The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-14 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

Thursday being the birthday of the Prince of Wales,
there was a grand dinner at Windsor Castle to celebrate
the occasion.

The Queen Dowager took leave of the Queen and Prince
Albert, on Friday, and left the Castle on her return to the
Priory, Stanmore.
The Earl Grosvenor has arrived at Eaton Hall, Cheshire,
from Melcombe House, Dorset.
THE ORLEANS FAMILY.—The Count and Countess of
Neuilly and their family have within these few days re-
moved from Claremont, and have taken up their residence
at the Star and Garter at Richmond.

THE CHASE.

The CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet at
Hankslow

Cholmondeley
Ravensmoor Windmill ....
High Legh ..
Crewe Hall
Church Minshull

November 16
November 18
November 20
November 22
November 23

Arley
Each day at half-past ten.
Sir W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS will meet at
Styche
Hawkstone
Nescliffe..

Boreattan

November 18

Each day at half-past ten.
Sir THOMAS G. HESICETH'S bounds will meet at
Parbold Hill Top

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

The Earl of Clarendon had an interview with Lord John
Russell, on Friday. Viscount Palmerston and several
other Cabinet Ministers had also interviews with his lord-
ship.
Baron de Goldsmidt has subscribed £lO 10s. to the
testimonial for Lord George Bentinck " as a mark of
regard for his lordship's advocacy of the principles of
civil and religious liberty." . . . .

BOUGHT LOYALTY WORTHLESS.—An article in this
month's number of Blackwood's Magazine, the organ of
sincere Conservatives, denounces the project for endowing
the Roman Catholic priests of Ireland, wliich it says must
and will fail. " Loyalty" (says the writer) "is not a
thing to be bought; it is a spontaneous feeling, unpur-
chaseable at any price ; and if the Irish Catholic clergy
hay. ;t nab now, tha most liberal endowinent will work
no change in their political feelings." This is a view of
the subject of the day worth being reflected on.

The following remarks on Free Trade occur in an arti-
cle in Tait's Magazine this month. Tait has always been
an earnest advocate for this theory, but he now evidently
sees the fatal results of the headlong adoption of it :—"
Liberal commercial policy ought to be arranged with other
nations ; that, however, can only he accomplished by mu-
tual consent ; until then, the entire industry of this coun-
try should not be jeopardised, even upon a good theory.
Our commercial policy ought to possess that elasticity
which would render it self-regulating, ALWAYS HELPING
native industry in troublesome times, and in new and un-
foreseen circumstances."
THE SUCCESSOR TO LORD GEORGE BENTINCR. —A
large number of the electors of the borough of King's
Lynn have invited the Hon. H. E. Stanley, son of Lord
Stanley, and grandson of the Earl of Derby, to be a can-
didate for the representation of the borough in Parlia-
ment. The hon. gentleman, it appears, is absent in North
America, and his father has replied to the requisition with
that grace, feeling, and elegance which distinguish all his
compositions. His lordship expresses his great satisfac-
tion that the requisition to his son is signed indiscrimi-
nately by electors of all shades of opinion in that Conser-
vative party which recent events unfortunately divided,
but whose harmony and combined action--as far as may
be found practicable—appear to his lordship to be all im-
portant to the best interests of the country.
MR. FITZWILLIAM'S ADDRESS.—Mr. Fitzwilliam has
issued a new address. Still. cruelly abstemious from any
direct reference to the ill-starred requisition, he makes a
declaration of his views on the points contained in it. He
professes himself an advocate of the general principles of
free trade as might certainly be conjectured. He will
support all rational measures of fiscal economy, which
like every other man in the kingdem, we presume, he be-
lieves to be indispensable. With respect to the Exten-
sion of Church Endowment he declares he will go unfet-
tered into Parliament on that point, though he distinctly
declares he will not consent to any endowment of the
Romanist clergy out of English funds. It will be seen
there is small comfort in this to the nonconformist sec-
tion of the Normanton requisitionists, and to those wor-
shipful delegates without a delegation that appeared at
Wakefield. As respects extension of suffrage, Mr. Fitz-
william declares himself opposed to violent organic
changes.
WEST RIDING ELECTION.—In accordance with the
resolution come to at the meeting of the liberal electors
on Monday week, a county meeting was held at Wake-
field on Friday, the Mayor of Leeds in the chair, when
reports were presented to the effect that Mr. Fitzwilliam
was not a fit and proper person to represent the electors,
from the following districts :—Barnsley, Gomersall, Heck-
mondwike, Bramley, Bradford, Doncaster, Halifax, Heb-
den Bridge, Huddersfield, Keigh)ey, New Delph, Wake-
field, Dewsbury, Sheffield, Harrogate, and Leeds. Holm-
firth was the only place in his favour. Some of the re-
ports considered the conduct of Mr. Fitzwilliam insulting
and presumptuous, inasmuch as he treated the Norman-
ton meeting with silent contempt. Resolutions to that
effect were passed, as well as the following :—" That the
delegates now present declare it to be the indispensable
condition of their support of any candidate, that he be
favourable to the principles of free trade, to economical
reform of the national expenditure, to a gradual and safe
extension of the suffrage, and opposed to any further ex-
tension of the endowment of religion by the state." No
other candidate was named. The Leeds Mercury an-
nounces that the election of a member for the West Rid-
ing of Yorkshire, in the room of Lord Morpeth, is likely
to take place almost immediately.