Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1841-06-15


We give our correspondents letter:
London, May 18th, is4l.
The news.budgst by this steamer will
bs extremely limited. send you all
such items as you will be interested in.
Two horrible aud distressing disasters
have occurred At sea. The ship Brooklyn
sailed on the 10th from Liverpool for New
York, and when off Point Lynas, in the
Channel, she ran down the brig Mary
Scott, of 800 tons, inward bound from
Valparaiso. The, brig instantly sunk, and
the captain and four Of the seamen were
drowned. The mate and seven seamen
escaped in the boat and we're picked up.
The other was the loss Of the ship VIM.
Brown. bound from liverpool to Phladel.
phia, with crew of II, and 65 steerage-
passengers. She struck an iceburgh on
the 10Th ofAprI, in lat 43 N, and long.
46 w. and went down soon after. The
captain and seven persons got off in the
| Jolly boat, and the mate with thirty.three
others in the long boat, but as the mate
represents, the boat could not live with
so many'in such sea; and, by his order
sspcnteen. of these poOr boys rOere thrOUn
orerboard! The scene must have been
hearirending. send you the full pariic-
uIars elsewhere. Oae hour after this
massacre, (as ii has been called.) they
fell In with vessel!-the ship Crescent,
of Portsmouth, N. Hon board Of which
they were received and from which the
mate and crew were sent 10 Havre in the
Vile de Lyon, They were examined by
the American Consul and are now in
prison. The Crescent, also bound for
Hayre, had not arrived.
The fate Of the President is yet mys-
terry. Some hope was excited by the
fact that large steamer had been seen
on the 10Th of Apri,--lat. IL, long. 80
steering N. N. E. without steam; but
Captain Keane, late commander Of the
President, insists that this could not be
her, and thinks she yet may be heard from
at the West Indies. The President Cost
Es0,000. Eighty per cent premium has
been paid for insurance upon part of her
cargo. The British Queen is Withdrawn,
and the company intend TO sell her.
: CORN LAWS AND SUGAR DUTIES.
The debate on the Ministerial project
hsS continued six days-or rather nights
for It reaches into the "small hours" oI
morning--and is not yet concluded.
The Sugar question is mixed up with
that of sIavery--and there is a collection
. Of the leading Anti,Sluvery men-( many
of them holding West India plantations,
with the Tory party in opposing the re
ducton of duties on Foreign Sugars
= because they are "SlSve-labor" Sugars
e i. e.rhe poor people of England mus
pay duty OF 800 per cent. on their Su
gar because the free blacks in the Colo
y nies canno, or will not make it as cheap
as it can be had elsewhere. The absur
o dty and one.sidedness of this diSinter
ested philanthropy is we'll exposed by
those journals who have sense enough lC
see through milestone. The division
o will take place this week-and all are on
e the qui-vive to know whethOr Ministers
9 will resign or dissolve Parliament, in case
of the defeat, which Is anticipated.
AT the meeting Of the Anti,SlaVery
Society yesterday the speaker attempted
to denounce the proposed measure on
the above prInciple--bul the people pres
y ent showed very plainly that they would
n not be so humbugged, and Choered loud
' ly "Russel for ever! no monopoly !&c
There is a general movement on this
= subject all over the ningdom-and the
abolition Socislies are taking the field
Is without reference TO the usual party poll
d tics. How apt John Bull IS To forget the
# old maxim that charity begins at Home
:, How much sympathy with the poor black:
" 1000 miles off, while thousands are star
y vmgal his own door--and thousands more
are in a worse state Of servitude, thar
these distant objects of his DESTINATIONS
L philanthropy.
send you herewith an extract from
Mr.. Gurley'S letter, (alIuded to in my last
J which hope you will give your readers
because the state of this question in Eng
/. land ought TO be understood on your side
| have no wish TO create any more ill-feel
ing-enOugh already exists on both sides
: but Mr.. Gurley'S parody Of The Frazer ar
y Iicle is so Captal--aHd it states the case
# so fairly too that you will think with mt
il he deserves the thanks Of bis country
men for it.
EIllots settlement ofthe Chinese ques
'' tion gives no satisfaction at all. The
d chief object Of The expedition was no
}. etItCte land not word was said in the
}. agreement respecting the opium trade.
! Esparrero has been elected sole Re
= gent of Spain, and it is OminOusly stated
o that the young Queen was soon after Ia
l. ken very i'll. The ex.Qusen Christiane,
arrived in Paris.
:. An insurreCtion has broken but in Can
dia; and another near Moscow, to sup
press which troops were Withdrawn from
p.Ia