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

VISIT ON 'CHANGE

On Friday afternoon, at half-past 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,
our excellent representatives paid a visit to the Exchange.
Many thousands were congregated in the area, amongst whom
we noticed most of the leading merchants, bankers, and re-
spectable gentlemen of the town, together with a large body
of the electors bolouging to the middle and trading classes of
the community. About twenty minutes to four o'clock the
loud and enthusiastic 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' Hoorn, 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, during which both
our worthy members seemed toile 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.SANnoN, 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 bad 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 enthusiastie recep-
tion they bad just received, proved to him that they stood
as high as ever in the estimation of the intelligent and high-
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 filch 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.
Baonatyne'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 corns 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 imolved in the issue of the
present struggle, but that he had no doubt the conservative
cause would speedily be triumphant. After thanking them
mist ISeartily 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,
received him with applause. (Hear, hear, 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 df 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, followed by a cry from an individual of • • cheap sugar.")
Yes, the question of cheap sugar—a farthing a pound cheaper
than it was a' 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 he 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 hav 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 Air. Ewart ? And who was his opponent ?
No less a man than Sir Joshua Walmsley, late chief magi-
strete 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 L. ord Sandon.
Lord SANnos 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 seenn
strength evidence
after evidence, proof after proof, of the growing
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,

they had certainty he strewn to eepeet that a hibbia blows
at the last would have the effect of changing the opinions of
this great constituency—(hear, hear), They certainly could
have no apprehensions that in a constituency like that of Li-
verpool, not actuated by sudden and temporary emotions,
but by the strongest and deepest feelings that could influence
the mind of man, would, having formed its opinion of the
character, and of the principles of her majesty's present ad-
ministration' be induced to change at once all the impressions
they had so long imbibed, by this death-bed repentance, if
he might so speak—(hear, hear, and applause). Ministers
had tried the constituencies at every point upon which they
thought they could gain some popular support, by attack
after attack upon every institution of the country ; they had
tried it in their attacks upon our religion, upon our educa-
tion, upon the magistracy, for they bad disgraced themselves
by inserting among the magistracy the names of men whom
they themselves were obliw d to prosecute for high treason—
(tremendous cheers) ; they had tried to corrupt and debase,
to overturn successively the great institutions of the land.;
and when they found at last that this course of conduct was
withdrawing from them by degrees, .as was seen by the re-
sult of the elections, the support they had at first received,
they then tried, in the last convulsive struggles of death, to
make a new character as the patrons of commerce and free
trade—(hear, and loud applause). But surely if they had
had this abstract, this devoted attachment to free trade which
they now pretended to, they would not have waited till the pe-
riod of their dying struggles, when powerless to carry it into
effect, to make the proposition !—(hear, hear.) When they
had majorities of 100 and 200 in the House of Commons, as for
a considerable period they had, or when those majorities were
reduced to 30 and 40; why, if they thought the principles of
free trade so essential to the best interests of this country,
did they not introduce them when they had a chance to carry
them into effect? (Hear, hear.) Why postpone them—as
they themselves admitted they bad in the House of Com-
mons, with regard to a repeal of the corn laws—why, lie
asked, postpone the proposition of making these alterations,
until by their own admission they had no prospect or expec-
tation of carryins. them? (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Why
had they done that? (Hear, hear.) He knew why it was
done ; lie knew what reason to assign. It was this—they
felt they had forfeited the respect of all the solid, substan-
tial, and permanent interests of the country, and they
thought by throwing up a new bubble into the air, they
might be able to secure to themselves, in opposition at least,
knowing they were powerless as an administration, a greater
and better support from the radical portion of the people.
(Cheers.) The meeting perceived now that the whigs were
lost as a party—that they were merged in the radicals, that
they had tied them Selves to the chariot wheels of the radi-
cals, English and Irish, and whither soever they thought
' proper to drag them they were bound to go. (Cheers.) They
had thrown overboard every respectable supporter which
they bad, and now tied themselves to the chariot wheels of
