The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-03 00:00:00

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who committed the offence, But when we see, as in
this case, the valuable life of the Sovereign of these
realms perilled by the rash hand of an assassin, and
are assured, by the blameless life of that beloved being,
as well as by the station of the criminal himself, that
no personal feeling can have existed to impel him to
the perpetration of the deed which he contemplated ;
when we are informed, moreover, that an attempted
perpetration of this very act on a preceding day—the
Sabbath—was accompanied by violent denunciations of
a monarchy, and of the person of the Sovereign her-
self, as the source of all the evils under which large
classes of the community labour, we are compelled to
inquire how far the existence of such a feeling is to be
attributed to the incendiary tone of those agitators of
the people, whose ceaseless aim it appears to be to
work upon human passions, and to attain the end
which they have in view through the instrumentality
of popular commotion and outrage.
We had no wish to have singled out, as open to this
imputation, any particular party or the advocates of
any particular policy in the state ; we have no wish to
revive the memory of the bygone efforts of Whiggery
to prop up its feeble existence by appeals to the brute
passions of the multitude; but we cannot, whilst no-
ticing what we must consider as the fruit of such agi-

tation, pass by, without visiting with our severest cen-
sure the tone which has of late been assumed by the
propagandists of the anti-corn-law agitation. Within
the past week this town, and we have no doubt every
town in the empire, has been placarded with a docu-
ment emanating from that factious body, the Anti-
Corn-Law League, than which it is scarcely possible
to imagine a document more provocative of bad pas-
sions and the violent developement of such passions.
In the document in question, the operation of the
laws of the realm have been deliberately pointed out
as MURDEROUS; in the same document the enactors
of those laws have been as deliberately designated
MURDERERS; and we appeal to the common sense of
every lover of order amongst us—of every lover of the
person of his Sorereign—whether such appeal, so cal-
culated to stir up the fanaticism of ignorant and vulgar
malcontents, should he permitted to circulate, with
impunity, amongst any well ordered and loyal com-
munity.
We shall not, however, we repeat, enter into the
consideration of such topics at the present moment,
however appropriate it may be for the enforcement of
their serious consideration. Our object now, is to
felicitate our fellow countrymen upon the escape of
their beloved Queen from the doom which a miscreant
hand had well nigh brought down upon her ; and we
shall take leave of the subject by again expressing that
feeling, which has moved the heart of the entire com-
munity amongst whom we live, of fervent gratitude to
that Almighty Power which has preserved for England
the life of her beloved Monarch, the descendant of a
revered Protestant ancestry, and the mother, we trust,
of a long line of Protestant and right English kings.
Long may she live, blessing and blessed, to sway the
destinies of a loyal, happy, and Christian people !

For the last few weeks the lying energies of the
Whig press have been exhausting themselves in the
effort to depreciate the utility, as a working measure,
of the new Corn Bill of Sir Robert Peel's Government.
Amongst the rest, the Liverpool Times, a paper dis-
tinguished for its stupidity, asserted ten days ago that
not more foreign wheat than was sufficient to make a
breakfast for the population of Liverpool had been re-
leased from bond since the coming into operation of
the new law ; and the Manchester Guardian, not so
stupid certainly, and therefore more entitled to notice,
maintained that Sir Robert Peel's measure was in its
operation no material relaxation of the old law. We
sheaved at the time the falsehood of the assertions of
both these worthy associates; and we now beg to offer
to their notice a few fiyares, which will demonstrate,
if not to their wilfully or naturally obtuse perceptions,
at least to the perceptions of ordinary men, that in its
operation the measure of Sir Robert Peel is calculated
to secure, at once, to the consumer, the necessary sta-
ple of life at a fair and moderate rate, and at the same
time to protect the farmer and the revenue from the
injurious consequences of speculations to introduce
foreign wheat in inordinate quantities at a nominal
rate of duty.

The quantity of foreign corn upon which duty has
been paid in this port alone, since the coming into
operation of the new law up to the 30th of May, is,
according to the custom-house returns—of wheat,
35,909 quarters, and of flour, 61,980 barrels. Not one
ounce of this quantity would have come into the mar-
ket under the operation of the old law; and nearly the
vhole of this, we are informed, upon the authority of
;he circular of Messrs. Robert Makin and Sons, of this
hority which is of the highest credit in
he corn market,—has been sold for consumption.

