The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-14 00:00:00

Wheat.. Is. Od

Liverpool Averages, week ending July 7, 1846.
Wheat, 306 qrs., price 49s 2d; Barley, 30 qrs., price 258 3d.
Oats, 351 qrs., price 245. 4d. ; Rye, qrs., price Os. Od.
Beans, 100 qrs.. 425. 6d. ; Pease, 0 qrs., price es. od.

Duties paid in Liverpool, week ending July 9
Foreign.—Wheat, 13,207 qrs.; Barley,
Oats, qrs.: Rye qrs.; Beans,
s, qrs.; Indian Corn, 8193 qrs.; Oatmeal,
26.062 barrels

107 qrs. ; F
loads

Colonia'.—Wheat, 137 g qrs. ; Pease,
qrs. ; Flour, 13.536 barre:s.

qrs. ; Indian Corn

MINIbTERIAL CONSiSTENCY

Every one must have been struck with that peculiar fea-
ture, or sentiment, which has pervaded all the addresses

of the new Ministers to their constituents. Varying one
from another as those addresses naturally do. there is one
idea which seems to hay.t occurred to each of the sneakers
or writers. That one idea is CONSISTENCY. "We have
not changed,"—" we shall not change,"—" we will not
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range,"—we cannot change,"—thus runs the series o,
protestations. Every day, for the last fortnight, has pro-
duced some of them. Saturday furnished two. Mr.
Laboncliere, addressing the people of Taunton, said,—
" You have had the opportunity of observing my con-
duct under every variety of circumstances ;" " and you
have firld the opportunity of judging whether my prin-
ciples, conduct, and language, have varied under any of
those circumstances."

Mr. Macaulay, addressing the people of Edinburgh,
was still more pointed:—

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" Whether amid these changrs you have changed, I do
not pretend to say. I have changed in nothing. My
principles are the same as when I formerly stood before
you ; and of those opinions which I retained in opposition,
I have recital-ed. and I mean to recant none. It is neces-
sary that I should thus revert to the past, that you may
the better determine how far you can trust me for the
future."

Do these sentiments awaken sympathy and command
respect? It would seem that they do, for in every case
they have elicited immediate and rapturous applause.
But what is Vainly and inevitably implied in them ?
Beyond all question the) establish this important fact,—
that by Ve verdict of honest men of all parties, respect

and honour are awarded to the consistent Free•traders
and the c3nsit.tent Protectionists ; while contempt and
scorn, however ambiguously expressed, or implied, clings,
and will for ever adhere, to the new converts.
It is important that this should be clearly understood ;
and this is our apology for repeatedly returning to the
subject. Mr. Macaulay rightly observes, that our confi-
dence in public men, for the future, must be founded on
our experience of the past. Hence, honour and shame
must be duly awarded ; and a marked difference must be
made between those who hove. and those who have not,
redeemed their pledges and fulfilled their engagements.
Honourable men on all sides are agreed to this. Mr.
Macaulay proudly tells his constituents, " I have changed
in nothing: my principles are the same now as when I
last stood before you." And while this eminent Whig
was uttering these ;words at Edinburgh, a still more
eminent leader, belonging to the country party, was using
on Wednestury 'acteptarx. in London. At the dinner given
what are our principles, our reply is, oft! pim.ii.c.L.a
1846 are the same that they were in 1841."