The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-04-17 00:00:00

STATE TINKERS.

(From the Dublin Herald.)
A short time before the meeting of Parliament it was
announced with a flourish almost equal to the occasion,
To the Poor-Law Guardians of every Union in Ireland
—to the Ratepayers—to the Country—that the Govern-
ment wereprepared"—

Prepared for what ? To adopt the Cobden budget ?
To cut down the salaries of high functionaries in all pub-
lic departments ? To show an example themselves, by
voluntarily paying in one-fourth of their allowances, as
conscience-money to the Chancellor of the Exchequer?
To make Spain pay her debts ? To send an ambassador
to the Pope ? To endow the Irish priests ? To appoint
a Bishop of Down ? Or—to resign ?
None—none of these. The Government
mind ; but it is like the great mind of the late Lord
Ellenborough—who " had a

a Brea

defendant's attorney." It i
Government "had a great tr
to amend the Poor Law."

•eat.in little thin

nd was prepared-

Amend it ! Who does not recollect the apposite quip
of the hackney coachman to Alexander Pope's " God
mend me ?" " Mend you!" said Jarvie "it would be
far easier to make a new one." How were they to set
about mending such a crooked, perverse, mischievous
abortion as that law ? Would they lighten the burden
which oppresses the wholesome labour and industry of the
country by so much as a little finger? Would they sweep

away the swarms of voracious locusts who have been em-
ployed by sundry names, and under various pretexts, to
prey upon the substance of honest men ? Would the
really destitute be the Netter of the change ? Would the
workhouse cease to diffuse famine and pestilence through
the land ? Would a stimulus be given to the lazy to
) the liberal soul to

an encouragement held ou
ye employment? Would any ma
of .life feel the oppression of that
amendments ?

No—there was no such balm in their Gilead for an af-
flicted people. They did not intend anything just, equit-
able, kind, or life-rendering by their reluctant consent to
depart from the killing letter of that act. They only in-
tended to adhere to the governing principle of all their
proceedings, and do a minimum of good by a maximum
of taxation. They were " prepared" to propose
in Aid.
There is an ai
more, who had been a
'being accosted by a yo
tion, and implored to
upon inquiry that the s
those of a brother in distr(
in fact, his own child. "
a friend, by whom he was a
the sins of our youth will ris _
to answer for with respect to this poor boy. If it had n
been for my licentiousness, he would not have bei
brought into this vale of tears, and I have cruelly net
lected him ever since he was born. I must, however, (
something for him now. Give me a guinea."

Illientie story told of a great man, now r

s youth, t

rester in a very d

humanity

up against us

I have mu

And thus, at another men's expen;e who had no
in producing the misery that moved his comp -
remorse, our great philanthropist soothed his c
and gratified the benevolence of a most t
heart.
That guine

was a Rate in A

NORFOLK

MURDERS.

We do not remember to have not

which, as the details furnished by t

folk papers have been so volurninou
We believe we can supply the deficien
About twenty years since, a gentler

county to take the part of managing or principal clerk in
the office of one of the most eminent solicitors in Wigan.
He remained in that situation for a period of
about three years, when he left rather abruptly, taking
with him his family, consisting of several children, the
eldest of whom appeared, to our informant, to be about
ten years of age. His name was Sandford, and one of
the little girls was named Emily, doubtless the female who
has attracted so much notice of late. She went to a school
kept by a Miss Bent, in Standishgate, Wigan, who now
resides in Manchester.

Mr. Sandford came from London at a very respectable
salary, and appeared to enjoy—for the two or three years
he remained at Wigan—the full confidence of the nume-
rous clients of his highly respected employer.

CAN THE BRITISH COLONIES STILI

BE REIAINED ?

TO THE RIGHT HON. EARL GI

, SECRETARY OF STAT:

FOR THE COLONIES

Glasgow, 11th April, 1849.
My Lord,—ln 1846 I brought bfore your Lordship
and Lord Elgin tue true position. of the Canadas. I
showed that for the loss of these, the noblest of Britain's
Colonies, we would have to blame entirely our own Im-
perial Legislation in 1744 and 1846. In 1744 we created
Lower Canada into a French, when it should have been
made an English Colony; and we gave the French Cana-
dians a feudal system as a means of keeping them different
from the New England States, (which were then evincing
the independent spirit of Englishmen, and as a machinery
by -willetri macdi the aid
we vainly imagined to bunt down the then protesting
Colonies which are now the United States' Republic. I
showed you that, practically to suffer a French dominancy
Now in United Canada (even if done under the forms of
the Canadian Constitution of 1840) would he an equally
vain attempt to coerce the British portion of the remain-
ing Colonies, (who, though the British name well, love the
reality of British principles and freedom better) ; and I
pointed out the certainty that. if the fatal policy of 1744
were practically to be persisted in by the British Govern-

.
merit, Lord Elain would assuredly be the last British
Governor in America, it being absurd to suppose that the
same policy that would lose us Canada would not also lose
us Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the West Indies.

.nada, with whom I
.et in 1837 and 1838,