The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-05 00:00:00

'or any sign of li

Reforr
Clyde.

f Glasgow
Reformers

r, Bristol, and

f those

glish Reformers! My ex-
where are they to be found ?

'ism is extending and

that, too, in the very land
—.- ...

Mr. O'iT

,nnell had but six

The Lords are firm,

Church, save by some
own bosom, still stands

'native re-

y ought to hay

coura

It is discourag-

defection of men on

it what is the moral
to follow their evil

which they voluntarily

I which- they unbid-

ors to cause and camp,
by whose sides they
111 fix their feet more
ig principle more

s" against the

at companions are

Any success which
11 obtain only through

aithfulness of ours

come ;" and if true to

1 LAWS

of Population."

IE CORN LAWS ON PRICES

onents of the corn laws
two things to continue

:ouutry, or even in the
,ently reduced prices,

Common sense, a

.t no such result

and often does

f the repeal

of to re i

gn, arid a

the question is,

for a con-

of the neces-

an expectation would

iven to foreign

considerably rais

causes would in the
itish. Polish wheat

carter to thirty-five
ive to forty-five or

t of a competition

dlv and progressive'

gn grower

the monopoly

The moment this

[I frau; the corepetition

Vistula wouli

'e with

sts, while those of the Thames,

ould in great part be restored
s of nature ; but it is by no means clear that
Manchester or Glasgow would eat his bread
ve he had practically come to depend upon
vers of Poland instead of those of his own

tive of

onsequence of the unrestricted ad-
the price of subsistence is perms-
British consumer, will any benefit
e to the working classes of Great
they could succeed in maintaining their
xisting level, they would be very great

that, it

meted to i

the cha

although the withering eflect of
cultural classes would, in the end,

ry prosperity of the manufac-
But could the manufacturing operatives, or
,urers, keep their money wages up at their
level if a permanent reduction in the price of the ne-
sof life had taken place ? Nothing is clearer than
they could not. The money-rate of wages, wholly in-
ldent of the price of provisions from year to year, is
ly regulated by it, other things being equal, from ten
If, by the free importation of foreign
of it is reduced one-half, the ultimate

years to ten

vill be, that wages will fall one-half also.' It is impos-
sible it can be otherwise ; for even if the reduction did not
ensue from any other cause, it would inevitably be brought
about by the great impulse given to population, and conse-
quent multiplication of labourers, under the influence of un-
diminished money-wages and augmented ease of circum-
stances, and an increased durable fall in the price of the ne-
e

3saries of life.
Past history and past (

experience alike concur in demonstra-
ting this important fact. In the time of the Norman con-
quest, the price of wheat was from three shillings and six-
pence to five shillings per quarter ; but nevertheless, the la-
bourers had not half the command of the necessaries of life
they have now, for the money-wages of labour were a half-
penny a day durir the remainder of the year and a penny
Ins are incomparably cheaper in Poland
•y are in this country ; but are the Po-
\ts half as comfortably fed, lodged, or
ling classes in this country ? Every
-ing so, or obtaining any benefit

ssia than the

the corr

ce of provisions in their own

ost miserable labourers in
ils of rye bread, in the very

. ,
hich they raise for the more
try. In the

outhern pro-

market

Rut w hat is the consE

)lOW, t

the Cossack horse-

,11 six pence a y

r of pay from

of this sort prove how extremely
at opinion, that permanently low
produce comfort to the working

kRRETS FOR MANUFACTURES.
inufactures raised for the
vhich are consumed in the

even with reference
uring classes themselves—is
which may seriously
se productive indus-
i which the wealth is ob-
tures for the home market
D advocate measures which
class of our manufacturers
is' worth of goods, by level-
ts of those classes who take
orth of goods? Considered
and pence, as a cal-
orelv an unwise thing to at-

,ense of the greater

t of balf the dimensions,

ld , in fact,

t is the di

market

of po,ed of individurds
potentates, sad who either have been,