that Sir Lewis was recalled, in
consequence of which the following paragraph appeared in the
Port of Spain Gazette of the 26th ult. :
" `We stop the press to announce to our country readers,
tidings thrice welcome and most glorious, which have filled our
town with light hearts and happy faces, and raised candles and
empty tar barrels to a most extravagant price. By a military
arrival from Tobago, intelligence has come that all the West
Indian governors are to hold-themselves in readiness to be off
from their respective governments by the Ist of April, and that
Governor Grant has not been made an exception—Sir Benjamin
D'Urban being the only one of the present " Clique" permitted
to remain. Our authority for this joyous announcement is di-
rect from General Blackwell.' "

The following is from the same paper :

THE COLONIAL UN ions.—At a late meeting of the Middle-
sex branch of this association, it was resolved that the funds of
the Union should be expended in defraying the passage money
and outfit to this country of labourers, from England and Scot-
land. The Treasurer, we are happy to say, has now in his
hands upwards of £5OOO. The project of importing white la-
bourers cannot, by possibility, fail. There arc thousands of
acres of fertile land in the interior of this island, which can be
purchased at five shillings per acre, and which may be settled
with great advantage, as the mountain climate is delightful;
and the poor white man, who may be now suffering every pri-
vation at home, would soon find every comfort for hims,elf and
his family. This is an object which Mr. Frater so laudably
proposed to the House of Assembly, and for which a bill passed
the various branches of the. Legislature, during the last Session

THE political unions of London—the reformerspar ex-
cellence—the makers and masters of the ministry—and
the most distinguished patrons of the Grey family—have
at length had a taste of blood. On Monday last they
murdered a police constable—all but murdered a serjeant
—and stabbed and did their best to assassinate a few more
constables belonging to that establishment. lt is true
that the affair of Monday did not equal that of Bristol,
'but still it was as ferocious and sanguinary as it was
possible to render it by a legion of the fanatical tinkers
and infidels of Cockaigne.
On the day above mentioned, a meeting was advertised
to be held in the vicinity of Gray's-inn-lane, for the pur-
pose of forming a National Convention, a work of supe-
rerogation surely, now that we have got what a few
moons ago was called " the people's own Parliament."
On the previous Friday, however, a. proclamation was is-
sued, not in the King's name, for his Majesty can now
hardly be called any thing more than one of the orna-
ments of the commonwealth, but in the name of the Se-
cretary of State, prohibiting the meeting, on the ground
of its illegal object, and its being calculated to lead to a
breach of the peace.

Whether the " useful classes" believed in the authen-
ticity of the proclamation admits of some doubt, from the
peculiar terms and ungrammatical expressions with which
-it abounds, but be this as it may they did meet in defi-
ance of the Secretary's proclamation, some of them armed
with pistols, others with pikes and daggers, and not a few
Stith knives. The police interfered, and the consequences
above stated took place. A coroner's inquest sat upon
the body of the murdered constable, but the proceedings
had not terminated at the date of our last advices.

Lord Fitzwilliain inflicted upon the lords, on Tuesday
last, one of his periodical drawls, and which are, by
courtsey, in that house, and by the reporters, termed a
speech ; to which speech was attached a string or tail of
nonsensical resolutions on the subject of the corn laws.
The noble earl after being rather scurvily treated by his
friend, the Earl of Ripon, and most
.unmercifully chastised
by Lord Winchelsea, took nothing by his motion. The
corn laws may want revision; but they can never be
corrected or amended by the Tom-foolery of Lord Fitz-
illiam.

IT is reported in the best informed circles that ministers
have no intention to carry their slave emancipation plan
through parliament during the present session. If this
be their intention, would it not have been wiser to have
allowed their details to be canvassed by the West India
interest, without the formality of introducing them to par-
liament. We can scarcely credit the report, but such a
rumour is certainly in circulation.

WE are glad to perceive that Sir Richard Vyiyan has
taken.. the earliest opportunity to contradict the state-
ments, and the invidious and unfounded misrepresenta-
tions, made by Mr. Secretary Stanley, relative to the
planters and the legislative assemblies. of the West Indies.
It was our intention to have pointed out not only the un••
fairness but the falsehood of these chargeq, but we prefer
adopting the much better and more forcible language of
the honourable baronet. At the morning. sitting of the
house on Wednesday, at which no minister had the cour-
tesy to be present, Sir Richard spoke as follows:
Sir E. VYVYAN said he would take that opportunity to make
a few remarks upon two or three statements of matter of fact
that fell from the right hon. Secretary for the Colonies last
night. The right hon. gentleman had stated that the colonial
legislature did not attend to the recommendations of govern-
ment, and that observation vas intended particularly to apply
to Jamaica. Now this was not the case,. fur that legislature,
under the recommendation of his Majesty's government, had
passed an Act whereby the evidence of the slave was not only
admitted against the master but the overseer. Another allega-
tion had been made by the right hon. gent., that the evidence