that great tyrant; who if he exercised his tyranny towards
them in the same manner as he exercised it over his Irish
supporters, would give them little gratification in wearing
such chains as those which he pleased to throw round them.
(Loud cheers.) The question of free trade was, no doubt,
exceedingly plausible to the ear. He (Lord Sandon) pro-
fessed himself to be such a free trader as Mr. Huskisson
was—a free trade beyond his, such a free trade as Mr.
kisson refused to adopt, he (Lord Sandon) confessed he was
not willing to adopt. But they must not be led away by the
fine theories of the political philosophers. There was an old
saying of the wisest sovereign of his day, Frederick the
Great of Prussia, " If you wish to ruin your country, band it
over to philosophers to govern." (Hear, and cheers.) These
were a set of men—he wished he had the words of Lord
John Russell to describe them, for he could conceive of
nothing better, who thought nothing of the misery, confu-
sion, and embarrassment they caused, the loss of employ-
ment, and consequently of subsistence, to millions of their
fellow-subjects, provided they could only give effect to a fa-
vourite theory which they had concocted in their studies.
(Cheers.) These were not the men to entrust with the
management of affairs the of this empire. (Hear, hear, and
applause.) Every one knew how complicated was this
country in all her interests ; that we were not in the simple
and natural position of a country without debt, with an im-
mense quantity of vacant land, without incumbrance of any
kind ; but that we were incumbered with a debt, the interest
of which as honest men we were bound to pay (hear,) where
the prices of everything were ruled artificially by the taxes
we paid, and the comforts we expected to enjoy ; and we could
not, under these circumstances, place ourselves in fair and
equal competition with countries where the peasantry were
content to sustain life upon black bread—(great cheering)—
where the taxes were lighter, and where they had no national
debt. (Applause.) We must all hang together ; we were in
au artificial condition. It would not do for one portion of
the community to relieve itself from heavy pressure by ruin-
ing another portion which occupied two-thirds of the pro-
ductive interests. (Hear.) What would be the effect if we
were to sacrifice the great agricultural interest of the coun-
try to the call of the manufacturing interest? It would be,
after all, to sacrifice all our own best customers. (Hear,
hear.) It had been calculated by Mr. Muntz, no particular
friend of :the agricultural interest, that two-thirds of the
manufacturing interests were engaged in supplying the wants
of the agricultural interest. (Hear.) We were, therefore,
called upon to throw these regular and settled customers
overboard, who always must be our best customers, who paid
our own price, and for what? For the chance of securing
foreign customers who told us they preferred, though at a
higher price, goods of their own manufacture, and communi-
cations with whom might be interrupted by war, and would
certainly be interrupted continually by changes of commer-
cial policy. (Loud cheers.) We were in fast called upon to
sacrifice this great certainty for all the uncertainty which at-
tended and followed foreign commerce. (Cheers.) He was
not, of course, going to undervalue foreign commerce. It
,was an important branch of our industry, and not to be neg-
lected; but at the same time all he begged to say was, "for
the sake of this foreign commerce do not neglect, bind, or
destroy those still greater interests which are at your own
door.' (Great cheering.) The meeting had been told by
the worthy chairman that they were to have two candidates
to compete with at the election. We certainly knew of one
who was a candidate of flesh and blood, whom most had seen
and many handled ; as to the other candidate, whether he
came forward or not, or whether when he came forward he
would solicit he suffrages of the constituency or not, but se-
cure for himself a safe retreat elsewhere for a borough he
(Lord Sandon) once had the honour to represent, he left
them to judge. (Hear, hear.) Whether that noble lord
had any peculiar claims upon a commercial constituency like
this he (Lord Sandon) did not know ; all he knew was
that he had had much more occasion to go with deputa-
tions from this town, to complain of his neglect of
our commercial interests than of his attention to them.
(Loud applause.) All he knew was that he had waited upon
him with deputations from this town concerning his neglect
of our Mexican and Buenos Ayrean trade, his neglect in ne-
gociating a commercial treaty with one or two of the transatlan-
tic states, and his neglect of the fettlement of the boundary
question with the United States, which for so many years
had put into peril the greatest foreign trade of which this
town was possessed; all he knew was that by his (Lord Pal-
merston's) neglect of the eastern question, he had allowed us
to come into imminent peril of war, and put into jeopardy all
those great interests which depended upon the continuance
of peace. (Cheers.) He (Lord Sandon) did not wish to in-
trude much longer upon the attention of the meeting ; they
were aware there would be a tolerably numerous meeting on
Monday in the Amphitheatre, which was capable of holding
from 3000 to 5000 persons. He would conclude with saying
blown at the last moment, to blind them with regard to the
he was sure that they would not permit this ministerial bubble,
real, permanent, substantial interests they had to support in
