The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-18 00:00:00

A RADICAL'S OPINION OF FREE TRADE

A great commercial question—the question of free trade—
has lately been taken up upon political grounds alone. The
iihigs adopted it as a desperate expedient; they felt all the
old props of their party failing them, and as a last resource
they caught at free trade. All their allies joined them in the
same ridiculous cry, and of the whole host of movement-
men very few had sufficient sense or honesty to protest
against the delusion and proclaim their own opinions. Some
there are, however, who disdain to be dragged through the
dirt for the advantage of a party they despise, and Mr. Muntz
appears to be one of the number. At a public dinner lately
given in Birmingham, he said, in returning thanks for his
health being drank as one of the members for the borough—
" It was all very well to talk about free trade. He was
for free trade, for real free trade ; but he did not like that
humbug sort of trade which some gentlemen so very much
applauded as free trade. There were many men in the. House
of Commons who professed to be great advocates for free
trade, but in reality were opposed to it when it interfered
with their own interests, and wanted all trade free except the
trade in gold and silver. Mr. Williams, of Coventry, a very
good man, a thorough good radical, was an advocate for free
trade, but, the moment they talked about letting the ribbons
in free of duty, up he jumped, and declared he could not
stand that, for it would destroy all the Coventry weavers ;
and he was quite right. So it was with other gentlemen
in the House of Commons: some wished to protect coal;
others this article, others that; so that, in point of fact,
the men who were foremost in calling for free trade were
generally its bitter practical opponents. The whole system
was unsound. It was utterly impossible to run a race with a
man and give him half the distance. But then they were
advised to repeal the corn laws. In his opinion, no laws to
raise the prices of food were justifiable, unless the same law
simultaneously raised wages in the same proportion. But
there they were, having been in operation so many years,
and there were certain effects which had been produced by
them ; and the question they had to ask themselves was
this—what effect would the repeal of the corn laws have upon
society at large? In his opinion it would be attended with
ruinous consequences if unaccompanied with other measures.
Of that he did not the least doubt in his mind ; and he did
not see how any body could entertain a rational doubt upon
the subject. But then it had been said, why could he not
vote for a repeal of the corn laws, and say nothing about it?
He could not do that, because he would be acting a thoroughly
dishonest part. He knew that the corn laws repealed, with-
out an alteration in the monetary system, an instantaneous
destruction of all the farmers in the kingdom would take
place, followed by a great discharge of labourers, a reduction
of the rental of England, and consequent loss to every interest
bound up with it. They might depend upon it that, if they
had but one week's experience of the effects of an uncondi-
tional repeal of the corn laws, the very men who were now
most anxious for him to vote for it would be the 'first to
blame him for having done so. They might benefit one-
third of the community, but they would ruin two-thirds. So
long as men viewed the question with tory spectacles. whig
spectacles, radical spectacles, and philosophical (which, by-
the-bve, were the worst of all spectacles for commercial pur-
poses) instead of natural spectacles, so long would they be
unable to arrive at any honest conclusion."

TELEGRAPHS IN ENGLAND AND ON THE
CONTINENT.

(From a Correspondent of the Morning Herald.)

