The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-04 00:00:00

IRELAND

Counties ..
Boroughs ..
Universities

18
9
2
-29

For the motion .. 287
AGAINST THE MOTION.
ENGLAND.

Counties
Boroughs
U niversities

Counties .
Boroughs

40
169
--209

WALES,

Counties
Boroughs

8
-10

SCOTLAND.

Counties
Boroughs

-29

IRELAND.

-GO

Total against the motion ..

By the preceding statement it appears that England,
Wales, and Scotland give a decided majority in favour
of Sir J. Y. Buller's motion, which was only negatived,
as we predicted, by the " Irish Tail." We shall take
the representatives of.. Great Britain and Ireland
separately.

ENGLISH AND WELSH MEMBERS.
For the motion .. 243
Against the motion .. .. 219

Majority for the Motion 24
ENGLISH, WELSH, AND SCOTCH MEMBEII.S.
For the Motion .. .. 258
Against the Motion 248

Majority for the Motion ..
IRISH MEMBERS.
Against the Motion
For the Motion

Majority against the Motion 31
In addition to this analysis we find in the Times of
of yesterday, in addition to the Conservatives who
are included in the division lists, there were 1. Hon.
W. B. Baring, (ill.) 2. Burr, (abroad.) 3. Coote,
(abroad.) 4. Darner, (abroad.) 5. Estcourt, (abroad.)
6. Lard Lowther, (abroad.) 7. Master, (ili.) 8.
Ker, (ill.) 9. Howard, (Sutherland,) the only Conser-
vative member whose absence was intentional—for the
sake of not dividing. The Conservative account Will
therefore stand thus :--

Voted, (tellers included) . • 289
Pairs .. • • 19
Absent unavoidably .. 8

Absent from a peculiar cause

The actual strength of the Conservatives in the
House is, therefore, 316. Mr. Howard is the only
oae, usually numbered amongst the Conservatives,
who declined voting with his party. Let us now exa-
mine the ministerial list.
Voted, (including tellers) .. 310
Pairs .. .. 19
Absentees, (Fitzgibbon and
Moreton unavoidable) .. 2
Speaker.. I

There were six Liberals or Radicals who were inten-
tionally absent from the division, and whose absence
must be considered as an evidence of their want of
confidence in the Ministry. We give their names—
Mr. Benett, Sit R. Howard, Mr. Goring, Mr. S. Jer-
vis, General Johnson, and Mr. Grote.. In addition to
these there are three vacancies,—Meath, Ludlow, and
Totness. We now proceed to strike the balance. The
respective parties consist of
Ministerialists .. 332
Conservatives .. • . . 316

Real majority .. • • .. 16
It should also be remembered that Ministers count
in their majority of 310, upwards of 40 placemen.
Right welcome are they to the triumph which they
have achieved. They have been acquitted by their own
votes. If they had had the modesty to leave their case
in the hands of the independent members of the House
of Commons, the majority would have been exactly
reversed.

We hope that the noble Comervative phalanx will
follow up the division of Friday night by a series of
similar attacks upon the drivelling courtiers now in
office. They must have no respite until they are
driven either to resign or to dissolve the present Par-
liament. For the latter event the people of England
must be fully prepared. The event cannot he far dis-
tant. Let the Conservatives of Liverpool be on the
watch and ready for action.

The "Big Beggarman," alias the "Greatest Liar of
the Age," alias the "Tom Pepper" of the House of
Commons, has been again busy at his old avocation of
slandering and defaming his betters. Among those
who came in for a share of his abuse, on Friday even-
ing last, was our distinguished townsman, the Rev.
H. M•Neile. The bloateil buffoon ventured to charge
the rev. gentleman with having proclaimed at Man-
chester, " War, war to the knife !" We defy O'Con-
nell to substantiate this charge. The garbled manner
in which O'Connell read the extracts, or :professed
extracts, from Mr. M'Neile's speeches, is quite cha-
racteristic of the shuffling Jesuit. On Friday next
we shall proceed to add to the many proofs extant of
O'Connell's flagrant disregard of the truth, by ana-
lysing his abusive, truculent, and mendacious address
on Sir J. Y. Butler's motion.

It is some months since. the Attorney-General
boasted, before his constituents at Edinburgh, that
Chartism had. been suppressed—that it was, in fact,
extinct. This vain-glorious boast was very so on fol-
lowed by the insurrection of the Chartists in South
Wales ; an event which famed a very emphati c corn-
mentary on Sir John Campbell's speech. W ell, the
strong arm of the law seized upon the ringleaders in
the treasonable attack upon Newport—the Attorney-
General was employed by Government to vindicate the
insulted majesty of thr, law—and three of the prisoners
have been, since the tr ial, lying under sentence of death.
It might be expected that the apparent earnestness with
which Government undertook the prosepition would
have effectually inti midated the Chartists in other parts
of the kingdom, as id deterred them from attempting
any further outbru ak. Such, we have. no hesitation' in
saying, would hay e been the consequence of the trials
at Monmouth, if the present degraded administration
possessed the stighltest degree of credit for honesty and
sincerity in any of their proceedings,. But is Chartism

