The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-03-06 00:00:00

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Deciding Course:
Dupe beat Deerstalker, and won the Purse

ALTCAR STAKES.—Second Ties

Crenoline beat Barrister
Cineraria beat Denunciation

Czar beat Well-I-Never
Spy beat Blue Skin

Third Tied

Crenoline beat Cineraria

Czar beat Spy

Deciding Course
Crenoline beat Czar, and won the Stake

THE CHASE.
THE CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet

To-morrow, (Wednesday,) the 7th instalct,. Hartford Bridge
Friday, the 9th instant, at Knutsford Lodge, Tatton Park
Each day at half-past ten, except the 9th instant, when they
will meet at twelve o'clock.

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

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Lord John Russell hopes to bring on, this evening, the
discussion on the Navigation Laws.
Mr. Mundy, who has represented South Derbyshire
since 1841, died at Barbadoes on the 29th January.
The Yorkshire Gazette intimates that the Earl of Har-
rowby has promised to bring in a bill for the gradual
repeal of the Beer Bill early in the present session.
The farmers are holding meetings all over the country,
to petition parliament for the repeal of the malt tax, and
for the removal of the other burdens pressing unfairly on
the occupiers of land.

PARLIAMENT AND THE CHURCH.—In the majority in
favor of Lord Ashley's motion we find M. T. Baines, J.
Brotherton, W. Gladstone, Sir J. Graham, &c. Scarcely
any of our Lancashire members were present to support
his Lordship ; and this should not be forgotten on a fu-
ture occasion. In the minority of only twenty were J.
Bright, J. Hume, T. Thorneley, W. Brown, &c.
THE FINANCIAL QUESTION.—In the majority of 275
against Mr. Cobden's motion for reducing the expendi-
ture of the country to the level of 1835, we find E. Card-
well, Sir T. B. Birch, W. T. Egerton, G. C. Legh, J. W.
Patten, and J. Tollemache ' • in the minority of 78 in
favour of the motion were W. Brown, H. Drummond,
W. Ewart, A. Henry, L. Heyworth, C. Hindley, E.
Horsman, W. Jackson, It. Thicknesse, Lord D. Stuart,
T. Thorneley, Sir J. Walmsley, &c.
THE ALTERATION OF OATHS BILL.—The Earl of Win-
chilsea has addressed a very energetic letter to the peo-
ple of this country on the subject of this bill. He con-
cludes as follows :—" Let me most earnestly and most
affectionately implore you--as you value a continuance of
the many blessings which the Almighty has bestowed
upon our country (for national sins, believe me, never go
unpunished in this, present' world; and what greater
casting off the name of that Saviour and God who died
to 'redeem us ?)—to raise our voices as one mar. against
this most wicked and accursed measure. Let it echo from
hill to hill, and let every valley of our land be filled with
this determined cry, " That Christian England will never
suffer the cross to be removed from the banners under
which she fights."

THE AGRICULTURAL INTEREST.—The folloiaing is a
copy of Mr. D'lsraeli's motion, to be broughtforward
next Tuesday—" That the whole of the local taxition of
the country for national purposes falls mainly, if not ex-
clusively, upon real property, and presses with undue se-
verity upon the occupiers of land in a manner injtrious to
the agricultural interests of the country, and is otherwise
highly impolitic and unjust. That the hardship of these
appointments is greatly aggravated by the fact tint more
that one-third of the whole revenue derived fromthe ex-
cise is levied upon agricultural produce exported, through
the recent changes in tie law, in direct competition with
the untaxed produce of foreign countries. That tie home
produce is thus being subject to a burden of taxatioi which
greatly enhances the price, and limits the demand hr Bri-
tish produce exported—restrictions which injurimsly in-
terfere with trade and industry. That this house rill re-
solve itself into a committee of the whole house, b take
into consideration such measures as may remove tie grie-
vances of which the owners and occupiers of real puperty
justly complain, and which may establish a more eqfitable
apportionment of the public burdens."
FREE-TRADE PROSPERITY.—In the House of Com-
mons, on Friday, Mr. Masterman said " he would ak the
merchants of London to look back to the autumn o 1847
—what bad their experience of Free-trade measures leen ?
(Cheers.) What had been the experience of the *ann.
facturers of the country ? Let Mr. Bright answe the
question. No one could doubt his ardent love forfree-
trade. Speaking only a few days ago, he said that
within a few years nearly every manufacturer had losbne-
half of his capital. What said Mr. Muntz, in relatin to
Birmingham ? Why, that five-sixths of the metal /tutu-
facturers had been obliged so discontinue their busiiess.
So, then, neither the merchants nor the manufactures of
England had found prosperity to flow from free-fade
measures, while it was clear the consumers had not brie-
fitted ; because he found Mr. Williams, the membe for
Macclesfield, declaring that in the neighbourhood ale-