The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-02-06 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS,

In the letter on the currency signed " Solvens," in our last,
there were one or two typographical errors. At the close of
the seventh paragraph, the word " without " should have
been omitted ; and about the middle of the ninth, the word
" conveyed" ought to have been printed " evinced."
We do not think that the letter of " M. G." contains any ma-
terial argument which has not already been often brought
forward.
We received yesterday a letter signed by two respectable phy-
sicians, correcting in several particulars the statements in
the Meremj relative to the cases of cholera in this town ;
but as the public are now pretty well satisfied what claim
Dr. Hawthorne has to the high-sounding titles which our
contemporary is so forward to award him, we could not, on
account of its late arrival, find room for it. Our correspon-
dents thus conclude their letter :—" The ilfereniw's pet doc-
tor has had a case such as we call cholera, and failed to cure
it; and we now leave the editor to draw his own inference,
and arraign the medical men of Liverpool as he may think
fit at his moral court as moral murderers,' and to repeat
his request that the public would make those serious reflec-
tions which the subject calls for. Dr. Duncan saw this case,
and also the other fatal cases in Liverpool, and can readily
be appealed to whether Dr. Hawthorne's patient or the five
others had the best chance of recovery. All the fatal cases
which we have seen were in a hopeless state of collapse when
, first visited—such a state as Dr. Hawthorne cannot cure, we
feel confident, from what we have lately witnessed."
We are requested to state that the marriage mentioned in our
last as having taken place on the 21st ult., at St. George's
:M.* John assis*ant-overseer of Garston,
er of the lute Mr. Edward Mercer,
o such marriage having taken

of Gariton: is incorrect,—
place.

The gentleman who moved the last resolution at the Con-
federation meeting, yesterday week, was Mr. Charles Callis,
and not Mr. Kelly as we stßtPd.

Abe Etbtrpool gPtanbarb.

TUESDAY

MORNING, FEB. 6, 1849

OUR anticipations, as to the probable policy of
Government, during the session just commenced,
are fully borne out by the speech from the Throne.
Another assault is to be made upon the Navigation
Laws, which, without a sbadOw of proof, beyond
the culled evidence of a packed committee, are as-
sumed to stand in the way of the national prospe-
rity. Her Majesty is made to say of them—" I
again commend to your attention the restrictions
imposed on commerce by the Navigation Laws. If
you shall find that these laws are, in whole or in
part, unnecessary for the maintenance of our mari-
time power, while they fetter trade and industry, you
will, no doubt, deem it right to repeal, or modify,
their provisions." _

Nothing can be much more direct and sweeping
than the condemnation here dealt out against a
system, under the operation of which this country
has maintained herself as the first maritime power
in the world, and consolidated a colonial empire,
greater in extent and resources than ever acknow-
ledged sovereignty to one throne in ancient or mo-
dern times. It is not enough that we have already
thrown open our markets to the competition of the
world; that at the very hour when this speech was
being placed in the hands of our Sovereign, the
Leaguers in Manchester were celebrating the con-
summation of a measure which, for the first time
for centuries, laid the agricultural industry of Great
Britain prostrate at the feet of the foreign grower
of breadstuffs; and this without the slightest reci-
procal concession having been received or expected.
We must go on headlong in our suicidal liberality;
and hand over to the foreigner our carrying trade
Majesty says that all this is to be
slature finds that the Navigation
ary for the maintenance of our
We should think there can be

as w(
done,
Aws

f" the 1

unnece

maritime power

ittle question as to what will be the fate of
time supremacy, after we shall have handed
over our colonial and foreign trade, and shipbuild-
ing, and every other branch of a business, which
gives (