The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-03 00:00:00

•ou with t

he honour to subscribe myself, &c.,
cued) " J. R. G. GORDON."

The following extract from a private letter dated
" Monte Video, 26th October, 1842," to a respectable
house in this town, of an additional reason for the

interference of government, and proves strongly the
blind and wicked obstinacy of Rosas

" I wrote you to-day, telling you that this government
had received a dispatch from Mr. Mandeville yesterday, to
the effect that all his endeavours to persuade Rosas to aban-
don his intention of invading this country had proved inef-
fectual, and that it was his determination to carry out the
war to the utmost extremity ; and the reason he gives for

doing so is, that Rivera is a man of no faith or principle;

but his crowning crime, in Rosas' manifesto, is his having

encouraged foreign immigration to the extent he has done,
contrary to the will of the country. This declaration of
Rosas we consider of great importance, and should open the
eyes of the British government to the policy of Rosas. That
such were his feelings has been plain to us here for many
years, but we have thought the monster would hardly hsve
had the boldness to avow them in so open a manner."

We have really been in the habit of supposing that
our contemporary of the Liverpool Albion was an ar-
dent corn-law repealer. We cry him mercy. The
Albion, lovingly as he has hunted with the league pack
for monthswast, is not disposed to go with them all
the length to the death. Our contemporary, in fact,
is a supporter of a fixed duty, and would doubtless ad-
vocate something like the Bs. duty proposed by Lord
John Russell.

It is refreshing to think that we have at least one
moderate opponent of the present law amongst the
Radical prese of our town. We are afraid, neverthe-
less, that the philosopher who penned the following—
quoted, by way of joke, we suppose, by the London
Times—is not likely to advance materially the progress
of the cause which he espouses. We give the passage,
as it appears in the columns of our London contempo-

" FIXED DUTY ON CORN.—This duty is paid by the fo-
reign merchant. If he consigns it to his agent in London or
Liverpool—and it should be sold here at the market price,
no matter what that may be, but suppose it to be GOs. per
quarter—does not the agent in his account of sales, charge
for freight, insurance, landing charges, and commission,
which, suppose_ amount to Ss., he must also charge Ss. duty ;
the net proceeds consequently are 445. Then is it not the
foreigner that pays the duty, and not the consumer? This
would at once set aside the speculative sliding scale, and save
many from ruin. It would also bring in a great revenue,
and render the obnoxious income tax unnecessary."

Most conclusive reasoner ! Profound interpreter of
all the politico-economical philosophers ! The world
has always been taught to believe that duties upon im•
ported articles are paid ultimately by the consumer.
But the world has been wrong. The foreign importer
pays the duty ; and free trade, and reduced rates, as
intended for a relief to the consuming classes, are
farcical and suicidal, inasmuch as they only relieve the
pocket of the foreign producer !

Seriously, we are inclined to doubt the authenticity
of this paragraph; and we have not leisure, at present,
to refer to our contemporary's own columns. Nothing
so puerile and silly could emanate from a journal, of
the high character for shrewdness and sense poSsessed
by the Albion.

There was once a Dutch skipper who insulted one
of the voyageurs in his treckshuyt ; and op arriving at
the place of destination, the traveller immediately went
to a magistrate for redress. To his astonishment,
Mynheer, the captain, was himself the burgomeister to
whom he was introduced, He appealed to the police,

but Mynheer was head of the police. In desperation
he went to a higher court ; but lo ! the captain sat as
judge! Mynheer met him at every turn, and the poor
passenger was obliged to put up with his loss. Mr.
Lawrence Heyw•orth, of this town, is the Dutch skip-
per. Go where you will, you find this busy, and, in his
own estimation, most important personage. lie is a
man apparently with only two ideas. He thinks that
without a repeal of the corn•laws the country will be
ruined ; and without universal water-drinking, the

same calamitous results must ensue. In Clayton-
square he advocates the repeal of the corn duty; but
he is generally silent in reference to temperance; but
whether he itinerates in the manufacturing districts, or
spouts at Palace-yard ; whether he figures at the parish
vestry, or speechifies at a railway meeting, the repeal
of the corn Jaws is the only burthen of his melancholy
warble. His last exhibition was at the meeting of the
Grand Junction Railway proprietors, at the Cotton
Sales-room, on Tuesday; and as at the grand free-
trade banquet, on the same night, there would perhaps
be some difficulty in his being able to twinkle amidst
such a constellation of brilliant stars as that with which
the league had begemmed the hemisphere of Liver-
pool, Mr. Heyworth had wisely determined to fire off
his anti-corn-law harangue before grace was said, lest
it might he smothered in the galaxy which was to make
such a brilliant evening. The report of the directors
of the Grand Junction Railway lamented the falling off
of the traffic on the line, but anticipated a great increase
by the better prospects which dawn upon the country ;
when up rose Mr. Heyworth, with visage darkened,
the weight of England's commerce being on his shoul-
ders, and, extending his hand like another Demosthenes,
lamented the hard fate of his country. He cordially
agreed in all that had been said as to the depression of
trade, and was sensible of the effect produced on the
shareholders; and after stating that he had nothing,
no, nothing! political in his mind, he maintained his
gravity so far as to propose that the proprietors of the
railway should present a petition to Parliament to im-
prove the traffic on the line by the repeal of
the corn-
laws ! Reader, did you ever see an audience when
Liston was performing? If you have, you can form
some idea of the appearance of the meeting when this
proposition was gravely announced. Shouts of derisive
laughter caused the orator to resume his seat without
finishing his speech ; and, at last, the business of the

meeting proceeded.
So long as he confines himself to such harmless
absurdities 45 that of telling the inhabitants of Vaux-
hall-road that every one of them is 4ctually worth
£l6OO, and proving it, on the score of ;eater-drinking,
to his own satisfaction, if not to theirs,—we may
laugh at such noriaense ; but when Mr, Lawrence
Heyworth, a member of the Anti-Corn-law League,
and one of its professed itinerant orators, ventures to
throw the apple of political discord into 4 railroad
meeting, it ought to be scouted by every man of cor-
rect feeling as mischievous and improper. There is a
time and a place for all things ; and the interlude of
Tuesday is a convincing proof that on the Exchange
of Liverpool, amongst merchants of sense and stand-
ing, the Anti-Corn-law agitation is valued as it ought
to be—as a tissue of selfishness and charlatanism.