The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-14 00:00:00

FESTIVITIES AT WYNNSTAY

WYNNSTAY, FRIDAY.
Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bart., entertained the Duk
and Duchess of Northumberland, Miss Percy, Earl an,
Countess of Powiss and Ladies Lucy and Charlotte Herbert
Lord and Lady Dalamere, Hon. H. Cholmondeley. M.P.

Hon. Miss Cholmondeley, Viscount Cantilupe, Sh:Stephi

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Glynne, Bart. Right Hon. Charles W. Wynn and the Miss
Wynn, Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, Bart., M.l
and Lady Egerton, Hon. Captain Macdonald, Lord Hi

Sir Rowland Hill, Bart., Hon. R. H. and Lady Harrier
Clive and Miss Clive, Dowager Lady Rendlesham and Hon
Misses Thelluson, and a select circle, to dinner, on Wed.

nesday evening.
In the afternoon of the same day, the children educated

the schools at ltuabon were liberally entertained at the ex
pense of the worthy baronet, and they danced and amuse,

Themselves on the lawn in front of the mansion until eveni

At night Viscountess Dungannon gave a splendid fete
daneance at Brynkynalt Hall. It was a brilliant reunion,
and nearly 400 personages of rank honoured her ladyship
with their company. The whole range of saloons were
thrown open on the occasion, and a sumptuous supper was
provided. The elite of the visitors comprised Sir Watkin W.
Wynn, Bart., and Miss Wynn, Duke and Duchess of Nor-
thumberland, Lord Hill, Earl and Countess of Powis
and Ladies Herbert, Marquis and Marchioness of Lon-
donderry, Lady Frances Vane, Honourable Captain Mac-
donald, Duke of Marlborough, Lady Louisa Churchill,
Lady Caroline Stewart, Countess of Jersey and Lady Cle-
mentina Villiers, Hon. Cecil Forester, Lord William Paulett,
Dowager Lady Rendlesham and the Hon. Misses Thelluson,
Sir Richard and Lady Puleston and Miss Puleston, lion. R.
H. and Lady Harriet Clive and Miss Clive, Lord and Lady
Delatnere and Hon. Miss Cholmondeley, Lord Kenyon, Sir
R. Hill, Bart., Mr. Gascoigne, Hon. E. and Mrs. Kenyon,
Right Hon. C. W. Wynn and Misses Wynn, Hon. Sir E.
and Lady Cust and Miss Cust, Colonel and Mrs. Myddleton
Biddulph, Mr. Jenkinson, Hon. William Bagot, Sir Richard
Brooke and Miss Brooke, Viscount and Vicountess Brabazon,
Lady Helena Cooke, Mr. and Mrs. Bootle Wilbraham, Mr.
and Mrs. Ormsby Gore, Lord James Beresford, Hon. Mr.
Curzon, Mr. and Mrs. Corbett, Mr. Brice, Captain Hamil-
ton. Hon. Mrs. Stanley, Count Kondriaoffsky, Major and
Mrs. Campbell, Sir Stephen Glynne, Colonel and Mrs.
Bowles, Sir John and Lady Hamer, Lord Paget, Mr.
Baring, Mr. and Mrs. M. Gaskell, &c.
It will be seen from the above list the distinguished circle
at Wynnstay graced the festive scene by their presence, and
the party visiting Colonel and Mrs. Myddleton Biddulph, at
Chirk Castle, came to the ball.
Yesterday the grand banquet in the pavilion at Wynustay,
when Sir Watkin W. Wynn, Bart., presided, supported by
the Duke of Northumberland and the Earl of Powis, took
place. Covers were laid for 500.
The Marquis of Londonderry arrived at Brynkynalt, the
seat of Viscount Dungannon, on Wednesday.

MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS

The following is a complete list of the present ministerial

ppointtnents

TILE CABINET,

Leader of the House of Lords,
} The Duke of Wellington.
without office
Lord Chancellor.
President of the Council ...... Lord Wharncliffe. .
Lord Privy Seal The Duke of Buckingham.
First Lord of the Treasury.. • t The Rt.
Peel, lion. Sir Robert
Bart.
First Lord of the Admiralty The Earl of Haddington.
Principal Secretary of State for 1 The Rt. lion. Sir James
the Home Department .
Principal Secretary of State for } The Earl of Aberdeen.
Foreign Affairs
Principal Secretary of State for
1 The Rt. Hon. Lord Stanley.
the Colonies ...
President of the Board of Trade The Earl of Ripon.
President of the Board of Con- I Lord Ellenborough.
trol for the Affairs of India..
Chancellor of the Exchequer.. The Rt. Hon. H. Goulburn.
f The Rt. Hon. Sir H. liar-
Secretary at War . ' 1 dine.
Treasurer of the Navy and Pay- IThe Rt. Hon. Sir Edward
master of the Forces ..... ... 1 Knatchbull.