this election. Would it be any consolation to them, if by
chance they should think he was wrong about fixed duties or
fluctuating duties, that they should have been able to place
in power, or retain in power, an administration not only as
radical as that which we had, but infinitely more radical—
which would owe its power to agitation of the most mis-
chievous and revolutionary kind? (Cheers.) Would it be
any consolation to them to fix in power an administration
which had attacked the church—(hear, hear)—which had no
power of protecting the prerogatives of the crown—(hear,
hear)—which was weak and wavering, unprincipled and un-
steady, and totally devoid of all those qualities which could
secure confidence from any class? (Hear, hear, and
cheers.) The remarkable thing about this administration
was this, that, though they had long reigned, they had gained
no one party whatever. (Hear, hear.) To begin with the
lowest, had they any confidence among the chartists ? None
whatever; the chartists said they had been deluded by this
government into illegal acts, and then thrown into prison.
(Hear, hear.) Had they the confidence of the radicals ?
No; the radicals despised them; the radicals held them in
the greatest contempt. and told them day by day that they
only voted for them and against Sir Robert Peel, because
they were the most squeezable, (Cheers.) Had they the
confidence of the whig gentlecifetß No ; the whig gentlemen
were retiring from parliamerigusted with the measures of
a government to which they hid been bound. (Hear, hear.)
Had they secured the confidence of the Irish repealers ? No!
(Hear, hear.) Had not Mr. O'Connell told them time after
time that lie kept them in office only because he could get
more from them than from the conservatives? (Hear, hear,
and cheers.) Had they the confidence of the great conser-
vative body of this country, whether of the landed gentry, or
the commercial aristocracy of our great towns, the conserva-
tive tradesmen, or of the operative conservative bodies ?
(Great cheers, and cries of " No, no.") Of no one party or
class of the constituency then bad this administration the
slightest pretensions to claim the confidence. In every
public assembly of the country called together, or wheresoever
a number of men were met, bow did they contrive to gain
a hearing for her Majesty's ministers ? They all began by
saying " do not mix us up with the government ; though we
yield them respect whatever measures arc good in themselves
we will take them, for we do not care from whom they
come." In fact her Majesty's present ministers could never
gain a hearing from any party without that party disclaiming
any warranty for their character. (Hear, and cheers.)
Confidence was not a word that could be applied to them.
They had not the confidence of the people, and they had not
the confidence of the House of Commons. (Tremendous
cheeaing.) What did Mr. Canning do in a similar case ?
Did he meet them with a simple negative? No ; he came
fonfard in a manly spirit, and said, "you say I base not the
confidence of the Commons; I say I have; I will put the
question to the House of Commons, and make them vote
aye or no whether they have confidence in me, and unless
they do decide that they have confidence in me 1 will resign.
(Loud cheers.) Had this been the conduct of her Majesty's
ministers ? (Cries of no, no.) No ; when a motion for
want of confidence was made against them, they contented
themselves with a simple negative. (Hear, hear.) They
did not dare to ask Mr. Wakley, Mr. O'Connell, , Mr.
Joseph Hume, and others who sat behind them, whether
they had confidence in them or not, because they must, if
asked such a question, have said " No," for they bad, said
"no" over and over again. (Hear, hear.) But these par-
ties contented themselves with merely refusing to vote for
Sir Robert Peel's motion, the government saying, " only vote
against that, and we shall not be put to the disagreeable ne-
cessity of asking wether, you have confidence in us." Was
this an administration which England could be governed by ?
Was England so low and degraded as to be governed by; men
who depended for support alternately, upon the throwing in
of weight of either one side or the other, who, whenthey
wislied to protect the prerogatives of the crown, rested upon
the support of the conservatives, and when they wanted to
curry favour with the popular party, - looked for support
to the radicals or the chartists? (Hear, bear.) He' was
sure the constituency of LiverpoOl would be anxious to se-
cure a strong, decided, and honest government—a govern-
ment above all things whose principles they could rely upon
(hear, hear)—a government able to support the prerogatives
of the crown—(hear)—and able also to maintain the best
interests of the country. (Cheers.) Upon such a govern-
ment they might rely for such improvements in our commer-
cial system as might be from time to time found desirable,
not like those mountebanks who offered a nostrum the mo-
ment they knew it was of no advantage to any but they. who
were selling it, and whose own existence it was intended to
prolong. (Cheers.) He was exceedingly obliged to the
meeting for the kind mariner in which they had received
him. It, indeed, only confirmed him in the string impres-
sion and confidence which he had always entertained, that
the conservative feeling, which had been so Ions; displayed
and always boasted of, was the best indication rd a healthy
state of mind, of the future prosperity, and of the further
advance of the country. (Loud cheers, during which the
noble lord resumed his seat.)

