The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-07-06 00:00:00

Protestant indignation, at such a time as

present, speaks, to our mind, volumes in proof of
of the forbearance of one side and of the audacity of
the other. But whatever be the merits of this par-
ticular case, it helps to put beyond all doubt the ab-
solute necessity for not admitting into the House
of Commons a single Representative who is not
strongly imbued with the importance of protecting
the Protestant religion from the numerous formida-
ble enemies who, at home and abroad, are ever on
the watch to assail and injure it, and whose triumph,
even though only temporary, would do more to-
wards the overthrow of the constitution and the
ruin of the country than the invasion of its soil by
the armies of the haughtiest and most powerful
empire of the world.

ATTACK ON MR. FORBES MACKENZII
BY THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.

A MOST dishonest and uncalled-for attack upon the
Government, implicating by name Mr. W. F. MAcxrx-
ZIE, the Conservative candidate for Liverpool, appeared
in the Manchester Guardian of Wednesday last. The
article is headed " The nursing Board of Trade Talks
at last ;" and the writer not only insinuates that the
accounts have been delayed for electioneering purposes,
but asks " what connection has Mr. 3lackenzie's candi-
dature for Liverpool with this delay ?" and adds that " the
fact: of there being an increase during the month in the
inward entries would not have been convenient at Liver-
pool for the Secretary at the Treasury." if the
Guardian had taken the trouble to peruse the report of
the Board of Trade, he would have seen that it presents
some new features of quite sufficient importance to war-
rant the trifling delay which has occurred in its publica-
tion. One of these new features, and a most valuable one,
is the separation of steam-vessels from sailing vessels, by
which, in future, we shall be enabled to trace the substi-
tution of the screw and the paddle for the old mode of
propulsion, and, in addition, to arrive at correctness in
the returns as exponents of our position as a maritime
people. Hitherto :the returns have been most incorrect
for want of such separation. For example, we find in the
present return that, out of a total amount of Britis
nage entered inwards of 356,564 tons, 73,658, or ur

of one-fifth, consisted of steam-vessels. Now, r

imagines that one-fifth of our tonnage:consists of

and the fact that it appears so from the returns, arises
from the greater frequency of their sailings and arrivals. A
vessel of 300 tons—say the Commodore from this port to

France—would count for as much:in the returns, if made
out in the old mode, as a vessel of 900 tons, because sha
will make three trips in a month. The same vessel in a
year will tell for as much as 10,000 tons of shipping going
the India and China, the Australian, or the Californian
voyage. Thus, what we have been taking credit for as an
increase in the actual number of ships engaged in British
commerce, has actually been to a great extent caused by
the substitution of steam power for the sail.

With respect to the imputation sought to be cast upon
Mr. MACKENZIE, as having had any share in withholding
these returns, it is sheer absurdity. The Guar
know something about cotton yarn and calico, but he
evidently knows little about shipping. The return

single month, as compared with any other month, very
frequently shews nothing more than that we had unfe-

vourable winds. During the very month that this return
embraces, we had an immense arrival of inward tonnage
which had been kept out by easterly winds, as is clear fr-Tr,
the very figures in the return, for we find that whereas
the total entries inwards were, in April last, 574,367 tons,
against 480,453 tons in April, 1851, or 93,914 tons rizt cc.
the entries outwards were, 609,019 this year, against
612,557 last year, or 3538 less. The Guardian ought to
understand what he is talking about, before bringing such
gross charges against his po litieal opponents.

"MR. SAMUEL HOLME AN ODDFELLOW

ii.

Such is the title of a ridiculous story which is pu'
by the Mercury. The facts are these, and we have
from a gentleman who was present on the cc

alluded to

out forty gentleman accompanied Mr. HOLN

canvass through Chester ; and amon

other a

they visited one of the lodges of Oddfel

was unanimous)

admitted, with one exception