The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-11 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL ELECTION,

(From our Second Edition of Tuesday)
This being the day appointed for the election, a large body
of the friends of Sir Howard Douglas met in their respective
wards at an early hour, and proceeded, with flags flying and
bands playing, to Rodney-street, to the house of our re-
spected townsman, Sir Thomas Brancker, whose guest the
candidate was, and which they reached shortly before nine
o'clock,—part of them filing off towards the top of Duke-
street, and part—to proceed in the van—occupying Leece-st.
By nine o'clock, the street became thronged throughout a
great part of its length, and the numerous flags in the street,
and banners, ribbons, &c., displayed from the windows, pre-
sented a gay appearance ; though doubtless the assem-
blage would have been much more numerous but for the
piercing coldness of the weather.

At about a quarter-past nine, Sir li. Douglas, accompanied
by his son, Major Douglas, Sir. T. Brancker' and several
other gentlemen, made their appearan6e, and ascended an
open carriage in waiting for them, amidst the loud and re-
peated cheers of the assembled multitude, the nearest band
playing " See the conquering hero comes !" In a few mi-
nutes, all being in readiness, the procession moved onwards
from Leece-street, the carriage with the candidate and his
friends being nearly in the middle of the line. It was pre-
ceded by a large, handsome flag, inscribed " Sandon and
Douglas for ever!" followed by flags and banners from
Scotland Ward. Next came Jolliffe's band, playing ap-
propriate airs, and next gentlemen of the Conservative Cen-
tral Committee, and numerous friends of the gallant general.
Voters of St. Paul's Ward followed, also accompanied by
numerous flags and a band ; and next, in like manner, Ex-
change, Castle-street, St. Paul's, and other Wards, each pre-
senting a respectable, but not very numerous array. Then
came Stuhh's military band, in their handsome uniforms
with brass helmets. Immediately behind, amongst numerous
other flags, was a small one bearing the arms and motto of
Sir Howard, and, preceding the carriage, a large and splen-
did new silk flag painted at the establishment of Mr. Trout-
beck, Hanover-street, also emblazoned with the arms of the
worthy baronet, surmounted by the crest—a boar under an
oak tree—with the motto " Look Sicker," the whole sur-
rounded by flags and warlike trophies.
The carriage was drawn by four dapple greys, caparisoned
in scarlet with blue, with postilions in corresponding uni-
forms. On each side, in front of the vehicle, was fixed a tree
of evergreens, tipped with branches of red and blue ribbon.
On the higher seat stood Sir H. Douglas, and on his right
Sir Thos. Brancker, On the front seat sat Major Doug-
las, Samuel liolme, and Nicholas Robinson, Esquires.
They were loudly and enthusiastically cheered at most of
the houses throughout the whole route to the Exchange, by
Bold-street, Church-street, the North Crescent, and Castle-
street, in all of which the flags and favours shown from win-
dows, balconies, and house-tops, and many of them waved
by the hands of " ladies fair," gave ample and gratifying de-
monstration of their respect for the candidate, and their
attachment to the redeeming principles of conservatism.
Sir FL Douglas responded to these continuous tokens of
attachment, by the most polite obeisance.
Amongst the flags were several altogether new, with ap-
propriate mottos, besides most of the handsome ward flags.
We noticed several inscribed " Douglas for Ever,"—"San-
don for Ever,"—" Speed the Plough, the Ship, and the
Loom,"—" Church and Queen," surrounded by the Crown,
—" Fair Trade ; Live and Let Live ; Good Wages and Eng-
..

lish Comfort." We also observed, with allusion to the new
poor-law, " No Union Bastiles ; Those whom God hath
joined let no man put asunder." And on some small flags
were inscribed, " Plenty in the Land, and Loyalty in the
People,"---" Scriptural Education," &C., &c.
On passing establishments at which parties appeared with
flags, &c., to welcome the candidate, those in the procession
gave repeated cheers, whish were heartily returned ; and we
are proud to record, that the office of our journal was espe-
cially honoured by loud acclamations of friendship and
respect. _ .

