The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-12-05 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

TO CORRESPONDENTS

local arrairs conservatism was then prostrate beneath in thus expecting that the people of Manchester
elled to suspend some remarks, which we the feet of rampant radicalism. In the parliament were satisfied. The assize business of the southern
---, the recent decision of the of the nation these conflicting principles held the division of the county will not come to Manchester;
same relative positions. We had called into exist- but our friends will not have it stay in Liverpool.
ence, then, our Conservative Associations, our It cannot come nearer, and therefore—most unma-
Tradesmen's Conservative Associations, and our themati al and illogical conclusion !—it must be re-
Protestant Associations ; and, with these aids, we moved further away, to the town of Lancaster !
had striven for, and achieved much, to throw down The grounds, alleged by the Law Association of
the political Dagon by which we were oppressed. Manchester, for this apparently strange course, are
We had stricken the first blow at our enemy's fore- some of them specious enough and forcible—if true.
head, and staggered, but not prostrated, him ; and It is urged that the criminal business at Lancaster
Another victim of the bloody tragedy of Finnoe
has just been added to the hecatombs, who have fal-
in some portions of the empire our efforts might does not extend over more than two or three days,
len beneath the system of fiendish outrage which
have been crowned with some trifling increase of whilst at Liverpool it occupies two or thrce weeks ;
success. We might have carried a few additional and, as criminal cases are tried indiscriminately
desolates unhappy Ireland ! After a protracted pe-
county constituencies, and possibly some borough throughout the assizes, that attorneys and witnesses
eiod of suffering, Mr. Waller has followed to the
-anoffending sister-in-law, Miss Vereker; constituencies; but in this borough we should still are compelled to attend during the whole period, at
tnere is too much reason to fear that his life will have fallen short of the complete success which has a considerable increase of expense, which would not
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since crowned our efforts, had we not fortunately be the case were the Manchester portion of the cases
not be the last forfeited—that his amiable lady, now
ering between this world and eternity, will, be-
entertained the possibility—treated by our opponents transferred to Lancaster. The grand jury, too, it is
*,v days, he laid with him, side by side, in
as utterly impracticable—of banding together, in said, are detained four or five days at Liverpool,
grave. And yet justice still sleeps, in
defence of the established constitution of the realm, whilst at Lancaster their business is generally ter-
.'hich holds the murderers of this ill-fated and of our Protestant institutions, a CONSERVATIVE minated in one day. Again, it is said that the cost
The cold-blooded traitor, whose truculent DEMOCRACY. of prosecutions at Liverpool is much greater than at
We did entertain this idea. We acted upon it; Lancaster; and much stress is laid upon the ineon-
Is to the bad passions of the Irish peasantry
ontributect to pro uce the feeling, which has
we originated a Protestant Operative Association in venience, to the police, of a protracted absence from
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Liverpool; and how nobly was our call responded their duties.
1 them to this and similar outbreaks of fury
till gathers round him his levees of to by the humble, but faithful, men to whom our To all these arguments, however, there are strong
appeal was made. By a Conservative Democracy— grounds of demurrer. The business of the assizes
co-conspirators against the peace of their common
ekes together the blood-stained wages
by our Operative Protestants—we have been at at Liverpool is protracted, because of the large num-
,
length enabled to reverse the position in which we ber of cases coming from the hundred of Salford.
ndiarism and treason—is still held up by
were placed previously to their organization—to over- It is comparatively insignificant at Lancaster, be-
en the very altars, as the guiding
throw a local and a national Whig-Radical tyranny, cause of the absence of those cases. The average
genius of religion and patriotism—and, whilst the
execration and disgast of all good men falls unfelt and plant the time-honoured flag of "our glorious cost of prosecutions at Liverpool, the bulk of which
constitution, in church and state," in a triumphant are serious cases from the manufacturing districts,
upon his seared heart and bronzed and impenetrable
;<4 ready to exclaim, in the hideous position, upon those walls, beneath which, so lately, cannot fairly be measured by the cost of the petty
Republicanism and Infidelity were mining, and cases " from the remoter hundreds of Blackburn,
whose anticipated fall these twin demons were Leyland, Amounderness, and Lonsdale," ordinarily
watching for in exuberant delight. The monarchy, tried at Lancaster, and which are in general such as
the peerage, the constitution of our fathers, were we should here dispose of at sessions. It should be
saved—eternal honour to the " hard-handed men shown that our own serious cases would be more
who toil in Athens here," by whose loyalty and cheaply disposed of at Lancaster, with the additional
honesty a consummation so glorious was mainly amount of business which would be caused by the
achieved.
removal to that place of the Manchester causes,
Well—the victory was won ; and what was the than at Liverpool ; but that, we apprehend, it would
