The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-04 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

The Radicals of the county Cork have called on Dr.
Power, M.P., to resign, for voting with the late ministers.
Since Lord Liverpool, no premier except one has
retained_office fades many as five years. .

The lion. M. T. Baines has announced that he shall
retire from the representation of Hull at the close of the
present parliament.
The government of the Hague is said to be disposed to
bring forward a proposition for altering, or even totally
abolishing, the import duty on coal.
The Herald says that Lord Stanley intended to have
made Sir E. Sugden Lord Chancellor and the Duke of
Northumberland First Lord of the Admiralty.

Sir George Tyler, a Protectionist, was returned for
Glamorganshire, on Tuesday, without opposition, in the
room of Earl Dunvaven, resigned.
The downfall of the Russell ministry was received with
the utmost possible delight in Limerick, Cashel, and
throughout Tipperary. Lord John Russell was burned in
effigy in the ancient city of the kings. _ .

The heads of the Protectionist-party dined with the
Earl and Countess of Glengall on Wednesday evening,
at their mansion in Grosvenor-street. Lord and Lady
Stanley, the Earl of Lonsdale, Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli,
the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, and Viscount
Canterbury, were among the guests.
A large and influential meeting of the Protectionists of
the county of Cambridge was held on Thursday, at which
a series of resolutions, and petitions to parliament, com-
plaining of agricultural distress and asking for a revision
of the import duties, were unanimously adopted. Mr.
Yorke, M.P., and Lord John Manners, M.P., were two
of the speakers.
LORD STANLEY ON PROTECTION.—In the course of his
speech on Friday night, Lord Stanley uttered the follow-
ing pregnant words ;—`' I still regard the policy of 1846
as an experiment, and if at the next general election the
people of this country shall pronounce that experiment to
be successful, then I shall for one be prepared to lay Lside
all further thoughts of its modification."

The Times tells us that the ministry just dead, or living
as the cr.se may be, held office longer than any others
except the Liverpool administration. But the Melbourne
Ministry existed from April, 1835, to September, 1841.
Lord John Russell's Government came into office in July,
1846, and lasted until February, 1851. So the Times
declares to the world that four years and seven months is
considerably longer than six years and five months.

AN ACCIDENTAL PREMIER.—On Monday evening
when the House of Commons was crowded to excess
anticipatory of the ministerial explanation, Mr. Af °nekton
Milnes entered the house, and apparently absorbed in
thought, forced his way unconsciously to Lord John
Russell's seat on the treasury benches which was still
vacant, the noble lord not having arrived. Mr. Milnes
did not observe the curious error he had made until
aroused to a sense of it by the vociferous peals of laugh-
ter which greeted the odd coincidence.
The following reductions have been made in the expenses
of the Diplomatic Service, to take effect from the 6th of
April next :—There are to be in future but two British
ministers abroad with the rank of ambassador, namely,
at Paris and Constantinople. The Paris embassy is re-
duced from £lO,OOO to £BOOO a year ; the Madrid mission
is reduced from £6OOO a year, and £550 for house rent,

to £5OOO a year, and £7OO house rent; the Vienna mis-
sion is reduced from £9OOO a year, and £9OO house rent,
to £5OOO a year, and £9OO house rent ; the secretary of
legation at Vienna to have £550 instead of £9OO, hitherto
paid to the secretary of the embassy.
_

TnE LATE GOVERNMENT.—In tlle House of Lords on
Friday, Lord Stanley said that the resignation of the late
government took place so suddenly that the noble marquis
opposite (Lansdowne) was out of town not expecting it,
and the noble earl near him (Lord Tinto) received the
information in the city that he was no longer a cabinet
minister—(a laugh)—showing that the noble earl was as
little acquainted with the intentions of the cabinet as he
was with those of the Pope, for it appeared the noble lord
at the head of the government, when he wrote to her
Majesty announcing his intention to resign, had not even
consulted the noble earl, his relative, on the subject.
(Laughter.)
HUMILIATING CONFESSION.—In the course of Sir
James Graham's speech on Friday evening, he boastfully
avowed that "on the part of Sir Robert Peel's govern-
ment, he was the person who moved the endowment of
the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth, a measure
which, he was bound to say, in his humble belief, shook
the foundation of Sir Robert Peel's government, but
which, nevertheless, he believed to have been a portion of
the debt of justice due to the people of Ireland, and
which, whatever might have been its effects, was a mea-
sure he could never regret. (" Hear," from the Roman
Catholic members.) Above all, he was the organ of Sir
Robert Peel's government in conducting the Charitable
Bequests Act through this house—an act, be it observed,
which recognised the dignity of the Roman Catholic arch-
bishops and bishops and parochial clergy in Ireland." If
this is not glorying in his shame we know not what can
be.

BRITISH PREMIERS.—The following is a list of British
premiers during the last century
Appointed

Time in office
Yrs. Days
S 53
0 322
2 87