The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-06 00:00:00

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION.

VISIT OE LORI) FRANCIS EGERTON AND THE HON. R.
BOOTLE WILBRAHAM To Wm AN.—On Friday afternoon last
these two hon. gentlemen arrived in Wigan for the purpose of
addressing the freeholders residing in the town and neighbour-
hood. They were attended into the Moot-hall by John Lord,
Esq., the worthy Mayor, Lord Lindsay, the lion. Charles Lind-
say, the Hon. Collin Lindsay, Sir Robert Holt Leigh, Bart.,
Sir John Gerrard, Robert Gerrard, Esq., Frederick Gerrard,
Esq., William Huston, Esq., William Huston, jun., Esq.,
Chisenhale Chiaenhale, Esq., John Holt, Esq., Alexander
Halliburton, Esq., Henry
Gaskell, Esq., James Eckersley,
Esq, John • Woodcock, Esq., William Eccles, Esq., John
Thompson, Esq., Captain Ward, the Rev. J. Bird, B. Powell,
J. K. Glazebrouk, Price, and C. Batesou.
. . .

On their appearance they were greeted with three times three
hearty Cheers.
Tire worthy Mayor then introduced them to the meeting, and
was followed in a brief address from Sir Robert Holt Leigh,
who concluded with remarking that, instead of the bo'. candi-
dates coming forward to solicit their suffrag-es, he thought it
would more become him to propose that the thanks of the meet-
ing be given to them for coming forward to offer their services
in the present difficult crisis.
Lord FRANCIS EuErcrots then came forward to address the
meeting, and -was received with warm cheering, mingled with a
'few hisses, which were immediately drowned by a general burst
of applause from the general body of persons preseuL When
silence was obtained his lordship observed—
Geotlemeti,--Iteeent •as my connexion is with this county,
stranger, comparatively, as I find myself, to those whom I now
ailtisess, es well es to those whom I have lately appeared before
in various parts of the county, I cannot too warmly express my
thanks to ray honourable friends on my right and left, and to
the freeholders generally, fur the kind support afforded-me.
Under the effects of that connexion I -should have lost no time

