Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-04 00:00:00

Fenehurch-streef, in reply

that. paper, under ti

owner

The object of Messrs. SEY:eIOUR

Co's remarks is to show that the ime'al of

the Navigation-- -Laws' .has been productive of

ruinous consequences to the British Shipowner, I
aid to induce,lar public opini,m, the enfort

'lttent I

of the- reciprocity- clauses

say,— the

opponents, is tnIN

:repotitiou of that PrOtedibitist I

mentary success, and the subsequent shameful -
cry,. in spite of which the
disclosures' of the Conamittees,--we are now corm was carried. _
going throligh the ' epilogue. We' • have brought higher rents, farmers make largei:_profits. and.
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the skill and vigilance of. the law to examine into labourers. are. in a more thriving condition ow.
the secret springs of machinery which than, formerly, like results must; forsooth, follow
worked so well, last June, that it turned out sui:. the application of the principles of free-trade tc all
reptitiously a popular a.nd, useful Government,-
other branches of commerce, as those which hare
'and seated the conspirators. in their places. And, arisen ft-lan; the_ repeal of the Corn . Laws. Beat-
though it is well the secrets•of corruption should
this proposition,-Which the free
be dragged to light, not only Liberals, but Eng- announce as an axioin: ianot equal
lishmen generally, must suffer in their self:eom-. -applied' tn the Shipping
placency. Better, coercion bY the upper classes ; ..
a peculiar one--one, as i
better, 'motives, of gratitude, tespect, clanship Our contemporary Coinbats the Position takes
among voters; khan bribery and awake:— This 133.-; Messrs. SEYMOUR and Co.; .
most men are saying ; and it is an instructive is paid. by the-producer, and not by theet.
continent on the fresh crusade- for--a " Reform" Freight dbeS not enter into thd element of price
which is to. strengthen and extend,...the venal
that is regulated by supply and"..,d6nand. In
interest.-

irtati9p of

Because 1

andlords recelye_

traders would

when

Interest, bcing, as it is

were, su
.90aeris

that Freigh

onsurner

Isome exceptional cases it may do so, as is showr

The history of detected crime' begins at Gioia-
nester and as befbre, Liberals :are the Criminals: seizing upon these Very eiceptiOns
The mast noticeable and deplorable feature which
.corn and coals (coastwise); ;draws - from them a
these inquiries seem.to disclose is, that corruption
,general conclusion, that because the Freight in
these particular articles enters.into the price of
is a regular part of Election organisation; formsan •
-
important element 2 the Calculation ofehances, and the commodity, therefore it. does so in all
ostfallacious and
is conductedby mein ofposition, character, and repo- . instances; -.:which' is certainly ra.

Iby those ffntlemen,—and the writer

the Star

which are in

tation. The plot that was to carry Gloucester was illogical proeess of reasoning

.31,rp presume that

what Messrs.. SEYMOUR and:6: ''c'Orktend for, is
hatched-at the local. Reform Chilai.and its surgeon,
this L—that; in .wheat, and a% few other
was the agent chosen to dispense its goldenfavcrars
among the electors. Ituiaybe owingto this medical articles of import
connection, that one- of ' the staff: of

tiro 22.44:rer value of our

corruptors on imports tathe consumer ii

not "sensilyhr affected

falling short in his supplies referred, delicately,

by the

ruling o

_Might Mciwtkets abroad

to his necessities,. as an indisposition, and tele-
graphed for a. repetition of the medicine. Bikt " ruiner .- to state the . cost of his sugar
we can go even higher in the scale than this; and " tea, ride,". bread, tobseco, or • other imporr,
though such men as Sir WILLIAM HATTER WORld ,4 tant article of _consumption, durirtg the last ten'
~ yearsi-- and they undertake to prove that the
scarcely involve themselves in direct schemes- of
" market-value has not varied in any way in coa-
bribery, yet it w.ould be idle to, overlook the-sus-
sequence-uf a change in%Freights' Whoever
piciou,s nature of so high a personage's conneetion ~
doubts-this, will do well to study - the list- a
with 'a nefarious. conspiracy. It
,was apt for
nothing that the Radical whipper. in found. itcon- Freigtits, and `pt:ices, which is from time to titne
venient to take separate lodgings for the-trans-_ üblitlietl;7piemising that the- quality of each
action of his. election business: at distant places, article 'IS precisely the same in each year. It: will

