The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-04 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANY-

4 lle
On Friday, a petition was presented by Mr. Card's'
from Liverpool, against the Poor Removal Bill.
AYLESBURY ELECTION.-Mr. Q. Dick, the Pr0...--_,tu
ist candidate, was elected on Wednesday, by a maien"44s.
269 ; the numbers being—for Dick, 614 ; Houghtont,'—ve'
Mr. H. M. Curteis, who has just been unseated et 140
is again in the field, at present the only candidate•
opposition is expected. use
On Friday night Lord John Russell said, in the 1104
of Commons, that nothing had yet arisen which .a, 'Moe'
upon. England to interfere, by even any formal re
strance against any of the proceedings of foreign statnrs.b,
At Harwich, on Friday evening, Sir John
nCesilstitujooef
house and the Honourable John H. T. Manners
were nominated for the representation. The shed for
hands was in favour of Sir John, and a poll Was fin/rule bar°
Saturday. At twelve o'clock on Saturday the e"--
were, for Hobhouse 121, Sutton 107. ,The
e
ALLIANCE BETWEEN POPERY AND RADICAIIS,IOS
number of the English Review just published
its Foreign and Colonial Intelligence, an intereetlissued
cle, showing. by copious extracts from the Pastoralsof the
by the Romish Bishops in France, on the occasiell„teria
late revolution, that the Popish hierarchy arejo'twitlY
heart and soul into the democratic movement. -I.` eats
standing this impromptu Radicalism, however, it aPisp far
that the position of the Romish Clergy in France
from secure

HOPE STILL.—Lord John Russell said on Frio--iiir
the Commons,—" If during the next year it was four itoe
possible to reduce the expenditure, that it would 13, 0111
to consider in what way the deficit should be flb.,,titieel
then would it be necessary to look at .the legacy do toe
and all the other taxes to which the hon. member
drawn the attention of the house. It was not nf.r. bt"
to look at those points in the present state of affe:'7, 'pre:
he. would repeat that, looking at the distress whlc."„lth°
vailed in many parts of the country, it was the del" est'
next 5' • 11
government to see and consider, before the pre
whether any of the taxes pressed unduly upon any fel
of the people. (Cheers.) He could only say that
very deeply for the distress which prevailed in, ralout
what were very lately flourishing towns, and De bit'',
therefore, have been happv had, it been possible toesesiv
proposed a great reduction in the estimates for the Pr
year."

„,05,
RGUMENTUM AD HOMINEM.—ID the Com. grao.„
Friday, Lord John Russell, whilst arguing for the,tber
of the estimates of the army said, ”He thought
fththa'e pori
were sufficient grounds for the —establishment o
posed force. They were not living in a time whePer; °;
man in the country was anxious to become a solchthot
the contrary, the state of the country was such; ocell;
very large proportion of the people were engaged In of tilf
patrons of industry and commerce, and in purse clo
most pacific kind ; and whenever the smallest ael,Yes
riot or disturbance arose they were the very Per'l fore t
immediately called out for protection by a
During the time he was at the Home-office brf to 10:1 aid °l,;
know that he had been asked for a military fere-,wateu
toot tho institutions of the county
y, but he Was re„l-_-(loati
applied to by manufacturers and inercb..sll`" for pv
cheers)—both in Lancashire and YorksOlte)
military force for their protection. (Cheers" t'
made frequent complaints that the military forcedi 1001
part of the country was not sufficient—they welltde be,11:0
troops—they said they were not safe without, an ,
been told, more than once, by most respectable recflo'iiir
they would be obliged to remove their wives an" 3'lin
to some other part of the country, unless al cl'hieel!tig
force in those counties were augmented. (I,o;su,.otecttlijo
The demand ts not made for te urpose el for4"o
the throne or the institutions of the t Y corm r fge „op
protection of the manufacturers themselves. Thin terpf
that all that alarm and discontent was created,,,oooo,4,
foot
consisting of a population of from 20,000 te.",, tores",,,
some hundred boys, who went about at night to
and put the whole town in commotion and dislordero
In such times they wanted a military force, illoce
defend the great majority of the people, and tO los%
from the disquiet of protecting their own la tbilbef
trusted, therefore, that hon. gentlemen vieh.m,bicb"
unnecessary to repeat those common-places- tiott
had heard so much that evening."
The Income-tax, says the Times, ;0 tao
what the Leaning Tower of Pisa is in archites' vest
is jus. - ure ; co,
highest stone of the elevation is more out of the
ovet
dicular than the lowest, but, it is from the tiler
fault begins. _ i,ve
cre
EMBLEM FOR IRELAND.—Different nations a
different representatives derived from the an-133 the ocm
There is the British lion, the Austrian esPe'the h/t,orl'
cock. The emblem of Ireland ought to be _al ids 0/
the creature, according to Wombwell's natutorae'
" wot kindness cannot conciliate, nor hungeL
o f
Punch,
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DANGER or PARLIAMENTARY te 0.5 eOP
Literary Gazette gives the following anecde_f Cora_ let;
fact. In one of his speeches in the Houseflyro 10:4;4
the minister, to illustrate a point, quoted penes'ln
" There's something rotten in the state 01.0roinf_ otiv
which being read in the newspapers next Is'iderabwa
matter-of,fact quidnunc,..who. had rm 111' s(
mediately wrote to his correspondent ql „by fa
vested in Danish securities, he took the 8 SSOOCIC/Icli
sell out and realise every shilling he had in
that denounced and sinking countly.