in performing the proper duties of a candidate if circumstances
entirely beyond my control, severe personal indisposition, had
not hindered use, and that, I trust, will be a sufficient excuse,
not only for any neglect of that kind, but for am deficiency in-
my present address. (Cheers.) I arrived in this county a
short time ago for the purpose of attending to my own private
affairs, which those who know pay situation will readily believe
are cleiee&ing of attention. I found myself shorty after greeted
with the invitation which has brought me here. (Cheers.)
Those who did me the honour to append their names to that
invitation, will, at least, acquit me of any undue readiness in
disturbing the peace of the county, but will also acknowledge
that .1 did nut shrink from the duty which they would impose
upon, me. (Applause.) Gentlemen, it is not for me to ascribe
it to any particular feeling or political connexion which may
have influenced it, but there is one to which I will allude, it is
that which I hold with a name not only illustrious in the an-
nak of this country, but which, wheiever it is mentioned
throughout the world, claims respect. Of that connexion with
the narne.of Bridgewater I own I am proud, but I believe those
who have brought that under consideration may also have
thought that I should consider the property I have derived from
that connexion not merely as forming wealth profitable to
myself, but as a trust which I was bound to use as far as I
was able for the beuefit of this county. (Loud a)pplause.)
Gentlemen, may also attribute it to those political prin-
ciples which I have professed, and from which I have in no
way departed, and which may be summed up in this,—a wish
to preserve and to improve. I wish, gentlemen, to preserve
those institutions which I have inherited from my ancestors,
and which, whatever may be their faults -or defects, have not
prevented a considerable shale of happiness and prosperity from
falling to the lot of this country. I wish to preserve that mu-
narchy which is considered best adapted for our'free stale. I
wish to-preserve that union of church and state which hiss been
the means of protecting. and disseminating pure religion.
(Cheers and hisses.) j.wish to preserve that constitution which
has lately received changes cousideral;le and irrevocable from
further innovation of any description, either despotic, aristo-
cratic or democratic, which could injure the nicely-adjusted
proportions of its component parts, and which is so well suited
to our improved state -of society; that constitution which is
considered as almest realising the theories philosophers have'
figured to themselves, but which have been looked on as mere
fanciful dreams. (Cheers.) I wish to do this by correcting
and improving everything which is considered as an abuse, and
I avow that this desire is not inconsistent with my wish to pre-
serve those institutions nor with the principles of my political
life. (Cheers.) It appears to me, as well -as to those who
give me their support, that these institutions are threatened with
dangers in various shapes. I hope, gentlemen, to meet those
dangers in the spirit of caution—of conciliation, if need be—but
with firm resistance to reckless innovation. (Cheers arid hisses.)
I sin aware, gentlemen, that the circumstance of my obeying
the invitation 1 have received has brought forward an apposition
from those who consider there is danger in the humble indivi-
dual who now addresses you being returned as a member of the
legislature. Gentlemen, Lcannot help the danger which has
entered into the minds of those ; but it has had the effect of
bringing forward a reluctant candidate ; and there is one dan-
ger through my being returned—one danger which I.know is'
calculated to alarm the mind and to interfere with the just
views of thOse gehtlemen, acid that danger is, that it may so
happen that a party in this country, generally denominated by
the name of the whig party, may not regain the office which
they have lost. (Cheers and hisses.) Clow far that danger
may press itself upon the electors of this county, or the country
at large, I aril not to say; but encouraged by the support I have
received, I shall put it to the test in this county whether it is
sufficient to exclude me from a situation in the legislature of
this country. (Hear, hear.) lam aware of the powerful in-
fluence which is exerted against me on this occasion. I have
not provoked that apposition, and, supeorted as I am, I shall not
shrink from it. (Cheers.) That iufluence is exerted by a party
who can, when it is oppoeed to them, stamp it with the name of
corruption or tyranny ; but when it spreads its fostering wings
-over, a Caine or a Tavistock can give it the soothing appellation
of the legitimate influence of wealth and property. (Cheers.)
I have no reason to fear that a majority of any such influence
is against me in this county, and I shall therefore turn from the
subject to the more pleasing task of thanking my opponents for
the advice they have given me to return to my former constitu-
ents, but at the same time I must inform them that bound as I
am by every tie of respect to that constituency, it is to the con-
stituents of... South Lancashire that I shall look for the honour
of placing me in the situation of legislator of this country.
(('heers.)
Gentlemen,—lt remains for me to perform that duty which
has brought me here—that of acknowledging with the warmest
gratitude the support I have received, and to assure the electors
that should their exertions be brought to a successful issue, they
'will find in use a zealous and disinterested promoter of their in-
terests to the best of my abilities: (Cheers.)
The Bon. R. Bootie WILBRAIIAM then addressed the
electors in a brief speech, stating that on a former occasion
when he was a candidate for the borough of Wigan he had fully
explained his sentiments, and therefore lie need only assure them
that they still remained unaltered.
A considerable Mob having collected and gained admittance
into-the hall. here manifested a disposition not to hearanything
further, and the Mayor dissolved the meeting.
Mr. 11[cl-rano VEGAN, a manufacturer, rose and asked his
worship whether the meeting was dissolved ?
The MAYOR.—Yes.
Mr. FEGAN.—What, without giving anybody an opportunity
of questioning them'
The MAyoir.—NO freeholder has thought proper to come
forward, and you have' no right to ask any questions: you are
no .voter. •
The condidates then departed amidst cheers from one part of
the auditory and hisses frein the other. ,
Tod much 'praise cannot he bestowed on the judicious conduct
of the worths. Mayor, who treated the attempt to disturb the
Meleting, and to raise a disturbance, in such a manner as to
entirely disconcert the agitators, who, of course, felt themselves
itgusiderably ehagriutxl.

5:-.l)lpptug. IntrilignrE.

FRIDAY, .TANU.III.! 2.—Noon, Wind S.S.E7:6—Modertite.

ARRlVllD—Plutarch, Johnson, from New Orleans—Caledonia, Co-
nacher, Bahia—Cora, Le Grand, Smyrna, sailed 10th Dec.—Fanny
Connell, Joy, Gallipoli=Matilda, Lowther, Messina—Ellen German,
Blundell, Oporto, sailed 2tith Dec.—Governor Troup, Smith, Darien
Robert Peel, Simpson, Quebec, sailed from the Brandy Potts 24th
November. Off Cape Clear. saw about 14 sail of inward bound ves-
sels. The Robert Peel bore up for the North Channel and came in
that way—Columbia, Ilooton, Nliramichi, sailed 18th November, in,
company with the Liadsa, for Falmouth. The weather was severe,
and much ice in the•river when the. Columbia sailed.

S.tlLßJ)—Mersey, Taylor; and Theodosia, Coleman, for Jamaica—
Camoens, Barnes ; and Vixen, Wakern, Oporto—Geomiana, Thomp-
son, Charleiton—jupiter, Comrie, Mobile--Itebecca.Cresswell,-Bahia
—Levant, Thorpe ; and Welcome, Davies, Trinidad--Sir Charles
Forbes, Leslie, Pernambuco—Apollo, Black, Malta—Grace Brown,
lli mina, Baltimori•—l'erseverisnce, Marmot, Ostend—Earl Grey,
Boyce, Messina—Swiftsure, Snag, Africa—Mary Ann, Kemp, Lisbon
—Howard, Harvey ; and United States, Holciredge, New York—Ca-
ledonia, Greig, Newfoundland—Equator, Crowell, New Orleans.

