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

claim theittffragfis of the electors of thii town, to make the
attempt to address those who are assembled outside the,
hustings. I shall follow that good custom, although I be-
lieve, from the spirit I have seen, I have little hope of suc-
ces ; and, Mr. Mayor, that after having made the attempt
for some time unsuccessfully, as I expect to be, you will allow
me to address those inside upon some of those charges which
have there been made.. Addressing those outside, his lord-
ship continued—Gentlemen, I have explained the claims
upon which I solicit your support in the various speeches
which I have made in different parts of the town. It is not
my intention to inflict upon you a long discussion to satisfy
upon that head, or to repeat those explanations of my senti-
ments which you have so often heard and received with so
many marks of your approbation. ( Hear.) You have now
before you the various issues to be tried at this election. Are
you prepared to continue your confidence in her Majesty's
administration, or are you prepared to send to parliament
such men as will give to her majesty advisers of a different
stamp ? (Hear, hear.) Art you prepared to give your sanc-
tion to those ministers who have so mismanaged our Foreign
affairs, our finances, and our colonies, as to have compelled
that large expenditure which has produced those serious
dif-
ficulties in our revenue which we lament? It is not
from
any decline in the prosperity of the country, or from any
decrease in our revenues that those difficulties have arisen ,•
but they have arisen from an increased expenditure, and
a deficiency in the .annual receipts. (Cheers.) ' The revenue
has been increasing—and as 1 have jest said, it is the great
expenditure arising from mal-administration in our colonial,
foreign, and financial affairs which has caused the deficien-
(Hear!.hear.) Are these
deficien-
cies we have now complained of,
deficiences, then, any ground for confidence in those who
have caused them ? • Would you
evil.to those who have caused it? entrustvuu the curing of the
reisdistler odu t
hneot
measuresra ther
give your confidence to those havewl‘ivoh
of her Majesty's ministers by um that expenditure bad
been caused,. who opposed the.policy by whom Canada was
thrown into a flame, and encouragement given to an in-
vasion upon the northern side by the United States, by
which our great interests inAina have been so endangered
that we have been obliged to incur an enormous expenditure
in that country, and engage in a war of which no man can
see the conclusion? (Hear, Can you find grounds of
confidence in those who so n'ea'r.)
with France, that they produceduanaanagea the negociations laste
ryearea s ea an
our,expectationnot ohf general war, and compelled us toiva
cause it was not wanted, but because the reason we
was the neglect of the settlement of those questions
anwteidlieiht
alone produced those apprehensions of war with France.
(Hear.) This, gentlemen, is the administration whose ma-
nagement of foreign affairs, has been such as to cause em-
barrassment where they foua l prosperity, and whose admi-
nistration of financial affairs,(.has left a deficiency where they
found a surplus—(cheers)—this is the administration which
claims at your hands continued support, (Hear.) But
in the last hour ofytohaelithemexistence, when they
ttned that
their misdeeds have forferitedsuc‘le'
con-
fidence of every class in the country, when tyhey tinby
election after election, that the feelings of the city is against
gem. Then they turned round for a new floating bait, with
which they think they can call back the affections and
attachment of the county, which they hoped would be received
largely, and that thus they might be enabled to agitate the
communities of the large towns, and by awakening the feel-
ings of the town against the country they might be enabled
to purchase a short existence. (Cheers.) But if by their
mismanagement of our commercial affairs, by their neglect
of the protection of the interests of British commerce,
of which we have complained from time to time—(loud
cheers) ;—if by their neglect of the commercial interests of
the country, if by their neglect to protect the flag of Eng-
land in foreign countries, if by their neglecting to make com-
mercial treaties with countries where British commerce

needed extension, if by their neglect in the protection of
individual British merchants when insulted by the wanton-
ness of foreign powers—if I say by these neglects they have
hitherto secured the approbation of this great cammunity,
I do not think that these three last devices which they
have ingeniously invented will be found to secure them that
support which they have hitherto. wanted. (Cheers.) If
these three questions really had the merit in them which
they pretend to, if'thcy are the panacea which is to cure all
the evils and all the distresses, of effecting which they pre-
tend they are, why have they been so lone delayed—why
were they delayed when ministers had the power and some

expectation of -being able to carry them. (Hear, hear.) If an
alteration in the corn laws is to be the remedy for every evil
that we are afflicted with, why is it that they have been in of-
fice for ten years, and never until this moment thought of
proposing it? (Hear.) If they did really think that it was
necessary for the interests of the poorer population of this
country, and an extension of trade, that we should admire
foreign slave grown sugar into our markets, why refuse it
last year when sugar was dear, and there. might have been
sound argument in favour of it ? 'Why did they delay it ? why
bring it forward now? (Hear.) But in the case of the corn
laws, they resorted to a clap-trap in the very last moment of
their, existence, hoping to purchase by it that support which,
on all their other measures, they have forfeited. (Hear.)
