The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-26 00:00:00

WHIG MISMANAGEMENT THE CAUSE O OUR

PRESENT DISTRESS-

The Morning Herald (always a good authority on foreign
affairs) has devoted two able articles to this subject, from
which we make the following- extracts :

" We shall now proceed to enumerate the items of British
loss through submission to the infraction of rights, through
the frustration of beneficial compacts offered to this country,
and through the conclusion of treaties injurious to its inte-
rests and destructive of its rights.
CIRCASSIA—By sacrifice of rights of
commerce since 1831, yearly export
loss

100,000 1,100,000

POLAND—By sacrifice since 1831 of com-
mercial rights secured by treaty of
Vienna, yearly
GREECE—By sacrifice of rights of Bri-
tish bondholders of two first loans,
say £3,000,000
By payment of subsidy in violation of
act of parliament, say £600,000
By fraudulent accounts presented to par-

500,000 5,500,006

_
liament, say £370,000
By sacrifice of anterior right of export
and import, at three per cent. duty,
yearly

100,000

Aggregate
Russo-DUTCH LOAN—payment of after
declaration of law officers of the
Crown that no obligation to Russia
was binding, Russia having violated
her treaties with England, aggregate
COAST OF AFRlCA*—Sacrifice of the
right of export and import at five
per cent. from 1834 .
GUM TRADE—Submission to interfe-
rence from 1835.
PRUSSIAN LEAGUE—Submission to the
establishment, and transference of
to the small states of Germany the
tariff of Prussia.
PE RSIAt —Neglect of the establishment
of a commercial in 1836 affecting the
trade of Central Asia, yearly loss,
TURKEY—Sacrifice of commercial treaty
from 18364: imposition of special re-
strictions on British commerce since
signature of the changed treaty in
1838. Yearly loss
AusTßlA—Sacrifice of treaty with that
country, which was to have been fol-
lowed up by a treaty for the naviga-
tion of the Danube for the provinces
of Wallachia, Moldavia, and Servia,
and which projected treaty was frus-
trated through the signature of a
falsified Turkish treaty. Effects of
this treaty enormous and incalcula-
ble. Yearly loss .
NA PLES§—SiterifiCe of treaty since 1839.
Say

200,000 1,600,000

400,000 2,400,000

1,500,000 6,000,000

500,000 1,500,000

FRANCE—Absence of commercial treaty
since 1840. Say annual loss
CENTRAL ASIAN—LOSS of trade since
commencement of warlike opera-
tions, yearly loss
CHINA—Loss of trade since 1838, say 1,500,000 6,000,000
THE PENlNSULA—Diminution or pre-
vention of trade since 1835, by war-
like operations, or by the neglect or
frustation of commercial advantages,
say

MEXICO AND BUENOS AYRES—Sub-
mission to an illegal blockade, loss
inflicted on British commerce or
augmentation of the cost of produce
exported from those countries ....

3,000,000

Annual sacrifice of exports

7,000,000

Aggregate loss

43,900,000

Shipping thrown out of employment, tons 500,000

Seamen

50,000

Loss of labour in the diminution of yearly exports is
equivalent to 2,000,000 qrs. of grain burnt or cast into
the sea.

The yearly sacrifice here estimated is of exports only : but
we must calculate that at least as much of return trade is
also sacrificed, that is to say, that our aggregate trade would
in the present year present a difference in our favour, not of
seven, but fourteen millions, had it not been for the means
taken by a secret department of the Government to counteract
the measures of its servants, and to violate the rights belong-
ing to Britain. Of this sum at least five millions may be
estimated as going in labour to British artisans, so that two
millions of souls have been annihilated by these secret acts,
or penury and starvation brought on the body of our artisans.
We have here, then, positive loss of ten millions expendi-
ture, and five millions profit, as complete as if goods or
grain to that amount were built up in the pyramids and set
on fire; that is to say, we have every year fifteen millions of
complete and absolute sacrifice in consequence of the direct
acts of Viscount Palmerston, late Chief Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, in whom the Parliament had such im-
plicit confidence that they never questioned anything he did
—admitted contradictions from his own lips without any
desire to enquire further, knowing that he concealed from
them ever thing he was about—and every result of whose
policy has been in contradiction to his avowed intention.
Lord Palmerston interfered in every quarter of the globe,
by every process that human ingenuity could devise, and in
every point, on every field, brought failure, disgrace, shame,
loss upon Britain, her friends and her interests ! The home
cost of these unheeded Acts is fifteen millions yearly sacri-
fice, a sum sufficient to maintain seven millions of human
beings at the rate at which our poorer artisans are supported,
to convulse the whole structure of society, drain it of its
resources, cover it with a cloak and a cloud of penury and
disgrace; yet, the senate, the British Parliament, neither
having care for nor comprehending the acts leading to these
results, is now brawling out " corn laws!"
When the late Administration came into office in 1830,
with peace and retrenchment as their motto, it became their
duty so to direct the affairs of Europe that there might have
been an opportunity of decreasing our military establish-
ments ; they decreased those establishments without per-
formin,g such condition precedent, and then by mismanage-
ment of external policy, excused a sudden and expensive
augmentation of our army and navy. Thus our expenditure
for that purpose, which previously to open wars commenced,
cost—

