The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-22 00:00:00

TAE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

ecinrocity and Industrial Association," held on for the privacy of their effort is rather an amusing an unvarying' amount of taxation, out of profits
-el most influentially one. The promoters of the Amphitheatre meeting, decreased by competition—which has roused our
,ions and facts, they say, could fill that locality with their own financial associations, and other siinilar bodies, to
-'neendents. We 'admit the fact, but deny-the enquiries into palace, and army and navy expendi-
usion sought to be drawn from it. The classes ture. .The shoe is pinching in an unexpected
- interested in shipping are a powerful body, and quarter. The important fact, that debts and con-
After condemning Free Trade as a misnomer possess numerous dependents. They could afford tracts remain fixed, whilst the remuneration of in-
and ruinous to domestic and colonial industry, their artizans an opportunity of attending a meet- dustry and the profits of enterprise have been de-
when not met with reciprocal concessions by other ing; and were perfectly justified in so doing. But pressed, has been overlooked by the authors of our
countries, the association proceed, in their printed that the presence of the seamen, the carpenters, newly adopted commercial policy; but it cannot
to lay down their objects, as follow : the anchorsmiths, and other artizans of Liverpool, remain hidden after the good sense of the country
ler relieving detracted from the influential character of the has been once fairly directed towards it, for it will
'mistration of Friday we utterly deny. There make itself known and felt very perceptibly, and
I's not a man of them who does not feel himself especially amongst all classes of our agricultural
Hire.
-1-:-1- population. These are indeed already affording us
pr; proof, by their attitude of stern protest against the
measures of the present and preceding adminis-
procit
trations, that they are quite alive to the difficulties
of their position.

ent syst

of -laying con- cl

stry from various undue b

as and restric-

To obtain free trade with the British coloni

,„ tIG C; 117p1re, Dy r AUGS/1, ALA ,cICOLCI-1 111 WM quest,wn Wilb VA, IZW.tri
nd colonial trade on similar principles. not a/ man who wields a hammer or a chisel who
`-•••,Irt with forei;n states, on the does not know that the measure of Government is
"4. To procure and circulate authentic information devised to snatch a meal from his family and to
regarding native and colonial industry and interests, to transfer it to the foreigner. The leading speakers,
-+(h the character of all metoures introduced into the however, were comprised of men not otherwise in-
stion, than on public grounds.
Mr. Horsfall, Mr. Holme, aria

3.-To obtain

a true and equitat

There is one feature in the present state of things,
which ought materially to encourage the Protec-
tionist body in Parliament, and throughout the
country, to maintain the struggle upon which they
have entered. The suffering of the farmer,.and his
present acute perception of its causes, are things
which cannot be got rid of by a shuffle of the
curds, or any other juggle of statesmanship. The
substitution of a Peel or a coalition ministry for the
present incapable government, might revive the
commercial energies of the country and give con-
fidence to capitalists for a season. A fortunate
settlement of affairs on the continent might give
an impetus to the export trade, and increased em-
ployment to the artizan. But none of these things
could operate sensibly upon agriculturA distress.
A temporary feeling of liveliness in Mark-lane or
Brunswick-street, would be the utmost good it
could produce and that would soon be neutralized
by the increased imports of grain which would pour
in, as the result of any advance towards saving
prices for the farmer.

s, and to promote and maintain a harmo-
-2 between all sections of the British em-

,ct.a All. ULIU litit
nay instance

Christopher Bushell, the latter of whom we
'There is here an evidently correct idea of what were glad to observe appearing in public to enter
really is Free Trade ;" and the efforts of such an his protest against the measure, in his wonted
association to (men the PUPA f hn.;r . 11. t- 4.1..." nrcr-ronii n- style of forcible eloquence. It is not a matter of

pure speculation; not a matter of straw splitting,
or our present miscalled
which can be only dealt with by philosophers.
e crowned with success. it is a dry, naked fact that we are seeking to buy
suffering amongst the our ships from the foreigner instead of building
.nclustrial and commercial classes throughout Scot- them at home; to employ the foreign sailor instead
_ . .
- - -
land an--

ymen, as to thE

em must ultimate]

