The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-26 00:00:00

THE COURT

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On Tuesday evening the Queen and Prince Albert
honoured the Haymarket Theatre with their presence, and
on Wednesday the Court, returned to Windsor Castle,
there to remain, as we understand, until the-improve-
ments at Buckingham Palace are completed.
On Thursday the Queen and Prince Albert, and suite,
drove out in two sledges for three-quarters °tan hour.

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.
The number of bona fide pledges for Mr. Bright, at
Manchester, is now 5526. The Guardian contradicts a
rumour that Lord Lincoln was to be withdrawn.
Mr. G. Thompson, the free trade lecturer, will static"
for Westminster, Lord Ashley for Bath ; and Mr. Chap-
lin, the coach proprietor, for Salisbury.
Mr. Colquhoun's health is such as to prevent him for
the present from taking a part in the labours of the ap-
proaching season.

On Friday night a new writ was ordered for Chester,
Lord Robert Grosvenor having accepted the Chiltern
hundreds.

A number of the Middlesex electors have addressed a
letter to Lord Robert Grosvenor asking his lordship's in-
tention respecting "the contemplated endowment of the
Romish priests in Ireland."
Mr. Dillon Browne, M.P. for Mayo, has been again
offered a lucrative colonial government appointment. Still
the honourable gentleman declines acceptance, in the hope
of receiving the first vacant Greenwich Commissionership,
and at the same time retaining his parliamentary seat,
It is said that Earl Grosvenor, eldest son of the Mar-
quis of Westminster, will solicit the suffrages of the elec-
tors of Chester, his uncle, Lord Robert Grosvenor, hav-
ing announced himself a candidate for Middlesex, where
there is no likelihood of any opposition.
Mr. Grantley Berkeley has addressed another letter to
his constituents,- warning them that the reconciliation be-
tween the Earl Fitzhardinge and two of his brothers, has
taken place only with a view, if possible, of more certainly
ousting him (Grantley) from the county representation. -
The ministers of Austria, Russia, and Prussia did not
attend the opening of parliament with the rest of the
corps diplomatique, in consequence of the formal protest
contained in her Majesty's speech against the recent an-
nexation of Cracow.

At a meeting of the Sussex Agricultural Protection So-
ciety, held at Brighton on Thursday, the Duke of Rich-
mond denounced the conduct of Sir Robert Peel as a dis-
grace to the House of Commons and to the national cha-
racter. The House of Lords, he also stated, had deceived
him, and disgraced itself.

An able writer, in the last number of the Qarterly
Review, says, that " Sir Robert Peel has no faults but
those which arise from the disregard and desertion of his
party and principles." This certainly implies a suffi-
ciently grave accusation against Sir R. Peel's public cha-
racter.

Lord John Russell stated to a deputation last week that
it was the determination of government to make the ad.,
mission of sugar to breweries, &c. a permanent measure,
and that they did not intend to submit only to a suspen-
sion of the present restrictions. His lordship added, that
the measure would be in operation by the Ist Feb.
Lord Ashley visited Manchester on Thursday, and
addressed a crowded meeting of operatives, at the Town-
hall, in favour of the Ten Hours' Factory Bill., The chair
was taken by the Rev. Canon Wray, and a number of re-
solutions affirming the principle of a restriction on the
hours of labour were moved by working men, and passed
unanimously.

THE NORTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION.—It is cur-
rently reported that, at the ensuing election, a vigorous
opposition will be offered to one of the sitting members
for the northern division of the county, by the liberal
party. We have not heard the name of any candidate
mentioned, but we believe this statement may be fully
relied upon.

It may be mentioned as a circumstance tending to show
the almost complete dismemberment of the Conservative
party, that this year the Duke of Wellington, for the first
time during the last twenty-four years, did not give any
political entertainment on the eve of the opening of Par-.
liament. His Grace dined alone with Lord and Lady
Charles Wellesley.

