Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-24 00:00:00

TO THE BURGESSES OF LIME-STREET WARD.

GENTLEMEA,
THE pe, iod of my delegated trust as your representative
in the Town Council is about to expire. A 'deputation
of your body has done me the honour to' wait upon me with a
view to its renewal. With pleasure I- acccpt their. invitation
and deem ..t therefore no less a privilege than a dY.ty to addres
a few words to you on the occasion. Whether they shall be
parting wcrds, or merely preliminary to a continuance of our
connection as constituents and representative, is a question for
your sole decision. '
My conduct as a 'member of the Town Council for the last
three years, i;, biffote Y•ou. It is for you to decide how far that
conduct has exceeded or fallen short of your expectations.
But this I think I Mayventure to say—all that I promised,
when, in conipliande With a numerously-signed requisition, I
placed my services at your diqosal, has been zealously end
faithfully performed. What I under onk to do, if you con-
ferred upon me the honour of representing you, was simply to
discharge the important duties thereby devolving upon me to
the best of ability. Perhaps I may be allowed to acid,
my
witbalit incurring the charge of presumftion, that even y:tur
opponents and mine -cannot deny that this pledge has been
fully redeemed.
Should Vaeie be, however, any doubt on this point, I shall
be happy to render-the fullest possible account of my steward-
ship, whenever and wherever the opportunity is afforded.
. .

The matters to whichl alluded. three ye.ars ago, when, at
your request, I • ffered myself as a candidate for your suffrages,
have certainly not diminished in importance ; nor do they re-
quire less unremitting attention on the part cf your represen-
tatives.

The Town Dues question has been settled, f not exactly as
we could have wished, and as justice demanded, still in a man-
ner far short of absolute confiscation. The part I took in
effecting a compromise, when nothing less than such spoliation
was sought by some of our envious o-pponents in the neigh-
bouring towns. is known to you all. For property. held by as good.
a right as that on which some of our assailants enjoy their private
esta.eswe have obtained some compensation, though by no means
an equivalent. This question having been thus settled, it seems to
me a matter worthy of consideration, whether we should• not
now endeavour to come to some similar arrangement with re-
spect to the River Weaver Tolls, which are so heavy a burden
on one important branch of the trade of Liverpool. These
Tolls are far in excess of wiiitt is necessary to maintain the
navigation, and the surplus is applied to county purposes.
This may be a very convenient arrangement for Cheshire
landed proprietors, who seldom have to pay a county-rate of
more than a penny in the pound, but it is not exactly in confor-
mity with the principle on which they assailed the Liverpool
Town Dues.

The precise information /relative to the Corporate Estate,
ordered to be furnished on the motion of Mr. Robertson Glad-
stone, of the non-compliance with which oider, after a lapse of
twelve months, I complained three years agb, has not y 0 been
supplied. It is most important that, wherever the hitch lies,
and whatever may be the motive for withholding it, this infor,
mation should be forthcoming; and should you again return
me to the Council, I will continue to use my best exertions to
obtain it. _ _

I have endeavoured, as you are aware, to prevent the adop-
tion of a new mode of disposing of Corporate property, which
I consider most unjust to the present ratepayers, since it
inflicts upon them increased taxation fur the benefit of pos-
terity .entirely uncalled for; and, failing in this attempt, at
least to insure publicity and fair competition on all occasions
of sale or lease, so as to obtain the best possible terms for the
public, and prevent even the suspicion of collusion and jobbery.
The importance of this question can hardly be over-rated.
With proper administration of the Corporate Estate, annually
increasing in value, and judicious. economy in expenditure, I
believe there will be no necessity for a borough rate ; but that,
otherwise, it will be unavoidable.
Althcugh a complete •separation between the Corporate and
Dock Estates has been effected, the interests of the two are,
and must ever he, so interwoven, that a member of the Town
Council, anxious to do his duty, will always have to keep a
watchful eye on the proceedings of the Dock Board; and the
Council-Chamber is certainly the place in which he should
direct the public attention to these proceedings whenever he
considers it necessary so to do. Ard this duty has become all
the more important :since the transfer of its jurisdiction from
the Corporation to a body of gentlemen, many of whom have
nio inte7est ir. the permanent welfare of either estate.
The time may not be far distant when some determined
iitand agaii: the extravagant expenditure of a body so con-
stituted will be necessary, and especially on the ia,art of the
omers of fixed property, who are the persons most interested
in the proper management of the Dock Estate. Should such
necessity arle, I trust that I shall never be foun;'. wanting,
either as your representative, or, if that lidnour be denied me,
as a simile member of this great community very largely in-
terested in its welfare. • _ _

