The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-09 00:00:00

TO THE ELECTORS OF LI \ ERPOOL.

GfiNTLELIEN Ann FELLOW-TOWNSMEN,
ACCEPT my warmest thanks For the support which, during
the late arduous contest, I have had th ()flour to receive
from you.
Great exertions have been requisite t ounteract the efforts
of the enemies of reform. They,hay put in motion every-
stratagem which experience suggest ,or which wealth and
power could execute.
1 most sincerely congratulate ton the failure of their
attempts. For, though two reform embers have not been se-
cured for Liverpool, she has hen spared the political eccen-
tricity of being represenqd by two opponents of reform.
In my future con.duct, gentlemen, as in the past, 1. shall be
actuated by an earnest desire to remove abuses, to promote the
unlimited extension of commerce, and to procure for the people
the blessin;s.i, of education and good government.
1 be 4", you once more to aecept the assurance of my most sin-
cere gratitude, and _

I remain,
Gentlemen and Fellow-townsnten,
Your most faitilfui Servant,
WIELIAM EWART.

Liverpool, January 7th, 1835,

Final state of the poll, declared by the returning officers:—
Mr. Ewalt.... 4(175
Lord Sandon .... 4407
Sir Howard Douglas.
Mr. Morris

• SIR HOWARD DOUGLAS, ART. •
tirltHE Committee appointed to ciindu • the ELECTION of
SIR HOWARD DOUGLAS, I rt., beg to express their
warmrst acknowledgments to the a assers for the very great
exertions made by them on the oc r on of the late Election.
NICHOLA.: MBINSON -Chairman.
Committee Room, King's Arms, _th Jan., 1r4.397

ALL Persons having any legal Clai a against the COM-
MITTEE for conducting- the .LECTION of SIR
HOWARD DOUGLAS, Bart., are quested to send in the
same forthwith to the Office of Mr. Turt WazGHT,3O. Bruns-
wick-street, in order that the same nay be examined and die-
charged. NICHOLAS ROBINO,ON, Chairman.
Committee Room, St/i January, 1835. /

SOUTH LANCASHIIi E
THE CO NI Al urrEE for CON D ;TING the ELECTION
of LORD FRANCIS E E 'ON and the HONOUR-
ABLE R. BOOTLE WILE . lAhl, for this DIVISION
.of the COUNTY will meet D. at Eleven o'Cluck, at No.
10, Exchange-alley, whore Info nation resvecting the Election
it is requested may be communicated.
' I.IICHARp I)AWSON, Secretary.

Onr v:zilant sentinels descry an advancing foe. The enemy
has reached the portals of cur ancient Universities. Some esw
have already gained a footing within the walls. Whose arm
has been uplifted to -batter down these cities, fenced by pure
religion and guarded by the soldiers of the Cross Sir—it is
your own.
I presume then to declare for myself—to hope for others, that
no sednvtion of world!} profit, regard, or ambition, can induce
such a alirrender of the spiritual interests of the people as would
be included in a vote given to
you.
lhave the honour to be,
Sir,
Sour &Ceti ienk servant,
W. .11 ULTON.
Milton Park, Jan. 1, 1835.

TO THE ELECTORS 01? THE SOUTHERN DIVISION
OF TILE COUNTY OF LANCASTER.