The usual formalities having been gone through by the
ayor and town-clerk on the arrival of the candidate, they

proceeded at once to the nomination.
Sir THOMAS BRANCKER rose to propose Sir Howard
Douglas as a fit and proper person to represent the borough
of Liverpool in parliament. After a few remarks, which our
reporter could not hear from the distance at which he was
placed, Sir Thomas said that the gallant general had just
returned from one of the most important situations that
could be given to him by government, and he had not
only given the utmost satisfaction to his own govern-
ment but all the sovereigns of Europe have felt satisfied
with his conduct whilst administering the government
to which he was placed. He was a firm supporter of the
glorious constitution, a stern upholder of the crown, and a
firm supporter of the just rights and liberties of the people.
He would advocate those principles which supported all just
reforms, but not those which desired reform for the sake of
change. It was so very cold that he would not detain them
longer, than just to propose Sir Howard Douglas as a fit and
proper person to represent the borough.
NICHOLAS ROBINSON, Esq. said it was not his intention
to enter into details of the qualifications of S►r H. Douglas.
He was satisfied that whenever he was called on he would

discharge his duties with satisfaction, and devote his atten-
tion to the utmost of his power to the interests of this town,
in conjunction with his noble colleague, Lord Sandon ; and
after an absence of ten years, it was gratifying that he would
be returned in sueh a triumphant manner. (Cheers.)
The MAYOR asked if there were any other candidate to
propose. No one appearing,
The TOWN-CLERIC declared Sir Howard Douglas duly
elected.

Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS Bart., M.P., next presented him-
;elf to the assembled crowd, by whom he was greeted with
he most enthusiastic cheers. He said, Gentlemen,—ln the

course of a rather long and difficult public career, I have al-
ways found till now that I could hold in subjection all my
finer and more tender emotions, and that I could call up the
" sterner stuff" of my composition to meet any difficulty,
however arduous, and to engage in the exercise of any un-
dertaking to which I might be called. I have only to add my
good friends, that if we had been called upon to buckle
on our armour for a contest, I should have felt so upon this
occasion. (Cheers.) I most sincerely confess and lam not
ashamed to confess it, that I do for the first time in my
life feel overpowered at the stupendous and magnificent sight,
and at the glorious manifestation of spirit that I see before
me. I do so upon viewing them now at the moment.
(Cheers.) Upon viewing conservatism here in a state of
triumph, seeing positively what I see, all the emotions that
are possible to swell a patriotic bosom are now N 1 ithin mine ;
but when I contrast our present movement w:th periods
now gone by for ten and seven years, when I remember
the scenes in which I have acted here, I attended then
the defeated candidate, all the feelings of disappoint-
ment and mortification which I then felt, are washed, glo
riously washed away by this triumph now. (Cheers.) If any
personal feelings may mingle in those magnificent feel-
ings which actuate us all here, if an honest ambition
may have found indulgence, then I will say that no
public man, in any undertaking in the world, ever was
embued with, ever felt sentiments more powerful, more
gratifying to his personal feelings, and more so to his
fondest ambition. (Continued cheers.) You have assisted
me, with the triumph of conservatism here. Allow me to
congratulate you most sincerely upon that triumph, allow me
to congratulate you most sincerely upon the example that
this good and loyal town of Liverpool has held out to the
conservatives of Liverpool—upon the effect which that ex-
ample has produced upon the parliamentary representation,
and I am glad to say on the municipal representation
also. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, it affords me great and peculiar
pleasure that we here " walk over the course." We ought to
be very thankful for the tender mercies of certain persons,
who in consideration of our morals and our pockets, forbear
to oppose us; but, gentlemen, I do not mean to taunt them
with holding back,—(hear, hear,)—l do not mean to taunt
them with our proud triumph. (Hear.) It is not the prac-
tise of the procession to which I have the honour to belong,

