The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-23 00:00:00

M A NCHES ER

On Saturday a numerous meeting of the electors
of Manchester, requiait'onists of Lowe and Potter,
was held in the Corn Exchange, wi:ea Mr. Alder-
man Nei!d, the chairmart, announced the w,th
daawal of Mr. Lowe from the contest, and -called
upon Mr. Heugh to explain the circumstances.
Mr. HEUGH said they had sent a deptration tri
London,' with a requisition bearing 4,000 signatures,
which was nearly equal to the number which voe.. 1
for Captain Denman at the last election. When
they met Mr.- Lowe, he expressed his anxiety to
come down to-represent Manchester, but his fri culls
at, Kidderiniuster had i•ent an urgent deputation to
him, and he had felt hims if bound in honour to
them, (nr. Wednesday evening last-, to declare that,
if elected, he would sit for Kiiidermins‘ kr ; there-
fore he could not accede to the requisition. They
were greatly surprised that Mr. Lowe, having
given that pledge on Wednesday evening, did not
give them earlierinf,,rmation of li;s decision. In
the present crisis of the country, considering that
the feeling was in favour of the policy of protecting
our commerce, it was the duty of Manchester to do
what it could to defend that policy. Their
.oppo-
news now appea-ed to have purchased the influeme
of the Times, . and bad procured a leader to allow
that Manchester ought. t..) support Mr. Bright. But
in spite of Newall's-building=, and their trying to
purchase Printing-house-square, Manchester would
decide 'for the policy of Lord Palmerstoa, and
would send to Parliament two Manchester man.
(Applause.) There was one min I•re eat (Sir J.
• Potter) who harl accepted their requisition—(che,er.)
—and there was another man who had now con-
se.lted to comeforward and fight thisb title against
the diet talon of the gentlemen at NewaTs-tmild-
ings, and against a coalition in the-House of C.Au-
mons in favour of the policy of Lord Palmerston,
and that was Mr. &Ines Aspinall Turner. (Loud
cheers.)
Tile motion was put and ca'ried amidst vociferous

cheering.
Mr. TURNER then addressed tha in,!eting. He
had no wish to intrude himself upon the Manches-
ter community, but they would naturilly wish to
know s:methi IT about him. "Ho came into M in-
chester, in 1819, as poor a youth as any in th,
towa ; but lie was of respectable family. His father
had been insolvent, and he himself, after struggling
iu vain -LA re7iieve the bmines., al-o became in- ol-
vent. He had since paid all his debts—(cluers)—
and he had risen by honourable conduct and indus-
try. If it was the decided opinion Qf the maj-rity
of the electois thwt the prezent members should b,
reurn.ed again; he should not be ckswpointed ; but
he believed they did not represent the feelings of
the great majority of the electors. He and Sir
John might be uudistinguished compared with
Bright-and-Gibs:lr, but at all • events they knew as
much of commerce as Mr. Gibson. Ile believed
Mr. Bright wculd Le a reat loss to tie Houle of
as lie had been always a determinkd op-
Cromunin s,
post'. of every measure which tended to interfere
with the liberty of the subject. He did nut think
Mr, Gibson %, as a va!uable er. If he (Mr.
Tamer) went to Parliament-, it would be with a
their o
sincere de-ire to do his duty, to
,contribute to the
tr
ro
heariltdontohasduPdPLie.
He had
p-rogre;ls ofasthivr3i cor.uß,
';'wte,ye .4'
beets connected Zvi, h the frieads of progrvls
Elo felt it would be considered a great object on
:hat he and Sir AToln Putter wc-re both of the
wane r&igion (Unitrratnisiri), .and that not a popu-
al ways respect the religious k
ar ono; but ho vv,Juia