The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-10 00:00:00

But in our cc

De toter

The stand which we made last week in favour of
Sir Howard Douglas's views upon this subject, or,
'n other words, in behalf of those mighty feeders
g—her colonies—has earned

gland's greatnes

us the favour of a communication from Mr. Isaac
Buchanan, a member of the legislature of Canada,
laying before us his views as to what must be the
immediate course, in the emergeney in which we
are placing it, of that most interesting and impor-

because the nearest in

blood, in feeling, and in the character of its institu-
tions to England herself. We give here the sub-
stance of Mr. Buchanan's communication, and of

to wi

hich it refers, because we conceive
tal importance at the present mo-
ters in question were addressed by
s of great influence in the colony by
st sailed, copies being also furnished
usie, president of the board of trade,
dstone, secretary for the colonies, and the
sociation of London, a body,
g their high individual
king only the English,
and not the Canadian,view of the interests of Canada.
It will be seen, that as a Canadian, he anticipates
that his provincial legislature will at once protect,
_ _ _
by heavy du -

the steamer Ju
to Lord Dalho

North

erican

while aeknowledgin

s, the Canada home market, for its
i for its manufactures, as this will in no
rive them of getting the English price for 1
Meat.

r oierplus w

nan says that the same course must
en in Ireland. He considers the
lrn Law, or of "protection to na-
-3 industry," as virtually the repeal of the union
with Ireland ! Irish labour must be protected, for
it is of too little, not too much employment that the
Irish people have cause to complain ; and Irishmen,
he conceives, will not now submit to take the linens
of 'the German, the wheat of the Pole, or the to-
bacco of the American, to the exclusion of the em-
their own people, in growing or manu-
.es. Mr. O'Connell's sup-
i'ngland, he suggests, may
r Robert Peel, with all his

Mr. Bticl

ately be tal
I of the C,

ployment of

free trade

thus mean more than

t, is aware of

Mr: Buchanan s

Canada)

I now advocate (as what ought to be done in
s what I always advocated : the former practice
d, and the present practice of the United States;
tariff of the Americans (tho'
roving of it) as a rebellion against their

e always viewed

from national interests,
astitutions will gradually
a, and attain that permanency which

s or free&

nce that

and are now

of government presented to the
is republicanism, professing to
I principles), or, more properly,
for the time being, in the mob—a
lies in its aptitude to change; in
,olution ! And there is the British

e two sor

of Canada

sed on theories
ers of opinion,

wnose saret
r its annual ri

.___-.,-a SYSTEM OF NATIONAL INTERESTS AND
&EDIT. of honour, and of permanent character. The
howed how much they

monarch

Canadians

prefer the latter to the former system. The last steamer
from Liverpool, however, carries them the startling news

.
that Sir Robert Peel has, in the destruction of the
national interests, and groundwork 0,,t national credit of
England, removed the foundations of the monarchy,
giving the empire all the evils of republicanism, with none
of its advantages. We have our

vital interests in the
sower of a hundred Apostates, without the check of an

itnnual hustings

There can be no question that the case " of native
industry" in the mother country as well as that of
the colonies will be a very cruel one, under the corn-
peCtion to which they will be submitted in their
own markets (which is their only fair field) by the
untaxed surplus, or sweepings, of ail the markets in
*:. :Nothing but our machinery can carry
as through the unequal struggle; and all trade in
which manual labour constitutes the great part of
the cost must be destroyed.

We are sorry, too, to observe that Mr. Buchanan
,n ' as considering themselves practi-
liz and having now no
ula interest in their country, the Canadian
`-nbility, remain passive in case of a
Ti so, the consequences will be
e mere loss of Canada.
tiers of Mr. Buchanan, to

crated from the

war with Am

far more serious than
We give here the
which we have made r

Glasgow.2Sth February, I S IG.
lAMILTON MERRITT, ESQ., MEMBER FOR LIN-

TO WM

COLN IN TE

ARMAMENT OF CANADA

t this suicidal measure Me

the case of poor land in England, whose yield
be increased, which cannot continue to be cul(i-
tainty of a fair price, and
rade, go back into woods.

