The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-10 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

which O'Connell has been the Magnus Apollo—
" language of a seditious and inflammatory nature
has been addressed to the persons there assembled,"
—nay, in another paragraph, it distinctly points to
himself as its utterer; and surely the just course to
be pursued towards him is here as clearly indicated
as if an indictment was already framed and the
criminal placed at the bar, to answer for his manifold
crimes against an insulted country and a betrayed
people.

Whilst the wiseacres of our anti-monopoly, and
other similar associations, are fiercely agitating for
the erection of an unsafe commercial prosperity
upon the ruin of the agriculture of the nation, an
influence is silently at work which promises, at no
distant period, to snatch out of our hands a large
portion of that foreign trade, upon whose extension
the hopes of the country are fixed. For years past,
it is a well-known fact, that from the supplying to
foreign markets of the heavier fabriu of our cotton
manufacture we have been excluded by the cheaper
productions of the foreign manufacturer himself, or
by neutral competitors. In the continental markets
this has been extensively the case ; and from the
United States and a number of the South American
markets we have long been shut out, not by any
tariff, but in reality by the ability of the American
manufacturer to produce certain classes of goods
upon more favourable terms than ourselves. The
supply of our own colonies is even menaced from
the same quarter; and in our rising commerce with
the vast markets of China we find our active and
energetic competitor advancing step by step with
us, and looking forward already to the period at
which he will be enabled to oust us from our supre-
macy as a manufacturing and mercantile peoDle.
Our attention has been called to this subject by
the following remarks extracted by the Manchester
Guardian, from the New Orleans Price Current of
the Ist September :

" Among the peculiar features developed during the
past season, we may notice the increased activity and
extension of our home manufactures, consequent upon a
more favourable adjustment of the tariff, and the open-
ing of a new trade in goods and cotton with China. This
last new resource has already attained some considerable
importance, in view of the brief period that has elapsed
since its commencement, and a spirited rivalry appears
to be maintained between our own county and Great
Brilain fl,r ascendancy in the markets of the celestial
emiiire. Already, as we see stated in the northern pa-
pers, have cotton goods, to the extent of 15,000,000
yards, been shipped from this country to China, while
only 12,000,000 are known to have gone from England ;
and if the success of the American manufacturer in this
enterprise be equal to that which has attended him in
other parts of the world, in his competition with the Bri-
tiTh for the supply of heavy fabric 3, the rivalry will pro-
bably not he of long duration unless some modification of
the dut'es on the raw material should give a more fit-
vourable position to.the manufacturers of Great Britain.
From our own port, two cargoes of raw cotton, amount-
ing to 4303 bales, have been shipped direct to Canton,
and other shipments, though we know net to what ex-
tent, have been made from the ports of the north."

Now what, we ask, ought to be the attitude of a
body of men, professing to be enlightened beyond
measure upon all the affairs of the commercial
world, under circumstances such as these ? Should
the leading members of the cotton trade be seen
running up and down in pursuit of their brawling
agitation for corn-law repeal and other similar spe-
cifics, when here is palpably befOre them an evil
which threatens the ruin of a valuable portion of
their business, and which the first energetic effort
would succeed in removing ? The impolitic and
paltry tax, levied upon the great staple of our ma-
nufactures, is obviously the source of our weakness
in the race of competition with the foreign manufac-
turer; and sensible and prudent men would un-
doubtedly use their efforts rather to procure the
withdrawal of so direct an obstacle to their pros-

,a 1 C 1 cFc,uldLive goon %men, certainly at pre-
sent, does not seem to be of very easy or very early

achievement

Whatever may be the course of our Manchester
neighbours with respect to the question ;—whether
they choose to stir in it, or to bewilder themselves
and harass the government and the community with
their ravings on corn-law repeal—we do trust that
the merchants of Liverpool will direct their atten-
tion at once to a practical effort for the removal of a
practical and direct evil. To the memorial of such
a body of men, no government can refuse to listen
with respect, and, if possible, to concede.

THE MERCURY'S SLANDER OF THE PROTESTANT
OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION OF LIVERPOOL.—The popish
scribe, whose falsehoods directed towards the Ope,ative
Protestant Association we exposed last week, thus reite-
rates his calumny in his publication of Friday :
" As we quite expected, the Tory paper, of Tuesday,
and its correspondents, have denied that the coppers paid
for the admission of the rioters to the Amphitheatre, on
the occasion of the Repeal Meeting, were handed to them
by the Operative Protestant Association. The treasurer
himself denies that he has paid any such money for any
such purpose. These denials do not shake our confidence
in the original statement, and we believe the denials would
be repeated and made to appear more decided still, if by
any such means the identification of our informant could
by possibility be reached ; but he is not to be caught."
Now what can be said in refutation of any statement
made by a man thus obstinately resolved in his contempt
of truth ? Obviously, our only course is to despise the
libeller, and to treat his assertions as so many fables,
forged by a splenetic mind for the injury of a political op-
ponent. In the present case, the Mercury distinctly
stated that the admission-money to the Repeal meeting was
furnished to a set of riotous boys by the Protestant Ope-
rative Association. We had the best of authority for
denying this. It was in the same publication denied by
the treasurer. And, moreover, we had the additional as-
surance of knowing that the association at the time—and
we are not aware that its pftition is much improved now
—had no funds for that or any other purpose. And yet
our contemporary's " confidence" is not shaken ! He is
still of opinion that his " original informant" is better in-
formed of the doings of the Protestant Association than
the association itself, and proceeds to state that
" Ile,"—our original informant—" declares the coppers
were furnished by the important personages in the asso-
ciation, and distributed to " the boys" for the purpose
stated. This the denying parties know, or may soon know
if they please; and it may, perhaps, for decency sake, be
now so arranged, in consequence of the exposure of the
transaction, that the treasurer may not be called upon to
have such an item in his books. Assembled mischief
makers, like the association, have sufficient experience to
know bow to work the affair in substance, and yet not be
able to deny it in form."
Well done, Mercury The jesuitical dishonesty of the
course suggested is worthy of Loyala himself, and might,
if well considered, throw a light upon much that has
hitherto been deemed incomprehensible in liberal tactics !

COUNTY RIGISTRATION.—The court for revising the
Liverpool district of the parliamentary list for this county
commences at the Sessions-house this morning. We
earnestly press upon our conservative friends who have
been objected to, the necessity of a personal attendance
to substantiate their claims.

EXTRAORDINARY ACTIVITY IN THE COTTON
MARKET.—We noticed last week the extraordinary fact
of no less than 20,000 bales of Cotton having been sold,
at advanced prices on the day preceediug our publication ;
and we have now to notice the more extraordinary fact
that this activity in the demand has been sustained during
the entire week, the aggregate sales for which are now
stated at 70,000 bales, at an advance of fully id per lb.
Yesterday the same activity was manifested, the sales
being 10,000 bales (nearly half a week's consumption);
and the market closed with great firmness.

MUNICH'
resumed on

REVISION.—Tbe municipal revision was
Tuesday, and terminated on Thursday. The

following is

the result

Objections. Objections. Claims.
Radicals. Conserv. Conserv.
Ald.Disald. Ald. Disald. Ald. Disald

Claims.
Conserv.
Ald. Disald