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

Majority in favour of Mr. Entwisle on 1 427
the Gross Poll

LIVERPOOL DISTRICT.
ENTWISLE
BROWN

863

1083

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION.
THE LIVERPOOL COMMITTEE for conducting
the ELECTION of WILLIAM ENTWISLE,
ESQ. SIT DAILY at the CON ATIVE OFFICE, 24,
Harrington-street. • ..--'l---
EDMUND MOLYNEUX, Chairman.
May 13th, 1844.

TO THE ELECTORS OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE.
GENTLEM EN,
DI Y the sudden decease of your late most respected
13 representative, the Honourable R. BOOTLE \VII,.
BRA H 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 FOItWARD, and signed by many of
the most influential Gentlemen of South Lancashire, I
have ventured to assent to their request, in the hope that
the same principles which guided you upon the late
Election, and which were then so strongly expressed that
no opposing Candidate 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 attached to our Constitution, and to the
Established Church under which we live, and earnestly
desirous of maintainimr. the Rights and Liberties, both
Civil and Religious, of all chsses of the people of this
i Country. Teat these general principles are acceptable to
the Electors of this Division of the County, 1 have no
reason to doubt; hut 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-
dour of Trade as great as is compatible with the other
interests inseparably connect d 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 ray 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, uyil the present system shall have had a fair
and full trial, hut 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 regulati ms 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 tbat
it is in all probability the chief 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.
'HE LIVERPOOL COMMITTEE for conducting
1. the ELECTION of

WILLIAM BROWN, Esq.,
MEET DAILY St EASTWOOD'S ROYAL HOTEL..
MourficHs, aile-street,
Where LISTS of the COUNTY VOTERS may be seen.
and every information will be giv.en tcrthe FRIENDS of
FREE TRADE desirous of CANVASSING or otherwise
assisting in the approachintinection.

R E. HARVEY, Chairman.
Eastwood's Hotel, Moorfietds, Liverpool,
17th May, 1844.

TO THE ELECTORS OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE.
GENTLEMEN,
A DEPUTATION of Electors from Manchester, Li—
verpool, and other important parts of the County,
having requested me to allow myself to be nominated to
supply the vacancy in your representation caused by the
lamented death of the Honourable R. BOOTLE WILBRA-
I HAM, I have yielded to their request, and beg to announce
myself a CANDIDATE for the vacant seat for SOUTH
LANCASHIRE.
.1 am quite sensible that theree'rnany gentlemen to
whom this important trustnafght be delegated with much
greater advantage to your interests, if they could, with
convenience, devote the time necessary for your service.
I am, therefore, very far from arrogating to myself any
claim to your votes on private grounds.
Attached from principle and long habit to the Liberal
party, I shall, if elected, give my decided support to every
measure which will tend to advance the education and to
improve the condition of the great mass of our country-
men, convinced, as I am, that no greater security can be
given to the free institutions of England than that which,
arises from the increased intelligence and prosperity of
the industrious classes.

Upon many Zhjects of great interest which occupy a
prominent place in the public mind it is impossible to
dwell in the limits of this addeess. There is, however,
one question upon which I firmly believe the welfare of
the nation mainly depends, which involves at once all in-
terests, and which, i❑ my opinion, is quite as important
to the preservation of the property of the Landlord and
the interests of the Farmer, as it is to those of the Ma-
nufacturer, the Merchant, and the Artisan. Upon this'
most important question I desire to be distinctly under-
stood. It is a vital question. We may settle many other
matters of minor importance at our leisure, but this it is
dangerous to postpone. I have been ali my life engaged
in commerce, 1 have witnessed much of the growth of
our trade and manufactures, and I have also had opportu-
nities of knowing something of the trade of other coun-
tries ; and I am convinced that nothing can enable us to
maintain our position among other nations but PERFECT'
FREEDOM OF TRADE.
With unrestricted commerce and unfettered industry
we can defy competition in the wide range of manufac-
turing production, and our people might soon become, by
the result of their own exertions, the most happy and con-
tented in the world.

Here, in South-Laucashire, if any where, the cause of
free trade ought to triumph. I offer myself to your
choice as one of its most strenuous adysca,l,o Lard-Whilst
I regret that a more able person, entellniarig,tliese
has not been found to solicit your kages, I can sin-
cerely assure you that no man can baxnere-'anxious than
I am to witness the speedy success of.ibill(reat cause.
I have the honour to b 4 _
Your faithful spivant,
WI LLJAM
Richmond 11111, Liverpool, May 10, 1844. -

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