The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-04-21 00:00:00

?Loral anti Vriotnnual

On Tuesday, Lawrence Marney was fined 40. and costs
for throwing missiles at police-r fficer Rigby, 553.
Sheridan Knowles. Esq., and his lady, are on a visit to
John Driver, Esq., at Egremunt, near this town.
On Sunday week. the body of a still• born infant was
found in St. Philip's Church, wrapped in pieces of cloth.
The master of a ship three himself into the river last
week, with the intention of committing suicide. He was
picked up by the crew.
The New York packet-ship Montezuma, Capt. A. B.
Lowber, sailed on Thursday, with 38 cabin and 350 st-er-
age passengers; a rather unprecedented number of the
former in these " steaming " days.
On Wednesday a lad was brought before Mr. Rushton
for throwing a large earthen pot from the gallery of the
Amphitheatre into the pit, but his identification could not
be clearly established.
A purse of eighty-two sovereigns was presented in this
town, a few days since, to Mr. liibble' secretary to the
United Towns Af•snciation of Licensed Victuallers, while
that gentleman was on a temporary visit.
A maniac, named Gonans, jumped from the Erin-go-
Bragh on her passage. on Saturday week, from Liverpool
to the Menai Bridge, and was miraculously saved by one
of the crew throWng himself after the man, and holding
him up until the boat was lowered.
Ou Tue-day, Mary Cumston, Robert Cumston and
Mary Maloy, were committed for uttering base money.
They tendered a bad half crown to a stall-woman in the
Pedlar's Market, and another to Mr. Williams, in Rene-
lagh-street.
In the battle of Sobraon, Cornet Knight, of the ]6th
Lancers, (son of Sir Arnold Knight,) had a very narrow
escane. A hall grazed his thumb, and killed an officer by
his side. We have the pleasure to learn that Mr. Knight
is prom..ted to a Lieutenancy without purchase.
The Trafalgar Dock now contains three new steam ves-
sels : the Windsor and the Ajax, fitted with the paddle-
wheel. and the Antelope, the screw-auxiliary three-mast, d
schooner, lately launched from Messrs. Hodgson's yard,
and intended for the Rio trade.

in
ft is contemplation to establish a line of four steam-
ers between New York awl Liverponl. to he under the
Superintendence of Junius Smiih, E.q., the gentleman
who was the managing owner of the steamers British
Qoeen and President.
Dr. Duncan delivered an excellent address, on Tuesday,
in the South Corporation Schools, on the sanitary condi-
tion of the town Mr. Harbord also gave his valuable
testimony, and deprecated the practice of carrying child-
ren, who had died through infectious diseases, in cars to
be interred.
On Wednesday, Catharine and Michael Larkin were
brought before Mr. Rushton, charged by Mr. M'Kenna,
auctioneer, with steal.ng a quantity of clothes, together
with numerous articles of lurniture. The female was the
mother of the male prisoner. The latter was discharged,
and the former committed for trial.

