The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-02 00:00:00

MEETING OF LORD SANDON'S FRIENDS.

Yesterday a meeting of the friends of Lord Sandon was held
in the large room of the Golden. Lion, for the purpose of taking
steps to secure his return to parliament at the ensuing election.
At twelve o'clock a great number of burgesses and other inha-
bitants of the town were collected together, and shortly after-
wards the meeting presented one of the most numerous and re-
spectable assemblages that have ever been collected on a simi-
lar occasion.

On the motion. of Mr. ADAM HODGSON, seconded by Alder-
man Sir THOMAS BRANCKEIt, CHARLES LAWRENCE, Esq., was
called to the chair amidst loud applause.

The en tamasi, in opening the-business of the meeting, said,
adissolation of parliament having been formally announced, i
was their, duty to adopt measures for again placing their worthy
and talented representative, Lord Sandon, in the post which he
had so honourably filled. (Loud cheers.) It was quite unne-
cessary for him to enlarge on the valuable services which his
lordship had rendered to the town. It was impossible for any
man in his situation to have done his duty both to their local
interests and also to the interests of the country in a more dis-
tinguished and praiseworthy manner. (Hear, hear, and loud
applause.) He trusted it would be the uuaninsout opinion of
that meeting that every exertion should be made to place him
in the same situation, that they might again have the advantage
of so. valuable, so trustworthy a representative. (Much ap-
plause.) •
Mr. Alderman HOItSF ALL then rose, and was received with
continued cheering. He said it was with considerable reluctance
that he came forward, to take a part in .any meeting,
much more a politiCal one. On the present occasion, however,
he was impelled by a sense of the duty which he owed to Lord
Sandon, and to the inhabitants of Liverpool, to tender his hum-
ble assistance at this time. Lord Sandon's services during the'
list three yeais were known to them all, almost as well as they
were to himself ; but, "nevertheless, he might have had some op-
portunities of witnessing them, which others, perhaps; had not;
and from his own experience he could say, that he had never
seen greater diligence and assiduity than LOnd Sandon had dis-
played in cOnducting.the business of every individual who had
had occasion to come in contact with him. (Great cheering.)
Above all, he had admired his lordship's independent conduct
on all occasions. (Hear, and cheers.) He believed he had
never given a vote in the house of Commons that was not a
conscientious one. (Loud cheers.) That was the man to look
to for serving the town. (Rapturous applause.) He had served
them faithfully, and would serve them faithfully again, if re-
elected. (Cheers.) What his lordship's present views were
they had an opportunity of reading. in much better language
than he could command. In the spirit of that address he was
sure his lordship would act, and if he did so, he was sure he
would well discharge his duty. (Loud cheers.) That he was
a true conservative no man, he thought, could doubt ; and vet
he believed him to be an honest reformer. No human institu-
tions were perfect, and wherever abuses were found to exist,
he was sure his lordship would be one to remove them, and to
place those institutions on a safe and permanent footing. He
was not a man to destroy our institutions, but to preserve them.
(Great applause.) With their permission he would now read
the resolutions.—[This and the subsequent resolutions will be
found in our advertising columns. All the resolutions' were car-
ried unanimously, and with unbounded applause.).
Mr. James Hey worrin said, animating as was the spectacle
there presented to them, and cheering
.as were those demonstra-
tions of ardent and voluntary support in the cause of conserva-
tism, of truth,"of honour, and of public welfare, he felt, on the
present occasion under considerable embarrassment as to the
mode of proceeding which he should adopt, because he felt that
an excitement had already been produced in their minds so
highly favourable to the success of their efforts that he was
almost afraid to weaken it by any observations of his own.—
(Cheers.) He believed they were all well acquainted with the
worth and character of Liird Sandon. (Loud cheers.) He
was a conservative, not in the sense of those who wished to
bring the term into disrepute, by attaching to it an idea of de-
termined resistance to all change and a desire to perpetuate all
abuses. (Hear, hear.) That was a foul invention, and a slan-
derous accusation against those whose object it was to lend all