extinct ? Let the armed assemblages of these ruffians
in the Metropolis, at Sheffield, and at Bradford, furnish
the answer. The plain truth is that the whole of the
North of England is in a state of ferment at the present
moment, and it is impossible to conjecture what mo-
ment a rebellion may break out. The Chartists evi-
dently consider that the present Government is so
weak, timorous, and vacillating„ that nothing decisive
or effectual is to be apprehended from it in the shape
of interference with their proceedings. Hence they
are emboldened to carrying on their agitation, and to
mature their preparations for a civil war. It is a very
easy matter to laugh at the Chartists, and to ridicule
their strength and influence, as is the wont of most of
our Whig-Radical contemporaries : but it will not be
found quite so easy a matter to suppress Chartism. As
yet, it is true, these rebels have only ventured upon
partial and occasional outbreaks. It should not, how-
ever, be forgot that they have distinctly and repeatedly
held out the threat of a general and simultaneous rising.
for the purposes of massacre and plunder. It will be
prudent policy to take heed to these onimous threats.
Is it not probable that the sudden and disconnected
movements, which have already excited so much alarm
in different parts of the kingdom, have partaken more
of the nature of experiments on the part of the Char-
tists, than of any serious intention to commence their
threatened revolution ?

Again and again we feel constrained to warn the pub-

lie of the dangers to be. apprehended from the Char-
tists. A body of conspirators, consisting of nearly two
millions of the population, according to their own ac-
count at least, may well excite feelings of alarm in the
present state of the country. We should not feel so
much disposed to justify these apprehensions if the
country possessed a firm administration. Such, unfor-
tunately, is not the case. We have a ministry as des-
titute of firmness as they are of principle—a ministry
under whose sway the country has been brought to the
very verge of ruin. Such is the deplorable, almost
hopeless, condition into which the nation has been
plunged by the imbeciles in office, that it will require
no ordinary share of moral courage on the part of their
successors, to grapple with the complicated evils and
difficulties which they have created.

We have pleasure in directing the attention of our
readers to a report of the half-yearly general meeting of
the Grand Junction Railway company, at which the di-
rectors were enabled to declare a dividend of 7 per' cent.
for the past half-year, leaving a considerable balance in
the hands of the treasurer. The fact of such a dividend
being made, during a period of severe pressure and
commercial embarrassment, is not only encouraging to
the shareholders, but valuable to the railway public, as
an example of the result of economy in railway un-
dertakings ; and will also serve as a check upon the
volubility of a numerous class of individuals who ex-
hibit their superior sagacity by constant endeavours to
decry the stability of that property which their more
enterprising brethren have created. It would not, by
the way, be either unamusing or uninstructive to in-
quire how many shares, in this and the London and
Birmingham Railway, are held by coach proprietors
and carriers. We believe the number would be found
to be not very inconsiderable—sufficient, at all events,
to constitute a fair set-off against the confident predic-
tions of failure with which these undertakings were
assailed in their infancy by the same gentlemen.

We have another instance of pitiful Whig trickery
to lay before our readers. It will be remembered that
a requisition, numerously and respectably signed, ema-
nating from the electors of the Southern Division of
Cheshire, was presented to Mr. Tollemache, inviting
him to become a candidate on the Conservative interest,
in the event of a dissolution of Parliament. To this
requisition Mr. Tollemache returned a favourable reply.
He promptly responded to the invitation, and issued a
spirited address to the electors. After thus accepting

the invitation, Mr. Tollemache, seeing his name on the
Sheriffs' Lists for the County of Cheshire, addressed a
letter to the Marquess of Normanby, expressing a hope
that her Majesty's Ministers would not appoint him
Sheriff, and thus disappoint a large body of the electors
of South Cheshire of the power of bringing forward,
at the next election, a candidate whom they wished to
represent them in Parliament. This letter was dated
on the 19th of November last. On the2lst of Novem-
ber the Under Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment addressed a letter to Mr. Tollemache in reply,
stating that the application to be exempted from dis-
charging the duties of Sheriff was laid before the Lord
President of the Council. Here the matter rested
until the 31st of January, when Mr. Tollemache received
an intimation that he had, in spite of his timely re-
monstrance, been actually appointed to the office of
High Sheriff for the county ! Of course, Mr. Tolle-
mache is thus incapacitated from coming forward as a
candidate for the representation of the Southern Divi-
sion, in the event of an election taking place during
the present year. This, we have no doubt, is a trick

to secure the return of Mr. G. Wilbraham, if possible.
But it must be frustrated. Another Conservative can-
didate must be immediately found. The friends of the
constitution in South Cheshire must bestiethemselves

to defeat the disgraceful manoeuvre which has been at-
tempted by the ministry. We expect to hear of a deci-
sive movement for this purpose in a few days—a move-
ment which will result in the utter discomfiture of the
Whig-Radical faction.

We rejoice to find that the Conservative press,
throughout the country, and, in some instauces, such
as that of the Preston Chronicle, the Liberal press, have
united to agitate the question of Socialism, with a view
to the extirpation of this moral, social, and political
nuisance. The time has come when the most strenuous
exertions should be made to stay the spread of this pes-
tilence among the population. The bold and uncom-
promising manner in which the subject has been taken
in hand by the Bishop of Exeter, ought to entitle that
eminent prelate to the thanks of his countrymen of all
grades and opinions. The triumphant exposure which