The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-03-20 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

The Recordership of Wokingham, rendered vacant by
the death of Mr. J. Jermey, has been conferred on Mr.
George Clive, barrister-at-law, of Lincoln's-inn, and
Judge of the Southwark County Court.

POLITICAL

MISCELLANY.

The story goes that Sir Robert Peel furnished Sir Chas.
Wood with the statistical materials foi his able speech of
Wednesday. Whether that be the fact or not, it is clear
that Sir R. Peel has his own policy, and will carry nut his
own course of action.

THE NAVIGATION LAWS.—RE-ACTlON.—Division in
the House of Commons in 1848 :
For the repeal.. 294
Against

Members present • 471—Majority 117
Division in the House of Commons in 1849:
For the repeal... . 266
210

Against,

Members present 476—Majority 56 !
Difference in favour of the present session, 61 ! ! !
LOCAL TAXATION.—In the majority of 208 against Mr.
Disraeli's motion for a committee to inquire into the sub-
ject of the unequal burdens on land, were E. Cardwell,
Sir T. B. Birch, W. Brown, A. Henry, J. Bright, J.
Brotherton, R. Cobden, W. Ewart, W. E. Gladstone,
Earl Grosvenor, J. Heywood, L. Hevworth, W. Jackson,
G. C. Legh. Earl of Lincoln, Sir R. Peel, T. Thornely,
and Sir J. Walmesley. In the minority of 189 were G. F.
Muntz. J. Tollemache, It. Spooner, W. Lockhart, Alder-
man Thompson, Sir L. O'Brien, Sir W. Wynne, E
Stanley, Hon. G. J. Noel, J. Napier, and Lord C. S.
Manners.
The John Bull strongly protests against the appoint-
ment of Mr. Gilbert A'Beckett as one of the police ma-
gistrates of the metropolis, with a salary of £l5OO a year.
" We know not," says our contemporary, " whether the
known favour of certain Whig lords has been called into
requisition, or whether the fact of Mr. A'Beckett's father
having formerly been a parliamentary agent for a Whig
borough, has been considered a sufficient claim for the
advancement of his son. To the legal world Mr. A'Beck-
ett is positively unknown at all ;" and our contemporary
adds that " he is only known as the proprietor and editor
of the defunct Figaro in London, a writer of jokes in
Punch, the author of the Comic History of England, and
certain burlesques for some of the minor theatres,"
The Principality, a Welsh paper, says Pryse Pryse,
Esq., the newly-elected member for the Cardigan boroughs
when yet an aspirant for senatorial honours, spoke in this
wise—" If you want to send a man to Parliament to work
for your interest, send me, and I will work like a brick.' "
Dissenters believed ; Radicals trusted ; and he was re-
turned as the man of the people, the representative of the
principles of progress. Sunday-school teachers of the
gentler sex waved their kerchiefs from the windows as he
passed. Oh, how glorious ! ministers of religion fol-
lowed in his train, because he was such a " brick ;" but
Pryse Pryse, Esq., no sooner enters the House of Com-
mons, under the arm of Lord Marcus Hill, whipper-in
to her Majesty's ministers, than he votes, in violation of
his promises direct and implied, against Mr. Cobden's
motion for a decrease in the national expenditure.
THE PERIL OF FREE TRADE.—Mr. Cobden exclaimed,
in the Free Trade Hall, "we are in power on the Corn
Laws !" A clever assertion, only it happens not to be
perfectly true. Free Trade is, at this moment, in great
peril ; and it will be in peril for at least a twelvemonth to
come. The continual fall in the price of corn is naturally
alarming the farmers ; and Mr. Cobden, on Thursday
night, was honest enough to tell the Protectionists not to
expect high prices any more. Consequently, if farmers
are not to expect high prices again, a considerable num-
ber will be ruined; and if the Protectionists were to ven-
ture on a bold experiment, and compel a change of
ministry, and a dissolution of parliament, we might see a
great increase in the number of those who would be
ready to lay a fixed duty on the importation of foreign
corn.—Manchester Spectator (liberal journal).
In consequence of the small ministerial majority on the
second reading of the bill for the repeal of the navigation,
laws, in the House of Commons, being considered vir-
tually a throwing out of the measure, the masters of the
British ships in the docks and port of London hoisted
their flags, giving the river a cheerful and gay appearance.
It is stated that one large new German vessel is waiting
the result, the captain hoping to be able to get a tender
for carrying out troops to the East Indies should the bill
be passed. This fine vessel, 700 tons, beautifully built,
cost, fit out for sea under £5,000 ; it would have cost three
times that sum built and equipped in the Thames.
Lord John Russell said, in the course of his speech on
the church rate discussion, " I cannot think that there is
any injustice in the demand made for the church-rate.
(Hear, hear.) But neither can I agree, that the esta-
blished church is a benefit solely to those who belong to
it. (Hear, hear.) I have always considered, omitting the
point of the particular form in which church-rates are
levied, which is open to great objection, that the general
ground upon which church-rates can be justified is, that
an established church, and the established church of this
country in particular, is not a benefit solely to those who
belong to it, but is a great tribute and a great homage on
the part of the legislature—(much cheering, in which
the next few words of the noble lord were inaudible), and
that the country would not be benefited, would not be
improved, but would be degraded by its abolition. (Re-
newed cheers.)"
CHURCH RATES.—The following members voted in the
majority of 119 against the abolition of church-rates, on
Tuesday :—T. C. Anstey, R. B. Armstrong. R. M. Bel-
lew, B. Disraeli, John Duncuft, Lord Ebrington, F.
French, W. E. Gladstone, Henry Goulburn, G. Greenall,
Sir G. Grey, B. Hawes, Sir John Hobhouse, W. N.
Hodgson, Sir John Jervis, W. S. Lascelles, George C.
Lewis, Sir Lucius O'Brien, J. W. Patten, Sir Robert
Peel, David Pugh, Lord John Russell, George Sanders,
Colonel Sibthorp, R. A. Slaney, Edward Stanley, John
Tollemache. The following voted in the minority of 84:
H. Aglionby, J. Brocklehurst, J. Brotherton, W. Bus-
feild, Richard Cobden, William Ewart. W. J. Fox, T.
M. Gibson, George Carr Glvn, T. E. Headlam, Alexander
Henry, James Heywood, Lawrence Heyworth, C. Hind-
ley, Joseph Hume, William Jackson, James Kershaw,
J. O'Connell, James Pilkington, William Scholefield,
Ralph Thicknesse, T. Thornley, Charles Villiers, Sir J.
Walmsley, J. S. Trelawny, John Bright.
REASONS FOR THE FINANCIAL REFORM AGITATION.—
Mr. Cayley stated in the House of Commons, on Thurs-
day, that " it had been stated that there was a great de-
sire on the part of the agricultural population to join in
an attempt to reduce the expenditure of the country—to
rable, considering the price of produce. There was rea-
son in the agriculturists making those complaints; but
his surprise was that the manufacturers made complaints
of that nature. They might be assured that both the
mercantile and agricultural bodies never made those com-
plaints unless the hoe pinched. Was it the shoe of free
trade that pinched ? (Protectionist cheers.) It was the
distress in the manufacturing districts in 1837 that led to
the agitation for the repeal of the corn laws. Let them
depend on it, it was some feeling of distress in the manu-
facturing body which led to the agitation at the present
time for financial reform. (Cheers from the Protection-
ists.) It had been well said by an American writer, very
knowing in the motives and interests of mankind, that
when a state was eminently flourishing, its subjects over-
looked general defects in times of prosperity, but that
there were no more fastidious commentators on public
affairs than the merchants of a falling trade. (Cheers.)
He strongly believed that a falling trade was at the bot-
tom of the present agitation!'

