The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-22 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

Government will remit the tax on excursion trains,
where the passengers are carried for les* than a penny
per mile.
The silly old" Body, the Parliamentary and Financial
Reform Association, held its annual aggregate meeting
on Monday, at the London Tavern, in the metropolis.
The usual eight or ten M.P.'s were present.
Parliament was prorogued in form, on Thursday, by
the Lords Commissioners, the Lord Chancellor, the
Marquis of Clanricarde, and Earl Granville, till the 14th
day of November next. _

As the Ministers did not like to ask the House of
Commons for a vote for the members of the Queen
Dowager's household, where length of servitude had
merited some permanent provision, it is stated that the
Queen has most generously come forward, and out of her
own purse has caused yearly bounties, varying from £3O
to £6O, to be awarded to those persons whose claims are
most prominent.
TRUE STATE OF THE AGRICULTURISTS.—The agricul-
turists of this country have been most unjustly dealt with.
They have been robbed of the capital which; under the
faith of legislative enactments, they bad invested in the
land. Month by month their difficulties have been in-
creasing—difficulties which if they had befallen the com-
mercial community would have shaken every firm in it—
but because they are men of substance more than of
credit, and therefore longer able to endure the process of
ruin—because they still cling to the remnant of their
possessions, bound as they are to them by the memory of
the oldest and tenderest associations, the government will
not believe they are suffering, nor the selfish Free-traders
credit their losses. Nevertheless, we solemnly warn
them, the work of devastation is most assuredly going on,
and that at a rate which if continued much longer will

There is no panic as in 1847, but there is a wide.spread
latent ruin, and there will •one -day be a crisis—a crisis so
terrible that, compared with it the commercial disasters
of 1847, will appear as the bursting of water bubbles to
an earthquake.—Doncaster Chronicle.
THE FARMERS AND THE MONEY QUESTION.-Why
do I say that farmers ought to understand the current
question ? their' '

,ecause a great part o. iabour, skill,
and produce, must be resolved into money. Money is
one-half of every bargain made between man and man,
whether he is an agriculturist or a manufacturer. A
farmer may be called a manufacturer of corn and cattle.
In the earliest ages he would Miler what he did mot re-
quire for his own use for clothing and the necessaries and

the law of the land he must pay his debts, his rent, hi;
taxes, his wages, in money. Now, in order to do this, he
must barter away his produce to obtain money. He goes
to market and he buys money with his produce, and that
is the reason why anything which affects the value of
money is a farmer's question. If you exchange or swop
one thing for another—one horse, for instance, for
another horse—you look not only at what you give but
at what you receive. And here the agriculturists have,

as I think, taken a one-sided view of their interests.
They have been very anxious with regard to the laws
made about what they had to sell, viz., corn ; and have
disregarded the laws made about what they had to buy,
They ought to have attended to both, for
it interests. You are told that price de-
pends on supply and demand, which is quite true. But
it depends on the supply and demand of two things, the
commodity to be sold, and the money to be bought. If
the supply of money is decreased, prices fall ; if the
supply of 'money is increased, prices rise. But you are
told also that if money be decreased and the price of
your produce falls you sell cheap, but you also buy cheap.
But see how this affects the farmer, and, in a similar

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