Being firmly convinced, after much inquiry- and serious
reflection, that the rating of the Dock Estate, and all other
public property, towards the support of the poor, is,n measure
recommended not less by its justice than by its expediency, I
need hardly assure you that I shall persevere in the use of my
best efforts to accomplish that object, is whatever way they
may seem to be most likely to be available.
In conclusion, gentlemen, I venture to hope that no further
exposition of my se:ztiments or intentions will be deemed neces-
sary from me in this address. At your Ward Meetings, I shall
be happy to afford any other explanation which may be required:-
For the present, therefore, I will only say that what you hive
found me in the past, you will, if you think, fit to renew my
trusteeship, find me in the future,—a zeal. us and painstak-
ing frier d and advocate of every measure calculated, .in my
judgment, to promote the prosperity of the town and port, and
the general wellbeing of the inhabitants.
• I have the honour to be, gentlemen, yours, very respectfully,
JAS. It. JEt'FERY.
Compton-house, October 3, 1859.

TO THE. BURGESSES OF ST. ANNE'S WARD.
•
GENTLEMEN,
Have been waited upon by an influential deputation
of your body with a requisition, most Muneronily gned;
inviting inc to become a CANDIDATE for the Representatit..
of your Ward in the Town Council, at the ensuing Municipal
Election.
The clearly expressed opinion of so largs, a number of the
Electors, relieves me of any diffidence I might otherwise tve
felt in assuming such a responsible position; I therefore
cheerfully comply with the request, and at once place myself,
in your hands.
-)hould it be yourpleasure to elect mess one of our Represen-

Should it be y,
tatives, my best efforts shall be directed to the 'promotion of.
qvery measure, having for its object the weifare of the Ward
and the good of the community. at large.
I am, gentlemen, your most obedient servant,
GEO, Niel/SON.
16, Canterbury-street, Islington, 30th Sept., 1859.

.TO TILE BURGESSES OF PITT-STREET WARD.
• GENTLEMEN,
ARequisition, numerously signed, has been presented
to me, inviting me to allow myself to be nominated as.
a CANDIDATE to represent your interests in the. ..town'
Council. I feel deeply sensible of the honour, and most
cheerfully accede to that request, considering it both a duty
and a pew lege to endeavour to fulfil a public trust when
called up,ua• in a constitutional manner. If, therefore, it be
your pleasure to elect me as your representative, it will be my .
anxious study to discharge the duties of that important and
responsible position in such a manner as to promote the
welfare of the *hole community.
The enforcement of sanitary regulations, the improvement
of the dwellings of the poor, increasing the number and
extent of parks and playgrounds for the people, shall have my
earnest support. But, as a•-preliminary step to all these
impo:tant questions, and in order that the Council and also
thb -people of Liverpool may know what means there are for
the accomplishment of these great works, I will join most
heartily in the efforts to obtain. an early and complete state-
ment of the nature and extent of the corporate estate. This,
I think, is one of the first duties to which the attention of
your representatives ought to be directed. If returned to
the Council it will be my sole object, to the best of my ability,
to see that the public resources are exclusively and efficiently
employed for the public good.
Keeping: this- principle in view, I may state that the
widening of Park-lane and the improvement of Cleveland,
square Market shall have my earliest and best attention.
Being a large ratepayer in the ward, my interests, I may be
permitted to say, are bound up with yours, and if I can serve
you and the town at large, I shall be happy to do so.—l am,
gentlemen, yJar obedient servant, JAMES STEEL.
73, Duke-street, Oct. 8, 1859. 1

- PITT-STREET WARD.
o
rglIE COMMITTEE for conducting the ELECTION
of TAMES STEEL, Esq., meet Every Evening, at Seven
o c ck, at the VINE TAVERN, Pitt-street. The Secretary is
in attendance Daily.
WILLIAM M'MILLEN, Chairman.
E. S. SAMUELL, 1 Vice-Chairmen.
D. M'CLELLAN,
WM. WMILLEN, Jun., 1 Hon. S'ecretaries.
WILLIAM EVANS,

TO THE FREE AND INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF
LIME-STREET WARD.

