The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-18 00:00:00

TO THE WOHIEPEOPLE OF ENGLAND

Fellow Operatives,—Until recently we allowed ourselves
to be humbugged by the most hollow set of hypocrites in the
empire ; I mean the whig or millocrat faction. Experience,
however, has taught us the utter faithlessness of these people
—we have found out the secret of all their mock philan-
thropy, and that is, the attainment of wealth at the expense
of our bones and sinews—that is all they want.
See the game they are playing now in their attempt (vain
attempt, I trust,) to delude us by their hideous and malig-
nant outcry against the corn laws : why, it is for the selfsame
object they try to ruin the agriculturists, (better men a mil-
lion times over than themselves) in order that the labourers
may come down to the manufacturing towns by thousands,
so that they (the millowners) may have their work done for
whatever they choose to give for it—and you can guess pretty
nearly what that will be, when you are left to their tender
mercy ; already they cast you away at middle age, when you
are the most able and willing to work, and fill your places
with females and children ; because you will not work for
the next thing to nothing ; this statement is most conclu-
sively proved by that real philanthropist and patriot, Dr.
Holland, of Sheffield. In his sixth letter to Mr. Mar-
shall, spinner, of Leeds, he proves, among many other im-
portant facts,—that the flax spinners of the United Kingdom
in 1835, were 33,283, of whom only 4564 were adults above
18 years of age—the remaining 28,719 being females and
children! ! Think of that.

Again, in the silk manufactories, the proportion of children
under 18 years old is 60 per cent., and of females 70 per cent.,
and many thousands of able-bodied men can only sarn 4s. 6d.
to 6s. Gd. per week ; and multitudes of women and children
for six days hard labour, receive only half that stun ! ! Think
of that.

The result of this system of employing women and children
in place of men, is, that in the silk trade alone, the number
of surplus hands created annually is 10,153, and in five years,
50,767 ! ! Ponder deeply on that also.
Mr. Marshall's mill alone shows the following horrible re-
sults, as proved by his own evidence :
Number of hands employed in one of his mi 115.... 1229
Number under 21 years of age of the above ...... 1025

Leaving only
above the age of 21, and of which small number of 204, the
greater number are under 30! The average wages paid to
the above 1025 workpeople is just ss. 6d. per week wages paid
of this too.
Mr.
.Holland adds with commendable indignity, ``you are
-!ither killing or throwing upon society, as useless, from hav-
ing reached 21 years of age, at least 100 persons annually."
So much then for these kind-hearted millocrats, who want
cheap bread for us, just as they want cheap oil for their ma-
chinery; but let us not be quelled by the tyrants who them-
selves reside in palaces, and wallow in wealth and luxury,
while they degrade us beneath the level of their beasts.
They think that we have no sense to see, that, so long as
they can get their work done by children, and STEAM MA-
CHINERY, there will be no use in our appealing to them for
work, unless we do it for children' pay I
Now let us see the effects of this sytem (of turning men
out of employ to make room for the " free labour" of
children) on the state of crime in this country.
The committals for crime in England and Wales
4600
in 1825 were ................
The same under the present system: in 1838, were 22,000
Again, the number who have been in custody in the Leeds
Borough Gaol, in 1816, was 364 ; and in 1836, 3202 ! ! Con-
sider this well. So much then for the neeredity of their
system.

Let us next see its effects on the duratien of human life.
The proportion out of every 1000 persons who reach 70 years
of age and upwards, are—
In the agricultural districts of Durham and Devonshire 205
In the manufacturing districts of Manchester and Leeds 60i
Here is a picture for your study, consider these things well,
and then ask yourselves, what might be the objects of the
millocrats in asking our aid to ruin ourselves. I might go
on enlarging on the villainy and hypocrisy of these brawlers
for cheap bread, which we all know by this time means low
wages, or no wages at all. But this much may suffice for the
present. I arn, &c.,

A FELLOW-OiTRATIVI

ANTI-CORN-LAW AGITATION AT PRESCOT,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

