The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-22 00:00:00

showroom of the manufacturer. Its strength exceeding
that of wood, and durability in any state of atmosphere,
have ceased to be a tnatter of doubt, and it is applied with
equal success in either internal or external decorations.
In distant objects, such as cornices, capitals, ceiling cen-
trings for rooms, and the highly wrought fritze, it has
worked for itself a high and deserved reputation ; but,
independently of this, it possesses some rare artistic qua-
lities, which are lust at the height of a room or the sum-
mit of a column ; and with these qualities we are likely
to become more intimately acquainted, as the proprietor
is devoting his energies to the production of some picture
frames, which bid fa r to ri7al the best carving in wood
ever applied to the same purpose. while it leaves very far
behind four-fifths of the carved frames which, at great

cost, have of late years been removed from the lumber
rooms of the broker, and injudiciously made to deform
the walls of the modern mansion. The frames present

crop, though not so abundant as was expected, is, no
doubt, the best in Europe; but it is the only crop which,
taking all parts of the United Kingdom, must not be pro-
nounced a failure. The spring crops of grain, oats, barley,
beans, and peas, as a whole, are deficient to a considerable
extent ; the potato may be called a total failure, and es-
pecially in Ireland and Scotland. It is impossible, then,
us regards a large portion of the populatian, but that great
suffering must be experienced, and much difficulty in
obtilning the bare necessaries of life, which must, as a
matter of course, materidly limit the demand for other
articl:s of less urgent necessity. With these facts before
us. it would not be wise to overlook the necessary influ-
ence which they must exercise over our trade for the next
year ; and, as regards the staple trade of the neighbour.

hood, it is a matter also greatly to be regretted, that there
are some well-Grounded apprehensions of a higher price of
the raw material, which will seriously ageravate any dif.

ficuity which may arise from the causes we have enume-
rated. We are not alarmists, but at such a moment,
with so many indications of danger ahead, we should neg.

reader; in the true light in which they present themselves
to us, in the hope that timely precaution may mitigate
the evil."
Not a word be it observed in all this about the bless_
ines of Free Ti atle. The !vh,at crop is admitted to be a

good one; but it is not added that the American grain
districts are open to supply any other deficiencies. Those
deficiencies are also most dishonestly exaggerated. Wheat
is not so dear now as it was last year by 6s. a quarter, yet
the Manchester editor speaks of " the reduced condition of
the public." And if, as he would have us believe, and as
Lord G. Bentinck asserts, the home trade has been cut off
.ince the repeal of the Corn laws, has there been no open-
ing made for our foreign trade by the alteration of the su-
gar defies and the new American Tariff. Such,is the
change of tone-since the object of the League bar, been ac-
complished ! Such the results which unluckily follow the
Repeal of the Coro-laws..