It has long been a subject of great complaint among the
merchants in the City, Liverpool, Bristol, Glasgow, and
Hull, that in a great commercial country like Great Britain
there should not be a regular line of telegraphs at the differ-
ent out-ports, so that the arrival of vessels may be immedi-
ately communicated to the• Board of Admiralty and at
Lloyd's. For some time past the Lords of the Admiralty
have had the grand project in contemplation of establishing
semaphores from Portsmouth to Plymouth, Falmouth, and
the Land's End ; as it very often happens that ships cannot
make the British Channel, and are obliged to run up the
Bristol or the St. George's Channel for safety, and their ar-
rival off the coast is not known to the merchants until they
have put into port. A • Government survey is now being
made, under the direction of experienced engineers, to carry
the line on to the Land's End, and to fix the points most
eligible'for the erection of telegraphs, a report of which will
be laid before Parliamnnt when it assembles in February
next. At present the deficiency is felt daily by the Admiralty
Board, as there is but one line, and that only to Portsmouth.
The stations are to be as follows At the Board of Ad-
miralty, Whitehall; 2d, Chelsea Hospital; 3d, Putney;
4th, Kingston-upon-Thames; sth, Esher ; 6th, Cobham ;
7th, Guildford ; Bth, Godalming; 9th, Haslemere; 10th, Mid-
hurst ; 11th, Beacon-hill; 12th, Compton-down ; 13th, Poris-
down-hill , and 14th, Portsmouth ; the whole ofwhich are under
command of lieutenants of the royal navy. Intelligence and
orders for the sailing of ships of war from Portsmouth can
be thus communicated by the Admiralty, and vice versa, in
three minutes and a halt', from one end of the line to the
other, should the weather be clear. As soon as the signal
is made it is instantly answered by the next one, and so on,
until it has gone the whole line, when another is made, till
the whole communication is despatched from the chief office
to the officer in command, who communicates it to the ad-
miral on the station. The contemplated line to the Land's
End will pass through Truro, Falmouth, Plymouth, Gosport,
and Portsmouth; thereby embracing the whole of the English
Channel. A despatch, from one end to the other, is ex-
pected to be made in nine or ten minutes, the distance being
rather better than 290 miles. It is also in contemplation to
establish a line from Holyhead, Pembroke, Bristol, and Li-
verpool. The only line at present to Dover and the Downs
is by Watson's telegraph, at London-bridge, but not through
the Admiralty, who are indebted to this for their intelligence
of arrivals of ships of war in the Downs. A line to Hull
and Harwich is much wanted. On the Continent, tele-
graphs have been established for the last eighty years, but
particularly in France, to whom we are indebted for the
invention. The French government have lines of com-
munication from every port and large town throughout the
kingdom. From Calais, Dunkerque, Boulgone' Dieppe,
Havre, Caen, Brest, Nantes, Rochefort, La Rochelle,
L'Orient, Bordeaux, Bayonne, in the north and west ; Per-
pignan, Marseilles, Toulon, Antibes, ac., in the Mediterra-
nean ; Montpelier, Aix, Grenoble, Avignon, Lyons, Dijon,
on to Paris, Metz, and all the fortified towns on the borders
of Germany, Lille, Valenciennes, Douai, Cambrai, and the
frontiers of Belgium, so that in case of e'ineutes, or the ad-
vance of any foreign power, the arrival of vessels, &C., the
circumstance is immediately communicated to the Admiralty
at Paris, which is daily made acquainted with whatever is
stirring from one end of the country to the other. In Al-
geira, the French have also established a regular line of tele-
graphs from Algiers to Bona, all along the coast to Constan-
tine, and through the interior, in case of a sudden attack by
the Arabs under Abd-el-Kader. In spain there is a line of
telegraphs from Cadiz, Puerta Santa Maria, Seville, to Ma_
drid ; from Algesiras, opposite Gibraltar, Malaga, Cartha-
gena, Barcelona, in the Mediterranean, Corunna, Vigo,
Bilboa, &c., in the north-west Biscaya, along the frontiers
of France to Catalonia, and the principal towns to the capi-
tal; the same in Portugal, Belgium, Holland, Prussia,
Russia, and Austria, there are lines from one end to the
other, from Trieste and Venice, in the Adriatic, to Yienna
and the Baltic. England is the only country where tele-
graphs are scarcely used. Should the plan of the Board of
Admiralty be carried into effect, it will prove highly bene
ficial to the merchants for early intelligence, and to the ship-
ping for assistance.

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Sand on Friday morning last, blowing strong from the S.S.W.
and thick with rain. By assistance rendered by the Vigilant
cutter and hovelling lugger Queen, of Whitstable, she was
got off at about eight o clock in the evening, being at the
height of the gale at the time, but not until, by her heavy
striking on the sand, she had nearly six feet water in the
hold, and only by continued exertion at the pumps during
the night the leak was kept from gaining, On the following
morning (Saturday) the brig was run on the soft Oaze Bank,
at Whitstable. By the strength of assistance afforded in
this case, a vessel, with a valuable cargo, consisting of lead,
litharge, bides, and staves, was rescued from wreck on a
sand in a gale of wind.

