The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-29 00:00:00

THE NOMINATION,

The friends of Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell arrived at
the hustings about ten o'clock, and in about half an hour
afterwards they were followed by the friends of Sir Joshua
Walmsley.

The Town-clerk having read the writ and precept for the
election, as well as the act of parliament for the prevention
of bribery and corruption, s _

The MAYOR said the time had now arrived for the propo-
sal of candidates for the representation of this borough. If
any burgess or freemen had any gentleman to propose to
serve this borough in parliament, they would now have the
goodness to put them in nomination.
Sir THOMAS BRANCKER then rose amidst loud cheers to
nominate Lord Viscount Sandon. He said, if the duty which
devolved upon him had been to propose a new candidate to
the electors of Liverpool, he should have felt considerable
hesitation in undertaking the office ; but he felt greatly re-
lieved when he knew that he was about to propose to their
notice a noble lord who had served them for the last ten
years, whom they had triumphanely returned to thrre suc-
cessive parliaments, and who had discharged the important
duties confided to his care in a manner second to none.
(Loud cheers.) The noble lord had discharged his parlia-
mentary duties, whether of a public or a private nature, with
a zeal, diligence, and integrity becoming that high moral
character which he so eminently adorned ; and he came
forward to claim the suffrages of his former constituents with
a confidence that very few representatives of the burgesses
of England could produce and claim. (Laughter, drowned
in cheers from the conservatives.) This borough had
numbered among its representatives some very distinguished
statesmen ; but without wishing to detract from the merits
of those great names, this borough had every reason to be
proud of numbering among its representatives the noble lord.
(Cheers.) He was quite sure that if the burgesses once more
returned him to the House of Commons, he would discharge
his duties with the same zeal and integrity that he had al-
ready displayed. (Cheers.) He would not take up the time
of the meeting longer, but at once proceed to nominate the
Right Hon. Dudley Ryder, Lord Viscount Sandon, as a fit
and proper person to represent the borough of Liverpool in
parliament. (Tremendous cheers, mingled with some dis-
approbation.)
NICHOLAS ROBINSON, Esq. seconded the nomination.
Lord Sandon had discharged his duties as one of the repre-
sentatives of this borough with zeal and assiduity, and he had
uniformly endeavoured to promote to the utmost of his
power the interests of this country. (Loud cheers.) His
kindness and courtesy to all who had any business to transact
with him had always been such, that it would not be neces..
sary for him to make any observrtions upon them. (Cheers.)
He should be extremely sorry if the time should arrive when
this borough would be deprived of the services of the noble
lord, for lie was decidedly of opinion that we should never
see his like again. (Great cheers.) He begged to second
the nomination of Lord Sandon. (Loud cheers,)
Mr. RICHARD LEYLAND then rose and said that be had
great pleasure in proposing Cresswell Cresswell, Esq., as a
fit and proper person as representatvie of this borough in
Parliament, but from the noise which prevailed, and the low
tone of voice in which he spoke, we could scarcely catch a
word of what he said. We understood him to observe that
M r. Cresswell had executed the trust entrusted to him on a
femur occasion with great justice to himself and satisfac-

