The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-04-26 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE NEW TARIFF.—The boot and shoemakers are agitating strongly against the proposed reduction of duty on foreign boots and shoes, like men, whose " awl" depends upon resistance to the measure. The present duty on men's shoes is £1 4s. the dozen pairs, and the proposed alteration would make it 125., or a reduction of is. per pair. The present duty on men's boots is £2 14s. the dozen pairs, and the proposed alteration would make it £1 55., which is equal to a reduction of 2s. sd. the pair. The present duty on that class of women's shoes of which the largest amount has been imported is now 18s. per dozen pairs ; the proposed alteration would make Bs. per dozen, which is equal to a reduction of Bd. per pair. But now see the per contra. It is proposed that the duty on foreign dry hides shall be reduced from 4s. Sd. to 3s. per cwt., and on foreign wet hides from 2s. 4d. to ls. per cwt. ; and the duty on dry hides, the produce of British possessions, which is now 2s. 4d. per cwt., is proposed to be reduced to Is. ; and on wet hides, which are no w, when the produce of British possessions, chargeable with ls. 2d. per cwt., it is proposed to reduce the duty to Gd. Again, the duty on calf and kip skins in the hair, which is now similar to that on hides, is proposed to be similarly reduced. Considering, also, that the whole amount of duty received on the importation of men's boots in 1840 was £1,147, and on men's shoes £ll3, and that the whole Custom's receipts on women's shoes was about £2,500, we do not see that any vital damage to their trade can be apprehended. The public also have not forgotten that when the great reduction on the leather took place some ten or twelve years ago, boots and shoes were to the full as dear after the reduction as before it. —Scotch Paper. The Limerick Reporter, detailing the particulars of the dreadful murder of Mr. Roberts, (Mr. Garney's clerk,) whose head, it appears, was literally shattered to atoms, says, " There is very little doubt that his rapacity and hard-heartedness as an agent (he acted in that capacity independently of his employment by Mr. G.) was the cause of this murder." The Dublin Register, following up the palliation—or rather justification—feeler thrown out, tracks in with, " This, then, is another of those awful occurrences which clearly indicates the dreadful and appalling results of the hellish system of extermination. That atrocious system has led to most of the murders and assassinations which darken and disgrace our country, and yet such frightful warnings, such awful examples, seem to be still altogether unheeded by some of our Irish landlords. Good Heaven ! how long is such a barbarous and bloody system to be put in operation ? Thousands of small farmers are annually cast upon the world houseless and homeless, deprived of the little spot of ground upon which their very existence depends ; and thus left to rob, steal, die, or seek the ' wild justice of revenge.' " In plain English, according to the principle sought to be inculcated in the foregoing, once in possession, the peasant is warranted (no matter bow reckless and improvident his demeanour) in resisting to the death the being ejected from his holding. Might constitutes right in this case ; and all the misfortunes accumulating on his head, too often the result of constitutional indolence, are sure to enlist the sympathies of haters of oppression, till the shedding of blood demonstrates the success of their advocacy.