The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-12 00:00:00

AN APOSTATE CHASTISED.

In the House of Commons, on Friday evening, Lord
G. Bentinck thus referred to some passag,s in a previous
speech of Lord Lincoln :—_ _ _ _

"The Secretary at War had taunted them by saying,
that notwithstanding the fears which were said to exist in
reference to this change, there were no county meetings.
He should have thought that, seated as the right hon.
gentleman was by the side of his noble friend the Secre-
tary for Ireland, that ivould have been a delicate subject.
(A laugh.) There was no man knew better than his noble,
friend what were the views of the counties on this subject.
There was everything in the character his noble friend
to gain for him that respect and confidence which in pri-
vate life every man entertained for him ; and not only his
private but his public life well entitled laim to be almost
the master of Northamptonshire; and there was not 2
man in that county who was not prood to follow him.
(bear.) But had there not been an election for South
Nottinghamshire? (Hear.) Who gained that election?
Was it not the tenant farmers? (Hear.) All the pei-
sonal regard felt in Nottinghamshire f,,r his noble friend,
all the money spent in Nottinghamshire by his noble
friend (' Hear, hear,' from the Earl of Lincoln) had been
of no avail to him (*. Hear, hear,' from the Earl of Lin-
coln) He did not mean to charge his noble friend with
bribers. (' Hear, hear,' from the Earl of Lincoln); but did
the noble lord mean to deny that it was a most expensive
election ? ('Hear, and a laugh.)
"The Earl of Lincoln.— By the rules of the house I am
not allowed to speak ; but 1 have a full answer to the
noble lord.

" Lord G. Bentinck resumed by dying he had no doubt
that the house would indulge his noble friend, and allow
him to set. himself right. He was sure the house would
indulge his noble friend. (Hear, h-ar.) But did not every-
body know that every agent in Nottinghamshire was en.
gaged for his noble friend? (Loud criei. of Hear'). Not .
tingharnshire was taken by surprise ; hot, notwi•hstanding,
the tenant-farmers of Nottinghamshire carried the county
against his noble friend by a majority of GA or 700; and
were they to have set against that maj,rity a majority of
some 20 electors of Hamilton, who had swamped all the
other burghs of the district? South Nottinghamshire bad
pronounced its opinion. Had not North Nottingharnabire
done the same, and Dorsetshire too ? Who was better en-
titled to a seat in the House of Commons than Lord Ash-
ley ? (hear) and who would have had a better claim to the
suffrages of the people of Dorsetshire than the noble lord .
if Le had maintained his principles ? But Englishmen were '
true at heart—(hear)—and they hated tergiversation; they
hated broken pledges; they aid not like to be betrayed;
but when he recollected that his noble friend (the Earl of
Lincoln), at the preceding election for Sou:h Nottingham-
shire, on the hustings at Newark, congratulated the elec-
tors of Nottinghamshire that they had `refused to be ca-
joled by the latest fabrication from the workshop of Whig
trickery and delusion'—(cries of hear, hear')—and said

that ' he was glad for his country's sake that it was not
the counties only that had rejected the cry of cheap bread,
but that the cities and boroughs too had refused to be
. .

caught by the last fugitive humSug of a dying faction.'
thegita agitated
btlihce
mp
nbdi
nndi tticdtil?g
tVit'hase
mi t they
cheap bread was a fallacy, a fraud, and a delusion on the
(Loud cries of ' hear, hear.') Was it the protectionist
whoprt
whoad drilledh ad
a
country ? or was it surprising that Englishmen, having
stable minds, and having a regard for consistency, re.-
pudiated the noble lord, and all those who resembled him ;
that they refused to receive for representatives those who-
-he did not mean the term in an offensive sense, and he
thought he might use it, as it was used at Falkirk—did
not shrink to be turn.ccats at the beck of her Majesty's,
Prime Minister. The people of England had that aver.
sion to political vaccination and political inconsistency,
or tergiversation that, as Burke, he tln it vas said,
`They thought that a wan to he fit to be the representative
of a great constituency should be a man of stable mind,
(a laugh) fit to be a pillar of the state, and not, like the
weathercock at the top of the edifice. only fit to show by
his versatility the last shifting of the passing gale.'"
(Great cheering )
The noble secretary's "full answer," coucbed in very
passionate language, was merely a challenge to Lord
George to try the experiment of an action against him for
bribery.

