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SOUTH 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 Lord Sandon ;
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. W►n. Sharp, Mr. J. N. Wood, Mr. J. M.
Maddock, Mr. Mainwaring, Mr. E. B. Lyon. Mr. Robin,
Mr. John Laird, Mr. Tanton, 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 uptin 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 pleasnre 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,
anti 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. Mr. 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 been invariably met with this 'reply :—" This is not
the time to lay out money : 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
and Mr. Tollemache, and sat down amidst much applause.
Mr. J. N. Woon proposed the next resolution, Hetthheanke
thanked
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Mr. Tollemache for coming forward to contest that division
of the county at the request of a large F
con-
stituents. lie thanked him most heartily for the manly and
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straight-forward sentiments he had expressedt,hsacanrnidkpettudhrehadlimeetdefuorrz
mined stand he had made in defence of their glorious insti-
tutions in church and.
the principles he mainst?itnee'd
cation. He thanked him also, and he did so most sincerely,
for his support of the agricultural iwnatserests of the country.
(Cheers.)ia
refere
(Great cheers.) The agricultural
if it 011 e
of the greatest
interests the country possessed.:should happen to fall,
the commercial interests would speedily follow. He trusted
that that division of the county was not to be led away by
the clap-traps of the day,_whi c_ h had such little effect in
Liverpool. (Tremendous cheers.) Yes, the noble conduct
of the electors of Liverpool was well deserving of their atten-
tion, because, for some time before the election commenced
there, the emissaries and hirelings of government had pa-
raded the streets and lanes of the town, haranguing the peo-
ple of cheap bread
on the subject ; and yet, notwithstanding
all the excitement, the householders of the borough had re-
turned the conservative candidates by a majority uuparalleled
almost in the history of England.
(Hear, hear, and cheers,)
Mr. Tollensache had come forward at a time of considerable
importance, and at a crisis when the interests of their country
were at stake; and in all his experience he had never met
with a gentleman so straightforward, so determined, so
wanly, and so consistent as Mr. Tollemache was. (Hear,
hear.) He was a gentleman that they ought to elect, for he
was a Christian Englishman, who would support the insti-
tutions of the country, 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 successful 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 dra •
wing a contrast between the ad-
dresses of Mr. Wilbraham and Mr. Tollemache
in reference
to the subject of the corn-laws, Mr. Wood concluded a spi-
rited speech by once more thanking Mr. Tollemache for
coming forward, and calling upon the electors to rally round
the standard of Egerton and Tolemache on the day of elec-
tion. (Vehement applause.)
Mr. E. B. LYON seconded the resolution, and it was car-
ried.