The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-30 00:00:00

Could any gentleman doubt the mischief of the govern—
ment propositions ? Were they convinced of their safety
—the safety of giving up that which cost them dearly—
the exclusive right to their own colonies ? He concluded
by the quotation from Canning—" The name you have
established, the deeds you have achieved, and the part you
have sustained, nreclude you from a second place among
nations : unless you are the first, you are nothing."
Mr. J. A. TOBIN seconded the resolution in a neat
and forcible address. The resolution was then put, and
carried.

Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE, after some introductory re-
marks, which were enthusiastically received, said that there
had been no fewer than 70 petitions against the repeal of
these laws, and only two in favour. If they went to
the expression of the feelings of the nation, they were de-
cidedly in favour of the existence of the present laws, or
with such alterations in them as did not affect their great
principle. They had been told that the gentlemen on the
platform advocated the maintenance of these laws because
they had a pecuniary individual interest in doing so as
shipowners; but the question affected them (the ship-
owners) less than any other class of men in the country.
(Hear, hear.) Repeal these laws, and, he would ask, what
would become of your artisans—of your shipbuilder, of your
rigger, of your block maker, and boatbuilder ? If they de-
stroyed the shipbuilding trade, clearly they destroyed the
occupation of every one of these trades. No doubt British
energy, upon a fair and equal footing, would not only
compete with other countries, but would beat them out of
the field. But here %Yes a premium offered for the ship-
building trade to leave the country altogether. (Hear,
hear.) If they competed with the foreigner upon the Bal-
tic, Baltic timber ought to come here free. If not, every
carpenter must emigrate to the Baltic, otherwise the trade
would leave them. (Cries of " Hear, hear.") The na-
tion had greatly prospered under the workings of the pre-
sent laws, and so long as we continued to go on under the
reciprocity system, there could be no doubt of continuous
prosperity ; but, if, they admitted a one-sided system to
come into operation, the effect of which was to give all
away and to get nothing in return, it required no great de-
gree of fore-knowledge to see what would become of them.
(Hear, hear.) Allusion had been made by Mr. Wylie to
the policy adopted by their parliamentary representatives,
whose sentiments were known to them upon many sub-
jects. Mr. Cardwell, when here, in addressing a meeting,
had appealed to the company that, " Inasmuch as he had
the chairman of the Dock Committee on the one side of
him, and the chairman of the Shipowners' Association on
the other, there was not much to be apprehended from the
line of conduct which would be pursued by him." He
(Mr. Moore) hoped to see that excellent representative—
for a most admirable one he made—he hoped to see that
honourable and worthy representative espousing the feel-
ings of that great meeting, and the town at large, upon
this subject, and that they should have his able advo-
cacy in his place in the Commons House of Parliament.—
(Hear, and applause.) He moved the next resolution.
Mr. GEO. HORSFALL seconded the resolution, remark-
ing that it truly stated that the measure of ministers was
altogether uncalled for. The nation disliked sweeping
changes, and for one so momentous, the cause should be
unusually great and manifest. (Cheers.) The voice of
the President of the Board of Trade had found an echo in
the hearts of this great people. The measure was not
onlyuncalledfor, but absolutely unjust, not merely because
hundreds and thousands of our fellow subjects have em-
barked their capital in enterprises, the successful realisa-
tion of which is dependent on the maintenance of our
navigation laws, which laws they did expect, and had a
right to expect, would be maintained in all their integrity ;
but, Sir, because the arguments which have been adduced
in support of the proposed measure are not merely. dis-
torted, not merely twisted and turned, as only political
economists of the present day know how to turn and
twist them ( laughter), but they are positively untrue.
(Applause.) One of the recognised organs of the free
trade party has the following,—speaking of the operation
of the navigation laws, it says :—" Its practical effect is to
compel an immense majority of foreign vessels to sail in
ballast on their return from England, and an immense
majority of English vessels to sail in ballast on their home-
ward voyage." Now, what was the fact ? The total
amount in 1845, ending sth of January, of British vessels
returning, fully laden was 2,805 ; the number in ballast 5.
The same proportion applies, also, to 1846, when the
number of vessels returning fully laden was 2,500 ; in bal-
last 5. In 1847, the number of British vessels laden re- -
turning was 2,823, and in ballast 8, and of these eight,
three were from the Channel Islands. ( Hear, hear. and
cheers,) In 1845, there were 1096 foreign vessels left
this port fully laden, in ballast 139. In 1846, the unmber
of foreign vessels leaving laden was 961, and in ballast 126.
In 1847. the number of foreign vessels leaving laden was
1,271, in ballast 95. (Applause.) This might be taken
as a specimen of the fairness of their arguments. He
called upon all parties interested to oppose the measure by
every constitutional means, as unjust and fraught with
danger to the trade and maritime power of Great Britain.
The meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr. W.
Sandbach, Mr. S. Bright, Mr. C. Turner, Mr. Mann,
I Mr. Thomas Moss, and Mr. Rankin.

