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that part of the kingdom., This sxbject is one which has been condemned as unfi for discussion in parliament at a moment of expected dissolution. lam unable to understand the practical distincticm thus drawn by Lord John Russell SANDON AND CRESSWELL. -nel highly roipectable M EETING of the between the poor-las dieWARD, one case d e t a il s were un d er th e con -vening, the 18th inst., sideration of the house, in the other it might be the object of u gs , q ., in the Chair, ministers to limit the discussion to principles ; but the at .-,imously adopted : tempt at such limitation would have been vain. The princi - ..00nded by ples on which the zovernment Aypti ,Intv nn ertrn Nation. Fai DAT b MN WA LIC —nrough former discuss..,.__. the conduct of I I know now why the virtue and sincerity of members about as the Repre- I to face their constituents should be more distrusted on the mnent, 11.13 LUC timer. .m to a renewal of the I consider a revision of our commercial tariff a task worthy , d to them on the 25th of a strong and united government, and by such a government . I hope to see it undertaken. ,q., and seconded by An address of this description is necessarily but a slight summary of topics of leading interest at the moment. I have msslves individually and confined myself to one object, that of giving you the means s tst secure the re-elec- of judging whether, on the score of my opinions on subjects -sswell, Esq., as their which have grown into recent importance, you have reason to withhold the confidence you have twice reposed in me. I might have contrived to obscure or postpone the enunciation those opinions under the smoke of an attack on the conduct id proceedings of a government to which I am opposed ; at I have thought it fairer not to ntix up the exposition of y own views with reflections ou the views or conduct of hers. ,o use ft nd seconded by Mr.M‘Qulz, men be a Committee to carry of effect, with power to add to a n by Villiam Dart, Thomas Roberts, John Peers, John Middleton, I am ready, if called upon, for controversy on these mat ters, in its proper time and place. In one respect, perhaps, I may enter at a disadvantage into the strife of parties. Bo dily infirmity, with pain and exhaustion in its train, cannot confer the wisdom of age ; but I sensibly feel that it may produce an indifference to the ordinary prizes and rewards of political contention, which age itself does not always inculcate. I have no ambititon left but that of carrying with me to re tirement, or elsewhere, the consciousness that I have not neglected a legitimate occasion of serving the community in which I live. Twice you have afforded me what seemed to rue that occasion. It is now at your discretion to withdraw or reimpose the obligation under which your confidence and support have.laid me. Proud of that confidence as hitherto enjoyed, and with a grateful recollection of that support which no time or circumstance can obliterate, I respectfully wait your decision.—l remain, Gentlemen, your obedient, humble Servant, FRANCIS EGERTON. William Drury rancis Grundy, P. R. M'Quie, James Gaskell, ard Sanders, ard Bradshaw Thomas Brassey John Sandbach, Wm. Armstrong, Benjamin Parkin, Thomas Jeffrer Isaac Fladwen, Algernon F. Jones, Henry Christian, Henry Wilson, Esqrs." HN WALKER, Chairman. and seconded' by CRESSWELL ELL, Esq., this Meeting be given to Mr ilea conduct in the Chair." SW ELL •espe-etnble PUBLIC lITLIRATRE, thul 21st TionsFALL, Esq., seconded by WRY SANI sad with a deep conviction of tors of Great Britain and Ire crisis, call upon their fellow-countrymen • • t zealous exertions to use their mos —an Members to Parliament .ocestant Institutions in Church and •e of the Crown, and the Independence MILLAn, Esq., seconded nomAs SANns, Esq., Ministers, having felt during this pre appeal must shortly be made to the :sd measures into Parliament not with nit for the purpose of exciting popular ava done so regardless of the injury by all the great interests, Agricultural, Colonial; that trade has been thereby a shaken at home, and in our Colonies ..—countrymen thrown out of employ ing is therefore of opinion, that, by such her Majesty's Ministers are justly - , inilemnation of the Electors of the ti®n of CPIAILLES LAWRINCE, Esq., ,dord toy Mr. RANKIN, _ • _ gab pleasure the arrival of Lord 1, Esq., and take this oppor -11 legal and constitu pledge to use their re lection £LL, Esq., being then in- ag. B RANCKER, Chairman laving left the chair, 'otion of NICHOLAS ROBINSON, Esq., CHRISTOPHER BUSHELL, Esq., this Meeting be •oted to the Chairman artial conduct in the chair. Eantasb irt Oltrtion. 1 LANCASHIRE ELECTION Committee for supporting the interests of lonourable Lord FRANCIS EGERTON, Lrable BOOTLE WILBRAHAM, will sit GH ARME, NEWTON ; and it is respectfully 11 Communications may be directed to them IT HOLT LEIGH, Bart., Chairman HULTON, Esq., Vice-Chairman. VAREY, WAGSTAFF Secretaries e Rooms Marks Lord-street RS OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE. Being now on the eve of a dissolution d having to restore into your hands the did me the honour to confide to my care, it y to inform you, that I again intend to solicit and to offer myself for the third time as a ETresentation of South' Lancashire. d the distinguished situation of being one I have on several occasions explained to ions, and I will only say of them gene ain unchanged ; but at this moment, n so recklessly agitated by the plans change, proposed by a govern ivver nor the intention of carrying at I should more particularly ) tke corn-laws, I approve of the principle scale of the present laws, and, should any of them on that principle be brought for it my most serious consideration ; but to the m to a fixed duty, I am adverse, as I think r rtgriCultu ral population, without usnufacturing clas;esl It will tend to ,;endent upon foreign countries for the ), in time of great scarcity, either at be at a higher price to the consumer _ f agricultural labourers, being thrown .at, will seek it in manufacturing districts, ince a great reduction in the wages of all the , by the competition arising out of surplus anwing the price of bread to be cheaper, übtfal, the fall in the price of bread will not to the fall of the amount of wages. .efore, but consider the plan of a fixed duty has been singularly ill-ehoson for corn duties, as our West Indian colonies 3 recover their energies after the great irritut of Negro emancipation, and when, from our East Indian possessions, a free-grown sugar is in every sue- ;ling given so little information as to ived from the alteration of the timber pparent that our Canadian trade and INonla sustain great injury by the alteration, I am opposed to the plan as suggested by ) a careful revision of the import duties possessing the confi vith distrust upon the ;overnmei t I look airy who bring forward such extensive imercial relations, with the sole view of popularity in their favour, and of endea it to gaix a few more votes at the ensuing ip then-weak and tottering administration. ed to ti e most engrossing topics I pass over others on which my opinions y well understood, and beg to assure you ervices are again at your disposal, should far a third time to intrust me to your s.—l p'inain, gentlemen, your obedient, R. BOOTLE WILBRA.HAM TORS OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE nu at hand when you will be called upon • privilege in the election of your repre cr it my (ley respectfully to present as a Candidate for the honourable post 3e been elevated by a majority of your Isions I have had to address you on icy, on which my opinions are un- , on to presume that yours have 1. On such it would be idle now to ) do so with any purpose of di• from topics of superior interest, at h you have proper ) a total ht to know my opinions. peal of duties on the importation ng with the authority of a minis affix the character of madness or ith whom I differ on this point. I confusion and transfer of property, evolution, would be the consequences hat its best success would be some ex ten- Acturing establishments unattended with in the condition of the operative, but !at risk to him from dependance on foreign , and by a disturbance of the home market, tsi'irni and extend the distress under which he :are, however, I would, en the best considcra. the subject, adopt, in preference to the fixed pod by government, which, taking into cc circurnstancee of its introduction, I consider it certain mode of effecting total repeal. I do nieiin to insinuate, that it is advocated by lc,se.ll with this view or intention ; and I am at it holds out a pros'pect of certain advantages, I anti) hated towari it the opinions of many per who have no object in view y. Believing however, that s protection would be delusive, that as a parties who suppose their interest to hi be insffi m ; that it oil; for any purpose of uld lead to periodical colli xliieh no intervention could allay, and Nrul that it would break down under the `-' It harvest, I, at least, could not be st supporters i, and dispassionate revision of the present •.; arrived when such r o e u v l is .. n:I. duty, I have no . objection, the propheciesrequired. . measures of political i economy, not ion 1s much of it predictions of exact results. ‘! , 18 application of experience,,ut7, - I may `clings, modifications and of the ',l may remedy the main .Atants, without the 3,1 I •- ussions of the subject' wlllen Stl ; ver authorities may benicei uty to act as I may conjectur e of Pay position in the country ~ . man who is in the centre of a po p u lation, wiii look to its wishes and apparent shall . do likewise ; and if he looks to his ricks, D my ekinoneys and those of my neighbour& et to the other proposals of government, on tated in parliament my estimate of the extent ) posed by government to the consarmr, and not accepting it. I have seen no reason to ten, or alter my opinion. Timber appears, to have slipped through a hole in the best unclsrsta ract my calcula la all c by consent of rninist: budget 1 believe the poor-law, in 'many of its leading provisions, 'malted to South Lancashire, and uncalled for by the pre existing state of fhb administration of relief to the poor in July, 1837 their num John Si John Sr John Bent Isaac Oldh John t John Peter Wrighi, Kenneth Pringle James Barton, itTau xcw-g THOI sent Session tha thereby Comme stopped worthy of to empire landon tunity o tonal n Lord at this The CHAIRS, That the that lir - ROBE VILLIAIN ,ester ( HE E becomes my du' candidate fo. ♦our mewl went hay proposed alters it will lead to t than under ti An im iereby r working cis I cannZ I think a cessive 3 The g CAESSNV SANDO FARO IN( P —on ti id at t ry has tpoutb ebtsbirr elation. TO THE GENTRY. CLERGY, AND ELECTORS OF THE SOUTHERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF CHESTER. GENTLEMEN, HAVIN G been honoured by a renewal of your desire that II I should again stand forward as a Candidate for the distinction of representing you in Parliament, I should deem Ulla 1 ell 11“ 1.11/{,1144 I, 1.1.