Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-30 00:00:00

tative for the ward, who on those questiens as well as others
would enforce the views of the great body of the electors.
He observed that the opposi ian candi late belonged to a
party who had long since become effete and obselete. It
was the "stand-still party" —(l4ngla'er)—an I while main-
taining those on the top of the ladder who were so

fortunate as to b there, would preaeh patience to the pour
at the bottom. (Latuhter.) He had co sympathy with
sue, a party, but would rather more along with the spirit
of :ha age, which was th it of progress ani r, form. The
candidate who wouli come behre them th at night was not
of the "stani-still party." (Hear, hear.) He was a maa
of progress, but yet entertained no extrema vie ye, and
was identifiod with the party who had taken up though
they had not yet fully derelooed the idea of the s tcredness
of human nature. To rote for such a man he would deem
an honour, as he would also consider Viat the ward would
be efficie;:tly and worthily represented by such a represe.a-
ta,ive. (Haar, bear.)
The motion having ben secondel, was unanimously
adopted.

The CHAIRAItx then presented to the meeting the can-
di fate, Dr. .A ndenon.
Dr. ANDICItiON, upon rising, was received with loud and
enthusiastic applause. lla sai I : Mr. Cisirman arid
gentl-men, I beg you will first of all permit• ma to return
my most grateul thanks to you, sir,' and to those gen lemen
ho have so kindly aid warmly brought my name brf re
this meeting, for the manner in which they hive done to.
I feel most grateful to Heim, and I feel als,) most gr vein'
to you !or the kind mann •r in which yo t have received
their n-m'netioP. I know very well, gentlemen, that I
deserve much less of you than you have been kin I euoug,,h

to ispress. I know that much I hive heard frmn you,
depends m •re upon the cause than upon the peron. And
with that kin vledge, all my effnits shall be to j is ify your
kindness, by en leavou inn to d 3 the best I (3 In hereafter
to serve you if you put it in my power. (Cheers.) I
eAn assure you, sir, and this meeting, that my position here
befo:e you is a most unexpe.aed one to me I' is but two
or three days ago since I knew anything at, all about the
p. siihility of my being p'aead in this situation, an I it' bas
equally undeseived and au wished fir. have no ambition
at all to be placed before you, or to e ime,belAre you ss a eau-
dflate to represent yiu in the Town Ccuneit. S teb an
ambition his never been m'ne,_and when the re'vest was
rnide to In: ti become a candidate for the position of your
repr seniativo, 1 can assure von it gave me a great deal of
nervousness and trouble. It was to Me a very pai iful.
clnsilerajon ; I knew the difficulties, and the 1 incu-s
which the whole itiv;ved. Fi St, the difficulties, D rhaps,
of the election. We were very late in the field. For the

list th-e 3 weeks you have h,id a candidate before you who
was expected to walk quietly over the ceuree. He had had
a large, and, they say, an influential requisilon ptesen ed
to him, got op, of co tree, without any op, orition, by yes,
the n hole fi 11 being open to him, when, if we started, we
had but, three or four days for the purpose of canveseing
the electors There was very great, danger to the Liberal
sense, which, perhaps, we were about to expose to a defeat,
Bu`, however, lerviog considered all the c'reumstances.
:tett h iving rememb red that I myself, felt indignant that
some candidate had not been long before brought
forward to represent the LiSeral opinions of the
ward ; inclined, sometimes to blame the C iminitteo,
who, I now know, a-e net to be b'arnyd at
All ; inclined to blame the gentlemen who had it iu their
power to repres nt you in the Council fir better than ever
I can expect to do—having remembered, as I say, the
indignation which I feel burning in my own heart, aad
which sometimes, perhaps, I expressed to my own friends
on the subject, then, when the proposition was made to me,
I could not bat reflect that it would be cowardice on my
part if, having heard that at that late hear, the liberal
cause might possibly depend upon my answer, I were to
reply to the proposition made to mc—" No." (II ar, bear,
and loud cheers.) I could not bring myself to do so.
(Cheers) I put myself into their harvls—l am new in
yours. sad it is fur you to say whether I did right or
whe'her 1 did wrong. (Cheers.) I believe is is necessary
that 1 she ill melte some cattle, ion of [Aida here. I am not
at ill unveiling to do so, for I have nothing to cone al,
po'hing to hide io the priocipl a which I hash) ever upheld.
When I begau life, from the very first time that I was
able to understand the public jeep-mils. I became ena-
moured of the noble character of Lord Grey, and
of Lerd Hol'and, and the position they held in the House
of Lords. At teat line, now nearly forty years ago, the
Liberal party of the c )uetry, dejected, mortified, disap-
pointed, had abandoned all opposiion to the absolute
powers of the Sate to the dom.neerieg power of the Gev-
eminent, and these two peers, in the horse of Lerds, stood
;Ilene to represent the Liberal feelings of the country,
(Cheers.) Such an impression did the speeches of these
eoble lords make upon me at the time, that I have never
fo gat:en it. It stands bitore me now as vividly as at the
rneanent when I first read the tip eches. Their sentiments
were so noble, their position altogether seemed to be so
.lefty, their opnioas so liberal, so ju,t, so go id, that at once
I was converted, and I have remained the same from that
day, rest 1 this. (L mad dace. s ) Fur thirty yea-s, or there-
abouts, I have been a resident of this to vn, and for 'those
thirty years I have joined in upholding all the measures
which you, gentlemen, as Libeials, have been cone :reed in
suoportirg. Invariably, my votes for parliamentary repre•
irritation, and for the representation in your Council, have
been given in the same d'nmi in until a few years