Mr. CRESSWELL then rose to address the meeting, and
was received with loud demonstrations cf applause. In
common, he said, with his noble friend, he hailed the auspi-
cious accident which had brought them to the commence-
ment of their canvass this day—this day upon which we
celebrated the anniversary of that glorious event which
brought about the overthrow of the power of revolutionary
France. (Cheers.) And he trusted that this very day, the
commencement of the canvass by the conservative candidates
for the representation of this country, would be the day of
sealing the fate of the revolutionary party in this country.

Mowed otitors,) Re hefted the 1144110 s omen, fog hii. '
felt convinced, that if the party which had misruled the:
country for the laat ten years were, by the patient enclgranee
of the constituency, still to be allowed to retain the reins of
power for some five or ten years longer, we should be re-
duced to the lamentable condition to which republican France,
forty years ago, was reduced ; we should have to undergo
that career of misery which she suffered, and which termi
nated in a military despotism; and through the purification
of suffering alone could we expect to regain the station which
we had lost. (Cheers.) It was because he loved his-country
" with all her faults," because he loved his cormtry with all
her evils, because, let them call him tory, or what they would,
he was a true lover of the true liberties of his country, and
with her liberties, he trusted of her happiness—of her true
liberties—her' liberty from evil as well as her liberty from
law ; it was because he loved all these that he rejoiced in
seeing before him to-day the truest and noblest presage of
the downfall of the party which would ruin his country.
(Great cheering.) They had come again to canvass for the
election of a parliament at the instance of her majesty's
ministers. (Hear.) When they appealed to the country before
using, or rather he should say, abusing the name of their
royal mistress, the Liverpool constituency had so little con-
fidence in them, that their candidates were rejected, and his
noble colleague and himself placed in the enviable position
which they still occupied. Why should it be otherwise now?
(Loud cheers.) What had her majesty's ministers done to
obtain the favour they then enjoyed not? What had they
done to recover the confidence they then bad lost? (Hear,
hear.) Had they taken one step in support of those mea-
sures that we then advocated, and for which we denounced
1 them as enemies? (Hear.) Had they since then shown
their love for the church ? had they shown their love for the
people? Ask the poor law. (Tremendous cheers.) Had
they shown their love for their sovereign? Witness the
manner in which they had abused her royal name ; wit-
ness the manner in which they, by their -misconduct,
had brought her prerogatives into question, if not into
danger. (Great cheering.) No ' • and what had they done
for the people? What -measure had they brought forward
for their benefit? They told the people truly " the poor
law, if you please, we will wave for the presi:t, and we will
offer you what we call cheap bread." (Great cheering.)
He said it advisedly, it was what they called " cheap
bread "—not what he should call cheap bread, for so, depend
upon it, it would not long prove. (Hear, hear.) It was a
large question to discuis in a popular assembly, but there
were two or three popular points in which it might be placed,
which, he thought, would convince the meeting, that by the
proposed alterations in the coin laws, which must be ruinous 1
to the agricultural population, the people never could be
ultimately benefited. (Hear, hear.) What interest had he
in discus Sing this question with the people? He was not a
landlord. He did not grow a single quarter of corn in a
year, but he bought a great deal. (Hear, hear.) Suppose
that for a short time an alteration in the corn laws enabled
them to buy foreign corn at a lower price than they got it
now, what would be the result? Of the six millions of
agricultural labourers now employed at men's wages, not at
child's wages, as in the factories,—(bear, hear, hear.)—two
millions would be thrown out of employment. What was to
be done with them? How could they subsist? They must
go upon the poor rates; they must enjoy the blessed mercies
of a workhouse;—(Hear, hear)—they must bring their arms
into competition with the manufacturers', and so, by multi-
plying the supply of labour beyond the demand, still further
reduce the price of it, and according to the god of these pre-
tended free traders, Mr: Huskisson, whenever that should
be brought about the rate of wages would fall much faster
than the price of corn. (Tremendous cheering. Follow
that out and what did it come to? Throw your corn land
out of cultivation and you were dependent upon the
foreigner; the foreigner knows you must buy corn at his
price or starve. (Hear, hear.) What choice then had you?
If you can trey for it by the utmost exertions you must, be-
cause, otherwise, you must starve; and then, instead of
paying a large price to your own landlord you will be paying
a large price to the foreigner. (Hear, hear.) What will the
foreigner do with the money when he gets it ? (Hear, hear.)
Will he take manufactures instead of money ? No ; if it was
a matter of fancy whether you took his corn or not, you
might say, " if I take your corn you must take my manufac-
tures ;" but he says, " no, I won't ; true it is I cannot get
the price of my corn, and so indulge in luxury, but you may
keep your cottons and stuffs, and eat them if you can."
He warranted the belly would get the best of the argument.
(Hear, hear.) So, if the starving owner of cotton would
barter at any price, and cannot, did it not follow that our
