The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-02 00:00:00

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tell us how far he means to go in satisfying these re-

Do any, or all of them, form part of
`rights" which the Irish are " gradually to ob-
and by the concession of which the

quirements

permanence

of our institution" is to

secured

What monstrous

absurdities are men, in his lordship's false position and

most unhappy predicament, forced to u

It must be highly consolatory to ministers while suf-

teeing under their present triumphant majority of 5, to
'ma Wahnsley and the Tradesmen's

fin that Sir Jo:

Reform Assoc

ion at Liverpo

. . .
with them, and have resolved to support all their en-

terprises in general, but particularly such as may have

for their object the reduction of duties on imports

Now, Conservatives do not run quite so fast, and in
general like to know what a ministry may intend to do
before they give pledges one way or another. But your

reformers invariably talk as if they alone were the
friends of free trade,—a piece of presumption in which
they would by no means indulge if they were a little

,esu ignorant or conceited than they are. Free trade !
why we are all for free trade—whips, tories, and radi-

cals—alike, with one small proviso, however

namely

,hat this free trade does no harm to our own particular

interest. Protect that inte

ad we shall none of us

.f trade, in general, were free as the air we breathe.

We really cannGt allow the radicals that exclusive title

) the patronization of this great commercial privilege
. .

which they arrogate to themse

dispute it with ti

is conservatives,

We have no objection to

going into committee on the subject at any time, and

we venture to say, that we shall not be found intract-

able upon any point except that of throwing open our
. .

trade in such a manner as to be injurious to British

nterests, or to do serious damage to some one of our

numerous industrial classes, in whose protection the
community at large is deeply concerned. Thus free

trade reduces itself practically to a question of regula-

tion. To talk of it in the abstract, as our "reformers

do, is a piece of fudge,—just an easy garnet for liberal
gentry of the school of Sir Joshua Walmsley—men

gerly courting the f

avour of the "unwashed" for

their own purposes, to run over and cut a flourish

The party foiled in their attempt to effect a repeal
of the corn-laws, taken as a substantive measure, have
just conceived the plan of warring against all import
duties in the mass—sagaciously calculating, that as the
whole includes the parts, so, if all import duties be
reduced, th

e corn duties must be included in the num-

her. The resolution promulged by Messr
Co. have given the cue on this subject,
and substance is contained in a single sentence, in
which the resolutionists declare it as their decided

Hume and
Their sum

opinion, " that the financial difficulties of this country

and the wants of the consumer will best be met by a

general revision and reduction of the duties on imports."
This is a matter which ought not to be treated as one
of party, and it is a misfortune when it gets into the

lands of men who cannot help
Ide

vocates of free t

s Sir Jos

uch ad-
Mr