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 somt passages in a previous
speech of Lord Lincoln:— _ _

"The Secretary at War had taunfed them by saying,,
that notwithstanding the fears which were said to exist is
reference to this change, there were no county meetings.
He should have thought that, seated as the right boa.
gentleman was by the side of his noble friend the Seat=
tarn for Ireland, that would have been a delicate subieen.
(A.laugh.) There was nn man knew better than his noble
frientl what were the views of the counties on this subject;
There was everything in the character of his noble friend
to gain for him that respect and confidence which in pri-
vate life every man entertained for him ; and not only hie
private but his public life well entitled him to be almost
the master of Northamptonshire; and there was-oot a
man in that county who was not proud to follow him-
(l-,ear.) But had there not been an election for South
Nottinghamshire? (Hear.) Who gained that election?
Was it not the tenant farmers? (Hear.) All the per-
sonal regard felt in Nottinghamshire f r his noble friend,
all the money spent in Nottinghamshire by his noble
(rend (' Hear, hear,' from the Earl of Lincoln) had beeps
of no avail to him (' Hear, hear,' from the Earl of Lie-
caln). He did not mean to charge his noble friend witL.
bribery (' Hear, hear,' frnm the Earl of Lincoln); but dial
the noble lord mean to deny that it was a most expensive
election ? (' Hear,' and a laugh.)
"The Earl of l3v the rules of the house /
not allowed to speak ; but 1 have a full answer to the
noble lord.

" Lord G. Bentinck resumed by vying 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, hear.) But did not every-.
body know that every agent in Nottinghamshire wee en-
gaged for his noble friend? (Lou" cries of Hear'). Not-
tinghamshire was taken by surprise ; but, notwithstanding,
the tenant farmers of Nottinghamshire carried the county
against his noble friend by a majority of GOO or 700; and
were they to have set against that majarity a majority of
some 20 electors of Hamilton, who had swamped all the.
other burghs of the district ? South Nottinghamshire had
pronounced its opinion. Had not North Nottinghamshire
done the same, and Dorsetshire too? Who was better ea-
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 he had maintained his principles ? But Englishmen were
true at heart—(hear)—and they hated tergiversation ;they
hated broken pledges; they did not like to be betrayed ;
but when he recollected that his noble friend (the Earl of
Lincoln), at the preceding election for South Nottingham-
shire, on the hustings at New,.rk, 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 humhug of a dying faction.'
(Loud cries of 'hear, hear.') Was it the protecticrn:nt
party who had agitated the public mind ? Was it they
who bad drilled the public mind, and taught them that.
cheap bread was a fallacy, a fraud, and a delusion on the-
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 !or 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-coa►s at the beck of her Majesty's
Prime Minister. The people of England had that aver-
sion to political vaecillatiou and political immosistency,
or tergiversation that, as Burke, be thought it „as said,
' They thought that a man to be 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. ouly fit to show by
his versatility the last shifting of the passing gale.'
(Great cheering )
The noble secretary's "full answer," couched. in very
passionate language, was merely a challenge to Lord
George to try the experiment of an action against him for
bribery.
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wash
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h e workmen vrih
public ic differences.ba th s and
have lost in wages £15,000.
near the London Docks, have
been open about II months.
for the use of the very poor; and though the accom.
modations there are so limited, that sometimes nearlr.
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.
Thirty-seven vessels arrived in the river Thames sad
different dock establishments in the port of London ca
Friday, and reported at the Custom-house from different
parts 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 West Indies :and'
different places in that distant quarter.
IMPROVEMENTS.—We understand that the tenants of
all the houses in Dale-street, from the corner of Nortk. ,
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 dilapidated,
will be 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 an 3 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
communication from her future lord end master, inform-
ing her—not that he had bought the wedding ring, or
taken a house, or furnished it, or provided trinkets for
the happy occasion—these would have been only ordinary
attentions, and our swain was resolved to be more thaa
ordinary in the nature of his preparations for the coming
event and for its, contingencies. Perhaps he had insured
his life? No, be hadn't. He had been more considerate
still. He had enrolled his future wife in a burial club!
EMBEZZLEMENT.—A respectably-dressed matt,, named
Benjamin Martin, was yesterday charged before the RI
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 warehruseman, &c., of Mr. Forshaw, an estate
agent, who has business premises in Frederick-street..
Mr. F. had occasional denlings with Messrs. Etches and..
Wilson, of Prices-street. and had lately sold them some
hay. Oa Thursday, the 7tl, ios ant, 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 h'gher company than he ought to have was
the cause." The sum of £2 18s. was found upon him,
and he had on an apparently new suit of clothes. He de-
clined to say anything in the court, and was oimmitted
for trial at the sessions.