DEATH OF THE BISTIOr OF CASHEL.—With sincerere7,
gret we this evening fulfil the painful duty of announcin,,, t !le/
death of the Right Hohourable Dr. Sandes, Lord Bishop of
Emly, Waterford, and Lismore. His lordship., who
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has been for some time in declining health, view to
in this
recovery, resided for the last few months at Brighton, from
whence he returned to his house in Fitzwilliam- !al: • the
64th in
city, on Saturday morning, where he died
64th year of his age. The deceased
w and although
the episcopal bench by the late Whig
ministry,rid onnection, he
differing from us in his political
viel,:pected for his high
was nevertheless much esteemed d
anan'nently learned scholar,
prelatelastasn elevated to
standing and acquirements as
as well as for his kindliness of heart eminently
and mild unassuming
church patronage he enjoyed
deportment. The extensive
maintainingc the interests and pro-
was uniformly exercised in
swa onkeisii working a clergys for
manyof the
ydiocesesover r
leBw36ashtenwilaissiactoendseto-
muting the welfare of the
which he presided. Dr.
f Tuesday.
um slate ncelnh
Cashel in 1839.—Da
The assessment under the new in-
fcerialtnewd aßnidshbounrsoafrKi ni II at 11; _ . .
man 0 _
now coming into operation, and notices have
Ufnriovmerswithye.
come tax is
to the shopkeepers and others in the city,
been sent round
THE INCOME TAx.. .
7d. in pound.
wp y the ominous the The follow-
inghose income is above the fatal £l5O per annum, for which
they
hasto - abeen issued by the commissioners :—" Pro-
perty Tax—District of the City of London—
Ward Notice is hereby given, that if
and Vestryof. .
shall think himself aggrieved by the assessment
notice havean d .
any person.
for the said ward of —, in respect of the profits arising
from professions, trades, and offices, and of the other profits
chargeable under schedule D of the property and income tax,
for the year ending the Gth April, 1843, he may, upon giving
due notice in writing to Mr. ---, the surveyor of taxes, re-
siding at —, of his intention, appeal to the commissioners
for general purposes, acting in and for the said district, at
their meeting, which will be held for the purpose of hearing
and determining such assessment, on Wednesday, the 23d
day of November instant, at the Property and Income Tax-
offices, 36, Bassinghall-street, at ten o'clock in the forenoon
precisely. Dated this 12th day of November, 1842. Signed
by the clerk of the commissioners."

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I}IE EPIPHANY;

" ST. MATTHEW IL, 10.
" When they saw the star they rejoiced with great

gladness.7'

" We lay in gross darkness, we knew not the light,
Our deeds were so evil they shamed e'en the night;
In blood and in cruelty swift were our feet,
To vengeance we ran as the wild courser fleet.
" To demons we offered the service of GOD,
The land was defiled, and polluted the sod ;
The wailing of infants affrighted the air,
Groan answered to groan—the wild shriek told despair.
" In the blood of a brother our hands we imbrued,
No right was respected, each passion was rude ;
Unchaste and unholy no fetter could bind,
Tby tyrant of woman—the scourge of our kind.
" The father that cherished us sank from our blow,
The mother that bare us was left to our woe ;
When in age and in weakness they needed most care,
And Nature's own voice should have aided their prayer.
" All hating and hateful we lived but for self,
Onr pride was our idol, our god was our pelf;
And in crimes that to mention would clothe us with shame,
In our baseness we glorying gave them to fame.

" Presuming on science, in error we strayed,
And deeper the darkness that clouded we made.
Thus blinded by folly, self-righteous and wise,
We turned knowledge to sin, and our glory to lies.
" To the stock or the stone guilty homage we paid,
Found gods in the fountain, the grove, or the glade ;
Nor sunk yet enough into folly and sin,
We worshipped the errors that bell could but win.
" To GOD that we know he beheld us afar,
And lo! on oar midnight arose a bright star;
To lead us to home, to our FATHER, and peace,
And cause all our wanderings, our sorrows to cease.
" Our light is arisen, the SAVIOUR of all—
Ye islands, ye nations attend to His call.
No longer the prodigal destined to roam,—
The Gentle may enter his long banished home.
" See, low at the feet of that holy babe cast,
The mighty, the learned, have found him at last ;
Desire of all nations, their priest and their king,
Him promised of old who salvation should bring.
" His meanness and poverty staggered them not,
The finger of Heaven had pointed the spot,
The joy that they feel is the joy 'of a world
Beholding the banner of mercy unfurled.

"Break forth into singing, ye far distant isles,
Hell's fetters are broken. exposed are its wiles ;
Joint heirs now with CHRIST, and the children of light,
Oar GOD has restored us, and banished our night.

