The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-01 00:00:00

g upon it the
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burthen of paying, by means of a system of direct

taxation, the national creditor and the

pen diture

)f the army, the navy, and the Government

Probably the carrying out of this polic
ultra point is only a question of time. We believe
sincerely that such is the case. Already there are
in parliament and in the country men prepared to

to its

advocate, and to
Well becomes ti

gitate for

,doption; and it

constituencies, in determining
upon the course they are to pursue in the approach-
ing general election, to ask themselves how far the
country is prepared to undergo a change of its
policy so vast and so utterly revolutionary. Are
they prepared to confide the interests of the coun-

try to the keeping of men so rash and so impetu-
ous in pursuing theirfavourite dogmas and theories?

We ask this qu' estior

We hear

parties saying

there be between a Conservative, who has supported
the repeal of the Corn Laws, and a Whig-Radical,

consistent and honest man

there between the Conservative who has given a
hesitating support to measures of an injurious ten-

dency towardi the Protestantism of the empire,
and the Papist or Infidel, except that the latter has
betrayed no trust, and was an open enemy ?
Hence, we will take no part in the coming election
or, if we do, it will be to read a lesson of political
and religious apostacy." Undoubtedly such par-
ties have colourable, and even sound, reason on
their side, If the fate of an empire were not at
stake, we might gratify our feelings of just indig-
nation by refusing to sanction, by any movement
in their behalf, the claims of men who have
deceived us by their past conduct upon any ques-
tion, regarded by us as of vital import, or involv-
ing a great principle. But the fate of the Empire
is st stake, and that fate must be materially in-
fluenced by the eomposition of the next Parliament.
Great Britain and her Institutions are placed upon
the acclivity of a precipice ; and it depends upon
the strength of the retarding power to decide
whether the descent is to be gradual, and perhaps
an innocuous one, or it is to be a rapid ftdl and a
crash, destructive to all that is valuable connected
with them. At such a crisis, to stand by in sullen
indifference is to precipitate that fall and its ac-
companying destruction.

Yet in t;;;)lWaniCO;;iituencies we find conserva-
tives judging as they would not be judged—hastily
—and condemning as they would not be con-
demned—harshly and vindictively—for past errors
of omission or commission, men who upon the
majority of the questions now unsolved by the
legislature agree with them ; men sincerely attached
to their country, and earnestly desirous of advanc-
ing its honour, and promoting the religious and
social welfare of the people. Men of all sides of
political opinion are to be found einbued with this
rash and suicidal spirit. The Conservative Pro-
testant will risk the return of an enemy of the
Protestant Institutions of the land, rather than

What difference can I known and admitted,

the market

both at home and abroad.
occasions the Bangor slate receives a decided preference in
Situate between the Penhyrn Quarry and
port of Bangor, and within a very few miles of each,
•"--,drainiog. We have lately referred to this
~rticulars respecting it, which

On all

renders it almost unnecessary to say more at present,
than simply to state that a company is formed for carrying
on the tvoikings, and we have heard will soon have about
200 men at work, making slate—there being 80,000 tons
uncovered, and the " plant" in readiness to commence
operations. They estimate a return of 20 per cent. per
annum on their capital of £40,000. Upwards of 60 ves-
sels were lately lying at one time in the port of Bangor,
waiting to load with slate from the quarries in that part
of the country—some of which had been detained there
several months, and amongst them were few large
American vessels. this does not only apply to Bangor,
-t also afr—L- 's in Wai---

—ects other por —es—such as ports
Dinorweg and Madoc, in the vicinity of which are the
quarries of Mr. Asheton Smith, as well as those in the
neighbourhood of Carnarvon, the Celgwyn, and others,
or the Festiniog district. We may also mention the
Merfonethshire Slate Company, which commenced work-
ing their quarries last October, and paid a dividend of
five per cent. upon the paid up capital, out of the profits
of the first three months. In Cornwall, there is the
Combe Valley, to work which a company has lately been
formed, and which progresses very satisfactorily—in
proof of which, we refer to the reports which periodically
appear in our journal. Our review, brief as it is, would
be incomplete, if we omitted to mention' the Old Dela-
bole Slate Company—the £25 shares of which are now
at £5O per share, or £25 premium ; and we believe that,
after June, a dividend of £4O per cent. is expected to be
paid. Mining Journal.
TAEATRE-ROYAL ADELPIII.—Mr. Alfred Ormonde
makes his first appearance this evening, in his own comedy
of " Clermont, or the Wife of an Artist." On Thursday
he sustains the character of Shylock, and Saturday even-
ing is devoted to his benefit, on which occasion he will
perform Othello. Mr. Ormonde has, since his quitting
Liverpool, had the honour of giving an entertainment at
the Royal Palace,by command of their Majesties the
King and Queen f the Belgians, by whom he was highly
complimented.
SHOWER BATHS.—There can be nothing at this season of
the year more beneficial to health than a bath ; and the most
efficacious of the class is a shower bath. Our Corporation,
with a view to the improvement of the sanatory condition of
the town, have established baths ; but they are completely out-
stripped by our towhsman, Mr. Higgs, of Lord-street, who
actually provides a bath with curtains, all complete, and iu
every way suited to any dwelling, at the insignificant price of
half a guinea. A bath of this class will last for years, and
being ornamental as well as useful,. should by all housekeepers
be cQr.sidered as a necessary portion of furniture.