bullion must go to pay for the corn ? (Hear.) We had then
to pay for our corn in money, and would that money go to
promote the manufactures of our own country ? No ; instead
of promoting the manufactures of this country it would go to
promote the growth of manufactures abroad. (Cheers.) So
the question might be put in various ways, all equally true.
But why was it that these people cried out their reliance upon
Mr. Huskisson? Because Mr. Huskisson was a very wise
man. He was one of the most learned and prudent states-
men of his day in all matters relating to the trading concerns
of the country, and when they found such a man as Mr.
Huskisson promoting free trade, then, said they, "Oh, Mr.
Huskisson said so and so." (Hear.) Aye, but let us take
all that Me. Huskisson did say, not half—(hear)—let us not
go with him two steps only, and refuse to follow him a third.
(Hear, hear.) They admitted his theory as far as it suited
their purpose, but overthrew it the moment it turned against
them. (Hear.) He would ask the meeting this plain ques-
tion, which would satisfy them as to Mr. Huskisson's au-
thority. Whose colleague was he? Was he not the colleague
of Mr. Canning ? Was he not the colleague of the Duke of
Wellington?, (Cheers.) Was he not- the colleague of Sir
Robert Peel ? (Cheers.) Then why should we denounce
Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington as enemies of
free trade? (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Why was it that the
unhappy difference arose between him and the Duke of Wel-
lington? It was upon a question, not of commercial policy,
but upon a question of internal government—the question of
reform in parliament. There they differed; but we had the
greatest reason to suppose, that at the very moment when
that calamitous accident happened which involved all Liver-
pool in mourning, there was nothing more prObable than a
complete explanation between him and the Duke of Wel-
lington. The hon. and learned gentleman, after a few fur-
ther remarks on the corn-laws- proceeded to observe that
other questions had been brought forward in the same man-
ner, at the sameititne,- and under the same circumstances,
not to be passed, not because they were sufficient to main-
tain the administration in power, to restore the exhausted
revenues of the country, or supply the deficiencies created by
improvident government, but because they thought to get up
a false excitement, under the glare of which their misdeeds
might he concealed, and they again, upon the shoulders
of the deluded people, ride into power. (Hear, hear, and
cheers.) We had been told about free sugar. (Hear,
hear.) A more gross and nefarious delusion was never
attempted to be palmed upon an innocent and ignorant peo-
ple. When it came out that there was to be a saving what
did it amount to ? " Oh," said they, "we will give you
cheap sugar ; only think how much good Father Matthew
has done, the people have left off drinking beer, and we will
let them have cheap sugar with their tea." Now, if the bene-
fit of the people required it ; if this measure had been a good
one for the benefit of the poor, who would not have desired
to see it carried out ? But when it was seen that the utmost
benefit to be derived could he but the paltry sum of one far-
thing-and-a-half per pound, sweet, indeed, must be the
taste of those who would impose all the horrors of slavery
upon their fellow men for that! (Hear, and cheers.) Thus
we saw that this change was not, in truth, for the benefit of
the country, but a delusion which they tried to practise upon
the people, to mislead their judgment. and blind their eyes.
There was another subject which the present administration
had introduced, and that was the cry of cheap timber.
(Hear.) Cheap timber. to use the phrase of a noble lord,
addressing the constituency of the county in which we were
assembled, seemed to have slipped through a hole in the
budget ; it had been announced, but we had heard no more
of it. (Hear, hear.) The largest logs, whether from Canada
or the Baltic, slipped through the hole, which, according to
Sir Robert Peel, were of bottomless depth. Being without a
bottom they went through ; but was any one of them hardy
or impudent enough to state in the House of Commons that
would be any boon to society ? Would any one of the num-
bers before him have to pay one farthing less rent for
their houses erected with the timber which came in under
the altered duties ? (Hear.) If they had not, how would
they be benefitted ? (Hear, hear.) -But how were they to
give us timber cheaper? Why by putting 10s. additional
duty upon it! (Laughter and cheers.) By putting 10s. ad-
ditional duty upon Canadian timber the people would be able
to build their houses cheaper ! (Renewed cheers and laugh-
ter.) They thought nothing of the consequences which would
result in depriving thousands of sailors of work, and throw-
ing ships out of employment. The learned gentleman con-
cluded by a most eloquent appeal to the feelings of English-
men, to elect a House of Commons which would support a
government capable by its wisdom, independenceand honesty,
to carry those measures which were good, not for thernselVes,
but for the country at large; we should then rejoice in the
safety, in the prosperity, and in the glory of the nation. (En-
thusiastic cheers.)
Mr. J. S. LEIGII then moved a resolution declaring that,
in the opinion of the meeting, the conduct of Lord Sandon
and Mr. Creswell, as the representatives of this borough,
bad been highly satisfactory, and justly entitled them to a
renewal of the important trust which had been committed to
them since the 25th July, 1837.
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE seconded the resolution in an elo-
quent and forcible address. The motion was then carried
unanimously.

