The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-21 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS,

correspondent at Rainhill informs us that extensive prepara-
- ire display in Easter week,
new schools in connection
there. We understand that
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TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 21, 1848

THE position to which the new Republic of
France has already been brought by the insane
n'ovisional government deserves
of the few parties in

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this country, who are hardy enough to proclaim
their sympathy with the revolutionary principle;
and by those, especially in the sister island, who
look forward to the achievement of political ends
through the medium of popular outbreak and vio-
lence. We witnessed, the other day, in a country,
whose people boast of superior enlightenment, the
le of a dynasty overturned, the whole social

spectac
fabric

gdorn torn in pieces, and its
reconstruction and the adoption of a new system of
government entrusted to the hands of a few noisy
demagogues—poets, feuilletonists, and philosophers
—at the dictation of a mob of dissatisfied work-
men, idle and disorderly youths and confirmed
reprobates of both sexes. The respectable classes
of the French people, willing to be rid, by any
means, of the Orleans family, either stood aloof or
fraternized with the rabble. The National Guards
submitted to he dragged along with the move-
ment ; and the army, having no leaders and no
party to rally round, looked on in amazement and
inaction. The change from a well-ordered state of
society to anarchy was the work of a few hours. A.
powerful monarchical system, which it had been
the work of eighteen years to consolidate, melted
like frostwork in the sun ; and the world was in-
vited to contemplate with admiration the halcyon
rench Nation had just
rnd to join in Pans of laudation of the

f a great ki

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emplary fort

...,cdrance, moderation, and patriotism
of those by whom the great work of Liberty (!) has
'unmated.

been con

Forthwith commenced the farcical attempts of
the heaven-born statesmen, selected by mob intelli-
gence to repair an the evils of past misrule, to
grapple with every sort of legislative and social
difficulty, and to construct a millenium on the soil
Deputations of workpeople, of semp-
opkeepers, and of every
d in turns upon the

of France

stresses, orange-venders

and description

..inttee, at the Hotel de Ville, to
state their several grievances; and each came away
with the assurance of their prompt redress. Work
was to be found for every man, at good wages ;
trade was to be flourishing, more abundant, and
universal contentment and prosperity were to be
secured for all. Unhappily, however, it has been
discovered too late that it is easier to make such

provisional cc

promi

han to fulfil them

nen who had anything to
first, the flattering aspect
to provide for sounding a
iterials which had recently
susceptibility of ignition.
n packed up their trunks,
wants, furniture, &c., and
'e quarters. Tradesmen,
began to contract
ts, to reduce the number of their
lg their establishments within
and Paris, so recently thronged
e life, busy industry and
still as a deserted city.
no longer enlivened its

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ards. Beauty and fashion

law and order ! Grievances you may have, in
common with the mass of mankind. Obstacles
there may be, a few which stand in the way of your
happiness and well-being. But toleration of an-
archy and a mob domination are unsafe paths
towards the redress of those grievances and the re-
moval of those obstacles. Upon the potency of the
calm voice of reason you have to depend. That voice
will not be heard amidst the crash and tumult which
arise whilst the framework of society is being riven
in pieces. We repeat, that to the attention of the
middle classes of this country we have little need
of recommending a study of the effect of the bad
example which their French brethren have recently
set them. The totally opposite conduct—the reso-
lute determination to resist mob tyranny—displayed
in this country during the past week, is sufficiently
assuring. By the middle classes of Ireland, how-
ever, the lesson may be studied with advantage.
May we trust that it will be so studied ?

By the steam-ship Sarah Sands, which reached
this port on Tuesday-, we received the following
additional letter from Mr. Isaac Buchanan, which,
coming from a gentleman so practically conversant
with all the details of the subject of which it treats,
will be read with considerable interest
New York, 28th February, 1848.

" DEAR Stn,—By the steamer Hibernia, sailed two
days ago, I had only time to refer you to a communica-
tion of mine to a Currency Reformer' in this country.
" My object in sending this to you was to show, that
if the Committee of the House of Commons does not
confine itself to the consideration of the principles of
money,' but enters into the discussion of the subject of
banking,' it will prove an abortion.
" The moneyed aristocracy of England will thus con-
tinue to devour the substance, and even subsistence, of
the class who labour for their bread ; and so aggravated
will free trade make the operation of this grinding and
inhuman system, that a revolution in England will be
the consequence.

" The distress of the working classes will become un-
bearably great; and though Government may deny that
this has been caused by the Government, it will be self-
evident that Government has not had the power or the
will to prevent the starvation of the thousands.
" To prevent a revolution in England, the great object
of all government—the independence from starvation of
the working classes—must not only be seen to be the
first object of the existing Government, but THAT OBJECT
MUST BE ATTAINED WITHOUT DELAY.

" For my own part, I firmly believe, and have no hesi-
tation in saying, that GOLD IN ENGLAND NOT BEING
ALLOWED TO RISE IN PRICE, and being by law made
necessary to her mercantile system of confidence or bank-
ing, has already directly caused the death of thousanJs in
Manchester and the other manufacturing districts, and
must necessarily be the cause of tens of thousands of
deaths, and of incalculable misery, among the working
classes generally.

" To force back gold into England, the price of labour
and all other property has to be crushed down to starva-
tion, or beyond starvation, limits.
" In this way the exchanges are got nominally turned
in favour of England ; but let us look at the direful effect
of this on the industry of England.
The export of gold from England, by removing the
base of the inverted pyramid, brought the whole confi-
dence or banking (the means of manufacturing and ship-
ping manufactures) into the dust.
" The failure of English merchants destroyed English
credit all over the world, and this gives the appearance
of the balance of trade being more and more in favour of
England, because few bill-drawers being undoubted, the
parties owing money in England prefer going to the most
expensive mode of remittance—gold.
" Now if gold had risen in England, there would have
been little or no export of the article from England, and
none from America.