The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-19 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

LORD GEORGE BENTINCE.—In a letter dated the 6th
instant, this nobleman states that the report respecting
his alleged intention to visit Ireland is purely imaginary.
In it he says, " I am not a Repealer,, though I probably
may entertain a very different opinion from you which
country would be the gainer, and which the loser by a
repeal of the union. It was not so much through the hos-
tility of the English members, as through the desertion
and hostility of the Irish members (many of them Re-
peelers), that in February, 1847, Ireland lost the oppor-
tunity of obtaining a loan of sixteen millions of English
gold, at £3 7s. 6d. per cent., to stimulate the construction
of private enterprise,. of railways in your country. Una-
nimous in Palace-yard, on one Tuesday, in favour of the

proposition I then brought forward, on the Thursday se'n-
night the same sixty gentlemen, having seen the Prime
Minister at the Foreign-office in the interval, voted two
to one against giving railways to Ireland. Out of 105 re-
presentatives which Ireland possesses, 28 only, if my me-
mory serves me correctly, would vote for that loan to Ire-
land. Two-thirds of the Irish representatives present
declined this measure—the rest took care to be non est in-
yentas at the division, which was the hour of Ireland's
need. Read the division list, and you will find there many
more true friends of Ireland on that occasion among the
supporters of the Union than among the Repealers."
WANT OF A PROTESTANT PARTY.—There never was a
moment more favourable than the present for the forma-
tion of an efficient Protestant party. But the men are
wanting. By some singular delusion, many men who
ought to have been foremost in such a work, did not see
it to be their duty, in July, 1847, to enter Parliament.
Sir Culling Eardley preferred to devote himself to the
Evangelical Alliance, and now he will have to oppose the
endowment of Popery as a petitioner, when he might have
opposed it with greater power as a legislator. Mr. Butt.
the friend of M`Ghee and M'Neile, thought it his duty to
follow his profession, and declined a seat. Mr. Finch, tired
of the disheartening work of Parliament, quietly withdrew.
Sir Digby Mackworth was started for the only place
where his success was likely to be doubtful. The presence
of these four men, with the addition of two or three more
that might be named, would wonderfully change the
complexion of the House of Commons. It is not many
days since a very distinguished member of that House
(not Lord Geo. Bentinck) was discussing with a friend the
state of parties, and used the following language :—" You
talk of the Protestant feeling of the country, but I want
to know where lam to find it ? The Protestant gentry
of England, where are they ? If you would only give
me two men, resolved and able to fight that battle, to
stand by my, side, something might be done. But for
these two men I look in vain." Such is the fact. And
the consequence naturally follows. Sir Robert Peel de-
serts, Lord Stanley hesitates, because the people do not
themselves make a stand for Protestantism. And that
the people are backward, is too often to be attributed to
the backwardness of those who ought to take the lead. It
is time for this Protestant nation to awake; for further
and enlarged mischief to the Protestant cause is deter-
mined on.—Record.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

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