The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-14 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

..xOVERNMENT PATRONAGE IN IRELAND,-ROOnl,
after all, is likely to be an " open question" in the Whig
Cabinet, according to the articles of the Chesham-place
treaty, and in conformity with the opinion to that effect
reccntly expressed by the Freeman's Journal, as the
organ of the movement. Mr. Clements, a barrister, a
right band man of Mr. O'Connell, and, it has been said
on competent authority, one of the paid attaches of
Conciliation-hall, has received an appointment in the
colonies of the value of some £6OO per annum. This,

the- first mark of Government bestowed upon a member
of a hitherto proscribed class, was, it is said, procured at

the instance of a gentleman who

ly opposed

agitation, Mr. Richard Lalor Sheil, now one of her
Majesty's Ministers, and a candidate for reelection for
the borough of Dungarvan. All the arrangements for the
elevation of Mr. Brady to the Court of Chantery, and the
consequent accession of Mr. Pigot to the. Chief Iron-
ship, are completed. The official announcement of their
appointments will be made in a day or two. Mr. M.
Fortescue is appointed Chamberlain to the household of
the Earl of Besborough.
ACTS OF PARLIAMENT REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY
BY THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION:—I. An act to augment
the representation of the people of Ireland in parliament.
—2. An act for giving a substantial elective franchise to

the people of Ireland.-3. An act to simplify, rind tender
cheap, the modes of registration of voters.-4. aat
for a full and effective municipal reform.-5. An act to
give perfect freedom of education to every class and per.
suasion in Ireland.-6. An act for establishing throughout
Ireland of the tenant right.-7. An act to provide full
compensation, in all cases where the tenant-right may not
sufficiently apply, for all solid and valuable improvements
to be made, or ready made, by the occupying tenant.-
8. An act to diminish the stamp duty on leases, and to
provide a short form of leasing.-9. An act to take away,
in certain cases, the power to distrain, and also that of
jec t merit for non-payment of rent, unless the tenant
shall have a permanent term secured to him.-13. An act
to abolish the fiscal powers of grand juries, and to invest
the same in a county board in each county.-11. An
act to raise a tax of not less than 20 per cent. upon the
rents of absentees ; the produce to be applied to the fiscal
purposes of the county boards respectively.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

HALIFAX.—The Right Hon. C. Wood was on Thurs-
day last unanimously elected member for this borough.
TIVERTON.—On Friday last Lord Palmerston was re-
elected a member for this borough without opposition.
The re-election of Lord Morpeth for the West Riding
will take place on Saturday next.
TAUNTON.—On Friday last the right honourable
H. Labonchere, secretary for Ireland, was re-elected for
this borough without opposition,
KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE. —The nomination for this
county is fixed to take place on Friday, the 17th instant.
There is no opposition expected to Mr. Maitland.
LEITH DISTRICT OF BURGHS.—On Thursday last the
vacancy occasioned in this borough by the elevation of
Mr. Rutherford to the office of Lord Advocate of Scot-
land, was filled up by the re-election of that gentleman
without any opposition being offered.

Enisnunon'.—Mr. Macalley is opposed by Sir Cullen
E. Smith, and Mr. Gibson Craig by Mr. John Dunlop.
The nomination of Mr. Macaulay took place on Friday.
The sheriff was unable to say which had the majority on
the show of hands. The polling is to take place to-day,
(Tuesday.) To-day the nomination of Ar. Gibson
Craig and Mr. Dunlop takes place. It is believed that

e governmen

ates NO

CITY or• LONDON ELECTlON.—Wednesday last was
the day fixed for the election of a member to serve in par-
liament as one of the representatives of the city of Lon-
don ; and at twelve o'clock, at Guildhall, the usual preli-
minaries having been gone through, Lord John Russell
presented himself as•the candidate, and was warmly re-

ceived. Having been proposed by Mr. Samuel Jones
Loyd and seconded by Mr. J. J. Gurney, and no other
candidate being put forward to oppose him, his Lordship
was declared duly elected. He then addressed the elec-
tors at some length, and the proceedings terminated at a
quarter-past one o'clock.
WORCESTER ELECTION.—The election for this borough
took place on Wednesday last, under very peculiar cir-

by the constituency that their old member, Sir Thomas
Wilde, would walk the course. A slight of luck, however,
fell to the share of the learned knight, by the death of
Lord Chief Justice Tindal, which took place2n Monday
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lat, and to whose high office Sir Thomas Wilde having
succeeded, he is at once translated to the other house. A

