The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-07-13 00:00:00

cursing their recent unhappy alliance with the Irish
Catholics of Liverpool.

POPISH SAVAGERIE.—AIthough the noble demonstra-
tion of Conservative strength made at the nomination on
Monday, and the excellent arrangements of the police,
served to show the Roman Catholic Irish that any
outrage on a large scale would be promptly put down,
there were not wanting on Tuesday and Wednesday a
number of savage and ferocious assaults, sufficient to
show what would be the sort of civil and religious liberty
allowed in Liverpool if that party was in the ascendant.
On Tuesday afternoon a desperate attack was made upon
a body of Orange lads, who were passing down St. James'-
street, after the procession, to their lodge room, in which
brickbats and stones in profusion were thrown, the women
supplying the assailants with missiles. The Irish inhabit-
ants of New Bird-street and Jordan-street poured out in
thousands, evidently having been prepared for a row.
Windows were smashed, and many persons severely hurt.
One woman threw stones at Captain ;Greig from a win-
dow- • another had employed a pair of tongs, and a third a
hatchet, as weapons of offence or defence. (We quote
from the Journal's description.) The viragoes ran into a
house, which had to be broken open by the police; and
many disorderly characters were taken into custody with
brickbats in their hands. On Wednesday, in Sawney
Pope-street and Scotland-place, several cabs containing
voters, bearing colours of Mackenzie and Turner, were
attacked with stones, and preparations for a similar
attack were being made at the corner of St. Martin-street,
Scotland-road, when the police came up in force, and had
a quantity of stones, which had been brought to the spot,
removed in a wheelbarrow. During the evening of
Wednesday the town, especially at the north and south
ends, continued in a state of the greatest excitement.
Upwards of -20 persons were on Thursday and Friday
fined sums from 40s. to 205., and committed for a month,
for these disorders. A car containing two canvassers for
Messrs. Turner and Mackenzie was smashed to pieces on
Wednesday, in Great Crosshall-street, and the parties
severely ill-treated ; one party, indeed, narrowly escaped
with his life, through the kindness of an old woman, who
let him through her cellar, and directed him by a back
passage into Fontenoy-street. Another gentleman had
the windows of the car in which he was driving up Dale-
street broken by a brickbat, thrown from the end of
North-street, which passed through the other side, close
past his head. In fact, wherever during the afternoon
the canvassers of Messrs. Mackenzie and Turner pre-
sented themselves, in any of the exclusively Irish streets
of the town, they were either attacked or insulted.

THE ELECTIONS IN LANCASHIRE
AND NEIGHBOURHOOD.

The following is the result of the Borough Elections in
this district, and of a few others in which the community
here are interested, either through the circumstances of
the candidates being Liverpool men or on other local
grounds. We may premise that we have not in all cases
the returns of the polls as declared ; but they are pro-
bably near enough for all useful purposes.
BLACKBURN.—In this borough Mr. ECCLES, a manu-
facturer and free-trader, and rather ultra Peelite in some
of his opinions, opposed Mr. HORNS'', the conservative
member, and was returned with Mr. PILKINGTON, the
former Whig-radical member.

BOLTON.—In this town two liberals, Mr. BARNES and
Mr. CROOK, were returned instead of Mr. BLAIR, one of
the former members, a Conservative, and Sir Joshua
WALMSLEY, resigned. Mr. Peter Ainsworth, a conser-
vative free-trader, and formerly member for the borough,
was the fourth candidate, and was lowest.on the poll.
BURY.—After a severe contest, Mr. F. PEEL has been
returned in a majority over Lord DUNcAN.
CHESTER. Our townsman, Mr. SAMUEL HOLME,
had secured an excellent chance of success in this city ;
but the screw having been put on by the agents of the
Marquis of Westminster, Mr. HOLME did not go to the
poll, and the old members, EARL GROSVENOR and
Mr. STANLEY, were returned. Tn his retiring address Mr.
Holme says :—Any difficulty, cis regards one member
alone, on that score, appears to be removed by Lord
Grosvenor's letter of the Bth March last, in which his
lordship stated that his family would not interfere in the
return of the second member for Chester.' It appears,
therefore, that there was room for one of the seats to be
contested for this city; and the Conservatives of Chester,
being satisfied with that concession, did me the honour
to invite me, by a large and most respectably signed re-
quisition, to come forward in behalf of independent Pro-
also taken several opportunities of laying my sentiments
and principles before you in public addresses, I have had
the pleasure to receive the assurances of support from
nearly SOO electors, of whom more than 100 on the former
occasion voted for Mr. Stanley. In addition to the sup-
port of the entire Conservative body, I have also been
testant and Conservative principles. I accepted the invita-
tion; placed myself in the hands of an honourable and active
committee; and, having personally canvassed yourcity, and
promised the second votes of a large number of the elec-
tors, who have thought it their duty to give their first
vote to Earl Grosvenor. I do not wonder that the favour-
able position of our canvass has excited the alarm of my
opponents, nor that Sir Edward Walker, as the chairman
of Mr. Stanley's committee, should have frankly confessed,
by a placard issued with his signature, that 'if the bond of
unity be broken between the two sections of the Liberal
party, the Liberal interest will be for ever ruined in Ches-
ter, and Toryism will triumph.' But it was with great
surprise and regret (on lArd Grosvenor's account), that
I read his lordship's last sudden address to you of the 3rd
instant, in which he proclaims that, as a candidate is in
the field holding high Conservative opinions, it becinnes
necessary that you should declare yourselves favourable to
such candidates as will uphold a Liberal and Free-trade
policy.' That is to say, while in March last your
' second' vote was not to be dictated to, in July the case
is altered, and it has become necessary that both your
votes should be given against the Conservatives; and,
consequently, that I should be deprived, if possible, of
the independently and honestly given second votes in the
Grosvenor interest.

