The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-16 00:00:00

TILE NEW MINISTRY

The general conviction of the immediate advent of a con-
scrvative government has naturally occasioned a good deal of
speculation amongst the quid annex; those amateur states-
men and politicians whom the universal circulation of news-
papers has generated. Many lists of the probable members
of the conservative administration have been handed about,
of course no reliance can be placed upon such statements ;
but a London correspondent of the Edinbnrgh Evening Post
puts forth the following as the personnel of Sir Robert Peel's
administration with a great degree of confidence :
First Lord of the Treasury and
Sir Robert Peel.
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Secretary forthe Home Department, Earl of Abei-deen.
ForeignDepartment,Duke of Wellington.
Colonial Affairs Lord Stanley.
Lord Chancellor
First Lord of Admiralty
President of the Council
President of the Board of Control Lord Ellenborough.
Lord Privy Seal Lord Wharncliffe.
President of Board of Trade Lord Ashburnham.
Paymaster of the Forces Sir Edward Knatchbull.
Duchy of Lancaster Earl De Grey.
Secretary at War Mr. Herries.
Postmaster-General Duke of Buckingham.
Speaker of the House of Commons, Mr. Goulburn.
Lord Steward Earl of Roden.

Lord Chaniberlain Earl of Liverpool.
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Lord Chancellor of Ireland
Secretary for Ireland
Master-General of Ordnance .. Sir Henry Hardinge.

Master of the Mint
Vice-President of Board of Tiade

Attorney-General .
Solicitor-General
Lord Advocate Sir William Rae.
Solicitor-General for Scotland .... Mr. Duncan M`Neill.

The weather, during the past week, has been very unset-
tled, and the hay harvest has in consequence been consider-
ably retarded ; still there has been a good deal of hay housed
in excellent condition.

A savage mob, on Tuesday, entered the apartment of an
elderly and infirm gentleman, in Meath-street, Dublin,
named Craddock, a retired officer of the 41st regiment. This
gentleman, who is upwards of seventy years old, they found
on a bed of sickness, and having commanded him to rise
forthwith and proceed to the hustings, they, upon his pleading
inability to move, fractured his skull in two places with brick-
bats, and the unfortunate sufferer is now in hospital, where
his death is every moment expected.—The above gentleman
has since died.—Packet.

APPROACHING ROYAL VISITS.—We understand her Ma-
jesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert are likely to
honour the Earl and Countess Cowper with their company,
at Passanger, as early as next week, and it is said the Queen
and her illustrious consort have been pleased to accept an
invitation from the Duke and Duchess of Bedford to pass a
few days at Woburn Abbey, Beds, where preparations have
already commenced for the reception of a distinguished and
numerous circle. It is rumoured that the Marquis and Mar •
chioness of Westminster will, in all probability, be honoured
by the presence of the Queen and his Royal Highness at
Moor Park, the noble marquis's delightful residence at Rick-
mansworth.—Record.

The Earl of Cardigan was ballotted for as a member of
the Senior United Service Club on Tuesday. There were 28
white and 163 black halls ; in all, 194 ballotted. The noble
earl was therefore rejected, and the consequence is, that he
cannot be again proposed a member for ten years. It so hap-
pens that the other candidates—among them the major of
the eleventh hussars—were all admitted.
EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.—We under-
stand that the note of suspension and interdict presented by
the Edinburgh committee of directors, against certain reso-
lutions of the general meeting of shareholders of the Ed-
inburgh and Glasgow Railway Company held in February
last, was some time ago passed by Lord Ivory ; and that in
a note to the interlocutor his lordship expressed a decided
opinion, that these resolutions were a clear evasion of the act
of parliament incorporating the company. The board of di-
rectors having reclaimed to the second division of the court,
their lordships, on Thursday, after hearing counsel on four
different days, pronounced an unanimous judgment, adher-
ing to Lord Ivory's interlocutor, and refusing the reclaiming
note.—Edinburgh Evening Post.
It is confidently stated that the conservatives mean still to
try to oust Lord John Russell and Alderman Wood from the
city, on the ground that the polling books of some particular
ward were wholly kept back at the election for party pur-
poses. It is moreover rumoured that Lord John Russell is
to be pitchforked into the House of Peers.

TIIE CORN LAWS.—Who has spoken in favour of the
ministerial measure for the repeal of the corn laws anywhere
in Ireland ? We shall be answered that Mr. Daniel O'Con-
nell has, in Dublin, given the full value of his grand reputa-
tion to' the abuse of those laws in his most venerable of Bil-
lingsgate; but that will not count for much. Has anybody
else dared to do it elsewhere than in the foul purlieus in
which that foul animal is allowed to grunt and wallow ? No-
body, from the top of Lough Swilly to the bottom of Cape
Clear. The Irish elections will be almost over before these
observations of ours arrive in their land, and what we can
say on the subject of the corn laws cannot have any elec-
tioneering effect, if our power of persuasion were ten thou-
sand fold the force of what we can flatter ourselves that we
possess ; but we may request that those who next canvass a
liberal Irish constituency, will be so good as to info' m those
whose votes they are desirous of obtaining, what is to be the
effect of a repeal of the English corn laws on a corn-export-
ing country like Ireland, whose best, or in fact only customer
is England, should foreign corn be admitted into the English
market? We can answer in one word—BEGGARY !
Ox DIT.—We understand the marriage of Lord John
Russell, and the beautiful daughter of the Earl of Minto,
takes place at Minto House, about the 20th of the present