The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-01 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

Sir E. L. Bulwer, a free-trader, states in a letter to one
of his constituents that a fixed duty on wheat will bs
passed within twelve months.

The Financial Reformers held a public meeting in Lon'
don on Wednesday night, Sir Joshua Walmsley in o'l°
chair, but the event was a roost dull and uninteresting ore.
T. W. Booker, Esq., M.P., Jas. King King, Esq•tand
the Hon. Charles Hanbury, will offer themselves as Pro-
tectionist candidates for Herefordshire at the next ele°-
tion.
Upwards of 80 peers, and upwards of 200 members of
the House of Commons, have signed the requisition to,
Lord Stanley, inviting him to dine at Merchant Tailors
Hall on the 2nd of April.
" A member of convocation," in the Herald, calls up(l
Mr. Gladstone to imitate the conduct of Sir Robt. Pet
and take the opinion of the electors of Oxford University
at a fresh election. _ _

The Hon. Colonel Henry Cole, next brother to the
Earl of Enniskillen, is about to resign the repre seutatiOlS
of Enniskillen. The illness of his brother, with whore Ile
is about to proceed to the continent, is the cause of Ca'
Cole's resignation of his seat in parliament.
A LIVELY CORPSE !—" The protectionists are an i11:r -
creasing section in the lower house, and, with bete
tactics, more subordination, and a surrender of
dogma, not unlikely one day to become a majority.
the Lords they possess as large a majority as they vent,!l„,
to work in that quarter. It is true they want union, Tv,
want policy, they want principles, they want leaders, to e. 15
want everything but numbers, rank, wealth, and socl
respectability; but in the possession of those things then
are strong enough to be dangerous, if not separately, It.
least in combination." So wrote one of the Loncl°'
journals of Thursday last. Which ? The Times ! 1.4
MINISTERIAL MEASURES.—Ministers have not broug-
forward many measures this session ' • and bringing f°4B-
ward nothing, it stands to reason they have not been able
to carry much. In fact, the whole business of the present
year may be found collected on the subjoined

TABLE OF MINISTERIAL MEASURES
40 members make. ...
1 full House makes.

1 defeat makes
20 minorities make
Whig Ministry makes.... One regret the death of Sit
—Punch. Robert Peel

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MR. GRANTLEY BERKELEY'S ATTACK ON MR. DRCII:
MOND.—The scurrility of Mr. Grantley Berkeley's ease.
on the member for West Surrey received no sympetW,
from the House. It is well known that Mr. Drummono •
career has been one which lays him open to observatierl
on the ground of eccentricities, which, in the case 0'
most men, would have disqualified them from appearieil
again in a public capacity. But these are so well kno
and understood, that the coarse attack of a man like 14,1::
Berkeley, was in the worst possible taste. His allusion ''o
the
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the gold knife and fork, &c., was not generally 110,,,fr.
stood, and whether true or not we know not. But as P.'".l
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Lord'sonl residenceya strong
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Jews, who, in expectation of the first advent of the
worldly fashion, than is consistent with sound theologf,
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Messiah,
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case with our Lord in the days of his humiliation, 13m:
before his entrance into glory.—Record.

SCENE IN THE lICITSE OF LORDS.-011 Thursds/'
much curiosity was exhibited in the House of Lords 13f,
the arrival of a gentleman, looking about four hundred
years old, but whom any peerage will prove is only Dv.'
who tottered in, with trembling legs and body bno"
leaning with one hand on a stick, and with the other
upon the stout protective arm of a friend. The foils!.
emaciated as it was, was that of a man whose enormoir
chest would not give in to any number of years ; an
square and compact still, there were about him, indoTh„
tions that he had yet strength and vigour to struggle w_lie
effect. His face was wrinkled, rigid, and ghastly P,T..,1
o' and contrasted painfully with a black wig, eoncesO
grotesquely those grey hairs which, being human lip
natural, render the aspect of great age at least not ro $
pleasing. Who could this be? He was assisted
seat; and, after the reers had done shaking hands Vol
him, for he was clearly as much a stranger to them as P 1
the galleries, he got up, taking a bundle of papers froos.
his pocket, and began to speak. The voice was rend'
raised in a moment ; it was Lord Lyndhurst, The voin
was still as musical, while as powerful as twenty year;
ago, the style as clinching, and the manner as daring
when, season after season, he took Whig measures fi
pieces—then described by an astute judge as a 084
council, and a demon in debate.—London Corresponded
of Journal.