The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-16 00:00:00

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We shall feel honoured by receiving such " excerpta " as
S. K. alludes to.
No. Colonel Thompson is not related to George Thompson,
except that they are brothers in radical iniquity.
Quaker Sturge having declared that he would leave Notting-
ham upon the first breach of the peace, and yet heartily
shaking hands and congratulating the leaders in it, would
cause us to think the best definition of Quaker to be
Jesuit.
We quite agree with " R. T." that the arrangements for the
convenience of steam-boat passengers at the Pier-head are
far from complete : we should be glad to be the medium
of communicating any practical suggestions for their im-
provement.
«A. H."—We believe the post-office is entitled to charge
for the newspaper, under the circumstances ; but our cor-
respondent can obtain it by applying at the post-office at
Edge-hill, without any payment.

Ebt 9Liberpool &tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, 1842.

By exclusive reports, which will be found elsewhere,
brought down to the latest hour at which we could
receive them in time for our first edition, it will be
seen that in Manchester and other of the disturbed
localities the aspect of affairs wore last night a more
tranquil surface. We are, however, far from being
assured that permanent tranquillity is restored. From
all that we can gather, further " manifestations" in
favour of the Charter are in contemplation ; and every
effort will be made to swell the numbers assisting at
these manifestations, by prolonging—if necessary by
forcible measures—the turn-out of the factory opera-
tives. The large body of troops now concentrated in
the manufacturing districts, it is to be hoped will
render any such efforts on the part of the disaffected
unavailing. If directed with firmness and decision,
the force now at the disposal of the magistracy, aided
by the resistance to be anticipated from the well
disposed workmen themselves, ought to be amply suffi-
cient to prevent every movement by which property
and life throughout the district can possibly be endan-
gered. Whether this-.will be so or not, the events of
this day may possibly determine.
The recurrence of the anniversary of the Peterloo
lints at this unfortunate juncture—the 16th of August
(this very day)—may not improbably be seized upon
as an opportunity for some senseless and dangerous
display in Manchester. On this day, we understand
it is purposed to open for the first time to his admirers
a statue of that incendiary ruffian, the late Henry
Uunt,—erected by-the Anti-Corn-Law Leaguers, as a
Sop to the Chartist party, in the chapel of a dissenting
agitator, the Rev. J. Schofield. As a matter of course,
no gathering of the kind can, or ought to be, tolerated
hY the authorities ; and upon this quarrel we much
fear that a collision between the disaffected and the
military may arise, the issue of which is in every re-
spect too dreadful to be contemplated without a shud-
der.

We shall have our reporters present upon the spot
throughout the day; and should any untoward events
occur, such as we fear, our readers may depend
upon receiving the fullest particulars in a second edi-
tion.

The anxiety of the organs of the League party to
represent the disturbances going on in the manufac-
turing districts as A CHARTIST MOVEMENT, cannot
have escaped observation. From the first notice of
these disturbances, contained in the 3lanchester
Guardian, that astute journalist has endeavoured to
Convert what is, in fact, a question of wages, into one
of politics—to throw upon the shoulders of Chartist
agitators the odium which, of right, belongs to the
agitation and the acts of the League millocracy. The
hint thus given by the local organ of that body has,
of course, been accepted and acted upon by his fellow-
labourers throughout the country; and could we in-
dulge these trusty agents with the privilege of colour-
ing the events, which are now passing, after their own
Whimsical inclination, the pretended loyalty, the love
of peace, the purity and the disinterested humanity (.9
Of this pestilent faction would soon stand out, unstained
and unspotted, before the world.
We cannot, however, be so indulgent. Willing as
the League may be

