The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-07-08 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

POWER. No man of sense understood the doctrine of cheapness otherwise; and we thank the Times for the candid admission, which is more than his Free Trade friends will acknowledge. But he proceeds to ask,—" Will there not be a change, and a beginning of changes, when our great reservoirs of human labour begin to fall short; when every employer of the people, from the authorities of the Horse Guards and the Admiralty to the occupier of fifty acres, or the possessor of half a dozen lace machines, begins to call in vain for more hands ? Will it not be a day of change when, instead of two men being after one master, two masters will be after one man ?" It will be a day of change, indeed, good Times; but what is the source to which you, and political economists of your caste, look for the coming of this "day of change ?" To emigration of our able-bodied labourers and artizans ! The land is to be converted into a desert, in order that the few remaining in it may be enabled to live ! Get away, skilled labourers of every sort and condition ! The Times tells you that " what keeps the English labourer at home is his profound ignorance, his want of versatility,"—you cannot twist like the Times !—" and his habits of dependence." If you wish to be independent, he advises you to take yourselves away. The obvious aim of the Times throughcut the whole of this laboured, yet inconsistent, article, is to lead us away from the contemplation of the real causes which are driving from their country, not only the farmers and peasantry of Ireland, but the skilled labourers of Great Britain as well. Famine has passed away. The potato is sound. Food of every sort is cheap and abundant. But the Irish are a producing people; and all this cheapness is achieved at their expense. The country to which they owe allegiance no longer fosters the industry of its children, but transfers its favours to the serfs of Poland and Russia, and the farmer of the American prairies. And why is the skilled labour of England leaving the country ? Because free trade has proved a gigantic fraud, Its authors told us that it would bring about the very state of things which the Times now unblushingly says is to he brought about only by decimating our population every two years; that state of things, in which "two masters would be running after one man" instead of " one man running after two masters." Our industrious classes—the blood and sinews of our land—are fleeing to escape being ground to the dust " under the hand of money, and the heel of power." They are fleeing to a country where industry is protected, where the industrious labourer and the artisan are the most valued of citizens, leaving their malediction behind upon that fatherland where, for so long, " man has been a drug and population a nuisance," and where the cheapness, wrung from man's necessities and his degradation, contributes only "to the success of all mercantile pursuits, and to the enjoyment of those who have money to spend." Happy few, who have money to spend !  Sir T. B. Birch, Mr. W. Brown, and Mr. J. W. Patten voted on Friday against Sir F. Thesiger's amendments to the Papal bill. Mr. Cardwell was absent. Sir J. Graham, Mr. F. Peel, Mr. P. Pusey, and Mr. J. H. Talbot, voted on Friday against the third reading of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against a female in Manchester named Swinnerton, for so cruelly injuring her step-child as to cause its death