The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-24 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

Great efforts are being made to induce Mr. Baring to
stand for the city._

The Carlton and Conservative Clubs are about to raise
funds to prosecute the petition against Baron Rothschild.
Sir Frederick Thesiger's promotion to the bench is con-
tingent upon the adoption of some propositions made by
Sir James Graham to the Ministry.

BOSTON.—The High Church party, it is sa?
bring forward either Stanhope Bankes, Esq , •
ley Hall, or Mr. Humfrey, the Queen's C' .0( Kearns,
According to the Clobe, Mr. Fear,- -41@ci.
dares his Intention of retiring from tWontor &-
a conference which is to be held 41ife, soon after
6th of next month. AsIL Nottingham, on the
TILE NAVIGATION LAN-
men out of employe tratAer of able sea-
docks, is now very, -ekt 9pi the Tniig•hbourhood of the
relief and assi eo.t.s;i*trable, an the daily claims for
Asylum," p Atonte 'made at The "Destitute Sailors'
during t' 'much larger than at any former period
s).: t‘Ym trier Tor the last '43n years.
4:tAiottig freights :to and from' nearly all }parts of the
continue in a state of depression, and for what bu-
t begs is done the rates are to a great extent unremunera-
ave.—Sunderland Times.

A rumour prevails that Mr. Hudson is about to resign
his seat for the borough of Sunderland, and Mr. H. Fen-
wick has been announced as a candidate on the liberal
side. There is also a rumour that Mr. Wilkinson, who
has twice unsuccessfully contested the borough on the
same interest, will come forward. Lord Adolphus Vane
is talked of as the candidate on the other side.
IMPORTANTIfEETING OF ENGLISH AND IRISH REPRE-
SENTATIVES.—An influential meeting of members of the
lower house was held in one of the committee-rooms on
Saturday, (the 21st,) to make arrangements as to the
future course of action to be pursued by the Liberal
party, John Bright, Esq. M.P., took the chair. The
meeting was well attended, especially by Irish representa-
tives, and a definite course was decided upon with regard
to the land and church questions in Ireland, and the suf-
frage question in both countries.
THE PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—The Spectator,
of Satnrday, says, " The Ministerial white bait dinner,
the precursor of the prorogation, is appointed for Satur-
day, the 4th of August. The present session may, there-
fore, be confidently expected to terminate on Thursday,
the 9th of August." The Observer, of Sunday, however,
says, " The Ministerial fish dinner, which usually precedes
the prorogation of Parliament, will take place at the Tra-
f Agar, GI eenwhich , on Saturday next, the 28th instant."
It is, we believe, arranged that 'her Majesty will not pro-
rogue Parliament in person.
REDUCTION OF PUBLIC SALARIES.—Of the 26 members
returned from Lancashire, 12 were absent from the di-
vision on Mr. Henley's motion on Monday night, for a
reduction of 10 per cent. in the salaries of public servants,
not included in the army, navy, or law departments.
Those gentlemen were Messrs. Grenfell. Birch, Cardwell,
Lindsay, Thicknesse, Hornby, Gideon, Fox, Hindley,
Walker, Greenall, and Crawford. Of the 14 present, 7
voted for and 7 against the motion. The former con-
sisted of Messrs. Henry, Strickland, Pilkington, Blair,
Walmsley, Bright, and Duncroft ; the latter, of Messrs.
Patten, Heywood, Brown, Green, Armstrong, Wilson,
and Brotherton.
ADMISSION OF STRANGERSTOTHE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
—The select committee appointed to consider the present
practice of the House of Commons in respect to the ex-
clusion of strangers have considered the matter to them
referred, and agreed to the following report :—That the
existing usage of excluding strangers during a division,
and upon a notice by an individual member that strangers
are present, has prevailed from a very early period of par-
liamentary history; that the instances in which the pew.r
of an individual member to exclude has been exercised
have been very rare; and that it is the unanimous opinion
of the committee that there is no sufficient ground for
making any alteration in the existing practice with regard
to the admission or exclusion of strangers.
THE DIVISION ON MR. DRUMMOND'S MOTION FOR
A REDUCTION OF THE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE.—The
votes on this motion, upon which the government were
defeated, present a singular jumbling up of parties, Whigs,
Tories, and Radicals finding themselves in the same boat,
some of them for the first time in their life. The greater
portion of the majority against retrenchment consisted
of W higs and members and hangers on of the government.
The following members from this district voted in the
majority, viz. J. Bright, J. Brocklehurst, R. Cobden,
W. Ewart, W. J. Fox, L. Heyworth, C. Hindley, J. Ker-
shaw, Colonel Thompson, J. Tollemache, and Sir J.
Walmsley. The following were in the minority, viz. J.
Brotherton, Sir T. B. Birch, W. Brown, Lord R. Gros-
venor, and T. Thorneley.

