The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-14 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANY

The fifficitil list of the ministry published lest Week does
not differ from that which we published on Tuesday.

Mr. limed, the Conservative Member of Parliatient for
St. Ives, Cornwall, died on Wegnesday. _ _

Lord Morpeth has forwarded £3O towards the funds
for providing a national testimonial to Mr. Cobden.

Mr. Monckton Mimnes has wr tten to his constituents
to say he shall support Lord .1. Russell's ministry.

The Rochdale 'free-traders are about to commence a
subscription for rewarding Mr. Bright.
Sir Howard Douglas, M.P., Mr. Moffatt, and a depu-
tation, had an interview with Lord John Russell, on
Friday, at his official residence in Downing-street.

Mr. Charles Grey has been appointed private secretary
to Lord John Russell. Mr. Grey was secretary to Mr.
Francis Baring when Chancellor of the Exchequer.
It is somewhat singular that, at the time of the last
election, Sir Thomas Wilde should have received during
his stay in Worcester his appointment as Attorney-
General, and that on Tuesday, on the eve of his second
election, he should have received his elevation to the dig-
nity of Lord Chief Justice.

PEEL AND CORDEN,—On Monday last, two votes of
thanks were passed to Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Cobden
by the Manchester town-council—to the former for his
candour and resolution in introducing and carrying the
late measures of government, and to the latter for his
seven years talented and influential advocacy of free trade.
It is said that Lord John Russell intends to propose
the immediate equalisation of free and slave produced
sugar, and thus extinguish at once all the protection of
our West India planters. If so he will be opposed by a
re-united Conservative party, and the Whig Administra-
tion will be at in end.
NATIONAL TESTIMONIAL TO SIR ROBERT PEEL.—It
appears by an advertisement in the London papers, that a
committee is being formed for the purpose of raising funds
to present a national testimonial to Sir Robert Peel. The
provisional chairman of this committee is Col. Peyronnet
Thompson, and the provisional vice-chairman, is Captain
Polhill, the Conservative member for Bradford.
Among the last acts of Sir Robert Peel's Government
WAS an official announcement that Roman Catholics and

Unitarians were to be equally eligible with other deno-
minations for professorships in the three new colleges of
Ireland ; and that one Unitarian would be put on the
board of management and examination with one Trini-
tarian Presbyterian.—Dublin paper.
So far as has yet transpired, Sir George Clerk, late
master of the mint and vice- president of the board of trade,
is the only member of Sir Robert Peel's administration
whose retirement from official life has entailed an additional
charge on the resources of the country. Sir George Clerk's
name has been put upon the list of those entitled to pen-
sions for civil services. The amount assigned him is
£1.200 per annum.
ENTERTAINMENT TO LORD STANLEY AND LORD GEO.
BENTINCK.—On Wednesday last, an entertainment was
given to the above noblemen, at the Trafalgar Tavern,
Greenwich, which was attended by about a hundred pro-
tectionist peers and members of parliament. Reporters

1, from the Morning Post,