On Monday, the foundation stone of a new chapel, in
connexion with the Wesleyan Methodist Association was
laid in Grange-road. Birkenhead. Mr. Win. Jackson has
made a grant of £250, and Mr. J. S. Jackson £5O. The
piece of ground was procured, and upwards of £7OO had,
in a brief space of time, been obtained.
The Liverpool Peace Society held its annual meeting
on Tuesday evening, at the Music-hall. The chair was
filled by Mr. Richard Rathbone, and amongst the speak-
ers wete the chairman, the Rev. Mr. Birrell. Mr. John
Cropper. Mr. Wm. Ratabone, the Rev. Wm. Bevan,
Mr. Lawrence Ileyworth, and other gentlemen.
On Tuesday, a cow, in a wild state, broke away from
the aleuehter-hr us's, in Trowbridge-street, and, in its
furious progte-s along Mount-pleasant. tossed a boy,
named Creenlaill, from 15 to 20 feet in the air. The
poor little fellow was taken to Dr. Bickersteth's, and bad
his wounds dressed, but had no bones broken. •
The commander, officers, and crew of her Majesty's
packet the Zephyr, who saved the barque Mountaineer by
towing her into Holyhead harbour on the 21st ult., have
been rewarded by the underwriters with the handsome
sum of 300 guineas, to be divided according to the respec-
tive ranks. No demand has been made for salvage.
SMOKE NUISANCE.—Experiments were made last week
on board the James, Birkenhead steamer, to ascertain how
far it is practicable to remove the nuisance of smoke from
the steamers. A very simple apparatus was attached, and
the result of the experiment was that the smoke was
wholly removed, and the owners report a sari g of nearly
twenty per cent in fuel, wed more steam than formerly.
IMPORTANT TO MEMBERS OF BUILDING SOC,ETIES.
—The Board of a peci rl Commissioners, Somerset 11 °use.
London. have decided against Caigill v. The Trustees of
the B .rough of Durham Building Society, that such So-
cieties are liable to Lie payment of 7el. on every Mr. of
interest paid to the Societies by the respective memters
who have purchased out their shares, tiotwiths'anding any
rule or con ition made by such society to the conttary.
TILE BILL OF MORTA-LITY.—The following statement
is from the getteral bill of niortelity far the parish of Li-
verpool and i s vicinity for 1845, just issued by the pa-
rish clerks : Liverpool—Baptisnis—m ides 5,590, females
5,51)6—t0tal 11.176 ; hurials—maN 2.570, females 2 483
—total 5,154; marriages 4.217. In the v'einiiy— Bap-
tisms—Males 741, females 725—tots1 1466; burials—
males 1662, females 1604—total 3.283; marriages 405.
Increase in baptisms 358, rurials 41. marriages 792. Po-
pulation of Liverpool in 1841, 295.963.
CURIOUS IMPORTS INTO THE •' PORT OF MANCHES-
TER:"—After the heavy tall of snow, a fe.v d iys ago, the
Manchester public were surprised, early °tie morning last
week, t r beheld twenty or thirty carts passing through the
streets literally latter, with snow ! On inquiry, it appeared
that in consequence of the great scarcity of ice this sea-
son, the fishmongers in Manchester have had, as the only
resource, to procure a quantity of snow front the vicinity
of Beaton, and which has been deposited in the ice-house
underneath the fish samples. Each cart brought Anti
one ton, for which they received 225. 6.1. it is said that
snow will keep equally well with ice when judiciously de-
pos ted.
WILET DERBY UNION.—The usual weekly meeting was
hr Id on Tuesday. This being the first meeting after
the election of guardians. Mr. J. Sheppard was re-elected
chairman, after some opposition on the part of Mr. Shaw.
Mr. Roberts was al-o re-appeinted to the vice-chair. An
account of Mr. Harbord's, amounting to £22, for extra
medical attendance on the poor of Toxteth-park, was or-
dered to be submitted to t e auditor, on account of some
at jections made by the overseers. Mr. Smith brought
1. re ard his motion for doing away with the dining of the
guardians at the house, but after some discussion, it was
lest by a majority of thirteen to five.
ANNOYANCE BY A FEMAI.E.—On Saturday last, Mrs.
Fisher, a temple well aitired, was charged before Mr.
Rushton with annnyirr, her brotlier-in•law, Mr. William
Fisher, druggist, of Bold-street. by collecting a crowd
oppos to his premises en the 31st ultimo, and thus inter-
