The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-04-09 00:00:00

TUESDAY MORNIAG, APRIL 0, 1833.

THE inagural speech of General Jackson on his re-
appointment as President of the United States of America,
and delivered at Washington, on the .3rd of March, will
be fOund in another page. Its language is rather des-
ponding, and conveys an impression that the President
Is not confident that the modifications in the tariff Will be
deemed satisfactory in South Carolina. We strongly
suspect that they will not--however,A-few days, and
probably the next arrivals, will show. The General,
it will be observed, has once more exercised his imperial
authority, by putting his veto upon . Mr. Clay's Land
Bill, but like Dugald Dalgetty he has a "knack that
way." • ;

Mr. WILSON' PATTEN has succeded, by a majority of
one, in obtaining a commission, to itinerate among the
manufacturing districts in search of further evidence on
the factory system. The factory 'owners complain that
they have been misrepresented by the witnesses who
were examined befure Mr. Sadler's committee, and they
are desirous to clear away the exaggerations, and place
their character iu a better light before the public.
This is, we admit, a legitimate reason for conceding
further inquiry, and we sincerely hope that they may be
enabled to rebut some of the charges,. and diminish the
odium which the revolting details,.and the heartrending
cruelties recorded in the printed evidence, have heaped
upon them. But what will they say if the commissioners
Should confirm the evidence already given?• They must
be convinced that the public mind is feelingly alive to the
horrors of the system, and the necessity of enforcing the
principle recognised by Mr. Sadler's. bi 11... The public
will not submit to any compromise—delay will only lead
to renewed exasperations—and if the•facts already before
the public be not refuted by the most .incontestible evi-
dence, the mill-owners will be in a much worse situation
this day six months than they are at present.

TnE finance tables for the quarter, which ended on the
sth instant, will be found elsewhere. .It will be seen that
the- revenue is preponderating to the 'side of ruin as hea-
vily as would any balance if Lord John Russell sat in the
one scale and Lord Nugent in the other. In the Cus-
toms there is a decrease on the quarter.. of £43,623. In
the Exciie, 'despite the beer shops, there is a decrease of
£33,645. In the Stamps there is a falling off of no less a
sum than £82,000; and in the Postofilce the decrease is
£2000.. The only branches in which there is an apparent
increase are the house, window, and miscellaneous-taxes,
which amount -to £69,000 and this has been realized,
as almost every householder knows, by the most unexam-
pled system of screwing and dunning ever resorted to in
the collection of these imposts. In London it is quite no-
torious.that the severity with which the. house and win-
dow duties have been exacted within -the last few months
was never experienced till the present ministers came
inteoffice, and has led to much of the vexatious opposi-
tion which is offered to this mode of increasing the na-
tional revenue.

such being the case, what are we to infer from this
continued decline in the chief sources of income ? Why,
just this, that the distress of the country is increasing, and
that the people are earning such inadequate wages that
they are unable to procure those comforts and necessaries
of life which they formerly enjoyed. There must be less
beer, spirits, sugar, tea, and coffee consumed than here-
tofore by the great mass of the population. .Industry, it
is true, may not have received any serious check, but it is
obvious that it .must be less rewarded,- that more labour is
exacted for a diminished amount of wages, • and more
goods manufactured at less expense auda reduced rate of
profits. •

That this is the present condition of the people of this
country; of the- employers,• the operatives, and the labour-
ers, is undeniable. 'For many years our situation has
been gradually becoming worse. The revenue of 1831
was less than that of 1830, 1832. worse than 1831,
and 1833 worse than 1832. Such is the deplorable fact,
however ingeniously the defalcation is attempted to be
concealed, and however active the colleCtOrs are in bol-
stering up the revenue by pettifogging exactions which
would disgrace a hedge attorney. In short it is pretty
clear that the pinching and needy system has nearly ar-
rived at its climax, and that the noble lord who presides
over our finances is driven to his last shifts. The next
budget.will, therefore, be a curiosity in its way. The
people demand the repeal of the assessed taxes, and his
lordship is pledged to repeal part of the, stamp duties,
and yet, bless the poor man!. he has not one shilling, as
the saying is, to rub against another—he has not a gui-
nea to'sweat-,--nct a penny to spare!

A MEETING was held yesterday in the Court House,
over which his worship_ the. Mayor presided, and which
consisted of gentlemen of all parties, and. of those most
distinguished by their rank, wealth, and influence in
Liverpool, at which the subject of Poor Laws for Ireland
was dispas.ssionately discussed, and: a petition to Parlia-
ment in their favour unanimously resolved upon. The
resolutions passed, and a full report of the whole pro-
ceedings, will be found in another part of this day's
STANDARD.

The crowded state of our columns render it impossi-
ble to indulge in our Own sentiments upon this most
important question, but this we the • less regret as we
have already Pretty fully expressed them, and, as they
happen to be in Unison with those much better expressed
by the majority of the gentlemen present. 'Something
must be done for' the starving peasantry of Ireland, and
it is gratifying to think that while poor laWa .would have
a direct, immediate and positive effect ameliorating the
condition of those wretched people they would also have
a salutary influence upon the labouring. poor of England.
By compelling Irish landlords, and. Whig absentees to
support their own paiipers not less than three millions of
pounds sterling would annually be saved to the rate
payers of this Country. • Every farthing of this sum is
ievid as a tax upon us to maintain and remove Irish