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THE LIVERPOOL ELECTION. TUESDAY l'tom his first arrival in Liverpool, the Hon. Henry l'homag Liddell prosecuted his canvass with great dili- Along with genee,,and with the most complete success hi s i mmo dim e su -nporters he visited those electors who are to be found c-lassed underthe trades of the town, from whom he met with g very satisfactory reception. On Tuesday he addressed the frt:.rnen in the employ of the City of Dublin Company, and a).„' the electors in Mr. Milner's factory at Edge Hill. At bo4 ; these places, Mr. Liddell was cordially received, an d it WM nuite evident . r I.lpct that those who listened to hi m wou ld eve fhb.: votes to Mr. Horsfall and himself without splitNg thou to let in a Radical candidate. On Tuesday evening, also, a meeting of the' RadicarS was held in the Concert Hall, Mr. George Maxwell chair man, to hear Sir Erskine Perry. Lusty counter-Cheers were raised for Messrs. Liddell and Horsfall. Sir Erskine characterised the merchants of Liverpool as bad politi cians, and claimed for himself the merit of addressing nothing but reason to the minds of the electors ; if health were spared him, he did not doubt to raise such an enthu siasm in his favour as should carry him triumphantly to the head of the poll. Mr. WHALLEY, M.P. for Peterborough, addressed more especially the Welsh portion of the audience, and read a resolution passed at a preliminary meeting of the Welsh Radicals of the town, an hour before in that build ing, which was declaratory of Sir Erskine Perry's fitness to represent Liverpool. Resolutions were passed ap proving of Sir Erskine. On the afternoon of Tuesday, at 20 minutes to 4 o'clock, Mr. Horsfall arrived in Liverpool from the continent, and proceeded to the Acielphi Hotel, in company with Mr. Thomas Bold, Mr. Campbell, and a few relatives. It was rumoured on 'Change that he would actress the electors at 4 o'clock, and many parties were in attendance in consequence ; but the rumour proved incorrect. WEDNESDAY To-day, at noon. a public meeting of the electors was convened at the Amphitheatre. and was most numerously attended. The reception of Mr. Horsfall was enthusiastic beyond all description, the applause being repeated again and again, in every possible way—by cheering, Kentish firing, waving of hats and handkerchiefs, and other de monstrations. . Mr. LIDDELL was also warmly greeted, and in his speech the bon. gentleman explained his connexion with Sir R. Peel. When that statesman, he said, was appointed to the government of the country by the public voice, there was not a more zealous and consistent supporter is the house than he was. In 1841 he supported him in those great and necessary reforms in the tariff which he then brought forward. In 1845 he considered it to be his duty,. when Sir Robert Peel brought forward his scheme for the total repeal of the corn laws, to withdraw from him his parliamentary support. (Cheers.) The reason he opposed that measure was because he apprehended a serious crisis to those engaged in agricultural pursuits. That crisis had passed. But he considered that he was sent to parliament to represent the interests of his con stituents. and not at once to wheel round with a party. ,Cheers.) The policy of Sir Robert Peel had been carried out further than they could have expected. The naviga tion laws had been repealed. (Hear, hear.) The sugar duties had followed, and the West Indian interest had been prostrated through that course of policy. (Hear, hear.) Upon the subject of the malt tax he thought Mr. Disraeli's proposition was right in principle, and he con tended that it was the very principle which the Free Traders had insisted on most strenuou:ly when they cried ut for the repeal of the corn laws. (Hear, hear.) He '711! - , also, that the duty on tobacco was susceptible -*Hon, and that it was unfair to tax that article from three to for,. hundred per cent. (Loud applause.) He also was of opinion tom„' the opportunity should shortly be taken to reduce the - dutte, of French wines and brandies; but there were circumstance:, onnected with for France and her policy towards this country the present, would not permit such alterations to he i made. He advocated rec i proc it y; an d, pasi from I commercial to theological interests, he asserted his pre viously expressed opinio n th a t th e en d owment of the College of Maynooth was objectionable in principle and injurious in practice. He then denied the r i g ht o f th e i r • oppotasets to arrogate to themselves the name of friends of progress, and coniended that he was himself no enemy to the course of true and constitutional progress. Mr. T. B. HORSFALL, who was welcomed with loud and protracted cheers, thanked his fellow-townsmen for 1 4 `e kind reception which they had given, not only to 'himself, but to his brother. He was admiring the magnificent scenery of-the Tyrol when a communication reached him to say that his fellow-townsmen had deter mined to nominate him as one of the candidates at the election. He felt it incumbent upon bins to lay pleasure and relaxation aside, and to hasten and obey what ho conceived to be the call of duty. - In reference to the necessity for a new election, he observed :—" It is not for me to arraign the conduct of those who declare to us that, from a sense of duty and from pure patriotism—(laughter and derisive cheers)—they thought it right to petition against your late members. T am quite content, gentle men, to leave them in your hands—(hear)—but I must call your attention to one remarkable feature which does not appear to have been noticed, and that is this— why any omission was made in that petition of the request, which is usual, that the rejected candidates should be seated. Why, sir, if there was a conscious innocence— if the opposing party had not been aware themselves that there had been something improper on their side, they would have petitioned, not that Mr. Turner and Mr. Mackenzie might be unseated only, but that Mr. Card well and Mr. Ewart should be seated in their stead." (Hear, hear, and cheers.) After passing a high eulogium on Mr. Turner, be referred to a false statement made by the editor of the Lill , rpool Mercury, to the effect that, while in Parliament, Mr. Horsfall voted for doubling the house-tax and for bringing the income-tax to bear on Persons having an income of only £5O a-year. These were both propositions in Mr. Disraeli's budget to which he was determinedly opposed. He also answered some in sinuations thrown out by the Mercuru with regard to the Derby election, by reading the resolution of the com mittee, that the bribe:) , was without the concur rence or the privity of Mr. Horsfall. While he was willing and anxious to support Her Majesty's government, whoever they might be. he expressed his dislike to coalitions, and declared that he would not enter the House of Commons as the pledged opponent or the pledged supporter of any government. Liverpool and the country had suffered very much heretofore by beneficial measures having been made too much the war-cry of party. The commercial policy of this country, decided during the last session of Parliament, he should not attempt to reverse for factious purposes. Ile then alluded to the government bill on India, to the subject of Custom house Reform—in connexion with which he expressed the hope that ere long a Commissioner of Customs should be in the House of Commons—to the promised Reform Bill, which he should oppose, were it proposed to disfranchise the freemen ; to the Ballot, which he opposed warmly, because if once adopted at elections it would very soon be adopted in the House of Commons ; and to the inconsis tency of the " Liberals" in taunting his friend Mr. Liddell with being a stranger, while they themselves had brought a candidate not from Northumberland, but all the way from India. He expressed his dislike of the words which Sir Erskine Perry had used in regard to the constituency being unworthy of the franchise, if they did not vote for him, and contrasted the lan guage of the Liberal candidate with the frank and manly declarations of his friend, Mr. Liddell. He stated that since he had come into the Amphitheatre, a copy of the Madras Native Herald bad been put into his hands, which gave some account of Sir Erskine. That paper said :—" Before we leave this subject for the present we must request the attention of our readers to a very singular exhibition which took place not long ago in the Bombay Presidency. (The date of the paper is the 20th of April in the present year.] We allude to a Town-hall oration by Sir Erskine Perry in the presence of the Governor, the leading members of European and native society, and the professors and students of the Elphin stone Institution. This gentleman holds the high office of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. and has been for many years President of the Bombay Board of Education. The speech, too, his parting speech, put forth deliberately and with pretension, and intended to be a gift to the com munity of the accumulated wisdom and experience of his Indian education career. That career has been suffi ciently original, and more distinguished for zeal than sobriety." But (said Mr. Horsfall) the passage to which I particularly direct your attention, and I do so that Sir Erskine