{1.180 ••••• ••••-• one moment the course of public duty thus intimated to me in so flattering a manner. I therefore cheerfully submit to your wishes. • . Her Majesty's ministers being about to appeal to the country on the subject of the Corn-laws, I feel it due to you, openly and explicitly, to declare my opinions on that hn portant topic. I consider the paramount objects sought for in the main tenance of a Corn-law to be these—to encourage the home growth of corn by affording adequate protection to the Bri tish farmer ; and, at the same time, to provide that the home consumer shall not be liable to extravagant prices in seasons of scarcity. Convinced that these ends have been fully attained by the principle of the sliding scale now in operation, I cannot but view with alarm the attempt about to be made by the govern ment of this country to substitute a fixed duty for the pre sent plan ; the results of which must be; that in average seasons the home grower will not be able to compete with the foreigner—large districts of corn land will be throwneut of cultivation—and consequently, in times of continental scarcity, or of , war, (our home produce being inadequate,) the price to the consumer will be far more extravagant than it ever can be under the regulations of the present fluetu- sting scale. On other subjects of political importance, I can confi dently appeal to the past as a guarantee that your interests for the future will not be neglected should you again entrust them to my care. _ _ I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Yttur obedient, humble Servant, P. DE M. GREY EGERTON Oulton Park, June, 1841 TO THE GENTRY, CLERGY, AND ELECTORS OF THE SOUTHERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF CHESTER. GENTLEMEN, ADi ss olution of Parliament being evidently at hand, I beg most respectfully to announce that the pledge given by me to afford you, at this EVENTFUL CRISIS, an opportunity of recording your votes, I am now ready to redeem. The present Government—no longer an independent Go vernment—too weak to administer the affairs of this country, and too tenacious of the advantages of office to relinquish them, has succumbed to popular clamour and proposed a total change in our just and admirable system of CORN LAWS—a measure which, if carried, would hot only de prive the English landowner and farmer of their property and the English labourer of his means of subsistence, but the manufacturer of his best and most certain market, thereby proving ultimately as injurious to• the one interest as imme diately destructive to the other. Members of the anti ROMAN CATHOLIC PARTY now form a portion of the administration of the country, which, in my opinion is incompatible with nix SAFETY OF OUR PROTESTANT CHURCH AND PROTESTANT LIBERTIES. A Government thus composed, and so regardless of the peace and well-being of the nation, as the existing one has proved itself, by the introduction of measures alike detri mental to both, is altogether unworthy, and undeserving of our confidence. Having on a former occasion issued an address, I will only now repeat the declaration then made, that " I submit to the thraldom of no party and, in the event of a dissolution of l'arliarnent, I shall throw myself on the support of those Electors who, like me, are determined to take that INDL • PENDENT COURSE which I conscientiously believe the exist ing state of affairs requires of every friend (whether Church man or Dissenter) to the PROTESTANT RELIGION, and of every well-wisher to his Country. I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen, With sincere respect, Your very faithful servant, JOHN TOLLEMACHE. Tilston Lodge, May 31, 1841. Etribigb elution, TO THE ELECTORS_ OF THE COUNTY OF DENBIGH GENTLEMEN, MUCH as I lament the arrival of the moment which terminates the connexion between us, I cannot allow any feelings of personal regret to interfere with the gratifi cation I feel in seeing a Scion of the Old House of Wynn stay once more offered to your service. Long may he live to fill his Father's place, and to add an additional lustre to that name which has for so many centuries deserved the love and gratitude of his native county ! Permit me to express a hope that, during the short time I have had the honour of representing the County of Denbigh, my conduct in Parliament has been such as to meet with your approbation, and that you have not deemed me un worthy of the confidence you so kindly reposed in me. It only remains for me to say, that I shall always look back with unmingled satisfaction to the period during which I had the honour of being your Representative, and that I shall always feel the deepest interest in everything connected with the welfare of the County of Denbigh. I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen, Your most obliged and grateful servant, HUGH CHOLMONDELEY London, June 14, 1811 TO THE FREEHOLDERS AND OTHER ELECTORS OF THE COUNTY OF DENBIGH. GENTLEMEN, .SHE confidence which for more than a century you have invariably evinced towards those whose name I bear, and the peculiar kindness recently displayed towards myself individually, to which I can hays no claim but that which arises from the memory of their virtues, encourage me to solicit the honour of representing you in Parliament. I trust that the principles upon which my Family have so long acted will render professions from me unnecessary, beyond the assurance that, should you think fit to repose in me this high trust, it will be my object to merit it by a zealous and constant support of the Constitution in Church and State, the true foundation of our civil and religious liberties. I remain, Gentlemen, With the warmest sentiments of gratitude, Your attached and faithful servant, WATKIN WILLIAMS WYNN, Windsor, 14th June, 1841. stlarritt - girlb erection. TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF MACCLESFIELD. GENTLEMEN, PARLIAMENT has at length responded to the national voice, and the country prays for judgment against a cul prit administration. They have depressed and impoverished the Church; they have shaken, by perpetual tampering, the pillars of Public Credit, and paralysed industry; they have squandered the Revenue with corrupt profusion, and aggra vated the burdens of Taxation ; they have plunged the nation► into Wars, of which the glory is far more uncertain than the cost ; they have encouraged Mutiny, and avenged their own sins on the victims of delusion ; they have visited Poverty with the penalties due to crime alone, and have crushed the poor. I solicit your suffrages on the assurance of assisting heartily with voice and vote to restore to this patient and long-suffer ing kingdom able counsels and honest counsellors ; to revive that good government for want of which England droops the head and languishes. Give us but a Cabinet in whose principles we can trust, Conservative in statesmanship, intolerant of abuse, com manding by its wisdom the homage of dread abroad, by its integrity the tribute of confidence at home, and our Manu factures will start up with elastic energy from their present grievous depression—Commerce will expand again, under a renewed sense of security—the hollow murmurs of alarm will die away, and this troubled Empire will rejoice once more in the sunshine of content. Should you honour me with your confidence, I wil! strive to abolish the unconstitutional powers of the Poor-law Com missioners ; and, unless some spirit of humanity be intro duced into that harsh law, endeavour to expunge it from the Statute Book altogether. I am an advocate for the Lowest Scale of Duty upon Fo reign Corn, varying in amount, that can suffice to protect the consumer in times of scarcity, and the grower in periods of abundance—the only sure safeguard against dearth. Reserving for personal communication a more explicit avowal of opinions, I conclude my petition for the high trust of one of your Representatives in the new House of Com mons, with a promise that, to the best of my ability, should you ratify these pretensions, I will be a diligent steward of your private interests, a faithful guardian of your public rights. _ I am, respectfully, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, W. C. TOWNSEND London, June 9, 1841 GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND GREENOCK RAILWAY iarn RA Y, the N OTICE 2d of July , ne p xt, in the Sheriff Court -H all; Greenock. The Chair will b e taken at Twelve o'clock. ROBERT D. KERR, Chairman. The Transfer Books will be closed on the 28th instant, and will remain so until after the Meeting. MARK HUISH, Secretary. R a d wa y Office, Greexock, 181 k June, 1841. TO MERCHANTS, CAPTAINS, INNKEEPERS, PRIVATE FAMILIES, &c. CODA WATER, AERATED GINGER BEER, LE MONADE, &c., of Superior Quality, Manufactured, for Home Use and exportation, by ISAAC WOOD, • 5, Tower-garden, Water-street. THE CHEAPEST ESTABLISHMENT Ix LIVERPOOL FOR GENTLEMEN'S DRESS, OF First-rate Quality, Superior Cut and Workmanship, AT THE CIVET CAT, 72, LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL, DANIEL MYERS, NAVY AND ARMY TAILOR AND GENERAL OUTFITTER. This Establishment is constantly receiving the newest Styles of Fashionable Materials for every Article of Gentl6- men's Dress, suitable for home consumption and for :ex portation. TIANI EL MYERS, in tendering to his Patrons, the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Professional Gentlemen of Liverpool, and county of Lancaster, his thanks for the distinguished encouragement he has received, begs to assure them that the advantages which have so much signalised this Establishment, and gained him the preference for a Good Article at a Moderate Price, will ever be adhered to ; that all orders will be got up with the best attention and skill of talented Foremen, engaged from the West of London, and the charges upon such aßeduced scale that rivals competition. LIST OF PRICES, Superfine Saxony Dress Coats 4 , 5. d. A? 5. d. 1 8 oto 2 0 0 Extra ditto Woaded Ditto ditto, very best that can be produced . Ditto ditto, ditto Black, Wool-dyed Blue, Invisi ble Green, Mulberry, and all the most expen sive colours Superfine Saxony Frock Coats, lined with Silk Extra Ditto Ditto, diito, with Improved Circular Skirts Extra Saxony, the very best that can be produced, Black, Wool-dyed Blue, Invisible Green, Mul berry, and all the most expensive colours . Cashmere and Summer Cloth Coats Shooting Coats Summer Trousers, (Woollen article,) at gs. 6d per pair, or 3 pairs for Ditto ditto, 125., or 3 pairs for . . . Woollen Plaid, ditto, from Plaid and Plain Doeskin, ditto, at . . Very best ditto, ditto, at . . . 1 8 0 Summer Waistcoats, at Be. 6d., or three for . . 1 2 0 Cashmeret and Shawl Patterns, ditto, from . 0 11 0 French, ditto, ditto, from . . . Embroidered Satins, ditto, ditto 3 6 0„ 3 10 0 1 10 0„ 2 2 0 1 2 0„ 1 10 0 A. M. particularly invites the attention of the Clergy and Professional Gentlemen to his PECULIAR WOOL-DYED BLACK CLOTHS, warranted to retain their colour, and to his mode of contracting by the year, as they can make a ma terial saving, and have a constant change of two or three suits at one time. iGENTLEMEN CONTRACTED WITH BY THE YEAR UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS : Under the super- 2 Suits per Year ...re 8 0 0 intendence of ta- 1 Ditto ditto 11 14 0 lented Cutters from 4 Ditto ditto .. 