The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

POLITICAL FACTS AND RUMOURS,

Sir Joshua Walmsley had an interview with the Right
Hon. T. Milner Gibson, on Monday, at the office of the
Board of Trade.

On Tuesday Sir M. J. Cholmeley, the whig candidate,
was returned for North Lincolnshire, in the room of
Lord Worsley, now Earl of Yarborough.

On Monday Capt. Rushout, a staunch Protestant, was
returned unopposed for East Worcestershire, in the room
of the late Mr. Barneby.

The Right Hon. Charles Watkins William Wynn, M.P.
for Montgomeryshire, is now the oldest member in the
House of Commons. He was born in 1775, and has been
in parliament during the last 50 years.
At the meeting of the committee of the Central Agri-
cultural Society, on Tuesday, it was resolved that a de-
putation should wait upon the Premier, to represent to
him the impolicy and injustice of the malt tax.
A number of parties managed to be present at Lord
Lincoln's meeting, on Tuesday, by forged tickets, perpe-
trated, the Manchester Courier says, by employees of the
defunct (?) Anti-corn-law League.
PONTEFRACT.—The Daily News announces Mr. Mar-
tin, the well-known barrister of the northern circuit, as a
candidate for the representation of Pontefract. The
learned gentleman is a Liberal.
Sir Culling Eardley Smith and his Edinburgh sup-
porters have formally dissolved connexion with each other,
the cause of separation being Sir Culling's refusal to
oppose Sunday travelling.
The Chester Chronicle says, that the influence of the
Eaton family has greatly diminished in Chester, and that
if Lord Robert Grosvenor comes forward for Middlesex,
Sir W. M. Stanley will be brought forward for the city
of Chester.

A very numerous meeting of agriculturists was held in
London, on Tuesday, on the subject of the Duke of
Richmond's testimonial, at which a committee was
formed for the formation of an institution for the benefit
of decayed tenant farmers.

Colonel Baillie will retire from the representation of
Honiton at the next election, and Sir J. W. Hogg, Bart.,
at present M. P. for Beverley, and chairman to the East
India Company, is likely to offer himself as a candidate
for the Conservative interest.

REPRESENTATION OF BATH.—Lord Ashley has agreed
to become a candidate on the understanding that his sup-
porters will pay his expenses. This they have cheerfully
undertaken to do, and a rapidly-augmenting subscription
list is circulating. Little doubt can exist of Lord Ashley's
election, as a requisition was signed by au absolute majo-
rity of the electors.

RECONCILIATION.—The Duke of Wellington is under-
stood to be most anxious to see a reconstruction of the

uonservative party, and more than one of his political
aides-de-camp have been exerting themselves with that
view. Sir F. Trench and Mr. Bonham are both spoken
of as being busy at work, day by day, in attempts to ajlaY_

of last session so grievously occasioned.
At a meeting of Mr. Bright's election committee, at
Manchester, on Thursday, Mr. Wilson, the chairman,
stated that 5,526 voters ,had pledged themselves to vote
for the hon. gentleman. Mr. Bright afterwards addressed
the meeting, commenting on the speech of Lord Lincoln,
and the proceedings passed off with much spirit.—The
hon. 'l'. M. Gibson is expected to meet his committee and

the electors generally, at the Free

in about

BRAVO-1-IaREAT LIBERALITY.—At a meeting of the
Edinburgh Anti-Corn-Law Association, it was agreed to
dissolve the body, and to divide the balance in hand
(11 7s. 10d.) between the testimonials now in course of
being raised for Messrs. Cobden and Bright. By the bye,
we have not lately seen any announcement of the state of
the Cobden fund. We take great interest in this affair,
because we are curious to see the amount of gullibility of
which the English people are capable. The fact is, we
suppose, that the " Committee" are ashamed any longer
to advertise the £70,000 odd, and are waiting_ to see if
they cannot raise it to £BO,OOO, before they again commit
the amount to the public eye. We fear that our poor
friend Cobden has but a very small chance of pocketing
the £lOO,OOO originally intended to be presented to him
for his gallant attempt to ruin his country.

LORD LINCOLN AT MANCHESTER. Lord Lincoln
visited Manchester on Tuesday, to explain his political
views to the constituency, or, at all events, to those who
are seeking to secure his selection as one of the repre-
sentatives of that borough. His reception was a very
gratifying one, and some efforts on the part of the adher-
ents of Mr. Bright to cause a disturbance, and also to get
up a cheer for Mr. Bright on the Exchange when Lord
Lincoln passed through, completely failed. The noble
lord has not declared himself a candidate ; and will not
decide until the requisition from the electors is presented
to him. In the course of a very long address which
he delivered in the Corn Exchange on Tuesday even-
ing, the Noble Lord, in reply to the charge that he was
a " sudden" convert to free trade, said that almost all the
present statesmen and legislators had been converted to
the same faith. He would not repeal the malt tax, but
would see what could be done with the tea duties, which

came home more to the business and bosoms of the people
of Manchester. He is favourable to the principle of go-
vernment education, and he thinks it would be " politic,
wise, and just," to pay the Romish clergy of Ireland
He is opposed to a ten-hours bill ; and refuses,
_point,
blank, to repeal the existing duties on imr
He repudiates the ballot -

and seems not to know his own,
mind -upon the legacy ar:d probate duties. He would de-
cidedly oppose a motion to relieve the bishops from their
attendance in the House of Lords. At the conclusion of
this confession, the meeting. which is said to have been

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large, passed a vote of confidence in his lordship, and
determined to pursue their :canvass of the constituency on
his behalf.