The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-25 00:00:00

SCOTLAND, VAUXHALL, AND ST. PAUL'S
WARDS.

At half-past eight o'clock on Wednesday evening, a meet-
ing of these several wards was held at the Carpenters'-room,
Bond-street, for the purpose of adopting measures to secure
the re-election of our distinguished candidates. The room
was thronged by a dense and enthusiastic assemblage of the
electors, amounting to upwards of a thousand in number,
and the street in front of the building was literally blockaded
with the dense masses of human beings who were unable to
obtain admission. The chair was taken on the occasion by
Councillor THOMAS CASE.

Mr. ISAAC HOLMES proposed the first resolution. It will
be found in our advertising columns.
Mr. GIORGE WRIGHT seconded it.

Mr. HENRY CoPELAND proposed the second resolution.
Mr. SANDBACH seconded it.

Lord SANDON then presented himself to the meeting, and
was received with vehement cheering. He said he had been
given to understand that before he arrived from the meeting
of St. Ann's and Lime-street Wards, a resolution had been
unanimously passed approving of the arduous and faithful
services of himself and his respected colleague in the late
parliament, and especially of their votes of " no confidence"
in her Majesty's ministers—the ministers who had abused
the patronage of the crown, and infringed on the rights of
the people. (Cheers.) He was exceedingly obliged to them
for having passed such a resolution on the grounds on which
they had put it, because those were the grounds on which
be had voted a want of confidence in the governing party.
But if the electors had no confidence in the ministry, wby
was it? Simply because they could not trust them from day
to day, and because what they promised to do one year they
refused to do the next, and what they refused at one period
they granted at another. (Hear, hear.) A course such as'
this was unlikely to secure confidence from any body of men.
He hoped he might point to his past conduct with a full as-
surance that he was entitled to their verdict. (Cheers.) He
was not one of those candidates who had come to make
magnificent promises, and to tell the electors that he would
give peace and plenty if they elected him. (Hear, hear.)
He had never attempted to delude them by saying that they
should have cheap bread and plenty of labour at all times,
simply because he knew that if he made such promises he
could not perform them ; and he never would make promises
which he could not perform. (Cheers.) He had always felt
it his duty to support the rights and interests of those by
whom he had been sent to parliament ; and he might appeal
to all the different trades in the town, and ask whether he
had not upon every occasion endeavoured to devote his ut-
most attention to promote the interests of the various classes.
(Hear and cheers.) The government had infringed on the
rights of the people in one material respect, namely, in having
attempted to deprive the freemen of Liverpool of their rights.
(Hear, hear.) They had pretended to be the friends of the
people, and the way in which they had shown their friendship
was by depriving a portion of the people of their rights. They
now cried " Cheap bread ;" but the electors would easily dis-
cover that bread was cheap when they received wages suf-
ficiently high to buy it, and that when it cost little, and no-
body had money to pay for it, it was excessively dear.
(Hear, and cheers.) if all the ministerial plans were carried
into effect; if foreign ships were put in the place of colonial;
if they were manned by foreign sailors, and rigged by foreign
ropers ; and if, in short, all branches of industry were depen-
dent on foreign labour, how, he asked, would that promote
the welfare of England and give good wages ? (Hear, hear.)
For his part he thought it would be unwise ; he agreed with
Lord Melbourne, when the noble premier said last sear that
it would be madness, and that it would uesettle all the insti-
tutions of the country, to abandon the old channels of indus-
try. (Cheers.) It required very little argument to prove
that her majesty's ministers deserved no confidence. Indeed,
he knew not who had ever said they were entitled to confi-
dence. He knew not whether Sir Joshua Walmsley—(groans)
—had ever said so. He knew not whether Lord Palmerston
—(renewed groans)—had ever said so. It was a hard thing
to suppose a man could have any confidence in himself, if he
was mistrusting his own opinions also ; but if Lord Palmers-
ton should happen to say that he had confidence in himself,
it might well be asked, " In what self, my lord? the self of
the present administration or the last? Whether the
Lord Palmerston who supported Mr. Canning, who op-
posed reform, or the Lord Palmerston who supports Lord
Melbourne, who is in favour of it? The Lord Palmerston
who supported the whigs for four years, or the Lord
Palmerston who supported the tories for ten?" (Laughter,
and cheers, followed by a cry of " He's a dirty man.")
The fact was, no one possessed confidence in their conduct.
Some, to be sure, seemed to admire the measures they had
recently introduced, and were inclined to give them a trial ;
but how long was that trial to last ? (Hear, hear.) The
electors on the present occasion were about to elect mem-
bers for a certain number of years. (A voice—" Yourself
and Mr. Cresswell for ever.") If they were going to give