15 4 0 Best quallt the West of Lon- 5 Ditto ditto .. 18 10 0 don. 6 Ditto ditto .. 21 10 U By returning their Clothes after the usual time of wearing, SERVANTS' LIVERIES made to Order, of the first qua- lity, at £4 per Suit NAVY and MILITARY UNIFORMS exact to regulation; a choice Selection of Epaulettes, Swords, Belts, &c. Gentlemen going abroad completely fitted out at a few hours' notice MERCHANTS and CAPTAINS supplied with every AR TICLE of DRESS SUITABLE FOR ALL CLIMATES. By the doz. By the doz. s. d. s. d. Good Saxony Dress Coats from 1 6 0 to 1 18 0 Ditto ditto Frock ditto ll2 0 to 2 2 0 Simmer Coats 0 6 0 to 0 13 0 Good Saxony Trousers (various) Ditto ditto 'Waistcoats (various) White Drill, Jean, and Cashmere Jackets All Cut and Made in the first Style, and suitable for Ex portation. A great variety of Macintosh's Waterproof Fabrics, and of Patent Waterproof Cloths, Camlets, Cashmerets, &c. &c. This Establishment is closed on Saturday, until the evening. THE CIVET CAT, 72, LORD-STREET. fithlurante Dvotirt6. YORK AND LONDON FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. LIFE DEPARTMENT.—A present Bonu s by a mo d era t e scale of Premium. FIRE DEPARTMENT.—PoIicies .on Property, whether in Great Britain or abroad, are granted on the Lowest Terms justified by experience. Agent for Liverpool J. W. S. YORKSHIRE FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. ESTABLISHED 1824. PARTIES having Annual Policies falling due on the 24th JUNE, are respectfully informed that they should renew the same within Fifteen Days from that date. AGENTS. LATHAM HANMER, Jun. 1 1, Dale-street. FREDERIC LAPAGE, I JOHN ATKINSON, Fenwick-buildings, Fenwick-street NATHAN LITH ERLAND, 18, Exchange-buildings. IMPERIAL FIRE OFFICE 'THOSE Persons whose Annual Policies are renewable on 33 the 25th instant, are respectfully informed that, for their own security, they should be renewed within fifteen days from that date. WALTER CLARKE, Agent. High-street, Liverpool, June 21, 1841. THE MANCHESTER ASSURANCE COMPANY, or Assurance against Fire, and on Lives and Survivorship:, Purchase of Annuities, Reversions, 4 , c. src. OFFICE, No. 98, KING -STREET, MANCHESTER. Capital, Two. MlLLlONS.—Established March, 1824. FIRE DEPARTMENT. THE Assured are entitled to one third of the profits, with out any liability on their part to the lows. Parties intending to continue their Policies, falling due at MIDSUMMER, must renew them within fifteen days from that time, or they will become void. LIFE DEPARTMENT, The Assured are entitled to two-thirds of the profits, with out any liability on their part to the losses-. _ _ The - Prerniujils charged are lower than those of the ma jority of other Offices. The business of the Life department is kept quite distinct from •that of Fire, and its accumulations are not liable to make good any losses arising therefrom. The Rates of Premiums, and all other particulars, may be obtained on application to Mr. JOSEPH Morms, Secretary, or to any of the Company's Agents. RICHARD DAWSON, Agent for Liverpool. I.—Agents have already been appointed in most of the )al towns in the kingdom ; butanplimtions for Agencies, ma - de, are requested to be addressed to t we not y , Secretary )NUS At the Annual General Court of Proprietors, held on the 20th June, 1839, bonuses were declared to the assured in the Fire Department of £lO per cent. on the premiums received during the five years previous to the 25th March, 1839, to be paid on all insurances of two, or more, years' standing ; and to the assured in the Life Department, on all policies for the whole duration of Life, forfour, or more years' standing, on the 25th March, 1839, of very nearly 26 per cent. on the amount of the premiums received thereon, improved at com pound interest, to be added to the sum assured by such policies when they become claims, or an equivalent reduction to be made in the annual premiums upon them, at the option of the parties entitled thereto. SCOTTISH UNION FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER CAPITAL, FIVE MILLIONS STERLING. Offices in Edinburgh, No. 47, George-street ; London, No. 449, West Strand ; and 78, King William-street, City. „ Dublin, No. 52, Dame-street. UNQUESTIONABLE SECURITY, combined with low kJ Rates of Premium, are distinguishing features of this Corporation IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, Losses by Fire are immediately paid • and property of every description is insured on the most advantageous terms. IN THE LIFE DEPARTMENT, Assurances may be effected at Reduced Rates, without Profits, or at a higher Premium, with Participation in Profits, of which Two-thirds are returned at regular periods, without being subject to any deduction for charges of management. Prospectuses, containing the Tables of Rates and condi tions of Assurances, may be had of the above-mentioned offices, or at any of he Company's Establishments through out Great Britain and Ireland. AGENTS FOR LIVERPOOL : BRODIE and HAMILTON, Pemberton-buildings, Fenwick-street. THOS. FORSY TH, Exchange-court, Exchange-street East MO PAINTERS.—Persons willing to CONTRACT for the PAINTING required to be done at ST. MICHAEL'S, ST. MARTIN'S, and ST. GEORGE'S CHURCHES, may see the Specifications, and obtain further information, by applying at the Surveyor's Office, Town-hall, where Tenders, addressed to " The Chailman of the Church Establishment Committee," are to be sent on or before Friday next, the 25th instant. SPECIFIC CURE FOR SPASMS BAYFIELD, R.N., Physician-Accoucheur, Mem ber of the University of Edinburgh, Member of the College of Surgeons, &c. has the pleasure to announce to the public and aged invalids especially, that he has discovered a most invaluable Specific for the immediate relief and ultimate cure of Spasms in the stonn.ch and bowels, as well as of the constitution generally, by which many valuable lives have been preserved during an extensive practice for the last 16 years. He respectfully calls the reader's attention to the following letter from a lady of rank, which he has selected out of numbers he is able to produce. _ _ _ "Cheltenham, Plough Hotel. " Lady R- presents her compliments to Dr. Bayfield, and will thank him to send her another packet of his excel lent SPASMODIC TINCTURE. Lady R- has much pleasure in thus bearing testimony to the benefit she has de rived from taking it, according to the directions, since which she has had no return of her former distressing malady ; for previous to a friend infor m i ng h er o f Dr. Bayfield's remedy, she . had been for years a m ar t yr to t h e most excruciat i ng spasms. She therefore wishes to know whether Dr. 137 wishes her to continue taking the Tincture, it is now nearly three months since she had an attack, but as she is about to have Cheltenham for the north, she wishes to have a packet to carry with her. " March, 1839." The Spasmodic Tincture can only be purchased of Dr. Bayfield at his residence, No. 18, NORTHAMPTON-SQUARE, GOSWELL-ROAD, LONDON, in stopped bottles, price 2s. 2d., 4s. 6d., and 95., duty included, which shall be forwarded im mediately on the receipt of a post-office order for the quan tity required, to any part of the three kingdoms. Sole Agent— Mr. STv—irvs, Chemist, 122, §t..lohn-street-road,London S HI S HlPPlNG,—iThuhresdSaeyclieatsyt, at Registryß E G I S T ft o Yf Shipping one o'clock, for the purpose of receiving the report of the provisional committee, and to elect members to serve on the committee. The report was unanimously adopted, and the the L L n iv E e la r P p ° o ° ol L arrangements of the provisional committee highly com mended. The following gentlemen were appointed to serve on the com mittee: —Committee. — William Potter, Esq Robertson Gladst one, Esq., Samuel Marti n , Esq., John Johnston, Esq., Thomas Chilton, Esq., John Clint, 11 tEsq , William T a pley, Esq. , Alexan der S mith , Esq., John Lock ett, Esq., George Loch, Esq., Robert Rankin Esq., Ray mond Houghton, Esq. , William Mann, Esq., Rankin, Ander son, Esq., George Kendall, Esq., Thomas Bold, E sq H . C. Chapman, Esq., and Wm. R. Coulborn, Esq.,_menilers of the Committee, ex-officio. —The Chairman of the Under writers' Association, the Chairman of the Shipowners' Asso ciation, and the Chairman of the Shipbuilders' Association. With such names, as the above, the Liverpool Registry of Shipping cannot but succeed, and most sincerely do we con• gratulate the shipowners at large on their emancipation from the petty tyranny and vexatious injustice which they have so long allowed the committee and secretary of the London registry-book to exercise with impunity. REPRESENTATION LTVEE,POOL. SANDON AND CRESWELL FO EVER, I tilt - EAT 31F4ETINGS OF :ELECTORS. Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell arrived in Liverpool, from attending their parliamentary duties, on Friday morning, and immediately made their appearance among their constitu ents, whose reception of them has been of the most enthusi astic character. VISIT ON 'CHANGE:. On Friday afternoon, at half-put three, after having at tended divine service at St. Peter's Church, on the occasion of the schools' anniversary, which is noticed in another_ place, _ . our .excellent representatives paid a visit to the Exchange. Many thousands were congregated in the area, amongst whom we noticed most of tl leading merchants, hankers, and re- spectable gentlemen of the town, together with a large body of the electors belonging to the middle and trading classes of the community. About twenty minutes to four o'clock the ii,Wlifanientitusiastic cheers of those who had stationed themselves in the vicinity of the front entrance to the Town hall proclaimed that our worthy representatives were ap proaching, and shortly after we observed Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell endeavouring to make their way through the vast crowds that surrounded them, and almost blocked up the entrance to the Exchange area. The rapturous plaudits with which they were received as they progressed towards Nelson's Monument exceeded anything of the kind we ever witnessed, and the scene was one of a truly spirit-stirring character. The windows of the Underwriters' Room, the Exchange News-room, and offices that surround the area were filled with spectators, and by them as well as by the crowd beneath, the cheering and waving of hats were con tinued for a considerable length of time, dining which both our worthy members seemed to be deeply affected by the enthusiastic manner in which they had been received, and the high and well-merited appreciation in which their ser vices in parliament were held by their constituents. . At length silence having been in some degree restored, Lord SANDON, from the middle of the area, addressed a few observations to the electors, but from the distance at which we were placed from his lordship it was with the utmost difficulty we could catch their tenor. He said, himself and his valued colleague