The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-07 00:00:00

THE MERCURY'S ANTI-CORN-LAW ADVOCACY.

TO THE EDITOR OF,THE LIVERPOOL STINDARL

SlR,—Some time back you kindly permitted me to expose
through your columns alittleof theMercury'sjesuitry; that my
l
lenhe
aactdept;eepuorrl:luetc:orhmleodhvefteoagirintlivisi-ntpthtre,iiunobdurateness of its editors is evidenced from
their excusing the insertion of the paragraph in question, on
havingp
e
a
csp
calculated,
gone
dpunoleaas
and
eci,hdet, roundhshpeoiwroi
ertgev
spirited
yeomanry
eehoomef
oeiolpisyrety,rrytteoosaphd efdeacgetfratraebdel
Tis tru principles"etheytoca"llseodciaml
ea nad
~psanpaistleicra.l„i impurities,"
r iti eos,y
slaves.
consi-
dering the extent of their " Billin ..gate"r' vocabulary,
not think I have had reason to comgpclain, and shonldn
all probability have again troubled myself to disturb otlltie4linor
complacent inanity had they not again ventured,
the awful
nthe cal-
lousness of " Anti-Corn-Law Leagueism," onful
impiety of assuming to know the mind of God, (" who
not account of any of his matters"—Job 33.13,) and tgolvetb
pre-
sume on that assumption to warp the dealings of God with
chosen people into the service of the Anti-Corn-Law
League. Under these circumstances, I hope you will again
give me a place in your valuable paper for a few remarks on
the following extract from the Mercury cf last Friday
"THE NATIONAL LISTRESS.--- An Old Churchman,'
observing on the order for a thanksgiving, on account of our
successes in the east, expresses a hope that there will be a day
of fasting and humiliation appointed, when the nation may
implore the Almighty to mitigate the present great distress.
To the piety of this wish we cordially respond, but against its
propriety there is this objection : the electors of England,
exercising a sacred trust for all the people, have appointed
six hundred and fifty-eight law-makers, a great majority of
whom wilfully keep the people on this side the ocean starv-
ing, and on the other side ill clothed, because they will not
allow nations freely to exchange their surplus produce with
each other; this is, therefore, a wilful national fault of our
own, and there is no warrant, either in Scripture or in the
visible arrangements of Providence, for believing that relief
will be granted by miracle, when we perversely coutinuan
evil of our own creating. Manna would not have been
showered down upon the Israelites' in the wilderness, if they
had obstinately maintained a corn law, keeping out supplies
from fruitful lands around them."
It is not my intention to offer any observations on the
object of " An Old Churchman," said to be a correspondent
or the Mercury's, but I would in all seriousness ask hint how
he reconciles it with church principles to figure in the co
lumns of the Mercury? Neither do 1 intend to waste
titretn
and paper on the PROPRIETIES of the Mercury. though
very true they must hold very curious notions of propriety,
as well as of the gullibility of their readers, when they expect
them to digest such a mass of absurdity as the aforegoing.
raph ;for, until
My business at present is with the last parag
the editors of the Mercury can show that we have prevented
and do prevent other " nations freely to exchangetheir sur-
plus produce with each other," all amalgamatiothns of ab-
surd assumptions can only be considered as one great Anti-
Corn-Law BOUNCE, and nothing more: but when they so
audaciously tell us '• manna would not have been showered
down upon the Israelites in the wilderness, if they had oh,' i-
nately maintained a corn law, keeping out supplies from
fruitful lands around them," they deserve whippmg ;—:o
come forth you hypocritical editors of the2l,fercury—pub-
fishers of Blackburn's iligant speech against Bible education
—and let us know in your next publication (as You assume
to know the wilt of the Almighty therein) bow it came to
ypass taehvpaeet
pa
It
ahcees Israelitesdsoycoi
autrisoenl
sfhadof thi
elpy need of " manna," since they
had (and did not keep out) " supplies from fruitful lands
sh
around them ?" Call on your " gods" of the Anti-Corn-Law
a
Blackburn's, Bright's and Rathbone's—you are welco
to me to
all;d
for in the name of common sense I defy them prove
ye,
can—
iny
ot hher
dEi
vl eamn
sm,
bag i
En
awl.
ei
otherwise than that you have been guilty of imr;no. irck-
headisno. What an example do you afford , 'he necs oitow
y
of the Bible education ? What a triunial have you n
afforded to the advocates of the evil of e eased
on religious principles? Henceforth keep )our friends of
the town-council from agitating the et:nation question, for
the apt illtustration you will afford the conservative members
would render the "pillory" a comparative comfort to what
you would have to undergo. Should you find yourselves
unable to account on Scriptural elucidation for God's dealing
with his people, I will endeavour, if the editor of the
STANDARD will allow me, to enlighten you thereon;
in the
mean time, I would earnestly call your attention to the fact,
" that plenty of corn and wine" is throughout all Scripture
mentioned as the direct blessing of God on his obedient peo-
ple, totally unconnected with earthly commerce or feelingsble ?
" When he giveth quietness, who then can make trou
abeinhaonldonhli3m.i,
place for this in
—Jobo
awy nohdHuertowhnpeh3ei
whether
gni.:29bh.ee
doneh ide h
againsthis af a eenation,wior then
againstca'l
LOOK-OUT.
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DREADFUL COACH ACCIDENT.—On Thursday evening
last, as the day coach from London was coming towards
Tasburgb, when it reached the Gaga ear the bridge the coach
overtook a brewer's dray, ran nst the cart and upset,
turning over a deep place by the side of the road. The dray_
d killed was als on
n thrown
thesp :if'
. man drove on as if nothing bad happened, leaving word at
ahthnisediplwenabadslic-house respecting the accident. Mr. Scott, one of