Ow.=Emsrs,
TN deierenceto a requisition which embodies the wishes of
large and. most respectable portion of the constituency of
outh Lancashire, I presentmvself to your notice as a Candi-
date for the honour of being chosen to represent you in Ow
House of CoMmons,- in the event of an- early dissolution of
Pa rl i ment.
Circumstances, which have crinnected me with t ade, the
manufactures, and the agriculture of this part o is kingdom,
enable me to solicityour suffrages oirthe a• it f a community
of interest which makes your prosperity . its reverse, in an
unusual degree, sensibly and immediat my own. That oar
common prosperity may best be maintained and advanced un-
der those institutions of church and state, beneath the influence
of which it has sprung and flourished, I firmly believe. If I
become your representative, I shall therefore oppose, to the •ut-
tnogt of my ability, any measures of change which may appear
to me to involve the .subversion of those institutions, or such-
inroad upon them as may appear designed or calculated to pre-
pare the way for that subversion.
Anxious, however; as I am to uphold all that is valuable in
our establishments; and considering, under the circumstances
of the time, the task of their conservation the prominent and
most arduous duty of Your representative,- I am not the loss de-
sirous to aid the judicious and Well-considered correction of de-
fect or abuse; and I am careful to distinguish between the
clamour for indefinite change, or fur revolution clearly defined,
and the general desire of the people, or the just petition of any
portion of the people, for such alterations as may be justified
by demonstration of existing injury, or reasonable calculation
or contingent-goOd.—l have the honour to be, gentlemen, your
faithful anti obedient servant,
Wordey, Dec. 3d, 1831. FRANCIS -EGERTON.

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE SOUTHERN DIVISION
OF THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER.

GENIE ESIEN,
TN compliance with the urgent solicitation or a numerous and
influential body of the Electors of the Southern Division.
of Lancashire, I am induced to offer myself to you as a CA..N-
DIDATE for the Representation of this Division, in the tent
of an approaching Election.
I have hitherto not taken any active part in political' life, but
I consider that the time has arrived when no man "Kuhl refuse
to obey a public call to express and act np to)hose priVciples
which he conceives hest calculated to promo he welfare and
prosperity of his Country.
I am firmly convinced that nor Constitution is best secured to
as in violateunder the Institntions of Church and State combined,
beneath which it has so long flourished; and with that view I
would firmly oppose any attempt either direct or indirect to se-
Prrate them ; nor would I consent to the Alienation. of Church
roperty in any part of the United Kingdom from strictly Ec-
clesiastical purposes.
I profess myself a Conservative, and with those sentiments ant
determinedto uphold all emir valuable Institutions, not blinding
rnyc,,lf a 0 y CIC fC CIS or dbUecat .uu) hase Cltpt into Mein:
but willing and anxious to improve them by judicious correc-
tion, at the same time carefully distinguishing between what is
sanctioned by manifest decay or existing injury. and what is
demanded by clamour and party virulence, at once involving
indefinite change and certain destruction.

I have only to add, that should I have the honour to become
one of your Representatives, it will be my earnest endeavour to
fulfil, to the utmost of my abilities. the duties of thlt distinguished
office; and the consideration that I am employed in the service
of my native County, to which I am warmly attached, will be an
additional motive for my zealous efforts to promote its prosperity.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to be,
Your aedient hUmble Servant,
It. BOOTLE WHAM .1 LIAM.
Blythe, &hod° y Evening, bee, a), 1831

TOTEIEGETHY,CLERGY; ANTI OTHER ELECTOR

OF TII E NORTEIEEtN' IJI`~ISfo OF 'FILL LOUR'
PALATINE OF LANCASTER.
Gr.NTLEMEN.
A Dissolution of the late Parliament haring talr-
-tli lose no time in respectfully announcing, to •
tion of again becoming a Candidate for thy►'
renting the Northern Division of Lancast✓
C.onmons.

place, r

, ii my inten-
nour of repre-
iu the House of

In doing so, I venture to hope that my conduct in the lato
Parliament, bcth as regards the local interests of the County,
and the general duties of a representative, has been such as
to merit a continuance of that confidence which you were
pleased to repose in me at the last General Election.
I have steadily supported those principles which I have pro-
fessed from the time I first had the honour of meeting you as a
Canditate for ynur suffrages.
My main object,-as it was my main and most important duty,
has been to support our National Institutions in their utmost
integrity, to protect them from all attacks, and to strengthen
them by such judicious alterations, and the removal of such
abuses, as the process of time or the particular circumstances
of the country might require.
I have not been inattentive to those burdens under which
this Country is now labouring, of which, since I have had the
honour of a seat in Parliament, I have endeavoured to exact as
great an alleviation, by the reduction of taxation and an econo-
my in the public expenditure, as was consistent with public,
faith and national credit.

