The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-17 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY

On WEDNESDAY, the 22nd ,instant, at Twelve o'clock. at the
Brokers' Office, 13, Exchange-buildings,
1085 Bags SALTPETRE,
banning ex Martaban, trom Calcutta, west side Prince's Dock
Apply to Messrs. Thomas and John Brocklebank, Merchants; or to
T. & H. LITTLEDAL E & CO., Brokers.

liffunicipar elution
TO THE BURGESSES OF EVERTON AND

BIRKDALE WARD

GENTLE MEN,
HAVING had the honour to receive an influen-
tial and numerously signed Requisition, asking me to
offer myself as a CANDIDATE at the approaching Municipal Elec-
tion to represent your interests in the Town Council, I feel that, in
being thus called upon, at a time when municipal questions of mag-
nitude and importance are pending, I should-be doing violence to
a sense of duty if I refused to place my services at your disposal.
Having spent my life amongst yon, and being engaged in mercan-
tile pursuits, I cannot but feel a deep interest in all that concerns
my native town, and especially that district of it in which I fixed
my residence for a number of years.

Though hitherto abstaining from active interference in public
matters, I trust that I have been neither an uninterested spectator
of the mistakes, struggles, at d triumphs which have marked the
onward progress of this great community, nor indifferent to the
lessons they convey. Jealous of existing abuses and defects, I am
sensible how much remains to be done, and the amount of energy,
self-denial. and straightforwardness that will be necessary to tha
doing of it.

I lave witnessed with alarm the recent attempts of a party to
confiscate our Town Dues, upon principles which, in my judgment,
would undermine and disturb the tenure not only of all Corporate,
but all private property. Should these attacks be renewed, I should
aid in sesisting to the utmost all such attempts to wrest from ns our
vested rights.
Of the great question of popular Education in Day and Sal-bath
Schools, I have ever been the humble but ardent sup-
porter. To aid in bringing this inestimable blessing within reach of
the poorer classes of this ward, has been for years past the object of
my personal efforts and solicitude ; whilst all that can contribute to
promote the social, moral, and religious progress and well-being of
the community, and elevate it to a higher and happier position,
C.onamands my warmest sympathies.
Should you elect me one of your Representatives, it shall be
my constant endeavour to discharge the duties of the trust faith-
fully, and to the best of my ability, and

I remain, Gentlemen,
°V. Your obedient Servant,
JOHN JOHNSON STITT.
Elm House, Belmont Grove, October 16, 1856.

TO THE ELECTORS OF LIME STREET WARD.
GENTLEMEN,
AVING received a REQUISITION, signed
by upwards of 300 of your body, in the unprece-
dented short space of two days, requesting me to offer myself as a
CANDIDATE at the ensuing MUNICIPAL ELECTION, to repre-
sent your Interests in the TOWN COUNCIL, I am induced at once
to accede to the request so made, and to place my service‘ at vonr
disposal.

Never was there a period, in the history of the Borough, when
interests so great demanded the careful attention and best judg-
ment of your Representatives—whether we refer to its rapidly
increasing c mmerce and population, to the increased responsibility
d-volving upon the Corporate Exchequer, from the purchase of the
Birkenhead Docks; or, to the envy which our deserved success
appears, unf rtunately, to have created elsewhere.

In my opinion, our Town Dues have been most unfairly and
unjustly attacked, and the attempt which has been made to confis-
cate such property, when held by Corporations, and yet to maintain
the same title as ascred, when held by private Individuals, appears
to me nc t only absurd, but iniquitous.
plAs Ratepayers, Gentlemen, the trade of the port must necessarily
demand her first considerations, and, to give every possible facility to
our rapidly growing commerce, is obviously our first duty. To this
end, 1 consider that unnecessary elongation of our Docks should be
avoided, and that the inland concentration of these should be our
tudy. . _

If elected to the Council, I will endeavour to ascertain, with as
little delay as possible, what it is that constitutes the Corporate
Estate. with a view to its improved revenue; for I deem it to be a
deplorable fact, that no one gentleman in the Council Chamber pos-
sesses this knowledge; nor does It appear that our princely-paid
officials are any better informed upon this subject than are our
Councillors and Aldermen themselves, as is proved by the circum-
stance, that Mr. Robertson Glachtone moved for this information
more than twelve months ago, and it is not yet forthcoming.
I have been no inconsiderable Ratepayer in your Ward for nearly
4 quarter of a century; your interests and mine, therefore, as Rate-
payers, must necessarily be identical.
On several occasions you have expressed a wish that I should
represent yottin the Town Pouncil ; but hitherto I have considered
the time that was at my disposal insufficient for the faithful dis-
charge of duties so onerous and r,sponsib'e, and have telt con-
strained to decline that honour. Now, however, if it is your plea
sure to elect me, on the Ist November
Representatives, I shall be proud to u•

'ext, to serve as one of

duties which a

office %I

impose upon me, and to discharge

9 to the test of my

—I am, gentlemen, yours respectfu
JAMES R. JEFFERY,

Lodge lane, October

THIS DAY,

R. I. NODDER

Will respectfully offer his Selection 'of Parisian and English
RIDING and WALKING HATS, BONNETS, and CAPS, with
every description of Trimmings, Feathers, Laces, &c., of the most
fashionable and tasteful kind.

81 , CHURCH SITREEC.:

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