to crow over a vanquished enemy, or to trample upon a fallen
foe. (Hear, hear.) I consider, by the position in which I
am placed, whatever the motive may have been, we have not
here " divided the house ; "—hear, hear.)—they had
not gone to the poll. (Cheers.) I do consider myself
therefore not the representative of a party, but the repre-
sentative of all the constituency of Liverpool. (Cheers.)
And I will faithfully and impartially do all in my power to
act in conformity with the position in which your favour,
and their forbearance has placed me. (Loud cheers.)
I feel convinced that it would be out of place to say one
word more of those principles for which my friends, have
answered, and with which you appear to be satisfied. I
shall lose no time in taking that high place which you
have given me ; I hope to have it in my power to support
the conservative administration to which the now elected
House of Commons has given its confidence—(cheers)—to
the conservative administration which has ever possessed the
confidence of the other branch of parliament, and which is
in possession of the confidence of the Sovereign. (Renewed
cheering.) I shall do all I can to support—provided they
carry out those principles that we have every reason to be-
lieve they will—an administration that has to perform the
most difficult and important task of remedying all those
monstrous evils which the whig-radical administration has
brought upon this country. (Hear.) And God knows,
gentlemen, they will have need of all our confidence and all
our support. (Hear.) An exhausted treasury, a disbalanced
revenue, and wars—l would apply to them two phrases of a
great man—not only in themselves " little wars," but " un-
toward" wars—wars which, though they be little, are on
fields distant and difficult to manage (hear, hear) ; and
altogether they present two of the most difficult ques-
tions that the administration will have to deal with. Then
there is the commercial system of the country to revise, the
corn laws to settle, and all the other great questions upon
which lam happy to see they have already given notice.—
These will be the business of one of the most important
sessions that has ever been held, and to all these and to
every interest, local and general, of this great, mighty, and
important place, I will devote myself with fidelity, with un-
wearied zeal, and with a determination to exercise all the
faculties 1 possess. and to give all the time I have at my
disposal, in order to make some recompence, and to show
my grateful sense of the honour you have conferred
upon me. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) I do not know

that I have anything more to add—you have done your duty
as conservatives, most nobly, and most effectively—you have
now associated my name with your triumphs. I shall now
hasten to take that place to which you have elevated me, and
there, gentlemen, I will discharge my duties to you faithfully
and honestly. (Great cheering, during which the honourable
baronet retired.)
The proceedings then terminated.
Sir Howard, attended by a body of his friends, accompa-
nied the mayor to the interior of the Town hall, where the
return was formally completed. The indenture was sealed at
once, and transmitted to Preston.
Sir Howard quitted the Town-hall by the west door. As
he ascended his carriage the new member was greeted by
the assembled multitude with loud cheers. The bands and
banners were quickly marshalled into marching order, the
individuals present speedily formed themselves into proces-
sion, and the whole body speedily set out on their triumphal
return. The bitterness of the day did not chill the ardour of
the spectators, the number of whom was now considerably
augmented, the windows on the line of march being
graced with bevies of beauties, who exhibited red and blue
favours. The steps and windows of the Athenreum, Lyceum,
and other places, were crowded with spectators, and a dense
crowd flanked the procession throughout its whole progress.
The line of march was somewhat varied, the route being now
through Slater-street and Duke-street, whereby Rodney-
street was entered, from the upper end, near the Cemetery.
A crowd had congregated opposite the residence of Sir Thos.
Brancker, and these, with the parties who accompanied the
procession, made up a vast multitude of auditors. The win-
dows of the houses in the immediate neighbourhood were
filled with fair ones who wore the colours of the new mem-
ber. As Sir Howard alighted, he was again received with
deafening acclamations. The whole party which had pro-
ceeded from the Town-hall in the carriage entered Sir Thos.
Brancker's house, and in a few minutes they appeared at the
window, where Sir Howard was again received with loud
cheers.