MR. W. BROWN, M.P.—On Thursday evening, the
hon. member for South Lancashire made his maiden
speech in the House of Commons, in answer to Lord
qeorge Bentinck, on the suspension of the Corn and Na-
vigation Laws, which Lord John Russell afterwards cha-
racterised as an " admirable reply." His lordship added
that " he was glad to find such an addition of knowledge
and good sense added to the house."
THE IRISH PARTY.—The Marquis of Londonderry, in
reply to the circular issued by Lord Sligo, most unequivo-
cally expresses his dissent from the project of forming an
Irish party for the purpose of watching over Irish inte-
rests in the Imperial Parliament. Looking to the dis-
cordant materials of which such a party must be com-
posed, and embracing, as it does, men of the most
adverse political opinions, his lordship conceives that the
experiment would prove to be a total failure.
We said a few weeks ago that it is not for nothing Mr.
O'Connell is so friendly to the Whigs. To former favors
Lord Bessborough has added another :—Charles Daniel
O'Connell, Esq., of Bahoss, Kerry, son-in-law of Daniel
O'Connell, Esq., M.P., has received the appointment-of
Stipendiary Magistrate.—Mr. O'Connell takes very good.
care of himself and his family, but how do these profitable
appointments benefit the payers of the Rent ?
The Queen's speech has been received with satisfaction
in France. The principal Paris journals laud equally the
moderation with which the Montpensier marriage is re-
ferred t- 1 tl 'bat'

any un, repro, Scion pronounced
upon the extinction of Cracow. So strong, indeed, is the
reaction in favour of England, that the Courier Francais
has taken alarm against the growing parti Anylaic With
such a feeling abroad we are not surprised to find M.
Guizot's speech in the Chamber of Peers, in vindication of
his conduct relative to the Montpensier marriage, severely
criticised. M. Guizot confirmed the nature of the engage-
ment at Eu to have been, that the objections to the mar-
riage of the Due de Montpensier would fall so soon as the
Queen should have had children.
' Some of the general outlines of the ministerial educa-
tion scheme have been suffered to transpire. The prin-
ciple at present acted upon is to be preserved ;—that of
grants, proportioned to the voluntary efforts of the Church
and the different religious bodies, and leaving intact the
freedom and independence of the education administered
by each. But conditions are to be imposed, determining
within certain limits the mode and channel of, the appli-
cation of the moneys. The grants are to be much en-
larged, and the assistance of the State afforded on a most
comprehensive scale. Exhibitions at the normal training
schools—the foundation of new normal schools, on the
same principles as the present—the establishment of
permanent stipends, or stipendiary offices, for schoolmas-
ters—are among the new methods which, it is said, will
be proposed as modes of annlication of the State frmnt-Q

1L
PL ACES OF MEMBERS IN TFIE HOUSE.—The seat
usually appropriated to the leader of the opposition was
occupied by Lord Lincoln ; about three seats below Lord
Lincoln, on the front opposition bench, were Lord George
Bentinck, Mr. Disraeli, and Mr. Bankes; and on the bench
immediately behind sat Mr. Ferrand. The Times, in
Tuesday's report, says, "Whilst the Speaker was reading
the Queen's speech, the principal seats on the leading op-
position bench were occupied by Lord G. Bentinck, Mr.
G. Bankes, Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Christopher, and Mr. Smith
O'Brien. Sir R. Peel was not then present ; but Lord
Lincoln was, and along with Mr. Goulburn, Mr. S. Her-
bert, and Sir F. Thesiger, sat on the same bench, a little
above the place usually occupied by the leader of the op.
position. At a quarter past five o clock, Sir R. Peel en-
tered the house, and took his seat near Sir S. Herbert.
Sir J. Graham was ominously at a loss for a seat, but ul-
timately found one next Sir J. W. Hogg."
RUMOURED MINISTERIAL DISSENSIONS..—For some
days reports have been in circulation that the ministerial
unanimity, so necessary to the efficiency, and possibly to
the existence of a Cabinet so critically circumstanced as is
the present, has been disturbed by the revival of an old
grudge, whose date is antecedent to the accession of the
present party to power. The ancient feud between Lord
Palmerston and Earl Grey has again shown itself with
augmented bitterness ; the policy of the foreign secretary
on the Montpensier marriage, and the line of argument by
which that policy was justified in his diplomatic corres-
pondence being considered by the colonial secretary, and
a section of the cabinet which adopts his views, to ka
totally irreconcilable with the best interests of England.
The Earl of Clarendon, whose experience in Spanish
affairs gives his opinion peculiar weight in the matter iii
question, is understood to agree entirely w:t" Earl Grey ;
and the difference is asserted to have assum 0 serioug
an aspect, that the retirement of Lord Palmerston from
office is considered as lin event neither very improbable
nor very remote.—Britannia.