The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-03-20 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

'e received yesterday a spiritedly written letter from "An
Old Shipwright," urging his brother freemen to get up a
requisition to the Mayor, to call a public meeting on the sub-
ject of the recent votes by our borough members on the Na-
vigation Laws. The proposition deserves grave consideration,
and ought to be warmly responded to. It would tell, as the
hest meeting did, most emphatically, not only on the town,
but on the whole kingdom.
'.ex" will find every convenience at the Baths at George's
r, where the accommodations are elegant, and all the
sr arrangements complete.
`A Lover of Justice" expect us to insert his letter
ieing furnished with his name. We could almost
" drunk and disorderly" cases, were
and we are not aware that there was any-
peculiar in the case alluded to.

How can '
without 1

o report then:

Ebr Eilitrpool &taitharb.

TUESDAY MORNING,

MARCH 20, 1849

A tremendous reaction against free trade, and that in little
more than one month after the full hopes of the league have
been realised ! Short-lived triumph I Such is the boast of the
protectionists. Such was the language uttered by many of the
members who sit in the centre of the opposition benches, led
by the triumvirate of Herries, Disraeli, and Granby, assisted
by Bankes and Henley, as they rushed from the House of Com •
mons, at one o'clock on Tuesday morning. The yells were
by of the palmiest days of protection, when Mr. Villiers
-4 4- motions negatived by three to one. Nor
there was much cause for such exultation.
iavigation laws was sanctioned

ago, the repeat
House of Commons
tubers :—nn llf

jority of 117, in a house of
ay night, the second reading of the
sanctioned by a majority of only 56, in a house
That this points to a reaction,— a grave re-
' Nay, moreover, that it points to
established during the last seven
s town made such extraordi-
-cannot be doubted."

3 members. 'I
n,—cannot be
er to the whole
6—for the sak
sacrifices of tii

fanchester Guardian, with a
eshing. Our contem-
on," and his " danger
during the last seven

r which is (
sees h

to ref

to the whole poll

rave reactic
established

for the first time, apparently, in the recent
,ion upon the bill for the repeal of the Naviga-
...in Laws. Those who have an opportunity of
testing public opinion have been aware of the reac-
tion spoken of months ago. And not without rea-
son has it taken place. The free-trade policy has
, •

itself a failure. The flattering
'hich Manchester
ifices of time and
the -world to believe, have
We look in vain for evi-
ce in the pockets of the public

ordinary sac:

ney,"

been one and all broclen

fence of the exist

per annum, which

according to

,sgovv, was to
Laws. We I

.or, the frae-trade member
Pected by the repeal of the
n vain for the promised

increase of our exports, for the promised increase
in the employment of our labouring classes, and

e direction of pros-
ty, which was to have been given to the enter-
whole of the community.
1; and only see in their
amercial embarrassment,
workinff masses.

le universal i

;e and industry of th

We look in vain for these

home demaid for all
in the ruin of thousands
s. and shopkeepers, the
be benefitted by the suc-
may justly be called that
1. Is it at all unnatural,
!s, that there should be
our contemporary_; that

le to be htirried- further
hus far produced such

to entertain the

ide to them to prc
less, a sort of confessic
mething further to bolst

stand by itself, much less
until every interest in the

a one wide ruin to

of be led away wi

th the

he spea

s, Is cor-

the great failing off ir.