" Bring offerings of righteousness, mercy, and truth,
The ripe fruits of age and the promise of youth ;
And warm be the prayer that the spirit of love
On Judah may dawn and her darkness remove.

" That one fold and one Shepherd, one kingdom of peace,
May embrace every nation—each captain release ;
Clothe earth once again, as in Eden she bloomed,
And bloomed out for ever what justice had doomed.

LITERARY NOTICES.

The Belle Assemblee. Edited by Mrs. Cornwall Baron Wil

son. Rogerson, Norfolk-street, Strand.

Mrs. Wilson stands in a good position as a periodical
writer and poetess. The Belle, so especially devoted to Les
Belles, is fittingly edited by one of their own sex. Its con-
tents are varied, and generally of that cast that must prove
most interesting to the class of readers for whom its pages
are intended. The plate this month is entitled Edderline,
representing a fair girl in a contemplative attitude. Profes-
sor Wilson contributes some sweetly descriptive lines.
Amongst the contents we find—" A. Tale of the Inquisition,"
" Sweetly chimes the Vesper Bell," " Ballad Stanzas,"
" Where are They," " The Coquette," " Romance of His-
tory—Asia Minor," " Tributary Stanzas to the Infant
Sappho," " Life," " A Poet's Musings," " Bessie Gor-
don,"
" Lines on a Cromlech, called ' Hell Stone,' near
Portesham, Dorset," " Love," " Venetian Ballad," " The
Swan," "The Outward Bound," "The Demon of the
Castle," " Notes in the North, by a Northern," " The Old
Maid in Love," " Donna Marina," " To the Union Jack,"
" A Tale of the Second Crusade," " Song of the Sea-
Nymphs," "Greece,!' "Fitz Powys and the Nun ; or,
Diplomacy in High Life," " Flora Lester ; or, Scenes in
the Life of a Belle," " Ernestine," &c.

The Sportsman. Rogerson, London.

The Sportsman contains many amusing articles. There is
a good paper on the " Prospects of the Hunting Season."
The Rough Rider, Touchstone, Mango, Major Calder
Campbell Halifax, Rosslyn Cawdor, each contribute their
usual quantum. " The Tariff Calendar" appears well ar-
ranged. The plates are excellent : one represents Blue
Bonnet, the winner of the Great St. Leger, at Doncaster;
the other is called " The Poacher's Guard," a dog watching
two dead hares : the anxious expression of the dog waiting
his master's approach is skilfully conveyed.

The Farmers' Magazine. Rogerson, Norfolk-street, London.
This number this month is enriched by containing a fine
engraved portrait of Earl Spencer—that great encourager of
agriculture. The other illustration represents a Cape sheep.
Amongst the literary matter we find Reports of several
Farmers' Clubs—On the formation of Peat Moss—On Pasture
Lands and Manure—Agricultural Improvements—On Animal
Manures—The Cape Sheep—The Butter Trade—Farming
now, and Farming eighty years ago—lmportant Improvement
in the Dynamometer —Wbitefield Example Farm— On
Turnip Cultivation—On Sowing Peas—Llando very Agricul-
tural Society—The Corn Laws and the Tariff—On the state
the Soil should be in when Seed is deposited in it—Plain and
Practical Suggestions to the small Farmer, for Improving
and Increasing his Manure, on chemical principles, and at
little expense—Lecture on the Application of Science to
Agriculture—On Feeding Horses and Cattle—Experiments
on the produce of an acre of Wheat and the weight of Straw,
leaving Stubble two inches, eight inches, and twelve inches
high ; and on the best and tail Wheat used for seed—Dis-
cussion on Manures—Seed Wheat—On Draining and Sub-
soiling—Horse-shoeing—Restrictive Clauses in Leases—The
late Discussion at Harleston—Transplantation of Turf—
Agricultural Queries, Intelligence, Fairs, and Report—
Calendar of Horticulture for November—Review of the
Corn Trade during the month of October.

Remarks on our present Position with Afghanistan and
China. By Robert Wise, Esq. Whittaker and Co..

London.