Perry may have an opportunity of answering to it or denying it, is this :—" England will learn with amaze ment that a British judge and Christian statesman shame fully misused the golden opportunity by virtually assuring those interesting young men that it was their bounden duty, until they reached the years of majority, to continue in idolatry." He called upon the electors of Liverpool not to send him to parliament with Sir Erskine Perry, but with Mr. Liddell. In regard to the charge which bad been urged against him that he was a bigot, Mr. Horsfall said be was for the most perfect toleration to all men ; but he opposed the Church of Rome, because she would not tolerate any other church. He did not blame a Roman Catholic for supporting a grant to Maynootla ' • but it was a strange inconsis tenc y on the p art of a Protestant member of the House of Commons to pay for teaching what he believed to be error. In a characteristic and loudly-applauded speech. Mr. Alderman PARKER moved a resolution in favo M ur r .o f Messrs. Liddell and Horsf.,ll, which, seconded by Tomsof Messrs. T. and 11. LITTLEDALE and Co., was carried almost unanimously—one hand only being heldupagainstit Mr. JOHN BUCK LLOYD, who was called fo l r . , said he . he could not help expressing his regret that his valued and respected friend , M r. BramleyMoore—(hisses h. to be heart e had enjoyed and great confusion)— w h o se friendsh p for years, bad not been upon that platfoi m and band with that numerous meeting i n forwarding the return of the Hon. Mr. Liddell and 'Mr. Horsfall. (Great cheering.) He moved a vote of thanks to the chairman, which was seconded by Mr. J. TYREA, who said he was afraid Mr. Bramley-Moore had been betrayed by some pretended friends, and he was sincerely sorry for it ; but he hoped he still would have the good sense to return, like the prodigal son. (Laughter and cheers.) At three o'cloak on Wednesday, Mr. Horsfall, accom panied by his friends, appeared on 'Change, where his reception was overwhelming. Mr. Horsfall, having passed through the news-room, then crossed the flags to Messrs. Littledale's o ffice, the balcony of w hi c h was aga in called into requisition, a s a platform for the candidates. Fortunately, on this occasion, the weather was beautifully fine. The attendance was more numerous than that which greeted the Hon. Mr. Liddell, when he was introduced on Monday week. Having been introduced by Mr. E. MOLYNELJX, Mr. BOHSFALL addressed the assembled multitude, briefly reiterating those opinions and sentiments he had expressed at the meeting in the Amphitheatre. The Hon. Mr. LIDDELL, in answer to a loud and ge neral call, also addressed a few words to the meeting, an d the proceedings terminated with three cheers for the Con servative candidates and other demonstrations. THURSDAY.—THE NOMINATION• The Conservative demonstration of this day was one which will not soon be forgotten. It was decided by the leading friends of Messrs. Liddell and Horsfall, from the beginning of the contest, that, in the shape of an unex ampled procession, the inhabitants and freemen of Liver pool should evince their sense of the utter contempt in of modin‘: THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1853. which they held the result of the recent disgraceful peti tion, and should serve as an indication of their determi nation to conquer the opposition, and to place it in as humble a position as it occupied twelve months ago. Accordingly, the friends of the constitutional candidates met in their several wards at half-past eight o'clock, whence they formed processions to the Adelphi Hotel, amidst the lusty cheers of the residents in the various streets through which they passed. In Ranelagh-place they joined the candidates and their most influential sup porters, when the vast procession was marshalled, under the direction of Mr. H. Buckraaster - and Mr. Bibby, assisted by Mr. Alderman Parker, in the following order:— Five sections of Police on foot. Officers, Several on horseback, Mr. Buckmaster, Mr. Alderman Parker, and Mr. Bibby, on horseback. EVERTON AND KIRKDALE WARD. The Voters walking abreast, each ornamented with red • d blue favours, either on their hats or in their coats, Band of Music. " 1 ' the motto " Town and Trade of Liverpool," present e d Large da g g, mt.. • the Ladies of E ver t on an d Kirkdale, and other small& yes. SCOTLAND WAktl. Electors and Freemen on foot, wlth the mud wal4 flags. VArXHALL AND ST. PAtL'S WARDS. EXCHANGE AND CASTLE-STREET WARDS. Band of Music. Electors on foot, including those resident in Cheshire, with the usual flags. MR. MOSS'S CARRIAGE Drawn by four fine horses, with two outriders dressed in scarlet and blue, followed next. In the carriage were Mr. G. Moss, Mr. W. Moss, Mr. E. Lowe, Mr. J. Molyneux, Mr. J. B. Lloyd, Mr. F. Lowe, and other gentlemen, decorated with rosettes, ribbons, &c. ST. PETER'S, PITT-STREET, AND GREAT GEORGE WARDS The flags in these wards were very numerous, and ex cited great admiration.—the one of the coopers and sail makers attracting particular observation. RODNEY-STREET AND ABERCROMBY WARDS The voters in these wards walked tour a-breast, and were each decorated with a rosette, containing a sovereign in the centre, a piece of satire which excited much amuse ment. Amongst the magnificent flags carried in this por tion of the procession were two bearing the coats of arms of the Hon. Mr. Liddell and Mr. Horsfall. Mr. Peter Stubbs and four other musicians on horseback playing cornets-a-piston. Next followed THE CANDIDATES' CARRIAGE, Drawn by six beautiful grey horses, with outriders dressed in blue and crimson silk. In the carriage with the candi dates—the Hon. Mr. Liddell and Mr. Horsfall—were Yr. Thomas Bold, Mr. T. Toulmin, and Mr. L. Peel ; Mr. J. Edwards-Moss and Mr. Shand, the proposer and seconder of the Hon. Mr. Liddell; Mr. Edward Molyneux and Mr. J. A. Tobin, the proposer and seconder of Mr. Hors fall ; and Mr. Henry Bremner, the solicitor and agent of the candidates. Mr. Wagstaff, Mr. Gregory, Mr. Cooper, and Mr. Rigby also attended the carriage. A large banner followed next, hearing the motto— " Protection to our Church and the Liberties of England." LIME-STREET, ST. ANNE'S, AND WEST DERBY WARDS The electors . in :these wards were noticeable for their numbers and respectability, and the magnificence of their banners—an immense silk one, representing a sovereign in a rosette, far surpassing, in beauty and size, all the others. The ropemakers walked amongst the electors of West Derby Ward. THE TOXTETH WARDS The men in the employ of the Messrs. Horsfall walked in front of the electors in this ward—bearing on their hats ribands on which were printed " Liddell and Horsfall." They were preceded by a band. The shipwrights, riggers, blockmakers, and others, who have ever been famous for their attachment to the constitutional cause, walked with these wards. They excited much amusement and inte rest wherever they appeared, as, in addition to banners, they displayed a dummy scarecrow figure, with a broad brimmed hat,bearing on his breast a placard, on which was printed— — - - . 4 ' Purity Billy's Petition ! All Cry and no Wool ! Ratsbones Rosettes ! and SorereiVis No go ! Billy, Ronald, Jeffery and Co. !" - - _ On a board, carried alongside of this scarecrow, was printed—" Pity the sorrows o f a p oor ma n f rom Green bank !" On a second board w as p ainted a wig, with the inscription—" Clean shaving done here,W(h)igs dressed;" on another—" A bad judge to come here." Much fun was created by a glass of ale and a jug carried on the top of a staff, underneath which were the lines— " Drink XXX, boys, and be merry, We cannot stomach sour Perry." Close to this was carried the :model of a sirloin of beef, and accompanying it were the following lines : " The rat like our beef, are done brown, And basted, like meat, to afford us a treat, For the good of ourselves and the town." From the earliest dawn groups of people, including many of the fair sex, gathered at the windows and on the roofs of the houses along the line of the procession ; and the whole town was pervaded by a feeling of expectant gaiety and bustle. The procession, amidst enthusiastic cheers from a vast concourse of people, started from the Adelphi Hotel about nine o'clock, passing along Renshaw-street, Bold-street, Church-street, Lord-street, and Castle-street to the hustings, the sight being one of the most imposing and magnificent ever witnessed in this town. The Libe rals, in some few cases, ventured a groan or a hiss at the imposing spectacle ; but these were drowned in the exul tant shouts of the lookers-on—the ladies at the windows waving red and blue colours, and thus adding much to the pleasing aspect of the scene. Castle-street was, as before, barricaded stoutly down the centre, as far as Brunswick-street, a space being re tained within the double row, in order to keep an effectual division between the two parties. The police force, under the immediate command of Captain Greig, was judiciously distributed. The fire brigade surrounded the barricade in front of the hustings. The hustings were, as usual, erected in front of the Town-hall, there being three compartments for the can didates. Messrs. Horsfall and Liddell, and their nume rous friends, were placed near Water-street, Mr. Bramley- Moore and his friends were