_
TUE STRIKES IN ifIRMINGHAM.—There are now about
three thousand men out on strike in Birmingham, with-
out the slightest prospect of a speedy and agreeable set-
tlement
of differences. Since the present strikes com-
menced in Birmingham, it is calculated that the workmen
have lost in wages £15,000.
The public baths and wash.houses at Glasshouse-yard;
near the London Docks, have been open about 11 months,
for the use of the very poor; and though the accom-
modations there are so limited, that sometimes nearly
200 applicants have of necessity been refused admittance
in the course of a single week, 25,123 persons have
bathed, and 31,882 persons have washed 235,814 articles
there during that period.
different dock establishments in the port of Loudon on
Thirty-seven vessels arrived in the river Thames and
Friday. and reported at the Custom-house from different
Texts of the globe, four of which were from China direct,
with cargoes of teas, six from the East Indies of heavy
tonnage, and several others from the Wtst Indies ~and.
different places in that distant quarter.
IMPROVEMENTS.—We understand that the tenants or
all the houses in Dale-street, from the corner of North
John-street to Princes-street, are under notice to deliver
up immediate possession; and that, on possession being
given up, those premises, which are old and diiapidated,
will he taken down, so far back as Mr. Rice's warehouse
in North John-street, and that a magnificent suite of
offices will be erected in their stead, for the use and occu-
pation of the Royal Insurance Fire and Life Company.
A very great improvement will thus be effected.
VERY CONSIDERATE AND CONSOLING.—A young fe,
male upon the verge of Hymen received the other day a
communication from her future lord and master, inform..
ing her—not that he bad bought the wedt!ing ring, or
taken a house, or furnished it, or provided trinkets fog
the happy occasion—these would have been only ordinary
attentions, and oar swain was resolved to be more than
ordinary in the nature of his preparations for the coming
event and for its contingencies. Perhaps he had insured
his life ? No, he hadn't. He had been more considerate.
still. lie had enrolled his future wife in a burial club!
EarnEZZLEMENT.—A respectably-dressed man, named
Benjamin Martin, was yesterday charged before the ma-
gistrates at the Police-court, with embezzling the sum of
£6 ss. 7d., the property of his employer. It appeared.
that the prisoner had for a considerable time been in the
service, as warehouseman, of Mr. Forshew, an estate
agent, who has business premises in Frederick-street.
Me. F. had occasional deal;ngs with Messrs. Etches and
Wilson, of Prices-street, and had lately sold them some
bay. On Thursday, the 7th instant, the prisoner called
upon the latter gentlemen, and handed them an account
for the same, purporting to be from his employer, and
for the amount stated, which, as it was considered due,
was immediately paid to him. The prisoner having after-
wards left his employment, the receipt of the money be,
coming known, and suspicion at the same time arising
that he had gone to Manchester, Mr. Forshaw went there
on Friday last, and communicated with Inspector M`Mul-
lin, who eventually found him in a public-house in Great
Bridgewater-street. The prisoner, on being told the
Charge against him, with the usual caution, said that.
"keeping higher company than he ought w have was
the cause." The sum of £2 18s. was found upon
and be had, on an apparently new suit of clothes. lie de-:
Mined to say anything in the court, and was committed
for trial at the sessions.
Tisa WEATIIER.—During the past week, the weather
in this part of the country has been, on the whole, most
seasonable and delightful, bringing up the previous lees
way in vegetation occasioned by the cold of March and
April, which last was marked by some rather unusual
severities, Pith easterly wands. On Tuesday afternoon
a heavy rain fell, and we have since bad a few occasional
showers—all tending, with the intermediate and general
sunshine, to promote the growth of every article of land
produce, whether.of the field or garden. The favourable
change was, as a matter of course, accompanied by a
westerly wind, which is always the most kindly for thi
,
crops on this island. On Sunday forenoon, a consider-
able fall of hail took place, but was only partial in extent.
The weather has since been extremely fine and
sunny;
The country already presents, in all rural districts in till
neighbourhood, a charming flush of what may be calle
aTliehaeugriai
delicate virgin verdure. The wheatg are very forward,
forenoonof uit.
and look well. In some instances they were so rank tht4
sheep have been turned in to shorten the blade. The
spring corn is also very promising ; and we have seen
Even the tardy oak is putting
some fine-looking potatoes. In the gardens, the blossoed
waugurs
find that
weighty
on
n sruent
Sunday
ar
yn
fields
forth its leafy honours.
MIS never, we think, more forward at this season'.
experienced at Windsor, Surrey, accompanied by thundei•
and lightning, and that a lady and gentleti:an. who we/
slsil-hsltothrme hwaays:
overt ken by the storm la riding in their phaeton.
near Wingfield, were thrown out and severely injured:
tie horse htiving taken fright at tats: lightning, which was
extremely vivid and alarming.
A musical comphser being asked if he bad done any-
thing lately, replied that his last work w. 15 a composi Lion
—with hi: credit )14.

