The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-02 00:00:00

plead guilty to the charge ? (Loud cries of " No, no.") Are
you, who are engaged in an honest cause, afraid of any man ?
(Renewed cries of " No, no.") Is he, or he, or such as be
(pointing to two or three able-bodied conservatives in the
crowd), to be easily frightened ? (" No," and laughter.) Are
honest sailors, or honest artisans afraid to look their toasters
in the face, and to tell them how they voted? Are the mas-
ters in this town such tyrants as to feel displeasure because
their men exercise the franchise according to the dictates of
their conscience ? (Cries of " Fawcett is one.") In my heart
1 believe not. And do you plead guilty to the charge of sell-
ing your votes ? (Vehement cries of No, no.") I defy
them to charge with justice one act of bribery on any of on,
party. (Vehement applause.) But is the whole country
cowardly and corrupt ? Is Bristol—is Leeds—is London
corrupt? (No, no.) Gentlemen, there are idle excuses for
that testimony which is upheld against them because of their
misconduct in office, and the evils which would have resulted
from the measures they supported. (Hear, hear, and loud
cheers.) And then we shall be told to-morrow, "Oh ! its
no wonder that Lord Palmerston was beaten, because be
didn't come down." (Laughter, and cries of "11e.is down"
—alluding to the figure of hint which had been at an earlier
period of the day paraded through the streets.) Yes, you
are right, he is down ; you have put him down—(great cheers)
—thanks to you, and you may leave it to us, your represen-
tatives to keep him down. (Renewed cheers.) Allow me
again to thank you for the peaceable and orderly demeanour
you exhibited to-day. Will they tell us that we have pre-
vented any of their voters from going to the poll? (Hear,
hear.) No man. I believe, has sustained injury from any of
our party, for I myself visited every polling-place in the
town, and I can safely say that I heard uo ill word spoken in
any quarter. (Cheers.) Let me entreat of you to observe
similar quiet and decorum during the evening. Rejoice you
will, and God forbid I should tell you not to rejoice, but let
no act of badness disgrace the victory you have achieved, by
which you have done honour to us again, and honour also
to the country. (Hear, hear.) It is by such conduct we
shall best maintain the dignity of the crown and the liberty
of the people, upon both of which the salvation of this coun-
try must depend. Allow me now, with feelings of heartfelt
gratitude, to take my leave of you. (Cries of Go on, we're
not tired of you yet.") I hope you will, keep me for many
years. I should be willing to talk for a long time, but my
lungs would fail before your ears, and I should be sorry to
weary you; but I have an excellent substitute who will ap-
pear before you instead of me—Mr. Holme. (Great cheers.)
Allow me, in conclusion, to bid you farewell, and to wish
you many years of prosperity, which I trust will follow from
a change in her majesty's councils. (Vehement and long-
continued cheering.)
Mr. SAMUEL HOLME then presented himself at the win-
dow,
and was greeted most enthusiastically. He said—Gen-
tlemen, I did not, when I stood here twenty-four hours ago.
miscalulate the loyalty of my fellow-townsmen when I ven-
tured to prophesy that within twenty-four hours from that
period I should be able to congratulate you and the nation at
large on having returned Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell as
the representatives of the constituency of Liverpool. (Hear,
hear, and great cheering.) lam able to congratulate you,
and to congratulate myself at this pleasing moment, that the
arrival of every mail only brings us intelligence of the reite-
rated triumphs of conservative principles from one end of
England to the other. (Renewed cheering.) And gentle-
men, as Mr. Cresswell has forced me in some degree here, I
shall take the liberty of standing up for a moment for my
order. (Hear.) Let it be remembered that immediately
after the passing of the reform bill, when it was sufficient to
endanger a man's life to declare his sentiments, half-a-dozen
tradesmen met in a private room in Lord-street, and founded
a conservative association of tradesmen, which went on in-
creasing from year to year, until that association numbered
2,300 of the tradesmen of Liverpool. (Hear, and cheers.)
We did our duty, and no more, in having formed it ; and I
rejoice to be able to say, that our operative brethren felt so,
and that they formed an association likewise ; and I think 1
may venture to claim for those two associations some degree
of merit, especially when 1 remember that the gentleman who
has now for a second time been returned, wasfirst introduced
to Liverpool at a meeting of the Tradesmen's Conservative
Association. (Great applause.) But I congratulate you not
only on your victory, but on the protestant—the good, sound
protestant feeling which has caused it ; and 1 could not,
yesterday, in passing with the procession up 'Bold-street,
but be somewhat surprised at the cheering before me, until
we got opposite the Rotunda, and discovered there no less a
person than the Rev. Hugh M'Neile. (Tremendous cheers,
which continued for several minutes.) I feel satisfied that that
sound protestant feeling will have the effect of docking O'-
Connell's tail in the next parliament, and that while the pre-
sent will only be the fag end of the reform administration,
O'Connell's tail will vanish to a mere stump. (Laughter.)
Far be it from me to say anything against our antagonist, Sir
Joshua Walmsley—(groans)—for I unhesitatingly declare
that he has been my friend from my boyhood ; but when the
principles of the British constitution are at stake, when our
rights are attacked, when the church, the monarchy, and all
we hold dear, is in danger, if my brother came forward on
the principles of Sir Joshua Walmsley, I would oppose him
as heartily as I have the other. (Cheers.) I will, however,
say this much of one of the candidates, that I think the libe-
rals of Liverpool, if they .were desirous of having a Liverpool
man, might have found one equally well qualified as Sir
Joshua Walmsley. (Hear, hear.) We, who are acquainted
with trade, know that valuable timber is of slow growth.
We know that timber which shoots up quickly does not
stand, and though you way see a tree which rises up quickly,
the first storm or tempest—such a tempest, for instance, as
we have had in Liverpool to-day—(cheers)—levels it with
the dust ; but the good old British oak—(great cheers)—
which is rooted and grounded in the affections of the people
—that can stand the storm, and be at once the pride and
the boast of England. (Vehement applause.) Far be it
from me to imitate the conduct of some of the Whig party,
who say it was " presumption" in Sir Joshua to come for-
ward. I say I feel for my friend on the present occasion
for the mortification he has suffered, but he has brought it
on himself, and I know not whether to blame his " presump-
tion" or to pity his fall. Quite enough has been said on the
subject of cheap bread, but I was delighted with what an old
freeman whom I took to the poll to-day said to rue about it.
He said, " I never object to pay a good price for a good loaf
so long as I have plenty of work, and am getting good wages"
—(hear, hear) ;—and I tell you, my working friends—l tell
you as a tradesman, and you know I never misled you yet—
(cheers)—that the millocrats of Manchester are desirous of
having cheap corn here, that they may have to pay low
wages ; but they ought to be the last men that should be
against dear corn, many of 'them having realised fortunes
amounting to thousands of pounds under the present system.
(Hear, hear.) And I reiterate the sentiment of Lord San-
don the other night, when he said that it is impossible for us
to compare the state
.of the agricultural districts where the
aristocracy of the land are living, and administering to the
wants of those around them, and doing them good—it is im-
possible to compare the state of those people with the state
of the population in the manufacturing districts, without
coming to this conclusion, that the morals of the latter
have been seriously neglected, and that those tvho have
liberty on their lips have, generally speaking, tyranny in
their hearts. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) I shall say one word
about the abuse of the Queen's name. (Hear, hear.) It is
discreditable to the party who have made use of that name
to influence the present elections ; and I may be deceived.
but those who make use of her name on the present occasion,
to forward their own interests and those of their rotten cause,

