The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-13 00:00:00

July 13,1547.

THE ELECTIONS, 4-c.

WATERFORD.-Sir B. M. Wall, the Repealer, has re-
signed.

KiNsALE.---Mr. Watson, the present member, will be
opposed here by Mr. Guiness, of Dublin, or Mr. Attwood,
both of whom are in the field.

A rumour is current in Monmouthshire, that the Mar-
quis of Worcester is about to offer himself for the county,
in the room of Captain Somerset.
DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.—We can now state
the exact time when parliament will be dissolved—the
25th of July.—Pilot.
The Morning Chronicle announces that Mr. Dabou-
chere will enter upon the office of president of the Board
of Trade immediately before the dissolution of parliament.
The right honourable gentleman will be succeeded by Sir
William Somerville, as secretary for Ireland.
There is no truth whatever in the rumour that Dr. Gif-
ford has determined upon retiring from his proposed can-
vass for the University of Dublin ; on the contrary, he is
quite resolved to go to the poll. The idea of withdrawing
never once crossed his mind.—Dublin _Evening Mail.

Mr James Silk Buckingham's claims for compensation
are again to be brought under the notice of Parliament,
after having been at rest some time. Sir De Lacy Evans
has entered a notice upon the book of the House of Com-
mons for that purpose.
DUBLIN.—We perceive by the Freeman's Journal, the
organ of the Repealers, that Mr. John O'Connell will
not contest the city of Dublin. This determination has
been come to in consequence of the citizens having de-
clined to subscribe the necessary funds for the contest.
NEWCASTLE.—In addition to Mr. Ord and Mr. Ellison,
Hr. Headlam, a liberal barrister, son of Archdeacon
Headlam, is in the field, in the room of Mr. Hinde, who
has unexpectedly resigned. But it is expected the young
Whigling will be obliged to succumb before the superior
claims of Cuthbert Ellison, Esq., of Hebburn Hall.

SUNDERLAND.—The Himousrabe H. T. Liddell has,
after his long servitude, announced his attention to retire
from the representation on the dissolution, and Lord
Seaham has come forward to succeed him. The leading
Conservatives of Durham are as inveterately opposed to
the Marquis of Londonderry as ever, but his lordship
seems likely now to get both the county and city repre-
sentation under his own control.
SOUTH LANCASHIRE.—On Wednesday last; the rumour
was again revived and currently circulated, that Mr.
Villiers had positively and finally declined to sit for ells
division of the county if elected. This fact has not yet
been officially announced, but, it is said, will be so shortly.
Lord Brackley, it is also said, but on the same dubious
authority, is to be again brought forward. The general
feeling in his favour seems to be considerably stronger
than it was a few weeks ago.—Times of Friday.
NORTH LANCASHIRE.—A split, it is said, has already,
or is about to take place, between the friends of Mr-
Patten and Mr. Clifton, although both holding conserva-
tive opinions. Some of the most influential friends of
Mr. Patten have positively declared that they will not
vote for, or in any way support, Mr. Clifton. A few
days, it is said, will probably bring forth something de-
cisive on the subject.—Times of Friday.
NORTH CHESHIRE.—We are now enabled to state,
with confidence, that the preliminary negotiations relative
to the parliamentary representation of North Cheshire
have been so far successful, that W. Tatton Egerton, Esq.,
and the Hon. E. J. Stanley have avowed their readiness
to come forward as candidates for that division of the
county, at the approaching election. The requisition to
those gentlemen was signed by a very large majority of
the constituency, so that their election may be considered
as a settled matter. Mr. Davenport, owing to ill
health," has withdrawn his pretensions ; and we suspect
that in the face of such a demonstration as the united
friends of Messrs. Egerton and Stanley have elicited, no
third candidate will be forthcoming.—Chester Courant.
CITY OF LONDON.—On Thursday evening two meetings
were held in the city; one of the Conservative electors,
and the other of those favouring the Whig candidates. At
the meeting of the Conservatives, resolutions were passed
in favour of Mr. Masterman, Mr. Alderman Johnson,
and Mr. C. L. Bevan, all of whom, eloquently addressed
the meeting in support of Protestant and Conservative
principles. The meeting was a most enthusiastic one,
and augured well for the success of the conservative
candidates. At the other meeting speeches were
made, and resolutions passed approving of Lord John
Russell, Messrs. Pattison, Larpent, and Rothschild, as
fit and proper persons to represent the city of London in
Parliament. We are happy to announce that a fourth
conservative candidate has since appeared in the person
of Mr. J. W. Freshfield, who has issued an address on
Protestant principles, and therefore " totally opposed to
any endowment of the Church of Rome."
The main feature of the coming elections will undoubt-
edly be the return of Rothschild for the city of London,
for that he will be returned seems agreed on all hands;
and then comes the question how is he to set about doing
that for the Hebrews which was done at the last Clare
election in 1827 ? Some say that Jews may take the oaths
required by the Commons, and that they can sit as a mat-
ter of course. Of this opinion is Mr. D. Salomons, who.
has offered for several constituencies, and declares that he
is as eligible to be an M.P. as he is to be a Sheriff. Of
the same opinion, too, is Baron Rothschild, or he would
not stand, it may be presumed. Others say, however,
that the returning-officer is bound to declare a Christian
elected, no matter what the number of votes for the Jew
—that a double return in that case will be made to the
Speaker—and then the question of the present disabilities
of the Jews, whatever they are, will be debated, and on
the issue of the debate will depend the confirmation or
the rejection of the great millionaire. Lord John Russell,
the premier, has declared himself, and there are four eli-
gible candidates in the field on either side, Mr. Wolverley
Atwood being one of the Conservatives.—London paper.

