The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-09 00:00:00

FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 9, 1841

The NORTH CHESHIRE ELECTION is pro-
ceeding gloriously. At three o'clock yesterday the
following was the state of the polling at each of the
booths in the division :

Egerton. Legli. Stanley

Knutsford.... 715 686 109
Macclesfield .. 337 324 379
Runcorn .... 358 357 138
Stockport.... 369 369 362
Mottram .... 122 113 172

1849 1160

In all probability we shall hear this morning that
Mr. Stanley has retired from the contest ; at all events,
the election is virtually settled.

In FLINTSHIRE, we have every reason to believe,
the cause of Conservatism is going on most prosper-
ously. At one place only—Holywell, are the returns
unfavourable. The conduct of the Radical party at
Mold, has been most disgraceful, indecent, and ruffian-
like. Sir Stephen Glynne's carriage was attacked and
utterly destroyed—the Lion Inn broken into, the win-
dows smashed, and the furniture damaged, while a great
amount of other property in the town has been sacri-
ficed by the lawless and ignorant miscreants, brought
out of the mines to support the Radical candidate. So
completely had the rabble obtained the upper hand
that the military were sent for from Chester. The
following are the majorities for Sir Stephen Glynne at
the different polling places :

Overton
Mold ..
Rydland
Flint

249
48

At Holywell Mr. Mostyn's majority is.. .. 212
leaving a gross majority for Sir Stephen Glynne of 100.

While we cordially subscribe to the opinion that
there is no man in England more fit to be called to
the councils of his Sovereign, or to occupy the most
responsible office under the crown than Sir Robert
Peel, we are by no means amongst those who regard
this eminent man as faultless. We have no right to
seek for perfection in a fellow-worm. If it is wrong
to deify mortals, it is wrong also to expect in them that
which belongs not to mortal powers. Take the right
honourable member for Tamworth for all and all, and
he is a most estimable, accomplished, and amiable man,
in whose prudence and sagacity both Sovereign and
people may safely confide, and whom the Conservative
party may, without hesitation, and with credit to them-
selves, acknowledge as their chief. But this may be
said without a negation, either express or implied, of
some exceptionable points.
We return to the nomination speech at Tamworth,
in which the following passage occurs :

" At the time when the part I took for the removal of the
Roman catholic disabilities was loudly complained of, did I
come forward in parliament to say that I repented of the
course which I had taken, or that I would lend myself to a
repeal of that measure ? No. I declared that, so far from
repenting, my motives in bringing it forward were honourable
and pure, and nothing should induce me to recall from the
Roman catholics the privileges which that measure had con-
ferred. The opinions which I have professed, and to which
I adhere, and upon which I will act, whether in opposition or
power, are moderate opinions—(hear)—and they are opinions
in conformity with the prevailing good sense, moderation, and
intelligence of the people of England." (Hear and cheers.)
Here the right honourable baronet avows that he
does not repent of the Popish emancipation act—and
that the opinions which he acts upon are " moderate"
opinions—a declaration which we allow to be candid,
though it does not challenge our approbation. With
regard to the emancipation act, we believe, few ever
doubted that his motives were " honourable and pure :"
the great bulk of his friends and admirers never sup-
posed that it was any thing but an error of judgment
on his part. The right honourable gentleman now
declares, that he does not repent of the course he took
in passing that measure, and :that " nothing should
induce him to recall from the Roman Catholics the
privileges which that measure conferred." From this
one should infer, that the working of the act has not
disappointed him. If this be so, his expectations con-
cerning it must surely have been very moderate indeed,
and no reliance whatever could he have placed in those
numerous and various highly-wrought pictures and
predictions
which the more zealous advocates and
agitators of the measure were in the habit of setting
before the world. Whoever looks back at these fine
castles in the air—these shewy and attractive pros-
pectus'--and compares theta with the flat realities of
the scene—the actual results That have followed—must