The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-20 00:00:00

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of the neighbourhood choose to tolerate the dan-
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I particularly desire to guard you against being deceived,
by the stuff now being written by some of the London
newspapers. into the idea that Free-trade has little or
nothing to do with our present degraded state in this
)perty, we believe of Mr. I country.

You will observe that I have been cautious in not
charging Free-trade with getting us into this state
(though I believe Sir R. Peel's 1842 measures have much
to do with it), and that my charge against Free-trade is,
that under it no elasticity or confidence exists to get us
out of the scrape.

I may, however, state my firm conviction, that the evils
arising from the potatoe rot are nothing compared with
those which (in the absence of a potatoe rot) would have
flown from the price of wheat being lowered one-half.
by an increase,' A-4- - —l.ll. but 1.

by foreign

Our home 'trade would now be going through the ordeal
of a general bankruptcy, unconsoled even by the prospect
that, after thus getting white-washsd, they can live under
the undue and cruel competition of untaxed foreign labour.
I pray you to rest satisfied that the present sufferings of

this 'conniry are in no degree caused- by the con

the Bank of England, but entirely by the want of con:A:
dence-caused by Sir Robert Peel's Free-trade measures.
This is incontrovertibly a bullion, and not a Bank of
England, panic ; and one which will convulse the mo-
netary affairs of the whole empire, and not only those of
Lombard-strest.

To. be sure we have not as yet got a bullion panic in

bank's innocence of the cause of the suction of gold ; but
we have a bullion panic in the higher and less equivocal
sense of a run on the country for gold, and from the en-
during cause that it is the most profitable and disposable,
property foreigners can take abroad.
I have said that Sir Robert Peel's Free-trace measures
will render a depreciation of the currency inevitable.
I do not believe that the Bank of. England will be able
to sell Government securities, so as to prepare for the

payment of the July dividends, unless PailiaMent, before
it rises, passes a no less sweeping measure than MAKING

SILVER SHILLINGS A LEGAL TENDER TO ANY AMOUNT,

ENGLAND

AND ALI

pert Pee

regulations) ONE POUND NOTES.
This would, by raising gold to a market price, place the

draws no gold, but has its prices- inflated to the amouit

arrency

It will soon become evident that gold cannot be had
except at a premium, and then will come the run on the
Bank of England, not from shippers only, but also by
parties to hoard for the premium.
Such are the direct and legitimate consequences of Sir
Robert Peel's departure from the principle of protection
to British labour at home and abroad.

I believe that he has undermined the prosperity, and
struck a fatal blow at the integrity of the empire.
Even the National debt of England will be fonnd to be
only so much waste paper if we persist in our present
suicidal course, for it is secured only by the industry of
the empire, from which we have tak€n away the ability to
perform peculiar duties and bear peculiar burdens, by the
removal of all its peculiar privileges.

One shudders to think of the individual

will be inflicted on the population here, if we persist in
viewing the currency and Free-trade as two questions in-
stead of one, as in reality they are—a fact that you know

well, from the cruel experience of Canadian industry,
when the Legislature of the State of New York stopped
specie payments in 1837.

And begging you not to suppose for a moment that I
am less the irreconcileable opponent of class interests
than you knew me when I had the honour to represent
the metropolis in the first parliament of United Canada,
I remain, Gentlemen, your obedient humble servant,
ISAAC BUCHANAN.

CAUTION TO CAR DRlVERS.—Yesterday, at the Police-
court, Birkenhead, a car driver named James Darbyshire,
was fined 205., or in default to be imprisoned 7 days, for
being drunk while driving his car.
LAUNCH.—On Saturday last, was launched from the
building-yard of Peter Cato and Co., a beautiful yacht,
of 34 tons, 0.M., and 25 tons N.M. She is called the
Echo, and was christened by the first and amiable daugh-
ter of John Miller, Esq., of Everton. We believe the
yacht is on sale.