their efforts and their energies to the support'of the institutions
and the constitution of the country. (Loud cheers.) Had they
not lived under the benign influence of a constitution so wisely
framed, in King, Lords,'and Commons, reaping from its whole-
some operation, and the protection of a gracious Providence,
those benefits which had made us a wonder to surrounding
nations, as possessing advantages which no other nation had,—
and should they be lukewarm in the defence of those advan-
tages ? (Tremendous cheering, and cries of " No, no !") But
while they would reverence and respect the institutions and the
constitution of this country, they were as forward and more so
than their opponents to correct any abuses which had crept into
them.. (Hear, and Much applause.) The object, the design,
and the direction of the politics of their opponents was, in too
many instances—for he knew there were exceptions—to
destroy. (Loud- cheers.) There was a great question which
would shortly be agitated, and that was the reform of the church
establishment. He reverenced that establishment. (Cheers.) He
held it to be the duty, and the first duty of every government
to. provide relieious education for the tooelo. (inosiense •stp-
plause.). He aid contend, notwithstanding the many malicious
imputations that had been cast upon her, that she had proved
herself the depositary of sacred truth, that she had furnished
consolation. to thousands and millions of, the people, and had
served to perpetuate,her prosperity. by the righteous principles
i which she inculcated.—(E cheering.) In thus giving
leis candid, unbiassed, and, impartial opinion in favour of the
church establishment, he was not to he considered as inimical
.to the interests of those who dissent from her.—( Hear, hear.)
He would wish to see enlarged charity prevail; and he knew no
source from which issued a large and a more unbounded charity
than the church of England displayed towards those who dif-
fered from her.--(Reiterated applause.) With respect to the
late representative, he need not go into a detail of his merits.
They had already been delineated in a powerfulsmanner by Mr.
Horsfall, and they were exhibited in his lordship's conduct.—
(Cheers.) They were not now preparing to elect a stranger—
to, bring forward an individual whose claims, were unknown,
His lordship had been tried and he had been found faithful,
both as regarded their local interests and the great interests of
the kingdom.—(Much cheering ) In the honesty, and inte-
grity of his mind he had deemed it his duty to resist a sweeping
condemnation and utter extinction of a large and valuable body of
the freemen of thistewn. He had done so because he did not wish
to condemn the innocent with the guilty—he had done it in the
equity and the uprightness of a mind superior to party feeling
and iarty polities,—(cheers,)—and in the discharge of the proud
duty of opposing, those who from the rancour of disappointment,
after having first betrayed and brought under the yoke of bond-
age the objects of their persecution, were basely 'clamouring
for vengeance against them.—(Shouts of applause.) He was
much indebted to the meeting for the patience with which they
had heard him; and if he had not acquitted himself so well in
behalf of Lord Sandon as they might have wished, he hail this
consolation, that they were all too well convinced of the purity
and the excellence of his lordship's character• to need any for-
cible appeal from him. He had great pleasure in seconding
the resolution.
The resolution having been put and carried, •
Mr. JoaN Moss, said he had placed in his hand the ngxt
resolution to be submitted for the adoption of -the meeting, and
he felt particular pleasure in moving it. lie was 'present in
London during the: passin of the Liverpool .freemen disfran-
chisement bill, nod couldb g ear testimony to the indefatigable
exertions of the noble lord,. and the gallant manner in which he
had fought the battle a the freemen. (Cheers.) Ile • would-
call upon every frei!man who heard him to respond to the call
and unite cordially in support of the noble lord, who had stood"
alone in defence Of their rights (cheers) at a time when their
other member basely shrunk from vindicating their character,
on the plea that there existed two parties in the town whose
views were at variance on this question. (Cheers.) He hoped
they would succeed in returning two men to parliament who
would promote tie interests of the town and advance the real
happiness orthe country. Ai it was necessary that they should
use every exertion in securing the election of the noble lord he