faction to his constituents, and that his high standing at the
bar, and his commanding talents, eminently entitled him to
the distinguished honour of being a member for Liverpool.
(Great cheers.)
Mr. CHARLES LAWRENCE next rose and said he would
not detain them any longer than merely to second the nomi-
nation of Mr. Cresswell. (Renewed cheers.)
WILLIAM EARLE, Esq. then stood forward, amidst ap-
plause and hisses, for the purpose of proposing Lord Pal-
merston. He said that there was a general impression in this
town that, in consequence of the line of conduct which our
late representatives had thought fit to take with respect to the
great measures which were so decidedly calculated to improve
the commerce of this port—(cheers, hisses, and cries of " Oh,
oh !")—they were unfit to represent Liverpool in parliament.
The reformers had long considered them unworthy, and that
feeling had now extended to the tories. (" No, no," and
Yes, yes.") If the party whom he should have the honour
and pleasure to nominate, and whom they were determined
to give the electors an opportunity of choosing, were returned
as the representative for this borough, he (Mr. Earle) was
confident that he (Lord Palmerston) would perform his du-
ties with zeal and ability, and represent the interests of com-
merce. One of the persons to be brought forward by the
liberal party was our own townsman, Sir Joshua Walmsley—
(cheering)—a man of untiring industry, a staunch friend of
free trade, and one who had often been called out in behalf of
the people. The second candidate to be called out by the
anti-monopolists—the noble lord whom he should have the
honour to propose—was one whose name would live in the
page of history, and be handed down to posterity. (Cries
of " where is he ? " and cheers.) He (Mr. Earle) had
waded through the addresses of Lord Sandon and Mr. Cress-
well, and if any one there had done the same, he was satis-
fied that he would come to the conclusion that he (Mr. E.)
had arrived at—that he hail wasted a great deal of valuable
time. (" Oh, oh," and groans.) Never was there such a
tissue of unmeaning words, and so great an absence of any
sentiment which could arrest the attention of mercantile
men. There was'an angry and petulant attack upon the new
poor law ; but the conservative candidates seemed to have
forgotten that they had voted for every clause in it. (Cheers,
and cries cf " no, no.") There was also a declaration in
those addresses in favour of the corn laws, or rather of a
sliding scale, and this was followed up by an assertion that
the church was in danger, and ought to be protected. Now,
who wanted to injure the church ? (" No one," and cries
of " You and the whigs.") They (the whigs) wanted cheap
bread, and they were met by the cry that the church was in
danger, and clerical canvassers went forth to proclaim this to
the people. (Groans, hisses, cheers, and expressions of
dissent.) Yes, he could assure Mr. Sands that some few
m. clergyen had become political canvassers ; but, to the ho-
nour of the clergy be it said, not many. (Cheers and groans.
In the whole of the address of Lord Sandon, he (Mr. Earle)
had not found a single word about sugar. In a constituency
such as this, that question ought undoubtedly to have been
referred to ; for it was one in which the town was much inter-
ested. (Much cheering and hisses.) No, the subject was
not a very sweet one. The abolitionists of Liverpool were
of opinion that the noble lord had full as much intention of
protecting the West India interests as the negroes, in the
course which he had adopted. In Liverpool, however, the
noble lord had dropped the question, and he had no doubt
shown good generalship in so doing. (Hear.) Contrast
with this the conduct of Lord Palmerston at Tiverton,
which was situated in an agricultural district, and had
amongst its voters many persons interested in the corn-
laws. Lord Palmerston, however, did not therefore blink
the question of the corn-laws. (Cheers.) He came for-
ward boldly and said that he considered be was doing the
electors good service by bringing forward the question of the
corn-laws. (Great cheering.) In consequence of that manly
conduct, the honest enthusiasm of honest Englishmen were
manifested in favour of an honest man. (Applause and
hisses.) Another subject not alluded to in the addresses of
the conservative candidates was the finances of the country.
The tory accusation that ministers had injured the finances
was an unfounded one. (Cheers.) That ministry had taken
off a large amount of taxes, and a deficiency would never
have been felt had it not been for the expeditions to China
and to Canada ; and it was very fortunate for the country
that there was a liberal ministry in power when those expe-
ditions were going forward. (Cheers.) Judging from
past events, he should say that had there been a tory govern
ment, we should have had in addition a war with France,
and, perhaps, a general war. (Applause mingled with hisses.)
Instead of this, however, we are now on a good footing
with the European Powers, and by next advices he hoped
to hear that peace had been established in every quarter.
(Cheers.) With respect to the commercial measures pro-
posed by her Majesty's ministers, he must state, that if those
measures were not adopted, new taxes must undoubtedly be
imposed upon the country. (Cheers and hisses.) The con-
servatives objected to the policy of government, but they
themselves proposed no remedy—nothing in lieu of the mea-
sures which they opposed. (Cheers and groans.) As far as
regarded the West India proprietors—and he himself was
one, as well as others around him—it was his opinion that
the protective duties were of no benefit to them whatever.
But suppose they were, was it not a monstrous evil that the
whole community should pay so enormously for the advan-
tage of a few, and that the interests of those few should be
consulted in preference to that of the great multitude, who
had scarcely means of subsistence ? Those protective duties
were, under the circumstances, a crying evil ' • and he did not
thank Lord Sandon for having protected him, or the in-
terests with which he was connected. (Applause and hisses.)
As the gentlemen on the other side were very impatient, he
should not occupy their time much longer. He should con-
clude by proposing Henry John Temple, Lord Viscount
Palmerston, as a fit and proper person to represent Liverpool
in Parliament. (Tremendous cheering, mixed with groans
and hisses from the Conservatives.
THOMAS BROOKLEBANK, Esq., seconded the nomination
of Lord Palmerston, and in so doing, spoke highly of the
character and abilities of the noble lord, of the free-trade
measures introduced by ministers, and of their general policy.
A more able and trustworthy administration this country had
not had for a long period. The noise was so great during the
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whole of the time-ihat Mr. Brocklebank was speaking,-and
he spoke in so low a tone, that we were unable to give more
than this brief outline of what he said. At the conclusion of
his remarks, a most vociferous and animated round of ap-
plause was given for Lord Palmerston, and it was immediately
answered by a counter cheer for Lord Sandon and Mr.
Creswell.

