The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-01 00:00:00

imical to our ;el,

,untry ; the protectionist
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Imported from England, and ultimately increase the im-
wn may be obtained from, portation of finer ones, urge with force the example of
, by means of additional the United States, and say, that to their wise, protective
to neighbourhood of the policy, their almost unparallelled prosperity
is mainly
us to be obtained is unob- owing. I will defer till these resolutions be passed through
be got without permanent committee, any speculation of the effects they will be
Is in the district likely to produce on England.
; and that m6..T......---.- ~, •

we alread

t addition to the supply
I. Their report further
igton Pike scheme the

are very seriously under interest
ks required, instead of princir,
on, will cost close upon a Quebec
and that, even with this immense nutlnv Varir

evening, move a series of resolutions relative to railroads,
to the effect that railroads are necessary, and that in
newly-settled counties where capital is scarce, govern-
ment assistance may safely be given for their construction
in certain cases, by granting land and guaranteeing the
These resolutions are to be brought forward
ly with a view to afford assistance to the proposed
Halifax railroad.
'-er measures, chiefly of local have

that the v

under half E

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according to the pan,- ..1 plans, the town passed through the legislature, and there is little else ne
We have had for some days past most beautiful weathei
will he exposed in average seasons to
succession
which
_has.brukeu up the ice of the St. Lawrence ; and.we
toppages of supply, and, in the event of El are living in daily expectation of cholera. and the opening
'isually dry seasons, to positive drought, of the navigation.
-'erring of penalties for withholding Sir James Graham, in his much lauded speech
-..ious works and towns alon' eal of the Navigation Laws Bill, enunci-
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he inc

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- I the retention of the Canadas by this country.
Lis per day additional is cannot discover a sentence in the news which have
+o t tof the Rivington project, reached this country by the packet of yesterday,
► The whole outlay re- indicating the fact that the Canadian people attach
li ander £300,000, against the slightest interest to the question of the Navi-
nearly a mli— l',,g; and the annual revenue gation Laws. We do indeed find a repudiation on
required for the local supply, at £35,000, against the part of the American government, of the asser-
£6s,ooo, the annual cost of Mr. Hawkslay's pro- tion of Mr. Labouchere, so pompously put forward
posed scheme. There are, moreover, contingencies by that gentleman in introducing the bill, now
connected with th- rather fearful to contem- before the legislature, that the United States
plate, in the -'3ape of compensations to millowners government were disposed to meet us in our pro-
and others, which in some years would tell very posed concessions. They offered, through their
'rests and the pockets of charge d'affaires, nothing which had not been
offered years ago ; and the proposed opening of
the coasting trade of the two countries had never
been mooted at all. So much for modern official

on the rer
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the sc

ame proposed by the reporting engineer
h ten million gall

to be di