I appeal with confidence to those of my Constituents who
hove had opportunities of judging, whether I have been negli-
gent or otherwise of those important interests of this great
County, which it is the more immcdiete duty of alicpreiciita-
rive to take under his charge. In matters of a local nature, I
have cursued- a course uninfluenced by private or partial feel-
ings, and. in these, as in my public conduct generalty, have
been alone guided by a desire to promote the welfare and hap-
piness of all classes of tha community in which I have the good
fortune to live.

Whether I have succeeded in these objects it is far you to
determine; but I venture to look forward to the approaching
Election with couli;ience, and shall then he ready to afford you
any further explanation of my past conduct which you mac ho
plaused to demand from me, and which I may have omitted
withia Use prawribed•lito its of the present address..
I have the honour to be,
Gentl,men,
Your obedient humble Servant,
Sank Hall, Dee. 31st, 1831. 1. WILSON PArrEN.

TO TUE ELECTOU OF THE NORTI-lERN DIVISION
ON' ruE COUNTY PALATINE Oil LANCASTER

- GENTLEMEN,
TII E expected Dissolution of Parliament being this day an-
nounced, I hasten again to offer myself as a CAISYDI-
DATE for the honour of representing the N - UTIIERN
DIVISION of this COUNTY. Ai y public co act, in °flirt,
and out of office, is before you; my political pr. iciples are well
known to you; and my conscience tells me ti t I have taken no
step since I last was honoured with your conaulence by which I
should deserve to forfeit it.
.r
I am, as I ever have been, a zealon 41:i.arnest advocate for
044
such reforms in our institutions, cede cal as well as civil,
as may remove just causes of complai , may extend their use-
fulness, and increase their efficiency; I am, as I ever have
been, anxious to protect those institutions against such innova-
tions as may endanger their safety or their existence. 1 ceased
to belong to the tato administration because, having cordially co-
operated in the various measures of reform which they bas in,
traduced, I feared the destructive tendency of an important step
to which they had been led to give their assent; I declined to
join thnt which is now formed, because I bad no public peptide,'
° r ewould boldly aul strenuously act upon
thoselitiridnneeiee thatples they
reform which I believe to he essential to.the
natiooal welfare. I come before you, therefore, unfettered by
any tie of party, bound only by those principles which 1 have.
unvaryingly professed, on, which I have constantly acted, and,.
prolessiug which, I have already been twice honoured with your.
support. •
IV
Should you again return me to . Parliament, I go thither
pledged neither to support nor to oppose, the present nor any
ot her setof ministers. Should 1 find that the King's government,
however composed, gives full and tree scope to the principles to
.which every day's reile•ction serves but to confirm my attach,
ment, I shall give them my humble but cordial aid towards
carrying them into effect; should 1 find them rashly codanger-
tug the institutions of the country. I shall labonr earnestly to
protect those institutions ; should I find them slow to remedy
acknowledged grievances, or madly' resisting the rational desire
of temperate improvement, my voice will be but one among the
vast majority of my countrymen, who will compel them to ad-
vance in the steady progress of unflinching but eoustitutional
reform.
Resolved to act on these principles, having no object in view
but the welfare of our roomier country, and ready to offer the
fullest explanation.upon any part of my past conduct or future
intentions which you may deem to require it, 1 respectfully so-
licit at your hands the renewal of the high trust which you have
already twice confided to me.
I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your obliged Al la taithrt4 servant,
Knotvaey, Dec. 315t,.1;834, . . '-1'.1,7'q.,E1f

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

LIVERPOOL.-WEDNESDAY.

