The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-06 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

A correspondent—who seems, by-the-bye, to have designed
his communication for the Albion—informs us that the
name of her Majesty, " Alexandrina Victoria," may be
anagrammatized as follows, viz. :—" I ran ,to a radical
vixen." Not very complimentary this to her Majesty,
and scarcely reconcilable with the anagram which may he
made from the name Victoria alone, which has been ren-
dered Chi Orla—born for the citizen.
An " English Sailor's" observations ought to have been sent
some weeks since.
The poetry of " J. C." does not possess sufficient merit for
insertion in the columns of the STANDARD.
" Mesmer" will perceive that we have altered the signature
of his letter. We have done so in order to say that we
shall be glad to hear from him again.
The promised letter of the gentleman who has recently
adopted the signature of " Pensatore" is anxiously looked
for, and we have no doubt, from our experience of his
communications, that it will be well worthy of perusal,
especially on such a subject, and in reply to such a writer
as those alluded to.
" MR. POPJOY'S LIFE IN LIVERPOOL."—We are happy
to announce to our readers, that this distinguished stranger
is about to furnish us with a series of sketches under the
above title, in which he purposes expressing, unreservedly,
his opinion of men and manners in Liverpool.

EIR Etinrpoal &tanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1842

The Manchester Guardian of Wednesday, in noticing
the proposed motion of Dr. Bowring for a repeal of
the duty on cotton, expresses a hope " that the extra-
ordinary and most unaccountable apathy, which has
recently been displayed upon this subject, in Manches-
ter and its neighbourhood, will at length be laid
aside ;" and adds, " if the present most promising
opportunity of getting rid of this most impolitic and
obnoxious tax be now lost, the trade will probably be
burdened with the impost for many years to come."
We are sincerely glad to see the Manchester Guardian
taking up, in earnest, the advocacy of a repeal of this
most " impolitic and obnoxious tax," against which
we have frequently protested, whilst our contemporary
was immersed in the "extraordinary and most unac-
countable apathy" respecting it, which he now bewails.
We must confess, however, our serious fears, that, by
the very apathy in question in time past, and not by the
omission of any " present opportunity" of agitating
for its repeal, we shall, in all likelihood, be condemned
to endure it awhile longer; for whilst the manufactu-
ring interest and their organs have been busily en-
gaged in the task of rendering office to the Whig-radi-
cal party a bed of roses, and, more recently, whilst di-
recting their energies exclusively to the repeal of the
corn laws, the produce of the duty on cotton has in-
creased so as to form a very important item in the re-
venue. In 1840—we have not a later return at hand—
its amount had reached £648,935; and we have little
expectation, however impolitic in our opinion it may
be to tax a raw material of this description, that go-
vernment will be induced, at such a time as the pre-
sent, to strike this large sum from the national in-
come, when the demand for its remission has never
been earnestly put forward by the class which its pres-
sure most affects.

We are quite prepared, however, to second, by all
the assistance in our power, any effort which may be
made by the manufacturing interest to procure a relief
which must be so beneficial to our native industry.
But we almost incline to the opinion, which has been
expressed by some authorities well entitled to be heard
upon the subject, that a total repeal is not to be de-
sired unless we can, by some regulations, preserve the
machinery, which the existence of a duty affords,
for ascertaining accurately the amount of our imports
of the article. Upon this subject Mr. JOHN BURN,
the author of "The Commercial Glance," expressed
himself so long ago as in 1837, in a letter to the Man-
chester Chamber of Commerce, in the following