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THE PERFORMANCES DURING. THE SUMMER SEASON
WILL COMMENCE AT HALF-PAST SEVEN.-DOORS TO

PE UPENED AT SEVBN

Under the Patronage of Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY.
Fifth Night of the popular favourites MR. VANDEN-
HOFF and MISS VANDENHOFF, who ate engaged
for a limited period.
THIS present FRIDAY, June 25, 1811, wig be repeated,
the favourite Play of
THE HUNCHBACK,
Which was received on Monday last with the most enthusi-
astic applause.
Master Walter.. (the Hunchback).. Mr. Vandenhoff,
As originally performed by him at this Theatre.
Lord Tinsel .. Mr. Chaplin.
Sir Thomas Clifford
Modus

Mr. H. Holt.
Mr. Baker

Fathom
Helen.. Mrs. W. H. Bland
Miss Vandenhoff

Julia
After which, will be revived, a Farce, not acted here for

many years, called
HOW TO DIE FOR LOVE

On MONDAY next, June 28th, under the Patronage of
Lord SANDON and CRESSWELL CRESSWELL, Esq.,
a favourite Play, and Entertainments.

Mr. Knowles's last new Play, called the BRIDALS OF
MESSINA ; or, JOHN OF PROCIDA., is in preparation, and
will shortly be produced.

TO CORRESPONDENTS

We are confidentially informed that Sir Joshua Walmsley, in
a letter to a friend, informs him that " he has no chance in
succeeding for the representation of this borough, but that
he has now gone too far to draw back." What a pity he
did not take the advice of the STANDARD some months
since ; it would have spared him considerable time, trouble

and expense.
Will Mr. Baylee allow us to postpone the insertion of his
letter until the reports and other information consequent
upon a general election, and which occupy nearly all our
space, are disposed of.
We cannot possibly insert, or even notice at present, one-
half of the communications we receive.:

ebe Eibrri3oot &tanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 25, 1841

It was truly and well said, by Lord Sandon, on
Monday, that "our government seems to have taken
" a leaf out of the pope's book in the management of
" Ireland, and to think that the most prudent measure
" to secure quiet and contentment was by paying the
" chief disturber."

This is precisely the nature of the relation that
subsists between O'Connell and her majesty's minis-
ters ; and we need not say, that a more disgraceful
compact never was entered into. We set little value
on the quiet or contentment which such an agreement
could produce, and, in point of fact, it has led to no
improvement in the state of Ireland. It has not been
able to restrain the hands of the murderous Ribbon-
man, even whilst the Dictator's power was at its
greatest height; and as to any other sort of peace that
it produced—what was the nature of it ?—solitudinena
faciunt pacem apellant—it was just such peace as fol-
lows from the submission of slaves to a tyrant—the

peace which is characterised by intellectual prostration
and bodily fear.

The administration of the Whigs has been from first
to last an administration of shifts and expedients—an
administration of selfishness—a wretched provision
just for the day that was passing over their heads ;

but in Ireland, more than any where else, their misera-
ble policy, with all its baseness, was made manifest.
It was base to sell the people of Ireland to a detestable
tyranny, just that the office-bearers of the state might
sit down to their loaves and fishes in a little quiet;
and then it was knavish and hypocritical to boast that
this quiet was the fruit of good government, when, in
truth and in fact, it was the fruit of the govern-
ment altogether deserting its duty, and consigning the
people to the custody of their worst oppressors. If the
people of England were to exercise their liberty at the
coming election with a view to the good of Ireland
alone, they would be found, to a man, to vote against
the administration of the whigs. We would call upon
them earnestly, in the name of Ireland, to turn them
out. We would beseech them, as they value true
religion, freedom, and happiness themselves, to have
regard to eight millions of their fellow-subjects in
Ireland, and turn out the whigs—turn out a ministry
that has sold Ireland to a brutal tyranny, which is
grinding her inhabitants to the very earth. Will they
sacrifice that splendid country for the highwayman's
peace upon the bandit's conditions ? People of
England, you cannot do it ; no, not though you were
inclined. If you love your church and constitution,
you must labour to impart the same blessings to your
fellow-subjects in Ireland; and you have now no way
to do that but by turning out the whigs.
It can scarcely be necessary at this time of day to
oiTer any new proof of the execrable and insulting
oppression under which the people groan from
O'Connell, and the surpliced banditti in league
with him; yet the sort of canvass which the beast and
his companions were carrying on last week in Carlow
county—so perfectly in keeping with all their other
doings—ought not to be passed over.
In the first place, who is the candidate ? A Mr.
Daniel O'Connell, youngest son of the old one, and,
doubtless, a chip of the old block. Ile has about as
much pretensions to Carlow as Lord Palmerston has
to Liverpool—and what is more, he, too, like Lord
Palmerston, is a phantom candidate. The young
Cupid is in France, and has never shown his face (any
more than our Foreign Secretary) to the electors ; yet
the Dictator says the people must have him. Pries t
M`Hale has declared, that he could make his cow-
boy a member of parliament, if it was his will and
pleasure to do so—and why not O'Connell any one of
the scions of so precious a stock as himself? His
address to the electors, in the name of the phantom, is
in his usual strain of insolence and bullying. Minis-
ters, he says, were beaten on the no-confidence motion
by a single vote, and that vote was Colonel Bruen's.
" Let the Catholic electors," he proceeds to say, " who
♦oted for Bruen at the last election—let the wives, let the
daughters, let the sons of the Catholic electors who voted for
Bruen at the last election—let them know it was the Catholic
electors of Carlow, who, by voting for Bruen, procured a
triumph for the enemies of their religion, of their country,
and their Queen !

" Miserable men that they arc ! Let them blush for shame
at the injustice and iniquity that they have committed. Let
them now prepare to make restitution. Let them now come
over from the ranks of their enemies. Let them now join
the ranks of their friends. They know full well that without
restitution there is no pardon. Oh! may they deserve—as
they would in that case be certain to obtain—forgiveness !"

Now mark the threat by which the foregoing invita-
tion is enforced. Read this, British freeman—English
elector, and say what sort of freedom is permitted to
the people of Ireland under the tyranny of O'Connell
and the priests; and remember, that this is the domi-
nation which the whigs have been doing their best to
fasten upon that country :
" Any of you who persevere in supporting Bruen must be
prepared for the hatred and execration of his neighbours and
his countrymen. He will be looked on as a black sheep in
the fair flock of the honest electors. The black sheep will be
avoided as a pestilence by all the honest part of the commu-
nity. The black sheep voter for Bruen will be scorned by
his neighbours and former friends. No honest young 'man
will marry the daughter of a black sheep—no respectable
girl will marry the son of a black sheep. The black sheep
electors, who vote for Bruen at the coming election, will
meet the scorn, derision, and contempt of the universal peo-
ple of Carlow."

So much for the conciliatory and insinuating terms
of the address. The mode of conducting the canvass
is perfectly suitable to it. "The greater part of last
week," says the Dublin Evening Mail of Monday,
" has been devoted, by Mr. O'Connell, to the further-
ance of the agrarian conspiracy in the county of Car-
low. From town to town—from market to market—
from fair to fair, he has been endeavouring to hunt
down the landed interest, and, by the aid of deputed
mobs sent to his assistance from the county of Kilkenny,
he has been labouring unsuccessfully to intimidate the
tenantry into a servile war against their landlords.
Like the Duke of Alva, in his exterminating mission
against the Protestants of the plains of Languedoc, he
travels with a pair of ecclesiastical bloodhounds at his
heels; and what the two jesuits were to the duke, the
two priests, Maher and Tyrrell, are to the demagogue."
The priests make no mystery of the part they take
in forcing their priest-ridden, superstitious, and igno-
rant flocks to vote for this or any other phantom which
they choose to name as a candidate for parliament.
They put on a bold front, and openly avow it. The
following letter, which has been published in all the
Irish papers, furnishes an interesting piece of evidence
on the subject :
" LETTER FROM THE RIGHT REV. DR. KENNEDY TO THE
occurred in u
4, aERGY OF CLARE, IN THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE.
genereaL9VED BRETHREN,—AS we are now on the eve of a
ier
times, election—unquestionably
utterly
disregardingm ost important h
ted
dishonest
and factitious outcry that has been so perseveringly kept up
against the Catholic clergy of Ireland, on account of their
necessary interference in
and perseycnuatewd the political struggles of their op-
pressedl3lrlik)le-1 deem it my imperative duty
to request that
Ennis on Wednesday, the 2a3yde.the kindness to meet me at
in
the approaching
that we may consider.
how we may best employ,
crisis,. that tn.
frame JO hatifid to tory ir."„y,t.
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our faithful servant,
" Deerpark, Jane 18, 1841."

I):liEN'Ancir;

If Ireland be sometimes a thorn in our side, let us
no longer wonder how this happens. We have here
the true key of the mystery; it is Popery—cursed,
iniquitous, foul, tyrannical, and abominable Popery.
Will the electors of England vote for Popery ? If
they vote for ministers, they must, for they and Popery
are identified. Awake, then, Protestant electors of
England! Let us have—No Popery? nay, Down
with it, or it will have you down. It is the curse of
every country it nestles in.

The expiring ministry, fully sensible that their hour
is come, begin to dispose of their effects, and to give
tokens of their affection to the few friends left them.
Jack Ketch, or whoever may have the honour (and a
high honour it will be in this case) to perform his
office, will have the robes in which they suffer ; to
their successors they will leave nothing but the old red
tape in which they tied their papers. Their determina-
tion on this last point has been made evident by the
haste and sharpness with which they have been gather-
ing in, and disposing of, every thing disposable at their
command either remotely or immediately. They stop
at nothing that can avail them in this way. Knowing
that it is time to set "their house in order," they seize
and sell whatever they can lay their hands upon. " Let
us gut the establishment," say they, " and then no-
body can pretend that we have left it in disorder."
Pawnbrokers, auctioneers, and commission-agents of
every description are hourly in attendance ; and the
scene going forward is extremely curious. Old Lord
Plunket has been driven off the Chancery Bench in
Ireland in the most savage and ignominious manner,
to make way for Sir John Campbell, for whom no
other berth could be found. This fact is remarkable,
because it shows unequivocally, first, that ministerial-
ists are acting on the sauve qui pent principle with all
diligence; and, secondly, that ministers are perfectly
unscrupulous as to the means they take to provide for
their followers in a route so complete. The command
given to the Irish Chancellor to pack up and depart
was sudden, unexpected, and absolutely insulting.
He was very reluctant, poor man to go; and it is
admitted on all hands that he is quite equal to the
discharge of his functions. His lordship, in taking
leave of the bar on Monday, admitted these facts him-
self. Here, then, is a tolerably strong proof, that
whatever others may think, ministers are quite aware
themselves that their doom is sealed, and that if they
did not provide for Sir John Campbell just at this
moment, it may very shortly be quite out of their
power to do any thing for him. So Sir John is pitch-
forked on the Irish Chancery Bench with rude and
indecent celerity.