THE CROPS AND THE FOOD MARKETS

Should the present summer weather continue for another
week or ten days we shall have new wheat to market be-
fore this month goes out.—Limerick Chronicle.

The crops in Turkey present the most luxuriant appear-
ance, and it is expected that the harvest will be unusually
plentiful.
During three .or four days, at the beginning of last
month, nearly 500 ships passed through the Dardanelles,
for the purpose of loading corn in the harbours of the
Black Sea.

IMPORTATIONS INTO LONDON.—The London Times of
Wednesday last states that the number of vessels which
entered the port of London during the week was 167,
which were entirely, with one or two exceptions, laden
with grain of various kinds, the produce of Europe.
POTATOES.—On Wednesday last, an unusually supply
of new potatoes was brought by the farmers to Preston
market ; and, although the price of sale commenced at
Is. 2d. per score pounds, it speedily diminished Is., and,
subsequently, to 9d. and even Bd.
. . .

HOPS.-116 accounts received at Worcester last week
from the hop districts are unfavourable. The reports are
also bad from the Weald of Kent, Sussex, and Farnham,
and the duty had dropped to £140,000. The accounts
received at Borough are much more favourable, and in
the duty next to nothing was doing.
ENORMOUS GROWTH OF POTATOES.—Mr. Smith, the
gardener at Brodsworth Hall, took up one potato root
the other day, which had the extraordinary number of
one hundred and eighteen full-grown potatoes attached.
We are happy to learn that the sample was entirely free
from disease.—Doncaster Chronicle.

A corrrespondent of the Morning Post suggests the
following cure for the potato blight. He has not had an
opportunity of trying it himself on the Aphis Vastator,
but finding it succeed with other insects, thinks it would
be worth trying. He says :—" I was informed, a day or
two ago, by a gentleman whose garden has been infested
by caterpillars, that he had destroyed the insects and saved
the fruit by watering his gooseberry and other trees with
water in which bruised elder-tops had been steeped for a
night ; and the success was so complete that the ground
below was strewed with the dead bodies of the insects on
the following morning."
THE WEATHER.—For the last week or ten days the
weather has been all that could possibly be desired for
bringing to maturity the different productions of the
earth. Wheat and oats are rapidly coming into full ear,
and should the present fine weather continue, an abundant
harvest will shortly crown the labours of the husbandman..
Haymaking is likewise progressing under auspicious cir-
cumstances, and a heavier crop for a length of time has
not been realized. The potatoe disease of last year has
certainly made its appearance in some few instances, but
Y I as vet not to anv serious extent : and thoush it is Quite

evident that it is still in existence, the gene-ral belie( ap-
pears to be that it will not be as universal as in former
years.—Preston Chronicle.

FOOD PROSPECTS IN IRELAND.—Elswhere we

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more cheering than the accounts of this crop. The reports
of all other crops are universally favourable. Under these
circumstances, it is no matter of surprise that the prices
of all kinds of provisions should show signs of a rapid

market alone retains anything of a firm character. In
London, on Monday, the fall in the price of wheat since
that day week amounted to ss. a quarter ; and at our own
Corn Exchange, on Thursday, the same grain met with
few purchasers at a decline of from ls. to 2s. per barrel.—