The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-28 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION

The Annual Meeting of this Association will take place
on Monday next. Mr. Ker, of Norwich, who re-
cently had a most important correspondence with the
Bishop who presides over that See, is expected to be
present. The LIVERPOOL STANDARD of the fol-
lowing day will contain a verbatim Report of the
Speeches, and a copious detail of the proceedings.
Our Country Agents requiring any extra copies are
requested to give us timely notice ; (rad any parties
wishing for copies of the paper, may obtain them by

THREATENED INCREASED RESTRICTIONS
UPON OUR TRADE WITH THE UNITED STATES.

On Monday week Mr. T. Thornely, a gentleman who is
well known to our readers, delivered himself, in the House

of Commons, of a speech upon the subject of the corn laws;
and as Mr. Thornely's late position, as the partner of an ex-
tensive mercantile firm in Liverpool, entitles his opinions
and facts to somewhat more consideration than we would

concede to those of the lay or clerical illuminati, who figure

upon the boards of the Manchester Corn Exchange, we feel

inclined to bestow a few remarks upon a portion of the
speech in question, and the more especially as the mercantile
experience of the speaker was largely paraded on the occasion.

The member for Wolverhampton reminded the house, that
in December in the present year the customs' tariff of the
United States would expire, and assured us that unless the
measures of the corn law repealers were adopted, and the
corn of America admitted for consumption in our markets,
the legislature of that country were prepared, in settling their
new tariff, to adopt measures of increased and discriminatory
restriction against the commerce of Great Britain. Such an
intimation from a gentleman known to have been largely en-
gaged in American commerce. and presumed to be acquainted
with the course of American opinion, is sufficiently start-
ling ; and yet we venture to say it is one which very few men,
with the exception of Mr. T. D. Thornely, would take upon
themselves to make, and we altogether doubt that he can
warrant it by one tittle of evidence.

Has the government of the United States ever ventured to
single out Great Britain as the object against whom restric-
tion is to be directed in the way intimated by Mr. Thornely
Have we any evidence, beyond the tittle tattle of commer_

mercial correspondence, that such a feeling towards us is en-
tertained by any large portion of the people of that country ?

Most assuredly not ; and we much question whether the ma-
nufacturing states of America themselves, the only suppor-
ters of restrictive duties, would not gladly see the renewal of
the tariff in its present form, and do not rather dread than
invite discussion upon it. By its operation their rising na-
tive manufactures are largely and efficiently protected, and
but for the embittered feeling which whig statesmanship has
allowed to grow up towards us in the minds of the American
people, we are firmly of opinion that the time has arrived
when we might have looked for large concessions towards
our commerce from America, rather than for measures of
increased restriction.

On the supposition, however, that the feelings of the Ame-
rican governmentitowards us are as described by the member
for Wolverhampton—that the known hostility of the southern
states towards a restrictive tariff (which in 1832 so fearfully
advanced the progress of the nullification question) can be
surmounted, and a tariff with increased restrictions carried
through the legislature—what lessn ought such an event to
read to the government of this country? Why manifestly

this—that before making such concessions as we are called
upon to make towards America,'hy throwing open to her our
markets for corn, it would be prudent to see that she is pre-

pared to make to our commerce similar concessions. We
have thrown open to the merchants and people of the United
States, during the present session of parliament, valuable
colonial markets. What have we got from the American
government in return ? Nothing. We have thrown. open
to the people of the United States a valuable lumber
trade with the West Indies, hitherto enjoyed by our own
North American colonists, besides the supply of those
markets with provisions, such as fish, beef, pork, &c.,
hitherto furnished by our own countrymen in North
America and in Ireland. And we have received in return
only a threat that unless we concede more, our commerce
is to he singled out for restriction. But are we told even

that in the event of our receiving the surplus corn of the
United States, their present almost prohibitory tariff will be
relaxed ? Not at all. America will receive all our conces-
sions, as instalments—as certain other gentlemen at home
receive them,—t6 be enabled the better to extort ultimately
the whole of her demands. She will make no concession
herself, but the utmost favour our commerce is to expect at
her hands is toleration!

Now, with all due deference to Mr. Thornely's superior
information, we much question if the United States are just
now in a position to make from us any such dictatorial de-
mand as he has placed in the mouth of their government.
Of all the people in the world the Americans have the least
right to complain of the commercial advantages which they
enjoy, not only in their relation with Great Britain, but with
other countries, when it is borne in mind how little they
afford in return. We believe that the people of this country
generally are not aware of the actual mode in which the
Ametican tariff presses upon the industry of Foreign states
which trade with her—that her tariff is, in fact, as against
manufacturing countries, one which ought to make herself
the object of retaliatory measures of restriction, and which
would do so, ikit was not eminently tricky and deceptive in
its form. The enlightened portion of the American people
arc quite aware of this fact, and will scarcely thank Mr.
Thorneley or the anti-corn-law league for bringing it too
prominently before the public, at a moment when its agita-
tion may be rather inconvenient than otherwise. We our-
selves, however, are rather obliged to those gentlemen, and
shall endeavour, on an early opportunity, to throw a little
light upon a subject which is eminently fitted for the serious
consideration of the people on both sides of the Atlantic, at
the present moment in particular.

may be necessary to state, that the following inscriptiot
bas only just been written.]

