The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-18 00:00:00

the principles of the general electioh of 1852. (Hear,
hear.) And here is Mr. Turner offering hittiself moire
priciples that are almost obsolete. (Hear, hear ) His
heart must be in the coffin with poor old Sihthorp, and
he itethe only man in England who would venture on the
resurrection of the oil principles of 1852. The last
paragraph has occasioned to others as well as myeelf soma
surprise ; it refers to the personal exoneration of the
House of Commons as to his having individually bribed
at the last election. Now, gentlemen, there are a great
many bold men here present on every side. j
see them, but there is not one man that would dare to
say that Charles Turner was ever guilty of bribery. Why
it is a libel on his consistency, and if you find me a man
whose arts of seductiveness are so marvellous as to
wring one shilling out of Charles Teitner, t will be
bound to say that his committee will give a good slice of
the deetion funds to buy the reversion of th at man's
body to have it embalmed and put in the
Derby Museum. (Cheers and great laughter, mingled
with hisses and sonic cries for Turner.)
Bet, gentlemen, thanks to Mr. Rathbone, 'junior, we have
made the discovery of a latent intention to turn the dock
treasury into an indirect election fund fee its chairman. '
(Hear, hear.) The cue given to the employees was
unmistakeable, and he must have been a dolt who did not
understand that when off duty he was to canvass for the
chairman. (Hear, hear.) It was like the old college
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to be made an indirect means of canvassing for the chairman.
(Hear, hear). These disclosures should, Itbink, occa-
sion great anxiety to the thinking portion of this community.
and make us feel the more strongly that " when bad men
conspire, good men should unite." (Cheers.) Ave, gentle,,
men, union is oar strength; without it all our individual
efforts ate unavailing; and therefore I entreat you, on this
occasion, to lay aside all ydar personal jealousies —to
lay aside all yotir- ulercanti'e jealousies —to lay
aside all your religious Jealousies—to lay aside all your
national jealousies, and, one and all, English, Scotch, and
Irish, with one heart, vote under the glorious banner of
legitimate freedoni. (treniendous cheering, amid which
Mr. T. M. Mackay resemed his seat.)
The Chairman then put the resolution, which was unan-
imously carried. • lie then introduced
Mr. J. C. Evart, who, on coming forward, *as most
enthusiastically and rapturously received. The applause
having subsided; he said-zGeeitlenien And brother-eleetori,
no riia,n of Common feeling can help betraying some
emotion when he has to return thanks for the kind and
enthusiastic manner with which you have received .me.
(Cheers.) When I last had the pleasure cif "appeatidg
'before you on this stage, I addressed you foe, the first
time as a candidate for Ydur suffrage. I had then no
previous aCte to siibmit to you, and I was only known to
you by the general principles I had always advocated,
and I asked you to judge by those general principles if
was a fit and proper person to be a candidate for Livers
pool. (Cheers.) Daring the time have had the honour
of being your representative, t have voted, not alone, on
all great public questions but I will fearlessly affirm that
I have voted on every important fluestion Which has came
before the Commons liduse of Parliatent. (Cheers) I
41Ve. nothing.to ekplain. I have nothing to retract. My
politiCal conduct is before you. My votes have been given
on, as I said, almost every question, and it is by those votes
that I will stand. (I• creased cheering) lam determined'
to abide by those votes. (Cheers.) Gent'emen, the Queen
has determined to dissolve the pn sent parliament—
(interrup ion)—on a motion made by Mr. Cobden. I
do not blame Mr. Cobden for making that motion, as
he was always a man of peace, and I say that
he was, under such circumstances, freely entitled to make
that motion, but when I saw the advantage that was about
to be taken of that motion by a certain party, to make a
factious opposition against the Government, I voted
against that motion. Gentlemen, as a man of peace, I
deeply deprecate the cause which had placed this country
in a state of war; but when I found that the party to
which have alluded were ahout to adopt the object
they had in vie*, I had no hesitation as to the course I
should adopt, and I believe in my conscience that when
I gave that vote I was giviog the vote of nine-tenths
of the electors and the inhabitants of Liver Fool.
(Cheers.) I must say'that I was soinwhat surprised tliat
this great town—this great place of business and
of commerce should be thrown into a political agitation,
and for what I really could net see. (Cheers.) When-
ever I speak of Mr. Hor.fall, I speak of him as my friend,
who voted with me on that question. I say my friend
Mr. Turner—l have no
.hesitation in calling him my
friend—declared to me that he would have done the
same. I say my friend, for I never w.ll be guilty
of calling any man by any other title than that to which
he is entitled. (Hear, hear.) My friend, Mr. Turner, I
therefore say, comes before you as my opponent, although,
he says he agrees with me on the question that was dis-
cussed in the house, upon which Mr. Horsfall and myself
voted. (Hear, hear.) I think as my friend Mr. Turner
agrees with me on that point, I think it is rather hard oe
his part to put the town to the turmoil of a con-
tested election. (Hear, hear.) The Liberal party of the
town have not followed that example, and it is therefore
rather hard to find the course adopted by our opponents.
