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claim-the suffrages of the electors -of -this town, to snake 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 senti-
ments which you have so often heard and received with so
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 het majesty advisers of a different
stamp ? (Veal-, hear.) Are you prepared to give your sanc-
tion to those ministers who have so mismauaged 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 front
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 1 have jest 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
eleficiences, then, any ground for confidence in those who
have caused them ? Would you entrust the curing of
evil to those who have'caused it? Would you
ti llioeratheT
measuresfind
give your confidence to those who have resisted
of her Majesty's ministers by
whom that
expenditure
to Canada
an
been caused, who opposed the policy by
whom
nivenwas
thrown into a flame, and encouragement
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 it
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.) It' 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 Protestaht 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.)
believe you have already made up your minds that
you will net 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
4 better assurance of steadiness and firmness—who shall
have principles of their own and adhere to them'
and who will. not, year after year, put and carve them to the
present fashion for the purpose of gaining support h
ppen attic pe the other. (Loud cheers.) I beg to thank.
pm 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.
At the conclusion of Lord Sandon's speech,
Colonel WILLIAMS essayed to address the mayor with
reference to Lord Grey's administration, and tiw defections
of Lord Stanley and Sir James Gyeivin from the Melbourne
blit was eeeei.l,e4 o,g loud cries of " Spoke,
and calls for Mr. Cresswell, which continued for a
oesiderable length of time.
The M4oit at length rose, and with vehemence declared
that the Mayoit at length rose, and with vehemence declared
that he would send a possti of constables into the corner
where the conservatives stood if silence was not observed.
This was the signal for renewed uproar, during which
eeveral cried out that "the mayor was partial,"
Colonel WILIAIAms attomptod, to persevere, lint was as-
salled wTlii 4 storm of hieeee, and renewed calls for Mr.
presswell. The Colonel at length held his peace, and
Mr. Cggsswelie presented himself to the multitude, and
was received with the most indescribable enthusiasm. When
the cheering had ceased, he proceeded in nearly the following
terms ,—Gentlemen,—After rambling for three hours about
variety of questions which ought scarcely to have occupied
your attention for half the time, I shall be brief in addressing
you on this, the last occasion that I shall have the honour of
doing so before the poll begins, because you are suffering un-
doubtedly from great pressure, and also because your attend-
ance is so overwhelming that much personal inconvenience
must be the natural consequence. (Hear, hear.) And, gen-
tlemen, as I have now, on some fourteen or fifteen different
occasions, stated to large assemblies of my old, I trust I may
say my future constituents, the opinions which I entertain
not merely on the general policy which ought to be yeesee4
in this country, but on those particular Mees.eree syleeh have
been brought forward during my canvass, Et an be ne-
Fpplary I a oubt Lep,pat' them here. Par.) Pik there are
one or tip-top-les:0 which it may be necessary to draw your
ttentiofi,_ in consequence of one or two placards, calculated
to mislead you, having appeared on the walls. (Hear.) It
has become the fashion of those who are desirous of keeping
her majesty's ministers in power, and of forcing on them that
policy they always advocated—the ultra-radical policy—
(hear)-to assume to themselves alone the character of
loyalty. Now, I say they have no right to it, (Cheers!)
They 'never had a right to it. (great and pentineed cheering.)
li rflea9 ea to charge them with disloyalty, but I think I may
point to one or two instances in which they showed their
loyalty in a strange sort of manner, sufficient to prove that
they have not a right to vindicate to themselves the whole
character of loyalty, or to impute to us that we are deficient
in respect for our beloved queen—(great cheering)—or that
we entertain any disloyalty towards her. (Renewed cheers.)
Gentlemen, how do they seek to use this boasted loyalty
now? (Loud cries of "hear.") Her majesty has been pleased
to inform us that she has dissolved the parliament which voted
that they had no confidence in her ministers, in order to take
the opinions of her people at large on certain measures.
Well, then, does she not want their unbiassed and unpreju-
diced opinions? (Hear, hear.) And yet those mock-loyalty
pen not merely tell you that her majesty is not sinceye by
:44akin4 ese of her mime, but they pretend to tell you what
ler majesty's opinions are, mid they ask you to echo them
sack again. (Heal:, hear, hear, and continued cheers.)