" I need not enter at any great length into the examina-
tion of the grounds on which Mr. Gladstone endeavours
to soothe the fear of injury being inflicted upon Canadian
interests by the Government measures, and to show that
that country is in a position to sustain the competition to
which she is called upon to submit the industry of her
population. With res,,ect to her corn, Mr. Gladstone
says :
" ' I have much satisfaction in reflecting, that if Canada
will have to enter into competition with the western states
of America, and engage in this rivalry when no longer
covered by any protective duty, at least she will not be
called on to make the effort without some advantage on
her side. Among them I reckon light taxation ; the assis-
tance she has received froth British credit and funds in
.the construction and improvement of her internal commu-
nications; her more regular and steady course of trade
with this country; her low tariff, so favourable to impor-
tation, and, on that account, so powerfully tending to en-
courage her reciprocal commerce outwards ; some advan-
tage in point of proximity, as compared with the most
westerly states of the Union, which are also her most for-
midable rivals in cheapness of production: and, lastly,
the means of carriage, without transhipment, by the St.
Lawrence, which cannot he had by the Erie Canal. She
will likewise have this in her favour, that her corn trade
will have become a settled one of some standing, with all
its arrangements made and in full operation, while any
regular commerce in that article with the United States
must be a new creation, and must go through the pro-
ce-ses attending its self• adjustment to processes as yet
untried.

