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Mich the Tuesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOL

ST AND ARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile

body in Manchester affords its proprietors the gratify-
ing power of urging this, amongst the other undeniable
claims which it possesses, upon the favor of that portion
of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to

bring their advertisements before the notice of buyers in

the neighbouring manufacturing districts. In most of
the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of
the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester,

however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our
publication of Tuesday—occurring upon the most im-

portant market day of the Cotton Trade, wizen its

Exchange and Hotels are thronged with country manu-

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facturers, spinners, and calico printers—is firmly es-
tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased

land increasing interest

Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to
receive an increased measure of support from Me mer-
chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it affords
us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst
those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver-

sing farours liberally upon us, of our increased ability
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to do justice to the interests committed to their care

TO CORRESPONDENTS

We have a large mass of communications before us, but all
idents must have patience until after the assizes.

OM Corr,

SLIP Zibtrpool &tanNn.

TUESDAY MO RAIN(

T, APRIL 11, 1843

The result of the Nottingham election, which has
terminated in the defeat of Mr. Walter, jun., and the
League candidate, Mr. Thos. Gisborne,
The result of

return of the

rcely have

surprised the world

a Nottingham election has rarely, indeed, decided any

thing of greater importance than the question, on
which side the practices, of bribery by the candidate
and debauchery and political profligacy on the part of
his venal supporters, have been the greatest. In the

present case

, however, there are a few circumstances

are worthy of being remarked upon

We have, in time past, been accustomed to hear of
such a thing as " Tory-Chartism," although it was

never very clear to us of what it consisted

A Thry-

Chartist, however, was something very shocking, very
disreputable, and very dangerous ; and we can only
assume that he was such because he entertained the
opinions or favoured the designs of the Chartist party.
at all events, is our own conclusion as to the

Such,

gnification of the term; and if we.are in error, most

likely the Manchester Guardian can set us right.
Now at this election we observe that the successful
who is also the favoured of the Anti-Corn-

candidate

law League)

has gone a little further than any Con-

servative has as yet been known to go. The utmost
that could ever be alleged against a Tory-Chartist was
that he entertained, in a somewhat mitigated form,
some of the hostility directed by the Chartists against
certain Malthusian doctrines of the Whig party. He
held in no very good odour the new poor-law; had a
leaning towards a ten hours' factory bill; suspected
that the expansion of the productive power of British
machinery had somethiug to do with the increasing dis-

ss of the British hand-labourer ; and, as the climax

to his audacity, denied altogether the existence of that
vast regard for the interests and love for the persons
of the working classes, which Whiggery ie in the habit
of putting forth as its distinguishing characteristic as
a political party. Further than this no Tory-Chartist
has been accused of going; but at this Nottingham
election we observe that the Anti-Corn-law League, by
the mouth of their candidate, Mr. Gisborne, has not
only coquetted with Feargus, the great apostle of the
new constitution which is to be, but has bolted the
charter itself (o—swallowed the six points, " uni-
versal suffrage," " annual parliaments," " vote by
ballot," " electoral districts," " no property qualifica-
tion," and " paid members!" Chartist and anti-corn-.

law agitation are, from henceforth, to go hand-in-
hand. The League fifty-thousand fund is to be made
available to foist into Parliament only such gentlemen
of character, or rather gentlemen of such character, as
will submit to gulp down upon the hustings—a la
Gisborne and Lord Rancliffe—the nauseous constitu-
tional drench which Mr. Feargus O'Connor carries
about with him, to be swallowed as the price of his

support
This, then, is the first lesson taught us by the Not-
tingham contest; and from it we may deduce another,
viz., that the fact of one political body denouncing
another in the most bitter terms, and even putting in
operation the strongest power of the law for its sup-
pression, is no guarantee that the most perfect good
understanding does not exist between them. The
League body denounced the Chartist body as the fo-
menters of the recent disturbances in the manufac-
turing districts. The League_ body and the Chartist
body are perfect good friends at Nottingham ! Have
they ever been otherwise?' Have these committals,
these prosecutions, these protestations of mutual dis-
like, been, after all, anything more than a little bye-play
or lover's quarrels, which, as every body knows, but
lead to increased affection ?
There is another trifling matter, however;'cannected
with this League-Chartist victory. The fingers of the
gentlemen are reported not to have been quite so clean
as the fingers of such patriots ought to be ! This
however, will have to be decided by an elec-
tion committee; and if the verdict against the newly-
elected be, as with the example of a late verdict before
us, we see not how it can be otherwise than " guilty
of bribery," we do most fervently pray that a consti-
tuency, which appears only to exist in order to exhibit
to thes
iworld an example of unparalleled profhgacy—a
on
ency among which an honest candidate dare
not presentttu himself during the canvass without a cer-
tainty taipt
being tainted by the contact--will at once be
deprived
of the opportunity of doing further offence to
the British Constitution and to decency ! Nottingham
must
be disfranchised, or Sudbury will have been
treated with injustice.

If we live in a country, in which distress and priva-
on are occasionally rife; if our commercial and in.-
gies at times fail us; if the productiveness

dustrial tale

of our soil is not always equal to the wants of our vast
and growing population, and we are only permitted to
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reap the fruits of the earth " in their season,"
greater cost of labour and painstaking than in climes
more favoured :—if no plains teeming with sponta-
neous vegetation surround us, and the rich fruits of

the tropics

re not ours to gather; we are, at the least.

'aced beyond the

reach of those terrific convulsions of

ature which, in an hour, or a minute of calamity,

helm the hopes and fortunes of an entire corn-
and convert scenes of fertility and gorgeous
on and death ! We

nto vast wastes of devast

to thank an all-seeing God that, in our periods of

eatest national tribulation, the land in which we are

placed is still

as compared with other lands, for it

, and its security of life and property
1 worthy of the name of " happy England."
The arrival of the last West Indian mail has afforde

rroundsi unfortunately too ample and indisputable:
lot;

1-.- at

e same time, they appeal most powerfully