Now, suppose that you agree with me in thinking that her
majesty has had evil councillors about her; suppose you
agree with me that those to whom she entrusted the admi-
nistration of affairs in this country are not qualified to pro-
mote her welfare, when an appeal is made to you, are you
not bound by your feelings of attachment to the throne to
tell her so? (Hear, hear, and cheers.) And yet these men
have the presumption of rallying her round their own cause,
and of telling you what her majesty's opinions are. (Hear,
hear.) I say, it is an abuse of the privileges of speech to
caY so! (Cheers.) I say that the conetitetign goes not
rppoguip any opinion on the part of the reigning sovereign in
the election of' members to parliament, and that when she
iippeals to the country, her people are bound to give her
their opinions in the persons of the representatives they send
19 the House of Commons. (Hear, hear, and cheers.)
Therefore, I say that those placards calling on you to rally
round the queen are delusive, and that they imply a charge
against the sovereign which the party dare not make directly.
(Great applause.) I would not have said a word respecting
Other of the rival candidates who are put forward on this
pecasioni-had got their merits been introduced,thongh, T.
roust say, somewhat raggedly and meagrely, by their_ respec-
tive proposers and seconders. (Hear, hear, and laughter.)
Of Lord Palmerston it was said' that the present, or rather
the late members for the borough could not be compared to
him, that he had well administered the affairs of the country,
and that his name would be handed down to posterity as the
most able foreign minister this country ever bad. (Ironical
laughter.) Now, with respect to the humble individual be-
fore you, not being entitled to have any comparison drawn
between lee and Lord Palmerston, there is one particular in
which lam free to confess he surpasses me. He has been a
member of one, two, three, four, five, nine successive ad-
ministrations. (Hear, hear, and great laughter.) I hear
voice near me which says, " they can't do without him.'
Well, then, he must either have retained his original opinions,
or the nine administrations with which he was connected
must have been such weathercocks as to chop and change at
pleasure, or it' the administration did not so change, then,
instead of saying that the place couldn't do without him,
be more disposed to say that he couldn't do with-
outl would
the place. (Roars of laughter and tremeedous cheer-
ing.) But what have been Lord Palmerston 's merits as
a foreign minister ? Let China, the Levant, Buenos Ayres,
and Mexico bear witness. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Let
our near approach to a war with France be the answer ; and
here, I believe, I may state unhesitatingly that the conser-
vative tone of Sir Robert Peel, and those who supported him
in the House of Commons, had much more to do in preserv-

ing the peace of Europe than all that noble secretary for
foreign affairs ever did. (Great cheering.) With respect to
the other candidate I say nothing; he is before you, and
whatever disposition I might have to retaliate on his proposer,
by commenting on his candidate, I shall forbear, although he
was pleased to make some observations in reference to me.
(Hear, hear.) lam content that the rival candidate—not
the phantom candidate—(great laughter and cheers)—who is
absent, but the present candidate, should speak for himself,
and that you should judge him by his words. By his votes
in parliament you cannot judge him, for in parliament he has
never yet been—(`• he never will,")—but you will judge him
by what you hear him say. (Hear, hear.) In the common
council of your borough you have, no doubt, seen the manner
in which he dealt with questions of local interest ; those you
remember, and him I shall leave to speak for himself. (Hear,
and cheers.) We are taunted and told that we have come
here blinking the questions which are before the country, hut,
out of the mouth of the gentleman who made that remark I
shall convict him. (Renewed cheers.) He gAid—" You have
wandered from the subject ; we set before you three topics—
discuss them and no others ; church, education, vote by
ballot, and universal suffrage, you are avoiding the great
questions at issue ; address youselves to the subjects of cheap
corn, timber, and sugar ; discuss these, for we shall riot allow
you to speak of anything else." Now, I say that the very
gentlemen who suggested that we had no right to introduce
other topics into our addresses—for my noble colleague,
Lord Sandon, was attacked for having done so, he himself
acted on the authority of Mr. Canning, who, when here,
told the electors to discuss every question as if it was a
question debated in the House of Commons on the state of
the nation. (Hear, and cheers.) I, therefore, have a right
to consider the whole of the ministerial policy ; but with re-
spect to the questions of corn, timber, and sugar, I have
addressed you over and over again, and really have not
strength to do the same on this occasion. There is a piece
of news, however, in town to-day, and it is a good omen.