I have been abused here for having alluded to your Protes-
tant church and to your Protestant altar. (Hear, hear, and
cheers.) I. am not surprised, gentlemen, that they should
abuse me for it : they had rather that 1 had said something
about them. (Hear, hear.) They would, if possible, for-
get, and makeyou forget, the disapprobation with which their
attacks upon our Protestant church, our Protestant religion,
and our Protestant education, were received, and they blame
me, therefore, for still holding them up to the feelings of
dislike and disapprobation which they excite. (Hear.) But,
gentlemen, you must recollect that parliament is not chosen
for the consideration and decision of a single question.
(Hear, hear, and cheers.) It may be very well to give a man

a power of attorney to vote upon a single question, but here
you are giving your representatives a power of attorney to
vote on every question that can be brought before the legis-
lature. (Hear, hear.) You are giving them power over
the church, the throne, and the aristocracy; you are giving
them power to legislate for every interest in the country ;
but you will not be blinded by any single cry into forgetting
how many questions there are upon which you differ
from the administration, even if you should agree with
them upon this one. (Cheers.) I will not now go into
the question of free trade, which you must have heard dis-
cussed from ward to ward, from public meeting to public
meeting, even to your own weariness. This is not the occa-
sion to go over them; but I may fairly appeal to you,
whether you have not even reason to doubt that the
large promises which have attached to the question of
free trade in corn, are likely to be fulfilled or not. (Hear.)
You have seen reason to doubt whether you would gain in
the exchange; whether the sacrifice of British industry is
not a more than adequate exchange for the large amount of
foreign trade which is held out to us. (Hear, hear.)
I believe you have already made up your mindsi that
you will not continue your confidence in her Ma-
jesty's administration that you will not send up
to parliament men who will give that administration
their support which, indeed, they have deservedly for-
feited, but that you will send up those who will give you
a better Assurance of steadiness and firmness—who shall
have principles of their own and adhere to them'
and who will not, year after year, cut and carve them to the
present fashion for the purpose of gaining support either
upon one side or the other. (Loud cheers.) I beg to thank
you for the patient hearing with which you have, under all
the circumstances, been kind enough to grant me. (Loud
applause, during which the noble lord retired.)
Lord Sasmosr then addressed the parties within the booth
at very great length, in reply to the remarks and insinuations
of Colonel Williams.
At the conclusion of Lord Sandon's speech,
Colonel WILLIAMS essayed to address the mayor with
reference to Lord Grey's administration, and the defections
of Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham from the Melbourne
administration, but was assailed by loud cries of " Spoke,
spoke," and calls for Mr. Cresswell, which continued for a
considerable length of time.
The Mayon at length rose, and with vehemence declared
that he would send a possd of constables into the corner
where the conservatives stood if silence was not observed.
This was the signal for renewed uproar, during which
several cried out that "the mayor was partial."
Colonel WILLIAMS attempted to persevere, but was as-
sailed with a storm of hisses, and renewed calls for Mr.