had come upon that occasion upon 'Change, with . the view of seeing whether their late conduct in the House of Commons had, as it was said by their oppo nents it had, prejudiced their interests with the merchants and great commercial community of Liverpool, but that the gratifying, the truly gratifying and most enthusiastic recep tion they had just received, proved to him that they stood as high as ever in the estimation of the intelligent and hip minded constituency which they had the honour to represent. (Great cheers, and cries of "You stand higher than ever.") It was truly pleasing to him to find that their sentiments had undergone no change, and that they were still as much at tached as heretofore to the great constitutional interests of their country. (Continued cheers.) That was not the fitting time or place for him to enter on an account of his steward shid, or of his recent proceedings with regard to the contem plated alteration in the sugar duties, but in due course he would be ready to give the fullest and the most satisfactory explanations to the whole body of the electors at large. (Ve hement applause.) In the meantime, his reception that day by the leading merchants of such a trading and commercial port gave him unbounded satisfaction, and augueed well as respected his speedy re-election to the high and distinguished position of one of the representatives of the borough of Liver pool in parliament. The address, of which we are only able, from the cause above mentioned, to give the mere substance, was followed by loud and protracted cheering from all sides. Mr. CRESSWELL next delivered a short address, which was repeatedly received with the most unbounded applause ; in the course of which he also expressed his gratification at the reception he had received, and promised to state at length, and at the fitting time, the history of his past parliamentary conduct. Lord Sandon and his hon. colleague then proceeded to the Exchange News-room, where the most enthusiastic reception awaited them. The scene during their stay here baffles all description. Every one seemed to vie with his neighbour in an endeavour to testify their esteem and gratitude for the disinterested and incessant exertions of their noble visitants ; who afterwards proceeded across the area, accompanied by thousands, whom they addressed from the windows of Mr. Bannatyne's office. Lord SANDON first came forward, and when he was recog nised, the area echoed and re-echoed with the applause of the populace. He said, that after having served the constituency of Liverpool for a period of ten yerrs, during which he had to take a part in so many questions affecting the public so materially in their commercial character, it was no small gratification to him to he hailed by so numerous, so intelli gent, and so respectable a portion of the inhabitants. It was impossible but on some of the questions which had come be. fore parliament during that long period, he must have differed in opinion with some of those whom he was desirous to serve ; but he was truly glad to find that, notwithstanding the fact of their interests being so various, he still had been greeted with a reception so enthusiastic that he believed no body of constituents had ever greeted their representative with on any former occasion. When he considered, also, that the Liverpool constituency was no common constituency of some little petty town, comprising those who might be swayed by some narrow views, but that it was composed of the most intelligent merchants in the world, and who were intimately connected with the various interests of the country, he con fessed that his reception had been such a one as to call forth within him the warmest feelings of gratitude and affection. He would not then enter into a detail of the great questions which had been recently introduced in parliament, having merely appeared before them to express the feelings which their reception of him had called forth. Other occasions would shortly present themselves, when he would enter fully into the several subjects at present before the country. At present he would only say that the interests of their constitu tion in church and state were involved in the issue of the present struggle, but that he had no doubt the conservative cause would speedily be triumphant. After thanking them most heartily for their reception of him, his lordship withdrew from the window amidst the vehement plaudits of the multi tude. Mr. CRESSWELL next presented himself, and was most rapturously received. If, he proceeded to say, instead of a short service of four years, during which the great burden had been borne by his colleague and not by him, he could point to a service, not of four short years, but of double that period that the noble lord had acted in the capacity of their representative, he would have felt amply rewarded by such a reception as the present, not because he liked to take ap plause so applied to himself, but because he felt deeply for those great interests of his country which the conservative electors had at heart, and the support of which alone had entitled him to their favour. It was because the electors had sent him to parliament as their representative to fight the battle of the constitution, and to maintain the several inter ests under which their country had been happy and prosper ous, that they now, thinking that he had discharged his duty, r,eceived him with applause. (Hear, bear, and cheers.) And might they not all rejoice together, inasmuch as they had discharged their duty successfully ; for what inroads upon the constitution had their enemies been able to make? He might say none. (Cheers.) Many had been their attempts, but nought their success. (Vehement cheers.) He would say to the conservative electors, therefore, " Struggle on as you have done, and proclaim your determination from this, the great rival of the metropolis, not to be diverted or to have your judgment misled from the great topics about which the country at large is interested, by the present attempts to bewilder and mislead you upon the part of your worst ene mies." (Protracted cheering.) He felt as confident as ever he did in his life that his success was certain—that the great battle at the hustings would be triumphantly achieved ; nor would he ever despair until Lord Palmerston could show in London such a meeting in favour of his policy and the minis ters generally, as he (Mr. C.) had then the honour to address. (Here some one cried out "The corn-laws.") All the falla cies uttered on the subject of the corn-laws he had come prepared to discuss with the electors at any time. (Great cheers, followedby a cry from an individualof "cheap sugar.") Yes, the question of cheap sugar—a farthing a pound cheaper than it was at present—(hear, hear, and great laughter)—he was also prepared to discuss. Which of them would cry " Cheap sugar, and slavery for ever" ? (Cheers, and cries of " Not one.") If any one would cry " Slavery for ever," he would then and there tell him to go away from the polling places where his (Mr. Cresswell's) interests were advocated. (Loud cheers.) He would discuss the question of cheap corn with his opponents, but they must forgive him if he discussed also the que s ti on o f l ow wages . (Loud laughter, and renewed cheers.) At the fitting time he would discuss the sugar question also, satisfied as ha was that he should be able to satisfy every reasoning man, that notwithstanding the agitation of those topics, and the part he had taken with respect to them in the House of Commons, he was still en titled to as cordial a support as he had received on any for mer occasion. (Great applause.) He wished that he could place the fiat of England on the result of the approaching Liverpool election, because England would then be safe if all England would imitate the noble example that was about to be set them by the commercial port of Liverpool. (Ve hement cheering.) The honourable members then passed through the area, and along Dale-street, to their private residences, followed by thousands of the populace, cheering them as they passed along, after receiving one of the most gratifying receptions that we ever remembered to have seen two public men greet ed with on any former occasion on 'Change. MEETING OF THE ELECTORS OF WEST DERBY WARD. In the evening, at eight o'clock, Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell met the electors o f West Derby Ward. The meeting was in the first instance announced to be held in the large room of Edge-hill Coffee-house, but that being found two small to accommodate the crowds who desired to be present, an adjournment took place into the National School. This place was speedily filled by a most respectable and in fluential body of electors. The two candidates, on entering, were received with enthusiastic and prolonged cheering. Mr. 'WALKER, president of the Conservative Association for the ward, having taken the chair, introduced Lord San don and Mr. Cresswell to the meeting, in some appropriate remarks upon their parliamentary conduct, with which he expressed the highest gratification. He observed that no party had been able to find fault with Lord Sandon ; all ad mitted his intelligence, commercial knowledge, and habits of business, but his lordship being a conservative, must be op posed, and by whom? Why, by Lord Palmerston, who was at present a mere phantom and shadow. To Mr. Cresswell the other side had found an objection. They admitted his talent and learning; they did not deny that he was well versed in the laws of the land, so much so indeed as to be able occasionally to set her Majesty's attorney and solicitor general right. (Hear, hear.) But the objection to him was that he was a lawyer, and this objection was made by the men who had actually brought forward themselves Lord Brougham and Mr. Ewart ? And who was his opponent ? No less a man than Sir Joshua Walmsley, late chief magi strate of this borough, who, upon a late occasion, had been recommended to the constituency of this town by Mr. Dan. O'Connell, as a fit and proper person to represent them. The conservatives, however, did not fear the opposition of Sir Joshua Walmsley. (Hear.) After a few further remarks, the chairman concluded by calling u pon Lord Sandon. Lord SANDON on presenting hi m self was greeted with deafening cheers. This, his lordship said, was a glorious day for the country and for the Duke of Wellington. It was the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo—(loud cheers). Peace had its victories as well as war, and he believed this would be an auspicious day for the beginning of a victory for the country—a day as auspicious and important for the civil interests of the country as that great battle had been for her, security against foreign i n vasion—(continued -cheers). The reception to which their excellent chairman had alluded, which he and his learned colleague had experienced, n o t only within those walls, but also upon the exchange, was an assurance that they had not been deceived in the estimate they had made of the conservative feeling of the great town of Liverpool—(hear, hear). Whilst