The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-23 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN iliviES.---LIVERPOOLI SATURDAy, MAY 23, 1857.

now entitle her Royal Highness to no less than
200,0001.—a sum in all conscience large enough
for any lady, not excepting a Queen's daughter,
when she is going to be married to the son of a
potent Sovereign—the KING of Prussia.
But, again, we object to the' principle of the
grant—first, because her royal parents should do
that for her which Lord PALMERSTON asked the
people's representatives to perform, We have
shown that they were in the position, without any
sacrifice, to hand the future PRINCESS of Prussia as
much money as would satisfy her intended hus-
band; and that, failing to make provision, they
lose self-respect for themselves, and become de-
pendent upon the people who have just ceased
contributing to the last immediate offspring of
GEORGE 111. Objectionable though the grant,
generally speaking, is, it becomes much more so
when the people of England consider that the
amount asked for is to be carried out of England
and spent in Prussia. If we must contribute
these heavy sums to support Royalty in Eng-
land, let us expend the amount in the country.
Every royal family of any note, on the entire
Continent, are our recipients. They draw from
us annually large sums of our earnings, to sup-
port a policy which is questionable, and liable to
the disapproval of the country at large.
The Parliament, we see, is quite pliable, and
the amount asked for will be granted. While,
therefore, we feel it our duty as public journal-
ists to protest against the system, let us earnestly
pray that the Royal recipient may live long to
enjoy it, and to prove, as her illustrious parents
have done, a pattern of morality and every thing
which adorns the public and private life of the
true Christian. If she but treads in the footsteps
of her Royal Mother, Prussia will be blessed,
not only by her example, but by her benevolent
and Christian practices, and the land of her nati-
vity honoured that on its soil was born and
reared a lady of sterling worth—the pattern of
Royalty, and the ornament of Prussian Prin-
cesses.

DICKY SiA had a piece of gratifying news
given to him yesterday. Our Parliamentary
report of the proceedings in the House of Com-
mons on Thursday night intimated that the threat-
ened attack of Mr. LOWE on the Liverpool Town
Dues is, like the new Reform Rill, postponed to
next session, if not for a longer period. But this
was not all. Mr. VANCE, the member ior Dublin,
asked the house to resolve itself into a committee
with the view to the introduction of a bill to repeal
certain "dues" on ships entering the port of Dublin
and other imposts affecting its trade and corn.
merce. Mr. LOWE, who has talked so glibly, and
repeated with considerable dexterity the Manches-
ter Catechism upon the Liverpool 'Town Dues,
rose, and with an inconsistency that was truly mar-
vellous, opposed the motion on the ground that
the sum proposed to be repealed was taken by
the Government as interest for a sum of 31.4,0001.
expended upon. works. Whilst, therefore, the
Right Hon. the. Vice-President .of. the Board of
Trade has manifested a ready disposition to rob
the town of Liverpool of its just right to levy the
Town Dues," he will not be any party to
take from the Government the pecuniary advan-
tage it derives from the port of Dublin for having
made advances by way of loan to the autho-
rities of the Irish metropolis. Now this was a
position which the noble Lord the PREMIER felt
he could not allow to pass unnoticed. Both
he and his subordinate, the member for Kidder-
tainster, had been to Manchester, and both, we
have no doubt, promised Government support to
extinguish the Town Dues of Liverpool, if the
people of Manchester would only rid the House
of Commons of such men as COBDEN, BRIGHT,
GIBSON, and Co. We repeat that we have not the
least doubt that there was a compact of that kind
entered into and agreed upon during the course
of the last winter. And the very reason advanced
by Lord PALMERSTON for refusing Mr. VANCE'S
motion is clear and convincing proof thereon.
Mr. LOWE demurs to the attempt to introduce
a bill relating to " dues" on ships entering the
port of Dublin, because Government has a pecu-
niary interest in those dues, and that there could
not be any interference with its legal claim

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, the
guardian of the public purse, followed on the
same side, and was willing to expend the whole
artillery of his logic to demonstrate that the dues
levied were perfectly fair and legitimate, so long
as the amount arising therefrom went to swell
the national receipts. Hereupon Lord PALMER-
STON remembered how he was tied neck and heels
to Manchester, and, foreseeing that, if the argu-
ments of his colleagues, Mr. LOWE and Sir GEO.
CORNEWALL LEWIS, were good for any thing,
they went to establish the absurdity—nay, the
monstrous iniquity—of plundering the Port of
Liverpool to gratify the ambitious and jealous
designs of the Cotton Lords of Lancashire, who
amass princely fortunes by and through the en-
terprising spirit of the merchants of Liverpool,
whose every effort is to extend all branches of
her trade and commerce. In such a plight, what
does the Premier do Does he back up his col-
leagues ? No ! Like a skilful diplomatist,
anxious to do the amiable, he repeats the con-
duct of g‘ the old man and his ass." To Mr.
VANCE he breathes the spirit which FESTUS
manifested towards ST. PAUL, and says, " Go
thy way this time, and when I have a convenient
season, I will call for thee." His Lordship ex-
pressed a hope that the House would not agree to
the introduction of the bill, as it " was the iuten-
lion of Government, as soon as the state of public
business permitted, to bring in a comprehensive
measure on the subject of Shipping Dues."
Lord PALMERSTON has got rid of the galling fire
of Mr. BRIGHT—the political pertinacity of Mr.
GIBSON troubles him no longer—and the author
of the debate on the Chinese dispute no longer
occupies a seat to tease and annoy the Ministry
by his logical, but " unadorned eloquence." Re.
membeiing what passed when he lionised in
Cottonopolis--the pledges made between the
feasters ali4 the feasted—he takes the easiest