The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-30 00:00:00

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POLITICAL MISCELLANY

-4- the 141
The Hon. Grantley Berkeley has fixed
will
0
for his motion for an eight-shilling fixed cb!ii
_ A meeting of Protectionist delegates wl

Lvuuuu ULI LUC ULU OL next montn.
Mr. Thornely presented, on Thursday, a r ti
Liverpool, in favour of arbitration in reference
tional disputes.

A writ has been moved for a new ejeZ'C
mington, Hants, in the room of the 11°,,n' as,
peil, who has accepted the Chiltern flunurtiki
A staunch Protectionist, in the person o
wart, Esq., has offered himself to the clu
Lymington.

,1.11)11 CViva.,•--
een duly electea

Kidderminster. 118°
Mr. Wm. Brown, M.P., Mr. Alexander .„0
and Mr. W. Parker Hammond had an inter:l:64
nesday, with Viscount Palmerston, on tjle:cgt

extension of British commerce in the China H
The Bishop of Oxford presented petitions or.
on Thursday, from Jamaica and from B°o
society, complaining of the ruin brought tno soi
tants of that island by the introduction
eta.

sugar into our markets and I
The Metropolitan Trader

ess to their fellow country!,l"ils.
sent position of the labouringf tt
ndencY °
of all d'

empire, pointing nut the ru
Free Trade policy to the
empire.

office labour on the Sabbath is alio'ut 2,69'
signatures attached; and it is confidently qrrog
the large number of petitions yet to arrive ,',O
parts of the kingdom, that the number vvil' rist
by the time the subject comes before the leg;of

The Times ridicules the ideaofanyChangie,,Tati
and remarks, in reference to Sir Robert Peel be
Buckingham Palace—" Seriously, if one ".000
on such a subject—we will venture very cove
assure our readers that there is as much
Robert Peel displacing the Whig Cabinet lil 1,
his becoming Emperor of Hayti or Great
Thibet." tee
Lord Lansdowne, yesterday night weeq.t tit
now by no means unfrequent admission, ;7,0
of the corn laws is a great experiment—'ou: bog,
sion we are glad perceive Lord Starne,A to'
join the president of the council. He rejoicei the
said, from the noble marquis the repetition

at tree trade was not a.Ail accompli, bu

still in progress.
MINISTERIAL DISCOMFITURE.—On fr h
the Chancellor of the Exchequer witlye.sve

