The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-03-27 00:00:00

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EXCITEMENT. IN CANADA.

TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 27, 1849

(From our own Correspondent.)

THE inaugural address of the new President of
the United States, which we gave in a second
edition on Tuesday last, contains a passage bearing
upon the question of his proposed domestic and
commercial policy, which is rather significant.
The President says—" It shall be my study to re-
commend such constitutional measures to Congress
.ary and proper to secure encou-
ragement. protection to the great interests of
agriculture, commerce, and manufactures, to im-
prove our rivers and harbours, to provide for the
speedy extinguishment of the public debt, to enforce
a strict accountability on the part of all officers of
the govesnment, and the utmost economy of the
public expenditure." Viewed, as these remarks
ought to be, in connexion with General Taylor's
profession of a pacific foreign policy, and non-in-
terference in the affairs of neighbouring countries,
we can only arrive at the conclusion that the prin-
ciples of his government will be totally antagonistic
to those of his predecessor; and that they will be
directed strictly to the development, through the
medium of peaceful and protected industry, of the
var, ::::1111: j,f :le count. v, uver which he has

as may be neces-
anc7

Loyal Canadians from all parts, east and west, north

been called to rule

to zanowten, ann trOun litotleriett
to Sherbrooke—are raising their indignant protest against
this nefarious scheme. Every telegraphic report,
every mail, and every newspaper, bring the news of mass
meetings and indignant resolutions protesting against the
ministerial scheme. Montreal, Quebec, Kingston,
Toronto, Hamilton, and every town, every county, every
village, and every hamlet, have spoken, or are speaking,
in burning• words. The whole country is on fire. The
conservative press is raking up the vocabulary of the
English language for the strongest words in which to
express its protest. This language is no exaggeration ;
it does not picture the reality.
And truly this scheme of this radical ministry is not of
more immoral tendency than it is extraordinary. It has
no parallel in English history, nor in any other that I am
aware of. In vain has Sir Allan M'Nab, the gallant
leader of the conservative opposition, told them in their
places in parliament the story of rebellions in England,
rebellions in Ireland, and rebellions in Scotland, and
asked them to show when the rebels who got them up
were ever paid. As the gallant knight told them, rebels
were never paid but once. and that was when the Scotch
got paid for their king. The ministry with indecent haste
seem disposed to carry this measure threm,l,

It has been urged that these sentiments may bt
regarded as words of course, having nothing but a
general import. Those who express these opinions,
however, do not hear in mind the straightforward
character of the party by whom they are put forth.
General Taylor is no diplomatist ; no dealer in that
kind of language which is said only to be used to
conceal thoughts. It is known of him, publicly,
that he is, and ever has been, the advocate of a
policy thoroughly protective of the industry of his
fellow-citizens ; and when he assures us that he
meditates the speedy extinction of the public debt,
we cannot but be perfectly aware that he intends to
effect this by the agency of a protective tariff alone.
Such a man is not to be deluded by our own pet
notions of political economy. The distinguishing
characteristic of his mind is that plain common
sense, which regards it as emphatically the best po-
licy of a new country to dispense, as much as pos-
sible, with all ' .
he in- the debate in committee has been long and wearisome,
dustry of its and has occupied about a fortnight. It is much to be re-
plying. gretted, and it will do anything but advance the prosperity
of the Years had passed since the rebellion,
We have little expectation, then, of seeing, under
his presidency, any relaxation of the stringency of the fire brand em
ng excitemadlyd
bythirtowwnasailivoinng
uasway, when
the rates upon British, or other produce and manu- At a public meeting held in this city ogn the subject,
factures. On the contrary., we look for increased there were between 4,000 and 5,000 men present. Never
duties to be imposed upon them. Already a corn- in this city was there such a meeting before, and n€,:e
Mission, appointed to inquire such burning enthusiasm excited. It spoke the langua
into the subject, has
it ought to sneak—the language of Britons who lc,
enorted in favour of a larger amount of protection Li •

