The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-07-08 00:00:00

POLITICA

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A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office on
Friday.

Lord John Russell had an audience of the Queen on
Saturday.

Mr. Cardwell, Sir T. Birch, and Mr. A. Henry, voted
with Ministers on the House Duty Bill.
W. H. Watson, Esq., Q.C., who formerly represented
Kinsale, has offered himself as a candidate for the vacant
borough of Knaresborough.
GREENWICH ELECTION.—After all his bragging and
boasting on the hustings at Greenwich, the Jew Salomons
shews a white feather in the awful presence of the Com-
mons of England. I have reason to believe that he has
determined, " after the best consideration he has been
able to give the subject, and having taken competent ad-
vice," not to make any attempt to take his seat until the
fate of the oath of abjuration bill shall have been deter-
mined. He pledged himself to his constituents to take
his seat at all hazards, and not, like his fellow Hebrew,
Rothschild, to postpone for a moment his claim for his
pound of flesh. Now, however, he finds out that dis-
cretion is the better part of valour—and he will wait the
decision of the legislature with what calmness he may.
The bill is to come on to-night for a third reading in the
House of Commons, and it is generally supposed that it
will be allowed to pass as if per incuriam, and so as to
throw the responsibility of a conclusive decision upon the
Peers. It is generally thought that these latter will not
hesitate in persevering against the Hebrews.
THE LATE BATH ELECTION.—The facts lie in a
small compass. The Liberals, by a combination which
no man can justify, except he adopt the odious rule that
" the end justifies the means," have obtained a majority
of 69 over the Conservatives; or, to put the matter in
another way, the Conservatives, notwithstanding the
season has reduced their ranks, which were still further
weakened by apathy springing out of political disunion,
have polled within 69 of their opponents. A contem-
porary, indeed, asserts that the Liberals could have
polled 100 more votes if they had liked ; but this boast is
always made at an election, and is almost as invariably
known to be untrue. The Liberals have polled 17 more
than they did in 1847 for a better man ; the increase
showing there was no reserve. The Conservatives have
polled 237 less than in 1847, the decrease showing that
their strength was not exhausted. And how has that
result been obtained ? The admirers of Mr. Roebuck
have been forced to vote for a man who has been used by
the Whigs at former elections to damage the interest of
Mr. Roebuck. The Whigs have been forced to sanction
principles and measures wnich they declared were dan-
gerous, when propounded by Mr. Roebuck. The
dissenters have been forced to fraternise with the Roman
Catholics. The majority obtained by this heterogeneous
and unnatural coalition, we regard as another proof that
the struggle ought never to have taken place. We are
forced to fight the fight over again, to prevent a Liberal
domination which is at once insulting to those who are not
Radicals, and injurious to the welfare of the city. Hence-
forth there must be no concessions for the sake of peace,
since those which have been made have been thrown away.
Henceforth the Liberals must be treated as opponents
who cannot be dealt with without provoking evil for
good. The Conservatives must keep all they can win ;
nor can they be charged with a monopolising spirit, for
the Liberals have forced them to do it by their example.
—Bath Chronicle.