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unable to take the chair which he (Sir Thomas) felt that he
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
alters.) The electors of Liverpool were called on at the pre-
sent moment, in consequence of the late very extraordinary
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to make preparations
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proceedings of her Majesty's ministers
for the coming election, which he be

very short time. (Hear, hear.) If ever there was
a time when it behoved every Englishman, who valued the
ancient institutions under which England Lad 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 there
who would fail to carry them into full effect in Liverpool.
(Continued cheers.) lie 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.) He 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 be 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 had been obliged to
alter, to modify, to postpone, and to withdraw their mea-
sures, thereby proving that they had lost, althougn 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 auxioua to have a parliament composed
of men who would maintain ail 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 H. SANDRACH 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

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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
arnica., 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 had 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 the; of
who would feebly or but partially ansa er the call. Our common
interests, our most revered and sacred institutions had been
invaded and assailed ; an attempt bad 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 as worse than madness. (Hear, hear.)
Our ships, our colonies, our commerce had, in the proposed
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 effoet ; 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 I (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 net have either.
(Cheers.) Away with such philosophy, out upon such theo-
ries as theirs—(cheers) ;—again he said to the meeting,
" 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 undertaken 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 hands. He 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 cheering.)
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 commercial 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 VOICE.—Why, turn them out. (Tremendous cheers.)
Mr. SANDS.-50 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. SANDS.—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 CHAIRMAN 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, would come
forward, heart and hand, in the ensuing contest, to return
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
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' Commons. (Loud cheers.) Every gentleman who had had
occasion to visit to London upon public business, must have
been struck with their ready attention to every subject
brought under their notice, their daily attendance at the Li-
verpool 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-
ing the motion.
The CHAIRMAN then put the motion, and like the others
of the meeting Lord Sandon and Mr.
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