The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-06 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

Sir Patrick Bellew has been appointed an Irish peerr
with the title of Lood Bellew.

Sir W. Jones has been unseated for Cheltenham, for
reasons stated in our Parliamentary summary.
LEICESTER.-Sir J. Walmsley and Mr. Gardner have
been unseated for bribery, committed by their agents
without their sanction.

Mr. Russell, the ex-member for Reading, and chairman
of the Great Western, is announced as a Conservative can-
didate for Cheltenham.

On Tuesday the Earl of Lucan carried the appointment
of a select. committee on the Irish Poor Law, against Mi-
nisters, by a majority of 33 to 27.
It is said that the chartists are organising extensive,'
throughout England and Scotland, forthe purpose of holding
great meetings simultaneously throughout the country on
Monday next (Whit Monday.)
MR. FEARGUS O'CONNOR'S LAND SCTIEBIE.—Tbe
committee met on Friday last, and selected Sir George
llayter as chairman. They meet again to-day at twelve,.
when Mr. Feargus O'Connor and two of the officers of
the company will be examined.
Mr. Grantley Berkeley has returned an answer to the
usual ministerial circular sent him, that the ministry are
not to consider him one of their supporters in the usual
sense of the term. By this step Mr. Berkeley gives UP
his right to patronage and nominations.
Lord John Russell has given notice for leave to bring
in a bill to alter the oath taken by members of Parlia-
ment, the object of the measure being tantamount to that
for which the Jew Bill was brought forward. Will les
lordship be perltitted to obtain his object by aside-wind'
We should think not.

THE PUBLIC REVENUE.—In the majority for Dr. Bo":"
ring's motion for a full specification of the taxes paid in.„L°
the Exchequer, there were A. Henry, J. Brotherton,
Cobden, H. Drummond, G. Hudson,- Colonel SibthorP,
and T. Thornely. The minority was composed entirely
of government members, and vet they were defeated.- ~
The London correspondent of the Dublin Evening Ma"
states that a very numerous meeting of the Conservatives
was held on Saturday, at Lord Stanley's house, to consi-
der the subject of the Navigation-laws, and the course to
be taken, when, after a statement made to the meet_in,gop:
Lord Stanley, it was unanimously resolved that evelt or.
position which the forms of the house would eu“
saures pro-
should be resorted to, in order to defeat the o'ea-
posed by the Government.
ry committee
THE SUGAR DUTIES.—The parliamentary
has decided, by a majority of 7 to 5,
favour of Sir Thos.i
o
Birch's resolution, recommending that the duties on
reign sugars shall for the next six years be 203. per cwt'
and on British 10s. per cwt., the duty on foreign to be
gradualiy reduced after that period until they are both on
the same footing. The majority consisted of Sir Thomas
Birch, Sir E. Buxton, Messrs. Matheson, Hope, Milo'
I.4rrd George Manners, and Sir J. Pakincton ; the mino-
rity being Messrs. Labouchere, Wilson, Milner Gibson,
Moffatt, and C. Villiers. Messrs. Goulburn and Card-
well did not vote, and Lord G. Bcntinck was in the chair.

FEMALE CHARTIST 111.;E;;;;T:IIneeiing of women
Chartists was convened by a bellman, in the Pasture, at
Leicester, on Thursday week. About 4,000 persons were
present, about half of whom were women. After singing
a Chartist hymn, Mrs. Cully, daughter of the late T. ft•
Smart, one of the earliest Chartist leaders, occupied the
chair. Two resolutions, one for the formation of a female
Chartist Association, with a " Defence Fund," for pro-
secuting those special constables who were said to have
been guilty of brutal and unwarrantable attacks on inno-
cent persons last week ; the other to the effect that no
dealings should be had with persons who acted as special
constables, were moved and seconded by women, and
carried unanimously.
OFFICIAL SALARIES.—CHEAP (?) POSTAGE. From
return recently obtained, it appears that the actual net
increase of the number of appointments, and the amount
of salaries in all public offices-and departments,- since the
passing of the Act 4th and sth 'William IV. c. 24, is
6,863 as regards the number of persons, £184,368 as re.
gards the salaries, and £17,586 as regards the emolu-
ments; 7,060 persons at salaries amounting to £260,000,
have been added to the establishment of the Post-office
within the period of this account, for the purpose of af-
fording increased facilities and accommodation to the
public in the receipt and delivery of letters, &c. The sc.'
count, exclusive of the Post-office, would exhibit a an''
nution of 197 persons, and about £58,000 per annum In
salaries and emoluments. _ _