NG-IN HOSPITAL.-On Sunday last, after a sermon
bliWe Rev. W. M. Falloon, the sum of £25 6s. 3d. was
collected in St. John's Church, in aid of the funds of this

excellent charity ; and, on the same day, the sum of
£42 18s. 9d. was collected at St. Mary's Church, Edge--
hill, after a sermon for the same charity by the Rev. W.
H. M'Grath.
DEATH FROM SCALDING.—On Tuesday, John Jones,

aged three-and-a-half years, and who resided with his
parents in Plasterer's Court, Ray-street, ran out of the
yard into the house, and accidentally upset a pan of hot
water that had just been lifted from the fire. He fell
down, and was so severely scalded that he died on Satur-

day morning.
LARGE DEPARTURE OF VESSELS FROM OUR PORT.—
On Tuesday last, a sight was witnessed in our river which
is rarely to he seen. In one tide no less than 128 ves-
sels, of which 45 were coasters, and the remainder bound
to foreign ports' 'went out to sea, a few towed beyond the
rock point, but the bulk with alicanvas set and a splendid
wind. The scene was one of lively interest—indeed of
great beauty. Many of the vessels were American, and
others of large class.
EXTINGUISHING FIRES.—The method of extinguish-
ing fires which was introduced some time ago into Liver-
pool by Mr. M'Donald, of the Harrington Water Works,
appears likely to be adopted in all the large towns
throughout the country. Experiments have been tried in
Manchester and Glasgow which have clearly demonstrated
the superiority of this method over the old system. In
Liverpool the insurance rates are about to be lowered
considerably
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lely in consequence of the gr

No greater boon could be conferred on this great
commercial community than the certainty of an almost
total exemption from those calamitous conflagrations

?roductive.of so much to

rid injury to

Mr. M'Donald gives it as his Opiiiion

ue encrg

;iced, arrangements may be completed which will render
le whole of the mercantile portion of the town virtually
ire-proof. When this is accomplished, we have no doubt

and Liverpool, instead of being considered as the most
combustible town in the world, will be famed only for her
scientific methods of conquering the devouring element.
SMUGGLING AT BIRKENHEAD.-011 Saturday last, the
first case of this offence since the opening of the Birken-
head Docks, came before Wm. Jackson, Esq., at the
Police-court, in that township. It appeared that police-
officer Jackson, No. 5, saw the prisoner, George Watson,
proceeding along the quay, with a jar in his liand. upon
questioning him concerning its contents, lie (the prisoner)
stated that he was-mate of. the Lord Warden, which had
just arrived from Kingston, Ireland, and that the jar con-
--• • ,
-- ---,him, the nolice-officer took him
of

The jar contained a little short of a gallon
of very strong liquor, worth about 16s. per gallon ; for
which he no permit. The magistrate told the prisoner
that he had made himself liable .to a penalty of £lOO.
The prisoner stated that he was a perfect stranger in Bir-
kenhead, and was never in Ireland previously •, he did not
know there was any duty on the article, and begged to
have the case remanded till Monday, in order that the
captain of the vessel should come forward to speak as to
his character and station on board. This was granted on
the condition that he would find bail, himself in £5O, and
two sureties in £25 each. No bail appearing, he was on
Monday brought before the magistrates, when he was
discharged. Mr. Jackson reprimanded him very severely,
telling him that he was a disgrace to the ship; and that
he (the magistrate) was determined to clear the town of
Birkenhead of smuggling, and make it as pure as the
other side of the water.
(10 hi MI T E NTs.—At the Police-court yesterday, a girl,
named limmeratte Brown, was committed for trial at the
Sessions, for attearing from her employers, Messrs. Whithorn
and Baker, of Oxford-street, an empty tin cash-box. It ap-
peared that she was in a state of intoxication when she com-
mitted Elie act.—Two men, Thomas Roydon and James Mason,
wese.also committed for trial, on a charge of having carried off
e sample of cotton from a warehouse near the quays,
Kit out leave of the owners.