with us."
" Who is this same Interpreter ?" asked Scapegrace.
"Interpreter," answered Stagman, "is a stockbroker,
who knoweth all the ups and downs of the place, the
abodes of sellers and customers, and the booths where the
best bargains are to be had. He bath his living by di-
recting travellers through the Fair, and showing them
where to buy and sell to good purpose. For a small con-
sideration he will go along with us, and help us in this
bu-iness."
But Scapegrace, who had waxed foolhardy, replied—
" Not so, friend Stagman. I fear not 1 shall find my way
easily enough through the Fair, and bring my bogs to a
good market without him, and save my money at the same
time. Already, methinks, I feel the burden at my back
lighter. Let us push on, I beseech thee, to our journey's
end."
" Neighbour Scapegrace," said Stagman, " thou art
somewhat rash in this matter, for Interpreter's fee is but
a trifle; and I can tell thee, that if by mischance thou
shouldst come to lose thy way in the Fair, ttiou mayst
chance to be very roughly handled. There is always a
scum of villains there on the outlook to decoy strangers,
and, if they will not consent to be cheated, to flout and
mock them with jibes and scurril jests. 'Twas but the
other day they put Truepenny into the STOCKS, and kept
him there till he thought he should. never get. out again;
and he only did get out by parting with all the ready
money he had. I pray thee, neighbour, take warning,
and be advised."
As he spake, behold a third man came towards them
from behind, and shortly overtook them.
" Whither so fast, neighbours ?" said he.
" Nay, Mr. Littlefaith," we be all journeying, as I take
7 I it, the same road. We are bound for Vanity Fair, and
se our foreign trade. In 1841 we eltnnrto;l I atirantoov.e ~,a v th,,l .fil,. 17.11. d .C',./... ,;... iA. -----.-J
yi from that little bundle which I see in thy hand, it should
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1,519, a seem thou art on the same errand. Is it not so ?"
"It is even so," said Littlefaitb. " I would fain turn
tip to
1,643 yet a penny, like other men. Men say, in our village of
Loveeain, that my neighbours, Plausible, and Saveall, and
. i 'cress Worldly-Wiseman, by their dealings at the fair have made
• did rive a mint of money ; and so would Obstinate, too, for that
1 ]S43? matter, if lie had not asked too much fur his wares, and
sive rnig so lost his market, and returned as lie went. More fool
i.. 1 rim he! 1 shall take the first good offer I get, I promise
it of the you."
t to meet " Well, now," said Scapegrace, joining in their talk,
Jock of I " since Littlefaith is going along with us to the Fair,
fur her surely we can do without Interpreter. Come, pluck up a
Fr, e 'I i good heart, and let us be jogging."
!mend fo Then Stagman shook his head, and said nothing; but
I tendeet the three continued to walk on.
aces into After a time said Stagman—" Since thou will not take
have red Interpreter with thee, there is brit one further advice
shall ha which I can give. Not far from Vanity Fair, dwelleth a
aculi Ist al certain man called PREMIUM ; but his house is not easily
'Mt. ' it s found, for he liveth next door to Discount, and marry
all expel strangers, thinking to find the one, have landed at the
of art,ch door of the other. In truth, it is said there is a passage
to unequ between their dwellings, and that the two play into each
ill have t other's hands; for oftentimes, when Premium see'th visi -
rown an C tors coming, and liketh not their look—for he is a shy
r market, man, and easily friehtened—he will disappear of a sudden,
turtrig die and send Discount to open the door to them, and to say
antelld for ti r
Ft he has gone out, and won't be home for a fortnight. This
know wh- man Premium is almost always to be found hankering
about the Fair; and so long as thou carist keep close upon
utieulaiiei him, thou art sure to go right. Follow in the direction
14 district he goeth : he will guide thee to a goad customer; but
now, from having made thy market, bestir thytelf, and go thy way
the Secret quickly, lest evil overtake thee. But take care thou lose
sar it was int, not sight of the man, for he often vanisheth when least
expected ; and shouldst thou fall into the hands of his
neighbour, who is ever close behind him, then went thou
.nee viie niece years Oxen] upon for the continuance of I utterly undone."
reed th ~., t- '-“A'l',, ,st. . •,,..... ! .1... „ ,: • .- -' . ..
And about mid-day, as they journeyed, they came in
as, sight of the Fair, which was of goodly extent, with many
et en lanes and alleys, through which great crowds were ever
o 1 moving, and the din and hubbub of their voices, as they
sst called out the names of their wares, was such, that at fist
rag the pilgrims were mightily confused. Littlefaith spate
w, of turning back, but being encouraged of Stagman, he
I i took heart again, and went on.
,a And as they gazed about them, and marvelled at the
• multitudes that were wandering up and down the noes,
1 cheapening the wares, " Now we are in good luck," cried
ti Stagman ; " for yonder' on the outskirts of the market,
seed of the agriteal it I mistake not, is Mr. Premium. Let us step up boldly
to him at once and take his arm—for if we approach him
timidly, he will disappear under one of the booths incon-
tinently."
" But do you think we may venture?" said Littlefaitb.
"Yea. verily," said Stagman ; so, hurrying up to him,
they laid hold of him gently, but with a firm grasp, and
saluted him. He was a portly person, attired in a gold-
sure-. coloured suit, and put on a smiling countenance when the
ti, pilgrims laid hold of him ; but mettiought he looked about
e . him on every side to see whether he could dodge away, and
en. escape. Finding, however, that they clung to him tightly,
'et,, he made as if he were much pleased to meet them, and
eo a returning their salutation—
tip, " How now, old friend," said he to Stagman ; what
ens, wouldst thou have me to do?"
aye - ! " Only to straw us through the Fair," said Stagman.
int "These, my friends, are new to the place, and they would
3 fain
know bow to sell their wares to the best bidder. I
pray thee, go with us, fur thou knowest all the ours and
" ' This leaves a balance in favour cf that city of two ins of this Babel."
shillings per barrel. So far as the trade in breadstuffs So, keeping fast hold of Mr. Premium s arm, they en-
between Great Britain and North America is concerned, tered the Fair; and if at a dis-ance they were confused
under the present formation of the corn laws, and under with the clamour and din of the crowd, they were be)ond
an equalization of duties of Canadian and American flour, measure astonished when they gut into the thick of it.
it is pretty evident that the bulk of it must be carried on Here was French row, Dutch row, Belgian row, Irish
between this city and Liverpool, but to what extent it row, English row, and Scotch row ; the chief crowd, how-
