The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-10 00:00:00

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into hatred and contempt the Government and con-
We again find reference made in the above paper 1
st.tution of the country as by law established," they
to the letter of the British Minister, at Buenos Ayres,
were so calculated months ago. If such meetings
of 16th December. 1842, addressed to the Buenos
are seditious and dangerous to the public peace now,
Ayrean and Monte Videan governments, demanding
they were equally so months ago. Why then, we
a cessation of hostilities ; and if it be true that such
, ask still, were they not put down ? Why has the
a letter was written to the two belligerents, of which
we are told there is not a doubt, we are altogether at miscreant agitator been permitted, week after week,
a loss to know why the conditions of this letter have to plunder a misguided people ;—to plunder them
by his cruel exactions, and doubly plunder them by
not been enforced by the British Government, as
the compulsory idleness to which he has submitted
peace would at once have been established, the trade
hundreds of thousands, who must, during the ap-
to Monte Video pre erved and extended, and yen,
p
serious losses avoided. Indeed we can only see in preaching winter, be plunged into misery unparal-
lelled even in his own unhappy country ? To these
the con inuance of this war the utter exhaustion of
questions the vigor of the Government now furnish,
both countries, and the ruin of both as places of in our humble opinion, no satisfactory solution : and
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1 WO wan inereiore to be further enlightened upon the
nufactures they consumed, must, in the end, be
Its ulterior proceedings.
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most seriously felt by our merchants and manufac-
subject b
It will be urged, no doubt, by the thick and thin
turers engaged in trade to the River Plate. We
adulators of the Ministerial policy, that Sir Robert
would earnestly call the attention of our Govern- Peel and his colleagues waited to complete that vast
merit to this destructive and lung protracted strug-
amount of precautionary arrangement and military
gle, impressed as we are with the conviction that it
preparation, which we now see so effectively brought
is our duty to ascertain if the letter of the 16th Dec.
into action. Such an argument might hold good,
.1N
was written by our minister, and if so, then at once
_o if it could be shown that at any moment we were
to act upon that letter according to its tenor.
not prepared to assert the supremacy of the law in
other course, in our opinion, remains open to the
that country. But is this the case ? No ; for whilst
British Government, without the srcrifice of the ho-
the Government has been concentrating its strength,
nour of the British nation.
the Repeal agitation has been growing in the power
of its organization and the daring of its leaders. THE MERCURY'S SLANDER OF THE PROTESTANT
We predicted, after the success of the Anti-Corn- Some maths ago the same vast effort now making OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION OF LIVERPOOL.—The popish
scribe,whose falsehoods directed towards the Operative
law League at Durham, that in the first borough would not have been required. A proclamation of Protestantwh
Association we exposed last week, thus reite-
where a blow could be effectually struck the the illegality of these monster meetings, now become rates his calumny in his publication of Friday :
quite expected,
denied
Tory paper, of Tuesday,
entire energies and the vast organisation of this so threatening, would then have shorn the cowardly ar.,; its we
correspondents,
admission
of
tle haveriote r d
band of conspi store would be at once devoted to rebel of his strength, without more than a tenth partes
to
ttheatAtmepictioreeartsrepaoind
for thse
the task of perverting the judgments or overawing of the military demonstration, of which Dublin was the occasion of the Repeal Meeting, were handed to them
.t
himselfh odpeenriaets, v
that
e Protestanth as
paid Association.
any
such
money
ytr;oa
rs treasurer
the will of the constituency. And we are not mis- on Sunday the scene. An entire people driven to
taken. In the metropolis itself the agency is now the verge of outbreak—prepared for blood and vie- such purpose. These denials do not shake our confidence
the
repeatedoriginal
d m statement,deto and
appearwe believemo r
decidedthdensi denials wouldi y
at work, which is destined ultimately to spread lence—contemplating it day by day, with passions in
ne
n et
emme rip
tt
