The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-20 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.

(From the Oxford Herald.)
The borough of Andover still continues to send Members
to Parliament—here is the mode in which the elective fran-
chise is there exercised ; it occurs in the examination on
Lord Huntingtower's Bankruptcy.
" Mr. Nias—What was your second transaction with the
bankrupt? My second transaction with his lordship was on
the 29th of June, 1841, for electioneering purposes, and
when his lordship was a minor. His lordship wished them
to raise £l,OOO, which I had authority to get on any
terms. This sum I knew was necessary from other sources
to secure his lordship's return. I came to London from An-
dover, and procured £BOO in £5 notes. It was to make a
great show, which effect it really had. I handed those to his
lordship up stairs. The notes, which were called the physic
they wanted, having been exhibited to some of the worthy
electors, there was of course a considerable sensation.
(Laughter.) I mention this to show that his lordship could
hardly be expected to account fully on such a transaction as
that; it was like water running through a sieve. The notes,
as I have said, having been exhibited to some of the worthy
electors, I was carried into the room to be introduced to his
committee, taking care to shake up the physic, as it was
called." (Loud laughter. The vein of merriment exhibited
by the witness created merriment.)
" Mr. James.—To be well shaken before taken, I sup-.:.
pose ?—Yes, precisely so ; and it had great effect upon the
electors." (Increased laughter.)
The facetious and moral money-lender has displayed the
purity of the electors of Andover with a very vivid pencil,
but even his talent was scarcely sufficient to display the con-
duct of Lord William Paget in its proper colours. Lord
William Paget went down to Andover with his friend Lord
Huntingtower, a minor. If we are to believe the latter and
his agent, Mr. Douglas, he was, if returned to parliament,
to be merely the place-keeper of Lord Huntingtower until he
came of age. Lord William Paget was returned, and, as we
learn from the same authorities, by the force of bribes, sup-
plied by monies raised upon the credit of his friend Lord
Huntingtower, by Lord Huntingtower's friend Douglas.
All that Lord William contributed to this electioneering en-
terprise was his name—the value of which is something like
a cypher, divided by cypher, or an indefinite quantity. Mr.
Douglas says—

" Lord Huntingtower and Lord William Paget had en-
tered into an agreement that if the four bills of £l,OOO each
upon which they both were liable, and which were given at
Andover for the purposes of the election, could be taken up
and returned by Lord Huntingtower to Lord William Paget,
that then Lord William Paget would resign his seat in parlia-
ment for the purpose of Lord .Huntingtower's being re-
turned. To accomplish this, I discounted the bills I then
had of his Lordship's, which I had drawn upon him, and are
more particularly mentioned in the agreement of the 17th of
July, and paid the £4OOO, and delivered the same over to
his lordship."
At a subsequent stage of the proceedings—
" Mr. James asked Lord Huntingtower if Lord William
Paget had ever been called upon to resign his seat for An-
dover. His lordship stated in the affirmative. A requisition,
signed by 100 of the electors, had been presented to him, but
he refused. When the deputation waited upon Lord William
Paget, he insulted them, and refused to resign. He did not
intend to do that, he said. There was also a private agree-
ment between them as gentlemen, but that was not re-
garded."

Ala., fnr the characters of Andover and Lord William !

MAGNANIMITY OF A. NEW YORK EDITOR.

We copy the following ridiculous expose from the New
York Morning Herald:—
" COL. Wenn— His CONDITION OF MIND IN PRISON.—
We are afraid that our old friend and fellow-sufferer, Col.
Webb, of the regular army, is hardly in the right frame of
mind to receive an act of kindness, mercy, or pardon. The
Rev. Dr. Anthon should by all means visit him, for since
his confinement be has exhibited some strange aberrations of
temper.
" Let us unfold our budget.
" As soon as the colonel was imprisoned, notwithstanding
all he has said and done acainst us, I felt softened to the
heart at his melancholy condition—wounded and in prison
on such an affair. 1 accordingly got up a petition on Sunday
last, and by Monday night had it signed by 500 as respecta-
ble names as there are in New York. I sent it up to the
governor as fast as possible, so as to throw my little mite of
sympathy into his case, and aid his pardon and liberation as
much as possible.

" In addition to all this, I sent a note' to Mr. Gilbert
Davis, corner of William and Pine streets, N 1) ho keeps a
famous wine-cellar there—ordering half a dozen of cham-
pagne to be sent to Webb's apartments in the Tombs—also
a similar order to Henriques, 51, William-street, an equally
famous cigar store, to send a box of his best regalias. The
following contains the order for the latter :

" ORDER.
" Dear Sir,—A. man called on us, and requested us to
send up to Colonel Webb 100 good regalias. Do you mean
it ? If so, please acquaint the bearer, and it shall be
promptly done—say so in writing. 100 good regalias cost
5 dols., but we have a good article for 3 dols. the 100.—
Your obedient servant,

" ' HENRIQUES, 51, William-street.
" ' Monday afternoon.'
" ANSWER.
" ' Send the best.
" ' J. G. BENNETT.'

