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

it is not necessary that we should put up with.
The bulk of the arrivals of our cattle boats, and of

ass of passengers which they bring with
them, might with great advantage take place on

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the Saturdays or preceding days ; and, to ensure
this being done, it would only be necessary that a
bye-law should be passed preventing all working in

There is no need that some hundreds of our
working classes, of. clerks, porters, custom-house offi-
cers, and packet agents, should be deprived of their

enjoyment of the Sabbath to suit the convenience
of Irish proprietors and cattle jobbers. No such
spectacle as that presented at our Northern Steam
Docks is ever witnessed in those of London, Glas-
gow, or even in the ports of Ireland herself.
It may be urged that, by arriving in our port on
Saturday instead of Sunday, the expense of an
additional day's pasturage would be entailed upon
the owners of the cattle. We admit it; but we
are assured on all hands that a day's additional
rest b"

ween the passage and being exposed in the
market, would improve the appearance and condi-
tion of the cattle themselves, and even add to their
saleableness and their value to the butcher. Were
it even otherwise, we should object to the depre-

ciation of the character and comforts of our own
working classes, which arises from the existing

IF there could have remained any reasonable

doubt as to the sentiments of the people of Liver-
pool upon the subject of the proposed repeal of the
Navigation Laws, it must have been effectually
dissipated by the triumphant demonstration of
Friday last, contrasted with the miserable hole and
corner effort of the whip-radical party. With
barely a couple of days' notice, very imperfectly
circulated, the conservative feeling of the town,
with respect to this vital question, filled the largest
of our public buildings with an -anxious and deco-
rous assemblage of all classes of our population ;
an assemblage of which any town might be proud,
and different far in character and intelligence from
the ragged mobs who, a few months ago, in the
same locality, cheered the spouters of the league,
and threw up their hats in mad ecstasy at the pro-
mise of cheap bread and increased exports. There
were present on this occasion, side by side on the
same platform and throughout the meeting, men
who, in past years, and upon other questions, have
been ranged or; opposite sides, but whom this direct
blow, sought to be dealt against their prosperity,
and that of their fellow-countrymen at large,
has welded together into an united phalanx, whose
resolute fiat no minister can sneer down, and whose
mature judgments and practical acquaintance with
the whole matter at issue will be found proof
against both tricky statistics and official dictation.
On the other hand, Whig-radicalism, in its abortive
effort to prop up the measure, has only succeeded
in rendering itself supremely ridiculous. Some
dozen or half dozen gentlemen, meeting nobody
knows where, and passing resolutions, which set
out with an admission that their authors dare not
face a public assemblage of their fellow-townsmen,
is such a backing of their friends as Lord John
Russell and his colleagues will scarcely be very
thankful for.

One of the reasons assigned by these gentlemen