The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-23 00:00:00

ly) when it is hoped Lord
iciently recovered to go to town.

this day CI

,scoTT met a large portion of his late
Ler on Monday evening, at St. John's

wn to dinnE

ber for Winchester. More
r, which was followed by the
to to Mr. Escott.

- LORD MINTo.—If news it be, we may state that Lord
Minto arrived at Rome on the 3rd instant, but had not by
last advices had an interview with the Pope. We trust
that upon the meeting of Parliament the son-in-law of
this nobleman, the premier of the hour, will be required
to explain fully and circumstantially what has se*
noble relative a-dangling at the heels of Pius IX
capital of Popery.
Mr. F. Baring, the former Whig Chancellor of the I
4 has'

,nt his
As.. in the

chequer, , oeen making a speech at Portsmouth on the
Income tax. The occasion was a meeting on Friday of
the inhabitants, to complain of numerous surcharges that
had been made by the commissioners. Mr. Baring said
he had opposed the Income tax at the time it was put on.
but he had no hesitation in saying the country was in fa-
vour of its imposition, and held out no hopes of its removal.
Mr. Urquhart, Member for Stafford, met his consti-
tuents on Friday in last week, and addressed them at con-
siderable length on the principal political topics of the day.
He was strongly opposed to the existing Poor Law ; he
advocated a Health of Towns Bill; he denounced the
Currency Bills of 1819 and 1844 as the " most infamous
acts that man ever contemplated ;" he recommended that
the Irish Parliament should be revived, and cast upon the
country the burden of her own support ; he thought the
creation of a Bishop without a seat in the Lords was most
unconstitutional ; and he claimed for the colonies equal
rights with the inhabitants of Great Britain.
A TERRIBLE RETORT.—Mr. Rothschild, the Jew mem-
ber returned to Parliament by the city of London, met
the constitutional objections to his return, with one proud
boast that he had been returned by the people. The
Morning Herald, in reference to this boast, says—" The
terrible retort ch," '"- ^laitn, for--

,ilienged by this anded upon the
bought votes of a corrupt unchristian or factious rabble,
will long ring in the ears of those who witnessed the de-
claration scene at Guildhall. ' I stand here,' said Mr.
Rothschild, as the choice of the people.' A deep, clear,
and solemn voice, replied, from the farther end of the
spacious hall, So stood —.' We dare not write the
name, the christian reader can supply it, and will feel that
so frightful a retort was never uttered."
THE WEST INDIAN COLONIES. - Certainly, if faith
could be placed in the declarations and avowed principles
of public men, the colonies had no reason, at that time, to
fear that the broad principle of morality and justice laid
down by the great practical convert of free-trade—Sir R.
Peel—upon the sugar question, as distinguished from any
other questions to which free-trade was applicable, could
for many years, at least, be broken through. The colo-
nists viewed that settlement as a final one. calculated to
increase, to a sufficient extent, the supply of sugar in the,
British market, and, at the same time, by an increasing
competition so to keep down the prices of colonial sugar
as to render the partial monopoly, reserved to the colonies
altogether harmless. But they were deceived. Change
was followed up by revolution, and the colonies now no
longer possess any privilege in their natural market in
which the foreigner does not equally participate, with the
trifling exception, that, during a limited period of five
years, a differential duty, commencing at seven shillings
and receding to a cypher, is levied upon the sugar of the
slaveholder. This system, which came into operation on
the sth August, 1846—t00 late a period of that year to
have any sensible effect on the sugar market—may be said
to have practically commenced in the present year, when
the second phase of the measure became operative, and
foreign slave sugars were admitted into the British mar-
ket on payment of a duty of only six shillings a cwt. above
that levied on British colonial produce. It has, however,
been very clearly shown that from this difference in value
between the sugars of this island and those of foreign
countries, the extra duty of six shillings a cwt., at present
levied on foreign Muscovado sugar, does not, in reality,
afford a protection to that extent to British plantation su-
gar, which is, practically, only protected to the extent of
3s. Gd. per cwt., a difference which will almost vanish
with the next annual change in foreign duties.—Col. Mag.

RAILWAY

AFFAIRS.

An experimental trip of inspection was made on Tues-
day from Chester to Conway on the Holyhead Railway by
the officials of the line, preparatory to opening some por-
tion of it in December for general traffic.
The new parliament will not be absolutely wanting in
railway business. It is stated that upwards of three hun-
dred bills have been lodged. The Great Western alone
have given forty-eight notices of application for new acts
to enlarge their line and form branch lines and extensions.
,OPENING OF THE CALEDONIAN RAlLWAY.—Arrange-
ments are in progress to open this line from Beattock to
Edinburgh, on the 20th of December—which will com-
plete the through 'communication between Edinburgh
and Glasgow to London via Carlisle.
•it is a curious fact yet to be explained, that the electric
telegraph will not work in the Summit tunnel of the Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire. This tunnel was one
of the severest pieces of boring that has been executed,
and is the longest of English tunnels, not excepting that
of Box on the Great Western.
RAILWAY WORKS.—We have just been informed that
Ministers are resolved to propose a check of some kind
on the extension of railway works—but that the plan. the
particulars or .modus operandi of which has not tran-
spired, will not be of a very sweeping character.----Rail-
way Chronicle.

The Chester and Holyhead give notice of the attempt
to raise more capital—a part of it by getting the London
and North-Western empowered to increase its contribu-
tion to that line,—a power which, possibly, the share-
holders of the latter company, all circumstances consi-
dered, mak not be very eager to take advantage of.
A month or so ago the London and North-Western had
nearly 50,000 labourers employed on those sections of
their system of new lines then constructing. The effec-
tive labour force has now been reduced to less than one-
half, that half being employed only upon what are called
first-class or indispensable works.
The directors of the Liverpool, Manchester, and New-
castle junction railway have gken the necessary Parlia-
mentary notices for obtaining an extension of time for
the purchase of land and completion of the works ; " but,
should any general measure render fiirthey proceedings

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unnecessary, these notices will be allowec
little expense will have been incurred bayoni

d to drop, arid
d the requisite

advertisements

--icotn---onroincial returns it appears that the amount of
traffic for the last week, on upwards of 3227 miles of rail-
way, was X 174,020, thus accounted for :—X86,767 for the

conveyance of passengers only, £48.0
of goods, and a r mainder of 4
goods together, not respectively _
crease of £23,534 over the correspond
year, when the mileage was about 2,525

127 for the ,carriage

39,234 for passengers and
apportioned, being an.in7

ng week -of

ALARMING FACT.-IThe last parli'amentary return states
that on the let of May, 1847, there were employed in the
construction of our railways no fewer than 256,509 men !
And it is a moderate computation, that, on the Ist of De-
mmber, there will have been discharged, from the mere
want of money, one-half of this number ; 128,000 able-
bodied men, accustomed to the use of the pickaxe and
crowbez, turned upon the roads at the beginning of winter