Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-12 00:00:00

4t4gland, riot merely in an individual but alio.-
•
th9r national and corporate character,
t Step- 'they think will be gained. towards'
Keeningir the whole position of the Church,
pte the means of her -efficiency are rendered
eali°lls, dependent on- individual effort, and
towaYB requiring_ the utmost stretch of exertion •
wialeel) anywhere' near the mark. If anything
serve to arouse Churchmen to the true nature
a~O their present position, • to see through all
rate artifices, and despise all specious and.
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,p:tinlenious pleas, this is enough. That it has
ed the eyes of official dignitaries generally
too-ti
k stolid anti too inert, is a good omen for the
stand supplies a hopeful encouragement to
.nd to the rest of the parochial clergy.

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LPPears by the latest accounts from the United
, 'test that the American Shipping trade, like
°'vn, is beginning to feel theeffeets of undue
14731 Petition. We believe that from the. Shipping
krest of no country has our own received More
iti
opposition than from that of the United'
t --*3 and this, of .course, through the oppor-
'lair
ft
1..1,v which the changes in the Navigation
,4,
tvf, have
presented to them, of opposing us in
pt-rY Way, even in our own ports. Just in pro-
r„.ilien as our wale Shipping was depressed, dia
i4t of the United States advance and prosper.
:lt there is a ;limit to such a stake of things
and, stimulated by their very suecess in
Petiug with British Shipping, they have ap-
*teotly carried the contest a little too far, and
kre
14,te tlelv .feeling the injurious eFects of unregu-
It
ecalpetition.
)pears from the • statist as of American
PLPillg, that there has been ;a gradual falling
ke7,l the progress of the ship-,building trade in,
Slates during the last four years. Far
ta'ee, *tile, in 1855, the total amount of ton-
.NVLIS 36 098 in 1856 it hadefullen to 266,2 Z
iss/2,/,1547 it 'had' furtherlallen to 19'3,962 ;• anti
1.4 still further, to 96,41.9. The decrease in
)...(a;°llnagc of:ships sold to foreigners does -net
!kit- Itile same proportion to the =decrease intle
k,eullilding itself, though it iS to a very
tZe amount. Last year, for • instance, it-Tras
t,d,ltelY half of that of - the year pre-
t7" 'which may fairly be -set down . as a
1,4 tof Vie year's depression in• trade. All c:ho
ki:-anYelling of America, are well aware osith
At 41:facility ships are bthlt there, and, therefore,
toba°W.eomparatively low a price they can 'be
country:; .as well-as at what.z 107
-in the
Y• Can be manned, when 'compared ,••with
14; Produced in our MlTia. yards. And, ecrtFlny,
kte is in all this a very.stroug-Traetical.,argu-
ihort .in' fervour of our 'own: Shipping-trade' keing
110:41gie_y divested of ,all . those ,burthenshich
Pede its progress, so as -to enable-,it to'
~17ete,,:with some .ehanee of success, with the
44.4 ~ling 3f any other country ; ..and more :Tarti-
%tat 3" cr so formidable a as the:United
4Pects the depression _in the American
ADc 4/11st trade, to • which.we .hire referred; one
trade cr'verlook the falling off in the California
tl'eaBlot
,the freight of Apecie in which .ha-s de-
kilh.:real twelve millions. of;,- dollars to three
dtte r--a fact quite .sufficient.d itself:- to pro-
),,en a -eerious amount of depression. Bit, as
7t16.8, it is probaLle 'that the Anaiiicans
111:ttai` ler-gth, feeling the ill effects of thatundue
1110, .ctire system, by which.theyhave all along
Tht that they were profiting ..so • largely.
k :41eljea is to maintain its progrow as
kttettt 'trading nation, .it must act :upon
kirt liberal principles as respects the tranamis-
°f Produce and manufactures to and from
alicl other countries of Europe,—it,!must
4tulif!t more liberal tar, and effect an entire
'Ilk;eo of the present restrictions upon British
must throw open •its roasting trade,
Vr 'to find additional facilities for. general
Nee,-the increase of Which would doubtless
ksZovinee them that the continuance of the
41 restvietive system was quiteunnecessary,
,=very impolitic. The people of the
kNi7 States, as is well known, are .extremely
t 4.4 upon these points. They imagine, awl
5.414(111t some reason, that their trade in Ship-
''4l.4l44 in every thing else still requires to be
rE
and protected. They, are persuaded that
'llttlite grew ;great under a similar ,aydatem of
and protection. And even they who'
r/Ni reflzse a „general assent to those more'
Nti Principles :of commerce which are .now in
1414°4 ill this „country, are hard to be ,eon-
°tll44lkat the time has yet come, or is evenmear
'l°4 e "then they can be introduced into their
44i4,1rY with anything like similar success,.
dee(l they can be introduced 'at all without;
Itqlkvtrinient to some of their staple interests:
lt ja our own ,power, however, practically
sder
'ttie,i ate all this in our intercourse with the
il4 ty5.418' Their most ,valuable trade is with
thtilletrY as indeed ours is with theirs.
t
, We have at mice presented to us
cipil:4e of reciprocity. And this is the
Beal we would wish to see carried into
rOt 04 effect on both sides of the Atlantic.
:41Cve and take; and let us do it fairly--
'l4lliherally. We have, already, as re-
y,
t:tiiiilPPing, given up a great deal to
evident detriment of our own Ship-
t4:st, We have a right, then, to..expect
4111 e or eciProeate such advantagei.
.And one
i,1.N11,1,011,05t and most reasonable expectations
4„illAt _ e have reason to calculate upon
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Participation in what they call their
e trade
but which, in fact, can scarcely
rnes b
'der the! e regarded as such, since what they
si. °le sea it coast not only extends along the
°arc). of the Atlantic, but even to that
ig tteiflo
• With 'England must naturally syinpa-
441er.ica under any depression of her