So much for ministerial consciousness : look next
at their conscientiousness. They know well that they
are going out, and that when they go, Sir John Camp-
bell will have to retire along with them; but mark,
his elevation to the Irish bench will entitle him to a
retiring pension of £4,000 a-year, although his judicial
services should not endure more than a few weeks !
Now, is not this a job, yea, a rank job? No wonder
that new taxes are needed—that the public treasury is
empty—that our debt is increased ; what care hungry
whigs for national affairs when their own private con-
cerns require so much attention ? or what care they
who suffer, so they obtain comfortable locations
for themselves ? Lord Plunket is now the third Irish
Ex-Chancellor on the pension list; the other two are
Sir E. Sugden and the venerable Lord Manners.

Our readers would justly charge us with presump-
tion were we to undertake, unasked, the defence of any
discourse or doctrine put forward by the Rev. Hugh
M'Neile,—a task to which there is none more compe-
tent than he is himself. We deprecate the imputation
that it is our intention to do anything of the kind ; we
shall leave that labour to the rev. gentleman himself,
if he should think it necessary to offer any reply to
the cavillers who have attacked his late speech at
the Amphitheatre. But the absurdity and falsehood of
some of the criticisms which that address has elicited
are so glaring, and especially those which have issued
from our ancient, the Mercury, that we feel ourselves
not only at liberty, but in some measure called upon,
to occupy the attention of our readers for a brief
space with a notice of them.
Mr. M`Neile, having shown that the grand scriptu-
ral argument of the anti-corn-law men rested upon a
garbled quotation which made nothing in their favour,
and that a comprehensive view as well of nature as of
revelation proved that the argument thence derived was
utterly futile, proceeded to say that there was a passage
in holy writ which, if it did not contain an express au-
thority against placing our country in dependence upon
foreigners for food, afforded a forcible illustration of
the consequences which would be likely to result from
its being submitted to so unfortunate a condition. He
then quoted the 20th verse of the 12th chapter of the
Acts of the Apostles, and commented on the passage
with his usual eloquence and effect. Now the passage
states a fact, and the fact stated is, that the people of
Tyre and Sidon were obliged to make submissions to
Herod, and use stratagem to pacify him—and for this
reason, because " their country was nourished by the
king's country." It was in vain that Tyre was a great
emporium of commerce and manufactures, and Herod
but a petty prince of Palestine. The people of Tyre
were dependent upon him for food, and they had no
choice but to bear with the high displeasure and lofty
airs of their bread-keeper. What would all their ma-
nufactures and trade avail them if they had no bread
to eat ? With Herod therefore they must keep terms—
to him they must sue in humble guise, because their
country was nourished by his. The force of the argu-
ment would not be lost even though Tyre and Sidon
were places of less importance than they actually were.
The FA CT stated in the passage contains a warning
which this circumstance would not affect; but it cer-
tainly appears more striking when we consider how im-
portant and famous a city this Tyre was.

With a view to call up a picture of its magnificence
Mr. M`Neile used some of the very descriptive terms
of the prophet Ezekiel. " They of the house of To-.
garmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen
and mules." " Judah, and the land of Israel,
they were thy merchants," &c. Yet all this availed
nothing in the eyes of a petty prince, who happened to
hold the city in his power in the important matter of
nourishment.

Can the foreign-corn advocates of the present mo-
ment evade the inference—the important lesson obvi-
ously deducible from this plain statement? They can-
not. It should be a memorable example and warning
to us not to boast too much of our riches—not to
place too much dependence on our manufactures and
our commerce, and, above all things, not to make our-
selves subject to the caprice of foreigners for our daily
bread,—the very thing, by the way, which our insane
anti-corn-law agitators are at this moment ridiculously
urging us to do.

But the Mercury, who is a capital friend at a pinch,
has made a discovery that Mr. M'Neile is all wrong
about this passage, and -that he has been guilty of a
"gross and wanton perversion of scripture to serve a
political purpose" ! This is a serious charge, and pro-
claimed with a flourish of trumpets that might well
persuade those who did not know their man so well as
we do, that there was something awful coming forth.
Well, our labouring ancient, after all, produces only a
ridiculous mouse. He has nothing to say to the pas-
sage cited, but he alleges: that Mr. M'Neile's description
of Tyre was not applicable to it in the time of Herod.
His words are as follows :

" The description of Tyre is taken from Ezekiel, chapter
and it is quoted as applying to Tyre at the time the
apostle wrote, whereas at that time Tyre had fallen from her
high and palmy state, and was reduced so low as to be in
fearle
pettyTyre were monarch of Judrea. The rev. gentleman
puts were then in the height of her power and
,ief i
and in so doin g he not only falsifies the fact, but
s p
takesndtoliao as
ut
g splendour,
and most unwarrantable liberty with Scripture.
His crowning sophist
ry yvas received, we are told, with ' im-
mense cheering, and pr obably the plaudits of his ignorant
auditors may be sufficien t consolation to him, even if those
possessed of wiser head and sounder hearts should tremble
at his audacity.

Here the assertion is, that Tyre, in the time of He-
rod Agrippa, was no longer in the state in which it
was when described by Ezekiel five hundred years be-
fore ; but no proof is offered of that allegation. The
city had undergone several mutations before the Chris-
tian era ; had been conquered and nearly destroyed by
Alexander the Great ; but was rebuilt, and afterwards
became as great nearly as ever. From the frequent
mention of it in the New Testament there can be no
doubt that. Tyre wws still a great city in the time of our

evaa 1.4 biabop'z tw;
and St, Jerome tells us that in kis time it wee th 6 most
famous and beautiful city of Phoenicia, and a mart for
all the nations of the world. This ancient father al-
leges this circumstance as an objection to the accom-
plishment of Ezekiel's prophecy, c. xxvi. v. 14, and
replied to it that the prophet's declaration is to be un-
derstood as intimating that Tyre should no longer be
the queen of the nations, and enjoy the same authority
and dominion that it possessed under Hiriam and its
other kings, but should be subject to the Chaldeans,
Macedonians, Ptolemies, and at last to the Romans.
In the twelfth century Tyre was taken by the Crusa-
ders, at which period, says Dr. Keith, it was " a great
commercial city." Where then is the falsification, if
not at the side of our railing and blundering ancient
On the part of Mr. W.Neile there is certainly none.
Tyre was a great city when Ezekiel wrote, and a great
city also in the time of Herod ; so much so as to leave
Ezekiel's description fairly applicable. Where then is
Mr. WlsTeile's fault ? We will answer that question :
in the jaundiced mind of the antiquated Radical who
so rashly undertakes to correct him, and nowhere else.
He talks of his "wiser head and sounder heart," poor
old man ! We really tremble for the soundness of the
one and the hopeless callosity of the other. He grasps
at straws in such a way as shows fearfully that he is
sinking fast. " Wiser head and sounder heart," for-
sooth ; poor fellow ! We are really shocked at his un-
conscious ignorance. The simple truth is, that the
argument is a powerful one, and the illustration in all
its parts strong and irrefragable, and that the poor
jibbeted Radicals know not what to say in their
vexation.

J 4 tii*

onri oßguryit

Our local contemporaries of the Whig school are
full of editorial appeals. Electors of Liverpool !
Every other article and sentence is a stirring gee-up to
the Electors of Liverpool ! They might as well sing
Moore's song--

Will you come to the bower
I have shaded for you?
Your bed shall be roses
All spangled with dew ;
Will you, will you—
Won't you, my dears?

" There's some men," said our coachman—the last
evening we were riding out of London—" as is above
talking to their hosses—but I always do." The fellow
kept unceasingly pothering and balling at his cattle,
and as they were a bad set, and much needed to be
spoken to, he apologised indirectly for disturbing the
passengers by the above speech—which we would re-
commend to the consideration of our editorial
chrioteers of the Whig press, in case anybody should
complain of their speaking " too often to their bosses."
The conclusion we draw certainly is, that the " hosses"
have no mind to go. If they had; why all this
whipping and spurring—free trade here, and free
trade there—Walmsley for ever ! and soforth ? Why,
the pens of our Whig contemporaries will be worn to
the stump inscribing Electors of Liverpool, do this
and do that ! Brother Editors, we feel for you. The
fault is not yours. What it is in mortal men to do,
you have done, and are doing; but you cannot get
on with such a cause, and such a turn-out ; and there
be all the blame deponed. You are working your-
selves to death—but it is all in vain ; the horses won't
draw; the coach won't go ; and you will just have
your labour for your pains.

Now just observe us: we mount the box with a light
step and degage air; the reins are handed to us with
a respectful bow by our attendant ; we take them care-
lessly; we nod to our friends; and smiles, congratu-
lations, and joyous looks meet us at all sides. Our
studs !—Lord help you, gentlemen, they don't want
to be spoken to at all. Thorough-bred, spanking ani-
mals ; they require to be held in till the proper mo-
ment, and then they only need to be let go. So when
the time is up, we just say, Gentlemen Conservatives !
--(so we call them)—please to remember Sandon and
Cresswell Queen and Constitution Church and
State—Old England for ever ! and then we go a-head
in such style as delights all beholders. But standing
by " our order," as we ever shall do. we impute no
blame to our less fortunate brethren of the editorial
box. No ; it is " the cause," the caus alone that
gives us this immense advantage, and we hall ever
avow it.

It will be perceived from our adveigsring columns
that the Hon. Hugh Cholmondeley retires from the
representation of Denbighshire. 'We are happy to
add, however, that the services of the hon. gentleman
will not be lost at the reassembling of Parliament. as
he comes forward as a candidate for the representation
of the Montgomeryshire boroughs with every prospect
of success. He is well known as an unflinching ad-
vocate of church and state, and ought to receive the
support of all who wish to uphold the interests of the
constitution.

Sir W. W. Wynn has addressed the electors of
Denbighshire on the retirement of Mr. Cholmondeley,
and we are glad to say will be elected without opposi-
tion. His amiable and charitable disposition, together
with his promising talents as a rising statesman, have
endeared him beyond expression to every inhabitant of
the county.

We revert with pride and pleasure to the speeches
delivered by Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell at the
great meeting of electors held at the Amphitheatre on
Msnday. They were received with every token of ad-
miration and delight by an immense auditory at the
moment of their delivery, and they have since been
read far and wide by a still more numerous portion of
the community, and, we make no doubt, with equal
satisfaction.