THE WEATHER.—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 lee-
way
in vegetation occasioned by the cold of March and
April, which last was marked by some rather unusual ..
severities, with easterly winds. On Tuesday afternoon.-:
a heavy rain fell, and we have since had u 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 ccurse, accompanied by n
westerly wind, which is always the most kindly for the
On Sunday forenoon, a consider--
they were very
ca
rank that forward,
and
loots N
well.'i
able fall of hail took place, but was only partial in extent-
crops on this island.
The weather has since been extremely fine and shunt..
Thes tan cw The country already presents, in all rural districts in this
neighbourhood, a charming flush of what may be called
delicate.
sheep have been turned in to shorten the blade. The
spring corn is also very promising ; and we have seen
some fine-locking potatoes. In the gardens, the blosscoa •
elrg I
h verdure.
i n some i
n:s 'e al
er
augurs a weighty return of fr nit. The grass in the hay-
fields was never, we think, more forward at this season.
Even the tardy oak is putting forth its lenfy honours. '
We find that on Sunday forenoon a heavy hail-storm was '
experihreed at Windsor, Slimy, accompanied by thunder
and lightning, and that a lady and gentlenian, who acre
overt ken by the storm while riding in their phaeton.
n-ar Wingfield, were thrown out end sey_tcAlv,Aiereiv-s -
V e horse having taken fri, lt at the lit AlrsgrwllithrYus • I
extrenetly vivid arid alarn ig. ,- -- --'''': -
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A musical composer beiez asked it ItC bqa-n- a"'
th ttg lately, replied that his !tuft work,ll7l. s-+ c_oiii:piagi !ion,
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NOTICES.

Cur Free Trade Policy Examined. By a Livetriool
itlerelant. London : Wh:ttoker and Co.; Liverpool :
Lacy and Adoison, a,,d W. Grapcl. .

mune our extrac.s from tli;s welldimed pamphlet;
.st quote the views of the writer with respect to the
iri„„ of the labouring masses under the operation of
Jta,ed manufactures and depressed agriculture :
` A reduction of the reward of manufacturing labour I
/twelve to the natural, the immediate, and the inevi-
slile result of the ministerial measures, or of any mea-
sues, which tend to divert industry from other branches
a eatploymrnt. and to direct it towards manufacturing
Trarssits. The immediate connexion of the price of labour
will the pric? of food I do not choose at present to dis-
cuss. I could even aff trd to throw it overboard alto-
gether; and le4V• Sir Robert Peel and his ministerial and
stAircolical will. a to make the most of their elaborately
'lnd cunningly selected figures and data. There is a natu-
tn:vafris decline in the wages paid in all ma-
'l lie exvrience of the last twenty-
.B in neatly every hortirch of manufactures has
witness to the fact. 1n all cases it may not be
rgly Yatparent from the money amount paid to each
..five for his week's labour ; tut where this is so it
t be borne in mind that the same operative now per-
.ns three sod even Jour linos the work which be did
tsame remuneration 21) years ago. Where the cot-
on spinoff formerly attended to 690 spindles only, be at-
AthWs vow to 2400. Where th power-loom weaver was
arty able to attend one loom, he attends now to two anti
'even three, and the-e working at increased speed. In
every branch of manufat tures. human labour we find is
being-year by year more cconom z-d, and the productive
power of the mere machine enormously increased.
"The obvious result of this feature in our manufactur-
ing system is to diminish its power of providing for the
enrol .vm-nt of the people in proportion to the increased
ismount of manufactures produced. For instance, we
,uported trout the United Sta es, to be worked up into
't ant gunsla, it. 1822, cotton to the extent of 329,906
In 1845 we imported onwards of four times that
saloon?, or 1,499,600 bales. Now, will any man assert
lesat in the latter year •he cotton trade of the kingdom
anwded profitable employment to four times the number
qE operatives, nr paid four times the wages that it did in
the tormer ? Certainly no man would be so hardy.' But
if this cannot be said of the gross amount of the cotton
manufacture, includine of course that most valuable por-
tion of it. c nsisting of the fin-st and fully perfected fab-
lies consumed in the home market, far less can it be said
-e the coarse and low-priced fabrics which principally
rman-7se our foreign trade. In 1841 we exported
166 94ii.452 yarns of pl.io calicoes. In 1842 we exported
y 4.040,519, whil-t in 1843 our exports of the same fabric
sprung op to 520,011.635 t nrds, and last year they were
613,138,645 yard-. Dot our hand-loom arid power-loom
weavers Licrease in the ratio of 61 to 36 between 1845 and
1144 I or dril they increase in the ratio of 52 to 36 between
1.842 and 1843? Th. y did no such thing. We heard of
me extensive migration from the agricultural to the manu-
facturing districts in those year.. There was a sudden
expaosion of the demand ; but the manufacturing districts
-were able to mm--t it without any material addition to their

