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London, England, 1847-07-31 00:00:00

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appeal to your favour. On the side of yjour c"1-
br'el tMembers was arrayed a strong political party, noi
and disturbed, as is the Conservative party, by l
circum-
stances too well known to need my referring:snore
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cularly to them. Our succe<sful rivals have bad the benefit
of the natural weight and influence of a Government
party, they have also bad the udvantege of a strong in-
terest brought to bear upon their cause by the claim
put forward in an especial manner by one of their
number, and upon which I offer no opinion, and desire
to convey no impression discourteous to the claimant;
he had a right to prefer it, and he has truly said it is
for him to maintain it. The union of these circum-
stances will account for a large proportion of the
numbers polled for the four Members, while, on the
other hand, the state of that which was the Conser-
vative party, and strong as a party in 1841 and 1843,
has considerably added to the strength of what is termed
the Liberal interest, and has materially contributed to
the general result reported to you by the Sheriffs.
Gentlemen, the circumstance last referred to—l mean
the comparative apathy of the Conservative party in the
city of London—has operated much to my individual
disadvantage, because wherever the claims of one Or more
of my honourable rivals have been accorded by Conserva-
tive voters, the probability of my claim upon party grounds
as the fourth Conservative candidate, was diminishadAnd
I had to rely mere than would otherwise have been the
case upon personal preference. I am, therefore, rather
surprised that, with such disadvantages, my support has
been so considerable, than disappointed that it has not
been more. Gentlemen,intaking leave of you,
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from being sought by me, I was actually uninformed "of
the facts connected with the pending.contest until the
moment at which I received the invitation, and which, as
the public prints informed you, was not until two
o'clock on the same day on which my name was
announced as the fourth candidate. But, gentlemen, I
could not be surprised to find that my name had occurred
to those gentlemen, because I had been upon three dif-
ferent occasions laboriously engaged in objects deeply
interesting to the merchants, capitaiistc. and traders of
this great city. I refer, first, to the revision of the
bankrupt laws, in a Committee of the Rouse of
Commons, presided over by my valued friend,
the late John Smith, Esq. ; secondly, the abolition
of the power of arrest for debt, except under special cir-
cumstances, which change was opposed by the traders
of the city of London, and was in my opinion injurious
to their interest; and, 3dly, that great change in com-
mercial law, which enabled capitalists and merchants to
acquire a security for bond fide advances made to those
who possessed symbols of property in goods, and which
was necessary to the prosecution ofcommerce in its modern
and extended state : that measure in which the bankers
and merchants of London and LiverpoOl took a deep
interest, was committed to my care, and without assist-
ance. I explained their claims to a change in the law,
in an address of three days, in a Committee of the House
of Commons. I had, alone, for many subsequent days,
to examine witnesses to establish the grievance, and to
show how the laws of foreign countries bore
upon the question—that address was printed at the
suggestion of Lord Lyndhurst, then Solicitor-General,
who was a member of the Committee, and during the
same session of Parliament a remedial measure passed
the Legislature, in opposition to the opinions if the Lord
Chancellor and several of the Judges, with Mr. Canning
to a certain extent, but supported by Lord Liverpool,
the Prime Minister, by Mr. Huskisson, then President of
the Board of Trade. The great capitalists and the ge-
neral commercial interests have had the-benefit for more
than twenty years of the change thus effected, and no
doubt I shall find upon a perusal of the polls-books that
I have had the advantage of much support in conse-
quence, and that such support has diminished the dis-
advantage I have before pointed out as incident to the
position of fourth Conservative candidate, and, in any
event, it will rebut the objection founded upon my
personal connexion with commerce. Gentlemen, in
conclusion, permit me gratefully to thank that large
number, amounting to nearly five thousand electors, who
have honoured me with their support, and by their re-
corded votes have declared that they considered me a fit
and proper person to represent this great city in
Parliament.
Mr. Alderman JOHNSON then came forward, and was
received with the mest tremendous uproar. When
silence had been in some measure restored, he said—
Gentlemen,—The purpose for which I have the honour
now to appear is simply to express my grateful thanks
to you, who supported me in my canvass, and to my
friends generally who had the confidence to re-
cord their votes in my favour, in support of the
Conservative cause. But I cannot take my depar-
ture from this platform without expressing my re-
gret that the powerful interests of a Prime Minister
and of a Rothschild should have been combined to
bring about so unfortunate a result in this election as to
make it imperative upon us, at no distant period, to be
again involved in another political conflict by reason of
the disability which the Noble Baron labours under in
the present state of the law. To my worthy colleagues
and my fellow-Conservative partners in this cause I
would, whilst bidding you for the present farewell,
address a few words. We must energize our friends,
and awaken them, that the Conservative party may, in
their next struggle, whets roused and well directed into
action, show their power to defend our rights and pre-
serve our institutions from danger.
There were several calls for Mr. Bevan, but that gen-
tleman did not think proper to make his appearance.
Mr. PAYNE attempted to address the meeting, but all
his attempts were ineffectual.
The returns to the writ having been signed with the
usual formalities,
Lord Jour; RUSSELL again came forward and said—
I beg your attention for a moment longer, while I pro-
pose a vote of thanks to the Sheriffs. They have bad
most arduous and fatiguing duties to perform, and the
manner in which they have perform( d them, and the
ability and impartiality which they have shown,
will, I am sure, conciliate the suffrages of all who have
witnessed their conduct.
The motion having b en seconded,
Mr. Sheriff KENNARD returned thanks. He stated
that every facility hid been given to the electors to get,
without interruption, to their respective polling places.
With respect to the result of the election, the Sheriffs had
nothing whatever to do with that, and they were perfectly
ignorant of it till they had this morning gone carefully
over the poll books. Every possible care had, however,
been taken to prevent mistakes by every check that
could be adopted.
The meeting then broke up, with three cheers for the
three Liberal Members.
LIVERPOOL.
OFFICIAL DECLARATION.
Cardwell 5,551
Birch . 4,882
Mackworth ••• ••• ••• 4,089
Manners ... 2,413

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