The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-15 00:00:00

POLITICAL GOSSIP

Sir Joshua Walmsley and Mr. Gardner are not likely
to be opposed at Leicester.
The Ten Hours Bill received the royal assent, by com-
mission, on Tuesday.

Mr. Lawrence iteyworth, we unde
to stand for Derby.

•stand, has consented

During the session of 1846, the house sat 140 days, and
there were 76 divisions on public matters, 61 before and
15 after midnight.
The Leeds Short Time Committee are making prepara-
tions to have a public festival in honour of the passing of
the Ten Hours Factory Bill. _ _

Mr. David Salomons has retired from a contest for Mary-
lebone, in consequence of his being relieving-officer for
the borough, and therefore disqualified from being elected.
From Cambridge we hear that there is reason to hope
that Lord Fielding will oppose Mr: Goulburn, on the
same principles as those advocated by Mr. Round at
Oxford.

The electors of Knaresborough at a public meeting have
returned their thanks to W. B. Ferrand, Esq., "for the
faithful and honourable manner in which he has discharged
his duties as one of the representatives of the borough."

BOLTON.—The liberals and free-traders have determined
to invite Mr. Alderman Brooks, of Manchester, the John
Brooks of the Anti-Corn-Law League, " The Lord love
you, we're all for ourselves in this world " Brooks, to stand
in conjunction with Dr. Bowring.
The Conservative candidate for the city of Durham is
Mr. David Edward Wood, son'of Colonel Wood, M.P., a
relative of the Marquis of Londonderry. Mr. Granger has
also addressed the electors, and it is stated that Mr. Spear-
man, of Newton-Hall, a Whig, may be induced to come
forward. In all probability there will be a smart contest.
BRADFORD.—The Conservatives of Bradford are about
to bring forward two candidates at the approaching elec-
tion. The requisition to Mr. Gawthorne Hardy has,been
numerously signed, and will be presented in the course of
a few days. The other conservative candidate will be
H. W. Wickham, Esq., ; and there can be no reasonable
doubt of their return, and the utter defeat of Mr. Busfeild
and the oft-defeated Colonel Thompson.
A meeting, for promoting
.the election of W. 'Patton
Egerton, Esq. and the Right Hon. E. J. Stanley, as
members far North Cheshire, on the expected dissolution
of Parliament, was held at Knutsford on Monday, and
further adjourned 'to the 17th instant. From statements
submitted to the meeting, there seems to be no doubt that
this political compromise will be successfully carried into
effect.

AN ELECTION HINT.—The Rev. Hugh M`Neile, of
Liverpool, has suggested that there be no contest for Liver-
pool, as Lord Sandon and Sir Ho ward Douglas have
withdrawn, but that the conservatives select one gentle-
man, the whigs another, on condition that both are
staunch protestants, and will oppose all grants for the
propagation of popery. The idea is not a bad one, as
party is now broken up through the treachery of Sir
R. Peel, and if we make christianity in its form our first
duty, temporal and national blessings will follow.—
Shrewsbury Conservative.
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.—Viscount Fielding has
been strongly solicited to allow himself to be put in nomi-
nation, and has consented to come forward as a candidate
for the representation of the University on Protestant
principles. Mr. John Shaw Lefevre, the brother of the
Speaker, has also announced himself a candidate. Mr.
Lefevre was senior wrangler in 1818, and subsequently
fellow of Trinity. He has also been under secretary of
state, poor law commissioner, and secretary of the board
of trade. He comes forward as a supporter of the pre-
sent government.

PROPERTY AND INCOME TAX.—Since we drew public
attention to this subject, on the 15th of May last, we un-
derstand the Basinghall-street Commissioners have had a
most searching inquiry and investigation into the system
of surcharges, and have inflicted most summary justice on
one of their officials ; but if all we hear is true, their ven-
geance has fallen upon a minor offender when compared
with an officer connected with the stamps and taxes, who
has been in receipt of no 'Jess a sum than £6OO, arising
from the poundage allowed by government out of the city
income-tax ! We wait the decision of the board before
we make further comment, but it is quite impossible this
tax can be renewed until parliament has inquired into the
whole proceedings connected with what has been taking
place during the last three months in Basinghall-street.—
Times.

LONDON.-Mr. W. Payne, the coroner for the city, has
intimated his intention of soliciting the honour of being
one of the four representatives of the city of London at
the next general election. In his addresses he professes
to be a free-trader. He promises to introduce a bill for
the complete exoneration of dissenters from the payment
of church rates ; will advocate the adoption of such mea-
sures, regarding Ireland, as will place it on " a footing
more congenial with its relative position to this country,
and induce her Majesty annually to visit this portion of
her dominions, and adjourn the parliament to Dublin, for
the transaction of such affairs as relate to that part of the
United Kingdom." He pledges himself never to be ab-
sent from his duty. A requisition is in course of signa-
ture, inviting Sir Robert Peel to come forward as a can-
didate.

MR. DISRAELI AND ROMANISM.—At a meeting of the
electors of Buckinghamshire, last week, Mr. Disraeli said
" that he had opposed the Maynooth grant, not in itself
because he thought a plausible case might be made out
for increasing the grant, but because he saw in the tone
and speeches of the supporters of the measure that it was
only a prelude to the endowment of the Roman Catholic
clergy. He was bound to say, and he did so most unequi-
vocally, that he should oppose the endowment of any
priesthood whatever. He had long held the opinion, and
had expressed it both in his works and speeches, that the
union of Church and State—though it was a union which
he should cordially uphold—was yet a union that was not
so favourable to the Church as it was to the State. He
would therefore repeat that he was opposed to the endow-
ment of any priesthood whatever."
THE EXPIRING PARLIAMENT.—The now moribund
House of Commons, elected in August, 1841, has proved
one of the longest parliaments on record—at all events,
during the present century. It has, in fact, only a year
more " to run," in order to die the death seldom allotted
to parliaments, viz., a natural one. We have had four
parliaments since the era of Reform ; the first, elected in
1832, in accordance with the provisions of the new statute,
only lived two sessions, the ministerial change of Novem-
ber, 1834, having rendered an appeal to the people a mea-
sure of almost indispensable necessity. Thus perished the
parliament of Earl Grey. The second, or "Peel" parlia-
ment, although elected under ministerial auspices, only
returned a very formidable Conservative minority to sup-
port Sir Robert, and the new Premier soon succumbed to
the influence .of the Whig majority. The second Mel-
bourne Ministry, as it is well known, lived on until 1837,
with a mere measuring ;cast majority, when the death of
the Sovereign extinguished the parliament Limo facto, after
an existence of two sessions and a half. The new House
of Commons was almost equally balanced, as regards par-
ties, and but for the forbearanee of the opposition, Lord
Melbourne could never have remained at the head of the
government for four years longer. , A crisis, however, at
last ensued, and the Whig Ministers appealed once more to
their constituencies. The issue ..of this mutest was newer