The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
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ISONABI

Mr. Thomas Young has addressed the following com-
munication to the Times of yesterday, which we think
does not mend his position at all. Our readers will, we
fancy, agree with us in thinking that the act of writing
such a treasonable letter as the one on which we'com-
mented last week, amounted to rather more than " indis-
cretion."

SIR,—I beg leave to state, through the medium of your
journal, that a letter written in the confidence of private
friendship, and of a gossiping nature, which recently ap-
peared in your columns as having been addressed to
Colonel Napier in June, 1832, in a moment of giddy ex-
citement, was written without the knowledge of Lord
Melbourne, who was completely ignorant of the matters
alluded to in it, relating to the wild views of certain Ra-
dical Reformers, with which I did not become acquainted
till after the crisis in the first or second week of May,
1832. I alone am responsible for the contents of the let-
ter in question.

The indiscreti 3n of my making (in a familiar note) a
communication so inconsiderate I readily admit, but the
construction now attempted to be fastened upon my care-
less expressions was as remote from my mind, and as alien
from my sentiments, as was the idea of the possibility
that a letter so written should become public, and the
subject of ungenerous and unfair interpretation, after a
period of 16 years.
___

I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
London, Oct, 14. THOMAS YOUNG

PROPOSAL OF A BRITISH LEAGUE

The pinching of Free Trade in Glasgow (to which we
last week referred) has suggested a movement tor the
formation of a British League, the fundamental princi-
ples of which are given in a preliminary printed sketch as
follows :

" The promotion of native industry, and the encouragement
and preservation of the profitable employment of labour, is the
first duty of all governments. The necessities of this empire,
therefore, require to be provided for before those of foreigners.
"The connection between Great Britain and her colonies is
essential to their mutual prosperity, and the colonies ought to
be treated as `integral portions' of the empire.
"The concessions and sacrifices made by this country to
other nations have not obtained reciprocal or equivalent be-
nefits.

"The British League is established to procure
accurate and authentic information regarding nativ
nial industry and interests; to watch the character of all mec
sures introduced into the imperial or colonial legislatures,
which affect our industrial interests; and to promote and
maintain an harmonious intercourse between all sections of
the British empire."

A circulate
e and colo-

The Glasgow gentlemen urge this matter as " a practi-
cal question—one either of employment and wages, or of
extortion, rates, and pauper communism." .It is a strong
proof of the difference between a Protective and a Free
Trade principle, that at this very time of depression and
suffering in England, the accounts from Belgium represent
the manufacturers as in full activity, owing to large and
numerous orders from abroad and at home. Accounts
from the Brazils also give us cause to fear that the hostile
tariff with which our free trade advances were received,
will shortly be increased because we would not ruin our

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the conviction is growing stronger in England, that we
too must take care of ourselves, if we intend to have oar
working-men in any condition above pauperism. The
question is essentially one for our manufacturers and ma-
nufacturing operatives to decide. If they like free trade
and will have it, be it so. Those who believe in protec-
tive principles have promised to free trade a fair and full
trial. It is for the free traders and their workmen to say
fact that its holder, how long the trial shall last.

total

RELII9
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It is intended to erect a church at Roby as a memorial
of the late Richard Earle, Esq.
Mr. William Earle has come forward for Abercromby
Ward, Mr. Robertson Gladstone having declined to do so.

The Rev. R. B. Lancaster has resigned the charge of
the Baptist Chapel in Soho-street, and is about to remove
to South Shields. _ _ _

The Europa steam-ship, which arrived on Monday last
from America, sailed again for Halifax and New York on