" By some mistake the wine was not sent—but on Mon-
day afternoon the cigars reached Webb's apartments. On
the young man entering he found Webb attended by four
friends, a black servant waiting behind. He presented the
box of cigars, and stated the message. What was Webb's
reply ? Anything but what we expected. Colonel Webb
looked at him like an old-fashioned thunder-cloud, saying,
` I have nothing to say to you, but tell Henriquez that if he
had brought them himself, and dared to offer them, 1 would
have kicked him out.' The messenger, astonished at such
treatment on a mission of kindness, retreated precipitately,
while the four persons present laughed outright. He returned
to 51, William-street, cigars, reply, and all in one general
box of astonishment. A further correspondence, verbal and
written, has passed between Colonel Webb and Mr. Hen-
riques, in relation to this unnecessary insult, but what is its
tenour we do not yet know. Henriquez has spunk, and will
hardly brook it.
" Now, really this affair seems strange, and positively in-
dicates that Colonel Webb wants advice and prayers of no
ordinary kind. Here we have been getting op petitions,
aiding him in his difficulties, and doing verything we could
with propriety and delicacy to increase his comfort in prison,
till the pardon is procured—till the veto on the sentence is
certain. Acting on such motives, and in such a way, the
colonel certainly behaved very unhandsomely to Henriques,
who had nothing further to do in the matter than what we
have related. Instead of wine and cigars, our old friend
seems to require, in a greater degree, the pious prayers of
some clergyman.
" We shall, therefore, endeavour to procure the Rev. Mr.
Miller, or the prophet, Joe Smith,
,or some other eminent
and pious person to call upon him (toe Rev. Mr. Anthon has
hardly power enough) to put him, 437 prayers and other de-
votions, into a right frame of mind, while we follow out thp
petition till he gets released. The wine and cigars, we be-
lieve, we shall send to the poor prize-fighters at White Plains,
who are in pretty much the same predicament with the
gallant colonel, and who will soon be in as much need of a
pardon. Will they refuse them, and insult the messenger?
We hope not. "
In the meantime we call upon every humane person in
New York, within
in favour
reach of our words,
who have not
signed the petition favour of poor God-forsaken Webb, to
come to the Herald office, corner of Nassau and Fulton-street,
and put down their names forthwith. Come in—come in—
come in ! We have now well on to a thousand, and we mean
to make it five thousand, if we can, before Friday next, the
last day of grace. On Saturday the colonel receives his
sentence. Although he behaves badly, we shall not.

tsoayptehaant
BisHoraic of CASHEL.—We bell
the humour which we mentioned on Tuesday,.
Daly being elevated to the see
Fleury is to
founded. It is also mentioned evewmaasy
in the DublleisnFle correspondence
of Cashel is perfectly well
of the London Times that the 1 F
be appointed to the Deanery of
t as to Dean M apprehend, •
Maude, will
however, that our former ststemen
Sitt.eiatClick's. We
f correctness. The latter ru-
be found nearer the mark n to be true. As to the eleva-
mour would be too good news
superfluous in us to sav tat
tion of Dean Daly, it "
s with the utmost gratification—nor should
we mention theisal
, Mr. Fleury were indeed to be his succes-
we say much ieseryi .
Dublin Statesman.—The Rev. Doctor
sor in the deanery
elevated to the united see of Cashel and Emly,
Daly, installed of St. Patrick's on Tuesday last, was
on Thursday
waterfordand Lismore. The promotion of this distinguished
divine is even more rapid than that of Dr. O'Brien, between
whose advancement to the deanery of Cork, and subsequent
elevation to the see of Ossory and Ferns, a few weeks were
suffered to elapse. The arrangements consequent upon the
promotion of Dr. Daly are understood to confer the Deanery
of St. Patrick's upon Dean Maude, who is to be succeeded
in the Deanery of Clogher by the Rev. Mr. Balfour, a relative
of the Enniskillen family, whose collation to the benefice
vacated by the death of the Rev. Cobbe Beresford, was re-
cently announced. Dublin Evening Mail.—The deanery
thus vacated by the elevation of Dr. Daly to the see of
Cashel has been, it is said, conferred by Earl De Grey on
the Hon. and Rev. Dr, Maude, Dean of Clogher, and
brother, I believe, of Viscount Hawarden. The Rev. Mr.
Balfour, a connexion of the Enniskillen family, succeeds to
the Deanery of Clogher. Dr. Singer, F.T.C.D., was, I un-
derstand, offered, and refused to accept the Deanery of St.
Patrick's ; and report further adds, that the dignity was
tendered for the acceptance of Archdeacon Pakenham, who
also declined the elevation. Dean Maude is stated to be
as strenuous an opponent of the national system of educa-
tion as the new Bishop of Cashel, and more he certainly need
not be.—Cot•respondent of Times.