Sir HOWARD DouGLAS congratulaed the burgesses of Li-
verpool on the glorious triumph which they had achieved
without a struggle from the enemy. After alluding to the
defeats which he had formerly
.sustained, he said, if he had
experienced some natural mortification at the disappointment
of an honourable ambition, it had been a consolation to him
while he was abroad to watch the glorious struggle which
they were making at home, and that mortification was wiped
out ten times over by the result of that day's proceedings.
They had placed him in the proud position lately occupied by
that eminent individual who bad been recently and so deser-
vedlyand Me assured them he would
elevated to the bench,
do his duty to the best of his ability. They had triumphed
in a'righteous and holy cause, they had done their duty and
he would hasten to do his ; and they might rest'assuredlhat
he would do it to the utmost of his power, associating him-
self with none but the supporters of the church and the con-
stitution. Sir Howard excused himself from any lengthened

address, observing that he desired to devote the few hours
whch he had to remain in Liverpool to paying his respects
o several of those eminent conservatives who had assisted to
place him i❑ the proud position which he then occupied, of
member for this borough. Once more thanking them, Sir
Howard retired.

Major DOUGLAS said, he was entirely at a loss for words
wherewith to express the feelings with which his heart over-
flowed. He had been present on two former occasions when
the battle of conservatism was fought in this town, and the
change which their perseverance and determination had
wrought was wonderful. They had proceeded from triumph
to triumph, till the enemy had not dared to show his face.
It was fifty years since a similar triumphant display of con-
servative feeling had been manifested in Liverpool, which
was, once more, an example to the country at large. The
gallant old vessel of the constitution had weathered the
storms and cleared the rocks and quicksands which beset
her, and she had come triumphantly into port. Did they
know why it was so? It was because she was made of good,
tough, sound English heart of oak. The gallant major con-
cluded by thanking the burgesses very emphatically on be-
half of his father for the honour which they had conferred
upon him.
Mr. SAMUEL HCLME, being loudly called for, briefly ad-
dressed the multitude. He first alluded -o the ladies whom
he saw gracing the surrounding windows, and said the smiles
of the fair were ever ready to sustain them in defeat, or to
cheer them on to victory. He called upon the multitude to
turn round and give three cheers for the ladies. This call
was most ardently responded to. Mr. Holme said Major
Douglas had alluded to the vessel of the constitution, and had
given one reason why she had weathered the storm, but there
was another reason, to which he had not alluded. It was,
that she was now manned by a new crew, and had a com-
mander on board who knew how to steer her. Mr. Holme
congratulated them on the easy conquest which' they had
achieved, and said he returned his sincere thanks to the other
party that they had not put the town to the trouble and ex-
pense of a bootless contest. Considering their relative posi-
tions, the conservative party having many more on the re-
gistry than before, with a change in the corporate influence
wrought by the result of the late municipal election, he
thought thanks were due to them that they had wisely for-
borne to disturb the town with a contest. Yet they had seen
on the walls of the town a placard signed Wiliam Rathbone,
in which it was deemed necessary to give reasons why a can-
didate had not been brought forward on the liberal interest.
That placard he might denominate the last dying speech,
words, and confession of the Whigs, whose Reform Associa-
tion in Clayton-square was turned into a temperance hotel.
Sir THOMAS BRANCKER addressed a few words of con-
gratulation to the assembly, after which three cheers were
given for the Queen, and three cheers for Sir Robert Peel,
when the crowd dispersed.
Sir Howard Douglas, after being declared member for Li-
verpool, dined with a select party at Sir Thomas Brancker's,
He left for London by the seven o'clock train, and a large
party of his constituents met him at the railway station. On
the signal being given for the departure of the train, they
greeted the honourable- baronet with three times three en-
thusiastic cheers. Sir Howard was present during the intro-
duction of the corn question by Sir Robert Peel.