We have heard of the result of two elections—one in
Southwark and the other in Horsham ; in the former two
rninisterialists have been returned as was the case before,
but in the latter, one ministerial member has been dis-
placed by a conservative—(hear, hear, and cheers)—and
by the post to-morrow I trust we shall have an account of
three, or, in all probability, four conservatives returned for
the city of London. (Great cheers.) It would be wrong of
me to detain you any longer ; allow me, therefore, to thank
you for your attendance, and to express a hope that you will
be early at the poll to-morrow morning. (Tremendous
cheering.) Mr. Cresswell then turned to the gentlemen in
the interior of the booth, and said, " Mr. Mayor, out of re-
spect to you and the gentlemen I see around nie, notwith-
standing the little glances at my political conduct, I shall not
retort, because I know that I am not called upon so to do.
(He:., .) I heard no observation addressed to me in the
speeches of any of the gentlemen on the other side, concern-
ing which I need take any trouble, with the exception of
those general terms of unfaithfulness, which we always come
upon the hustings with the expectation of hearing, and
which, to use the language of my profession, are like general
counts—(great laughter)—of 110 avail, and therefore I pass
them by. It was said that my noble colleague and myself
hunted in couples, and that we had signed our names to the
one address. Sir, lam proud to think that such is the case.
(Loud cheers.) When the Liverpool constituency did Me
the honour to elect me as their member, I was new to that
line of business. They knew me only as engaged in another

capacity, and I believe they knew me to be asfraightforward
man, who would not say one thing and mean another. (Re-
newed cheers.) I was happy, therefore, in having the assist-
ance of such an able colleague as my Lord Sandon, in every
thing connected with public business • and I hope I have not
been altogether without profiting by 6se information lie has
been so kind as to communicate to me respecting the in-
terests of this borough, for in that respect I never found any
person to excel his lordship. I have been with him to to the
President of the Board of Trade, and to the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, on subjects interesting to Liverpool, and I
never saw any man so entirely at home upon those subjects
as my noble colleague. So far, therefore, from thinking
it .derogatory for us to hunt in couples, I feel proud of being
permitted to associate with his lordship, desirous as I am of
profiting by the information of which he is so thoroughly
possessed. (Cheers.) Allusion has been made to the poor-
laws, and upon that question I have no hesitation in stating
here as elsewhere my opinions. (Hear.) My opinion is this :
that before the new poor-law had been introduced, the old
one was badly administered, particularly in the rural dis-
tricts, where a practice had crept in of eking a certain amount
of wages out of the money subscribed for the relief of the
destitute. I was glad, therefore, that a bill, designed to
remedy such an evil, had been brought into the House of
Commons ; but there are parts of that bill which ought not
to have been introduced, and which I would be happy to see
altered ' • nevertheless I would not be disposed to create any
turmoil upon the subject, unless I saw a clear prospect of
having the alteration effected. (Hear, hear, and cheers.)
I confess that I feel jealous of delegating legislation to par
ties at a distance from the respective localities ; but in that
bill there is a power given to commissioners in London, and
to them was given an unlimited power to make laws which
were to be of the same force and effect as if embodied in the
act, and consequently passed by the legislature of the
country.
A VOICE.—Why didn't you look to that before you gave
your vote in favour of it ? (Great cheering from the radi-
cals.)
Mr. CRESSWELL.-43ecause I wasn't in parliament when
the bill was passed. (Tremendous cheering from the con-
servatives.)
A VOICE.—Why didn't Lord Sandon then ?
Mr. CILESSWELL.—PossibIy because, not being a lawyer,
he was unable to discover it ; for recollect it never was dis-
covered until it had been brought before the Queen's Bench.
(Cheers from the conservatives.) Others, therefore, are
responsible for its unjust provisions, and not Lord Sandon.
(Continued cheers.) On the subject of the applicability of
the bill to large towns I have serious doubts. These are my
opinions with respect to the measure. I would rather see
the law administered by persons in Liverpool, chosen for the
purpose, than by commissioners in London; for on subjects
of the kind there is little public excitement, and local parties
are better enabled to judge of what would be beneficial to
themselves than strangers could possibly be. (Cheers.)
There may be gentlemen present who recollect that Lord
Sandon and myself pursued a similar course when an attempt
was made to centralise the pilots. We thought then, as now,
that the merchants of the town were competent to conduct
local affairs ; we opposed the bill which had been brought
in, and through our opposition it was dropped. (Cheers.)
