The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-19 00:00:00

TUESDAY

London Times, of yesterday, contains a very
illy written article on the subject of the strike
building trades. Our contemporary enters

into an elaborate explanation of the state of the law
as it affects combinations of workmen generally, and
after quoting the opinions of several of the judges
on the subject, gives the enactment of the 6th Geo.

IV., c. 129• - Under this statute, the Times (no
mean authority) asserts with confidence that the
"United Trades' Mutual Protection Society of Man-
chester, Salford, and their vicinities," might be sup-
pressed without difficulty, by criminal proceedings.

We would ask our operiivi friends seriously to lay
heart the advice tendered in the passage sub-

the whole it will hardly be denied that these
whether of employers or employed, and
s they may be formed, are both im-
y highly injurious to the
ey last they fester discon-
ditious and designing
ital, and derange the

sequential
Whilst t

f society

Even a

they are over,-ther

end distrust, a remembrance of
Aterness of fancied oppression, and
of real injury—in short, a general
kindly feelings of reciprocal reliance
‘- should never be absent from the
--n. We do not dispute the
oine for purposes of defence.
.ould never have been violated.
,ch with Adam Smith, and ad-
which every man has in his own
11 foundation of all property, so
The patrimony of a
strength and dexterity of his hands;
-a employing this strength and dex-
t e thinks proper, without injury to
n violation of his most sacred pro-
-. injury to his neighbour," however,
sat be done; for it happens unfortunately that in
hese combinations always do work injury to others,
of to others only, but in a far greater degree

ter or t

rkmen to c

st sacred and inviolable

a plain w

the important truth

(press upon the minds of

men who are now loitering in 1
ad to poverty, and too probably tottering on
Let them not think too confidently
ly removed a little distance,
the word and their masters

leness on

a merely to

riay come too

3ey offer themselves for work
1. Capital is like the stream

1 current will find its

and still if

cn. This is a Is
ccounts attest- it

act and no
:. It is a

and mar
ter for th

brought home to
poverty and disgra

misguided workmen. When it
3 wita all the attendant horrors of
.hey will look upon us, who now
vstem of combinations, as their

rging upon the Legislature the claim
I possessions for some protection for
cts in the markets of the mother country,
e more than once given expression Jo our
anticipation that the opinions of a portion of the
olonists of British America would be appealed to
ad produced as a triumphant proof of the satisfac-
lu with which the entire population of that colony
garded the ministerial plans. We were not mis-
Such a demonstration in favour of Free
been got up amongst the merchants of
and -is thus referred to, as conclusive of
n, by our leading Free Trade contempo-

Colonii

..hester Guardian, whose remarks.we

e in extenso

When it was found

English farmers were not

a free trade in corn—when

ncitements to agi'ation ad-
&red to renew their leases
ban those they had been pre-
onists felt that they must look
larm in some other quarter, and
ere directed to Canada, where Mr. Isaac
I other authorities promised them a most
tory amount of disaffection in t

made no re

ed to them, but qu'

ie first instance,
The noble leader
t Commons has consequently
it the battle of protection almost
Ind a very formidable picture
tislaction, to result from the ministerial

of

ely on colonial ground;

,s, his lordship pr

ed to the house—to under-

nd conduct, whether they re-
in-laws as a sufficient ground for
.....ancing their allegiance. Fortunately the arrival of
se Caledonia has put us in possession of some very clear
nd satisfactory evidence on this point—evidence to which
re conceive the legislature and the public of this country,
will pay rather more attention than to the sinister predic-
tions of Mr. Isaac Buchanan or Lord George Beutinck,
iowever strenuously urged, or however frequently re-
terated, through the press, or in parliament.
"It appears from a supplement to the Montreal Herald
3f the 11th of April, that a public meeting of the inhabi-
of Montreal, including nearly all the leading tner-
iness in the city, was held on the 9th
measures proposed by the govern-
heir probable effect upon the corn-
-1 position of the colony. Now, did these gentle-
d, denom ce the free trade measures of
s ruinous to themselves, and subversive
ountry I Did they threaten to
were not allowed to enjoy
Instead of
ministerial measures.

stand from their langt
zard the repeal of the

is and men of Int

ril, to consider t'

Robert Peel

authority
:e from Enl

a monopoly in its-markets? By no means
condemning they

roved of it

There was certainly some little difference of opinion as to
the extent to which it was prudent to carry that expression
of approbation ; but in the whole of the proceedings there
was nothing like condemnation of the measures, or an ex-
pression of fear for their consequences to Canada."

Before proceeding to consider the resolutions of
the Montreal people, which the Guardian quotes so
riumphantly, we must say a few words with re-
t to that portion of his article which relates to
course taken by " Mr. Isaac Buchanan and
t whom we may include
Our contemporary says that Mr. Bu-
:I the protectionist party " a most
amount of disaffection in the first in-
''snlute

among

ourielve

hanan promi

aration eventually