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

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We have to acknowledge the receipt of a Manchester Guard-
ian extraordinary, published yesterday, which was of the
greatest use to us in collecting intelligence of the riots.
Several correspondents must excuse the non-insertion of
their communications.
Our friend " S.E." need not fear the chartists of Liverpool ;
neither would it be desirable to make the preparations
suggested by our correspondent, for the chartists are but
a handful here.
For the credit's sake of the cricketters of Liverpool, we
should like some better reason why the Liverpool Club
scored but 58, and the Manchester 253, before we give
publicity to the letter of " Athletic."
" Justice " is guilty of great in-justice towards us. It may
be perfectly true, that after our correspondent had read
the particulars of the riots at Wigan, Hlackburn, and other
places in a second edition of the Mail of Tuesday, at the
Exchange News-room, he perused precisely the same re-
ports in the second edition of the STANDARD, purchased
afterwards. Had our correspondent merely stated this,
and asked us for an explanation, we might have afforded
it ; but when he accuses us of " un-fairness," we have a
right to complain ; and we only set the matter right on
account of others who may have observed the same thing.
The fact is, that we were at great expense in procuring
reports from the places we have mentioned, and they were
published in our columns an hour before they appeared in
the Mail, and into which paper they were transferred with-
out the slightest acknowledgment. The greatest portion
of what appeared in our second edition was copied into the
London Times of Wednesday.

Jbt Eibrrpool glPtanbarb.

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 arc 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 miglit
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 the spot.