The noble lord drew a spirited and faithful picture
of the unhappy ministerialists—spirited and faithful,
but without colouring or exaggeration. They were
done negatively, and, metaporically speaking, in faint
lines ; but the tableau gave us the originals to the life,
and was a Daguerrotype. " Gentlemen," said his lord-
ship, " if we are to keep our trade and commerce in a
" healthy state, I think we must have a steadier go-
" vernment than we have had for the last ten years—
" (cheers)—a government upon whose pledges and pro-
" miser some reliance may be placed—who will not
" quiet any one branch of trade one year by giving
" them reason to think it will not be touched, and the
" next upsetting it root and branch. (Hear, hear.)
" We must have a government who know their own
" thoughts, who will not make pledges and promises
" and then break them. (Cheers.) You must have a
" government that will watch foreign countries more
" closely than the present—the late government, I was
" going to say—(loud laughter)—that will not allow
" British navigation to be thrown out of the trade of
" Spain, Portugal, or the Havannah—that will riot allow
" a blockade of Mexico and Buenos Ayres to be esta-
" blished for two long years—(hear, hear, and cheers)—
" that will not allow the north-eastern boundary of
" North America to remain unsettled for years at the
" imminent peril of our peace—that will not allow the
" internal affairs of the Canadas to be untouched until
" insurrection breaks out, and our finances are bur-
" dened by the expense of an ultimately necessary, but
" in the beginning perfectly unnecessary war. We must
" have a government that will not leave the representa-
" tine of the Crown in China without instructions, al-
" though he wrote time after time for instructions on the
" great question of the introduction of opium, which he
" saw would come on. (Hear, hear.) No ; we must
" have a government with foresight to see the cloud in
" the horizon before it bursts out into a storm. (Loud
" cheers.) We must have a foreign secretary who is
" not engrossed by the political hobby of the day, but
" who thinks it worth his while, as well as his duty, to
" watch over the interests of British commerce._
(Great cheering.)"
His lordship followed them into details upon those
commercial questions with which they are now seeking
to divert attention from their own manifold delin-
quencies, and upon each and all made so complete an
expose', of their budget of delusions as cannot easily be
forgotten. Mr. Creswell addressed himself more par-
ticularly to that grand crotchet of the day, the cheap-
bread-cry of the manufacturers, and upon that single
text delivered a discourse so replete with argument, so
demonstrative, so perfectly irresistible and convincing,
that we protest we should like to see the "Manchester
Dictators" once more in Liverpool just to ascertain
how they look after it ? It constituted a large draft
upon the
.great concern of Greg, Cobden, Ashworth
and Co. ; and if they continue to do business thereaf-
ter, we can only say that they must have most forbear-
ing creditcsre, If we had had the misfortune to have

ht a 4 fmy dg4linifs with *cm, we ti-Lontdbg
glad to sign on tlii4 behalf a,compoiiition of 2s, a in
the pound ; for, in our humble opinion, they are—in
the way of statesmanship and political economy of
course, we mean—a bankrupt body. We will not
say that Mr. Cresswell is alone the author of their mis-
fortune; but we do aver that a more damaging speech
was never uttered against them than which he spoke
at the Amphitheatre on Monday. All their stores were
dragged forth, and all their sacks were carefully sifted
—and the chaff—the chaff of the leaguers—bless us
all ! but it did fly off at an awful rate. Mr. Cresswell
is a close reasoner—his style terse, concise, and
pointed. His speech of Monday was felicitous in all
respects, and places him in the first rank as a popular
orator. It has given the utmost satisfaction. In
point of talent there are few his superiors—and we are
perfectly satisfied that he has only to exercise his rare
powers and attainments more frequently in the House
of Commons, in order to obtain that high reputation
in the community at large which he already possesses
in his profession. Liverpool has been wise in selecting
him as a colleague of the noble lord, and he does infi-
nite honour.to her choice. It will be truly gratifying
to us next week to congratulate the borough and the
country on his re-election.

We beg to draw the particular attention of our
readers to an excellent letter from the Rev. Hugh
W.Neile, which will be seen in another column. The
reverend gentleman disposes, with his usual ability, of
a claptrap argument of Lord John Russell in one of
his recent addresses to the electors of the City of Lon-
don. Mr. M‘Neile's rallying cry of FAIR TRADI?, or
SAFE TRADE is for many reasons worthy of adoption
in opposition to the nonsensical radical cry of FREE
TRADE.

LOCAL NEWS.

On Monday last, four warehouses were burnt down, and
twenty-six houses seriously damaged by fire, in Southwark.
The loss is estimated at £15,000 to £20,000.

It is said that the nomination of candidates for the City of
London will, in all probability, take place on Wednesday
next, the 30th instant.

Prince George of Hanover has, we deeply regret to say,
entirely lost his sight.

We are happy to be able to announce, that Mr. William
Power, the eldest son of Mr. Power, the comedian, has re-
ceived a government appointment in the Commissariat.
An extensive oil warehouse and leather factory in Maze
Pond, Dublin, were destroyed by fire on Tuesday last. The
loss is said to be £60,000, besides 70 men out of employment.
SQUINTING AND STAMMERING.—Those labouring under
these distressing afflictions, have ACM an opportunity of be-
ing cured by applying to Mr. R. Atkinson, surgeon, now on
a second visit to Liverpool, 34, Bold-street. The numerous
cures he has made render any further comment unnecessary.
Mr. Atkinson's stay is limited, in consequence of his other
numerous engagements.

LEITH.—On Friday last, a number of conservatives held
a meeting in the Exchange Hotel, Leith, and unanimously
resolved to request Mc. John Gladstone. of Fasque, to come
forward as a candidate for the Leith district of burghs.

CITY OF DUBLIN.—No candidate is yet announced to come
forward in conjunction with the Big Beggarrnan, to contest
the representation of the City of Dublin in opposition to
Messrs. West and Grogan, whose canvass is proceeding most
satisfactorily.
PHOTOGRAPHY.—We have been much gratified by a sight
of several likenesses of some of our townsmen produced by
the novel and not less wonderful process of photography,
now in operation at the Polytechnic Institution, London,
only. The likenesses are astonishingly accurate, and bid fair
to ruin the art of miniature painting. We understand, that
the portraits are produced, in a sitting of only a few seconds,
by the reflection of natural light. We confess that this
novel process does not come exactly to our comprehension,
but we wait with some anxiety to see it in operation here, as,
we understand, it will very shortly be; the corporation hay-
ing given the site on St. James's-walk, lately occupied by
the Observatory, where a building is now in the course of
erection for working the invention.

JUVENILE DEPRAVITY.-At the Police-court, yesterday,
a little girl, of about twelve years of age, was placed at the
bar, charged with having stolen a jacket from a shop. The
prisoner, who had beforebeen six times committed, and four
times discharged, had, it appeared from the evidence, taken
a jacket from the shop door of Mr. Aaron, tailor and draper,
Park-lane, corner of Tabley.street. She was seen to take
the article by a person who was passing, and information being
given, she was apprehended in Dickenson-street. She was
committed for trial at the sessions.

ASSAULT.—Yesterday, at the Police-court, an Irishman,
named James Dogherty, a tailor, was charged with commit-
ting a violent assault on Michael Mulany. The offence was
cammitted in one of those faction fights in which the Irish
so frequently indulge. Mr. liushton expressed the determi-
nation of the magistrates to put down such affrays, and fined
the defendant £5, or to be imprisoned two months, requiring
him, at the same time, to find sureties for his good beha-
viour. The defendant, however, finding the case going
against him, slipped, unperceived, out of court. A warrant
was issued for his apprehension.

O'CONNELL AND THE FACTORY CHILDREN.—When I
first agitated" the north on behalf of the factory slaves,
wherever I went I was sure to find a helper in a Roman
Catholic priest. But soon after O'Connell received £l,OOO
from Manchester, an order came from their bishops to his
clergy, that " they were no longer to interfere in the factory
question." That fact was communicated to me by a Roman
Catholic priest, who regretted that, for that reason, he could
not aid me."—Oastler's Fleet Papers, No. 26.

SIR JOSHCA WALMSLEY'S LIBERALITY.—If there is one
recommendation which the supporters of Sir Joshua Walms-
ley are able to advance in his favour, they never lose sight of
it, but urge it upon the consideration of the electors with
ridiculous perseverance. His alleged sympathy and consi-
deration for the poor are paraded before the public with dis-
gusting ostentation, and we are now about to give an illus-
tration of their truth. Some short time since an application
was made by the corn-porters to their employers for an ad-
vance of wages to 3s. 6d. per day, which, we believe, was
complied with by all except Sir Joshua, who insisted upon
his men continuing at work on the former understanding.
This was resisted, and the men have never to this day, we
arc informed, been suffered to go back to their employment,
though suffering much from need, being able to obtain only
occasional work. The proposition was considered reasona-
ble by the majority of the corn-merchants, and ought to have
been acceded to by our illustrious knight, if he be, as repre-
sented, anxious to relieve the miseries and enhance the com-
forts of the poor ; but liberality and radicalism are never
found reigning in the same bosom.
PORTRAIT OF JAMES ASPINALL, ESQ.-Mr. Illidge has
just finished a large-sized portrait of the above well-known
and justly-esteemed individual. It is one of his happiest
efforts, strikingly characteristic, without any one part or
feature being overdrawn. It would be but small praise to
say, that no one who has ever seen Mr. Aspinall, though but
once, could fail immediately to recognise the lineaments.
The picture contains something more than a mere likeness.
It has all that constitutes the difference between correctness
of outline and what may peculiarly be termed expression, or
character. The full, manly, benevolent countenance beams
with the unsophisticated kindness and candour that belong
to an honest, generous nature. We see there the plain, un-
pretending simplicity that prefers the sterling to the showy
qualities, and studies rather to be, than to seem to be, what
it approves. And all who are acquainted with Mr. Aspinall
can testify, that he is far more known by what he does than
by what he professes. In the other parts of his subject Mr.
Illidge has shown equal skill. The position exhibits great
freedom ; the figure stands well out, without interfering with
the prominence due to the head; the colours are judiciously
harmonised, and the handling throughout distinguished at
once by boldness and exactitude. The background is well
chosen, and equally well executed. The portrait has been
taken by Mr. Illidge, we believe, on his own account ; it will
not, however, we think, be suffered to remain long on his
hands, when there are so many public institutions number-
ing Mr. Aspinall among their warmest patrons, and to whose
walls it would be so appropriate an ornament.