will be carried, is a matter of much uncertainty and ever, was in the English row, which was so choked up at
doubt.'" times with buyers and sellers, that it was not possible to
" With respect to the alleged ' many advantages' which move on at all. But as most people were glad to make
the shipping of British North America enjoys over that way for Premium, who was well known there and much
of the United States, upon which Mr. Gladstone depends respected. the pilgrims got along the rows better than
to prevent this diversion of our commerce from the St. they thought.
Lawrence to New York, and from British bottoms to " What will you buy, worthy gentlemen—what will you
,shed, thus remarks upon it : those of the Republic, I cannot see where those advan- buy ? exclaimed many voices as they passed.
• • Before, however, the gigantic speculations upon hu- tages lie. It is true that the shipping of British Ame- Buy any Penaylvanians, gents ?" said a man in the raj-
,ten lahour, in which the menufateuters here arid else- rice is constructed at less expense; but then it can only merit of a Quaker.
where tondly indulge, can b cat ried out to completion, be said to have payine cargoes one vv ay. A vessel, which " Heavy stock, heavy stock, Jonathan !" cried an-
maiethirig vet remains to be core-utied—that is, the will has brought to New York a valuable cargo of dry goods, other.
'lnc l-b urine class-s. 'I. here is a mind whose secret can afford to ret urn, corn laden, to Great Britain at less " Buy my Mexicans—best Mexicans !" said a third.
gigs a et deep cocci miming rates than even a cheaper ship. which has come out al-
., wiih itself the world does " Would nut take a present of them gratis,"'Cried a
—oi to heed; there is a voice whose fearful accents most inn ballast, can sail from Montreal or Quebec with a fourth.
an all their strength and p err the world has not yet cargo. Mr. Gladstone, •1
euspect, will find this delusive " Spanish three's reduced—who'll buy." said a fifth.
Beard—the mind and the voice of the working population argument slip from Leneath his feet; and especially so " Reduced to nothing," said a sixth.
1, hrouehou Chi istendom, Vol. d. tied beyond the power of " Portuguese deferred annuities ?" said a seventh.
when, by the present measures, the British Government
Nether eodurence, and eskine en every hand, where the " Deferred to the day of judgment," answered an eighth.
has withdrawn the temptation to emigi ants to settle in
region of righteous rest-t nice begin s ? If governments " Glembutchkins—guaranteed stock, 5 premium, ear
Canada, and directed the surplus population of this court-
take no good heed, this nowt and veie e will one day givec/;tr. said a nil th.
try to the western states of the American union, as af-la:terarme to the sense of err we utjes ly inflicted in ways fording them r qual, if trot superior, fields for their enter- "'Won't do, Sauley, said a tenth—
slid terms that will slunk limn thi-nr foundations all the prise and industry. It is well known that a large portion price."
existine insinti uoire o• the eer. h. The doctrine that the of our shipping employed in the trade with British Ame- And so on it went, all the dealers bawling and squab-
only true capital is labour, he weter specious and unsound rica goes out with emigrants to those settlements ; and, bling together, and trying to depreciate one ,anther's
in it% application, is gaining fast tired of the minds ot the when we take away this remunerating employment for the wares.
misses. The claim of the works err to eat the fruits of outward voyage, the site homewards must be a seriously But, in the meantime, a certain one came up to Lit tle-
the earth—AO pat-tette ot the gi.ts on' G-d —to be warm and increased one." faith in the crowd, and seeing him in company with Pre-
to be el olned—to hit fed when he is hungry, and to be With respect to the timber trade of Canada, the same minim, he asked him it he were inclined to sell his scrip.
*bettered trove the stereo in fair return for the toil of his despatch says:- Whereupon Littlefaitb. turning round, saw that it was
arm and the Sstrat ot his brow, is (laity making itself heard ' " Not only are they (the government) free from the ap-
his old neighbour, Plausible, and answering, said, "lit a
in appetite that en next b' mi.-taken A cornmunisme of truth such was my errand hither, but what with the din
prehension that the proposed re-mission of 10s. per load
interests --- f troli,triationn an tine loft coon of past wrongs— on foreign timber and 12s. on foreign deals will cause a
and bustle about me. I doubt 1 shall never pluck up heart
of deter minaiiwn to res-st tresh epyressiens, is binding the contraction of the trade from British North America, but to find a purchaser."
labouring classes of all lands 'ito tense fraternity. e they are sanguine in the anticipation that that trade will " I fear, neighbour Littlefaith," said Plausible. " thou
tie, meet this g owing emit, d• racy is by far the most clic& i continue, notwithstanding the proposed change, to extend art in the right, arid let me tell thee teat same scrip of
cab task of tine statesman in the it, eeetit day ; for it is by itself. "' thine is little in favour here ; howbeit, for the sake or obi
'far the most te oat', and nangercus r lenient with which he 1 , "A differential duty of 155., proposed, as ' upon the ecquaintance. I would not have thee return empty-1 will
lea had yet to deal.' average nearly covering the difference between treights buy thy wares of thee. Thou canst not expect pre 'Truett
"A etrke alaingst the nointifacturing work-people ! from the Baltic and these from British North America profit, but here are twenty crowns, which will defray thy
against reeuctem of a ages, follow•II2 a measure which to Great Britain,' he apprehends will preserve to us this I travell,ng charges—and leave thee a somethine over be-
Vas to postgame the perod et such re,'uctien almost inde- trade; and he argues, that as import--tion to Canadian side. Mayhap I may be able some time or other to find
fidielv, will be a vet y rtiff rent effor to those strikes— Timber has increased under the m asure of 1842, so it a purchaser. There is the money. Give me the scrip
fearful enough in te r re-tot--a hit h hate taken place in will continue to increase when a further amount of pro- quickly; for I see a certain friend of mine, Mr. By-ends,
toast tunes. It wel he a final to i uega. on the part of the tection shall have been withdrawn. Candour, however, who beckoneth to me, and cannot wait."
1 ibourer fur his future penii ion in the social fabric. We ought to have induced him, before holding out this unsta- Then did Littlefaith take the ere). ns, and give unto
have no further eit Insive dreams it mitigation of his mit- ble argument to the colonist, to have reminded him of the Plausible the scrip, which when he had put into his bosom.
ferines, by the surely of cot al er in, atra of supporting ex- I fact, that very special circumstances, most favourable to he smiled and hastened away. When Littlefaith came
