The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-06 00:00:00

calculate with certainty on 17 ; that 14 will be contested,
and that they have abandoned 13 without a struggle. Sup-
posing the conservatives to gain half the contested seats,
their total accession of strength in the English and Welsh
counties will be 20 seats, making a difference of 40 votes on
a division. The only county seats now in the hands of the
conservatives which are threatened by the whig party are,
two for South Derbyshire, and one each for South Lanca-
shire, East Suffolk, Flint, and Radnor, six in all, the less of
half of which would reduce the conservative gain to 17 seats
or 34 votes on a division.

ELECTION RETURNS

MAnYLEBoNE

Hall (R)
Napier (R)
Cabbell (C)
Hamilton (C)

4614
4541
3381
3361

LEEDS.

Beckett (C)
Aldam (R) ..
Hume (R) ..
Jocelyn (C)

2075
2042
2034
1927

SHEFFIELD.

Parker (R)....
Ward (R) ....
Urquhart (C)..
Shepppard (C)

1849
1805
503
459

bRIDGNORTII

Whitmore (C)
Pigott (C)
Howard (R) • :
Throginortou (It)
SCARI3OII.O'
Johnston (C)..

Trench (Cj
Phipps (R)

BERWICK.

Forster (R) . ,
Hodson (C) ..
Weeding (C)

BEVERLEY

Townley (R)
Hogg (C)
Fox (C)

SUNDERLAND.
Alderman Thompson (C) l Returned with-
T. Barclay (R)

THETFORD

Baring (C) .
Euston (R).
Flower (It),

NORTHALLERTON
Wrightson (11)
Lassels (C)..

KENDAL

G. W. Wood (R.)

Not opposed

SUDFIELD

Two Reformers

MACCLESFIELD
Brocklehurst (R)
Grimsditch (C)
Stocks (R). .

ASHTON

Hindley (H)
Harrop (C)

SOUTH AMPTON

Martyn (C)
Bruce (C)
Mangles (R) .
Hutchings (R)

645
618
553
556

LYMINGTON

Stewart (C)
Mackinnon (C)
Keppel (R)
TOWER HAMLETS

Clay (R) ,
Fox (R)
Robinson...
Hutchinson

4531
3220
1841

SOUTH SHIELDS

Wawn (R) .
Ingham (R)
Tyler (R)...

CLITHEROE

Wilson (R)..
Cardwell (C)

DUDLEY

Hawkes (C)
Smith (R)..

ASHBURTON

Jardine (R)

No opposition

SALFORD
Mr. Brotberton (11) .....
Mr. Garnett (C)

SOUTII CHESHIRE ELECTION

A large and influential meeting of the electors of South
Cheshire was held at Birkenhead Town-hall, on Friday even-
ing, for the purpose of adopting measures to secure the re-
turn of of Sir Philip Egerton, and John Tollemache, Esq.,
as the representatives for the southern division of the county.
The proceedings were commenced by the meeting giving
three loud and enthusiastic cheers for the candidates. Sir
Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, and LordSandon ;
and three equally loud groans for her majesty's ministers.
The chair was taken at half-past six o'clock, by J. D. Case,
Esq. We noticed the following gentlemen in the vicinity of
the chair :—Mr. Wm. Sharp, Mr. J. N. Wood, Mr. J. M.
_ _

Maddock, Mr. Mainwaring; Mr. E. B. Lyon. Mr. Robin,
Mr. John Laird, Mr. Tauton, Mr. Watson, Mr. Raynes, Mr.
Dobbs, &c. &c. . _ _

