The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

from hand

as thoF.

pounds wt

pockets for the advancemen

lerinitted to indulge
• very safely predict

lav state of

,ffairs in

h such an indulgence will be conceded

The Premie

as act(

with respect to this por-
yin, with Ipasi than his

alb Oldness.

Irish party
[eir estates,

over the apprehended confiscation of

elle.d.to perform those duties

which the owners of property in other parts Of-the
kingdom perform, has apparently shaken his nerves.
His lordship, however, will, we trust, be impelled
forward by the voice of Parliament and the country.
merely permissive poor law will not do.: Ireland
must be compelled to feed the destitution which
she breeds. N ything else can ever bring about a
thorough and healthy change in her condition ;
and surely when we are about to lend_ her propri-

.nt of their estate

sv-rate of

e-and-;

-half per cent

to extel4d the re-,

m period of twenty-

it is not unreasonable to ask of thoii

proprietors to assume at length a fair share of the
responsibility entailed upon them by their station.
Fhe proposal to expend a million sterling in the
lands by Government, we cannot regard with
st favor. In all other countries land worth
fly submitted to cultivation by

is ea

,te has to step in to
1 entcrnrise. the in-

supply the plat

Terence 'may taw)
is a doubtful one

we are inclined to r(

gard all such schemes, carried on underthe super-
tendanoe and With the funds of Government, as
liable to become tainted with jobbery; and no-
where has jobbery, when once permitted to intrude
its foot, a more ample awing than in the sister

.
counu.y. We are very apprehensive that this mil-
lion of money will be little better than. thrown

IN common with many others, we took exception
to the appointment of a medical officer, under the
Liverpool Sanatory Act ; in the first place because
we conceived the labours imposed upon such an
officer would be exesssive, and, in fact, beyond the
power of one man to perform; and in the next
place because the salary offered—E3oo a-year—
appeared disproportioned to such amount of labour.
Our views, it subsequently proved, coincided with
those of Mr. Chadwick, the secretary of the Poor
Law Cominissioners, who has remonstrated strongly
against the appointment of Dr. Duncan, on the
same grounds which we adduced. A London con-
temporary, however, complains against it on another
and totally different ground. Liverpool is said to
have lieen over liberal on the occasion, and to have
createst a precedent which, if. followed by other
towns, will be -most oppressive and expensive to
the - inhabitants. -Our contemporary argues that
a„ medical officer ought not to have been appointed
Afti ilPin the first instance ; but that the accumu-
INA evils of past years ought to have been removed

even the contributions levied from them for religious
objects—the feeveceived at stations, at weddings,.
at christenirigs, Ind upon other religious pretexts.
They find little of these funds- forthcoming in the
hour of trials.and their own privithoodito whom they
have been taught to look up as to something little
ailing of the newly-formed their God - -.s for their extri

,ess potent; than —,,u, powerleb
cation from suffering and the horrors of famm
And as they glance from thseir own wretched stat€
to the comparative comfnri; of the flocks of the
Protestant clergy, to whom such..exactions do•not

tud, as the result
must be

Mein, which in their owr

the globe,_ steel

he Roir

leavour to avail

iey have