Colonel WILLIAMS rose, amid mingled cheers and hisses,
to nominate Sir Joshua Walmsley as a fit and proper person
to represent this borough in parliament. When he had for-
merly attended meetings in that place, the friends of social
order used to be extremely noisy. He found that the friends
of social order were present on this occasion, and that they
were as noisy as ever; but he hoped the mayor would order
his policemen to have an eye on them. (Hisses.) If his
observations could not be heard within doors, he would ad-
dress the crowd without. When the corn-laws had passed
the legislature, the people outside the doors of the House
of Commons vastly exceeded in numbers and intelligence the
collective wisdom within. So it was on the present occasion.
(Great laughter.) Where was Sir Thomas Brancker ? Oh !
he (the colonel) observed him close by his side. (Renewed
laughter.) Sir Thomas had said that he was under no em-
barrassment in not meeting the noble lord, because that
gentleman had been a faithful and honest representative of
the borough. Sir Thomas was a religious man ; but was
he aware of the gospel the noble lord had preached ?
(Great and continued laughter.) It was very odd how the
same matter operated on different people. He stood there
as an ancient freeman, and as a representative of the
most virtuous body in all England. (A pause, followed
by a cry of " Give him a chew of tobacco.") If they
allowed him to take his own time, he would proceed. (Ironi-
cal laughter.) He recollected having been interrupted by
the friends of social order when Canning stood on the hust-
ings; but Mr. Canning said, ou that occasion, that everything
might be brought forward at an election in the same way as
if they were debating a question on the estate of the nation
in the House of Commons ; and, therefore, he (the colonel)
would make himself heard. (Ironical laughter.) At the
present era, when want of confidence was the order of the
day, he was specially filled with that want of confidence with
regard to the noble lord and his double—(cheers and hisses)
—Mr. Cresswell, to whom he had the honour of introducing
himself. The many objections on the ground of want of
confidence, to the vote of those very honourable men in their
way no doubt—(great cheers)—but not men that he thought
qualified to represent the borough of Liverpool. (Hisses.)
His principal objection to the noble lord was, that he was
one of that order—an order originating in the darkest times
of ignorance and barbarism. (Loud cries of " Oh, oh !"
groans and hisses.) He thought he had a very good ground
of objection against the noble lord, therefore. (Renewed
groans, and cries of " What is Lord Palmerston ?") yes,
they had some liberal lords, and the more honour was due to
them. (" Where is he ?") But the nature of the order was
to be hostile to the people. (Loud groans and hisses.)
They had never known them to be in favour of the
people, and, as a proof of it, they were getting their
means of superfluity by adding to their rents on those in-
fernal questions of corn restrictions. (Loud groans and
hisses.) Aye, this was the character of those men who
were overrun with wealth, that they still extracted ad-
ditions to their income from the miserable bread-eater.
(Renewed groans, followed by a pause, and cries of " Go on.")
He was fearful of exhausting himself; but he had another
ground of want of confidence to the noble lord on the
ground of his tribe and his family. (Renewed groans.) The
whole of the present questions had arisen by reason of the
profligacy, the cruelty and the extravagance of the men who
had heretofore governed the country. They had imposed on
the country by means of their sanguinary wars an addition
of five hundred millions of the national debt, and it was the
burden of that debt and the necessity the people were under
of paying the interest of it, which had been the ground-
work of the liberal measures of the present administration ;
and when the noble lord observed in his address—he had
got that address in his pocket and he would read a few ex-
tracts from it—that the present was an unprincipled agita-
tion on the part of the government, he would say that this
was an unprincipled assumption on the part of the noble
lord. He (the colonel) called them the wise and liberal
measures of the present government, the only honest go-
vernment which had ruled the country for many years.
(Loud groans and hisses.) It was the only honest govern-
ment that he remembered during the course of his long
life ; because it should not be forgotten that the present
enormous debt had been contracted by the Pitts, the Jenkin-
sons, the Dudley llyders, and the whole company of rough
riders who held the helm of the state. (Loud groans.) The
only way to relieve the pressure upon the people was to
raise up a more equal revenue. He should like to know the
grounds on which a levy on the people in the shape of pro-
tective rates on the corn laws had been imposed. The " illus-
trious duke," when he was in the ministry, had given it as
his opinion that the corn laws were necessary to enable the
landlords to pay their rents. (Cries of " the tenants, you
mean." Much laughter and continued groans.) That
was the statesmanlike argument of the Duke of Wellington
for supporting the corn laws ! (Groans.) And what had
been the consequence ? Why, they put fifty millions into
the pockets of the overgrown landlord, which had been taken
out of the pockets of the miserable consumers ; and, there-
fore, there never was a more unjust or election-like declar-
ation of the noble lord than when he said that the conduct
of the government was an unprincipled agitation. (Hisses
and groans.) He must repeat that he was a freeman
of the borough, and that he had the noble lord's guaran-
tee for being one of his best friends. (Ironical laughter.)
He had vainly attempted to read the address of the
noble lord, when it appeared in large characters on
the walls of the town, but he read it in one of the
Tory newspapers, and he could safely say that he had never
met with such a tissue of absurdity. (Groans, and cries of
" Except your own.") He did not mean to go into a re-
view of that address, but he thought it showed upon its
face that the noble lord knew he was wrong when he was
writing it, and that it bore evidence of what had been pass-
ing within him. Colonel Williams concluded by moving
that Sir Joshua Walmsley was a fit and proper person to
represent this borough in parliament.
Mr. WILLIAM BROWN seconded the nomination.