The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said he could
have wished that some one higher in station and of greater
influence had been selected to occupy the position in which
he had the honour to be placed that evening. But at a crisis
so momentous as the present, when the sacred institutions of
our country had been, as it were, shaken to their very base—
when infidelity and radicalism had been stalking through this
favoured land side by side—when the safety of our common
country would seem to hang upon the turn which our present
eventful political struggle might take—he held it, at such a
juncture, to be the bounden duty of every well-wisher to his
country to stand forward boldly, to throw away all diffidence
in his own powers, and, however humble the sphere in which
he might move—however feeble the influence he might pos-
sess, to exert that influence to the utmost, and be prepared
with his best exertions to uphold and protect the great, good,
and glorious cause of the conservatives of England. (Loud
cheers.) It was under such a conviction that he had con-
sented to allow his name to be obtruded before the public as
the chairman of that meeting. (Hear, and cheers.) The ob-
ject of the meeting had been loudly proclaimed by the public
placards, and he need only say that they had assembled for
the purpose of concerting measures to secure the return once
more to parliament of their honourable, respected, and
well-tried late representative, Sir Philip Egerton—(cheers)—
and with him another hon. gentleman as his colleague, whose
name it was only necessary to mention to ensure to it the
respect and and attention of any community, Mr. Tolle-
mache. (Renewed cheering.) Sir Philip • Egerton was
present to speak and answer for himself ; and he (the
chairman) most sincerely trusted and hoped, that before
the proceedings should be closed the meeting would be fa-
voured with the presence of Mr. Tollemache. (Hear, hear.)
But it so happened that Mr. Tollemache's presence had been
required at a distant part of the county that very day by his
friends, who considered his presence with them on the occa-
sion indispensable; still he would be, if it were possible he
could travel from Audlem to this place within the time. He
(the chairman) was glad to take this opportunity of stating
that he had the honour and pleasure to accompany Mr. Tol-
lemache upon a large part of the canvass ; and the meeting
would be gratified to learn that the manner in which the
names of Sir Philip Egerton and Mr. Tollemach were received
by those electors whom they had visited was most favourable
to the cause—(loud cheers) —so 'much so as to induce him to
say that, with exertion, success was certain. (Renewed
cheers.) At the same time, let him not be misunderstood.
He could not by so saying induce any one to relax his endea-
vours, his zeal, or his industry. (Hear.) They had oppo-
nents to deal with who were active, industrious, and wily,
who took every opportunity, and used every means in their
power, to defeat the prospects of conservatism. (Hear.)
Nay, he was sorry to add this—that he had been informed,
whether it had been from vexation or disappointment at the
falling state of the cause—but he had certainly been informed
that they had resorted to an attempt to coerce the votes of
free electors in this neighbourhood by intimidation. Now if
there were any electors present who had been so assailed, or
who should hereafter be so assailed, he hoped they would
have the manliness to throw the attempt back with scorn and
contempt, and treat such threats as they deserved, and not be
deterred from recording their votes upon the day of election
in favour of the conservative candidates. (Cheers.) We had
every encouragement in the state of the different returns,
which were daily and hourly pouring, of the results of the
elections in different parts of the country. (Cheers.)
The Rev. Mr. MAINWARING, of Brombrow, moved the
first resolution, which, with the others, will be found in our
advertising columns. It was seconded by Mr. Maddock,
and unanimously adopted.
Mr. SHARP proposed the second resolution. He said he
was happy to inform the meeting that, in the course of the
canvass of the township of Tranmere, he had found the
general body of the electors perfectly aware of the present
crisis, and of the necessity of electing such members as would
repair the inroads that had been made in church and state by
the present destructive government, who, instead of relieving
the country, as they pledged themselves to do when they
entered office, had actually added many millions to the
national debt and increased taxation. M.r. Sharp then pro-
ceeded to make some appropriate remarks on the wages and
food of the working-classes in Russia and Poland, and ob-
served that whenever he had endeavoured to induce any of
his friends to come across and erect mansions for themselves
he had beets invariably met with this reply :—" This is not
the time to lay out money s stay until the elections are over,
and we shall see Sir Robert Peel in power, with a good work-
ing majority, and then we shall have some confidence in
laying out our funds." Mr. Sharp then, amidst the most
vehement applause, exhorted the electors to come manfully
and early to the poll.
Mr. TANTON, in seconding the resolution, alluded to the
apathy of Lord Palmerston, in reference to certain proceed-
ings which had taken place at Brazil, and called on the elec-
tors to merge all minor differences and to use their most
strenuous exertions to effect the return of Sir Philip Egerton
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and Mr. Tollemache, and sat down amidst much applause.
Mr. J. N. Woon proposed the next resolution. He thanked
Mr. Tollemache for coming forward to contest that division
of the county at the request of a large proportion of the con-
stituents. He thanked him most heartily for the manly and
straight-forward sentiments he had expressed, and the deter-
mined stand he had made in defence of their glorious insti-
tutions in church and state. (Cheers.) He thanked him for
the principles he maintained in reference to scriptural edu-
cation. He thanked him also, and he did so most sincerely,
for his support of the agricultural interests of the country.
(Great cheers.) The agricultural was one of the greatest
interests the country possessed
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Liverpool. (Tremendous cheers.) Yes, the noble conduct
of the electors of Liverpool
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tion, because, for some me before the election commenced
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; and yet, notwithstanding
all the excitement, the householders of the borough had re-
turned the conservative candidates by a majority unparalleled
almost in the history of L.ngland. (Hear, hear, and cheers.)
Mr. Tollemache had come forward at a time of considerable
importance, and at a crisis when the interests of their country
were at state ; and in all his experience he had never met
with a gentleman so straightforward, so determined, so
manly, awl so consistent as It'll. Tollemache was. (Hear,
bear.) He was a gentleman that they ought to elect, for he
was a Christian Englishman, who would support the insti-
tutions of the countey, and who would also support, without
reservation, the great cause of the constitution. (Hear.)
To elect Sir Philip Egerton and Mr. Tollemache for that
division of the county would be a signal triumph—a triumph
which he had no doubt they would achieve ; and he knew it
for a fact, that if the conservatives were suceessful in both
the northern and southern division of Cheshire, the govern-
ment would look upon it as one of their greatest defeats,
(Hear, hear.) After drawing a contrast between the ad.
dresses of sir. Wilbraham and Mr. Tollemache in reference
to the h
S4L;Ket of the corn-laws, Mr. Wood concluded a spi-
rited speech .14 once more thanking Mr. Tollemache for
coming forward, and calling upon fire electors to rally round
the standard of- Egerton and Tolemache on the day of elec-
tion. (Vehement applause 4
Mr. E. B. LYON seconded the ceso)ntjon, and it was car-
ried.