The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-07 00:00:00

SOUTH CHESHIRE.

The Nomination of Candidates for the Southern Division
of Cheshire took place on Friday morning, in the Shire Hall.
CMARLXS WICICSTEAD, Esq., proposed Mr. George Wil-
braham as a fit and proper person to represent the Southern
Division of Cheshire in the ensuing Parliament.—(Cheers.)
E. V. TOWNSHEND, seconded the nomination.
HANDLE WILBRAHAM, jun., Esq., begged to put Sir
Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, Bart., in nomination as a
candidate to represent this division of the county. An out-
cry had been raised against the King of Hanover : they
had been told by placards that when Duke of Cumberland
lie was the head of the Tory party.—(Yes, yes, and no.)
He denied it. As a peer of the royal blood of England they
al.vays did and always would treat him with respect, but
he denied that they ever were guided by his counsel. That
Hanover was separated from England was to him matter
of great satisfaction ; for he had always thought it a mill-
stone about the neck of England, and they made Hanover
welcome to the King.
The Rev. MAINWARING, of Brombro', seconded the
nomination.

Colonel FORD, of Abbey-fields, near Sandhach, nomi-
nated Mr. Edwin Corbett, and highly eulogised him as a
man, a county magistrate, and a country gentleman, and•
Mr. BROOKE, of Mere, seconded the nomination.
Mr. WILBRAHAM then stepped forward, and was re-
ceived with loud cheering. lie did not quarrel with any
man who thought that Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Durham,
Sir Robert Peel, or the Duke of Wellington were the
fitter men to guide the helm of the State ; but from long
acquaintance and observation he was convinced that no
man, whether they looked at his splendid talents, his dis-
interested conduct, his dignified demeanour, the powerful
manner in which he supported the rights of the Crown
when they were assailed, and the indignation which he
hurled on the opposers of the rights of the people, stood
higher with the country, and was more qualified for the
task, than Lord Melbourne.—(Great cheers and hisses.)
There was no man who, in his judgment, might be more
truly called a Conservative.—( Hear.) Let them not mis-
take him : he was not talking about a Conservative in the
commonly-received sense of that word by a political party ;
he was not talking about a Tory who was ashamed of his
proper name, which was not beloved by the nation, and
who had altered that title and come before them in ano-
ther ; he was not talking about a renegade Whig—(Hear)--
who had risen to the top of the ladder in the cause of Re-
form, and then, from some disappointment of place or pen-
sion—(cheers)—he threw down the ladder on which he had
risen. Such a man was a renegade, a turn-coat, a Jim
Crow—(Laughter)—who had turned from one side to the
other, and he could only say that from his soul he despised
him.—( Cheers.) They could not either call that man a
Conservative who with one stroke of his pen had Wetted
out a Constitution. He was a Conservative of another sort,
and was closely allied in sentiment with the great Powers
of the Continent, who only wanted to bring their armies
down upon this nation to crush the spirit of liberty.—
(Cheers and hisses.) Was he a Conservative who was a
Carlist in Spain, a Miguelite iu Portugal, and an Orange-
man in Ireland ? Was he a Conservative in the true sense
of the word, who would rake up the ashes of discord, reli-
gious discord, in that unhappy land, and endeavour to intro-
duce intolerant principles among them.—( Hear, hear.)
They might see from a variety of the votes he had given in
the last few Sessions of Parliament that he had recorded
votes in opposition to Ministers ; he had generally sup-
ported them from conviction, fitr he thought they had done
more good for the country than any other Ministers that
ever existed. Such were his feelings and opinions, and he
would not desert his principles to gain his election.
Mr. CORBETT then presented himself amid mingled
cheers and hisses. As far as his political views went he
believed they were pretty well understood by a large num-
ber of the electors of this county. He would, how-
ever, tell them that he was a Reformer—(Groans and
laughter)—and he would tell them how far he was a Re-
former.—(Groans.) Ile was a Reformer in the terms of the
Queen's speech, who said it would be her care to strengthen
the institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, by discreet im-
provement where improvement was required.—(Cheers.)
The HIGH SHERIFF then proceeded to take a show of
hands, which he declared was in favour of Mr. Wilbraham
and Mr. Corbett, Mr. Wilbraham's friends being three to
one of either of the other candidates. Mr. Randle
britham, jun., then demanded a poll for Sir Philip Egerton,
which the Slieriff fixed for Monday and Tuesday next,
commencing at nine o'clock.