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

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We are scarcely in a position to reply in very confidential tcrms
to the question of " An Elector." The Act of ist George Ist,
• stat. 2, c. 33, (commonly calle.i the Septennial Act,)in effect,
enacts that all future parliaments should continue for 7 years,
" to be accounted from the day on which, by the writ of sum-
mons, such 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 parliament can
sit legal until October, 1848, as at the last general election
the parliament was " appointed to meet" in October 1841.
The common mistake—if mistake it be—that there must be a
general election next year has probably rrisen from the seven
years being construed by sonic as seven sessions, the first ses-
sion being reckoned inc usive.
The students at St. Bees are not entitled to any degree. The
fees at the College are £2 2s, entrance, and g'lo each term ;
there are during the year four terms of about 15 or 16 weeks
each. The next term commences 25th January, and ends about
the sth of May ; the following one begins on the loth August,
and terminates on the sth December, and so on. Any gentle-
man could live there respectably and comfortably on about 255.
to 30s. 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 cormnoa between the Anti-Corn-Law League
and the opponents of an established chu ch than •' a Conser-
vative•free trader" seems to imagine. We have at this mo-
ment before us a circular issued within the last few weeks
from the Anti-State-Church Association, addres,ed 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 you:to 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 chemi..al properties of guano, but
we have been unable to find the paragraph.
Some 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-
glect 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, but we have a strong impression
that one or two gained admission into our columns.
The receipt of an unusual number of advertisements yesterday
has crowded out several communications.
Ebt tibtrpoot gPtanbatt.