jot-lice, to hold up before his eyes. He will say new— the developement of the timber consumption of Great back to Stagman, he told him what he had done.
'I must have a security that I rat, live by my labour, or Britain. have been in operation since 1843. The pro- "Thou faint-hearted fool!" said Stagnian, " knowest
I must experiment as I please upon those institutions gress of railway construction, the increased general pros- thou not thy wares were well worth a hundred crowns,
which practically p ace me in the position of a machine, perity of the country. and other concurrent causes which, 1 warrant thee, Plausible will makeuf them before
tend to tof in loot an being. tee th was ts which eat into the (amongst the rest the fact of the Baltic grower having the market is over. Out upon thee tor a crazed cox-
life, and lacerane hotly the bide and the soul.' The cha-. himself appropriated the remitted duty, and rendered his comb! get thee gone, and trouble us no more in this
I
raster of such xi.ieriments, from such a source, I need timber comparatively dearer than Canadian) have sup- matter.
coat dilate upon." purled the British grower in the competition to which the Better is a bird in the hand than two in tl,e bush,"
The follow ine examit ati'tn of Mr. Gladstone's des- measure of 1842 submitted him. Let these special cir- said Littlefaith ; and so saying he departed.
psecinn, to the Got erner. General of Canada, may he use- cuoistanees cease to operate, and it is by no means a cer- But while Stegman was thus gibing Littlefaith for
(iii to rho e whin assert that there is no danger of our pre- tainty that, even with his present protection, the Canadian throwing away his warts, suddenly Scapegrace uttered a
Sent policy it fl•ctine injury mein rur colonies, endanger- may not have a period of suffering before him. Reduce cry, and said—
fog their ri lat,enship to the moil er country, or damaging that piotection, however, to 15s. from 245., its present t• Merry on us, what he'll become of Mr. Premium !
the interests of the Brutish merchant and shipowner:— I amoutv, and the ruin of this branch of colonial industry I only turned my head for a moment to look at yoneer
Sr That it e population ot 13, it sh America is already se. is certain. The lumherers of that colony will not, like Prospectus of the Grand Equaterial and Tropical June.
riously alarmed at tie positon in which the proposed the serfs of the northern European counties, work for a tion, and lo ! I,e slrpt his arm from mine, and 1 saw him
measures ot Goternmerit t turn-p to i lace them, is clear minimum amount of remuneration. Render their em- ito more.
from the arisicee and journals rice led by the Halifax ployment unprofitable anti they betake themselves at once " Oh, woe is me!" cried Stagman ; " what I foretold
((mot 8,,,a,,,,r, ~ few (one eag, arrived; and the feeling is to their farness; their timber ceases to employ our ship has come to pass, and now 1 tear a worse thing will yet
evidently shared ey th, t; welter General of Canada him- ping. our sailors, and their own saw-mills, and to pay for befall us."
self. In his toeeeeh at tire opening of the Canadian par- British manufactures. Under the proposed duty (the And, as he spake, behold there drew near a lean and
Ii 'went, on the 20th ult., Lord Lobelia thus indicated freight ill-favoured erson clad i
froM 11;e Bahc being ebout 17, per load against inragged and cart-coloured et.
ice fir-t impressions. et 1 -est, upon the subject : 38s. from British Amen ice) the Baltic grower will tire, whose doublet was much out at the elbows, arid who
• "'Tine last in-el leerier it•rit .he Mother Country indi- have a protecting duty of six shillings per load (or the looked ever towards the ground ; and no sooner did Stag-
C'Ves a frost thiporiant change in rre commercial policy of difference of freight r f 21s. less the duty of 155,) over the man see him drawing nigh, than he threw his scrip on the
the Empire. I had previously teken occasion to press Canadian 2. and thus, it' the quality of the article fee_ ground, and, hurrying through the crowd, he was seen ion
%pen Hee Mai sty's Govertiment a due consideration of ri shed us by the latter were as good and its cost as little
more. Torn 1 knew that tire man's 1 anie was DiscouNT.
!tie effect that aiv vontetepl: nal alterat,on might have on at Quebec as that of tie former at Memel or Dantzic, And when the men of the Fair saw that. I rettniunn pas
the interests of C. ale. But until weliave a fuller expo- the trade must be a losing one and be abandoned. The gone, and that Stagman had fled as Di-count drew nigh,
sitom of the pre j wed sees me, it would be premature to Colonist obviously cannot support himself with less than they seized upon Scapegrace, and began to fliut him, at
entiripate that the c nimi, of this province to a just mea- 21s. as the differential duty. even at the relative prices of first with fair words and pretences, hut at last more our ely
lure 9/ protection had beeti overt° ked.' the different descriptions of timber in the British market. and openly.•` e
•• I am hot et all inclined to bet eve that the despatch of —......_____ thing of us, itsSeon:st?denA('llt:Ybc.tipedyboture, b•a•aothrosibviellblitruivsgret,;)
3 edatone, iii reply to the commurticatiou of the Go- sell."
r General, lies alt red Iris previous views, or is cal- A 1-IINT TO ALLOTTEES —A well-known journeyman " I have in my scrip a few Eldoradoe, for which I ex-
Colated to allay the aggrava,ad trelings of the Canadian tailor in Leicester (whit, it is said, " mocks one" exceed- pected a premium," answered Scr-pegrarie.
people. The Colanial Secretary, in the despatch in clues- ingly well), having bee-a served with a writ by a bubble "Don't you wish yeti may get it ?" said the other sm.
Gore which is dated from Downieg-street, on the 3d company, whose "directors" had forgotten to reply to pathetically,
march, and went out to Canaill by the packet of the 4th, his letter of applieation tilt their shares were at d seounte " Does your mother," said a ird, with a leok ofbsym_
somewhat tan plainly indicates that the policy of Great quietly packed up his sole worldly possessions—his goose, pathy—"y our venerable nthe know that you are a road
Britain is henceforth to he determined upon is-respective needle, and thimble—and forwarded them be Pickford to ate he Fair ?"
the secretary !He also wrote a note, begging that the Perfectly well." answered Scapegr ainly
.are; " it was n '
a colonial interests. lie says : .
44 -"Tee inures`; of Canada have ocenpied the place to "goose" Might serve as the centre.diell at the next corn- in consequence of her pecuniary distress that 1 came
stich they are juAly entitled in the debberationa of Her mittee dinner, and that he might he invited to the feast, hither."
iLajesty's Government upon this important subject, and to " see the last of his old friend."—Leicester Paper. " Distress, indeed I" answe the other; "thou

