17 JANUARY 1842, Page 7

The Liverpool Mercury describes two meetings of a similar kind

with very opposite results. At one, held by the Liverpool Operative Anti- Corn-law Association, on Wednesday, the Chartists carried a resolution condemning the Corn-laws, but pronouncing the Charter to be the only means of abolishing existing monopolies. At the other, a meeting of two thousand persons in Oldham Town Hall, on Monday, Colonel Thompson talked over the Chartists, and their intended opposition was foregone in favour of an unanimous vote of thanks to the ColoneL