OBTAINING MONEY ON FALSE PRETENCES.—James
Davison, late a constable, was placed at the bar of the Police
court, yesterday, charged with having obtained money from
a poor woman on false pretences. It appeared from the
evidence of Mr. John Howard, that in the course of last
week he gave Davison a warrant for distress on the woman in
question, for an arrear of rent amounting to 12s Id. The war-
rant was to have been executed on the morning of Friday last,
but Davison neglected to compiy with his instructions. On
the afternoon of Friday Mr. Howard met the prisoner, hav-
ing learnt that the warrant had not been executed, he asked
that it might be returned toiiirn, stating that he expected to
obtain a portion of the arrears on the following Monday.
Davison did not give up the warrant, not having it with him,
but received instructions not to proceed further with it. On
the Monday, Mr. Howard received from his tenant 3s in
part payment of the arrears. Notwithstanding this, Davison
went to the woman's house on Tuesday, and demanded from
her 5s 6d as his expenses. The terrified woman paid the
demand. Mr. Rushton said the offence was not one of false
pretence, but that an information under the statute might be
laid against the prisoner, who was then discharged. The
magistrate, however, cautioned him as to his future conduct,
and said that if he hereafter found him (Davison) frequenting
the court, and taking advantage of his former position, and
knowledge of forms, to intermeddle with persons coming there
to seek justice, he would have hire indicted.

THE LARGE FAILURE AT WIGAN.—The firm of Messrs.
Heron and Co., whose stoppage was announced first of all in
this journal some days ago, have been unable to come to
terms with their creditors, and the consequence is, a fiat has
been issued against them. Their liabilities are upwards of
£150,000, and the Bank of Manchester is said to be a suffer-
er, to the amount of £40,000. Several large cotton dealers
are creditors to a large amount—one firm upwards of £20,000.
—Morning Post.
THE CENSUS.—We have been favoured with the following
account of the population of the parish of Liverpool, accord-
ing to the late census. We hope to be enabled to furnish
further particulars in the course of a few days :
St. Martin's district
Great Howard-street district 27,019
Dale-street district
St. Thomas's district
Mount-pleasant district
Islington district

222,954
Population in 1831

Increase..
TOWNSHIP OF WEST DERBY.
According to the enumeration taken on the 7th instant, the
population of West Derby (which forms a part of the borough
of Liverpool) amounted to 16,913 persons, of whom nearly
10,000 were residing within the municipal division. The po-
pulation in 1831 was 9631, so that the increase in the last ten
years has been 7282 persons, or i 54 per cent.
PARISH OF WALLASEY.

Liscard ...................•
Wallasey ...
Poulton-cum-Seaconabe

Population in 1831

Increase

2873
942
2446

REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN
PARLIAMENT.—The medical profession in Dublin held a
meeting on Saturday week at which it was resolved to use
every exertion to secure the return of a member to parliament
to represent the interests of the profession, irrespective of
party politics.

Lona PitunesscraWa Comao,-41124) cams 414100 by
the Mauls of Lord Palmerston aro pink and white.wthe earac
as those worn by her Majesty at Ascot.

A proclamation appeared in the London Gazette of Tues-
day, dissolving parliament. The writs are made returnable
on Thursday, the 19th of August, for which day the new
parliament will probably be summoned.
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—It may be well to
remind our readers, and all persons who purpose attending
the Liverpool meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society,
that in order to dine at the grand dinner in the pavilion, on
the 22nd July, they must be members of the society, and
be proposed as such, on or before Monday next.
THEATRR-ROYAL, MANCIIESTER.—By the Manchester
papers we perceive that Mr. Macready will appear' there
to-morrow evening, in the character of Richelieu, in Sir E.
L. Bulwer's play of that name.

LANCASHIRE MIDSUMMER • SESSIONS.—The general
quarter sessions of the peace, for the county palatine of Lan-
caster, will be holden at the Castle of Lancaster, on Tuesday
the 29th instant; at the Court House, in Preston, on Thurs-
day the Ist of July ; at the New Bailey Court House, in
Salford, on Monday the sth of July ' • and at the Court
House, in Kirkdale, on Thursday the 15th of July.
On Saturday last, our respected members, Lord Sandon
and Mr. Cresswell, visited the iron ship-building yard of
Messrs. Thos. Vernon and Co., where they were very cor-
dially received, and were much gratified in inspecting a large
iron steam-vessel now building, and nearly ready to be
launched ; they were also somewhit surprised at the perfec-
tion and extent of the adoption of iron instead of wood in
the construction of sea-going vessels. Sir Edward Parry,
the government surveyor, recently paid a visit to the same
establishment, and was pleased to express his approval of
the model and workmanship of the before-mentioned vessel.
It is our firm belief that another triumph for-the principles
of free trade, only second to the return of Lord John ltussel
for the city of London, may be achieved in Liverpool if Lord
Palmerston will come forward, and give his sanction to the
exertions which are making here to secure his return.—
Liverpool 7'imes.—[How very encouraging !]

COLLISION AT SEA.—A. most alarming collision took
place yesterday morning shortly after midnight, between her
Majesty's mail contract steam-packet Princess, Captain
Sarsfield, R.N., and a large brig, off the Island of Anglesey.
The steamer, as we, are informed, was struck on the larboard
side and part of her bulwarks seriously damaged. The brig
had her jibboom and bowsprit disabled. When Captain
Sarsfield found that his vessel escaped without being seriously
injured, he put about, with the characteristic humanity of a
British. seaman, to ascertain the state of the brig, and on
learning that she was perfectly able to make her port, Liver-
pool, as the wind then was, he resumed his course for Dub-
lin and arrived, we are happy to state, in perfect safety. An
ample investigation wilt take place into the circumstances
connected with this alarming occurrence, to satisfy the pas-
sengers as well as the fpublic.—Dublin Evening Mail,
Monday.

THE ELECTION.—The day of election for this town is not
yet fixed upon. The writ had not arrived last night, though
the mayor remained at the Town-hall until six o'clock, in
expectation of receiving it. The polling will in all probabi-
lity take place on Thursday or Friday next. Workmen were
yesterday busily occupied in the erection of hustings in front
of the Town-hall, and other placss.

THE Coax LAws.—The speech of the eloquent Rev.
Hugh M'Neile on the subject of the corn laws principally,
which was delivered to the Liverpool operatives last week,
has excited an immense sensation throughout the country.
It has been reprinted in pamphlet form and widely dissemi-
nated, and we have no doubt will effect much good to the
cause every good man has at heart, that of calling forth a
spirit of sound English patriotism among the masses who
have been the dupes of modern " liberalism." As a speci-
men of oratory, Mr. M'Neile's speech is unsurpassed, and,
better still, his arguments are incontrovertible. We trust
that every conservative will aid in making his friends and
neighbours acquainted with Mr. M'Neile s relented advo-
cacy of the interests of " old home-fed England." It will
be seen by the following extracts, that the rev. gentleman
has completely demolished the arguments the corn-law re-
peelers have attempted to draw from the sacred scriptures,
and at the same time completely turned the tables upon
them.—Staffordshire Gazette.
LORD SANDON AND MR. CRESSWELL'S CANVASS.—
GRATIFYING FACT.—About two o'clock On Wednesday,
Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell; accompanied by Sir Thos.
Brancker, repaired to the extensive establishment of Messrs.
Fawcett, Preston, and Co., founders, York-street, for the
purpose of laying their opinions on the various subjects agi-
tated at the present moment, before those employed, who
amount to upwards of GOO in number, and of whom about
150 are registered voters for the borough. Heretofore this
large body of electors voted to a man almost with their em-
ployers, who are reformers in principle ; but upon the pre-
sent occasion, this very respectable firm gave them to under-
stand that they desired not to influence them in any respect,
but that they might exercise their franchises according as
their conscientious feelings dictated. This circumstance, we
need scarcely observe, redounds greatly to the credit of
Messrs. Fawcett and Co., and we hope may have a beneficial
effect upon other proprietors of large establishments holding
similar political views. Our excellent candidates addressed
the men at some length upon the several topics, fully expos-
ing, as they proceeded, the fallacies of cheap bread, corn,
&c. Their speeches were received throughout with the
most unbounded and heartfelt applause, and at the close,
numerous promises of support were tendered to them. The
eloquent and argumentative manner in which both Lord San-
don and Mr. Cresswell treated the subjects, seemed to carry
conviction home to the minds of the whole body ; and from
what we have since learned, we believe that the vast majo-
rity of the voters in the establishment will record their votes
upon the conservative side on the day of election.

A LIBERAL HARANGUE TO THE ELECTORS.—Gentlemen,
You know my sentiments. Largest amount of happiness to
greatest number of people—(oheers)—cheap bread—(cheers)
—no church rates—(cheers)—large loaf—(cheers)—no taxes
—(cheers)—work six hours a day—(tremendous cheers)—all
on a level—(cheers)—every body vote—(cheers)—every body
plenty to eat—(cheers)-7no transportation—(cheers)—no
treadmill—(cheers)—every body do as they please—(astound-
ing cheers.) (At this moment a regular adept at the art had
approached closely to the member, and was in the act of
withdrawing his watch from his pocket beneath the hustings'
rail, when, be was detected and immediately handed over to
the police.) No rich landlords to tell you how to vote—
(cheers)—every body work when he pleases, play when he
pleases, and walk where he pleases—every body do every
thing every body likes. (Uprorious cheers.) These, gentle-
men, are my sentiments, and, I doubt not, they are yours.
THEATRE ROYAL.—Press of matter compels us to be
brief. Mr. and Miss Vandenhoff have been playing their
favourite characters during the week ; Miss Vandenhoff is
greatly improved since she first appeared. Mr. Vandenhoff
is as excellent as ever. On Monday Mr. George Vanden-
hoff will appear. It will be a curious as well as interesting
sight to witness this talented family playing in the same
drama. It will remind us of the days of the Kembles—
when John, Charles, and Mrs. Siddons appeared in
" Pizarro," in which they were the original characters.