The MAY ox then asked if any other burgess o; freeman
had any other candidate to propose? No answer being re-
turned, his worship called upon
Lord SANDON, who was received with tremendous ap-
plause. I believe, said the noble lord, it has usually been
the custom, at least for the last three elections, for those who
claim the suffrages of the electors of this town, to make the
attempt to address those who are assembled outside the
hustings. I shall follow that good custom, although I be-
lieve, from the spirit I have seen, I have little hope of suc-
ces ; and, Mr. Mayor, that after having made the attempt
for some time unsuccessfully, as I expect to be, you will allow
me to address those inside upon some of those charges which
have there been made. Addressing those outside, his lord-
ship continued—Gentlemen, I have explained the claims
upon which I solicit your support in the various speeches
which I have made in different parts of the town. It is not
my intention to inflict upon you a long discussion to satisfy
upon that head, or to repeat those explanations of my pentl.

meats which you have so often heard and received with sa
many marks of your approbation. (Hear.) You have now
before you the various issues to be tried at this election. Are
you prepared to continue your confidence in her Majesty's
administration, or are you prepared to send to parliament
such men as will give to her majesty advisers of a different
stamp ? (Hear, hear.) Are you prepared to give your sanc-
tion to those ministers who have so mismanaged our Foreign
affairs, our finances, and our colonies, as to have compelled
that large expenditure which has produced those serious dif-
ficulties in our revenue which we lament? It is not from
any decline ;in the prosperity of the country, or from any
decrease in our revenues that those difficulties have arisen ;
but they have arisen from an increased expenditure, and
a deficiency in the annual receipts. (Cheers.) The revenue
has been increasing—and as I have just said, it is the great
expenditure arising from mal-administration in our colonial,
foreign, and financial affairs which has caused the deficien-
cies we have now complained of. (Hear, hear.) Are these
deficiences, then, any ground for confidence in those who
have caused them ? Would you entrust the curing of the
evil to those who have caused it ? Would you not rather
give your confidence to those who have resisted the measures
of her Majesty's ministers by whom that expenditure had
been caused, who opposed the policy by whom Canada was
thrown into a flame, and encouragement given to an in-
vasion upon the northern side by the United States, by
which our great interests in China have been so endangered
that we have been obliged to incur an enormous expenditure
in that country. and engage in a war of which no man can
see the conclusion? (Hear, hear.) Can you find grounds of
confidence in those who so mismanaged the negociations
with France, that they produced last year an expectation of a
general war, and compelled us to increase our navy, not be=
cause it was not wanted, but because the reason we wanted i t
was the neglect of the settlement of those questions which
alone produced those apprehensions of war with France.
(Hear.) This, gentlemen, is the administration whose ma-
nagement of foreign affairs, has been such as to cause em-
barrassment where they found prosperity, and whose admi-
nistration of financial affairs, has left a deficiency where they
found a surplus—(cheers)—this is the administration which
claims at your hands your continued support, (Hear.) But
in the last hour of their existence, when they find that
their misdeeds have forfeited them successively the con-
fidence of every class in the country, when they find by
election after election, that the feelings of the city is against
them. Then they turned round for a new floating bait, with
which they think they can call back the affections and
attachment of the county, which they hoped would be received
largely, and that thus they might be enabled to agitate the
communities of the large towns, and by awakening the feel-
ings of the town against the country they might be enabled
to purchase a short existence. (Cheers.) But if by their
mismanagement of our commercial affairs, by their neglect
of the protection of the-interests of British commerce,
of which we have complained from time to time—(loud
cheers) ;—if by their neglect of the commercial interests of
the country, if by their neglect to protect the flag of Eng-