THIS BAND-BOX
contains the ashes of old
EGERTON BOTT.
With consummate impudence for years he edited
THE MERCURY.

He possessed few abilities and transcendent egotism,
. and his worth may be estimated
by experience and the evidence of facts:
That for a quarter of a century he has been the
laughing-stock and butt of the
TOWN OF LIVERPOOL.
He was the advocate of free trade and the donkeys
at Scacombe ;

.e was the opponent of Conservatism, which has increased
The patron of the Swimming Bath,

which still exists a memorial of his love of cleanliness.
To the Night Asylum he was professed protector.
During his editorship the Mercury exhibited great twaddle
The paragraphs childish and sloppy—the
articles vapourish and dull ;
The respectability of the Press was desecrated, and
the broad sheet converted to disseminate
QUACK ADVERTISEMENTS ;

'he brass in his face was constantly reflected in his columns,
which abounded in frequent plagiarisms from himself;
He raked up the ashes of his own defunct jokes
and resuscitated worn-out pleasantries.
His knowledge was immense :
With him novelty was impossible,
as he had always at hand
PRECEDENTS.
Unhappily

Newton, Bacon, Galileo, Raleigh, Watt, and Joseph Miller,

lived before him ;
or he would have outvied them in their magnificent career !
lie assisted by his deep researches in bringing into notice

THE KIELO

Under his personal superintendence, great improvements

were effected in -
The SPINNING TOP and the KITE

his litimmings like the first, and his flights like the second,

were notorious

He was the author of that excellent and popular work,
TIIE ELYSIUM OF ANIMALS ;
and in the pages of the immortal
KALEIDOSCOPE,
be ofttimes lucubrated.

These imperishable records of his talents now constitute
the linings of Liverpool-manufactured Trunks.
As a friend of humanity, the
CORK JACKET
can never be forgotten.
To this lover of the canine and assinine race,
this Pseudo-Philanthropist,

Erect this Memorial, indicative of his Folly, and of
deep-rooted gratitude for having done—
NOTHING !

STEALING DOORS.-A joiner, named John Kilshaw, was
yesterday committed for trial at the sessions, for stealing
two doors, from the premises occupied by Messrs. Anderson
and Garrow, South Castle-street, the property of Messrs.
George and Alexander Maxwell. He had sold them to two
parties, salesmen. They had been unscrewed off the door-
posts, inside the premises. He said he had bought one of
them from a man i❑ the street (Moor Fields, and the other
from a man in Dale-street.

THE LATE MR. POWER.—The widow of the late Mr. Ty-
rone Power, whose melancholy death on board that ill-fated
vessel, the President, must still be fresh in the minds of our
readers, has just administered to the effects of her late hus-
band, in the Prerogative Court of the Lord Archbishop of
Canterbury, in Doctors'-commons. The pers6nal property
of the deceased is sworn under £5,000. Whilst the loss of
Mr. Power will be deeply felt, both by his family
.and the
public, it is gratifying to state that his widow is left in com-
paratively easy circumstances. It is usual in proving a will,
or taking out an administration, to state the precise
,day on
which the party died, but in this instance the words on or
about" were inserted, alluding to the time when the Presi-
dent was supposed to be lost.—Britannia.

CURIOUS METHOD OF SELF-DESTRFFTION.-Mr. Wakley
held an inquest, on Tuesday, on Mr. William Green, a brick-
layer, who committed suicide by putting a ladder down a
well and sitting in the water till he was dead, On a juror's
observing upon the strangeness of the suicide, Mr. Wakley
remarked that there were many stranger modes of suicide.
lady, He had lately held an inquest on a l who, standing up,
placed her head in a bucket of water till she was drowned ;
and another on a lads who attempted to cut her throat, but
not liking the first inelion, she resolved to hang herself;
not suiting her
that, however,taste, she repaired to Bushy
Park, and throwing herself on her face on a wet gravelly
walk was suffocated. At another case a gentleman was play-
ing at cards,
when he rose from the table, apparently in per-
Pet good-humour, and without having shown the slightest
symptoms of previous insanity, and going into the cellar cut
his throat. Suicides pervaded all ranks of society, and were
greatly on the increase, but the causes for most of them were
quite inexplivable.