FINE ARTS.—We copy the following notice of a very fine
picture now on sale at Mr. Hodgson's rooms, from the
Edinburgh Evening Courant :—" REMBRANDT—A splendid
Landscape by this celebrated master, is now exhibiting ; it
was painted for a monastery in Belgium, upwards of two
centuries ago, (probably from an Italian drawing, of which
it is well known Rembrandt was a great collector,) and is
still in the most perfect state of preservation. The scene is
laid in the immediate environs of an Egyptian sea-port • and
partaking both of the character of a Landscape andl Sea
Piece, has enabled the artist to exhibit his diversified talent
by the representation of a great variety of objects. Nothing
can be more splendid than the execution of this picture,
whether the grand effect of the chiaroscuro, brilliant yet
chaste colouring, or powerful handling, is taken into consi-
deration ; the aeriel gradations are beautifully preserved,
and there is none of the rawness or crudeness so observable
in some paintings where effect is aimed at. This picture is a
chef d' ouvre, and worthy the study of the artist or the view
of the amateur." Besides this work are several others of
great merit. One by Moucheron is a rare picture. There is
a fine specimen by Hughtenburgh, and a very good Hobbima,
both of which would enrich a collection.
'•- - -

A NEW SIGN OF THE TIMES.—On Friday last a most
extraordinary occurrence took place at Worcester. Dr. Pepys,
the new bishop, having repaired to the see-house, for the
purpose of taking possession, found the gates of the palace
closed against him, and on presenting himself at the grand
entrance, and demanding admission, was told that the palace
was in possession of another party, and that his lordship
would not be permitted to enter ! A crowd of persons,
attracted by these novel and most unusual proceedings, wit-
nessed the fact of his lordship's application and denial, and
awaited with great apparent interest the result. The bishop
peristed in his claim. The party in possession was deaf to all
remonstrance or entreaty, and the bishop's family was obliged
to seek an asylum elsewhere. His luggage remained in the
street some time, and his lordship eventually slept at
the house of Mr. Foley, a solicitor. This painful spectacle
is understood to have arisen from a claim made by a creditor
of the late bishop upon certain property within the palace.
Bishop Pepys returned to London on Saturday, but his
family remained at 'Worcester. On Sunday they attended
the Cathedral; and this morning (Monday) we are told that
a sum of money having passed, and a compromise having
been effected, Mrs. Pepys and the Prelate's fatuity have been
permitted to enter the palace. The terms of the compro-
mise have not transpired, but the feelings of those in Wor-
cester who are attached to the church and her interests is
this—that so distressing a spectacle, and one whieh drew
forth so many gibes and jests from her enemies, ought never
to have been permitted to take place.—Standard.—[A letter
has been addressed to the Standard denying some of the
particulars of this transaction, but it is substantially correct.]
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.—A journeyman named Piton, em-
ployed at a colour-maker's, in the Rue St. Martin, was
making some varnish the day before yesterday, when the pot
boiled over. Instead of using a wet cloth, as he ought to
have done, he attempted to take the pot off the fire. The
liquid became inflamed, and, catching his clothes, burnt with
such violence, that although almost immediately carried to
the lintel Dieu, his body was half consumed, and he ex-
pired a few minutes after his arrival in dreadful agonies. The
premises caught tire, and were not saved without the greatest
exertions.— Galignani's Messenger.

RECEPTION ALIAS REJECTION OF CHARLES
TOWNLEY, ESQ., ON THE EXCHANGE YES-
TERDAY.

Had we ever entertained the slightest doubt as to the pos-
sibility of the success of Charles Townley, Esq., in his can-
vass for the representation of South Lancashire, the freezing
reception given to him on the Exchange yesterday, would
have dissipated all our hopes, or rather fears, on the subject.
About a quarter to four, (full 'Change) a party of gentlemen
made their appearance in High-street, and had it not been
for the presence of W. Rathbone, and W. Brown, Esqrs.,
would have passed by unheeded. It was soon buzzed about,
however, that no less a personage than Charles Townley,
Esq., accompanied them, and still no notice was taken, and
no manifestation of feeling exhibited, and they passed
through the crowd into the News-room, where they paused
till some few rads, Freme, Priestly, and Co., urged each
other to get up a cheer, by way of stimulating the conserva-
tives to cover their weakness, gave out " three cheers for the
queen," which was heartly responded to ; next came " Free
Trade and Charles Townley, Esq.," and had it not been that
the few gentlemen above named almost cracked their voices
with shouting, all would have been dead silence. Mr. W.
Rathbone then announced, that Mr. Townley would address
the electors from Messrs. J. Cooke and Son's window in the
Area, and thither the crowd immediately proceeded, and we
can say, with confidence, that not less than 2,000 were as-
sembled. Mr. Townley was introduced by Mr. Rathbone,
and with difficulty gave utterance to his sentiments on the
present cricis in the hackneyed terms of anti-monopolism,
free trade, oppressing the poor, over-taxation, &c. &c. ; and
Romanist as he is, had the audacity to say, his motto was,
" Civil and religious liberty." But. Oh, shame upon you
liberals ! "tell it not in Gath," publish it not to the disgrace
of the fallen cause of radicalism ! Not a cheer was heard ;
not even a semblance of one ; and those who introduced the
candidate, slunk back, ashamed of the apathy of their
heartless supporters. Mr. Townley afterwards crossed the
Exchange, but met once more with the most disheartening
reception. So much for the cause of C. Townley, Esq.
We are curious to know, and shall wait with some anxiety,
to see how our liberal contemporaries will blazon forth this
rejection of their pet candidate. We have been carefull to
give the real facts of the case, and challenge contradiction.
His warmest supporters were horror-stricken; and we shall
be much mistaken if what Mr. Townley witnessed yesterday
be not the means of inducing him to abandon the canvass in
disgust.

WARD MEETINGS,

SANDON AND CRESSWELL FOR EVER

EVERTOR AND KIRKDALE WARD

Shortly after eight o'clock on Tuesday evening last, a
meeting of the electors resident in Everton and Kirkdale
was held on the bowling-green attached to the Liver Inn, for
the purpose of adopting measures to secure the re-election
of Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell as representatives for the
borough. It had been advertised that the meeting would be
held in the large room of the Liver Inn, but the numbers
that pressed for admittance about the time of commencing
the proceedings were so overwhelming, that an adjournment
to the green had to be made, in order to afford all those in

attendance an opportunity of hearing our excellent candi-
dates. The chair was occupied on the occasion by
JOHN SHAW LEIGH, Esq., who briefly stated the nature
and objects of the meeting, and eulogised the character and
conduct of the conservative candidates.

Lord SANDON then presented himself to the electors, and
was received with the most enthusiastic cheering. When
silence was restored, he proceeded to say that he should in-
deed be sorry if he thought that much of the feeling they
had just displayed could be attributed merely to the kind
sentiments they entertained for an old servant. He knew
that there was something of peculiar kindness felt towards
one who, for ten long years, had been engaged in their ser-
vice, who had fought through four contests for the interests
of Liverpool, and who upon every occasion had been borne
aloft by the popular feeling, and had been literally carried to
the hustings upon the shoulders of the people. (Cheers.)
He knew that there must be something of a peculiar feeling
attached to his appearance among them, but he should much
regret if that feeling could in any material degree be confined
to that peculiar circumstance. He had rather, much rather,
it were attributable, as it ought to be, to a feeling that him-
self and his excellent colleague, who represented the conser-
vative feelings of this great borough, represented also the
wishes of the great majority of the constituency. (Hear,
hear.) He believed that no circumstance of temporary im-
portance or delusion could efface from the hearts of the con-
servative electors those deep-rooted feelings which had been
growing firmer year after year within the walls of Liverpool.
He was aware of the deep feeling of attachment to the
throne, attachment to the church, and attachment to all that
was protestant, and to all that was English, which pervaded
the minds of the electors generally, and he also knew that
feelings such as these were not to be upset by a gale which
had been blown for a temporary object by those who were
the ministers of the crown, but who could not properly re-
present its dignity. (Loud cheers.) He was sure the elect-
ors would feel with him, that the measures which had been
lately proposed under very extraordinary circumstances in
parliament, and after every other measure had been at-
tempted and had failed in securing the affections of the
people, would be mistrusted as having been put for the main
purpose of creating a temporary delusion. (Hear, hear.)
The electors would estimate the degree of feeling which her
Majesty's ministers possessed for the people of England, by
the hard and unrelenting manner in which they had pursued
their theories with respect to the execution of the poor-law ;
that those who had carried out their abstract principles on
that subject were not those who had a right to claim any
peculiar tenderness for the feelings of the people. (Hear,
hear, and cheers.) Upon this question he wished not to ex-
cite their feelings. It was a subject upon which the passions
might easily be excited, but he was not anxious to agitate
the public mind in relation to it. The question, however,
was not an abstract one with the conservatives. There had
been an engagement entered into on the part of the govern-
ment, that the new poor-law should not be extended to the
north of England, where there existed many who would
carry the old law into effect without its abuses. That pledge
had not been maintained. (Hear.) Liverpool had also been
subjected to its operations, and the inhabitants had found
that their burthens had thereby been increased. (Hear.) He
would always be anxious to give to the local authorities of
every place that control over the administration of their
affairs which it was the practice of the whigs to destroy, by
placing all such authority in a central position in the metro-
polis. He believed there was no greater security for liberty
than to leave to the various constituencies the management
of their own ,local institutions, and to confer on them a
power of governing themselves, and administering their own
affairs. (Cheers.) It had been attempted to delude the
electors by the cry of " cheap corn" and " free trade "
words very seducing in their sound, but sound was not the
only thing to be listened to ; the sense should also be exa-
mined. (Hear, hear.) But what was cheap corn and cheap
bread? The question was not whether the loaf cost 4d. or
6d., but the proportion the price of that loaf bore to the
means every person possessed. (Hear, and cheers.) He be-
lieved that by fostering the domestic industry of the country
—lie did not say to an aggravated degree, so as to raise bread
to a famine price, but by fostering the domestic industry of
the people—the best security was afforded for the employ-
ment of the great body of the people, and the prevention of
famine prices on particular occasions. He believed it was
the best policy that all countries should to some degree ex-
tend and encourage, even artificially, the growth of corn at
home. What would be the effect in case every country were
to proclaim a free trade in corn ? If every country were to
say that it was indifferent as to whether it had agricultural
produce or not, the result would be that land would be
thrown out of cultivation, and we might be dependent for
corn on countries the least fitted for the growth of it, and we
should also be dependent on chance seasons. (Hear, hear.)
He did not say that every particular provision of the existing
corn-law was the best that could be imagined. He believed
that it had puzzled the wisdom of statesmen, and that it was
capable of being improved by the wisdom of man, but he be-
lieved also that the system which would protect agriculture
was all-important for the people of England. (Hear, hear,
hear.) He might be in error with respect to corn, but he
could not be wrong about the constitution. (Cheers.) The
one was a much clearer question than the other ; .and they
might rely upon it that if they were to tie themselves to the
wheels of the republican and radical party in this country,
because the latter happened to be in favour of free trade in
corn, they would have to rue the day that their interests had
been sacrificed. (Hear, and cheers.) The next was the cry
of " cheap sugar." This was the most absurd of all cries.
Was the meeting aware of the extent of the cheapness which
Lord John Rnssell promised, provided slave-grown sugar
were admittedinto England. (A voice—lt was about a penny.)
No ; not so much. (A laugh.) That was too high a bid
(great laughter) : it was the one hundred and-twelfth part of
eighteenpence. (Hear, hear, and continued laughter.) If
any gentleman present had mental arithmetic enough in his
head to calculate exactly how much that would come to, he
would be able to do more than he (Lord Sandon) could pre-
tend to do. (Hear, hear.) He believed it would be found
that the difference of small variations of this kind in the'price
of the article would not go into the pocket of the consumer ;
and he believed that even the board of trade would agree that
unless the reduction in price amounted to a penny per pound
the consumer would not be benefited—(hear, hear)—there-
fore, the public had no eight to expect that the proposed
cheapness in sugar, as it was called, would be sensibly felt.
(Cheers.) And the public should also recollect, that what-
ever advantage might be felt from the lowering of the price
of corn, would be counterbalenced on the other side by a
lowering of wages. (Renewed cheers.) He hoped, therefore,
that the electors would join heart and hand on the present
occasion, recollecting that their representatives in thu House
of Commons had been fighting a long up-hill battle for the
last ten years. (Hear, hear.) A change of opinion from the
radical to the conservative side had taken place not only in
Liverpool but all over the country. (Hear, hear, and loud
cheers.) The people of Liverpool had manifested this change
not only at their general but also at their municipal election.
(Great cheers.) They had manifested a distrust in the
present government on the subject of their comforts, their
religion, and the education of their children ; and would
they give up and abandon all these feelings, of which they
heretofore boasted, to support a government which had ne-
glected their local interests, and because they saw the walls
placarded with the words " cheap bread," " cheap corn,"
and "cheap sugar ?" (Renewed cheers and cries of "Never.")
He trusted that those good feelings which had been showing
themselves, and increasing from year to year in Liverpool,
would lead the electors to place confidence in an administra-
tion which should be constructed on conservative and firm
ppnciples, and which would include the honoured names of
Sir Robert Peel and Lord Stanley. (Great cheers.) He
trusted they would rather put confidence in the tried, fixed,
principles and high integrity of these men, than in the Waver-
ing, unsettled, and unprincipled administration--(hear,
hear)—which from year to year, had abandoned one princi-
ple after another, and which seemed to care for no other
principle but the maintenance of itself, not in power but in
place. (Vehement applause.) They would not uphold an
administration of which inquiry had to be made, year after
year, as to what their policy was to be on every question, re-
ligious, political, and commercial, their assurances on those
several subjects in the one year being no security as to the
course they might think proper to pursue in the next. (Hear,
hear.) Disgraced, degraded, and dragged through the mire,
the ministry were clinging to office with a tenacity un-
paralleled, and appealing to the people when even their own
supporters were openly stating that they bad no confidence
in the result. (Hear, and cheers.) It was a disgrace to the
country, and a crying evil, to have an administration cling-
ing to place, encumbering the energies of the nation, ensuring
no respect either abroad or at home, and which bad been
tossed about from one faction to another as the necessities of
the day prescribed. (Most rapturous applause.) He hoped
the electors would cordially unite, and carry the present
great conservative struggle to a successful issue—that they
would come forward early on Tuesday morning, and, defeat-
ing their opponents by a bold, a manly, but an orderly de-
meanour, place the conservative candidates at the head of
the poll—cry as successfully as ever they had done before,
" Sandon and Cresswell for ever !" and that those names
would be their watchwords and their battle-cry at the great-
est victory which the constitution would ever have achieved.
Lord Sandon concluded an able speech amidst the most en-
thusiastic cheers.

