The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-04 00:00:00

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First Lord of the Admiralty—Lord Hardwick(
President of the Board of Control—Lord Ellenborough
Postmaster-General—The Duke of Richmond or LordGle
President of the Board of Trade—Mr. Newdegate.
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland—The Marquis of Exeter, Lord Wil-
ton, or the Marquis of Salisbury.
Chief Secretary- Mr. A. Stafford or Lord John Manners.

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led to Buckingham Pa

a audience of the Queen

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• A meeting of the leading of th
took place at the residence of the Right Hon. 1
in Carlton-gardens. Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Go,
Cardwell we

said to be

!re among those present.
es Graham called upon Mr. Gladstone,
ith the right hon. gentleman.

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....cell, a despatch, written by Prince Albert, was for-
ted to Lord John Russell.
kt 8 o'clock a communication from Sir James Graham. s'
,d to her Majesty, was received at Buckingham P'
Majesty immediately replied to the 0-I—*

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learned of the prosper_
were the names of the eminent per-
aa refused to join it; and the boldest flights of
and other windfalls of conjecture never reached beyond Mr. Herries, Mr. Dis-
ire there accurately reported, put up raeli, and Mr. Henle, as the chief organs of the adminis-
and their respective merits diligently tration in the House of Commons." Our contemporary
- brokers, I deprecates, however, any attempt to resuscitate the old
•constituted. He says :

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DRURY-LANE THEATRE

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the man

" The transaction would pass with tne worm Tor 'mule more
than a piece of legerdemain. To remove these impressions
anoth.'r vigorous effort should be made to strength which it
requires. In political life nothing is so hopeless RS
negac to attempt
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ke traces of what has ceased to be, and th,
left vacant has already crumbled away.
of a meeting, scarcely a journal, has signi

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The Herald has indulged in very few speculations I
tring the last week, being kept by its party in mysteri-

[g norar

of what was going on

excitement which prevailed throughout the whole
if Thursday was scar"ely lessened on Friday. The clubs
were crowded during the day with anxious inquirers, and

as each m

to the ministr

struct an efficient and durable administration ; but as the feel sure that you will not consider apology to be due for this
wore on, and there was no appearance of such be. communication, there being no one else to whom (I conceive)
--....r, ing the case, the public were again harassed with perplex. it could be made with more or equal propriety. I will only
of the grace of ing fears that we should have to return once more to a add that, white I should have considered this communicationpremature,
mature if not vexatious, were I unprepared to suggest
voice from which Whig administration. A telegraphic communication meanste for' removing the cause of apprehension above stated,
and antiquated. fit during the day brought the information that Mr. Glad- in the event of that apprehension appearing reasonable to your
'it for modern fine stone had refused to join Lord Stanley, because, it was royal highness and others. To tender such asuggestion without
-sight of man, rumoured, his lordship was favourable to a duty of ss. on your royal highness's previous sanction or request, would seem
and foreign corn. It was also positively asserted that Viscount to me to savour of a presumption for which it would not be
pn.,,- to offer t,,itimate excuse.—l have the honour to be, sir,

with the Stanley Government. The following was put iv". ' a "ARTHUR PERCEVAIi,
forward as likely to have been the programme of the Pro- " Chaplain to her Majesty the Queen."
tectionist ministry : This letter was not acknowledged, and some time after-
First Lord of the Treasury—Lord Stanley. wards the hon. and rev. gentleman sent the following
Lord Chancellor—Sir E. Sugden or Mr. Pemberton Leig'
Chancellor of the Exchequer—Mr. Herne
Home Secretary—Mr. Henley

"SIR,—As a letter of mine; addressed to his Royal Highness
the Prince Albert, on the subject of the Great Exhibition, has
not been acknowledged, I request to be informed whether
that letter was placed in the hands of his royal highness.—l
i am, sir, your obedient servant; " ARTHUR PERCRVAL."
No direct answer was returned to this note, but it was
intimated to Mr. Perceval that he had her Majesty'S per-
mission to retire from the office be held as one of the
royal chaplains ; and the hon. and rev. gentleman ac-
cordingly tendered his resignation, which was accepted.
Towards evening it became generally known that Lord On the subject under consideration, Mr. Perceval has
tanley's efforts had failed, and that he had once more printed, for private circulation amongst the principal
esolved to resign his commission into the hands of her members of the High Church party, the following re-
Asjesty, and had proceeded to the Palace to report the marks :
ermination of his efforts. This somewhat unexpected " Such is the regard now paid' to religion. to religious re-
,lt seems to have set the Peel party on the alert, as monstrances and suggestions, andto the ministers of religion
from the following report of their movements, on in the high places of Britain. Had his royal highoes*conde-
scended to acknowledge my communication, and to invite
suggestion, the plan which I was prepared to communicate
' -,sed with the re- was, that the opening of the exhibition should be by a day of
sted to the noble national humiliation- and deprecation of the wrath of God,
which to no impartial bystander will seem an unreasonable or
, uncalled-for suggestion, seeing that the first ecclesiastical act
-63` at of her Majesty's reign was the- bill of pains and penalties
against the clergy (1 Vic., c. 22), to deter them from fulfilling
memos • Peel" party their ordination vows in preserving sacred the rites of matri-
Ugh Sidney Herbert, mony ; and the last movement, ;road religionem, which
te, . 'burn, anti Mr. marked her Majesty's reign in 1850, has been the founding in
Ireland, the terra sancta of Europe, (whose hallowed associa-
Ir. and had an lions supersede those of any other country out of Palestine,)
lan an university without any provision for Christian instruction
i re therein t while, throughout the whole of her reign, to the reli-
' I gion as by law established, frowns,.oppressions, suspensions-of
constitutional liberties, and every vexation, internal as well as
m E - external, have been awarded ; while favour, and patronage,
t I and encouragement have been reserved for the Jew, the Jesuit,
o t _,......u0. oaronet. and the Infidel—to the second of these to such an extent. that
'ming expectation, „
The Eai7l of Aberdeen,the
Sir Janes Graham, and Mr. Card- imperial crown of Britain has teen, by her Majesty's mi-
--sble rabble of well have been in constantduring
communication the day. nis ters (e.g. Earl of Clarendon's letter to Archbishop Mtirray),
--, of . placed as submissively, in effect, at the foot of the Pope, as it
The Times of Friday, in announcing Lord Stanley's
was, in very deed, placed at the foot of the Pope's legate, by
failure, does not fail to insult the Protestant public, - - sovereign in person, in the reign of Kin°. John ; and with
--suit, the papal foot has spurned bout the offerers and

MR. MACREADY'S FAREWELL BENEFIT

The event, to which all that large portion of the public
to whom theatrical matters are of any moment have been
looking forward for many years past, took plaae on Wed-
nesday night. We may say that the very anticipation of
Mr. Macready's benefit has been of itself a marked event.
On Monday week the box-office was first opened for the
letting of places, but so numerous were the applications
by private letters that before this opening the choice
seats in all parts of the house were gone. The house was
of course crammed by a most select and influential au-