uriiig pursuits

'f he experience of the last twenty-
years in needy every branch of manufactures has
tie witness to the fa,r. In all cases it may not be
kingly Emparent from the money amount paid to each
rative for his week's labour : but where this is so it
at be borne in mi.(' that the same operative now per-
Ili three anti even four timPs the work which he did
the carne remuneration 20 yews ago. Where the cot-
spinner formerly attended to 600 spindles only, he at-
Is cow to 2400. Where th.! power-loom weaver was
y able to attend one loom, he attends now to two and
n three, and the,e working at increased speed. ln
ry branch of manufactures, human labour we find is
ig year by year more econom zed, and the productive
rer of the, mere machine enormously increased.
!The obvious result of this feature in our manufactur-

Vstem is to dirbini,h its power of providing for the

..pl..yment of the people in proportion to the increased
jemount of manufactures produced. For instance, we
.tuported trom 'he United Sta es, to be worked up into
yarn and goods, in 1822, cotton to the extent of 329,906
take. In 1845 we imported upwards of four times that
ecnount, or 1,499,600 bales. Now, will any man assert
;bat in the fort's year *he cotton trade of the kingdom
+Worded profitable employment to four times the number
operatives, or paid tour tines the wages that it did in
termer Certainly no man would be so hardy. But
cannot be said of the gross amount of the cotton
line of course that most valuable por-

usshufacture, inclu

of it. c rtsisting of the fin,st and fully perfected lab-
consumed in the home market, far less can it be said
rel. the coarse and low-priced fabrics which principally
compose our foreign trade. In 1841 we exported
266 946.452 yards of plihr calicoes. In 1842 we exported.
166 041019, whilst in 1843 our exports of the same fabric
*prat az up to 520,011.635 yards, and last year they were
613.138,645 yards. 13,d our hand-loom and power-loom

,-aver. i,ierease in the ratio of 61 to 36 between 1845 and
f. 1841, or did they increase in the ratio of 52 to 36 between
-1842 and 18-13? Thry did no such thing. We beard of
•be exrershe migration from the agricultural to the mann-
Geruring districts in those years. There was a sudden
expansion of the demand ; but the manufacturing districts
to meet it without any material addition to their

existing stock of labour
Such a tur. her increase of exports as is predicted as the
'ult of Frre Trade I admit may produce such an in-
,ed demand for labour as may for a while check the
,ard tendency of wages. But mark the chang?d
.circumstances into which the nation will have fallen ! We
tthall have have reduced the reward of agricultural indus-
try. We shall have diminished the temptation to in-
creased apical' ui al enter prif,e, for I hold with Sir Howard
Douglas that it seems a strange proposition, and one
contrary to all experience, tear the way to encourage the
produe.ti-n of articl,s of any kind is to expose that branch
of industry to unequal competit ort." By the same pro-
ess we shall have checked emigration to our colonies;
mad thing thrown an additional number of hands upon the
'lame lab,,ur market, These must of necessity press into
'lc manufacturing districts for employment; and political
anemias tell us that it is the proportion of the supply
`he demand tor any commodity which regulates its
We know what was the effect of the irruption of

pauper population of the sou. hero counties into the
manufacturing districts, which took place in 1835 and
1836. We know, from the letters of Mr. Greg and Mr.
itailiworth to the Secretary of the Po ,r Law Commission.
to reduce wages. Tte
,f the weave rs of Bolton—pioved by a parliamen-
no.;ssi n to have been subs'sting upon 24.3. per
`teen advat.ced 10 per cent, ; and the
..guer regarded this addition of a potato
poor weaver's da.ly meal as a symptom of approach-
in
to minufacturing pros; erity, which the machi.
f Somerset 1-louse was to be put in operation to

