The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-24 00:00:00

POLITICAL. EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK

The Hon. J. Lindsav•does not intend to defend his re-
turn for Wigan.
Bets are made at the Club Houses in London, offering
to give £lOO to receive a guinea a day while Sir R. Peel
shall remain in office.

The Duke of Norfolk has withdrawn from the Sussex
Protection Society, and will support the government mea-

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On Thursday, Mr. E. S. Gooch, a staunch protectionist,
was elected for East Suffolk without opposition, in the
room of Lord Henniker, resigned.

The Cambridge Advertiser states that there appears
little doubt of Mr. Goulburn's being opposed the first
time be again offers himself for the suffrages of the senate
of the university.

DUBLIN CITY.—The electors of the city of Dublin have
called upon Mr. William El. Gregory to resign the trust
which he has violated in support of a measure fraught
with evil.

Mr. G. Finch, a protectionist, and a decided opponent
of tne Maynooth grant, has been returned unopposed for
Rutlandshire, vacant by the retirement of the Hon. W.
Dawney•

Sir Robert Peel has derived great benefit from cupping.
The right hon. bart. underwent the operation before at-
tending the House of Commons on Monday, when he took
part in the debate.

A Paris letter to the Times says--" A very considerable
sensation has been produced in high quarters here by the
receipt of assurances from London that immediately upon
the passing of his measures now before Parliament, Sir
Robert Peel will retire from office."

A requisition has been originated by the League to the
Hon. C. P. Villiers and W. Brown, Esqrs., requesting
them to become candidates for the representation of South
Lancashire at the next general election. A committee has
been appointed to canvass for signatures.
Sir G. Cockburn, M.P. for Ripon, and Admiral Bowles,
M.P. for Launceston, have resigned office rather than
vote fgainst the understanding on which they were elected.
Lord Forester resigns the command of the gentleman
pensioners, and Earl Delawarr, the office of Lord Cham-
berlain, being unable to support the Premier.

MR. O'CONNELL'S SPEECH.—The Morning Post says
the hon. member's speech was delivered with extreme
feebleness, and one could hardly persuade oneself that he
whose voice with difficulty reached the gallery, could be
the same great agitator whose stentorian lungs once made
the walls ring with their powerful tones.
The Duke of Newcastle has addressed a letter to the
inhabitants of South Nottinghamshire, in which he says
that his son (Lord Lincoln) has been deluded; and sug-
gests to him to retire from a contest in which he must be
beaten. It is confidently expected that Lord Lincoln will
not go to the poll. His opponent calculates ou a majority
of SOO.

Capt. Rous.who has just been ejected from the repre-

sentation of Westminster, stated In the House of Com-
mons on the 14th Feb. 1842, that " the man who would
do away with the Corn-laws was only fit for Bedlam." In
1846 he declares his readiness to vote with Sir Robert
Peel for the repeal of the Corn-law. The gallant captain
has been ousted from Parliament ; and where, according
to his own confession, should he now be sent to ?

The Siecle (Paris paper) has an article giving great
praise to those members of Parliament who, having
changed their opinions on the subject of the corn-laws,
have appealed to the judgment of their constituents. No-
thing can go wrong, thinks the Siecle, in a country where
the constitution is so well understood and so honourably
followed.— [The only drawback from this eulogy is that it
can be best wed upon so few.] .

Robert Owen, in a letter upon the eta
England, says, " the abandonment of the Administration
by the Conservative party in that empire, is the signal
which proclaims the commencement of the great moral
revolution of the world." The news of the restoration of
Sir R. Peel was published on the same day and in the
What will the oft-mistaken prophet say to

attairs in

same pape

In reply to a requisition calling upon the members for
'est Somerset, Mr. Acland and Mr. Dickinson, for " an
plicit declaration of the view which they take of the
inisterial plan," Mr. Acland states that he shall vote

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with Sir R. Peel. Mr. Dickinson is less explicit, but
gives the electors to understand that he also intends to
support the ministers in the coming division. A. county
meeting is spoken of for the purpose of formally calling
upon these gentlemen to resign their seats
Mr

Seymour and Mr. Fioyer, two opponents of the
government measures, were returned unopposed for the

County of Dorset on Thursday, in the room of Lord Ash-
ley, and Mr. Sturt resigned. The noble lord was present,
and delivered a long address, but declined peremptorily
being put in nomination. His lordship animadverted with
much warmth on a resolution passed by a meeting of elec-
tors opposed, that " it was inconsistent with their honour
to support Lord Ashley." His lordship with great force
challenged the whole county to state one single reason why
it would be inconsistent with their honour to returm him
as their representative. _ _ _ _