This morning the tug of war again commenced. At an early
hour the forces on the different sides were in motion: iu every
direction parties were seen bustling about, their anxious coun-
tenances betokening the seriousness of the impending struggle,
and every thought seeming to be thrown aside, except of the
anig!ity conflict in which all were to be shortly engaged. "Now
or never" appeared to be written iu the looks of all. At eight
o'clock the polling began. It was soon apparent that a great
effort had been made during the night by the liberals. The
blues and the pink and green mustered in powerful numbers,
and, for the first hour or two, nothing could stand against them.
Every nerve was strained to carry the victory by a seep de main,
aad for some time the movement appeared to be eminently suc-
cessful. Up to twelve o'clock the reforming candidates conti-
nued to gain upon their opponents. At that tune Mr. Ewart
had attained the nsaximum*of his elevation, as compared with
Lord Sandon, the differenr4 in his lordship's favour being then
about 15d; consequently, as his lordship. had set out with a
majority of 237, Mr. Ewart must have gained upon him to the
amount of 147 votes. Shortly before this time, too, the "blue"
candidate had passed Sir Howard Douglas, and continued
gaining upon him until about noun, when the gallant general
was iu a minority of 120.
At this point, however, the tide began to turn. Tho over-
strained exertion that had been made was ualurally succeeded
by exhaustion. The radical nerves began to relax, and though
Mr. Ewart still maintained his superiority over Sir Howard
Douglas, yet the voting, both at the bars of the gallant baronet
and at those of L3rd Sandon, proceeded in a greater ratio than
at these of the liberal candidates.

From this time the conservatives kept steadily gaining upon
their opponents. The votes of the freemen, who had evidently
kuuK back in the morning, perhaps with a. view to make their
services inure felt by withhusdiug them till they became more
necessary, and thus to have-the honour of the victory, now
began to tell. Every half-hour's return sho,ved• an increase
upon tile preceding, and it was evident that a crisis was ap-
proaching. Symptoms of alarm, which had manifested them-
selves inure or iess throughout the morning, now became very
general, and anticipatious of defeat vented themselves in sundry
expressious of angry feeling and party manteuvres, such as
blocking up the way Li the poding booths, to obstruct the
Voters on the winning side, &c. Tins petty mode of warfare at
length became SO troublesome, that the committees of Lord
Sandell aud Sir Howard Douglas were cempelled. to give di-
rections to their voters to lay aside their colours, in order to
get up to the booths without interruption.
It was now a neck-and-neck race between Sir Howard and
Mr. Ewart, and everyone saw that it was by these two cham-
pions that the palm of victory must be contested. Mr. Morris
had fallen to a level which rendered his return hope:ess, and
Lord &aion had shot so far a-head as to be not now approach-
atria. In this way the contest continued to be waged until half-
past two o'clock, when, for reasons uo doubt arising from a just
regard to the peace of the town, his worship the Mayer gave di-
rections that no more official statements should be issued. Con-
sequently, from this time up to the close of the pull, the precise
relative position of the candidates was unknown, aud contradic-
tory returns serried to render the state of the case still more
ambiguous. Noth more could be positively ascertained as
to the state of the poll except that Lord Sandell was at the head
and Mr. Morris at the tail. . _

At four o'clock the hustings were closed amidst much cheer-
ing, iud the state of the poll was as follows :
Sanduu 1,407
Ewart . 1 075
• Douglas. 3,869
Morris 3 627

Ilajority of Lord Saudon over Mr. Ewart.... 3.31
Mr. Ewart over Sir 11. Douglas
Mr. Ewarl's majority over Lord Sandon, at the last election,
was 671. _ . _

The appearance of Castle-street and the neighbourhood of
the Exchange, during the afternoon. was animating beyond de-
scription. Throughout the .day, indeed, anxious groups were
to be seen congregated in various parts, eagerly speculating
upon the result of the contest: but as the eventful hour ap-
proached, the attendants of every grade and character thickened
into an immense mass, which was continually swelled by fresh
arrivals from all quarters of the town, until Castle-street and
the top of Dale-street presented a dense and almost impenetra-
ble multitude of human beings. On both sides of the streets,
as, indeed, in many other pasts of the town, flags and stream-
ers were exhibited from the upper windows, giving to the street,
in combination with the crowds of people below, the most splen-
did and imposing appearance imaginable. Numbers of ele-
etitly-dressed females were also to be seen at the windows, en-
joying the sight, and displaying the inierest they took by re-
peatedly waving their handkerchiefs and favours.
Every announcement of the state of the pull was awaited with
breathless expectation, and the numbers echoed from one to
another with an earnestness that could not bare been exceeded
if life and death had depended upon the issue. To heighten
still more, if possible, the intensity of feeling, the accounts of
the polling between Sir Howard Douglas and Mr. Evart be-
came, in the course of the afternoon, involved in obscurity;
one report gave a majority of a hundred and fifty for Sir
Howard, another of twenty or thirty for Mr. Swart. In the
vicinity of the several stations, where the returns were posted
up, it was most interesting to see the groups of people, young
and old, copying. with all the absorbed attention of enthusi-
asm, the figures upon the placards, and conning them over with
satisfaction or disappointment, as their political partialities
dictated..