And, what has been the effect of this timely adaptation
of the supply to the demand of the consumers ? Why,
that the speculation of capitalists has been paralized ;
that moderate prices have been secured to the con-
sumer ; that the revenue has been protected ; that the
farmer has been protected ; and that, with the prospect
of a plentiful harvest before us, we have not been tan-
talized with alternate famine and superabundant supply !
But a week ago we were assured by the opponents
of this law—we were assured by capitalists even, who
were favourable to the principles upon which it was
based, that, under its operation speculation could still
do what it willed with the staple of subsistence in these
realms. We were told of extensive combinations for a
rise in the price of bread corn. What is the result ?
Why, that the relief afforded to the consumer—the fact
that every quarter of foreign grain in bond throughout
Great Britain is at present in the market, for consump-
tion—have, without injuring the consumer or the pro-
ducer, ensured to the revenue an adequate return from

the admission of foreign grain into consumption; to

the farmer moderate protection and to the consumer a
moderate price of one of the chief necessaries of life !

LOCAL NEWS,

FIRE KING.—The steamer Fire King, Captain M`Kellar,
arrived here on Tuesday last, making her passage from
Greenock in sixteen hours and a half.

SIR HOWARD DOUGLAS.—We are gratified to learn, that
our able and respected representative, Sir Howard Douglas,
has within the last few days received several very flattering
proofs of the high estimation in which he is held by the in-
habitants of New Brunswick, and of the opinion entertained
of the character of his administration while governor of that
province, besides those we mentioned on Tuesday. Ad-
dresses have been presented to the honourable baronet, at
his private residence, in Green-street, Grosvenor-square,
London, from the merchants, magistrates, and other inhabit-
ants of Fredericton and its immediate vicinity ; from the
Chamber of Commerce, St. Andrew's; from the magistrates
and inhabitants of St. Andrew's; and from the clergy, ma-
gistrates, merchants, and other inhabitants of the county of
Northumberland, in the province of New Brunswick.
A WARNING TO SPREEISII YOUNG GENTLEMEN.—For
some time past the neighbourhood of Rock Ferry has been
occasionally visited by a set of midnight desperadoes, which
rendered property anything but safe, or persons secure, gates
have been thrown off their hinges and broken, trees, shrubs,
plants, and in fact anything that fell in the way of these
" skylarkers," have been destroyed, and what is worse, the
premises of the unprotected, of the fair sex, have not escaped
the wantonness of these amateur blackguards ; and the in-
habitants have been somewhat at a loss to conjecture whe-
ther the odium rested with the lower class, or what is called
the genteel part of society, but on Thursday night, the 19th
young gentlemen, having sallied
ult., a company of three
forth for the above-named purposes, were sufficiently identi-
fied in their " spree" to enable the individuals suffering from
their lawlessness, to resolve on obtaining summonses for
their appearance at the Petty Sessions, Birkenhead ; on
meeting,Mon-
day, both of the aggrieved and the ag-
gressorsand the circumstances being considered,
d ay, however,
was
held,
a
and the facts being believed that this was but the beginning
of such pranks with the party in question, it was determined
after the law for such offences was read over to them, and on
their making an appology to each individual whom they had
injured, that they should pay a fine of £lO, and legal pro-
ceedings should be abandoned; still it is hoped that it may
prove a warning to a worse party who are yet at large, but
strongly suspected and watched, and although the very hand-
some manner in which the friends of the three individuals in
question came forward, in anything but screening the offend-
ers, has saved them from further inconveniences; it is pre-
sumed that a lesson may be learnt, and it may be to them as
" a whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the
fool's back."
SUMMER ASSIZES.—NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—The days
appointed for holding the assizes for the northern circuit,
before the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Denman, Chief
Justice of her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench, at West-
minster, and the Honourable Mr. Justice Maule, one of her
Mdestv's Justices of the Court of Common Pleas at West-
minster, and justices assigned to take the assizes, pursuant
to the statute, &G.
—Thursday, the 14th day of July, at the
Northzimberlan .
Durham.—Saturday, the
9th day of July, at Durham.
Castle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Town of eircas
- ~-upon-Tilne. The same day, at the
Guildhall of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Cumberland.—Tuesday, the 19thday of July,
at Carlisle.
Westmoreland.---turzlay, clay the 23d )'
of July, at Ap-
pleby. )—Tuesday, the 2Gth day
Lancashire (Northern Division,
of July, at Lancaster.
Lancashire (Southern Division.)—Saturday,
of July, at Liverpool. f Atrust, at the
Yorkshire.—Saturday, the 13th day o
—Saturday, the 30th day
Castle of Y0...k.
City of York.—The same day, at the Guildhall of the city
1 of York.