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

A REAL WELSHMAN'S LETTER

ON FREE TRADE

MR. REDITOR
Was you be so good as to brint This lettar,
in big brint, and I was tell you about the BIG LOAF.
I was a Welshman and did always shout for big loaf, and
did come to this Down from wales; and did get work from
Mr. Samel Holmes for labourer.
He was give me Saturday Night money for wages and 1
did live at John Thomas, and did pay it him money for
my ped and lodgin.
I did puy my own loaf, butter, beacon, and I did puy
every thing myself with my wages. and the loaf was very
Tear in IS-17.
I was save 20 bound 10 Billing and 6 hence, and was
pane it to save her. to get married to my sweetheart.
I was like Mr. Saml Holme for give me wages, but the
people tell me he was a Tory & was rob the poor man of
his LOAF.
Work go slag—& the Clark tell me get another place
till work come again. Mesdar Holmes give it me caritor, &
I was see Want Place in Mercury window, and did get
her for my caritor.
They Masder did keep a bigger shop than all Liverpool
and manier mens than any shop and was give all board &
lodgin ; he was buy the loaf himself with the men wages.
He was say to me he give £1 per month where he say
was better than 5 sillin a week. & he would puy my LOAF
& everything for me, and give me a ped to sleep for the
rest of my wages.
He was say I was be a respectable porter and must dress
petter than Samel Holmes labourer, as 1 would take a
goods to see the ladies.
I did stop with him longer than Masdar Holmes, I did
spend my £2O 103 6d I had saved when a loaf was Tear,
and did lose £3O I should save, when loaf was cheap.
For my master was say so in his speeges For Cardwel
and Ewart, when he say poor man's Loaf is as Big again
now for sillin.
And when he was say Mackenzie and Turner, Sam
Holmes, and Horsfall, want to Rob a poor Man of half
his loaf, I was say where is my
FIFTY POUNDS

I should have in the Panc, with your Free trade?
I was glad he was get blowed up with Kentish fire every
time he spoke for Free Trade.
Please put this in Grammar for me, & I was tell you
that there is a young Man a Clerk as get £75 a year when
work was good with merchant Littledale, Horsfall, John
Tobin or somepody is only get wages £2O. Master take
£55 to puy his Loaf and Bed.
1 was be so glad to get wages all to buy myself now.

o DAVID JONES.
Church-street, Liverpool, July 5, 1852.

TO WELCHMEN, ELECTORS

OF LIVERPOOL.

COUNTRYNi E 2,7, AND BROTHER ELECTORS.—The time
is fast approaching when you will have an opportunity of
signifying as to which class of politicians you will support
at the election for this town. You have been addressed
by good and pious ministers and respectable laymen from
the stage of the Amphitheatre, Concert-hall, and other
places, with reference to your vote. One class of politi-
cians has urged and impressed upon you to give your
vote and interest in favour of Messrs. Cardwell and Ewart,
because they are in favour of cheap bread and civil and
religious liberty. Another class of politicians has ad-
dressed you, in the most serious and sober manner, and
told you faithfully and earnestly of the shoals, the
breakers, and the hidden rocks that are before you, if you
steer in a certain course and make the clap-trap of free
trade and cheap bread as your compass and pilot; and they
ask you to give your vote and interest to two gentlemen,
Turner and Mackenzie, who have pledged themselves to
sustain and defend the Protestant religion,—which religion
you profess, and which religion was handed to us by our
forefathers, and for which religion some of them have suf-
fered persecution and even the stake. You have been en-
treated not to support with your votes a cunning and slip-
pery lawyer, who never made a promise without making a
loop-hole to get out of it, and whose chief and primary
solicitude to be returned as one of the members for the
town is his ambition, and not your interest in temporal
or spiritual matters.
You have also been addressed through the medium of
the press (the Liverpool Mercury), by one who calls him-
self "An Honest Welchman."—This gentleman seems
very desirous to have a change of ministry, and has
a great predilection in favour of Lord John Russell. I
think you have heard of such a personage. Need I tell
you, my countrymen, that Lord John Russell and his
government issued the commission of enquiry into the
state of education in Wales. Need I remind you of the
Blue Book ? Have you so soon forgot the infamous misre-
presentations of the notorious Commissioner Symons, as to
Welchmen and Welchwomenrs morality and habits, which
he (Symons) represented as truth to the Committee of
Council on Education. The egregious misrepresentations
are now before us, and they are a disgrace to any civilised
nation in the nineteenth century. The calumnies I refer
to have been disseminated, and will be handed down to
future generations;. and what will our children's children
and other nations think of Welshmen in the nineteenth
century ? Why, if they believe Symons's report, they
will be under the impression that we bad advanced but a
few degrees from barbarism. Will you lend your helping
hand to" Honest Welchman" and his party to replace Lord
John Russell in the office of prime minister ? I think not.
And what of the Papal Aggression Bill ? Did Lord
John Russell act as a true Protestant and first minister
of England ought to have acted ? With reference to the
bill referred to, did he not, after the said bill was framed,
and while its merits and demerits were discussed in the
House of Commons. allow the Popish party and their
friends to expunge the very pith and the very vitality of
the bill and hence it is but a dead letter. Have not the
Papist hierarchy. and the Popish press laughed and ridi-
culed it, and put it at defiance ? And what has become
of the said bill ? It is but very little better than being
null and void. And these are the mighty acts of Lord
John Russell.

Now, my countrymen, I hope that you will dissipate
from your minds all unfavourable reports which have been
industriously circulated with reference to Messrs. Turner
and Mackenzie. No doubt you respect the Welsh minis-
ters of this town. Some of them have harangued you in
favour of Cardwell and Ewart. Good as they are, for
whom I have the greatest regard, yet they are better and
more conversant with theology and their bibles than they
are with politics : and I do not apprehend that the asser-
tion I have made will give them umbrage.
Vote for Turner and Mackenzie, and then by so doing
you will signify that you are Protestants ; and thereby
you will signify that you approve of the present Govern-
ment, who caused the late proclamation to be issued for
the discontinuance of Popish processions and Popish arro-
gance.—l am, dear countrymen, yours faithfully,
Liverpool, July 3, 1852. CAMBRIA.