The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-22 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

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Mr. Moncrieff, the new Lord Advocate, was returned
on Monday, for Leith burghs. Mr. Cowen is the new
Solicitor-General for Scotland.

Alderman D. W. Wire, on the Liberal interest, and J.
Freshfield, Esq., on the Conservative, are candidates for
the representation of Boston.
Mr. Serjcant Murphy is in the field for Cork, as a mo-
dified Protectionist, joining heart and hand with the Irish
brigade on the Papal aggression question.

The electors of. Plymouth ha;e fixed on Mr. Collier,
the barrister, to succeed Mr. Roundhead Palmer at the
next election. Mr. Palmer's vote on the Papal bill having
greatly offended them.
Sir Culling Eardley is canvassing protestants for an
organised opposition to the Maynooth grant, and has
received favourable answers from most of the dissenting
bodies.

BOSTON ELECTION.—Mr. Wire, the Radical candidate
and Free-trader, has retired from the contest, leaving
Mr. Freshfield, a Conservative and Protectionist, alone in
the field.

Mr. More O'Ferrall has been returned without opposi-
tion for Longford County. The " mistake" about Ser-
jeant Shee's being a candidate, the Times states to have
arisen from the learned gentleman's forgetfulness to post
£1,400 for the roofing of Bishop Higgins's chapel ! Ano-
ther candidate offered to pay £lOO down, and the rest as
soon as he succeeded in getting a berth.
THE JEw BlLL.—There is an evident wish on the part
of the government to smuggle, as far as possible, the
Jew Bill through parliament. The first division was pur-
posely snatched from a small House of Commons ; and
the second reading is now set down for May Ist, being
about a couple of days before the renewal o the " Popish.
aggression" fight. It stands also the third or fourth
question for the night, so that no one can tell whether it
may be expected to come on or not. Thus every circum-
stance is so ordered as to favour a surprise—and we con-
fess our belief that a surprise is intended.—Herald.
" HE TIMES" AND THE FARMERS.—A short time
since, as our readers will remember, the Times more than
hinted to the farmers that, if they were not satisfied, they
bad either better leave the country, or if they had four.
pence left, buy a rope and hang themselves. A change,
however, appears• to have come over the spirit of the
dreams of the Goliath of Free-trade. It has seen, and
has rightly interpreted, the handwriting upon the wall ;
and so the " Oracle" thus gives forth its latest utterance :
—" There is no doubt that a large proportion of our far-
mers are at this moment losing money, and that if their
payments and their receipts continue long at the present
rate they must be utterly ruined. What the legislature,
what the public wants, is the case of these farmers simply
and intelligibly stated."
A FREE TRADE MILLER CALLING OUT FOR PROTE•
tion.—A very singular correspondence has just appeared in
the Bankers' Circular. A large corn-miller, named
Jackson, residing at Oulton, and who, accor.ling to his
owa account, has always been a very ardent supporter,
as he still prof( we to be a warm admirer, of Mr. Cobden,

