The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-01 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SALT MONOPOLY RIDITANCE, SPAIN, AND

LITERARY NOTICES

(From the Mining Journal.)
A Sermon, preached in St. Augustine's Church, on Sun-
The monopoly over the manufacture of salt, maintained . day, November Ist, 1846, on the Death of the Rec. Dr.
by the Government in FRANCE, which increases the price Tattershall, D.D. By the Rev. James Booth, LL.D.,
to the consumer 200 per cent., has for several years caused F.R.S., M.R.I.A.
in
a general outcry among all classes of the community, who We have already given a short extract from this dis- u!
consider it one of the most prejudicial that an industrious course, but did not receive it last week in time to notice
families to my certain can only
people can be oppressed with. Numerous petitions, ses- it further, and by this time it is probably in the hands of ° .
knowledge,y
sion after session, have been presented to the Chamber, most of our readers. The reverend preacher (who was I" ma" '
by free-trade Peers and Deputies, emanating from the lately the vice principal of our Collegiate Institution) procure one scanty meal in the day, and that often com-
leading interests of the kingdom ; notwithstanding which, selected his text from the thirteenth verse of the 4th posed of cabbage or nettles, mixed up with mill-dust.
and the many promises made by Government, that a mo- chapter of the Ist Thessalonians. The object of the I also beg leave to state, that all this accumulation of
dification of these duties should take place, no reduction yet made ; and it would appear that they cannot bear sermon is, in the revel end preacher's words, "to briefly distress is borne with the utmost patience and resignation,
is
point out the influences and tendencies of religion as re- and, whilst some other parts of th country are marke
to give up the revenue arising from this impost, although
gards this life merely." Amongst the most remarkable turbulen,ceati.tl disorder, this district is remarkable ford 'bs
most injurious to every branch of industry. The greatest and striking effects which confessedly arise from the peat, 0 - -
sufferers are, perhaps, the curers of fish. The Newfound- noon And when I st land fishery has, of late years, been a source of profitable spreading influences of Christianity are enumerated,—tlu .. resident in the enterprise to French industry, but is sadly cramped by gradual cessation of sanguinary warfare, and the growing -t maeistrate withit. this monopoly; and the Chamber of Commerce has ad- sway of maxims of international policy so widely differing
from those of heathen times—the enlarging and expand-
dressed a memorial to the Ministers of Commerce and the the kindly affections of our nature, and the action of
Finance, with the object of obtaining permission to use the same principles in silently but surely effecting
one
to salt during the season of 1847; the object being abolition of slavery. The reverend gentleman then con-
to employ salt from the ports of Portugal, which can be trasts, in pointed language, the sentiments and feelings of
obtained for 10s. sd. per ton ; while, in France, it costs those who have had no hope in affliction, with the conso-
40s. At present no notice has been taken of this memo. lation of those who " sorrow not even as others which
rial ; but the Minister of Marine has announced, as usual, have no hope," and applies the whole to the melancholy
that he should be ready to receive contracts for 200,000 circumstances in which the congregation was placed.
tons of salt, to be delivered at the port of Brest. Salt is The arguments in the sermon, as well as its diction,
annually getting more and more scarce in France, and the are very creditable to the scholastic attainments of Dr.
greatest exertions are required to keep up a supply equal Booth.
to the demand, even at the present exorbitant prices. We give the following extracts :
Some rumours are afloat, of the probability that the tax "It is manifestly a conceivable state of things, that
will be greatly reduced in the next session, and the im-
port duty o 4 British and Belgic salt repealed—the Minis- obedience to the commands of God, and compliance with tii
his will, should be attended with term ihappiness ; Ti
ter of Commerce wishing to show some signs of attention
to petitions so respectably and numerously signed. that a course of well-doing should be accompanied by an,
SPAIN also has severely suffered and still suffers from mental disquietude; and that, in short, the consequences vil'
which under the present constitution of things almost pri
the royal monopoly of the manufacture of salt ; through uniformly follow from sin, should be, by some inscrutable i'
it a considerable portion of the fish of the Atlantic and design of Providence, connected with the fulfilment re
Mediterranean is entirely lost, which, in a Catholic coup_ duty. Such a constitution of nature, although it
try such as Spain, would add amazinplv t. rh. —.4,__,
food ;

quietness of the poor. And when I state tb
is not one land-proprietor resident in this laree ai

poral ur

- - r • 4,K4 1.11
ay, winch, from the high ice of rovisions in till
ets, is not sufficient to maintain and clothe on(
)er of a family. lam alitiost unwilling to tax the
lity of the benevolent English public, or to harrow millers. At tni
eir feelings, by attempting to describe the way in which met a at(
the poor around me are endeavourinff
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