The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-11 00:00:00

TUESDAY MORNING, AUG. 11, 1846

Our advertising columns announces this day the
gratifying fact that nearly the sum of £7400 has been
already contributed towards the erection of churches
in the four districts, formed in this town under Sir
'Robert Pee.'s act. We hail it as a promise of better
things, for, were the contributions to stop short of
£20.000, some of those districts must he left un-
provided with church accommodation. We trust it
is sufficient to make known the want, in order to
call forth the Christian liherali y of our wealthier
merchants. Two and thirty thousand of our poorer
townsmen left without the means of public worship
h an appalling fact, which we cannot believe will be
permitted to continue. The only provision at pre-
sent for them is the small church of St. Simon's,
where the Rev. J. Connor is indefatigably labouring.
By his constant exertions he has at length obtained
the larger portion of the funds nee ed for his new
church. We trust the Liverpool Church Building
society w;11 he enabled to supply the deficiency. On
jooking over the sub•crption list we have missed
some names which are usually found as contributors
110 the religious and charitable objects connected
_with
Liverpool. This can only he because the sub-
ject has not yet been fully brought before them.
We are aware that some object to the patronage of
the intended churches being vested in the Bishop of
the diocese and the crown alternately. Admitting
that these are reasonable grounds for their scruples,
they are surely not sufficient to prevent persons con-
tributing to such an object. The question of pa-
tronage is a very difficult one. As far as concerns
the testimony of H sly Scripture, it will be found
that the system which places it in the hands of the
Bishop has most of set ipture warrant. We read in
Titus, " For this cause left I thee in Crete, thatthou
&bonniest set in of der the things that are wanting,and
Ordain elders in every city as I had appointed thee."
There is here no mention of any other being con-
cerned in the selection of those elders but Titus. In
the same manna.-, in Acts 14, 23, we read of Paul
and Barnabas, " And when they had ordained them
elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting,
they commended them to the Lard on whom they
believed." These are the principal, if not the only,
. passages in the new Testament which give us any
direct information on the subject of the selection of
ministers for a particular congregation. While they
do not command us to restrict patronage to the hi-
shops, they yet are abundantly sufficient to remove
our scruples as to the lawfulness of confiding a por-
tion of it, at least, to episcopal selection. The Go-
vernors being heathens when the new Testament
was written we could not expect to find anything in
it on the subject of royal p itronage. But in the
Old Testament we find that King :olomon removed
Abiathan from being High Priest and put in Zadok
in his room. Ist Kings, 2 : 26, 35. David also re-
gulated the courses of the priests in the temple ser
vice in which he was initiated by the uninspired,
although pious King Elezekiah, of whom we read—
«c

.et the Levites in the House of the Lord with
cymhols, with psalteris, and with harps, according
to the commandment of David, and of Gad, the
King's seer, and of Nathan the prophet, for sio was
the commandrns_nt of the Lord by his prophets."
2d Chronicles, 29 : 25. Hezeltiah did not consecrate
Priests and Levites, (this was the ruinin sin of the
Kings of Israel. lit Kings, 13 : 33, 34,) but he as-
signed to the consecrated men their posts and duties
in the Lord's temple. Here again, therefore, as far
as concerns scripture testimony, we are not without.
foundation tor royal patronaue. The system of po-
pular e!eclion is altogether without Scriptural war-
rant. Theciise of Matthias was not that of a con-
gregation choosing its pastor; still less can the elec-
tiom o: the seven deacons be cited, for they were
expressly chosen to serve tables. The method of
patronaze mos! pproved of, that of five trustees.

has much to rt
remember that it has r

it it; but its advocates should
Jt the shadow of Scriptural
cast directly. It is altogether a mo-

authority, at 1

dern invention

Another consid

_.ration is worthy of notice which
is, that the various forms of patronage in this
kingdom have greatly contributed to the correc-
tion .of the evils incident to each. In how
many instances has lay patronage been the means
of introducing godly and devoted men into
dioceses, where otherwise they would not have
been tolerated ? We could name, also, many
examples in which the patronage of the Crown has
been the means of blessing many districts with men
of eminent piety. On the other hand, a painful list
of failures, in the exercise of trustee patronage,
could be made out ; although, as a whole, it has
been successful in providing good ministers. Under
all these considerations, we are not assuming too
met in hoping, thgt no scruples, on tha subject of
patronage, will deprive thirty-two thousand of our
townsmen of churches in which to worship Goil. In
these districts the devil has attund-

