The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-28 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE,

The celebrated trial of Bunn v. Jenny Lind has been
postponed till February.

Mr. George Hayter,-M. P., has been appointed Judge
Advocate General, in the room Mr. Charles Buller.
The Lord Chancellor is getting better, but it is thought
will retire. Mr. Baron Rolfe, Chief Justice Wilde, Mr.
Pemberton Leigh, and Vice Chancellor Bruce, are named
as his successor ; the two latter are conservatives.
The Birmingham Guardian Society has memorialised
the Secretary of State on the subject of the " heavy fees
charged in all the stages of the several suits in the county
courts under the small debts act."

In the Common Pleas on Thursday, Mr. Bennett was
awarded £2OO damages, in an action brought against the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam. Company, for licit...lug
to take him as a passenger in one of their vessels.
In the Insolvent Debtors Court, on Friday. two deci-

sions were given, to be acted upon as precedents, laying
down the law, that petitioners who have previously taken
the benefit of the act are liable to have their old debts

placed in their schedules, and by thus raising the amount
of their liabilities above £3OO, be excluded from the bene-
fit of the act.

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

THE. STOCKPORT ELECTION.—The inquest on Bown,
who was murdered at Stockport, came to the verdict of
manslaughter against John Hurst and four others, after a
consultation of between three and four hours.

SANATORY BILL.—The government bill for improving
the public health—a deviation from the title of the last
measure—is to be brought in by Lord Morpelh on the
10th February, just one week after the re-assembling of
Parliament.
The House of Commons is about to order that the
Chairman of Ways and Means examine all private bills.
Mr. Bernal will, therefore, be the Lord Shaftesbury of the
House of Commons. The private bills last session were
339 ; in 1846 they were 456, precisely treble what they
were in 1839.

Sir Robert Peel has " let in" a Whig,—Captain Towns-
hend,—for Tamworth. The ex-premier revengefully
voted for the Radical candidate for Warwickshire, at the
general election, in opposition to Messrs. Newdegate and
Spooner, and thus placed himself in a false position.
Tamworth is " Peel all over."
WELLS ELECTION.—Two candidates are in the field,
viz., Mr. R. C. Tudway, of that city, on the Conservative
interest ; and Mr. W. G. Haytet, the new Judge Advo-
cate General. In the event of a poll, the government
candidate will no doubt be defeated by a considerable
majority, the feeling here being decidedly adverse to
Whiggery.
JEWISH DISABILITIES.—We incline to think that there
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laloesntcepon the Jewish question, or, like the Tunes, have
prominent Tractarian journals have either kept
advocated "emancipation." In Liverpool, the journal
which vehemently advocated Lord John Manners claims
in July last, now warmly supports the "Jewish claims."
—Record.

Lord George Bentinck, in the House of Commons, on
Monday night, exposed some shameful errors in some
parliamentary returns relative to shipping, which threw
the most grave suspicion upon the whole case attempted
to be made out against the navigation laws. Four Steam-
ers, 111 tons each, and manned by 52 men in all, figure in
the returns, in consequence of their having made 548 pas-
sages across the channel, as representing no less than
61,444 tons, and as being, in point of fact, of superior im-
portance to 60 great East Indiamen of 1000 tons each, and
manned by-3,000 seamen. This is some of the evidence
on which the navigation laws are to be attacked.

OF WHAT RELIGION ARE THE HOUSES OF PARLIA-
MENT ?—ln the debate on the Jewish Bill, Mr. Drummond
said, " In that house they had all one common mouth-
piece and organ. As a private gentleman, the Speaker
had, of course, his own opinions •, but as Speaker he could
not have any. Indeed it appeared to him that the Speaker
was much in the same position as a lady who was asked
by counsel what her age was, and who replied, No par-
ticular age ; the same age as other people.' (Laughter.)
He conceived that if her Majesty were to summon the
Speaker of the House of Lords, and to ask what was his
religious creed, the right hon. gentleman must answer—
not as a private individual, but as the mouth-piece of the
hero use—' No particular creed, but the same creed as the
r.' "

SUNDERLAND ELECTION.—The polling took place on
Tuesday, and terminated in the return of Sir Hedworth
Williamson, by a larger majority than even his friends had
calculated upon; the numbers at the close of the poll
being, for Sir Hedworth Williamson (Whig), 725; Mr.
W. A. Wilkinson (Radical), 595; majority, 130. At the
general election in August last, Mr. Wilkinson polled
569 votes only. The result in favour of the Moderate
Liberal candidate is on all hands justly attributed to the
Conservatives ; and, so far as the parties who decided the
fate of the contest and secured this result are concerned, it
may certainly in this light be regarded as a Conservative
triumph ; but we are very far from claiming for it that
character in regard to the candidates whom their votes
have placed in the representation. It must, therefore, be
taken simply and solely as a decision in favour of Sir
Hedworth Williamson as the advocate of the navigation
laws, and as a decision against Mr. Wilkinson regarded in
the capacity of an opponent.
LIBERALISM V. RELIGION.—It has been said that the
adoption by Parliament of the motion to admit Jews into
the house would complete the triumph of Liberalism—
that it would remove the last remnant of bigotry from the
statute-book. Yes, it would be the triumph of Libe-
ralism ? but what was Liberalism ? The antagonist and
the opponent of religion. Religion was the principle
Which taught man to reverence God ; while Liberalism
was that which set him free from all obligation to God.
Liberalism left a man at liberty to make, from his imagi-
nation, his own God, and taught him to despise the dog-
mata of the Church. Liberalism taught a man to deny
what the Church told him—that everything that was called
God, but the God incarnate, was a false god. Liberalism
was just egotism ; it led every man to seek his own inte-
rest, and that of no other person. That was the religion
of France. This country had gone a long way in the
same direction. It has been made a matter of boast that
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