The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-03 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

rics of wealth for selfish millionaires. Yet what, we
ask him, is the whole scheme of that " great propo-
sition" to which he refers—of the whole measure
announced by Sir Robert Peel—but an interference,
not only with the adult labour of the country, but of
every description of labour ? There is not one
branch of labour or of industry which it does not
affect and unsettle.

We trust that the Legislature will not, on this
que§tion of humanity, justice, and sound policy as
well, he again dragooned by the minister into stulti-
fying themselves, and stifling the utterance and im-
peding the realization of their own convictions.

The true interests of the agriculturists, and of the
labouring classes, have never found a more trusty,
an abler, or a more chivalrous advocate than Mr.
W. B. Ferrand, the member for Knaresbro'. With
unflinching courage he has ever, in Parliament as
well as out of it, thrown himself into the breach,
when the destructive and selfish policy of the day
has sought to level a blow at either. He has faced
the League in their strongholds; and, with a
vigourous hand, has torn the mask of hypocrisy
from statesmen and hollow-hearted philanthropists,
whose policy, disguised by professions of superior
virtue, is to "grind the faces of the poor," and to
rob the labourer of his hire and his independence.

first, and with many I fear, panic the first. But there PRAYER BOOK AND HOMILY SOCIETY.
will be no settlement. You will not be able to foretel
whether the duty during the years 1847 and 1848 will be Last night the annual meeting of the Liverpool Auxiliary to
4s. or 10s. It is quite probable that in February 1849, this excellent Society was held in the Commercial-hall, Glou-
the duty will be 10s. ; if so, on the first of that month it cester-street, the Rev. T. TATTERSHALI, D.D., in the chair.
will drop again suddenly, from 10s. to ls. Here will be The Rev. W. MAYNARD having opened the proceedings by
change the second, fright the second, and possibly panic offering an appropriate prayer,
the second. The fall of duty in these two changes would The CHAIRMAN said that though he always rendered with
have amounted to, first, from 15s. to 4s. ; next, from 10s. pleasure every facility in his power towards the arrangements
to is., making, together, 20s. ; but mark, if the duty were
immediately reduced, from Iss. to ls., the fall would be of every meeting held for the purpose of promoting the cause of
only 14s. So that by this clumsy contrivance you are not God, and especially those connected with their own Church;
only to be kept for three years in a state of suspense and yet his pleasure on that occasion was considerably alloyed, be-
embarrassment, and exposed to double panics, but are lia- cause he found himself standing in the place which they had
ble to a drop of 20s. instead of IA s. duty ; you are actu- hoped would have been occupied byone to whom they had been
ally subjected to the shock of the withdrawal of 63. more for years in the habit of looking up to with the highest venera-
of protection !"
What a notion the man must have of the intellect tion, and whose presence always was regarded with the greatest
delight, the Chancellor of the Diocese,—one of the oldest and
of those to whom he addresses this balderdash ! firmest friends of the society and of the interests they
Drop the first, from 15s. to 4s.—and drop the were met to promote, who would have been present but
second, from ios. to is. make up, it is true enough, for a pressing and important engagement. The Prayer Book
120 s. as the amount of the two drops. But then, and Homily Society was one which he (the Chairman) had
most ingenious disciple of Loyola !—most jesuitical long held in the highest esteem, and regarded as most
wecithielttofirit
directs a indirecte rs
on oxerrae-
of leaguers !—neither one " drop" nor the other iviaolnua. bl'ionsoaty 4,:elytrfic:trh,iti; air
regulates the price or the amount of protection de- to find the best defence of our Church and Liturgy,p he would
rived during the intermediate three years. If Mr. pointersat r oncey
oc to the Sinerr,ooareaacntyileforoar society,ent .on an-
, Cobden 's prints "drop" 10s. a piece in this Febru- ticularato of the number, which were most mmasteriloyn in
nolelaurc--
ary 1846, and 10s. more in February 1849, is it tions—one bythe Rev. John Scott, and the other by Dr. Bealtry.
thence to be inferred that Mr. Cobden will have Butci smit
an thehe
would yoll-saesrorfeeaxmzndo.isntg utility iireiiinerse,citegeerdatfiroonn.;
been losing 10s. a piece upon his goods for the three it, that by the instrumentafity of this society the ordination
years, or that he will lose 20s. afterwards ? The price esxemam.cpele
was
aas nowfir setir
istimowepotaepthanwethoaninclhd
tlyteAeinsoctiheetyPrialyeetrhoßnot Book;
tlaset,wtehree
of printed calicoes may rally after the glut or any few Prayerßooks now which did not contain
obthnulait
other cause which has led to their suddtn drop ; and formulary.lfslAtturgi
the operation of Sir Robert Peel's new scale, we Prayerßook s aantd wase notom glees,
one which professed to publish the other authorised formulariesy
fancy, is likely to effect the same rise for wheat. If of the Church. It was also the only society which, acting as an
the duty under that scale is now likely, owing to auxiliary ipiat
trtyrgtyo
itnh
iteC llaunrgcnhae Missionaryote o Society,try
ii swurcliiiellhceolfaigonso f
high prices, to be 4s. instead of 155., the low prices, missions were stationed. hat was a feature of great importance.
induced by a low duty and extensive importations, Tehearred:vdas anothert of nott lessest importance, which :fit, be
pool;rg the societywmmmaedne
Liver-
is tolerably certain to bring into operation the otherits principaly objects and studies
eone
b h
end of the scale before many months are over. to distribute the Prayer Book and the Homilies among the
seafaring portion of their countrymen. In this work agents
A still more precious argument, however, Mr. were employed to visit the ships, and large numbers were dis-
Cobden advances to 'minting the farmers. tributed in that port. The Reverend Gentleman concluded by
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