The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-27 00:00:00

THE CORN LAWS

When we noticed about ten days ago, the fabrications of
the Globe respecting the intentions of the ministry on the
subject of the corn-laws, we explained the origin of these
falsehoods in the desire of the anti-corn law league, to make
it appear that agitation would have an effect upon the mi-

nistri, and that thus the subscribers to the £50,000 fund
would be encouraged to come forward in the hope that their
money would not be thrown away. We observe the Standard
takes the same view in a recent article :
" Can anything be conceived so tborou

:bly discreditable to
ent state of doubt

a minister and a great party as the

Robert Peel means in February to propose
donment of all corn laws whatever, or to
the act of last session. No one k
do; how many of them are urging h
nopolies ; or how large the proportion that are assuring him
that in any dereliction of past principle

and resolutely t

ws what his parcywif

tand by their Imo-

he may count on the

basest comp

Hance on their par'ts

The paragraph

of this day's (Monday) Mori

onicle , the eon-chiding

paragraph of which article is as follo

" Let our friends of the Anti-Corn-Law League be sure,
therefore, that this is not the time for them to relax. They
have made some impression on the government by the force
of their recent pressure. They have forced them to enter-
tain the suggestion of an immediate capitulation. They hold
the future conduct of parliament in their hands : for it is
with them that the business of making up Sir R. Peel's
mind rests. He evidently cannot do it himself, and he is
open to change either way, according as one or other force
acts upon him the more strongly between this and the 2d of
February."

These two paragraphs taken in juxta-position, throw a va-
luable light upon certain late proceedings of the journals of
the League. That purpose is plainly to represent the govern-
ment, as in what Mr. Wakley would call a " squeezable"
temperament; all to encourage the leaguers to contribute
largely to the funds of those persons who are applying the
screw. But let us look a little closely to the exposure of the
trickery. It certainly would be " discreditable to a minis-
ter, and to a great party, to leave a doubt as to their future
intentions," if they were concerned in creating the doubt;
but surely they are not to blame for doubts created by the
most audacious lying on the pert of their enemies. What-
ever doubt upon the subject of the corn-laws existed last
week, was the result of the most impudent fabrication pro-
bably ever printed in a newspaper—the announcement of
the meditated fixed duty in the Globe of the 9th—an an-
nouncement which, as our Gloucestershire friends have re-

marked. was artfully reserved for a Friday, in order that it

papers, printed on a Saturday, before it was possible to
contradict it by authority. Against such transient suspicion
as was excited by this desperate falsehood, no minister, no
party, no individual, can secure himself by the utmost care ;
and the disgrace attaches not to the object, but to the author,
of the lie.

A FATHER OF A FAMILY.—Sir George Tuthill relates I
a case of an Asiatic. Russian, who had by his first wifc
teen infants at four, and sixty-nine at twenty-seven births—
eighty-five children in all.
If a planter of great --

xpenence were asked which tree he
commend of all others for profit, he would certainly
name the larch ; for considering its rapidity and its value in
the timber market, it is unrivalled.

The following anecdote is taken from a letter written from mother, is don.
Ham to M. Thayer, by Prince Louis Napoleon The NEW ZEt
emperor often paid attention to the accounts of his house- Examiner,
keeping. One day, without considering who was present, his fear thr
he advanced towards my mother before a crowd of persons, stopped
and cried out, Hortense, how much do.you expend for
your treacle!
kitchen and your stables.?' Sire,' replied she, ' I don't at with w'
this moment remember.' Well, you are a fool ! you may done'
always with a few figures bear your expenses in mind. In s
every well-regulated family only the quarter of one's revenue to
should be laid out for the kitchen, and the fifth for the
stable.' Another time, laying down rules of conduct, be
remarked, In whatever we undertake we ought to calculate
the cost to the best of our
,judgment, and add half as much
more for chance expenses.' ,