Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-23 00:00:00

Paramount sanction to it

,o give a reasonable security fc

eir
,Justice

The saintly eharaet

rations and precedents

Such claims

kl with an almost overwh

lot Only of the

)St all men, in

But cll.

Lrup together the whole history of the

lid say forty

?) have been lost to mar,

.ye not taunt

it the differ(

uless we hal'

uncut enoug

le truth of

)erience, history will in

ls'niade thoil

It is not

3 many evils for mank

,rent of the

of their crime

ations and all

the vices of other politi

more shall

.eless, because inspired, .ar.

gorathd by

arbitrary rule

which

itv over to

souls, as well as

the b,

.ts subjects

repressive measures of

and selfish policy

assume the character o

for man's highc

the vices. of

acquire a strength

which; to . the worst (

lecular despotisins

san idle dream. Tt is t

aeration which in

kes civilised Europe w

power in Italy

sc extlo

s thest

lay ' we

human

kind, if

exercising the' functions of civil government, fort u-

nately there exists no room for such plausibilities as

They are antecedently fated to a surc

iwocesis of Cleclension,‘ by the laws of hum in
nature, equally with ecclesiastical governments ; but,

ved at its consummation, they

arc an unmixed evil, without the possibility of a

ilea, eut off, 4t may be said, from

They are a very incarna

tion of selh,'shness

What call have they to care for the welfare of their

dependants, when their own is safe without it ?

What I)ublic'good can they consult amid the absorb-

eir theory

is, that as the, rights of
,sovereignty, so its duties

lade subservient to the necessities of trade

and truth to say they cannot be charged with letting

slip any opportunity of it:+, illustration

For these reasons, and another to which we shall

.vert, we congratulate the country upon the fact

that the Hudson's Bay Company is speedily to follow

the fate of the hybrid monster of Leadenhall-street

The evils which have marked its progress are on too

'small a scale to bear a comparison with those gigan-

tic crimes -which called down the withering denun-

ciations of Burke upon 'the Eas't India Company

But on a smaller and obscurer stage, we believe they

have earned a reputation not -vholly unworthy of

their great compeer. The origin of the Company

a the same necessity which has

favourable position

'or a lucrative traffic in a remote

and unfriendly region, where the Mother Count!.

lie direct

influence of her power, though she was not insensi-

ble to the prospective advantages accruing from an
extended trade to her national pros

vrity, they

sovereignty which was requisiteto secure freedom

for their commercial pursuit

The grrangement

other Country p.

serving the right of herself assuming the functions
she had delegated. There was evident convenience

in this arrangement, for it left an opportunity of
quietly relinquishing,a territoryi,. should the trader
not find it a profitable investment.• Imperial inter-
ests were kept out of what might have become petty

complications, and necessity was avoided for active
participation until individual enterprise had gone
before to try its advisability.

Hudson's

ived the name of its discoverer, who wa,,

the time prosecuting the search for a north-west

passage round the American Contir

tinous conduct of a crew who left him with eight

others to perish On this rocky and barrel-

the unlikely cause of the fortunate discovery, and its

It was afterwards visited by

Stec an exp 6

.er of Charles II

,er eons'

ion of a more se

isn, and

some may think, a more important kind, justifies the

extimtion of this Company

A. territory which has

come practically to include the whole northern

ican Continent, and which is

likely to embrace the entire trade of the

ific, is, when in the hands of a trading Compan3

ruel bait to offer to the notorious cupidity of our

Transatlantic cousins

The sooner N

vithdraw it

from a people so sensitive to temptation, the better

both for our OWli interests and their virtue

tide of American adventure, once in full sweep over
these unprotected and isolated regions, and We should

find ourselves cheep

-mates

as, through our supine-

ness, we have sometime'.; found ourselveS cheek-:

le preservation 0:

niathi vould then be

iaii pspecia

if our very good

friend, IticHARD COBDEN, who hates British supre-

Riney, were the director of its fc

We rejoice, then, at the dying out of these Merchant

Compani

They arc eticrescences• in our system

,00 often

whiCh aid not properly attach to us, but which we

could not wipe