The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-24 00:00:00

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this town by ti
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3rd ultinuo we inserted a letter from a correspondent
'e of regret at the want of Church Accommodation
art of the town from the bottom of Shaw's brow to
Kir kdale.' We have much pleasure in stating that
s efforts are now making for the erection of a Church
ighbourhoocl of Roscommon-street, to be dedicated
imothy. The trustees are the Rev. Chancellor
ley. Dr. Tattershall, Rev. W. W. Ewbank, Charles
:sq., and Adam liodgs ,n, Esq., ail most unexcep
appointments. We understand that consi :erably up-
' r, th-usand pounds are subscribed, and if our cor-
:d work, lie has now
The greater part of
to recently taken
neighbourhood

d that in the irn

is a population of upwards of eight thotisandsOnis,

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MORNING, itIAR

H 24, 1846

have been shown a letter received on Satur-
m a peer of parliament, in which his lordship
It the Government commercial measure will
.t of the Lords by a majority of four at
.3 the lower house can be brought to a

xed duty

In conferenc

Although the last arrival from America, per mail
r Cambria, could not, from the short interval
r from her arrival out, with the details of Sir
el's proposed measure, and her departure
pected to bring any ti-Ing
with respect to the feeling with which
sures were regarded by the Canadian
are not without tolerably sure grounds
cting what that feeling will be. With
to Canada East—the only part of those
_

s country, be

ns in which the news had been received—
t date, the Montreal Gazette of the 25th
s remarks upon them :
en Lord John Russell, now some fifteen years
ne down with a proposition for demolishing the
boroughs, an honourable legislator said that the
ity of the proposal " fairly took his breath away."
,oldness of the financial scheme of Sir Robert Peel,
ig at once at provisions, corn, and timber, at every
h of trade in this colony, on the protection of which
oducers had relied, has had something of a similar
here. The majority yet remain in breathless asto-
:ent, mingled with no little consternation and alarm,
of the less so that we are so remote from the scene of
o, and that in all probability the deed will be con-
iated before our remonstrances can be heard."
se writer goes on to state it, as the opinion of
najority of the merchants composing the Mon-
cal Board of Trade, that nothing save some cor-
mding concessions to the commerce of that
nce can save it from gradual decline and ulti-
extinction. Amongst other concessions they
^nd that Canadian corn and flour should be
d into the British market duty-free; and
certificate of orijin should not be required;

ae present duty on American corn, on its
through the province for shipment, should
imposed, in order that the Canadian ship-
should still retain the carriage of it; and that

dl provincial duties on produce coming from the
Canadian frontier should be repealed. These mea-
sures, combined with the levying of a moderate rate
)f duties on the great canals, and encouragement
:ded to the construction of the St. Lawrence
Atlantic Railway, the Montreal Board of Trade
-:.eive would enable them " to divert into this line
^vigation no inconsiderable portion of the export
nport trade of the western states, and even re-
good deal of their export trade to the West
" should a contrary and short-
] line of policy be pursued, a melancholy ca-
- I;ne is before us."

They add

We have quoted from this article, not from any
on of its intimate bearing upon the question
to the probable fate of the Canadas, in
:he passing of the ministerial measures

.n their present shape; but because the sentiments
which they contain are to be stated in a memorial
to the home government, by which they will no
doubt be used as in sotne measure a reply to the
opponents of their policy upon colonial grounds, and
moreover because they strongly hear out the state-
ment of our esteemed correspondent, Mr. Isaac
Buchanan, (an important letter from whom appears
in another column) that the opinions of such bodies
as the Board of Trade, or the merchants generally
of Montreal and other ports are not those which
ought to be taken as affording a fair reflex of the
opinions of the Canadian people, and especially of
the agricultural people of Canada West. These
gentlemen evidently look only to the continued en-
joyment of their present profitable connexion with
4‘ the export and import trade of the western states"
—of Canada and the United States. To protect
themselves they are obviously prepared to make the

of wheat of Canada West in a worse posi-
v. would be in by the passing of the
onnected with any such delusive ac-
They delude themselves, moreover,
ite of things,
s industry must be from the British
crificed to the farmers of Ohio and the
r•ri states of the Union—Canada West
ave anything to export or can afford to import
; and by supposing that its hardy and enter-
g settlers would tolerate such treatment by
iother country, without taking some resolute
to separate that province alike from Great
ain and its sister province of Lower Canada.

pamme

le supposition that, in such a

Far more important and trustworthy evidence we
nabled to present to our readers in the follow-
t from the letter of a member of an emi-
n America, bearing the same date, which

ng extr

ve here subjoin

Dlont,•eal, 25th February,

)ility of an American war, which until the
al of the packet was the ail engrossing topic, seems
to be viewed as but of minor importance, contrasted

The poss

the evil likely to result to tise province from the con-
lated changes in the corn laws, and the duties gene-

Landed property here is now regarded as worth 50 per
cent. less than it was previous to the arrival of the packet.
Of course the worst view is the one in which it is now

d at
With r

gard to the immediate effect of these changes in
ur produce market, the prevailing- opinion seems to be
tlp.t the dearth of bread stuffs at homep will neutralize, to
t extent, the evil that would otherwise have resulted
at least for this season. It is not expected
hat flour will fall in price immediately.
It is thought it will open at something between 275. 6d.
0 30s.

from them,

With such evidence before us, we can well afford
to pass by tile sneers of such speakers as Mr.
Charles Buller, notwithstanding his vaunted expe-
rience, his former " official connexion with Canada,
and his intimate knowledge of the circumstances of
the country,"—which, by the bye, appears to be
confined to those of Lower Canada. We feel a
deep conviction that in their pursuit of a measure
so vitally affecting colonies so important to us—
allied to us by so many binding ties of consanguinity

.est—vvernment ought to i ause, and, at

east, allow their voice to be heard and proper de-
erence to be paid to their feelings, before they take
L step which it may be beyond their power to recal.
mother packet, we feel convinced, will bring to

this country other and darker representations of the
excitement caused in the Canadas by the course
which we are pursuing than we have dared as yet
to place before our readers.

The course of the ministerial customs and corn
bill does not promise to be quite as smooth, in its
passage through the House of Lords, as it has
proved thus far in the House of Commons. Hitherto,
the idea of any serious opposition being offered to it
by the lords, has been treated as extremely chimerical.
The protectionists in that house have been supposed
to consist only of such!a body as would be willing to
confide themselves to the leadership of men of such
ultra views upon the subject as are known to be held
by the Dukes of Richmond and Buckingham. The
aspect of affairs has, however, been materially

a few remarks which fell, on Friday,
from-Lord Stanley, which clearly place that noble
lord in the position, for which he is well fitted, of
the leader of the peers of Great Britain in an effort
to resist the domination of the Commons over the
two other branches of the legislature, and to procure
for the agriculture and the industry of the country
afair and reasonable amount of protection. To no
wild and ultra effort, we feel convinced, would his
lordship lend the sanction of his deservedly great
influence and commanding talent.
In presenting several petitions in opposition to the
ministerial measures, his lordship intimated that
" Concurring with these petitioners in the apprehen-
sions they expressed of the probable consequences which
would attend the removal of protection, he joined with
them in deprecating the adoption of the measures which
had been brought forward, and in expressing the wish
that if they came from the other house of Parliament
they would not receive the assent of their lordships (hear.
hear)."
It must be tolerably clear that the battle in the
lords will be sternly and stoutly fought under such
cchampionship; and that if victorious, the minis.