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AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

HEARTS RESOLVED AND HANDS PREPARED, THE BLESSINGS THEY ENJOY TO GUARD.-SMOLLET•

TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1844.

MANTLES.
CRIFFS and SCURFIELD invite attention to their
splendid Stock of NEW SHAPES in MANTLES,
offering a most distinguished choice to the admirers of
French Taste and Style.
The "Petit Courrier des Dames," and other fashion-
able publications, are eloquent in praise of the beauty and
elegance of these graceful Envelopes. Scarcely a day
passes but some novelty direct from Paris is added to the
Mantle Room.

MAISON DE LYON, 48, BOLD-STREET,
LIVERPOOL.

MRS. CREW'S PUBLIC LIBRARY,
NORTH JOHN-STREET,
SECOND DOOR FROM LORD-STREET.
CIiEW (late of 49, Castle-street) respectfully
/VI informs her Friends and the Public that she has
REMOVED from Ren.thaw-street to NORTH JOHN-
STREET, Second Door from Lord-street, where she
hopes, by attention and a good supply of New Books, to
merit a continuance of their favours.
A general Assortment of PERFUMERY, COMBS,
BRUSHES, STATIONERY. &e.
N.B.—lmporter of Jean Marie Farina's genuine EAU
DE COLOGNE.

[PRICE FIVEPENCE.

GEORGE LATHAM,
LATE MANAGER OF THE ADELPHI SHADES,
Successor to Mr. James Morgan,
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ST. GEORGE INN AND EAG-LE. HOTEL,
FENWICK-STREET,
NEAR ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH, LIVERPOOL.
GEORGE LATHAM respectfully announces to his
Friends and the Public, that his ORDINARY takes
place every day at Two O'CLOCK. SOUPS, FISH.
JOINTS, &c., on the Table. Charge, One Shilling
each.
JOINTS, &c. ready from 12 to 5.
DINNERS sent out, and promptly attended to, on the
most reasonable terms.
G. L. trusts. from his experience as HEAD COOK to
the Palatine Club, and subsequently as Manager to the
Adelphi Shades, to afford the greatest satisfaction to those
who may be pleased to favour him with their commands.
EVERY ACCOMMODATION FOR COMMERCIAL MEN.

CHARGES MOST MODERATE.

Private Apartments to accommodate Dinner Parties.

TO THE ELECTORS OP SOUTH LANCASHIRE.
GENTLEMEN,
BY the sudden decease of your late most respected
representative, the Honourable R. BOOTLE WIL.
BEAR AM, the trust committed to him by you, and fulfilled
through a period of several years, with untiring assiduity,
has returned into your own hands, and it has become
requisite for you to elect a successor. It is with great
diffidence that I offer myself to fulfil those duties, from a
deep sense of their importance, and of the vast interests
involved in the discharge of them ; but having received
the honour of a REQUISITION CALLING UPON
ME TO COME FORWARD, and signed by many of
the most influential Gentlemen of South Lancashire, I
have ventured to assent to their request, in the hope that
the same principles which guided you upon the late
Election, and which were then so strongly expressed that
no opposing Candidate was found on the hustings, may
still prevail, and that my claim to your support may be
allowed to rest on them rather than on any grounds of an
individual character.
I am sincerely attached to our Constitution, and to the
Established Church under which we live, and earnestly
desirous of maintaininsr the Rights and Liberties, both
Civil and Religious, of all classes of the people of this
Country. That these general principles are acceptable to
the Electors of this Division of the County, I have no
reason to doubt; hut I am quite aware that there are
other questions of a more specific character on which
there is much greater difference of opinion. That a free—
dom of Trade as great as is compatible with the other
interests inseparably connect,td with those of Commerce
is indispensable to the welfare of the large and enterpris-
ing towns of this Division, cannot for a moment be
doubted, and I always shall be desirous to promote their
interests to the utmost of my power. I have seen with
great satisfaction that since the accession of the present
Ministry to office, these views have been fully recognised
and carried into effect by a considerable modification of
our Corn laws, and by a complete revision of the Tariff
of Import Duties, and the result has been a most gratify..
ing improvement in the Trade of this District, and the
prosperity of the Country. To what extent any further

