The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-09 00:00:00

Hear, hear.) If he

Hear, and laughte

th the free-trader upon the o►►e

nister of the crown, who, upon

s satisfied to make a fixed proposi.
Lord John Russell .was, therefore,
han himself. (Hear, hear.) Lord

ae for free disZtussion, which
to the best of his ability, and

(near.) The common sense of the
t instance with himself. The objec-

o minister could propose it or
r prospect of maintaining it.

an honest question in
d. There were some

vho might have, pre
ckets across the Atlantic,
ere called liners. Now,
lose vessels, on leaving the Mersey,
amount of fixed sail, and said that,
such was the:amount of sail he in-
;truck soundings at Newfoundland,
le they were sailing down channel
eze, loud complaints would be made
they only observed the top-gallant
hen it came on to blow, what would
!n, it' thz captain persevered, there

in what

. _
a board. The sailors would immedi-
out orders, and they would have locked
~,vn cabin. (Laughter and cheers, with
is Lord John's place.") He fancied,
'le result. (Hear, hear.) If the day
perfectly intolerable, the first squall
ie sails to ribbons, and then it was a
ter Lord John was a man to be locked
(Great laughter.) He thought Lord
A bosom those whom he now repudi-
ave -n his plan of protection blown
inf I was blown' from the yard-arm

I have s

a came on. Those were the opinions of
a the working of the fixed duty, and,
his preference for a Moderate scale.
lie president of the board of trade had
ovide against this failure, and take 7s.
ien the fixed duty would disappear; and
lbserved, in reply, that then all the ob-
Lated scale would follow, and the gam-
any complaints were made. These ob-
y some gentleman, who declared that
m very easily by having orders from
her words, meant guns ready to fire
d his head above water. (Hear, and
,se orders from council were very good
they had orders from council for rain.

great laughter.) They were good in case
3, difficulty. He would submit to them in
a government he distrusted, but he thought

❑gines to be used under such circumstances
I be had alluded ; and, therefore, he could
:he inconveniences that would result from
ar, hear.) Holding as he did these views,
lv clear to the electors that he had noth-
k on the much-vilified graduated
I been called a monopolist for his
scale ; but he would remark,
be tried, he doubted, in the
tainly had not been
le of conduct pursued by her wa-
it could be so graduated as to give
He had no hope of being able to
1 this respect. But he had listened
age in the House of Commons on
rfectly applicable to questions con-
Itional liberties, and language which
elf on other occasions—the words
(Hear, hear, and

hich cer

No surrender

e did not says that the present scale was
human legislation, and there were no
mercial tariff which ought not to be sub-
avision ; on the contrary, to any opera-
was willing to give his humble abilities,
to continual and incompetent tampering
(Cheers.) He wished their commer-
nitted, not into the hands of a govern-
h its own waning existence, but to be

)se of a vigo

fable govgnment who

3ontidence of the people, and who had the
to promise any measure they deemed expe-
so with some reasonable prospect of being
nto effect. (Renewed cheers.) If any of
en addressing were tempted to submit
,n, they would doubtless object to be
ho they thought was subjeet to para-
hose hand was shaking with delirium
t they would call in a
3d vigorous, and have a surgeon who
of all his powers and abilities—such
the Bickersteths, and others of

nued lau

Hear, hear.) Still if they heard that

ultini practitioner had only in the last year
operation was of such a sort that he shrunk
I—(hear, hear)—and that it would 4, mad-

it--(hear;and laughter)—if he, only lit year
ould produce much ill-blood and a suspen-
nuity of the particles of the body7and that

be so mad, he (Lori Francis) thoUght, under
races, that their confidence would be consider
id that they would rather endure any extremity
(Hear, hear,) If the descrip-

t to the operatic
i just dr

-wn tallied with the composition of the
Sent, he knew not whether they could name a
-hose opinion they would rather resign them.
" He was almost ashamed to detain
hear, hear) ; but it
no attempted the subversion of
pposed to the practical part of our
ye this accusation in a simple man-
h id in his pocket of Sir Robert
rth. It was therein proved by Sir
, that the present corn-laws bad not
considerable advance, in tcn years,

:t of this nature—

intiofl

responding increase in our imports;
facts by the number of vessels built
intry, and the vessels employed in
1 Francis) did not say that the pre-
laws was inconsistent with general
3ommercial prosperity, and stagna-

had great do.ubts that these results

What v

s the principle

fluctuation in the price of corn.
vhether le=ser fluctuation existed
oditics. It had been remarked,

00l bad been reduced to the nominal
,ound, that in the ten or twelve years

.
e fluctuation in the price had exceeded 100
,han twice as much as any fluctuaiion in the
Lug the last ten years. He conceived. there-

&ter of doubt that the fluctuation of prices
) the operation of the corn-laws, and that
e remedied by the alteration of the
(Hear.) Then another question
iation of trade was4to be attributed
corn-laws? In 1836 he believed it
In 1838 and 1839 it might have been
ut he believed that, from the state
ld the operation of joint-stock
iiderable portion of the distress
Hear, hear.) It was not

a would

to dwell On the effects of the system in ques-
I stated the facts thus briefly in order to show
the justice of that argument which attributed
ress to the operation of the corn-laws. (Hear,
ere told at present that there was no fear of

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dent on foreigners, in case the proposed mea-
ted. Certainly such an apprehension might
a fiction ; but it was one who had frightened
his propriety ; one which had frightened
ie which had flighted Lord Melbourne, con-
iced as his nerves might be at present.. ( Hear,

now told, however; that it was an idle fear,
vould be no interruption of social relations;
iaritable their notions might be of humanity,
to their allowing themselves to depend on a
``,o% on any government, despotic, con-
erwise. lie was told that this was
y depended on others for important

necessi'

id that t

~ein—on America, for instance,
He was sorry for it. He wished
from any ill-will to America—not
-ainst her—not from any want of
:ause, if they were to depend on
:0 deal with motives and impulses
controul of ability or eloquence.
In to trust to the despotic govern-
social transactions of other coon_
had hitherto applied himself to
had been proposed by her Ma-
w not that he had any reason to
general policy of the present go-
ion as a cabinet, that the opinions
ldergone much change ; but if
hick had sent him to give
isters, had changed, all he
that he
h. nged, (Cheers, and
had not
er have we.") He bad
e
ends to the institutions th eyloved—friends
ins in church and state—opponents of the

!Ct tO tt

county

em, he believed, not disinclined to a surpiuslll
(Hear, hear,) And with respect to the present
in the revenue, he had heard with astonishment a
Leman at Wigan say that he looked upon that de-