The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-13 00:00:00

Rev. CHARLES

'v ederick B

Warwickshire,

Yesterday

----• ....• . siva. ArN i, ICE to Miss ELIZA,BETIJ ROBERTS.
same day, at Langwathby Church, Cumberland, JONATHAN
ROBINSON. c,rann d,ater, Rumford oreet, late of Cliburn, to
MARGARET POW LET, of Langwathby.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We are scarcely in a position to reply in very confidential turns
to the question of " An Elector." The Act of I,t George Ist,
<tat. 2, c. 58, (commonly cane.' the Septennial Act,) in effect,
enacts that all future parliaments should continue for 7 years,
" to be exeounted from the day on which, by the writ of sum-
4Ntch future parliament should be appointed to meet,"
unless sooner dissolved by the Crown. It our interpretation
of this section of the act be correct the present parliame.,t can
sit legally until October, 1843, as at the last general election
•. the parliament was " appointed to meet" in October 1811.
The common mistake—if mistake it be—that there must be a
general elccti,,n next year has probably arisen from the seven
years being construed by some as seven sessions, the first ses-
sion being reckoned ir•,c: usive.
The students at St. Dees am not entitled to any degree. The
fees at the. College are ..€2 2s. entrance, and £lO each term ;
there are during the year four terms of about 15 or 16 weeks
each. The next term commences 20th January, and ends about
the sth of May ; the following one begins on the 20th August,
and terminates on the sth December, and so on. Any gentle-
man could live there respectably and comfortably on about 255.
to 31s. per week. Each student is required to attend eight
terms prior to ordination. It is said to be the intention of Mr.
Parkinson to enlarge the College, and increase the number of
students to 15'). There are not 100 there now. We think
this is all the information " R" requires.
There is more in comino:, between the Anti-Corn-Law League
and the opponents of an established emu ch than •` a Conser-
vative free trader" seems to imagine. We have at this mo-
ment before u. a circular issued within the last few weeks
from the Anti-State-Church Association, addressed to the
members of the League, in which these opponents of the
establishment say, " Believing that your active co-operation
with the Anti Corn-Law League must oftentimes have brought
under your notice the fact, that the same principle of justice
which lay at the basis of that confederation, constitutes also
the foundation of this, we venture to hope that your desire to
enfranchise Christianity is equally strong with your desire to
unshackle commerce, and that your assertion of the right to
conduct trade without the meddling interference of the State
has led youlto recognise the claims of religion to the same un-
fettered freedom. In exposing the unrighteousness of mono-
. poly, it is hardly possible you should have escaped the con-
viction, that, of all the forms in which it can appear, the
monopoly of religious teaching is the worst." If this be not
an attempt to show that protection to agriculture and support
to the established church are built on the same foundation,
and must stand or fall together, we have lost all perception of
the meaning of terms.
We gave some time since the chemLal properties of guano, but
we have been unable to find the paragraph.
Serne remarks on the municipal election we are induced to post-
pone until next week.
Though we have strong suspicions—amounting almost to con-
viction—as to the identity of the person alluded to by " A
Thinking Man." we cannot insert such a communication as
the one with which he has favoured us on anonymous autho-
rity. Can our correspondent give any more tangible
proofs for his statement than those we may infer from his
letter ?
We inserted a fortnight since a letter from "Nigel." and it is
somewhat singular that he did not name at that time the ne-
lect of which he now complains. It is not always pleasant
to state our reasons for the non-insertion of letters ; and we
cannot now call to recollection whether the communications
alluded to appeared or not, hut we have a strong impression
that one or two gained admission into our columns.
The receipt of an unusual number of advertisements yesterday
-hascrowcled out several communications.