The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-26 00:00:00

the Commons immed

ssential principle of
s' cowmittee. If an

ascribing the removal of
lannock, the evening be-
is received from the go-
t gentleman, we are in-
,sion.

but the latter part of his com-
nisluid, or it would c.rtainly

erection criticise

!rt au alio,

lect until we have done

,r referred to by " Integrity" in pre-
himself. A vote in Committee of the

be true

at the will of the house, through
1 in Committee, but on the other
,re ent on the second reading may
I of .piokles, none of whom have
5 on the question for which their

he statements of " Humanitas."
)n wrong data. We know that
re said that the abolition of capi-

lowed by a large diminution both
anished by death, and in the ge-

er, has not been satin

onirary, we 'believe the reverse is
ndent be disposed to pursue the
n to the current number of the

tberpoot SPtanbarb.

yIORNIN

1, MAY 26, 1846

.ovt rnr

nent are adopting the

'ps for turni
apathy of tl
policy raise

.
ing from them the af-
he people. Does any
e them for a moment in

the masses

any thing
ical expedi

the notion of having
beyond the harsh and
ncy, or economy, is re-
offered hand of grati-

and the

rejected

;try proce

ags of the past week

ance o

this repulsive inclina-
: Ministry had urged,
ions, a measure which
dvance its authors in
t least, of the working
)y a political sleight of

)f Uor

jacked by the voice of

_
'unds of confederated
moured for in vain.

something like an as-
millenium, which was

aap loaf and extended
were threatened with
1 good roan suffering

hick ever excites the
is British people. Al-
g it, enraptured popu-

person Of Sir Robert
tatue in one of their
lad the Ministry, en

hrough the man-ufac-
would have been one

self, however, to Sir

for getting rid of the
'hick they had been in-
vas brought before the
the working portion of
on asked of Parliament
hours of labour, for

the ages of 13 and

-sixths of the nation

" your long hours

strength, and the
lers of a future gene-

)riving them of

,
out from them the

; you are depriving
g to value the comforts
he female of leisure for
aties, the proper fulfil-
) form the good wife
.e making the spring-

peless and wearing

if they ever reach it

preMature old a

ministry Which has

ideration for the poor
)oon of cheap bread.

Robert Peel and his
!h as this, they said—
factory workers, in-
, and elevati- g their

granted without di-
fits, and taking some-
f capital. The present
but the capitalist

the chief considera-

ass of our population

ized—may neither be
s Christians—but we
d bales of cotton pet'
• must have his present
he social and eternal
fellow beings, may be
I theorists to declaim

deal only with the un:

ring interest of the

,e reply to Mr. Fielden
irs bill ; and what does
It other great measure
oun try—unsettling in-
era

t tell us war

which is ilow
durr

It tells us em-
to advantage the poor

tore, a loaf to his table,
ardrobe—that agricul-
t of its protection, and
)veered in the social
ng philanthropy-which
in the sordid consider-

Dent
oral industr3

ations of poli

It is the manu-

interest the ministry

a stimulated commerce,

and more exports

slating. Let no poor

and nr

iitude to them for the

man lift up

Lf. It was not intended
permitted to be enjoyed

f;i• him, and i

st Cons

is throwing away from it
apathy, giving increased

vdry thing

stringency to

olerable poor-law, and
3 of toil inflicted upon

perpetua
the your

ren of our working po-
it conduct of its oppo-
ord John Russell is the
rration are the Whiffs.
anneal for help, of half

•
• •
rymen, with scraps and
of political economists.

his air

o interfere with the right

Is own price

ig leaders, on the other

ere is a point beyond
by the cold abstractions
itical philosophy—that a

%hicii it

annot with

Speaking of

of government with the
of buildings, he says :

d higher
Eire concerned-

at the great mass of'the
the effect of which is to
and feeble while it lasts,

he population, who leave

. .
progeny than themselves.
t that a great mass of our
sery—if it be the fact that

to taint the healtb,'and
uAonied to_moreeleanly

;6 turn th

vernment of this country
yes that they have tolerated

has n
the existe

hogstyes, until there is
'mine like hogs. (Hear,

with respect to a q

are concernec

adhere
.s.)

pie of non-interference

and, in direct

o the factory question', he

Is not the

concerned in a question re-

mined the evidenc
examined his own

,r? Does any one who. has
pened his eyes in the world,
;s, doubt that twelve hours a
more than are desirable for
hear.) If so much labour be
!ry argument on which inter-

of factory labor.