In our advertising columns this interesting and important
work is announced. We gave, at the time of its publication,
a lengthened notice of its contents, which precludes the ne-
cessity of any further extracts. We may, however, remind
our readers that the profits of the work will be given to the
fund now raising for the families of the brave fellows who
fell at Cabul ; and, consequently, the purchaser of the " Re-
marks" will not only possess himself of much valuable in-
formation, but will also contribute to diminish the sufferings
of the widows and orphans. We will, however, transcribe
and give publicity to the following observations, which we
have received in a letter addressed to us by the intelligent
author :

" Our leaders and our forces in China and Affghanistan
were, by last accounts overland, assuming their respective
proper positions for the purpose of re-establishing, in
original and ancient glory, the insulted flag of England ; for
opening up a full and free commercial intercourse with those
nations, through the 'famed of yore' Indus river, in Cen-
tral Asia, and the mighty river Yangtse, in Central China ;
and for the further purpose of hereafter holding such a con-
trol over China, and over the countries bordering on both
sides of the Indus, as our government may deem fit for the
ultimate security of Britain and India.
" Two of the opulent cities at the mouth of the Yangtse
river, China, mentioned at page 15 in my ' Remarks,' are,
we know, captured—viz., Chapo, from whence the Japan
trade is carried on, and Shanghai, the Liverpool of China;
and it is reported in Canton by the Chinamen (who can
receive accounts overland from the Yangtse river and Nan-
kin sooner than the English at Hong Kong can by sea) that
Loo-chop, Flang-ehoo, and the mouths of the Imperial Ca-
nal (that open into Yangtse) are also in our possession, and
held by ouriket ; as also Nankin—places also mentioned in
page 15 of my Remarks.' "

AN AMERICAN BAcrtwoonsmrty.—This was a thin-faced,
spare-figured man of middle age and stature, dressed in a
dusty drabbish-coloured suit, such as I never saw before.
He cleft a path among the people on deck (we were nearly all
on deck,) and, without addressing anybody whomsoever, so-
liloquised as follows:—" This may suit you, this may, but it
don't suit me. This may be all very well with Down Easters
and men of Boston raising, but it wont suit my figure no how ;
and no two ways about that ; and so I tell you. Now ! I'm
from the brown forests of the Mississippi, lam ; and when
the sun shines on me it does shirie-----a little. It don't glim-
mer where /live, the sun don't. No.
I'm a brown forester,
I am. I an't a Johnny Cake. There are no smooth skins
where I live. We're rough men there. Rather. If Down
Easters and men of Boston raising like this, I'm
glad of it ;
but I'm none of that raising nor of that breed. No. This
little fixing, it does,
..... jam, They won't like'
1 m the sort
wrong
company wants a
of man for 'e...,me, they won't.
little too mountainous, this is " At
This is piling of it up, a
s, e turner( upon
the end of every one of these short sentence- h •• , -
his heel, and walked the, otheri another short sentence, and way ; checking himself ab-
ruptly 'when he had finished
turning back again. It is impossible for to say what ter-
me
rific meaning was hidden in the words of this brown forester ;
bat I know that the other passengers looked on in a sort of
y
the boat was put back
admiring horror, and that presefi II
to the wharf, and as many of the Pioneers as could be coaxed
or bullied into going away, were got rid of. When we started
again, some of the boldest spirits on hoard made bold to say
to the obvious occasion of this improvement in our prospects,
" Much obliged to you, sir;" whereunto
the brown forester
(waving his hand, and still walkingnote up 311 d down as before)
raising. You
replied, " No, you an't. You're note o' t 37
may act for yourselves, you may. I have pirated out the way.
Down Easters and Johnny Cakes can follow if they please.
I an't a Johnny Cake, / an't. lam from the brown forests
of the Mississippi. lam ;" and so on. as .
at be 'bre. He was
unanimously voted one of the tables for his bed
of his
night—
there is a great contest for the tables—in consideration
public services; and he had the warmest corner by the stove
throughout the rest of the journey. But I never could find
out, that he did any thing except sit there; nor did I hear.
him speak again until, in the rredst of the bustle and turmoil
of getting the luggage ashore in the dark at Pittsburg, I stum-
bled over him as he sat smoking a cigar on the cabin steps,
and heard him muttering to himself, with a short laugh of
defiance, "1 an't a Johnny Cake, I an't. I'm from the'
brown forests of the Mississippi, I am." lam inclined to
argue from this, that he had never left off saying so ; but I
could not make affidavit of that part of the story. if required
to do so by my queen and country.— Dieken's tirtzerican
Notes.

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