118 pia
The beershop, and places of still more abandoned
now deatroyinz their tens of thou-
stian liberality povide the house

character, are
sands. Li't (

of God, and send the minister of Christ to bring the
lurifying power of his gospel to homes and hearts
ong left by us to be the prey of the destroyer. We
appeal especially to the activity of the clergy. We
know the extent of their influence, and we respect-
fully and earnestly call upon them to stir up their
congregations to assist in this most important effort.
The Rev. Jonathan Brooks has been laboriously oc-
cupied in calling personally upon many contribu-
tors. and has thus set a becotn-ng example as one of
ors of the parish of Liverpool. We hope to
this noble example followed by the other
elerffv of this town

the re

The cry of two and thirty
thousand souls perishing' at our very doors will
surely not be heard in vain. We trust we t;hall soon
he subscription last amount to the sum required,
said of Liverpool that she

and that it shall no

expended more in doing deserved honoor to her
earthly prince, than in providing for the wants of
tier destitute children, and for the honour of her
heavenly boveleign and Saviour.

We have given elsewhere an abbreviated report of
the proceedings at, the dinner, given at Lynn, w the
protectionist leader, Lord George Bentinck, with
that part of his address, in which the future policy
and objects of his party is laid before the country.
His lordship proposes to enter upon a great consti-
tutional strugttle fur the restoration of a system of
idustry, and of encouragement
is the only means by which the
e put down and the commerce

protection to natty(

to our colonie

traffic in sl

of the empire placed upon a secure and sound ba.is.
To enable them to effect this, he calls for the exer-
cise of energy and determinant.% on the part of the
farmers and the whole agricultural community, in
the effort to return at the general election, which
Cannot be far off, a majority in Parliament suffi-
ciently large to defeat the unhed..streng.h •of the
Whig Radicals under Lord John Russell, and the
few nondescript worshipers of expediency, who
may enrol themselves under the banners of Sir
Robert Peel—a majority which he calculates will
enable his party to reverse the policy of the kite and
the present government, and to procure for the
agriculturist, the colonist, and the labourer, a fair
amount of preference in the home market.
We are behind none in our admiration of the
inanlinesa and the great ability displayed by Lord
George, during his recent stand in behalf of his or•
der and of .the true interests of all classes of the
community,

He has earned well the honor paid
le noblemen, sentry, farmers, and others,
assembled at Lynn. But. we cannot overlook the
fact that we are entitled to regard his speech and
the profession of hid views of public policy, upon
this occasion, as a bid for power on the behalf of a
ministry, proposed to he erected neon the wreck of
the Peel Conservative and the Whig and Radical
parties.
Hie Lordship reminds at that hunbelland