ago. when all Vie great qnesti ma having been sw2pt away
which avided Whigs from Tries, there arose a totally
d:iferent state of things, and men scarcely knew who wcra
friends, and who were foes. Thinza are beginning to
settle down now again, and we shall know who's who.

(Laughter.) My only object le is been, during all that
time, to serve the cause of Liberalis n. Let me ask yns,
g linemen, what it it we have to contend fur, and what
we are contending for? I think the whele pr.nciple is
involved in one expresq. an which I have already used in
my aedress—it is to ask f.tr !'air p'ay. (Ohms.) There is
no doubt of the feet, as has been already mentioned by our
worthy chairman, that throughout this town the Liberals
are the greater n imber. Is it not, then, right ;hat we
should have a fair proportion of the.pyivtleges which attach
to oar numb. rs ? (Hear, hear.) II .ve we not a fair right
to a Aare of all that is to be obtained of the advent •ges
and privileg:s connected with our municipal organisation ?
(Hear, Lear.) Have we had that fa'r p'ay in the
Council, for instance, wide regard to the honour
of the C Julien ? I say, we certainly have not.
(Hear, hear.) For many years past you have seen
m'n who h ye grown, grey is the service of their fellow
c .ns, were adorned by every good quaity, 1 ber .1,
generoue. and public sellited to the grea'est d ert.-e ; yet,
have se these men put aside, and young men''bel 'raging
to the opposite par.y, of infinitely less pr4eneons than
th sr I have mentioned, put iota the civic chair. (hear,hear.) Let me mention to you one ins ance—'he respected.
name of our f..-ilor-•owasnan, James Aikin. (Loud
cheers.) Is he not a man ash, has distinguished himself
f th most consistent LiberaLsrn during a series of years.
(Hea., hear.) Is he not a man who has been coespica.:,,us
far liberality and benevolence ? bear.) Is he not
A man to whom we may, in a great mes.ure, attribute the
co, n la ion of cur Sailors' Home, of our kibar Reformatory,
and whoa • benevolence, in fac', has ext,nded darin:7 a long
course of years over ev,rything cenn-cted with the, charities
of the totvn. (Hear, hear, and Laud cheers.) And yet
such a man was set aside, while you ,e r men, of uo such
urAnsioos, h eve been raised bef..re him. (Hear, hear.)
I say
,that is not fair play. I could menti-n many
o he s.
A VOICE.--G orge Eat. (Loud cheers )
_ .

