The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-03 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

We have received 10s. from Mrs. Beley, 10s. from Mr. John
Howard, 2s. 6d. from a Lady, 2s. 4d. from A Friend,
and 2s. from K, for George Jordan and family.
A Mechanic calls the attention of the directors of the
Mechanics' Institution to the shameful proceedings which
take place at the doors of that building when an attractive
lecture is announced for delivery, or on any similar occa-
sion. Our correspondent states that a separate entrance
for men, and those paying for the night, or throwing open
the side doors, would in some measure obviate his com-
plaint.
THE BRAZILIAN TREATY AND THE SUGAR DUTIES.—The
Mercury of Friday last has a long article on these subjects
and, in the course of it, makes sundry announcements
as the results of Mr. Ellis's mission to the Brazilian Go-
vernment. Not only does our contemporary declare, with
apparent truth, the feeling of that Government towards
Mr. Ellis's propositions, but our Envoy is declared to have
handed in " the ultimatum of his cabinet," in consequence
of the opposition which his proposals met with. We are
greviously misinformed (although the Mercury states that
he had pursued his enquiries in the best informed quarters)
if Mr. Ellis, according to the last advices,had even arrived
at the Brazils. Let our contemporary look a little further
into the matter, for he has been most egregiously misled.
We have been induced to notice the subject rather because
the article in question has been copied into one of the
London Papers, and thence obtains considerable circula-
tion.

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TUESDAY

MORNING, JANUARY 1, 1843

When Mr. Joseph Sturge, of Birmingham, with-
drew his annual subscription of a hundred pounds
from the Anti-Corn-law League, there were some, we
dare say, who imagined that the worthy quaker had, in
reality, ceased to fraternise with that factious body.
And when the same worthy individual threw himself
into the " complete suffrage" agitation, hoisted his
drab beaver as a new " cap of liberty," and called upon
the unenfranchised masses to join with him in a cru-
sade in search of the crotchetty points of the People's
Charter, disguised in milk and water, there were a few
who thought him very much in earnest, and concluded
that the heart and soul, and not merely the corporeal
" organisation" of Joseph, were in the cause. Both
these conclusions, however, are founded, we fear,
upon the want of a due examination of all the circum-
stances of the case, and of a proper estimation of the
character of the worthy in question. We ourselves
most firmly believe that friend Joseph is as much a
member of the League now, as at any past period of
his life; and that the "complete suffrage" movement
of which he is, or aspires to be, the head, is in reality
a movement of the Anti-Corn-law League itself. Our
reasons for arriving at this conclusion we shall briefly
detail.

The Chartist agitation, our readers are well aware,
has long been a thorn in the side of the anti-corn-law
body. From the first moment of its existence, the
Chartist leaders have denounced its projects and pro-
fessions as selfish and hypocritical. They have proved
unruly customers at its gatherings. They would not
be fooled by its platform displays. They had an acute
perception, gathered from experience, in their own
cases, of the venal and slippery character of its oratory
The mountebank was jealous of the rival mountebank;
the democratic quack feared the corn-quack. They
could not both juggle and cozen together. Do ow
readers not remember the astute movement by which
the League body attempted, under these circum-
stances, to get to the windward of the Chartist body ?
DO they not remember a meeting of the former body,
held in Manchester, at which an influential portion of
its members, with no less sagacious an individual than
Mr. John Brooks in their van,deciarefithistmerenee
to Chartist principles—disguised under the form of
demand for " complete suffrage,"—and the manifesto
which was subsequently issued by the new association?
They cannot. The manifesto in question was duly
chronicled by the press of Manchester, with the names
of its president, its council and its committee, com-
prising amongst their number many of the most active
of the Leaguers, and not a few of the League magis-
tracy of that town ; and, we have no doubt, a copy of
it might be found at any time in the archives of the
Home-office.

By this demonstration of sympathy the Leaguers
imagined that they had muzzled Chartism ! They
were disappointed. The outbreak in the manufactur-
ing districts in August last—how brought about, and
for what purposes, we need not here express our
known opinions undeceived them. The Chartist
body would not allow their new allies to convert that
outbreak into an anti-corn-law agitation ; but de-
manded " their bond"—agitation for " complete suf.
frage"—and on non-compliance, on the part of the
startled millocracy, with such demand, raised once
more their old banner—the Charter. They had no
faith in the honesty of the League. They would not
trust them with their free trade in corn first. The
democratici rogue would not trust the " rogue in
grain" with his portion of the spoil, but insisted upon
a division upon the spot; and such a course not being
convenient to the former, the Chartist, like Hari
Gow, determined thenceforth to fight " for his own
hand."

Since that period, we have heard nothing of the
leading members of the League, in connexion
with the " suffrage" movement. These gentlemen
.
were a little afraid, perhaps, that, in their past con
nexion with it, they had somewhat committed them'
selves. It would not do for such prominent members
of a non-political body to be seen herding with the
O'Connors and Lovetts—the gaol birds of the Char-
ter. Friend Joseph, however, disconnected himself
from the League, and clung to the new movement,
He could agitate for the six points, whilst his late con'
freres kept their hands clean, and their persons free
from the pains of a premunire. And now mark events
and coincidences ! The League is straining nerve and
sinew to raise funds for its continued agitation—t°
overawe the legislature—to cozen the agricultural body
with lying tracts, and to betray the working closes
with deceitful professions. And in what is the will
quaker engaged ? In amusing the gulls and knave°
of the " complete suffrage" and Chartist parties With.
A CONVENTION, in his own town of Birmingham'
Friend Joseph is tickling the cat whilst the mice run of
with the cheese ! Could he be -better engaged for the
cause were he ten times a Leaguer ?
We did purpose saying a few words upon the sub-
ject of this farcical convention this Brummagem
Parliament; but we must perforce abstain. We can:
not, however, omit remarking with what propriety anti
justice a few thousand pounds of the League re
might be distributed amongst the needy spoutere--;
" complete suffrage" and Chartist—who have sbew,
tion ,ofthe duped such an aptituudeed
aptitude, in
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But perhaps we are late in making the sg
The needy patriots, or some of them, have p6'rhaPs
already touched the League money.

In whatever direction we turn to survey the want;
festations of the national mind of France, we meet
with eviaences of a feverish restlessness, accon3Fallled
by a bitter hostility towards this country, which are
i
anything but satisfactory objects of contemplation. !,
her foreign policy we see a spirit of aggression cbst
played—occasionally exercised upon objects the woe
contemptible, but even then, apparently, levelled egitll/s
_,
the power, and intended to tax the patient forbearance
of Great Britain. The colonization, by her, of Alger/

in direct defiance of positive pledges to pursue an oppo-
site course; her insolent and annoying interference
with our commerce upon another portion of the

African coast ; her constant efforts to overturn the
established Government of Spain, and to destroy
British influence in that country; her late ridiculous
Marquesas affair; the silly, though impertinent, in-
her officers, on board a British ship,
ess to the completion of an important
the Chinese Emperor :—all these dis-
ith the outrageous vanity which

trusion of one

an uninvited witr

negotiation N

play, ming

peculiar to the French character, a disposition to carry
insult and aggression to that pitch at which England
must interfere, or he content to sink down into the