head firstbveei
the outside passengers, was thrown off and fixed between the
.co.ach and a tree, which was cut down in order to extricate
open. The two inside pot"
him. The driver was thrown off against a trssehceoohtwteialnvdgafisvrteshrye
very much
againstml
a uitdchhec
:htmunrir:tiept
:Tifyht:e
lee n
hd n thert. lights
Mr.
sengers escaped unhurt, though very much frightened. "Na\s--;
nderstand no blame can be attached to the coachman, the
little. night beingT he
hors
edsa
were a and
efroyg
igiVt,t tree,gua
only outside passenger beside the driver and guard.-IPBwich
Express.
THE PERILOUS SITUATION OF THE STEAM ER.—W
happy to be enabled to state whichha steam vessel, e are
to be the Rbadamanthus, we reported insupposed
paper as being in danger of going ashore near the
eur last
where the Killarney was lost, providentially escaped. place
pears that Mr. Galway, who lives near the Rennies, It ap-
steam-vessel with a white chimney, about ten o,lespied a
bouring to get towards Cove harbour, the e clock, la-
breaches over her, as it was blowing a storm at sea
making
After some time she was blown In, broadside the time.
Barry's bead, the next point west of Rennies bay. towards
she neared the land she appeared to drop both When
chors, as her head came round to the wind, which bower an-
the S.F., and though her engines continued t was from
neared the land until she got within her own lengtho work, she
rock at Barry's head inside the buoy, laid d of the
frigate was lost some years ago. Here she h own where a
the hundreds who crowded the cliffs around held on, though
expected every
moment that she would strike on the rock, and it was feared
while it is
if she did that she must have gone to
pieces,
doubtful whether any of those on hoe
saved. Mr. Whitcombe, officer of coast-guard, s
could have beenguard, at Robert
cove, sent an express to Sir Robert Hagan,
was done to secure assistance, but fortunattbed, which en-
,n, and
everythingely at half-past
two o'clock the wind veered and the tide e
abled the vessel to weigh anchors and get of_
tution. —Cork Conali-
ESCAPE FROM PRISON.—In the early part of last month
of Cheshunt, Bucks
a man named George Hawes, a native
(and connected with an extensive
gang of sheep-stealers),
' who had been apprehended with five
stealing upwards of 30 sheep from titl)thers, charged with
Arnersharn, broke through the roof of We' neighbourhood of
clear away. At the time of his escape incisor gaol, and got
cover him but his nicht shirt and the he
had nothing to
off his bed, the whole of his clothes I rug
he
had taken from
from him by the gaoler, for the better laving been taken away
; upon his being locked up for the security of the prisoner
night.
ihe was brought before the bench Yesterday morning
Larkins, an active local of magistrates at Eton by
apprehended him at constable of that district, who had
upon his escape first made h' Plymouth.
It appeared that the fel;ow
assisted by some notorious c* is way to Slough, where he was
which enabled him to proeeettlaracters with clothes and money,
train to London. The next. the same night by the iugguage-
, name, in the 67th morning hr enlisted, in his own
Regiment of Foot, in the Metropolis, and
after remaining there four
days was sent to join the regimen
at Plymouth, where he
stable on Sunday was takenst intbchustody byvv- the. leap
the church to proceed morningto tahe, .ustaste trl-l'e°Pvsvaselyeec•' v
• sent by the Eton bench of magistrates barracks.custody
t
in
ham, whenc
, ehe will be fully committed to Ayle'
to take his trial with the rest of the gang ra the (
• sizes for the county of Bucks. He was attired y
his military uniform, and appears about 20 years o
SAVAGE SUPERSTITION.—Of all the suprstitiot,
still linger in the Highlands, there is °ones° heartless, cruel,
barbarous, and degrading—none so baneful and distressing
in iticonsequences, none so insulting to hurnanit), and none
so disgraceful to professing Christians, as that which relates
to suicide, actual or supposed. A very striking instance of
this sort of superstition was lately displayed at the farmstead
of Hilton, near Tain. A poor, sickly, unattended. helpless
woman, went out to fetch water from a neighbouring well,
or pool, for her children, who were lying ill of a fever; while
at the pool, which is quite shallow, she was suddenly seized,
with vertigo, or a fit of fainting; she unfortunately tell for-
ward into the water, and, there being no help at hand, she
was either suffocated or drowned. This, according to the
most trustworthy report, would be the conclusion arrived at:
by any jury of intelligent men. Now, instead of sympathising:
with the distracted husband, his aged and bedridden fililior,.
and his sick and motherless children,
them in tbeir agony_
the neighbours sto-d,
shrinking and loathingly aloof fr om
Mr. Munro. the farmer of Hilton,
whose conduct with re-
' spent to this sad case was honourable alike to his head an 6.
his heart, used all his influence to obtain a decent Christian,
burial for the unfortUnate deceased, but in vain. Ignorance•
and prejudice at once decided that she• was a suicide ;._anall
superstition and bigotry cried " Away with her to the Mor-
rich Mor!"—the damp, dreary, and dismal border of the
Tain Frith, where, on the day of judgment, a coaltitude of
so-called suicides may start up,,to give their testimony
as to
the intelligence, charity, and humanity of the "Holy
Land
of Ross." This disgraceful affair, however, ha •
vying come to
Groat Journal
ofthey
the knowledge the Tain authorities, v
to, be disintered and examine dery properly
dicaluien, who,. after a careful consideration by
ordered the hod y two me-
curnstanoeot reported that, in their 0 in of all the cir-
of " secidental drowning. death by ' ' p
Thei, this was a case
corpse was then
deceatir cooed, awl interred in the cemetery attached
the enined chapel of St. nuthus.---
j
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