The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-05-18 00:00:00

CONSERVATIVE JOURNALS.

The Times
The Morning Herald..
The Morning Post
The Standard.
St. James's Chronicle 223,000
The Evening Mail
The English Chronicle

Total 2,869,000
LIBERAL JOURNALS.

The Morning Chronicle • . 735,000
The Morning. Advertiser
The Courier
The. Globe

The Courier 136,000
The Evening Chronicle

Total

From this return it appears that the conservative daily
and three-times-a-week journals circulate far more ex-
tensively than the whip-radical newspapers of the same
class—the difference amounting to 642,000 stamps in the
course of four months. To show more clearly the pre-
ponderance of those journals which advocate conserva-
tive principles we may take the items of the above re-
turn as an average for the twelve months, which will
give the following results :
YEARLY CIRCULATION OF CONSERVATIVE NEWSPAPERS.
Times
Morning Herald

Morning Post
Standard ...

828,000
1,149,000

SL.Tames's Chronicle
Evening Mail
English Chronicle

669,000
375,000
'126,000

Total
YEARLY CIRCULATION OF WHIG-RADICAL NEWSPAPERS.
Morning Chronicle 2,205,000
Morning Advertier 1,620,000.
Sun
Globe
Courier ' 408,000
Evening Chronicle

Total ' 6,681,000 i
Excess of
.Car,ervatite over Whig--
Radical papers
This' retiarry affor;di a gratifying proof of the steady

growth and progress of Conservative principles. The
circulation of the Timev_ exceeds that of the blackguard-
ishChronicle after the rate of one million three hundred
thousand per annum! Such is the present proud posi-
tion of the leading.organ., of the conservative party—a
position which must he a source of hitte'r vexation to the
present ministry and their adherents.

It may prove interesting to otir readers to have a state-
ment of the daily circulation of the,above journals. The
following is an approximation calculated after the pre-

ceding return :
Times
Morning Chronicle .
Morning Herald ...
Morning Ad%ertiser
Morning Post
Standard
Courier
Globe
Sun

16,100
10,300
9,100
• 7,600
3,900
5,400
1,900
4,300
5,900

THREE TIMES A WEEK.
St. James's Chronicle 9,400
Evening Mail
' Evening Chronicle 3,800
English Chronicle
We have not yet received any .particulars respecting
the circulation of the provincial newspapers. As soon
as we can procure a copy of the return we shall lay be-
fore our readers a statement of the number of stamps
issued to the Liverpool journals.. .

TnE PEEL BANQUET.—We give in our present publi-
cation as long a report of the interesting proceedings at
the banquet given on Saturday to Sir Robert Peel as
our limits will permit. The speech of the right hon.
baronet we have given at length, conscious that we could
not afford our readers a richer treat. The sentiments
breathed-throughout this splendid oration will be cor-
dially responded to by every true Protestant in the land.
The manly declaration of conservative principles which
emanated from the great leader of the party are calcu-
lated to produce a very powerful effect throughout the
country. Never before was there such a tribute paid to
any public man as that which has been, paid to Sir Robert
Peel by three hundred and thirteen members of the
British House of Commons.

IRISH DIVISION.—The grand battle of
the session has at length been fought, and it is not too
much to say that the ministers came off second best in
the struggle. We have not at present the means for
entering into a minute analysis of the division, but we
find the following very apposite remarks furnished by a
correspondent of the London Standard of Wednesday
evening:— •

"On the division last night the Conservatives mustered 298
besides tellers. Mr. Hale's death and Mr. Hope's absence
account for a real total of 300. On the great division of J 835,
on which the existence of Sir Robert Peel's ministry depended,
they could'tnuster but 289. Here is a clear increase of 11.

"But the case is yet stronger as against the ministry. The
majority of last night, after allowing for Mr. liaise and Mr.
Hope, was seventeen. But six gentlemen—to wit, Mr. Fleet.
wood, Mr. Pusey, Sir R. Ferguson, Sir C. Lemon, Mr. Town-
ley, and Mr. Bennett, voted with ministers last night merely to
save them from a defeat, who would not have voted in favour of
the appropriation clause, but against it. They object to the
clause, but they will not inflict on ministers the ignominy of
rescinding it. But were the clause proposed, they have voted
and would vote against it. Deduct these six votes from the
one side, and transfer them to the other, and the famous reso-
lution.of April, 1835, would now be carried by a majority of
five.

"The progress of ' appropriation,' alias robbery, therefore, is
as follows:

. Majority in • 1833 37
1836 26
PO 1838 5!!
‘ Is not this something like coining to ' the last gasp ?' "
In addition to the vacancies alluded to above, it is
right to mention that the conservatives have lost one
vote through the_ compromise recently entered into in
reference to the Norwich election petition. Had not Mr.
Scarlett resigned his seat in favour of Mr. SMitb, the
ministerial majority would have been smaller by two

than it proved. •
After this very close division, it is improbable that the
House of Lords will yield their acquiescence to any of
-the measuies-of the present -government affecting -the-
,question of Irish Tithes or Irish Corporations; so. that
the Crim-Connellite cabinet will be under the necessity
of holding; office without being able to carry out any of
their destructive schemes. Their condition is the most
pitiable in which any ministry was ever placed.

RADICAL TRICICptY.—We
.upderstand that Knipe, the
notorious, and his squad, consisting of individuals of the
names of Hartley, Phillips, Davies, (the great tee-
totaller,) and a straw bonnet maker whose name we
have not been able to ascertain, have been perambulating
the town, under the pretence of collecting information
for the publication of a new Directory, but, in reality,
for the purpose of finding out all the changes of resi-
dence which have taken place since the bommencement
of this year. This is done preparatory to the next regis-
tration, in order that Knipe may have it in his power to
annoy the electors by 'another set of wholesale objections.
We think it right to put the public on their guard against
these radical schemers. Our readers will now know how
to deal with these itinerant emissaries of the Reform
Association, and we should not be at all surprised to
hear that they get a good horse-wipping for their imper-
tinent officiousness.