in the centre, and Sir Erskine Perry and the leading Radicals near Dale-street. Over the Conservative compartment was placed a large board, painted red, and edged with gilt and dark blue, bearing in gold letters the motto— " Liddell and Horsfall, " Our Protestant Religion—Ships, Colonies. and Com merce. The Town and Trade of Liverpool for Ever." Over the centre of the booth was placed a smaller board, in red and gold, inscribed " John Bromley Moore, Esq., " Our Townsman for Ever. The People's Friend." Over the eastern compartment of the hustings was the blue and white ensign of the Radicals, with the,,words " Sir Erskine Perry and Free Trade. Sir Erskine Perry and his supporters walked to the hustings quietly and without any procession. They were the first to arrive. On the arrival of the procession of the Conservativesit was received with prolonged and rapturous cheering, which effectually silenced the howlings of the Radicals over the way. From the carriage in which they sat the Conservative candidates bowed gracefully to the crowds on each side, and to the groups of ladies assem bled at the windows. Messrs. Liddell and Horsfall made their appearance on the platform shortly after Sir Erskine Perry ; and Mr. Bramley-Moore arrived last of all. Shortly after eleven o'clock his Worship the MAYOR, Mr. Samuel Holme, who was accompanied by Mr. Shut tleworth, the Town-clerk, and Mr. Mansfield, the Sti pendiary Magistrate, and presided at a temporary desk on a raised platform at the back of the hustings, went through the necessary preliminary proceedings. His Worship, who was received with hearty applause on both sides of the hustings, called upon those gentlemen who had to put candidates in nomination to do so. Mr. T. EDWARDS Moss came forward and nominated the Hon. Henry Thomas Liddell, in doing which he re marked :—" It is to the success of our opponents in the committee of the House of Commons that we are in debted for the specimen presented to us this day of the blessings of annual parliaments—(hear, hear,)—it is to them we are indebted for the present opportunity of cele brating the anniversary of the triumph of last July, in the preparation for the contest—l hope I may say the victory —of to-morrow." (Great cheering, and hooting from the opposition.) " Mr. Liddell," he continued, " is not an untried man—you know the services he has already ren dered to the seaports of England, and to the general in terests of British shipping. (Cheers.) Mr. Liddell's sentiments on the subject of Maynooth admit of no mistake; and those friends who heard his opening speech to the electors on 'Change will acknowledge the soundness of his creed as much as they admired the beauty of the language in which its declaration was conveyed.' (Great cheers.) Mr. F. SHAND had great pleasure in seconding the no mination of the Hon. T. H. Liddell. There were two objections made by his opponents, one that he was the son of a peer, and the other that he was a stranger. Neither was a disgrace. As to his being a stranger, it came with a poor grace from their opponents, whose can didate was also, comparatively, unknown here. They had been taunted with having brought forward a stranger; but on looking back, he found that their most valuable mem bers had been equally strangers. Mr. Liddell had been the personal friend of the immortal Canning, and an ar dent admirer and coadjutor of the indefatigible Mr. Hus kisson. In their inestimable member, Lord Sandon, they had a stranger, and also the son of a peer, who had faith fully represented them in the House of Commons, and was now equally their representative in the House of Lords. Mr. Liddell would, in the same way, represent their interests in the House of Commons, and would be ready to serve them, as Lord Harrowby was now doing, whenever he might be called to the House of Lords. Mr. E. MOLYNEUX proposed, and Mr. J. A. TOBIN seconded, the nomination of Mr. Thos. Berry Horsfall. The latter gentleman said the task which had been al lotted to him was a comparatively easy one, because Mr. Horsfall was well known to every one amongst them, and was not only known, but deservedly esteemed and re. spected—(cheers)—he meant even by those gentlemen, who felt politically constrained that day to take part against him. (Hear, hear.) It had been asked, would Liverpool stand still, while all the rest of the world was moving onwards ? He would ask, who would do more for sound, practical progress, than Mr. Horsfall ? He would as k w ho, more than Mr. Horsfall, was fitted to establish all necessary reform ? (Cheers.) Mr. EYRE EVANS said he had been called upon to pro pose Sir Erskine Perry. .(cleers and confusion.) I t P William Brown would have dis charged had been unfortunately dis appointed,aehaasrgeaxdp expected d d that uty but they GEORGE HOLT, Esq., seconded the Mr. Robert. that gentleman not being a n b o le m t i o na b t e i present.. that he did so in the unavoidable absence t . Robert. son Gladstone, from severe domestic affliction. His w . as t th o at Sir strong reason for seconding his nomination Erskine Perry was a supporter of the pres ,n g vern ment, as distinguished from the government it succeeded t —a government which, from its wisdo m and its tali n e , was entitled to the universal confidence of the peop e of these realms, and more particularly of the people of Li these (cheers,) for what it had done for the country. In his conscience he believed it was the most honest government that we had had in this country during the present century (cheers) ; and, what was more, it was the Meet Larnionions government, The government it succeeded was, he believed, the most profligate govern ment that ever existed. Mr. JowN LOCKETT, whose appearance was the signal for a perfect uproar of cheers, groans, hisses, and other noisy demonstrations, said the great object in a vast com mercial town, like Liverpool, was to have, as representa tives, men who knew all its local and commercial wants. Such a man, in every respect, was the gentlemen he would with pleasure propose as a representative of Liver pool, Mr. John Bramley-Moore. (Cheers and groans.) He had been indefatigable--(hear, bear)—in attending to the wants and wishes of Lievrpool, and in every respect he had ably fulfilled his duty in guarding and promoting the interests of this great seaport—(cheers and groans) —both as Chairman of the Dock Trust and as Mayor. Mr. JAMES LOGAN seconded the nomination. The Hon. HENRY THOMAS LIDDELL, on coming for ward to address the electors, was received in the most enthusiastic manner, his supporters cheering vociferously, and it was seyeral minutes before be could obtain even a partial hearing. Of the proceedings of those parties to whom they owed the election, be would say no more about them, than that they are likely to fail in every one of their aims. (Loud cheering, and hisses from the opposite side of the hut!ings.) ceedings," said Mr. Liddell, " They instituted pro "which, ushered in by the most swelling threats, h ave d w i nt ;:,ed down to the most insignificant conclusions. If it was inti. nded by the pro moters of the petition to cast obloquy upoi; the electors o f Liverpool, the attempt has signally failed- -( cheers from tilt; Tories, and ironical laughter from the Via,;- Radicals)--tiud although it may be true that, by the straining of a very severe law, the parliamentary corn mittee came to a decision, in my mind, inconsistent with justice—(opposition cries of " Oh !" laughter, and counter cheers)—which unseated your late members, I am con vinced that a spirit is roused in this great town which will seeedil!i repair the injury, and return to parliament two gentlemen of similar principles to those of whose services you have been deprived." (Cheers and hisses.) He next alluded to two topics mentioned by the gentleman who had very ably seconded the nomination of his friend Mr. Horsfall. One of those topics was the bill for popular education, and the other was the new reform bill with which this country was threatened in the course of another session. (The hon. gentleman was here interrupted by laughter from his uproarious opponents, and an ex clamation of " Threatened. eh !") With regard to the former, be looked forward to it with very great hopes, believing that Lord John Russell would not rise in the House of Commons to propose any measure of popular education which might be inconsistent with the religious principles of the community at large. In the matter of parliamentary reform, he hoped the new mea sure would respect the rights of freemen, and resemble the reform bill of 1830 in this, that it would attempt to disfranchise no set of Englishmen. The vote by ballot he would not support; but, with regard to the franchise, he did not know that the £lO qualification was the best. Mr. THOMAS BOLTON asked whether, in 1829, when a bill was brought in for the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, Mr. Liddell voted for or against that bill ? Mr. LIDDELL stated that he voted In favour of the bill. (Cheers.) Mr. BOLTON asked whether, when, in 1829, a bill was introduced for Catholic emancipation, he voted for or against such a bill ? Mr. LIDDELL said he supported that bill, and exulted in the recollection to the present day. (Cheers.) Mr. BOLTON.