prouucLions which the soil or t
own population is capable of sup- I

-- their rights, and were prepared to maintain them ; while
being imposed, in favour of the native manufactu- it expressed regret, it protested against the proposed
rer, upon our cottons and woollens ; and the opi- scheme, and protested it would never pay the debentures.
nion of the best-informed authorities, at the date Never since I left the shores of my native land have I
of the last advises, was that, although the rates hrieasrolostuoiciloina
ocir
tieire afis that which
ol burst from that crowd
deafening
as it was waved from
might not be raised to the extent of the tariff of the platform. It waags a g
cheer, which came
1842, a compromise will probably be effected be- from thousands of British hearts which beat as one, and
tween those of that year and the existing tariff of which "told more than thousand homilies." Never
1846. This is not a subject of very consolatory or could a more cheering spectacle meet the eve and thrill
encouraging reflection for our free-trade politicians. the heart of an Englishman than whpn fr.n, a..., -t-44---
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• ne saw that living mass of his countrymen before him,
Upon them, however, even practical experience 'and heard his country's flag, three thousand miles from
Seems to be lost, whenever it bears against the home, greeted with that glorious cheer. "The stirring
wisdom of their own abstract theories. memories of a thousand years" were there—the living
reality of that loyal patriotism and adoration for his
NISI PRIUS COURT.—YESTERDAY. country, which since his infancy he had been taught was
The court sat at nine o'clock this morning, when the fol- there.
lowing cases were proceeded with : The struggle that has commenced is one of races. The
THE LIVERPOOL PIICENIX LOAN COMPANY V. HYDE. French Canadian has asserted that he will have the mas-
-Mr. James and Mr. Filer appeared for the plaintiffs, and terv, and make paramount in Lower Canada at least, notre
the defendant appeared in person. This was an action to languge, nos institutions, et nos lois., The Alo-Saxon
recover £46, the balance of £lOO lent on a promissory note (4,4,--. L.,, , •ng

- - lures trut he is a degenerate Frank, and that with his
signed by the defendant. The note was put in and proved, antiquated customs, sottish ignorance, and religion of the
and the defendant having been called upon to plead, said bigotted Catholicism of France before the revolution, he
that in consequence of the absence of his witnesses he had never shall. The excitement is such as makes men in-
no answer to the case. A verdict for the full amount was
+i,„ .1 -

returned for the ph
At this stage of t

ueeas of their ancestors, and by ancient and
modern memories the Saxon protests that he will never
proceedings, the jury in the patent submit to the rule of the French Canadian. There can
case, fixed for yesterday morning, not being in court, the be no doubt as regards the issue of the struggle—the
Learned Judge took a case of French Canadian must succumb ; and there is little
BURGLARY.—WiIIiam Jackson was indicted for having doubt that in twent
on the night of the 16th of March instant, broken into the "tale that is told."y years hence his nationality will be a
Salford and Manchester National School. Verdict, guilty. Tf the royal assent be given to these resolutions, it will
Sentence, two years imprisonment, with hard labour. be an insult which the loyal inhabitants of this province
PALEY AND OTHERS v. HOLMES.—In this case a ver- will not soon forget ; and it is rumoured, and perhaps
diet for £6l was taken by consent. truly, that Lord Elgin has received instructions to do so.
If such be the case, an English whig ministry, unstable as
lull • water, had better have paused ere it truckled with Cana-
dian radicals to perpetuat, such a scheme as this. There
lift may be talk of appealing to arms, and talk of annexation,
ich but this is only the ebullition of angry feeling, arising
from goaded insult. British Canadians are loyal, and
-4..( will not rebel, and they love their mother country too well
Int to wish annexation with the States. This latter will
never occur, unless forced to it by England ; and, truly,
English policy of late (which by poor
'he ')e bercro-:- '

IMPORTANT CASE

TENT RIGHT

MANGA-17CAND

OTHER V. BENECKE AND OTHEh
case were John Maneall snd Ed-
'-ndants, F. W. Benecke,
icnouchay, John Schouchay,