th e y had s een evidence after evidence, proof after proof, of the growing strength of conservative feeling all over the country, whilst they had seen here, by the municipal elections, proof that the same spirit was growing and progressing within our own precincts, they had certainly no reason to expect that a bubble blown at the last would have the effect of changing the opinions of this great constituency—(hear, hear). They certainly could have no apprehensions that in a constituency like that of Li verpool, not actuated by sudden and temporary emotions, but by the strongest and deepest feelings that could influence the mind of man, would, having formed its opinion of the character, and of the principles of her majesty's present ad ministration, be induced to change at once all the impressions they had so long imbibed, by this death-bed repentance, if he might so speak—(hear, hear, and applause). Ministers had tried the constituencies at every point upon which they thought they could gain some popular support, by attack after attack upon every institution of the country ; they had tried it in their attacks upon our religion, upon our educa tion, upon the magistracy, for they had disgraced themselves by inserting among the magistracy the names of men whom they themselves were obligrd to prosecute for high treason — (tremendous cheers) ; they had tried to corrupt and debase, to overturn successively the great institutions of the land ; and when they found at last that this course of conduct was withdrawing from them by degrees, as was seen by the re sult of the elections, the support they had at, first received, they then tried, in the last convulsive struggles of death, to make a new ch . aracter as the patrons of commerce and free trade—(hear, and loud applause). But surely if they had had this abstract, this devoted attachment to free trade which they now pretended to, they would not have waited till the pe riod of their dying struggles, when powerless to carry it into effect, to make the proposition !—(hear, hear.) When they had majorities of 100 and 200 in the House of Commons, as for a considerable period they had, or when those majorities were reduced to 30 and 40; why, if they thought the principles of free trade so essential to the best interests of this country, did they not introduce them when they hid a chance to carry them into effect? (Hear, hear.) Why postpone them—as they themselves admitted they had in the House of Com mons, with regard to a repeal of the corn laws—why, he asked, postpone the proposition of making these alterations, until by their. own admission they had no prospect or expec tation of carrying them ? (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Why had they done that? (Hear, hear.) He knew why it was done ; he knew what reason to assign._ It was this—they felt they had forfeited the respect of all the. solid, substan tial, and permanent interests, of the country, and they thought by throwing up a new bubble into the air, they might be able to secure to themselves, in oppositioi at least, knowing they were powerless as an administration, a greater and better support from the radical portion of the people. (Cheers.) The meeting perceived now that the whigs were lost as a party—that they were merged in the radicals, that they had tied themselves to the chariot wheels of the radi cals, English and Irish, and whither soever they thought proper to drag them they were bound to go. (Cheers.) They had thrown overboard every respectable supporter which they had, and now tied themselves to the chariot wheels of that great tyrant, who if he exercised his tyranny towards them in the same manner as he exercised it over his Irish supporters, would give them little gratification in wearing such chains as those which he pleased to throw round them. (Loud cheers.) The question of free trade was, no doubt, exceedingly plausible to the ear. He (Lord Sandon) pro fessed himself to be such a free trader as. Mr. Huskisson was—a free trade beyond his, such a free trade as Mr. Hus kisson refused to adopt, he (Lord Sandon) confessed he was not willing to adopt. But they must not be led away by the fine theories of the political philosophers. There was an old saying of the wisest sovereign of his day, Frederick the Great of Prussia, " If you wish to ruin your country, hand it over to philosophers to govern." (Hear, and cheers.) These were a set of men—he wished he had the words of Lord John Russell to describe them, for he could conceive of nothing better, who thought nothing of the misery, confu sion, and embarrassment they caused, the loss of employ ment, and consequently of subsistence, to millions of their fellow-subjects, provided they could only give effect to a fa vourite theory which they had concocted in their studies. (Cheers.) These were not the men to entrust with the management of affairs the of this empire. (Hear, hear, and applause.) Every one knew how complicated was this country in all her interests ; that we were not in the simple and natural position of ei country without debt, with an im mense quantity of vacant land, without incumbrance of any kind ; but that we were incumbered with a debt, the interest of which as honest men we were bound to pay (hear,) where the prices of everything were ruled artificially by the taxes we paid, and the comforts we expected to enjoy ; and we could not, under these circumstances, place ourselves in fair and equal competition with countries where the peasantry were content to sustain life upon black bread—(great cheering)— where the taxes were lighter, and where they had no national debt. (Applause.) We must all hang together ; we were in an artificial condition. It would not do for one portion of the community to relieve itself from heavy pressure by ruin ing another portion which occupied two-thirds of the pro ductive interests. (Hear.) What would be the effect if we were to sacrifice the great agricultural interest of the coun try to the call of the manufacturing interest ? It would be, after all, to sacrifice all our own best customers. (Hear, hear.) It had been calculated by Mr. Muntz, no particular friend of :the agricultural interest, that two-thirds of the manufacturing interests were engaged in supplying the wants of the agricultural interest. (Hear.) We were, therefore, called upon to throw these regular and settled customers overboard, who always must be our best customers, who paid our own price, and for what ? For the chance of securing foreign customers who told us they preferred, though at a higher price, goods of their own manufacture, and communi cations with whom might be interrupted by war, and would certainly be interrupted continually by changes of commer cial policy. (Loud cheers.) We were in fast called upon to sacrifice this great certainty for all the uncertainty which at tended and followed foreign commerce. (Cheers.) He was not, of course, going to undervalue foreign commerce. It was an important branch of our industry, and not to be neg lected; but at the same time all he begged to say was, "for the sake of this foreign commerce do not neglect, bind, or destroy those still greater interests which are at your own door.' (Great cheering.) The meeting had been told by the worthy chairman that they were to have two candidates to compete with at the election. We certainly knew of one who was a candidate of flesh and blood, whom most had seen and many handled ; as to the other candidate, whether he came forward or not, or whether when he came forward he would solicit he suffrages of. the constituency or not, but se cure for himself a safe retreat elsewhere for a borough he (Lord Sandon) once had the honour to represent, he left them to judge. (Hear, hear.) Whether'that noble lord had any peculiar claims upon, a commercial constituency like this he (Lord Sandon) did not know ; all he knew was that he had bad much more occasion to go with deputa tions from this town, to complain of his neglect of our commercial interests than of his attention to them. (Loud applause.) All he knew was•that he had waited upon him with deputations from this town concerning his neglect of our Mexican and Buenos Ayrean trade, his neglect in ne gociating a commercial treaty with one or two of the transatlan tic states, and his neglect, of the settlement of the boundary• question with the United States, which for so many years had put into peril the greatest foreign trade of which this town was possessed; all he knaw was that by his (Lord Pal merston's) neglect of the eastern question, he had allowed us to come into imminent peril of war, and put into jeopardy all those great interests which depended upon the continuance of peace. (Cheers.) He (Lord Sandon) did not wish to in trude much longer upon the attention of the meeting ; they were aware there would be a tolerably numerous meeting on Monday in the Amphitheatre, which was capable of holding from 3000 to 5000 persons. He would conclude with saying blown at the last moment, to blind them with regard to the he was sure that they would not permit this ministerial bubble, real, permanent, substantial interests they had to support in this election. Would it be any consolation to them, if by chance they should think he was wrong about fixed duties or fluctuating duties, that they should have been able to place in power, or retain in power, an administration not only as radical as that which we had, but infinitely more radical— which would owe its power to agitation of the most mis chievous and revolutionary kind ? (Cheers.) Would it be any consolation to them to fix in power an administration which had attacked the church—(hear, hear)—which had no power of protecting the prerogatives of the crown—(hear, hear)—which was weak and wavering, unprincipled and un steady, and totally devoid of all those qualities which could secure confidence from any class? (Hear, hear, and cheers.) The remarkable thing about this administration was this, that, though they had long reigned, they had gained no one party whatever. (Hear, hear.) To begin with the lowest, had they any confidence among the chartists? None whatever; the chartists said they had been deluded by this government into illegal acts, and then thrown into prison. (Hear, hear.) Had they the confidence of the radicals? loo; the radicals despised them; the radicals held them in the greatest contempt. and told them day by day that they only voted for them and against Sir Robert Peel, because they were the roost squeezable. (Cheers.) Had they the confidence of the whig gentlemen ? No ; the whig gentlemen were retiring from parliament disgusted with the measures of a government to which they had been bound. (Hear, hear.) Had they secured the confidence of the Irish repealers ? No! (Hear, hear.) Had not Mr. O'Connell told'them time after time that he kept them in office only because he could get more from them than from the conservatives? (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Had they the confidence of the great conser vative body of this country, whether of the landed gentry, or the commercial aristocracy of our