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

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Majority for Entwisle ...

Mr. Entwisle arrived in Liverpool on Tuesday morning
boon after lOo'clock,accompanied by Col. Plu robe Tempest,
J. Ireland Blackburne, Esq., and other gentlemen. The
hon. candidate visited the polling booth and other places,
end was very warmly received.
Towards the close of the poll, the friends of Mr.
Entwisle, including v large number of the most respect-
able and influential gentlemen and freeholders of this
town and neighbourhood, congregated in the enclosed
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yard n front of the committee-room—all in excellent hu-
mour, notwithstanding the majority against their favourite
an 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
*"rong, 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 Lance-
shire, I have to congratulate you on the glorious triumph
Yolthave 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
151 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
Rouse to the Land's End—that you have manfully done
yourduty. (Loud cheers.) You have defeated the Anti-
tgritish
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
M Lancashire. (Immense cheering.)
to Three cheers were then
"Siregivn for Queen," " The
e ef Wellington,"
wisle," and others.
The assemblage was afterwards addressed in a most
amusing manner by a zealous young mechanic, a staunch
supporter of " Church and State," who stated that the
th .estant operatives had long been trampled upon, but if
would only stand true to each other they might defy
p their enemies, not excepting " O'Connell" and " the
A°P,„P„2:I, Prop,osed cheers for Sir Thos. Brancker, Mr.
givena- nir• 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 I 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
Vieina—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-
cipes 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

Majority for Stanley 23
()n the present occasion the returns from the same dis-
trict are as foll°ws :
Brown
Entwisle

Majority
So that with all the reaction in favour of the League
Ir. Brown has only polled 49 more votes that Mr. Stan-
eY—Mr• Entwisle only 83 lees than Mr. Wilbraham, who
had the Powerful fellowsh;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. Mr. Entwisle, 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 Air. 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
follows:
Entwisle
Brown 073

Majorit
About twelve o'clock,y 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
from Rochdale, playing the lively air of " Hurrah for the
bonnets of blue." None of the League party being pre-
sent, the Conservatives occupied both parts of the bus-
-1,,1,ng5• Amongst the gentlemen present we noticed—E.
.tatrley, Esq.,
I),ltckleY, Esq. NI.P., Thomas Fleming, Esq., Richard
Col. J. P. Tempest, Sir Thos. Brancker,
John Clare, Esq. jun., James Aspinall, Esq., Richard
thwson, Esq., James Lord, Esq., William Ford Hulton,
att•, Joseph Harrop, Esq., Albert Royds, Esq., James
Uearden, Esq., J. Greenall, Esq., H. C. Lacey, Esq.,
ames Fenton, Esq. John Drinkwatr, 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 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
havingduly the majority of y(,ur votes, I now declare him
elected your representative in Parliament. (Renewed
Cheering.)
Entwisle, who was in the same compartment of the
hustings with the High Sheriff, was then girded with the