—The plaintiffs in this
mund Brideson, and the det
Martin Schuncke, Charles
and George Gouber, of Manchester.
The counsel for the plaintiffs were Mr. Martin, Q.C.,
Mr. Crompton and Mr. Atherton ; for the defendants,
Messrs. Watson, Q.C., Cowling, and Mr. Webster, in-
structed by Mr. Harrison Blair.
The pleadings wet% onened by

declaralio

were granted to Messrs

h that in the year 1838 letters patent
. Brideson and Latham for certain
improvements in machinery for stretching and drying
woven fabrics. A part of this patent was subsequently
assigned to the plaintiffs, and a gentleman named Hicks.
The defendants had infringed this patent by using a simi-
lar process of drying and stretching fabrics, and conse-
quently the present action had been brought. The defen-
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A. • r • .

--bg_aring herself) Is insanely tending
England should never have withheld protection from
Canada!

to this end

There is little else new, and every other topic is
banished from men's minds by the rebellion losses.
Parliament has been more than a month in session, and
it has done very little. The most important measure that
it has passed is a reciprocity bill with the States, to admit
certain agricultural products on reciprocal terms. The

was imperfect
not the " tru

on not infringe; th.t the specification
Messrs. Brideson and Latham were
first inventors ;" that the invention
a lisp find .t.:.

protection from England, some time ago petitioned for
by the Board of Trade of this city, would do wonders for
this

,rovince.

puunuatiun in tms country
previous to the patent; that it was not for making any
new article of manufacture in this country, and therefore
a patent could not be granted. That part of the machi-
- nd that the same had not been pro-
ation ; that the machine
that which had been pa-

CAUSES OF THE COMMERCIAL DISASTERS.

nery was not ne%
perly described

Mr. Newdegate, M.P., has taken the trouble to do
what no minister or member of Parliament has ever done
before: he has coolly sat down, counted, reckoned, and
summed up the purchases and sales of England, in her
dealings with the world, for four years past. And he finds
the results to be these :
In 1845—Excess of imports over exports, de-
ducting freight
In 1846—Ditto, ditto
In 1847—Ditto, ditto
In 1848—Ditto, ditto
Now these are facts altogether appalling ; and however
the correctness of some of the figures may be impugned,
we have the proof of 0- f-antial ' '-' of

now in use was

tented by the plaintiffs ; that the patent was not according
to law, and lastly, that the statements of the plaintiffs
when they obtained the letters patent were not true. On
these points issue was joined, and the cause was brought
before the court.

Mr. MARTIN, in opening the case, said that the plain-
tiffs in this case were the assignees of a patent granted in
1838 to Messrs. Bridson and Latham, the first of whom
was a bleacher, in this county, and the second a hackl
maker. The defendants were large manufacturers
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BeMc'

brought

, near the town of Rochdale. This action 'was
to maintain the remaining three years of the
I"- The patent which was taken out,

..ne subs,. . truth of the general
view in the unforgotten sufferings of 1847-1848. People
wondered how our merchants came to fall like leaves be-
fore a November gale,—they talked of railway calls and
other causes ;—but the one fact which was kept out of
view was this, that in 1847 and 1848, we had to pay to
foreign countries forty-four millions of money, for goods
bought of them, beyond the goods sold to them !
Strange that such facts as these should have been for-

plaintiff's patent

as for certain improvements in the

gotten Throughout, and should now have to be thrust
under the nose of the President of the Board of Trade by
a country gentleman, representing a midland county.

COLONIAL OFFICE MORALITY.
MR. BENJAMIN HAWES AGAIN!