D AND ,AliON —1 W 19 j tat abeat to tue'nfoe th n one
of George H ii. (C leers ) But this, after ell, is trifling
comperad si h other matters in which we c'aim fair ploy,
and a fair proportion of infl eence. It it our duty to se-lc,
to the utmost of cur player, to ebtaia a fair propor.ion of
infl hence in the C auneil of the borough. because we claim
it for those eh° are really and truly the friends of the
people. (Rear, h ear.) Do you think it is not their desert ?
Jiet us travel back, for a few wieutes, in !be his'ory of the
country. Who were they, who many years ago, suffered
etraneportation, arol evert capital punishment, in order to
rnaintan liberty of spetch and th, freedom of the pre.s ?
I think you neer, at once answer me—the Liberals. (Heir,
hear.) Who w's it that brought forward he great qnestion
of reform in the representation of the c suntry ? Wes it
not again the Liberals giving to you the ptivile :es which
you now enjoy ? Who was it that passed the Act of Catholic
Einancipatter ? (Lon I cheers.) Peril -a pa you wit sty
that it was Wellington and Peel, but 1 say they dal n
more than carry the measures of the Liberals. (Hear, hear )
Finding- that they could no longer res'et The mea tire with
safety, they took it nut of the hands of the Liberals—ir is a
e ay they had (lavail er) —but whose measure was it ? I
say it w. s the me asure of the Whigs. (near, hear.) Wh
was it that Laboured so hard for the emancipation of the
slave ? It was the Liberals. (Hear, hear ) Wao was it
again who brought forward the great me stt-e which closes
he series—',he measure for the repeal of the Corn Laws ?
(Cheers.) Again it was the Liberals. (Hear, bear.) Well,'
after this s'eort enumeration what would you thins of this
passage which I take from the Speech of my most res-
- petted en'aeonist oa this occasion ? With regard to that
gentleman frnust sly that I esteem him highly, I con-
dier him a most exeellent and ami able genthm an, but at
the same time I mast add thatev:th his opinions I have no
sympathy, (Herr, hear.) The passage, however, to which
I wish to rater is that on which my antagonist says that
" there is an inclination towards a more Conservative
feeling on the part of the Liberals." (Laughter). It ap-
pears to me that those men are the most Conservative who
' effect the preservation of that which they have to do with,
(hear, bear.) : nd in that light are not -he Liberals:the t-ue
Conservatees of the country ? (Hear, hear.) The object
of 'much assertions is, however, plait. It is an atteneet to
I do that which was well characterised by one of 'he Tory
leaders— it is an attempt to steal our clot* end make
their appearance as the tract COSSITStiVeII of the

country, is fact as Liberals; bat, so fir as my
opinion goes I think the clothes seem to fit them very
badly. (Ilaar; hear, and laughter.) Liberalism and
Toryism are distinctly two different things. Liberalism
looks to the good of the maoy—Toryism links and has
always looked to the elevation of the few—(cheers) —and
so len; as that principle remains, we shall always base a
strong distinction between Whiz.; aed Tories—between
Liberals and Co2servai re.. I hivelhui spoken egeneral
mat era io ()Her (hit you miy know my general opinions
upon politica; and I shall now coin to miters conae.lted
wi h our local insti ut ons. (flear, hear.) Firs: of all, I
would refer to the Water question. (El iar; hear, and
and cheers.) From the very first I was adverse to that
measure. (am, heir.) Ito ,ked at the coloar of the
water with suspici w, and I tasted its flavour with disrelish.-

(Elea-, heir.) It did not require any philosopher or
chenrst to tell us that. the water would be soft. (Rear,
bear, tied laughter ) Eviry one kooiCs that water de-
rived from the atmosphere will bi soft, aril all those long
reports which we have seen_ on that subject I thought were
just so much trwih. We know well th it-the water is sort
—we kilos that the spings un-ler
,oar feet contain a
arnoult of earthy muter, but w sat batter are we
likely to hi for get iig this soft water? We were told
that it would:be mich batter for minufacturing and
washing purpres, and cilcalations were aCtu illy made to
show how much it would save the to wri in soap—(laughter)
—but unfortunately fir thi advicstes of the Pike, the
washerw imea of the town canclentsu the water fir washing.
(Hear, hear.)
A VniCE : What will William Eirle say ? (Laughter )
Dr. Asnicasort id( now as a tnadical in in, and I
am of opinion, that. fur die e ie purposes wz, were mush
hitter of wta our spr.ng water than with the Pike.
(Cheers.) The mote you deprive water of its earthy
teem nts the worse it is, that is pr vided it is not
enormously charged with such materials. In t'ae ord:nary
cinlitien in wbinh our springs ere generally found, the
more you deprive them of the qualEies they derive from
their transitthroagh the stratification-throul.h which they
p ass, the liaise izible are they for the purposli of health and
life; and if you go on to bring it to that purity of which
chemists speak, end deprive it of' evervthiroi but its simple
dements, yOu teen make it abs unfit for the drink of
man. We h ire, however, gone to e ;0ra:toil; cost to procure
this weer, slut clear we must use it. Moreover, I ern
sati had it maybe ma le very useful for the town for a grc
ma. y purp ;ses, but let us acyly it to tit .t purpose, and,
the simi time, let ns not—tor it would' be a cru+y au l