Mr. CRESSWELL next presented himself, and the cheering
was renewed and continued for several minutes. He said it
was just four years since he first had the honour of address-
ing, from the window of that house, a large assembly of the
constituency of this importan4, borough. He then stated to
them plainly, explicitly, as clearly as he could, and without
i si
any circumlocution, the principles upon which he asked for
their support. He believed they all understood him ; at
least, he could not suppose that lie had received their votes
under any mistake. (Cheers, and cries of
‘No mistake.")
cries
He hoped they had changed none of the good principles by
which they were then actuated. (Cries of " We have not.")
Had they any reason to suppose he had ? ‘(Vehement
of " No, no.") Then he hoped they would support him
again. (Cheers.) It was at all times extremely agreeable
to him to meet his constituents ; he should be most ungrate-
ful if it were otherwise; for on those occasions when he had
met them, they had honoured him with their approbation.
But he regretted that the country should be exposed at pre-
sent to the excitement and agitation, the trouble and incon-
venience, of a general election. (Hear.) For why was it
that they had this general election ? What was the phrase
that her Majesty's ministers used when speaking of it, and
esty to dissolve
parliament .
when
~ avowingent ,
that
why, they
theyhad
said
h
advisedte they wanted
ah nereFdArfoa trn the judgment
jo
appeal to the
people. (Hear.) Appeal from what.
of the representatives of the people. (Hear, hear, and loud
cheering.) Now he, as a lawyer, could t
not deny the propriety
of there being a court of appeal. (Hear, and a laugh.) It
was right that when one judgment was against a man, he
should have a power of appealing to another tribunal ; and
it was right that when the
bjudgment r of
of
appealing parliament
to t
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wa was against
peo-
ple.
should bet
a ministry, there should
But then that power accompanied with this,
—that where it was quite clear that the judgment of the first
tribunal was right, and that there was no reason to believe
, appeal could only be for
se of vexation towards the the purpose adversary. (Great
the judgmentof
it would be reversed on appeal, an •
cheers.) When the House of Commons was
against the ministry, what reason had they to suppose that it
would be reversed by an appeal to:the people ? None ; and
they had proved it; for they kept the parliament together,
instead of immediately appealing, in order that they might
raise an excitement in favour of doubts which did not at first
exist. (Hear, hear.) He took it that all the old principles
of the electors were the same as ever—attachment to the
protestant church. privileges of the people, and
(Loud cheers.) He argued not in
tthheroirne, the constitution, the
favour of those principles on the present occasion. He
offered not to convince them that it to • •
was right maintain
them, for they had proved that they thought it right by
returning him as th • en. representative. (Long continued
cheers.) Assuming, therefore, that their opinions with re-
spect to the old principles were the same as heretofore, he
came to the new ones which had been propounded ; and here
he begged to remind them that the new ones were only of tem-
porary interest, while the others were of permanent impor-
tance; and therefore if there existed a choice between the
new and the old, he was sure they would support the old at
the expense of the new. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) But he
was anxious that they should sea how the ministry had acted
in bringing forward the new ones. They had heard That two

"in LP hard ibihattrnit cinteisnMi u sad an tia par.
fan who would deprive the agriculturists of protection. They
had heard that last year Lord Melbourne said it would shake
society to its foundations to agitate such questions. They
had heard that Lord John Russell sneered at those who would
throw two or three millions into a state of starvation by
abolishing protection. (Hear, hear.) Now, if these mi-
nisters had, on being defeated in the House of Commons, re-
signed their office. and, when out of office, they had brought
forward the cry of cheap bread in order to get into office
again ; if, having denounced that question in office, they then
propound it for the acceptance of the public out of office,
would not, he asked, one uniform shout of scorn and derision
salute their ears ? (Hear, hear.) But what was the differ-
ence, if men, being out of office, bring forward a question
they previously denounced in order to get it again, and men
actually on their death-beds—(laughter and cheers)—and
driven from office, bringing it forward in order to retain
place? He could not distinguish between them. (Cheers.)
But what was the question ? Was it not one between the
home and the foreign grower ? Was it not a question be-
tween supporting the farmer in this country, and the farmer
in a foreign country ? (Hear.) Let the electors try the case
by example. He would not talk to them about growing bar-
ley, or oats, or wheat in that district, because it was too near
the town, and little of it was grown there ; but there were
many of them who had gardens, and who grew produce for
the supply of the town. How would they like the foreigner,
by the aid of steam-boats, to bring fruit from foreign coun-
tries in fair competition with theirs ? He suspected that the
grower of fruit in England would be very little benefited in
such a case. (Hear, hear.) All he asked for the farmer was
fair protection from the competition of the foreigner; be-
cause he, as well as the grower of fruit, had to pay a number
of rates, such as the police-rate, the highway-rate, the church-
rate, and the tithes, from which the foreigner, who ought to
be kept out of the market, was exempt. (Hear, hear.) Again
how would they like French shoes and boots to be sold in
England in fair competition with the English ? They might
tell him that they were sold here already ; but then it should
be recollected that they paid a duty of 30 per cent. Still,
however, such competition was disliked by the English shoe-
maker. (Hear, hear.) Why, then, should the_ English
farmer be excluded from protection ? (Cheers.)But again ;
no gentleman could go into Switzerland without being
as-
tonished to see the numbers of people belonging to that Conn-
try who were employed in making watches ; and that exten-
sive manufacture affected the English trade. (Hear, hear.)
A duty of 30 or 40 per cent. was imposed, and those who
wished to buy a showy watch instead
of a good one—(hear,
hear)—were enabled so to do ; for he would rather wear, as
he did, one Liverpool watch than twenty Geneva ones.
(Great cheers.) He suspected the English watchmaker
would be unwilling to put his good work in competition with
the foreign bad, which might look well, but which would'nt
go. (Great laughter, and renewed cheers.) The learned
gentleman proceeded at some length to address himself to
the topics of cheap sugar, cheap timber, the new poor-law,
religious education, the acts of the present ministry, and
wound up an excellent speech by a general exposition of his
principles, and a solemn assuarance that from the mainte-
nance of those principles he should never, under any circum-
stances, depart. He then resumed his seat amid loud ap-
plause.
Mr. ADAM HODGSON proposed the first resolution, to the
effect that Lord Sandon and Mr. Creswell had eminently
entitled themselves to the support of the electors. If the
constituency wished to maintain the constitution which had
been transmitted to them, if they wished to transmit it to
their children and their children's children, he called upon
them to pause before they gave their votes to any person who
would sustain an administration which had conducted itself
as the present had done, and to show their fidelity to their
country, as they expected their representatives to show their
fidelity to them, by sending men to parliament who would
strenuously uphold the institutions of the country. (Cheers.)
Mr. DOVER seconded the first resolution.

Mr. SHAND proposed the second resolution.
Dr. JOHNSON seconded the resolution. They should re-
collect that they had subtle and cunning enemies to contend
against, who were up early and late, and who were using the
utmost perseverance. He mentioned the fact in order to
the electors that caution was necessary, that indolence in the
cause might be attended with calamitous effects. (Loud
cheers.)

Lord SANDON then proposed the thanks of the meeting to
the chairman, Mr. Leigh, upon whom he passed a very high
encomium, and concluded by hoping that that gentleman
would shortly enter the Town-hall as the first conservative
mayor. (Cheers.)
Mr. CRESSWELL seconded the motion, and it was carried
by acclamation.