I have no doubt it will be gratifying to the friends of order
and the protectors of the rights of property to learn the na-
ture of a meeting, or pretence for a meeting, on anti-corn-
law principles, which was convened, or rather conveyed here
from Liverpool on yesterday evening, and which was intended
to be called a meeting of the inhabitants of Prescot. I at-
tended, amongst the mob (for there was no other description
of persons present), when, to my utter disappointment, I
found it was only a few of those teetotal preachers from
Liverpool, hired by the whigs, and one of whom I imme-
diately recognised, wearing an old white hat, and may be
seen on a Sunday mounted on an old cart, or something like
it, in that waste ground near the Custom-house, announcing
himself as a reclaimed drunkard and vagabond : as for a
Prescot gentleman, there was no such amongst them, except
a few who came down to shew their detestation of the pro-
ceedings. They were headed by a Mr. Hey worth, from near
Knotty Ash, an old teetotal preacher, and a raving whig-
radical of the O'Connell and Melbourne minority. On their
entering Prescot, I only pronounced the name of Lord Stan-
ley, when several cheers were heard from various parts of the
throng, which shewed they were not all whig fools and
dupes. I think they adopted certain resolutions, prepared
before starting from Liverpool, and seconded by a few of the
above description of persons, whom they brought with them
for the purpose in something like a dung cart, with small
flags, a loaf, &c. They got up a bit of music in the nature of
a band, which, of course, attracted considerable numbers of
the ignorant mob, chiefly Irish. Their text was followed by
the doctrines of spoliation of property, and preached to
those who had none, who, instead of supporting a set of
such impostors, ought to be found with something like em-
ployment, for, if we had any means of getting reasonable em-
ployment, bread is cheap enough at present, and it will be
poor consolation to see the number of our poor unemployed
people increased by millions ; this will be a desperate sight
to behold, and a very unwise accompaniment with cheap
bread, but I believe people of property in every place are
opposed to this foolish experiment; they are bound to pro-
tect themselves, and whilst thus protected, all Britain is then
protected, and with them the labourer is protected in his
wages, and every other tradesman thereby enabled to live.
What the O'Connell party call monopoly is only the mono-
poly of every Englishman in our land over the foreigner and
barbarian, to whose market we are bound as Englishmen not
to resort for the produce which our own English neighbours
can supply us with, and, with a repeal of the corn laws, they
must repeal every other tax to enable us to purchase every
thing then with ss. the same as we do now with 15s. Then
who will defend the national independence? Tne whigs
would just allow such a state of things so long as it suited
their party purposes, but we could not rely on them to give
us always cheap bread. It is no grant at all, if our wages
are to be reduced along with it. In fact, if the cup of sweet
cannot be given without a mixture of sour and bitter things,
there is not the slightest confidence to be placed in the
givers ; besides it is quite a new invention, a last expedient
trick of the poor-law bill supporters. We must not put the
slightest confidence in whigs.—l remain, sir,

AN ADVOCATE FOR HIGH WAGES
Prescot, 17th June, 1841.

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SANDON v. PALMERSTON !

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIR,—A report is current that some conservatives intend
recording their votes at the ensuing electfon for Lord Pal-
merston in conjunction with Lord Sandon. Let no man
call himself a conservative who, at this important election,
commits this fatal error.
There must be no mistake about the matter. This battle
will decide the fate of England—whether the institutions of
the country and society are to be preserved, or gradually, but
surely, fall under the tyranny of democracy and licentious-
ness. .

Lord Palmerston is the representative of everything mis-
chievous belonging to whig doctrines, the most michlevous
because the most talented of the party. Personally, he might
effectually discharge the practical business of a representa-
tive, but any conservative who may vote fur him, will not
only betray the sacred principles be professes, but tacitly
admits he has no very strong objection to the measures of
the movement. The disguise the whigs are attempting to
assume of " anti-monopolists " is an electioneering trick,
and nothing can equal its impudence except its shallow ab-
surdity. The object of the whigs is not free trade. The
object of the tories is not monopoly. Those who assert that
this is the matter in dispute, assert what they know to be a
falsehood, and do so to mask intentions, that, even in this
their hour of extremity, they will not venture to express.
The whig government have never yet proposed free trade.
The tories never yet insisted on monopoly.
Let the conservative electors then oppose whig-radicalism
under whatever polished guise he may make his appearance,
and not sacrifice their constitutional monarchy by linking it
to the putrid carcass of unlicensed democracy.-1 am, sir,
yours obediently, CONSERVATOR.

[We hope thei-e are few conservatives who require the
warning:of our correspondent, or they deserve not the name.
—Ed. L. S.]

LITERARY NOTICEB.

Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland Illustrated. Part 5
Edited by N. P. Willis, Esq. G. Virtue, London.

This part contains four engravings representing the scenery
of Ireland, from sketches by Bartlett. The first is the "Ap-
proach to Killarney from the Kenmare Road ;" the second,
the " Natural Bridge near Kilkee ;" the third, " Scene
from the Sugar Loaf Mountain, Bantry Bay ;" the fourth,
" Head of the Killeries, Connemara." They are beautifully
executed. The literary part is extremely interesting and
cleverly written. The account of the Siege of Derry is very
graphic.

Ireland, its Scenery, Character, 4.c. No. 8. By Mrs. S
C. Hall. How and Parsons, 132, Fleet-street.

This month's number contains a neat map of Limerick,
and an engraving of King John's Castle and old Thomond
Bridge, by Hinchlitfe, from a painting by T. Cresvrick, and
many very cleverly executed •ignettes. The literary portion
consists of a description of Limerick, with historical and topo-
graphical remarks ; an account of the Shannon River and
country adjacent. There arc several very amusing tales and
legends interspersed in the number, highly characteristic of
the manners of the people. This is one of the cleverest works
of the day.