By increase of 'warlike means up to 18:38.
By the setting aside of the award of the King
of Holland (consequent insecurity in North
America and difficulties with the United
States) a large expenditure was incurred by
England, and imposed upon our North
American colonies, which we have not the
means of calculating..
By operations against China within the last two

£8,000,000

years ..... ....
By operations against Central Asia (to be yet
determined whether England or India is to
pay, but in either case falling equally on
the British empire)
By the treaty of the 15th July up to the present
time

1,800,000

17,000,000

3,800,000

3,600,000
e have thus an aggregate of upwards of £300,000,000
of expenditure for warlike purposes already incurred, with
operations in progress and increasing necessities for troops,
by the successive developments of the result of our past
conduct, and of our obstinate continuation of it. We have
thus added permanent increase of charge—
In India
In England, in augmentation of military means
and in increase of debt
In Canada

4,500,000

5,000,000
500,000

Increase of yearly expenditure, total ..... 10,000,000
Diminution of yearly commerce . .

Yearly loss.

24,000,000

Commercial loss up to the present period 37,000,000
Expenditure for warlike preparations up to
the present period 30,600,000

Cost of the secret operations of the Foreign-
office up to the present hour
Such is the financial result of Lord Palmerston's successes ;
so many millions drawn from our means of production—so
many millions expended in warlike measures ; and this with-
out the necessity of war, or any of its benefits. War would
at once have opened to us the command of the commerce of
the seas, and furnished to us the means for its prosecution.
Is it possible that such drains upon our resources, and such
expenditure of our means, can take place without occasioning
misery and distress ? And then when these results are
brought upon us, English statesmen, or at least men calling
themselves and called statesmen, are occupied in discussing
internal questions, which have not altered while this change
has been brought upon us !
It is no change of laws or constitution that can save Eng-
land. It is the execution of the law that alone can save her;
and why make laws when we neither understand nor enforce
those which we possess ? If it were a solitary instance of
neglect, or a solitary case of injury, there might be then,
indeed, hope that, by exposing the fact, our condition would
be retrieved. But such an exposition as we here make al-
most proves our hopelessness, because all spirit must have
been extinct in a nation whose annals exhibit such an amount
as this of unexamined malversation and unpunished crime ;
in other words, the representatives of the nation who have
suffered in silence these things, will not be, cannot be, the
men to redeem the past and to recover us. But such facts
as these placed before the eyes of the nation itself, whose
generous confidence relieved itself from care by conceiving
that it bad imposed upon others responsibility, may arouse
it for the future to take care and to impose a real responsi-
bility, whether upon the government that •has misruled, or
the representatives that have neglected.

* Imposition of the tariff of France in violation of our
anterior treaties with the Regency of Algiers.
t A treaty has been established after Persia has been en-
tirely given over to Russia, and after England has been
brought back for her own ends.
The loss it is convenient to calculate in all these cases
only from the period when a practical measure was prepared.
§ Three hundred and eighty-four British ships were at
once thrown out of employment by the differences with
Naples. (See Mr. Macgregor's Report, p. 4.) Russia be-
nefitted to the amount of above a million sterling by the ex-
istence of the difference between Naples and England, as
affecting the price of her tallow and the amount of the
export.
II Russian trade in Central Asia has been doubled, and
£7,000,000 of specie has been carried into that country and
deposited there, to assist in carrying on the trade.

" The month of July has been remarkable," says the
Courrier Francais, "for striking events in French history.
In July, 1789, occurred the destruction of the Bastile ; in
July, 1830, the revolution and the expulsion of the eldest
branch of the Bourbon family •, in July, 1835, the infernal
machine of Fieschi ; in July, 1841, the Duke of Bordeaux
fell from his horse, and broke his leg; and, in July, 1842,
the death of the Duke of Orleans."

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE CROYDON AND BRIGHTON
RAILWAY.—MISCONDUCT OF A PASSENGER.—On Sunday
night, while the train which left Croydon at 20 minutes past
6 was proceeding over Croydon Common, a gentleman was
observed to get out of the third class carriage, and after
walking over the tops of two carriages, at imminent danger
of his life, the train going at a rapid rate at the time, seated
himself on the roof of a first class carriage. The guard,
Joseph Clutterbuck, who witnessed this, immediately left his
seat for the purpose of going to the gentleman, and whilst in
the act of walking across the carriage his head struck No. 14
bridge, dashing him on the coupling chains. The screams of
the passengers who witnessed the unfortunate occurrence in-
duced the engine-driver to stop the train, and the guard was
placed in a carriage and conveyed to London, when it was
discovered that the injuries must have caused instant death,
the head being shattered in a dreadful manner. The gen-
tleman who had acted with so much impropriety made his
Way out upon the arrival of the train at New-cross, but he
was instantly followed and given in charge by Superintendent
Seaman. He gave his name and address, Mr. Cramer,
Devonshire-street, Queen-square, and expressed much re-
gret that his conduct had been Productive of such a raelan.
choly accident. Clutterbuck was one of the oldest servants
on the railway and was universally respected for his obliging
wanner. He has left a wife and five children,