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

1092 665
665

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

__— -
Newton, 2 30, P.M.... Ent
BwBlss 1e . B r4402871n .
Ashton, 12, A.M
293
Bolton 12 A.M.661 424
BurY, 12, A.M447 487
Manchester, 1 P.M..
.1597 1735
234 342
Oldham, 12, A.M. '
Rochdale, 11 30, A.M.
Liverpool, 3 30, P.M.
Ormskirk, I P.M, 9lO 449
457 242
Wigan, 11 45, A.m.

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
Blanchester, 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. 495 261 .. 231 ..
7571 6973 1378 780
780

Majority for Entwisle

Mr. Entwisle arrived in Liverpool on Tuesday morning
soon afterlOo'clock,accompanied by Col. Plumbe Tempest,
d. 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.
Entwi
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 ha-
lunar, 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 clapping of hands ; and on Colonel Tempest
aPproaching in the crowd, the applause was redoubled.
The gallant colonel ascended to address the assembled
thrung, 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,
tuld look after your real interests, without being insulted
bhired lecturers and itinerant spouters, who have no
e...u.n,inexion with your county. (Great Cheers.) The news
-6.1" rapidly pass from east to west ; from Johnny Groat's
Souse to the Land's End—that you have manfully done
Your duty. (Loud cheers.) You have defeated the Anti-
British League. I would, however, strongly urge upon
You 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.)
Three cheers were then given for " The Queen," " The
Duke of Wellington," " Sir T. Brancker," " Mr. Ent-
wisle." and others.
The
assemblage was afterwards addressed in a most
supporter of amusing manner by a zealous young mechanic, a staunch
" Church and State," who stated that the
_
e testant operatives had long been trampled upon, but if
thY would only stand true to each other they might defy
all their enemies, not excepting " O'Connell" and " the
OPe." He proposed cheers for Sir Thos. Brancker, Mr.
Aspinall, Mr. Harbord, Mr. Birkett, &c., which were
given with enthusiasm, and the assemblage dispersed.

Liverpool is the only place which has tailed 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 tilers of the soil,
at which resolutions in favour of the Free Trade dogmas
were passed by tremendous majorities 1 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
o. Gina—of the Leaguite agitation ! It was confidently
predicted. that Mr. Brown would have a tremendousma-
-7?"tY here—the reaction in favour of the sweeping prin-
ciples of Free Trade had been so great since the list 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

1798

1775

Majority for Stanley 23
On the present occasion the returns from the same dis-
trict are as follows :
Brown ..
Entwisle

1817
1692

Majority ..
So that with all the reaction in favour of the League
Mr, Brown has only polei 49 more votes that Mr. Stan-
ley—Mr. Entwisle only 83 less than M r. Wilbraham, who
had the powerful fellov‘sh;p 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. Dr
art:ivendtwatislaboabuctcoatmiqpuaatritieedr
by a large body of his friends,
to ten, having travelled from Manchester by the
&Clock train. Mr. Brown did not make his
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 forrnaliti,:s. At that time Mr. Entwisle
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
follws:—

Entwisle
Brown .

.. 7571
.. 6973

Majority
About twelve o'clock, Mr. Entwisle's friends formed a
procession from the Leigh Arms to the hustings, accom-
panied by a great number of banners and a band of music
front Rochdale, playing the lively air of " Hurrah for the
bonnets of blue." None of the League party being pre-
:Put, the Conservatives occupied both parts of the bus-
ings• Amongst the gentlemen present we noticed—E.
13!Ackley, Esq. M.P., Thomas Fleming, Esq., Richard
Jl,l.leY, Esq., Col. J. P. Tempest, Sir Thos. Brancker,
"n Clare, Esq. jun James Aspinall, Esq., Richard
Dawson, Esq., James Lord, Esq., William Ford Hutton,
De., Joseph ilarrop, Esq., Albert Royds, Esq., James
arden, Esq., J. Greenall, Esq., H. C. Lacey, Esq.,
lames Fenton, Esq., John Drinkwater, Esq., &c.
Ile 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 hustings, 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 y.,ur votes, I now declare him
duly erected 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