(Hear, hear) Of Mr. Horsfall I always speak with every
respect, for the last year and a half he has acted as your
repesentative, and it is only justice to him to say, that on
questions connected with the trade of England, and of the
trade of Liverpool, we have gone heartily and cheerfully
together. (Cheers.) There was a question that was deeply
interesting to the port, lid that was the question of Town
Dees. (Hear, hear.) Now I was born in Liverpool,
Live in the neighbourhood of Liverpool, and all my pro-
perty lies in Liverpool. But apart from selfishness alone
I opposed that question. (Hear, hear.) The questian
came on by Mr. Love's bill, and I am glad to say, that
Mr. Horsfall and myself did our best to defeat
that measure, we pressed our opposition in the liouse.—
That bill Mr. Lowe did not dare to carry to a division in
the House of Commons, but he sent it to a select committee.
The select committee, for the whole of the session was
employed in the discussion of that question, and came to no
resolution whatever; at least no resolution to injure the
question of the town dues. But, gentlemen, in the present
parliament, Mr. Milner Gibson, member for Manchester, has
introduced another bill, I may say much more mischievous
altogether than that introduced by Mr. Lowe. (Hear,
hear.) My honourable colleague and I did
all we possibly could to throw that bill out of the House of
Commons on the scooted reading; but the House of Cora-
mons is very seldom inclined to throw any bill out upon
the second reading, and it was, therefore, referred to a
committee up stairs. That bill is now hung up for the
remainder of the session, and I suppose will be taken up in
the place in which it stands in the ensuing parliament. Gen-
tlemen' on general questions, I may be allowed briefly to
state that, as to the army and navy, I am oce
those who wish to see our army and navy kept up in a
properly efficient state. ( Hear, and cheers) I wish to
see them kept up in that state, because I believe that is
the best security for peace. (t-lear, hear.) But, at the
same time, I have no hesitation in saying that I believe
very great reduction can be made in the army and navy.
(Hear, hear.) I believe it can be male with great efficiency
to the service, by making more proper and judicious
general arrangements connected with the army and navy.
(Hear.) Gentlemen, there is one other great public
question in which I have also felt considerable interest. I
mean the laws relating to the transfer of land. (Hear,
hear.) I have no hesitation in saying that I think the laws,
as they at present exist, are most unjust; and I am most
anxious that those laws should be so modified and changed
as to make the transfer of land far more easy to the poor
man than at pregent. (Cheers.) There is one other question
to which I weeh to direct your attention, that is the question
of the tea duty. (Hear, hear.) Now, gentlemen, when
the question of the tea duty came forward, government,
as-you are all well aware, proposed that it should be Is 5d
the lb. According
,to the existing law it ought to be
Is 3d ; but the general mass of the dealers of the country
offered to make a sett of cenaoromise with the government,
and have it reduced to is 4d. Lord John Russell, the
member for the city of London, intended to bring
forward a motion for reducing it te •is 4d. It
was arranged, at the time, that I should second the
motion. But, gentlemen, to our utter amazement,
when I went into the house that I venine, L ,rd John
Russell told me that he had abandoned his /attrition to
vote for the reduction to 1, 41. I was perfectly surprised,
because I thought there would have been no difficulty
whatever in carrying a reduction.of the duty. I felt it the
more strongly because I was assured by many dealeie in
London that by reducing the duty to is 4d, the poor
man would have been enabled to get his tea at 21 per
ounce. (Hear, hear.) I felt, tiotwithstandieg the
determination of Lord John Russell, strongly
determined myself to move a resolution to reeuce it to
Is 4d, but speaking to the chairman of the China
Association sitting jest below me, he told me that the
China Associalon of L .ndoa had agreed to the proposi-
tion of Government for is 5d ; and feeling that I bad
no chance whatever of carrying the proposal of reducing
the duty to Is 4d, I told my friend Mr. Horsfall that as
I could not ld possibly ;agree to the is 5d., and saw no pos-
sible expectation of getting the duty reduced to whit
was then the law of the land Is
was determ 3d, I
walk was determined
of the
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and he also was determined, .to walk out of the
house and not to vote at all. (Hear, hear, and cheers
Some person.)
in the .boxes cries out to me, " What
about the income tax ?" In answer to that, I have no
hesitation in saying that I was delighted indeed to find
that the income tax would be reduced in the way it was,
and I do most sincerely hope that the prosperity of this
count will go on in such a way that it may be removed
altogether as a tax from this country. (Cheers, and a cry