In the meantime sere

ing about

ich a consummation

as sill' be seen

'rom the foil

instead of the I

; to pay freight to the foreign
tish shipowner; and surely the
are intended to be thus sacrified have the
possible right to enter their protest against
ifice.

ng remarks of one of the speakers

1 best

" HUGH TENNENT, Eq., rose and said, the resolutions the sa
which have lust been submitted to you, announce among -
other that the condition of this nation is at
pr ,ent unsatisfactory, as evinced by the increase of poor

r thin? Most heartily do we rejoice that they have had
ins -,•rded them an opportunity of so doing; and
disc _ that our town has been-spared the reproach, of being
cou, —cs. In a great mercantile community supine with respect to a great national as well as a
q. the truth of this proposition must be pain- local question. We can- be twitted no longer with
and _A by the daily experience ut oliciyatio, of
the assertion that thc opiniono of Liverpool nro in
every one around me. The fact, unfortunately, is too
plain and palpable to admit of being controverted. The accordance with the votes of its two members ;-
-floes of our population are subjected to poverty and and the hands of Lord Stanley and his noble sup-
-„hii. n,..;,nn 7,...., 1'...—..r.." •
"-'''',. of Lords will be thus.

Ex-MANGE NEWS-1100 m, MoND.4.'t
All parties are dissatisfied with the treatment Liverp
has received at the hands of the leeislature. The m

q's in the

I their c

'basinq infi

med in their resistance to this ruinous
It is now an established fact that the
eoice of the country is not with the government
in its favour; and it is becoming day by day more
questionable whether public opinion is not setting
in against the whole of the policy of the free-trade
• school. His Lordship may, therefore, with perfect
..s nve hundred annually in Lk ,r-
-,,nd Scotland above half a million and within the safety, put forth his most strenuous opposition
eleven years the expense of Scottish pauperism has against the bill; and the members of their Lord-
increased 350 per cent—relief being granted in England ships' House, who were deterred. from throwing it
to linlo of the population, and in Scotland to lin 111. out on the second reading by the fear of her
In Manchester, last year, about one-fourth of the popu- NI • I,being left •
Majesty without a government, may
lation were paupers, and I need not remind you that in
the City Parish of Glasgow the assessment for the sup-
take heart from the-assurance that her loyal sub-
port of the poor for this last year will be iittle short of jects will be found ready to rescue her from so sad
£lOO,OOO. Since the beginning of the present century, an inconvenience ass the absence of the Whig
crime in Great Britain rtenPrzall, •,

so that, whether as re
titian—our we

is their 7

1, gocii2l, or physi-

t measure,

Inveterate toe to protection feels indignant that the voice
of this town, though even raised against his own dogmas
should fall so listlessly upon the ears of the highest cm
stitutional body in the empire. Rut their
is !n0"... ti

national strength, display the visible tokens of de-
. (Hear.) Legislators and philanthro-
,c alike acknowledged the position of the coun-
and admitted the necessity of some large and corn-

and decay,

tonishment

petition—

.ifich the people of
mvey their opiniors-to either depart-
-should be pronounced in almost

manner in w

prehensive

tem o

moral and social regeneration

—and if we take the period, from 1836 to 1847, the
PrPaco in T.nnarle,bira hoc hearm fv.rm. Ann 4 onn _ _

family par

from her councils

r, as the
These are, indeed, what the speaker termed result of our free trade policy, one great fact, viz.,
"Startling statistics." The gradual depreciation the existence throughout the country of agricul-
of the condition of our masses, here referred to, tural distresii-which promises a very rapid increase,
must in time, if not remedied by wise and parental and must ultimately miff the present race of far-
legislation, drive them into a frenzied resistance mers. During the first two years after-the repeal
against those institutions, under whose operation of the corn laws, its full erects were not felt. The
they have been first robbed, and afterwards de- same failure of the potato,and general scarcity of
moralized and degraded. cereals throughout Europe,- which had served as
The Association, we are glad to find, are equally , the pretexts for precipitating that great change,
strenuous in their condemnation of the Govern- sustained prices at a high range ; and the free trader

I and tides

r includ

e Our 11

r pre-
Nlvigation

Ted to give t

against our %