The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-10 00:00:00

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election strongly resisted. The tsau's who
sell their birthright, and accept a positive insult to
oblige a party, are not worthy of the confidence
of the humblest voters in those wards they repre-
sent. They must be toadies of the very meanest
description. The many who may be left behind with
the minority, cannot help themselves ; but those

who are on the side of the majority, have no excuse
to offer for their submission to the insult—beyond
the scheming of faction, to perpetuate an injustice.
Beings who are capable of such conduct must, sooner
or later, forfeit the respect of all thinking and mode-
ratelmen—" Drat it be English ;" as our street urchhits
say, when they see any foul play going on. Do
not resort to a paltry trick to subvert the Consti-
tution, and then boast of your excessive loyalty !
Let the men who ought to be made aldermen, insist
on their rights as Englishmen. If they feel any
inward self-condemnation, which they think may

disqualify them for the office in question, let the
public hear what it is. They are attentive and
merciful in such cases, and are never at a loss for
a remedy. If one feels himself too tall for a gown,
another too short for a robe, and a third too delicate
to face the hardships and privations of an alder-
manic campaign, the Burgesses will weigh their
respective objections with becoming gravity, and
pronounce a very considerate and just verdict in
their favour. They do not wish their representa-
tives to do things which they dislike, or to force
upon them habiliments which they think unbecom-
ing ; but they do expect that a body of gentlemen
will not lend themselves to Corporate schemes
which are obviously designed to cheat them out of
their due weight in a representative body, and
place them in a minority where they have a Con-
stitutional majority.

Gentlemen who sit in the Corporation of Liver-
pool ought to be as incapable of such things, as
the members of a Cabinet holding office under the
Crown. The Reform electors of the borough have
a Constitutional majority in the Council, when the
non-elected aldermen are deducted from the
opposite side, and that majority can only be
defeated by a number of gentlemen declaring that
they are not fit and proper persons to be elevated
to a dignity which is the reward due to the honest
discharge of the duties they have undertaken to
perform ! This, surely, is not what the gentlemen
who may vote to-day for non-elected aldermen wish
the public to think ? If there should be any such
opinion expressed out of doors, they must not be
surprised at it. They will have brought it on
themselves. There is very little said where abuses
are going on, and the Burgesses are left to judge
from the acts of their representatives on such
occasions. No person, however, is expected to
stand up in the Conncil, and declare that he con
ciders himself unworthy of being made an Alder-
This would be looking for supernatural
purity and too much provincial simplicity in our
modern representatives. The vote is left to tell
the tale, to confirm delicate impeachments, and
tarnish the consistency and public spirit of the
man'who so records his own disqualification for an
humble mark of distinction. Such gentlemen, if
there he any in the Council, will admit that
they would be better out of an assembly whose
constitution they trample under foot. In the social
relations of life, lights of their order shine with
the greatest brilliancy. In the tranquil zone of
privacy they escape the scalping-knife of truth—
the cutting blade of criticism, and the cruel
penalties of publicity.
Mr. SAMUEL HOLME would, in his domestic
Arcadia, escape the lash of those "penny or three-
" half-penny diurnals" which cause him so much
trouble. Mr. JOHN Buex LLOYD has no reason to
dread any severe censure in his domestic circle, and
our ardent admirer, Mr. Alderman DOVER, will be
safe in the bosom of private life. But when they sally
forth to destroy others by burking their own claims
to popular distinction, it is time that some friendly
hand should endeavour to rescue them from
destruction. It is foolish to suppose that there is
safety in the multitude for those who are always
running against the crowd, the Constitution, and

reason of their time. Political buccaniers, who set
these things at defiance, must always expect to
find themselves in hot watar, no matter how
plausible their stories about others may be. Those
gentlemen who vote to-day, as the Burgesses have
been led to believe they will, will assuredly have
to bear the censure of those who would not be
guilty of such acts. The public would have every
member of the Corporation as pure as C/EsAnßo'st
wife, and when they find them to be the most
unscrupulous of public men, they will declaim
against them, and not without reason. It is to be
hoped, then, the votes recorded to-day
will
expose the majority to the anger of their consti-
tuencies, but that we shall have the satisfaction of
recording one of the most signal victories of
morality over toadyism and faction ever witnessed
in this Old Borough'

ARRIVAL or PRINCE FREDERICK WILLIAM OF PRIISSIA.
—His Royal Highness, the Prince Frederick William
of Prussia, arrived at Dover on Saturday morn.
ing from Ostend, at 12.15, and was met (on landing) by
his excellency Count Bernstorf, the Count Brandenberg,
and Col. Hood, by whom he was conducted to B;rming.
ham's Royal Ship Hotel, where his Royal Highness and
party slept. He left for London at eight o'clock by
express train. Subsequently he proceeded to Windsor
Castle on a visit to her Majesty..

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