would be the first to pour out the vials of their wrath upon
the head of our beloved Sovereign, if, with increased years
and increased wisdom, she should find fault with their mea-
sures, and call to her councils a conservative administration,
and give to that administration her support ; and I venture
to prophesy—and if it does not come true, set me down as a
false prophet—that some of us will live to see the day when
those who pretend to love her now, will be the first to find
fault with her acts. (Hear, hear.) I have one other remark
to make, and it is this, that I feel we are indebted to the
fairer portion of the community for our victory, and that I
shall not say a word more until you turn round and give
three cheers for the approving and beautiful faces I see around
me. Three hearty cheers having, been accordingly given,
Mr. Holme proceeded :—lf it had been left to the females of
Liverpool to choose a representative, Lord Sandon and Mr.
Cresswell would have had the voices of nineteen out of every
twenty of the ladies of this town. (Hear, hear, and cheers.)
And knowing the value of the female sex, and the extent of
their influence, I congratulate them, if possible, more hear-
tily than I congratulate you on the glorious victory we have
obtained, (Hear, hear.) I will not longer detain you; for,
what with the exertions of the day, and speaking to you so
Often, lam almost hoarse. 1 trust the Church of England
will he preserved; I trust the monarchy of England will be
preserved ; I trust the aristocracy of England will be pre-
served ; trust those glorious institutions, under which
England has risen to greatness unparalleled in history, will
be preserved ; and I do unfeignedly hope, and I am sure you
will respond to the hope, that we shall have national prospe-
rity, national happiness, and national security. Mr. Holme
withdrew amid the most enthusiastic applause.
Lord SAN DON then called upon the assembly to give three
cheers for Sir Thomas Brancker, for the able manner in
which he had conducted the election. Three loud cheers
having been accordingly given,
Sir THOMAS came forward and congratulated the electors
most cordially on the glorious victory they had achieved in
such an orderly manner. The day was, he said, a proud one
for the town of Liverpool. (Cries ot " We have the clergy
to thank for it.") It was stili prouder, because the victory
had been gained in so creditable a manner. He hoped it
would set an example to the whole empire, and that before
that day week a glorious conservative majority would be re-
turned to parliament—a majority so large as to enable Sir It.
Peel and Lord Stanley to carry on the government as it
was in times of old, and not as it had been since the passing
of the reform bill. He quite agreed with Mr. Holme that to
the females of Liverpool they were indebted for their success,
for wherever he had gone it seemed as if he bad all the ladies
of Liverpool on his side. (Cheers.) As the electors and
himself had been often hard worked, he would detain them
no longer than to thank them for their exertions, and to wish

