The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-04 00:00:00

June 4, 1844.

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION.

The election for the southern division of this county
!vas resumed, on Tuesday last, with considerable spirit.
IVe announced during the day in several editions the state
of the voting at the respective polling booths—and
soon after nine, by extraordinary expresses, we were
enabled to present to the public
Print the final state of the
poll through the various districts, which differed but
Y from the official return. We now, however, re-
some interesting particulars, which it may be im-
portant to register for subsequent reference.
The following is the amended return of the first day's
Polling :_. -

Majority for
Newton ~ „ 778 419 • • 309
Entwisle. Brown. Entw!sle. Brown.
Ashton • 263 286 • •
Bolton.. 613 402 • • 211
Bury ****** M 419 439 • •
.• ... _ anchesi ... .. 1357 1461 • .
Oldham 216 325 • •
Rochdale ...
**** 364 550
Liverol
.. • . 863 1083 • • ..
Ormakirk .• • 695 353 • • 342
•
Wi an........ 399 219 ' • 180

20
107
109
186
220

5967 5540 .. 1092 665
665

Gross Majority first day for Entwisle.... 427

The. subjoined table gives the state of the poll at the
vrous voting-places on the second day at the times spe-
cified—

Entwisle. Brown.
Newton, 2 30, P.M. BB5 486
Ashton, 12, A.M 293 421
Bolton, 12, A.M.
661 424
Bury, 12, A.M
447 487
Manchester 1 p.ss.
.
Oldham, 12, A.M. •
234 342
Rochdale, 11 30„%.m. 444 614
Liverpool, 3 30, P.M.
1245 1430
'Ormskirk, 1 P M.
910 449
Wigan, 11 45, A.m. 457 242

7173 6630

Majority for Mr. Entwisle

At the final close of the poll the votes stood as follows :
Majority for
Entwistle. Brown. Entwisle. Brown.
Newton, at 4 o'clock 906 507 .. 399 ..
Ashton, at 4 o'clock . 310 443 .. .. 133
Bolton, at 4 o'clock . 703 457 .. 246 ..
Bury, at 4 o'clock .. 468 514 .. .. 46
Manchester, at 4 o'clk. 1692 1847 .. .. 155
Oldham, at 4 o'clock 256 362 .. .. 106
Rochdale, at 4 o'clock 506 654 .. .. 148
Liverpool, at 4 o'clock 1263 1455 .. .. 192
•Ormskirk, at 4 o'clock 972 470 .. 502 ..
Wigan, at 4 o'clock. 495 264 .. 231 ..

7571 6973 1378 780
780

Majority for Entwisle

Mr. Entwisle arrived in Liverpool on Tuesday morning
soon after lOo'clock,accompanied by Col. Plumbe Tempest,
J. Ireland Blackburne, Esq., and other gentlemen. The
hon. candidate visited the polling booth and other places,
and was very warmly received.
Towards the close of the poll, the friends of Mr.
Entwisle, including a large number of the most respect-
able and influential gentlemen and freeholders of this
town and neighbourhood, congregated in the enclosed
yard in front of the committee-room—all in excellent hu-
mour, notwithstanding the majority against their favourite
in this town. The appearance of several gentlemen on
the platform over the room, elicited the most enthusiastic
-cheers and clappinc, of hands ; and on Colonel Tempest
approaching in the crowd, the applause was redoubled.
thron
The gallant colonel ascended to address the assembled
g, and some time elapsed before he could proceed,
so loud was the cheering from those below, and the well-
affected and self-congratulatory noises sent forth from the
neighbourhood of the other candidate " just opposite."
Colonel TEMPEST said (with reference to the general
returns of the voting) :—Gentlemen, electors of Lanca-
shire, I have to congratulate you on the glorious triumph
You have this day achieved. You have shown the Anti-
British League that you know how to conduct an election,
and look after your real interests, without being insulted
by hired lecturers and itinerant spouters, who have no
connexion with your county. (Great Cheers.) The news
will rapidly pass from east to west; from Johnny Groat's
House to the Land's End—that you have manfully done
tour duty. (Loud cheers.) You have defeated the Anti-
Isritish League. I would, however, strongly urge upon
7911 to take the advice of your Premier—" Register! Re-
gister!”—and that you should take care that not only you
Yourselves should do so, but that you should counsel your
neighbours to adopt the same precaution, and the sup-
porters Of the good cause would thus always be victorious
In Lancashire. (Immense cheering.)
Duke
cheers were then given for " The Queen," " The
a of Wellington," " Sir T. Braucker," " Mr. Ent-
"'am," and others.
The assemblage was afterwards addressed in a most
amusing manner by a zealous young mechanic, a staunch
pPPorter of " Church and State,' who stated that the
they operatives had long been trampled upon, but if
a'neY would only stand true to each other they might defy
po t_he,i,r enemies, not excepting " O'Connell" and " the
Aspr• Ile proposed cheers for Sir Thos. Brancker, Mr.
given
Mr. Harbord, Mr. Birkett, &c., which were
with enthusiasm, and the assemblage dispersed.

Liverpool is the only place which has failed to do its
duty on this occasion, which may be easily accounted for
by the fact that the conservatives of Liverpool were un-
accountably lukewarm. The return even for this dis-
trict is not and cannot be considered as any triumph for
the leaguers. How do they then account for the defeat.
We are told forsooth that the agricultural districts of the
county have " swamped" the manufacturing districts !
Why, only the other day, we were assured that the League
was fast converting the agriculturists and tenant farmers.
We heard of innumerable meetings of tillers of the soil,
at which resolutions in favour of the Free Trade dogmas
were passed by tremendous majorities How's this ?
How happens it that in South Lancashire, the very seat
and centre of the cotton manufacture, the agriculturists
should be so marvellously unanimous in their opposition to
the Lague candidate ? But is it true that the agricultu-
rists have " swamped" the manufacturers ? Pray what
are Bolton and Wigan but manufacturing towns ? Behold
the League minorities there?
Then turn to Manchester, the inner circle—the very
gificzna—of the Leaguite agitation! It was confidently
predicted that Mr. Brown would have a tremendous ma-
jority here—the reaction in favour of the. sweeping prin-
ciples of Free Trade had been so great since the last con-
tested election in 1837. Let us consult the results of that
election. We find that the number of votes polled in the
Manchester district was as follows :
Stanley
Wilbraham

On the Majority for Stanley 23
trict occasion the returns from the same dis-
area ownws
Eutwisle ..

So that Majority
with all the reaction in favour of the League
Mr, Brown has only polled 49 more votes that Mr. Stan-
ley—Mr. Entwisle only 83 less than Mr. Wilbraham, who
had the powerful fellowship of Lord Francis Egerton to
help him ! Is this what the Leaguers curiously call being
swamped" by the landlord's influence over the tenant
farmers ? Really these paroxisms and contortions in the
hour of defeat are too ludicrous to command attention,
too false to excite compassion.

DECLARATION OF THE POLL.
The declaration of the poll, by the High Sheriff, took
place on Thursday, at Newton-in-the-Willows. The High
Sheriff arrived there a little after nine o'clock, the court
having been adjourned to ten. Mr. Entvvisle, accompanied
by a large body of his friends, arrived at about a quarter
to ten, having travelled from Manchester by the nine
o'clock train. Mr. Brown did not make his appearance
at all, nor did any of his friends venture to show their
faces.
The High Sheriff took his place on the hustings at a
quarter after ten, and the court was immediately opened
with the usual formalities. At that time AT —r. —ntwisle
and his friends had not arrived at the hustings, and there
were very few persons collected in front.
Mr. C. B. Walker, the Under Sheriff, then untied the
bundle of lists from each polling-booth, and proceeded to
unseal them separately. The total of each list was then
examined by the High Sheriff and Under Sheriff, and
entered on a separate sheet. This was rather a tedious
process, and occupied them upwards of an hour and a
half. The numbers polled in each district and booth were
then discovered, and the gross voting was found to be as
follows:

Entwisle
Brown .

. 7571
. 6973

Majority
About twelve o'clock, Mr. Entwisle's friends formed a
procession from the Leigh Arms to the hustings, accon:!-
oonnets of
ir_rued by a
great number of banners and a band of music
Rochdale, playing the lively air of " Hurrah for the
rnt, the
bus-
'Buckley Esq. M•P"
blue." None of the League party being pre-
Conservatives occupied both parts of the
mongst the gentlemen present we noticed—E.
Thomas Fleming, Esq., Richard
131rley Eq.J. P. Tempest, Sir Thos. Brancker,
4,„°1311 Clare: Esq. jun., James Aspinall, Esq., Richard
Dawson, Esq., James Lord, Esq., William Ford Hulton,
P'48(1., Joseph Harrop, Esq., Albert Royds, Esq., James
earden, Esq., J. Greenall, Esq., H. C. Lacey, Esq.,
'James Fenton, Esq.' John Drinkwater, Esq., &c.
The High Sheriff who was labouring under consider-
able indisposition, retired to the Horse and Jockey Inn,
for the purpose of casting up the votes. In about half:an
an hour he returned, and having taken his place in the
,
centre of the bustings, said—
Gentlemen,—lt is now my duty to declare to you the
State of the poll. I beg to inform you that the numbers
that have been polled are—For Mr. Brown 6,973 of the
electors of the southern division ; Mr. Entwisle has
polled
7,s7l—(cheers)—leaving Mr. Entwisle in a majo-
rity of 598.
(Loud cheers.) Therefore, Mr. Entwisle
having the majority of your votes, I now declare him
duly e'ected your representative in Parliament. (Renewed
cheering.)
Mr. Entwisle, who was in the same compartment of the
hustings with the High Sheriff, was then girded with the