Marchant having posted down, with credentials from Sir
Thomas, was accepted by the electors, and elected with-
out opposition.
NOTTINGHAM E. ECTION.—On Wednesday the elec-
tion of a member to represent this town lathe occasion
of the vacancy created by the accession to 6-Mee of Sir J.
C. Hobhouse, took place in the halls of the Exchange
Rooms. The usual preliminaries having been gone
through, Sir J. C. Hobhouse was proposed by Mr. F.
Hart and seconded by Mr. T. Herbert, the mayor. Mr.
Sweet proposed Mr. Feareus O'Connor, who was se-
conded by Mr. W. Mott. The two candidates then ad-
dressed the electors, after which a show of hands was
called for, the result of which was in favour of the char-
tist. A poll was then demanded in behalf of his opponent,
upon which Mr. O'Connor withdrew his pretensions. Sir
J. C

Hobhouse was accordingly declared duly electei

POLITICAL MISCELLANY

The official list of the ministry published last week does
not differ from that which we published on Tuesday.
Mr. Praed, the Conservative Member of Parliament for
St. Ives, Cornwall, died on Wednesday. _ _ _ .

Lord Morpeth has forwarded £3O towards the funds
for providing a national testimonial to Mr. Cobden.

Mr. Monckton Milnes bas wr tteu to bis constituents
to say he shall support Lord .1. Russell's ministry.

The Rochdale .6w-traders are about to commence a
subscription for rewarding Mr. Bright.
Sir Howard Douglas, M.P., Mr. Moffatt, and a depu-
tation, had an interview with Lord John Russell, on
Friday, at his official residence in Downinq-street.
Mr. Charles Grey has been appointed private secretary
to Lord John Russell. Mr. Grey was secretary to Mr.
Francis Baring when Chancellor of the Exchequer.
It is somewhat singular that, at the time of the last
election, Sir Thomas Wilde should have received during
his stay in Wtncester his appointment as Attorney-
General, and that on Tuesday, on the eve of his second
election, he should have received his elevation to the dig-
nity of Lord Chief Justice.

PEEL AND COBDEN,—On Monday last, two votes of
thanks were passed to Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Cobden
by the Manchester town-council—to the former for his
candour and resolution in introducing and carrying the
late measures of government, and to the latter for his
seven years talented and influential advocacy of free trade.
It is said, that Lord John Russell intends to propose
the immediate equalisation of free and slave produced
sugar, and thus extinguish at once all the protection of
our West India planters. If so he will be opposed by a
re-united Conservative party, and the Whig Administra-
tion will be at an end.

NATIONAL TESTIMONIAL TO SIR ROBERT PEEL.-It
appears by an advertisement in the London papers, that a
committee is being formed for the purpose of raising funds
to present a national testimonial to Sir Robert Peel. The
provisional chairman of this committee is Col. Peyronnet
Thompson, and the provisional vice-chairman, is Captain
Polhill, the Conservative member for Bradford.

Among the last acts of Sir Robert Peel's Government
was an official announcement that Roman Catholics and
Unitarians were to be equally eligible with other deno-
minations for professorships in the three new colleges of
Ireland • and that one Unitarian would be put on the
board of management and examination with one Trini-
tarian Presbyterian.—Dublin paper.
. .

So far as has yet transpired, Sir George Clerk, late
master of the mint and vice• president of the board of trade,
is the only member of Sir Robert Peel's administration
whose retirement from official life has entailed an additional
charge on the resources of the country. Sir George Clerk's
name has been put upon the list of those entitled to pen-
sions for civil services. The amount assigned him is
£1,200 per annum.
ENTERTAINMENT TO LORD STANLEY AND LORD GEO.
BSNTINCK.—On Wednesday last, an entertainment was
given to the above noblemen, at the Trafalgar Tavern,
Greenwich, which was attended by about a hundred pro-
tectionist peers and members of parliament. Reporters
were not admitted, but we learn, from the Morning Post,
that the speech of Lord Stanley was full of uncompro-
mising spirit, and was received with hearty approbation
by the distinguished assembly present. Lord Geo. Ben-
tinck was equally firm in his language, and was rewarded
with the applause of his hearers.
PUBLIC DINNER TO LORD G. BEN'TINCE.--The ban- •
quet to be given to this distinguished leader of the Protec-
tionists will take place on the 4th of August, in the town
of Lynn, West Norfolk. The Earl of Orford, the Lord
High Steward of Lynn, has consented to preside. The
demonstration is not to be confined to the county of Nor-
folk, as already a great number of persons favourable to
the principle of protection, from the counties of Cambridge,
Suffolk, Lincoln, Bedford, Hertford, Northampton, Wilts,
Somerset, Devon, Surrey, Essex, and other places, have
expressed an anxiety to attend, to mark their sense of his
lordship's conduct during the course of the late debates
upon the Corn Laws.
THE SUGAR DUTIES.—The new Sugar Bill will be the
first, and probably the only important, measure brought
forward by the Russell Cabinet this session. Its provisions
will be looked to as indicating the future policy of the
Government; and the debate on it will most likely deter-
mine the position of the parties in the Commons, whose
attitude is now uncertain. Two plans are put forward,
each having some pretence to authority. The Times sup-
ports one, for Sir Robert Peel and his followers; the
Chronicle the other, for Lord John Russell and the Whig.
Radical party. The difference between the two is magni-
fied rather, as it would appear, for the sake of party dis.
tinction than for any real opposition in either principle or
detail. How is Sir Robert Peel to oppose the Ministry
unless he can establish some difference between his views
and theirs? As a politician his first want is some ground
to stand on. Ile has been too long used to a command of
his own to readily sink down into the position of a subal-
tern. Accustomed to play Hamlet, he will not without
an effort rest contented with the part of Guildenstern.
The Time: is disposed to second his exertions, and insi•
diously urges him to prepare his amendments. The agree-
ment of the rival plans is much more remarkable than their
difference. It is admitted that the absurd distinction esta-
blished between foreign sugars is to cease at once. Slave-
grown and free-grown sugars are to be admitted on the
same terms. The differential duty of N. 4d. will for the
present remain, but the admissson of slave-grown produce
will reduce the degree of protection it now affords. The
first provision of the new bill, we may assume, will be
cart ied with little opposition. There will be the duty of
14s. per cwt. on British-grown sugar, and 235. 4d per cwt.
on foreign sugar, from whatever country it may he brought.
. —Britannia.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

ItAILWAY DEPOSITS.—en Friday, leave was obtained
in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, to obtain from the
Accountant-General the taurn of no less a sum than
£356,000, deposited with that functionary on railway
account. _ _ _ _

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An experimental trip from London to Rotterdam, pro-
moted by the Eastern Counties Railway Company, came
off on Wednesday se'nnight, when the distance, 222 miles,
viz., 65 rail to Ipswich, and 154 steam, was done in rather
less than ,'
Th

outi;§afiordshire Railway Company has amal-

Junction Company, and the shareholders of the latter
project, at the recent meeting, have resolved upon carry-
ing forward their scheme. . . .

