The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-19 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

Parliament has been pror;gued to the Ist February.
The reformers of Manchester are going to hold a great
meeting in the Free Trade Hall, on the 4th January, to
discuss the questions of parliamentary and financial reform
Lord Seymour, eldest son of the Duke of Somerset, has
not been appointed to succeed Mr. Charles Buller as Pre-
sident of the Poor Law Commission, as stated.
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WEST RIDING ELECTION.—The polling took place on
Thursday and Friday, and the majority for Mr. Denison
almost gradually throughout kept increasing. At the

close the numbers were—Denison, 14,256; Eardley,
11,246 ;—majority for Denison, 3,009.

It is stated on the best authority that Ministers, yield-
ing to the force of the representations made to them by
the commercial interests of the north, have consented that
a secret committee of the House of Commons shall be an-

pointed next session to inquire into the expediency of li-
miting the responsibility of the proprietors of joint-stock
banks.

are so well kniiwn, has been appointed her Majesty's Con-
sul at Canton, worth £lBOO per annum. The learned
gentleman has long been in a state of health which re-
quired his residence in a warmer climate. Sir J. Walmsley
will try to succeed Dr. Bowring in the representation of
Bolton.

Four otherseats in Parliament are vacant—South Devon,
Liskeard, Leominster, and Truro. The first will be
filled by Sir R. Lopes without a contest. The second by
Mr. Crowder on the Liberal interest ; the third boasts of
two candidates, Conservative and Whig, in the persons of
Mr. F. Peel, the second son of Sir Robert, and Sir L.
Bulwer.

Earl Stanhope has addressed a letter to the chairman
of a Conservative Society that may be considered in some
sort a Protectionist manifesto. He says, in considering
the term " Conservative," he sees little difference between

you designate those who wish to preserve the
existing institutions in Church and Stat.!, I must observe,
with my usual frankness, that I cannot entertain any
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which are now pursued should be abandoned, and unless
others should be adopted to satisfy the just claims and
reasonable expectations of the people." He asks what
attachment fsr institutions can be felt by paupers, who,
without any faults of their own, have been deprived of
employment and the means of subsistence by free trade,
and have been confined like criminals in union work-
houses ? It is the bounden duty of every Conservative to
defend, not only existing institutions, but the "rights of
labour in their utmost extent."

If it is impracticable to
reimpose the corn laws, an opinion he does not agree in,
and free trade is persevered then, then will the people
have the right to demand the immediate repeal of the
land tax, malt tax, and hop dutx; the equalization of the
poor, highway, and county rates ; an alteration of the
tithe commutation act, no longer just or applicable ; a
legislative enactment empowering leases for an unconfined
term of years, to be given up on six months' notice; and

every payment by contract to be reduced according to the
different average price of wheat, now and then ; the
authorised cultivation of tobacco and sugar without duty ;
the repeal of the duties on soap, colonial sugar and coffee,
and the minor sorts of tea and tobacco used by the labor-
ing classes.

COURT AND FASHION.

Her Majesty will return to Windsor Castle on the 22nd
i:tant, and the Court will pass the Christmas holidays

The Bishop of London has addressed a circular letter
to his clergy, requesting their assistance on behalf of the
Additional Curates' Fund, which will be compelled to
withhold a number of its grants at Easter, unless the