The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-20 00:00:00

conservatives of Liyet
general election for the borou

servative candidates appealii
Elsewhere we have given a
inents and division of parties

cause which all conservatives, we believe, have at
heart—the preservation of the valued institutions
of their country in their integrity ; and we shall
not here utter a remark further upon the subject,
which may increase the breach which it is too cer-
tain has been created in the integrity and unity of
the party to which we belong. We would heal
that breach if we could. We would attempt it
now, did we not feel that it was too late : as it is,
we must content ourselves with the plain duty of
offering the best advice in our power to our con-
servative readers, as to the course to be pursued
in this unfortunate emergency.

Of the three candidat-es iu question, Sir Digby
Mackworth, Mr. Cardwell, and Lord John Man-
ners, it is pretty well understood that our prefer-
ence is given to the former. We admire him as a
consistent and staunch Protestant—one who walks
and has ever walked in the ways of our glorious
reformation—and who is not swayed, or to be
swayed, either to the right hand or to the left,
by the pressure of personal or party inducements.
Sir Digby, we know, is worthy and willing, and
able to fight the battle of the Protestant Conser-
vatives of Liverpool—to stand in the breach against
the advancing tide of Popish innovation—and to
maintain in the senate, as he has maintained in the
.field, the integrity of the institutions of this great
monarchy and this enlightened country. Every
Protestant elector, therefore, we conclude, will re-
cord one vote for Sir Digby Mackworth.

The question, then, arise;,—how are those parties
to act, who agree with the sentiments of Sir Digby
upon the great question of the maintenance of vital
Protestantism in the state, whilst they differ with
him, in degree, upon the practical importance of
this question, and in details, and in principles upon
some questions which have a merely social or com-
mercial bearing ? We know that many parties of
great influence and conscientious principles have
declared that they feel themselves in a posi-
tion, as •to the great question of Protestantism,
which leaves them no other alternative except to
confine their vote to Sir Digby Mackworth. Whe-
ther the appearance of the two candidates—Sir
Digby Mackworth and Lord John Manners—at
the Amphitheatre this day, and the examination
of the latter upon some doubtful points as to

his principles, N vill turn some of these parties
towards the course of giving to Lord John
a second vote, we are not prepared to say. We
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er, to parties who may be so
fs address and explanations,
another candidate in the field, Mr.
who miffht, had the opportunity been
bled to place himself
vourable position. And

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here, we may remark, that when, at the meeting of
the Conservative Association, on Saturday, it was
virtually decided that Sir Digby Mackworth and
Lord John Manners were no longer the joint candi-
dates of the association : when, moreover, it was de-
clared that they were to meet the Conservative elec-
tors of the borough, relying only upon their indi-
vidual claims, and the strength and soundness of
their individual opinions, for the support of the elec-
tors, it was the duty of this association to place the
three candidates in their original position, and to
invite Mr, Cardwell, as well as the other two can-
didates, to meet the electors on this day. It is
little more than justice to the
themselves, as well as to

'onserva

rectors

Jr.,. Cardwell, that this
.n done ; and there is time for it

should have be

even yet

But, with respect to those parties who feel, as
we feel, that we have given to us by the Constitu-
tion the privilege of recording a second vote; and
that it is our duty to record that vote, provided,
by so doing, we can secure the services of a second
candidate of better principles than would I
turned, by leaving the choice of such second can-

didate to circumstances, or to the influence of the
direct opponents of the principles which we hold
dear. What should be the course of such electors?
Obviously, a diligent examination of the princi-
ples, and the comparative deserts and capacities to
serve the borough, of the other candidates offered
them to select from. Let us enter into this inquiry.
The other ConservatiVe candidates are Lord John
Manners and Mr. Cardwell; and as the claims of
the former gentleman have been, at one meeting,
sanctioned by the Conservative Association—a body
of gentlemen to whom we have always been accus-
inmpd fn nay deference_ we shall first canvass his

Lordship's claims. market, and consequent suffering of domestic
industry. In proof of this fact we may quote from
The soundness of his Protestant principles must
naturally claim our first attention ; and, as bearing an article in the Journal of the Ministry of the
upon this subject, we beg to refer to some of his past Interior, for June (published in St. Petersburg),
speeches, in another column, advocating the re-esta- the substance of which we have given elsewhere,
blishment of monastical institutions in the country, the following extract, showing that increased ex-
both by Churchmen and members of the Romish ports and profits of grain from any country do
creed, and the recognition by the State of the order of not of necessity imply an increased ability in the
Jesuits in particular. Then, as to his capabilities , population of that country to consume our goods.
and inclination to serve us in our commercial views, After giving an account of the vast exports of
grain from Russia last year, and stating 8,500,000
these seem to be confined to an unflinching sup-
port of the Navigation Laws, and to some rather chetworts additional to have been shipped off from
M-defined notions of fiscal reform. With respect the various river ports preparatory to exportation
to the details of our commerce, and of our local to this and other countries, the writer says :
" It might be expected that this, to tb" -
and 'social requirements, his lordship cannot be profitable rise of prices wo,,i,i
supposed to be very well informed. fluence on the i-i-
We come, next, to • Mr. Cardwell's claims. We p,,,,--,--

a townsman, further
Ppose him to be in-

ruwaug IaaJLL al 4D. lino, savvy,
for whilst here, in St Petersburgh, the sack of rye-meal is
sold at eight silver roubles, the chetwert of wheat at 14

roubles 30 copeck
prices have hardly risen at a

5 roubles pe

Lence tol

" How is this striking phenomenon in a politico-econo-
mical point of view to be explained, and how comes it tl
the rise of the market prices has had -

y any influence

upon the prices of corn at the pl
Wherefore have prices only risen to

ant extent

in the corn-g

rowing di:

they have been doubled Clearly, it is here (

that the grain pro-
I, despite the high
g for their produce,

ducers in Russia ar

s whit

h we have been

in a position of greater abili
Our gold has gone and is goi

to buy from us

the pockets

of the merchant and speculator

St. Pet

burgh

and other parts, to be returned to us by wh
•

chooses to d

We have before us, in one of the most able
statistical works of the day, the " Commercial
Glance," compiled by Mr. Burn, of Manchester,
ample evidence of the above views. We had from
Southern Russia alone, during
wards of 3,000,000 chetwerts of

the past year, up-
grain ; before the