The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-03-05 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY INFLUENCE OF- THE

FARMERS.

Necessity of the Farmers using their interest ttnd
influence in the Borough and Town R4.flions for Fa'rlia:,
ment.

The Morning liel•tte forcibly obArVe,s4— " Although Sir
R. Peel crushed Mr. Villiers and his party; let hot the friends
of E.glisla agricnitttre, iniagine that the free-traders are
overthrciviii, • N 0... They will rally and renew the
contest,at dinadyrntage it is true—but still with the energy
of 'deSlirtir‘. tt behoves the landowners And farmers of
Esnglithd to guard against surprise. Let not the victory of
Tuesday be followed by apathy. To yield to apathy, would
be to yield to the enemy. Several severe struggles are yet In
store for the advocates of native industry, Let the farmers
of England prepare for these struggles he Organiiir% 'Om
where local.associations for th,t protection a agriculture';
and let each association tOfninunicate 'With:We Rdyal Buck%
inghamshire Agrithltural -AsSOciatipq„.* Whichn deputation
is now sitting in LondOh, ,X;it.'mernbers 'of parliament con-
rtt&ed With the Jand lie nlWr s 'At their posts. A great de-
mciristrati*must 'made to the strength of the agricultural
Ah6ve ;ill things, that strength must not be impaired
liy'eehriet‘ston or by compromise. Let the agricultural mem-
ber of parliament who shall venture to hint at a fixed duty,
or at any departure from the existing system of the corn
laws, be regarded as a traitor, and let him be forthwith
represented in that light to his constituents. Nothing so
dangerous as the 'paring down of great principles Of all
foes the most deadly is the trinamet. let the tirkaltniists
of England beware of curls
But, while W quite coiiicl!, Nvlth the urgent necessity for
continued.e.,.'xertiOn, it is not alone by such resistance as 'our
cOntemptirarYappears to contemplate, that an adequate perma=
neht protection can be secured to the landowner and others
Connected with the interests of agriculture, no 'essential to the
welfare of 'Great Britain. Nor can they, under the preient dr-
Cuznstariees, long resist, suecessfully, the incessant attack made
upon thern,by the ManuttictUrihg body—acting, as it does,
under the influence of a political faction, who feel that the
inde'p'endent and high-minded agriculturalistS of this country
form hn impenetrable barrier to the advancement of their
schemes. Sorge systein, regularly and universally acted upon,
must be adapted to establish a permanent check to the forced
progress of revolution ; and the most obvious means of accom-
plishing this desirable end is, the securing; by all legal and
constitutional means, a powerful and continual majority in the
Commons' House of Parliament, in favor of agriehltitre
although this is most certainly, a first obje'et.in all 'S'OUnd Con-
servative policy, we regret that it is t matter hitherto but very
little considered. A easuo glaht6 at any authentic and correct
PaHianeenthry old'e will clearly show, that there is ample
-clem for the 'fagrieulturalists to strengthen their interests in
Parliament, by giving a proper direction to their exertions,
and enhancing as much as poSsible, the Conservative strength
of the kingdom. They must give up the notion that, in return-
ing Conservative Members of Parliament for the counties, they,
have done all they can; or all they are called upon to do ; for
until they sufficiently unite with their Conservative brethren
in the Municipal Boroughs, they have neglected to avail them=
selves of a most important means of rendering their own po-
sition secure.

We have throe n. tOgethera list of the principal agricultural
countim tnnst Of which return Conservative members for the
)-tittil districts ; but it will be seen, that having within them
towns—also returning members to Parliament—the Conser-
vative strength of the counties is not merely neuttalized, but
actually defeated.