Cresswell. The Colonel at length held his peace, and
Mr. CRESSWELL presented himself to the multitude, and
was received with the most indescribable enthusiasm. When
the cheering had ceased, he proceeded in nearly the following
terms .—Gentlemen,—After rambling for three hours about
a variety of questions which ought scarcely to have occupied
your attention for half the time, I shall be brief in addressing
you on this, the last occasion that I shall have the honour of
doing so before the poll begins, because you are suffering un-
doubtedly from great pressure, and also because your attend-
ance is so overwhelming that much personal inconvenience
must be the natural consequence. (Hear, hear.) And, gen-
tlemen, as I have now, on some fourteen or fifteen different
occasions, stated to large assemblies of my old, I trust I may
say my future constituents, the opinions which I entertain
not merely on the general policy which ought to be pursued
in this country, but on those particular measures which have
been brought forward during my canvass, it can be little ne-
cessary I should repeat them here. (Hear.) But there are
one or two topics to which it may be necessary to draw your
attention, in consequence of one or two placards, calculated
to mislead you, having appeared on the walls. (Hear.) It
has become the fashion of those who are desirous of keeping
her majesty's ministers in power, and of forcing on them that
policy they always advocated—the ultra-radical policy—
(hear)—to assume to themselves alone the oharacter of
loyalty. Now, I say they have no right to it, (Cheers.)
They never had a right to it. (Great and continued cheering.)
I mean not to charge them with disloyalty, but I think I may
point to one or two instances in which they showed their
loyalty in a strange sort of manner, sufficient to prove that
they have not a right to vindicate to themselves the whole
character of loyalty, or to impute to us that we are deficient
In respect for our beloved queen—(great ohecriug)—or that
we entertain any disloyalty towards her. (Renewed cheers.)
Gentlemen, how do they seek to use this boasted loyalty
now? (Loud cries of "hear.") Her majesty has been pleased
to inform us that she has dissolved the parliament which voted
that they had no confidence in her ministers, in order to take
the opinions of her people at large on certain measures.
Well, then, does she not want their unbiassed and unpreju-
diced opinions ? (Hear, hear.) And yet those mock-loyalty
men not merely tell you that her majesty is not sincere by
making use of her name, but they pretend to tell you what
her majesty's opinions are, and they ask you to echo them
hack again. (Hear, hear, hear, and continued cheers.)
Now, suppose that you agree with me in thinking that her
majesty has had evil councillors about her; suppose you
agfee with me that those to whom she entrusted the admi-
nistration of affairs in this country are not qualified to pro-
mote her welfare, when an appeal is made to you, are you
not bound by
_your feelings of attachment to the throne to
tell her so? (Hear, hear, and cheers.) And yet these men
have the presumption of rallying her round their own cause,
and of telling you what her majesty's opinions are. (Hear,
bear?) I say, it is an abuse of the privileges of speech to
say SO. (Cheers.) I say that the constitution does not
recognise any opinion on the part of the reigning sovereign in
the election of members to parliament, and that when she
appeals to the country, her people are bound to give her
their opinions in the persons of the representatives they send
to the House of Commons. (Hear, hear, and cheers.)
Therefore, I say that those placards calling on you to rally
round the queen are delusive, and that they imply a charge
Reenlist the sovereign which the party dare not make directly.
(Great applause.) I would not have said a
_word respecting
either of the rival candidates who are put forward on this
occasion, had not their merits been introduced, though, I
must say, somewhat raggedly and meagrely, by their respec-
tive proposers and seconders. (Hear, bear, and aughter.)
Of Lord Palmerston it was said that the present,l or rather
the late members for the borough could not be compared to
him, that he had well administered the affairs of the country,
and that his name would be handed down to posterity as the
most able foreign minister this country ever had. (Ironical
laughter.) Now, with respect to the humble individual be-
fore you, not being entitled to have any comparison drawn
between site and Lord Palmerston, there is one particular in
which lam free to confess he surpasses me. He has been a
member of one, two, three, four, five, nine successive ad-
ministrations. (Hear, hear, and great laughter.) I hear
voice near toe which says,
f' can't do without him."
Well, then, be must either Lave retained his original opinions,
or the nine administrations with which he was connected
must have been such weathercocks as to chop and change at
pleasure, or if the administration did not so change, then,
instead of saying that the place couldn't do without him,
I would be more disposed to say that he couldn't do with-
out the place. (Roars of laughter and tremendous cheer-
ing.) But what have been Lord Palmerston's merits as
a foreign minister? Let China, the Levant, Buenos Ayres,
and Mexico bear witness. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Let
our near approach to a war with Prance be the answer; and
}ere, I believe, I may state unhesitatingly that the conser-
vativp Copp of Sir Robert Peel, and those who supported him
In the House of Commons, bad much more to do in preserv-