An atrocious attempt was made one night last week to
overthrow the train on the Bishop Auckland and Wear-
dale Railway between Bitchburn and Crook. Some
villains had propped back the switches, which se'nt the
engine off the line; but fortunately that was the extent of
the'adeident.
The Sydney payers are chiefly absorbed with the pros-
pects of railway 'adventure affording means Icor construct-
ing those undertakings between various important points
in the colony. The'papers are, of course, not aware of
the crash that has followed the late over-speculation in
the mother country, being, in fact, six months behind
the knowledge of the prospectus mania. How philoso-
phically we can look upon any plunge the speculators of
the new world are about to make.
The Railway Companies Dissolution Act is now pub-
lished, and it is incumbent on every one interested, either
'in recovering the remains of his deposits, or in escaping
the chance of further loss in abortive schemes, to make
himself acquainted with its provisions and details. By the
31st clause, which is by far the most important of all, it is
enacted, that Provisional Committee-men, against whom
judgment shall be recovered, may enforce mutual contri-
butions from the other members pro rata at common law.
instead of being driven to the tedious and practically im-
possible method laid down by the Court of Chancery.
METROPOLITAN RAILWAY TERMINI.—The commis-
sioners appointed to inquire into the expediency of ex-
tending railways into the heart of the metropolis, and
constructing central stations, have presented their report.
The commissioners, after a long and detailed examination
of the advantages and disadvantages attendant upon the
formation of central termini, come to the conclusion that
it is not advisable to allow the railways, to the north of
the Thames, to enter the city, but look more favourably
upon a close approach of the railways on the southern
bank of the river, to the eastern and western bridges of
the metropolis. They also recommend that a communi-
cation between the railways to the north and south of the
Thames and the docks, should be effected by a railway
encircling the metropolis, and crossing the Thames to the
west of Vauxhall-bridge.
The following bills before committees on merits have
thus been disposed of. In the Lords, declared as proved
—Ashburton, Newton, and South Devon; Blackburn,
Clitheroe, and North Western ; Buckinghamshire (Tying
to Banbury); Fleetwood, Preston and West Riding ;
Forest of Dean and Gloucester; Glasgow, Airdrie and
Monkland : London and Croydon (Thames Junction);
Porthury Pier, &c. ; South Wales; Yorkshire and Glas-
gow Union. Not proved—Axholme, Gainsborough and
North Midland; Lesmahagow and Coatbridge ;
castle and Darlington and Tyne Dock. In the Commons.
Proved—Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Worcester Junc-
tion ; Edinburgh and Glasgow and Union Canal ; Leeds
and Bradford ' • Liverpool and Bury Extensions ; Man-
chester and Southampton; Taff Vale. Not proved—
Edinburgh and Ballochney Amalgamation ; Edinburgh
and Glasgow, Forth and Clyde; Glasgow, Paisley and
Johnstone ; Leeds, Wakefield and Midland ; South West-
ern (Rotnsey and Redbridge). Bills withdrawn—Leeds
and Dewsbury ; Leeds Central ; Wishaw and Coltness

London and Blackwall (widening).
GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY ACROSS THE MERSEY
AT RUNCORN.—The terms upon which this company are
to be allowed by the admiralty to carry their line over the
river have at length been definitely settled. The admi-
ralty, as conservators, require that the bridge, if built on
arches, shall have waterway openings of not less than 280
feet in the clear ; the piers must not exceed 25 feet in the
clear, with proper cutwaters ; that the clear headway
under the centres of the arches shall be 100 feet, and the
spring of the same 15 feet above the level of the highest
tides. If the company should substitute flat girders,
with piers of twenty feet thickness, which are preferred

to arches, the clear water space will only be required to
be 250 feet between the piers. To facilitate the warping

of large vessels through the bridge, a turret staircase
from the footway along the bridge should be made down
the second and third piers from the Cheshire side, to a
strong wooden or iron gallery round those piers, of about
threet feet wide, and one or two feet above the high-water
mark ; that a trackway between the river and the abut-
ment wall, of the usual breadth, should be left on the
Cheshire side, and that a free footpath should be afforded
along the bridge, properly protected from the railway, and
connected to the present footpaths on each bank of the
river. To compensate for the obstruction which may
arise, to the str.ona, a largo portion of the rocky ?shore on
the Lancaster side is to be cut away by the company, and
a part of the Castle Hock on the Cheshire side, is to be
removed, so as to give the shore a regular curve. The
island between the Castle Rock and the Old Quay Canal
is to be removed, and its site excavated to the lowest
summer level of the river. The excavated materials, not
used in tin, anneetin:r-of-thr- railway Works areeterbe
employed in making a curved well, or weir, extending
2,000 feet to the eastward, and afterwards, if necessary,

800 feet further, in order to give a proper direction to tle
tidal streams, which works are to be carried and com-
pleted to the approbation of th-ir lordships simultaneously
with the railway. Provision is to be made for preventive
temporary obstructions and accidents to shipping during
the progress of the works.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

LATEST BETTING AT NEWMARKET

LIVERPOOL CUP.
5 to 2 agst Mr. Gully's Mendicant (taken).
12 1 Mr. Mayer's Highwayman (taken).
12 1 Mr. St. Paul's Telemachus (taken).
15 1 Mr. A. Johnstone's Rowena (taken).
30 1 Mr. Irwin's Connaught Ranger (taken)
20 1 L'rd Eglinton's Plaudit (taken).