them ull health and happiness. (Great applause.)
Mr. HOLME then proposed three cheers for Lady Brancker
and the mother of Mr. Aspinall, who were in the drawing
room windows, which was heartily responded to, and the
assembly quietly dispersed.
During the evening, several bands of music, accompanied
with appropriate flags, paraded several streets of the town,
and, so far as we could learn, every thing passed off in a
most orderly and decorous manner.
This terminated one of the greatest victories ever achieved
within the walls of this ancient and truly constitutional
borough.

Towards nine o'clock, the Irish in Fisher-street, near the
lower part of Stanhope-street, and in that locality generally,
became extremely aggressive, pursuing and maltreating every
man and boy who wore a blue jacket, considering them to be
ship-carpenters, or connected with that body. In Fisher-
street, they maltreated a carpenter named William Harrison,
throwing him down a cellar, and afterwards battering him
with stones and peices of bricks. He was taken up almost
insensible, and is still in a dangerous state. Another, capen -
ter, William Patterson, was also grossly assaulted and hurt.
The consequence was some slight retalliation ; but the police
succeeded in preventing any further serious disturbance in
that locality. Another serious riot was, however, afterwards
got up by a body of Irish in Canning-street, who attacked
the house of Mr. Casement, of Canning-place, Salthouse
Dock, a publican and shipwright. The particulars will be
found in our police intelligence.

OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF THE STATE OF
THE POLL.

Yesterday, at half-past twelve o'clock, the mayor, accom-
panied by the town-clerk, proclaimed, in front of the Town-
hall, the final state of the poll to be as follows :
For Lord Sandon ...................... 5979
Mr. Cresswell ........ 5792
Lord Palmerston .................. 4431
Sir Joshua Walmsley .............. 4617
The Town-clerk then declared that these were the num
hers when the poll was finally and legally closed, and that the
mayor, as returning officer, did make proclamation that the
Right Ilonourable Dudley Ryder, commonlycalled Lord
Viscount Sandon, and Cresswell Cresswell, Esquire, had
been duly chosen to represent this borough in parliament.
Loud cheers followed this announcement. Lord Sandon and
Mr. Cresswell then received the congratulations of their
friends on their success. Sir J. Walmsley was not present,
and, of course, Lord Palmerston remained a phantom.
The following table, which we have compiled from the re-
turns at the Town-ball, exhibits the numbers that voted for
each candidate in the whole sixteen wards. It does not,
however, distinguish the freemen and the burgesses :