The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-19 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

Parliament was on Tuesday further prorogued until
Thursday,ithe 11th of November.
The Globe states pretty confidently that Parliament
will assemble next month.
Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., arrived in London on
Monday, by the steam-ship Countess of Lonsdale, which
vessel left Hamburgh on Saturday. Mr. Cobden reached
Manchester on Tuesday. We believe he has not yet sig-
nified his will with respect to the representation of the
West Riding. The Stockport Advertiser positively as-
serts that Mr. Cobden will not resign his seat for that
borough, and that consequently we shall have a new elec-
tion for a member for the West Riding in conjunction
with Lord Morpeth.
THE CABINET COUNCIL. —Two Cabinet Councils have
been held this week, one on Tuesday and the other on
Thursday. The latter sat three hours. Nothing has
transpired as to the subject of their deliberations ' • but it
may safely be assumed that the unprecedented money
crisis through which the country is passing, the omincyls
aspect-of Ireland, and the unsatisfactory state of our
foreign relations as regards Spain, were among the pro-
minent questions which engaged the anxious consideration
of ministers. These questions are severally of so grave a
character, that it was rumoured the determination had
been come to of calling parliament together next month ;
but we attach no credit to this rumour, because neither of
them, serious and embarrassing as each may be, calls for
any immediate legislative interference.—John Bull.
STRENGTH OF POLITICAL PARTIES,—In the Quarterly
Review just published, there is a remarkable artiee on the
subject of the state of parties in the House of Commons.
The writer estimates the probable conduct of these par-
ties, but says that " the real key of the Conservative po-
sition is the strength and ductility of that party which
Sir Robert Peel so sedulously cultivates, and so solemnly
disclaims." The reviewer, however, holds to the opinion
that " not one half of the estimated number of Peelitps
will follow Sir Robert Peel in support of any revoluti-
onary measure to which he may be led or driven" (by a
Peel competition for Radical support). The reviewer as-
sumes that the first trial question of the session will be
the attempt to force the Jew, illegally elected for the
city of London, into the House of Commons, by a vote of
the house, in derogation of the authority of the statute,
and severely, but not more severely than justly, rebukes
Lord John Russell for the account he has throughout given
to this scandalous violation of the law. The following ap-
peal puts the case admirably, even in the low secular view :
—" The very gentleman who stands prominent in the
present question, and in whose person the trial is to be
made, announces himself as the Baron Lionel de Roths-
child. taron of what ?—of what nation ? He is no baron
of England. We hear that he is a baron in Austria !
What does an Austrian baron do here ? and how does Mr.
Macaulay's declamation apply to a person of foreign name
and blood ? But he is not merely a baron ; he is the
Baron Lionel de Rothschild, which means that he is one
of three or four brothers or cousins, of whom Solomon is
a German, and Jacob is a Frenchman, and Charles a
Neapolitan, and Lionel an Englishman—but ALL ARE
JEWS." There is no part of the review with which we
are more gratified than the compliments, more than once
repeated, to unouestionably the most remarkable man of
our time—Lord George Bentinck. " Confidence," says
Lord Chatham, " is a plant of slow growth in an aged
bosom ;" and though genius and conscious worth would
exclude mean jealousies and frivolous resentments from
the breast of such a man as the reviewer, as they were ex-
cluded from Lord Chatham's breast, yet the confession of
the aged patriot shows how hardly confidence takes root
in that soil. When we find a veteran statesman, the as-
sociate in office of the great men of the last forty years,
who held Conservative principles, and himself not inferior
to the greatest of them in genius and in fidelity to his
principles,—when we find such a man bearing testimony
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