the Protectionist party it was, who overthrew the
Government of Sir Robert Peel. We admit that it
was so,—by a coalition, however, which rather sa-
voured of the unnatural. The overthrow of the
present Whig Cabinet is to be brought about by less
ohkctionable means. The Protectionist party is to
he rendered strong enough to act by themselves.
The formation of a government is the next act of
the drama, such government, we presume, teing
composed of leading agricultural members, with his
Lordship himself holding, as he has shown himself
entitled to hold, a prominent station. The pro-
gramme of future me•,sures, by a statesman, so cir-
cumstanced and likely to be so materially connected
with the destinies of the country, becomes an ob-
ject well deserving of our anxious consideration.
What, th n, does Lord George Bentinck hold out
to us ? What is the spell which is to conjure up
the depressed energies and hopes of constitutional
and Protestant Englishmen from their present state
' of apathy and disgust; to wipe out from ottr minds
the memory of past betrayals and to prostrate the
rampant liberalism, whose ins• lence those betrayals
have rendered us careless, or incapable, of resisting ?
Is it to be merely " protection ?" An eight shilling
duty in favour of British or Colonial grain, and a
• differential duty in favour of Colonial and !ree-
-1
labour sugar ? My Lord, we require to know some-
thing more than this from the leader of a great
party, and the future minister of a great country.
The qnestion W protection was, no doubt, one most
intere,ting to an assembly, composed of parties in-
terested in the prosperity of native agriculture; but
it is not one which will raise the stones in the
streets of our commercial town—which will incite
the tenpounders in our boroughs, or the labourers
in our counties, to buckle on their armour of de-
fence against the aggressions of a party, which
courts democracy wherever it is to be found, and
however bitter may be its temper towards the valued
institutions of the country. We denizens of towns
haVe an upleasant remembrance of battles fought
in behalf of the agricultural interest, which have
been apaid by scant gratitude—by inflictions upon
our poor, of the tender mercies of the despots of
Somerset-house—by betrayal of the cause of suff-r-
-ing factory children—by Maynooth grants, endow-
ments of Godless colleges, and apathy in many
questions where the religion and moral welfare of
the people were involved. Lay down before us
your policy as a whole. Do not confine your reve-
lations to the one idea of protectioa. We want
something more comprehensive—more satisfying.
It is miserable folly to imagine, as Lord George
Bentinck seems to imagine, that it was their defec-
tion from the cause of native agriculture which
sapped the strength of the Peel ministry. That
ministry was raised to power by the resistance of its
matnhers, whilst in opposition, to the appropriation
clause and the Lichfield House compact of Lord
Melbourne's government. The commercial propo-
sitions of that government were only the last drop,
which caused the measure of their iniquities to over-
flow.
Would a mere question of free labour in
sugar or coffee have influenced the return of the
powerful phalanx of Conservatives who, in 1841,
overthrew the Whig-Radicals, and placed Sir Ro-
bert Peel in office ? No. Yet that question was
the ostensible hinge of the movement. It is equally •
true, that neither the repeal of the corn law of 1-42,
nor the prevention of assassination hill for Ireland,
was the real cause of Sir Robert Peel's fall. It was
! a long and lamentable series of defecions from the
maintenance of Protestant truth—a long and lamen-
table series of contemptuous denials of the right of
the poor to Christian treatment, and of the lahourer
to legislative consideration for his comfort and social
and moral happiness—which alienated from Sir
Robert Peel the sympathies and respect of the real
worth and wisdom of the empire. The stately oak is
not prostrated at a blow. The strong pillar does
not give way to the first impetus of the blast. The
supports of each must be first withdrawn or weak-
ened ; and so it was w th the now defunct ministry.
It had lust both its root and its supports in the
hearts of the people; and it fell, we trust never to
raise its apostate front, and again to delude a too-
confiding people.
The gov rnment, which it is proposed by- the pro-
tectionist party to erect, must have even a inure ex-
tensive basis of popular opinion in their faveur than
that which was possessed by the government of Sir
Robert Peel at the date of its first admission to
power. The scarcity of administrative talent, and,
above all, of parliamentary tactique, amongst the
gentlemen of whom it is most likely to he composed,
witt readily he achnitted; and this weakness must
be competiaated for-by the moral- etrenuth of the
nation exerted in its behalf. Do we find, however,
in the views and known opinions of the gentlemen
usually acting with Lord George Bentinck, the
strong claims which will be required upon the res-
pect and confidence of tht intelligible rnases of the
people ? Do we find in the past conduct of some
of them a security for the maintenance of the Pro-
testant Est blishment in Ireland ? Are they pre-
pared to offer the means of religious education and
church accommodation to our increasing popula-
tion—to lighten the toil of children in the factories
—to wash their hands of the iniquity of the New
Poor Law—to improve the social arid physical con-
dition of the labouring masses--and to recognise
boldly, the principle that the statesman has to legis •
late for the welfare of the souls, as well as of the
bodies and the pockets, of the people? We fear
much that here will be the shortcoming of the coun-
try party; and we warn its members that, wit bout
some mire intelligible and distinct pledge, with: res-
pect to these matters, than the country. have yet re-
ceived, their appeal to the bulk of the constituencies
will be a vain one, and their term of office, if office
he attained by thetn at all, will be miserably and
emphatically brief.
We ask them, too, to weigh the consequences of
disapp,inting the expectations of the public, at this
crisia, by professions, without a sincere resolve to
fulfil them. Let them calmly scan the aspect of