'A VelCE.—Would you support the vote by ballot?
Mr. CRESSWELL.—No ; 1 would not. (Cheers.) One
of the most remarkable speeches I remember to have heard
in parliament was that delivered by Lord John Russell soon
after I had the honour of a seat in the house. Mr. Wakley
proposed that he should advocate three measures—vote by
ballot, universal suffrage, and annual parliaments ; and the
noble lord, in that contemptuous manner which all who have
suffered under it can so well understand, addressed Mr.
Wakley as a member of the medical profession, and com-
paring the three propositions made to him to three powders,
made a wry face, put on an apothecary's voice, said they
were somewhat nauseous, and declined taking any of them.
(Loud cheers and great laughter.) And then, undoubtedly,
when Mr. Grote brought forward his motion of vote by bal-
lot, it was opposed by the cabinet as a cabinet; but when
Mr. Macaulay joined the ministry, it was made an open
question. (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") I won't stop
here to discuss the merits of open questions ; they have no-
thing to do with this election ; it is sufficient for me to say
that the ballot was made au open question; that I remember
Mr, Macaulay speaking with all his eloquence in favour of
it, and Lord John Russell denouncing it as strongly as be-
fore. (Hear, and cheers.) Such a proceeding -did not pro-
mise that steady mode of legislation which her Majesty ex-
presses her desire to have in the new parliament. (Cheers.)
I hope, however, that a change of things will shortly take
place ; and trust such a parliament will be formed as will
enable her Majesty's ministers to pass such measures as they
may think fit. (IZenmed cheers.) I fully agree in opinion
with others, that the worst of all governments is that which
Possesses not the power to carry its own wishes into effect.
I believe that a steady government is essential to our pre-
servation. I trust the new government will be so construct-
ed as to possess such power in the House of Commons
that it will be able to act on its own judgment, and not be
left iu the lurch by one man leaving them after another.
(Cheers.) I have now to apologise for having kept you so
long, and to thank you for the patient hearing you have
given me. (Loud and long-continued cheers.)
Mr. JAMES AIKIN then stood forward, and wished to ad-
dress the electors on behalf of Lord Palmerston, but he was
immediately assailed by such a storm of disapprobation, that
it was impossible for him to proceed, though be exerted
himself to the utmost to make himself heard. Lord Sandon
appealed to the conservatives to hear Mr. Aikin, but his so-
licitation was of little avail—he was only answered by cheer-
ing, which, while it continued, ei( course deprived Mr. Aikin
of an opportunity Of speaking, and when this had subsided,
andl‘k Attempted to resume, his voice was again
s:esSueo in ti e uproar. The mayor entreated the gentlemen
tOisten to the representative of Lord Palmerston, but his
entreaties were alike unheeded, and when his worship re-
sorted to threats, stating that he would order any person
who interrupted the proceedings to be ejected from the
court, he was hissed and hooted at most vociferously, Mr.
Cresswell and Mr. Rushton also endeavoured to ohtain some-
thinge
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ministrations. He maintained that the several changes which
the noble lord was said to have undergone in his political
opinion, were not changes, as to measures, but only as to
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that he had been deputed, by the committee of Lord Pal-
merston, to address the electors on behalf of the noble lord.
This was not satisfactory to the conservatives, and they asked,
in quick succession. " Where is he ?" " Has the requisition
been presented to him ?" " Why does he not come himself ?"
" Off, off ; we won't listen to you; we'll hear Sir Joshua
Walmsley," &c. When Mr. Aikin had contrived to finish
the remarks which he intended to make,
Sir Jos HUA. WALMSI,EY stepped non the platform whence
the preceding apeaters had addressed the meeting. He had
sparcply uttered ten words, when a great uproar commenced,
Which at once drowned the speaker's voice. Sir Joshua
waited patiently a few moments, in expectation that the dis-
order and uproar would presently cease ; but, being disap-
pointed in that expectation, he left the centre booth, and
went over to a window on that side of the booth opposite to
which his friends were assembled. He thence addressed the
electors in a long speech, but owing to the distance at which
he stood from our reporter, and the almost continual dis-
turbance and uproar which prevailed, it wag impossible to
catch even the sound of his voice. At a quarter past three
o'clock, Sir Joshua re-entered the hustings, and addressed a
few words to the persons therein assembled. He thought
tlAat wold have looked much better of gentlemen if they
had listened to what he had to say, and then objected to any-
thing of which they disapproved, rather than have acted in
the manner they had done. (Cheers, groaning, and hooting,
and cries of " Who paid the protectors ?") He did certainly
hope that a fair and impartial hearing would be granted to
him ; but he was sorry to be compelled to say that it bad not
been afforded to him. (Uproar.) He would not trespass a
moment longer on their patience or attention ; but if any
person wished to put a question to hire, be was willing to
answer.