CLITHEROE.—An attempt was made to unseat Mr.
WILSON, the whip-radical member, by Mr. AsVINALL,
on the conservative interest, but failed of success.
DERBY.—In this borough our townsman, Mr. THOMAS
BERRY HORSFALL, was, after a severe contest, returned
second on the poll by a majority of seven only, unseating
Mr. LAWRENCE HEYWORTH, a whig-radical and a Liver-
pool merchant.. Mr. HORSFALL is a conservative free-
trader, and entertains sound Protestant views.
Hum..—The nomination for this Borough took place
on Tuesday, the Candidates being Mr. BRAMLEY MOORE,
and Hon. C. L. BUTLER, on the Derby interest, and
Mr. JAMES CLAY, one 'of the old members, and Loan
GODERICH. At the close of the poll, on Wednesday, the
two latter were declared elected. Our excellent contem-
porary, the Hull Packet, remarks of the result :
" We venture to say that on the morning of the nomi-
nation, ninety-nine out of every hundred electors in the
borough honestly believed the contest would be a most
severe one, and that if either party succeeded in returning
both its candidates, the chances were in favour of the
Conservatives. For our own part, the evidently prevail-
ing feeling in the town, and the carefully prepared results
of the Conservative canvass, led us to look upon Mr.
Bramley-Moore's return as certain, and upon the Hon.
Mr. Butler's chances of success as exceedingly favourable.
A single night changed the whole aspect of affairs ! Be-
tween the morning of the nomination and the morning of
the election, a sudden conversion to Liberalism had taken
place among the ranks of the " doubtfuls." Even many
of those who had been looked upon as " safe" on the
Conservative side, and whose promises had been long
given and recorded in favour of Messrs. Bramley-Moore
and Butler, were found busy as bees on theLiberalside, and
voting contrary to their openly-avowed principles with an
eagerness which, to the uninitiated, was most amazing.
Among a certain class of voters the defections were enor-
mous. In one district, out of a body of sixty voters,
pledged to support the Conservative candidates, and ap-
parently heartily in their favour on Wednesday night,
only six votes, we are are informed, could be obtained on
the day of polling. In another district; two of the most
important and confidential employees of the Conservative
committees failed to make their appearance on the day of
nomination. Need our readers be told the nature of tho
influence which could thus suddenly, in a single night,
change the political views of a whole host of voters ? Need
they he told that the liberal lordling's long purse has won
him the election."

LANCASTER.—The election here has terminated in the
return of the tyro Liberals, GREGSON and ARMSTRONG,
defeating Mr. GREEN, a Peelite, and Mr. ELLIS, a Con-
servative.

LEICESTER.--Sir J. WALMESLEY and Mr. P. GARD.
NER, Liberals, are returned at the head of the poll, both
having polled even numbers, their opponents, Messrs.
WILDE and PALMER, also splitting with each other.
MANCHESTER.—Contrary to our hopes, although not
to our expectations, the Conservative candidates for the
representation of this town have been defeated, and Jo HN
BRIGHT and Mr. MILNER GIBSON will, during the next
session of Parliament, continue to stultify Manchester,
and neglect its best interests.

PRESTON.—In this borough Mr. TOWNLEY PARKER,
Conservative, has been returned at the head of the poll,
with Sir G. STRICKLAND.

WIGAN.—Mr. R. A. THICKNESSE, Reformer, and Co-
lonel LINDSAY, Ministerialist, are returned.
WARRINGTON.—Mr. G. GREENALL, Ministerialist,
has been returned without opposition.

DUBLIN

GLORIOUS TRIUMPH OF THE MINISTERIAL
CANDIDATES.

Mr. Reynolds. one of the cleverest members of the
Pope's late parliamentary brigade, has been signally de-
feated by both the ministerial candidates by overwhelming
majorities. Mr. Edward Grogan and Mr. John Vance
are now the representatives of the Irish metropolis. The
Romanist party in Dublin is in astate of savage excitement,
The conduct of the agents of Mr. Reynolds on Saturday
in the booths was of the most reprehensible character.
They tendered the bribery oaths and the oath of identifi-
cation to the following well-known personages :—The
Chief Justice of the queen's Bench, (Mr. Lefroy,) Mr.
Justice Jackson, the lklaster of the Rolls, (Mr. Smith,)
the Dean of St. Patrick, Sir George Morris, Sir Edward
Burrows, and Mr. Ross Moore, the new member for
Armagh, and a host of other highly respectable gentlemen.
To the credit of several ultra-Radical politicians be it told,
that this conduct had the effect of inducing them to vote
against Reynolds. Mr. Ferguson, the veterinary surgeon,
presented himself vith the intention of plumping for
Reynolds, The agent of this gentleman, not knowing
Mr. Ferguson's design, tendered him the bribery oath,
whereupon he declared that he had come there to vote for
Mr. Reynolds, but in consequence of the grossly insulting
conduct which he had witnessed to others, and now ex-
perienced himself, he would vote for Grogan and Vance.
Tee
following offence.
Several others acted similarly. There have been many
cases of impersonation on behalf of Reynolds. Two of the
delinquents have been committed to gaol, and will be tried r
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