The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-08 00:00:00

SCOTLAND AND VAUXHALL WARDS

Sir Howard Douglas met the electors of Scotland and
Vauxhall Wards on Saturday evening, at the house of Mrs.
Barton, the Burlington Arms Inn, Burlington-street, and
experienced a most gratifying reception at their hands.
Mr. ISAAC HOLMP;S was unanimously called to the chair,
and the first resolution, which declared that Sir Howard
Douglas was a fit and proper person to succeed to the repre-
sentation of this town, in the room of Mr. Justice Cresswell,
was moved by Mr. COPELAND, one of the councillors for
Vauxhall Ward, seconded by Mr. KEvitlN, and carried en-
thusiastically.

Captain BEESLEY, R.N., moved that the meeting pledge
itself to support Sir Howard Douglas, which having been se-
conded by Mr. JOSEPH JONES, was unanimously adopted.
Sir Howard Douglas, who was accompanied by Major
Douglas, Sir Thomas Brancker, Mr. Duncan Gibb, Mr.
Horsfall, and several other gentlemen, was then introduced.
His appearance excited long continued cheering.
The CHAIRMAN, addressing Sir Howard, said he had the

[easure to inform him that that meeting had, by an unani-

mous vote, passed a resolution to the effect that he was a fit
and proper person to represent this borough in the Commons'
House of Parliament, and they had pledged themselves to
use every legal exertion to secure his return. He had there-
fore the utmost pleasure in introducing him to these two
wards, and he had no doubt that the result would prove the
justice of their choice.

Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS then presented himself to the
meeting, and was very warmly received. He thought, he
said, that the triumph of Conservatism was so complete in
this good loyal town, that any future opposition to it might
well be dispensed with. He knew, indeed, that they were
ready for it, and it was right that they should be ready for it,
because there was no dependence upon a foe; but he thought
they might well dispense with any other exertions than those
they had already made, and which had carried their cause so
triumphantly already. lie congratulated that meeting and
the town of Liverpool collectively upon the triumph of Con-
servatism. He congratulated the town of Liverpool upon it
as being the first to show that example to the rest of the
empire which had mainly produced the ascendancy of Con-
servatism elsewhere ; and whilst he congratulated the town
of Liverpool collectively upon the issue, he had a great and
peculiar satisfaction in congratulating Scotland ward upon
having been the first to return a Conservative member to the
municipal council. (Loud cheers.) That event mainly con-
tributed to the triumph of Conservatism in the municipal
council. (Renewed cheers.) He congratulated his friends
here, then, upon a double triumph—the triumph in the mu-
nicipal representation and the triumph in the parliamentary
representation. (Cheers.) We needed no more triumphs
than those ; we needed nothing but discretion and union, and
firmness and integrity, and the majority, which was now very
great in the House of Commons, would become greater, and
the conservative interest and administration would be fixed in
power unless we committed great faults, local and general,
to retrieve those monstrous errors of ten years growth which
had ended with the last administration, and to bring the
country to a healthy and happy state. (Loud cheers.) He
was speaking there in the presence of operatives, independent
men of various classes connected with industrial occupations,

and connected with shipping and commerce. Perhaps he
stood too in the presence of those intelligent men—men they
were of the highest degree of intelligence—who were instru-
mental in manufacturing those mighty agents, that prodi-

gious power which had- made subservient to them time
and tides, winds and waves, and even distance itself, and
of the power which unquestionably would make the whole
world tributary to British ingenuity, British mechanical
genius, and British power of every kind—to the power of
genius, of enterprise, in every sort of undertaking, and, if
geed be, to the absolute power of an invincible maritime
(Loud cheers.) He remembered when he first came
,own here speaking in the figures which that particular
wanch of industry suggested to him from some slight know-
Ledge lie possessed of its principles ; and, alluding to the
tampering then going on with the colonial interests, saying
that the adverse party appeared to him like an ignorant per-
son who had manufactured a machine of great moving power
without having given to it the means of balancing and ad-
justing the movement. (Hear, hear.) And that was the
exact fault which they did commit. They put a great deal of
the moving radical popular force into the democratic branch
of the constitution ; they repudiated other principles from
mingling with it; and so far from tolerating the separate
action of the peers and the controlling power of the crown,
the cry was, " Sweep down one, and dethrone the other."
(Hear, hear.) Thanks to God, however, the righting good
sense of the country had insisted upon this controlling power,
and there was now a proper balance. A House of Commons
had been elected which gave its confidence to a conservative
administration ; the peers had never withdrawn that confi-
dence; and that administration was in possession of the con-
fidence of the Sovereign ; and we were now in a state of har-
mony. Might it be for the good, and continue for the bene-
fit, of the country ! (Cheers.) He stood in the presence of
many of the fabricators of Britain's bulwarks—of the mighty
wings and yards which were to waft the trade and industry of
England to every part of the worlds to carry hence the im-
mense productions of our industry, and to take them to the
remote possessions of her empire and throughout the world,
and to bring home fresh materials for industry and enter-
prise ; and he did sincerely hope that in the labours
of the present session of parliament--in which, no
doubt, would be submitted the consideration of our com-
mercial and agricultural tariff—that in the consideration
of those great and mighty measures there would be no
tampering with either. He trusted that the revision of the
agricultural code—of the corn laws--would be with a de-
termination to protect the agricultural interest. (Cheers.)
He trusted, without going into figures, that the desideratum
would be that land in the high state of cultivation in which it
was, would be protected; for if free trade should be adopted
to any extent it would be thrown out of cultivation, and the
agriculturist thrown out of employment. He trusted that
these interests would be firmly supported to the right point;
and each have that efficient and reasonable protect►on which
they ought to have in common with all the other interests in
the empire. That was the problem that had to be solved.
Of all the interests in the state the shipping interest was
least to be tampered with. (Cheers.) He was speaking as
he had acted. It had been in his power to render services to
the shipping interest, in objecting very much to interference
with our colonial trade, in a way that must have thrown more
than 100,000 tons of shipping out of employment,—a fact
which was known to many of his friends present. (Cheers.)
After a few further remarks, and expressing his satisfaction
at the reception he had met with, the gallant candidate re-
tired amidst loud cheers.
Major DOUGLAS was then called for, and he spoke a few
words in favour of conservatism with his usual energy.
On the motion of Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS the thanks of
the meeting were voted to Mr. Isaac Holmes for his conduct
in the chair ; and after hearty cheers had been given for the
gallant candidate, and the leading conservatives present, the
meeting separated.