The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-23 00:00:00

ANOTHER STANDARD.

Although " there has been no reaction in public opinion," a
new conservative journal, under the title of " The Blackburn
Standard," appeared in that town on Wednesday. In and
article declaratory of its principles, it promises—
" A steady and undaunted advocacy df the prerogatives of
the crown, a firm and fearless defence of the just privileges of
the nobility, and an earnest and uncompro.nising promotion of
the rights of the people.
" The interests of the protestant church of England will
claim at all times our especial attention, and we trust we shall
ever be found foremost in the ranks of the protectors of her
putitv, earnestly exerting ourselves for the defeat of the open
and insidious attacks of enemies, who, for sinister motives of
sectarian agrandisement, seek her destruction as a national
establishment."

We wish the Blackburn' Standard all the success that the ad-
vocacy of such principles merits.

EAST INDIA COMPANY'S MARCH TEA SALE.—The East:
Company have issued the declaration for the quarterlreale of
teas in March next. The following are the amounts of the'
several descriptions of teas declared at the last December sale,
compared with the quantity which the East India Company
will put up id Match next:—
,
Last sale. Present sale.
Bohea
Cougou
Campoi and Souchong 5,800,0001b5. 3,800,0001b5.
Pekoe..
Twankay
PI yson Skin 5 , , • • , •
Hyson

9,000,0001b5. 6,(x),0001bi.

THE STATE OF THE ELBCTIONS.—The evening papers, we
mean the radical portion of them, give very different accounts
of the comparative strength of parties. The following is a
specimen of their numbers as extracted from their columns of
last night .-- Reformers. Tories.
The Globe (07eially) 313 185
The Coilrier (authoritatively)
The Sun (out-Herodly) 365 201
'We leave it to our " liberal" (towards their own party) con-
temporaries eo reconcile these trifling discrepancies. We would
only submit that as one assigns 498 members to have been re-
turned, the second 561, and the third 566, and, as the number of
tories and reformers are calculated after the same fashion, there
is a fair presumption, even by their own " tellers," that, to use
the homely adage, the boot is on the other leg."—Morning Post.

SIR JOHN DALRYMPLE'S RESPECT FOP. AN OATH.—The
disgraceful practices of the whigs, during the county election,
are almost incredible. We have not room at present to enter
into lengthened details; but, as,ureilly, the subject will not be
forgotten. In the meantime, however, we may state a fact
simply to show the value which Sir John Dalrymple, the nomi-
nator of Mr. Craig, attaches to the most solemn oath. At
Dalkeith, on'Thursday, a person, well-known to have no right
to vote, came forward to tender his suffrage to Mr. Craig, when
the oath of possession being put to him, he hesitated and re-
quired an explanation. He was, however, pressed to swallow
the oath without further scruple; and Sir John Dalrymple was
amongst the most forward in urging this advice! '1 his islhe
more extraordinary, as the person having been qualified upon
a property belonging to Sir John himself, it must havo been
known to ,he honourable baronet, that he bad denuded himself
of the property iu question six months ago ! The persoiLre-
tired without voting, and did not again appear at the polling
booth. This fact speaks volumes. Alas for Sir John !—&din-
Lurylt Post..
A return was made in the last census, for the first time, of
the number of illegitimate births occurring in Great Britain.
There.were 20,039 of them in the year 1830, in the proportion
of 11 males to 40 females.; as compared with legitimate births,
they are reckoned as 1 in 18 for the whole of England and
Wales. The minimum.of illegitimate births is in Middlesex!
and the maximum in Wales !—[The French returns exhibit a
greater laxity of morale; the number of illegitimate births
being I in MI

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THE GENERAL ELECTION.

CAMBRIDGE.

Mr. Knight will be the sitting member for Cambridge after
all. The number of bad votes on the whig side is notorious,
and the spirited conservatives have already raised a subscrip-
tion for the purpose of a scrutiny. Mr. Pryme's majority wa,
only five, and there can be no doubt of the result. Cambridge
wilt be represented by a conservative of brilliant talent aun
sound principles, instead of one of the most unfit men who ever
found their way into St. Stephen's. If this most desirable ob-
ject be attained Cambridgeshire will have returned five stanch
conservatives and two whigs. Two years ago it returned be,
three conservatives and four whigs. No reaction, of course
The first day's poll for the county gave Yorke and Eaton to-
gether a majority of 1,'29a over the late memb,:ra Townie)
(whig,) and Childers (radical.) The two conservatives coalesc-
ing on the one side, and on the other the whig and the radical,
as usual. You see at once that we could have returned thre,
conservatives with ease, and we certainly shall at the next elec-
tion. We know our strength now.