The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-27 00:00:00

to wane

mom , position, in Which we were
placed in the spring of the present, year. Already
we hear of serious fears being entertained of the
re-appearance of disease in the potato crop, which,
although we are disinclined ourselves to entertain
them, ought not to be met by total incredulity,
We quote the timely warning from the Manchest,
Guardian of Saturday last

and we may remark
that our contemporary professes to speak from

I facts

"Judging from the facts which have just come under-
our notice, and from the experience of former years' and
of other countries, we fear there is now very little
chance of the escape of the late crop -of potatoes in Great
Britain and Ireland; and it behoves all men to take such
measures for meeting the crisis which its failure is calcu-.
Wed to produce, as may be best suited to their respective
positions and circumstances. Though the partial destruc-
tion of the crop, if it should unfortunately occur, will
probably not prove so serious an evil as it was last year, it
cannot but give rise to serious difficulties, affecting the
interests of nearly all the productive classes of this coun-
try. Every man, therefore, should prepare, by the timely.
exercise of prudence and economy, to mitigate the evils
which such a calamity is calculated to produce. ' Zee
know perfectly well that our statements and our advice,
on this subject, will prove very unpalatable to many
parties, who have made up their minds that there is no
disease, and that there shall be no disease, in the potatoes
this year, and regard every one who expresses a belief of
the contrary, almost as a personal enemy. All this, how-
ever, will not stay the disease. Faint-hearted and feeble-
minded men may for a time delude themselves with the
idea that, inasmuch as they will not see the evil, it will
never come upon them ; but every man of courage and
capacity will look it boldly in the face, knowing welbthat,
by so doing, he may at least mitigate its consequences,
if he cannot escape it altogether."
Should these fears •-n oc them only, be

or a porno. it Int.
realized, we may look forward to another season of
accompanied by tightness of the

extensive impor

money market, stagnation of business, and a de-,
and

preciation of every description of propert
security ; and although the mercantile classes
the country were enabled to weather the last pres-
sure without serious disaster, we greatly doubt
whether they are so well prepared to pass through
another. Our legislators may depend upon it that
to a revisal, if not a total reversal, of our Currency
Laws they must come eventually ; and such a
question it will be infinitely better to consider
calmly in time, than to be driven to its considera-
tion in a period of suffering and calamity.

THE communication, made by their Chairman

ramley-Moore, to the Dock Committee,
on Thursday, of an arrangement by which two
hundred acres of dry and wet dock space, will be
cappiirerl fn 'that hnriv_ for thi annommndsi+inri

Mr. J

the north end of t

lken not only

'rustees but

cantile interests at large by surprise. A
more comprehensive scheme, or one of.-reatei
usefulness, it would have been impossiblr•L;o have
devised; and when to these qualities is added the
very it `-nt consider -n 4-' will be (.0=

our II

_ —bit,. Lllab to
out at so trifling a cost to the Estate as to be
almost inexpensive, we feel confident that its able
promoter will be acknowledged to have conferred
an obligation to his fellow-townsmen, which

entitles him to receive their unqualified approba-
tion and gratitude. Much as he has effected pre-
sly for the prosperity and growth of the Dock
te, by his firmness and his foresight; ably as
protected that Estate hitherto from in-
-Ird this. if

hment and injury; we must re

carried out, as I

greatest work—:his

eatest triumph.
The leading features of the plan will be found
in our account of the proceedings of the
tine of the Dock Committee. They are,

tailed

Ut
last ii

in brie

f, the running of an outer dock wall from

iern extremity of the present worl

little beyond the Bootle Land

formation, eastward of such wall of accommc
nd dry docks, and comprisin

for the accommodation