The CHAIRMAN having returned thanks, a general call
was made for Mr. James Aspinall to address the meeting.
Mr. ASPINALL accordingly presented himself and was
loudly cheered. He had not intended, he said, to intrude
himself on their notice, because he felt himself quite unequal
to the task of addressing them ; but, being called upon, he
was glad to have that opportunity of contradicting one of the
most atrocious placards which had ever been placed on the
walls of Liverpool. (Hear, hear.) He was proud to say,
for the honour of the town, that it had not been printed within
the borough, but that it, as well as many of the others on the
walls, had been printed in Manchester and London, and had
been sent down to Liverpool by the Anti-Corn-Law League,
merely to inflame the minds of the people. He wished,
however, to allude particularly to the atrocious placard he
had mentioned before. (Hear, hear.) It asked, " Who are,
the two men who, by the passing of the new poor-law, sepa-
rate the wife from the husband in the workhouse ?" and the
answer given was, " Sandon and Cresswell." That was the
atrocious falsehood. • (Hear, hear, and cheers.) The next
question was, " Who introduced the new poor-law into
Liverpool ?" to which the answer " James Aspinall" was
given. That was a more atrocious falsehood than the first—
(loud cheers)—but he hoped it would recoil on the head of
the ambitious man who sought for their suffrages on the pre-
sent occasion. It was quite true that he (Mr. A.) was the
chairman of the guardians of the poor. It was quite true that
there were twenty-five guardians over the poor, and he
thanked God that these twenty-five guardians were all con-
servatives. (Continued cheering.) But so long as his hum-
ble voice could be raised against that atrocious measure, the
new poor law, so long should it be raised against it. (Applause)
He sat at the board as the guardian of the poor, and so
long as breath was in him, as long would he be the friend of
the poor. (Renewed applause.) Whenever the poor went
to the radicals to seek support, they were never to be found.
(Hear, and a laugh.) The placard in question, however,
was only another -clap-trap among the many put forward by
the opposite party on the present occasion, to secure the
votea of the conservatives in favour of their expiring faction.
But what had this expiring ministry done? Not content
with clap-traps, they had a little to do with money matters
just now. For what had Hannibal, the father of the Plun-
ketts, done? Why, he retired on a pension of £4OOO a-year,
because he found that if he remained in he would shortly be
turned out ;—(a laugh)—accordingly, he had retired to make
room for that wily Scotchman, Sir John Campbell, the attor-
ney-general, who was to be made Lord Chancellor of Ireland,
who would also fall in by and by for £4OOO a-year more.
These were some of the acts of the present ministry. (Hear,
and cheers.) He (Mr. A.) begged of the electors not to
think victory too certain, and to remember the year 1832,
when they thought they had victory in their hands, but in a
moment it was wrested from them. (Hear.) How? By
the supineness of the electors. (Hear, hear.) They should
be ever on the watch, therefore, against their adversaries, for
he spoke from authority and advisedly when he said that there
was a secret committee, called a " watching committee," on
the other side, ready at any moment to take advantage of the
conservative electors, and gain, at any cost, conservative
votes. Their object was, not to obtain the victory by a fair
representation of their opinions, but by means of any clap..
trap that might be likely to succeed. He warned the conser-
vative electors against these men ; he warned them to be at
their posts and to do their duty ; he watned them for the
sake of their Protestant queen to be up and stirring. They
heard nothing of the queen at present on the other side—the
radicals having found out that the conservatives were the
best friends of her majesty. (Hear, and cheers.) As they
loved their queen, their church, and their country, he be-
seeched—he implored of the conservatives to do their duty—
to watch their own interests sedulously, and to be at their
posts at eight o'clock on Tuesday morning, in order to record
their votes in favour of the two excellent men who had so
faithfully represented them in parliament. (Vehement ap-
plause,)
The meeting then separated.

ST. ANN'S AND LIME-STREET WARDS.
The electors in these wards assembled on Wednesday
night in the school-room belonging to Christ Church, for the
purpose of meeting Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell, and
taking measures to ensure their return. The place was
crowded to excess by an enthusiastic body of conservatives,
who received the candidates in a manner that must have been
highly gratifying to them.
On the motion of Mr. YATBS, seconded by Mr. STE-
PIIENSON, James Parker. Esq., one of the conservative re-
presentatives for St. Ann's Ward in the town council, was
called to the chair.
The CUATILIgn N, after a few introductory remarks, said,
were he to allude to the able, faithful, and constitutional ser-
vices rendered in the late parliament by Lord Sandon and
Mr. Cresswell, not only to the good old town of Liverpool,
but to the country at large, he might also add on the part of
the conservatives, that they owed those gentlemen a debt of
gratitude which would secure to them future support. (Loud
cheers.) If he wanted evidence to prove the value of their
services, he would take the electors to that wealthy and in-
fluential body of men—the warehouse owners, to the cottage
Owners' Association, to the Licensed Victuallers' Associa-
tion, and to every individual, whatever his politics, who had
had occasion to apply to them for advice, and assistance. All
these would bear him out in the assertion that the hon. gen-
tlemen were invaluable to the town of Liverpool. (Cheers.)
He could not sit down without alluding to one part of Lord
Sandon's speech the other day, where he alluded to the sys-
tem of national education supported by her majesty's minis-
ters. If one measure more than another tended to the over-
throw of protestantism in this country it was that system of
education, introduced as it was by the popish faction, and
supported by all the arts of Mr. O'Connell. (Hear.) We
had our own O'Connell, and our own popish faction, in the
town council of this borough ; and that faction—but their
days were numbered—(cheers)—had hitherto been carrying
out that system, thus casting a stain upon the town which
nothing could wipe away but the expulsion from power of
every one who voted for the introduction of the Irish system.
(Cheers.) He did not pretend to be a prophet, or the son of
a prophet, but he thought that within two years these words
would be verified. (Cheers, and cries of " aye in one.") We
had brought against our two distinguished candidates, a
phantom, a whistle, Lord Palmerston, a man who had been
a public character
.for thirty years, and who, during the
the whole of that time had been in every administration, and
never missed one single quarter day. (Cheers.) He would
in speaking on this subject, draw the particular attention of
the freemen to the fact that Lord Palmerston had always
voted to disfranchise them of their just rights, (Hear.)—and
that if the ministry had carried the measures of which he
had been so strenuous an advocate, the old freemen would
not, this day, have had a vote to record in favour of the con-
servative candidiates. (Hear, hear.) He hoped this would
be recollected against the noble lord at the election next
week. (Cheers.) As to his colleague Sir Joshua Walmsley,
whom he (the chairman) knew personally, and respected in
private life, he regretted he had been so ill-advised as to
come forward as a candidate, and he believed he would have
to regret it himself. (Hear, hear.) The chairman concluded
by introducing Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell.
Lord SANDON then rose to address the meeting, and was
received with most vehement cheering. He accepted, he
said, as the promise of the victory which we were so shortly
to reap upon the hustings—of that great national victory
which we were about to gain—the circumstance that they
had in the worthy chairman a gentleman who so lately had
succeeded in rescuing one of the wards there assembled from
the thraldom in which it had so long been kept by the radical
party. It was impossible that they who had so lately dis-
tinguished themselves and their ward, by purifying them-
selves successfully from the contamination of radical, and
therefore dangerous, principles, should suddenly turn round,
and, after having asserted those high principles which actu-
ated them in the municipal election, desert them, and not
be successful in the parliamentary election. (Hear, hear.)
He was stire that the same spirit which enabled them suc-
cessfully to turn the current of popular opinion in these two
wards, and place as their representatives in the town-council
men of sound constitutional, religious, and protestant opi-
nions—(cheers)—would likewise enable them to send to the
great council 9f the nation men who should represent the
same constitutional and protestant feelings in that still greater
and more important sphere. (Cheers, and a cry of "Bravo.")
He was exceedingly obliged to the worthy elector who had
given him that token of friendly encouragement, for it re-
quired a little cheering of that kind to enable himself and his
learned colleague to go through the fatigues to which they
were exposed in a canvass of this kind. (Cheers.) They
had spun
a long yarn, and not only one yarn, but many ;

