The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-11 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANII

Viscount Brackley has resigned his seat for North-
Staffordshire in consequence of ill health.
The Observer, Ministerial paper, advises all free traders
to be at their' posts to defeat Mr. Disraeli's motion, as
the Protectionist party are expected to muster strong.
Lord John Russell, through the indirect med.um of a
-friend, has disavowed all responsibility touching,the pub 7
lication of Lord Holland's Reminiscences.
The Morning Herald says that the Queen's Speech was
returned by her Majesty to her Ministers nO less than
three times before she deemed it satisfactory.
The Church and State Gazette speaks of attacks made
.upon Prince Albert by certain foreign newspapers. No
term is too gross for application against the Prince Con-
sort. " German Rationalist," " Infidel,", and the like,
are among the least offensive of the epithets.
Sir Robert Inglis was present at' Lord Stanley's resi-
dence on Tuesday, when the leading members of the Pro-
tectionist party assembled, being the• first time the right
hon. bart. has been present at a similar meeting at his
lordship's. Lord Stanley declared emphatically that he
would oppose any legislation which attempted-to recognise
any distinction between the Irish and English Church,
and that he would offer a determined opposition to any
concordat with the Pope.
CURIOUS DISCLOSURES.—The Spectator declares that
the resolutions which we published last week were aban-
doned by Ministers at, the last moment, and therefore up
to toe meeting of Parliament they can scarcely have,known
their intentions. Our contemporary adds, "It is not for
us to say, by what channel the intelligence reached us—by
what man, rather above than below the middle height,
with cloak and sloucled hat, the midnight; packet was
delivered to us. We betray no confidences ; riot even in
revenge for being left in the lurch by Lord John, who has
so shamefully suffered the declaratory resolution to slip
through his fingers. The loss is not ours, but his."
How TO SPEND MONEY.—The following appears in
Bell's H eekly Messenger :--
"Men are now employed in laying down in Palace-yard a
number of wires to form an electric telegraph, which will com-
municate between the Admiralty and Westminster Palace,
which is 'to be established for the purpose on any, immediate
emergency of a communication being necessary during the
attendance •of her Majesty's ministers at the parliament
houses."

The admiralty, or her Majesty's ministers, must be sadly
in want of messengers, and of pens, ink, and paper, to
require a telegraph and a staff of clerks to convey com-
munications a distance which any quick-footed lad could
run over in a couple of minutes. It will be sotnething of
" The-King-drinks-to-Hamlet" sort of thing, when the
usher of the black rod comes in to announce to either
houses of parliament, " The admiralty speaks to the prime
minister."
CHANGE OF OPINION.—In the monthly circular of.
the Messrs. Sturge, corn-factors, of Birmingham, will be
found opinions upon the corn trade very different from,
and in some respects diametrically opposed to, those
Which they advanced before the opening of the ports to
foreign grain, duty free. The important points axe:
That prices have ruled lower than they anticipated at the
commencement of last year. That the farmer cannot
safell- calculate upon more than 40s. per quarter for wheat. .
That the crop of wheat in France will in future have more
effect upon our prices than that of any other country.
That, if the appearance of the coming crop continue
favourable, they are not sanguine of, a considerable ad-
vance upon the present quotations. That, alt ough there
'may be Gloss on imports, it will not prevent consider-
able quantity of foreign' -wheat finding its w to Great
Britain during the spring and summer, which will be sold
at market value, withbut reference*, its cost. ' These are
the conclusions of free-traders. .
THE NEW COLONIAL SECRETARY FOR CEYLON.—
Ceylon, it is rumoured, is to have the benefit, at no dis-
tant period, of the services of a gentleman who enjoys
the singular advantage of being a near relation of two
distinguished individuals, Mr. Hawes, the :Under Se-
'cretary of' State for the Colonies, and Dr. Wiseman,
pseudo-Archbishop of Westminster, and, when at Rome,.
