The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-14 00:00:00

GREAT NATIONAL ANTI-CORN-LAW BAZAAR

Our liberal neighbours of Manchester are moving—not
heaven and earth—but middle-aged ladies, sympathetic misses,
blue stockings young andold, and philosophers of every grade,
to aid them in the holding of a bazaar there upon the most ex-
tensive scale, and with a splendour unparallelled. Needles:are
being plied with unexampled celerity and zeal ; fair pencils
are engaged by hundreds; samplers, flowers, gimcracks of
every description which fair fingers can put together, are in
preparation ; coins, (principally of copper,) autographs, bee-
tles, classified and duly stuck through with pins, stuffed birds
—every thing " rich and rare" which can be scraped up for
sale—are anxiously sought after by patrons and patronesses,
M.P.'s, and knights and " squires of low degree" ; and the
produce, it is not to he doubted, will be almost sufficient to
pay the national debt, to build a score of churches, or endow a
few hundred alms-houses.
Good, kind, charitable, " liberal" ladies and gentlemen of
Manchester ! Of course this vast effort is intended for some
one or other of these laudable purposes ! Your starving
weavers are to starve no more ; the shivering factory child,
running shoeless to his work in the bitter winter mornings, is
to run shoeless no more ; destitution is to be taken out of
your streets, and brightness and warmth to be introduced to
the poor man's hearth, a pillow to his weary head, and a
blanket to cover his toil-worn frame ! " Not at all"—is the
reply of each tart blue-nosed spinster, as, looking unutterable
scorn, her busy fingers knit, net, sew, paint, or patch with a
feverish velocity. "It is for no such vulgar, low, worldly,
unenlightened object that our sympathies are moved. There
is the new poor-law and the union workhouse for such
wretches as these. We have nobler, more comprehensive
ends in view—the advancement of the happiness of thewhole
human race—the promotion, in short, of the agitation of the
Anti-Corn-Law League !"
Sweet George Thompson "—" ecellerit.eloquent mar

—he cannot astonish and4enrapture the world without moue,
" Clever Mr. Arland "—he cannot do without money ; an
the funds are very low—very ! Agitation is " hard up "—I
vulgar phrase, but expressive,)—and a Great National Ant
Corn-Law Bazaar is just the thing to relieve it ! Charit
philanthropy. humanity,—Fudge! They have a very La
effect, all the political economists and philosophers agre
upon the character of poor people. Th e workhouse test ar
cheap bread are the proper remedy. The league alone c
regenerate the world " and " sweet George Thompson," at
his fellow speechifiers, therefore, it is for whose especi
benefit is intended the proceeds of the " Great Nation
Anti-Curn-Law Bazaar!" What next?

The grand exchequer-bill fraud might still have been car.
ried on four years, perhaps, before final explosion, but for
those monetary derangements which rendered it every day
more difficult to obtain advances of money on deposit of bills,
excepting on conditions so usurious as could not fail to excite
misgivings that the security deposited was not come by legi-
timately. Hence detection of the existence of duplicate
numbers of bills by an astute banker applied to for advances
of money on his own terms, whatever those might be, which
arousing his suspicions, led to those examinations and colla-
tions of bills by himself and others, which resulted in verifi-
cation of the fact suspected.