The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-02-18 00:00:00

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The abolition of the export duty on coals we
regard as very material to the interests of Liverpool.
It is well known how large a portion of the export
freights from this port is occasionally made up of
coals. It may be said, indeed, that the shipping trade
of Liverpool has grown up out of the facilities
afforded for back freights by our possession of

abundant supplies of coals, slates, earthenware from
the Potteries, and especially of salt. The export
duty placed on the former article by the Tariff Regu-
lation Bill has been seriously detrimental to shipping
interests, besides being of very trifling aid to the
revenue ; and we rejoice, therefore, to see the article
of coals included among the list of our duty free
exports.

Railway :
We feel grateful, too, for the advantages offered
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to all.classes of the community by the remissions
ar, cotton wool The South-Eastern Company," remarked his lord-
"had proposed a very comprehensive scheme;
P , g , other he
made in the duties uon suglasssl)p schemes i hadve merits been
oproposed
all
th by otherhn
e companies.
and other articles selected by Sir Robert Peel. Upon thesren
laEspecially, we look upon the reduction made in the now intend to touch ; they are nowes about seboute'fully s I
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be notset
duty upon the first-named article as one of great before yourter lordshCompany, adoptiips, arid you wng till jhe vudge of them.
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Soatn iews of e - importance to the entire community, with whom mitteehof the House of Commons of last year, and acting
it has now become almost a necessary of life. We
iunpotliietir eaud-sruegsgsetsitieiono,f7.edrderdessed the Board of Trade, and
know that it will be urged by the Whig-Radical
event of their scliemeeebetininc, additional
carried.
t. First
of advantages
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party that the benefit might have been still in- in the
creased, without material diminution, if any, of they offered to reduce the rate of fares of the old) and
the revenue, by the admission of the slave-labour new line to one level; and they calculated not upon 88
miles,
i 2,
hiad existed between London and Dover, but
sugar of foreign countries to competition with n upon
Then Ithhaet, lower amount they would make
the free-labour product of our own colonies, theirun
charge. were
ptoaritlerouviait athdedi'tial
third-class a c -
The feeling, however, of the British people with commodalion in the carriages,)
regard to the guilt of slavery, is not yet suffi- carriages, which were to be provided with seats and co-
ciently weakened, by the appeals which have been vered in. They were ready also to lay down as soon as
demanded an electrical telegraph for the service of the
made to their selfishness, to give us any great the public, at the distance. They
fear of successful opposition to Sir Robert Peel's wGeorveert'oamruenn their lineoj terminus to be formed at Hun-
just. and humane plan of inducing cheapness without gerford-bridge, Lambeth, and to make a junction with
necessary ruin to our fellow-subjects in the British the South-Western ; and they were willing hereafter
possessions. We can still afford to sacrifice some- should it be desirable, to make there a central terminus
for all the railways running int London. They offered,
tiling for the maintenance of that great principle,onlye links—whichforeparia
e parliament,
re not
ie
pro-
for which we have contended so long in the face of ied b moreover,
0 tthoe
r provideproj h
projects nowb
the world, that man shall not be the slave of man; to be provided—for a coast line of communication
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we can still afford to do something for the mainte- the southern coast, getting thus an uninterruPted commu-
stance of our national consistency. nication along the coast from the metropolis, with the
exception of some eight or nine miles, to the Land's-end.
With respect to one or two features, or rather The company offered to place the whole line at the option
omissions, in this scheme, we must own to a slight purchase by the Government, in accordance with the
feeling of disappointment. However important to of
of last session. These were the advantages they of-
the trade and the public may be the abolition of the fered."
duty upon glass, we are not of opinion that Sir Here is certainly as direct a purchase of the ap-