, and I think a sin t) do so----leprire the inhabi-
tants of drinking, aad general domestic purposes of that
lux Irious spring water which is ftising in torrenti
bmeath our feet. (A.pnlanie.) I heard soma %liu ion nude
to t`Ji name of Mr. Earle. (Caeers.) I Le'. perftttly
s tisflAti, that wl.oei-er• wAs at the bottom of th;s scheme in

the first instance, such men as William E trle, Jim :es
Rathbone, end others who were in the
C tuna! at lie tim and who sep2orted the project, did it
from the moit honest and most excellent motives that could
actuate any men. (loon! cheeril) The water came, and
it was bade and we were then called upon to give it time.
we were toll to wait unit the works had settled, until the
filters hal bccome pure, until the pipes had b 'came clear.
Well, did wait, bit the logger we w ited the more we
were disappointed, for there was not the slightest improve-
ment in the water. (liter, heat.) We are now agtin told
to wait for some new system of filtration and reports from
eh -insists ; b .t, in my opinion, it w:11 be only to throw m ire
inoney away, while, meantime, there is an ahundaece or
pare water which we desire to h ave. (Hear, hear.) lit u
,rn und-rstaad, from what have said, that I have been.
from the first, opposed to this Pike-water, and that I think
we are entitled to the soring water beneath our feet for
dietetic purposes, and. if you cho ,se to elect me I will de
me best t i obtaM it for you.. (Hear, hew., and appl seise.)
Tne speaker then refeirel to the re urn moved for by Mr.
Gladstone, the exeuse.3 for the delay of which, he observed,
usually come from the roil tranauel Holm
generally corning forwad to spa-,k of it, as troublesome
and expensive. ([Tear, hear.) lie considered it the duty
of repre,entaiives to enro co that return, more especially in
consequence of the recent act of spoliation which the town
had undergone. Hs dwelt upon the necessity for improve
approac'ees to the town from tie outside, obierving di at
the great improvements ID ide by the Corporation Et the
water side showed that in that point at least they bad not
ueglectel their duty. There wee, howev r, neglect read
ing the outward appr )aches to the town; and on the,
necessity of improvement its this d7rection, he dwat with
lunch emphaeit,, lie adv ited the extension to° parks
and plhlte lihrarieg, and urged that arrang tents siould
be mule whiei worn en sheet Ipa -ti ai pate iu the advantages
o' the 'telling librar'es. He declared himself in favour of
all meeseree which tend ,d to improve the morality,* the
r•auitary c tradition, or the pro • perity of Liverpool. Finally he
declared that having said so uric', he would lcaie his
cai.se in the hands of the me ding. It was for them to say
what they wo ild do with him. If they returned him to
the Town Council, he wc.ul 1 di the best, he co ild to serve
them.. If they world nit hare him, then he wou'd con-
tentedly re're h nue, an ! hope th at th'y would fill some
one ehe ah , would do barter for than than he Guild h IV3
done. (4.0 u 1 cheers, daring whtch Dr. Anderson resumed
his seat.)
Dr. Loons 0114,1 up an Dr. An,le-son to ex,olaia why he
had, on a Aernier ocansioa, vet e 1 a.; .inst C and well and
Swart, aid plumped for Tar.,e-; and further voted against
Sir E skine Perry, acid for Liddell and Ii irsfal ? He
deaared that (slices these votes coahl be explained. he
should.csasider Chit the Ward had, in the present cotit,st,

only to choose betsPed two Tor:es. (" (h, oh !")
Toe Cnitram not thilk the meting had any right
to rin?ethn the past rotes of a genqemin svh) declared
blrnielf a Liberal. (Hear, heir )
Dr. Looos, upon alb deciiioo bin; Olen, lef. the
room.