)uths of thirteen ?
A desirable, then I
rence can

justified calls on me to keep those youths
from injuring their health by means of immoderate toil.
(Hear, hear.) Is this, or is it not, a question in which
morality is concerned ? Can any one doubt—certainly
riends around me do not doubt—that education is a
Ratter of the highest importance as regards the. virtue and
.sappiness of the common people ? For education we know
that leisure is necessary. Do we believe that, after twelve
hours have been taken from the day for factory labour,
and after so much time as is necessary for refreshen a:

and exercise has also been taken, do we I
enough time will remain for that amount of
which it is desirable the people should have:
that we must answer that question in the negai

e that

education
I believe

hear.) This I say, that all the principles in which you in-
terfere to prohibit contracts of a nature which you believe
to be prejudicial to the public morality, justify me in en-
deavouring to prevent contracts like those which are now
the subject of consideration."

These are the arguments of no sickly sentimenta-
list, but of a man brought up at the feet of Malthus,
and deeply read in the political economists; and
they are convincing because they are true.
In a similar light the question was viewed, and
similar opinions expressed with almost equal ability
by the Whig leader, Lord John Russell. The Con-
servative ministry clung by the side of the Cob-
dens, the Brights, the Humes, and the Wards of
the house, bolstering up the cause of capital lgainst
humanity, setting the dogmas of abstract philoso-
phy in the scale against the dictates of feeling and
justice to our toiling fellow-beings, whilst their
wiser opponents adopted and ably maintained the
more widely popular aspect of the question at issue,
winning golden opinions and blessings, from no un-
influential section of the community.
What, it may be remarked, is the lesson which
our remarks are intended to convey? It is this :

We wish to make it palpable to the Conservative
members of the House that, by the course which
they are pursuing, they are advancing the very con-
summation of what they appear most to dread in the
establishing in power of the Whig party. They are
getting rid, with Sir Robert Peel, of the respect of
the British people. They are assisting him to plunge
their party into unpopularity, which years of re-
pentance will not wipe away. They are enabling
the Whigs to re-assume their ancient boast that they
are the party of the people. Place them once in this
position, and in power ; and a long, long period of
misgovernment, of wild theorising, of desperate ex-
perimenting upon our government and our laws, is
in store for this deluded and betrayed nation. Play
on for a while longer the game of the astute and
wily premier, and Great Britain will no longer be a
land 'to which it will be a boast and a pride to
belong,

Our readers, such at least of them as were pre-
sent, will doubtless remember the pleasure with
which they witnessed last year the proceedings of
the Yearly Meeting of the Liverpool Auxiliary
Branch of the Foreign Aid Society, at which M.
D'Aubigne, the eminent historian of the Reforma-
tion, and other distinguished foreigners were pre-
sent. The meeting for the present year is announced
to be held in the Royal Amphitheatre, on the gth
June, this day fortnight ; and is not expected to
be at all behind its predecessor in interest and
importance. Amongst the speakers will be, we
understand, the Rev. Canon M`Neile, with several
of the leading clergy of the town ; and we shall
again have the opportunity of hearing the operations
of the society detailed, and its importance and value
shown by a deputation of distinguished Protestant
foreigners, who will he able to bring to the meeting
the evidence of personal observation.
At the present crisis this association assumes a
peculiar interest. With Popery making prodigious
strides towards supremacy in our own land, we ses
throughout Continental Europe the light breaking
in, and community after community, sickened of
the dark jugglery of Rome, throwing away their
chains, and coming to the pure fountain of truth for
support. Wherever Popery is known, it is becom-
ing odious and intolerable; and an infinite amount
of good is to be achieved by holding up before the
observation of the British public, the operations in
other lands of societies such as this, and proving
to misguided millions of our fellow countrymen the

true character of that dire apostacy which here, in
the infancy of its strength, bears itself with lamblike
humility, although, wh n in its plenitude of power,
it can play the devouring lion. We trust that we
need not appeal to the liberality of the Protestants
of Liverpool in behalf of a society engaged, like
the Foreign Aid Society, in emancipating the minds
of our Continental brethren from the thrall of this
subtle and tyrannical power. Let our fellow-towns-
men and fellow-townswomen attend the meeting,
and the result we do not fear.