take him anotil',. the
bill. Amids' ho
to be nri

ider of a fifth stamp dut
:heers of the house, he

admission of his incompetence. Meantime e"ii,co
D is paralyse(', and the city is loudly exclainliPg4,
continuance in office of so proved a piece of leo Pf
) One (the fourth) stamp duty bll announced 1,00
withdrawn on Thursday, and Heaven only 4
this will appear. fOr d 4
,i•r. „A
Hor DUTIES.—Mr. T. L. Hodges, --• ;01,-10
) Kent, has for some time contemplated the ' 0,01
of a bill to repeal the existing duties on hePs:os,l f
other charges in lieu thereof. It now aPP,I Pi,
intention is to impose an acreage eharge of
may suit the constituents of Mr. Hodges! ljeefio
of Kent and Sussex, but not the growers In
~,,ge.lll,
and Worcestershire ? We find that the are"-so6l'
•is Xl• • acre paid by the first-named counties vie, A
latter £2 12s. ; therefore, according to art toojor
matter, Mr. Hodges's hill will save the Keu difb ,
dppi
ooieodsepigitieiftoae.rs Framlingham,.Z-t persu Suffolk, on
0 nw htilliset
Ithose i
nin s
tatthii,lo
~ f#l
have to pay Ss. more than at present !
ni tie,
THE TIMES' COMMISSIONER.—At a •-beetlie• )
Exton stated that Mr. Caird, the Timeircvoi,
was " going over the great foundry at tiesfr,
id
Messrs. Ransome, with a friend of mine. `:,,,filf r
recommending the extended use of machinery Dr
tural purposes, when my friend said, ' ell( '
a farm in o parish where there are 74 me,,,ue.°l,fitt
rental ; if we do employ co much conch"' re,' fo f
drive them off the field, what is to becoleso ,0 0
Mr. Caird's reply was, ' OH, SEND 111 144,0,61
WORKHOUSE !' '' There is a grave charge, Pfi
Caird, and one which cannot pass unnotieee'oeso
uttered this sentiment, or he did not. If be 00
duiaglnifiaetdi on
explanation.will demand :
tb:oo,.
immediatehimself puanbldieuning
PLAIN SPEAKING.—OOI. SibtflOrpt "r". Como"
al A 0)
on the Universities, said that "The RoY„ 80-; -
promised by Lord John Russell boded evil' IJe'op
no possibility be productive of good to those 0
in which the noble lord professed to talLoto tyi
interest. I said, on a former occasion, (ri $310: 4,
gallant colonel with increased energy), what e '''llo
idttriivscikdae. shuffle—(loud cheers)—another 1)1,4 V.,..41
a c
d cc (Renewedtoohumepthneteol
hbwteicheohgeueol
leooadrrdbi
dnangonghrta.
aa)oendneosmwnloeo
fnbt htewpo fel
aa;nct:;47
it
but, co;:50103?1,
et:l;i,
n to
section,
that dominion over the house he was trfin:ges,b;o4/
For himself, he was unchanged, and unchanged
political course. If those who had ena—oifle'o i
truckled to the other side, had taken Ilhe 10,47
straightforward course—such a course as t" )..Au tVi
ber for Middlesex had adopted—(laughteures °Fero
not now have afforded the noble lord °lett
,I,
of creating his dirty commission."
_417
laughter.) 0 rojkA
STRANGE INCONSISTENCY.--A gentlen37,osf/f
a protectionist banquet last week, at Petippe,,tlti
reference to the Exhibition of 1851—" It P.' Isti,ll
three days ago to see an advertisement./ tb"
exhibition inviting subscriptions, and staticutbogety9,
upon which they were invited, and among9otef,o7
the strongest put forth was the advancernfon 01010,
ral interests of the world by the introdneti okle 04
tion.—(Laughter.) Side by side with that% feli,y
was another of a meeting which took plaoe:d V
of the Canterbury Emigrant Association:,7olA
was the name of that Corypheus of P°,l ;4d i'll
Dr. Whately, Archbishop of Dublin. i_q,ic,ll,l:o
tisement, and amongst the inducements vci otbeI;•
out to the younger sons of the gentry lan 014
grate was this one, that they will have thvorFil
establishing themselves in a part of tkekpolt4,ll.'
where the evils of competition are not Ye' _.O 0'044
laughter.) I commend that to the seriot., be., r",
of the Archbishop of Dublin, and probaeinitotlW
it worth his while either to confirm or Toitledri
quiescence in such a dogma as that which l 0 AO
root of all those doctrines which he has ' lty
in disseminating." , r 4
~,61
THE COTTON TRADE AND AMER-CAVv- /4
Mr. Ferrand's proposal for a " Farmer .°
de 000:(,
and his denunciations of the cotton 08 ale i
Awamsepruicbalnishsleadveirnyt,
the
eilNl gewiveyloocrakl
jinotuerrneastiroteooeoci do
the 2nd instant, in reference to th,..,e,f ofilf„
.j.
ci4
manufactures in the slave states. 1 ne,bst l'"
ligent, well-informed traveller) states
u'letiolle or
South Carolina, and Georgia, the Plbl the
driven to the erection of cotton-mills , 917,0 i
)
effectual, operation of the institution ore 0 ' itli
the competition of the new and ,111,otiof, 01
possessing territories in all the Pr'",ll.: gor if I)
labour." In other words, as the wt.', ",..1. IsiAO i
plain, free-trade in agricultural produce weef,
in the older and less fertile slave distrisseer of
sity of either maintaining an immense tuefigielpi
in unproductive idleness," or of " eneuurpogio
duction of the factory system for the Pt 130,1Tiolii
profitable employment for upwards °_.etiaePaf :I/
most of whom, under the previous offal fef,,015 i
could not provide for themselves, se/eorat 1..411q,
fishing, or trading in slaves." The the PO PA,
factories thus established is stated to !' .t 4, on ?'fd
the same description of cotton clot at i
yard, which cost at the northern feet:ogidttorvg/
yard. The great experiment thus, the leAtiltdo,/
gone on for years; and the writer o.th not ;$ eytii
we refer states that now " the 5" tons, 101011
her own consumption of coarse ent,,e nod ~ iloliti
yarn and cloth, with a fair profit, to tilts,%, iii
and, were the returns from abroad u,s go cett
)taps make similar profitable shiPlie7,l9" not „ii v" '
4
the continent of Europe." This I,ooes " I,
news for Lancashire ; but the write`l7. 0 tbeit_d
facts seeming to bear out his boast;2od.; or' 1
their slaves to grow cotton for them'o tbeloirdor
white population to spin and ive,ah'e ref iost
..,
slave-grown] cotton cheaply into
sock '..' ocb *O.l/ISII/
and in a climate fitted by nature 10;:.4e5t,g,. t. o" j
possessing coal, iron, immense 141; v. 10,14,010
without number, with a sea-board
called; ' Trltiirj
Gulf of Mexico, most appropriatelyfecture deui rn
the Ocean,' " the southern menu ef at41,,,r, ettio
co Lisa mil, I
not
s civilisedl yo nbtg
wurequirebegun
a.
fyot trhheei
tisl e c
ui,foundationcgoshstribteooornunierroonistrikgit.l4:oo,tan:;:iloneec
of
040 I 1
iitroi..:ooo,l;
States manufacture their own The
to Lancashire to be supplied ?
sppoirntnNerast,ailnfoervisduepnptlaielasromf
to foster the cultivation of oottec_ine ever bro Pi
fir/
And no extensive production a
withhe vesomeeanvi
slisyfl securitya-avtl:elxsfetoheavily-taxed
isßrrsequivalentorhbimtiesoe Britons
ssf
effected,
eeta:otersqbd.uet ,
question
spaL:; protecteuot tit
li nhi
thatth ss i new'
071, tuvefr
i;goifil,
1
competitionwageso f
on
eo
f freeman
boshuor.uldgbais..cow