The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-16 00:00:00

RENT PORTS AT THE LATEST DATES.
Stocks. Sales. Prices. Remarks

New York, Oct. 29

New Orleans"l(s, 44394 4300 8-1 to 11 firm.
Mobile, .... " 19, 2243 400 81 to 10
Macon, " 16, 7 to 8
Augusta,.... " 23, 2000 300 7:1 to 8/ decline:ie.
Savannah, " 23, 4748 2188 6/ to 9 3-16 firm.i
Columbus, " 20, 674 282 to ,
Charleston,.. " 23, 5609 4000 64 to 9i
We subjoin all that is interesting in the papers :
Tatou Rao DE JANEIRO.—The brig Janet, arrived at
Baltimore on Wednesday. We copy the following extract of
a letter from the American of Thursday, 28th, inst.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 4.--Until a few days ago prices
of flour remained stationary, notwithstanding a limited sup-
ply. Accounts, however, were received that the government
of Buenos Ayres had permitted the importation of flour to
the extent of 1500 bbls per month ; prices advanced, and
7295 bbls per R. H. Douglass, Fabius and Tweed from Balti-
more were sold for expo(ltohnithsehroraet.llll7so on board, which
is equal to a sale at 15il
There is very little inquiry for Richmond flour, and no
recent sales. The receipts of flour during the month were
12,071 bbls. and the stocks 47,700 bbls.
Tbe exports of coffee to the United States for the last
month amounting to 30,619 bags, viz. 15,002 to New Orleans;

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL

Under the Management of Mr. CLARKE, Sole Lemee.

The Last Night but Three of
Miss ELLEN TREE and Mr. CHARLES KEAN.
► 11 IS present TUESDAY, the 16th instant, will be re-
peated the revived Tragedy of

THE GAMESTER,
Which was received on Friday last with the most rapturous
applause, by a brilliant and crowded auditory.
Mrs. Beverley
Mr. Beverley , Mr. Charles Kean.
Stukely Mr. Stuart. J Lewson. Mr. 11. Holl.
Charlotte
At the end of the Play, a PAS DE DEUX, by Master and
Miss C. Webster.
After which, the Farce called the
IRISH VALET.
Larry Hoolagan Mr. T. Lee.
Susan.... Miss E. Honner.
To conclude with the Romantic Drama of
THE FORTY THIEVES.
Alibaba
Muitapha (the Cobbler) Mr. Baker.
Morgiana Miss E. Honner.

On WEDNESDAY. will be performed Shakspeare's
of the MERCHANT OF VENICE. Shylock, Mt. Charles
Kean ; Portia, Miss Ellen Tree ; (as performed by them
at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket) ; Bassanio, Mr. Stuart;
Qratiano, Mr. H. Holt; Jessica, Miss E. Honner. To cou—
elude with the Melo-Drama of the EVIL EYE. Mavroymi,
Mr. Chaplin; Barozzi, Mr. Gray; Zane Kiebabs, Mr.
Baker ; Helena, Miss Cleaver.

On THURSDAY, the LADY OF LYONS. Clamle•
Melnotte, Mr. Charles Kean ; Pauline, Miss Ellen Tree_
With other Entertainments.

On FRIDAY, Mr. CHARLES KEAN'S BENEFIT;
and the Last Night of the Engagement of Mr. Charles Kean,
and Miss Ellen Tree.

TO CORRESPONDENTS

We have received Mr. Jones's tragedy of " Regulus." It
will meet with early attention.
If the communication of " P. S. J." is found suitable it
shall appear on Friday.
The letter of " A Conservative" we hope to find room for in.
our next. Our correspondent would greatly oblige us if he
would curtail his communications. We should b sorry to
refuse them insertion, but they would be much more read-
able if shorter.
Owing to the length of the Council Proceedings and other
local matters which could not be conveniently deferred, we
were unable to forward the papers to our subscribers by
the first post.

ETA' Etbrrpool 'tanliarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 16, 1841.