himself and his colleague a lease of the interests of Liverpool
he hoped that when the lease ran out they would find their
interests improved. (Cheers.) But the electors had a seri-
ous duty to perform at present. They were not going to
elect members for one question or one year, but in order to
decide the Character of the government for a long series of
years to come ; and therefore they had to direct the govern-
ment in a manner consistent with their ganeral principles.—
His lordship, after thanking them for their attendance, and
exhorting them to unity and perseverence, sat down amidst
tremendous applause.
Mr. CRESSWELL next presented himself, and the cheer-
ing was renewed and continued for a considerable length of
tune. He said if he had known nothing of the three wards
which had that night assembled, he would have been sur-
prised that they should have put themselves to inconveni-
ence from the manner in which they were at that moment
crowded together, and standing for so long a time to do
honour to their representatives. But having been informed
that out of their nine members in the town council, eight
professing conservative principles had been returned, it
proved to him that they were strongly impressed with the
value of those principles, and that they desired to have them
maintained in parliament. He doubted not that their re-
presentatives in the council would maintain their principles
there, and if himself and his noble colleague should again
happen to be the objects of their choice, they would strenu-
ously maintain the same principles in the house of Com-
mons which they had ever done before. They had this ad-
vantage over their adversaries, they bad pot promised much.
They had, however, stated their principles openly, and he
defied their worst enemies to charge them with deserting
them, or with having failed to perform whateyer promises
they had made. (Hear, hear.) Could her majesty s minis-
sters say the same ? (Laughter and cheers.) Perhaps they
might say, and with truth, that they had not deserted their
principles, because if they never had any, it was impossible
they could ever desert them. (Great laughter andcheers.)
He had always, from the first moment of his going into par-
liament, a shrewd suspicion that this was the case, for soon
after he had got there a certain gentleman connected with
the radical party handed to Lord John Russell three mea-
sures which he wished him to give to the people, namely—
universal suffrage, annual parliaments, and vote by ballot.
It was a medical gentleman who handed them, and shortly
after Lord John said that he had inspected the three powders
—(a laugh)—that they were very nasty—and that he thought
the physic would do the country no good. (Great laughter.)
But was that any principle? It it was, Lord John had de-
serted it since ; if it was no principle, then he had not de-
serted it, having had no such thing in him at the time.
(Cheers.) The sort of refusal then given by Lord John led
him (Mr. C.) to suspect that it was not very sincere. He
meant not to say that Lord John had supported those mea-
sures since, but he had taken into his cabinet men whom he
knew to be supporters of them ; and instead of governing
England as she was wont to be governed, he had adopted the
sneaking plan of open questions. (Hear and cheers.) Again,
two years ago Lord Melbourne had said that that man would
be downright staring mad who would attempt to deprive the
agriculturist of protection. People then thought him sincere,
and that his professions could not bedoubted. If, in so say-
ing, there was any principle, he was guilty of violating it ; if
not, he was guiltless, having had no principle at the time.
(Cheers and laughter.) Accordingly, in the present year he
had dissolved the parliament and appealed to the people.
But what reason had he for supposing that the people were
of a contrary opinion to the majority of their representatives ?
(Hear.) His (Mr. C.'s) principle had been, and would be, to
advocate the interests of Liverpool, so far as they were con-
sistent with the interests of the country at large : and one of
those interests was the shipping interest. Would the cry of
"cheap corn," and the promotion of a foreign trade, serve that
interest? Oh, no ! Where did Mr. Brocklebank, for instance,
the worthy representative of the phantom candidate—(hear)—
build his ships ? (Several voices —" At Whitekaven.")
Where did he rig them ? (" At Whitehaven.") Where did
he repair them ? (" At Whitehaven," followed by cheers.)
It appeared, then, that Mr. Brocklebank was very willing to
give the people cheap corn, but equally willing, at the same
time, to give them no work. (Great cheers.) After some
further remarks on the subject of religious education, and the
necessity of preserving old England as she at present existed,
the learned gentleman concluded amid loud cheers.
Thanks having been voted to the chairman, on the propo-
sition of Lord Satinosz, seconded by Mr. CRESSWELL, the
meeting separated.
• When our distinguished candidates arrived outside the
building, they found that the horses had been taken from
their carriage, and that they must, nolens volens, be drawn
through the several streets by the thousands who surrounded
and greeted them with the most enthusiastic cheers we ever
heard. Accordingly they had to enter the carriage, accom-
panied by their several friends, when they were borne along
through several of the streets, amid the loud applause of the
multitude.