" to start,
Even at the sound itself has made ;"
Willing as its cowardly agitators may be to shrink
from the consequences of their own desperate and
incendiary conduct; they must not, and they shall not.
be permitted to do so at the expense of truth and
Justice. Well as these men have earned the contempt
and indignation of the right minded amongst the
e°untnunity—steeped as they are in infamy to the very
liPs--they shall endure that contempt, and drain the
Cup of their infamy to the dregs. It is their hands,
and theirs alone, which has plunged thousands_
ilundreds of thousands—of the poorest, the most
uPPressed, the most wretched of their fellow-creatures,
into outrage and suffering; it is their hand which has
made the streets of our manufacturing towns to run
with blood; and it is upon their heads, and theirs
(21" e, if justice could be done, that the punishment
Should fall. And, whether this consummation be or
be not achieved—whether the arm of the law reach the
Chief offenders, or only strike at their wretched dupes
fllO on their heads must rest, in the judgment of their
chow-countrymen, the moral guilt of all the crimes
which an infuriated population may be driven, by
their
sufferings and their madness, to commit.
Does any man suppose that the present outbreak
has come with a sudden shock upon the League
PartY? No ! We assert distinctly that it has not. It
has been prayed for months ago. It would have
occurred months ago, if the working people could have
been stung to take the first step. THEN it would have
served the League party. THEN it would have fur-
nished its agitators, in parliament and out of it, with a
fertile theme to dilate upon. THEN we should have
had it proclaimed throughout the land, that " the
People were in insurrection to put down the corn-law."
hne event, whose possible occurrence was gloated over
" ministers of all denominations," and League
''oUters of every grade, would have arrived. We
should have realised that consummationa civil
tnunnotion—which the peace-loving Quaker of Bol-
°l assured the Home Secretary would be got
v 1 rough " without the loss of any of the really
alual)le interests of society"—without the loss of any
thing more valuable than the monarchy, the constitution,
d the established religion of the land! But the
Iv°rking classes would not move to advance the in-
wi.innls views of the Anti-Corn-law League. They
ti°tlld not rush to an insurrection to gratify even
d.de ulost liberal and amiable philanthropists. They
"t move until goaded-7-purposely goaded_
a reduction of their wages—an uncalled-for and
/;"t°4 reduction—to a point at which they could
barely save themselves from starvation!
wh,"Pnsek, this step was taken by the League party,
in all others had failed, to drive the working classes
to
trenzY. The outbreak, which has put a stop to the
ra .
d
of a vast district—which has filled it with blood-
the
the d A rapine—was one meditated and provoked by
an 4-inr,
ty.
-°lll-Law League! It was a turnout against
"Justifiable reduction of wages; and if it has re-
suited dins far, as all such movements within our re-
Collection have resulted, in the mixing up of the origi-
nalquestion With the question of politics, that circum-
stance does not, and never can, absolve from blame the
Party to_
a cLar no provoked it. If, even now, it has become
" tist movement, (which we deny,) then it is a
6..14.r.t1t movement which has been wickedly brought on
.Y the acts of the Leasue-men.Ptilo We defy these unscru-
uB ✓
and mendacious
6uiti people—see defy even the je-
eal Guardian—to •
wri 1e out of this dilemma.
l~liey have set the stone a-rolli
wriggle
the established institutions of
ng ; and if it
if it overwhelm
the land— crush

themselves in its resistless career,—upon their heads
still be the onus—upon their heads the infamy of all
the ruin it may work !
But, we may ask, is it a thing which absolves alto-
gether the League party from a participation in having
caused the present disturbances, if " the Charter"
becomes now, or has been from the first, the object
sought by the working classes? Has the Anti-Corn-
Law League kept itself of late widely apart from the
Chartist agitation ? Have we witnessed of late no
coquettings on the part of the League-men with the
Chartist party ? Is Mr. John Brooks not a Chartist ?
Are not the entire party in Manchester self-pledged to
a sympathy with the objects sought by the O'Connors,
the Vincents, and other gaol-birds of the same kidney ?
Really, gentlemen of the League, you presume a little
too much upon the short memory of the world, and its
inattention to your raving absurtlities !

Our Romish contemporary of Saturday offers but a
halting reply to our late notices of the Jesuitical la-
bours of himself and his party. We were in error
certainly in one of these, in stating St. Francis Xavier,
the new favourite of the Papists of Liverpool, to have
been the founder of the Order of Jesuits. " Odds,
chronology and theology! " exclaims the Journal ;
"the apostle of the Indies the founder of the Jesuits !"
Be it that St. Francis was not " the founder"—he was,
however, " the chief disciple" of the founder; was
canonized by the same Pope in the same year; and
our " chronology," therefore, is net much in fault.
Perhaps the Journal will tell us what " theology" has
to do with the matter.

In addition, however, to this error, we have been
guilty of the serious offence of calling several things
and persons by their proper names. We called the
Right Hon. Daniel O'Connell, M.P., Lord Mayor of
Dublin, A BEGGAR. We could find some seven mil-
lions of people who would vouch for the correctness
of the appellation. We said—presuming that that il-
lustrious individual was to be chaperoned by William
Rathbone into the presence of the merchants of Liver-
pool—that the said William would thus he enacting
the part of " jackal" to the " Irish lion." We have
a little changed our opinion upon this subject. The
illustrious " beggar" does not merit comparison with
the king of beasts; and William Rathbone would
therefore only be enacting the part of pioneer and
lickspittle to some more vulgar animal. We termed
the editor of the Journal a 1: Romish journalist" and
" a Jesuit." If he is not the former, our perception
of men and things is at fault, as is that of the greater
portion of this community ; and if he is not " a Je-
suit," he ought, according to the showing of Daniel
O'Connell himself, to become one as fast as he can,
and, moreover, never to feel shame in confessing him-
self to be one.

Upon the general subject of " calling names," we
would, in conclusion, refer him to the example of that
eminent personage ; and thus we leave him for the
present.