great towns, the conserva tive tradesmen, or of the operative conservative bodies ? (Great cheers, and cries of " No, no.") Of no one party or class of the constituency then had this administration the ' slightest pretensions to claim the confidence. In every public assembly of the country called together, or wheresoever a number of men were met, how did they contrive to gain a hearing for her Majesty's ministers ? They all began by saying " do not mix us up with the government ; though we yield them respect whatever measures arc good in themselves we will take them, for we do not care from whom they come." In fact her Majesty's present ministers could never gain a hearing from any party without that party disclaiming any warranty for their character. (Hear, and cheers.) Confidence was not a word that could be applied to them. They had not the confidence of the people, and they had not the confidence of the House of Commons. (Tremendous cheeaing.) What did Mr. Canning do in a similar case? Did he meet them with a simple negative ? No ; he came forward in a manly spirit, and said, " you say I have not the confidence of the Commons ; I say I have ; I will put the question to the House of Commons, and make them vote aye or no whether they have confidence in me, and unless they do decide that they have confidence in me I will resign. (Loud cheers.) Had this been the conduct of her Majesty's ministers ? (Cries of no, no.) No ; when a motion for want of confidence was made against them, they contented themselves with a simple negative. (Hear, hear.) They did not dare to ask Mr. Wakley, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Joseph Hume, and others who sat behind them, whether they had confidence in them or not, because they must, if asked such a question, have said " No," for they had said "no" over and over again. (Hear, hear.) But these par ties contented themselves with merely refusing to vote for Sir Robert Peel's motion, the government saying, " only vote against that, and we shall not be put to the disagreeable ne cessity of asking wether you have confidence in us." Was this an administration which England could be governed by ? Was England so low and degraded as to be governed by men who depended for support alternately, upon the throwing in of weight Of either one side or the other, who, when they wished to protect the prerogatives of the crown, rested upon the support of the conservatives, and when they wanted to curry favour with the popular party, looked for support to the radicals or the chartists? (Hear, hear.) He was sure the constituency of Liverpool would be anxious to se cure a strong, decided, and honest government — a govern ment above all things whose principles they could rely 'upon (hear, hear)—a government able to support the prerogatives of the crown—(hear)—and able also to maintain the best interests of the country. (Cheers.) Upon such a govern ment they might rely for such improvements in our commer cial system as might be from time to time found desirable, not like those mountebanks who offered a nostrum the mo ment they knew it was of no advantage to any but they who were selling it, and whose own existence it was intended to prolong. (Cheers.) He was exceedingly obliged to the meeting for the kind manner in which they had received him. It, indeed, only confirmed him in the strong impres sion and confidence which he had always entertained, that the conservative feeling, which had been so long displeyed andnlways boasted of, was the best indication of a healthy state of mind, of the future prosperity, and of the further advance of the country. (Loud cheers, during which the noble lord resumed his seat.) Mr. CRESSWELL then rose to address the meeting, and was received with loud demonstrations cf applause. In common, he said, with his noble friend, he hailed the auspi cious accident which bad brought them to the commence ment of their canvass this day—this day upon which we celebrated the a nniversary of that glorious event which brought about the overthrow of the power of revolutionary Frahce. (Cheers.) And he trusted that this very day, the conimencement of the canvass by the conservative candidates for the representation of this country, would be the day of sealing the fate of the revolutionary party in this country. (Renewed cheers.) He bailed the auspicious omen, for he felt convinced, that if the party which had misruled the country for the last ten years were, by the patient endurance of the constituency, still to be allowed to retain the reins of power for some five or ten years longer, we should be re duced to the lamentable condition to which republican France, forty years ago, was reduced ; we should have to undergo that career of misery which she suffered, and which termi- nated in a military -despotism; and through the purification of suffering alone could we expect to regain the station which we had lost. (Cheers.) It was because he loved his country " with all her faults," because he loved his country with all her evils, because, let them call him tory, or what they would, he was a true lover of the true liberties of his country, and with her liberties, he trusted of her happiness—of her true liberties—her liberty from evil as well as her liberty from law ; it was because he loved all these that he rejoiced in seeing before him to-day the truest and noblest presage of the downfall of the party which would ruin his country. (Great cheering.) They had come again to canvass for the election of a parliament at the instance of her majesty's ministers. (Hear.) When they appealed to the country before using, or rather he should say, abusing the name of their royal mistress, the Liverpool constituency had so little con fidence in them, that their candidates were rejected, and his noble colleague and himself placed in the enviable position which they still occupied. Why should it be otherwise now? (Loud cheers.) What had her majesty's ministers done to obtain the favour they then enjoyed not? What had they done to recover the confidence they then had lost? (Hear, hear.) Had they taken one step in support of those mea sures that we then advocated, and for which we denounced them as enemies? (Haar.) Had they since then shown their love for the church? had they shown their love for the people Ask the poor law. (Tremendous cheers.) Had they shown their love for their sovereign? Witness the manner in which they had abused her royal name; wit ness the manner in which they, by their misconduct, had brought her prerogatives into question, if not into danger. (Great cheering.) No ; and what had they dune for the people ? What measure had they brought forward for their benefit ? They told the people truly " the poor law, if you please, we will wave for the presnt, and we will offer you what we call cheap bread." (Great cheering.) He said it advisedly, it was what they called " cheap bread "—not what he should call cheap bread, for so, depend upon it, it would not long prove. (Hear, hear.) It was a large question to discuss in a popular assembly, but there were two or three popular points in which it might be placed, which, he thought, would convince the meeting, that by the proposed alterations in the corn laws, which must be ruinous to the agricultural population, the people never could be ultimately benefited. (Hear, hear.) What interest had he in discussing this question with the people? Ho was not a landlord. He did not grovel a single quarter 'of corn in a year, but he bought a great deal. (Hear, hear.) Suppose that for a short time an alteration in the corn laws enabled them to buy foreign corn at a lower price than they got it now, what would be the result? Of the six millions of agricultural labourers now employed at . men's wages, not at child's wages, as in the factories,—(Hear, hear, hear.)—two millions would be thrown out of employment. What was to be done with them? flow could they subsist? They must go upon the pour rates; they must enjoy the blessed mercies of a workhouse ;—(Hear, hear) —they must bring their arms into competition with the manufacturers', and so, by multi plying the supply of labour beyond the demand, still further reduce the price of it, and according to the god of these pre tended free traders, Mr. Huskisson, whenever that should be brought about the rate of wages -would fall much faster than the price of corn. (Tremendous cheering. Follow that out and what did it come to? Throw your corn land out of cultivation and you were dependent upon the foreigner; the foreigner knows you must buy corn at his price or starve. (Hear, hear.) What choice then had you? If you can pay for it by the utmost exertions you must, be cause, otherwise, you must starve ; and then, instead of paying a large price to your own landlord you will be paying a large price to the foreigner. (Hear, hear.) What will the foreigner do with the money when he gets it? (Hear, hear.) Will he take manufactures instead of money? No ; if it was a matter of fancy whether you took his corn or not, you might say, " if I take your corn you must take my manufac tures ;" but he says, " no, I won't ; true it is I cannot get the price of my corn, and so indulge in luxury, but you mar keep your cottons and stuffs, and eat them if you can. He warranted the belly would get the best of the argument. (Hear, hear.) So, if the starving owner of cotton would barter at any price, and cannot, did it not follow that our bullion must go to pay for the corn? (Hear.) We had then to pay for our corn in money, and would that money go to promote the manufactures of our own country ? No ; instead of promoting the manufactures of this country it would go to promote the growth of manufactures abroad. (Cheers.) So the question might be put in various ways, all equally true. But why was it that these pelple cried out their reliance upon Mr. Huskisson? Because Mr. Huskisson was a very wise man. He was one of the most learned and prudent states. men of his day in all matters relating to the trading concerns of the country, and when they found such a man as Mr. Huskisson promoting free trade, then, said they, " Oh, Mr. Huskisson said so and so." (Hear.) Aye, but let us take all that MI. Huskisson did say, not half—(hear)—let us not go with him two steps only, and refuse to follow him a third. (Hear, hear.) They admitted his theory as far as it suited their purpose, but overthrew it the moment it turned against them. (Hear.) He would ask the meeting this plain ques tion, which would satisfy them as to Mr. Huskisson's au thority. Whose colleague was he ? Was he not the colleague of Mr. Canning ? Was he not the colleague of the Duke of Wellington? (Cheers.) Was lie not the colleague of Sir Robert Peel ? (Cheers.) Then why should we denounce Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington as enemies of free trade ? (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Why was it that the unhappy difference arose between him and the Duke of Wel lington? It was upon a question, not of commercial policy, but upon a question of internal government—the question of reform in parliament. There they differed ; but