The Daily Cincinnati Republican, And Commercial Register

CINCINNATI:
MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1835.

The editor of the New York Star has a regular correspondent established at Liverpool. The following are extracts from his latest letter:

LIVERPOOL, February 1, 1835.

The general election has concluded, and the result is that out of the 653 members in the House of Commons, no less than from 350 to 400 may safely be calculated on as likely to give their most determined opposition to the ministry of Sir Robert Peel. The majority against him will probably be from 100 to 150.

The earliest trial of strength will take place on the subject of electing the speaker of the new House of Commons. The gentleman who filled that office, (to which is attached a salary of $25,000 per annum,) holds very violent tory principles; but, hitherto, his conduct while presiding over a great deliberative assembly, has been marked by a very great impartiality. The speaker is usually a member of the King's privy council, and you may not know that among the said council, are as many whigs as tories. When the whigs are in office, no tory attends the meetings of the privy council; I doubt whether they are summoned to any—and when the tories are in place, the whigs keep away. Now, during the late attempts at cabinet-making, Sir C. M. Sutton, the speaker, did attend all the meetings of the privy council called by the Tories, and for this intermeddling with politics, he is to be rejected by the new parliament. Personally, he has nothing to lose by this rejection, for an act of parliament has lavishly endowed him with a yearly retiring pension of 20,000 dollars, the reversion of which descends to his son, a young man of about 25. So that, in fact, as young Sutton may live for fifty years to come, this tax-oppressed nation will have paid him the enormous sum of 1,000,000 dollars, because his father, for some ten years sat in the speaker's chair, and for doing so receives a net amount of 25,000 dollars! If Sir C. M. Sutton be thrown out of the speaker's chair, he will take office as a member of the cabinet or fall back into the House of Lords, with the "dignity" of a peerage.

The person whom, if possible, the Whigs will elect as Speaker of the new Parliament, is a Mr. Abercromby, member for the city of Edinburgh. He was connected, by place, with the late Ministry. He will be backed by all the strength of the Whigs, and, if that strength be fully brought into action, there can be no doubt that he will be elected. He is a sulky, surly man, and of his political honesty one anecdote will suffice. In 1829, he was appointed by the Duke of Wellington, to the then vacant post of Chief Baron of the Exchequer of Scotland. He had an annual income, on account of this judicial post, of $25,000 a year—he remained Scottish Chief Baron for the space of three years—fobbed his $75,000 during that time; and actually the situation was such a sinecure that, during those three years, he only tried two law cases. That is, each case he tried cost the country 37,500 dollars! The indignation of the public arose against this abominable enormity, and he was compelled to allow the sinecure place to be abolished. But he fought for, and won, a life annuity of 10,000 dollars, as a "retiring pension;" and when Lord Althorpe, anxious to save this money, offered him a situation, in which he would have to do some little work for the enormous salary, this virtuous Mr. Abercromby—a man who had worn the judicial ermine—actually and positively declined to do other than eat the bread of idleness. This gentleman will probably be the new Speaker of the British House of Commons.

Within these few days, some of the London papers have given currency to a report, which, if founded on fact, will materially change the prospects of the Princess Victoria. It is, that the Queen, (now in her 44th year,) has become "as ladies wish to be who love their lords." The matter furnishes a topic for much speculation, and abundance of scandal.