Whig-Radicalism v. Wesleyan Methodism, or Sayings and
Doings of certain Liberal Divines and Statesmen, touch-
ing the Wesleyans and Methodism. London : Paul;
Liverpool : Lace and Addison.
This publication is well calculated to open the eyes of
Wesleyans as to who are most likely to be the protectors and
fosterers of the doctrines and discipline of their church—the
falsely-styled liberals, or the zealous and consistent mem-
bers of the Established Church. The best and simplest
method of exhibiting the drift and object of the pamphlet is
to give a few extracts illustrative of its character. We sub-
join the sentiments of Daniel O'Connell, who is well known
as the clamourer for what he calls " justice to Ireland" and
" the repeal of the union." Wesleyans, hear his opinion of

you and your system.
"The Wesleyan Methodists, in the person of their founder,
and from his days have, upon all occasions, shown them-
selves the enemies of freedom of conscience."
" You have at least appeared, if you were not really,
amongst the ardent supporters of the enemies of the English
Protestant Dissenters."
" The Rev. John Wesley exhibited the most ardent but
melancholy zeal in the cause of intolerance."
" The Wesleyan Methodists, as far as the more liberal
spirit of the present period will allow, countenance the prin-
ciple of religious persecution."
" Your organization is extensive, and would be formidable
but for its inherent spirit of charitable antipathy to your
fellow-Christians."
" I charge the Wesleyan Methodists with being inveterate
enemies of freedom of conscience."
" Your history is a short one, scarcely exceeding some
eighty years. Show me within that period, that you have
distinguished yourselves by any one act, or declaration, or
movement, in favour of freedom of conscience or full religi-
ous liberty, indeed I may say in favour of either civil or re-
ligious liberty ; and I will blot out the word hypocrisy,'
retract my charges, apologise most humbly, and write you
down charitable Christians, and not intolerants and bigots."
" I do believe that of all the errors that have deluded the
human mind since christianity commenced, there are none
so totally defenceless in the field of argument as the ever
varying, contradictory, and fantastic doctrines of Wesleyan-
ism. There is no sect, society, or persuasion, that has lent
itself to worse politics than the Wesleyans."
We will next give a sample of the estimation in which Me-
thodism is held by the brawlers for " liberty of conscience."
Thus speak Messrs. Bogue and Bennett, the two dissenting
ministers, who published the " History of Dissenters."
These personages are well known as fierce voluntaries, and
hating methodisin ; these historians of dissent had not the
manliness or the honesty fairly to attempt the contravention
of its creeds and framework, but they must needs descend to
gross misrepresentation and wilful perversion. But we give

their language.
" Mr. Wesley was, indeed, regarded as an Ishmael, for
his hand was against every man, and every man's hand wa
against him."
" The multitudes which attended the preaching of Mr.
Wesley were not so numerous as those who had flocked to
Mr. Whitfield ; but the sudden impressions and load cries
of the hearers were far greater than any thing we find re-
corded in the life of Whitfield, for Mr. Wesley was exactly
in that state of mind which welcomes the marvellous."
" Pelagianism, which the church of England condemns in
her articles, asserts that the death of Christ was intended
alike for all, and that all men have a certain light, or grace,
which they may by their own power improve, and that this
makes the difference between one man and another. Snch
is the creed of the Arminian methodists."
" Both of the methodist communions sent forth teachers
exceedingly rude and uninformed ; but such were better fitted
for Arminian than Calvinistic preachers. Arminianism be-
ing the common creed of the careless world, it is readily wel-
comed by the carnal mind, without any rigorous examina-
tion of its proofs or tendencies ; for there is no difficulty in
convincing men of what they already believe."
The opinions of Lord John Russell are then given, but
these will be found in another column. We have not room
for further extracts, but give the following appeal to the
Wesleyan body, to which are appended many other excellent
and appropriate remarks :
" Return such men to parliament as Lord John Russell.
Mr. Gibson, Mr. Baines, Sir Joshua Walmsley, andAlr.
Brotherton, and you will then be lending your aid to
the
establishment of such schools all over the kingdom ; and
you
will be taxed for the support of the monstrous doctrines
taught in them ;—but remember also, you must be held indi-
vidually responsible for the results."

TRIBUTE or RESPECT.—On Wednesday evening, the 16th
June, the members of the Benevolent Union Society, held
at Mr. J. Coombes's, Greenfield-street, Edge-hill, presented
a very handsome and valuable snuff-box to their Secretary.
with the following inscription engraved thereon :—" Pre-
sented to Mr. Robert Colebourn, as a token of respect, horn
the 13eneToleut Seeiety, 16th Jane, 1841.