we had the greatest reason to suppose, that at the very moment when that calamitous accident happened which involved all Liver pool in mourning, there was nothing more probable than a complete explanation between him and the Duke of Wel lington. The hon. and learned gentleman, after a few fur ther remarks on the corn-laws proceeded to observe that other questions had been brought forward in the same man ner, at the same time, and under the same circumstances, not to be passed, not because they were sufficient to main tain the athninistration in power, to restore the exhausted revenues of the country, or supply the d6ficiencies created by improvident government, but because they thought to got up a false excitement, under the glare of which their misdeeds might be concealed, and they again, upon the shoulders of the deluded people, ride into power. (llear, hear, and cheers.) We had been told about free sugar. (Hear, hear.) A more gross and nefarious delusion was never attempted to be palmed upon au innocent and ignorant peo ple. ,When it came out that there was to be a saving what did it amount to ? " Oh," said they, "we will give you cheap sugar ; only think how much good Father Matthew has done, the people have left off drinking beer, and we will let them have cheap sugar with their tea." Now, if the bene fit of the people required it ; if this measure had been a good one for the benefit of the poor, who would not have desired to see it carried out ? But when it was seen that the utmost benefit to be derived could be but the paltry sum of one far thing-and-a-half per pound, sweet, indeed, must be the taste of those who would impose all the horrors of slavery upon their fellow men for that! (Hear, and cheers.) Thus we saw that this change was not, in truth, for the benefit of the country, but a delusion which they tried to practise upon the people, to mislead their judgment, and blind their eyes. There was another subject which the present administration had introduced, and that was the cry of cheap timber. (Hear.) Cheap timber. to use the phrase of a noble lord, addressing the constituency of the county in which we were assembled, seemed to have slipped through a hole in the budget ; it had been announced, but we had heard no more of it. (Hear, hear.) The largest logs, whether from Canada or the Baltic, slipped through the hole, which, according to Sir Robert Peel, were of bottomless depth. Being without a bottom they went through ; but was any one of them hardy or impudent enough to state in the House of Commons that would be any boon to society ? Would any one of the num bers before him have to pay one farthing less rent for their houses erected with the timber which came in under the altered defies ? (Hear.) If they had not, how would they be benefitted ? (Hear, bear.) But how were they to give us timber cheaper? Why by putting 10s. additional duty upon it! (Laughter and cheers.) By putting 10s. ad ditional duty upon Canadian timber the people would be able to build their houses cheaper ! (Renewed cheers and laugh ter.) They thought nothing of the consequences which would result is depriving thousands of sailors of work, and throw ing ships out of employment. The learned gentleman con cluded by a most eloquent appeal to the feelings of English men, to elect a House of Commons which would support a government capable by its wisdom, independence and honesty, to carry those measures which were good, not for themselves, but for the country at large ; we should then rejoice in the safety, in the prosperity, and in the glory of the nation. (En thusiastic cheers.) Mr. J. S. LEIGH then moved a resolution declaring that, in the opinion of the meeting, the conduct of Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell, as the representatives of this borough, had been highly satisfactory, and justly entitled them to a renewal of the important trust which had been committed to them since the 25th July, 1837. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE seconded the resolution in an elo quent and forcible address. The motion was then carried unanimously. Mr. JOHN SMITH moved, and Mr. BitassuY seconded, the next resolution, which was also carried unanimously. It was to the effect that the meeting pledged themselves indi vidually and collectively to use their best exertions to secure the re-election of the present members. On the motion of Mr. TAYLOR, seconded by Mr. M'QUIE, a committee was formed. Lord SANDON than moved, and Mr. CRESSWELL se conded, a vote of thanks to the chairman, and shortly after wards the meeting separated, having first given numerous cheers for the success of the conservative cause. REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE The friends of Mr. Charles Towneley, who was beaten at the last general election by a majority of 1500, held a meeting in the Clarendon Booms, on Saturday. to adopt measures in furtherance of his cause. Colonel 'Williams was called to the chair, and the meeting was addressed by Mr. William Rathboue, Mr. William Brown, Mr. Harrison, Mr. Jordan, Mr. Rosson, Mr. Frederick Fincham, and Mr. Robert Philips. At the close a subscription was entered into, towards defraying the expenses which will be necessarily incurred by embarking in the hopeless contest. GREAT MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF LORD SANDON AND MR. CRESSWELL, AT THE AMPHITHEATRE Yest.m.day, the friends and supporters of Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell crowded the Amphiteatre, for the purpose of taking measures to secure the return of those gentlemen at the approaching election. Every part of the vast building was crowded to excess. In a meeting which comprised much of the wealth and respectability of the town it would be im possible to give the names of all present, but we may give the names of the following few : Dr. Freckleton, I. 0. Bold, C. S. Parker, William Birkett, Christopher Bushell, Joshua Edwards, S. Holme, James Holine, Captain Taylor, Peter Leather, Charles Turner. Thomas Dover, A. Woodward, —. Kendall, Thomas Moss, W. Shand, D. Gibb, Thomas Wilson, John Fletcher, —. Brocklebank, John S. Leigh, H. Barber, Nicholas Robin son," G. Grant, W. Potter, John Smith, Charles Horsfall, Daniel Ledson, Peter Wright, John Pennington, Richard Hotighton, Captain Dunlevie, Robertson Gladstone, John Parker, G. Guest. S. Sandbach, Charles Bouttlower, Warner Shand, Robert Livingston, John Miller, T. Chilton, James Parker, D. T. Glazebrook, G. H. Lawrence, Peter M`Quie, E. P. Parry, Isaac Bold, W. Aspley, Robert Horsfall, Cot tingham Moss, F. Foster, James Ackers, John Sheppard, John Bent, W. Penkett, Joseph Ackers, John B. Lloyd, Isaac Holmes, Charles Inman, Edward Molyneux, T. Toul min, Adam Hodgson, Robert Rankin, T. Sands, James Robertson, John Shand, T. Forsyth, &c., &c. On the motion of Mr. CHARLES HORSPALL, Sir THOMAS BRANOKER was called to the chair amidst loud cheers. _ The CHAIRMAN immediaterr:ft;;;;;;;;;d the cheering was renewed and continued for several minutes. When si lence was in some degree restored, he begged, before the proceedings were commenced, to express his regret, and he was sure he would be joined in the expression of that regret by the meeting, that their excellent friend, Mr. Robinson, the chairman of the Conservative Association of Liverpool, who' by his zeal and ability had so greatly promoted the inte rests of that most valuable association—(hear, hear)—was unable to take the chair which he (Sir Thomas) felt that he should so unworthily fill. (Loud cries of " No, no.") But though Mr. Robinson did not occupy that situation which he so often occupied before, it was gratifying to know that his heart and soul were in the cause—(great cheer ing),—and that so long as he could use the slightest exertion in that cause, so long would he labour steadily and persever ingly to sustain the great interests at stake. (Renewed alters.) The electors of Liverpool were called on at the pre sent moment, in consequence of the late very extraordinary _ _ to make preparations lieved would take place proceedings of her Majesty's ministers for the coming election, which he be very short time. (Hear, hear.) If ever there was a time when it behoved every Englishman, who valued the ancient institutions under which England Lad so long flou rished—(cheers) ;—those institutions in church and state — (loud cheers),—which had made the country the glory and envy of the world, the present was the time to rouse them selves, and put their shoulders to the wheel. (Applause.) The great question for the electors to decide was simply this : whether they would suffer her majesty's ministers to proceed in that course of democracy which they had for some years been pursuing, or whether they would make an energetic en deavour to save and preserve the institutions of the country. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) The object of the meeting that day was for the purpose of concerting measures to return again to parliament those excellent representatives whom they returned so triumphantly at the last election. (Tre mendous cheering.) And after having resolved on those measures, he hoped and believed there was not among there who would fail to carry them into full effect in Liverpool. (Continued cheers.) lie trusted every man would act as became an Englishman, and return again to parliament the two representatives who had been returned before, and of whom the borough had great reason to be proud. (Vehement applause.) He trusted the electors would act as became con servatives, and that, whatever their opponents might do, they would show an example of that good conduct, peace, and good order, which had always been the characteristics of the conservative party. (Hear, hear.) The conservatives might rely upon it that if they passed over whatever provocations they received the election of their excellent representatives would be carried most triumphantly. (Cheers.) It would be far better for them to pursue such a course than to be re venging themselves on those who knew no better. (Hear, hear.) Without detaining the meeting at any further length, he begged to call upon Mr. Potter to move the first resolu tion. The chairman here resumed his seat amid loud and protracted cheering. Mr. WILLIAM POTTER accordingly rose, and after reading the resolution (the several resolutions will be found in ou advertising columns) proceeded to say that it would be vain for him to attempt any eulogy upon the character and con duct of the ministers of the established church—of that church which was a part of the constitution. (Cheers.) Drawn from the masses of the people, the clergy of the established church were entitled, by reason of their educa tion, their useful efforts, and their honourable professions, to take their stand on an equality with the highest in the land. (Hear, hear ) They sympathised with the public at large as men, as Christians, and as citizens. (Cheers.) As fathers of families, and owing no allegiance to any extra neous authority, they were the promoters of genuine freedom. