The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-28 00:00:00

TO THE ELECTORS OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE.
GENTLEMEN,
BY the sudden decease of your late most respected
representative, the Honourable R. BOOTLE WIL-
BRA ET AM, the trust committed to him by you, and fulfilled
through a period of several years, with untiring assiduity,
has returned into your own hands, and it has become
requisite for you to elect a successor. It is with great
diffidence that I offer myself to fulfil those duties, from a
deep sense of their importance, and of the vast interests
involved in the discharge of them ; but having received
the honour of a REQUISITION CALLING UPON
ME TO COME FORWARD, and signed try many of
the most influential Gentlemen of South Lancashire, I
have ventured to assent to their request, in the hope that
the same principks which guided you upon the late
Election, and which were then so strongly expresSed that
no opposing Cand,cla'e was found on the hustings, may
still prevail, and that my claim to your support may be
allowed to rest on them rather than on any grounds of an
individual character.

I am sincerely attaclrd to our Constitution, and to the
Established Church under which we live, and earnestly
desirous of maintaininz the Rights and Liberties, both
Civil and Religious, of all cl,sses of the people of this
Country. That these general principles are acceptable to
'the Electors of this Division of the County, 1 have no
reason to doubt; tut I am quite aware that there are
other questions of
.a more specific character on which
there is much greater difference of opinion. That a free-
dom of Trade as great as is compatible with the other
interests inseparably connected with those of Commerce
is indispensable to the welfare of the large and enterpris-
ing towns of this Division, cannot for a moment be
doubted, and I always shall be desirous to promote their
interests to the utmost of my power. I have seen with
great satisfaction that since the accession of the present
Ministry to office, these views have been fully recognised
and carried into effect by a considerable modification of
our Corn•laws, and by a complete revision of the Tariff
of Import Duties, and the result has been a most gratify-
ing improvement in the Trade of this District, and the
prosperity of the Country. To what extent any further
alterations may be desirable it would be premature to
consider, un'il the present system shall have had a fair
arid full trial, but I avow myself decidedly opposed to
those who, under a pretext of the necessities of Com-
merce, would violently and recklessly sweep away all
protective regulations in favour of that other section of
the community employed in the cultivation of the land,
whose welfare is not less vital to the country than that of
Commerce itself.

I have thought it necessary to be thus explicit on this
point, as it is at once a mater
.of the greatest importance
to the Electors of this Division, that the interests of
Commerce and Manufactures should be always a primary
object with the Legislature, and because I am aware that
it is in all probabilly the chid topic on which you will be
urged to support another Candidate, whose Address has
already been circulated among you.
It will be my desire to explain myself more fully and
personally to all the Electors as early as possible.
1 am, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient Servant.
WM. ENTWISLE.

Manchester, 11th May, 1814.

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION.
THE LIVERPOOL COMMITTEE for conducting
the ELECTION of

WILLIAM BROWN. Esq.,
MEET DAILY at EASTWOOD'S ROYAL HOTEL,
Aloorfiells, D.le-street,
Where LISTS of the COUNTY VOTERS may be seen,
and every information will be given to the FRIENDS of
FREE TRADE desirous of CANVASSING or otherwise
assisting in the approaching Election.
R E. HARVEY, Chairman.
Eastwood's Hotel, Moorfields, Liverpool,
17th May, 1844.