fate of the victors ? For a time—there is much in be difficult to show. Most of the other alleged ad-
that—Conservatism became the ascendant power in vantages of the former town, too, are such as would
Great Britain; and now where are the instruments disappear in a similar way when the business be-
of its elevation ? Our Conservative Associations, came divided ; and one alleged evil—the necessity
our Tradesmen's Association, and even that great of lawyers, witnesses, police-officers, &c., attending
body—" the Protestant Association" of Liverpool— the whole period of the assize—does not exist; for
where are they now ? What are their works ? They in most cases, where numerous witnesses are re-
am extinct ! They parted asunder, in the hour of quired, a day of hearing is fixed, and attendance
triumph, like a rope of sand. Of the combined bo- on that day only is necessary.
dies by whom, in this locality, the battle of the con- One statement of the petitioners is so ludicrous,
stitution was fought, the humble Association of that; lest we should be thought to have drawn upon
Operative Protestants alone remains—" amongst the imagination in giving it, we copy the ipsissima verba.
faithless faithful only found !" Unaided by those It is urged,
who have reaped the chief fruits of their exertions— " That in so large a town as Liverpool, presenting, as
discountenanced, deserted, unaided in their zealous it does, so many facilities for short excursions of plea-
protestantism—the operatives of Liverpool still re- sur, and besides,fi the usual attrftctions of a seaport, your
main, a wedge of iron—a rampart impenetrable— petitioners
together,
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readiness difficulty in keepingv‘,bea
requiredtheir
court;
to resist the aggressive attacks of liberalism. To and which objection does not, in the experience of your
the world they hold out still an example worthy of petitioners, apply to Lancaster. The same observations
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1 all praise—worthy of imitation ; the example of a may frequently be applied to the petty jurors."
body of humble artizans standing in the breach of The lively people of the manufacturing districts
the constitution, when those who should have led round Manchester cannot be restrained when they
them and cheered them on—those whom their ex-
get, out of their own fog and smoke, into our pure
ertions have raised to posts of honour and emolu-
air ! They get away from their legal keeping—take
pleasure trips—deprive the attorney, or his clerk, of
ment—are sunk in luxurious ease, enjoying the
the tail of witnesses and other followers, with which
fruits of labour and sacrifices in which they refuse
to participate, he struts about the vicinity of the Sessions-house,
brief-bag in hand and conscious importance in his
Should this be ? Oh, no—" Reform it altoge-
face—and go gipsying to Cheshire and elsewhere.
ther," Conservative gentlemen of Liverpool. We
ask you not to yield up to the support of Conserva-
All this is very shocking and provoking; but really
we are afraid that it will scarcely be deemed, by her
tism your leisure—your valuable time, which, by
Majesty s advisers, a sufficient reason for the change
the bye, you grudged not, at a period not long past. -
of locality petitioned for. Lan ccster we have always
But one duty, in honour, you are bound to perform.
Out of their scanty, too scanty pittances, your ope-
thought a very pretty4lace, with many inducements
for "short trips of pleasure," and other intoxicating
rsitiiiv i
cl? ris teki is prn a rten
enruoaisni fundsror vt o enable tb em
N men you nave ,—_
excitable Manchestrians from beneath the protection
shrunk. It is for you to take a portion of this
burthen from their shoulders. It is for you to as-
of the legal wing; and if any change must be made
—if the liveliness of our neighbours is so excessive—
sure them that, in the contest in which they are
we should suggest, as the proper locality to he se-
engaged, they shall not be left to fight unaided !
]acted, some dreary spot on Chat Moss, where the
—or whether it is to be COERCED to submis- Lay these things to heart, Conservatives of Liver-
pool ! Look well at the battle which these faithful fear of bogs and pits would restrain their feet from
HELD DOWN, until the laws and the
wandering from the precincts of the court-house.
,
eon baVe been enabled to assert their supre- men have to wage ! Glance at the thousand pla-
cards—. Chartist, Repeal, Anti-Corn-Law, and others a c eriousiy, we cannot but suspect that this, like
—which cover the walls of your town, announcing
and to protect the lives and the property of
other similar movements of the Manchester people,
is prompted by a little--a very little—quantity of
meetings for the purpose of disseminating doctrines
_,al the measures and
jealous feeling towards our "good old town." They
as alone fit for the crisis hostile to the best interests of the country; and say
must really try to get the better of this; they must
have now arrived. The ordinary whether, at such a crisis as the present, it is truly
allow wise, or even worldly wise, to leave a body of men, us to live, without these continual efforts to
throw us into the shade; and especially, if even they
by whom the minds of the democracy of your town
,ly acted upon, to struggle unaided by take from us our bonding warehouses, custom-house,
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docks, and shipping, they must allow us, twice
your countenance, or to depend even upon the
a-year, the amusement afforded by the presence of
eloquent appeals of their Reverend Chairman and
the shoal of -pleasant and cultivated people, who visit
us to settle their quarrels, and afford us a specimen
of the amenities of life in the manufacturing districts!

