Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-21 00:00:00

doors of our local legislature; and men can
surely be found for every Ward in the Borough,
who will carry the integrity of the merchant and
tradesman into the Council, and who will not
submit their fair complexion to be daubed by
the tar brushes of undisguised jobbery. A new
Parliamentary campaign has already been
announced by our Dock jobbers, the health and
comfort of the entire population are threatened
by our Pike Water jobbers; and what have we
reason to expect in return for the money expended
under the shallow pretence of correcting the
abuses of the Gas monopoly ? Are we to be for
ever sending men into the Corporation who have
sympathised with, and declared themselves
ready to support the authors of the local
grievances of which the inhabitants so justly
complain ? Are we never to see justice done ?
Within the next seven years the Corporation is
to receive 1,500,000/. as compensation for our
Town Dues; and is this large sqm to be
squandered as millions of money have already
been ? Is there never to be an end to munici-
pal prodigality in this Borough ? Much may
be done at the present election to check the
Council in their career of recklessness and
waste of the public muney. The Liberal
voters of Lime-street Ward did their duty
manfully last year, and let the Liberals
of St. Peter's, and all the other Wards, do their's
this year. It only requires a little tact and
determination to win St. Peter's Ward, and here
vigourous stand should be made in order to
show the Corruptionists that where there is a
will there is a way of defeating their nominees,
, even in their strongest holds.

All those who have read Mr. BOWRING'S
speech, which appeared in the NORTHERN TIMES
of' yesterday, will have discovered that that
gentleman is in all respects qualified to represent
the trading and mercantile interests of St. Peter's
Ward, and Liverpool generally, in the Corpora-
tion, and men of Mr. BowarNa's intelligence and
public spirit may be found in every section of the
Borough. St. Peter's Ward, in times past, has
been however the hot-bed of the Corruptionists
faction, and here the greatest concentration of the
Liberal party is most needed. In the other
Wards where Liberal candidates have
been brought forward, far less exertion
is required to secure their triumphant
return, and we hope now, late as it is, to see a
Liberal candidate put in nomination in
every ward. Bringing forward only one or two
good men every year, leaves the Corruptionists
but very little to do to keep up their power. If
they were compelled to contest the whole sixteen
wards, election after election, they would soon
find their chief strength broken, and the town
would be released from their mercenary grasp.
There is no want of men of public spirit and sound
principles to fill up the Liberal list ; and it is

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quired stamp do not step forward to represent
their fellow-townsmen in a position in which they
might render them such important services.
St. Peter's Ward must, however, be won. It is the
Redan of municipal corruption, and the Liberals
must carry it—Coute qui Coute !

WE have, at last, arrived at a crisis on the
Water Question. The Council sat in delibera-
tion on this vital question for the space of six
precious hours on Monday, and, by a majority of
voices, decided that the peurile resolutions of the
Water Committee should be approved of. What
are these resolutions ? A perusal of them will
convince any sane man that the object is further
procrastination, if not jugglery, or worse. Have
the Committee not had enough of emperical
experimenting ? It is evident the Ratepayers are
heartily sick of all such ; and we much mistake
the feeling of the town if they quietly submit to
be longer trampled upon in the manner they
have hitherto been. So long, they have proved
passive slaves; but, if they have a particle of spirit
left, they will arise against the cruel and crush-
ing despotism which has so long trampled over
their rights, and sweep it away for ever. No
more memorials to the Council—no more depu-
tations, or unprofitable discussions.
The people, if they want to emancipate them-
selves from this accursed bondage, must meet
together at once, and, with one voice, raise a cry,
if not for vengeance, at least for justice, which
will appal the hearts of their cowardly and
relentness oppressors. There is yet time for
such a demonstration, if it is set about in earnest;
and it behoves one and all to put their shoulders
to the wheel with a hearty and vigorous good
will• The resolutions of the Water Committee
are not merely a gross outrage on the common
sense of the people of Liverpool—they are worse.
They are a blind, to enable certain parties
to perpetrate further acts of spoliation and plun-
der on the hitherto confiding Burgesses ; but
this must no longer be borne with—the remedy
is in our own hands, and if we fail to avail our-
selves of it, we deserve to suffer. There were
samples of Pike water exhibited in the ante-room
of the Council Chamber on Monday, taken from
the Corporation Works by their own servants,
and, certainly, no sane person could have pro-
nounced these specimens fit for human use. Yet,
some twenty-one members voted that the foul
and abominable bog-wash shall still be diffused
through the well water, thus polluting the whole
supply. The men who voted thus, are unfit to
represent the inhabitants of Liverpool in the
Town Council. With the facts staring them in
the face, they belied their own consciences, as
well as the evidence of •their senses, in order to
conciliate the blind prejudices of a clique, and