1.11,d the,

therefore

01d1i~... cizallone

any con,

and :for the:holding,of levees, attended.by,-agents then, be. observed that-we have the Freight, on
from all parts -of' the count:'' And it is quite sugar,.. in Septemberi.lBs6; compared with:. Sop-
vain to suppose that.the not draw their temberi_lBs9, fallen from,Bos. to. 40s. per ton4.and
own inference from the history of thOsQ, proceed- the variittioninpricoper cent.,only is. per cwt.; the
ings, • which he .himself has been. eornpll,ed -Freight on cotton fallingfrota 655. to 17s. 6-41. per
to diSelose. Sir WILLIANE HATTER ha 4 'a
ton, and the article, rising -in price Id. per lb.
liTe24 again, whiCh. with Freight at 90s, per ton,
full knowledge of the notorious character of the
Gloucester constituency,which- one of the Liberal is sold- for-- 80.--per--lb:i--fetches-ls.--3&-per-lb
witnesses described torbg
;such that, since. the. :with the Freigbt at:-30's
Reform Bill, he could only mention one election: 'through seriatim.

And so might. go
naining .articles. enumera-

as having been honestly conducted,.and that' was, ted in the carefully tabulated statement we have
an uncontested one. lie was fully informed that,, consulted in eonfimatiOn -of our proposition,—

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from one cause or another, it was simply hopeless
to expect success without -- corruipt-means. 116r41. that Freight:: is • paid by • ,the, producer, and
not by the consumer. In theoryot appears
this knowledge, it became his duty ,:to select a very plausible- that' the opposite is • the case
"trustworthy" person to take charge of eon- but it is inst.' one' Of thOs clap7trap
Siderablesuin of money for --eketiowpurposes at fallacies w- hichatiract the :pope iar aitentiOn, and
Gloncester. Was he careful to make choice of
catch the public
an honourable and reputable agent ; or did he ear. " Get 7viinr carrying trade
express any anxiety that the money should be " done upon the 'Manchester school of political
" economy in the cheap;;St "riarket ; and the eon-
applied to none but a legi'tifdare-yitp-ese-l—Nnt—g, Sumer will get his goods at lower prices!'
in the slightest: He did riot have it sent for the This is what they say-; :04nd'itigijust one of those
purposei of bribery, he- did. not- :430minission.- shallow arguments which eaptivate' the -common
"Mr.THOANTON" to-tempt the wavering and May 'people, and which arekut forth to subserve the
up the venal ? Oh no ! ,tut 'having- Chosen the purposes of political agitators, like- Sous•BitIGIIT
agent; he recognises, as a preliminary to the and hisunsci:upulouitiartisans. Messrs. SEY3fOUR
diSdiarge of his office, the adoption of an alias ; and Co., ii,,pi:aptiopt, men, are quite right, and
and when asked as to his " suspicions" of the fully justified, in exposing and laying bare this-
object to which the money was to be devoted, false deduction, that .the consuineilis affected
pleads in excuse for his refusal to reply, the by the rates of Freight. • :•
general difficulty in giving expression to ones Our Radical eontenaperary-next touches upon
suspicions! "When you ,come to suspicions,' ,the Reciprocity question, -undertAing to show,'
"you must pardon me• saying - that it is rather that Shipowners have no just groUnd of corn-
"hard to inquire about a man's suspicions." The plaint, and -that they are altogether deluded in
simple explanation of which is, that one so Closely their expectation of any advantages from a system
connected with the. head-quarters of Liberalism of, equivalent trading. But this simple query
as Sir W.. HAYTER, cOiild not suffer himself to be seems to have entirely. escaped the Writer,—
ostensibly connected with schemes of eleetoral If there were no adVantages- likely sto
corruption, nor to be suspected of giving instruc- accrue to-us in- opening up the coasting-trade-of
tions to his agent in the conduct of this nefarious America from New York to California; 414. is it
traffic; but, that well knowing what were the that the people of the United States clOie it
necessities of a Gloucester Election according to against us, and reserve it entirely to them Selves ?
Liberal estimation, he gave him a carte blanche to. The fact. is, among other considerations, that the
appropriate.the money supplies provided, in any trade with British Columbia is likely to be a
way that these necessities suggested. The means very important one,
from the great developments
of secresy sanctioned and adopted, the method of of wealth which are taking place there ; and,
fulfilling his, instructions so faithfully observed, with open intermediate ports, along the whole of
by the man of two names, when at the scene of ' the West coast of America, our trading there