ruptiag him in his business. This she had done more
than once. The prisoner, who is allowed 20s. per week
by her husband, which is regularly paid by the parish
officers, had before been hrougtrt up for aim lar conduct,
and her object appeared to be to obtain a huger allowance
of money. She said she was sorry for what she had done,
and would not repeat the offence. Mr Rushton strongly
reprebeeded her. and ardered her to find two sureties in
£25 each, or to be imprisoned three month..
THE TuaN-ouT IN THE BUILDING TRADER.—Th;s
turn-r ut still continues, and it would appear as it it
emanated from some central board or body. for it is nr
pretty general, not only here, but also in Manchester, in
Birkenhead, in Bradford, in Birmingham, and other parts
of Yeekshite. Indeed, according to some ace. woe, as
many as ten thousand hands are out of week. If any fur-
ther proof were wanting of the ill-advised nature of this
et,ike, it must he found in the time selected and in the
strike bring made so extensively, as to make the heaviest
demands upon the veneral union funds, just when the
least aid to those funds can he con'tibuted by the three
largest provincial tower; in England. The masters con-
tame to race lie accessions of workmen who are ready to
enter their enipa yeeent, &piing the declaration not to
belt ng to a trades' union.
EXTRAORDINARY ()CCURRENCE.—lest‘rday week,
about one in tire afternoon, a Liverpool car was observed
to stop fog Sandown-lane, aurl a worn or get out of it with
a boner-le and a basket. A female win, was passing sus-
peeled at meshing wrong; tire alarm was given, and the
woman was followed, she having crossed souse fields near
averttee. In a short time a newly-born infant was
fonnel in a bole near a wall, with its f ce towards tha clay,
and a flannel petticoat thrown over it. It was taken alive,
hut much exhausted. The mother was pursued, and
staidly after apprehended on the Old Swan-road, some
distance from the spot where the child was found. On
being brought to the police station, a second chid was
found in the basket under her cloak. She had been deli-
vered of twins in the ear, between this town and Waver-
tree; and being unmarried, she had made every exertion,
even at the expense of endangering he childrens' lives, to
conceal her shame. The infants were taken to the work-
house, and are doing well. The woman is, of course,
under the surveillanee of the police.
SUICIDE BY A MARRIED LADY.—On Friday after-
noen, the inhabitants ef Woodside were much surprised
by learning that Mrs. Martha Vickers, a lady of respect •
able connexions in Liverpool, and who occupied the house,
No. 4, Argyle-street, Birkenhead, (a lodging-house,
which she kept). had cut her throat with a razor. The
deceased, who was in good circumstances, was the wife of
the captain of the ship lienty Curwen. She was twenty-
nine years of age, and without children. Captain V.
returned from sea on the 9 h instant, but returned to his
vessel in Milford Haven on the following Saturday.
Nothing is known as to the cause of the fatal act beyond
the fact that the deceased was somewhat intemperate in
her habits. The in quest was held airfare Mr. (Murton,
on Saturday. From the evidence. it appeared that de.
ceased and her husband lived happily together. She was
recently heard, although generally in good spirits, to
threaten erladeetructlon ; but this was not. thought to be
genuine. On Friday morning and during the day she was
mach excited About half-past two o'clock in the after.
noon, she was found in one of the lodger's bed-rooms,
lying dead upon the floor, with her throat cut, and the
blew, scattered about the room. It appeared that on
several
recent occasions she had expressed s'range fancies,
arebably from the effccts of slight inebriation, cambined
with other cautea. A letter .was shown to the jury,
written by Capt. Vickers, and addressed to the deceased,
It was dated " Tuesday" last, and had been received on
Thursday. It was couched in very affectionate terms, and
concluded with the words, " Keep up your spirits, my
lass. God bless you." The jury returned a verdict ef
death from suicide, under the influence of temporary
insanity.

