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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-15 00:00:00

contemporary

mentioned in Gil Bias, who devoted his attention
to the management of the affairs of widows and
orphans with so much zeal that he made his own
fortune in tak;•. - of theirs." This is in

wretched taste, and can only have been introduced
to shew the extent of our contemporary's light
reading. If such assertions are seriously meant,
and are to be persevered in on every occasion when
any member happens to excercise his judgment in
a direction which does not please particular parties,
we are

afraid that very few independent men will
regard it as an honor to he a member of either the
Council or the Dock C

mmittee

The particular sin, which has on this occasion
excited the ire of the Times, is the overthrow, on
Tuesday last, of the bill for which the Dock Com-
mittee proposed to go to Parliament in the ensuing
session. Our contemporary says :—" On Tues2a7
they" (Messrs. Dover and Harbord) " instigated
and helped to commit a complete Herod's massacre
of all the measures prerared by the Dock Com-
mittee, including some which deserved a 'milder
fate." The former gentleman, we may remark, was
not present at the Tuesday's sitting of the Council,
owing :to a domestic bereavement, which might
have been known to the Editor of the Times. It
was going a little out of the way, therefore, to refer
to Mr. Dover at

a part:

to the proceedings

of that day. The fact of the Editor's wrath and
wit being lavished exclusively upon Messrs. Dover
and Harbord, with respect to a question which was
carried by a majority of 29 to 9, makes us almost
suspect that some personal pique must have prompted
the article. _ _

As to the merits of the matters at issue, doubts
strong enough to lead any man to the conclusion
arrived at might reasonably exist, without presum-
ing dishonesty of motive. The Dock Committee
itself is divided in opiti m as to the permitting of
lights and fires on board of ships in our docks.
Both the Insurance-offices and the Underwriters
object to such permission being grantel. The
establishment of emigrant houses can be easily
effected without seeking new powers from an Act
of Parliament. What is so easy as for the Corpo-
ration or the Dock Trustees to lease convenient

sites for the purpose, to parties in whose honesty
of management full confidence can be placed ? We
doubt greatly the propriety of such a work being

undertiken tiy

that the esta'blis'hment of' houses of refuge for

emigrants would lead to a great increase of pause -
ism and crime, for which we are already sufficiently
taxed. Nor are we at all aware on what ground
an Act of Parliament is required to define the
powers of the Dock Trustees, or to alte

-unless it is sought to take
ceedings of the Dock Comm
of the burgesses. On evert

eto on

nittee out of the hands
y ground we think it
. .

islative

is prudent, in the present temper of th
mind, to keep out of Parliament as much as pos-
sible. We might come out of a Committee of
Commons shorn of important powers, to which n e
shall not here further allude.

WE have often been accused of bigotry and in-
tolerance when asserting that the Papacy aimed at
cendancy in this country.

obtaining a corn},
Recent circumstances have, 4.,
open the eyes of many of our Liberal contemporaries
on this subject, and accordingly we find their tone
completely changed from what it cnce was. Om "There have been two periods of a great increase of
readers are aware that the Pope has recently ap- money. One, in the time of Queen Elizabeth, from the
pointed an Archbishop of Westminster, a Bishop discovery of the American mines ; the other when Mr.
of Liverpool, &c., and now Protestants are dis- Pitt carried out the system of a paper currency. What
thee jlficet. of the increase 4 of the circulating medium in
covered all at once to be right. The London
wat;szalOs. ars ttbms;b3Farogmualrie9r9;tofrolsm6olstl63el ptnricle6ol wheat
Times has especially helped forward this delusion, was
but our contemporary has at last assumed a
silverbeen i nie
pro
was 475. s&d. a quarter. (Hear.) What was the cause
Protestant attitude. He says yesterday "we can of this enormous rise ? ' The discovery of the abundant
never forget the part which papal power has at dif-
minesoin AsaTerica,' says Adam Smith, 'seems to have
useof this I.liminution in the value of
ferent times played or endeavoured to play in pre-
pe c
oi
in the
to thatthe same
eivsearccbooudnted
andfor
sumptuous hostility to the independence and the accordingly,
liberties of this realm." and after speaking of this there has never been any dispute, eityher abouty 3 ;
the fact,
" newfangled archbishop," our contemporary has or about the cause of it.' How few things are there
the following sentiments, which have long been about which Adam Smith, or any other man could say,
strangers to its columns : and say truly, ' there never has been any dispute !'
(Hear. y,
" It may be that the elevation of Dr. Wiseman to the
imaginary Archbishopric of Westminster signifies no The second period of a great increase in the
more than if the Pope had been pleased to confer on the supply of money was during the administration of
editor of the Tablet the rank and title of Duke of Smith- William Pitt, in 1797. We had then been drained
field. But if this appointment be not intended as a of the precious metals by our long struggle with
clumsy joke, we confess that we can only regard it as one our American colonies, and were at war with
of the grossest acts of folly and impertinence which the
France, and the bank could no longer pay its notes
Court of Rome has ventured to commit since the Crown . ___ --

vever, tended to

week by the_ Rev. J. Twells to the Market Bos-
worth Farmers' Association. Mr. Twells reminds

us that :