The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-04 00:00:00

JOHN BRIGHT A PUGILIST SPOILED.

The contentious character of the quaker member for
Manchester is tolerably well known in his own locality,
and on Friday night it was rather amusingly brought be-
fore the house by Mr. Grantley Berkely.

" The hon. member was very fond of making attacks. When
he (Mr. G. Berkely) was acting on a committee with the hon.
gentleman, he told him with that neat method of expression
which so much characterized what fell from the hon. member
for Manchester, that when he (Mr. G. Berkely) was made a
legislator, there was a very good gamekeeper spoiled. (Loud
laughter.) Subsequently he asked the hon. gentleman whether
he would pin his faith on any opinion which the hon. gentleman
the member for the West Riding entertained, and when the
hon. member for Manchester answered that question in the
affirmative, he informed him that the hon. memberfor the West
Riding had said of him that so great were the hon. gentleman's
pugnacious qualities, that if he had not been a Quaker, he would
have been a prizefighter. (Great Laughter.)"

There is just a chance, however, that Mr. Cobden may
have mistaken the mere propensity for bullying, for pluck;
and that, denuded of the protection afforded him by his
quaker garb, Friend John would become a very pacific
and civil-tongued individual.

SYMPTOMS OF RECONCILIATION BETWEEN
THE PEELITES AND BENTINCKITES.

Under this heading the Manchester Examiner gives
the following paragraph :

"An incident occurred in the debate on Thursday night,
which would almost imply something like an approach to a
reconciliation between the Bentinckites and the Peelites. Sir
Robert Peel, in his speech, adverted to the Committee on West
India Distress, of which Lord George Bentinck was the chair-
man. He said, I have read the report of that committee over
which be so ably presided, although I was occupied by attend-
ance on several other committees, but I read that report on
account of the vast itnportance of the subject; and I must
state a new light has been thrown upon the state of the West'
Indian colonies which would not have been thrown were it not
for the assiduity, zeal, intelligence, and knowledge of the noble
lord. (Cheers.) [Lord G. Bentinck acknowledged the compli-
ment in a marked manner.]"

Our contemporary very much undervalues the clear-
headedness of his lordship if he imagines him likely to
be gulled by the jesuitical compliments in question. There
are in the world a class of men, who are never so much
to be dreaded as when they approach you with a smile
upon their face, and a compliment upon their lips ; and
few know better than Lord George Bentinck, who belongs
to the class in question. A political alliance between the
protectionists and Sir Robert Peel We should far sooner
expect to see an alliance between the Hume and Cobden
chartists and that slippery politician.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
(BY EXPRESS.)

LATEST FROM PARIS.

The latest intelligence preserves the same peaceable
character as that which had previously arrived. Tran-
quility prevailed in Paris, and the judicial inquiry into the
causes of the late outbreak progressed. It has already
brought to light many important facts, showing that the
insurrection was the result of a preconcerted plot of the
most.dangerous character, and that a perfect understand-
ing as to the mode of carrying on the street fighting had
previously existed.
The project of seizing railways into the hands of the
government had been entirely given up, and the attention
of the assembly was to be directed to the encouragement
of manufactures and exports, and the improvement of
Paris by widening the streets, and running broad thorough-
fares through the most crowded quarters—proceedings
necessary both in a social and military point of view.