r (by I—had
liinent L

ward oil.
—the eat

suec-t,stul

We know how as the effort made
asive rednc'ion of wages which followed and
..de spread tiff-ring and wretchedness which were
ted, when at length a period of manufacturing pros-
on -ucc,eded to the few years o' active prosperity
h had intitx-ti the effort to ',qualise.' as the phrase
mattutveturing with agricultural prices of labour.
ace never yet heard from °thrill sources how many
,t.ral pauper population
hr.nr-s which 'h-y had been seduced to leave,
-4 • am'd the fryer and pestilence of the
lanu!actural towns and villages,

mrny r.un

then almo-t (1-povu wed

Rate untimely graves

" And if it be true that New York off,rs some advan-
tages as compared with Montreal, particularly in regard
to the rate of insurance, on the other hand, 1 consider
that the shippino of British North America has many
advantages ev r that of the United S;ates in the competi-
tion for freights, as it is conducted at less expense. and
is, I must assume, navigated with equal vigour and equal

. The same st rugA- between the aer'cultural and the ma-
Aurafaeturitiz I,.bourr r, bur upon a rrvore 'extensive scale,
fir,d more feartuhy earn-st, must inevitably follow the
It is intended to fol.
rs are to ab,;orb the dispossessed
og their capability by
Jata laid down ab.ive, tlit re can remain little doubt
, the t•upply of labour will very soon become out of all
aortion with the demand for it. I have no doubt that
F,ee•traders mintemp'ate the ordeal through which
labouring community is thus to p,ss with consider-
They calcukte that they will have a
le& the labourer in his reduced amount
Tney would however do well to remem-

efficiency.'
" I think it would not be difficult to show that a por-
tion, at least, of the advantages which Canada is here
said to enjoy over the western states of America no longer
exists; and that. at all events, when protection is taken
away altogether from her agriculturi-ts, a great many of
the existing arrangements of her commerce will also be
diverted into an 'they channel. The following statements
and figures prepared for a Montreal journal by a gentle-
man in New York, intimately connected with the trade,
very matetially weaken the force of the Colonial Secre-
tary's fond anticipations :
EXPORTATION OF FLOUR TO LIVERPOOL VIA MON-
TREAL AND NEW YORK, UNDER PRESENT CORN
LAWS OF GREAT BRITAIN. s. d.
Duty on United States N heat, floured in Canada,
per barrel ... ,

•
Extra freight from Montreal to Liverpool, over New
York charges

Manuf9c, ur

r of the conwry

Average excess of insurance

Cost Of importation and grinding in Canada, over
the expense of shipping direct to Montral from

Cleveland

Differential duty in favour of Canadian produce, for
the next three years. per brl ... . .
Probable differenee in freight from the West to Mon-
treal, via New York ..

Balance in favour of New York as the shipping
port . .

2 6
" This balance in favor of this city, will hold good
during the three years fixed upon fur the continuance of
the remaining protection under the corn laws of Great
Britain, and the continuance of the present rate of tolls
on our public works.' "
" ' If, after the expiration of three years, the present
production in the corn laws of England should be abo-
lished, there will be an increased exportation of bread
stuffs from this port, as we should draw that trade from
Canada, to a greater extent than yet realzed. The reduc-
tion of tolls nn our publie works is likely to proceed more
rapidly than on those of Canada, and we shall, therefore,
be better able to control th:s trade in a few years hence,
than we are now. Under the contemplated equalization
of duties in Great Britain upon Canadian and American
flour, shipments can be mode as annexed :
EXPORTATION OF FLOUR TO LIVERPoOL, VIA NEW

anti. mepsur

YORK AND MONTREAL,

Freight, per barrel, from Toronto to Oswego....
Do. do. Oswego to New York..
Do. do. New York to Liverpool
Average rate of insurance, (1 per cent.).

Cost of transport from Toronto to Liverpool, via
New York

B.'d,
0 6
2 0
2 6
0 3

tibirritty

t+vr•rnonpy wars
brr the pi(

Freigbt, per barrel, from Toronto, to Kingston.... 0 6
Do. do. Kingston to Montreal.... I. 9
Do. do. Montreal to Liverpool.... 4 6
Average rate of insurance, (2 per cent.) ... 0 6

ire made, and the induce-
*nents which they have held out to him during this con-
test. The overatives of the n.anutacturing districts do
"tot contemplate a reduce d scide tifremuneration for their
current a ith a reducti,.n in the remuneration

Seti Whitll they t

of fond. They nave been taught that, in the manufactur-
ing Elysium which tree trade is to create, they are to
-have, at once, m. re food and the present, or an increased,
*mount of means to pay for it. Will it he safe, I ask, thus
practically to l► the vrorkinsr man that he has been the
dupe of impo-ture—chit, w. il.t prctes.ing to
_seek only

.y, lii4 inter ~ nave left him precisely where
ibe wa-? Look at the temper of the manufacturing and
the industrial classes at the pre-ent moment. An able
writer in the Church O. Enuland Quarterly Review, just

" won't do at any

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