The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-27 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

the new judge is not likely to
this heinz what is Called the

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og vacation. The courts of law will not sit until the first
iy of Michaelmas Term, the 2d of November. and no doubt,
or before that day. all the arranzement swill be complete.
Ratepayer" wishes us to direct the attention of the Wallasey
)mmissioners to the state or the. roads between Liscard and
-allasey Church, and also ahout,SeaFornbe. According to his

is they are in a wotul p

d to Early Closing" was received too late,

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7Libtrpool &tanDatt,

TUESDAY MORNING,

OCT. 27, 1846

3lancheste

a fortnight ago, pro-

ised its readers to pro
-oposition, advanced by

_
e the converse of the
the Chamber of Corn-

Kingston, Jamaica, that the colonies of
tain have been, and are the basis of her
;th. We have waited
a of this bold promise

cal and commercial str,
patience for the realiza

and we now have it before us

r conternporan,
3 Wedne

_
sday's publication.
The positions taken up by our colonial brethren,
hid' the Guardian had to controvert, are thus

mmed up by themselves

The value of the colooies to Great Britain may be
estimated by considering them,—

As constituting naval stations and military posts

part of the

As coo

tributing to maintain her naval supre-

4'3rd. As affording employr

t to her artisans and

nanufacturors, througii their own consumption, and

neans they afford for promoting the sale of
ish goods to the foreign nations in their vicinity, espe-

during a period of war

nr.l abund

4th. As the means by which the people of England
,antly supplied, as well with
..,uessity as with those considered less
vet contributing greatly to the comfort and hap-

ace been regular:

.cticles of the first r

sso-f a people

" sth. As preserving the British people, by such supply,
from either depending wholly on foreigners for articles
even of the first necessity, to obtain which they might
eventually have to give gold, or be compelled to dispense
with them, and consequently with those other articles
which contribute to the comfort and happiness of mln.
The list might be almost indefinitely extended, but
that it is unnecessary, since the advantages derivable to
Great Britain through her colonies a

mind must be obtus

so palpable, that
indeed that does not perceive it
to preserve her colonies, to

) be as much her interes

trish their industry in order to incr

s to th

of their capabi
to c

mse their produc-
s, as it is to the
that parental fos.

t of the colonists

We shall first deal with the proposition that our
' )Iles have been the source of our greatness as a
Guardian pointedly denies and at-
But how ? precisely by such

on, which the

an adroit attempt at evasion as w mig
pected from such an adversary ; by the suppression,
in fact, of the main point, in his opponent's case.

ht have ex-

he Kingston Board of Trade state, as their first
roposition, that the colonies are valuable—" First,
s constituting naval stations and military posts in
eery part of the globe." The Guardian, in the
rhole of his article, never once refers to this very

enai qu

stun ;

and in his own summary of the