The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-21 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

LINCOLN ELECTION, THURSDAY. - Final close :
Hobhouse, 554 ; Humfrey, 501. Majority for Hobhouse,

The inhabitants of Birmingham are about to send to
parliament a similar petition to that from Liverpool, for a
revision of taxation.
One of the London Journals states that the Duke De
Montpensier was ordered by the Privy Council to quit
England, and he has left. accordingly.
At a meeting of the Westminster Reform Society last
week, a petition was agreed to, calling on her Majesty to
dismiss her present ministers. Mr. Cobden was proposed
as the successor of Lord John Russell.
Mr. Disraeli's theory of Jewish predominance has just
received another lift. Two leading members of the
French provisional government, MM. Cremieux and
Goodchoux, are Jews.

Great dissatisfaction has been created at Newcastle by
the recent votes of Mr. T. E. Headlam, their Whig mem-
ber, and at a public meeting a resolution was passed,
pledging those present to oppose him at any future elec-
tion.

In Lord Clinton's address to the electors of Kinsale
after the election, he says :—" Although for the moment
unsuccessful, I entertain no doubt but that a committee
will place me in the proud position of representing you in
parliament."

The chartists have issued an address to the working
classes at Derby, in which they strongly condemn the late
riotous proceedings at Trafalgar-square and elsewhere.
The changes they wish are to be brought about " by
means purely moral and constitutional."
An open-a►r chartist meeting was held at Sheffield, on
Monday afternoon, to " congratulate" the French. There
were from 12,000 to 15,000 persons present, and the whole
of the proceedings were conducted in a peaceable and
orderly manner.

Messrs. Hume, Cobden. Wakley, and the Radicals,
united with Lord G. Bentinck, Messrs. Disraeli, Hudson,
and some few of the protectionists, to oppose the govern-
ment proposal—the first, on the ground that our revenue
ought to be made good by disbanding the army ; the last,
by retaxing corn.
Mr. MACGREGOR.—This gentleman, one of the mem-
bers for Glasgow, addressed the House of Commons last
week on the income tax, and in the Morning Post is de-
scribed as " having made a miserable figure on the floor of
the house. What," it is said, " with his horribly broad
Scotch accent, his dreadfully unsuccessful attempts to
make him self intelligible, and his excruciating efforts to
give Mr. Disraeli a Roland for an Oliver, he kept the
house in fits of laughter."

BEWO LEY ELETION PETLTlON.—Evidence as to al-
leged treating on the part of Sir Thomas Winnington,
in Bewdley and Stourport, has been given for five days.
It is reported that in the event of Sir T. Winnington
losing his seat, Capt. Winnington and Mr. Taylor, late
M.P. for E. Worcester, will contest the seat. The com-
mittee have declared that Mr. Ireland's election was void,
and that Sir Thomas Winnington had been guilty of ex-
tensive treating, and of bribing a voter named Price. _

THE LOAD -LIEUTENANT OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE.—It
may be recollected that the Committee of Privileges of
the House of Commons was appointed to report upon
charges preferred against Earl Fitzhardinge, for undue in-
terference as a peer in the election of a commoner. Nu-
merous witnesses appeared in support of those charges,
but the committee held that the charge was of too general
and vague a nature, and the whole matter has conse-
quently fallen to the ground.
THE INCOME TAX.—Amongst those who voted on
Monday in the Commons in the majority of 363 against
limiting the income tax to one year were, Sir I'. B. Birch,
E. Cardwell, J. W. Patten, J. Heywood, Lord Brackley,
J. Brotherton, Lord R. Grosvenor, and T. Thornley. In
the minority of 138 we find, A. Henry, Lord G. Bentinck,
J. Bright, R. Cobden, W. Jackson, J. Tollemache, Sir
J. Walmesley, B. D'lsraeli, W. Ewart, C. Hindley, G.
F. Muntz, G. Sandars, Col. Sibthorp, R. Spooner, R. A.
Thicknesse, Col. Thompson, G. Thompson, J. Hume,
and G. Hudson. .

