The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-06-10 00:00:00

They only

;h-over the prospect of an approaching ruin,
which they take no rational steps to avert. Yet
they have in hand a noble, a just, and an undeniably
true cause. They have the millions with them,
only requiring to be disabused of the impression of
lap-traps to turn upon the selfish school of

a few c

politicians, which has wrought their ruin, with an
indignation that would sweep them from their path
is of hearty and earnest agitation.

in a few mon

Let the landed interest of -Great Britain, the colo-
nial, and other industrial interests, act like men.
Let them throw themselves upon the people; in-
doctrinate the people ; show up the rottenness and
folly of our present system ; face their opponents
boldly, with their own weapons, and be grateful to
their long-tried friends and the advocates of their
righteous cause; and they may depend upon it
that an amount of success, far beyond their expec-
tations, will crown their efforts.

We beg to call attention to the truly Christian
letter of the Rev. R. W. Wolseley, in reply to his

_ _ustly asserts his perfect right as a
ister of the Gospel to address to his fellow
gs the exhortations of the Gospel in
art of the district under his cure. He has
sys studiously avoided, whilst so doing, contro-
. He has never found the people,
r Rornanists or not, indisposed, if left to

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their own free will, to listen to him. His meritori-
ous efforts in the ragged schools to advance the
temporal and eternal interests of the children of the
poor, have won for him the gratitude of hundreds,
even amongst the generally callous and unreflect-
nd we fancy ourselves that here is the sore
in the minds of his revilers. We may tell

people that, if such outrages as occurred to
a reverend gentleman in Standish-street, and the
slanders, with which he has since been assailed, he
persisted in, Englishmen will begin to ask them-
selves the question whether the Established Pro-
testant Religion of the Land can be said to enjoy
toleration, or is to be put down by brute force.
We wish all our clergy were as well known by
the poor, and as highly esteemed as the worthy
and indefatigable curate of St. John's.

giIIrOMMINIMMII

Hz Manchester Guardian's reply to our last
irks addressed to him contains nothing which
But, like the writings

of all a

ect rejoinder

ning persons, it is suggestive
ry takes it for granted—and we are
he should do so—that the merchants

pool have been " compelled to hold more
on than was felt convenient under existing cir-
!stances." He omits, however, to tell us what
ie "existing circumstances" are, unless high
es are the circumstances; and he forgets to
us the reasons why the dulness, which for

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thi past has pervaded the markets for cotton
ufactures, has extended itself to every other
le of export or domestic consumption. It is
that the Guardian is anxious to plead any
Dr the present unsatisfactory state of things
restricted currency. He is evidently de-
) have the importers and holders of raw
id foreign produce at the mercy of our
netary system, whilst the rest of the
eqpnnp

cheaply by our

community, be t
themselve-
neve-

•ee, and supply

But in this he

more Mcstaii7en in his life, as we trust we
fabled to show him.

is have been as

.„„cn escape the consequences of a collision between two of the 1
damaged by
_
the bullionist snstem as any other inter-
, wagons by stooping, when he was crushed between them
•, and severely injured. He died from the effects of these
est in the rommunity. This is our text. Will injuriesi on Sunday last.
the Guardian tell us that Manchester has escaped
neOxlsTt
wßeACEosn.—Tehdensees.draevno,wriiwieudrzaces will take
from any of the monetary crises which have oc- place. and Esq.,
curred under either the act of 1819, or that of , under the stewardship of T. Townley Parker,a3:'
Lice Anderton, Esq., Lord Caledon, Sir I'. G. Hesketh,.
1844 ? Surely cur contemporary remembers the
i atil:edreTwillniasheLefgb, Esq. On each of the first two days
failures which occurred in Manc-hester from 1825
first-rate
sr aacrees , and
alreadyfive on the
and sty' sequently. It was ! third day. 34
aonuyr
'-i brought any of especially for the splendid gold cup on Wednesday, entered,the
not speculation in borough cup on Thursday, and the handicap on Friday.
ot the only article i DECLINE OF IRISH AGRICULTURE.—The following
a which we have ex-
facts, to which we are indebted to Mr. Braithwaite Poole's
I
statistics, exhibit in a striking view, the rapid declension
iaterial in which our
,of Ireland under free imports of grain. We imported
ter neighbours so much delight—were just from that country in 1841, 113,225 quarters of wheat, and
to sell for their real value as any other 16,659 tons of wheat flour. In 1845 our imports had
A title deed for a mill was inconverti-
risen to :',71,000 quarters of wheat, and 71,050 tons of
wheat flour Sinc3 that year Ireland has gone rapidly
We remember one, not three miles down the hill ; and in 1850 her export to Great Britain
,lanchester, which, although valued at , was only 76,000 quarters of wheat, and 19,865 tono of wheat
,00 by its proprietor' fell in 1839 into the , flour. In fact she no longer grows sufficient to feed her
P ee,
who !
of the mortga had advanced upon own population, although it is said that its numbers have
ly about £35 00 , 0. Again, we know that, for ! decreased two millions since the census of 1841 ! As a
y hundred pounds that the importer .or holder contrast to this state of things, we find that we imported
reign produce had to give in January, 1847, : foreign grain, meal, and flour in 1841 to the amount of
1d receive in 0ct0ber,3,378,599 quarters ; and had increased that quantity in
1847, the following 1850 to 9,134,220 quarters, or about half the quantity
taAenfor home consumption in the 14 years from 1823 to
... 59 cwts. in Jan. 93 cwts. in Oct. ' 1836, inclusive:
£lOO-I',- a . ..... 2181 lbs. in Jan. 3200 lbs. in o: 't j STTISTICS OF THE COTTON MANUFACTURE.--
£lOO-Rum .. • 500 galls' in Jan. 1263 KalAccordingsth,
r to a parhiiaciTentary return, made August
£looo—Cotton .. 3090 lbs. in Jan. 5189 lbs.', jinn Oct.4Bect
£lOO —lron .... 25 tons in Jan. 44 tons in Oct.t able work of oc(fTl ofMr. Braithwaitewv'e indebtede t
Poole,—" Statisotictsheofvßrui-
Pray, did Manchester escape, in return for whose tish Commerce, part 2,"—the following was the then ex-
shipments-
of cotton goods the bulk of these arti- e
7,f93 factories employed in spinning and weaving was
isting state of the cotton manufacture. The total number
cies reached us? Were not Manchester goods sold
wirlcdontalning 20,977,017 spindles, 249,627 looms, and
At a sacrifice in every market of the world, to by 71,005 horses' power of steam and 11,550 of
c lable us to bear up under our present wretched water. The total numberpeople of employed in them
monetary system ? We can perfectly remember was 332,124, of which 189,423 were females and 141,501
mtnaeldees.
state
of the inspectors by whom the returns are
the Guardian attributing all these evils to our in-
owing to apaerttehat those for their districts are incomplete,
vest .rents in railway undertakings. But railways
John Bright and Brothers, refusing to state the power and number
are nut made of gold. We don't put sovereigns of spindles in therierfums The f partiese Rochdale,
question
into railway embankments. We don't hide them in
Strutt and Co., of Belper,—both Liberals of the first'
tunnels or cuttings. The real fact was that our
water: Perhaps the reason for refusal was an indisposition
sovereigns—our money—our legal tender—went ,
to reveal how much more rapidly the motive power and
and b
abroad ; and we had all to sit down quietly _
.e number of spindles and looms have increased of late, than
ruined, and leave a newset of mento' flourish the number of hands employed.

wain in 1839

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abet.
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—Sugar

upon us

Mills—that