HINTS TO PANNIMOKERS.—On Wednesday, Sarah
Jones. a prostitute, was charged with having illegally of-
fered in pledge acoat, R hick had been taken from a sea-
faring man in a house of ill fame on the previous night,
The owner of the coat, along with a comrade, had been
completely s'ripped of all their wearing apparel. The pri-
soner had offered the garment in pledge at the shop of
Mr. Wi kin ; but she was stopped and given into the cus-
tody (la police officer. Another pawnbroker, aho pro-
duced part of the stolen property, was reprimanded by
'lr. 'Rushton for not ha-Aing taken the step which Mi..
Wilkin did, in giving the prisoner into custody, and was
ordered to restore the article without any payment being
made.—On the following day a similar decision was
given.

- DREADFUL Snievertrote.—The splendid packet-ship,
Henry Clay, of Go innel,. Minturn and Co.'s Liverpool
and New York line, was driven ashore on Squam Beach,
about twelve o'clock on the night of the 15th u't., where
the Jelin Minturn went to pieces. The masts were cut
away. and she remained tight till day light., when her
keel broke off and she began to leak. Mr. Cooley, second
mate, and four sailors, carried a line ashore with the !Re-
heat, made fast a hawser, and returning to the ship took
off biz persons; hut before they reached the shore the
boat was swamped and -six: were drowned. Mr. Cooley
and his men were taken from the surf-by the people on
shore, and restrained from any further attempt to reach
the ship, which contained 300 souls, mostly steerage pas-
sengers. By advice of Captain Nye. who remained on
board, Mr. Cooley then started for New York city, leav•
ing the vessel high out of water and unbroken ; and the
wind having shifted there would probably be no fUrther
loss of life. A New York paper says " The ship had no
pilot, had had no observation for two days, and had not
made the land—the weather thick and very stormy."
Subsequent accounts state that all the sound cargo on
hoard had been discharged, and brought to the city in
lighters, while men were constantly at work getting out
what was damaged. The steam pump had been set to
work, and all the water had been ant out, and she has
been moved about one length off shore; hut it was ex-
pected that alt the cargo would have to be discharged be-
fore she. could be got off. •
ASTOUNDING SHIPWRECKS ON THE COAST OF PATA-
orrie.—Mr. John M• Leod, who left Liverpool in July
last, as agent for a Liverpool house, has sent by the Tor-
rit s. from Camerone's Bay, Patagon'a, a list of shipwrecks
which look peace off that coast, on the 3.1 of January last.
He says the opinions of the shipmas•ers now at Came-
rone's Bay is, that no fewer than 300 ships from different
ports in England, Scotland, and Ireland, as well as from
Fran re, and other foreign ports, are on the coast in search
of guano and other valuables, from latitude 41 degrees 30
minutes to 45 degrees 30 minutes s, uth. About 3.000
tons or the former, and some chrvstal zed ammonia have
been ship ed to Liverpool and Glasgow, at this date, from
Colloney Island, and another on the north aide of this
bay, leaving hut a few hundred tons to load from this bay,
—Ships wrecked : The barque Edwards, of Sunderland,
Captain Crithber Ism a total wreck, crew saved ; the Ex-
potter, of London, Captain Northwood ; the Integrity, of
Liverpool, Capt. Hutchison ; the Eagle, of Liverpool,
Captain Kerr; the Achilles; the Minerva, of Liverpool,
Capt. Burst, y, all total wrecks; cress saved. Mercy, of
London, cat.t.in, mate, and 13 hands drowned ; Eliza-
beth, total wreck, crew saved •, Brilliant, of Liverpool,
Captain Payne; Jane Diann, Capt. Smi h ; Catherine,
of W hitehaven, Captain Coffee ; an American whaling
schooner; an American whaling echnotier to the north-
ward ; all total wrecks, crews saved ; a French ship, stern-
post and rudder gone; Mary, of Liverpool, seriously in-
jured in I ull and materiels. Several ships have lost an-
chors and chains. their names unknown to me.
HIGHWAY BOARD.—At the weekly meeting on Tues-
day there were present Mr. Holme, (chairman.) and
eleven other men bers. Mr. Gladstone passed a high eu-
logium on Mr. Capes Ashlin, ft r his great at tetition to the
interests of the Board, and propose d that the salary et
present paid to him as secretary should be increased from
£l6O to £2lO, so as to make it the same amount as that
paid to him by the Watch Con mittee. The Mayor, Mr.
James Lawrence, and Mr. Tinne, concurred in the opi-
nion expres-ed liv Mr. Gladstone, as to the value of the
secretary'. services, and considere,i an increase necessary,