An American vessel has been selected by the govern-
ment authorities at Jamaica for the conveyance of British
troops to Nassau, whilst there were three British vessels
there, ready—at a cheaper rate—and in every way quali-
fied, to perform the duty ! This will give the British
ship-owner a foretaste of what he has to expect from a
repeal of the Navigation Laws; it is a free-trade fling at
the Navigation Laws in advance. It is strange that the
Americans cannot see the great advantages of this free-
trade system, for the United States government still de-
clare that " a foreign flag could not carry American
troops."
VOTES OF LANCASHIRE MEMBERS.—Of the 26 mem-
bers for Lancashire, two, (S. Gregson and R. Walker,)
were absent on Monday, on the occasion of Mr. Hume's
motion for limiting the Income Tax to one year. Eleven
—A. Henry, Sir G. Strickland, J. Hornby, J. Pilkington,
J. Bright, Dr. Bowring, C. llindley, W. S. Crawford,
W. S. Fox, G. Greenall, and R. A. Thicknesse—voted
for it ; and thirteen—J. W. Patten, S. Heywood,
'W. Brown, G. P. Greenfell, M. Wilson, T. Greene, T.
M. Gibson, J. Brotherton, W. Boiling, J. Duncuft, E.
Cardwell, Sir T. B. Birch, and Col. Lindsay—against it,
and in favor of the continuance of the tax for three
years. - -

INCOME TAX Fon IRELAND.—On Friday night the fol-
lowing voted for extending the income tax to Ireland :
Sir T. C. Birch, P. Grenfell, J. Hamby, J. Pilkington,
J. Brotherton, J. Bright, Dr. Bowring, and It. A. Thick-
nesse. Against it we find—E. Cardwell, J. W. Patten,
Sir G. Strickland, Wilson (Clitheroe,) Greene, T. M.
Gibson, Col. Lindsay, and SirJ. Walmsley. J. Heywooo,
W. Brown, A. Henry, A. Cobden, and W. Jackson were
absent. Most of the Protectionists and nearly all the
English Radicals voted for it ;—llume and Hudson went
into the gallery together, Bentinck and Colonel Thomp-
son, Disraeli and Muntz, Carr Glyn, Masterman, Alder-
man Thompson, Kershaw, Spooner, Wakley, and Sib-
thorpe. .

A.-VERY PROPF.R. RuEsTioN.—At the recent Lancaster
Election this question was put to the fiee-tiade candidate
and his proposer and seconder, " Where is the big loaf
that you promised us ?" An Echo answered " Where ?"
—the lips of the interrogated moved not in reply. Again
and again was the oracle entreated to vouchsafe an answer,
but all was dumb silence—there was no intelligence of.the
big loaf even In distant prospect. The question is a very
proper one to be put by all constituencies.- and perhaps
the opportunity of doing so may be nearer than many
persons suspect. There may also be added auother which
will apply to many candidates, "Why did you vote for
the income-tax, which, when the Conservatives were in
office, you so vehemently opposed ? ".

PUNISHMENT OF DEATII.—The following were amongst
the minority on the motion made in the House of Com-
mons, ou Tuesday, for leave to bring in a bill for the total
repeal of the punishment of death :—Hugh E. Adair, IL
Aglionby, Sir Thomas Birch, Dr. Bowring, John Bright,
J. Brotherton, James Clay, Richard Cobden, Charles
Cowan, W.-S. Crawford, Edward Divett, George:S. Duff,
Lord R. Grosvenor, Sir B. Hall, Alexander Henry, JameS
Heywood, C. Hindlev, T. Twisden Hodges, Joseph Hunie,
William Hutt, William Jackson, James Kershaw, IL M.
Manes; Francis Mowatt, G. F. Muntz, Timothy O'Brien,
John Pattison, J, Pilkington, W. Scholefield, B. Smith,
Sir G. Strickland, J. Tennent, Col. Thompson, G. Thomp-
son, T. Thornely,
_E. Turner, Sir J. Walmsley,
Ewart, and Lord Nugent.
RUMOURED CHANGES IN THE MINISTRY.—Our read-
ers will remember that the first act of Lord John It wee'',
on taking office, was to offer seats in the cabinet to the
Earl of Lincoln and the Earl of Dalhousie. The latter
nobleman, although he then declined office, has since ac.
cepted the governor-generalship of India. The Earl of
Lincoln is the nobleman who is the picot of this negotia-
tion: Lord John Russell, it is understand, will go to the
Hottse of Peers, where his weight of character and eaga-

city 'are much wanted by his ka'rtY, Paid where it will not
fie Drepssani for him to speak often or at great length.
The Earl of Lincoln would be the leader of ,the: Weise of
Conimons assisted by Lord PalinerStou, as often as that
statesman's multiplying functions wonid allow him to do
so. There would be a complete re-arrangement of offices,
so as to let in Mr. Cardwell and one or two others; and it
miderstooll that the new government would offer the
poit of vice-president of the Board of Trade to the hon.
member for Westbury, who,.both in his newspaper and in
Pailiarocut, Lis shown so much aCqualotancd with
onuaercial•affainrof the country.--NOif,