The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-13 00:00:00

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FREE TRADE.-it has been well observed by
Morning Herald of Friday that " the first free trade yejo,
establishes the important fact that vast importations f
not by any means ensure to the imposting people [n('
England] corresponding exportations ;"—that " it is Iwo
fair to assert that the famine in Ireland prevents for to
present all rational conclusions as to the effects of to
free trade policy." The writer then proceeds to tltt? 9
Blackwood of the month, setting forth that the famelifor
has accelerated the effects of such policy, rather tl';
retarded- or impeded them. We make the folloulfes
extract :—" What has the famine done ? It has caw`{
fifteen millions worth of domestic agricultural produce,
be exchanged for fifteen millions worth of foreign agrii,
tural produce. The potato crop which has perished.A
Ireland is estimated at fifteen millions worth. But fore~ai,
agricultural produce, to an equal or greater amount, 01
Leon imported; six millions of quarters, between graiti,,
all sorts and flour, have been entered for home constoo:/`/,
tion, in seven months preceding sth February, 0;0
Taking these quarters on an average as worth 50s. to Le
consumer, we shall then have six millions of quarte.o,
worth fifteen millions sterling. The distress that precalo
therefore, is not owing to any deficiency of food, for 04a,
or animals, in the United Kingdom, for as much:.
come in of foreign produce as has disappeared of domelid
We have been always told that all apprehension about P
imports being paid in gold, and not in manufacturey
chimerical ; that the sooner the inferior lands in 405
British islands go out of cultivation the better ;
ample food for the inhabitapts will be obtained Po;
foreign states; and that the agriculturists thrown 0,1100,
employment by the change will be rapidly absorbed
more profitably employed in sustaining our exteuto
manufactures. Well, the thing has been done, andor
desired consummation has taken place, from an e•toti.
neous cause, even more rapidly than was anticiPaeigo
The free traders contemplate the substitution of for., of
for British agricultural produce to the extent of fifte7ol9
twenty millions as a most desirable result ; but theY fool
lamented it could not be looked for for three or .01)
years. It would take that time to beat down the 131 tlic
farmer, to convince the cultivators of inferior lands
folly of attempting a competition with the great Neiog
districts of the Continent. Providence has done the
at once. We have got, and at a railway speed toad 00, t.
blessings of the new system. Free trade was to of
the much desired substitution of 6,000,000 quatteive`,;
home for 6,000,000 quarters of foreign grain in. ire'
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tyew. But the potato rot has done it in one. A
rade rot could not have done it nearly so expeoll_ tofri
but it would have done it as effectually. It is
mistake, therefore, to represent the famine in Ireland
the west of Scotland as an external calamity, sv,;3l."'s oar,/
concealed the natural effects of free trade. It gera 01
brought them to light at once.' "--If, as the ,ete A
suggests, we had been further advanced in the er';,,itte"
free trade, anti had neglected agriculture, andd rieletoPliete;
inferior land to go out of cultivation, what had ?
our fate and position in a period like the present
a question worthy of all remembrance.