throughout Great Britain ; to break down those excited by the constant iteration of imagined wrongs, any such means the cationidentifiton of our informant could
bNyopwossihbiltity be
can breachee .dd ;i
constitutional barriers, which hedge the Church, and with a winter of wretchedness, the result of
the Monarchy, and the Liberties of the People, and their own folly, and their betrayer's scoundrelism made by a man thus obstinnateiyf resolvedtt.n in his statement
to render the representative principle a farce, by vir- before their eyes, require no doubt all the force now (111
etlrlue trh ?anybtvoioturselay usr onlytcourse isotomrospitsebithe
tually handing over the choice of the majority of arrayed against them, to secure their subjection to forged by a splenetic mind forset rheininnsjuarsv of a poliytical op-
the
ips Islet!
mt
ocoaosye ,tothaL Mercury
Repeal
m eeti
n distinctly
the House of Commons to the dictation of a body the law ; but the same people, disorganizad and stated 11 ;
of men, leagued in pursuit of their own selfish ob- comparatively unexcited, might have been repressed,admissions-money
of riotous boys by the Protestant gOwpaes-
Pnnefurnishedt thattitohn ea
e had the best of authority for
i
jects, and inveterately hostile to the established in- with a hand less strongly armed, and with even less native Association. W
denying this. It was n the same publication denied by
stitutions of their country. In every ward of the danger of ultimate failure. the treasurer. And, moreover, we had the additional as-
city, the hireling missionaries of this body are busily Besides we have ever maintained, and we must hiatst
pthoesiaLsoolastimontioaltl
improvedthe
suranrecenooft
awareknow
circulating their mendacious statements, to mislead continue to maintain, that a numerous portion of we are
no funds for
intEatt
that or any other purpose. And yetw
and betray the citizens. In every ward they are the population of Ireland have for months past our contemporary's "confidence" is not shaken! He is
still of opinion that his "original informant" is better in-
erecting influences to enable them to coerce those panted for such an opportunity of escaping from formed of the doings of the Protestant Association than
whom they cannot convince ; and, as the result, it O'Connell and his priestley myrmidons, as a firm the association itself, and proceeds to state that
appears to us almost inevitable that the Conservative position on the part of Government would have
we'r`eHfuer,;i—shoeudrgyriolthineal i i
mnpfoorrmtaanntt
iTe'r'sdoeocalgaersesito
the
papsseors.
feeling of the metropolis of English commerce will afiorded them. If we mistake not, the truth of this ciation, and distributed to "the boys" for the purpose
be stifled, and a Radical member of the council of opinion will now be seen. There may be some scat
thedy. p
ITe lai
si so
.t
andd e
itn ymi nogy p aprorfill
perhaps,
7..,r0 ,d-
emcoanyosyoosankkenobwe
the Anti-Corn-law League will be elected to repre- fiery spirits in that country who will not be disposed now so arranged, in consequence of the exposure of the
sent, or to misrepresent, the interests of its mer- to sit down quietly in subjection to the dictates of tranesacutigtant that
item
the i
n treasurerhi s
osa y nots
sbeemcill called umischiefon to
chants, its bankers, and its traders, in the House of the great agitator. There may be men who will say makers, like the association, have sufficient experience to
Commons. to their cowardly betrayers, " You have led
know how to work the affair in substance, and yet not be
us thus able to deny it in form."
In addition to this merely desultory effort of the far on the road to civil convulsion, and you shall Well done, Mercury ! The jesuitical dishonesty of the
faction, what is their declared intention, with respect not now hold us back from our meditated prey, the course suggested is worthy of
lLoyala himself, and might,
to future proceedings. Last year we raw fifty thou- Saxon whom you have taught us to hate." For such hetnsibpinen in liberal htactics!ihfi
tivt ee lrlt
oc
beend edreeedm, e
ctihiroocwo
mare
p igh u mu t
sand pounds, and upwards, raised and expended for there is nothing but the arm of the law; and should
the impose of disseminating throughout the coun- it fall heavily upon them, we fear that the Govern- Live
ioo
ti sorfittt To i
pas); iFs
mTehoet
scroyu fits t for rtehviiss ionogo theo t
try those mendacious tracts, in which the aristocracy ment which permitted them to be misled, and their e o mgeonoc e s at the Sessions-house this morning. Wye
and the agriculturists of England are painted as feelings to be exasperated to this pitch of despera- earnestly press upon our conservative friends who have
been objected to, the necessity of a personal attendance
