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

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

Mr. John George Phillimore, of the Oxford circuit, has
announced himself as a candidate for the borough of
Leominster on liberal principles.

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WEST RIDING ELECTION.—On Wednesday, Sir C.
Eardley was seized with an attack of illness, and was-pro-
hibited by his medical men from attending any more
meetings before the nomination. On Tuesday, Sir Cull-
ing was thus questioned at a meeting at Keighley :—" Mr
Hutton : Will you vote for a bill making all the land
in the kingdom national property, but allowing the holders
compensation:for improvement ? Sir C. Eardley could not
vote for that. He would not be a party to taking away
any man's property." Mr. Denison's canvass returns
are most cheering. it is stated that in the polling dis-
tricts of Snaith, Aberford, Pomfret, and Wakefield--
situated in different parts of the riding—the proportion
of promises given to Denison, compared with those for
Eardley, are as 4,000 to 1100. In populous districts,
which used to constitute the strongholds of the Liberal
candidate, the returns are said to be equally satisfactory.
WHO IS SIR CULLING EARDLEY ?—Towards the
close of the American war, the county of Cambridge was
represented by Sir Sampson Gideon, son of a converted
Jew, who had purchased large estates in the Fens. By
some tern of favour, or of fortune, Sir Sampson was con-
verted into an Irish peer, by the title of Eardley, which
he had assumed upon the plea of some connection with a
family of that name. Lord Eardley had (besides a son
who died before him) three daughters, who respectively
married Lord Say and Sele, Sir Culling Smith, and Mr.
Childers. Sir Culling Eardley is the son of Sir Culling
Smith, whose paternal name be has abandoned, since, by
the failure of Lady Say and Selers family, he has inherited
the largest share of his grandfather's estates. If we are
not mistaken, Lord Eardley was a member of the cor-
potation of Doncaster, and many persons in that
neighbourhood still speak of his eccentric habits ; in fact,
the general opinion was that, to use a Yorkshire phrase,
he was not " quite right." Sir Culling Eardley is not a
nephew of the Duke of Wellington, as stated by the
Leeds Mercury.—Sheffield Paper.
PEEL ONCE MORE.—Three years ago Sir Robert Peel
predicted that we should be cotton, manufacturers for all
the world. Our cotton exports have, however, declined—
and how ? We have been told from the distractions on
the Continent of Europe. But these distractions have not,
it appears, prevented our next and not least disturbed
neighbours from manufacturing cotton for themselves.
The Paris press, after giving a melancholy detail of the
reduced imports of the raw material of all French manu-
factures but one, adds—" Two articles alone present a
marked increase, cotton wool and coal. The entries of
cotton wool for consumption rose to 45,000 metrical
quintals in October last, whilst in October, 1847, they
only attained the amount of 29,000. The same observa-
tion is applicable to the increase of our entries for con-
sumption of coal, which, in October last, rose to 2,500,000
quintals; whereas, in October, 1847, they only amounted
to about 2,000,000. (All in French bottoms.)" There,
gentlemen of' Manchester, you see your fate—the more
miserable the distractions of the Continent shall render
the people of the Continent the more cotton they will
manufacture: