The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-09 00:00:00

ticieney as one of the great blessings of the times, as, he
conceived, it would force the country to the adoption of cer-
tain nostrums and panaceas which he thought a cure for all
its evils ; but it remained to be seen whether the homeo-
pathic dose of sugar would cleanse from the bosoms of the
electors of South Lancashire those passages in the lives of the
present cabinet to which they formerly objected ; and it also
remained to be seen whether they objected to such accessions
to their ranks as Sir James Graham—(cheers)—and that
great name, which could never be mentioned in Lancashire
but with feelings of respect, Lord Stanley. (Vehement
cheering for several minutes.) And here he (Lord Francis)

would observe that he was rather hardly used. A friend of
his had written a long letter to the Guardian newspaper at
Manchester, andle had endeavoured to make it appear to all
concerned that South Lancashire was disgraced in the per-
sons of her representatives—(roars of laughter)—and he had
done so with a great deal of personal courtesy and compli-
ments, but on such occasions as the present personal com-
pliments were like the Vicar of Wakefield's family_ picture.
(Hear, hear, and continued laughter.) He then proceeded to
pass sentence upon him (Lord Francis), as the judge was in
the habit of doing upon a man who had seen better days, and
without asking what he (Lord Francis) had to say in his de-
fence—the sentence was transportation to New South Wales.
(Great laughter.) Now, it was rather hard that they—the
poor people of South Lancashire—should be obliged to bear
the whole head and front of such an attack, and that Mr.
Gisborne, or any other writer of the same stamp, should not
go the north of the county and see that the northern division
had returned his noble friend on his right, and such another
incapable as himself, Lord Stanley. (Cheers and laughter.)
He could wish with Squeers, the schoolmaster in the novel,
which he hoped the meeting would read, that " Mrs. Squeers
were here to have a scratch at some of the present company."
(Great laughter.) The writer next proceeded to sr.y that he
(Lord Francis) wished to make the institutions of this coun-
try like those of Japan ; and after showing the utter absur-
dity of this assertion, his lordship resumed the topic upon
which he had been addressing the meeting, and said that he
entertained some doubt whether the confidence they reposed
in Sir H. Peel had been much diminished by the recent noble
conduct of the latter in the House of Commons, and that he
doubted still more that they had abated in their enthusiasm
at the mention of the name of Wellington. (Loud cheering.)
He believed that, like the duke, they had been long patient
under fire. (Hear, hear.) The time had passed, however,
when they had seen their ranks scattered, for now they had
rallied round the standard, and might almost cry—" Up,
Guards, and at them !" (Great cheers.) The time was ap-
proaching when they would carry that standard forward, and
flaunt it in the enemy's front. (Tremendous cheering.) This
was a subject, however, which he had not much considered,
for, in endeavouring to represent the county, it had been no
question with him what were the prospects of those in Par-
liament. Subjects of that kind made little difference in the
attempts he had been engaged in making, and the duty to his
constituents which he bad been discharging—(hear, hear)—
but whatever might be his opinion on this subject, it was not
his belief that her Majesty's ministers would long confirm(
in office. (Continued cheer

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