FEELINGS OF LORD GOUGH ON HEARING OF HIS
BEING SUPERSEDED IN THE COMMAND IN INDIA.--We
Call the attention of every countryman of this gallant but
ill-used veteran to the very words of Lord Gough himself,
as expressed by him on the knowledge of his being super-
seded. They have been forwarded to us by a military
gentleman, and were taken from a letter written by an
officer in Simla to his father in London. Here is the

extract :—" Poor Lord Gough ! I never saw a man so
downcast as he seemed on learning that he had been
superseded in the command of the army by Sir Charles
Napier. I am,' exclaimed the glorious old soldier, a
fallen man ; and no honours that can now be bestowed
on me can hinder my feeling it as an unmerited humilia-
tion during my remaining few years of a life which has
been passed from boyhood upwards in the service of my
country—that country which now requites my devotion
with the lowering of my reputation before the whole
world. This is a blow intolerable, coming too from men
the incapacity and misdeeds of many of whom have in-
flicted irretrievable injury on the country."—Cork Exa-
miner.

MR. GLADSTONE AND THE PEEL PARTY.—There is a
rumour that Mr. Gladstone either has split, or is inclined
to do so, with the Peel party. Most of them are now
disposed to go over to the Whigs—Sir James Graham and
Lord Lincoln leading the way. But Mr. Gladstone not
only refuses, it is said, to be drawn any further through
the mire, but has made signs of a longing desire to quit
their ranks altogether, and re-enrol himself in those ranks
in which Mr. Disraeli is so distinguished a commander.
It is whispered that Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Disraeli have
already come to some understanding as to the course to
be pursued for the future ; and many are sanguine enough
to believe that, by another session of Parliament, they
will be united and agreed in their conduct of a vastly-in-
creased and reinvigorated party, others from the ranks of
the Peelites following Mr. Gladstone's example. His re-
fusal to vote for Mr. Disraeli's late motion was nothing—
it only saved appearances for the present. As to Sir Ro-
bert himself, it is not likely that he will again take any ac-
tive part in politics—in party politics, at any rate—which
are, after all, the only politics that can be made practically

available for carrying- out, upon principle, any great con-
stitutional policy.—Oxford Herald,
CUNNING, BUT DETECTED.—A bill is now waiting the
leisure of the Commons under a guise not at all likely to
attract the public attention. It is entitled " Poor-law
Union Charges Act Amendment ;" and it is further ex-
plained to be " a Bill to continue an Act of last session of
Parliament, for charging the Maintenance of certain poor
persons in unions upon the common fund; and to make
certain Amendments in the Laws for the Relief of the
Poor." Few will guess that among " the certain amend-
ments" tacked to the bill there is included a clause of the
following grave import:—" And bo it enacted that the
guardians of any parish or union may expend, with the
order and subject to the rules and regulations of the Poor-
law Board, but not otherwise, any sum of money, not ex-
ceeding the sum of £l5 for each person, in and about the
emigration of poor persons having settlements in such
parish or any parish in such union respectively, without
the necessity of the rate-payers and owners of property
therein meeting and giving their consent to such expendi-
ture.". According to this clause the guardians, who can-
not give a loaf of bread to an able-bodied man out of
doors, or authorise a day's work to be done out of the
walls of the union at the joint expense of the rate-payers
of a parish, may spend £l5 in sending a man to New Zea-
land, and levy it on the rate-payers without so much as
asking their leave !
SINGULAR CONFESSION OF A LEAGUE ORATOR.—The
following is an extract from a speech delivered in the
House of Commons, in support of Mr. Feargus O'Con-
nor's recent motion for the Charter, by Mr. W. J. Fox,
the hon. member for Oldham, freethinking lecturer at
South Place Chapel, Finsbury, and formerly paid agent
to the Anti corn-Law League.—" Of all modes of go-
vernment which ever existed, he thought that the very
worst which to a certain extent had prevailed in this
country—he meant the accomplishment of improvements
only by means of agitation. It withdrew men's minds
from the topics on which they might most wholesomely
be employed, and created professional agitators—men
who lived on that work, and were ready to stimulate the
people for their own purposes. From time to time it had
occasioned a danger of breaches of the peace, and caused
bitterness between class and class, and utterly destroyed
that unity of feeling which ought to exist between the
representatives and the constituencies from which they
emaneed." Such is the remarkable avowal of a dema-
gogue who first became known to his present constituents
by his professional exertions in the service of the Anti-
eorn-Llw League, and would never, therefore, have
gained admission to the house, but for the part he took
iz that very agitation which he new so strongly and justly
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