GUNTLEMEN, •
lIAVING received a Requisition numerously and
respectably signed, to allow myself to be put in nomina-
tion as a Candidate for your suffrages at the approaching Muni-
cipal Election, I, on public grounds, do not hesitate to respond
to that appeal, feeling assured that the cm:situency of this
important Ward will be- rejoiced to have this opportunity of
freeing itself from the thraldom of Radicalism, and shakin.;
off the yoke of the Campion-Ifouse demagogue. I will not
presume to follow the examole GC my vain-glorious. opponent
by lauding myself to the +•rr r endcavouinz to gull you
the alief that I have becn tile saviour and re7,merator
of Liverpool, although it is a notorious fact that he, and
his twin- brother in all political jobs, were, by their
uncalled-for interference, the means of depriving the
people of Liverpool cf half a million of money.
will, however, promise you., that I will devote my time
and energies towards amiliorating the condition of
the working clasSes, by sanitary and other measures ;—also.
carefully watch over the appropriation of the corporate funds,
avoiding, on the one hand, that. niggardly parsimony that
would cut down the Poor man's wages, and, on the other hand,
that wild and reckless ei,itravagance which has so often cha-
racterised the acts of our public men, in dealing with the pub-
lic parse.

I am an advocate for the :I?ating of the Docks, as I consider
they ought to bear their proper share of the burdens of the
Town.

There are many other subjects of local and general interest
which it would be ted.ious to dwell upon within the limits of an
address, and as I shall have rainy opportunities of personally
appearing before you between now and the day of Election,
I shall be glad to enter more fully into my political and
general opinions., In the meantime, I leave myself in your
handS, and be assured that, if you do me the honour of electing
me as your Representative, I shall use my best exe.tions in
your behalf, and that -of the town in general.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your most obedient
servant,

- JOHN WILSON,
West Derby-street, Liverpool,. 21st October, 1859.

TO THE ELECTORS OF sT. ANNE'S WARD.
GaNTLEMEN,
-1- have been asked by a most influential deputation
1_ from your ward to allow myself to be placed in nomina-
tion for the scat in the Council abut to be vacated by your_
respected member, Mr. Mellor.
After consulting with friends upon whose judgment I can
rely, I have determined on placing my services at your
disposal.

if you elect ,me, I shall go into the Council Chamber'deter-
mined, so far as may lie in my power, to promote the interests
not only of this ward, but of the town at large.
By a judicious but considerable retrenchment of our borough
expenditure, I believe that the taxes levied upon'your earn-
ings may be diminished, and the imminent risk of additional
burdens averted.

No a business-like and proper-management of our vast cor-
porate property it will bu admitted that a knowledge of what
it is, and where it is situated, is required. The production of
the return ordered at the instance of Mr. Gladstone, three
years ago, is still delayed, and aught at once to be placed in
the hands of every member of the Council.
Now that the dock property is separated by act of Parlia-
ment from the corporate estate, I can see no reason why it
should not be subject to the same rates as all other property.
On the 9th of November I shall, if returned by yau,,be called
upon to take part in the election of eight gentlemen as•alder-
men of the borough. I will on that occasion, while exercising
my independent judgment as to who are the best fitted to
rzceive so marked a distinction, endeavour to secure such a
distribution of the aldermanic honours as to leave no doubt
upon the mind of any one that "honour" has been given "to
whom honour is due."
_ _ .

