The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-25 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

Lord and Lady Stanley were present at the royal dinner
party at Buckingham Palace on Friday evening.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the perfor-
mance at the Princess's Theatre with their presence on
Thursday evening.
Prince Albert, attended by Colonel the Hon. C. Grey
and Lieutenant Colonel Hon. A. Gordon, visited the
Model Lodging Houses for families, in Streatham-street,
on Thursday. His Royal Highness was received at the
establishment by Lord Ashley and by Mr. Roberts, the
architect of the building, and inspected minutely the
rooms and arrangements, with which his Royal Highness
expressed himself much pleased.
On Wednesday a chapter of the most noble order of the
Garter was held at Buckingham Palace, when Lord Nor-
manby was elected a Knight of the Order.

Kew Gardens were visited on Monday by the Queen,
Prince Albert, and the two eldest children. The Queen
went to the Haymarket Theatre in the evening.
Mr. Page, of New York, has presented to the Prince of
Wales a pair of superb sculls or oars, enclosed in a case
of black walnut, exquisitely fashioned. The mountings
are very costly.

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

Mr. G. K. Richards, of the Oxford circuit, has been
appointed to succeed Mr. Booth as Counsel to the Speaker.

Sir John C. Hobhouse, Bart., is created a peer by the
title of Baron Broughton de Gyfford, Wilts.
Mr. A. Henry, whcse name is not inserted in the divi-
sion lists on Mr. Locke King's motion, has written to
say that he voted with the majority.
Colonel Gilpin, a Protectionist, is the successful candi-
date for the representation of Bedford. A weak opposi-
tion to his election was offered by Mr. Houghton, a free-
trader.

It is shown in a return to parliament that the estimated
net revenue of India for the year 1849-50 will amount to
£20,498,412, and after paying all charges the estimated
surplus will be £77,662.

ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES ASUNIPTION BILL.—The
Earl of Arundel and Surrey has given notice that on the
motion for the second reading of this bill he will move
that it be postponed for six months.

The Manchester Courier earnestly calls upon the Pro-
testant Defence Committee of that town to be prepared
with two candidates to displace the present membeis—
Mr. M. Gibson and Mr. J. Bright. rWe may make a
call of a similar kind on our own Protestant Defence
Committee.]
It is a somewhat singular coincidence that the two gen-
tlemen who, in February, 1843 (exactly eight years ago),
sat together in parliament as representatives of Belfast,
should both have been appointed governors of colonial
islands, and should leave this country in the same month
—Mr. Ross, to assume the governorship of Tobago ; and
Sir James Emerson Tennent that of St. Helena. -
The High Sheriff of the county of Northumberland has
convened a public meeting, upon the requisition of 1,330
ratepayers, for the purpose of petitioning parliament to
place the management of the county rate under the con-
trol of the ratepayers. A bill, to this effect, has already
been, or is about to be, brought into the House of Com-
mons by Mr. Milner Gibson.

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COUNTY FRANCHISE.—The following members were
among the majority of 100 in favour of Mr. Locke King's
motion to give the franchise to all occupiers of £lO value
in counties :—J. Bright, J. Brotherton, W. Brown, R.
Cobden, W. Ewart, T. M. Gibson, W. Jackson, J. Locke,
J. M'Gregor, G. F. Muntz, R. A. Thicknesse, T. Thorn-
ley, and Sir J. Walmsley. Among the minority of 52
were no members connected with this district.

On Saturday, Smith Child, Esq.. was elected without
opposition to represent North Staffordshire, in the room
of Lord Brackley. The hon. member underwent the
ancient ceremony of chairing, and during his progress
through the town threw from his seat sixpenny and four-
penny pieces to the amount: of thirty pounds. This cir-
cumstance put all sides in a good humour, and prevented
any disturbance.

THE INCOME Tax QUESTION.—Had the discussion on
the Income tax been proceeded with, the following resolu-
tion, as an amendment, was to have been moved by Mr.
Disraeli :—" That the tax upon property and income
having been proposed with a view to supply a then exist-
ing deficiency in the revenue, that deficiency having now
ceased, and an actual surplus now appearing, the said sur-
plus shall be applied to the reduction of the said income
tax."

