The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-12 00:00:00

the labou,
able equ,nimitv

chear loaf to reconril

ber the promises which they have made, and the induce-
ments which they have held out to him during this con-
test. The operatives of the manufacturing districts do
'tot contemplate a reduced seele of remuneration for their
industry, concurrent with a reducti .Jt in the remuneration
of food. They have been taught that, in the manufactur-
ing Elysium which free trade is to create, they are to
have, at once, ty

I find t

present, or an increased

amount of means to pay for i% Will it be safe, I ask, thus
practically to tell the working man that he has been the
dupe of imposture—that, whilst professing to seek only,

or mainly, his interes

e left him precisely where

he as ? Look at the temper of the manufacturing and
the industrial classes at the present moment. An able
writer in the Church of Enuland Quarterly Review, just
published, thus remarks
" Before, however, tt

eculations upon hu-
ed else-

man labour, in which the manufacturers her(

ed out to completion.
ulted—that is, the will

something yet remains to be c

of the L••bour

s a mind whose secret

not seem to heed; there is a voice whose fearful accents
in all their strength and power the world has not yet
heard—the mind and the voice of the working populatton
throughout Christendom, burdened beyond the power of
further endurance, and caking on every hand, where the
region of righteous resistance begins? If governments
take no good heed, this mind and voice will one day give
utterance to the sense of wrong unjus•ly inflicted in ways

and forms that will shak • froin their foundations all the
existing institutions of the earth. The doctrine that the
only true capital is labour, however specious and unsound
in its application, is gaining fast hold of the'minds of the
masses. The claim of the workmen to eat the fruits of
the earth—to partake of the gilts of God—to be warm and
to be clothed—to be fed when he is hungry, and to be
sheltered from the storm, in fair return for the toil of his
arm and the sweat of his brow, is daily making it,elf heard
in accents that cannot be mii,taken. A communisme of

'eterminatiort to res

oppressions,

labouring classes of all lands into one powerful fraternity.
To meet this growing cot& drracy is by far the most diffi-
cult task of the statesman in the present day ; for it is by

far the most fearful and thing,
has had yet to deal.'

us element with which lie

"A strike amongst the manufacturing work-people
against reduction of wages, following, a measure which

was to po

finitely. will be a very different affair to those strikes—
fearful enough in their resn►ts—nhich hare taken place in
past times. It will be a final strucWe on the part of the
labourer for his fixture pn.ition in the social fabric. We
have no further delusive dreams of mitigation of his suf-
ferings, by the supply of cheaper means of supporting ex-
istence, to bold up before his eyes. He will say now—

' I must have a security that I can live by my labour, or
I must experiment as I please upon those institutions
which pract,eally Ware me in the position of a machine,
and not of a hun'an being, with waits which eat into the

racier of such experiments, from such a source, I need

not dilate upon

The follorwing examination of Mr. Gladstone's des-
patches, to the Governor. General of Canada, may he use-
ful to tho e who assert that there is no danger of our pre-
sent policy inflicting injury upon our colonies, endanger-

rflattonship to the mothet country, or dart'
the interests of the British merchant and shipowner

.
riously alarmed at the position in wh;ch the proposed
measures of Government threaten to place them, is clear
from the advice,' and journals rece ved by the Halifax
mail steamer, a few days ago arrived; and the feeling is
evidently shared by the Governor General of Canada him-

sett. In his sp(eelt at the opening of the Canadian par-
liament, on tie 20th ult., Lord Cathcart thus indicated
his first impressions. st least, upon the subject "
' :
'lnc last inteligence from the Mother Country indi-
cates a most important change in the commercial policy of

upon tier Majesty's Government a~due consideration of
the effect that any contempkted alteration might have on
the interests of Canada. But until we have a fuller expo-
sition of the pri k•cted Fc h m , it would be premature to
anticipate that the c aims of this province to a just mea-
sure of protection had been overlm.ked.'
" I am not at all inclined to believe that the despatch of
Mr. Gladstone,
in reply to the communication of the Go-
vernor General, has alt- red his previous views, or is cal-
culated to allay the aegravaTed feelings of the Canadian
people. The Colonial Secretary, in the despatch in clues.
don, which is dated from Downing-street, on the 3d
March, and went out to Canada by the packet of the 9th,
somewhat too plainly intimates that the policy of Great
Britain iS henceforth to be determined upon irrespective
of colonial interests. He says : _ _ _

" 'The Canada have occupied the place to
which they -ate justly entitled in the deliberations of Her
Maiesta'A tiovernmpnt nnnn this imnortant subject. and