The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-17 00:00:00

POLITICAL MEMORANDA

Lord Ashley is nol to be called to the upper house.
The Marquis of Chandos was returned for Bucking-
ham on Wednesday without opposition.
The Glasgow Town Council have passed a resolution
approving of the Gove►nment commercial scheme.
Lord Canning, late Uuder Secretary for Foreign Affairs,
will succeed Lord Lincoln as Chief Commissioner of Land
Revenues,

On Friday, a petition was presented against the return
of Captain Lindsay for Wigan, on the alleged ground of
bribery. _ _ _ .

EABT SUFFOLK.—Mr. E. S. Gooch has come forward
as a strong protectionist, for East Suffolk. vacant by
Lord Henniker's resignation. There is no likelihood of

a contest

Earl Fitzhardinge is opposed to the free-trade measures
of ministers, and is a friend to protection. It is strongly
rumoured that both the Hon. Grantley Berkeley and the
Hon. Crave* Berkeley entertain similar opinions.
The Corporation of London have passed a resolution
approving highly of the government commercial scheme,
but they express their regret that the repeal of the corn-
law is not immediate.
HIINTINGDON.—Mr. Jonathan Peel, one of the repre-
sentatives, has addressed his constituents, stating his
conversion to the free trade scheme of the government,
but offering to resign his seat if the course he proposes to
adopt should not meet their approbation
The Right Honourable Wm. E. Gladstone is spoken
of as the ministerial candidate for North Notting-
hamshire, vacant by the death of Mr. Gaily Knight, and
Lord Henry Bentinck, third son of the Duke of Portland,
it is confidently stated, will be the protectionist candidate.

Mr. Cob:leti' is at p'resenicOnfined-tO-iiis- residence,
Connaught-place, London, from severe indisposition, the
result of exposure to cold while proceeding to town. He
has not been in the House of Commons for more than a
week, and it is very doubtful whether he will be able to
take a part in the discussion on the proposed repeal of
the duties on corn.

Mr. Bowes, M.P. for South Durham, has written to
his constituents to say that he is " unconvinced of the
great benefit which the promoters of the government
commercial reform anticipate from it to the country at
large ;" but he will support it rather than " force the
government of the country into inexperienced and ineffi-
cient hands." Mr. Bowes is a Radical, but has always
opposed any tampering with the corn laws.
On Friday, a meeting of the electors of North Cheshire
was held at Knntsford, when Mr. G. C. Leigh stated
that he did not think the corn law could now be supported,
and that consequently he should vote for Sir R. Peel.
A resolution was passed by the meeting, that " though
they could not agree with his opinions, they would leave
it to him to pursue the course be deemed right at the pre-
sent crisis."

The Newcastle Journal contains an extract from a let-
ter written by the Duke of Northumberland, in which his
Grace says that "he seriously expects that much land will
be thrown out of wheat cultivation by Sir Robert Peel's
premature measures." The Duke adds, " since, how-
ever, there is no alternative, I must make up my mind to
unite with my tenants, in meeting any alteration which
may occur, lest by a change of ministry the country
should run the risk of mote destructive arrangements."

CHICHESTER.—The election of a member orparliarnent
for this borough, in the room of Lord Arthur Lennox,
took place on Tuesday. The candidate was Lord Henry
Lennox, but a show of opposition was raised by the no-
mination of an emissary of the League, a Mr. Falvey,
who had the show of hands in his favour. A poll was,
however, demanded on behalf of Lord Henry, and Mr.
Falvey immediately resigned. His lordship was there-
upon immediately returned.

Lord Ashley has addressed a letter to the electors of
the county of Dorset, informing them that having learned
that very large contributions have been advanced towards
the support of other candidates, he is not ashamed to avow
that it will be impossible for him to sustain the expense of
suob a contest ; and therefore he relieves his opponents

from the necessity of incurring any pecuniary responsib

the nomination, he-wil

his seat for Lynn. He offered to do so if his support of
the government was not approved of ; and at a small

3 his constituen

expressing his determination as above given

ULTERIOR MEASURES.—It should not be forgotten
that Mr. Adderley, M.P. for Staffordshire, at the last
meeting in that county, said, "he knew it to be a fact,
that when Mr. O'CoOnell appeared in the House of Com-

moos the other night, be was asked by a gentleman what
be thought of the state of things ? to which he replied, ' I
must be a fool, now, if I do not carry my own repeal ;'

and Dr. Bowring, who was near him, said, ' And within
five years we will have the bishops out of the house of
Lords.' "

WESTMINSTER.—The Hon. Capt. Rous, by whose ac
ceptance of a lordship of the admiralty a vacancy has cc
curred in this borough, will be opposed by General Evans

who sat for Westminster for several years after the passir

meeting of the Westminster Reform Society, a resolution
was carried that General Evans should be requested to

, who was in waiting, was then
called in, and he formally accepted the invitation. He
said that if returned, and the League and the Whigs de-
cided upon supporting Sir Robert Peel's propositions, he
should go with them ; but if the League insisted upon an
immediate and total repeal, he should act with if
CONSISTENCY OF " THI

he gener

rissEs." The London
Times is now strenuously contending for a free trade in

corn, out of alleged sympathy for the poor. On the 4th
December, 1813, our contemporary said—" If we thought
that a perfectly free admission of foreign wheat into our

crowd our streets. we would willingly accede ToanVpro-
posal made in favour of such admission. But we know
that there are other causes in operation—that wheat
might be imported without paying a farthing duty—that
bread might be sold at one penny aloof, and yet that they
who starve now would starve then just as much—that in-
dividual suffering would not be stayed, but the revenue of
the country would be diminished."
THE HOP AND SEED IMPORT DUTY.—The Govern-
ment free trade scheme threatens to inflict a severe blow
on the hop districts. It is proposed to reduce the exist-
ing protective duty of £4 10s. to £2 55., and if from this
be deducted the excise duty paid by the grower, which may
be estimated at very nearly £1 sterling,—a protection of
only five and twenty shillings remains to enable the Eng-
lish hop-grower to compete with the fresh and peculiarly
well-adapted hop soils of Flanders and America. There