Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-15 00:00:00

OUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION.

—The Committee for conducting the Election of Messrs.
CHEETHKM and HEYWOOD sit Daily, at the Commercial Hotel,
Dale-strea. WILLIAM BROWN, M.P., Chairman.

TO THE ELECTORS OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE.
Gentlemen,—A dissolution being about to take place, and Mr.
Brown, having announced his resignation, I now come forward as
a CANDIDATE to represent you in Parliament, in compliance with
my promise made in answer to the requietion presented to me a
short time ago.

In these days when all the old land-marks of party are swept
away, it is impossible to point to any leader in whom one can place
implicit trust and confidence. Everybody is for peace, and all pro-
fess anxiety for economy and reform.

The last Reform Bill gave us 27 years of progressive intelligence
and prosperity.
A busy, industrious, and practical people, like ourselves, cannot
afford to be perpetually nibbling at the constitution. The Reform
Bill of Lord Derby was a wretched attempt.
I am an advocate for a £6 rental qualification .in boroughs and
MP in counties. I do not deem it desirable to assimilate the borough
and county franchise.

I should propose the entire disfranchisement of ten or fifteen
small boroughs, and the reduction to one representative of as many
others as would provide 40 or 50 members to be equally distributed
between the largest unrepresented towns and most populous
counties.

Such a reform would, I believe, be acceptable to a great majority
of the electors of England, and would, I trust, put an end to agitation
for another quarter of a century.
Largely connected with the agricultural, commercial, and manu-
facturing pursuits of our important county, I feel with you a mutual
interest in their advancement.

1 now place my services at your disposal, and trust, should you
be pleased to elect me, you may have no °ono. to .0,,0t the nnToi-
aeuce you place in me.—Bolieve me, gentlemen, yours faithfully,
J. PEMBERTON HEYWOOD.
Norris-green, West Derby, Bth April, 1859.

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE SOUTHERN
DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER.
GENTLEMEN,
ITER Majesty's Ministers having advised the Queen to
dissolve the present Parliament, I venture to solicit a re-
newal of the trust you have confided to me en two previous

The rejection of the late Ministerial Reform Bill by the House
of Commons has led to its Dissolution, and the issue for the
decision of the constituencies is, whether that rejection sball be
confirmed or reversed.

Opposed as I was to the two main principles of that measure—
the disfranchisement of the county voters resident in boroughs,
and the limitation of the borough franchise to a 210 qualification,
thereby excluding a large portion of the intelligent and well
qualified of the working classes from any share in political power—
it was impossible I could vote for its going into committee. No
measure of reform founded on such a basis could ever be satisfactory
to the people of this country..

The provision, if adopted, to redress the present anomalies in
the distribution of seats in the House of Commons was most in-
adequate ; whilst the clause enabling non-resident electors to vote
in boroughs, was a revival of that so much deprecated system
abolished by the Reform Bill of 1832.
I think the basis of a satisfactory measure of reform may be
found in the adoption of a £lO rental qualification in counties, and
£6 in boroughs ; a total disfranchisement of many small boroughs,
the creation of new ones, and a transference to counties and
boroughs of additional members in proportion to their population,
wealth. and taxation.

I would make the duration of parliaments triennial.
The free expression of the elector's opinion, protected in its
exercise from intimidation and undue influence, is of paramount
importance. I have always, therefore, been an advocate for the
ballot, as the best mode of securing that object.
Intimately connected with the mercantile and manufacturing
interests of the county, I have always supported those measures
which I deemed conducive to their prosperity, and if again re-
turned as your Representative, my best efforts shall be directed
to the same object.

I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your faithful and obedient servant,
JOHN CHEETHAM

Eastwoad, Stalybridge, April 11, 1859. --
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BOROUGH ELECTION

~Lh
e Committee for promoting the Return of JOSEPH C.
EWART, Esq., M.P., sit Daily, at the Commercial Hotel, Dale-
street. THOMAS BROCKLEBANK, Chairman,