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

REPRESENTATION

LTVEE,POOL.

SANDON AND CRESWELL FO EVER, I

tilt-EAT 31F4ETINGS

OF :ELECTORS.

Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell arrived in Liverpool, from
attending their parliamentary duties, on Friday morning, and
immediately made their appearance among their constitu-
ents, whose reception of them has been of the most enthusi-
astic character.

VISIT ON 'CHANGE:.
On Friday afternoon, at half-put three, after having at-
tended divine service at St. Peter's Church, on the occasion

of the schools' anniversary, which is noticed in another_ place,

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our .excellent representatives paid a visit to the Exchange.
Many thousands were congregated in the area, amongst whom

we noticed most of tl

leading merchants, hankers, and re-

spectable gentlemen of the town, together with a large body
of the electors belonging to the middle and trading classes of
the community. About twenty minutes to four o'clock the

ii,Wlifanientitusiastic cheers of those who had stationed
themselves in the vicinity of the front entrance to the Town-
hall proclaimed that our worthy representatives were ap-
proaching, and shortly after we observed Lord Sandon and
Mr. Cresswell endeavouring to make their way through the
vast crowds that surrounded them, and almost blocked up
the entrance to the Exchange area. The rapturous plaudits
with which they were received as they progressed towards
Nelson's Monument exceeded anything of the kind we ever
witnessed, and the scene was one of a truly spirit-stirring
character. The windows of the Underwriters' Room, the
Exchange News-room, and offices that surround the area
were filled with spectators, and by them as well as by the
crowd beneath, the cheering and waving of hats were con-
tinued for a considerable length of time, dining which both
our worthy members seemed to be deeply affected by the
enthusiastic manner in which they had been received, and
the high and well-merited appreciation in which their ser-
vices in parliament were held by their constituents. . At
length silence having been in some degree restored,

Lord SANDON, from the middle of the area, addressed a
few observations to the electors, but from the distance at
which we were placed from his lordship it was with the utmost
difficulty we could catch their tenor. He said, himself and
his valued colleague had come upon that occasion upon
'Change, with.the view of seeing whether their late conduct

in the House of Commons had, as it was said by their oppo-
nents it had, prejudiced their interests with the merchants
and great commercial community of Liverpool, but that the
gratifying, the truly gratifying and most enthusiastic recep-
tion they had just received, proved to him that they stood
as high as ever in the estimation of the intelligent and hip-
minded constituency which they had the honour to represent.
(Great cheers, and cries of "You stand higher than ever.")
It was truly pleasing to him to find that their sentiments had
undergone no change, and that they were still as much at-
tached as heretofore to the great constitutional interests of
their country. (Continued cheers.) That was not the fitting
time or place for him to enter on an account of his steward-
shid, or of his recent proceedings with regard to the contem-
plated alteration in the sugar duties, but in due course he
would be ready to give the fullest and the most satisfactory
explanations to the whole body of the electors at large. (Ve-
hement applause.) In the meantime, his reception that day
by the leading merchants of such a trading and commercial
port gave him unbounded satisfaction, and augueed well as
respected his speedy re-election to the high and distinguished
position of one of the representatives of the borough of Liver-
pool in parliament. The address, of which we are only able,
from the cause above mentioned, to give the mere substance,
was followed by loud and protracted cheering from all sides.
Mr. CRESSWELL next delivered a short address, which
was repeatedly received with the most unbounded applause ;
in the course of which he also expressed his gratification at
the reception he had received, and promised to state at length,
and at the fitting time, the history of his past parliamentary
conduct.
Lord Sandon and his hon. colleague then proceeded to the
Exchange News-room, where the most enthusiastic reception
awaited them. The scene during their stay here baffles all
description. Every one seemed to vie with his neighbour in
an endeavour to testify their esteem and gratitude for the
disinterested and incessant exertions of their noble visitants ;
who afterwards proceeded across the area, accompanied by
thousands, whom they addressed from the windows of Mr.
Bannatyne's office.
Lord SANDON first came forward, and when he was recog-
nised, the area echoed and re-echoed with the applause of the
populace. He said, that after having served the constituency
of Liverpool for a period of ten yerrs, during which he had
to take a part in so many questions affecting the public so
materially in their commercial character, it was no small
gratification to him to he hailed by so numerous, so intelli-
gent, and so respectable a portion of the inhabitants. It was
impossible but on some of the questions which had come be.
fore parliament during that long period, he must have differed
in opinion with some of those whom he was desirous to serve ;
but he was truly glad to find that, notwithstanding the fact of
their interests being so various, he still had been greeted
with a reception so enthusiastic that he believed no body of

constituents had ever greeted their representative with on
any former occasion. When he considered, also, that the
Liverpool constituency was no common constituency of some
little petty town, comprising those who might be swayed by
some narrow views, but that it was composed of the most
intelligent merchants in the world, and who were intimately
connected with the various interests of the country, he con-
fessed that his reception had been such a one as to call forth
within him the warmest feelings of gratitude and affection.
He would not then enter into a detail of the great questions
which had been recently introduced in parliament, having
merely appeared before them to express the feelings which
their reception of him had called forth. Other occasions
would shortly present themselves, when he would enter fully
into the several subjects at present before the country. At
present he would only say that the interests of their constitu-
tion in church and state were involved in the issue of the
present struggle, but that he had no doubt the conservative
cause would speedily be triumphant. After thanking them
most heartily for their reception of him, his lordship withdrew
from the window amidst the vehement plaudits of the multi-
tude.