Providence, Tooker, hence fur Trieste, was spoken 13th December,
off Sardinia.
Frederick Lan,gley, Barker, from Sierra Leone for this port, at Sli-
go, sailed 10th Novernher.
Mary Arm 'Webb, 'Winer, sailed from Calcutta for this port, 3d Sep-
teinher.
Freedom. COx ; and Apollo, Ford, from N'aples, at Palermo.
:Mercer, Mercer; Thomas Tucker, Parry ; John Ormerod, Chap-
man ; and Brothers, Mallard, hence, at Oporto.
Patriot, Law, from Trieste for this port, at Cove.
Mangalore, Blain, from Antwerp for this port, at Ramsgsto.
Pons Olio, Havelock, from Bristol for New York, at Cove. leaky,
foremast sqpposed sprung, hoots stove, and must discharge to repair.
Sane Vilet, Tonce', hence, at Rielrihneto:
Sarah, Corkhill, from thisvort,.was driven on shore near Ramsey,
T.M. 27th December, hut was got off on the 29th without much da-,
mom., after discharging part Of her cargo.
Christina. Hoqiirth, from Demerara, at Holyhead.
Sophia, from Quebec for this port, is supposed to have arrived off
Waterford.

Ann, Hutchinson, hence, at Constantinople, And sailed for Odessa,
Brazilian, Galloway, from I'ernambuco, at Trieste.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 3.—Noon, Wind S.S.E—Ligbt.

AgnivED—Briton, Thomas, from Trnlee—Paracon, Wilk;nson, Sli-
go—Boyne. Maguire. Drogheda—Britannia., and Nottingham. (steam-
ers) Dublin.

Tyrer, Ellis, hence, at Calcutta, 6th. of August.
Patriot King, Clarke. sailed from Calcutta for this port, 3d Sept.
Selma, Luckre ; and Coniclia, Crei.thton, hence, at Calcutta.
Sophia, Easton, from Quebec for this port, was driven on shore
near Water Turd, 30th December; it.is supposed she will be got. Off
without damage.

Frederick Liingley, Barker, from Sierra Leone for this port, is on
shore at Sligo, and will be a total wreck—canzo expected to be saved.
Glenhervte, Jones, from Demerara, at the Clyde; sailed 19th Nov.
An company with the Rebecca, Inglis, for this port. The kilizabeth,
11•Donald..salled on the 11th "Joy. and the Joseph P. Dobie;, on the
11th Nov. both for this port. The Johnston was to bail for this port,
on the 2tyth November. _ •
Constant, Symons, hence, at Antwerp.
Wohifart, Barke, from Danzig for this port, at Portsmouth.

SUNDAY. JAM:ARV 4.—Noon, Wind S.S.E.—Moderate.

Artnivan —Ebenezer, Adams, from Seville—Harmony, Widde-
eombe, Quebec—Spartan, , Palermo. • •
ALso ARRIVED—St Patrick, (steamer) from .Waterford—Earl Ro-
den, (steamer) Dundalk—llibernia,!stearner,Belteit—Gipsy,(steaTery
Waterford-,Mersey. (steamer; DuNit—Green Iste, ,steanter) Drag-
heda—Queen Adelaida, -(steamer) Londouderry—Henry, Llewellyn,
Llanelly—Waterloo, Pox, Cardiff.
OFF Porer-L-Trinacria, from Messina—Carlisle, and 10'4 from
Bristol—and Margaret, from Newport.
SAILED—Mary Taylor, Batty, for Genoa—Guernsey Lila'
for Rio Janeiro.

Martin Johanna, Vandriester, from Rotterdam for this k 4t
Ramsgate.
Colornbe, Acket, hence, at Antwerp.
Zorgolist,•llub'rt, hence, at Holvoet. ; ' -
N3-verheid, Warners ; Charles, Leivens ; Frederica. Kirknove ;
and Andre, Christian, hence, at Ostend.
St Lucia, Rawlings, hence, at Africa.
Ilenrietta, Spence, from St Andrew, at Demerara.
Garland, Whittleton, from St Andrew, N B, for Greenock, at the
Cove, with damage in topsides, stern, &c.
Cyrus, from Quebec, for this port, at the Cove, short of provasiona
and water.
Charlotte, Taylor, from Pugwash, at the Cove.

Monday Erening, sth January.
The sales on 'Saturday were .2,500 bags, and 2,000 bags have been
sold to spinners, at an advance of id 4 lb since the commencement of
the year.