robbers and virtual murderers of the poor, whilst tion, is scarcely to be excused for its unhappy error. to substantiate their claims.
the millocracy are lauded, as the only source of the But that the bulk of the population of Ireland will EXTRAORDINARY ACTIVITY IN THE CorroN
nation's strength, and the only party who care for thus determine we do not believe. There are hun- O7AnwoKleEsTs.—thane2onotice,ooo)allaesst
owfeek
tthtoenestviClogrdii3eneaorysofzcit
the people's happiness. This year it is proposed to dreds of thousands, we believe, who have all along at advanced prices on the day preceeding our publication ;
extraordinary fact
double the amount of this contribution for seditious been repealers only from the necessity of their posi- and we have now to notice the more
that this activity in the demand has been sustained daring
purposes. A hundred thousand pounds are to be tion—from the compulsion to which they were sub- the entire week, the aggregate sales for which are now
raised; and mark the changed purpose to which jetted : and these men will rejoice to be emancipated stated at 70,000 bales, at an advance of fully Id per lb.
Yesterday the same activity was manifested, the sales
they are to be devoted ! It is not in the circulation and permitted to return to the peaceful avocations being 10,000 bales (nearly half a week's consumption);
of weekly tons of mendacity; it is not in the inva- of industry ; and they would have rejoiced to have and the market closed with great firmness.
MUNICIPAL REvistoN.—The municipal revision was
sion of the pesceful villages of England by hired been thus emancipated half a year ago ! resumed on Tuesday, and terminated on Thursday. The
sowers of sedition; it is not in the getting up of But the most important question which now pre- following is the result
fraudulent petitions to the House of Commons. Gents itself respects the further proceedings of Go-
More definite and direct are now to be the operations vernment in Ireland. Of course, we may now ex-
of this powerful body. The League is now at pect to see those meetings, which are declared to be
length to assume the unconstitutional position of an dangerous to the public peace, repressed by the exe-
ation is to be cutive. But is the mercenary fellow who has now
electioneering body. Its vast organization
devoted to a simultaneous action upon the consti- added cowardice to his other crimes—who is only
tuencies. Its agents are to enter into immediate preserved from the fate of a rebel, by a fond regard
communication with the electors of every borough for the safety of his body—is such a man to be per-
and county throughout the kingdom ; and when milted to retire to obscurity, to chuckle over his past
" the pear is ripe"—when a sufficient amount of ill I gains and to brood over fresh robberies, unvisited
feeling has been created, and some check in the Iby the laws which he has violated ? We trust not.
prosperity of the country lays open the passions of a The very proclamation of the Government is itself
suffering people to the operations of the incendiary lan acknowledgment of his guilt. That proclama-
and demagogue, the cry is to be raised to the throne tion declares that "at several of the meetings"—of

the leading members of the cotton trade be seen
running up and down in pursuit of their brawling
agitation for corn-law repeal and other similar spe-
cifics, when here is palpably before them an evil
which threatens the ruin of a valuable portion of
their business, and which the first energetic effort
would succeed in removing ? The impolitic and

paltry tax, levied upon the great staple of our ma-
nufactures, is obviously the source of our weakness
in the race of competition with the foreign manufac-
turer; and sensible and prudent men would un-
doubtedly use their efforts rather to procure the
withdrawal of so direct an obstacle to their pros-
perity, than waste their time and energies in the
gpAret, a a ennotilati.,e. " -

sent, does not seem to be of very easy or very early

achievement

Whatever may be the course of our Manchester
neighbours with respect to the question ;—whether
they choose to stir in it, or to bewilder themselves

and harass the government and the community with
their ravings on corn-law repeal—we do trust that
the merchants of Liverpool will direct their atten-
tion at once to a practical effort for the removal of a
practical and direct evil. To the memorial of such
a body of men, no government can refuse to listen
with respect, and, if possible, to concede.

WARDS

Objections. Objections,
Radicals. Conserv.
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Claims,

Conserv.
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