The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-13 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

A numerous meeting was*held at Bristol on Monday,
for the purpose of maintaining and extending local self-
government, in opposition to centralization.
The inhabitants of Gloucestershire have presented to
Mr. Peter Matthews, a splendid silver tea and coffee ser-
vice, for his exertions in the cause of protection.
The election for the borough of Lambeth resulted in
the return of Mr. Williams, formerly M.P. for Coventry,
the numbers at the close of the poll, on Tuesday, being :
Williams, 3,960; Napier, 1,152; Palmer, 552. Majority
for Mr. Williams, 2,808.
The connexion of Sir James P. Kay Shuttleworth with
the Council Office of Education has entirely ceased. Mr.
Lingen is his successor, and fills exactly the same post,
which is, and always was, strictly speaking, only that of
an " assistant-secretary."

A most important memorial, signed by every minister
of the Wesleyan Conference at present assembled in Lon-
don, (520 in number,) praying that the new Sunday postal
arrangements may have a full and fair trial, has just been
forwarded to Lord John Russell.
On Wednesday evening a public meeting was held at
the Crown and Anchor in the Strand, London, Mr.
Hume in the chair, to propose a monument to Sir Robert
Peel from the working classes. The presence of some
Chartists caused considerable confusion for some time.
A penny subscription was resolved on.
ROMAN CATHOLIC PRELATES.—On Wednesday, in the
House of Commons, Sir R. Inglis said that a certain
foreign potentate having appointed parties to certain offices
in her Majesty's dominions abroad, a circular had been
issued from the Colonial Office, which it appeared would
have the effect of giving those persons precedence over
other persons appointed to offices by her Majesty. He
wished to know whether it was intended to keep this cir-
cular in force ? Mr. Hawes said that directions had been
issued to the colonial anthorities that the Roman Catholic
Prelates in those colonies should have their tithes recog-
nized ; but these directions included no precedence to be
given to the parties.
A WORD TO THE ADVOCATES OF UNIVERSAL SUF-
FRAGE.—At the Lambeth election, on Tuesday, only 5644
recorded their votes, being considerably less than two-
thirds of the number that voted at the general election,
and only two fifths of the entire number of electors on
the register. So much for the Suffrage ! " Supposing,
(says the Times,) England throughout its area were rep-
resented as the various boroughs of the metropolis are
represented et the present time (it excepts Lord John
Russell) what would be the effect? That is the point for
consideration. It may well be that men of higher cha-
racter, and of more distinguished intellectual qualifica-
tions, would readily attract the sympathies and secure the
votes of these constituencies ; but what does their ab-
sence prove ? Simply that the same feeling of unwilling-
ness to face large electoral bodies which is said to prevail
in the United States is gradually rising up in this coun-
try. •On the other side of the Atlantic we are told by all
who know the country best that the most distinguished
citizens shrink from stepping forward on the arena of
public life lest they be made the mat& for calumny and
abuse."