The Manchester Guardian is silent under the
proof which we gave him that the feeling of our
Canadian population is not one of approval of the
Free Trade measures of her Majesty's Administra-
tion. He merely echoed,• perhaps, another Free
Trade authority, the London Times, who paraded
the. same resolutions of the Montreal meeting as

conclusive with respect to the opinions of the ag-
gregate people of the two provinces; and seeing a

document so convenient for his purpose, m
to search for any of an opposite character

following letter from the partner of an eminent
Canadian firm, enclosing an extract from the Mont-
real Herald, might serve to convince the Guardian of
the real value of his pet resolutions, if the arguments
drawn from them even stood uncontradicted by
other and better authority :

" Montreal, 271 h April, 1846.

parcel of hot-headed theorists (chiefly young men of no
experience), who repudiate protection as an injury and
destruction to all sound principles on which commerce
should be based. The avowed object of the leaders, as
first announced, was to secure to Montreal all the western
trade. Discussion has. however, shown even them the
absurdity of this; but being committed, they go on from
pure admiration of the principle
" The enclosed (cut from the
how little prospect there is of our retaining even the trad
of Canada West, and far less of the Western States, if
Canada flour has no protection in England to make up
for the great charges and longtr voyage of the St. Law-
rence navigation.

Montreal Herald) shows

" The Montreal Herald assumes that the freight from
Lake Ontario to Liverpool will be brought down to 4s.
It is new 6s. 9d. It also assumes the freight from New
York to Liverpool to be Is. 9d., whereas we have just
heard of flour being conveyed from New York to Liver-
pool at is. and is. 3d. _ _ .

" So that, If there is a protection of less than 45., the
trade must go by New York, and all this vast employ-
ment be wrenched from British subjects, by the adoption
of free trade in England, to bane. over to the Americans.
" The Montreal Herald is anxious to think well of free
trade, and to support Sir Robert Peel as of old, but you
see the halting way it does this."

We may mention another fact or two which have
come to our knowledge, and which may not be
uninteresting to the Guardian's readers. A certain
Canadian firm is in the habit of shipping annually
to those colonies British manufactures to the amount
of £250,000. During the first four and a-half
months of this year, however, it has diminished its
purchases in this country by £40,000 as compared
with those of a corresponding period last year.
what

the Canadas take from us; and if the feeling of
alarm which has induced this firm thus to contract
its shipments he general, it will he a fair calculation
to make that half a million "nq he lost

. sierinis Wlll ..._ this
year to the manufacturers of Great Britairi as the
re tilt of that very feeling whose existence the Guar-
dian denies. He is himself oh the spot to ascertain
s to perform, - whether the above statement is correct or not; and
Mr. I% B. Macaulay, if he can confute it, on authority, we shall give him
speeches ever delivered a candid confession of our error.
thus demolishes, by ---
4overnments cannotin-.
contracts of individual..

The opinions of parties who profess to be in the
secret, are still widely apart with resptct to the
probable fate of the Corn and Customs Bill in the
House of Lords. A few (lays ago the organs of the
free traders were anything but sanguine: There

were sorrowful predictions of a hitch in the future
progress of the measure, which suggested, doubtless,
to many an honourable member, the disagreeable
circumstance of having to face his insulted con-
stituents. The Times of yesterday, however, sets
all right. The measure is safe, thanks, we under-
stand, to Lord John Russell, who is reported to
have stated that, when he wrote his celebrated
letter, announcing his conversion to the League, he
considered that he had his party in his pocket, and

has just intimated to each, that he expects they will
consider themselves as committed with him. We
give the note of triumph of the Times :
It is cruel to destroy the last lingering hopes of the des-
perate, and to consummate the misfortunes of the mise:

cable, but at times "one. must be cruel only to be kind,"
and even to the victims themselves a certain evil is bet-
ter than " hope long deferred, which maketh the heart
sick." It is, therefore, rather in a spirit of humanity than
with a hostile exultation that we announce to the Protec-
tionist party the final doom, of the Corn-laws in the House
of Lords. The whispered expectations of a division in the

Whig camp have all proved groundless. Lord Stanley,
Lord John Russell, Lord Palmerston, and Lord George
Bentinck will not unite in discordant harmony for the sal-
vation of their country. The Whig peers have no inten-
tion to abandon their consistency, nor to surrender all
claim to the confidence of the nation by splitting them-
selves into sections for the mere purpose of mutilating the
bill. The rumours to this effect are wholly without foun-
dation, and the Whig party have taken the surest means to
prove that they are so. On Saturday there was a meeting
at Lansdowne-house, at which not less than 60 Whig
peers were present, including Lord Melbourne and Lord
Fitzwilliam. The leading members of the party in the
House of Commons attended also. The result was most
satisfactory. There were not wanting some who, as we