The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-27 00:00:00

THE NEW REFORM MOVEMENT.—At the meeting held
at the Portico, in this town, on Monday evening, to sup'
port Mr. Hume's motion for Household Suffrage, Equal
Electoral Districts, Vote by Ballot, and Triennial Perlis'
ments, the supporters of those measures were defeated by
the Universal Suffragists, who succeeded in carrying reso'
lutions in favour of the six points of the Charter. As the
Chartists are miserably weak in Liverpool, this fact pro"'
that the Humeists must be still weaker. The fact is that
there is no party in Liverpool, except a little knot 0
Chartists, that desires organic changes of any kind. Even
those who are most disposed to them on general grounds,
consider the present period of political confusion abroad
and commercial depression, (caused by that confusion) at
home, extremely ill chosen for reconstructing the Conetl.
tution of the country.—Liverpool Times.—( Whig Paps'
CHEESE-PARING PATRIOTS.—It is not by sinecurr-
and unmerited pensions that the resources of a cowl
are drained. Curtail all the expenses of the Court—put
Her Majesty's attendants on board wa,,es—cut down the
Chamberlain's and Lord Steward's departments—be 0
penurious as you may be, you would not save 3d. a-yet
to every tax-gatherer throughout the empire. It is not
the establishment of the Palace that is consuming 08
subsistence of the householder at Stockport and Birmiet
ham : and, while in many departments we would OS
--duction, it is not by saving a few thousands a PP'
die merchant can be rendered prosperous or the
artizan kept in full work. We are as willing to reduce
the army and navy expenses as they can be ; but we al;
not break up the apparatus and appendages of a grer
• —we would the stock of a bankrupt tradesrao;
-'•,44Ps and the responsibilities o
~.cssure. We cannot
,
fling Canada, Australia, India to the winds ; neither et
we keep them and all that they give us without soldier'
and sailors. We cannot afford to surrender our ovril,
position and pre eminence in the eyes of the world.
Ift
is part of our stock in trade. It is our capital.
goes we go too. But we cannot keep it without keepore
that by which it was obtained—an adequate fleet and 01
Ideqnate supply of brave and well-trained troops. Gentle'
leaguers, be careful what you are doing. Petition:
gitate, and declaim, against superfluous and extravagant
expense. Petition against and denounce every ur

We can

nieces'
sary outlay in the army, the navy, the state ; but beware,
of going too far. You may do much mischief withoo,
meaning it. Your country is engaging the attention 0'
the world. Secure, and hardly shaken, she is affording
--lum to the exiles of less happy lands, and the
bpnithy institutions. Slowly and steadily
• and zreat suffer-

ings. Mar not the completion of a glorious -history, Or
under the pressure of a temporary distress try to inflict
wound which no time can cure, but which all would have
reason to deplore.—Times
DECLINE OF MR. (

POPUL ARlTY.—ForeignerS,
y superficial information, and
•fced that even the speeches of lk'fr•
_ Wakley are read by continental
as if they carried with them all the weight
rigs to some of our great party leaders. The

irally imposed upon I

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fr. Cot

Idea was t

ie enjoyed it. He came back to Enerand
ill ringing with the cheers with which he 104
,n greeted at public dinners and public meetings.
bnd :my misgivings as to the stability of his populall
,:se must have been removed when the firs
greeted his arrival in England was his election
the West Riding of Yorkshire. It was his election
Yorkshire that placed Lord Brougham on the Wok
ck, and had he declined that honour, might, with tole'
ale management, have made him ultimately prime Inr,
,ister. It was an honour that turned Lord Broughno!:
lead, and has been the forerunner of his downward course'
The glory of Lord Brougham culminated when he WI:
returned for Yorkshire, and we think Richard Cobden_:

his ears st

at home, t 1

uay he sv3s
st
tie has found, 110 a
of enthusiasm which greete
.
died away into expresso`
ell, as formerly, the l',°°
ocracy, courted by the people'
tention by the House of Cora
the gay circles of Grosvenor:
'en scarcely more brilliant (/'
rge Hudson and Ivi.tr.
—„.. uue agriculturists can hardly claro
as a friend, whilst the manufacturing operatives, ilf,t
clubbed their shillings and half-crowns to raise £loo,rt
for the idol of their masters, now find, to their cost, tha
^v had a far truer and much more economical friend is
Ashley, who never sought for such splendid tew-
.onials to his more effective and more consistent
thropy. It is obvious that Mr. Cobden has been gull
and mortified by the decline of his popularity, and sail
more by the manner in which the House of Cornol°"of
received the killing exposure made by Admiral Dundalog
tack on the British navy at Malta. Something
_,;r4
A new league was to be got up. A new stanu
of agitation was to be raised, and reform in parliatr.led,
seemed to be the most promising. It has signally
and the people have but too recently raised X 70,000 11'4
Mr. Cobden himself, and several hundred thousand poilorua
more for a whole army of hungry agitators, to exPeni
any unusual exuberance of enthusiasm in favour of f'
new league, having such costly'arpendages.—Record.

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AND FASHION.

Niajesty anti rnnee Albert
of being present, at tho H

lave signified t"'"
market Theatre 00 7$
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