The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-31 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

CONSERVATISM IN THE NEW PARLIAMENT.—The
Morning Herald, following up its important inquiry with
accustomed industry, has carefully analysed the Con-
servative ranks, and it arrives at this conclusion :
" Conservatives" who voted for the third reading of the
corn-law repeal bill
Conservatives who were absent on the third reading of the
corn-law repeal bill 2B
New " Conservatives" doubtful RR

~. ...V.A., ••• ll SV
Protectionists in the..,
last parliament, re-elected
New Conservative members, protectionists 42
Thus we have of Peelites, doubtful men in the old ,parlia-
ment, and doubtful men newly elected, combined
Of Protectionists, old and new l9O
These figures, added together, give the total number of
" Conservative" members returned to the new parlia-
ment—that is 328.

THE LOT OF APOSTACY.—WhiIst persons are openly
speculating on a coalition between Lord John Russell,
Lord Palmerston, &c., with Sir Robert Peel and Sir James
Graham, &c., the following is the manner in which the
Globe, a paper received as an exponent of the sentiments
of the present government, speaks of the ex-premier :—"He
can pore over the driest details and measure infinitesimal
quantities, ascertain to a nicety the effect on the consumer
of a five-shilling duty on cobalt selling at £3OO a ton, or
one of two shillings upon castor—(oil, we presume)—sel-
ling at £2OO a ton—nay, he can be frank, too, with the
frankest, when occasion serves, and high merit may be
claimed for it through all the well-dressed statements of
succeeding years. But let investigation lead to any view
of his own doings more fair than flattering, and he will
none of it. It is for others with less wit and skill to make
—he dresses statements."

A CONTRAST.—An accident occurred at the Middlesex
election, which is not unworthy of a passing notice. First
at the opening of the second day's poll appeared Baron
Lionel Rothschild, the millionnaire, and one of the newly
elected representatives for the city, who recorded his vote
for the Liberal candidates. In the same booth. and pre-
af rho env.," • .

iself,
having tor some time past been
s. The objection was overruled,
as it appeared that the poor man had been relieved from
payment of the poor-rates, and he recorded his vote for
the Conservative candidate, Colonel Wood. The circum-
stance is worth mentioning, as a curious illustration of the
working of our free institutions. One of the wealthiest
individuals in Europe, the head of a house whose favours
have changed the destinies of nations, stands in the poll-
ing booth side by side with a man who has been relieved
by his parish from payment of poor-rates, and they record
their votes on opposite sides—the man of millions gave
his vote for those who helot* to a party which has time
after time been charged with aiming at the destruction of
all property—the man who cannot pay his poor-rates votes
for the candidate who professes the strictest conservation
of property.—Dumfriesshire Courier.

unable to pay his poor-

outiA irIANNERS AND THE REPRESENTATION
OF NEWARK.—The Duke of Newcastle has addressed a
letter to the Times, from which the following is an ex-
tract :—" In your blind and unworthy crusade against
dukes,' as you are pleased to call them, as if dukes were
a peculiar genus, devoid of every quality estimable in
man, and merely intended as game to be hunted down by
envious and overbearing levellers, I observe in your paper
of the 13th, that you have mentioned me in connection
with Lord J. Manners ; and, for the sake of a point, you
venture to deceive the public, by telling it that Lord
John did not stand inspection at Newark, and has been
cashiered, and that he is now looking for a more generous
lodern patron than the Lord of Clumber.'
:Joni J. M. and myself, I will not suffer this
rtion to go forth without notice and contra-

and a more
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dishonest a:

The assertion may be very well suited to excite
indignation, and extract the round denunciation of some
fancied political purists, as well as of, I hope but a very
few, malignants. Allow me to inform you that, unfortu-
lately for your anti-ducal argument, the assertion re-
is not fact. Lord J. M. never owed his seat
to say patronage. He solicited and gained the
ill of the electors, and, as I hope, received the full
benefit of any influence that I may possess in the borough;
his cashiering, as you term it, arose from his own delicate
and high sense of honour, for, believing that he owed hi's
seat to the friendship of the uncle of the present member,
he resolved not to be in his way, •and signified his inten-
tion to. retire. No one can more sincerely lament the bias
towards Romanism professed by Lord John than I do,
but as to having had any hand in cashiering him, I dis-
claim it utterly—it is not true; what is true is, that I
wished him to remain. With the exception of this error,
as I think it, Lord John appears to me to be free of all
others; a more promising young man, one of more ex-
alted views and higher principles, of more inflexible inte-
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Newarl

grity, with perfect amiability and all the best qualities of
head and heart that can adorn the Christian and patriot
senator, would with difficulty lie found in her Majesty's
dominions. Any constituency might justly be proud of
him, his country may be proud to own him as one of her
sons, and I will here remind you, that this man is the
son of a duke, himself an estimable man, and the ho..
noured father of two other sons, worthy -
who will be conspicuous in th(
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