The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-06-11 00:00:00

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more important than all the others put together. Upon the
land was founded the prosperity of all countries, and it would
be easier for fire end water to coalesce than to continue the
present system without a repeal of Sir R. Peel's bill. If they
attempted it, government would soon come to a dead lock. He
feared he was trespassing on their time, but he wished to refer
to a letter he had recently received from a very able friend. He
stated that "the Free-traders, who were a people wise in their
generation, were dexterously endeavouring. to inveigh against
ation, as tending to perpetuate high
bread. That would be Quite right

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sought for one class only and not for all. that
if -protection was withdrawn from the land, why should it not
be withdrawn from all other interests? Why should not all ar-
ticles of foreign produce be admitted duty free? Why should
they not have tea sugar, wine, spirits, and tobacco at the
lowest possible price? Why should they not have cheap clo-
thing and cheap furniture? And why should not all other
articles he left unprotected, and then they would be all in the
same boat. lie maintained that the British subject had a
fair claim to protection, seeing that he paid highway rates
and all taxes and duties for the support of hospitals,
churches, schools, and other great institutions of the coun-
try, while, in the meantime, the foreigner, who paid none
01 these taxes was permitted to undersell him in his
own market. The free-traders did not offer even a show
of reciprocity, for they everywhere found the foreigner shutting
the door in their fares, drawing about them tightly the
mantle of protection," and laughing at them. (Loud cheers.)
Such were the sentiments of a very able man; and call it by
what name they pleased—call it protection or justice, unless
they had an alteration of the import duties, increasing misery
must be the inevitable result. Let them go throughout the
length and breadth of the country studded with the residences•
of the aristocracy, and abounding with benevolent and kindly
feeling, and promoting the circulation of wealth—let them go
among their 10,000 villages in which the population were en-
tirely dependent upon agriculture. It was a fact that half
their population was dependent on the soil and the productions
of the land, which equalled three times the amount of all their
manufactures. Let them calmly trace these operations in all
their ramifications, and say if they were to reduce that great
body to poverty, and say further if that could be, under any
circumstances, for the benefit of the rest of the community?'
(Loud cheers.) The result of such legislation would only be to
reduce the landed proprietors of that country to the condition
of the Irish absentees, and tend to the ruin of all dependent
upon land. (Cheers.) The resolution referred to the deter-
mination of that meeting to support the institutions of the
throne and the country. He defied contradiction when he
said that the ti"--- " had al--

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..friers of the soil always exhibited the most
unswerving loyalty, and kept the country safe and unharmed
when the torch of revolution was lighted up elsewhere. He
maintained that while others were torpid or indifferent, the
agriculturists kept the manufacturing districts, in times of

peril, when the Materials were ready for an explosion if the
torch was once applied, in awe, and saved the monarcy and
the constitution from being undermined and overturned. It
had been often said that financial difficulties were the precur-

sors of revolution, and that in such case commerce took wit.gs
to itself and flew away, to settle in other places. It was so
in Tyre and in the states of Italy, and was since then tending
westward; but the land of England had been always the same,
and by a law of Providence it had ever maintained those in
abundance who had put their labour to it. (Hear.) He de-
nied, with indignation, the assertion that those who were fa-
vourable to the protection of British industry could be charged
with disloyalty. The agriculturist would support monarchical
institutions, and he loved them so dearly that he would support
the monarchy if the crown hung upon a bush. (Hear, hear.)
It was, in fact, those who were rooted to the soil to whom they
must in a great measure look as thedefenders of the monarchy.
(Loud cheers.) It might be presumptuous in him to say what
lie was given to understand with regard to the Times news-
paper, he knew not whether justly or not, that it was under
the influence of the moneyocracy of London. It had lately
given them plenty of ridicule, but very little argument. He
rather wondered at that, seeing that some of the ablest men
were connected with it ; but is was perfectly absurd to find it
vperotoo
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them referring to the ministers gortgolgohtEpossomwelals
prosperity of the country.
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d that the cholera was
not in Paris because it was personified at a bat masque. He
had much intimacy with that class who earn their daily
bread by the sweat of their brow, and he found that a deep and
silent feeling of distrust was rapidly pervading all classes, and
they were beginning to consider that the measures of the go-
vernment were indeed an experiment (Hear.) To those who
had read the admirable essays of Bacon it would be uuneces,