The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-02 00:00:00

CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATIONS.

WEST KENT.
On Thursday a numerous meeting of the gentry residing in
the western division of Kent took place in the spacious long
room of the Green Man Hotel, at Blackheath, for the purpose
of forming a Conservative Association for the district of Black-
heath, including the borough of Greenwich.
Sir T. M. Wilson, Bart. took the chair, and proceeded to
address the meeting. He said that they had met for the pur-
pose of establishing a loyal, constitutional, and conservative
association. (Cheers.) Their liberties as Britons were inse-
pnrably connected with the co-existence of King, Lords, and
Commons, and the undue preponderance of either of the three
would necessarily tend to the destruction of their rights. (Re-
newed cheers.) The country was indebted for the blessings
with which it had been pre-eminently distinguished, to the pub-
lic acknowledgment and reverence of the Supreme Being • and
the existence of a church founded on the pure principles of the
reformation had greatly promoted the general diffusion of re-
ligious feeling throughout the British empire. (Hear, hear.)
Although in all human institutions abuses would creep in, and
improvements might be made, it was his firm conviction, to use
the emphatic wards of Sir Robert Peel, " that it was possible to
combine with the maintenance of ancient institutions and respect
for established rights the rediess of real, greirances, the correc-
tion of acknowledged abuses, the free administration of public
patronage, and a wise economy in the control of a public ex-
penditure." (Cries of " Hear, hear.") At a period when po-
litical parties were sacrificing principle to a love of place—at a
period when papists, regardless of their oaths—(Hear, hear)—
were combining with disappointed and disaffected men to over-
throw the church, dismember the United Kingdom, and en-
danger the existence of King and Lords, it became their especial
duty to rally round the throne and uphold their constitution in
church and state. They should recollect that union was strength,
and the formation of a conservative association would be the
means of establishing in that neighbourhood a proper focus for
the concentration of patriotic exertion in support of these prin-
ciples. The chairman concluded by remarking that they would
be happy to receive the assistance and co-operation of any in-,
dividual, however humble. (Cheers.)
Messrs. Warner, Longlands, Leeson, &c., then briefly ad-
dressed the meeting, and resolutions were passed to the effect
that the association should watch the registration of votes for
the county and the borough of Greenwich, and that it should
also ascertain how many gentlemen residing therein had votes
fur the city of London, in order to correspond and afford assist-
ance to the conservative association that had been formed there;
also to prepare and forward, as occasion might require, petitions
and addresses to the Kin': and parliament, and to carefully
watch over and promote whatever might tend to the preserva-
tion of their constitution in church and state.
The resolutions were all unanimously passed, and after the
meeting had appointed Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson, president;
Mr. Warner, vice-president; and a secretary and treasurer to
the society, a vote of thanks was passed to the chairman for his
able conduct in the chair.
Sir T. Wilson, 'in a short and powerful speech, acknowledged
the compliment the meeting had conferred on him. And a num-
ber of gentlemen enrolled their names as members of the asso-
ciation, and contributed liberal subscriptions towards forward-
ing the object it had in view.

EAST SURREY.
Thursday a numerous meeting of the members of the East
Surrey Conservative Society for the hundred of Brixton took
place at the Horns Tavern, Kennington. Mr. Nottege was in
the chair. Mr. Meymott, sen., in the absence of Mr. Clutton,
read the report. The following resolutions were then put and
carried :—"That Mr. Nottege be elected vice-president; Mr.
Weston, the banker, treasurer; that Mr. Edward Meymott,
solicitor, be elected secretary for the East Half Hundred; and
Mr. C. B. Luttly for the West Half Hundred of Brixton." A
list of subscriptions was read of considerable length, and con-
taining several liberal donations. After able speeches from the
chairman, Mr. Weston, Mr. Pritchard, Mr. Drew, Mr. E. Mey-
mott, Mr. B. C. Luttly, and the Rev. Abdy, a vote of
thanks was passed to the chairman for his liberal and useful
exertions in the cause. The chairman returned thanks, after
which the meeting broke up. The meeting consisted of some
of the most respectable and influential gentlemen residing in
this portion of the county.