—III 1831, did you support the Reform Bill ? Mr. LIDDELL—For my good fortune, on that occasion I had not the honour of a seat in parliament (loud cheers). Mr. BOLTON7.—In 1834, when the bill for a reform in the municipal corporations was brought in, did you vote for or against it ? Mr. LIDDELL.—It will save the excellent questioner some trouble if I inform him that I was not returned to parliament again till 1837. (Cheers and hisses.) Mr. BOLTON.—After 1837, when Mr. Villiers brought in several motions for the repeal of the corn laws, did you support him on those occasions ? Mr. LIDDELL.—I had the honour of following the ex ample of Sir Robert Peel, and I opposed all those motions. (Cheers, and hisses and laughter from the Liberal side.) Mr. BOLTON.—In 1846, did you vote for or against the bill for the repeal of the corn laws ? Mr. LI➢DELL.—On that occasion I acted from what I considered my duty to my constituents, and I did not wheel round with Sir Robert Peel. (Cheers and hisses.) Mr. BOLTON.—You alluded to tbe prosperity of the country at the present time. Do not you think the lower prices of corn have contributed to that prosperity ? (" No, no," from the Tory side.) And would it have been as great had the corn laws been in existence ? Mr. BIGHtM. — Let him answer that. Mr. LIDDELL thought that the prosperity now was more ascribable to the influx of Australian and Californian gold —(hear, hear)—which was much more advantageous to the interests of the community than the very low prices at which wheat. was sold some years after the ►epeal of the corn laws. (Hisses, and a voice : " I think your friends are ashamed of you now.") Mr. T. B. HORSFALL here addressed the electors, and, in the course of his speech,-remarked :—I have been told by the Liverpool Times of this-morning, that I had done an injustice to one of my fellow-candidates. Now, if it was made evident that what L have quoted from a news paper paragraph be false, F will publicly, freely,- and heartily retract it (applause);. and then, I hope, no one will accuse me of doing him injustice. I will read , the quotation in juxtaposition with the speech of Sir Erskine Perry at Bombay, on which the editorial article was founded. [Mr. Horsfall here read the following extract from the Madras Native Herald'of the 20th April : England will learn with amazement,that a British judge and. Christian statesman shamefully misused this-golden opportu nity, by . virtually assuring those interesting young men that it was their bounden duty, until they reached the years of majo rity, to continue in idolatry. Mr. Horsfall then went to say that the extract was a fair inference from Sir Erskine's own words : I will not hesitate to express the opinion which I have formed as a judge. as a citizen, and as a father, for in all these charac ters the question has been before me, that the government system, with total absence of religious instruction, is not only the most expedient system in this country, but is the only one that accords with my sense of what is right. ** * * * Why do you not exhort those reverend gentlemen to imitate the system of the government, and to confine themselves to intel lectual and moral training, so long as toe child is immature and in statu pupidari, and only then address themselves to religious instruction, when the field becomes an open one, and the youth is emancipated from the parental authority? Sir Erskine Perry would have an opportunity of replying. He alluded to the India Bill, upon which much bad been, said. The Liverpool Times, referring to some observa tions in his speech at the Amphitheatre, said he had. alluded to "coalition measures." Now he was not going. to stand up for coalitions, whether by Lord Derby, John Bright, or Richard Cobden. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the India Bill, he was not going to say whether the government was right in the principles it maintained, nor whether Lord Aberdeen was right in pushing the bill for wards or Lord Derby in wishing to restrain it. (Hear, hear.) In consequence of his recent absence from home,. he really did not fully comprehend the details of the mea sure ; but he had the greatest confidence in some of the members of the present government, and there were others in whom he had no confidence at all but if there was one member of the administration in all; he had. no confidence, it was Sir Charles Wood, President of the Board of Control. It might naturally be ex pected that he should say something about the last Budget. (Hear.) It would be inconsistent in him if, after having advocated the reduction of the tea duties, and the abolition of the duties on soap, he were to do otherwise than express his belief that it was the very best budget he had ever heard. (A voice : " They don't like that on your side.") He could not help it whether they liked it or disliked it—he would always give an ex pression of his honest convictions. (Hear, hear.) If he were returned to parliament, he would advocate the com mercial principles to which he had alluded; and, without meaning any unkindness to those friends who differed from him, be would always advocate those Protestant principles he had ever advocated. Mr. BOLTON then asked Mr. Horsfall If he would pro mote free trade ? Mr. HORSFALL.—I will; I consider it the established principle of the country. QUESTION : Are you a Free-trader. Mr. HORSFALL : I am a Free-trader. QUESTION : Will the bill to be brought into Parlia ment do away with the monopoly of the Town Dues ? Mr. HORSFALL : No, decidedly not. QUESTION : Will you allow a fair trade as well as free trade ? Mr. HORSFALL : I will ; I am an advocate not only for Fair-trade but Free-trade. Mr. BIGHAM : Supposing an attack—(interruption and great confusion.) Mr. EDMUND MOLYNEUX : Ask your question and be done with it. Mr. BIGHAM : I will not be dictated to by you.—(To Mr. Horsfall). Supposing an attack be made upon our Town Dues, let the attack come from whom it may, sup posing you be elected, will you defend, as our advocate and representative, our right to those Town Dues ? Mr. HonsFALL : To the very last. The Hon. Sir ERSKINE PERRY, on presenting himself, was received with great cheering by his friends, followed by hooting from his opponents. He said, addressing the latter—Look at your party. We gave them a fair hearing. They don't dare to hear us (applause). Silence having at length been in some degree restored, Sir Erskine proceeded to deliver a lengthened speech, in the course of which he distinguished the party to which he be longed- as the enlightened party, and professed himself a supporter of the principles that have given the working classes the big loaf. (Cheers.) One passage in flae speech of Sir Erskine we give entire. I had the good fortune to hear one gentleman. I believe he is by far the ablest man of the Tory party in this town, and he certainly made the very best speech we have heard made to-day,—l allude to Mr. Tobin. I heard every word of his speech, and I will take the liberty to grapple with the best man of your party, and show that he is completely ignoratt of the great questions that not only affect the prosperity of this country, but the prosperity of Liverpool itself. I will prove to you from his own mouth he does not know what even the commercial interests require. I must say lam astonished, coming to, a place like Liverpool, the first city of, the world, to hear the first orator of the Tory party betray such gross ignorance of what the true interests of Liverpool are. (Applause.) Gentlemen, be has told us that the two great political questions now stirring the public mind are national education and parliamentary reform. They are two very great questions, and I will give you my opinion upon them presently, but they are not questions now before the public. There is a great question now before the public, the greatest question this session,—a question affecting the duty of England and the prosperity of Liverpool more than any one clues cti g ques tion which has come before parliament. The opposite party said nothing on it, except the hon. gentleman for merly turned out for South Shields. (Loud laughter.) Gentlemen ive t r h p e oo g l re i a s te t s h t e qu e e x s t t e i n o s n ion of otfheouprrecsoenann c t ie d r ay aff e e to our British possessions in the East. (Hear, hear.) gent Tory nags of the I want to ask th ose practical men opposite, those merchantsintelli- E who claim to rule over the the commerce between Liverpool, I want to ask th em in w h at (Hisses, and loud cheering.) mode they propose to extend plause.) They have not thoug h t There's a practical point for Bombay, and Calcutta? They have not thought aboutghit you. (Laughter and ap plause.)exporters, We aelld upon the subject at all. see around don't know. I around me now, no d as cl k ub t t lr ara grewno w. mar y Gentlemen, shippersl and many piece goods from this port to India. We send also some woollens. I won't give you the quantities or the values. (A laugh.) I know them perfectly. You don't, some of you. Now, let me ask one question of the ablest man on the other side :—what is the reason you export so few woollens to India ? What is the reason ? Now then, practical men, give me an answer. (A pause.) No reply. (Laughter.) I tell you, gentlemen, you don't know any thing about that great question of commerce with. India. Perhaps you think the reason is the country is so hot they don't