finding that free trade is not exactly suited to the mil-
Hug business, has modestly appealed to the hon. gentle.
man just mentioned to modify his views of free trade so
tar as to endeavour to procure "something like a prohibi-
tive duty on all foreign manufactured flour !" New. we
dare say that this very corn-milli r when cheering t he no-
mination of Mr. Cobden, at Wakefield, a few years
ago, thought the owners and occupiers of land a set ot ex-
tremely rapacious monopolists when they desired only a
moderate duty on foreign corn ; and even now he does not
' think free trade in corn is bad,' yet because he has two-
thirds of £lO,OOO sunk in corn-mills,' and ' the French
can beat the British millers entirely out of all their markets,'
he is quite clear that ' a prohibitive duty on foreign manu-
factured flour' is indispensable to the welfare of the
country ! Such is tile stuff that free traders are made of.
They all like it extremely well until it touches their own
pockets ; the only difference between the great body of
them and this Mr. Jackson. is that they have the sense,
which he does not appear to possess, to conceal their selfish-
ness. The answer of Mr. Cobden to the recreant Mr.
Jackson is at once cool and characteristic—and, we are
bound to say, consistent. He very naively tells his strange
correspondent that he could noc defend the principle of
free trade in corn for a moment if he conceded protection
to the miller.' Perhaps this will show Mr. Jackson what
he himself really is in ' principle,' arid that his only alter-
native now is between protective duties, systematically
carried out, and the ' direful consequences' which lie him-
self so graphically depicts. Stay ; we had forgotten Mr.
Cobden's remedy. Mr. Jackson can ' seek for the means
of succesful competition with the foreigner, in improved
machinery and economy of production !'
A HINT FOR THE FUNDHOLDER.—But we may be told
there is another alternative—that the country can go on
as formerly without the existence of the agriculturists.
This is not a new view. It has been openly stated and
expatiated upon both by Cobden and by Hume, and the
fundholder is certainly entitled to give it every consider-
ation. It presupposes that we are to be fed entirely from
abroad, and that the land generally is to go out of cultiva-
tion, except such favoured spots as are situated in the
vicinity of the larger towns. Now, let us see what that
would lead to. That vast share of our national taxation
which is now directly and indirectly borne by the asricul-
turista, would necessarily be transferred to the towns •,
and the instant that a commercial crisis arose, such a yell
would be raised against the pressure of the taxes as no
Ministry could possibly resist. Every one knows, and
every one has seen how easily agitation of the most formi-
dable nature may be excited in the towns during a period
even of temporary depression. Where masses of misery
are brought together, the danger is really enermous. It
is this circumstance which has always made congregated
suffering more loudly heard, and more attentively reme-
died, than distress when scattered over a larger space.
Lancashire has ten times the power of Wiltshire or of
Suffolk, owing to the denseness of its population and the
multitude of its manufacturing towns. Should it come
to this, that the Government and the fundholder must
rely for by far the greater share of the public revenue,
and the interest of the national debt, upon the contribu-
tions of the urban population. their security would be
virtually annihilated. We have seen with great sorrow
the attempts which have been made, for some years past,
to destroy the equipoise which formerly existed between
town arid country, and to give the former a vast prepon-
derance over the latter. This is the favourite scheme of
the democrats, whose great ulterior object is the destruc-
tion of the public credit; and they have been cordially
joined by the Whigs; who are ready at any time to sacri-
fice the general interest of the country for the sake of
securing a little temporary popularity. Would the fund-
holder esteem himself in a better position than now if lie
had to look for the payment of his dividends solely to the
urban masses? We suspect not : and yet what other
security can he have if the land is put out of cultivation ?
illachwood's Magazine.
LORD STANLEY.—We do not doubt nor underrate the
confidence of the country in Lord Stanley's courage and
capacity, or the strength of the great party that he leads
—much the strongest of all the parties in the state. But
we confess our satisfaction that they did not. on the recent
crisis. incur the premature responsibility of finding a solue
tion for difficulties which had not yet fully developed
themselves—which they had no share in creating—and,
which, from a variety of collateral causes, must have been
still more embarrassing to them than to their predecessors.
Was it for Lord Stanley to guide the agitation excited by
Lord John Russell's letter, or to allay the dissoisfaction
created by his bill, Loki Stanley doubly disapproving of
both—of the one as too strong, arid of the latter as too
weak ? Was it for him to undertake to balance Mr. Locke
King's proposed measure of Parliamentary reform with
Lord John Russell's promised one, of which all that Lord
Stanley could know was, that it would probably unite the
minority that had adhered to Lord John with the ma-
jority that had turned him out ? Was it for him to take
in hand a budget, with which the best he could do would
be to throw it into the fire, and thereby additionally dis-
satisfy many large classes which, odious as the budget
generally was, had especial and speculative interests in
several of its items ? These (to say nothing of minor
matters) are questions of which, in fairness to them-
selves and in justice to the public weal, those who have
raised them should be allowed—nay, obliged—to work
out at least a Parliamentary solution, and on which the
several parties of the House of Conlincns must take their
respective lines and exhibit their respective forces before
any permanent scheme for a new administration can bo
formed. We, and we believe every thinking man can an-
ticipate the result ; but that is not enough : the inability
of the existing machine and its managers to do their
work must be practically and patently exhibited. It was
to Lord J. Russell and his friends that the Duke of Wel-
lington originally addressed the provident arid pithy ques-
tion, How the Quectes government is to be carried on :
and to them the undivided responsibility of solving that
enigma should be left as long as they have any hope or
chance of being able to accomplish it. When they shall
have tried their experiment through all its possibilities,
and arrived, as nobody doubts they must arrive, at a
caput mortuum,. it will then become—not the voluntary,
nor the desirable nor desired, but the enforced and obli-
gatory duty of other parties to endeavour to find a govern-
ment for the country.— Quarterly Review.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

It is proposed that, on the first of May, on the occasion
of the opening of the Exhibition, a general 11013 day shall
be celebrated throughout the country.

