The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-22 00:00:00

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John Sandbach,
Wm. Armstron;

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Isaac Haawen,
Algernon F. Jones,
Henry Christian,
Henry Wilson, Esqrs."
OHN WALKER, Chairman

RESSWELL

SWELL, Esq.,

leeting

CRESSWELL.
hi:My-respectable PUBLIC
AmPutTELEATitz, this 21st

Charles HORSPALL, Esq., seconded b

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ion of WILLIAM Po R, Esq., se-

lENRY SANDRACH,

essed with a d p conviction of
ectors of Gre Britain and Ire-
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g ,ire to use their st zealous exertions
ons to return N hers to Parliament
r Protestant Inst utions in Church and
e of the Crown, and the Independence

Lion of Jo uN Mnuts., Esq., seconc
1011 AS SANDS, Esq., _ _

aving felt during this pre-

A measures into Parliament not with

the purpose of exciting popular

great interests, Agricultural,
that trade has been thereby

haken at home, and in our Colonies
w-countrymen thrown out of employ-

t opinion, that, bysui.!h

her Majesty's Ministers are justly
condemnation of the Electors of the

,n of CHARLES LAWRENCE, EN
d by Mr. RANKIN,

pleasure the arrival of Lord
Esq., and take this oppor-
all legal and constitu-

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BLL, Esq., being then in-

THOS. ISRANCKER, Chairman,

ing left the chair,

Oulion Park, June, 1841

tion- of NICHOLAS RoomrsoN, Esq.,
HHISTOPHER BUSHELL, Esq.,
this Meeting be voted,to the Chairman

I consider the paramount objects sought f in the main-
tenance of a Corn-law to be these—to en rage the home
growth of corn by affording adequate pro tion to the Bri-
tish farmer ; and,•at the same time, to pro e that the home
consumer shall not be liable to extrayagan prices in seasons
iy be made to of scarcity.

Convinced that these ends have been fully attained by the
principle of the sliding scale now in operation, I cannot but

view with alarm the attempt about to ba made by the govern-
ment of this country to substitute a fixed duty for the pre-
sent plan ; the results of which must be, that in average
seasons the home grower will not be. able to compete with
the foreigner—large districts of corn land will be thrown out
of cultivation—and consequently, in times of continental
scarcity, or of war, (our home produce being inadequate,)
the price to the consumer will be far more extravagant than
it ever can be under the regulations of the present fluctu-
ating scale.
On other subjects of political importance, I can confi-
dently appeal to the past as a guarantee that your interests
for the future will not be neglected should you again entrust
them to my care.

I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient, humble Servant,
P. DE M. GREY EGERTON

TO THE GENTRY, CLERGY
THE SOUTHERN DIVISIO
OF CHESTER.
GENTLEMEN,
ADissolution of Parliament being evidently at hand, I beg
most respectfully to announce that the pledge given by
me to afford you, at this EVENTFUL CRISIS, an opportunity
of recording your votes, I am now ready to redee,l.
The present Government—no longer an independent Go-
vernment—too weak to administer the affairs O'this country,
and too tenacious of the advantages of offiai to relinquish
them, has succumbed to popular clamour and proposed a
total change in our just and admirabl stem of CORN-
LAWS—a measure which, if carried ould not only de-
prive the English landowner and farrne f their property and
the English labourer of his means of subsistence, but the
manufacturer of his best and most certain market, thereby
proving ultimately as injurious to the one interest as imme-
diately.destructive to the other.
Members of the IRISH ROMAN CATHOLIC PARTY now
form a portion of the administration of the country, which,
in my opinion is incompatible with THE SAFETY OF OUR
PROTESTANT CHURCH AND PROTESTANT LIBERTIES.
A Government thus composed, and so regardless of the
peace and well-being of the nation, as the existing one has
proved itself, by the iiitroduction of measures alike detri-
mental to both, is altogether unworthy, and undeserving of
our confidence.,
Having en a former occasion issued an address, I will only
now repeat the declaration then made, that " I submit to the
thraldom of no party ;" and, in the event of a dissolution of
Yarliament, I shall throw myself on the support of those
Electors who, like me, are determined to take that INDL
PENDENT COUitSE which I conscientiously believe the exist-
ing gtate of affairs requires of every friend (whether Church=
man or Dissenter) to the PROTESTANT RELIGION, and of
every well-wisher to his Country.
• I have the honour to remain,
Gentlemen,
With sincere respect,
Your very faithful servant,
JOHN TOLLE MAC HE.
Tilston Lodge, May 31, 1841.

AND ELECTORS OF
sl OF THE COUNTY