It is a favourite position in the liberal school of eco-
nomy, that trade and labour should be as little as pos-
sible interfered with by the legislature, and it has been
the policy of our rulers of late years to reduce the
theory to practice. To the position as it stands we are
willing to subscribe; we would desire human liberty,
in all respects, to be as little circumscribed " as possi-
ble ;" not only in matters of trade, but in those of
•politics and morals, should we rejoice to leave men to
act at their own discretion, and subject to no orders
for their wise and peaceful guidance but those of their
own consciences. But it is found impossible, in prac-
tice, to dispense with some interference—the amount
depending chiefly on the disposition of men to obey
the laws of natural equity of their own accord. Some
of the experiments of relaxation have not been attended
by the most favourable results, and would lead us to
call again, not, perhaps, for the old system of restric-
tion or of supererogatory watchfulness in all its bur-
densome details, but for a superintendence and a con-
trol exercised by some third, disinterested party, which
would obviate the evils which have been found to ac-
crue from a system without any. There is an admitted
necessity for such control in the case of factory child-
ren ; it is not denied, in their case, that the legislature
ought to put in exercise a controlling power, because
such power is designed for the protection of those who

are too feeble to protect themselves, and has been
found, by every consideration of humanity and justice,
to be most imperatively demanded. We are not aware
that any of the free trading economists go the length
of saying that griping factory lords or unfeeling pa-
rents should be left to deal with the bone and muscle
of their infant operatives quite according to their own
views of the case, whatever difference of opinion may
exist as to a ten-hours' bill, or minute regulations
connected with the supervision of the relation subsist-
ing between the employer and his youthful body of
workpeople.

Now the control peremptorily required in this case
is not a thing to be desired in itself—an institution
which one would desire to multiply; but experience has
shown that it is absolutely necessary. Here the free
trade principle of the economists fails, and cannot, by
any means, be carried out in the existing state of so-
ciety.

We give this as our first instance, because it shows
an exception to the rule free from all rational objec-
tion : it shows that the weak need protection, and that
there is a principle of humanity which is at all times
superior to the maxims of mere economy.

We would revert, in the next place, to the results of
that great experiment which was made in favour of the
ad libitum system, by abolishing the laws against com-
bination. With all due deference to the philosophers,
that experiment has been, in our humble opinion, a
failure, and has done much more harm than good to
trade, and the operative classes themselves. It would
be interesting to enter fully into this investigation, but
it is beyond the scope of our immediate purpose. We
merely throw out the hint, that if the operatives who
have bound themselves to the laws of trades' unions,
and have been punctual in paying up all the demands
of their several councils—who have been faithful in
standing out with 'their brethren when they received
the order to " strike," or in maintaining others in that
untoward position—were to compute their gains and
their losses in hard cash, they would probably find but
a very small balance, or more likely none at all, in fa-
your of combination. As to the interest of masters,
and trade in general, there can scarcely be a doubt of
the great and manifold injuries which operative combi-

nations have inflicted upon them.
This case differs from the first to which we have ad-
verted, inasmuch as it is not the operatives who seem
to need protection, but the master. Shall we he told
that the masters are sufficiently protected in their
own powers, and want no assistance from the legisla-
ture ? We say, that supposing they were, it is not for
the government to stand by, and see workmen combin-
ing against masters, and masters against workmen, and
the interests of society in the meanwhile greatly suffer-
ing, and take no part in the business.

We have had a signal proof of the self-righting
power which the masters do possess, when vigorously
put forth, in the recent contest of the masons with the
architects of the new houses of parliament, Messrs.
Grissell and Peto. In that contest the combination of
the workmen has utterly failed; Messrs Grissell and
Peto have been enabled to dispense with the services of
the combinators, and the object of the strike has been
frustrated ; but, we ask, does this fact afford any suffi-
cient ground for the non-interference of the legisla-
ture ? The Times, last week, in allusion to this ques-

5813 to New 1%,;1-1( ; and 2800 to PiiladiJphia, The total
exports to the United States since the Ist of January, were
241,342 bags. being an excess of 80,237 over the same time
last year. Prices are firm, and several American vessels
having arrived recently, prices will not go lower at present.
From Montevideo we have advises to the 17th ult. quoting
flour at Bdolls. on board, to net Gdolls. scents Spanish. We
have advises fr,m Bahia to the 13th, and from Pernambuco
to the 12th, when both places were amply supplied wiuh flour,
and no improvement in prices had taken place.
SEPTEMBER 13.—Coffee is coming in pretty freely, and
is a shade lower in our currency, although in Sterling hills it
is nearly the same. Exchange in England has advanced to
31d. Our stock of flour is increased by the arrival of 1200
bbls. per Garifilia from Baltimore, and 1109 by a vessel from
Stettin.

HEALTII OF NEW ORLEANS.—The interments reported
to the Board for two days, up to yesterday noon, were 44, of
which 25 «ere from yellow fever. Some of the new comers
have contributed to the above amount.—New Orleans Bulle-
tin, Oct, 19.

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During the remainder of the Season, the performances
will commence at SEVEN o'clock. Doors to be opened at
HALF-PAST SIX.