The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-28 00:00:00

Sir GEORGE GREY,

Mr. KEOGH,

Mr. CARDWELL, Mr. MONSELL,
Sir J. YOUNG, Mr. STRUTT,
Sir A; COCKBURN, Mr. OSBORNE,

Sir R. BETHELL,

to say nothing of the smaller fry of Ministerial
dependents who share in the discomfiture. We
may therefore congratulate our readers on the
prospect of some check being placed on those
iniquitous proceedings of which these professedly re-
ligious establishments have been too often the scene.

RADICAL IMBECILITY.--THE BALLOT
FOR LIVERPOOL.

APART from the difference of opinion on great
political questions, which must always exist in an
intelligent community, there is something so super-
latively absurd, so thoroughly childish, and so
utterly contemptible in the sayings and doings of
some of the leading advocates of Radicalism, that
the only surprise is that men of ordinary capacity
should allow themselves to be deluded as they are
in supporting such a system. We can readily under-
stand that many of those whose time and attention
have been almost engrossed by their own business,
and whose acquaintance with politics is derived from
a cursory perusal of the newspapers of the day,
may adopt what are called Liberal opinions, as
being the most plausible and specious ; but we are
forced to the conclusion that a thorough-going
Liberal, or by whatever other name he may be
called, is necessarily deficient either in honesty or
political intelligence. Take the most recent case,
and one which has somewhat of a local interest,
and it forcibly illustrates this position. When, on
Tuesday last, Mr. FRESIIFIELD gave notice that
on that day week he should move that a new writ
be issued for the Borough of LIVERPOOL, Lord
DUDLEY STUART, the representative of the boasted
intelligence of a Metropolitan Borough, gave notice
that he should move as an amendment, that the
votes at the forthcoming Liverpool Election should
be taken by way of Ballot. Now let us place this
promised motion on any hypothesis, and its absur-
dity will be almost equally apparent. Did he ima-
gine that if it were possible to institute the Ballot
for this special occasion, it would prevent the elec-
tors from returning two Conservative representa-
tives by a triumphant majority, if the Radicals
should be so insane as to dare a contest? In the
next place, was he foolish enough to suppose that
the House of Commons, after rejecting the Ballot
by so large a majority a few days previously, would
reverse their own decision for this particular case ?
But even if this difficulty were got over, was he
silly enough to imagine that a resolution of the
House of Commons, in a matter of such impor-
tance, would have the force of law as though it
were an Act of Parliament ? And yet this is a
Legislator, chosen to represent the Borough of
Marylebone, the vaunted pattern-parish of England.
The Radicals should be ashamed of their leaders,
or rather ashamed of themselves ; for such proceed-
ings would throw discredit on a meeting of turn-out
operatives.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

MONDAY EVENING, JUNE

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

THE EASTERN QUESTION.

No later news of importance.
Paris advices report an increased feeling of confidence
in the maintenance of peace.
Constantinople letters of the 13th state that Baron
Bruck, the Austrian Envoy, had endeavoured to induce
the Porte to come to some conciliatory measures, but the
Sultan was firmly resolved not to accept the Ultimatum.
M. de Bruck is, however, reported to have so far succeeded
as to persuade the Divan to declare in reply to Count
Nesslerode, that the Sultan considers the last Imperial
Firman in favour of the Christians as a moral engage-
ment of the Porte towards all the Christian powers.
Should the Russians occupy the Principalities, it does not
appear likely that they will enter them for some time.
PERSIA.—An Erzeroun letter of the 3rd of June
speaks of inundations and cholera at Teheran, locusts at
Ispahan, and a terrible earthquake at Eshirez and Cashan.
At the former place 12 to 18,000 persons are said to have
been killed, as the disaster occurred during the night ;
and the stench arising from the dead bodies was such as
to produce an epidemic very much resembling the plague.
At Teheran cholera had diminished.

FRANCE.—Accounts from the southern Departments
respecting the state of the harvests are very bad ; late rains
injured the whole of several districts. From the North
and West the accounts are not so bad, but if the weather
does not improve, the prospects of the harvest will be
gloomy.
INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA.

The steamer Austria, arrived at Trieste on the 26th of
June, at 11h. 45m. p.m., in 106 hours from Alexandria.
The India, Chinese, and Australian mails have arrived,
with intelligence from Calcutta to the 16th of May ;
Hong Kong, to the 6th of May ; Sydney, to the 3rd of
April; Melbourne, to the Gth of April; and from King
George's Sound to the 18th of April.
No definite news from Rangoon, but it was expected
that either the treaty with the King of Ava would be
signed at once, or that the troops would move on to Ava.
The governor-general is anxious to bring the war to a
close.

Trade at Calcutta was languid. Exchange on London,
2s. Id.
...

There is no mail from Shanghai, nor any intelligence
as to the insurrection in China. At Canton, a French
commodore had seized two Englishmen, and forcibly con-
veyed them on board of his ship, for walking near a French
flag-staff on shore. Exchange at Hong Kong, ss. per
dollar.

In Australia, things were proceeding prosperously.
From the Ist of January to the 6th of April, 500,000
ounces of gold had been shipped. The price of gold was
.£3 Il7s. Gd. per ounce. At Melbourne, the exchange
was at par.

No intelligence from Bombay—the last steamer from
Alexandria having conveyed the mail that was to have
gone on by this steamer.

HOUSE OF LORDS,

THE EASTERN QUESTION

Lord LYNDHITasT asked the Earl of Aberdeen when it
was intended to lay before the house a copy of the State
Papers recently issued by Count Nesslerode on the im-
pending dispute between Russia and the Porte. He did
not himself hesitate to say, that if the version of that
paper, which appeared in the public journals, was correct, it
was one of the most fallacious, offensive, illogical, and
insulting documents he had ever met with.

The Earl of ABERDEEN said.thataeopy would be laid
before Parliament in a few days.
The Marquis of WESTMINSTER presented a petition from the
inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Norwich, pray-
ing that English salt may be imported into all parts of British
India upon the same terms and conditions as other goods and
merchandise.
The Encumbered Estates (Ireland) Act Continuance Bill
passed through committee.
On the motion of the Earl of ABERDEEN, their lordships
agreed with the Commons in an address to Her Majesty, pray-
ing her to issue a commission to inquire into the state of the
borough of Barnstaple.
On the motion that their lordships agree in an address, pray-
ing for an inquiry into the state of the borough of Tyne
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE and Lord RE mouth,
jected to the motion. DESDALE Ob-
. - _

The Earl of ABERDEEN and Lord BROUGHANI supported it.
maj The houose divided—For the address, 33 ; against it, 13 ;
,_2.

The dddress was then agreed to. •
On the motion for the third reading of the Income Tax Bill,
Lord BROUGHAM proceeded to discuss the arguments for
and against the tax at some length, considering that it ought
to be reserved for a time of war, and concluded by expressing
a fear that the tax would not terminate at the period fixed by
the bill, 1860.
Lord MONTEAGLE followed somewhat to the same effect.