I shall support the extensionof education, as it alone-can
enable a man to fulfil the duties of his station honourably in
whatever position of life he may be.
I shall endeavour, by advocating the establishment of public
parks and playgrounds, to diminish the temptations to intem-
perance and crime.
In a few months the noble gift of our fellow-townsman, ➢ir.
William Brown, is to be thrown open to the public, and will
form a lasting ornament to your ward.
I hope soon, too, to see a b:anch of the Liverpool. Savings
Bank established in this part of the town, convinced that
extension of the means of mental culture by the Free Library
will be followed here, as elsewhere, by a marked moral ant
physical improvement.
It will be my pleasure, if returned to the Council, to support,
some of the schemes of borough improvements which have
been so ably advocated by Mr. William Earle, especially so far
as they relate to the approaches to our noble river, those being
at present not only dangerous to the public, but a disgrace-to.
the town. .

I hope to have many other opportunitiei of addressing you,
.1
of which I shall take advantage to make known my views
upon all subjects of public interest in reference to which you
may wish an expression of my opinion.
I will only add that if I can be of any service to my native
town---the town in which my respected father
.ministered for
nearly 20 years, and .over which my grandfather presided as
chief magistrate upwards of half a century, ago—it will be
more than a recompense to me for any exertions, I may be
called upon to make in your behalf.
I remain, gentlemen, yours very faithfully,____

AS-PINALL.
3, LT/lion-el-art, Castle-street, Liverpool. twinol

TO THE BURGESSES, OF

ABERCROMBY, GREAT GEORGE, LIME-STREET, AND
WESP DERBY WARDS.
FELLOW BURGESSES,

e
WO latpDattattice
fiennalidne,qwuahticelitop
pervades yourin disgustv s ata at
thisth
particular crisis: I allude to your want of energy in not
bringing forward candidates of Conservative principles to
represent you on the Ist of November next. What, may I ask,
is the cause of your indifference to the principles which you -
profess to • enunciate ? Has some powerful narcotic I:cen.
infused into your systenis ? or have fair Promises (made only
to be broken) been held out to you? To my mind it seems
most suicidal that you should allow your adversaries to exer-
cise such an unlimited sway over you. I entreat, I implore of
you, in the namuof common sense, for the sake of those grand
and noble principles which you profess to follow, to throw off
the shackles of despotism and republieanisal, and be deter-
mined to preserve the grand bulwark of our constitution. This
you can only effect by returning true Conservatives in the
stead of out-lying and deceptive .Itadicals, at the forthcoming
Municipal Election. , ;
I am, Fellow Burgesses, your obedient Servant,

London-road, October 22, 1939.

THOMAS 'BANNER.

TO THE BURGESSES OF GREAT GEORGE WARD.
GENTLEMEN,
AVNG received from a highly influential Depu-
tation an invitation to become a Candidate for the Ward,
I ben to place my: elf in yourhands ; and this I do with greater
pleasure, as I have been connected with the Ward from my
earliest years.
,If elected, I shall give my attention, as far as lies in my
power, not only to local wants, such as completing what have
-beth for so many years serious .grievances---the approaches to
Park-lane, the alteration of Cleveland-square Market, &c.,--
but also to what is of still more importance, the economical
administration of the Corporate Funds ; and feeling, as I do,
that one of the most necessary steps to that end is to have a
full and clear statement of the Corporate Property, I shall feel
bound to support any party who may endeavour to obtain that
irepertantobject. •
• I shall have great pleasure in supporting any measure for
providing Public ,Parks or Playgrounds. lam of opinion that
these, to be useful, must be as-near to the town' as possible;
and that, as far as the south end of the town is concerned, the
fields adjoining Parliament-street, are the most eligible_site..
available.
Hoping, if elected, to merit. that.confideace.and kindly feel
leg which I have so largely experience 4 hitherto,
I remain, Gentlemen, your obedient Servant, .
JOHN HAYS WILSON.
70, 'Upper-Parliament-street, Liverpool, -
September 22nd, 1839.

LIME-STREET WARD.
THE CO MM ITTEE for* CONDUCTING the
ELECTION of JOHN WILSON, Esq., SIT DAILY at
Mr. CHAS. CRACK'S, Star and' Garter Hotel Queen-square,
where every information may be obtained.
Oct. 24, 1859. W. T. MAY, Hon. Sec.

OCTOBER 24, 1859

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