The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-07-26 00:00:00

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

ANTI-PROPERTY AGITATION.
(From the Morning Herald)
Anti-property doctrines have recently found accept-
ance with the labouring classes—because the property
of the labouring classes—their labour and their slender
accumulations—have been deprived of all security. The
spirit of our legislation for 20 years past has been little
else than a spirit of robbery. Thus, the legislature has
permitted a small band of machine-owning capitalists
to rob eight hundred thousand hand-loom weavers of
the means of comfortable existence. The currency act
of 1819 was, virtually, an act of confiscation—an act
passed by the legislature at the expense of the producing
classes, solely for the benefit of money-owners and of
idle consumers. The new poor law has despoiled the
labourers of England of that first mortgage over the
soil with which the constitution previously vested them.
The new poor law is, therefore, pre-eminently an act
subversive of the sacredness of property. The esta-
blishment of railroads, again, is another revolutionary
movement—a movement which will annihilate tens of
millions of property, and throw out of permanent em-
ployment tens of thousands of labourers, through
whose ministrations the old system of travelling was
maintained. In reviewing, in short, the whole system
of our recent legislation, nothing meets the eye of the
inquirer, except flagrant and most mischievous viola-
tions of that principle which our legislators affect to
hold sacred—the principle of property !
The anti-property opinions which now find favour in
the eyes of. the poor have been generated, or, at least,
confirmed, by the anti-property legislation of the rich ;
and until the humble labourer shall be convinced that
he shall not be robbed by law—now, of his little accu-
mulations—now-, of the market for his labour—anti-
property doctrines will continue to diffuse themselves.
If our legislators would put down chartism, let them
respect the rights of industry ;—let them protect the
labourer from crushing competition with untaxed ma-
chinery, and with lightly-taxed foreigners ;—let them
abolish, wholly and unreservedly, the new poor law,
and restore, at the same time, the ancient birthright of
the English labourer. If, however, our law-makers
will persist in robbing the poor producer of all chance
of fair remuneration for his toil, let our law-makers
cease to wonder, if the institution of property shall
come to be regarded with slender reverence by the
men who are suffering, at every moment, under the
abuses of its influences.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

MANCHESTER-TUESDAY EVENING.

The settling upon the Liverpool events has occupied con-
siderable time and attention since the return of the leading
speculators, being in some cases rather heavy ; but, on the
whole, it has passed over very well. We now find the Good-
wood events close at hand, and a good deal doing, as well as
on the Doncaster St. Leger. For the Goodwood Stakes, the
Marquis of Westminster's horse, The Lord Mayor, has been
backed with great spirit since Saturday, at from about 8 to 1
until 5 became, for a sum, the outside offer at noon ; a point
more has since been, for a little money, pencilled down.
Wee Willie has had a very sanguine party, and one or two
others chimed in for attention. The following are the prices
of the present hour :
11 to 2 agst Lord Westminster's Lord Mayor (tk 6)
9to 1 „ Mr. Meiklam's Wee Willie (tk)
11 to 1 „ Mr. J. Bell's Miss Eliza
12 to 1 „ Colonel Peel's 1-am-not-aware
13 to 1 „ Mr. Hornsby's Romania (tk 14)
15 to 1 „ Duke of Richmond's Confusionee (tk)
16 to 1 „ Captain Lamb's Chit Chat.
Offers to lay 50 to 1 the Lord Mayor don't win this and
the St. Leger.

GOODWOOD CUP.
6 to 4 agst Mr. Ferguson's Harkaway (off)
11 to 2 „ Mr. F. Craven's Deception
120 to 20 „ Lord Westminster's Richard Roe (tk)
7to 1 „ Mr. St. Paul's Galewood (off)
9to 1 „ Mr. Ramsay's The Doctor.
5 to 4 was laid this evening against Galewood and Mr.
Ferguson's horse ; both seem to be a little on the decline.