sword and belt of a knight of the shire, amidst loud cheer-
ing from the assembled spectators.
The next ceremony was that of re-sealing up the polling
books. This being done, Mr. Entwisle was requested to
put his seal to them, and the High Sheriff caused procla-
mation' to be made inquiring if Mr. Brown was present;
the negativertrinwer to this inquiry, from a score of voices,
caused great Merriment
The indenture of return to the writ was then filled up,
and signed by the High Sheriff, and afterwards by the
following gentlemen :—Colonel Tempest, Sir Thomas
Brancker, Edmund Buckley, Esq., M.P., W. F. Hulton,
Esq., H. C. Lacey, Esq., and James Fenton. Esq.
Mr. Entwisle then presented himself for the purpose
of addressing the electors, and his appearance was greeted
with the most enthusiastic cheering. He spoke as follows :
Mr. High Sheriff and gentlemen,—Since our last meeting
at this spot, the contest has been fought, and, I am most
happy to say, has been won. (Cheers.) I congratulate
the electors of this division of the county,—at least those
of them who are my friends, for to offer congratulations
to the other party would be very ill received,—but I will
take the liberty to congratulate those electors who have
done me the honour to support me in this election, on the
result of their exertions. (Applause.) In proof that the
cause has been no slight or unimportant one, we may ap-
peal to the numbers that have been polled in this election,
those numbers amounting to upwards of 14,500 of the
electors of this most important district. (Hear, hear.)
That such an election, such a contest, could be carried on
with so little animosity, or ebullition of party spleen, or
resentment, I have been most happy to see—(applause) ;
and I am sure it must be satisfactory to every one of those
gentlemen who had been engaged in it that it has been so
carried on. Gentlemen, I may fairly say that this con-
test has been conducted on fair grounds ; the cause has
been fairly tried between the two candidates,—one on the
conservative interest, the other the candidate for the
league. (Hear.) I believe the question has been fairly
tried between those two parties on this occasion. Both
were found unprepared by the very untimely and melan-
choly event which has necessitated our coming here to-
day ; the forces of both were collected in haste ; there can
be no doubt that such was the case ; and I am happy to
think that the contest has been tried upon fair grounds,
though, in saying so, I am assuming that for which I shall
not have credit given me on the other side,—namely, that
in some measure at least the merits of the two candidates
were equal. (Applause.) I observe it was said that the
difference between us was as great as between the sun at
noon day and a farthing candle. (Hear, hear, and laugh-
ter.) Gentlemen, Ido not pretend to enter into compa-
risons ' • but I will take the liberty of treating this as only
one of those appellations which the party calling them-
selves liberals so liberally apply to all who take the liberty
of differing from them. (Loud applause.) When we were
here upon Friday last, we had another opportunity of ob-
serving the liberal manner in which those gentlemen con-
duct themselves. I will only allude to the circumstances
under which a third candidate was brought before the
electors,—(hear, hear)—for the purpose, whatever might
be the motive with which that gentleman was brought for-
ward, of serving only as an introduction for a speech for
the honourable member for Stockport, and for another
lecture in addition to all those we have received from the
league. lam threatened, on my appearance in the House,
to which I am destined to go as your representative
—(loud applause)—with being told by certain gentlemen
who have been expressing their opinions very freely in
Manchester, that I am to be visited with the weight of
their indignation, and to be told that 1 do not go to the
House of Commons as the representative of the electors
of this division of the county. (" You do," and applause.)
One of those gentlemen, at least, who has been at the
trouble of expressing his feelings on that subject, I think
ought not to indulge in any such terms as those in which
he threatens me. I allude to the honourable member for
Salford, who, upon a former occasion, to the beet of my
recollection, went to the House of Commons elected by a

majority of one, having given his vote in his own favour.
(Loud applause and laughter.) Now, gentlemen, that I
am returned by a majority of the voters in this district
they will not assume for an instant to doubt; but another
gentleman to whom I have alluded says I am sent there
by those who are driven to the poll like sheep. I should
be very willing to stake the issue of this or of any other
contest upon a comparison between the respectability and
independence of those electors of this division of the county
who have done me the honour to give me their support on
this occasion, and that of those electors by whom Mr.
Cobden himself is returned to the House of Commons. I
should have no fear for the result of such a comparison in
any impartial bands; and to them I would most willingly
commit it. I can only say that strengthened as I feel
myself to be by your support, and the support and counte-
nance with which I have been received in all pa its of the
county I have had the honour to visit in the course of
my canvass, I hope I shall feel myself able, as I certaisly
ought to feel myself able, to reply to any such arguments
as may be brought forward by any of those gentlemen.—
(Applause.) And it will notbe for want of a hearty good-will
in your cause if I omit to answer them in a proper manner.
—(Applause.) It is now my duty, gentlemen, to return
my most sincere thanks, and to hope that those exertions
which have been most freely given on this occasion may
not fail in future.—(Applause.) lam happy to be able to
add that many distant voters, many gentlemen residing at
a considerable distance, have lent their aid by coming in
numbers to the poll, feeling convinced that the importance
of the occasion demanded their services; and those ser-
vices have been most freely given.—(Cheers.) To all
those gentlemen I beg to offer my most sincere acknow-
ledgment, and in so doing, I am only expressing what is
the sense of tke electors at large. (Applause.) Mr.
Entwi,le then proceeded at considerable length to state
his intentions of supporting measures calculated to extend
manufactures, and tor the good of trade. He also alluded
to several inconsistencies and offensive epithets of Mr.
Cobden and others, and sat down amidst tumultuous
cheering.