Mr. CRESSWELL next presented himself, and was most
rapturously received. If, he proceeded to say, instead of a
short service of four years, during which the great burden
had been borne by his colleague and not by him, he could
point to a service, not of four short years, but of double that
period that the noble lord had acted in the capacity of their
representative, he would have felt amply rewarded by such a
reception as the present, not because he liked to take ap-
plause so applied to himself, but because he felt deeply for
those great interests of his country which the conservative
electors had at heart, and the support of which alone had
entitled him to their favour. It was because the electors had
sent him to parliament as their representative to fight the
battle of the constitution, and to maintain the several inter-
ests under which their country had been happy and prosper-
ous, that they now, thinking that he had discharged his duty,
r,eceived him with applause. (Hear, bear, and cheers.) And
might they not all rejoice together, inasmuch as they had
discharged their duty successfully ; for what inroads upon
the constitution had their enemies been able to make? He
might say none. (Cheers.) Many had been their attempts,
but nought their success. (Vehement cheers.) He would
say to the conservative electors, therefore, " Struggle on as
you have done, and proclaim your determination from this,
the great rival of the metropolis, not to be diverted or to
have your judgment misled from the great topics about which
the country at large is interested, by the present attempts to
bewilder and mislead you upon the part of your worst ene-
mies." (Protracted cheering.) He felt as confident as ever
he did in his life that his success was certain—that the great
battle at the hustings would be triumphantly achieved ; nor
would he ever despair until Lord Palmerston could show in
London such a meeting in favour of his policy and the minis-
ters generally, as he (Mr. C.) had then the honour to address.
(Here some one cried out "The corn-laws.") All the falla-
cies uttered on the subject of the corn-laws he had come
prepared to discuss with the electors at any time. (Great
cheers, followedby a cry from an individualof "cheap sugar.")
Yes, the question of cheap sugar—a farthing a pound cheaper
than it was at present—(hear, hear, and great laughter)—he
was also prepared to discuss. Which of them would cry
" Cheap sugar, and slavery for ever" ? (Cheers, and cries
of " Not one.") If any one would cry " Slavery for ever,"
he would then and there tell him to go away from the polling
places where his (Mr. Cresswell's) interests were advocated.
(Loud cheers.) He would discuss the question of cheap
corn with his opponents, but they must forgive him if he
discussed also the question of low wages. (Loud laughter,
and renewed cheers.) At the fitting time he would discuss
the sugar question also, satisfied as ha was that he should be
able to satisfy every reasoning man, that notwithstanding
the agitation of those topics, and the part he had taken with
respect to them in the House of Commons, he was still en-
titled to as cordial a support as he had received on any for-
mer occasion. (Great applause.) He wished that he could
place the fiat of England on the result of the approaching
Liverpool election, because England would then be safe if
all England would imitate the noble example that was about
to be set them by the commercial port of Liverpool. (Ve-
hement cheering.)
The honourable members then passed through the area,
and along Dale-street, to their private residences, followed
by thousands of the populace, cheering them as they passed
along, after receiving one of the most gratifying receptions
that we ever remembered to have seen two public men greet-
ed with on any former occasion on 'Change.

MEETING OF THE ELECTORS OF WEST DERBY

WARD.
In the evening, at eight o'clock, Lord Sandon and Mr.
Cresswell met the electors of West Derby Ward. The
meeting was in the first instance announced to be held in the
large room of Edge-hill Coffee-house, but that being found
two small to accommodate the crowds who desired to be
present, an adjournment took place into the National School.
This place was speedily filled by a most respectable and in-
fluential body of electors. The two candidates, on entering,
were received with enthusiastic and prolonged cheering.
Mr. 'WALKER, president of the Conservative Association
for the ward, having taken the chair, introduced Lord San-
don and Mr. Cresswell to the meeting, in some appropriate
remarks upon their parliamentary conduct, with which he
expressed the highest gratification. He observed that no
party had been able to find fault with Lord Sandon ; all ad-
mitted his intelligence, commercial knowledge, and habits of
business, but his lordship being a conservative, must be op-
posed, and by whom? Why, by Lord Palmerston, who was
at present a mere phantom and shadow. To Mr. Cresswell
the other side had found an objection. They admitted his
talent and learning; they did not deny that he was well
versed in the laws of the land, so much so indeed as to be
able occasionally to set her Majesty's attorney and solicitor-
general right. (Hear, hear.) But the objection to him was
that he was a lawyer, and this objection was made by the
men who had actually brought forward themselves Lord
Brougham and Mr. Ewart ? And who was his opponent ?
No less a man than Sir Joshua Walmsley, late chief magi-
strate of this borough, who, upon a late occasion, had been
recommended to the constituency of this town by Mr. Dan.
O'Connell, as a fit and proper person to represent them.
The conservatives, however, did not fear the opposition of
Sir Joshua Walmsley. (Hear.) After a few further remarks,
the chairman concluded by calling upon Lord Sandon.
Lord SANDON on presenting himself was greeted with
deafening cheers. This, his lordship said, was a glorious
day for the country and for the Duke of Wellington. It
was the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo—(loud cheers).
Peace had its victories as well as war, and he believed this
would be an auspicious day for the beginning of a victory
for the country—a day as auspicious and important for the
civil interests of the country as that great battle had been for
her, security against foreign invasion—(continued -cheers).
The reception to which their excellent chairman had alluded,
which he and his learned colleague had experienced, not
only within those walls, but also upon the exchange, was
an assurance that they had not been deceived in the estimate
they had made of the conservative feeling of the great town
of Liverpool—(hear, hear). Whilst they had seen evidence
after evidence, proof after proof, of the growing strength
of conservative feeling all over the country, whilst they had
seen here, by the municipal elections, proof that the same
spirit was growing and progressing within our own precincts,