The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-14 00:00:00

be aware, when writing on the subject, that
y too often the case, that parents send their
: at factories while they remain idle them-
unhesitatingly declare, that the demand for
is a frightful evil, both in a temporal and
F view, and one much to be deplored..

ing ourselves dependant upon foreign

anticipate the indisposition of
is. As we wish to get their corn
likewise wish to get our goods be-
If their surplus population can be
fed on land than in manufactures,
rofitably employed in manufactures
11 we as eager for the change as we."
at may seem very plausible, but it is
rand, that if we are to throw our land
I, we become in a much greater degree
ndent upon foreigners; and common
to see, that being in that dependent
pore likely to 'raise their prices, know-
, or starve; then the notion of cheap
shes, and we become, as 1 hear John
le, the dupe of foreigners. Yon also
dactories as if it were the work of yes-
fact is they have for many years past
d advances in manufacturing ; and it
are than altering our corn-laws to put
uld they give up manufacturing if it is
I this they have found it to be. Our
iges lowered, as the case now stands ;
goods lower, in order to compete
1 require to lower their wages again.
--" It has been said, that it is
.nd to be dependent upon other nations
the idea of independence appears to me
, to insist upon the fact, that under the
there is occasionally such a demand for
m the inadequate supply at home, that the
i corn for home consumption, during the

to say

nounted to 2,681,390 quarters, for which- the
forced the country to pay in bullion • let us
that we are not now, and cannot be indepen-
pi countries." As to the sliding scale forcing
pay in bullion, that is another of your un-

ions. And on the other point your argument
notion of our becoming more dependent upon
---‘r luminous one, although I
or our liberal legislative lumi-
iurself, namely, that we are partly
,rs for corn now ; therefore, our de-
.dent is chimerical. Coleridge has so
,f upon this point, that I must give his
which I will take the liberty of viewing
d of more value than the pseudo-liberal
-'it day.

land may safely depend upon
if it grew none, or an insufficient
get that they are subjugating the
_ f, to the mere luxuries or comforts
t certain that the price of corn abroad
is as soon as it is once known that we
Len that fact is known, in what sort of

;we be? . Besides this, the argument sup-
ulture is not i positive good to the nation,
itself 'as a mode of existence for the peo-
Fosition is false and Pernicious ; and if we
a great horde of manufacturers. shall we

than at present, excite the ill-will of all the
of other nations ? It has been already
!nee which is before all the world, that some
:urers have acted upon the accursed princi-
,qy injuring foreign manufacturers, if they
E.. ultimate disgrace of the country and loss

yen at the risk of using too long a quota-
r from Coleridge, it is so sound and yalua-

itted that tbe great principles of commerce
erchange of commodities to be free; but
is barter, has no proper range beyond
:niences • it is properly the complempnt to
T and development of a state. But bow
:hat the principles applicable to an inter-
eniences or luxuries apply also to an inter-
.ssaries ? No state can be such properly,
.If-subsistent at least ; for no state that is
ially independent. The nation that cannot
Lout the commodity of another nation, is in
E.. of that other nation. In common times,
iary'interest will prevail, and prevent a ruin-
of the power which the nation supplying the
ust have over the nation which has only the
or luxury to return ; but such interest, both
duals and nations, will yield to many stranger pas-
Is Holland any authority to the contrary ? If so,
rid Sidon, and Carthage were so ! Would you put
ioting with a country which can be overrun
and starved in a year ?"
L a state of things could never come to pass
s, which a reference to a clause in one of
passed in 1578, 13 Elizabeth, c. 13, will
e enacted that " for the better increase of
__Aintenance and increase of the navy and
realm," corn might be exported at all times
ries when proclamation was not made to
egret that I have not been able to conclude
nit there are several important points in
considered, with which I will con-

that such

eg to remain, reverend Sir,
Yours respectfully,
J. C.
,er, for 2,500,000 acres uncultivated wastes,
vement, read 4,500,000 acres.

IMPORTANT CORRESPONDENCE

1g correspondence will be read with interest, as
the conduct of Mr. Nixon's subordinate in
noxious seal to the return of the Fermanagh
simply the act of an isolated person who al-

Le hurried away with the engrossing ex-
y-fought contest. Much more import-

i it deserved has been attached to this piece of indi-
liscretion, but it has called forth an assurance of the

ich there at least exists amongst all persuasions

CROM CASTLE, Sept. 6.
In consequence of the manner in which you have
acked during the last debates in the House of Com-

allusion to a certain offensive seal which has been
) the return of the members for the county of Far-
is lieutenant of this county, considered it my
t the earliest moment, for the par-
ry an opportunity of disconnecting
from the conduct of the individual
caused the stigma to be cast upon us.
easure in forwarding to you a copy of the
all the principal gentry at present in the
_ye of their disapprobation of such conduct,
It-offered to the feelings of the Roman Catho-
se sent copies to each of our members, in
hat use of them they may think

call a meetin

ocument will remove from your mind any
the gentlemen and landed proprietors of this
Lble of fostering the feelings imputed to them,
by such unworthy and uncharitable actions
principles you advocate.-1 have the honour
humble servant,

JOHN CRlGHTON:Lieutenant of Fermanagh
ht Hon. Sir Robert Peel, &c.

ISKILLEN COURT-TIOUSE, Sept. 4.
ce of a correspondence having appeared in
.on of our county papers, and our attention
ae report of a speech said to have been made
Sir Robert Peel, alluding to certain eircum-
r the conduct of our High-Sheriff in the re-
of our county members, in which the right hon.
rtes he has been asked whether he intended to
ith parties who have offered a deep insult to the
s feelings of their countrymen, &c
t '

_e earliest opportunity, at a meeting convened
Lieutenant of the county of Fermanagh, of entering

pr

in cendemnation of an offensive seal
,en affixed to the return of the writ, as disavowed
ate High-Sheriff; and we toially disconnect our-
ith the person or persons who could be guilty of any
th could impair the kindly feelings that up to the
eriod have so happily existed in Fermanagh between
If her Majesty'a subjects ; and we feel it right to
no part Of the empire does greater tranquillity
obedience to the law exist than in our loyal

9-six of the most influential inhabitants of

" WnrrnALL, S 9, 1811.
—asten to acknowledge the letterept. which I have
from you, nononr of receivingandui,3eilf of the document
companies it, expressing,
on
of the principal
Fermanagh at present in the county, their marked
attention
wound the has been
ttention
tion of an act to which
public
led, and which was calculated
feel-
toman Catholic fellow-subjects.
'on that this document was unnecessary with a
e from my mind an impression unfavourable
otnrtain
rable
m which it proceeds. I could not n
'le gentlemen of Fermanagh would
deeply
1v disapprove of the act in question.
c document may he superfluous for the
'9l. which it was intended, I have received
'ion the conimunication which you have

n ceting of the gentlemen of
.1f as lieutenant of the county,
those of which you have been the organ
~eti expressed, so calculated to discourage
:land provoking and irritating demonstrations
feeling and to remove the causes of dissension and

vened by yours

lieu you have adopted is calculated to
confi►lence to the Government which it has
urm. in obedience to the commands of her

duty to f

_, _hat the course which I have firmly re-
I to pursue with respect to the administration of Irish
will meet with the cordial support of those whose
ily co-operation is almost essential to its success.