The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-27 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

yesterday has crowded out a great mass

well written

of a scene in play-house square."
We have not bad time to read the lines by " Cigar."
We are sorry we could not find room for the temperate letter
Fie must tYar in mind, however, that the
rai-ed by a pap:r extremely
itch has supported its claims
r. We may insert the letter

objection to which he reter'
favourable to the Alliance, and
With no ordinary zeal and pa

tn our next

r information on the subject

ire inserting it

for the Pontoons
Correspondent w

cninmunic ti n respecting the cGraracts
the landingstage at George's Dock. Our
gives his name. s ors that he fears the

many tle,erving parties from
Diler-makers of this town are

estim •t

whole. ai
are most

e capable of executing the
y laree amount of security,
,bin building. He expresses

to emit

wi 1 relax the conditions, so as
en, who can execute a part of
At all events he hopes the

The revenue

rived here.
To show the
the Dock
moment sufi

be expended here

tension contemplated by
'ye that we have at this

,rb the entire doi

dation. of

rid in course of formation.
US this very day vr.ll afford

Te Mercury tal

liable to a criminal prosecu-
d paper. the Queen's Speech,
se iris an article of news. If
ist daily subjects himself to
necision, we beg to ask him
amped paper, of the iteturo
he issues annually, is not a
clear and highly penal" clauses

for gratuitous dist: thution
this be so, our conteropora

.ke of v

of the Mu
greater

a ,imilar publication of her Majes'y's
temporary's legal knowledge be sound,
'e lists. and commercial circulars, nay,
sds, are infringements of the Stamp

the Town

lumny about the servants at
wages lowered. and as the old
dte without a fire. we may as
C4ll by possibility exist for
le best authority not that of

such a pitifu'
the Mayor, f
ject, hut our

worship on the sub.

it the Mercury would
statements of our contemporary
13 e are informed that,
f the Mayor, a member
ded, in the presence of
reduction ; but his worship
d of the circumstance,

are untrue from hegioning eu

rue at any such intimation

te. Our con'
ient to have

y must know, if he will

. .
fair play for once, that he has
t our statement contains the truth,

been mis of
the whole t
By some over

ut the truth

tted to correct an error which has
secutively, and which completely
ell written address of Mr. Briscoe,
e found corrected today.

fthew

artip thpriinni

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TUESDAY MO

27, 1846

The question which has so long agitated men's
minds is now solved. Although we know not the
precise details of the measure, we know sufficiently
well that Sir Robert Peel's Conservative Govern-
ment—a Government raised to power for the ex-
press object of supporting the principle of protec-
tion, as applied boi h to native industry and to the
Established Church of the land—is about to repeal
the Corn-laws, and to succumb to the agitation, of
which Mr. Cobden is the leader, and of which Sir
:Robert Peel is about to become the humble fol-
lower. The principle of protection is now gone.
It is trampled beneath the feet of the Anti-Corn-law
League. Another generation may marvel to learn
that the statesman who, in 1840, denounced the
proposition of a fixed duty of Bs. per quarter on
foreign grain, and, on the strength of that denun-

chief place in the Govern-