ST. PETER'S. PITT-STREET, AND GREAT
GEORGE'S WARDS.
Last evening, at seven o'clock, Lord Sandon and Mr.
Cresswell met the electors of St. Peter's, Pitt-street, and
Great George's Wards, in the Music-hall: Bold-street, which
was completely crowded by an enthusiastic body of conserva-
tives. Among those present we observed Sir Thos. Braucker,
G. H. Lawrence, Esq., James Aspinall, Esq., J. Lawrence,
Esq., &c. &c. &c.
Mr, J. Ferguson was called to the chair, on the mo ton of
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yesterday parliament was dissolved, for the object of ascer-
taining whether her majesty's ministers deserved the confi-
dence of the country. The question for the consideration
of the constituency was, whether they would vote for minis-
terialists or anti-ministerialists—whether they would vote
for Lord Palmerston, a member of a condemned cabinet,
and Sir Joshua Walmsley, an active partisan of that
cabinet ; or for the true friends of the people, Lord
Sandon and Mr. Creswell. (Loud cheers.) The Chairman
then proceeded to comment upon many of the acts of th

present administration, after which he introduced Lord San-
don and Mr. Cresswell, whom he publicly thanked for their
votes during the last session, in support of conservatism, and
especially for their support of Sir Robert Peel's want of
confidence motion. At the close of the chairman's address,
nine hearty cheers were given for the candidates.
Lord SANDON then addressed the meeting, and said, the
manner in which he had been received was a strong testimony
and assurance of the fact, of which, indeed, he was conscious
himself, that he had not made professions which he had not
performed, or held out expectations which he had not realized.
He was not sensible of having departed in any essential point
from the principles he had professed. He had always held
out to them principles of warm attachment to the throne,
and the altar, and to our Protestant religion, whilst at the
same time he was willing to leave to others the most
free and unfettered exercise of their opinions and that tole-
ration which had been his creed through life,which he hoped
to maintain to the end of his days. (Cheers.) Those
opinions himself and his colleagues had maintained from the
beginning, and he hoped that the testimonies which they had
received of election after election in every part of England,
were a just reason to expect that their opinions were gaining
ground day after day ; and that ,having been for some time
struggling through a feeble though resolute minority—the
conservatives had at last properly assumed the position of a
triumphant majority. (Hear.) The noble lord then referred
to the corn-laws, and showed that the distress existing in the
manufacturing districts was caused not by the operation
of those laws, as contended by the Manchester gentlemen ; but
by the markets of several of our best customers being stopped
by various causes, which should have been foreseen by a wise
and prudent government, and by the stimulus given to pro-
duction by the facility of obtaining fictitious capital. The
conservatives, his lordship then observed, had been taunted
in the House of Commons, when they complained of the
state of our finances, caused by the extravagant expenditure
of the present administration, with being the cause thereof,
because they had supported the government. What were
the facts ? With regard to Canada the conservatives sup-
ported the government when insurrection broke out, and
when it was necessary to put it down, because they preferred
the honour and safety of the country to gaining any advan-
tage over the administration which they opposed. (Hear,
hear, and cheers.) But did they approve of the policy of
the government which led to that outbreak ? Did they sup-
port that neglect which had led to the fatal confusion of
affairs in Lower Canada, and which ultimately broke out in
insurrection ? He was a living witness to the contrary; for
he himself moved a resolution in the House of Commons,
condemnatory of the neglect and want of foresight which
distinguished the colonial administration of 'the country, upon
that very question of Canada., (Cheers.) Therefore, al-
though the conservatives were responsible to this extent, that
they encouraged ministers to put down the insurrection, and
agreed to support the expense which was naturally incurred
by it, they were not responsible for the events which led to
that insurrection, for they repudiated and opposed the policy
of ministers. (Loud cheers.) Another cause of expendi-
ture had been the unfortunate state of our relations with
China. The conservatives did not approve of the war with
China—(hear, hear, and cheers) ; but when affairs had come
to that point when it was necessary to take strong measures
for the protection of British interests and the protection of
British character, then the conservatives did not think it
their duty to oppose the passing of those estimates which
were necessary to be incurred, in that necessary but unfor-
tunate undertaking. But did they concur in the policy
which led to that expence ? No. Upon the contrary, ;they
condemned the policy, and Sir James Graham brought for-
ward a motion condemning it. Therefore, although the con-
servatives were responsible for the expense, which was one
cause of our present embarrassment, they were responsible
only so far as her Majesty's ministers had made it necessary to
to be incurred. We must remember, in this melancholy
picture of the condition of the country and the state of our
finances, which we were told made it necessary to abandon
all her ancient policy. creating confusion in all the settled
channels of industry, that Frederick the Great had said, that
if we wished to ruin a country, we had only to give it up to
the philosophers. We were told that the country was in
such a state as to make the changes proposed necessary.
Now, he denied that the country was in that state. The re-
venue was not falling off; but the expenses were increasing.
There was nothing to lead us to the conclusion that the re-
sources of the state were impaired, and it was his conviction
that the deficiencies in the revenue were caused by the lavish
expenditure of her Majesty's present ministers, and by their
unwise management of colonial affairs. The noble lord re-
ferred to their conduct towards Canada in support of his
views, and concluded by expressing his conviction that the
verdict of Liverpool, in their election, would give great en-
couragement to conservatives all over the country.
Mr. CRESSWELL next addressed the assembly, and after
some remarks upon the principal topics suggested by the
election, he observed that the country had now before it her
majesty's account of the reasons which had induced her to
dissolve the late parliament. The meeting must bear in mind
,that the statement made by her majesty was not her own, but
the statement of her minister. The minister, then, stated,
that he had dissolved the late parliament, and appealed to
to the people because the late parliament would
not pass certain measures which he had proposed.
But, then, he could not get rid of another appeal which was
this—an appeal to the people to know whether her majesty's
ministers had their confidence or not? Now Lord Mel-
bourne had dissolved parliament because parliament would
not pass certain of his measures, but he forgot to advise her
majesty to state in her speech that parliament had voted
that they had no confidence in her majesty's ministers.
That was not stated to the people as the ground of appeal.
The parliament also stated that her majest'ys ministers had
violated the spirit of the constitution, but they had not put a
word of that in the queen's speech. (Hear, hear, hear.)
They had not reminded the people of that, but it was just as
if they had—(hear, hear, and long continued cheers)—
because at the last election for this place and throughout the
empire, certain parties were returned who showed by their
votes that they were not minded ;to adopt the measures of
government, both this year, last year, and the year before,
yet the ministry held office. Why did they notappeal:to the
people then—(hear, hear)—if they thought that the ground
upon which they were justified in advising their government
to appeal to the people, was this, that their representatives
had not acted according to the wishes of their constituents,
or upon tht principles on which they were returned ? But
what reason had they to suppose that ? (Hear.) If they sup-
posed, because they were defeated in parliament, the wishes of
the constituency was not represented, two years ago, why
did they not appear to the people then? (Cheers.) Why
did they not appel last yea', when they were defeated ? Why
did they reserve it for this hour, and not upon their Ist, 2d,
3d, and 4th defeat? (Cheers.) Why, because they thought
they could delude the people by the cry of cheap bread.
(Hear.) They did not appeal at once, but stayed till
measures had been put forward, which shewed their policy,
and when they thought the peope ripe for agitation and ex-
citement, then they sent the parliament before them. The
learned gentleman then proceeded to oppose the hollowness
of the cry of cheap bread, one of the subjects on which
ministers had dissolved the parliament, and the miserable
fallacies put forth by the anti-corn law leaguers to establish,
that the abolition of the corn laws would not lower wages.
He concluded a most eloquent address by observing, that it
was because he loved his country and all her institutions,
that he wished to see conservatism triumphant.
The meeting was next addressed by Mr. G. H. Lawrence,
Mr. Mackford, Mr. Arthur Henderson, and others, and the
usual resolutions were unanimously passed, pledging the
electors present to support Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell.
The meeting then separated. On the candidates arriving
in the streets, the people took the horses from their carriage,
and dragged it amidst the most enthusiastic cheers, through
Concert-street, Bold-street, Ranelagh-street, into the spa-
cious yard of the Adelphi Hotel, where the electors of
ABERCROMBY AND RODNEY-STREET WARDS were assem-
bled in immense numbers, to welcome their appearance.
Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE occupied the chair.
Mr. HENRY LAWRENCE moved the first resolution, which
is as follows :