NOT IN THE CABINET,
Attorney-General Sir F. Pollock
Solicitor-General
Chancellor of the Duchy of 1 The Rt. Hon. Lord Gran-
Lancaster
Postmaster-General .......... Baron Lowther.
Master-General of the Ord- 1 The Rt. Hon. General Sir
nance
First Commissioner of Land 1 The Rt. Hon. the Earl of
Revenue
Lord Advocate
Judge Advocate....... . Dr. Nicholl.
Vice-President of the Board of 1 The Rt. Hon. W. Ewart
Trade and Master of the Mint I Gladstone.
Secretary to the Admiralty.... The Hon. Sydney Herbert.
Joint Secretaries of the Trea- 1 Sir T. Fremantle, Bart.,
sury
Surveyor-General of the Ord- Jonathan Peel, Esq.
nance
Under-Secretary of State for }Viscount Canning.
the Foreign Department ....
Under-Secretary of State for 1
George Wm. Hope, Esq.
the Colonial Department....
Under-Secretary of State for 1 The Hon. H. Manners
the Home Department...... 1 Sutton, M. P.
oint Secretaries of the Board IThe Hon. F. Baring, M .P.,
of Control
Esq., M.P.
(John Young, Esq., M.P.,
I Alexander Pringle, Esq.,
M.P., J. Milnes Gas-
I kell, Esq., M.P., H. B.
- Baring, Esq., M.P.
Admiral Sir George Cock-
burn, Vice-Admiral Sir
Wm. Hall Gage, Capt.
Sir G. F. Seymour, the
I Hon. Captain Gordon,
I and the Hight Hon. H.
T. Corry.
Captain Boldero.

'Ol-As of the Treasury

,ords of the Admiralty

lerk of the Ordnance

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IRELAND.
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland The earl De Grey.
Lord Chancellor of Ireland Sir E. Sugden.
Chief Secretary Lord Eliot.
Attorney-General — Blackburne, Q. C. .
Solicitor-General
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Lord Chamberlain The Earl De la Warr.
Lord Steward The Earl of Liverpool.
Master of the Horse The Earl of Jersey.
Vice-Chamberlain..
Treasurer of the Household.
[The Marquis of Ormonde,
the Earl of Hardwicke,
the Earl of Morton, the
1. Earl of Warwick, Vis-
count Sydney, Lord By-
ron, Lord Rivers, LorC
Aboyne.
Captain of the Yeomen of the 1 Marquis of Lothian
Guard
Captain of the Gentlemen Pen- I Lord Forester
stoners..
Controller of the Household
Master of the Buckhounds
Groom in Waiting,

Lords in Waiting

Hon. D. Darner.
Earl of Rosslyn.
Captain H. Meynell.
THE LADIES.
Mistress of the Robes Duchess of Buccleuch. 1
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Marchioness Camden. 2
Lady Lyttelton. 3
Ladies of the Bedchamber
Countess Gainsborough. 5
Countess Charlemont. 6
Maid of I-Tonour.

PRINCE ALBERT'S HOUSEHOLD.
Groom of the Stole

Sergeant-at-Arms
Clerk Marshal ...

Colonel Perceval.
Lord C. Wellesley

EFFECT OF REPEALING THE CORN LAWS

The Churchman's Monthly Review for September (a very
able periodical) takes the following common-sense view of
the disastrous result to this country which would follow a
repeal of the protecting corn duties. We extract it from a
notice of the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel's " Plea for the

Poor" :
Although we are now suffering prodigious distress from
the obvious cause of an over-production of manufactures—
Mr. Noel hesitates not to assure us that manufactures can