The Journal of Saturday indulges in a lengthy echo
of the complaints made by the counsel for the pri-
soners in the recent abduction case, to the effect that
the evidence, as to the proceedings of the parties and
the condition of the plaintiff at Gretna, was not gone
into, and that consequently " public justice" was not
done to the parties condemned. " There were two
indifferent parties," remarks the Journal," present at
the marriage—Linton, the keeper of the hotel, and his
daughter—and neither of them was examined. The
reason doubtless was that their evidence was adverse
to the prosecution ; and we have heard that they both
spoke in the strongest terms as to the act being a con-
scious and voluntary one on the part of the prosecu-
trix, and to circumstances bearing out that construc-
tion of it."

The imputation here conveyed is a very unjust one,
and is besides quite unwarranted by the facts. The
reason why Linton and his daughter were not called,
although in Liverpool, was not "because their evidence
was adverse to the prosecution," but simply because it
was not required to bring home the charge against the
parties accused. These parties were arraigned for a
felonious abduction, for the purpose of procuring the
marriage of the female, and the subsequent possession
of her property. The abduction and the intent were
all which the statute under which they were indicted
required to be proved. It was, as stated distinctly by
the Lord Chief Justice, no matter whether Miss Crellin
was made drunk or made herself drunk, or whether or
not she was subsequently married, with her own con-
sent or without it. If any one, taking advantage of
her intoxication, however produced, did, with an in-
tent to marry her against her consent, and secure the
possession of her property, " carry her away though
ever so little distance, such party was guilty of the
offence charged." The abduction was the offence,
which the after marriage, except by the consent of the
party injured, could not get rid of.
We may be asked, why were these parties, Linton
and his daughter, here at all, if not required for the
furtherance of justice ? We give the reply in the words
of the Lord Chief Justice, in his charge to the Grand
Jury. " There may probably," remarks his lordship,
" be a question of much importance and difficulty
raised, because, as it appears that the marriage did
take place, the question of the validity of that marriage
may of necessity precede every inquiry into the subject.
If the female in question has become the wife of the
principal party charged, she cannot then appear as a
witness against him." Whether this is good law or
not, we shall not stop to inquire. It is perfectly clear,
however, that, as witnesses to the validity or invalidity
of the marriage, these parties were in attendance. Of
the abduction they could know nothing. They could
testify, however, whether or not Miss Crellin was mar-
ried to one of the prisoners by her own consent—whe-
ther, in fact, she was his wife, and therefore incapaci-
tated from being a witness against him—and their
evidence would no doubt have been secured had the
point, as to the marriage being a bar to her being
heard, been pressed. It was not pressed, however ;
and probably because it was presumed that the expo-
sure of this silly and degraded woman in the witness-
box was more calculated to serve the prisoners than
her total silence.

Whilst upon this subject, although in the particular
case before us we cannot agree with the censures of
the Journal, we must nevertheless enter our decided
protest against the way in which the recent assizes
have been conducted throughout. A more hurried
and slovenly administration of justice we never wit-
nessed ; and we doubt if there was ever one which
•excited more the dissatisfaction of the profession gene-
rally and the public. No less than 148 causes were
set down for trial. Several of them were specialjury
cases. One—the case of Sherborne versus Quarme—
was, from the quantity of documentary evidence to be
produced, nearly certain to occupy the attention of the
court for two or three days. The calendar was not a
light one ; and yet twelve days were all which were
allowed for all this mass of litigation to be got through !
And it has not been got through, notwithstanding the
summary striking out of causes in the first day—the
settling (?) of cases, from the certainty of their not
being properly adjudicated upon—the submissions to
reference and the hasty and indecent mode in which,
as in the case of Taylor versus Walmsley, verdicts
have been pressed within the concluding day or two.
The entire assize has been, in fact, a scramble for jus-
tice; and why this should be, when the long vacation
is before us, and only one judge and not a barrister is
required to be in London before the 2d of November,
is a mystery which we cannot solve.

STATE OF TRADE, MANUFACTURES, &c.

Not even the lawless state of the manufacturing districts
during the past week has been able to check materially the
improved business which we have bad recently to notice
in our Cotton Market. Up to Friday last about 36,460
bales had been sold. (including 11,250 on speculation, and
2,200 for export,) in many instances at advanced rates ; and
although the active demand which had existed in the previous
portion of the week was somewhat diminished towards the
latter part, the market closed with a firm and healthy tone.
On Saturday the business done was trifling, the sales
amounting to 2,600 bales only, which were taken by the
trade. Prices remained, however, firm.
Yesterday the demand was increased, and better prices
were paid than have been realized since the late arrival. The
sales may be estimated at fully 4,000 bales, the whole to the
trade.

The accounts from the manufacturing districts—strange to
say !—give similar cheering indications; and, notwithstand-
ing the confusion created by the turn-out workmen, the bu-
siness done and the spirit displayed last week wore than

fulfil our previous anticipations. The holders of manufactured
Cotton goods appear determined to keep back their stocks
for higher prices; in fact, it is evident that, even in the pre-
sent distracted state of the manufacturing districts, all doubt
of an approaching beneficial trade has vanished, and that
immediately upon the restoration of tranquility, a large
business will be done, and ample employment afforded for
the working population.