In the Times of Good Friday there is but one leading
article, and the object of that is to suggest and enforce the
fitness of opening the Great Exhibition with some apt
religious service.

In a house near the Exhibition, taken by a foreigner, a
beautiful drawing-room has been divided into stalls, like
a stable, with a bed in each; and the rich and beautiful
furniture has been thrown on one side to make room for
the inmates.
A MODEL MEMBER.—We understand from a Wells
correspondent, that " their worthy member," the Right
Hon. W. G. Hayter, has signified to his constituents that
he will entertain, at his residence , in London, any of them
that choose to visit the Great Exhibition. The right
hon. gentleman must have a good many spare beds and a
plentiful larder, to make an offer of such profuse libe-
rality.—Bristol 7 imes.

MODEL FRIGATE.—The Prince of Wales yacht, belong-
ing to the breenwich Hospital schools, is now fitting at
Woolwich, when she will be removed to the Serpentine
water, in Hyde Park, there to remain during the Great
Exhibition for the inspection of visitors. This vessel is
about 25 tons register, ship rigged, and fitted in all re-
spects as a man of war. Her crew will consist of twenty
boys from the schools at Greenwich, and at times she will
go through various evolutions in naval tactics.

THE LAUNDRY.—A registered mangle has been placed
in the Exposition which is very much less than the
smallest piano-forte. It is composed of three cylinders,
worked by a multiplying wheel. By this arrangement
the clothes to be acted upon are turned out with a smooth-
ness equal to the boards used by glazers of paper, &c.
It is well known that the smoother the linen the whiter
it appears and the longer it will keep clean, it presentir.g
little or no fibre or &cuta to catch the dust. Besides
insuring this much coveted glossiness, the mangle may
be rendered available as a wringing machine,and a variety
of other purposes where flattening or folding is required.
The depositors are Messrs. Tindall, of Scarborough,
who likewise put in a claim upon the score of its economy
in price. _ _

A BEAUTIFUL BOOKCASE.—Messrs. Holland and Son,
of, London, will exhibit at the exhibition a bookcase made
to form one end of a room. The material is walnut,
richly and minutely carved. In the centre is a cavity for
a fireplace, which is of red Mona marble, with a green
dragon fitted in it. Over the fire-place are three niches,
with green and red marble foliage panels. At each side
of these niches is a space for books, with brass doors,
lined with crimson velvet. Beside each of these doors is
a pedestal for statuary. Behind these are pilastres ex-
quisitely carved, representing the vine stem and grapes,
and boys with baskets gathering the grapes. At the base
are snakes, and lizards, and dragons, with some of which
boys are having contests ; and on the stem are birds, but-
terflies, moths, and lizards. Under these pedestals are
panels inlaid with green and red marble, and bosses of red
marble. The whole is surmounted with a pediment,
which is also minutely carved. The extreme length of
618 magnificent piece of furniture is 20 feet 8 inches ;
heitht, 13 feet 10 inches. Its construction has employed
25 men since September last, and its cost has not been
less than £l6OO.

PROGRESS OF THE OPERATIONS.--The continuous
exertions of ten thousand individuals who have been
employed daily during the past week to carry forward the
various departments of labour in the building have pro-
duced a striking change in the aspect of the interior. The
enormous scaffoldings which were erected for the purpose
of facilitating the painting of the roof have been cleared
away. and the visitor can cow scan the decorations of the
building, without interruption, from one end to the other.
The floor of the building is now finished in every part ; the
pipes for the supply of water and gas are laid down ; the
arrangements for securing a control over the ventilation
are nearly completed ; and the canvass covering has been
stretched over some acres of the roof. In the course of
Wednesday the whole of the boardings which hitherto
separated the different classes in the foreign side of the
Exhibition were taken down and removed from the build-
ing, and the work of unpacking the various articles was
carried on with considerable activity. With regard to the
goods on the British side, the portion which is in the
state of the greatest forwardness is that devoted to the
agricultural implements. A large number of these were a
few days since selected for trial at Pusey, and have now
been returned to the building, and notices are issued to
the effect that the whole of the painting and garnishing of
the machines and implements must be immediately
completed.
LODGINGS FOR THE WORKING CLASSES, DIIS ING
THE EXHIBITION OF 1851.—We have seen a prospectus
of a lodging establishment for the working classes, near
Vauxhall Bridge, which, if it be fulfilled, seems well
deservitg attention. It states that—" Accommodation
is provided for 200 men at one time. The sleeping apart-