acces-

sion to the Liberal ranks of commanding talent, in
Sir Robert Peel and his ministerial supporters,
combined with a leaden apathy in the people, caused
by repeated disappointment of their just hopes and
confidence in the statesmen of their own choice.
There is, happily, a chance yet left for the redemp-
thn of past errors,—the prospect of a noble and
successful stand for the integrity of the institutions
of our country. But that stand must be made
upon no such narrow ground—no such isolated
question as that of protection to the industry of the
nation,, excellent as is the principle of such protec-
tion. We have a religion to preserve, an estab ished
church to defend, oppressed and suffering masses
of our population to raise from the dust, and to
snatch from degralation and tyranny; we have, in
a word, to recognize and to fulfil the noble destiny
with which we appear to have been entrusted by
Providen' e, which ha; raised the people of these
islands an high in the scale of nations,—:he destiny
of spreading abroad, by our example and influence,
the bles.ings•of civilization and of the knowledge of
God and . his truth. Will Lord- George Bentinck
accept and prepare himself for this noble work? If
not, better for England that his : and, and those of
his friends, are never put to the helm of govern.
ment. Another disappointment of the just hopes of
the people can • nly produce, first, a Whig dictator-
ship and when that can no longer be endured,
anarchy and revolution.

he Manchester Guardian', of Wednesday, re-
turns to the charge of want of courtesy towards the
Mayor of that town, by the authori.ies of Liverpool,
in not transmitting earlier an invitation to the fes-
livities in honour of the recent visit of Prince
Albert. Our explanation, he says, is " partly ridicu •
lo s, and pertly untrue," but he shall tell the how
and wherefore himself :
" In he tire place, it is absurd to say that an invitation
to the mayor of Manchester made it necess ,ry to extend
be same courtesy to any other municipal officers ; for
here MI no other borough in the county which starrts in
the same relation to Liverpool as the borough of Man-
..hester."

We otiMit readily the superior claims of Manchester,
and that our neighbours have a rery proper sense
of the importance of their town to the commerce of
Liverpool. It was acknowledged by the fact of the
name of the Mayor of Manchester occupying a
prominent place in the list placed before the com-
mittee. We do not, however, at all recognise its
exclusive claims to regard, still less the grourid upon
which these claims are urged. We do not know
;hat the people of Manchester contributed much to
the erection of the Sailors' Home, to lay the founda-
tion of which was one.of the objects of the Royal
visit, or that they have any great claim upon our
corporate estate, from the funds of which the
festivities upon the occasion were provided. With
respect to the Albert Dock and warehouses, the
opening of which was the other great object of the
Prince's visit, we do not see the necessary connexiou
of the Mayor of Manchester with these either. The

Manchester merchants and spinners pay the dock
dues, it is true, upon the produce which they im-
port; and we. as exporters of their fabrics, and the
world at large, as consumers, reimburse them. Our
contemporary goes on :
" r=ut even i•upposing that all the corporations in South
Lancashire had been honoured by invitations to their
chief offi,•ers, there would have been hut I•ur adili,ional
guests, for whom surely space could have been found. We
do not believe this part of the explanation: and our in-
credulity is strengthened by what we know to be a gross
nis-staternent in a snbsequert passage. The Standard
alleges that the mayor of Liverpool, having occasioo to
apply to the mayor of Manchester for the services of a
party of police, availed himself of that opportunity to for-
ward the invitation. Thi- is directly untrue. The first
application for police was received in Manchester on Sun-
"ay a second on Monday; and a third, Ly or through
S;r Thomas Arbuthnot, on Tuesday; but none of these
was accompanied by an invitation. That, as we have al-
ready stated, came to hand on Wednesday afternoon,—
that is, the afternoon of the day before tLe banquet,—a
period at which no private gentleman would have thought
of sending an invitation to an ordinary dinner party.
We •re not aware that we said any thing about
" South Lancashire," and, the plaining cry of its
mayors, "we are only four," does not affect our
remarks. We do not even see, if the possession of
official dignity was to regulate the matter, how we
could even refuse to go into the neighbouring
county and T•ass over the Mayors of Chester. Stock-
port, &c. With respect to our reason why the in-
vitation was at length sent, the Guardian forgets to
tell the public that the applications for police, re-
ceived on Sunday anti Monday, were refused, for
what reason we know not. We should imagine
that the peace of Manchester is not dependent upon
fifty men in bine or green coats. The application
of Tuesday, backed by Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, was
more favourably received; and then, the authorities
of Manchester having shown some little neighbourly
feeling, the invitation was promptly forwarded.
What pret,xt could the committee have had for in-
viting a functionary. who would not oblige them in
the small matter which was requested of him ?
Again :
" The Standard viv,s sume explanations respecting the
invitation to the de.34iner which we do riot very clearly
understand ; but he says nothing about the very onginal
idea of c,lling a man out of bed at Manchester, late at
night, to receive art invitation to breakfast at Liverpool
next morninu ; and, probably, the less he says non the
subject the better."