NORTH CHESHIRE gLECTION.—The nomination for a
knight of the shire for North Cheshire, to serve in parlia-
inept in the room of the Hon. E. J. Stanley, now Lujd
Eddisbury, took place on Wednesday at Knutsford. MI
T. W. Tatton, of Withenshard, proposed Mr. George
Cornwall Legh ; Mr. W. Sidebottom, of Mottram,
se-
conded the nomination. Mr. John Cheetham, of Stall'.
bridge, nominated Mr. F. D. P. Astley; the nomination
was seconded by Mr. Hindley, M.P. On a show of
hands being taken, Mr. Astley was declared to have the •
majority, and a.poll was demanded on behalf of Mr. Legb'
Mr. Legit, in nis address to his electors, declares hinase",
a decided opponent to vote by ballot; but promises to
give his attention to any reasonable proposition as to ex'
tension of the suffrage. Mr. Astley favours progressive
reform, but declares himself strongly averse to anything
like revolutionary movements.
ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN IN FAVOUR OF REPEAL.--
The address of congratulation on the birth of 'a Princess,
presented by the Lord Mayor of Dublin and several other
members of the Corporation, to the Queen, on ThursdaY,
contained, among others, the following passage :—" g°3`'
Gracious Majesty, we humbly and with all due deference
venture to suggest that the main cause of the misery ,°f
Ireland is that her laws are not made by an Irish Parlia-
ment ' • that, instead of a sister nation, she has been legis;
laced for as a mere province ; and that the certain aii.'uo
effectual course to restore her prosperity, to preserve ti!
integrity of the empire, and to attach most of the peonie
of Ireland, is by the restoration to Ireland of the P°`":
to make her own laws and to manage her own resources,
by the repeal, as speedy as possible, of the act of legfirsiS
tive union, and the assembling of your Majesty's
Parliament." The following is her Majesty's reply, felt
livered in a distinct and emphatic tone :—" I have, is
deep sympathy for the suffering of many of my stoiv:iie
in Ireland. I have given my cordial sanction t°
various Acts passed by the Legislature for the initigat'°l-
of that suffering, and I trust that by means of those Act`'
aided by private charity and local efforts, the pressu fully
severe distress has been materially relieved. I am
Tthat measures calculated to advance the inte
ests and promote the welfare of that portion of my Unite
Kingdom will continue to receive from the Imperial par-
liament the most careful anti attentive consideration.lt .5
" SANITARY CONDITION" OF TEE
our painful duty this week to publish the first-1"i"
knows but it may be the last !—of a series of bullctio%
respecting the health of her Majesty's government,
which, we grieve to say, has, within the last week (it
fortnight, become alarmingly precarious. The fit
serious symptoms of disorder appeared on Thursday wick'
when its constitution received a smart shock in the I-1011',,
of Lords. Its manifest sickness had, however, attracted
previous notice, and a celebrated quack doctor who, o°3
former occasion, refused to prescribe till the fee W
forthcoming, was actually sent for to the Isle of Wight
give his opinion as to the general state of the patient 7
health. To add to the misfortune, a very severe
_u;
months a vicious Spanish mule, put into harness a
ago, caused one of the patient's limbs—as iii •';
would have it the most active—to fall into a state of soeff
deep mortification that amputation seemed for a space of
twenty-four hours inevitable. By the administration
copious palliatives, however, this calamity has, for t°e
present, been averted. The following short accotl! ,
however, will indicate the progress of the malady
Tuesday : Great prostration. Svere gripings
in con-
quence of a pill administered by Dr. Bowring. ;
day: Still very weak. A Jesuit confessor called ►nr
becomes weak in consequence. ThUrsday : An°"'-o f
relapse, attended with high fever; slight symptoms
delirium, and great peevishness of temper. Ridali
effort to rally,followed by fresh and increased prostration
of strength. As we go to press, the patient has beco u
more tranquil, but is hopelessly sinking.—John Bull•