The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-07 00:00:00

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sumption was expected, but production has gone before
consumption whilst the prices for labour have remained low
and depressed, which checked consumption, narrowed our
circulation, and materially injured the revenue.
A superabundance of money also prevails, caused by the
accumulation of the annual surplus returns from the capitals
of the moneyed interest, which are deprived of the outlets
or vents they have hitherto possessed, in foreign loans, and
other such investments ; the consequence of the want of
confidence caused by the losses they have sustained from
them. The field at home has also been greatly narrowed, if
not almost exhausted, such as the demand for railroads, on
which above fifty millions have been expended ; nor does
there appear at the present time to be a prospect of change ;
the rates of interest are, therefore, greatly reduced, and
whilst money, as money, has become less productive than
perhaps it ever was known to be in this country, it has at
the same time become of more value for general purposes,
caused by the excess of operatives and labourers beyond the
means for employment, the consequent low state of wages,
followed by the reduced value of goods, from over-produc-
tion.
In addition to these causes of depression, we have an
excesss of population beyond our immediate means for em-
ployment, particularly in the manufacturing districts, which
can no longer find employment for that excess, much less
continue, as heretofore, to take off and employ that of the
agricultural counties, whilst the vents for emigration appear,
for the present, to be obstructed.
We hear much of the advantages of " free trade," but hi-
therto our approaches towards it have produced no satisfac-
tory results. In truth, we can have only one half the bar-
gain to make, and unless the governments on the Continent,
with the United States. will consent to reduce their duties on
our manufactures, so as to admit them for consumption, the
reduction of ours on their corn and other productions will not
avail us ; we must export the fruits of our labour to enable
us to pay for the fruits of theirs, or no reciprocity will exist.
We have already made the experiment by reducing the duties
on foreign corn, and the formation of our general tariff, and
thus set them the example, but without effect; for at the
same time these governments have employed themselves in
positive prohibi-
i
constructing new tariffs, which increase their duties on our
productions, amounting, in many cases,
tion, thus rejecting our approaches to an toncreased intercourse
with them. Nor ought this to surprise us, for the time has
arrived when their agricultural pursuits will no longer afford
sufficient employment or support for their increased and in-
creasing population ; therefore, in order to do so, they have
either become, or are fast becoming, manufacturers ; and, to
effect their object, they find it necessary to exclude ours.
They are ascending the hill in manufactures and commerce,
with the advantage of their home markets affording consump
tion for the first, and means for extending the last; whilst
we appear to have reached its top, being dependent on other
markets to take off a considerable part of ours, whilst a dis-
position unfortunately prevails here to discourage home con-
sumption, by narrowing and reducing the means of our agri-
culturists, who have hitherto been the best and safest, as well
as the most extensive, class of customers our manufacturers
have possessed, and giving increased encouragement to the
industry of foreigners.
The Anti-Corn Law League say, " Open your ports with-
out restriction to free trade, particularly in corn ; ' they de-
sire to make the most hazardous experiment of withdrawing
protection from our home growths, on which we have hitherto,
and safely, been dependent for bread, without regard to the
risk of consequences that would follow. I therefore say,
" Do no such thing," for to become dependent on foreign
supply, is to risk, if not invite, starvation ! Neither is it the
interest of the foreigner to desire it. They must employ their
people ; they find they can only do so by establishing manu-
factures such as ours ; for such to succeed and prosper, they
must supply their people abundantly with food at moderate
prices ; in this, to them new state of things, it is not for their
interest to encourage the exportation of corn, which must
have a tendency to raise the prices, and thus enhance the cost
of labour and of their manufactures, and, in place of cherish-
ing, opposing and checking the rising industry of their peo-
ple ! Permit me to add, that in seasons of failure here, when
pressed by necessity, we would then ask for increased sup-