REMEDY FOR TOOTHACHE.—A mixture of two parts
of the liquid ammonia of commerce, with one of some
simple tincture, is recommended as a remedy for tooth-
ache, so often uncontrollable. A piece of lint is dipped
into this mixture, and then introduced into the carious
tooth, when the nerve is immediately cauterised and pain
stopped. It is stated to be eminently successful, and, in
some cases, is supposed to act by neutralizing an acid
product in the decaying tooth.—Lancet.
CITIZEN BROUGHAM, LORD BROUGHAM.—The chas-
seur will be as morose as Burger's wild huntsman when
he reads the following intelligence, which appears in a
paper published at Nice :—" The recent conduct of Lord
Brougham, in which the people of Cannes have fancied
there were indications of hostile feelings towards France
and to their neighbouring friend Charles Albert, have
nearly cost him his country seat. At one of the late
meetings of the clubs of the canton, after hearing read
his speeches in the House of Lords, a motion was made
that the members of the clubs should immediately proceed
—it being then nine o'clock at night—to his lordship's
chateau with torches and combustibles. But one of the
speakers rose and said No, citizens ! not now. If we
go at this hour we shall be taken for robbers. If the
house of this ungenerous citizen is to be burnt, let us do
it in open day. This suggestion prevailed, and the chateau
was saved. On the following day the idea of burning was
abandoned, and, instead, a resolution was come to that a
charivari should be given to his lordship if he ventured to
set his fopt in Cannes." . _ _ _

THE SOLAR SYSTEM.—The number of known planets
is now sixteen, which encircle the sun in the following
order :—Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Flora, Iris,Vesta,
Hebe, Astrzea, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus, Neptune. There is reason to believe that other
planets may be found beyond Neptune, and that more
fragments may be discovered between Mars and Jupiter,
since it may be presumed that the eight that we know of
are the debris of a large one, the more so as it is probably
not the only instance. The myriads of meteors that the
earth annually meets with on the 12th of August and the
14th of November, are, no doubt, minute planetary bodies
revolving round the sun, which, on entering the atmo-
sphere, take fire by its sudden and violent compression.
Their origin, it may be presumed, is analogous to that of
the small planets, but the explosive force must have been
much more intense to tear the original mass into such
minute fragments. Occasionally meteorites have fallen of
considerable size • one which appeared in the year 1780
was supposed to have a diameter of a quarter of a mile.—
Frazer's Magazine.
THE MAD DOG.—" As you must hear the story of our
dog Prince, I may as well tell it you. On Thursday
morning, when I got on my horse at St. Hoare's, David
told me that there was something the matter with Prince,
that he had killed the cat, and almost killed the new dog,
and had bit at him and Elizabeth. ordered him to be
tied up and taken care of, and then rode off to town.
When I got into Hampstead, I saw Prince covered with
mud, and running furiously, and biting at everything. I
saw him bite at least a dozen dogs, two boys and a man.
Of course I was exceedingly alarmed, being persuaded he
was mad. I tried every effort to stop or kill him, or
drive him into some outhouse, but in vain. At last he
sprang up at a boy, and seized him by the breast ; happily
I was near him, and knocked him off with my whip.
He then set off towards London, and I rode by his side,
waiting for some opportunity of stopping him. I con-
tinually spoke to him, but he paid no regard to coaxing
or scolding. You may suppose I was seriously alarmed,
dreading the immense mischief he might do, having seen
him do so much in the few preceding minutes. I was horri-
fied at the idea of his getting into Camden Town and Lon-
don, and at length considering thatlf ever there was an oc-
casion that justified a risk of life, this was it, I determined
to catch him myself. Happily he ran up to Pryor's gate,
and I threw myself from my horse upon him, and caught
him by the neck, he bit at me and struggled, but without
,effect, and I succeeded in securing him without his biting
me. He died yesterday raving mad. Was there ever a
more merciful escape ? Think of the children been gone I
I feel it most seriously, but I cannot now write more fully.
I have not been at all nervous about it, though certainly
rather low, occasioned partly by this, and partly some
other things. Ido not feel much fit for our Bible meet-
ing, on Wednesday—but I must exert myself.—P.S.
Write me word whether Powell has any wound on his
fingers, and if he has one made by the dog, let it be cut
out immediately ; mind, these are my positive orders."
He afterwards mentioned some particulars which he had
omitted in this hurried letter. "When I seized the dog,"
he said, " his struggles were so desperate that it seemed
at first almost impossible to hold him, till I lifted him up
in the air, when he was more easily managed, and I con-
trived to ring the bell. I was afraid that the foam, which
was pouriug from his mouth in his furious efforts to bite
me, might get into some scratch, and do me injury ; so
with great diffiellty I held him with one hand, while 1
put the other info my pocket and forced on my glove ;
then I did the same with the other hand, and at last the
gardener opened the door, saying, 'What do you want ?'
I've brought you a mad dog,' replied I ; and telling him
to get a strong chain, I walked into the yard, carrying the
dog by his neck. I was determined not to kill him, as I
thought if he should prove not to be mad, it would be
such a satisfaction to the three persons whom he had bit-
ten. I made the gardener (who was in a terrible fright)
secure the collar round his neck and fix the other end of
the chain to a tree, and then walking to its furthest range
with all my force, which was nearly exhausted by his fran-
tic struggles, I flung him away from me, and sprang back.
He made a desperate bound after me, but finding himself
foiled, he uttered the most fearful yell I ever heard. All
that day he did nothing but rush to and fro, champing
the foam which gushed from his jaws ; we threw him
meat, and he snatched at it with fury, but instantly
dropped it again. The next day, when I went to see him,
I thought the chain seemed worn, so I pinned him to the
ground between the prongs of a pitchfork, and then fixed a
chain round his neck ; when I pulled off the fork, he
sprang out and made a dash at me, which snapped the
old chain in two ! He died in 48 hours from the time ha
went mad."—Life of Sir T. F. Buxton.