atcd at all, except with t

st, and

annected with Canada, there are two great consider-

ations or interests.
ht. The Canadian inter(
Farmer, and of the manuf

t, or the prosperity of the
Aurers, and mechanics of

Canada

2d. The En.olish inte

rest, or the prosperity of British

Zipping and the titnt

is the 1

All the

' Tontreal I

and their friends in Lon-
r, and all they demand from
f the Colonies is, what they have all along
that the 33. duty on wheat coming from the

don, care a

United Sta►
It v

s when I beta

moved

I that the presence of these
parties in Lohdon is rather an iiljury than a benefit to
Canada, that I saw the necessity of bringing the case of
Canada before the independent members of the Imperial
Parliament ; which I did in the two letters I now enclose,
nt to every member in both

s of which were

House

I have always seen that the humbug of free trade, as a
general application, is worse than the quackery of Morri-
son's pills, in- lotions, in their constitutions and
than men do.

%much as r
tauces, differ mor

But as regaids Canada West, you will be unanimous in
your views if the majority of the Toronto Board of Trade
will assert their own opinions which originated the i ody,
the sole object of which (besides the regulation of the
mere details of trade) was to guard the interests of those
whose factors, as it were, they felt themselves to be, viz.,
the productive industry of Canada, whether agricultural,
manufacturing, or mechanical (which all derive their vi-
tality from the prosperity of the farmer.)
If free trade is introduced into England, by Sir Robert
Peel being successful in carrying bis measure, my advice
to the farmers of Canada, and their representatives, is to
refuse to take off the 3s. duty on American wheat enter-
ing the province, unless they wish themselves (shorn of
all constitutional power) to be led like sheep to the
slaughter.
Let England first relieve the provinces of the large debt

Upon the destinies of those already settled in our
colonies upon the faith of British protection and
continued connexion with the land which, even fora
better, they left sorrowing, we shall not speculate.
Their fate is, in a great measure, in their own hands.
They may seek other ties, other protection, which
they have not found from the country of their birth
and of their love. But the parting struggle will not
be one of pleasant feeling. Loyalty—love of coun-
try—love of friends and relations—old associations,
are things which it wrings the heart to throw away,
even in the purchase of more prosperous fortunes
and better guaranteed hopes. Such feelings, how-
_ .„,. ; ever, are not understood by those philosophers upon
his case be- whose bidding, alas, the legislature of Great Britain
And other disadvantages, just
.th,e is now acting. _ _ _

We are happy to learn that there is still a possi-
bility that her Majesty's ministers may be brought
to a sense of the justice of some concessions being
made to the Canadian interests,—not however in
the shape of a direct protection,—to ward off from
them a portion, at least, of the injury, which must
be dealt against them by the passing of the present
measures in an unmitigated shape. On Thursday a
deputation of gentlemen interested in the trade and
agriculture of Canada had a long interview with
Mr. M`Gregor, of the Board of Trade ; and, we be-
lieve, succeeded in removing some of the misappre-
hensions entertained by government, as to the real
feelings and position of the bulk of the Canadian
people, and extracting from him a promise to lay
their suggestions before its members, for their se-
rious consideration. This encouraging fact ought
to operate upon all well-wishes of their Canadian
fellow-countrymen to come forward and join their
earnest remonstrances and entreaties to those of Mr.
Isaac Buchanan and the 'other gentlemen, who are
making so noble a stand in behalf of the mainte-
nance, in its integrity, of our colonial empire.

The Right Hon. Baronet Sir James Graham, is,
beyond all doubt, the unlucky genius of Sir Robert
Peel's government. Nothing in which he interferes
seems to prosper. Every measure which he takes
charge of is either bungled or is rendered distasteful
and odious. If his voice is raised in the House in
an endeavour to allay the heat of party, or to stave
off an unpleasant or untimely motion, its certain
effect is to throw in a fresh infusion of bitterness, and
to increase the determination and obstinacy of the
opponent, to whom he addresses his entreaties.
There is a supercilious flippancy in his demeanour,
and an evident fondness for manoeuvre in his par-
liamentary tactics,, which repel confidence and