land in foreign countries, if by their neglecting to make com-
mercial treaties with countries where British commerce
needed extension, if by their neglect in the protection of
individual British merchants when insulted by the wanton-
ness of foreign powers—if I say by these neglects they have
hitherto secured the approbation of this great cammunity,
I do not think that these three last devices which they
have ingeniously invented will be found to secure them that
support which they have hitherto wanted. (Cheers.) If
these three questions really had the merit in them which
they pretend to, if they are the panacea which is to cure all
the evils and all the distresses, of effecting which they pre-
tend they are, why have they been so long delayed—why
were they delayed when ministers had the power and some
expectation of being able to carry them. (Hear, hear.) If an
alteration in the corn laws is to be the remedy for every evil
that we are afflicted with, why is it that they have been in of-
fice for ten years, and never until this moment thought of
proposing it ? (Hear.) If they did really think that it was
necessary for the interests of the poorer population of this
country, and an extension of trade, that we should admire
foreign slave grown sugar into our markets, why refuse it
last year when sugar was dear, and there might have been
sound argument in favour of it ? Why did they delay it ? why
bring it forward now? (Hear.) But in the case of the corn
laws, they resorted to a clap-trap in the very last moment of
their existence, hoping to purchase by it that support which,
on all their other measures, they have forfeited. (Hear.)
I have been abused here for having alluded to your Protes-
tant church and to your Protestant altar. (Hear, hear, and
cheers.) I am not surprised, gentlemen, that they should
abuse me for it : they had rather that 1 had said something
about them. (Hear, hear.) They would, if possible, for-
get, and make you forget, the disapprobation with which their
attacks upon our Protestant church, our Protestant religion,
and our Protestant education, were received, and they blame
me, therefore, for still holding them up to the feelings of
dislike and disapprobation which they excite. (Hear.) • But,
gentlemen, you must recollect that parliament is not chosen
for the consideration and decision of a single question.
(Hear, hear, and cheers.) It may be very well to give a man
a power of attorney to vote upon a single question, but here
you are giving your representatives a power of attorney to
vote on every question that can be brought before the legis-
lature. (Hear, hear.) You are giving them power over
the church, the throne, and the aristocracy; you are giving
them power to legislate for every interest in the country ;
but you will not be blinded by any single cry into forgetting
how many questions there are upon which you differ
from the administration, even if you should agree with
them upon this one. (Cheers.) I will not now go into
the question of free trade, which you must have heard dis-
cussed from ward to ward, from public meeting to public
meeting, even to your own weariness. This is not the occa-
sion to go over them ; but I may fairly appeal to you,
whether you have not even reason to doubt that the
large promises which have attached to the question of
free trade in corn, are likely to be fulfilled or not. (Hear.)
You have seen reason to doubt whether you would gain in
the exchange ; whether the sacrifice of British industry is
not a more than adequate exchange for the large amount of
foreign trade which is held out to us. (Hear, hear.)
I believe you have already made up your minds that
you will not continue your confidence in her Ma-
jesty's administration that you will not send up
to parliament men who will give that administration
their support which, indeed, they have deservedly for-
feited, but that you will send up those who will give you
a better assurance of steadiness and firmness—who shall
have principles of their own and adhere to them'
and who will not, year after year, cut and carve them to the
present fashion for the purpose of gaining support either
upon one side or the other. (Loud cheers.) I beg to thank
you for the patient hearing with which you have, under all
the circumstances, been kind enough to grant me. (Loud
applause, during which the noble lord retired.)
Lord SANDON then addressed the parties within the booth
at very great length, in reply to the remarks and insinuations
of Colonel Williams.

