The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-10 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

Mr. G F. Young, late member for Tynemouth, bat
been requested to offer himself as a candidate to fill the'
vacancy in the representation of King's Lynn, caused 11
the death of the late Lord George Bentinck.

The Whig Government has already quarrelled with the
newly-made Archbishop of Canterbury. The ground of
difference is the conditions on which the schools of the
Church of England shall be allowed to share in the sum°
voted by Parliament for the purposes of National Educy
tion. The government endeavoured, at first tacitly, af-
terwards publicly, to foist into the ground certain terms
which could not but be offensive to the church. Theme.
were remonstrated against, and lengthened conference'
followed, which have now ended in an open rupture—tbe
government peremptorily refusing to make any concession.

THE LATE LORD GEORGE BENTINCK.—The Post 110
published some fragments of personal interest from lettero
by Lord George Bentinck to Mr. Bankes, written when
Lord George resigned the leadership of the ‘• countr3,
party" in the House of Commons at the end of last yes:'
These letters establish the fact that the leadership ov'
unwillingly accepted, and not assumed by him, as soon
journalists asserted ; and that Lord George was as modes'
and high-minded in both taking and leaving the position
of party leader as he was bold and indefatigable in its ac.
tive command. In a letter dated Christmas Day
also addressed to Mr. Bankes, and having reference to ,10
own abandonment of the post of leader, Lord George re'
fers to his own health :—`• My dear Bankes,—Your warre"
hearted letter is very grateful to my feelings. Confiders"
tially, I tell you, that far from feeling the least annoyed;
I shall feel greatly relieved by a restoration to privacy and
freedom. I viorked upon my spirit in 1846 and 1847 ; buV
I have learnt now that I have shaken my constitution g)
the foundation, and I seriously doubt my being able VG
work on much longer." How true these prognosticsi
tions ! Yet, the noble lord was useful in his day ; 01:4
that is higher praise than many a man more worshiPP
and applauded has deserved.

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WHAT IS TO BE DONE ?—We really should like ti"
know whether or not the Conservatives are thinking °I
setting their house in order, and of taking some del
towards meeting the difficulties by which they will fia
themselves surrounded, should the next session of palls'
ment discover them still split into sections and unable to
bring a bold, compact, and united opposition against the,
family group of officials, who are rather facetiously cage',
Her Majesty's " Government." Things cannot go on 0
their present fashion, that is certain. If there were o°'
thing else to rouse the moral indignation of the British
Lion, there are the startling facts of Funds keeping Per
tinaciously down to 86, of a national debt increasing
annual lumps, of an expenditure going rapidly a-head, 0
an income gradually contracting the more one labours 0
increase it, of business coming to a stand-still, and opera'
tives on every side following its example. Nobody,'
conscientiously persuade himself that we are not rapid'/,
getting ourselves into what is vulgarly called a " mess'b
Whatever may be the beauty of free trade in the abstral.
and whatever may be the immediate cause of its failure,wo
practice, it is certain that there is a screw loose in t9t
machinery, which sets the whole thing wrong. Wilo
with that highly-convenient phenomenon, the pett'„
disease, the railway mania, the European row, the disgat
ing determination of foreigners to take as much of o.
gold and as little of our manufactures as possible, the "of
fortunate neglect of our admirable example on the part
foreign Governments, who invariably put up cost %
duties just as often as we put them down, the free frB"„y
experiment has answered the wishes of its friends eb°t7o
as satisfactorily as the atmospheric railway responde"
the hope of its prpjectors.—John Bull.