The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-15 00:00:00

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Togarmati was. there with horses and Mules ; the ships of
Tarshish with silver, and iron, and tin, and lead; the men of
Dedan with ivory and ebony ; Arabia and all the princes of
Kedar were there with lambs, and rams, and goats ; the mer-
chants of Sheba and Rarnah were there with the chief of all
spices, and with all precious stones and gold. By her great
wisdom, and understanding, arid traffic, she had increased her
riches, and sat as a god in the midst of the seas. So she is
described. Of what consequence was it then to Tyre, a city
of such exalted riches, such splendour, such unbounded
commerce, that Herod, a poor petty prince in Palestine,
was highly displeased with her? But it was it seems of the
most urgent consequence, for they came with one accord,
and having made Blastus, the king's chamberlain, their
friend, they desired peace of the king. They besought or
implored peace as the expression signifies. This was a most
mortifying position for such a city as Tyre to be reduced to,
but the reason, and a most sufficient reason, is assigned in
the close of the verse, "because their country was nourished
by the king's country." " Their country was nourished by
the kings oountry, —they were indebted to Herod for their
wheat—they had no home-grown corn. (Hear, hear, and
cheers.) Vain their riches, vain their broidered manufac-
tures of exquisite workmanship, vain their precious stones,
vain all their merchandise, vain all their pomp and glory—
they had no home-grown wheat—(hear, hear) ;—and when
Herod, a poor petty prince of Palestine, was angered, the
mighty city of Tyre came as a suppliant to him to implore
peace! (Immense cheering.)
Gentlemen electors of Liverpool !—(loud cheers)—if you
desire to see your country in the attitude of a suppliant at
he ports of the Baltic or of the Black Sea ; if you desire to
hasten the time so poetically anticipated when an artist from
New Zealand shall sit upon the last mouldering arch of Lon-
don-bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's ; if you desire to
see the humiliation, the starvation, the final ruin of your
country, you have only to cause her to be nourished by some
other country—you have only to repeal the tak that secutes
you home-grown wheat ! (Loud and long cheering.) But
if you wish to keep your mother strong and healthy, as well
as richly at!ired and tastefully adorned—if you wish to keep
England the, arbitress of nations, as well as the mistress of
the seas—if you wish to have her independent in peace, and
in a reedy preparation for war, (the best attitude to secure
the continuance of peace,) then let her he self-nourished—
self-nourished as to wheat, self-nourished England—(tre-
mendous applause)—receiving supplies, indeed, when occa-
sional circumstances require it from without, but still
substantially self-nourished. (Renewed cheers.) Gentle-
men! cultivate English and Irish wheat, and cultivate a
state of mind which derives more pleasure from contempla-
ting an English or an Irish field of wheat than a
French, or Dutch, or Polish, or Russian field. They
are all very well, but none of them are England. (Tremen-
dous bursts of applause.) I love the word England, in-
cluding as it does the united empire. (Hear, hear.) Is it
lawful to have a preference for England? (Cries of " yes,
yes.") Surely it is ; a preference for every thing English
becomes an Englishman. (Applause.) Is it lawful to have
a preference for English manufactures ? doubtless it is so.
Is it praiseworthy to take a greater interest in the prosperity
of English than in the prosperity of continental cotton mills ?
Are they desirous of competing with the continental manu-
facturer ? To be sure they are, and it is right they should,
and we are aiding them when we cultivate the great interests
of England, and every thing English—English manufactures,
English machinery, English commerce, English sailors, ready
and prepared for every occasion, and every enterprise alike of
bravery and humanity, English navy, English army, English
church—(tremendous applause)—English constitution, secur-
ing the splendour and prerogatives of the crown, the dignity
and hereditary possessions of the nobles, and the liberties
and security of the people. (Enthusiastic burst of applause.)
English oxen, and sheep, and hogs, and poultry,—yes, and
the best, safest, and most nutritious food for all these, EN-
GLISH CORN ! (Immense cheers.) 0 ! gentlemen, be not
deceived by the new-fashioned cant of cosmopolitan liberal-
ism, as if patriotism had become a prejudice ! (Hear, hear,
hear.) No; cultivate patriotism in wheat. (Cheers.) Pa-
triotism in wheat ! (Renewed cheers.) Instead of looking
upon patriotism as a prejudice, cultivate all that is dear to
England—yes, and make the welkin ring with the cheers of
honest hearts and hands and tongues for old England—for
OLD HOME-FED ENGLAND! (Most enthusiastic
burst of applause.) Gentlemen, I told you long ago that
the day of action was come. We are going to have a general
election. (A voice, "We are ready !") This question that
I have been speaking to you about will be the grand war-
horse. You will have extraordinary statements, such as are
contained in these tracts, put forward in defence of—who?
(Hear, hear.) There are already candidates proposed in this
town; two you are sure of—(cheers)—our present represen-
tative, and no mistake. (Much applause.) Who are their
opponents ? We thought they had two, a noble lord and a
knight; but the noble lord is what the old Romans called
non est inventus—he is not forthcoming. The knight, how.
ever, has come forward in an address. It would not become
me to utter any comment upon the classical taste, or the
liberal sentiments of that address; you must judge of that
as best you may for yourselves; and I should not be sur-
prised that more of you are able to judge of such matters
than he supposes, advocate though he is of " national edu-
cation" in capital letters. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) You
have learned something of what was meant by " national
education." It is one room in which all sorts are to be put
—to give as much of geography, and astronomy, and arith-
metic, and reading, and spelling, as they can till three
o'clock—then from three till four there is a scatteration, in
order that in the separate parts there may be a little Unita-
rianism, a little Popery, a little Independency, a little Church
of Englandism, and a little Quakerism, and anything else.
(Hear.) This is the English of the capital letters " Na-
tional Education," in the knight's address. But I have no
doubt you will hear something more on this subject when
our noble representatives come among you. (Hear.) They
are coining to speak to you upon this point, and upon other
things connected with the approaching parliament. You
should bear in mind now, that the good of the community—
not of a particular class—and the prosperity of England
hands upon the coming election. (Hear, bear.) There
never was a period before when the executive government
made the repeal of the corn-laws a cabinet question ; there
never was a period before when the executive government
roused the passions of the people, and dissolved the parlia-
ment upon that question. (Hear, hear.) It is as wilful an
attempt to cause revolutionary madness, with all its conse-
quent mischiefs to the country, as men could make. (Hear,
hear.) We trust the people of England have good sense
enough not to be roused by any such attempt, but that they
will take a lesson from the respectable workmen I have read
Abont„Tohn Guest and Benjamin Powell; mind their own
business, and not agitate for their masters' pockets ! (Im-
mense and prolonged cheering, during which the reverend
and eloquent gentleman resumed his seat.)
The Rev. J. BAYLEE moved the first resolution.
The Rev. D. JAMES seconded it; and, in putting it, the
rev. CHAIRMAN strongly exhorted his operative friends to
exert themselves in maintaining peace during the whole pe-
riod of the election. The resolution was unanimousl,
adopted.

The Ray. W. W. EWBANK moved the second resolution
which was ably seconded by the Rev. FIELDING OULD, anc
supported by Mr. ALEXANDER SMITH, jun.
The CHAIRMAN then addressed the meeting in some ap.
propriate remarks on their duties as Protestants.
The proceedings concluded by the singing of a Doxology,
and a blessing having been pronounced, the meeting separated.