ments are fitted up in the same style as emigrant ships.
Each man has a berth to himself, a flock bed, pillow, one
blanket, two sheets, coverlet—all clean. The apartments
are large, dry, clean, well ventilated, and lighted by gas.
A night watchman is engaged to assist the men, and to
prevent disputes. Accommodation for washing, with
towels, and other conveniences ; and the use of plates,
knives, and forks, together with attendance, will be
supplied. Charge for the above will be ls. per head per
night. Breakfast, including meat, will be supplied
in a separate room, at the charge of 9d. per head ;
and refreshments may be obtained at any time on a simi-
lar scale, for those who desire it. But as many may
bring up cheese, biscuits, coffee, &c.:; a,stOre tOorrt ie also
found, in which these mty be:ke,.t. No smoking will be
allowed in the building or on the wharf, but upon a ship
now lying alongside the wharf. The decks of this vessel
afford a good promenade, and.from them a beautiful view
is obtained of the river and its traffic.. [This seems an
odd arrangement.: surely smoking on a stone wharf is
less dangerous than on board' ship.] The position is at
the foot of Vauxhall Bridge, on the Middlesex side; the
sewerage is good, and situation healthy, commanding
conveyances by river or land to any part of London.
The Royal Gardens, Vauxhall, are within three minutes'
walk ; and the Cremorne Gardens, Chelsea, are within
twenty minutes' ride by the steamboat. It is within
twenty, minutes' walk of the exhibition. Omnibuses run
from the foot of Vauxhall Bridge to Hyde Park and to
Charing Cross, from whence others start for every part of
London and its neighbourhood. Steamboats running up
and down the river call every five minutes at Vauxhall
Bridge pier, from whence to the city and Chelsea the
charge is 2d. ; and from which places steamboats continue
to run down the river to Gravesend for 9d., and up the
river to Richmond, Kew, and Hampton Court, for 4d.
80(1 6d. The V;.uxhall station of the South-Western
is within three minutes' walk."

OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION BY THE QUE

HOURS OF ADMISSION.

Her Majesty's Commissioners have taken into their
cons drrat ion the question as to the hours during which
the Exhibition should remain open, and have determined
to aoopt the following reculations on the subject :---
11er Majesty having been pleased tl signify her inten-
tion of visiting the Exhibition on the occasion of its open-
ing, on the Ist of May, the doors of the building will not
he open to the public on that day till one o'clock, at
which hour the holders of season tickets will be admitted;
and on that day the doors will not be closed until seven
o'clock in the evening.

On the two following days, Friday and Saturday, the
doors will be opened at ten o'clock, and closed at six

On Monday, the sth of May, and each subsequent day,
until turtlitr notice, the doors will be opened at ten
o'clock. and closed at six o'clock, excepting on Saturdays,
on which day the doors will not be opened until twelve
o'clock. .

At six o'clock in th 9 evening, when the doors are shut,
the stalls will be covered up, and the police wiil imme-
diately proceed to close the barriers in the avenue, and to
clear the building.

In ease the commissioners should find by experience
that. it is necessary to tnod,fy these regulations, either by
the further limitation of the hours of admission, or by
giving the public a longer time for visiting the exhibition,
notice of such modification will be given.

The RATES OF ADMISSION have been fixed by her Ma-
jesty's Commissioners, as follows : -- Season tickets,
£3 3s. for gentlear.an's ticket, and £2 2s. for lady's ticket;
such tickets not being transferable, but entitling the
owner to admission on all occasions on which the Exhibi-
tion is open to the public. That on the first day of the
Exhibition, season tickets only should be available. That
on the second and third days, the prices of admission
should be .£1 each. That on the fourth day the Exhibition
should open at ss. ; and that the charge should be reduced
to ls. on the twenty-second day of opening. That from
the twenty-second day, the prices of admission should be
ai follow :—On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and
Thursdays, ls. ; on Friday, 2s. ad. ; and on Saturdays
(after one o'clock, till which hour the public should be
excluded), ss.

.The Observer states that her Majesty's consent to inau-
gurate the opening by her presence will not have the
effect of excluding the ho:ders of season tickets, and pro-
bably not of exhibitors, during the magnificent ceremony.
It was thought at first that such was the intention of the
royal commissioners.