Mr. CRESSWELL then addressed the electors, with much
effect.

Mr. JAmus Aimlv next addressed the meeting on the
part of Lord Palmerston. _ _

Sir JOSHUA WA.LmstEr then followed, and occupied the
meeting for upwards of an hour.
The MAYOR then called for a show of hands, which he
declared to be in favour of the conservative candidates.
A poll was then demanded on behalf of the other candidates,
and the mayor appointed it to be commenced to=morrow.
A vote of thanks was then moved to the mayor, and the
meeting seperated.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,—Tats DAY

(From Messrs. R. MAKIN Sc SONS' Circular.)

Although the arrivals of Grain altogether are still very
moderate, and those of Flour and Oatmeal, either English
or Irish, form scarcely an average supply ; we have to note
from the American States and Canada a fair quality of Flour,
and the navigation from the latter being now open, liberal
imports of this article and of Wheat, are expected thence in
the course of July.

: In consequence of the approaching elections, our market
this morning was again very thinly attended ; notwithstand-
ing which, the amendment yesterday in London appeared to
give the Wheat trade a rather firmer tone ; and in good use-
ful descriptions of English and Foreign, sales to a moderate
extent were effected at the full rates of this day se'nnight.
All sorts of Sack Flour, being scarce, maintained late prices,
but States and Canadian, though in middling request, must
be noted Gd. per barrel cheaper.
Barley for grinding and Prime Malt ruled quite as high as
last week, whilst inferior qualities of the latter were very
unsaleable, and nominal in value. In Beans and Peas we
have no change to report.

Oats, continuing to meet a very limited inquiry, hardly
realised our last quotations ;—and Oatmeal, remaining ex-
tremely difficult of sale, was the turn cheaper.

ARRIVALS OF CORN,
From the 22nd to the 28th June, 1841, inclusive

DESCRIPTION. IRE- COAST- CANADA
LAND. WISE. !SC U.STS.