The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-14 00:00:00

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CHE ANNUALBALL I , in aidBALL of. Fun the of the
' B FEMALE ORPHAN HOUSE, and other Catholic
Charities of Liverpool, is appointed to tak 'place at the
Town-hall. on MONDAY the 24th instant. ,
Mrs. TRAFFORD, LADY PAT NESS.
Tickets, 10s. each, to be had at Messks. ROCKLIFF and
DUCKWORTH'S Castle-street; Mr. PARSON'S, and Mr.
PALMER'S, 80ld-street ; and at the usual places.
Doors to be opened at half-past Eight.

NORTH CHESHIRE.
AHIGHLY respectable and influential Deputation of
the FREEHOLDERS of the Northern Division of
the County of Chester waited upon GEORGE CORNWALL
LEGII, Esq. at High Legh Hall, on Thursday, the 23d
instant, and presented to him the following Requisition,
most numerously and respectably signed :
To GEORGE CORNWALL LEGH, Esq.
We, the undersigned, deeply impressed •ith the present
aspect of public affairs, and viewing with apprehension the
evils to which the country is exposed by the pernicious po-
licy of the present Government, feel ourselves called upon to
resist to the utmost of our power the further progress of in-
novation and mis-government ; and to that end we consider
it to be our bounden duty as Freeholders and Electors of the
Northern Division of Cheshire, to send to Parliament such
men only as are ready and willing to support and sustain in
its fullest integrity our PROTESTANT CONSTITUTION
IN CHURCH AND STATE, and to whom we can safely
confide the real interests of the Country.
We have the most ample assurance that you participate in
these sentiments, that you would resist any and ever y assault
upon the ESTABLISHED exuacti, that you are opposed to
any scheme of NATIONAL EDUCATION not based on our
NATIONAL RELIGION; that you would afford just protection
to our AGRICULTURAL in connexion with our COMMERCIAL
INTERESTS, and that you would give your cordial support to
any Administeation that would 'govern. the Country upon
these sound principles. - •
We therefore request you to come forward as a candidate
at the neat Election for this Division of. the County, and we
pledge ourselves to use our most strenuous endeavours to se-
cure your return.

RICHARD BROOKE,
Chairman.
To which Mr. Cornwall Legh returned the following re
ply :

.
GENTLEMEN,—I should do great injustice to my own feel-
ings, did 1 not attempt to express to you the high sense I
entertain of the distinguished honour you have now confer-
red upon me, in thus requesting me to become a Candidate
for the Representation of the Northern Division of this County
at the next Election, an honour the more valuable to me from
the consideration that it was totally unsought on my part :
and however little intention I had myself of soliciting that
honour, however unwilling I might under other circumstan-
ces have been to come forward, I should think myself utterly
wanting in that respect which I feel towards the Electors of
my native County, I should show but little of the spirit of an
independent Country Gentleman, if I could for one moment
allow my own private feelings to operate against a wish so
flatteringly expressed, or hesitate to place at your disposal
whatever services you may think I can render you.
I willingly, therefore, accept the Requisition you offer me,
and shall be ready under your support to stand forward as a
Candidate upon the first opportunity which presents itself.

TO THE GENTRY, CLERGY, FREEHOLDERS,
AND OTHER ELECTORS, OF THE NORTHERN
DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF CHESTER.
GENTLEMEN,
AMOST numerous and influential bodfa the Elec-
tors of the Northern Division of gunty, having
done me the honour to express their ins i a Requi-
sition, presented to .me this day, that I stsi3uld• come forward
as a Candidate for the Representaticht of this Division in
Parliament ; and, having spontaneously`4offered me their sup-
port, I conceive it to be my duty at once to accede to a re-
quest so flatteringly conveyed, and therefore take the earliest
opportunity of announcing my intention to solicit your Suf-
frages at the next Election.
Strongly attached to our Constitution in Church and State,
I will resist all attempts to weaken or impair the efficiency
of the Established Church; and, while as a sincere friend to
the rights of civil and religious liberty amongst all classes of my
fellow-subjects, I respect the conscientious scruples of the
Religious Dissenters, I will sanction no scheme, however
specious, which tends in any way directly or indirectly to
dissever the connection between Church and State.
I am strongly opposed to any system of National Educa-
tion not based upon our National Religion.
I am fully sensible of the vast and increasing importance
of the commercial and manufacturing relations of this coun-
try ; and, while I hope always to see a just and equitable
protection afforded to the ;industry of the Agriculturist, I
would support any measures which may tend Co the full deve-
lopement of trade, and to promote the various interests of
the manufacturing classes.
Disapproving of the measures and policy of her Majesty's
present Administration, I hope soon to see it replaced by a
firm and independent Government, acting upon its own con-
stitutional responsibility, actively desirous. of removing any
abuses or defects which may be bona fide proved to deface
our Institutions, whether civil or ecclesiastical, but firmly
determined to support the great principles of the Constitu-
tion, and to resist the dangerous innovations of the present
day.
Gentlemen, upon these principles I shall solicit the honour
of your Suffrages ;—upon these principles I am prepared to
act ; and if I should be so fortunate as to attain to the high
distinction of being one of your Representatives in Parlia-
ment, it shall be my endeavour, by a steady adherence to
them, and by a zealous discharge of the duties incumbent
upon me, to serve you faithfully, to justify the confidence
your kindness has reposed in me, and to promote with my
utmost ability your best interests, and the welfare and pros-
perity of the empire at large.
I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
With great-respect,
Your very faithful servant,
GEORGE CORNWALL LEGH.
High Legh, Jan. 23rd, 1840.