NORTHLAND'S PREDICAMENT.—The Morning
Chronicle thus explains Mr. Ferrand's allusion to the
coal-hole predicament of Lord Northland. It would ap-
pear that on the occasion of the Maynoath grant, during
last session, Lord Northland had voted with Sir R. Peel
on the first reading of the bill, but after having done so,
some qualms of conscience seem to have disturbed the un-
limited confidence of the noble lord in the Premier. Be-
ing present in the house at the second reading, he was a
little puzzled what to do ; vote against Sir Robert he could
not—to vote with him he was ashamed. Very properly,
then, he hit upon a tertium quid, and this was tempora-
rily to eclipse himself in the coal-cellar of the honourable
house, while the division took place over head ; then he
could return and resume his seat on the Ministerial
benches, with increased confidence in the Premier.
WESTMINSTRIt ELECTION.—The nomination for West-
minster took place on Tuesday. The proceedings were
opened by the High Bailiff, who stated that the vacancy
was caused by the acceptance of an office under govern-
ment by Captain Rous. (This announcement was 're-
ceived with groans.) After the usual preliminaries. Mr.
J. C. Wood nominated Captain Rous, and Lord F. Eger-
ton seconded the nomination. The Hon. Edward Bouve-
rie proposed General Evans, and Mr. R. Moore seconded
the nomination. The show of hands was declared to be
in favour of General Evans, but a poll was demanded on
the part of Captain Rous. The respective candidates then
addressed the assemblage. The crowd was very great,
and there was much uproar and confusion. The poll was
opened at eight o'clock on Wednesday, and at four the
voting was declared to be as follows :—General Evans,
3813; Captain Rous, 2906. Majority for Evans, the ra-
dical, 937. In 1841 Captain Rous beat the General by
several hundred votes. So much for the divisions amongst
Conservatives through Sir Robert's apostacy. The first
person who voted at the polling-booth, at St. Margaret's
Church, was Sir Robert himself. The hon. baronet ar-
rived as the chimes were going for eight, the commence-
ment of the polling, and gave his vote for Captain Rous.
There were few persons present at that early hour, and
few, except the poll-clerks, were aware of the rank of the
voter. In 1841, Captain Rous beat General Evans by a
majority of 80.

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CAPTAIN RODS AND TUE PREMIER.—An amusing
anecdote is in circulation, connected with the Westmin-
ster election, which exhibits the Premier in the novel
character of a dupe. It it said, that when the vacancy at
the Board of Admiralty occurred, Capt. Rous at once ap-
plied to Sir Robert Peel for the appointment. The Pre-
mier announced his readiness to accede to thc wishes of
Captain Rous, provided his re-election for Westminster
was a matter of certainty; but that he considered any
diminution of the ministerial strength in the House of
Commons at the present crisis as a matter so much to be
deprecated, that the condition alluded to was to be consi-
dered as literally a sine qua non. Tha gallant captain,
with characteristic alacrity, gave the assurance required,
and that, it is said, in the most precise and unqualified
terms. Whether the naval hero was the dupe of his own
vanity, or whether his ignorance of the feelings of his
constituents was in some degree feigned, remains to be
settled between himself and Sir Robert. One thing is per-
fectly certain, that the mortification of both knows no
bounds. At the clubs it is considered as doubtful whe-
ther Captain Rous. having lost his seat in parliament, will
be permitted to hold his new appointment, as the failing
health of Sir George Cockburn makes the presence of
another member of the board in the House of Commons
'almost a matter of necessity. The salary of a Lord of the
Admiralty is £1,200 per annum, and Captain Rous's ex-
penses at the late election are calcalated at £l.soo.—Bri-
tannia.

CONNECTION OF SPEECH WITH HEARING.—It has
often occurred to me that there is really more connection
between the organs of bearing and of speech than is usu-
ally supposed. It is now the received belief that the deaf
and dumb are naturally only deaf, and that thay are dumb
also because they have never had any opportunity of learn-
ing to speak. It is undoubtedly true that for this reason
they do not speak; but I am persuaded there is also—a-
part from this, and physically connected with deafness—a
sort of inability to utter articulate sounds. I have no
physiological acquaintance with the subject; but the im-
pression growing out of my own experience and observa-
tion is, that the same fuctional causes act upon both or-
gans. The hearing, being the more delicate organ, is ut-
terly extinguished by that which only suffices to impede
or deaden, without utterly destroying. the vocal organs;
leaving them in so much vitality as may, under a certain
artificial training and stimulus, be awakened into imper-
fect action. The deaf can thus be taught to speak, as a
bear can be taught to dance, or a man without hands to
fabricate baskets; but a natural indisposition to use this
acquired art, with more or less difficulty, or pain in the
use of it, remains : and this I am disposed to attribute not
to the education being left imperfect through deafness, but
to a physical difficulty in forming articulatesounds.—Kitto.

AMBITION—A LITTLE TALE FOR JOINVILLE.—A
mite, who lived in a piece of Neufchatel cheese, was sur-
prised one day to find himself- under a microscope. The
exclamations of the children, who were looking at him,
turned his brain, as he had no idea he was a millionth
part so big. From that moment the Neufchatel, which
he preyed upon, was too small for a person of his great-
ness, and he must go abroad, in search of larger and richer
cheeses. lie succeeded in entering an old Parmesan,
which, being in a very decayed state, from the number of
little pieces it had been cut up into, he soon got through,
as well as an adjoining Gruyere, and several Austrian,
Spanish, and Dutch cheeses, every one of which he seized
upon, and divided them amongst the greedy followers he
always took with him. But a fine rich Cheshire, which
had never yet been entered by a single mite, had excited
his appetite for a length of time, and at last he deter.
mined, especially as it was so near his own Neufchatel, to
make it his own. But a little drop of water happened to
be in the way, and the consequence was, the poor little
mite sunk, in sight of the very Cheshire he had made so
sure of walking into. The name of this ambitious mite,
whose littleness has been so grossly magnified, was Napo-
leon, and we hope no one will accuse us of boasting when
we say that England is " the cheese."—Gilbert a Beck-
ett': Almanaek for February.