Mr. JOHN SMITH moved, and Mr. BRASSEY seconded, the
next resolution, which was also carried unanimously. It
was to the effect that the meeting pledged themselves indi-
vidually and collectively to use their best exertions to secure
the re-election of thepresent members.

On the motion of Mr. TAYLOR, seconded by Mr. Nl' QVIE,
a•committee was formed.

Lord SANDON then moved, and Mr. CRESSWELL se-
conded, a vote of thanks to the chairman, and shortly after-
wards the meeting separated, having first given numerous
cheers for the success of the conservetive cause.

REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE.
The friends of Mr. Charles Towneley, who was beaten at
the last general election by a tnajotity of 1500, held a meeting
in the Clarendon Rooms, on Saturday, to adopt measures
in furtherance of his cause. Colonel Williams was called to
the chair, and the meeting was addressed by Mr. William
Rathbone, Mr. William Brown, Mr. Harrison, Mr. Jordan,
Mr. Rosson, Mr. Frederick Fincham, and Mr. Robert
Philips. At the close a subscription was entered into, towards
defraying the expenses which will be necessarily incurred by
embarking in the hopeless contest.

--.11W.--

GREAT MEETING

OF THE FRIENDS OF
LORD SANDON AND MR. CRESSWELL,

AT THE AMPHITHEATRE

Yesterday, the friends and supporters of Lord Sandon and
Mr. Cresswell crowded the Amphiteatre, for the purpose of
takic g measures to secure the return of those gentlemen at
the approaching election. Every part of the vast building
was crowded to excess. In a meeting which comprised much
of the wealth and respectability of the town it would be im-
possible to give the names of all present, but we may give the
names of the following few :

Dr. Freckleton, I. 0. Bold, C. S. Parker, 'William Birkett,
Christopher Bushell, Joshua Edwards, S. Hohne, James
Holme, Captain Taylor, Peter Leather, Charles Turner.
Thomas Dover, A. Woodward, —. Kendall, Thomas Moss,
W. Shand, D. Gibb, Thomas Wilson, John Fletcher, —.
Brocklebank, John S. Leigh, 11. Barber, Nicholas Robin-
son, G. Grant, W. Potter, John Smith, Charles Horsfall,
Daniel Ledson, Peter Wright, John Pennington, Richard
Houghton, Captain Dunlevie, Robertson Gladstone, John
Parker, G. Guest. S. Sandbach, Charles Boutflower, Warner
Shand, Robert Livingston, John Miller, T. Chilton, James
Parker, D. T. Giazebrook, G. H. Lawrence, Peter M'Quie,
E. I'. Parry, Isaac Bold, W. Aspley, Robert Horsfall, Cot-
tingham Moss, F. Foster, James Ackers, John Sheppard,
John Bent, W. Penkett, Joseph Ackers, John B. Lloyd,
Isaac Holmes, Charles Inman, Edward Molyneux T. Tout-
min Adam Hodgson, Robert Rankin, T. Sande, James
Robertson, John Shand, T. Forsyth, &c., &c.
On the motion of Mr. CHARLES HORSFALL, Sir ThouAs
Bs aNCKER was called to the chair amidst loud cheers.
The CHAIRMAN immediately after rose, and the cheering
was renewed and continued 'for several minutes. When si-
lence was in some degree restored, he begged, before the
proceedings were commenced, to express his regret, and he
was sure he would be joined in the expression of that regret
by the meeting, that their excellent friend, Mr. Robinson,
the chairman of the Conservative Association of Liverpool,
who by his zeal and ability had so greatly promoted the inte-
rests of that moat valuable association—(hear, hear)--was

