The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-04 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

The resumed debate on Parliamentary Reform is again
postponed till Thursday next.

HORSHAM.-Mr. Fitzgerald has been returned. The
numbers were for Mr. F. 182 ; for Lord Edward Howard
(son of the Duke of Norfolk) 115._

On Monday the Parliarnet;tary Committee decided that
Mr. Charles Townley had not been duly elected for Sligo
borough.

Alr.-James Hartley, the active manager of the Penin-
sular and Oriental Company, is a candidate for Sligo on
the Conservative interest.

CHELTENHAM.—On Thursday the Hon. Craven Berke-
ley was elected by 1024 votes against 848 for Mr. Agg
Gardner, the conservative. The town was in a very ex-
cited state in consequence of the conservatives being so
obstructed in going to the poll.
The Peel party seems to have been completely split to
pieces upon the sugar question. Messrs. Gladstone and
Goulburn opposed the ministerial proposition • but Sir
James Graham and Sir Robert Peel brought what forces
they could command to the rescue of Downing Street,
and gave ministers a majority of 15. The Daily News,
in criticising the contradictory speech of the latter right
honourable baronet, says shrewdly enough, " he lends his
aid to ministers, lest incurring defeat, they should resign
before Sir Robert is prepared to take their place."
POLITICAL RUMOURS.—It is still afloat as arumour, that
Parliament will be dissolved in the course of a month ;
but to what effective purpose, at this awkard juncture, we
know not. We want to see the British people, of all
classes, thoroughly convinced that the PEEL and RUSSELL
theories of free trade, &c. are an absurd and mischievous
sophism, producing free imports, it is true, but restricting
and damaging the exports, and impoverishing the home
trade. The present minister and his shifty predecessor
are bound to prove the justice of their policy, or take all
the odium of its complete failure, and of the ruin it has
spread around us.

- A STRONG GOVERNMENT.—The government majority
on the sugar question was, as our readers have seen, fif-
teen. Of the 260 who formed the majority, 25 were Peel-
ites ; consequently had they voted against the govern
meet, each vote counting for two, the difference would
have been 50, and instead of the Government having a
majority of 15, they would have been left in a minority
of 35. The number of liberals who voted with the oppo-
sition were 20, counting 40 in a division ; put these 40
against the 50, and the difference is 10 ; deduct the 10
from a majority of 15, and it leaves the government, after
ten days severe whipping, a working majority of 5 ! !
their favourite number.

SUGAR DUTIES DIVISION.—From the list of the ma-
jority and the minority on Sir John Pakington's motion,
condemnatory of the government sugar measure, it ap-
pears that the following conservatives voted with the go-
vernment :—Sir. R. Peel, Sir J. Graham, H. B. Baring,
W. Bolling, W. Cubitt, Sir C. Douglas, Marquis of
Douro, J. Duncoft, J. B. B. Estcourt, C. H. Frewen, C.
V. Harcourt, H. C. Lacey, W. A. Mackinnon, Roundell
Palmer, Sir H. Seymour, Sir J. Young. The following
liberals against thegovernment : Hon. Grantley, Berkeley,
Sir T. B. Birch, Sir E. N. Buxton, Earl of Euston' Jos.
Hume, R. D. Mangles, Lord Nugent, J. Pattison, J. T.
Wawn, Sir H. Williamson, M. Wyvil. The following
conservatives, who usually vote with Sir R. Peel, also
divided against the government :—Earl of Lincoln, Right
Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, E.
Cardwell, Right Hou. H. floulburn, Sir G. Clerk, H.
Barkley, W. Beckett, 11. F. Charteris, Right Hon. H.
Corry, Hon. H. Fitzroy, Lord Drumlanrig, Thos. Greene,
Lord Jocelyn, G. Cornwall Legh, Colonel Lindsay,
Colonel Peel, G. Sandars, lion. G. S. Smythe, Sir F.
Thesiger, John Walter, lion. J. S. Wortley. The house
was one of the fullest of the session, no fewer than 505