The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-26 00:00:00

THE

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be improved to mode of cultivation

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nothing shall ever induce us
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upon wages, will never be eiiht

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3f its readers—DECIDEDLY
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SPONDENTS

'oh( for less

than Englishmen. They rush with avidity into the
worse paid employments, are content with the
worst description of habitations, and infect with
their filthy and squalid habits every locality in
which they settle themselves. The new importa-
tions, however, which are now arriving amongst 114
daily, and spreading themselves over the manufac-
turing districts, are even of a worse class than any
which have preceded them. Many are confirmed
and habitual mendicants, and all

Jude's Relief Fund

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-various newsix

stock banks is inserted in the
rtisement.

after which, parties
superior courts
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to operation immediately;
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eve to pay the costs of the same.

e in our circulation has caused one or two
'—"ln with our country subscribers, but

we hope our arrangej

its ror their effectual remedy are now

are in a state of

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pauperism.
beggars or

We cannot suppor

them either as

TUESDAY

ORNING

26, 1847

compelled to take up the same practices of industry
which they witness amongst our own population ;
and it is creditable to the national character
that, as a classy the Irish labourer or operative has
always shown himself in this country second to
none in the readiness with which he takes up new
pursuits, and the persevering industry with which
he is ready to toil. A further and aa-

E certainly
ell's Gover

anything

hair stand on

therefore, we conf

ponent of Mir

ter dete-

rioration of the condition of the English labourer
and operative must inevitably follow the increased
pressure which must thus be created upon the
labour market.

say that w

BO many co

Are wa now, or have we theprospect of being, in
a position to absorb this increased supply of hands
in any branch of our domestic industry ? We are
not. The cotton manufacture, it is clear, cannot
employ those -already dependent upon it. Had we
even a large addition to our customers for manu-
factures, we have not,,and cannot procure, the raw
material to supply them. Indeed, as we skewed
last week, we are in danger of not having a
sufficient stock, to meet even a diminished con-
sumption. Most other branches of industry are
depressed by various causes ; and even railway en-
terprise is insufficient to provide work for all the
labour which is pressing uuon us for emnlovment_

reconcile it t

, ••••., +WA
A plentiful harvest or two,. an increased cultivation
of cotton, and a revival of the demand from foreign
markets, may, however, restore the industry of the
country to a state of greater activity; but, in the
meantime, the constant bidding of the ne* appli-
cants for employment will have succeeded in bring-
ing down the price of labour to the minimum upon-
which existence can be supported ; and the contact
with the .masses of wretchedness introduced into.
our manufacturing towns and villages will too
probably have produCed a sad deterioration in the
character and habits of our labouring classes.
The remark, that Ireland is the chief difficulty of
the statesman, was. never more strikingly correct:
than at the present moment.. The poverty and de-
gradation of that unhappy land is the millstone
which England seems -for ever destined to have
hung round her neck..

)ensier

We are informed,. on authority upon which we
can place implicit reliance, that the very obnoxious
Bill, with which the ports of Great Britain were
threatened,—the Tidal. Harbours' Bill,—has been
withdrawn by its promoters. Thanks, in a great
measure, to the press for this triumph of truth and
justice over attempted tyranny. But for the warn-
ing note sounded, and the spirited protests for-
warded to the Government by the. various local
bodies throughout the kinadom_

ing-itaweansin
would ere long have had the most sumptuous feast
of jobbery and patronage upon which it has ever
yet fattened and fed its,hungry dependants.

11, per

OUR readers are, no.doubt, aware of the spirited
efforts made last year by the Guardian Gas Com-
pany to procure an Act of Incorporation, for the
purpose of supplying to the public of this town a
cheaper supply of gas.. The application in queStion.
was, it will also be remembered, rejected. nn +bp

condition exacted by the Parliamentary Committee
from the existing companies, that the price of gas
should be reduced from its then present price of
6s. per 1000 cubic feet to 4s. 6d. Thus far the
company succeeded in realizing a saving to the

consumers, equal to one-fourth a their c-onsump-
rion, for which we ought to be most grateful.
From an advertisement in another column it
will be seen that the same parties are again about
to apply to Parliament for an Act ; and we trust
that such application will not, on this occasion, be
permitted to be staved off in the same way as; last
year. The promoters of this company are in a
position to prove that an excellent gas can be pro-
&teed and supplied to c rnsumers at 3s. Bd. per
1000 feet ; and it is a well-ascertained fact, that
the facilities for its manufacture are about to sus-
Science, applicable to

e amour

tam an immense

Increase

the manufacture of gas, is progressing d-ayby. day ,
and, we feel assured that there will be ample room
and encouragement for this, or any other company
which is disposed to give to the public a fair share
of the advantage which those increased facilities
and advanced science afford them. • In-urging the
claims of this company upon the support of the
public, we may correct a notion which we suspect

prevails, that the object

ought by them is cheap
ted. Such is

government will be ena

rates- o
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STANDARD, original avocations? is the important question which
ENCE: Suggests itself for our serious consideration.
There are many reasons why we conclude this to
PT I ON, ON CREDIT, 155.; be a highly improbable event. In the first place it
would be sheer madness, with the present calami-
tous state of Ireland as a warning, to tolerate any
41though we bear the above upon our imprint, longer the growth of the class,'to which these men
to atte,. ' -taking up for the re- belong. A cottier tenantry, depending for subsis-
-e by parsimonious management. tence solely upon the potato root, cannot consis-
-fter in our recent numbers it tently with the permanent amelioration of the social
We have already stated condition of that country, or even with safety to

1 to continue

A new and better
must be adopted, and a dif-
m of crops sultstituted for those at

present raised. Capita and science must be
Parliamentary brought in aid of the natural resources of the land,
v and valuable if Ireland is ever to become a self-sustaining am-
,

To effect this, an extensive depopulation
arrangements are must take place; and when we withdraw from the
ilzcation of those rea- country the employment which we are at present
ails of politics, or party providing for its peasantry, upon public or repro-
-vre likewise preparing a ductive works, we shall do so, with almost the cer-
will be received tainty before our eyes, that a great portion of the
e family circle generally, we labourers, who have at lenrrth hpen tan/FM +r►

to return to their former precarious dependence
upon the produce of a patch of land, and the habits
of indolence which that dependence creates. We
shall then doubtless see the present tide of immi-
gration into Great Britain increased, rather than
witness any reflu.x of the peasantry to their native
soil.
The effect whieh must thus be produced upon
the condition of the labouling masses in the coun-
try it is not difficult to foresee. For years past, in
all our seats of industry and commerce, the im-
ported labour of Ireland has been pressing upon
the comforts and reducing the wages of the British
artisan and operative. Already Irishmen fill• all
the subordinate situations in our industrial fabric..