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

June 4, 1844.

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION.

The election for the southern division of this county
Was resumed, on Tuesday last, with considerable spirit.
of announced during the day in several editions the state
‘_,ol the voting at the respective polling booths—and
Boon after nine, by extraordinary expresses, we were
enabled to present to the public the final state of the
Poll through the various districts. which differed but
slightly from the official return. We now, however, re-
print some interesting particulars, which it may be im-
portant to register for subsequent reference.
The following is the amended return of the first day's
polling:__

Majority for
Entwisle. Brown.
359

Entwisle. Brown.
Newton .. 778 419
Ashton ****
263 286
y80r0n........ *****
613 402
419 439 20
Mancl;este; : * 1357 1464 107
Oldham • 216 325 .. 109
Rochdale ****
364 550 186
Liverpool .... ••
863 1083 220
Ormskirk •
an • ••
399 219 .. 180

5967 5510 .. 1092 665
665

Gross Majority first day for Entwisle.... 427

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

Entwisle. Brown.
Newton, 2 30, P.M. BB5 486
Ashton, 12, A.M 293 421
Bolton, 12, A.m.
661 424
Bury, 12, A.M447 487
Manchester, 1 P.m..
1259374 1637341452
Oldham, 12, A.M.
Rochdale, 11 30, A. 3,1. .
444
Liverpool, 3 30, P.M.
1245 1430
OrreSkirk, I P.M
Wigan, 11 45, A.m..... •• • • ***** 457 242

- -
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
Manchester, at4o'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. 495 264 .. 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,
J. 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.
ntwisle, 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 hil-
l:l3°lz, 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.
tehr,ong,
The gallant colonel ascended to address the assembled
and some time elapsed before he could proceed,
-13 'oud 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
look
,You have this day achieved. You have shown the Anti-
British League that you know how to conduct an election,
after your real interests, withouting insu
bYtndhire d lecturers and itinerant spouters, who havelted no
connexion with your county. (Great Cheers.) The news
Will rapidly pass from east to west ; from Johnny Groat's
House 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-
itister
!"—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
.-'lllce of
Welling ton, " " Sir T. Brancker," " Mr. Ent-
and others.
„Tub:
rn
i„assehlage was afterwards addressed in a most
sp -g manner by a zealous young mechanic, a staunch
Protestant
of Church and State," who stated that the
r otestant operatives had long been trampled upon, but if
they
would only stand true to each other they might defy
alltheir enemies, not excepting " O'Connell" and " the
Pope. 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 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,
were
at which resolutions in favour of the Free Trade dogmas
Row hap
passed by tremendous majorities ! How's this ?
pens it that in South Lancashire, the very seat
and centre of the cotton ma nufacture, the agriculturists
should be so marvellously unanimous in their opposition to
e, 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
gtfici.ua—of the Lemuite agitation! It was confidently
Predicted that Mr. Brown would have a tremendous ma-
jority here—the reaction in favour of the sweeping prin-
ciples 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
llanchester district was as follows :
Stanley
Wilbraham

Majority for Stanley 23
On the present occasion the returns from the same dis-
trict are as follows :
Brown lBl7
Entwisle

Maj
So that with all the reority action in favour of the League
Mr. Brown has only polled 49 more votes that Mr. Stan-
ley--Mr. Entwisle only 83 less than Mr. Wilbraham, who
had the powerful fellowship 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
The High
place on Thursday, at Newton-in-the-Willows. Th '
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 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
ioilowdsis.covered, and the gross voting was found to be as
Entwisle 7571
Brown
....

About Majority
twelve o'clock, Mr. Entwisle's friends formed a
Procession from the Leigh Arms to the hustings,
Pr accom-
illed by a great number of banners and a band of music
°l7a Rochdale, playing the lively air of " Hurrah for the
bonnets of blue." None of the League party being pre-
rut, the Conservatives occupied both parts of the hus-
bitrley, Esq
ngs• Amongst the gentlemen present we noticed—E.
--!lekleY, Esq. M.P., Thomas Fleming, Esq., Richard
Tempest, Sir Thos. Brancker,
4bn Clare Esq. jun., James Aspinall, Esq., Richard
Rawson, Esq., James Lord, Esq., William Ford Hulton,
—N., Joseph Harrop, Esq., Albert Royds, Esq., James
Yearden, Esq., J. Greenall, Esq., H. C. Lacey, Esq.,
James Fenton Es. John Drinkwater, Esq., &c.
The High Sheriff, 'who was labouring under consider-
able indisposition, retired to the Horse and Jockey Inn,
"
4 the purpose of casting up the votes. In about half 'an
%a hour he returned, and having taken his place in the
centre of the hustings, said—
Gentlemen --It 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 your votes, I now declare him
duly e'ected 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