In the Exchange News-room and in the interior of the
Tewu-ball the scene was not less exciting. Never, we believe,
was greater interest felt in any former election for this borough,
as never, perhaps, did the magnitude of the stake at issue in-
♦est a contest with circumstances of greater importance. In
the former place the only topic of conversation was " the
state of tile pull," and the only business of the day, to go up to
the slate, glance over its statements with a hurried mutter of
the lips, and return to discourse of the progress and probabilities
amongst others actuated by the same feelings and engrossed
with the same subject. Gradually, as four o'clock approached,
the numbers in the Town-hall and News-room began to increase,
and when the hour had struck, the pressure there, the bustle,
and the confused intermingling of voices, became altogether
the result of the content wits uuderutoud.
it was received with varied feelings of pleasure and disappoint-
ment.

After the booths were closed, Lord Sandon received the
hearty congratulations of a great number of gentlemen who
filled the vestibule of the Town-hall, and who testified their sa-
tisfaction by nine times nine hearty cheers. The Mayor then
announced his intention of opeuingthe Town-hail for the recep-
tion of the utlicerti of the respective candidates in the morning, at
ten o'clock, and delivering the final decision of the pall at two.
lord Sandon was then accompanied by a numerous and must
respectable retinue to the house of Mr. Lawrence, in Rodney-
street. Shortly after his arrival he made his appearance on the
balcony, amidst the roost deafening cheers. After they had
subsided, he stated lie had the proud gratification of announcing
himself their representative. (Cheers.) It was the third time
he had stood in that enviable position. If anything could add
pleasure to his feelings—if he were wishful for any honour, it
was the distinguished one of being the representative of this
great commercial town. (Cheers.) He had heard it stated
that there was no reaction in the minds of this great community,
hut be thought himself justified in saying, there was a great one.
At the close of the last election he found himself upwards of WO
behind the first candidate, but now he stood the first by some
hundreds. (Cheers.) He had been in the dwellings of the
rich—he had likewise been in the workshops of the artisans ;
and he had the p!easure to state that in both places he had met
with the most cordial reception. (Cheers.) Indeed, it was with
pride he said it, he had found himself to be the popular candi-
date. (Loud cheers.) This then showed a change had taken
plate in the feelings of the constituency. He was glad to find
that good humour had characterised the election, notwithstaud-
ing the excitement which it had caused; and he hoped that all
party-spirit would now subside and give place to social feelings.
He had come before them uutli=guisedly—he had stated his sect-
tiinents unreservedly, and he them supported. He came
amongst themas a supporter of the church (cheers.) he came
amongst them as the advocate of social order, and as a supporter
of the institutions of his country (cheers;) and he felt sorry
that he would still have to stand alone in their defence. When
he gave his support to an increase of the constituency, he resist-
ed the attempt to, do away with the vested rights of theold one;
he had stood forward in parliament as a humble though zealous
advocate for the burgesses of this town (cheers;) but Le was
grieved that he must again stand alone in their defence. To
those friends whose assiduity iu doors, and to all those who had
so manfully assisted his cause out of doors, he tendered his
warmest ackuowiedguienis. After thanking the ladies far the
zealous support his cause had received from them, his lordship
retired amidst the strongest expressions of applause.
Mr. Lawrence then in a neat speech addressed the assembly,
thanking them fur the support they had given Lord Situdon.