The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-01 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

The appointment of Sir H. L. Bulwer as Envoy to the
United States appeared in the Gazette, of Friday.
In the Commons, on Tuesday, Sir R. H. Tnglis pre-
sented several petitions against Mr. Wortley's Marriage
Bill.

An address of confidence in Mr. Hudson, M.P., has
been got up in Sunderland, and already bears the signa-
tures of a considerable majority of the constituent body.
Mr. H. Drummond was the only member who, having
voted and spoken against the second reading of the Navi-
gation-laws, voted in favour of the third reading on
Monday.

NAVIGATION LAWS.—Lord Stanley, on presenting
several petitions against the Navigation Laws, on Friday,
said, he wished to take the earliest opportunity of stating
that it was his intention to give the most determined and
uncompromising opposition to the measure when it came
before their lordships' house. (Hear, hear.) He should
omit no endeavour to throw out the bill ; and he trusted
that no apprehended risk or difficulties which might arise
from its rejection would deter their lordships from endea-
vouring to cause the rejection of a bill !so prejudicial to
the best interests of the country. (Hear, hear.)
PROTECTION.—Our readers will learn with satisfaction
that " a public meeting of persons engaged in agricultural,
colonial, commercial, manufacturing, and shipping pur-
suits, who are favourable to the principle of moderate,
just, and equal protection to every interest in the state,
will be held at the London Tavern, Bishopgate-street, on
Tuesday, the Ist of May, his Grace the Duke of Richmond
in the chair, to take into consideration the expediency of
the immediate formation of an association for mutual de-
fence against the destructive application of the extreme
principles of free-trade."—Morning Herald.
Mr. C. HINDLEY, M.P., AND FREE TRADE.—Mr.
Hindley's opinion of free-trade, and its effects upon the
human character, was delivered at a meeting of over-
lookers and factory workers at Ashton, on Saturday the
14th inst., in the following terms :—" I HAVE FOUND
FREE-TRADE TO BE DEVOID OF MORAL PRINCIPLE, NOR
DOES IT ACKNOWLEDGE THE SANCTIONS OF MORAL RE-
STRAINT. ITS WHOLE DRIFT AND OBJECT IS THE
ACCUMULATION OF WEALTH, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS OF THE HUMBLE INSTRUMENTS
EMPLOYED IN AMASSING IT." This admission of an
obvious truth by one of the foremost in the ranks of those
who are called free-traders, but who at length by expe-
rience has proved how bitter are the fruits of that system,
ought to go far in opening the eyes of every one.
AI3.IIISTORICAL PARALLEL.—At a recent Protectionist
Meeting, one of the speakers urged the meeting not to
despair of getting back the duty on grain. In the
Lords they had leaders like Richmond and Stanley ; and
in the Commons there was a glorious band, not forgetting
Mr. Stanley, the member for Lynn, who had promised to
take Lord George Bentinck for his example. With Mar-
mion he said,
`Let Stanley charge with spurs of fire.'
Three hundred and fifty years ago the fortunes of the
Red Rose of Lancaster were at a lower ebb than even the
present agricultural interest. When Henry Tudor landed
at Milford Haven he had no more than 2,000 followers ;
but shortly after that, supported by the feeling of the
country, he gained the battle of Bosworth Field, and the
Lord Stanley of that day found the crown of Richard HI.
and placed it on the head of Henry VII. May the Lord
Stanley of this day shortly crown Britannia with the dia-
dem of protection."