The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-09 00:00:00

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE•

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The Bishop of Llandaff is better.
The Rev. A. P. Stanley has declined the De°
Carlisle.
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The Bishop of Chester will, it is said, succeed el. (I
Bishop of Norwich as clerk of the closet to the Quo ell
The Bishop of Victoria will sail for China about
of the month, in the ship Sir George Pollock. ,fic,lloe4tn
On Saturday, the 29th of September, (St. .fhileti
day,) the first stone of a new church, to bebi,e Fed
Thomas. was laid in the Leyland's district, in '',"„eoo,o
of Leeds. The church is to be erected at the e',,`DoPLid
Matthew John Rhodes, Esq., assisted by dorlanter„),
the Diocesan Church Building Society, Mr. ItooPr,
is the architect. It is designed to be a red briCAftef.y
THE WEALTHY (?) ESTA BLISHMENT.--Tbe
Studdert has resigned the living of Corofint ant.
county. It appears that the income only 11133 N ro
£l6O, three-fourths of which has been absorb p
rates, and the remaining £4O was not found Su 40
defray other public expenses connected with the:Po t
ment—thus leaving the rev. gentleman actuallYhlo beep
nothing to live upon. Another clergyinaum-
offered this preferment, but begged to decline ""e
Clare Journal.

POLITICAL MISCELLANYff,
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Mr. Richard Cobden. Sir Joshua Walmsleit Greg
Williams had an interview with Sir George 001
Tuesday. off
The Conservatives have succeeded in striking sttriej,
200 voters from South Cheshire. Mr. Peacock ceslope
on behalf of the Conservatives, and for loon_,lY "000
attended this registration court, and on each otr.tiolnk
the greatest service to the interests of the Prow-vOO,
THE CORN DUTIES AND THE FARMERS. '";4 14#
to 1845 the duty on foreign corn was regoltd pe(
Robert Peel's amended sliding-scale as Piero, 9P" ID°
The price of corn from 1842 to 1849 averageo';;(ooo:
qr., and the duty 18s. These figures at once tbei
notion that under a system of protective dutiOuetStr,
lish landowner and farmer between them Pet Ong
whole amount of the duty imposed on grain. 009"
admitted by the most ardent supporter of free.,349.
English-grown corn could not have been a sbif ote,
per qr. which is all our farmers would have 0.160.1"01
tire difference of the duty, viz., 18s., had twv,lier,roir,
clear bonus to them. Do not these figures ,rlltecO°ot;
what has been so frequently advanced by the r1",,0cl OP
—that the abolition of the duties on corn I_lietsV
considerable part of those duties into the PT:7O
foreigner and the importer ? When there was
duty of 18s. per qr. on foreign grain, foreign.4o r
neveretheless imported, thus prouing that theoli
be brought into this country and sold at a P"..,c010t,,i
94d. per qr., the 18s. duty making up the Ph-eso fi
94d. What then is the fair inference from Imtheir
Why, that they could from 1842 to 1845 seo,4, 944
to this country and sell it in our market for °?„,. ,04
doing so now, and are thus pocketing the on.rer-fori
per qr. difference between that price and the tr, tjlo; Fib
in England last week ! Is the system which to 1j0,,,i
our revenue of the foreigner's fair contribution or vte
imposes it upon our native industry either wei7l4. lioTo
Is it fair that the foreigner should be permit.gotitiVae
his commodity into our market and undere-dati,"
produce without being subject to any tax 0r,,,t0e0
the British labourers, mechanics, artisans, far or r
chants, and traders cannot pursue their crafty?"
without paying heavy and onerous fiscal bade'
caster Chronicle.
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„ BES ;Ise I
1 DEATH OF ONE OF THE BOSJESMEN
PLE. -On Sunday week a curious funeral Wesbibl,
Hyde. For some days past there has been onevoisre
this locality a number of Bush people, and it f;r, Pg,.
during their stay at Hyde one of their nu. Ti. 11,407
named Fanny Bush, has died of consurePtietticoo Poofi;ii
ral was most respectably conducted. seriPhely
Placed over the grave with the following,le the woe
" Sacred to the memory of Fanny Bu born oof 1.1?
child of Simon and Gaikin, Bush peoPle, e j.
day of August, 1846, on board the brig Flll2_oooo/ o•
pool, Captain Wheeler, on their voyage f° day
died of consumption, at Hyde, on the 2910
teriter, 1849."

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