futurLig pursuits

g stock of labour
a a far her increase of exports as is predicted as the
result of Fr,'e 'f rade I admit may nroduce such an in-
aessed demand for labour as may for a while check the
4ownward tendency of wages. But mark the changed
Circumstances into which the nation will have fallen ! We
shall have have redut:,cl the reward of agricultural indus-
try. We shall have diminished the temptation to in-
yeased agricultural enterprise. for I hold with Sir Howard
Douglas that tt seems a strange proposition, and one
ermairary to all experience, toto the way to encourage the
produeti ,n of artmi• s of any kind is to exeose that branch
&industry to unequal edmpetit on." By the same pro-
Aess we shall have clerked emigr,tion to our colonies;
lawd thus thrown an additional number of hands upon the
pursue lab )ur market. These must of necessity press into
tat" manufacturing districts fur employment; and political
ocanotnisls tell us that it is the pruportion of the supply
demand tor any commodity which regulates its
We know what was the effect of the irruption of
tper populaiion of the sou•hern counties into the
- districts, which took place in 1835 and
, from the I. tt,-rs of Mr. Greg and Mr.
Secretary of the I'o ,r Law Commission-
ed-- thz., to reduce wag-s. The
k)Don--nroved by a parliamen-
been siths'sting upon 21d. per
1 10 per cent, ; and the
to addition of a potato
symptom of approach-
.
) rit,nufacturing prose e•ity, which the rnachi-
Somer,et House was to bt! put in ol.eration to
We know how successful was the effort made

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n to ha

poor wr a

wtile spread ~uff-ring and wretchedness which were
1, when at len,th a period of manufacturing pros-
eded to the few years of active prosperity
duc-ri the effort to 'equalise,' as the phrase
ctu ring with agricultural prices of • labour.
e never yet heard from offieial sources how many
en thousand of the agricultural pauper population
d the hom->s which they had been seduced to leave,
aurd the f-ver and pestilence of the
cturul towns and villages,

Wait on

linost depopWa

mely graves

....ren the attecultural and the ma-
uling I tbuurtr, but upon a noire extensive scale,
,ore earnest, roost inevitably follow the
of tie piesetit nit asure, it is intended to fol-
Manufpetur,is are to absorb the dispossessed
the coo -t ; and, me,sitring their capability by
a laid down above, there can remain little doubt
labour will very soon become out of all
a the demand fur it. I have no doubt that
adrrs contemp!ate the ordeal tbrough which
ring community is thus to pess with consider-
%oily. They calculate that they will have a
-anvil.- the labourer 'o hit reduced amount

labour of the court, r

car
atil
ttb ear loaf to r

e made, and the induce-