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

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

On Friday, a petition was presented by Mr. Cardwell'
from Liverpool, against the Poor Removal Bill. OW
AYLESBURY ELECTION.—Mr. Q. Dick, the Proteeti
ist candidate, was elected on Wednesday, by a majoritY4g.
269 ; the numbers being—for Dick, 614 ; Houghton,,o34
Mr. H. M. Curteis, who has just been unseated at 1;e10'
is again in the field, at present the only candidate-
opposition is expected.
'Rouse
On Friday night Lord John Russell said, in the ]led
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H. T. Manners 'Sutter;
CitniEAaetnte:td:ww°enflo:vruEeraNtohb'pecleolock on Saturday the numbers
were, jvEooeßhnhnyinn, representation. The show
England to interfere, by even any formal real°
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f the English Review just published centB;ar'd"
were Saturday.
m eninominated
were, for Hobhouse 121, Sutton 107.
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An
AND RADlCALis—'ins, In
its Foreign and Colonial Intelligence, an interesti,l3l,seea
de, showing by copious extracts from the Pastere's—i• the
by the Romish Bishops in France, on the occasion ° ring
late revolution, that the Popish hierarchy are ente•th-
heart and soul into the democratic movement. Notlars
standing this impromptu Radicalism, however, it all far
that the position of the Romish Clergy in France '5
from secure.
HOPE STILL.—Lord John Russell said on Fridel,„.
the Commons,—" If during the next year it was found Ike
possible to reduce the expenditure, that it would be ti!-:;
to consider in what way the deficit should be filled rs,
then would it be necessary to look at the legacy blend
and all the other taxes to which the hon. member
ary
drawn the attention of the house. It was not neeesBbet
to look at those points in the present state of affairs ;
he would repeat that, looking at the distress which ltbo
vailed in many parts of the country, it was the duty °,esr,
"
government to see and consider, before the next .tion
whether any of the taxes pressed unduly upon any P°l. felt
of the people. (Cheers.) He could only say that be of
very deeply for the distress which prevailed in many d,
what were very lately flourishing towns, and be w°ote
therefore, have been happy had it been possible to hot
proposed a great reduction in the estimates for the Pres
year "

S
RGUMENTUM AD HOMINEM.—In the Com--112 ,40-
Friday, Lord John Russell, whilst arguing for the zartere
of the estimates of the army said,—" He thought that to-
were sufficient grounds for the establishment of the Poty
posed force. They were not living in a time wheno
man in the country was anxious to become a soldier ; t
°a the contrary, the state of the country was such,
co-
very large proportion of the people were engaged in °foe
pations of industry and commerce, and in pursuits 0,4 of
most pacific kind ; and whenever the smallest atooe'wbo
riot or disturbance arose they were the very parties„..,.e.
immediately called out for protection by a military !toot
During the time he was at the Home-office he 111 lOW
know that he had been asked for a military force fatedl,r,
—t
hbeo th
country i n
wLancashire
ffi sufficient—they
—Yt
hoeryk shire ' They
tect the institutions of the country, but he was reP` 000
madecheers)—both
retroops—they
prossf) frequentthey s
said
complaints
tthey
e wwere
r thate n not
thet
safe militarywithout,
applied to by manufacturers and merchants--for
military force for their protection. (Cheers.) tbst
wanteuu,,,
been told, more than once, by most respectable men, iiief
f°facned -11:irnt1;
they would be obliged to remove their wives and fa lmitst4
to some other part of the country, unless the
force in those counties were augmented. (Loud eh
The demand was not made for the purpose of Plea te.
the throne or the institutions of the country, but et fir'
protection of the manufacturers themselves. The leteivae
that all that alarm and discontent was created,
consisting of a population of from 20,000 to 30,005,
some hundred boys, who went about at night with 0400'
and put the whole town in commotion and distner to
In such times they wanted a military force, in °re Odell;
defend the great majority of the people, and to sevs. Pt
from the disquiet of protecting their own how, ethial‘
trusted, therefore, that hon. gentlemen would
which
they
unnecessary to repeat those common-places of la
had heard so much that evening." . tays ,103
The Income-tax, says the Times, is just in re ;
what the Leaning Tower of Pisa is in architectu
highest stone of the elevation is more out of the- to`
04
dicular than the lowest, but, it is from the 1
fault begins.
aft' rioo4.
EMBLEM FOR IRELAND.—Different nations ha
different representatives derived from the aniinnk,r,-Gsl'o
There is the British lion the Austrian agle, ti-whyte.,'
cock. The emblem of Ireland ought to be thehieC;
the creature, according to Wombwell's natural
me,
" wot kindness cannot conciliate, nor hunger ho
Punch,
DANGER OF PARLIAMENTARY QUOTAT-To Nr•II,
09,
Literary Gazette gives the following anecdote *tomalley
fact. In one of his speeches in the House of
00.,;,
"Theinister, to illustrate a point, quoted frTreorearbi`i. 0
re's something rotten in the state ;
which being read in the newspapers next of
d°orrall'bnfe °fps%
matter-of-fact quidnunc, who had a cee,sl and,
vested. in Danish securities, he took the aftocubol
med.iately wrote to his correspondent in the fun'
set out and realise every shilling he had in
that denounced and sinking country.