The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-08 00:00:00

TIIE LEAGUE AND THE PAPISTS AT MANCHESTER,

There were great doings last week at Manchester. The
creatures who have been goaded on by the league (a band of
snug fellows who have clubbed it for the purpose of agita-
tion), had a great meeting in the open air, to consider, as it
is ludicrously called, the question of the corn laws. The
mayor declined to call the meeting, so they assembled with-
out his worship's leave. Mr. Coleden was invited to take
the chair, and accepted the invitation ; and it was expected
that Mr. Daniel O'Connell would be present, but he did not
appear. Daniel, it seems, was in Manchester the previous
day, and addressed the " pisantry," at Carpenter's-hall, in
favour of a repeal of the union ; but having told his people
how to behave at the succeeding meeting, especially towards
his friends, the chartists, he slunk from the port of danger,
and took the early train for London next morning. At the
corn meeting the most abominable rioting took place. Thir-
teen persons were conveyed to the Infirmary in the course of
the day, all severely wounded. The " impartial" chairman
would hear none but his own favourites, and the Irish re-
pealers bludgeoned every man that endeavoured to gain a
hearing in opposition to the views of the league. " The police
force," says the Stockport Advertiser, who had doubtless
received their orders as to how they should proceed at parti-
cular junctures, "attacked with their bludgeons every person
who appeared in the character of an opponent to the voice
of Mr. Cobden, and this system was carried on in such a
disgraceful and merciless manner, that the affray was in dan-
ger of terminating with frightful results. By such means
all opposition was at length silenced, and the leaguers carried
their resolutions." " The same evening," adds our Stock-
port contemporary, " a large meeting was held in the Castle
Yard, in this town, when Mr. Bairstow and others gave a
frightful picture of the brutality which had been intlicted•l
upon the people at Manchester, because of their opposition
to such a repeal of the corn laws as Mr. Cobden would fain
give the electors. The language was strong and emphatic;
and Mr. Cobden was unanimously denounced and declared
to be unworthy to represent Stockport in parliament, and
the meeting thereupon pledged themselves to use their best
exertions to prevent his return. Three of the leading mem-
bers of Mr. Cobden's committee—Sir Ralph Pendlebury,
Mr. Alderman Baker, and Mr. Charles Hudson, were pre-
sent, and appeared grievously distressed that.the tide of popu-
lar favour should so soon have been turned against their pet."
MARINER'S CHURCH SCHOOLS.-If there is one thing
more than another in which the inhabitants of Liverpool
ought to feel a peculiar interest, and for the attainment of
which every effort should he strained, it is that of a sound
scriptural education for the rising generation, and if that be
more needed in one part of the town than others, we know
of no district where it is more required than in the crowded
neighbourhoods of our docks, or for the offspring of-the
mariners who frequent our port. Where there is no other
motive to induce the public to attend the sermons which
will he preached on Sunday next, at the mariner's church,
we think they ought to suffice, but when we state in addition,
that the addresses will he delivered by Dr. Scoresby, the for•
mer incumbent of the church, we conceive we have said
more than enough to secure a numerous auditory, and a
munificent collection. The character of Dr. Scoresby is
well known ; his piety and talents are highly appreciated,
and we are greatly mistaken if the remembrance of them
' does not revive the most pleasing associations in the minds
of our readers, inciting them to support liberally the useful
charity for which he will, no doubt, plead with his usual
ability.