MISREPRESENTATION OF "THE TIMES."—The thun-
derer of Wednesday represented that Lord Stanley would
not stay in the House of Lords on Tuesday to hear the
challenge of Lord Granville ; but " after being seen for a
minute at the head of his party, then disappears, upon
which they forthwith proceed to do every man that which
is right in his own eyes, though notoriously not in the
eyes of their chief." Upon this Lord Malmesbury wrote
next day, containing the following short answer to the
charge :—" I beg to inform you that Lord Stanley sat by
me from five o'clock till the close of the debate, without
leaving the house till it adjourned."
THE HOWICK FARMS.—A correspondent informs us
that Lord Grey is actually selling the straw upon his
choice farm of West Learmouth, finding it necessary thus
to eke out all he can while he has the opportunity before
it passes into the hands of the new tenant. The relin-
quishment of the Cincinnation farm of Learmouth, after
so brief a game at farming, and a reduction of £650 rental,
will doubtless have furnished the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer with much valuable information. Even the price of
straw will not be overlooked. A handsome penny might
be made of the sale of that article to the Coldstream Cad-
gers, and the tenant-elect of Learmouth had better " look
frae him" in that direction.—Newcastle Journal.
VOTING BY RAILWAY SPEED.—On the morning of
Thursday last three Scotch members of Parliament, viz.,
Mr. Forbes. M.P. for Stirlingshire, Mr. W. Lockhart,
M.P. for Lanarkshire, and Mr. A. Elliot Lockhart, M.P.
for Selkirkshire--recorded their votes at the Falkirk elec-
tion, the former at the town of Falkirk, and the two lat-
ter at Lanark. On the same evening these gentlemen
took part in the division in the House of Commons on
Mr. Disraeli's motion on agricultural distress. By means
of the railway all this was done without the slightest per-
sonal effort or discomfort; but the act contrasts strongly
with the state of matters in the last century, when it was
nothing unusual for a Scotch member to endure a week's
travelling before commencing his Parliamentary duties.
At the same time, by means of the electric telegraph,
these gentlemen on their arrival in London were apprised
of the result of the election, although it did not terminate
for 7 or 8 hours after they set out on their journey.
THE NEW COUNTY RATES AND EXPENDITURE BILL.—
A bill has been brought into the House of Commons by
the Right Hon. T. M. Gibson and Mr. Cobden, entitled
" A bill to establish county financial boards for the assess-
ing of county rates, and for the administration of county
expenditure in England and Wales." The 4th section of
this bill enacts that (save in certain excepted counties,
which are provided for by another clause) each board of
guardians in a county,—whether for a poor-law union, a
Gilbert's union, or a single parish under a local act,—shall
elect one person, not being a county justice, upon this
county financial board; and to these guardian-elected re-
presentatives are to be added an eqnal number of county
magistrates.—these two bodies constituting together the
county board. By the 10th section, the justices, at the
April quarter sessions for each county, or hundred of a
county, are to elect a number of resident county justices,
equal to the number chosen by the various boards of guar-
dians within the same jurisdiction. _

THE REPRESENTATION OF YOUGHAL.— The Cork
Examiner has published a letter, purporting to be signed
by Mr. Chisholm Anstey, and declaring his intention to
resign, in compliance with a requisition presented to him
by his Roman Catholic constituents. The Globe of Wed-
nesday contains a note, purporting to be from Mr. Chis-
holm Anstey, and declaring that the letter in the Cork
Examiner is a forgery, and that he is not about to resign.
And to make " confusion worse confounded," the Times
of Friday contains the following paragraph :—" We are
requested to state that Mr. Chisholm Anstey has resigned
his seat for the borough of Youghal in compliance with
the requisition of his constituents ; and that the statement
under his name in the Globe of yesterday is without his
sanction. Mr. Anstey will apply for the Chiltern Hun-
dreds without delay." The Globe of the same evening
declared that the Times had not good authority for its
statement, and on Saturday a letter appeared in the Times
from Mr. Anstey, declaring his solemn determination not
to resign, and telling the latter paper that it bad been
egregiously hoaxed.
MISREPRESENTATION.—The Rev. E. S. Yates, vicar
of Aylsham, near Norfolk, thus writes to Mr. D'lsraeli :
" The tithe-owner, of all people in this country, will be
the class who will suffer most in the end from Free-trade
prices. In making your statement you entirely over-
looked the fact that the tithe-owner has first to buy corn
at Protection prices—wheat, e.g., at 565. 4d. per quarter,
and then to resell it at Free-trade prices ; for every hun-
dred pounds of rent charge the tithe-owner has to take a
certain number of bushels of wheat, oats, and barley,
fixed definitely at the Protection prices of, wheat, 7s. Old.
per bushel ; and the other two in proportion. Then he
has to resell at whatever price the average may come out ;
and, if this is not a gross injustice, and one by which the
land-owner will reap, even according to Mr. Cobden, an
immense advantage, I do not know what injustice is.
Again : he is rated at rack-rent, no deductions being
allowed for loss—for the expense of collecting—for assist.
ance (very often compulsory from ill-health on the part of
the incumbent, or on account of the population)—for his
own services, and for that which has been so often pro-
mised him, an equivalent for other inequalities in the
assessment of his rent-charge ; for the relief of the poor
and other purposes, and lastly for insurance upon his life."
GOVERNMENT AND THE IRISH ROMANIST M.Ps.—
We gather from the Dublin Freeman's Journal the
advice of the Irish priesthood for the guidance of the
Romanist members of the legislature. " The Irish vote,"
it appears, "is lost to Lord John Russell for ever ;" and
the nominees of Rome, who enjoy a seat in the English
parliament, have been enjoined, in accordance with their
paramount spiritual allegiance, to vote against the cabinet
on every occasion that offers, without the slightest refer-
ence to the merits of the question on which their vote is
to be given. The Romanist members, we are told, will
have " abundant opportunities" of thus violating their
duty as members of parliament in obedience to the com-
mands of their spiritual guides and tvrants. Ministers
' will be hard pressed on the income-tax, and on the sugar
duties, and also on the maintenance of the African squad-
ron for the suppression of the slave trade, and on any of
these questions the " Irish vote" may turn the scale.
True it is, the Romanist members have hitherto supported
the government on these very questions ; they are all
pledged to free trade, and doubly pledged, as professing
Liberals," to use their hest efforts to put an and to the
accursed traffic in human flesh; but the church hits issued
her edict; and the Popish members ,willingly render
obedience to the potentate to whom primary obedience is
in their opinion due.—Dublin Herald.