require woollens, [A Voice : " No, because it won't pay."] Is that the reason ? I will tell you that I have lived in that country eleven years and eight months. There is no one article of British m'anufactures which would be received so acceptably by the 150 millions of India as the woollens of Yorkshire and Scotland. And, gentlemen, having stated to you a fact, I will now supply to you a piece of information that the old Tories of Liver pool are not able to furnish. The way to make the 150 millions better consumers of the manufactures of England than they are at present is to apply the same rule to them that has made the working people of this country con sumers also. Gentlemen, it is by applying good govern ment to them,—by making them more intelligent,—by giving them better wages,—by enabling them to produce cotton in larger quantities than at present,—in fact, by alleviating their position in the scale of society. (Cheers.) By these means we can make them what they are not at present, equal to our brethren on the other side of the water, in America, who are now, as you know, our best customers at this port. (Applause.) Gentlemen, I stand here for two intelligible principles." In another part of his speech, he said :—" I will tell you as to what these Tories would Lave done, had they been able to give a vote on all questions hitherto, and also give some information as to how they ai!l on all questions hereafter. Gentlemen, if they had been in parliament for the last forty years, they would have opposed every one of those liberal mea sures which have been carried. (Cheers.) And allow me to assure you that the battle of free trade has still to be fought in Liverpool, notwithstanding their acceptances. I regard their acceptances as no better than the accept ances of a dish9noured bill. I tell you that, on every great liberal question which has hereafter to be brought before the Commons I - louse of Parliament, my opettlents, if true to their principles, will be found fighting with the old Tory party." After stating that he would join all true Liberals throughout the British Isles to secure the triumph of Protestant principles, he deprecated the intro duction into the contest by Mr. Harsfall of a religious cry, and defended himself from the aspersions of the Madras party by affirming that he belonged to that section of the Liberals who thought that all religious instruction should be left to the spontaneous efforts of clergymen of the different persuasions. lam surprised," continued Sir Erskine, at the ignorance—(laughtery and cries of "Oh Oh !")—at the total incapacity to understand a plain proposition thatdistinguishes that gentleman—(hear, hear)—who thus brought forward my name, when he had my very speech before him. (Cheers). T was talking in India, and not in the British isles. (Hear, hear.) I asserted this proposition, and it is applicable to England just as much as to India. It is a perfectly true proposi tion ; and every religious man who hears me, of whatever sect, will assent to it, The proposition, sir, is this, that it is gross tyranny on the part of the state to interfere between a parent and his child. (Loud cheering, and cries of " Bravo.") That was my statement. Don't you all approve of it ?" tCheers-, and cries of "We do.") In reply to Mr. Robert Neilson, Sir Erskine said that he had no objection to the ballot and that he was prepared to extend the franchise to all the intelligence of the kingdom. Mr. NEILSON.—I understood you to say also that you would leave the religious education of the people to the different denominations of clergymen: are you prepared to vote for the grant to Maynooth Sir ERSKINE PERRY.—I am asked whether I will pledge myself to vote against the continuance of the grant to Maynooth ? NaiLso.—Not at all; I ask you a simple ques-- tion.—are you prepared to vote for the Maynooth grant or Sir ERSKINE PERRY.—I am asked whether I am pre pared to vote for the grant to Maynooth. Mr. Naresoer.—The maintenance of the present grant. Sir ERSKINE PERRY.—Why ' the gentleman does not understand his own question. Gentlemen, the hon. sup porter of the tory party is so ignorant of the constitution of the realm that he does not know how to put his ques tion. (Cries of " oh ! oh !" and laughter.) The MAYOR (to Sir ERSKINE PERRY.)—Be kind enough, sir, to restrict yourself to answering the question. Sir Ellett/NE PERRY.—SO I will, Mr. Mayor. I am aoing to show that the question was unintelligible. The Maynooth grant does not require a vote in parliament, since it has been established by law. (Cheers and hisses.) Now, put the proper question, and I will answer it. Mr. Trees: Been here stepped forward and said : Then I will put the question. If a measure is brought into the House of Commons for the repeal of the grant, will you sppport the measure or will you oppose it ." Sir ERSKENE PERRY.—Now, Mr. Mayor, we have got the proper question : Will Tor will I not vote for the con tinuanee of the grant to Maynooth ? I have told you before, I will make no pledge on public questions what ever. But I will tell you what my opinion is. With the information that is already before the public, my opinion is in favour of the continuance of the grant. An inquiry is now on foot to ascertain whether that grant is injurious to our constitutional liberties, and I reserve my judgment on the subject till I^ hear the result of that inquiry.— (Cheers and hisses.) Mr. JOHN BRAMLEY-MOORE rose amidst a perfect l i storm of hisses and groans, expressed by: his former friends. It was some- time—and then not without the interference of his worship the Mayor—before there was the slightest cessation in-the demonstrations with which Mr. Moore was received. He said, that in• presenting himself to the electors of Liverpool, he should be guilty of an act of very great presumption, if be had ventured to come forward of his-own- spontaneous accord; but when he had the honour of receivine a requisition ofa-not only a requisition of the Conservative electors, but also, he might say, of a very large body in the town—he could not resist such a requisition.- And having come forward in compliance with such a requisition—a requisition which had been most urgently pressed upon him—he should be acquitted, he was sure, ofall presumption in the eyes of those who heard him. (Cheers, mingled with groans and hisses.) And if he had hesitated to acquiesce in the re quisition he should have been wanting in his duty. It was not his intention to have trespassed thus- upon their time that day ; but, when be heard of the slanderous attacks which had been made upon him, be- cause there as-an Englishman—(cheers)—to vindicate his character, if necessary, on the present occasion, and to assert those principles which he had always avowed, and' with which the people of Liverpool must be familiar. He coincided almost entirely with the honourable gentleman, Mr. Horsfall, as to his general principles and views of com mercial policy ; he was, in fact, a Conservative free-trader, desirous to obtain, as far as possible, with other nations, a free interchange of commodities. (Partial cheering.) If those were Radical opinions- then he was himself a Radical. (" Qh, oh," and hisses.) But the real question at issue on teat occasion was, whether he should be re turned to be their representative in parliament on con servative principles, and on those alone. (Hear, hear.) Among the other topics which had bean alluded to was that- of the freemen. He did not seek to catch a freeman's vote by any clap-trap ; but he only had this to say, that he had attended day by day before the committee of the House of Commons, for- the purpose of, as far as possible, defending their rights, and he had not only done that, but had subscribed money for the same purpose. (Oh !) One word he asked on that subject. A freeman's rights were derived from charters granted at an early period of the town's history—charters as ancient as the corporation, of Liverpool—ancient as-the most ancient titles in the king dom ; and so long ashe exercised thatright properly, it was improper to deprive him of it, and it could not be forfeited. Mr. Moore concluded :—Mr. Mayor, I have now,, in conclusion, to thank those gentlemen who listened to me. As for those who refused to hear what I have had to say, I owe them no thanks, and have none to tender. [Cheer ing from Mr. Moores friends, answered by hisses. and groans from Messrs. Liddell and Horsfall's supporters.] I have now to say, in answer to all that may be said here to the contrary, that I shall go to the poll,—(cheers,) — and not only that, but I will remain and keep it open until four o'clock,—(great cheering, and hisses from the Tory side ;)—that I will afford to the people of Liverpool an opportunity of showing whether they will exercise that free and independent choice which has now brought me before you, or whether they will exercise it in another direction. The Maxon then proceeded to take the show of hands. The show in favour of Mr. Liddell was chiefly from the immediate front of the Tory side of the hustings. That in favour of Mr. Horsfall was much more numerous. The show in favour of Sir Erskine Perry was on the Liberal side of the hustings ; and that on behalf of Mr. Moore was numerous on the same side. The MAYOR declared the show of hands in favour of T. B. Horsfall, Esq., and