The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-04-10 00:00:00

In the first place it comes befo
lnape in which it was oria

we can cm.

course are,

~ • .-....• au /MO Ueen
. .
rith respect to a nation, portions by the parental hand.
iption of foreign pro- which distinguished it from its
-doh it can export, or cessor of last vp.-
take, in return ? Oh- trad-

'air pro

. strangled prede
year,—the opening of the coasting
he result of an additional twelve month,

he same

rt our foreign stocks, mort- 1ii,,....._
description we may powers of the ..
1
..., .acrifice, to make upon. We are pi- . .a give toem
Anus the diminution of capital shillings in the pound of what we offered.
ad its actual amount, by the con- Again, of what section of the House can the bill
cessions required to be made to find buyers for our as it now stands be said to embody the precise
realized property; just as the individual spend- opinions? It does not embody those of the majo-
thrift, who has overlived his years' income, has to rity who voted for the second reading. Its retalia-
send his furniture or his horses to the auctioneers, tion clause is objected to by the ultra free traders.
or to do a little bill with an accommodating Jew. A portion of the Peel-Conservative section are in
It cannot be said that the loss of fifty millions of favour of a conditional reciprocity; and another
the capital of this country was anything like the section of the majority maintain that it is unjust to
amount sacrificed during the recent commercial the ship-building classes, unaccompanied by the
crisis.
repeal of the duties on all the raw materials used
Most assuredly this is not what was promised us, in building. The only divisions in onmm;44.,- ----

y the demands j the negotiate

d on durin‘

gages, or property of whatex
have most easily aN

presentatives of the mar

up the remair

is increased

as the resul

p;
nor is it the result which ought to have beenulle exy-
perienced. Whatever might have been the effect
of continued large importations of foreign grain
and other products upon domestic industry, at all
events the exports of the country ought to be in-
creased, rather than diminished. Ann ;n 44,

orld cannot therefore he d

only five

themselve

wvisions tretvveen the majority
upon any of these the Protectionist party
have inflicted upon the authors of the bill a crushintr
defeat. How these conflicting Op,-

)s a mystery to us at present

but if

I read-

'here is

sisteney in statesmen—any sense of ordinar
Pnnyr L • •

)ur exp

1, was in a great

ave a righ

to look to numerous
from the ministerial ranks, and, if any at
) only a very small majority in favour of the

ble i f

In the m

what demonstrations in its
~tr have been made out of doors? Where are
cue numerous petitions which were to have loaded
ree the table of the House of Commons ? We 11 vra

i the Mancheste

ying for sig

nature for a

cuctveU at
length something under four hundred. signatures.
The drum political, notwithstanding allthe anti-corn
law machinery. wnq }lna+ 41_4. •

;y in vair

y, was cond

ion, got up
emnatory of the bill as it now

sor grain could And from the foreigner, what assurances hal.
question whether we received of a desire to imitwtwrs„.. a 4.1„.

nder its proper head

ity, in

uur,iirowing down one of the most
efficient supports
ieg a.
all ex- of our national strength and prosperity? Non-
al awe paid On the contrary, the most flattering hope held
d an native to us of reciprocity from the govt..thp TT ••

Aseu i Uni
ased I Am

ti stat

pudiat

1 no tern

ave an end

ho was not eith

porarily to exceed

Priding themse

marine, dept

....uletii uouncii, under the leadership of a iren cur cusFussion anti comment,
after they hadiieenl7a'
;lelicill
eiotmweoupe be endless
oanndthaemre
ig:Radical placeman, was obliged to come to the work. The accounts of eacYll committee come
le. The opinions of men of sewers and drains, pyoittstsemdt, rtd that is the time to make any comment on
after that you cannot do so without a spe-
ng and lighting, scavenging and street cleans- cial mogtionpoefatsg Council. After they are passed, the onlys,
were the offering of NlArloh 4. i Ref.,. ~ —..: A_., i thing you can deal with is to shew whether an itFn ~ ii. ~,

r- Aoe iowN-cLEax then read the 4th, the 126th, and the 127th
sections of the Water Works Act, the latter of which enacted
h that an abstract of the accounts should be regularly placed be-
fore the borough Recorder, and that he, upon the annlicatifl,-, ~e

~ ...,,,caviliil tll
•,.
any two ratepayers, was bound to appoint an auditor to examine
these accounts.
Mr. H

BORD submitted that he only requested that
(that`.,...

upon the same foot-

ny of the burge
Mr. BENNETT understood, that although the major part of
Recounts had been passed in detail, yet they never were before
the Council as a whole before—as be then held them in his
hand.

‘,„.-- mat 'nese accounts were in a great
measure madel up to January last, and approved of at the time
,ached from our lips. of Council, so if he (Mr. B.) went into them now it
...—Anantly the assurances con- would not much, as they were all paid and discharged.
eyed
Mr. G. LAWRENCE objected to any discussion eyed to us by her charge d'Affaires, Mr. Bancroft; these accounts now. It was a case quite analogous tochtZ
,on and Lord Palmerston, through whom they were Finance Committee's accounts, and if they were to be brm,o4,.
fhe made, ought to have known tinit

rigin so to pledge a government, whose knc
mid have supplied policy was opposed to that by which he
COUita
It their just level. appointed: N
mil,o one, in fact, who n
- tie could not allow him to go,
into the matter, whether the par-
The blind, or dishonest, could imagine that the United I liamentary expenses were too much or too little, right or
Ives upon their commercial I wrong.

Tne MAYOR said he laid it downos a rule, that Mr. Bennett
is I could not open up the discussion of the items, because it would
to a further discussi- - -

- ....., ~,,....ITIOII of their ,—..... . proceeuea TO say that the first matteg on
Scott Tel= to which he would refer was the report of A
power, and possessing a seaboard ofto his own duties and, the duties of the Ir.
under him. With regard to this point, he had merely ternobn
and miles, washed both by the Atlantic that if those dudes had been performed in the way in
and Pacific, could be tempted -to such suicidal wseaceh Mr. Scott reported that they ought to be performed
policy by any offers we could make them. there would have been no cause for the Council to complain.'
ladridietxot refer to the report of Mr. Harbord and himself,
The very principle of the Navigation Laws of the wiliet would
gowe.irftecweonutlaiet,firnesicicinnjgctio.n,lvith Mr. New-
United States, which are based upon our own, land, tgGlac
of the ---- --ich euriccealuil tieing, mutle. Adier_l(2a cit. that in l'annary lagt Mr Nient tom tte,,,Vnths2 <,
2 COO tons of iron pipes ready there for delivery.
. has hpp cri grr591.....1 --, _ _ .9 ' 9 •

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