Unable to take the do& Whfeb he (Sir Themes) Mt that tie
Should so unworthily fill, (Loud cries of " No, no.") But
though Mr. Robinson did not occupy that situation
which he so often occupied before, it was gratifying to
know that his heart and soul were in the cause—(great cheer-
ing),—and that so long as he could use the slightest exertion
in that cause, so long would he labour steadily and persever-
ingly to sustain the great interests at stake. (Renewed
cneers.) The electors of Liverpool were called on at the pre-
sent moment, in consequence of the late very extraordinary
proceedings of her Majesty's ministers, to make preparations
for the coming election, which he believed would take place
within a very short time. (Hear, hear.) If ever there was
a time when it behoved every Englishman, who valued the
ancient institutions under which England had so long flou-
rished—(cheers) :—those institutions in church and state—
(loud cheers),—which had made the country the glory and
envy of the world, the present was the time to rouse them-
selves, and put their shoulders to the wheel. (Applause.)
The great question for the electors to decide was simply this :
whether they would suffer her majesty's ministers to proceed
in that course of democracy which they had for some years
been pursuing, or whether they would make an energetic en-
deavour to save and preserve the institutions of the country.
(Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) The object of the meeting
that day was for the purpose of concerting measures to return
again to parliament those excellent representatives whom
they returned so triumphantly at the last election. (Tre-
mendous cheering.) And after having resolved on those
measures, he hoped and believed there was not among them
who would fail to carry them into full effect in Liverpool.
(Continued cheers.) He trusted every man would act as
became an Englishman, and return again to parliament the
two representatives who had been returned before, and of
whom the borough had great reason to be proud. (Vehement
applause.) lie trusted the electors would act as became con-
servatives, and that, whatever their opponents might do,
they would show an example of that good conduct, peace, and
good order, which had always been the characteristics of the
conservative party. (Hear, hear.) The conservatives might
rely upon it that if they passed over whatever provocations
they received the election of their excellent representatives
would he carried most triumphantly. (Cheers.) It would
be far better for them to pursue such a course than to be re-
venging themselves on those who knew no better. (Hear,
hear.) Without detaining the meeting at any further length,
he begged to call upon Mr. Potter to move the first resolu-
tion. The chairman here resumed his seat amid loud and
protracted cheering.
Mr. WILLIAM POTTER accordingly rose, and after reading
the resolution (the several resolutions will be found in ou
advertising columns) proceeded to say that it would be vain
for him to attempt any eulogy upon the character and con-
duct of the ministers of the established church—of that
church which was a part of the constitution. (Cheers.)
Drawn from the masses of the people, the clergy of the
established church were entitled. by reason of their educa-
tion, their useful efforts, and their honourable professions,
to take their stand on an equality with the highest in the
land. (Hear, hear) They sympathised with the public at
large as men, as Christians, and as citizens. (Cheers.) As
fathers of families, and owing no allegiance to any extra-
neous authority, they were the promoters of genuine
freedom. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) The electors had
recently seen that the present ministry bad been obliged to
alter, to modify, to postpone, and to withdraw their mea-
sures, thereby proving that they had lost, although fancying
themselves that they possessed, the confidence of parliament.
(Hear, and cheers.) To administer the affairs of such a state
as that of England, might well afford scope to the highest
ambition; but one necessary ingredient which a ministry
should possess, was the confidence of parliament. (Hear,
hear.) Nevertheless, though it was• manifest to the country
that the present ministry had before now lost the confidence
of the house, they waited to be told so in words. (Hear,
hear.) And they had been enabled, without the power of
retaining a majority of the votes in parliament, to obtain
the adhesion a great many of the adherents of a foreign
church—of a church which assumed all shapes, but which
was sleepless in its attention to its own aggrandisement.
(Hear, hear, and renewed cheers.) But, now that the ministry
had been scared from their first attempts on the church, by
the steady, the consistent, and the determined opposition of
the conservative party, the electors could not doubt that there
had been a bargain made for that assistance which had kept
them in office, and that their attempts on the church, al-
though postponed, had not been relinquished. (Great cheers.)
On this account he thought the pivot on which their pre-
ference should turn in the choice of candidates was their
attachment to the principles of the protestant church, and
that they should be anxious to have a parliament composed
of men who would maintain all our institutions in their
integrity; for in such a case the temporary clouds which
were at present passing, would be cleared away, and innumer-
able blessings follow. (Tremendous cheers.)
_ . .

Mr. HENRY R. SANDBACH seconded the first resolution.
It required, he said, no force of argument, or persuasive
eloquence on his part to ensure the adoption of such a reso-
lution, otherwise he would have left the task in more able
hands.

The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution, and it was carried
unanimously.