Sir Erskine Perry. (Cheers.) Mr. T. Moss, on the part of Mr. Liddell, demanded a poll. A poll was also demanded for Mr. Bramley-Moore. Sir E. PERRY then came forward, and said, he had very great pleasure in proposing a vote of thanks to their worthy Mayor, for his conduct during the day, and ho could as sure both the Mayor and the people of Liverpool, that without wishing to dictate who should be his colleague, as other people had done, he should have great pleasure in fulfilling the duties of representative with any colleague they chose to send with him. (Cheers and laughter.) The Hon. Mr. LIDDELL said he had great pleasure in seconding the vote of thanks, though lie thought the duty fell to the lot of the first local gentleman proposed. (Oh, oh! and cheers.) The MAYOR briefly acknowledged the compliment, and after three cheers for the candidates, the proceedings terminated. Shortly afterwards Messrs. Liddell and Horsfall ad dressed their friends at the Adelphi Hotel ; Sir Erskine Perry addressed his friends in Clayton-square. Mr. LIDDELL said :—" I ask you, on the other hand, to direct your attention to the questions which were put to Sir Erskine Perry—(hisses)—and I ask you to pronounce, upon your own judgment, whether the answers to those questions were intelligible or not—(cries of " No !") whether he gave a single plain answer to a plain question, or whether he did not resort to an evasion and a speech ?" (Hear.)—Mr. HORSFALL said :—We have this day met our antagonist, Sir Erskine Perry, and I have charged him face to face with endeavouring to give to your chil dren, ye wives of Liverpool, an education devoid of reli gion, and to give them only a paltry secular education. (Hear, hear, and hisses.) How has he met the charge ? I did not hear him distinctly, and I should be sorry to wrong him, but I understood him to say that we bad trumped up an old charge against him. (Hisses.) I have the Madras Native Herald containing this speech, and the date of that paper is no antiquated date. It is dated the 30th of April, 1853. Now, gentlemen, I hope you will read Sir Erskine Perry's defence, and, if you are satisfied with it, vote for him. (Cries of " No, no'.") If, on the other hand, you prefer the honest, straightfor ward character of Mr. Liddell, I ask you, gentlemen, not to stultify yourselves by sending Sir Erskine Perry and myself to parliament, but give me a colleague with whom I can cordially act. (Cheers,) Do not send to parlia ment one man, to inculcate the propriety of giving your children religious instruction, and another who will en deavour to content them with merely a secular one. (Hisses, and cries of " No !")—Afterwards Mr. J. B. LLOYD and Mr. JAMES HOLME addressed the meeting, the latter gentleman predicting that Messrs. Liddell and Rorsfell would be triumphantly returned on the morrow. At the Clayton-square gat4eriDg Sit 4Laiki.ae grr, lu the course of a lengthy speech, said :—" Gentlemen, the Tory party on this occasion are fighting under the symbol of the three B's—bribery, bigotry, and beer. (Cheers.) I ought, gentlemen, perhaps to add, that I expect another B before the end of the election—and that is "W. B." (Great cheering.) Now, gentlemen, I give you the cry of the three P's against the three B's—progress, purity, and the pLople. (Loud applause.) And if you want another P to make popular principles flourish, take Perry as your leader." (Loud cheers, and cries of " We will !") He retorted upon Mr. Liddell a remark upon his (Sir Erskine's) name. " I read in the paper,"said Sir Erskine, that Mr. Liddell announced to his beer-drinking friends that the Liberal party had got some Perry which was effervescing amongst them.—(Hear, hear, !) I'll let him find, before the end of the election, that the Perry of the Liberal party has got some spirit in it.—(Loud cheering.) But that was a very bad joke.—(Hear, hear !) If the hon. candidate was not singled out as a very polite man, I should say it was very bad taste.—( " Hear, hear, !" and laughter.) But really people who live in glass houses ought not to throw stones.—(" Hear, hear !" and laughter.) Why, this Mr. Liddell—what a name ! (Cheers and laughter, and a Voice : " Diddle.") He said, on the same occasion, he never heard of me before the present election—more shame for him.—(Hear, hear I) And 1 tell you why. I heard of him first in one of the oldest nursery rhymes that the nursery woman dinned into my head— High diddle diddle, The cat in the fiddle. —(Cheering and laughter.) That is what I heard of him. You are to judge whether it is well founded or not. FRIDAY.-THE POLLING. The polling-booths were opened at eight o'clock, and the actual contest then commenced in earnest. The sub joined list shows that Messrs. Liddell and Horsfall took the lead, and continued to gain ground until the close of the booths at four o'clock. The first vote polled in No. 1 compartment of the Town-hall booth war given by Mr. John Allison, No. 1,592 on the register, who " plumped " for Sir Erskine Perry. The second vote was given by Mr. John Adams, No. 1,505, for Messrs. Liddell and Horsfall. The first supporter of Mr. Bramley-Moore at this booth, was the fifth voter, J. B. Aepinall, Esq., the barrister, who split for Perry and Moore. The greatest interest appeared to be centered at the principal booths in front of the Town-hall. The followir:T is the hourly state of the poll as iced by the Liberal party 91 TO 11- 12 1 2 3 0 Perry .... 594.. 1;017.. 2216.. 3,024.. 3,712.. 4,162.. 4,580.. 4,760 filoore ....120.. 223. 520.. 160.. 1,007.. 1,130.. 1,256.. 1,29E' Horsfoll .. 868.. 1,463.. 2,880.. 3.848., 4,719.. 3,304.. 5,863.. 6,138' Liddell',... 826.. 1,383.. 2,855-...3,739".. 4,436.. 4,934.. 5,412.. 5,640' The following return is that periodically issued during the day from the Constitutional Association : Hour. HOrsfall. Ligdell. Perry. Moore Nine 868' .... 326 .... 594 .... 127 Ten 2,102 .... 1,936 .... 1,512 .... 352 Eleven -3,133 .... 2,95 2,344 .... 573 Twelve 4;126 .... 3,886 ...,• 3;183 .... 833 One 4,719 .... 4;433 .... 3,712 .... 1,007 Two 5'381 .... 5,169 4;236 .... 1,212 Three 5,312 .... 5;382 4;442 .... 1,273 Final 6,154 .... 5;659 . 4;673 .... 1,326 At the election, in 1852, the final state of the poll was as follows : Turner Mackenzie Cardwell Ewart . 6,693 6.377 . 5,247 . 4,910 Towards the close of the afternoon a large crowd gra dually collected on the Exchange flags; and, as the hall clock gave the signal'foiterminating the-contest, a hearty cheer was given by the people. The bands; banners, and flags were immediately parading the streets, and dense masses of people rolled to the Adelphi Hotel, where it was understood the successful candidates-would deliver adresses. A large crowd also assembled in Clayton square, for the purpose c€ 'bearing a speech• from Sir Erskine Perry. The utmost order prevraed throughout the day—the police arrangements, under the direction of Captain Greig, being of the most perfect kind. We' noticed very few people, comparatively speaking, in. a- state of intoxication—the most remarkable phenomenon, in. this respect, being a young woman, who, at noon., whs. observed in the vicinity of the Angel, in Dale-street; affee-- tionately-clasping a cab-horse round the neck, arxl•imprint, ing a kiss upon the poor animal's nose. The head-quarters. of Mr. Bramley-Moore's " supporters" were at , the Angel HOtel, those of Sir Erskine at the Royal, and those of the Constitutional party at the Queen's Hotel ;.there were also various committee-rooms throughout the borough.• The election was, so far as our own personal• knowledge extends, unaccompanied by any very remark able or striking incidents. The Conservatives commenced with a determination to win ; not one of them, we believe, could have had any doubt as to the return of their candi dates. The result was equal to , the expectations of the most sanguine. _ Throughout the day the streets-were crowded to excess, and business to a great extent suspended. In one or two instances-violence was resorted to in-order to prevent the free expression of opinion on the part of some of the Con servative voters. Several cabs, containing voters in the interest of Messrs. Horsfall and Liddell, whilst passing through' Marybone on their way- to the hustings, were attacked= by the rabble, and the windows broken with stones. In one instance a voter sustained a serious in-- jury in the eye from a blow by a stone. In Sawney Pope street another cab was overthrow , n, and a voter who was in it prevented for the time from going to the poll. lii one of the lower districts of the town, a Isd, who had in cautiously ventured thither with an offensive colour in his button-hole, was attacked by the Radicals, and kicked on the face and other parts of his body in a most disgraceful manner.. yffx SITCCEFiSFEIL CANDIDAM-A7 'THE ADEL:nII4 At about a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes after four, the Hon. Mr. Liddell and: Mr. Horsfall presented themselves on the balcony of the Adelphi Hotel, the latter, who was hailed with the Kentish fire, suspending a large oard over to the view of the people which, showing 1,, the result of the day's polling, was-received with bud and long-continued applause by the crowd. The crowd be neath was one of the most numerous and enthusiastic we ever witnessed in the town of Liverpool. Not only was