as the dut'es were note responsible, owing to an increase
having taken place in the amount of rates during the last
few %ears. The proposed inc, ease was agreed to, and a
resolution to that t ffect adopted unanimously.—The
Chairman read a report from the parliamentary commit-
tee, to the effect that it was the intention of the Dock
Committee to get a dense inserted in their bill, when be-
fore the lords, as to the exemption of the new dock ware-
hous s from rates, similar to that rejected in the Com-
mons. The report, which recommended opposition to
the clause, was adopted.—Mr. D-nton t.rought under no-
rice altermii ni no-de in the Grand Junct on Railway
Company's premises at Wapping, by which a considerable
amount of races had been lost to the authorities. It was
agreed that Nlr. Wighttnan should make inquiry into and
repo, t n the subject. Mr. Tomkinson and Mr. Johnson
were introduced to the Board.—Mr Tornkinson said they
had waited upon the Beard to request an extension of
time as regarded the completion of the orate r sve rks in
Green-lane' owing to the circumstances in which they
were placed by the turn-out on the part of the men. He
did not a-k for adiliy to any particular period, but that
the B nerd should take into consideration the position in
which they were placed,—they were willing to leave the
matter in the hands of the Board.—Sever..) letters which
Had passed between Mr. Tomkinson and the workmen
were read, showing the pi sition of affairs, and that every
thing had b en done under the circumstances to get
hands, so that the work he had in hand _might be pro-
ceeded with. It was finally agreed that Mr. Tomlinson
should not be pressed under the circumstances, and the
matter was referred to the next meeting.
EASTER VF.STRT.—The attendence at the Vestry on
Tuesday, in St. Nicholas' Chun h, was much more nu-
merous than usual. Toe Rev. Rector Brooks was in the
chair. It appeared from the parish accounts that there
was -C26l in hand ; and, on the mothe of Mr. R. Hough-
ton. they were passed. Atter the election of churchwar-
dens, nverseres, and vestrymen. whose names will he
found in the advertisement elsewhere, Mr. John Wight.
man and r. Robert Adams were elected churchwardens
for St. John's; and Mr. Wm. C. Williams and Mr. Wm.
B Sangeter were elected churchwardens for St. Paul's.
Mr. Scholfield proposed that the church rote fur the en-
suing year he laid at the rate of three halfpence in the
pound. He thought that at the expiration of the year
they would have a sufficient balance in band to enable
them to do with a pinny in the pound. They had now a
balance, but still he thought that for the present. the rate
of a penny would be found too small. Mr. Smith second-
' ed the proposition. Mr. Rawlins, with the view of col-
!retitle the opinion of the vestry on the subject, moved
that there be no church:rate at all ; but finding afterwards
that a chut ch-rate was bath legal and tieressary, he altered
the terms of his amendment, and proposed that instead of
three half pence, three f•rhings in the pound be the
church-rate for the ensuing sear. Mr. Bighorn seconded
the amendment The rate of three fat things woos declared
carried by a small mej .rity. Mr. Riding demanded a poll.
Mr. Earle thought there should be a poll, for the church-
wordei s t ould not be expected to put themselves in a situ; -
(ton in which they would have to pay mosey out of their ono n
pocket,. 31r. Rawlins, at a later stage of the proceeding,.
declined to go to a poll, so that a rate of three half.
pence in the pound will now be laid The following pay-
remote were erde-cd to be made ?—£so to the parish Het ks
for keeping the hills of ratify ; £5O for the Welsh eer-
ejee at St. Paul's; and £3O for St. Matthias's. Mr.
Thornely then brought forward his motion for the repeat
of the Leal poor-law act, but, after some discussion, with-
drew it. Mr. Earle drew attention to the water question
at some lemth. ti I:ing the Vestry that the Co rporntion
arid Highway Board were seeking for powers to supply
the town with that necessary article. Bethought the ne-
ces-ary powers ought to he Owed in the hands of the cor-
poration. Mr. Forbes thought that if it had not been for
the Iliehway Board the Corporation world never have
taken up the sus jeTt. Mr. Cooper d fended the conduct
ursued by the Highway Board, hut said that if the Cor-
p, ration would give a better and a cheaper supply they
were quite at liberty to do so. Mr. Earle emid he had no
motion t t submit ; his object was answered by calling at-
tention to the subj•ct. . _ _

