The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-23 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

The Mayor of Liverpool, Sir Thomas Philipps, Mr.
Hindley, and Mr. Pollard had interviews on Thursday
with Sir George Grey, at the Home Office. His Worship
has been giving evidence in London on the slave trade.
Lord Bsborough has been appointed to the Mastership
of the Buck Hounds, vacant by Lord Granville's accept-
ance of the vice-presidency of the Board of Trade.
On Monday the National Convention of Chartists was
dissolved—for want of funds ! The body met daily, till
it had dwindled down from sixty-three to fourteen. Up
to the last it passed resolutions calling national assem-
blages and other grand demonstrative motions.
SIR DE LACY EVANS AND THE WESTMINSTER
REFORM SOCIETY.—Sir De Lacy Evans has addressed a
letter "To the Fourteenth Part of the Westminster
Reform Society," to prevent " their indiscreet proceedings
from prejudicing the estimation of the great majority of
that hitherto judicious and public-spirited Association."
The burden of the letter is, that the hon. and gallant
member declines the order given him, in the name of the
Westminster Reform Society, to place himself under the
political guidance of " Messrs. Hume and Cobden."
YORK ELECTION.—The Liberal portion of the electors
of York have not yet found a candidate whom they deem
worthy to represent them in parliament. Mr. Leeman,
who would have supported Mr, Hume's motion for parlia-
mentary reform, has refused to stand, and the Whig party
have brought forward a son of Sir William Milner, a young
gentleman of the old Whig school, who appears not to
have made up his mind on any important political ques-
tion, but who promises to give everything his " best at-
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special report of the Committee on the Miscellaneous Es-
timates will not be communicated to the public for some
time ; but we are enabled to inform our readers that the
reforms which it proposes are of the most sweeping cha-
racter. Messrs. Hume, Browning, and Co., have been
triumphant in the 'Committee. The offices of Junior
Lords of the Admiralty, Treasury, &c. &c., are either
entirely done away with, or most materially cut down—
the salaries of Cabinet Ministers wofully diminished !
The object of the above-named gentlemen may be simply
that of decreasing the expenditure of the country, but we
shrewdly suspect the clamour for retrenchment means
something more than it professes, and that the blow they
have now struck is the first and not the last to be aimed
at " things as they are.—John Bull.
A reform meeting of the Middlesex electors was held
on Wednesday, at Captain Hall's Riding-school, Albany-
street, Regent's-park. Resolutions to support Mr.
Hume's motion for reform were passed. Mr. Hume was
present. Several chartists spoke, and Captain Atcherley
frequently interrupted the deliberations in something of
this way—" In the midst of the hubbub Captain Atcher-
ley's voice was most conspicuous. Who ran away on
the 10th ?' said he, when Mr. O'Brien rose to speak. Mr.
Spur spoke figuratively of storming the House of Com-
mons, on which the Captain roared out, ' No, no, Sir,
not storm the house, that would be a breach of the peace.'
Altogether a more disgraceful scene of confusion and cla-
mour was seldom witnessed in the metropolis, and, if often
repeated, would tend more than anything else to degrade
the popular cause and frustrate the efforts of those who
seek to place the representation of the country upon an
enlarged basis."

. Tug JEW BILL.—We understand that Lord Ellen-
borough will move the amendment on the Jew Bill, in
the House of Lords. Our readers will hear with gratifi-
cation and thankfulness that the measure will NOT pass
the House of Peers. His grace the Archbishop of Can-
terbury, it is certain, will justify the confidence which the
Crown and the Church so recently have placed in him,
and raise, as becomes him, his solemn protest against the
unchristianizing o f the nation. His Lordship, we have
reason to believe, is liberal in his politics ; but this is no
party question. Government have reckoned upon the
support of the Duke of Wellington. It is hardly neces-
sary for us to assure the public that this desperate hope
rests upon no foundation. The Duke's views upon the
question are, as they have ever been, sternly opposed to
it. If corroberate evidence can be necessary, it may be
found in the fact of his Grace's two sons having voted
against the bill at every stage of its progress through the
House of Commons.—John Bull.
NORTH CHESHIRE.—A meeting of the friends of Mr.
George Cornwall Legh was held on Friday, at the George
Hotel, Knutsford, to receive reports of the canvass from
the various districts. Sir R. Brook, of Norton Priory,
occupied the chair. The meeting was very numerously,
attended, and the reports handed in were of the most gra-
tifying character, establishing beyond a doubt the success-
ful issue to Mr. Legh of the ensuing election. All the
districts, with the exception of two, exhibited considerable
majorities in his favour. In one of the two excepted disb
tricts the returns were even, and in the other, that of
Mottram, Mr. Legh's opponents, it was calculated, would
be able to poll three against, to one in, his favour. This
was a solitary instance, and the other returns were so de-
cidedly in favour of Mr. Legh, that, under the adverse
circumstances, he was shewn to have a clear majority. In
the meanwhile, the canvass will be further vigorously
prosecuted. The nomination will take place on the 31st
instant, and the polling on the sth and 6th June.
VARIETIES OF CHARTISM.—It appears also that there

are Chartists of all descriptions. There are steady old
Chartists of 30 years' standing ; men who have borne the
burden and heat of the day, and find themselves now
thrust aside by mere suckling Chartists. There are phy-
sical force and moral force Chartists. There are simple
Chartists, and Chartists who will join with any body
in making a row, whatever the cause may happen to be.
There are Union Chartists, who combine with their poli-
tical profession schemes for the protection of the work-
man against the employer. There are Land Company
Chartists who subscribe, we believe, a shilling a-week,
and in due time ballot for an allotment, and draw, as may
be, four acres of loam, of clay, of sand, of bog, or of
stones. There is also a certain indescribable affinity
between Chartists and Odd Fellows; at least the Char-
tists vehemently resent the rules which prevent the enrol-
ment of that body. There are zealous Chartists and luke-
warm Chartists ; Chartists who will pay 6d a-week for the
support of a delegate in London, or for the travelling ex-
penses of an agitator, and Chartists who never pay a sous for
these purposes. There are Chartists who revile Feargus
O'Connor : others are scandalized at Cuffey. Some are
for doing things all in order, and approaching the Throne
only in the properest and most reverential manner ; others
are by no means particular on these points. There are
democratic Chartists and loyal Chartists. To crown all,
we have now a new variety announced, with four mild
points instead of six strong ones ; with triennial, instead
of annual, Parliaments, and households, instead of uni-
versal, suffrage. One thing is very clear from the result.
The English people are disposed to organic change.
They don't want a bran new Parliament. * * * This
country seldom throws away. It will never throw away
the existing House of Commons. Ecce signum. A lot
of incendiaries have been poking up and scraping the
whole island, and cannot, either by promises or bribes, or
any means, get more than 65 men to devote, or rather
pretend to devote themselves, to the task of agitating for
a fundamental. change of the Legislature. And those 65
separate of themselves in a fortnight. The bubble bursts
almost befoseitis seen.— Times.