Cardinal of St. Pudentiatia. With a view tOelucidate
a matter which at the present moment is so truly curious,
we should be glad to know in what relation the mother of
Dr. Wiseman stood to the mother of a, gentleman who
has recently become the happy son-in•law of Mr. Hawes,
and who is spoken of as the Colonial Secretary designate
of • Ceylon. Were they, perchance, cousins german,
daughters of. two brothers, with a strange nathe ? Was
the happy son-in-law—second cousin of the man who ha'
set all England in a blaze—even tutor in the family of a
noble. Earl, who kindly transferred him to the service of
the country when he had done with him ? And' has he
since done duty in the capacity of Mr. Under 'Secretary's
Secretary, the Sub.'s Sub. ? Those better versed in
genealogical and bureaucratical lore than we ourselves
pretend to be, alight perchance help us to clear up this
interesting mystery.—John Bull. .
HVIR. MAJESTY'S DELIVERY OF HER SPSECH.--Her
Majesty delivered the Royal Speech in a clear, musical,
and happily modulated tone of voice. She was distinctly
audible' in every part of The Royal Speech, except in the
first paragraph, which 'she began before the:noise occa-
sioned by the arrival of th-s Commons had: quite subsided.
Having finished this opening sentence, she suspended the
further reading of the Speech for a few instants until
silence was restored. When the paragraph relative to the
Papal aggression was read, there was a general and sup.
pressed cry of " Hush !" and the most intense interest
was evinced. We think a slight sensation of /disappoint
ment was felt throughout the body of the house when this
paragraph was read, and there were some who, drinking
an every tone of. her Majesty's .voice .at this instant,
thought she was•conscious of this disappointinent, and
sympathised with it. The impression may haVe been the
overwrought fancy of the moment, but we own that when
her Majesty closed the paragraph with the words, " it will
be for you to consider the measure which will be laid be-
fore you on this subject," we shared in the belief that her
Majesty would have been glad to have announced a more
definite conclusion, It was also noticeable that the
Queen, raising her voice, uttered with marked emphasis
her resolution " to maintain the rights of my Crown and
' the independence of the nation against all encroachment,
from whatever quarter it may proceed." The rest of the
speech fell from the royal lips almost unheeded.—Times.
WHAT THE COIIDENITE PARTY WOULD DO IN CASE OF
AN INVASION,—It is often said by persons who know no-
thing of war,either by study or experience, that " if the
French invaded us, we should all rise up and crush them."
Setting aside • what need not be . said to any'man who
knows anything of the subject—the utter inadequacy of
an unarmed, untrained, and.undisciplined body of- men,
however individually brave, to repel the attack of a power.
ful regular army—we, shall by one word settle this matter
of the. nation rising up. It would rise up, and we know
what it would do. The most influential part of it, -at
. least in the tow,i who 'now rule the state, would run
away. We do not mean run away from the field ; for,
truly, very few of those who now raise the cry for economy
and disarming would be found there. We mean they
:would counsel, and, infact, insist on submission. Many
brave men would doubtless be found in the towns, and
l' multitudes in the • country, who would ,be :eager at the
phsts of danger ; but the great bulk of the, wealthy and
influential classes, at least in the great cities, would
loudly
call out for an accommodation on any terms. They
would surrender the
,fleets, dismantle. Portsmouth and
,Plymouth, cede Gibraltar and Malta—anything to stop
the crisis. They would do so for the same reason that
they now so earnestly.counsel disbanding the troops and
selling the ships of the line, and under the influence of a
Much more cogent necessity—inorder to he able to con-
i.. tinuE without interruption the makincof money.,' ream,
peace! would tie the uniVersarery, at least among the
rith in the towns, as it was in Paris in 1814. There would
be no thought of imitating the burning' of Moscow, or re-
newing the sacrifice of Numantia. The feeling among
'the, vast majority of the- manufacturing and'mercantile
classes would be--'" What is the use: of fighting and .pro—
longing-so terrible a crisis ? Our workmen arnstarving,
ourharbours are blockaded, our trade is gone, we are evi—
dently overmatched ; let Its on any terms get out of the
'. contest, and sit 'quietly on our cotton
.bags, to make me-s
' neY by weaving cloth for our conquerors.—Blackwood. '