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have occasionally very extraordinary fancies, and
extraordinary modes of evincing them ; but the
most startling fancy of theirs, which we have re-
cently met with, is one which has developed itself
during the past week, in a proposal to remove the

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At length we are delighted to observe that an
effort, worthy of being called such, is being made
to liberate from his long and dreary confinement
that tried friend of the people, and of the constitution
of his country,—RICHARD OASTLER. At such a
crisis as the present, the loss of the services of such
a man is a national calamity. Every groan of the
wretched pauper in his bastile prison—every pang
of the suffering factory child—every try of op-
pressed humanity within the realm--appeal to the
hearts of Englishmen to be up and stirring in the
endeavour—and what a paltry one it is for a nation !
—to strike the fetters from the limbs and the soul
(for such slavery shrivels the limbs and the soul
both) of the man best fitted to contest successfully in
a cause so high and holy. Already, as will be seen
by an advertisement in our columns this day, the
attempt, in his own immediate neighbourhood, has
been made, and attended by a considerable amount
of success; and measures are being taken to bring
the claims of this honest and sincere patriot, and
friend of the human race, before the consideration of
the public of Liverpool. A meeting, to carry out
the success of this effort, is, we understand, shortly
to be held in Liverpool, at which Mr. Walter, of
the London Times, Mr. Ferrand, M.P., and other
distinguished friends of Mr. Oastler, and advocates
of the same good cause, will be present ; and we do
not, we are confident, so far underrate the attach-
ment of our fellow townsmen to those principles,
for which Mr. Oastler has suffered, as to fear that
we are wrong, in predicting that the response to an
appeal in his favour will be worthy of this loyal
and Conservative town.

CAUTION TO ENGLISH REPEAL WARDENS.--The in.
solence and faithlessness of the Irish mendicant and
traitor have often been exhibited towards those of his
dupes whom he could illtreat with supposed impunity ;
and an instance of these qualities is this day to be found
in our columns. A party in Pr scot (whose name will be
seen appended to a letter addressed to the former object
of his idolatry—Daniel), in the fullness of his heart, in-
dited, and printed, we suppose, a placard address to the
Roman catholics in his locality; and with the pride of
authorship strong within him, forwarded his production
to O'Connell himself. Did he receive for his zeal the thanks
of the frequenters of the Corn Exchange,--a mural crown,
or any thing of that sort? Oh, no ! Had he his produc-
tion returned, with a paternal rebuke, to be treasured in
all his after life, as a mark of the notice of him by a great
man ? Not that either ! our correspondent—repeal
warden as he was—had his placard simply enclosed to the
inspector of police at Prescot---a tolerably fair hint to
that functionary that a prosecution of the writer would be
very proper ! Such conduct—such treachery we may call
it—requires no comment of ours. Let it be a hint to
Englishmen, whatever their politics, to trust Daniel for
the future as little as possible. The fellow would hang
all his generation for the price of the cordage required
for the operation.