The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

POLITICAL VARIETIES.

O sdaztht
,lofrdopßio,sbietirL.
Grosvenor was returned
for
ea triln t
Middlesex,
, of
Ellesmere took the oaths and his seat in
the House of Lords on Monday.
The Presse states. that Lord Palmerston has secretly
made offers for the purchase of Egypt after the death of
Mehemet Ali ! They will have his lordship pocketing a
pyramid by and by.
Te N
El'
On Tuesday, Mr. Prime was returned for West Sussex,
in the room of Colonel Wyndham. He is a Protectionist
of the first water—and prepared to vote for the endowment
of the Roman Catholic Clergy in Ireland.
The Times publishes an anonymous' paper, stated to
have. been handed to the editor by a " British Minister."
It is styled a " protest," and professes to emanate from
certain inhabitants of Cracow, who do not choose to ha-
zard their necks by giving publicity to their names. The
scope of the document is to show that the insurrection was
in reality a mere farce, bespoken by the Three Powers, as
a pretext for suppressing the Republic, and conducted by
a handful of Russian and Austrian agents, without the
concurrence of the citizens.
Wuso BLUNDERING.—On the 26th of last month, the,
bill for suspending the duties on the importation of foreign
corn received the Royal assent, and became the law of the
land. On the following day, however, it was discoveredtn"
that those insignificant ingredients in the "
bread
line, viz, buck wheat, buck wheat meal, maize, b .than
• and forgotten in the act : and the error had to be
corn, Indian corn meal, anti rice, had been totally over-
lookedremedied by a Treasury minute, addressedto the Commis-
sioners of Customs, directing them to admit all the afore-
said articles " free of duty, under the usual conditions of
the parties abiding the ultimate decisions of Paella.
merit !" Oh ! the quautula smpientia of Whig states-
manship !
M. GUIZOT AND LORD PALMERSTON.—The corres-
pondence upon the question of the Spanish marriages may
.be considered, says the Morning Chronicle, 'as now
closed, " the last despatch of M. Guizot being of such a
character as really not to justify the British Minister in
giving it an answer, much less to demand one." The
real question at issue is still, however, as far from beim:
. settled as ever. The position taken up by Lord Palmer-
ston admits of no compromise. He insists that the
by the
children of the Infanta will,Treatyr ,u, ,
of Utrecht, be
deprived of their rights of Succession to the Spanish
crown, and that the English Government will adhere to
the principle of their exclusion. Until this question is
settled our. relations with both France and Spain must re-
main disturbed. ,gt
MoftE L ER AL DO INGs.—A requisition is in course
signature at Sunderland, among the Conservatives, to

Feb. 9, 1847.

convene a meeting of that party to consider the atrocious
imputations made by the mayor of that borough at 3
recent public meeting held in that town, on the public
character and conduct of the Conservatives of Sunder-
land, whom he described as worthless as the worst felons
in the land. It is intended, it is said, "to send his
worship to Coventry." The affair is creating " a sensa-
tion."—At Durham, only about fourteen miles distant,
the mayor of that borough last week, refused to put a mo-
tion made by one of the members relative to the accept-
ance of the resignation of the town-clerk. He was fre-
quently and vehemently requested to do so, but con-
tinued to refuse. After the lapse of a considerable time,
during which the proceedings were of any rather than-
of an amicable kind, Mr. Veitch, proprietor of the Dur-
ham radical paper, and therefore of the mayor's party,.
rose and said that the only thing which prevented him
from proposing a vote of censure on the mayor was, be-
cause he felt uncertain whether the gentleman in the
chair would condescend to put it to the meeting.—[Ap-
plause.) Shortly after this the mayor attempted to read
some document or other, but the council were so annoyed
with the conduct which had been pursued, that they
hurried out of the room, leaving him with only one or
two thick and thin supporters of his party ! And thus
ended this memorable meeting. Since the meeting, we
understand, says the Durham Advertiser, that the mem-
bers of the council have come to the determination not
to attend any more meetings of that body that may be
summoned by the present mayor.