Amidst a continuance of the horrible din and confusion
which had marked nearly the whole of the latter part of the
proceedings, a great number of questions were put to Sir
Joshua Walmsley, some of which he answered, and others
he had no opportunity of answering.
A VOICE.—WiII you vote for the ballot?
Sir J. WALMSLEY.—Yes. (Tremendous uproar, and the
clang of a hundred tongues bellowing out different interro-
gations.)
A VOICE.--Will you vote for universal suffrage ?
Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY.—No. (This question was
repeated some half dozen times.)
A Voice.—Would you vote to disfranchise the freemen?
Sir Josnua..—No.
A Voice—Would you continue to the freemen their pre-
sent right of voting?
Sir J. WALMSLEY.---I think that every man who has
served his apprenticeship for seven years to a trade, and has
become a useful artisan or mechanic, thus benefiting his
fellow-men, has a great deal better right to possess the fran-
chise than those drones who now possess it. (Much uproar
and confusion.
A void.— ,id yon subscribe money to disfranchise the
freemen
Sir JOSHUA.—NO.
The question was repeated, in conjunction with others,
about twenty times, and Sir Joshua at last refrained from
answering.
A number of persons then called out, " Did you sub-
scribe to the Protector Society ?"

Sir JOSIIITA.N4 don't think that any person has a right to
inquire in what manner I dispose of my private funds. I
am here to answer questions respecting my political opinions
or conduct, and any question of that kind I will answer
most freely. (" Oh, oh," and much noise.") '
One gentleman was exceedingly pertinacious in demand-
ing an answer to this question, and after having repeated it
several times, Sir Joshua replied, " I consider the question
a very impertinent one." (Renewed disturbance.) To ano-
ther gentleman, who persevered in pressinc, the question, Sir
Joshua remarked, " I will tell you what I done, and I
should like to sac many pious gentlemen following the same
example. I have subscribed towards the building of several
of your churches in this town, as well as to the building of
chapels, and shall perhaps do so again."
When the confusion had somewhat subsided, and calls of
" Vote, vote," began to be heard,
Mr. EDWARD JAMES, barrister-at-law, stood up and
said—The merits of the respective candidates having been
stated by their proposers and seconders, I now, not on behalf
of any candidate, but on my own behalf, as an elector, de-
mand a poll.
The MAYOR signified his assent, and a show of hands
therefore was not taken. _

Lord Sp. N DON then moved, and Mr. CRESSWELL second-
ed, a vote of thanks to his worship the mayor, but it did not
pass with the approbation of the conservatives.
Three cheers were given for Lord Saudon, Mr. Cresswell,
and Sir Joshua Wahnsley, by their respective friends, and
the proceedings closed at half-past three.
At the termination of the proceedings in the hustings, the
candidates rejoined their respective friends outside. The ar-
rangements for the prevention of confusion were again most
judicious ; the processions leaving the ground by different
routes, so as to prevent the possibility of their coming in con-
tact. Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell, with the gentlemen
who nominated them, were loudly cheered as they entered
their carriage. A multitude of their friends immediately ar-
ranged themselves into procession, and they proceeded along
Water-street, followed by a large concourse of people. Their
route was down Water-street, along the east quay of Geor-
ge's Dock, through James-street, Lord-street, Church-street,
Bold-street, Slater-street, Dille-street, to Rodney-street.
On their way they were again greeted by the same gratifying
demonstrations from the assembled crowds as had been ex-
hibited in the morning. The windows of the houses in all
the streets through which they passed were filled with ladies,
who waved red and blue favours, and_ seemed to cheer the
candidates on to conquest.
The candidates alighted at the house of Sir Thos. Branck-
er, in Rodney-street. As they and their friends entered
the mansion of the worthy knight, the cheers of the multi-
tude were most energetic ; and when Lord Sandon and Mr.