DIVISION ON THE NAVIGATION LAWS.—In the majo-
rity in favour of the second reading we find E. Cardwell,
Sir T. B. Birch, W. Brown, A. Henry, J. Bright, J. Bro-
therton, R. Cobden, W. Ewart, T. M. Gibson, W. E.
Gladstone, H. Goulbourn, Sir J. Graham, L. Heyworth,
C. Hindley, W. Jackson, Sir R. Peel, G. Sandars, R. A.
Thicknesse, T. Thornely, and Sir J. Walmsley. In the
minority against the second reading were Sir P. Egerton,
W. T. Egerton, J. Tollemache, J. Bailey, Jun., M. T.
Baines, B. Disraeli, H. Drummond, G. C. Legh, J. Na-
pier, J. Sandars, Lord Seaham, Col. Sibthorp, Ald. Sid-
ney, R. Spooner, A. Stafford, E. Stanley, R. Stephenson,
and Sir W. Verner. Of the ayes in 1848-59 were Peel-
ites or old protectionists, 235 Liberals. In 1849, 39 were
Peelites, 227 Liberals. So that there were only eight
fewer Liberals votod for this time than last, and 20 fewer
of the old protectionist party. Of the noes in 1848-161
were Protectionists, 16 Liberals. In 1849-191 Protec-
tionists, 19 Liberals. Fourteen of the majority of last
year voted with the minority of this; 18 of the Peelites
and 25 of the Liberals, who voted for the abolition last
year, were absent from the late division. Of those who
voted last year and were absent this, 13 were Irish mem-
bers ; and of the 14 who changed sides five were Irish
members. Fifty-two voted for this time who did not vote
last, and 49 voted against this time who did vote last,