The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-06-11 00:00:00

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and if it were possible for that class to flou-
t' the agriculturists, it was likely that he
in that prosperity. Hut he held it to be
country like this, which had vast engage-
a lofty character to maintain, could fulfil
all classes contributed their fair proportion
!hequer. The landowners of England should
id had largely contributed to the payment
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nt position in 'tibial he
;cupying that position he
urge of presumption (cries

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I arrived at a period in the
'lay on the great questions
lmost a crime (hear, hear) ;
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well alluded--the privilege
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ing his own opinions, and
of thousands and of tens
ommunity with which, as
mr of being specially con-
ficient experience both in
that those from whom he
a that question, might be
iotic, and as honourable as
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temperate abuse of others,
he calm and dispassionate
tes of a cause that did not
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fitting to theM was as follows :—"That
s to the foreigner by. the admission of
uler the present miscalled free trade
I at a cost ruinous•to the British and
hat this undue encouragement of the
Lrge masses of our industri
sna

ng and distress as threitens to
lit and undermine the stability of the
try." Now he was not there obnoxious
Et landowner in this country, for, with
ores which he kept for his own amuse-

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, and Stockport, or the merchants and
mns and cities. And let him also say that
s by the payment of indirect taxation also
it proportion to the same object. Under
it wig thA im.prest of Enelangi -- -

for one class could
be said it was not j

~as io amaiga-
one phalanx of mutual support—(hear)--
not prosper on the ruin of another. Now
tist that those from whom a large portion of
state were raised should be placed in a-

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unjust competition with foreigners, who paid no portion of
those burdens. (Loud and prolonged cheering.) There was a
remarkable passage upon that subject in the speech of a once
distinguished statesman. That passage was as follows:—"I
do not consider, when I look at the burdens on land in this
country, that a fixed duty of Bs. per quarter on corn brought
here from Poland and the north of Europe would offer a fair
protection to that land. Who pay the highway rates, the church
rates, the 'poor rates, and the tithes? I say not altogether, but
chiefly, the landed proprietors of this country ; and if there be
corn produced in other lands not subject to these burdens, it
would clearly not he just to the land of this country to admit that
corn on equal terms with our own." Now who did they think was
the author of that statement? Why, it was no other than Sir B.
Peel (cries of " hear, hear," laughter and hisses). He (Mr.
Holme) was there that day for the purpose of entering his pro-
test against that recent legislation which seemed to he placing
this country on an inclined plane, from which her downward
course would be inevitable. That legislation had ruined our
colonies and brought them to the very i•cre of rebelli:A:. Ns
persons felt and knew that better than the p,0;,1e of Liverpool.
Our
government professed to be engaged in an attempt to ex-
tinguish slavery—a noble and god-like act ; and yet at the
same time they admitted into our markets slave-grown sugar,
thus undoing with one band what they had been do;ng with the
other; while they called that philanthropy, and attwhed to it
the sacred name of Christianity, which they by
that means
strangelydesecrated. Then again, they had retained the tax
on timber, while they had swept away those navigation laws on
which the maritime glory of England had been founded (cheers).