The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-04-11 00:00:00

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TO CORRESPONDENTS

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TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 11, 1843

The result of the Nottingham election, which has
terminated in the defeat of Mr. Walter, jun., and the
return of the League candidate, Mr. Thos. Gisborne,
can scarcely have surprised the world. The result of
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
which 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 Tory-
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.
Such, at all events, is our own conclusion as to the

signification 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
candidate (who is also the favoured of the Anti-Corn-
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 bad somethiug to do with the increasing dis-
tress 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 is in the habit
of putting forth as its distinguishing characteristic as
a political party. - Further than. anti no Toni-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 (.9—swailovved 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 naost 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, connected
with this League-Chartist victory. The fingers of the
gentlemen are reported not to have been quite so clean
as the lingers of such patriots ought to be! This
however, will have to be decided by an elec-
tionmmittee; and if the verdict against the newly-
electedas with the example of a late verdict before
question,ccommittee;
b e
us, we see not how it can be otherwise than " guilty
we do most fervently pray that a consti-
tuency, ,'
which appears only to exist in order to exhibit
to the world an example of unparalleled profligacy—a
constituency among which an honest candidate dare
not present himself during the canvass without a cer-
tainty of 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
disfranchised, or Sudbury will have been
Itit3-eu'Lt be disfranchised,
injustice

If we live in a country, in which distress and priva-
tion are occasionally rife; if our commercial and in-
dustrial energies at times fail us; if the productiveness
of our soil is nut always equal to the wants of our vast
and growing- population, and we are only permitted to
reap the fruits of the earth " in their season," at a
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 are not ours to gather; we are, at the least,
placed beyond the reach of those terrific convulsions of
nature which, in an hour, or a minute of calamity,