ply ; we might be told, " charity begins at home," and be
met by prohibition of export! We would ask for a fish, they
would give us a stone, when, with diminished and discouraged
home production, we might have to struggle with enormous
prices, such as neither manufacturers (who would be them-
selves the first to suffer), nor the Anti-Corn Law League,
have as yet ever dreamt of—this is a state of things that every
prudent and wise government and even " the United States,'
have studied to avoid, by encouraging and protecting the cul-
tivation and protection of their home growths of corn.
I ask, is it not, then, our duty to divest ourselves of all
party feeling, and in sober, serious truth, anticipate the pro-
bable consequences—l might say, next to certain results—
that are to be expected to follow, if we fairly embark on this
sea of novel, but likely to prove of fatal, experiment; and
whilst we pause, let us turn to more cheering prospects, let
us consider then with deep attention the immeasurable re-
sources we possess for the increase and safe extention of our
trade and commerce, and consequent employment for our
people, in our foreign possessions and colonies; greater in
extent, importance, and population, than all that belong to
the rest of Europe, but more :particularly British India,
where the trade and consumption of our manufacturers,
their unlimited production of raw materials of almost every
description, and invaluable employment for our shipping,
have increased nearly tenfold during the comparitively short
period that has elapsed since the termination of the com-
mercial charter of the East India Company. There we have
an immense range of market and consumption, under our
own control, for the sale of our manufactures, to be exchan-
ged for their raw materials, as well as for rice, so abundant
there, and required in times of scarcity here, to which the
only limit is their means for payment' Let us then cultivate
and I:increase those means by increased protection to
the industry of the native population, and the general
improvement of the country. At home much also remains 11
to be done; let us set our shoulder to the wheel, and by
every means in our power promote and stimulate agricultural
improvement for which so wide a field is now opened up to
us as our best and safest dependence, for which we may
justly expect to reap au aloundarst supply of fvud Co. E,cu.,.1
consumption at lower prices, such, as in all probability, will
be found more moderate than any dependence on foreign
supply would afford, in place of throwing and exposing our-
selves to the mercy. of the foreigner, who is ever ready tc
take advantage of our necessities, to drain us of our circu-
lating coin in place of purchasing our manufactures. I par-
ticularly refer to the general adoption and extension of fur-
row or surface drainage, which may be made the means of
affording employment to the excess of our labouring popnla-
tion, of greatly increasing the produce of the soil at reduced
expense of labour, and by tending to improve our climate,
counteract the effects of unfavourable seasons, thus enabling
our farmers to sell their crops at lower but still remunerating
prices, and at the same time affording security and safe em-
ployment for capital to be thus expended, when advanced on
loan to the landed proprietors. The use of the subsoil
plough is I believe, also productive of similar advantages on
certain sterile soils, and the introduction of bone dust as a
manure for green crops is now well known and admitted to
be highly beneficial.
By such means as these, steadily pursued and adhered to,
I hope and trust that our resources, so called forth, will be
found ample and sufficient to restore our energies, extinguish
despondence, and bring us better times. The monied in-
terests will then find'at home remunerating employment for
their accumulating capital—the manufacturers satisfactory
markets for their goods;—the merchant and shipowner a
profitable field for safe, prudent, and judicious enterprise;
whilst, with increased consumption and its attendant circu-
lation, our revenue will increase sufficiently to meet an ex-
penditure conducted on principles of justice and economy ;
and, I trust, food and employment will then be found suffi-
cient to meet all the wants of our labouring population.
With such views and hopes, I trust we shall safely escape
from the designs of those who would, under various dis-
guises and pretences, tamper with our currency, like the
Birmingham Chamber of Commerce—since the result of
their measures, were they to succeed, would be to pay both
public and private creditors with probably 15s. in the pound,
if so much, or even at all—a position, I trust, British faith,
nd integrity, will never be placed in.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
JOHN GLADSTONE.