Cresswell appeared at the window, the acclamations were
redoubled.

Lord SANDON briefly thanked the electors for their attend-
ance, and for exhibiting to the world an example of their at-
tachment to conservative principles. He thanked them for
giving such plain indications that their understandings were
too clear to be misled by the attempts which had been made
to delude them. His lordship gave a brief exposition of
the principles on which he stood, which were those of free
trade and the extension of the commerce, carried to the
utmost limits to which those principles could with safety be
carried without destroying the greatest of all interests.

Mr. CRESSWELL also addressed a few words to the elec-
tors. He pointed out to
.them the important effect which
would be wrought by the popular feeling which had that day
been exhibited in Liverpool, for if a mercantile town were
plod against the delusive cry of cheap bread and free trade,
it might be taken for granted that it would fail in other
places. Himself and Lord Sandon had the gratification of
thinking that they had fought their battle on the very ground
chosen by ministers, and they had already, he might say, de-
feated their opponents. Mr. Cresswell concluded by urging
the electors to disperse peaceably, and to attend at the poll
early next morning.
After Mr. Cresswell had concluded, there were loud and
reiterated cries for Mr. Samuel Holme, when that gentleman
presented himself and was received with loud cheering. He
said—lt had been to him a most exhilarating spectacle, as he
had no doubt it had been to all whom lie had then the ho-
nour to address, to witness the magnificent procession, and
the loyal spirit which seemed to animate all ranks and classes
on the present important occasion. (Cheers.) He regretted
that it was physically impossible for him to make himself
understood by that vast assemblage, and he therefore trusted
they would excuse him addressing them at any length. (Hear.)
But as their fellow-townsman, actuated by a desire for their
general prosperity, he called on every man whom lie saw be-
fore him, to use every exertion to send his friend Sir Joshua
Walmsley to his retirement at Wavertree Hall—(cheers)—
and to send Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell as their trium-
phant representatives to the House of Commons. (Cheering,
and loud cries of "We will.") But he warned them that
elections were not gained by splendid processions nor by
loyal shouts. (Hear, hear, hear.) It came at last to count-
ing noses—(loud laughter)—and as it was perfectly clear
from the reception they had that day received from the fairer
sex, that the noble lord and learned, had their good
wishes ; so he hoped that if any lady who had heard him
(and he rejoiced to see so many around him) had a husband
who was fond of his pillow, that she would take care to rouse
him at an early hour to-morrow morning, and see that he was
in time to give an early vote. (Great laughter and cheering.)
He might ask them what the boasted measure of reform had
done for the people ? (Cries of " Nothing.") With a para-
lysed trade, and an increase of taxation, he thought it high time
that the present wretched ministry should be displaced, and
the helm be put into the hands of Peel, and Stanley, and
Graham—(continued cheering)—and he hoped he might also
add, of the noble lord behind him, who, together with his ex-
cellent colleague, he trusted at that hour to-morrow to be
able to congratulate as the popularly-chosen representatives
of Liverpool. (Long-continued cheers.) As an English-
man, and a Liverpool man, be longed to see more of our
trade carried on in Liverpool-built ships, rigged with Liver-
pool-spun ropes—(cheers)—and if the working classes desired
increased prosperity to their town, let them return men de-
voted to our local interests, and who had at heart the real
welfare of our own population. (Applause.) A gentleman
had placed in his hands on the hustings a verse of an old
song, written many years age, which was very applicable to
the present time. it ran thus :
This is the besom of Wormation,
Which should have made clean the floor.
But it swept the wealth °tit of the nation,
And left us of dirt good store.
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(Loud laughter and cheers.) Such, indeed, had reform
proved, notwithstanding the boasted professions of misnamed
reformers ; but he was thankful to see that Englishmen were
not to be gulled by blind fallacies, and he sincerely trusted
that every one who heard would by his vote on the morrow
show that he had the real interests of our beloved country at
heart, and that Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell would be re-
turned their representatives by a triumphant majority of the
votes of honest-hearted Englishmen. Mr. Holme retired
amidst loud cheering.
Sir Joshua Walmsley, attended by a few of his friends, de-
parted from the hustings along Castle-street, and proceeded
through Lord-street, Church-street, Bold-street, and Ren-
shaw-street, to the Adelphi Hotel, where the procession
broke up.