SALE OF THE STUD. AT MERE HALL-The side of
the hunting and taring stud of Thomas Longlord Brooke.
Esq., welt place at Mere, on Thursday. wider ihe able
supt!intetidetice of Messrs. ( huitoii, the auctioneers
The attendance was numerous and highly resiiectab e,
including some of the principal Cheshire gentry, and
several gentlemen from ,his town. Toe following are the
pricers realis,d - Hunt,* and Hoek,- I. Flexible,
b.y bone, 8 y,,ars of 1, equal to ,5 stone, 140 guineas.
2. Bob, by Bob L.,.g;c, hay twrse, 7 tears old. no to 13 or
14 stone, 175 aotoeas. 3. Nortio..b.rtn. by ll.wk's 1•;,P.
brown horse, 6y e ,r• 01.1. 100 guitiea.. 4. Tile Y. rkshire
Lass, chesi:ut mare, 7 years old, has been regularly
hunted with the Cheshire hi n•fds, very neatly thoiough..
bred, 95 gu neat. 5. Superior chesnut horse. 6 years ld.
16 hands. by Acariur ; a first-tate London cab-horse, 85
2oineas. 6. Broo n mare, 5 years old. 15 hands, by Black
(Merton, very fast and steady in haine.s, 60 tuineas. 7.
Brown horse, 6 years old, 153 hands, own brother to Lot
6; a g 'ad hunter. famous hack, and
.quiet in harness, 80
guineas. 8 Paddy, a grey horse, 7 years old. an excellent
back and harness horse. 7U guineas. 9. Lady's pad, a
light grey mare, aged, 75 guineas. 10. Lady's pad, a
brown horse, 8 years old, by t Hd Fi!ho; has been hunted
occasionally, 55 f umeas. 11. Bay filly, tour years old.
hr Acorn ; a gool hark Red quiet in harness, 54 guineas.
Carriage Horses.-12. Very superior grey horse, 6 years
old, 16 hands, either for single or double harness. and
very steady in tandem. 120 guineas. 13. Do. di,. do., 7
years old, an exact match. and i qoallY good and steady,
120 guineas. 11. Do. do. do., 5 years old. 17 hands h;gli,
by Herbert Lacy, 105 guineas. Brood Marex.-16.
a Chesnut mare, by Foley, dam by Comus, out
of Margrave's dam, with foal at her heels, by Ant• lope,
by Camel, out of Miss Bowe, and stinted to GI idia or,
65 guineas 17. Faith, is bay mare, 8 years old, by lan-
gar. out of talista, now covered by Accident. sire of
Ito repid. &e. ; s e was amiss, 9 guineas. Thorough bred
Colt.- 18. 'I wo years. old filly, by Liverpool. out of
Rachel, (lot 16), with her engaxements. viz.. Colborne
Snakes at Newton, Pi ince of Waits' Stakes at York. and
the Oaks at Epsom. 40 guineas. 19. Two %ears old bay
or brown c dr, by Tory Boy, dam by Muley Moloch.
gra,dam by Whisker, with his engagements, and now in
training. 20. Yearling brimn colt, by Tory Boy. out of,
Rachel (lot 16). 50 guioe s. 21. Yearling bay filly. br
Try Boy, out of Faith (lot 17), 27 guineas. Ha f-bred
Colic-22. Two years old hay filly, by Merrylegs, 22
guineas. 23. Two years old bay colt. by Speculator. out
of a hal'-bred mare. 14 guineas. Carriage, Harness,
Dogs, Ice -24. Spit-nthd tandem drag, recently built in
fir-t-tate. style. with hind seat, patent axles. &e ,
25. Complete set of neatly new Louden) hat ties`, with
plated furniture, either in one or two, £l3 10s. 26.
Rock. a pointer dog. has been shot over one seq,on L 6 ss.
27. Rap, a Oiito, ditto ditto, .C 3 ss. 28. Bell. a ditto
bitch, ditto, £2. 29. Fan, a (lit.° ditto, with tour puppies,
£2. 31. Fop, a ditto ditto dig. £4 54. 34. Boh, an ex=
cellent spaniel, 35a. 35. Bru-h. a ditto di-tn. 535. 36.
Floes, a ditto ditto, 20s. 37. Black mastiff, 10s.