alterations may be desirable it would be premature to
consider, until the present system shall have had a fair
and full trial, but I avow myself decidedly opposed to
those who, under a pretext of the necessities of Com-
merce, would violently and recklessly sweep away all
protective regulations in favour of that other section of
the community employed in the cultivation of the land,
whose welfare is not less vital to the country than that of
Commerce itself.

I have thought it necessary to be thus explicit on this
point, as it is at once a matter of the greatest importance
to the Electors of this Division, that the interests of
Commerce and Manufactures should be always a primary
object with the Legislature, and because I am aware that
it is in all probability the chief topic on which you will be
urged to support another Candidate, whose Address has
already been circulated among you.
It will be .my desire to explain myself more fully and
personally to all the •Electors as early as possible.
1 am, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient Servant.
WM. ENTWISLE.

Manchester, 11th May, 1844.

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION.
THE LIVERPOOL COMMITTEE for conducting
the ELECTION of

WILLIAM BROWN, Esq.,
Meet Daily at EASTWOOD'S ROYAL HOTEL, Dale-street,
Liverpool.

ROBERT E. HARVEY,
Chairman of the Committee.

TO THE LIBERAL ELECTORS OF SOUTH
LANCASHIRE.

THE ELECTORS of this Division of the County in.
favour of

WILLIAM BROWN, Esq.,
As the CANDIDATE for the Representation of SOUTH
LANCASHIRE in Parliament, are requested to MEET
at EAsrwoon's ROYAL HOTEL, Moorfields, Liverpool,
on WEDNESDAY next, the 15th instant, at Two o'clock
in the Afternoon.

ROBERT E. HARVEY,
Chairman of the Provisional Committee.
Eastwood's Royal Hotel, Liverpool,
May 10, 1844.

TO THE ELECTORS OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE.
GENTLEMEN.
A DEPUTATION of Electors from Manchester,
Li-
verpool, and other important parts of the County,
having requested me to allow myself to be nominated to
supply the vacancy in your representation caused by the
lamented death of the Honourable R. BOOTLE WILBRA-.
HAM, I have yielded to their request, and beg to announce
myself a CANDIDATE for the vacant seat for SOUTH
LANCASHIRE.

I am quite sensible that there are many gentlemen to
whom this important trust might be delegated with much
greater advantage to your interests, if they could, with.
convenience, devote the time necessary for your service.
I am, therefore, very far from arrogating to myself any
claim to your votes on private grounds.
Attached from principle and long habit to the Liberal
party, I shall, if elected, give my decided support to every
measure which will tend to advance the education and to
improve the condition of the great mass of our country-
men, convinced, as I am, that no greater security can be
given to the free institutions of England than that which
arises from the increased intelligence and prosperity of
the industrious classes.

Upon many subjects of great interest which occupy at
prominent place in the public mind it is impossible to
dwell in the limits of this addeess. There is, however,
one question upon which I firmly believe the welfare of
the nation mainly depends, which involves at once all in-
terests, and which, in my opinion, is quite as important
to the preservation of the property of the Landlord and
the interests of the Farmer, as it is to those of the Ma-
nufacturer, the Merchant, and the Artisan. Upon this
most important question I desire to be distinctly under-
stood. It is a vital question. We may settle many other
matters of minor importance at our leisure, but this it is
dangerous to postpone. I have been all my life engaged
in commerce, 1 have witnessed much of the growth of
our trade and manufactures, and I have also had opportu-
nities of knowing something of the trade of other coun-
tries ; and I am convinced that nothing can enable us to
maintain our position among other nations but PERFECT
FREEDOM OF TRADE.

