The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-10 00:00:00

THE CHARTISTS AND THE ANTI-CORN-LAW
AGITATORS.

(From the Standard.) ,
The anti-corn-law whig-radicals have been again:Shame-
fully defeated by the chartists. ,The scene of this, their more
recent discomfiture and disgrace, is Sheffield,. where, 'on
Thursday, Mr.—(appropriation) Ward—Mr. Parker and
some others tried to get up a meeting in aid of the anti. corn-
law swindle. The chartists beat them out of the Circus,
their first place of assembling, and then relentlessly pursued
them to a place called Paradise-square, where.the wiug,-radi-
cals sought a refuge, and there beat them soundly , again..
The beating was all, however, merely figurative, and very.
peaceable; for though there were hints of a horsepond,. and
one or two blows. struck towards the close of the proceed-
ings, the general conduct of the chartists was orderly, and
Mr. Ward and Mr. Parker were permitted to slink away in
safety. •
The Morning Chronicle observes that it is " sorry to say
,that the proceedings at the anti-corn-law meeting at Sheffield
by no means correspond with the inference which it drew
from the statements in the address from the working people
of that town." It is natural enough that the Morning Chro-
nicle should be disappointed. The whigs have held the po-
pulace ".by the ears long enough to expect a perpetuity of
influence. Their influence is, however at an end, and now
they must learn to follow those whom they lately drove, or
they will be left in solitude. We are not without a hope that
the whigs are making the discovery, and that the country
may be permitted to rest from agitation. Exhibitions like
that of Sheffield demonstrate nothing at present but the
weakness of the whig-radicals ; if persevered in, they will
expose the folly and malignity of the party.
Let them not for a moment flatter themselves with the
notion, that by incurring the hostility of the chartists, they
in the least recommend themselves to the favourable opinion
of the friends of order. No.; every man of common sense
sees that their arguments are the arguments of chartism, and
that the inflamed temper which they seek to kindle, is to the
full as dangerous and malevolent as any disposition by which
the chartists have been animated. The difference between
the anti-corn-law agitators and the chartist agitators is this :
the first to seek a disaffection, by which, either masked as
" moral force" or nakedly displayed in rebellion, their own
particular class will be gainers at the expense of all other
classes, while the chartists entertain insane projects by which
they hope to realise benefits to all classes.
The designs of both are equally dangerous, but by no means
equally base and criminal ; they differ as far as nleau villany
differs from - generonS folly. The whit'-radicals, moreover,
have pictured to them in little, by their late defeats, what
would be the consequence of their success should they suc-
ceed to their utmost wishes. The chartists are already too
strong for them. Well, suppose the corn-laws repealed,.
what would they have to offer in opposition to the principle
of chartist demands ? Every principle upon which they
claim the repeal, of the corn-laws is a chartist principle.
The anti-corn-law men would limit the application of such
principles to matters in which they are to be gainers ; the
chartists would apply them universally. Well, as we
have said, suppose the anti-corn-law men to have suc-
ceeded, with what face could they resist the further
application of their own principles, or how could they
dare to denounce the violent agitation by which them-
selves are now labouring to win success for these principles ?
As far as the restraints of honour and conscience go, we are
aware they would have no difficulty in hunting, even to the
gallows, the followers in their own track ; but much as they
may despise the restraints of honour and conscience, the
Whig-radicals could not dare to insult a stronger party than
their own ; and having carried their repeal of the corn-laws,
they must consent to assist in the use of the same means in
carrying the Charter—the moral necessity is complete.
•However, there is a hope that the lesson received in Sheffield
may warn them that in calling anti-corn-law meetings, they
are really summoning chartist musters..

CURIOUS AND IMpoRTANT INVENTION.—Mr. James
Sutcliffe, of Limerick, Superintendent of the Dock Works,
under Sir Thomas Dean and Co., has recently invented and
taken out a patent" fora pump, which bids 'fair to supercedb
every thing of the kind that has One before it. 'TN princi-
ple is infallible, and infinitely superior for all practical PiAi
poses. It has already received the palm from a MUltitinle of
the greatest scientific men of the present age, who have ex-
amined its structure. Its peculiarities are so strikingly di-
versified as to command strict attention. In its almost total
relief from friction, a continuous stream, and having no
valves, can never be rendered useless by being choked, so
common with every other one before ; the vacuum is moven
by an elipsis revolving in a calendar, and will discharge- any
thing that can pass up the pipe. It is made entirely of iron,
so is almost everlasting. It will treble the quantum of the
common pump by the same power, and if applied to en-
gine, will work wonders. Mr. S. has gone to Liverpool tb
enter into a contract with some respectable establishment for
the manufacture of them. He has already got an immense
quantity of orders from engineers and contractors all over
the three kingdoms.--Limerick S'landard.