The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-05-14 00:00:00

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The infant prince is to -be called "Arthur Pat
Alb rt."

Mr. Grantley Berkeley's ',notion for a duty on fore&
corn will certainly come on this evening.
R. Duke, of Liverpool, gentleman, has been appointed
_l.„ Lord Chancellor a Master Extraordinary in the
High Court of Chancery.
The Pacific. ' from

, the second of Collins's line, is to sal.
New York on Saturday week, the 25th instant.
""....LITEIL ARV AND PIIILOSOI &UCAI. Som.:vv.—At the
last evening, MrSJ. B. Yates read
~ing paper, ably illustrated with a collectio,
it ancient illustrated works, ou the literature
the 16th and 17th centuries-
DEATH FROM LOCK-JP
a labouring man who was assisting in loading vessel k-
the Canning Dock by means of a crane, got his left bane
by some accident between the cog-wheels of the work'
part, and had his fingers dreadfully cruid,,,,,r

of the sod(
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—On the 30th of hot mont

1 taken care of
LABOUR

on Saturday -from lock-jaw.
Poon.,—Wo understand that the

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WHERE AR', VIE MIDSUMMER RENTS TO
COME FROM?

The following C mmunieation, read a the meeting of
!Protectionist delezAtes in linulon on Thursday last, from
a gentleman of influence in the Weat Highlands of Scot-
lands, describes a sate of things of rather a discouraging
nature. Rent, in that district, appears to have disappeared
altogether; yet such organs as the London Times de-
bounce as traitors, and threaten with the tower, those
landowners and farmers who are not willing to submit
tamely to he ruined, and use the privilege of British men
by protesting against. the laws which are ruining them:—
"The prospect for the Whitsuntide rent is disheartening in
Abe extreme. I really do not know what proprietors are to do,
for it is impossible that tenants can be prepared to pay, and
good reason why—Where is it to come from? The low price
of gram has left them nothing, after deducting seed for the
text crop. seeing that all have ventured once more as great a
stake as the are able in the potato crop, paying high for the
seed; and to realize from their cattle they would require to
eell three beasts for every one formerly. No tenants except
Such as have other sources of income independent of their
istocke, &c.. can pay their rents. In the general case no mere
abatement will save the tenant. Proprietors must be satisfied
with a mere moiety of their rents. and postpone payment of the
rcst If they insist on full payment the tenants are ruined. I
will venture to sau that if proprietors insist on full and pointed
paytnews the tenants under .eleo per annum are ruined as a
class. 'I he great majority of the tenantry are holding on by
their- lands trusting to the leniency of their landlords, and wait-
ing to see what waiter year will bring forth. Should things
not mend I anticipate great changes next year, and unless land-
lords be prepsreil to, reduce their rents tremendously it will
mot surprise me to see a very extensive emigration among the
class 01 tenants mho have anything left. Proprietors them-
selves have teen oldig.ell to encourage present tenants to hold
do at any loss, for they saw the impossibility of replacing them.
I never yet i,xperieticeil such difficulty in letting land, and I
know that others feel the same. Tenants are quite heartless,
and there is no compi=tdion as formerly. In some cases the
tenants have been rontinued at a reduction of 20 and 25 per
cent., but in not a few landlords are left with the farms on
their hinds. Leases are ~either given nor asked for, and this
state of uncertainty tends to check all spirit for improvement,
and tints le,: employment will he aff,prtled the labouring classes.
'These rein', 1. a aploy to the azricu tural tenantry of these dis-
tricts, tor, 'ultimate y for themselves, the sheep-farmers have
!not yet rea.,o, t.. complain of the price either of sheep or of
irtool."