With unrestricted commerce and unfettered industry
we can defy competition in the wide range of manufac-
turing production, and our people might soon become, by
the result of their own exertions, the most happy and con-
tented in the world. __ __

Here, in South Lancashire, if any where, the cause of
free trade ought to triumph. I offer myself to your
choice as one of its most strenuous advocates ; and whilst
I regret that a more able person, entertaining these views,
has not been found to solicit your suffrages, I can sin-
cerely assure you that no man can be more anxious than
I am to witness the speedy success of this great cause.
I have the hondur to be,
Your faithful servant,
WILLIAM BROWN.
Richmond Rill, Liverpool, May 10, 1844.

TO JOURNEYMEN SHIPWRIGHTS.
AN Advertisement has appeared, signed by T. WIL-
SON, Chairman, and P. CATO, Secretary, of the
Shipbuilders' Association, announcing a determination on
the part of the Shipbuilders to REDUCE the RATE of
JOURNEYMEN'S WAGES, on and after the 13th in-
stant TO 4s. 6d. PER DAY.

For this determination they assign two reasons, namely,
—first, the Great Reduction in the Price of the Necessa-
ries of life; and second, the Ruinously Depressed State
of the Shipping Interest. Emphatically disclaiming any
wish to interfere between Masters and Operatives as to
the proposed Reduction, we yet deem it necessary to pro-
test against the absurd and mischievous fallacy contained
in the first of the pleas assigned; and we assert, and will
prove to you, that there is no connexion whatever between
the Rate of your Wages and the Price of Food.
The Rate of your Wages has not been altered more than
two or three times during the last twelve years, and has
never, at one time, varied more than 6d. per day, which it;
equal to 10 or 11 per cent.

What, during the same period, have been the fluctua-
tions in the price of Wheat?

Hardly a year has passed in which the difference be-
tween the highest and lowest prices of the year does not
amount to the same per centage ; the average annual fluc-
tuation during the twelve years having been 8 per cent.
To keep pace with this, your wages should have been
changed 2s. per week at least twice every twelve months.
In 1835, the average price of Wheat was 395. 4d. per
quarter ; in 1839, it had risen to 70s. Bd. per quarter.
Had your wages increased in the same proportionfrons
4s. 6d. per day in 1835, they would have swelled in 1839
to 88. ld. a day.
If, therefore, as you are told, wages ought to vary in
proportion to the price of Food, YOU WERE DE-
FRAUDED, in 1839, OF 3s. ld. PER DAY, AND
YOUR PRESENT WAGES, reckoned in the same way,
instead of being Reduced to 4s. 6d. a day, should stand at
6s. sd.

The first of the pleas adduced in the Advertisement, it
it have any soundness in it, is one, not for reduction but
for increase.
If you are powerless to withstand the threatened reduc-
tion, it is not because of the low price of Food, which, as
it would give you a greater command of the necessaries of
life, would render you more independent of the masters;
but it is because " the ruinously DEPRESSED STATE
of the Shipping Interest" has taken away your employ-
ment.
This ruinous depression YOU have done your utmost
to produce.
It is for this you have shouted and voted at elections.
You have sent men to Parliament expressly to maintain
laws which are intended to make your Timber as dear as
possible, and to prevent the people from getting as much
as they want of Corn, and Beef, and Sugar, and Coffee,
&c., from other lands.
What wonder that the ships of other nations are made
cheaper than yours—that yours, when made, should be
unable to find freights—and that now you suffer the pe-
nalty you have brought upon yourselves.
The Shipping Interest is ruinously depressed I and the
only way to remedy the evil is to repeal the laws which
limit the employment of Shipping.
With FREE TRADE, more Shipping will be em-
ployed ; higher freights will be obtained ; new Ships will
be built, and old ones repaired; and, finally, your labour
will be in better demand and better paid.
By order of the Council of the Anti-Monopoly
Association,
CHARLES EDW. RAWLINS, Jun.,
Honorary Secretary.