The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-11 00:00:00

Citttion

TO MY FELLOW TOWNSMEN. THE ELECTORS
AND BURGESSES OF LIVERPOOL.

GENTLE • •
INVITED by a numerous and influential botly of
my Fellow TowEsmeo, I ec.me forward as a Candidate
for the honour of again re reeentiu, you in Parliament.
I sincerely regret the vote of the House of Commons with reerenee
to the late unfertuaate occurrenrea at Canton, implying a censure
upon the Government for their s'ipport of the British authorities in
"Unitta, a euur4e 'which I think the 7 here called upon to take by a
rtgarti alike to humanity, ande thr! honour and interests of the
nation.

My opinions, upon the comm:rcial policy by which the trade of
the. cuntry ought to b 4 regulated, as well as upon religious and
pc Weal snbjecta generady, a e too well known to you to make it
nrcesary 1:r me to ant .r into any eXplattatiOn of them. They are
the :ame which I held in 1852, when you did rue the honour to return
me es one of your Representatives by an overwhelming maj irity ;
and although your choice was a nulled upon the petition of soy
p=lit cal o,ponents, which was universally condemned as being most
frivolous and vexatious, the report of the Committee of the House
of Commons expressly exonerated me from the slightest imputations,
and I trust that I may hope for the renewed Expression of your
confidence.

Amongst questions of local interest, the wanton attack upon your
Town Dues is the most prominent, and I shall fed it my duty to
continue the most uncompromising opposition t.) such attempted
Spoilation
I have devoted many years to the se*vice of the town In the dis-
charge of most important public duties, and If it should again be
your pleaiure to elect me as one of your Representatives, the busi-
ness of this great port will have my special and zealous care, whilst
attending to the general interests of the country.
I have the honour to be, gentlemen,
Your obedient and faithful servant.
CHARLES TURNER.
Dinvle Hea 1, i iverncol. 10th Afarrh. 1857.

TO THE ELECTORS AND BURGESSES OF THE
BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL.

GENTLEMEN AND FELLOW-TOWNSMEN,
DISSOLUTION of PARLIAMENT, which
has been announced by the First Minister of the
Crown, rill again Once in your hands the trust which, for the last
four years, his been confile.l to me.

It is hardly necessery to say that e immediate cause of that dis-
solution is the affirmation, by a mrjority cf the House of Commons,
of a resolution proposed by Mr. Cobden, being in effect, a censure
on her Majesty's Gm/trim-tot. In that vote I did not concur. On
the contrary, I felt it my duty to Five a cordial and active support
to the measures adopted by the Government, in defense of the
honour of our national flag, and of the liven and property of our
fellow-countrymen abroad. Into e question of the recent pro-
ceedings in Chins, I wi'l not now enter. My opinions on that sub-
ject are alreldy before you, and I shall hope to have a future oppor-
tunity of stating them more at length.
On questions of general piney, I have seen no reason to change
the opinions I expressed when ycu first did me the honour of elect-
ing me one of your Representatives. On those of more local interest,
my views are so entirely in accordance with your own that I should
hardly have felt it necessary to allude to them were it not for the
determined and unjust attempt which is still being made to deprive
Liverpool of the Town Dues. You will recollect that in the last
Session of oarlb:ment a Puhlic Bill was introduced with this object
by air. Lowe, the Vice-Presi lent of the Board of Trade. That Bill
was happily defeated by the honesty and independence of the House
of Commons. Lacking the courage again to attempt to carry such
a measure, the Board of Trade has this year sanctioned and sup-
ported a Private Bill, having. the same object in view. It Is for
you to say, whether you are prepared to submit to such an injus-
tice. For my own port, irrespective of the question of the To .n
lines, I have long been of opinion that the Board of Trade, as at
presentconstituted,-is a perfect mockery of the mercantile interests
of the county, and that in no branch cf the executive is there a
nto e through and retching reform required.
As I shall hope to have the Ehoneur of personally paying my
respects to you very shortly, I will not now enter into otherquestions
of national or local importance.
Should it, however, be your pieasure again to confer on me the
distinguished honour of being one cf your Representatives, I shall
feel it my duty, bound as I am to the interests of my native town by
every tie of social friendsh p and commercial intercourse, and deeply
anxious for her prosperity and moral and relilious welfare, to give
those questions my best and most unremiting attent on.
I have the honour to he, Gentlemen,
Your faithful and obedient servant,
THOMAS B. HORSFALL.
44, Portland Place, London gth March, 1857.1

TO MY FELLOW TOWNSMEN, THE ELECTORS

OF LIVERPOOL.

GENTLEMEN,
AN extraordinary combination of parties in the
State Iws succeeded in defeating Ministers on Mr.
Cobden's Motion relative to the Chinese War, and the Queen has
resolved to appeal to the sense of the Country on the question. To
that motion 1 unhesitatingly gave my determitwd opposition, and it
is for you to say how far that vote was ia accordance with your
wishes.

•
It is unnecessary for me to inquire into the legal technicalit;es In
which this question was attempted to be shrouded. It is enough
that the lives and properties of our Christian fellow subjects are In
imminent danger, end any r. treat from those proceedings, at suL:h a
Moment, might be disastrous in the extreme.
No one can more deeply deploi e, ih ,n I do, the sad necessity under
which Sir J. Bowring was compelled to resort to the dreadful cala-
mities of War, particularly with a people who, unrestrained by the
high obligations, observed by civilized nations on such occasions,
commit acts of cruelty, at which humanity shuddeus.
To you, my fel'ow townsmen, I now appeal for your dec:sion on
my conduct.

'Ali other questions seem, for the moment, to sink Into compare.
five insignthcance. Bu, there is one to which I cannot help
alluding—the treatment of Sir J. M•Neill and Colonel Tuiloch, rela-
tiveto their Cr:meon Report.

The Memorial which I had the honour to transmit to those gen-
tlemen from Liverpool has. I trust, aroused the public feeling-, and I
hope that. ju,tice, though tardy, may ye' he done to them for the
service which they have rendered to the country.
As to our own Lncal Questions, let me hope that I may not have
been considered neglectful of my duty; for I can most truly say that,
in every act of mine, I have been most anxious to be the Represen-
tativeof a:l.

I will only add, that if you again honour me with a renewal of the
trust yeu so recently confided to me, it sh ill, at least, be diac arged
with honesty and zeal, and with the anxious desire to promote the
prosperity and happiness of a town, to which I am so much attached
by al: the ties of birth and of natural affection.
I have the honour to be Gent'emen,
Your faithful Servant,
JOS, C. EWART.
64, Pall Mall, London, sth March, 1857.