bet he tent Jay that their yams ware always of the same
substance—of the true sort, long and strong, and would nei-
ther yield nor be destroyed. (Hear, and cheers.) The people
of Liverpool would not be seduced by the representations of
their brother spinners in Manchester, who spun long yarns
too, but whose yarns were not so lasting as the principles
with which the conservatives were enabled to rivet and en-
chain the attention of the country. (Hear, hear.) The
gentlemen of Manchester seemed to think, that as the gen-
tlemen of Birmingham boasted of having carried the reform
bill, they also must enjoy the pre-eminence of carrying a
great change into the whole commercial and manufacturing
industry of the country ; they seemed to think they had a
right to organise a league out of their miserable impover-
ished funds, wretched beggars as they were, and subscribe
their hundreds of pounds each to it, for the purpose of en-
gaging in the extensive and expensive crusade of converting
to their opinions all the rest of the country. (Long and con-
tinued cheering.) They told us at one time that they were
impoverished to the last degree, that they were carrying on a
losing trade, and that our manufactures were leaving the
country, that they were obliged to yield to the competition of
foreign countries, yet in the same breath they told us that the
Chamber of Commerce would buy the whole House of
Peers ! (Cheers.) How they were able to reconcile the two
assertions, be knew not ; bat this was not the only instance
in which their statements were found to contradict each
other. (Hear.) How did they argue the question of free
trade ? To the farmer they said it would not lower the price
of corn ; to the mechanic they said it would ; to the farmer
they said, " If you lowir the price of corn, you will lower the
price of labour," but to the mechanic they said that " wages
would not be reduced at all." (Hear, hear.) We should
find, indeed, if we examined their writings, their speeches,
and their addresses made in different parts of the country,
that they literally pursued the apostolic injunction, for they
" became all things to all men;" and that they used differ-
ent arguments, though they contradicted each other, for
every different community according as each suited their in-
terest. (Hear, hear.) But they could not all be true ; per-
haps they were all false. (Hear.) He (Lord Sandon) be-
lieved the question to be one of very. great difficulty, upon
which the minds of men of the greatest ability, and of the
most unblemished integrity, had been exceedingly divided.
It was not a question that could be satisfactorily discussed in
the crowd and agitation of a popular election. (Hear,
hear.) He thought the people of Liverpool had reason to
say with regard to this question, that they would put
some confidence in those whom they had hitherto
found their friends—in those who, by a long course of
service, had shown themselves attached to and interested
in the town and trade of Liverpool—in those whom even
their opponents were obliged to confess had at least shown
some real and anxiety for the welfare and trade of the port,
and Liss not, for the sake of self-interest, neglected those in-
terests. lie did not think it would be well for this country
to enter into a free competition in corn with foreign coun-
tries, unless we were prepared to make all things equal—to
come to the same amount of taxation, to get rid of the na-
tional debt, which as honest men we were bound to pay to
the national creditor—to lower generally • the wages of the
working classes to the level of those in the countries whose
corn we should consume ; unless we were prepared to enable
those who had fixed engagements to lower their engagements
with their creditors, and in the same proportion change the
value of money to that standard of price which a free trade
in corn would bring about, we should inflict extensive ruin
and misery. We were not beaten out of competition in
foreign markets ; we were labouring no doubt under a tem-
porary depression. Those who had had experience in mer-
cantile affairs must confess that this country, and every
other, must be exposed to occasional fluctuations in her
prosperity. They must know that the stimulus of price
would occasionally stimulate a supply beyond the natural
demand of the market ; and when that result had been ob-
tained, and the various markets had been deluged, it was im•
possible there should not be a reaction from the excess.
(Hear, hear.) But we had seen, from time after time, these
periods of stagnation, painful as they were, by the watchful
care of government, pass away, and periods of prosperity re-
turn ; and he believed if the government of the country had
looked more carefully to her interests, and been less engaged
in party conflicts, less engaged bidding high for the support
of a few votes upon both sides, and sacrificing one interest
after another, just for the purpose of obtaining a little more
support in the divisions of a single night, there would have
been more confidence among mercantile men, more steadi-
ness of employment, and more of that kind of security
which justified men embarking fearlessly and liberally in
in the undertakings of commerce and manufactures.
(Cheers.) The noble lord then, in allusion to a placard
which had recently been issued, expressed his conviction
that in proportion as we had high prices in corn we had high
wages, and that the comforts of the labouring classes were
better provided for under the existing system than they
would be were it changed. If we looked at the evidence of
these free-trade philosophers themselves, when not thinking
at the effect of their assertions, it would be seen that they
admitted the comforts of the labouring classes of this country
to be superior to those of every other country except the
United States. When he said "except the United States,"
was it because corn was cheap there ? No ; it was because
that was a thinly-peopled country, where the demand for
labour was greater than the supply; and in such a case,
whatever the price of corn might be, no doubt the price of
labour was high. (Hear, hear.) Land was there cheap,
labour was dear, and therefore wages were high ; but
crowded together as we were it was impossible for us to
enjoy the same advantages. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) No
doubt over-trading was one of the reasons of the present
temporary stagnation of commerce. Every market in the
world had been overstocked, and till that surplus had been
exhausted, we could not expect a returning trade ; but at the
same time, upon consulting with some of the most eminent
merchants in this town, he had the strongest conviction that
the tide was already turning, and that very soon the channels
of industry would be filled again. (Cheers.) Another rea-
son of the depression was the state of our greatest custom-
ers, the United States, with their banks breaking one after
another, totally destroying commercial credit ; and another
the state of our relations wtth China, by which a very large
and profitable commerce was entirely stopped. Many of
our markets had thus been disturbed, not by our opponents
being able to beat us out of them by fair competition, but by
political circumstances, which should have been foreseen
and prevented by government. The noble lord then enlarged
on the conservative and protestant spirit always displayed by
this constituency, and commented in much the same terms
as those used in other meetings, upon Lord Palmerston being
thrust forward as one of the candidates for this borough.
He also spoke of the good effected by those ministers of the
church who taught their flocks to understand and revere the
good old protestant institutions of the land. Impressed with
these feelings, he begged to solicit for himself, but not for
himself alone, that support which the electors of this town
had hitherto granted to conservative candidates. (Cheers.)
The chairman had already told them that Mr. Cresswell was
a most efficient representative of their interests; he (Lord
Sandon) could say much on that subject, but he really felt
it out of place to give testimony to the services of a man
whose character and conduct were of themselves testimonies
sufficient. He would only say there was not an interest in
Liverpool to which Mr. Cresswell did now pay the utmost
attention; there was no opinion upon which he (Lord San-
don) could rely with such perfect security ; and there was no
man whose character stood higher, wherever it was known,
than that of their excellent and learned representative, his
good friend Mr. Creswell. (Cheers.) It would indeed be
a triumph for the radical party in this town, and a humilia-
tion for the conservative party, if they did not succeed in
carrying Mr. Cresswell, and it would be a defection and
falling off from those high grounds which the electors had
hitherto occupied. The noble lord concluded a most elo-
quent address by calling on the electors to continue their
exertions for the few days which remained before the elec-
tion ; and he had no doubt they would be able, by an early
hour on Tuesday or Wednesday next, to shout Sandon
and Cresswell for ever," as their members. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. CRESSWELL next addressed the meeting. The cheers
with which he was greeted :having subsided, the learned
gentleman said the first impression he had respecting this
meeting was one particularly agreeable, arising from the cir-
cumstance of its being held in a school-room--for they were
assembled, to the amount of many hundreds, in a building
which was devoted to the religious education of our children.
(Cheers.) That was one of the great leading topics which
had been urged upon the electors, because they were the ad-
vocates of such education ; and it had continued to keep out
of their favour those who now presided, or who did preside,
over the councils of this borough, because they proved them-
selves to be the foes of religious education. (Hear.) In
dealing with the questions now to be discussed, the first
thing apparent upon the part of their opponents was their ex-
treme desire that the past should be forgotten. (Hear.) They
never liked to appeal to history, because its evidence was
against them ; they did not like to appeal to any living ex-
perience, because that also was against them ' • but they in-
dulged in speculations of what was to come hereafter. If
you told them that you could not trust to those speculations,
because the history of the past and their own experience
proved the contrary, these modern philosophers insisted
that they were the only wise people. " Oh !" said they,
" trust to us, that what we say will come to pass ; never
mind experience although such consequences never flowed
from such causes before, depend upon it that what we tell
you will come to pass." (Hear, hear.) He must say that
this was a very convenient doctrine, for many reasons. In
the first place, it was a very convenient doctrine for a new
candidate ; hecause, when old candidates came among them,
particularly his noble and valued friend, Lord Sandon, they
might say, with perfect truth, " I have now served you in
four parliaments; I have devoted my time, health, and
strength to your service ; I have sacrificed private and do-
mestic comfort; I have been at your command whenever you
called upon me ; I have studied your affairs, and made my-
self acquainted with all your interests ; I have fulfilled, by
my,votes in the House of Commons, all that 1 professed to
you as a candidate." (Hear.) Lord Sandon might say he
had done all this for ten years, and which of his opponents
could deny it ? (Cries of " None.") Then, what a conve-
nient doctrine it was for them to give the goo-by to the past,
and look only to the future ! (Hear, hear, and cheers.) It
had been said of him (Mr. Cresswell.) with truth, that he
was a lawyer. It was very true that he had not abandoned
his profession in order to sit constantly in parliament; but
he had never promised that he would do so, and he would
ask, not in any vain spirit of boasting, but with the plain
honest view of ascertaining the truth, had any constituent of
his gone to him in London, and asked him to go with him to
the chancellor of the exchequer, to Lord John Russell, or
their would-be representative, Lord Palmerston, to dis-
cuss any matter of business, or to convince them that
the claims of his constituents were just, whether he had
ever failed to do so ? (Hear, hear, hear) At least, there-
fore, he had held out no delusive promises to his constitu-
ents ; he trusted, however humble his performances had
been, they had been equal to his promises. (Hear.) He
had consequently no reason to desire that the past should be
forgotten ; he claimed no merit for it—they were the best
judges of that—but certainly Lord Sandon at the start got
way ahead—he had three lengths and a distance—and at last
he (Mr. Cresswell) hoped he started fair with his opponents.
(Cheers.) Putting aside these private matters as connected
with Liverpool, he had some start of his opponents in other
particulars which would interest the meeting. (Cheers.)
Before he had the honour of a seat in parliament, a great
struggle was made to disfranchise the freemen of this town ;
they were not content with introducing new rights and grant-
ing them to those who were deserving of them, but they
wanted to take away old rights which parties were born to—
(cheers)—which were their inheritance, that they themselves
had honestly worked for. (Cheers.) Lord Sandon resisted,
and with good assistance preserved the franchise—(cheers)—
but they had attempted to nibble at them since. They were
not content with the first great attack, but they attempted to
outflank us, to get at the freemen by a side wind, and take
away that franchise indirectly which they could not take away
directly. (Cheers.) In defeating all these attempts, he was
happy to say that he had borne a share. (Great cheers.)
Since he had been in parliament, they had made no direst
attempt to renew their efforts to take away the property of
the church. That was done in Lord Sandon's time, and the
noble lord joined in resisting it. After he (Mr. Cresswell)
went into parliament, they never directly attempted to do
that, but they attempted to do it by indirect means. (Hear.)
This indirect attempt he assisted in defeating, humbly indeed,
but to the best of his power. (Hear, hear.) With regard to
the question of education, when it was proposed to parliament
that they should grant a sum of money for the purpose of
giving education without religious instruction, a very strong
party in the House of Commons thought the most important
education was that which taught our religious duties, our re-
ligious duties being by far the most important we were placed
here to discharge. (Hear.) Individually he (Mr. Cress-
well) took a small share in resting the measure then proposed
by government. (Loud cheers.) Perhaps the meeting
might chance to know that these questions, relating to the
church, to religion, to education, to our liberties and privi-
leges as freemen, voters and electors, were about as important
as most others that kad been discussed. • (Laud cries of
4, Hear, hear.") Bat what said the men by whom the pre-

sent appeat wsa made to the country? We had received her
most gracious majesty's speech, which was delivered upon the
prorogation of parliament; that speech was of course written
by her majesty's ministers and advisers, and in it she said she
was pleased to exercise her prerogative and dissolve parliament
in order to takethe opinions of her people--upon what? (Hear)
Not upon the merits of her Majesty's ministers, not upon the
general questions of their policy, not upon any question re-
lating to the church, although they were known to be as hos-
tile to it as they were before ; not upon the question of reli-
gion ; but simply upon two or three trading questions, which,
although they were of themselves important, were by no
means of so much importance as the others. (Hear, hear,
and cheers.) If there was any man who thought they were,
he would elk him a question. Perhaps he might say, "If I
send you to parliament, I should like you to vote for abo-
lishing the duty upon corn, as is proposed by her Majesty's
ministers." Suppose he (Mr. Cresswell) were to say to him,
" Yes; but if I consent to do that, will you consent to my
voting also for taking away the property of the church, and
destroying the church ?" What would be the answer, sup-
posing he (Mr. Cresswell) said, " I must vote for neither or
both ?" Would he say, , Vote for neither ?" He appre-
hended no man would hesitate to say " Neither." There-
fore it was by no means to be considered that these three
questions, which had been now raised, were the material and
principal questions which ought to be considered by wise and
prudent electors at this election. They ought to consider
the general policy of the ministers ;—not that he was afraid,
here or anywhere else, of discussing the policy of each par-
ticular question. (Cheers.) The honourable and learned
gentleman then commented with much severity on several
doctrines propounded by the anti-corn-law people, and hav-
ing exposed the false foundations on which their principal
arguments rested, he resumed his seat amidst loud cheers.
Mr. ROPER then moved a resolution, to the effect that the
meeting highly approved of the efficient services of Lord San-
don and Mr. Cresswell, as the representatives of this bo-
rough in the late parliament, and pledged themselves to take
all legal measures to secure their return.
Mr. HOLDEN seconded the motion, and it was carried by
acclamation.

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On the motion of Lord SANDON, seconded by Mr. CRISS-
WELL, the meeting thanked Mr. Parker for his services in
the chair, and having given nine hearty cheers for the success
of the conservative cause, they dispersed.