The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-19 00:00:00

THE CHARTIST MEETING AT STEPNEY.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT, 10 o'CLocx.
The announcement of a Chartist meeting at Stepney and
the alleged assemblage of 8,000 or 10,004 persons in the me-
tropolis have, as it was well calculated to do at the present
moment, excited the feelings of the nervous and timid, and
created some stir at Scotland-yard and at the Home-office.
The fact, however, is, that the number assembled on Step-
ney-green has been very much exaggerated, and it is the
opinion of military men, who are the best judges of the num-
bers in a public assemblage, that at no time did the crowd
amount more than 2,000 individuals, including of course,
men, women, and children, and it is acknowledged by the
Chartists themselves that the meeting was a total failure.
There was another circumstance which must have struck all
persons present, and which proves the fact, that the
nine-tenths of those present took no interest whatever
in the proceedings, and appeared to have come there
from motives of mere cur►os►ty, for after listening for a
few minutes to the harangues of the speakers they departed,
and during the principal part of the meeting there were not
more than from 1,200 to 1,500 individuals present. The
speakers on the occasion seemed to be strangers to the
neighbourhood with one exception, and his weight and influ-
ence may be inferred from the fact of his keeping a small
shop for the sale of old and second-hand shoes, and is what
is technically called a " renovator." The Chartists at the
east end of the metropolis have been labouring incessantly
to enroll among their numbers as many of the Spitalfields
weavers as they pan 3 bqt this effort of theirs is also known
to be a failnre. It is a fact, that though the prices are some-
what low, there are double the hands employed now as silk
weavers than there were at Christmas last, and those persons
find it infinitely more profitable to themselves and their
families to stick to their work and have nothing to do with
the Chartists or Chartism ; and as a proof of their present
industry, Spitalfields has not been so peaceable, nor its inha-
bitants so apparently comfortable, for many yearn as at
present.
To add to the excitement created at the east end, some
silly person has been writing letters to the principal managers
of one or more large estahlishments at the water's side, the
purport of which is calculated to create alarm, though on
inquiry none really appears to exist, and the object of their
author appears to be to give himself some factitious notoriety.
At ten o'clock last night the utmost tranquillity prevailed at
the east end of the metropolis.

The legal records of the trial of Queen Anne Bullen, which
were supposed to have been destroyed, have recently been
discovered amongst the ancient documents of the Court of
Queen's Bench.

THE OVERLAND MAIL FROM consequence of
the delay that is incurred by the transmission of the de-
patches through France, via Marseilles, from India and
Egypt, by the new arrangements with the French postoffice
department, and the complaints that arc continually made by
the London journals at their detention by the French go.
vernment, the Right Hon. Lord Lowther, the Postmaster-
General, has been for some time negotiating with the Direc-
teur General des Postes of Austria to have them transmitted
via Trieste. Should this arrangement be concluded, which
is at the suggestion of Mr. Waghorn, the agent for the Bri-
tish Government at Alexandria, several days will be saved by
this route. The steamers have a greater facility in reaching
the ports of Trieste from Alexandria and Malta, and they
have the most efficient telegraphidlinesand railroads through-
out Austria to Hamburgh and Belgian to transmit the ear-
liest intelligence of the war that is now carrying on in our
eastern possessions and China,

PART SINGING IN GERMANY.—Every one who has been
called upon to take a part in singing a glee, or quartett, has
felt the inconvenience of a number of persons looking over
each others' shoulders, and straining their eyes, at a single
score of the music placed at a piano-forte. This is rarely
done in Germany, nor was it the practice in England in the
days of madrigal singing. Each had his own part, tenor,
alto, or bass, placed in his hand, written, or printed,
in a book by itself ; and in Germany separate parts are
almost invariably printed, of every composition intended
for more than two voices. The work entitled " Orpheus,"
is a large collection of vocal compositions very popular
in Germany, and printed, as we have described, in sepa-
rate part books, forming small pocket volumes. Every
singer carries about with him his own book, the tenor his
tenore primp or secundo, the bass, his book for the bass;
and thus, on a walking
excursion, or at an evening party,
each
which is read to in, with little ceremony, in the chorus
may hay rmonise best with the feelings of the moment.
MI the world has heard of the Biirschen choral songs of the
German universities ; but what most interest us in that land
of music are the musical family reunions which the tourist
si tot meets with, where father and soil, brother and
friend and neighbour, pass a long winter's evening
cheerfully together, with no other resource, and wanting no
better, than conversation and singing in parts.— Westminster
Review.

FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 19, 1842.

So far as the manufacturing district of Lancashire
is concerned, " the insurrection" is at an end. The
" sacred week" has terminated. The League has
held its seditious festivals—has filled our gaols with
its duped victims—has plunged hundreds of thousands
into wretchedness and crime; and we are left at leisure
to sum up the record of its guilt, and to ask for the
judgment upon it of an impartial people.
As yet the evidence before us of the connexion of
this factious body with the outbreaks which have just
taken place is incomplete. As yet we cannot unravel
all the intricacies of this wicked conspiracy. We can-
not point to the hand which has supplied those means,
without which no proceedings, such as those of the
turnout operatives, can be carried on. We cannot
trace to any one pocket the gold which has kept two
hundred thousand people for the past ten days in food
and drink—which has enabled them to placard our
walls, and incur expenses far above the means of
parties engaged in such movements. But that there
has been such a pocket—that some influential party
has bled, and bled freely, to carry on this war of agi-
tation and outrage, can scarcely now be disputed.
That the money of the Anti-Corn-law League has fed
this " insurrection" there are few to doubt ; and
unless we are much misled, the mystery will in good
season be cleared up to the conviction of the leader.

Of one thing we are certain—this outbreak migllt
have been put down in an hour. A greater farce than
has been the pretended resistance of the working
classes to a resumption of work we never witnessed ;
and we were upon Me spot.