The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-06-03 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

It is stated that Sir Thomas Hesketh and Mr. Townley
Parker will be brought forward by the Notectionists for
North Lancashire at the next election.
Mr. Crawford, Free-trader, was returned for Harwich
on Wednesday, by a majority of six over Mr. Prinsep.
Not a flag, banner, or favour was to be seen during the
election.

Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Brown, Sir T. B. Birch, Mr. Henry,
Mr. Heywood, Sir P. Egerton, Mr. J. Tollemache, Mr-
Heyworth, Mr. W. Jackson, Mr. Thornely,. and Sir J.
Walmsley voted against Mr. Baillie's motion relative to
Ceylon. Lord J. Manners, W. E, Gladstone, Col. Peel,
&c., voted in favour of it.

Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart., has so far succeeded
in winning the approbation of the freeholders of his native
county by the publication of his pamphlet, as-to become
their choice (in place of Mr. T. Brand, one of the present
members), as protectionist candidate at the next general
election, and will be returned without opposition.
The Times justifies the attack of the mob on the pro-
tectionist party, at Tamworth as provoked by their hold-
ing a meeting " with the view of insulting the memory
of a great statesman over whom the grave had but recently
closed." According to our peaceful contemporary they,
" richly deserved to feel the consequences of their folly'
in deliberately going to " insult the feelings of a com-
munity which, but for such provocation, would have re-
mained in order and peace." Curious arguments these !
The fourth monthly soirée pf the National Reform
Association, which was held on Monday night at the
London Tavern, was a rather remarkable demonstration.
Sir Joshua Walmsley, the president, expressed his regret
that the association had not been supported by the public
with the zeal which its great objects should have elicited;
but hopes were expressed that, as Lord John Russell has
now promised a Parliamentary Reform Bill, the people
would in time bestir themselves, sofas to secure a large
and efficient measure. Mr. Cobden, for the first time,
presented himself at the meetings-of the association.—
Mercury.

PußLic BUSINESS.—Lord J. Russell stated, on Friday,
that on Friday next he should move that the house. at its
rising, should adjourn to the Thursday following, and for
leave to bring in two bills—one to improve the adminis-
tration of justice in the Court of Chancery and in the
Judicial Committee of Privy Council, and the other to
regulate the salaries of the Chief Justice of the Court of
Queen's Bench, and the Chief Justice of the Court 0'
Common Pleas. On Monday, he should propose to sub-
stitute the name cif Mr. Labouchere for that of Mr. Fox
Maule on the Kaffir committee;. and when the Ecclesias-
tical Titles Bill had passed through committee—(alao])
—he should take the committee on the Jewish Disabilities
Bill. He also proposed to take the committee of supplY
on Thursday and Friday, the 12th and 13th of June. lsLig OF WIGHT ELECTION.—SUDDIIN DEATH."—Au4.
the final close of the poll, on Tuesday, the numbers were
—Mr. Dawes (free trader), 565 ; Mr. Hammond (protec-
tionist), 519 ; majority, 46. The excitement was very
great during the day. The police were using their trun-
cheons right and left, seemingly without any object other
than the breaking of heads. At half-past five on Monday
afternoon one man had been taken home on a stretcher,
and others bruised, and the police had retired to the sta-
tion-house. Mr. Cole, a highly-respectable solicitor In.
Hyde, who had been for some time under medical treat—
ment, and was entreated by his medical adviser not to,
interfere in the election, was employed by the protection
ist party, and he could not resist the temptation of inter-
fering. On Monday he left the Town-hall, where the
voting was going on, and as it was rumoured that he Wag'
going after voters, he was followed and pelted with rotten'
eggs. To avoid the mob he ran into the kitchen of Ad-
miral Christ an, and up stairs into the drawing-room,
where he instantly dropped down dead. This gentlemen:
had been for some time labouring under disease of the
heart, and had been cautioned by his medical adviser t°'
keep quiet.