The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-10 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

Mr. G F. Young, late member for Tynemouth, has
been requested to offer himself as a candidate to fill the
vacancy in the representation of King's Lynn, caused bf
the death of the late Lord George Bentinck.

The Whig Government has already quarrelled with the
newly-made Archbishop of Canterbury. The ground of
difference is the conditions on which the schools of the
Church of England shall be allowed to share in the aurae
voted by Parliament for the purposes of National Educa-
tion. The government endeavoured, at first tacitly, af-
terwards publicly, to foist into the ground certain tole
which could not but be offensive to the church. These
were remonstrated against, and lengthened conference
followed, which have now ended in an open rupture—the
government peremptorily refusing to make any concession-
THE LATE LORD GEORGE BENTINCE.—The Post ha°
published some fragments of personal interest from lettere
by Lord George Bentinck to Mr. Bankes, written when
Lord George resigned the leadership of the `• country!
party" in the House of Commons at the end of last year.
These letters establish the fact that the leadership Wa
unwillingly accepted, and not assumed by him, as some,
journalists asserted ; and that Lord George was as mode/
and high-minded in both taking and leaving the position
of party leader as he was bold and indefatigable in its ac-
tive command. In a letter dated Christmas Day last.
also addressed to Mr. Bankes, and having reference to hie
own abandonment of the post of leader, Lord George re-
fers to his own health :—" My dear Bankes,—Your warm-

hearted letter is very grateful to my feelings. Confiden-
tially, I tell you, that far from feeling the least annoyed;
I shall feel greatly relieved by a restoration to privacy and
freedom. I worked upon my spirit in 1846 and 1847; but
I have learnt now that I have shaken my constitution to
the foundation, and I seriously doubt my being able 10
work on much longer." How true these prognostics,
tions Yet, the noble lord was useful in his day ; aid
that is higher praise than many a man more worshipped
and applauded has deserved.
WHAT IS TO BE DONE ?—We really should like W
know whether or not the Conservatives are thinking of
setting their house in order, and of taking some step!
towards meeting the difficulties by which they will find
themselves surrounded, should the next session of parria"
ment discover them still split into sections and unable W
bring a bold, compact, and united opposition against the
family group of officials, who are rather facetiously called
Her Majesty's " Government." Things cannot go on ix'
their present fashion. that is certain. If there were no'
thing else to rouse the moral indignation of the British
Lion, there are the startling facts of Funds keeping per-
tinaciously down to 86, of a national debt increasing Is
annual lumps, of an expenditure going rapidly a-head, of
an income gradually contracting the more one labours to
increase it, of business coming to a stand-still, and opera'
fives on every side following its example. Nobody ca,°
conscientiously persuade himself that we are not rapidil,
getting ourselves into what is vulgarly called a " mess.
Whatever may be the beauty of free trade in the abstract,
and whatever may be the immediate cause of its failure ix'
practice, it is certain that there is a screw loose in OA
machinery, which sets the whole thing wrong. .°1171..--4„si
with that highly-convenient phenomenon, the pota''
disease, the railway mania, the European row, the disgust'
ing determination of foreigners to take as much of our
gold and as little of our manufactures as possible, the I 113;
fortunate neglect of our admirable example on the part 0'
foreign Governments, who invariably put up custoi?
duties just as often as we put them down, the free trade
experiment has answered the wishes of its friends 513°11,
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as satisfactorily as the atmospheric railway responded "`"
the hope of its prpjectors.—John Bull. •

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