The Guardian understands our reply with respect
to this matter clearly enough. One of the grounds
of the Mayor's refusal of the invitation to the
dejeuner was, that it contained no voucher as to the
authority, of the party sending it, to invite. We
disposed of that ridiculous plea by stating that the
ticket bore on the face of it the seal of the D'ck
chairman, and was dated from the Dock-otfice.
The late period of the invitation we acknowledge-to
he unfortunate. It is a pity that out of forty or
more members of the Dock Committee, and sixty-
four members of the Council, to all of whom a large
supply of tickets was given for distribution, not one
remembered that there was such a personage in
being as the Mayor of Manchester. That the chair-
inan and the committee intrusted with the arrange-
ment of the proceedings were alike forgetful, the
onerous nature of their duties for many weeks
previous to the occasion ought to be an excuse to
any considerate man.

" the less we say upon the subject the
Netter," is probably true. We should ;ire the
oublic, who are laughing heartily at the exhibition,
on the part of Manchester's Mayor, of a piece of
silliness, as ridiculous as would be the pet of Miss
A., or 8., or C., or any other respectable maiden
lady, because Miss D.'s tea was sweetened first, or
\liss E.'s muffin was bet'er buttered. Men, and
Mayors, ought to have more sense than to take
otnnce at such trifles.

THE MAYOR AND TH E HONOUR OF

KNIGUITI-I(MD

Rumour hag been i,usy during the past few days with
the name of the chief magistrate of our town, in connexion
with an intention, on the part of her M .j-sty, to eonter
upon him the honour of knigh:hood, in a,:knowl-dgrneut
of the courte-y and attention displayed by him towar,ls
her Royal Consort, during his visit to Liverpool. We
hall not notice tne absurdities with which, as usual, the
tale has been garnished. The facts, we have good grounds
fur believing, are as fellows On Wednesday his Wor-
.-hip received a corntr.unlc 'Lion trod-, Lord John Russell,
gtati,g that he had her Majesty's commands to offer to
his acceptance the dignity of kmehtslood, and requesting
to know if it would he agreeable to him to have it con-
f reed upon him. The Mayor went up to London, where
he had hu-inns:. the slate evening. and having waitedi
upon the Premier, and expressed his sense of her Wiestv's
giacious kindness in milking him. the offer if such an
iiooone. At the same time, his worship intimated to
Lord Jolin that if it could be done, without impeaching
his own loyalty and that of the town, or off-mling her
Majesty, it would be more agreeable to himself to rettia'm
his private station. Her M.jestv has since signified
to the I‘.l ,yor, through Lord John, her pleasure, udder
the ciieurnstance of his lurdehip's wi,hes, to save press-
! ins the offer.

Tlinr,day next will be the anniversary of the birth of
the Qu-rt. D ,wager. who on chat day will enter on her
55,1, year. Her MdeAy was born on the 13th August,
1792

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PRESTON AND WYRE EXTENSION AND DARWEN
JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.—At the adj 'tuned
meeting of the scripholders in this undertaking, held at
the Star Hotel, at Manchester, on Saturday list, it was
unanimously decided that the coinpany stiouLl be dis-
solved. The scrutineers reported that 9760 votes had
been .recorded in favour of this t r ,ceeding, the entire
number of shares issu'd being 14970 'Die chairman,
Edward Toots!, Esq.. also stated that in the course of a
very tew days the shareholders would he enabled to re-
ceive the amount of their respective depasits in full, with-
out any deduction ceitig made for expenses incurred since
the formation of the cornom,Y.
Excsseave; FARES ON MR HUDSON'S RAILWAYS.—
The railway king appears just now to have into a
scrape with the press. out of which he is pat likely to
emerge without some loss of laurels. A correspondent
of th. Landon Times, remarking upon th. dearness of
travelling by the lines under the direction of Mr. Hudson.
has couwiled a table. by tv.ich it appears that the rate
per 100 ini,es upon eleven leading lines averages, for first
class passeug-rs, 18s. 9%1., vrhil-t upon four of the Imes
controlled by Mr. Hudson- th fare for the same distance
is 245. 7d. The London and Birmingham Company now
take first class passengers for the same fare as Mr. Hud-
son charg.s for his comfortless second' class carriages.
The Grand Junction Company conveys secood class vas.
sengers for 145.. whilst the Great North of England, one
of the cheapest constructed 1 nes in th. kingdom. ch.rges
Ms. 41. for third class. Th. kii:g must look for grumbling,
subjects. if he taxe, ttiem atter this ea rhitant fashion.
DINNER TO TUE MARQUIS OF GRANBY, AT WAL-
-1 HAM. —Ott Friday last, the Marquis of Griinby was en-
tet rained at a pnbl.c dinner by the Agricultural Society
of Waltham, in. Leicestershire, to test,fy their approval
of his manly and independent advocacy of the interests
of the British fat merit Parliament. a.ol to evince the re-
spect and esteem of the n ighbouriag gsntry and tenant-
farmers for the house of Belvoir. The dinner aa- attended
by farmers. and gentry from the cowl- ies of Le:ceoer-
, shire. Nottinghamshire, Rutlandshire, and liccoloshire.
At half-p.ist three o'clook the chair was taken by W.

Fletcher Norton, of Elton Hall, Esq . supported on hi-6
right by the Duke of Rotland, Lord Georee Bentinrk,
M.P., the High Sheriff (W. A. POPhin. Esq ), .1. B.
Hildyard, E-q.. M.P.,! Sir A. Dezlerigge, H. Green,
E.q., master of the Quoro hfoind-, G. E. Welhy, 136 q.,
; and on his left hi; the Earl of Wiiiehilsea. the

Ma,quis of Granby, M.P., Sit H. lialford, M.P.,
Lord John Manners, M.P., Sir D. Burnaby. Rev. E.
Gillett, So. E. B. Darien, of Dathy [bill, E•ti . occu-
oied the vlee ch.ir; and on h'v right were ,ea'ed the
Duke of Richmond, lion. U. Wilson, C. Frewen. Esq.,
M.P.. Rev. F. Nimrnan; and on h;R left B. D'l,raeli,
M.P E. B Farnham, E.q.. M.P , Lnrd Cherie:.
Mamiers, M.P., Sir W. Welby. Mr. Fiche, M-P.. Ric ;
end amongA tt,e pri ciusl snedrers .sere the Doke of
Ru'lad, the Mt'quis of Gr;inhy, the Duke of Rielimon(l.
Lard John Manners, Lord C. Manners. the Earl of
Winehelßea, Mr. D'lsraeli. &a. The tone of the while
proceedings oneuo prro ng; n;s; but, like the

dinner to Lord George Bentinrk, it aff.trds t into
'he opinions of the party upon other tottitts hesnles that

o!,er sixteen x,.theeet shed.
aß•et.hir esi,,,
um during
fall an,i
. _
of nret-Ttion to agriculture, and indu-try generally.
COMMERCIAL TREATY BItTWEEN HOLLAND AND
wßhEil(.:Ghl
tCoMme—
bAl or'oedr aan aenPian'raet
Holland have seen the error of their ways, and have. like
l'eaehum and Lockit, felt that they were Init in the
%roue. The cnnsecoenee has been, that, Melding to the
Peaceful and commercial genius of the age, ths—
y have en-
tered into a treaty which has been already ,iencil in 11.,1-
land, and hieh within the present week, will, douhttes:.
he ratified at Brussels. The present kit g of I it
is well known.'entertains none of tt,e bionted prejudices
of his late father towards the Belgian people, and it will,
therefore, excite no wonder that he has eon'eded to An-
twerp a participation in the Dutch East India trade.
During the union of the two kingdoms the enjoy.
ment of this trade greatly increased the wealth and
prosperity of Antwerp, and the pertnis•ion now an„
orded to the Belgians to import 8 000,000 kilos.
of Java produce in Belgian bo'toms. cannot fail
to be acceptable to a people wholly without colonies.
The sugars, leathers, fancy woods, en free, rice. indigo,
and tobacco, as well as the tropical fruits and v• getables,
will furnish many assored eargoer to the merchants of
Antwerp and Ghent, while they make exchange attaiur4
these commodities of their wove and manufactured stuffs.
In the introduction of these latter, and also in the intro.
duction of nails int) Holland. Belgium is to have some
advantages, while she. '•n her part, reduces the duty on
young cattle in favour of Beam!. While these vri.e and
friendly arts are beim/ performed by ancient, and, it was
supposed, irreconcil able enemies, is There au-v approxi-
mation to a commercial treaty be`tween England and
France ? is a snhject of .tr ins a ?rant imoortance,
and must be kept steadily is tier, Herald, doing Herald, of
Yesterday.

TFIR LIVERPOOL STANDARD.