The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-05-27 00:00:00

THE MAYNOOTH DIVISION.

The division on the Maynooth Bill yields on analysis
some remarkable results. The liberal contingent of the
victorious army far exceeds the conservative, the former
being 169, the latter only 150. It is, therefore, a whig
majority, and so far its leaders are whig leaders, and Sir
Robert Peel a whig premier. We are enjoying the un-
speakable benefit of a whig administration. The old and
respectable monopoly that went by that name broke up
four years since. Peel, a smart and lucky adventurer,
who had found no scope for his abilities among his former
connections, offers his personal services to the bankrupt
concern, and all the custom he can bring with him.
Thus there has been no change, except the very serious
one that the whigs have got a cleverer man to do the bu-
siness of the firm, while the former managers wisely settle
down into sleeping partners.
Passing from the composite majority to the divided
conservatives, we find Sir Robert Peel in a minority of
his own party. He has 150 for his measure, and 152
against. The conservatives, therefore, have been beaten,
though their leader has been victorious. As their house
is now exactly divided against itself, it is evident it must
fall. The party as a whole is neuter ; it pulls as much
one way as another, and is like a child trying to lift itself
up from the ground, or to walk backwards and forwards
at the same time. The disposition their leader has made
of the conservatives resembles the mode in which foreign
carters dispose their horses in steep descents. Their
enormous heavily laden carts would not, of course, be
sufficiently restrained by a drag, but require some addi-
tional device. Of six horses, therefore, the three fore-
most are detached to the rear, and chained to the tail of
the vehicle. Sometimes, in very precipitous places, they
are so tied, with their heads backwards. The cart then
safely and reluctantly descends, with three horses before
and as many behind, in an equilibria of motive power,
and with the declivity only in its favour, The spectacle is
picturesque, though the efforts of the three retrogressive
horses are sometimes painfully ridi Ailous. Such is Sir
Robert's position. Drawn by 150, dragged back by 150,
himself in the middle of the singular procession, he de-
scends the downward course of whiggery and human af-
fairs.

The following summary of the division will be found
correct:—

Majority (tellers included)—
Conservatives
Liberals ...
Minority (tellers included)—
Conservatives ..
Liberals
Absent—
Conservatives
Liberals
Speaker .
Seats vacant—

Downshire
Sudbury ..

150.
IG9-319

34-186

75-149
.... 1

On looking over the lists we can discover the names
of only three members who have changed sides, viz., Mr.
Brotherton, Hon. Craven Berkeley, and Admiral Dundas.

The following are the names of members who voted,
and who are more or less connected with this district :

AYES.
Ainswoith, P. Gladstone, W. E. Sandon, Lord
Aldam, W. Greene, T. Standish, C.
Blackburne, J. Lascelles, Hon. W. Stansfield, W. R.
I3owring, Dr. Legh, G. C. Walker. R.
Cardwell, E. Loch, J. Ward, H. G.
Cobden, R. Parker, J. Wood, C.
Fleetwood, Sir H. Patten, J. W. Wortley, Hon. J,
Gibson, T. M. Philips, M.

NOES.
Beckett, W. Egerton, W. T. Hindley, C.
Bright, J. Egerton, Sir P. Hornby, J.
Brocklehurst, J. Entwisle, W. Jervis, J.
Brotherton, J. Ewart, W. Johnson, Gen.
Buckley, E. Feilden, W. Marton, G.
Crawford, W. S. Fielder], J. Pollington, Lord
Denison, E. B. Ferrand, W. B. Protheroe, E.
Disraeli, B. Greenall, P. Tollemache. J.
Douglas, Sir H. Grimsditch, T,

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