The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-16 00:00:00

—Among the members
inn airninst :Inv relief to

Ireland, unless accompanied by the English
taxation, were Mr. W. Brown, W. Entwisle,

system of
B. Escott,

VOTES ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.—Among the mem-
bers who voted for Mr. Ewart's annual_motionfor. the

Brown, T. Thorneley

Itlereagh

B. EscOtt, Sir F. Kelly, and W. Ewart. Among those
who voted against it were Sir H. Douglas, Captain Glad-
stone, and J. W. Patten.
On Monday last a meeting, convened by the Mayor,
was held at Leeds, for the purpose of expressing approval
of the Government education scheme. The o^-rt-how

ae uourt,--
was crowded, and a large proportion of the influential
inhabitants was present, and among them were Dr. Hoole,
the Rev. W. Sinclair, Rev. C. Wieksteed, (minister of
the Unitarian Chapel), Mr. Hamer Stansfield, Mr. J. G
Marshall, Mr. J. Gott, &c. On the followinz, day mee'
ing of opponents of the measure was held m the F
town, at which the Messrs.:Baines' were the chief

solution will take place in July, and tl

new parliament

sober, in or

measures for Ireland consequent upon the harvest, may
be necessary. The ministerial plans do not extend be-
yond that period, and it appears that instead of a million
a month, about £1,200,000 is now regularly spent I With
reference to t' lissot- ion in July, instead

of 1848, it

us rumour of a
ems to be borne out by the fact that during
n on the Budget an early dissolution was se.
aimipa to and received no contradiction, bu

the strongest proof of such intention islound in the- fact
of ministers abstaining from proposing new taxes at pre-
sent. As Lord George Bentinck well observed, "it
would have been very inconvenient to propose an increase
of the income• tax at the period of a general election."
FORBEARANCE.—In the House of Lords last week, the
following colloquy took place:—"l declare on my honour,"
said a noble earl, "that a certain statement (which the
. .

true ; and I ask ford 13rou

,m either to give up the
Letter, or to make himself

made by the noble earl, on his honour; yet, since Cap-
tain Wynne has successfully given the lie to two hpnour-
able members of the other house of parliament, it is hard
to say what ought not .to be believed!" What an advance

under doubts of his veracity, would have been unpolite
enough to have pulled the nose of the doubter, even
though it sprung from a head filled with the learning of
half-a-dozen ex-chancellors.
THE GOVERNMENT EDUCATION SCHEME. .The con-
troversy at Leeds, when one comes to consider it, is about
the most extraordinary that could occur in a civilized
land. Did not one know from actual experience the fatal
tendency of some men to be always doing themselves a
mischief, and cutting off their noses to be avenged of their
teeth, one could hardly credit so suicidal a display. The
question d - that every

stateL s, one
_3 enlightened man, and every good man, must answer
in the affirmative from the bottom of his heart. We beg
leave to say, that we do not think it 1- ' -en mute fairly

put, or put in the most suitabl
parties at Leeds. The question

•ds, by either of the
Shall the State
‘en-

assist ed

courag

green-ble pur
Is, has spent

ein police,
millions
ts
s —which year

in the am

of them, ax
Dead comet

y, nary? and
) for miseel-
d above the
shall it also

hole, and
id empty