Mr. JOIIN BlG}Wii, in a I mg`liene i al cress, urged the
neces•ity of economy in the 0 :mica, to meet the loss
of r.48i►,000 a year by the rem vs.' of tie town dues. No
economy, howeytr, cJuld.meet that lose fif and h 3 teake-1
bis reptywion that they would have next vear a lonrouxh rate
of not less than a shiiliog iu the pound, which would increase
in time. There was a way to meet this loss, and ho caliei
upon Dr. Anderson to deelare whether he was prepared to
meet it by voting to have the docko, which were tho sho -s
of the •merehants„in which ev7ry merchant had a benefi-
eini interest, made to pay their prop r.ton (of p :or rates
nir, hear, and thee. s.) He also asked, whether D•:
Atohrson di I not think tit Dock Committee ought to pay a
large share of the cos: of Inproveme i!sa lo the approaches
to the lan ling stage and the north d :cks ? Mr. Bieham
expressed his .full app ovil of the !beret views upon
ge eF 1 q testioas at' terad by Dr. Antr,on.
Dr. AND ?RS )N said when .the questior. of r iting the
Clocks wis Ws some time ego, his ssi on was,
that, prima faciz, the docks oujlv. to contiisute the'r
quota t 'wards toe general expenses of tin tevn (Hear,
hear, and cheers.)• He proasise I if he were returned to the
Council, to examine deeply and patiently th it and other
q•le,fons co meete I with it:
Mr. DANIFt.La then move 1 a re:elution, dee' Arin D
Anderson a fit an i proper perk() t to represent the ward, and
pli-dgiiig the meeting to t 143 legitinnve exertion -to
sivure I is roturs.
Dr. HANNA seconlei the in oti

Mr. WILLIAM wh ► w s letnilq applauded, briefly
adilre4-3d the meeting. opening by ebsarving that he would
drink their health in a glass of exeellent water, and'
suitei the aerion to the wort amid cheers and laughter.'
lie sail he was net going t) enter into the water q 'elation
then—which was a very large and i n tort nt
which in any gentleman talked w:th nit having s iffident
information. Peoria the evide r he h. id hears, ha ha
always b.sea ill favour of Eh. R;riagron schern., and he
was sti 1 in fainur of it. If he e 'veto I po;iularitv, arid
acted contrary to hig consciepc,, and coot ary to what ha
d to be their itecres', he s'inald be a very
urtivorthy reoresan'a ire. ( leer, her-, and )
That h never wo-111 do upon any salij>ct wh attve
The facalties it ha i pleased G d to give lain, he
wou'd exercise for the ben fit of the public as far as
he could ; but beyond that be never would go.
'He never would court popularity and 1 83 his chsra3te-.
(bear, hear, and cheers) He Taal great pie isure in sup-
parting ft-. Aralcrsrs, why had shown himself a stacien
liberal for th in, witho tt any queition from any g >ntlem ie.
lie felt quite s th et Dr. An e smi ava3 a very gout
and true liberal, and he did not think V-e meeting had arty
right to pl in o the secrets of the past D-. Anderson
might hare hal some partied tr rea-ou then for aittng as
he did, but be was a liber.ll now„ and th re on tld be u
doubt, about tat. (Che:tr,.) Mr. E aria, in a few w
-eferred t t the question of town impreverne,nts, which, he
I, it were hopeless t I expect on a large sell-, unless the
Public cousentel to s Omit ti a small inprovemnit r tie.
In o mclinsion h, gave his suppo-t t i Dr. Indursol.
Mr. Ronsarsosr GIADSTOSE than cams for vac', all

rec iced with a storm of chesrs. He that his
object in attend ng the meeting w-is to hear others, and
nut t ► troub e them w,th a spiech fro n himself. He
01011 d, h iwever, join in the expressi to of the opinion
they had hard from others, and say ho o delighted he had
been with the speech of Mr. Allsop, anl their candid ite,
Dr. An lerson. Upon one p Int that had bee• alluded to,.
he would venture to say this, and p chaps it would be
sore relief to Dr. Anderson. Aco tetiOn was put to. Dr.
Anlerson with regtrd to
.Ws past v)tes and plitical
opiniont If OPT were all to eatechisa one another on
that particular subject, he (lir. Gladstoni) was. of
of i
some of them would stand in a very awkward pon'iol—
(laughter) —and he himself a-nangst the number; bat
whet a man ado AO :a I beril c u sa of conitiot they
sh I not to n upon him and ask him howl mg he hal
taken op that line of duty. (Ilatg, hea -.) Tug shoull
all hail Dr. &Maim's opini ms up m the eubj et ut
Liberalism wi h delight and satisfaction, and when a man
entered upon a course of duty which had for its tendon),