On Thursday night last, a rather barefaced specimen of
ministerial shuffling was afforded by the Under Secretary
to the Colonies, a gentleman already celebrated for his
adroitness in keeping back important information con-
nected with his department. Mr. W. E. Gladstone had
asked some questions relative to the proceedings in Ca-
nada, with respect to the proposal before the legislature
in that colony, to give compensation for the losses sus-
tained by parties implicated in the late rebellion. The
two first of these questions elicited only some general re-
marks of a rather quibbling description. The last, how-
ever, was one to which a simple " Yes," or " No," was
required. It was " whether any official intelligence had
yet been received with respect to these transactions in
Canada ; and, if so, " whether the Government was pre-
pared to lay it on the table." We give Mr. Hawes' reply
from the report in the Times :

In answer to the third question, he must state that no de.

spatches whatever had been received from Lord Elgin with
respect to these transactions, either before or since the subject
had occupied the attention of the Canadian Assembly, and,
therefore, there were no despatches to produce. [Here Sir G.
Grey made an observation to the honourable member.] He
used the word "despatches" advisedly, because Lord Grey had
received a private letter on the subject. (" Hear, hear," from.
the Opposition benches.) It was only on yesterday it was re-
ceived."

The worthy ex-soaphoiler seems as difficult to catch as
a certain animal whose tail is occasionally rubbed with the
material which he has been used to manufacture. First,
he slips out of the grasp of Mr. Gladstone with the as-
sertion that " no despatches whatever" had been received.
Next, we find Sir George Grey making a communication
to him, the purport of which was most likely to remind
the right honourable under secretary that the assertion
was rather too bold, in the face of a little fact, of which
both were aware. But Mr. Hawes had still a loophole of
escape, and flippantly continued that he had "used the
word despatches advisedly, because Lord Grey had re-
ceived a private letter on the subject." Of course he
used the word " advisedly." The evasion was premedi-
tated and deliberate. Mr. Gladstone asked if " official
information" had been received. Mr. Hawes said that
no "despatches" had been received; and doubtless in-
tended to escape the importunity of hisquerist by the
quibble. But was not the " private letter" itself, if such
a term can be applied to a communication, from the Go-
vernor General of an important colony, to the head of his
department at home, at an important crisis and upon
official business, precisely the sort of " official intelli-
gence" which Mr. Gladstone asked for ? Sir George
Grey, who attempted to whitewash Mr. Hawes, told the
house that "it showed that the Compensation Bill"—the
bill enquired about—" had not passed. It had been read
a second time, and was to go into committee, and several
amendments were to be proposed." This important in-
formation Mr. Hawes would have kept from the house ;
nay, would have led it to infer that no such bill had ever
been proposed ; and had we not fortunately had a press
in Canada, we should have been left entirely in the dark
as to one of the most glaring outrages ever attempted to
be committed by a miserable French faction upon the
loyal Canadian people, until it had become law, only to be
set aside by the veto of the national Parliament, after
which, Sir G. Grey assures us that Lord Elgin " would, no
doubt, send a despatch on the subject," and as undoubt-
edly attempt to gloss over the whole affair to the advan-
tage of his favourite rebel ministry.
Of course, this is all in keeping with Whig ministerial
practice. There is a license, apparently, which some

MONTREAL, MARCH 1.
Californian gold, reciprocity bills, protection and free
trade, railroads, and free navigation of the St. Lawrence,
bad times, and all the ordinary topics of common dis-
course, have been banished from the minds of loyal
British Canadians, to make way for an excitement such
as has not been equalled since those times when, some
ten or eleven years ago, they left their homes and their
beds in the dead of winter's night to shoulder their mus-
kets to put down French rebels in Lower Canada, and
renegade traitors of British origin in Upper Canada.
' This excitement has been caused by the nefarious scheme
of a radical ministry to INDEMNIFY the traitorous
scoundrels who got up the rebellion !
The details of the scheme are briefly these :—Mr. L.
H. Lafontaine, the French Canadian premier of Lower
Canada, has introduced into the House of Assembly a
series of resolutions for the payment of rebellious losses,
by issuing debentures on the consolidated revenue fund
of the province; and one of these resolutions provides for
the payment of the losses of rebels. The radicals in the
house are all powerful in numbers, and the resolutions
have already passed through a committee, and the report
of that committee has been adopted by a large majority.
They will pass the upper house, filled as it is with the
creatures of the government; and they may receive the
assent of the Governor, weak as has been his career in
Canada.