the immense open space wedged closely with spectators, but the. . windows and roofs of the neighbourirg houses were thronged with on-lookers-e7-the great majority of whom wore ribbons of red and. blue, while vehicles, drawn up in the spacious street, were crowded inside and out with parties anxious to give a right hearty recep tion to-the successful candidates., In the course of his eloquent and feeling speech, Mr. HorsfalLsaid r—" I have received,. gentlemen, in my life time,,many marks of confidence at your hands, which I never can forget. (Hear.) But, gentlemen,. you have this day crowned all these favours by conferring on me the highest honour which it is. in. your power to bestow. (Hear, hear.) Accept, gentlemen, from the bottom of my heart,, my most sincere, my heartfelt thanks, (A Voice :. " Iwish your father was here.") Gentlemen, this result is not only a matter of congratulation to me on personal grounds, but a matter of congratulation to me as an inhae bitant of this town—(hear;--because, gentlemen, you have cast back on our enemies, on our opponents—(hisses)— the foul imputation that you last year returned two mem bers through bribery. Has there been any bribery to-day ? (ND,. no.) Any treating.? Well, gentlemen, what is the result ? Why, you have maintained your principles ! Last year you returned ray valued and excellent friend, Mr, Turner—(loud cheers)—by a majority of 1,47,3 votes. And this year, gentlemen, you have returned me by a. ma jority of 1,481. (Cheers.) And nor:, gentleman, if there was bribery last year, which influenced the election, and no bribery this year, I only say it is-a remarkable coinci dence that my Men Turner and myself should have been returned by almost the same majority. (Cheers.) Gen tlemen, there is one point, or one subject, at least, on which, if pride ho justifiable at all, I. feel particularly proud. (Hear.) I do, indeed,, feel pleasure in stating that Liverpool is-very unlike many towns which I could, but which I will not, name—in that, the moment a se verely contested election is over, we forget all angry feel ing—(hear, hear)—and meet on terms of cordial fellowship those againstwhom we have been warring.. Eor my own part, gentlemen, I beg to say if, in the course of this withly - regretg etee has o not arduous contest, I have let slip a single expression calcu lated to give offence to any; man—(" no, ne") I can only been any unkind feeling,. I most siwerely trust it will wholly a syl do telurmosinta deeply p this it. e n ti I election. 0 ,. en Gentlemen, t gentlemen, . n, it r is n for me to comment now on any of our opponents ; but, gentlemeh, in justice to Sir Erskine Perry, allow me to say one word. (" No, no," and hisses.) I bad the plea sure of shaking hands with him last night—(hear, hear) — and he said words, to this effect—that what differences them might be between us, he firmly believed all the can didates were honest men. (Loud cheers.) Ha concluded by saying :—ln the overflowing of my heart, I can only say that with your support, av,d the support of a still higher power, I will endeavour most honestly and most zealously to discharge my duty. (Loud. cheers.) Mr. LIDV•ELL followed, and in his speech he said := Gentlemen, let me address my congratulations to your re spected representative, Mr. Horsfall, and now let me address my congratulations to your late respected repre sentative, Mr. Turner (hear, hear), a man who appeared to be more intent on the maintenance of right principles than on the keeping of his seat, and while deploring the conclusion to which the parliamentary committee most improperly came, rejoices that his principles will still be maintained by men who have been chosen to succeed him. And I, along with him, rejoice, not in particular at being placed in my present proud position, but that you have vindicated yourselves from the imputations which have been attempted to be cast upon you. (Cheers.) Not only have you redeemed yourselves, but have fully veri fied the predictions which your friends made yesterday, that you would return those who would maintain your real principles. The opposite party made en attempt to put me down yesterday with jeers and derision, but failed, as they laboured in a bad cause, which, of course, has been attended by a bad conclusion. (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, the victory has been won in spite of many artifices resorted to by the opposite party. It was an• nounced, from the earliest dawn, that I had retired from the contest. (Laughter.) But I will not stop to remem ber the many misrepresentations, falsehoods, end follies made by them. If any man made use of language offen sive to me, it is not my duty to notice it, after the ardour of the contest. I leave the gentleman to the good opi nion he may entertain of himself, and to the opinion you may choose to bestow upon him. (Cheers and laughter.) He concluded his speech in the following loudly applauded sentence :—I am ready to receive advice and assistance from those men who are perhaps qualified better than my self, but I will more especially revert to the assistance of him who has been returned as my colleague; and thus we will act together as one man, heart and hand, for the in terest of Liverpool, and fulfil both our duties as members of the House of Commons, and as representatives of a numerous, a thriving, and an enlightened constituency. Mr. Charles Turner, Mr. James Holme, Mr. John B. Lloyd, Mr. Molvneux, and Mr. Thomas Bold then ad dressed the crowd in brief and pithy terms. In the course of his speech Mr. Hor.mc said : There i only one thing connected with this election which I at all n t a l e t t nn e l r a s. mere are a must party, rot regret, and that is, that yesterday there was a show made of the effigy of an old gentleman—(a Voice : " Broad I f brim.") Gentlemen, whatever may be our differences , w whose heart and band have always been open to assist in praiseworthy acts, (Cheers%) I hope all party spirit will forget that now be put an end to, IDA all will again join *rt and t a b b a o t ve m a r ll . such itatb tle e paltryi is a ge matters. hzina_to assist in the progress of this great town; and to aid,- Li 3 , xch position as it pleases God to place us, in good works not onlY for our townsmen, but for every human being. M. TURNER delivered an interesting speech, in the course of which he remarked :—I most deeply fed the pro ceedings of those gentlemen who thought fit to petition the House of Commons against my return—(hisses) -9 1111 to displace me from the proud position in which you had placed me by so unexampled a majority. (A Voice: " We'll have you again.") But, gentlemen, although that result put you to the extra annoyance and trouble of a fresh election, it reflected no discredit on any one but those who presented the petition. On the most paltry grounds—on the most frivolous grounds—the petitioners thought fit to charge with the foulest crime the most honourable men in this town, and your representatives with the most disgraceful conduct. You have to -day shown how you appreciated the allegations contained 1 0 that petition. Tt is not for me to detain you here to.dar* (" Go on") ;—but, my brother electors, I do thank you sincerely for the manner in which you have vindicated your characters, and the characters of your late repre sentatives. SIR EIISXINE PERRY AT CLAYTON-SQUARE. The " Liberal" demonstration in Clayton-squarer at which there was about twn thousand people present, lila; nessed the delivery of some startling assertions and Wild declamation. Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE was the first speaker. He said :—lt is my duty to inform you that the salute have won the day. (Groans and laughter.) Do list weep ! Men of high religions principle, professing W worship God in sincerity, men f or w h om no comp il a tion in psalmody is sufficiently voluminous, commenced at the break of day to turn man into a beast (applause,) and to lead him, bound hand and foot as it were, but mentaW' bound, to the poll, in a state in which no reasonable mad would desire to be who had there to discharge a solemn duty. (Applause.) Gentlemen, I have good authority for saying that the principles of the oppnsite party can never succeed (loud cheering) unless they make their election between drink and bribery, or 'perhaps both , You have got for one of your representatiehas a distill• guished warming pan. He tells you he has been in par; !lament, but where has he been for the last few years (Hear, hear.) If he was in parliament so long, w hy did they let him go if he was good for anything ? (Cheers) Gentlemen, shall r tell you something about the clergy of the Established Church ? At the last election,-32 01 ., the clergy were on the, register. Now, ge n tl emen ,.s there is one thing more th an ano th er t h e c l ergy of the Established Church, who profess to be the lineal descend' ants of the apostles, should recollect, it is what the Master of those Apostles taught them and others with regard CO bread (hear, hear) • but ask you whether our most bitter opponents anddefenderrof the corn laws were not the clergy themselves ? (Cheers.) Well, gentlemen , ' shall I tell you of the 32 who • voted how they divided , themselves ? (" Yes, yes.") Twenty-seven of the V, voted for half-full bellies, and the remaining five for free trade