The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-16 00:00:00

EWART FOR EVER!

APUBLIC MEETING of the Friends of JOS.
C. EWART, Esq., M.P., will be h. 1d in the
raiirni, AMPHITHEATRE, To-Morrow (Tuesday) Evening, at
Elpht o'clock.
Mr. Ewart will attend and Address the Meeting.
T. BROCRLEB INR, Chairman.
A dmiss'on to the Platform by Ticket only.

TO MY FELLOW TOWNSMEN, THE ELECTORS
OF LIVERPOOL.

GENTLEMEN,
AN extraordinary combination of parties in the
State ks sue eeded in deceati,l2 Miniver; on Mr.
Ccbden'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 I unhesitatingly gave my determined opeosilion, and it
is for you to say h, w far that vote was in accordance with your
wishes.
It i 4 unnecessary for me to inquire into the legal technicalit'en In
which this question wa' attempted to be shrouded. It is enough
that the lives and properties of oar Christian fellow subjects are in
imminent danger, and any r, treat from those proceedings at zu.l a
moment, might be disa.trous in the extreme.
No one can more deeply deplore, th ,n I do, the sad necessity under
which Sir J. i:oLa ring 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 •hudde:s.
To you, my ferow townsmen, I now appeal for your decision on
my conduct.
All other questions seem, for the moment, to sink Into compara-
tive insigniticance. But there is one to which I cannot help
alluding—the t•catment of Sir J. M•Neill and Colonel Tuiloch, rela-
tive to their Crimean Report.
The Memorial which I had the henour to transmit to those gen-
tlemen from Liverpool has I trust, aroused the public feeling. and I
hope that justice, though tardy, may ye be done to them for the
service which they have rendered to the country.
As to our own L.,,cal Questions, let me hope that I may not hive
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-
tative of all.

I will only add, that if you again honour me with a renewal of the
trust you so recently confided to me, it sh ill. at least, be disc 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 all the ties of birth and of natural affection.
I have the honour to be Gentlemen,
Your faithful Servant,
JOS, C. EW'ART.
64, Pall Mall. Londos, sth March, 1857

TO MY FELLOW TOWNSMEN, THE ELECTORS

AND BURGESSES OF LIVERPOOL

GENTLFAIRN,
INVITED by a numerous and influential body of
my Fellow Townsmen, I come forward as a Candidate
for the honour of again re resenting- you in Parliament.
I sine ereiy rvgret the rote of the House of Commons with reference
to the late unfortunate cccurrenres at Canton, implying a censure
upon the Government for their support of the British authorities in
chi,ut, a cour..e which I think they were called upon to take by a
regard alike to humanity, and to the honou► and interests of the
nation.

My opinions, upon the commercial policy by which the trade of
the country ought to be regulated, as well as upon religious and
political ,tibjects generally, are too well known to you to make it
necessary f.r me to entt r into any explanation of them. They are
the same which I held in 1852, when you did me the honour to -eturn
me as one of sour Representatives by an overwhelmine maj Irity ;
and although your choice was a nulled tr..on the petition of any
political o,;ponents, which wa, universally condemned as being most
frivolous and vex itious, the report of the Committee of the House
of COMMClPSexpress'y exonerated me from the slightest imputations,
and I trust that I may hope for the renewed expression of your
col fidence. _ _

Amongst questions of local interest, the wanton attack upon your
Town Dues is the most prominent, and I shall feel it my duty to
continue the most uncompromising opposition to such attempted
spolation
I have devoted many years to the service of the town in the dis-
charge of most important public duties, an I if it should again be
your pleasure to elect me as one of your Represeniat4ves, 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.
CH ARLES TURNER.
Dinele Head. 7,iverpeol. 10th Niarrh. 1857.

TO THE ELECTORS AND BURGESSES OF THE
BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL.
GENTLEMEN AND FELLOW-Towssmicit,
.LL.DISSOLUTION of PARLIAMENT, whieh
has been announced by the First Minister of the
Crown, will again place in your hands the trust which, for the last
four years, his been confided to me.
It is hardly necessery to soy nett t'.e immediate cause of that die-
'elution is the affirmation, by a majority of die House of Commons,
of a resolution proposed by Mr. Cobden, being in-etrect. a censure
on her Majesty's Government. In that vote I did not concur. On
the contrary, I felt it my duty to eive a cordial and active support
to the measures adopted by the Government, in defen .0 on the
honour of our national flog, and of the lives and property of our
fellow-countrymen abroad. Into t-e question of the rect nt pro-
ceedings in China, I will not new enter. My opinions on that sub-
ject are alre..dy before you, and I shad hope to have a future oppor-
tunity of stating them more at length.
On questions of general policy, I have seen no rea.on to change
the opinions I expressed when ycu first did me the honour of elect-
ing me one < f your Representatives. On those of more local interest,
my views are so entirely in accordance with your own that I simile!
hardly have felt It necessary to allude to them were it not for the
determined and urjust attempt which is still being made to deprive
Liverpool of the Town Voles. You will recollect that in the last
Session of • aril invent a Puhlic Bill was introduced with • his ol,jeet
by Mr. Lowe, the Vice-Preol ,<,nt of the Board of Trade. That Bill
was happily defeated by the honesty'and indeAndence 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 Injes-
tice. For my own port, Irrespective of the question of the Tosn
Dues, I have long been of opinion that the lioard of Trade, as at
present constituted, is a perfect mockery of the mercantile interests
of the country. and that in no branch of the executive is there a
nee' e thorough and searching recorm required.
As I shall hope to have the thonsur of personally paying my
respects to you very shortly, I wilt not now enter into other questions
of national or local importance.
Should it, however, he your pleasure again to confer on me the
distinguished honour of being one of 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 religious welfare, to give
those questions my best and most unremiting attent on.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Tour faithful an 1 obedient servant,
ITHOMAS B. HORSFALL.
44. Portland Place, London 9th March. 18571