The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-18 00:00:00

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will find in another column a few further particulars
ig the projected new colony in New Zealand, and on
o the gentleman referred to lie will no doubt obtain

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Le member for the borough of Cireficester.
nstituency of some three or four hundred

ldress to the Irish Protestants does not
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to postpone until next week an article on the

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NSDAY MORNING, APRIL 18, 1848

in result of the great Chartist movement of
full of the ludicrous as it has been
fail to be regarded with feelings
I gratitude by every well-disposed
The eyes of Europe, the hopes of
ists throughout the world, were directed
s the shores of this little island. That
htch has so long " braved the battle and
" was thought to float—to use the
a traitor in the sister island—" from
tress ;" and as she went to pieces " all
uds of the earth were to give three cheers."
floats proudly still; and the noble vessel,
borne it scatheless and unsullied for
s still sound in all its timbers. "The
_f Chartism under her lee" has shown
a Charibdis as we might expect to find
; and the " breakers of Repeal ahead"
. assured, likely to prove little more than
"The ends of the earth," therefore,
we take to be a sublimated Irish synonym
_g rag and tatterdemalions of the confede-
___ and the clubs of Paris, may reserve their
a cheers for another day. The good sense, the
.Ity, and the love which Englishmen bear for
r venerated constitution, trampled at once upon
contemptible disturbers and their foreign

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are grateful for this result on many grounds;
ye are not even disposed to complain of the
t of the exertions, on the part of the authori-
ad the metropolitan public, disproportionate
y were in their extent to the paltriness of the
ng power which was to be put down. It is
hat a moral and physical avalanche was
;a to crush a mouse ; that Pelion was
led upon Ossa to dam up a petty drain. Two
Ind thousand noblemen, gentlemen, mer-
rts, tradesmen, and working men of the metro-
', presented their loyal services to put down
ion and threatened outrage. The enemy, on
contrary, whose boait' it bad been that they
half a million strong, musteted only a beg-
y show of some ten or fifteen thousands,
ongh aided by the accession of half the swell
) and thieves of London. Well, the -greater
disproportion of numbers the more gratifying.
demonstration. Loyalty, we now know, can
nuand its two hundred thousands ; Chartism
revolution a bare twentieth of the number.
re is not a true heart throughout the length
breadth of England which will not throb at
proud remembrance of this proved fact: 'There
tot a republican or anarchist throughout the
Ld, who will not feel his arm paralysed and his
)flient zeal checked by this assurance of the
itv of his efforts and the vanity of his hopes to
the power, the wealth, and the industry
'gland at the feet of the mob.
ready the best results of this moral triumph
)bservable, in whatever quarter of the European
tinent the events of the tenth of April are
§wn. Those events have imparted a ten-fold
.fidence to every lover and friend of rational
my throughout the work'. They have proved
d there is a sustaining power in those British
titutions, which have so long been the admira-
aof ()filer nations. They have established the
t that a people may be free, to the very verge of
mae. and yet capable of restraining themselves
in the temptation to phBs that verge. The Ledru
Ilins and Le Blanes of the world may be startled
I disappointed by such a result. The abettors
outrage and spoliation may 'be abashed by the
=pie set them. But real liberty has gained
measurably by it ; for it has proclaimed to the
rid, and to those who are jealous of untramelled
man nature, that a well-disposed people may be
kited to defend institutions which they respect.
But, more than all, we are grateful for the lesson
iid.h the events of Monday, the tenth of April,
capable of teaching, if rightly regarded, to the
contented portion of the working classes of our
a country. We admit that they have difficulties
contend with, sufferings to endure. We admit
t the expectations held out to them of benefit
be derived from the adoption, as the policy of
state, of their own crude whims are most se-
!five. They have been taught to believe that it
within the power of legislation directly to ensure
fair day's labour for a fair day's work ;" and
t this very desirable result will be achieved by a
artist Parliament—by a body composed of
-.terials to those which compose the Con-
ition at present sitting in London. They have
ed themselves to feed and subsidize these drones.
ey have been victimized for years of a portion of
it bard earnings to pay for committee men's ex-
sea, for deputations and delegates. They have
a deluded with exaggerated notions of their
terical strength and of the importance of their
'ons. They will now, however, we trust, wake
,d, as the first sign of returning sanity, but-
The events of Monday, and
„Liu oisclosures, ought to be sufficient to
them that they have fallen amongst thieves,
twat share the fate of all dupes,
d to the same calamity. Let them reflect upon
tow ascertained composition of their monster
ion, with its barefaced and transparent for-
s; and then weigh the honesty of the various
,ittecs throughout the country, by whose
;ve a document was got up. Let

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their pc

who are suu-

the mendacious blusterings of their
and leader, Fergus O'Connor, and
sayings of that impostor in the na-
senate with his sayings in the convention:

apostle
ire the

hem contemplate, aliove all, the characters of
aen, who compose the latter contemptible body
3 Cuffeys, the Junes's, and the Wests ;—and

nselves hOnestly the question, " arc these
.gators of outrageous absurdity,
lers against the character and the

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How many of them have been fed
ges of fabricated petitions—sheets
I at so much the hundred by the "Snookes's,"
Flatnoses," the" Pugnoses," and other imagi-
people ? Let them ask themselves these ques-
t and then stop the supplies, from which such
of fellows are supported in their travestie of
narliament, sitting in London: Break Lir

places

1 the character and the inter!

❑,n, class

-subjects that

se fellows would readily sal them to the highest
der ; and that they are entirely misled with res-
t to the parties to whom they ought to look for
nisei and sympathy in their present distresses.
is not from the needy agitator that they can hope
the pointing out of a mode of escape from those

It is not from the display of a turbu-
or from any rash agitation for a change

e form of government, th
ght about, of which they

suit can

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fair day's worl

t this, to set the wheels c

Idustry once more