The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-24 00:00:00

In our future labours we can only now pledge

Ourselves to pursue that cow'

of honesty and io.-

consistency which has earned for us so large
a weed of public approbation. With the expedi
ency policy of the present day we have nothing to
do. We took up our grounds originally from con-
viction ; and we have seen nothing to justify us in

Upon one point in
liar, with respect to which we regret to see
wavering, with whom it has hitherto been our
privilege to act in concert, we can make
no compromise. We cannot afford to swerve from
the maintenance of the Protestant principles of the
British' constitution, as established by our blessed

turning our backs upon a
part

pride an

Drmation, to buy a hollow truce with disaf-

fection

In conclusion, we can only repeat our poor but
heartfelt acknowledgments to our friends and to the
public. If the past is any guarantee of the future,
our connexion will be cemented by the best endea-
vours on our part and by continuing kindness on
theirs. To the public, whether commercial or ag-

ricultural, ar

1 to families especially, we are makin—g
which will enable us, we trust, to

ieased publicity fo

The neN

nation and instruction ; and
will find in our columns in-

favors with which their

s from India in our present publication

of British valou

_
the cost of human life by which that
been

At present, we Tear,

ly great

fly it is great in the

most important pc
the killed will be

on of an Indian army. Amongst
-.oTet, the honoured

en, with r.,,

name of t

it Robert Sal

so rec

y an honc

1 guest in our town. Like a
died in his harne s," having only
escaped the murderous and cowardly assassins of
Affghanistan to return to a nobler fate, wreaked by

her he

the har

foe, upon the plains of Lahore
t to the Go

those means were derived from the land or from
wofits in trade, Was "fair and 'equitable. But since
profits in trade, or other in-

3 of ratit

burden of maintaining the poor, he considers, and
we think justly, has fallen too heavily and in a most
undue proportion upon real property. The follow-
ing is:the comparison which he draws between the
position of the landowner and the manufacturer.

Suppose a large sum of money were invested in the
%king of a mill; the calculation which the mill-owner
would have to pay to the poor-rate would be in proportion
- rateable value of the mill —that not being at the
s.-Rs sometimes the case with land; but often
E!-half of the rent, as he believed was
in Westmorland. That was all which such a
person contributed. lie started his mill with an immense

at two-thirds nr on

e collec

's from t

I all th

able agricul

money, ant

retire from business, he might close his mill—it was no
longer an occupied building—it paid no rates, and the hun•
dreds, or it might be thousands, of work-people that he
had employed were thrown back in their age upon agricul-
.

)ntrast that case with the way in which it operated on the
farmer had no choice whatever, but must
y the men or increase the rates ; and he knew
t many farmers in his own part of the country em-
ployed many more labourers in consequence than the
bare economical working of his farm required." (Hear,

farmer. 'J
either emr

With perfect fairness he might have gone further
than this. He might have taken the cases of a man
who invests his capital of ten thousand pounds in
land or real property of any description, and one
who embarks it in trade or in the public securities.
The former pays poor rates upon four or five hun-
dred pounds, his entire income, whilst the latter is
only called upon to pay rates upon forty or fifty
pounds, the rent of the shop in which he carries on

his busii..less or of the house in which he enjoys his
dividends.

Another oppressive feature in the operation of the
poor laws upon the agriculturist is occasioned by
the working of the present law of settlement by
birth. The manufacturer can have his labour when
and for what period he chooses; and when it ceases
to be profitable, can throw upon parishes the neces-

ity of Sttr

_ .
arting the labourer until he is again in
eis unfettered and irresponsible. The

landowner, on the contrary, is rigidly bound, and
cannot evade his bond. The labourer can say to
him—

here I am (in the north of :'zorthumberland, perhaps,)
and how can I get there ? I have been removed here by
the law of seqlernent, and I must remain a charge upon

I have no

ney to get back to the

The law is therefore an injury both to the agri-
cultural body and to their labouring poor. It in-
creases the rates of the former, and it chains the lat-

mlsory idleness

bray rates

3e contends, press unequa

upon th

and; whilst the towns, which are thereby
connected and benefitted, escape. We cannot, how-
ever, go the length of admitting with him that the
agriculturist derives an inconsiderable benefit from
the maintenance of good roads; and do not think,
therefore, that his lordship's argument that the pre-
sent contribution of the farmer to the mainte-
nance of good reads is a grievance, has been
made out. And, again, we differ from him

the peculiar pressure of

ch he maintains has