The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-17 00:00:00

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which conducted Marie Antoinete into France.
e an old song, which had been composed in

honour of the Royal nuptials, and which he said
was very popular at the time. It was in the usual
style of such effusions ; a mere string of hyperbolic
compliments, in praise of the beauteous " Princess,"
and the " Illustrious Prince." It sounded like an
echo from the grave of old French loyalty. Jankens sung
this song in a remarkably clear, strong voice.—Dickens's
Household Words. .
THE FIXED PRICES OF GOLD.—An ounce of gold in
this country, when taken for taxation or any other pay-
ment, represents some 751 days' labour at its fixed stand-
ard value of ls. Old. a day, as compared with the standard
value of corn at 335. 4d. per quarter ; but at the existing
taxation value of agricultural labour of ls. Gd. a day, it
represents 53 days' labour ; and the Bank of England, in
giving their notes in exchange for gold bullion, will vir-
tually be giving for Russian gold 53 days of English labour,
costing £3 17s. 6d., for Russian labour costing 40s.
(equal to 26 days of English labour) ; and for Califor-
nian gold they will give or exchange 53 days of British
labour for one day of American, or £3 17s. l 0 d. for the
product of probably less than a single day's labour. As
labour is the source of all value, and consequently of gold
and silver values in this and all other countries, we ask,
How long will it be possible to carry on such an exchange
of British labour for Russian and American, without un-
duly enriching those countries, injuring ourselves, and
reducing this country to a state of paralysis? All capital
is simply condensed labour, and the value and price of
gold has hitherto rested on the supposed quantity of
labour required to produce a given quantity or weight.
We can neither eat, drink, clothe, or shelter ourselves with
gold. The 20 millions that are now accumulated in the
vaults of the Russian Government are as useless as the
waters of the Dead Sea, so long as those millions lie in
the vaults; but sent to this country they become living
waters, that are day and night trickling their dividends
into the pockets of the foreigner. The hitherto assumed
productive cost of gold is now about to be succeeded by a
greatly reduced actual cost ; consequently a revision of
our standard will soon be sought for by the Directors of
the Bank of England, who will not continue their notes
in exchange for it at £3 17s. 9d.: in such case gold must
be left to find its market value as a commodity, and we
may have to return to paper money, assisted by silver,
which will re-establish the mercantile pound of account
as it existed prior to the change effected in 1819.—San-
dare's Elements qj Taxation.