take up and employ all our increase of 413,000 per annum,
if only the corn laws ere repealed, and a fixed duty of only
Bs. per quarter substituted for the present moveable scales
And how does he arrive at this comfortable assurance ? By
merely assuming two things :-1. That if we open our port.
to foreign corn, the ports of the Continent will immediately
be opened to British manufactures-2. That the result would
be a vast increase in the demand for British goods.
Now, we have not the slightest expectation that either of
these hopes would be realised. The Germans are bent on
encouraging their own manufactures; they have been sedu-
lously and earnestly pursuing this object for many years ;
nor will our willingness to purchase corn from them at all
induce them to alter their course. They do not wish to have
the price of food enhanced among them by our drawing off
their supplies; nor do they wish to expose their native ma-
nufactures to unnecessary competition. There is no ra-
tional ground whatever for imagining, that our consenting to
purchase their corn will induce any considerable change in
their commercial restrictions.
But why should such a point as this be left to supposition?
What right has any Ministry in England to propose so fear-
ful an experiment, to be tried in the dark ! The ground, the
sole ground on which the change is advocated—the entire
basis of Mr. Noel's argument—is, that if we will take the
corn of Prussia, the Prussians will take the manufactures of
England. Now why should this governing point of the
question be left to a probability, a hope, a conjecture ?
What difficulty can exist in obtaining a plain answer—yes or
no—from the Prussian government? If they desire that we
should open our ports to their corn, they would of course
enter into negociations to obtain that object' But we believe
that the fact is, that they have been already sounded on this
point, and show not the least disposition to treat. If this be
so, what folly, what blindness would it be, to alter our own
course, upon the entirely mistaken assumption, that they
would meet us by similar concessions !
The second of Mr. Noel's assumptions is—that if such a
concession were made, and if the continental ports were
opened to our manufacture—the consequence would be a
vast increase of demand. We believe that this also is an
entirely baseless assumption. Mr. Noel tells us, that the
people of the continent, to revenge themselves on our corn-
laws, persist in preferring to " manufacture for themselves,
against their own interest, dearer and worse goods than they
could buy of us." If he would consult our merchants and
manufacturers, he would learn his mistake. He would soon
be told of the various markets, in all parts of the world, out
of which the manufacturers of Saxony, Prussia, and Swit-
zerland are now driving us, by producing better and cheaper
goods than we can offer. A Leicester stocking-maker, Mr.
Rawson, at an anti-corn-law meeting in 1838, said—
" He was about to give a large order for hosiery to a com-
mercial traveller from Saxony, on which he should pay five
per cent. expenses, and twenty per cent. duty, and yet should
have a handsome profit remaining, for he bought for 2s. 6d.
what he could not procure in Nottingham for less than 55."
Again, Mr. Gregg, the late M.P. for Manchester, a warm
opponent of the corn-laws, said, in one of his speeches—
' I have a specimen of German prints, which is sold at
15s. 6d. the piece, and a similar one in England costs 17E. 6d.
The German exceeds the English both in execution and
work."
Now, with this plain testimony before us, and actually
finding, as we do, that German manufacturers are under-
selling us in every market in the world, how weak, how
irrational would it be to legislate upon the utterly groundless
hope, that if we could only obtain entrance for our manu-
factures into Germany, we must of course drive the German
manufacturers out of the field. How should such a result
be obtained ? The Sans and Prussians are clever, ener-
getic, industrious. They have now the same machinery
with ourselves. Their habits- are simpler; their mode of
life more frugal; their taxation lighter. How should it
happen, then, that we could compete with them in the fabri-
cation of cottons or woollens, paying cost of transit, &c.,
and yet underselling them at their own doors?
But, lastly, there is this grand fallacy constantly per-
vading all the arguments of the .corn-law repealers—of
mistaking a change of customers for an increase of trade.
The burden of Mr. Noel's " Plea" is constantly this,
" Let us take corn from the people on the Continent, and
and then they will take ;manufactures from us. If we will
not buy from them, neither can they buy from us."
Now this reasoning is just, as good for " home consump-
tion" as for application to'ont dealings with foreigners. No
one can attempt to deny, that it is quite as true of our own
farmers as of those of Poland—that if we do not buy of
them they cannot buy of us."
Suppose, then, a million quarters of wheat imported, be-
cause we can buy it at 40s. per quarter from the Poles or the
Prussians, while our own farmers ask 60s. The result is,
that £2,000,000 sterling is scattered among the continental
corn-growers, and 43,000,000 less than heretofore is brought
into the home market. The Germans become more able
than before to buy our manufactures, if they choose to do
so ; but the English farmers become less able. In what
way can the manufacturer be benefited by the change ?
No one attempts to deny—no one can deny—that the in-
troduction of foreign corn will tend to push the English corn
out of the market. The price will be lowered ; the demand,
to the English farmer, will be lessened by the new compe-
tition. All this obviously tends to weaken and depress the
home market for manufactures. The farmer, the labourer,
and the landlord will all spend less money in the shops, for
the obvious reason, that they will have less money to spend.
A certain damage is then done. But where is the recom-
pensing gain? It is all uncertain. It is uncertain what sort
of entrance we shall gain for our manufactured goods upon
the continent. It is uncertain in what branch of manufactures
we shall have any chance of competing successfully with the
clever and industrious Gernians. It is uncertain, lastly,
what proportion of the very large sum which we must pay for
corn, on a free-trade system, will ever be likely to flow back
to us, in exchange for our manufactures.
But amidst all this uncertainty, one thing is certain—
namely, that a substitution of A fixed duty for the present
system, would lead to large imports of corn from the conti-
nent. That it would do so, is confessed and rather boasted
of, by the advocates of free trade; in fact, if this be not the
object, and an object likely to be attained by the proposed
change, then is the present agitation a most unwarranted and
wicked one.
It would bring much foreign corn into our market, dis-
placing much of British growth. It would thus discourage
agriculture ; force the farmer to give up the growth of corn
on the poorer lands • and in this way throw great numbers of
the present farm-labourers' out of employ. All this clear and
positive evil it must produce. The countervailing good is
distant, partial, and most uncertain. Hence, we say, that
in thus advocation an immediate evil, in the vain hope of
distant and doubtful good, Mr. Noel's plea is not for, but
against the poor.

DUTCH OFFICERS AND UNIBILELLAS.—The Utretch Ga-
cette mentions that the Director-General of War in Holland
has published a notice allowing officers, when not on duty,
to use umbrellas!