Three cheers were then given for Lord Francis Egerton.
Mr. Eniwisle then proposed a vote of thanks to the
Sheriff.—Mr. W. F. Hulton seconded the motion, and it
was carried with prolonged cheering.
The High Sheriff, in acknowledgment, spoke as fol-
lows :—Gentlemen,--I beg leave to return my most sin-
cere thanks to you all,—to the gentleman who has done
me the honour to propose this vote of your approbation,
and to you who have just received it in the most flattering
way. As I told you, on my first appearance on these
hustings, on the first day of the election, it was my deter-
mination to act towards all parties with the strictest im-
partiality. ( Hear, hear.) I flatter myself, gentlemen,
that I have acted up to that determination,—that I have
done my duty impartially. (Loud applause.) Gentlemen,
most people know, I dare say, that I am opposed to the
Anti-Corn-Law League, and that I am a thorough Con-
servative. (Loud cheers.) On that occasion, gentlemen,
I told you that I did not show my politics; but those were
well known to you all ; and being a true Conservative, I
did expect that every act of mine connected with the elec-
tion would be remarked upon, and in an unfavourable
way, by many who were assembled on that occasion.
(Applause.) But, gentlemen, I did not expect that shame-
less falsehoods would have been published in the public
papers ; and although I care little for them,—they are of
very little consequence,ll-still I do say this, that where
false assertions are deliberately made and published,
they should meet with a deliberate denial. (Hear,
hear, hear.) And I do now most deliberately say, that
those parts of the papers which have referred to
me, reflecting upon me in a shameful way, are totally
untrue. (Loud applause.) lam told, in one paper, that
there was not the least obstacle to my,seeing the hands
held up round these hustings. In answer to that I say,
the very person who has made that assertion was himself
one of the obstacles to my seeing half the hands that were
held up. (Api lause, and a cry of " Through his clumsy
skull.") lam told, by the editor of another newspaper,
unfavourable to me, unfavourable to your present mem-
ber, and to the cause in which you were all engaged, that
I was heard to declare, before I gave my opinion as to
the state of the show of hands, that I thought there was
a majority in favour of the other candidate. (Hear, hear.)
Gentlemen, I beg to say most deliberately, that I said
nothing of the kind. (Loud applause.) 1 will tell you
what did take place. (Applause.) My assessor was in
doubt; he thought that there was perhaps a majority in
favour of Mr. Brown; but my assessor was not the she-
riff of the county ; he was not the person who was called
upon to declare for whom the majority was. Gentlemen, I
was appealed to by my honourable friend (Mr. Entwisle),
and by some of his friends on my left, who told me that
I could not see a number of the hands that were held up ;
and as you are all aware, there was a great number of
waggons here, (pointing to the front of the hustings) and
in those waggons stood the reporters for all the papers,
and they certainly did obstruct my view, so that I could
not see the hands. If Mr. Brown had appealed to me, I
certainly should have listened to him, and taken the show
of hands again, because it was my great endeavour to act
impartially, and to do my duty to both parties. (Applause.)
Gentlemen, I will not detain you longer, but will congra-
tulate you that the election has passed over in the peaceable
way in which it has been conducted throughout the county.
Gentlemen, I beg to thank you all for the compliment
which you have paid me, for this pledge which you have
given me of your approbation of my conduct. This makes
amends for every reflection that has been cast upon me.
(Loud cheers.)
This terminated the business. The conservative pro-
cession then returned, in the same order, to the Leigh
Arms, where Mr. Entwisle and a large number of his sup-
porters took luncheon. At half-past two Mr. Entwisle
returned to Manchester
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