and the annihilation of protectio n . Whi c h of these parties acted the most Christian part ? and in what colonce. do you propose to write the names of those who sinned against the laws of God and' man ; and in what letters should we write the names of those who voted the other way ? (A voice, " Gold," aced cheering.) But, gentlemen, the result of to-day has- only satisfied me of what I told you on the last occasion-- - that our opponents can only win their way by foul means-;: and I tell you now that it has been so to-day. (Cheering.) It is with pain and grief—l bare no personal feeling , . in the matter!, it is with pain and grief that I say now 'eel said then, r. should be prepared, along, I hope, with , others of Int fellow-townmen, to cause an inquiry to-be made (louo and reiterated .cheetiag) ; and we will see whether this disgrace to humanity is to be any longer perpetrated' (Load cheers.) I will , now give way to our excellent friend and nobly-talented advocate, Sir Erekine Perry. Sir ERSKIN-It PERRmf was received with 'enthusiasal• He said :—Gentlemen, I stand before you teeday a beaten man, but not a despondingene. ( Cheers, and a - eoiee,." It B only for the present.") li have lost the election,. but have neither lost my spirits nor my confidence in the good cease. (Cheers.) And I tell you now, with•the sauce confidence that I told yeti yesterday, that one day of other the three P:'s -will triumph in Liverpool; (Cheers.) Bey, and I claim to speak now as the organ of- the n 3056 intelligent and the most moral men in this town, • that we are determined to make purity of election triemph in the town before we surrender the field. (Cheering.' Gentle men, I told you yesterday John. Bright's opinion--(ths t Liverpool was a sirk -of iniquity and corruption). O n sorry to say that hie opinion is too well founded e burr gentlemen, there are-many John Brights in this crow d : there are many men lre this temzeimpressed with.the sear Liberal opinions as Sohn Bright - and by the aid of Intel' ligence, and of those worthy arid honest men, the battle which. has been lost to-day•is again to be fought,..and will eventually be won. (Loud cheers.), I have polled he 5,000 votes to-day ; and they have got their voteeby t!l c e e reform bill of nearly twenty. years ago. There are -071 „'to 5,000 intelligent men in Liverpool who wanted v- or for me, and, by the blessing of God., for some better man. (Enthusiastic chewing.) Get,', e , have why should I be desponding ?: (" Never.") We vo e ," they shall da, 13 1, 0 , a reform bill next year . (A. Voice: " Please uo i ti n f We wilt have another electionnexe year (cheers), a i n r own stead. of 5.,000 men ready to go. to the poll at their fre expense,. we will have 10;000 or 15,000. men,. I. pass them over - with indifference. • different, if the are enfranchised or disfranchised it is la 15,000 intelligent mere in this- town are invested with the franchise.. (Cheers.) After passing a high eulogi a m upon Mr... Robertson Gladstone, he continued :—I have made , of course, some personal sacri fi ce in the exertions I have gone through ; but I tell you. most solemnly, from the bottom, of my heart, that, though a beaten man,.l sal e .A. N s Vh w ether. they delighted to have come among you..(Loud cheering.) ~ I snail look back, as one or. the peppiest weeks of. meeli'el to. the cordial reception.with which the intelligent electors of Liverpool have received me.. I came among you ea a stranger—l believe I shall go. away from you., as an esteemed friend (cheers; ;.and,. gentlemen, let me eaY' as-one who has laboured in the public cause, who -has de sired_ to do some good. in ...his- vocation—to obtain the suffrages of 5,000 honest reen e is- a satisfaction which Oat; nut fail to.cbeer me to the end of my life. (Loud cheering.' Mr. J.. 11. JEFFERY followed the honourable candidate; Be said.:—We believe that principle will rise above faction, above all bribery, and above the influence ° beer ;. and the community among which we live will ye " express itself, by a large majority, favourable to. 014 which we have been advocating within the last few- dolt (Applause.) We have thrown ourselves entirely. Inl e ' that principle. We walked to the hustings with au : respected friend, Sir Erskine Perry, when only sAloz e ,' gentlemen accompanied him. We had neither ban ° banaers,. nor drunken_ men, to accompany him. (Ilea c ' hear, and cheers.) We attempted no intoxication,. eitSe of the mind or the body,—we had no organisation, ? ' employed no cars but for invalids. Our 5,000, or netfr. 5,000,. have found their way to the poll and recorded th e votes without being sought after, without being blind" into ears and omnibuses,, and driven off. Gentle:pep' though, in the contest, we have not succeeded in. rete e r il e ; ing our man, I feel. we have achieved a much big victory. (Cheers.) I feel we have achieved a moral triurePr o to-day, and set a lesson to the Liberal party of th country, which, trust, they wilt follow. (Cheep, Gentlemen, I will tell you sf e fact. At two.o: clock day the election was in our own hands—(hear, heart jf, we had chosen 19 avail ourselves of it. 10, was in °a, lands, gentlemen. Hundreds of freemen. were rer... c e rented to us in the person of a party who put their 1!:,; ( 1, upon them; and we could have bought them . , if we ,ed Gentlemen, that number of freemen would have P"`" a t us not at the kead of the poll, but in he- position; least, that lifr._Liddell now holds ; biat.. t we s cornea i ; (Loud cheering.) We said no; we will not touch Pii C l „ 0 ' we will not sully our, fingers; we will carry out rue' s: principles bymoral and incorrupt e f forts; and whetP e . this result in, a petition to parliament or not, I believe T r . ma y, if we think proper, bring forward much stre o A - c, evidence upon this election than we did upon the (Cheers.) lie continued by expressing his belief tine() they had had the ballot in Liverp oo l th a t day, alaa' "ar freemen disfranchised, they should have had an ° l iect whelnuing majority. Mr. J e ff ery commente d on thD " o 'o that in the 2 / 4 8i crowd before him, of not less than•l tl ' a oti persons, he could not perceive an Intemperate wo n 'ireig expressed his belief that if any one was to adjotO[feaS_ there just then to the Adelpki.Hotel, where tAe r n ' u t ,of not one half of that number, de would find thro four of those assembled in a stale of intoxication , D ow Mr. G,LORGE MAXWELL next addressed the DIP' the He said the proceedings just concluded had shown i d, p ne r c ie e s seseircifl, n ty of af n u d rth b e r r ib e e x4ens ba io d n o b f ee th n e f a ra li anclel work. Maxwell concluded by proposing three cheers for Erskine Perry, which were, accordingly given. tO Mr. A. C. STEWART then proposed a vote of the Gladstone as chairman. wit h Mr. GLADSTONE, in returning thanks,, said it viat4 his own- knowledge that the circumstance menti(xleloCK Mr. Jeffery was perfectly correct—that at twe verri that day, for the sum of £4OO or £5OO Sir Ersl o- - 0 14 , t might have been There Mr. Liddell was noeV• te at: price Mr. Liddell and his friends paid he could u cu ' t Or e a sixpence. He knew that the price nominally 13a7 those votes was not more than 20e., that 15e. Not e pric"; been taken, and that, ultimately, 12s. Qgt. was the Mr. Gladstone then referred to.the necessity for til, jorl and in reference to Mr. Liddell's being the son an d showed that it was impossible, from the eduvetil„,ea , 'associations of the aristocracy,. that they could proper sympathy with the people. falo OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF THE ru",,, tbg On Saturday, at noon, the Mayor, assisted w e .id tb°, Town-clerk, both in their robes of office, de. liir official return in front of the Town.hall st o " . g.+'r,' worship was surrounded by Messrs. C.. Turner, ez;zober' Alderman Cooper, George Henry Horsfall, •-i,off„,' Horsfall, 11. C. Chapman, T. Bold, GrAtb s : T. I,l ' t Statham, Myers, Banning, Bremner, G. NV. 1 "- °° "' Moss, Col. Swann, &c. The numbers were :-- 6, 034 ilorsfall Liddell 4, 6 7a Moore re 1, 274 (10 0 4 ;w Mrssrs. Liddell and Horsaill were , t herefor t h duly elected. War 1 I •• tlA* BRIT ST BRI'T'ISH AND NORTH AMERICAN .3-- SHIP COMPANY. 0 13 r 0 od The following are the and horse-Po steam-ships of the Messrs. Burns, of Glasgv" - Mather, of Liverpool : P et, 05f,;60 Tonnagis 50 6 , screw 1 1440 iso 112,6 150 1126 4 " 2200 4 .0 220° 1 40 sot P,O 788 0 " 10 6 ° 20 0 200 35°. Name. Tonnage. Power. Name. Cambria, paddle— 142 Z 510 , Lynx, pat America, —1826 670' Andes ..... 1821 669',Alps ....... .1834 GBo!Taurus •• • 1831 680Teneritle . • 222i3 759thanarli 750 4:Etna ...... 838 ...... 850 Britisb Queen ~ 220 Balbec ..... 80 Alelita ..... 90 **Barge , 2201"1)°. Niagara, „ Europa, 0 Canada, „ , Asia, Africa, 9226 Arabia, 1, ~ . 2401 *Persia, ~ ..3520 Margaret, „ .. 689 Satellite„, Jackal, 2lO Stork, - I, .... 220 , f • • 431 !..‘.• --•-• - - dare P'Llie74 plum!, $, .. 429 210 ffcomm° ' 5 .. 548 260 Lyra..• • • f f -Stag, 9, .. 548 26(r Total: paddle, 10 ; screws, 10 ; barges, A. - a t nage, 37,755,. Total horse-povver, iltling 1 , . 1111(35.1 Line. t Du Glase * Building at Dumbarton for Cunard 1 Building at Dumbarton. t Building at greenocis. .I,_ „ undo o, l '. * CI iggipa gteataga.ttA lq . se4 r • TT " • Total t°ll 2-31