The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-03-26 00:00:00

R. B. A

Sir T. B. Birch.-J. Brother,
G. Greene, J. Heald, J. Heywood
M. O'Connell, M. J. O'Connel
Peel, F. Peel, Hon. E. H. Stank
T. Thornely, and J. Williams.

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otherwise, for t

e Daily

News gives the folloWing as

the result of S

Present Dut

Proposed Duty
.' s. d.

2 0 0

I 0 0
2 10 0
5 0 0
25 0 0
50 0 0

100 0 0
150 0 0

On leases only is there a slight saving. On mortgages
and conveyances the result is the same as on bonds.

A TRUE PROPHET.—Mr. Alison, in an essay printed
in Blackwood, in 1831, writes thus :—•` One of the first
effects of the passing of the reform bill, of:course, will
be the repeal of the corn laws. There is no man in his
senses who can hesitate a moment as to that consequence.
Ministers make no secret of their intention to propose it,
among the first measures, to the reformed parliament ;
and it will be one of the numerous subjects on which such
peremptory pledges will be exacted from the member as

to render its passing a matter of moral certainty. When
it is recollected that 300 English members of the reformed
house are to be for the boroughs, and only 150 for the
counties, it may easily be anticipated that this effect is
certain. And in vain will the House of Peers strive to
resist such a result : their power must have been so com-
pletely extinguished before the reform bill is past, that
any resistance on their part would be speedily overcome.
This first and unavoidable consequence of this great
change will at once set the manufacturing classes at vari-
ance with the agricultural interest ; and then will com-
mence that fatal war between the different classes of
society, which has hitherto been only repressed by the
weight and authority of a stable, and, in a certain degree,
hereditary government, composed of an intermixture of
the representatives of all interests. When it is recollected
that wheat can be raised with ease, in Poland, at prices
varying from 17s. to 20s. a quarter, and that it can be laid
down on the quay of any harbour in Britain at from 335.
to 405., it may easily be anticipated what a revolution in
prices will, in the first instance. be effected by this mea-
sure. We say in the first instance— for nothing seems
clearer than that the ultimate effect will be, by throwing
a large portion of British land out of cultivation, and in
its stead producing a more extensive growth of grain on
the shores of the Vistula, to restore the equilibrium be-
tween the supply of corn and its consumption, and, by
means of destroying a large portion of British agriculture, '
raise the prices again to their former standard."
LORD JOHN'S •' WHIP-UP."—Apropos to slavery, we
have to record an act of personal subjugation as bad as
anything in the evidence given only to the committee of
the Lords. The scene was not the Bight of Biafra, nor
Gallinas, but Downing-street: the victims were not the
glossy sons of Ham, but 160 members of the British
House of Commons; and the ostensible author of the
extraordinary outrage was not a Brazilian skipper, but
the head of her Majesty's government. By the sound of
the. Treasury whip the unfortunate captives were mustered
early in the above-mentioned barracoon, and there shortly
and sharply instructed in the terms of their servitude.
Without so much as allowing them the opportunity of
tendering their spontaneous support, Massa Russell, for
so we must call the principal actor on this occasion, in-
formed his captives that if they did not support him in
the blockade of the African slave coast, he would turn
them all out into outer darkness, to find a new master if
they could. It was in vain that they protested and de-
murred, talked of money and reputation, and other topics
customary with sensible men; his lordship would take no
denial. Their opinions they might keep, but their votes
he must have. As appears from the division last night,
(Tuesday,) his lordship succeeded to the desired extent.
The poor sufferers came out lamenting their hard fate;
but few of them dreamt of actual resistance. Thus, by a
sort of vicarious bondage, the British M.P. has taken the
place of the African, and done taskwork to the music of
the lash. Such, in fact, is the history of Tuesday night's
division in the Commons. Let not the public be deceived,
for one moment. The 232 gentlemen who vote for keep-
ing this Old Man of the Sea on our shoulders, themselves
inwardly groan at the pressure. We believe that any one
of them would rather carry a sack of coals, or all the blue
books of the session, from Westminster to St. Paul's,
than vote away another million for this deplorable hum-
bug. Sed fata obstant. If they don't do as they are
bid, Lord Palmerston will go out, Lord John will go out,
and all the rest will go out, and it is impossible to say
who will come in; perhaps Mr. Disraeli, perhaps Mr.
Cobden, perhaps Mr. Feargus O'Connor.— Times.