" That the conservative electors of Abercromby and Rod-
ney street wards do most cordially resolve to join ' heart and
band with their brother conservatives in the approaching
contest, and, by the union of zeal, firmness, and exertion,
to maintain in this borough the ascendancy of those legal
and constitutional principles, for which it is so proudly
distinguished."

MI: PROCTOR seconded the resolution, and it was carried
unanimously.

Mr. Bus HELL proposed the second resolution, as follows—
" That Lord Viscount Sandon and Cresswell Cresswell,
Esq., by their undeviating support in parliament of conserva-
tive principles, by their untiring resistance to the dangerous
and destructive measures of her Majesty's ministers, by their
faithful discharge in all respects of the trust reposed in them,
and particularly by their anxious attention to the local inter-
ests of this borough, have entitled themselves to the renewed
confidence of all their constituents, and that the conservative
electors of Abercromby and Rodney-street wards will most
strenuously exert themselves to secure their re-election."
Mr. BTRKETT seconded the resolution, and it was carried.
Lord SANDON and Mr. CRESSWELL then delivered each
an able speech, and both were loudly applauded.
At the conclusion the populace again dragged their car-
riage through the strects until they arrived at the Queen's
Arms Hotel. Nothing in fact can exceed the estimation in
which they are held, and the enthusiasm which their presence
creates.