The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-08 00:00:00

TUE LTVERPOOL STATWARTI.

POLITICAL GOSSIP.

John Hornby, Esq., has come forward again for Black-
burn.

Mr. Ferrand will not come forward .againior Knares-
borough.
The amount actually paid in for the Cobden testimonial
£65,288.

Samuel Baker, Esq., a sterling Protestant, has come
forward as a candidate for the representation of Stroud.

Mr. Yates Peel has come out for Tamworth, in opposi-
tion to Sir Robert. If Sir Robert coalesce with Captain
A'Court Mr. Yates Peel will stand a good chance.
Dr. Gifford, late editor of the London Standard, is
coming forward for Dublin University at the ensuing
election.

It is now said that it will be impossible to get through
the business of Parliament before the 10th of July ; and
that the elections will then follow immediately.

The free traders have resolved to bring forward Mr.
Villiers for South Lancashire, though le has declined to
stand. _ _ _

Sir F. Kelly has come forward for Shrewsbury, and it is
thought that he and Mr. Butler will be returned, and that
Mr. Tomline, the late member, and a Peelite, will be
ousted.

LANCASTER.-Mr. Marton retires. Mr. Greene again
offers himself. Mr. E. D. Salisbury, of Lancaster has
come forward as a Conservative, and Mr. W. T. Gregson,
of London, a native of Lancaster, as a Liberal.
Middlesex, it appears, is likely to be " compromised."
The Whigs could easily remove Thomas Wood from his
seat, but only by subjecting their own member, Lord
Robert Grosvenor, to an outlay of some £5,000. This, it
is understood, his lordship dislikes ; and such is his in-
fluence, that rather than do anything displeasing to hint,
the Colonel is to boleft.inpossession of his seat.

BIRMINGIIAM.-Sir Robert Peel, to whom a requisi-
tion was in course of signature, desiring him to be-
come a candidate for Birmingham, and which had already
been signed by upwards of 6000 electors, has declined the
nomination, stating that " highly as he must value the fa-
vourable opinion of the constituent body and inhabitants
of that borough, it would be wholly out of his power to
accede to the requisition."

A WORD OF ADVICE. -
Ohl 'tis a CARD that ne'er can win,
However vvnLi.. they play it:—
Ohl 'tis a STONE that ne'er can stand,' -
Though glad they be to lay it.
But don't dispair,
To make things square—
A better choice is quickly found,
If Oxford only seeks a-ROUND.

AN ELECTIONEERING CLAIM.-Mr. J. Biggs recently
commenced an action against the Reform Club, to recover
the sum of £5OO, promised him towards defraying the
expenses incurred in contesting South Leicestershire at
the last general election : and the matter has been this
week settled by the defendants paying the amount, with
interest thereon, and the costs of the action. Mr. Biggs
has also commenced proceedings against the borough
members to obtain from them certain sums which, he
alleges, their agent, (W. H. Ashurst, Esq.,) agreed to
pay.—Leicester Chronicle.
THE APPROACHING DISSOLUTION.-It has been just
ascertained that it will not be possible to close the pre-
sent session until a somewhat later period than that
hitherto announced. The public business which may be
called, in the strict sense of the term, indispensable, can-
not possibly be got over before the 10th of July. That
date advances so far into the season as to make a general
election interfere inconveniently with the period in which
the country will be, occupied with the harvest. Upon the
whole, we learn that it is considered possible that the dis-
solution may be deferred until the autumn, but in no 'case
can it be looked for earlier than the middle of July.—
Britannia.

NORTH WALES.—In Flintshire, Sir S. R.Glynne makes
a courteous retiring bow to the Whig government, and
lets in the Hon. E. L. Mostyn. Sir R. Bulkeley leaves the
Flintshire boroughs to the possession of Sir John Hamner,
and proceeds to Anglesea to expel from thence an ill-con-
.ditioned brother whig, the Hon. W. 0. Stanley. - Carnar-
vonshire county and boroughs are to remain undisturbed.
In Denbighshire the family compact seems to have failed;
and the present members, Sir Watkin W. Wynn and the
Hon. W. Bagot, will be re-elected, notwithstanding the
goodwill of Colonel Myddleton Biddulph to stir up a fer-
ment thereat. From the Denbighshire boroughs Mr.
Townshend Mainwariug, a worthy, well-meaning man,
retires ; and Mr. Wynne, of Coed Coch, an earnest Con,
servative, seems likely to be his successor.