The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-21 00:00:00

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—.(nately to cease ; on that
_ie there has been no alteration. Instead, however, of
f the existing protection
'owth, it will be proposed
immediately commence.
-. winch has been shown to us, the
on foreign sugar will for the ensuing twelve.
Ath be about 218.. and the protective duty will finally
..pire at the end of five years, when all the sugars of all
he world will be admitted on the 14s. duty, to which our
-ar is now subject."

a three years' maintenance c

st foreign sugar

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It is of little use to attempt further confutation of
he absurd falsehoods levelled by our Whig-Radical
contemporaries against his Worship the Mayor.
____ share of objurgation which has fallen upon
ourselves, we treat with the most profound con-
tempt. We are neither the hired nor the prompted
advocates of the Mayor; and we should be sorry—
we should be ashamed—to be numbered amongst
the tools of his or any other man's personal ene-
mies. Our contemporaries, however, are laying
themselves open to the latter supposition. People
are asking, Whence this rabid persecution of the
chief magistrate of our town ? There is obviously
a sore somewhere or other. Whig-Radicalism is
offended, for some cause, or no cause. His worship
has, perhaps, not invited to his table this or that

Whig-Radical member of the fourth estate. Some
people are fond of dining out—fond of turtle—of
Town-hall cookery and Corporation wines. Some
may be fond of spouting their own praises on such
and all available occasions. The main question,
however, presses,—Whence all this rage against an
individual gentleman, invested with a high office,
upon an occasion so interesting as the visit of the
husband of our gracious Sovereign to this town ?
It is inexplicable to men of ordinary information.
Those who are behind the scenes can easily enough
answer it.

It galls the Whig Radical faction in Liverpool
that a Protestant and Tory mayor should have the
ace of dispensing the hospitality of the town to
Everybody understands that; and,
organs are finding fault with the

val visitor.

children, t.

arrangements of the coming entertainment. The
quarrel is about as dignified as would be the ire of
an old Tabby, because she had been set down, at an
evening party, with the blue china, instead of the
green and gold. The whole thing is shameful—
nay, degrading. Surely, there are times when we
can afford to throw mere party to the winds; and
such a time, we should imagine, would be the occa-
sion which is approaching. There is a difference,
however, in tastes. Whig Radicalism has strange
notions of propriety and of decency. We are to
have party fights in the very presence of royalty;
and a condescension of the husband of the sovereign
is to he made the opportunity for a display of party
bitterness and vulgar vituperation.
We are confident that the Mayor will emerge
triumphantly from the cloud of imputations brought
against him. We can assure the gentlemen who
are devoting their weak wits and their weaker pens
to the odious task of vilifying him, that they cannot
warn honour—we fear, scarcely their own heart's
approbation—from the course which they are pur-
, nay disgust their fellow-townsmen.
They cannot effect, what they are striving for, any
diminution of the honour, or the pleasure, which
his royal highness's presence amongst us will confer
upon loyal men and good subjects.

suinff,

A few hours will probably put us in pos
of the views of ministers with respect to the sugar
duties ; and, if any conclusion can be drawn from
the hesitation displayed in propounding them, we
may anticipate an early crisis of the new govern-
rneut upon this question. A spirited opposition
must be directed against any proposal to submit
the produce of our sugar growing colonies to open
competition in our markets with the produce of

slave-importing. countries; and if, as is most pro-
bable, any considerable section of the followers of
Sir Robert Peel refuse to go the length of Lord
John Russell and the ultra free traders, an imme-
diate dissolution of parliament is the next step in
the drama. The inquiry therefore suggests itself—
upon what principles is the battle to be fought be-
fore the constituencies ?
The question involved in the settlement of the
sugar duties is obviously too narrow a ground for a
great constitutional struggle. The whole question
of protection to native and colonial industry might
have formed such a ground ; but this isolated rem-
nant of it cannot be made a test of the opinions of