The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-30 00:00:00

nexion with t

paragraph does not evince an effort to conceal the
fact that they have viewed with feelings of dissatis-
faction the recent policy of government, and that
ts tendency might have been to weaken their attach-
We quote the paragraph itself :--

In returoing to your homes, where your presence is
80. touch required. gentlemen. I doubt not that you will
use your utmost influence to inspire c.,nfidence in your
respective districts. by encouraging that spirit of loyalty
for which the Canadian people have always been distin-
d, and by protnotiog, as far as it may he in your
those branches of useful acid productive industry.
ercial enterprise, upon which the wet-
s() mainly depends. For they mAr be
uable the aspect of afftir3
t xists suffieit nt power

as well as of cow

fare of the colon

astured that, how

he most of the resources it nnque:tionablv pos-
that will, under the blessing of Divine Providence,
eali h and trospenty. E:hou'd thoFe
relied be found ultimately to fail

on which thi

tliem."

a proof of the existence of this feeling, which
ileni d in this country by ministerial advo-

cates, we may also quote the folloWit g passage from
the speech of one of the members for Montreal in
the concluding debate o the session. The honour-
able representative said
" With respect to British connexion, be would take that
opportunity to repeat that, itt his ot•inion, the alteration
in the Brielish Ct•rn Law might not prose ao injurious as

was usually stippo,od ; but whatevi-r his opinions as an
individual might he, there could be no doubt that the
great bulk of the people of, the province were adverse to
the change. The recl•nz was one of dryad. There. could
he no question of it. The principle of free trade, in his
Opinion, would be teneficial to Great Briiain, but wi h
respect to tit's colony, he thought Government should not
be hurried too fast. It would be better to wait and see
what was proposed, and then if Canadians found that the
proposit on could be modified so as to he less injurious to
them. it would be their duly to attempt to do so. He did
look at this question of free trade with a good deal of
anxiety. His hon. friend had said, and said trrilv, that
colonial dependence implied protection. and, to a certainextent, it implied pro•ection to the British home
--,r nrodocer. If t e list wi re
e did fear that
ter year,

the British mini•trr rote in his r

to prepnse grants for the purposes of the colonies—ne Eno
fear, he s+id, that the British profile would begin to ask
what advantage the colonies were to them ? That was
what made him look noon free trade willonixi,ty. It wis
not its immediate effects, hut its prospective results that
he feared, when. in five, six, seven, or ten yra,s hence
• ,iotne would b• gin to tell et whether it was

r people at
or was not their interest to maintain colonies. If they
wive, it would he most

arrived at a enticlus:c

injurious to' Canada, for her best hopes of improvement
rested in the maintenance of the existing connexion with
Great Britain.,,

A further corroboration is furnished by the
Montreal Herald, a free trade organ. conducted by
an intelligent gentleman, formerly the conductor of
a free trade journal in this town, and a staunch
supporter of the ministerial measures :
"Ti e of Cdna,lB. as a %hole. are Protrctionists.
They dread and deprecate the mea-ures nt the British
Government. The difficulty is to keep them from ahso.
lute despondency, and, at this mometo, with a larger
(the true test of a nsti )))) 's
amount of exportable produce
wealth and resources) than was ever before known in the
colony, its commeice is in a state of unprecedented para-
lysis, principally from the fears of the result. May those
fears be groundless; hut to deny them would be some-
thing worse than a ruit!,."
The Montreal Herald of another date says :
The aspect of our commercial affairs has never been