TATTERSALL'S.—TIIURSDAY.
LIVERPOOL CUP.
5 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Mendicant (taken).
10 1 Lord G. Bentinck's My Mary (taken)
18 1 Mr. Meiklam's Inheritress (taken).
18 1 Mr. Mostyn's The Premier (taken).
18 1 Mr. Mciklam's Lightning (taken).
TAR GOODWOOD STAKES. .

9 to 1 agst LordG.Bentinck'sCameraObscura(taken)
11 1 Mr. J. Day's The Hero.
15 1 Mr. O'Brien's Jonathan Wild.
30 1 Mr. Drake's Bold Archer.
MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY.

One or two changes have occurred in the betting upon
the Liverpool Cup, since Tuesday. but the business done
has been so slight as not to require any particular obser-
vation. We may notice that to-day., My Mary was
several points a worse favourite, and that Inheritress was
backed against her at evens, for £5O, the backer of In-
heritress offering to go on. Yardley was backed to about
£6O at 10 at 1; and Rowena, Lightning, and Inheritress,
each at 20 to 1, and afterwards 14 to 1 was booked upon
the last named. Several bets were laid upon the Good-
wood and Derby, which we have quoted below, but there
were none upon the Goodwood Stakes. The following
are theiatest prices we have heard :

THE LIVERPOOL CUP.
5 to 2 agst Mendicant, 7st.—take 3 to 1.
10 to 1 „ Yardley, 7st. 10Ib.—taken to £55.
10 to 1 ~ Satyr, 7st. 21b.—offered.
12 to'l „ The Conjuror, 6st. 121 b.
100 to 7 „ My Mary, Gst. 101 b.—offered.
20 to 1 „ Highwayman, 7st. 71b.
100 to 6 „ Lightning, Sst. 611).-20 to 1 taken.
100 to 5 „ Rowena, 7st. 8113.—taken.
100 to 6 „ Inbetress, Bst. 71b.--300 to 15 taken.
100 to 6 „ Intrepid, 7st. 121 b.
25 to 1 „ Lord Saltoun, 7st. 101 b.
25 to 1 „ Poynton, 6st. lib.
25 to 1 „ Polish, 7st.
25 to 1 „ As-you-like-it, 6st. 51b.
30 to 1 „ Robin Burns, 6st. Sib.
50 to 1 „ The Premier, 6st. 31b.
THE GOODWOOD STAKES.
9to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinek's Camera Obscura—
take 10 to 1.
10 to 1 „ Mr. J. Day's The Hero.
15 to 1 „ Sir W. Don's Jonathan Wild—tk 20 to 1.
20 to 1 „ Sir J. B. Mills's Giantess.
20 to 1 „ Mr. Irwin's Connaught Ranger.
20 to 1 ~ Lord Chesterfield's Jenny 'Wren.
25 to 1 „ Lord Orford's Footstool.
25 to 1 „ Mr. Herbert's Petitioner.
25 to 1 „ Sir C. Monk's Glossy.
GOODWOOD CUP.

4 to 1 on the field.
80 to 10 agst Mr. Gully's Mendicant—taken.
80 to 10 „ Mr. Wreford's Winchester—taken.
20 to 1 „ Lord G. Bentinck's Rose of Cashmere—
offers to take.
ST. LEGER.
5 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Pyrrhus the First.
sto 1 „ Mr. W. Scott's Sir Tatton Sykes.
Bto 1 „ General Shubrick's Brocardo.
10 to 1 „ Mr. O'Brien's Grimston.