Carlton-gardens, Jan. 31, 1843

THE PRISONER M`NALGHTEN.--Immecliatelv after Lord
Abinger agreed to postpone the trial of the prisoner, he was
reconducted to the cell which he had previously occupied—
namely, the one in which Courvoisier was placed, and which
he will retain until his trial. Not the slighest relaxation, it
is understood, will be made in the precautionary measures
which have been adopted to prevent the possibility of his de-
stroying himself, for up to the present time he is constantly
attended by two of the turnkeys, but between whom and the
prisoner scarely a word passes. From the plea which he
made when arraigned before Lord Abireger, and which, but
for. gotillitev,,in, interposition of his lordship, amounted to a plea of
,
eeionth;ahteltiethweouolteowthheenrere.emootevreedd,
anent sullenness and apathy were again
maketmhaemanifested
els
hislsotme
de it;
former
ounrwi
not
taheseer v r
aeapnt l expectedpa tl
alteration of the coureeenance was
visible, but he proceeded to take up a book which had pre-
viously been reading, and commenced at the part he had left
off. The friends of M`Naughten am extremely sanguine that
the evidence which will be adduced to the insanity will- be
mostadvi s
ecro rcnopiloect
ied,
easn d
An
n ot I itilso
iooptienrirouno„tewde
eutndt
e tee rs
of a ni
od, eehoiist legaly
for
ssiome
,e yearsserg e past Sergeant
Evans,
wi11,
isf said,the proved,Abe division,
wasont hseen othersent
to
d
Glasgow, obtained most important information to the con-
trary ; and to establish this point, the Treasury caused the
Beale, of the Ennisto show that
of the bill which was sent before the grand jury,
names
oH
hues s aprost, aonod
tSheer gheaacnkt
when they endeavoured to enlist M`Naughten,. hisl answers
and conversation were that of
da sane ailnedw reatteioxeaserpiresothne.
The persons who are connecte
have for a length of time been con il ,} d l. .
la severa in-
Mr. M`Murdo, the surgeon to the gao , has .
prisoner to be one-of the quietest and
omeidldewgsitthpiroisothneerws
awilliso
terviews with him, and will be one of the first witnesses ex-
amined as to the state of mind of IVl`Naughten. The hectic
flush which he had previous to his committal has left him,
and his general health remains unimpaired.
A FALSE ALARM.—The following alarming occurrence
took place on the night of the 27th, in the town of Bromley,
in Kent :—About one o'clock a journeyman coachmaker was
aroused out of sleep by his wife, who at the same time
exclaimed, " Oh! I have taken it." She held a teacup
in her hand, which was empty, but appeared to have con-
tained a dark-coloured fluid. In a state of the utmost
lisdileaimpcsebhomnens-lespeoenidottbii
possible
t ewbl
yay
shr
ia sn
followeda downssist.
alarm he jumped out of bed, and on going to the other side,
he
iotnt
:Ili:.
soeptuletpintrayidbtnicegeaiannl
altge,sspdmsohaiiiiopl,delu
rsttfpehuhh,elai
t‘
with
lit,
tielhet surgeon.ilabelledcbtho;et
Almost distracted, he gave the alarm to tnhamlecpotirpnaeognitdihcaeatn,
o propernhwcahel of,
promptly called
and was followed as stobisouetlintohemaat
full of laudanum the preceding day, no time was lost in ad-
and to avoid delay, the stomach-purnp was applied, a quantity
after a while completely of warm water was thus injected into the stomach, and by
say, the rejected fluid
the combined effect of this and the emetic, that organ was
emptied of its contents. Strange to
had neither the smell nor colour of
thbise
ibmopttrleesshiaoill containedti more than half
laudanum although
tme sa
ti
inneeds
~ in
a't
nh
de
an ounce of it, and although the dark-coloured fluid still re-
both the odour and taste of that drug.
hence it was inferred that the fluid had passed into the in-
up by a powerful cathartic,andthe
attendants were desired
to keep the patient in a constant state of locomotion for some
hours. It does not appear that any bad symptoms came on,
and the combined effect of the medicines has been to leave
the woman at ' •
this time in a state of safety. The laudanum
was purchased of a druggist, and had been in the house two
or three years. From this cause it had probably lost some
of its active properties. This attempt at self-destruction ap-
pears to have arisen from low spirits, brought on by family
misfortunes, and aggravated by a recent quarrel with her hus-
up
nhodivaeglri:ta d
band. The case is important, as showing, in the first place,
the good effects of promptitude in similar cases, and the in-
valuable benefits to be ascribed to the use of the stomach-
pump ; and in the next place, the danger of keeping so dele-
te. itai. a substance as laudanum under any circumstances
within the reach of those who may be disposed to use it
rashly.

THEATRE-ROYAL, W'ILLIAMSON•SQUARE

Mr. BROWNE, Mr. RAYNER, and Mr. STUART

rPHIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the ith instant
I 1 the Comedy of
THE SCHOOL OF REFORM. /
Lord Avondale
Mr. Ferment..
,111 r. Browne
Robert Tyk

Mr. 11„iyner.
Mrs. Ferment.. Mrs. Seyrootir.
To conclude with the New D/ama of
NAUTICAL TOM D JERRY ;
Adventures of Tif* British Sailors

Or, The

NOTICE.—In consequence offhe daily appeals to the
sympathies of the Inhabitants of Liverpool, by persons con-
nected with the management of the Liver Theatre,

Mr.

J. HAMMOND,

at the end of the Play This Evening,
WILL DELIVER AN ADDRESS
to the audience, explanatory of the position in which he is
placed, and assigning such reasons as, he trusts, will justify
him in claiming the support and patronage of a liberal and
impartial public.