The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-29 00:00:00

(Loud applause.)

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minority,
But he w

;ed to ask Mr. Steains if he thought it
necessary to zo to Rivington for water?

: Why, the 'Water will be here before you get
home. (Laughter.)
Mr. Steains replied that the question referred him hack
to the origin of this question, and be should tell them
candidly that he was one of those who thought at the time
that Bala Lake was the proper place to go for water. The
distance was undoubtedly greater, but the land was level,
and he believed that. the cost would have been less. That
was not done, but, under the present circumstances, he was
now an advocate for bringing the water from the Rivington
Pike. (Hear, hear.) The question ws now settled, and
they should make the best of it. (Hear, hear.) He
large bilis brought in,

a discount on them

Mr. Christopher Rawlins proposed the first resolution,
which declared that, in the opinion of the meeting, Mr.
James Steains 'was a fit and proper person to represent the
ward in the 'Pawn Council, and pledged the meeting to use
all proper means to secure his return. In advocation of the
resolution, Mr. Rawlins remarked that Mr. Steains had, in
the address he issued, referred to his past services, and had
done well in making the allusion. If high and unfailing
honour as a merchant, if intelligence as a citizen, if liberal-
ity and moderation as a politician, may fairly entitle a man
to your suffrages, he thought they could have secured no
better man for Castle•street Ward that evening. During
the time Mr. Steains had been in the political arena, there
bad been no doubt many more active men, and he was sure
there had been many much noisier men than Mr. Steains
but public influence was not always to be estimated by the
acts and wards which found their way into public prints,
or were recognisable by the public eye and ear. He thought
that in the quiet advocacy of every scheme which had
for its object the improvement of his fellow citizens—
in the liberality with which he had contributed towards
the means by which such schemes were placed be-.
fore the Government of the day, and the country
at large ; in the suffrages he had given to whomso-
ever, and whatsoever might contribute to the well•being of
his fellow-citizents, his country, and his kind—he believed
that Mr. Steins had been eminent, and that he was well
entitled to represent the constituency which he had so long
and sl ably served. (Hear, cheers, and applause.) They
were just now on the eve of losing the services of a gentle-
man who bad long occupied a very prominent place in the
respect and esteem of his fellow townsmen. ( dear, hear.)
c 1 estimtina the character of Mr. Holt, he did not think
he was called upon to point out that that gentleman had
never been guilty of an error of judgement, Errors of
judgment were a common attribute of humanity, and let
him who was without them, cast the first stone at Mr.
Holt. (Hear, hear.) But, although Mr. Holt might have
committed some errors of judgment during the long time he
had been before the public, he did not think there was any

min in Liverpool whom he could poitit out to a
aspirant after public honours, for the purpoze of savin%-

.t,t;o, and do likewise;" with greater e)nfidence, than Mr.
Holt. (Hear, and applause.) But while the public did
undoubtedly lose great and valuable services in Mr. Holt,
be thought it was a fond and foolish fancy among
n't when a man of great importance dropped

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away from the scene, tho could hardly carry on without
him.' Valuable as were the services of Mr. Holt, and of
others who went before him, he thought the blank they had
left could be filled up and the want supplied. For this
lrpose they could have chosen no better man than Ur.
--, (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) Mr. Rawlins, in
uca a nian as Mr. Strains
referred to some of the

principal questions on which he hoped the services of M

„ Among
d to the question of the town dues, and
observed, that although he felt perfectly certain that if a
poll were taken of Liverpool, nine tenths of the community
would go with Mr. Steains and in favour.of the town dues,
yet he himself (sfr. Rawlins) was one of the glorious

one-tenth, who disagreed in tba'( view

is glad to find such a man as Mr. Steains going
ito the Council, because he hoped that that great Question

would be settled upon-no more parchment chims, Liut upon
the claims of equity and justice. He, therefore, wished to
see such men as Mr. Steains represent them in Council, who