MEMBERS. CON. RAD.
,
tedford'shire returns
Berkshire
Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire 5 2 3
Devonshire .
Derbyshire 6 2 4
Gloucestershire .
Leicestershire..
Northamptonshire
Nottinghamshire
Warwickshire lO 5 5

104 50 54
Now, it cannot be denied, that the security of the Con-
servatives in the counties ill excuses their apathy, as regards
the towns, while it leaves such a result as the above table
shows. Nor can it be doubted; but if they exercised their
legitimate influence in the borough elections, a vast difference
in favour oT Conservative power is Parliament would ensue.
Neithei• can thby commence their exertions too soon. It is
impossible to say how speedily a dissolution of Parliament
may take place—desultory elections are continually happen-
ing—and in a generai struggle, or in a single contest, the
agricultural interest—if its influence were properly directed
could decide whether its friends or enemies should triumph.
Is not the experiment worth trying ? Farmers look to it !
Leicester Journal.

THE VICEROYALTY OF IRELAND.

(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)

Lord Ebrington is officially announced as the new Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland.

His lordship consequently vacates his seat for North Devon,
in the House of Commons.

The nobility of the empire have, to a man, refused to
accept the indignity—vacant by the appointment of Lord
Normanby to the seah of the colonial office—of filling the
vicepral throne as the puppet, the servant, or the deputy of
Daniel O'Connell ; and consequently the ministers of Queen
Victoria have, for the first time in the history of the British
connexion with this country, been obliged to resort to the
list of commoners, and to appoint a lord by courtesy to the
Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland !
But these are anomalous days in which we live ; and " ne-
cessity" at all times " makes men acquainted with strange
bedfellows."

One is, nevertheless, tempted to inquire why, in looking
outside of the ranks of the titled aristocracy, the choice of
the cabinet should have fixed itself upon Lord Ebrington.
There are two sufficing reasons—sufficing at least to such
men as the present administration consists of.
In the first place Lord Ebrington was to ministers a ser-
vant of all work ; and " did his spiriting so gently," as to
earn the title of the ministerial poodle. He could fetch and
carry to admiration'; and• was never unwilling to direct the
public indignation from his masters by running through the
mob with an empty canister tied to his tail and rattling behind
in " most admired disorder." And for such merits he de-
served a requital. TWenty thousand pounds a year—with
nothing to do but .lacquey the behests of Mr. O'Connell—
is no ungrateful compensation.
In the second place, Lord Ebrington is a gentleman not
many years distant from his climacteric, and looking
forward, from day to day to the advanced age of his venerable
parent, now in the 94th or 96th year of his life, to the natu-
ral evacuation of his seat in the House of Commons.
Ministers regard the same prospect—and the high proba-
bility of its recurrence before the period of a general election
n the ordinary course of things—with a dread heightened
by the certainty of not only losing the vote in the Commons
for North Devon, but of increasing the sum of the opposition'
votes, by the return (which is undoubted) of a staunch con-
servative for that constituency ; and they think it better—
an opinion in which his lordship agrees with them—to make
a graceful surrender of the seat, before his lordship or any
of their adherents be scurvily turned out. The 'dog in
iEsop's Fables thus made a timely retreat through the door,
as soon as he beheld the window raised for his more summary
ejectment. And these' are prudential considerations which
go far to justify both the proffer and its acceptance.
What the general qualifications of the noble commoner
may be for the efficient and satisfactory diseharge of his vice-
gerald duties, we are not prepared to specify at large ; but
amongst them may be enumerated—to the infinite satisfac-
tion of the friends of the government in Ireland—
An unmitigated hostility to the establishment ;
A crouching servility to Mr. O'Connell ; and
An income of Eight Hundred Pounds per Annum—already
heavily incumbered !
Hurrah for the vicegeral commoner !
Hurrah for the Whig lieutenant !

NAVAL PENSIONERS.—It gave us infinite pleasure to hear
Lord Melville, in the course of the naval discussion a few
nights ago, deliver it as his opinion, that the regulation ponder
which the naval pensioners were deprived of their pensions
while acting on board her Majesty's fleet ought now forth-
with to be rescinded. The flower of our seamen would then
be speedily restored to the Royal service. It is to be hoped
that Lord Minto, who has shown some recent glimmerings
of anxiety for the interests of our marine, will adopt, without
further delay, a measure so just, so wise, and confessedly
popular, to which it is incredible that he should be himself
adverse, and which would not swell the paralytic budget of
Spring Rice by even one solitary farthing.—Times.
Mr. Robert Besley, of Northampton-square, has published
a letter, distinctly asserting that there has been " gross mis-
management and misapplication in the administration of the
funds" of the Church-rate Abolition Society ; and that be-
fore the Society can rally, it must be, taken out of the pre-
sent hands." Mr. Besley says that the account in the ledger
of the Patriot newspaper, which received large sums for re-
port of Church-rate meetings, there was " an erasure in al-
most every line;" and that one of the auditors, a lawyer, said
he should be sorry to go into court with any cause supported
by such evidence.