LOSS OF THE COLONIES OF ENGLAND.

The following is a letter addressed, by the steamer of
19th April, to the Board of Trade of Hamilton, Canada
West, by its President, Mr. Isaac Buchanan, now in this

country :

ow, 15th Apil. 1846.
Daniel 3 -PGlas
fcArab, Esq., Vice resident
Board of Trade,
Hamilton, Canoda West.
DEAR SlR,—Feeiltig firmly persuaded, as i do, that
Free Trade is just, another name fir the abandonment of
the Colonial s)stem, and the handing over of British.
America to the United States, than which there can be
no more fatal policy on the part of Great Britain, 1 viewed
it to be my ditty to my Sovereign, as well as to my fellow
loyalists in Canada, publicly to declare my conviction. on
the introduction of the measures now pending, aid the
same feeling has made me continue to do so, as you wilt
see by the enclosed answer to the Manchester Guardian..
Neither the new Tariff nor the Corn Bill has yet passed
the House of Commons, and I
firmly bo•lieve that the fact
that both Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Russell have
committed themselves to their principle, is the. only chance
of these measures becoming

Even the strong feature that I have referred to would
not avail the promoters of Free Trade, except that the
same thing which affected the decision of the political
leaders, the bullying of the Anti.Corn.law League, added
to the important fact of Sir Robert Peel's apostacy' has
' raised a feeling in the minds of many opponents of Free
Trade very unlike their old national sentiment—
" Fear God, and have no other fear."
These men say that so morbid has become the public mind,
that an actual experience of the bitter fruits of Fire
Trade without reciprocity is the only nowtr that can
dispel the delu,ions under which the people labour.
To such argumerr, , I reply, that this is just asserting
that, in ortler to prove it, they sill allow their neighbour
to taste a cup they know to be deadly poison.
The mistake, in the sense of their duty, that is com-
mitted by these opponents of Free Trade, arises from their
confusing between an antidote against the same cup being
presented to the next yrneration, and an antidote to ite
deadly effect on the present gfeatness anal power of Eng-
land, forgetting that the latter will be sacrificed in the
meantime, and that no adequate compensation can ever
be found in the inevitable tesult that Sir Robert Peel's
wont of princip:e will be repudiated, after general diitreps,
through want of employment among the people, and na-
tional bankruptcy are seen to flow from it.
The great difficulty of the Colonists here is, that we
have no open enemies, though ac are honoured by secret
and insidious enmity of every man of rt.pub lean and
atheistical tendencies in England. I am tar, very far,
from asserting that all our opponents are of the sump I
allude to, but only that perrele of that stan-p are all
against us to a man. The tactics with which they manage
to humbug the public are these—
Itirst—Canada and the timber trade are shown to be one
and the same thing ! arid we are represented as simply
and selfishly al-nog/lino with no higher aim than a tim-
ber monopoly, allowed to be detrimental to the people
of England !!
Second—Following Sir Robert Peel's example, they dis-
play masses of dry fieures fom official returns, which'.
they argue on as taws, although they know, and every
one knows that, in most cases, these are not even art
approximation to the truth, from the loose way they,
are made up.

It is an imposition on the public; for intelligent Free
Traders, who know better, to persist in calling the timber
trade peculiarly a Canadian interest.
The extirpation of the Canadian Timber Trade would
injure the individuals in Canada who have embarked in
the trade by rendering useless the immense machinery by
which it is carried on, and which it has taken forty Stara
to perfect, but it would permanently injure the Colony
only to the extent of the market which the timber trade
now creates for provisions, the great bulk of the price of
the timber being paid for, not in Canadian labour, but
manufactured goods or British labour.
The fact is, that it has always been a question with me
whether the timber trade is not rathera clisadvantep• than
otherwise to the population of Canada, as direct ti them
from their sure source of independence, the cult ivat;on of
the land, to a more precarious and less moral employ—
ment.

In the necessities of the empire in 1808 the timber trade
was created by an act of the British Parliament, it bring
found that, unrestra'ned by British competition. the
foreigner charged his ou n price, even in time of peace,
and in time of war our supply was entirely cut off.
The consumer was at that time paying the murchants
of Memel and Danziz three times the price at which tim-
ber cpuld be produced, and has ever since been afforded,
from British America.

After the war, and when the machinery of the timber
trade had got thorougly started, the protection was re-
duced to what was then supposed to be the amount of the
disadvantage of distances and higher priced labour, which
the colonial lumber merchant labours under as compatOil
with the lumberer of the Baltic.
In 1842. Sir Robert Peel made a farther reduction, and
brought the protection 50 low as to give the foreign a posi.
live advantage practically.
The Colonial duty, which WAS 10A., was, in 1842. re-
duced to Is., and the Foreign duty, which was 55... was
reduced to 255. The British lumberer pays the Crown
4a. 2d. per load in the Colony for the privilege of cutting.
and is at a disadvantage of 21a. per load in freight, the
freight from the Baltic being 175., and from Quebec 38s. ;
so that the foreigner has a distinct advantage to the ex.
tent that his article is more esteemed in the British mat ket,
and to the extent also, that the serfs of the Baltic will
work for less than the population of Canada, who have
agricultural pursuits always oden to them, (all our lum-
berers being either owners of land or able easily to ac-
quire it.)
In 1841, the revenue drew £1,600,009 from the timber
trade, and on the then or old trustern of duties the revenue
would have reached or approached £3,000,000 on the in-
creased import of 1845.

On the new or Peel plan, however, the duties decreased
by the year 1845 to £1.000,000, although the import had
extended from 1.200.000 loads to 2,000,000 of loads ; and,
while no benefit, but great Injury, has accru-d to the re.
venue, tee public has not got their timber cheaper in the
least, the who'c of the duty remitted having gone into the
pockets of the foreigner (prices at Memel and Danzig
having risen from GO to 75 I,er cent).
What classes, then, are inlereved in the timber trade
of 13, itish A meric‘. ? I answer, besides providing a cheap
conveyance for emigration. the British coosumer of tint-
ber and the British shipowner are the only Gab:AT CLASSES
to be considered, both these being deeply concerned ita
retaining, at le+st, as much protection to Canadian tim.
ber as will pay the difference of freight, 215.. as or herwise
the trade will not be coot.nued, and the foreigner left
without opposition in the British market.
Never let the consumer forgot that a trade which has
taken 40 tears to call into existence, could not. if allowed
to go down, be built up again on a sudden in case of emer.
gency.

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