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) The electors had recently seen that the present ministry had been obliged to alter, to modify, to postpone, and to withdraw their mea sures, thereby proving that they had lost, althougn fancying themselves that they possessed, the confidence of parliament. (Hear, and cheers.) To administer the affairs of such a state as that of England, might well afford scope to the highest ambition; but one necessary ingredient which a ministry should possess, was the confidence of parliament. (Hear, hear.) Nevertheless, though it was manifest to the country that the present ministry had before now lost the confidence of the house, they waited to be told so in words. (Hear, hear.) And they had been enabled, without the power of retaining a majority of the votes in parliament, to obtain the adhesion a great many of the adherents of a foreign church—of a church which assumed all shapes, but which was sleepless in its attention to its own aggrandisement. (Hear, hear, and renewed cheers.) But, now that the ministry had been scared from their first attempts on the church, by the steady, the consistent, and the determined opposition of the conservative party, the electors could not doubt that there had been a bargain made for that assistance which had kept them in office, and that their attempts on the church, al though postponed, had not been relinquished. (Great cheers.) On this account he thought the pivot on which their pre ference should turn in the choice of candidates was their attachment to the principles of the protestant church, and that they should be auxioua to have a parliament composed of men who would maintain ail our institutions in their integrity ; for in such a case the temporary clouds which were at present passing, would be cleared away, and innumer able blessings follow. (Tremendous cheers.) Mr. HENRY H. SANDRACH seconded the first resolution. It required, he said, no force of argument, or persuasive eloquence on his part to ensure the adoption of such a reso lution, otherwise he would have left the task in more able within hands. The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution, and it was carried unanimously. Mr. MILLAR said, that, although he was fond of retire ment and averse to public exhibitions, he had been induced to appear before his fellow-townsmen under a deep sense alone of the obligations under which he was laid, and though conscious of his feeble, strength, to buckle on his individual arnica., and make common cause with them in the great struggle in which they were about to engage. He had come forward to move a resolution, which, as he was labouring under indisposition, his friend Mi. Pennington would read. [The resolution having been read, Mr. Millar continued.] Severe as was the censure which that resolution contained, so reckless had been the conduct of those whom it condemned, that he felt assured it already carried conviction to the minds of the meeting, and that when put from the chair it would be found, like that which preceded it, to have met an unanimous approval. (Loud cheers.) A crisis had arrived, and an exi gency had arisen. It was a crisis and an exigency in which the country not only expected but had a right to demand o the people to do their duty. (Cheers.) They were not the; of who would feebly or but partially ansa er the call. Our common interests, our most revered and sacred institutions had been invaded and assailed ; an attempt bad even been made to stifle the productiveness of our native soil—(hear, hear, and cheers)—to make us dependent upon others for the bread we eat—a species of insanity, into the nature and extent of which he would not stop to enquire, but which had already been denominated as worse than madness. (Hear, hear.) Our ships, our colonies, our commerce had, in the proposed alteration of the timber and sugar duties, been collectively attacked. (Hear.) Those dangers had been averted for a time; and it was for the electors of the empire in the aggre gate, and for those of Liverpool in particular, to determine whether they should be permanently so or not. By whom, might he ask, had those dangers been warded off? By such men as our representatives who now, in their own persons, solicited our suffrages. (Cheers.) They had indeed made a manly and a noble effoet ; they had bearded the lion in his own den—(tremendous cheers) ;—they had beaten the enemy in a field of his own choosing. (Renewed cheers.) They had thus gained for the people the 'vantage ground ; let the people enable them to maintain it. (Cheers.) Let them rally round the standard of Sandon and Cresswell I (Loud sheers, and cries of "We have.") Let them trust not the millocracy and their adherents, who had even dared to dictate to them in their native town. (Hear, hear.) They were men who had come with an open cry for cheap bread, but their covert purpose was low wages. (Hear, hear, hear.) Their object was to make us dependent upon others, and why ? Why, for the charitable purpose of making others de pendent upon them. (Cheers.) They were men—and he grieved to give utterance to the fact—who would " keep the word of promise to the ear," but effectually break it "to the heart." (Cheers.) These were our opponents ; and vacil lating as had been the conduct of one, and respectable in private life as was the other, the people would net have either. (Cheers.) Away with such philosophy, out upon such theo ries as theirs—(cheers) ;—again he said to the meeting, " Rally round the standard of Sandon and Cresswell ! " (Great and long-continued cheers.) Mr. SANDS, on rising to second the resolution, was loudly applauded. He thanked the meeting for that cheer. It was most delightful to hear a good old English cheer like that — might he not say a good conservative cheer, for it shewed him the sort of company by which he was surrounded? (Hear, and cheers.) He had undertaken to second the reso lution which had just been moved ; and he did so, in the first place, because he heartily approved of it • it had his most entire sanction ; he believed every word of it; and, in the second place, he did so with the greatest pleasure because it needed no speech from him to recommend its adoption. It was a speech in itself, as was stated to him by the gentleman who put it in his hands. He could not, however, help re marking that the resolution had reference to her Majesty's ministers. The first part of it charged them with bringing forward measures which they knew full well they could never carry, and which they had not themselves the most distant, the most remote, idea of carrying. What could be their ob ject in proposing them ? Why, agitation. (Great cheering.) They cried " cheap sugar," nevertheless they did not pro pose to reduce the duties upon our own British plantation sugar, but here was something to get up a hue and cry in the country. (Hear, hear.) He was quite sure from their cheers that the meeting approved of the first part of the re solution ; and as to the second part of it, he would only say that we had every day before our eyes the most melancholy evidences of its truth. Was there no want of confidence in the country ? Was there no want of confidence among the commercial classes ? (Cries of " Yes.") Did not that. want of confidence lead to a curtailment of commercial trans actions ; and as the necessary consequence of that curtail ment, were there not thousands of the poor in Liverpool, in the manufacturing districts, and in every part of the country, out of employment ? (Cheers.) All these, or a great por tion of them, he attributed to the conduct of her Majesty's ministers. (Hear.) What should be done then? A VOICE.—Why, turn them out. (Tremendous cheers.) Mr. SANDS.-50 say I, and that is what we intend to do. (Cheers.) After we have turned them out — Another VOICE.—We'll put better in. (Great cheers.) Mr. SANDS.—Yes, we will put better in of course, and then I have no doubt you will very soon see an improvement in the country ; and the time will not be very far distant when we shall witness the return of good old English times, . of good old English fare, and of good old' English hearts. (Great applause.) Mr. Sands concluded by seconding the resolution. The CHAIRMAN put the motion, and it was carried unani. mously. Mr. CHARLES LAWRENCE moved the third resolution, expressing the pleasure of the meeting at the arrival of Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell, and renewing their pledges of support at the coming election. (Cheers.) Mr. RANKIN, in seconding the motion, expressed his con fidence that every elector who wished to maintain our reli gion, our laws, and our great national interests, would come forward, heart and hand, in the ensuing contest, to return again our present worthy representatives, and thus set an example worthy of imitation by other constituencies. Of those gentlemen he need only say that their public conduct was before the electors, and spoke fo r itself. It proved that they were entitled to t he' fullest confidence;and i h n e p w er o f u e l c d t observe that they had been of i nvaluable ass istance to their unison, constituents and and justly each posa aostaheedr ,b ecause great ace ft influence in the H ouse ofe y acted ' Commons. (Loud cheers.) Every gentleman who had had occasion to visit to London upon public business, must have been struck with their ready attention to every su bj ect brought under their notice, their daily attendance at the Li verpool office, and with their constant labours upon commit tees. In those most useful labours he was free to say that Mr. Cresswell could not be surpassed even by th e no b le lord, his colleague. (Cheers.) He had great pleasure in second ing the motion. The CHAIRMAN then put the motion, and like the others of the meeting L ord Sandon and Mr. C it was carried una nimousl y . At peasaswrtahenli were pe introduced.ried Time chee rs w ith w hi c h th e i r p greeted were l ong, l oud, and most enthusi astic, and must have been highly gratifying to the honourable genZolerdinr A N DON, having risen to address the meeting, was again received with numerous rounds of applause. His lord ship, on the cessation of the cheerin g , addressed the meeting nea:—Gentlemen, receptionen tl e a m n d e nI o experienced , of f thisu ; h indeed nature t in ; feelingsy ught ought iu s ned t h l e m ea d e s to b to b thosreeelysbyoaeomstut followsee hr usedwa hvlet hardened given utterance to. Perhaps it may be the weakness of my nature ; but I confess I cannot receive tin. moved such testimonies of attachment to the cause which calls us here together, as birth to. (Chee rs . you have this moment been givin warm and cordial at tae l hm se e e ht i t ned o de the good these expr essions odca asewh ici i bringsog ) f us here, that I have not been deceived in the estimate I had formed of the strength of those feelings which unite and hold together the conservati v e body in Liverpool. not be deluded b y th e cry of cheap a a(Hear.) I had indeed a h ope, a trust, pbread—that confidence, t you were nothatyouwould to be deluded by the offer of unlimited prosperity which her majesty's ministers have thought it consistent with their eha- duties