Mr. MILLAR said, that, although he was fond of retire-
ment and averse to public exhibitions, he had been induced
to appear before his fellow-townsmen under a deep sense
alone of the obligations under which he was laid, and though
conscious of• his feeble strength, to buckle on his individual
armour, and make common cause with them in the great
struggle in which they were about to engage. He had come
forward to move a resolution, which, as he was labouring
under indisposition, his friend Mi. Pennington would read.
[The resolution having been read, Mr. Millar continued.]
Severe as was the censure which that resolution contained,
so reckless bad been the conduct of those whom it condemned,
that he felt assured it already carried conviction to the minds
of the meeting, and that when put from the chair it would be
found, like that which preceded it, to have met an unanimous
approval. (Loud cheers.) A crisis had arrived, and an exi-
gency had arisen. It was a crisis and an exigency in which
the country not only expected but had a right to demand o
the people to do their duty. (Cheers.) They were not tho: of
who would feebly or but partially answer the call. Our common
interests, our most revered and sacred institutions had been
invaded and assailed ; an attempt had even been made to
stifle the productiveness of our native soil—(hear, hear, and
cheers)—to make us dependent upon others for the bread
we eat—a species of insanity, into the nature and extent of
which he would not stop to enquire, but which had already
been denominated its worse than madness. (Hear. hear.
Our ships, our colonies, our commerce had, in the pro
alteration of the timber and sugar duties, been collectively
attacked. (Hear.) Those dangers had been averted for a
time; and it was for the electors of the empire in the aggre-
gate, and for those of Liverpool in particular, to determine
whether they should be permanently so or not. By whom,
might he ask, had those dangers been warded off? By such
men as our representatives who now, in their own persons,
solicited our suffrages. (Cheers.) They had indeed made a
manly and a noble effort ; they had bearded the lion in his
own den—(tremendous cheers) ;—they had beaten the enemy
in a field of his own choosing. (Renewed cheers.) They
had thus gained for the people the 'vantage ground ; let the
people enable them to maintain it. (Cheers.) Let them
rally round the standard of Sandon and Cresswell (Loud
sheers, and cries of "We have.") Let them trust not the
millocracy and their adherents, who had even dared to dictate
to them in their native town. (Hear, hear.) They were
men who had come with an open cry for cheap bread, but
their covert purpose was low wages. (Hear, hear, hear.)
Their object was to make us dependent upon others, and,
why ? Why, for the charitable purpose of making others de-
pendent upon them. (Cheers.) They were men—and he
grieved to give utterance to the fact—who would " keep the
word of promise to the ear," but effectually break it " to the
heart." (Cheers.) These were our opponents; and vacil-
lating as had been the conduct of one, and respectable in
private life as was the other, the people would not have either.
(Cheers.) Away with such philosophy, out upon such theo-
ries as theirs—(cheers) ;—again he said to the meetinic,
" Rally round the standard of Sandon and Cresswell ! '
(Great and long-continued cheers.)
Mr. SANDS, on rising to second the resolution, was loudly
applauded. He thanked the meeting for that cheer. It was
most delightful to hear a good old English cheer like that—
might he not say a good conservative cheer, for it shewed
him the sort of company by which he was surrounded?
(Hear, and cheers.) He had undertakers to second the reso-
lution which had just been moved ; and he did so, in the first
place, because he heartily approved of it ; it had his most
entire sanction • he believed every word of it; and, in the
second place, he did so with the greatest pleasure because it
needed no speech from him to recommend its adoption. It
was a speech in itself, as was stated to him by the gentleman
who put it in his bands. Ile could not, however, help re-
marking that the resolution had reference to her Majesty's
ministers. The first part of it charged them with bringing
forward measures which they knew full well they could never
carry, and which they had not themselves the most distant,
the most remote, idea of carrying. What could be their ob-
ject in proposing them? Why, agitation. (Great cheeriug.)
They cried " cheap sugar," nevertheless they did not pro-
pose to reduce the duties upon our own British -plantation
sugar, but here was something to get up a hue and cry
in the country. (Hear, hear.) He was quite sure from their
cheers that the meeting approved of the first part of the re-
solution ; and as to the second part of it, he would only say
that we had every day before our eyes the most melancholy
evidences of its truth. Was there no want of confidence in
the country ? Was there no want of confidence among the
commercial classes ? (Cries of " Yes.") Did not that
want of confidence lead to a curtailment of counnercial trans-
actions ; and as the necessary consequence of that curtail-
ment, were there not thousands of the poor in Liverpool, in
the manufacturing districts, and in every part of the country,
out of employment ? (Cheers.) All these, or a great por-
tion of them, he attributed to the conduct of her Majesty's
ministers. (Hear.) What should be done then?

A Void.---Why, turn them out. (Tremendous cheers.)
Mr. SANDS.—So say I, and that is what we intend to do.
(Cheers.) After we have turned them out—
Another VOICE.—We'll put better in. (Great cheers.)
Mr. S&Nns.—Yes, we. will put better in of course, and
then I have no doubt you will very soon see an improvement
in the country ; and the time will not be very far distant
when we shall witness the return of good old English times,
of good old English fare, and of good old English hearts.
(Great applause.) Mr. Sands concluded by seconding the
resolution.

The CHAIRNIAN put the motion, and it Was carried unani-
mously.

Mr. CHARLES LAWRENCE moved the third resolution,
expressing the pleasure of the meeting at the arrival of Lord
Sandon and Mr. Cresswell, and renewing their pledges of
support at the coming election. (Cheers.)
Mr. RANKIN, in seconding the motion, expressed his con-
fidence that every elector who wished to maintain our reli-
gion, our laws, and our great national interests, wouldctounritei
forward, heart and hand, in the ensuing contest, to re
again our present worthy representatives, and thus set an
example worthy of imitation by other constituencies. Of
those gentlemen he need only say that their public conduct
was before the electors, and spoke for itself. It proved that
they were entitled to the fullest confidence ; and he would
observe that they had been of invaluable assistance to their
constituents and each other, because they acted in perfect
unison, and justly possessed great influence in the House of
Commons. (Loud cheers.) Every gentleman who had had
occasion to visit to London upon public business, must have
aCprApeestaswrtaehniilese was
greeted
hnying
been struck with their ready attention to every subject
brought under their notice, their daily attendance at the L-
iverpool office, and with their constant labours upon commit-
tees. In those most useful labours he was free to say that
Mr. Cresswell could not be surpassed even by the noble lord,
his colleague. (Cheers.) He had great pleasure in second-
ingthen puty.m etheteinragotion, and like the others
the motion.
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gentlemen.
Lord SANDON,
again received with numerous rounds ofs applause. His lord-
ship, on the cessation of the cheering, addressed the meeting
nearly as follows :—Gentlemen, I ought indeed by this time
to be better used to a reception of this nature ; I ought indeed
to
he somewhat hardened and experienced in feelings such as
those you have given utterance to. Perhaps it may be the
weakness of my nature;
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formed of the strength of those feelings which unite and
hold together the conservative body in Liverpool. (Hear.)
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