The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-02-26 00:00:00

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Vint, An immense body of working agriculturists
would be thrown out of employ ! What benefit would
they. derive from the repeal of the corn laws having re-
duced the shilling loaf to sixpence, when they would
not have sixpence or even threepence to pay for it ?
Secondly, A great number of mechanics and artists
,Would be thrown out of employ, and all who would not
be actually out of employ, would have their wages
considerably diminished. What benefit would they
then derive from a repeal of the corn laws ?
Thirdly, The demand for the goods of the manu-
facturer would become also diminished. What benefit
Would he derive from the repeal ?
Lastly, the natural fountain of life and strength in
the
kingdom would be thus dried up by the repeal of these
44", and the persons served by it would not be the poor—
IMt:the industrious—not the labourer—not the mecha-.
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any class of persons, save and except that
T. 488 which enjoy incomes not contingent upon any cir-
,e:trostances So that the very persons who constitute
the .working classes of society—whom it is now said
the reps
would serve, are those who would most
/,,enlY suffer by it. They may have, it is true, cheap
r 411; but it is certain they would also have cheap
4"ur, or oftentimes no labour at all !
The third and last point to which we shall at present
call our readers' attention, is the effect which a repeal
of the corn laws would have in case of. war.
Although there is not at present any prospect tof
Nvl!_r, yet no one can tell how soon circumstances may
leuange• We freely admit there is not now even a
:Probability of war ; but events not a tenth part so
Probable have, before now, often occurred. Should
then such an event take place, who can' picture to
I_ll4llBelf the fatal consequences that may arise from our
'laving been left at the mercy of other nations ! What
then would be the sufferings of the great body of this
community ! Our granaries empty—our agriculturists
turned into manufacturers and mechanics—our fields
turned into commons for the raising of cattle—and we
left dependent for the very staff of life on, perhaps,
our enemies !

We are convinced it is quite unnecessary to enlarge
• on this part of the subject, as we have written already
,Lore than perhaps the columns of our paper should
be at one time engrossed with. We shall conclude
°Y merely reminding our readers of the points which
We think we have.established

1. That no positive facts have been adduced in proof
that the corn laws are the cause of the diminished de-
mand for our manufactures.
2. That, next to a certainty, the real causes of this
diminished demand are, over-speculation,' and the ad-
l'ancen made, since 1815, by European nations, in
knowledge and industry.

,3. That although the repeal of the corn laws may
reduce, for a time, the price of bread, yet that it would
also reduce, proportionably, the rate of wages.

4. That while a repeal of the corn laws could not
accomplish what is expected, it would certainly create
incalculable evils, and place this country in most dan-
gerous circumstances.

UNITARIAN CONTROVERSY.—We have been fa-
voured with a letter from the Rev. Mr. Thom, the
Unitarian minister, complaining that our report of his
late lecture in defence of Unitarianism " was incorrect
sid injurious," requesting us to correct the same,
WARNING us against making any observations there-
on, and informing us that this is the second time •he
has had to complain of mistatements—the other being
from a clergyman of the Church of England ?"
We take leave, in reply to the above, to remark that,
although we are fully persuaded we have faithfully and
honestly given the substance of the lecture, and in al-
most all instances the very words used by the lecturer
on that occasion, yet, had he thought proper to send
a concise disavowal of any doctrine or views we may
have erroneously attributed to him, we should have
cheerfully published it in this day's paper. As for our
correcting what he then said, by what he now may think
proper to publish, we are not quite so easily gulled !
Would to God that our ears deceived us as to the whole
of what he said on this occasion ! If this be the case,
and that the reverend gentleman will send either his
recantation, or denial of any one, or the whole, of
What we have published, it shall receive early atten-
tion.

We freely admit we have published none of the
honey in which the poison was enveloped; our object
was, and our duty is, to exhibit the latter cleared from
the former. As to his " warning" or threatening us,
this day's paper shows what effect that course has had
upon us. We have a duty to the public to perform,
from the discharge of which neither the threats of
men, nor of devils, shall ever deter us.

Lastly, as to the clergyman to whom our corre-
spondent alludes, we have no doubt he is prepared to
render Mr. Thom at all times ample justice.

ANALYSIS OF THE REV. MR. THOM'S LECTURE IN
DEFENCE OF UNITARIANISM, AS REPORTED

BY OURSELVES, AND PUBLISHED IN OUR LAST

*- No. 1. According to this logic the Jews of old were
'very good Christians : they admitted Christ did good
Works, for which they did not attempt to stone him ;
but that " he, being a man, made himself God." (John,
X• 32, 33.)

O. 2. Convicts Unitarians of blasphemy. If Christ
be a creature, to kay he is God's equal, or image, in
any sense whatever, is blasphemy ; for the Sacred
Scriptures unequivocally declare God has no equal:
and if Christ be God (as the Creator has revealed Him
to be), then to say he is not God, is also blasphemy.
Unitarians may sit on either horn of the dilemma.

NO. 3. Exhibits either the Lecturer's unacquaintance
with the Scriptures, or his disingenuousness for Christ
never once intimated (and we defy the Lecturer to show
Where he did) that his church would be a universal
church till after his second coming : on the contrary,
his truth was ever to be despised by the would-be-wise
Men of this world, till his second appearing.
No. 4. Christ declared "he that believeth the Gos-
pel shall be saved." What is this but a creed ? The
Lecturer consistently condemns all creeds, and conse-
quently all who ever gave creeds. Our blessed Lord
Ws, therefore, under this condemnation !
No. 5. The Lecturer must know full well that Trini-
tarians never pretend to know what the essence of
Deity is. To what shall we attribute his assertion
that we do?

No. 6. Words without meaning ! Empty sounds,
which none but those who have empty heads could
swallow.

No. 7. Wonderful wisdom! (answered in No. 4.)
No. 8. God has promised to be the interpreter of
his own Word, to his own children : therefore we have
an infallible interpreter.
ICO. 9. See answer to No. 2.
No. 10. St. Paul and the Rev. Gentleman are here
(as indeed they are on almost all other points) at issue:
the Apostle, by the Holy Spirit, declaring, that "if sal-
'vation be of works, it is no longer by mercy." (Rom.
/i. 6.)

No. 11. If the Lecturer be correct in this statement,
Paul was in error. Judge, who ought we to cre-
dit

No. 12. The Scriptures inform us- that Christ died,
the just one, IN THE PLACE of the unjust"
bear the sins of many in his own person"—'

•" to PUIt.