MARSEILLES, Jan. 23.—This city, like all the others in
this quarter, is advancing in wealth and population with
amazing rapidity. Mr. Starkie gives it a population of
111,000; but the statement must be fifteen or-twenty years
old. At present the population is estimated at 180,000.
There are a vast number of new houses building. Its port
is fine—a natural basin about 5-Bths of a mile in length, a
quarter of a mile in breadth, and completely sheltered. The
situation of Marseilles is the most beautiful I ever saw. It
occupies the centre of an amphitheatre, about six or seven
miles broad, bounded by lofty precipitous hills. The whole
space from the city, back to the hills, is adorned with villas
and hamlets. Every merchant or respectable housekeeper
has his Maison de Campaigne. Those building are showy,
and sometimes large and splendid. They are called Bastides.
Their number is no less than 5,000 !—Scolsnian.
COURSING EXTRAORDINARY AT BRADFORD.—On Tues-
day last, a number of persons were astonished at seeing a
hare running along Manningham-lane into the town, at full
speed, and closely followed by a greyhound, both of which
were evidently much exhausted. Poor puss seemed dread-
fully alarmed on finding herself so closely pressed, almost in
the centre of the town, and, as a last resource, turned into
Snow II ill- street, which is narrow, and made up at the farther
end, so that there all prospect of escape seemed at once cut
off. When she reached the end, she made an attempt to
clear the wall, but fell back within a foot of the greyhound ;
still she completely slipped him, and turning again down the
street, ran forward under the very nose of her enemy, when
again finding herself on the high road, she turned into the
garden, opposite Park-place, were she was again dreadfully
pressed, and having made two or three attempts to clear the
garden wall, each time falling on her back, her death seemed
inevitable ; but strange to say, she once more bounded round
the garden, and succeeded in reaching the wall, when passing
through the rails, she soon lost her hot pursuer, and turning
towards the Stone Quarry of Messrs. Cousen and Thackray,
completed her own destruction; for passing over the brink
of the Quarry, and falling a distance of thirty or forty yards,
she was killed on the spot.—Leeds Intelligences.

REGISTRATION OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORS.—A bill
is now before the ;House of Commons which, if carried into
a law, will materially alter the system of registration laid
down by the reform act of 1832. By this bill it is proposed
to repeal so much of that act as relates to the formation of
the annual register, and to originate the proceedings of
counties, &c. with the Clerk of the Peace, who, having in
the first place caused a number of the necessary forms to be
printed, is to issue a warrant to the High Constable there-
with. The High Constable is then to direct a warrant to
the Overseers, and to deliver to each the requisite number of
forms for his township. The Overseers have to make out a
list of claimants only, and to mark opposite the names on it,
and on the copy of the register furnished to them by the
Clerk of the Peace, the words "objected" or "dead" where
,required. The registration shilling is to be dispensed with,
and the payment of it abolished. With the notices of objec-
tion are to be given the ground of objections : and the Bar-
risters are to have the power to award costs in cases of vexa-
tious objections. Voters living out of the country, &c. in
which is their qualification, may vote in the district where
they reside, if they have made application to the Revising
Barrister for obtaining the privilege of so doing. Alterations
are also to be made in city and borough registrations. The
times for attending ;to the different steps or course of these
proceedings vary a little from the periods laid down by the
reform act, but as the act now in progress, if it pass the
legislature, is not to come into force until January next, time
is allowed for communicating and receiving instructions for
the new and future operations. This is the fourth or fiftb
session in which the bill has been brought forward.