Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-28 00:00:00

St PETER'S WARD ELECTION.

In our impression of yesterday, in allusion to St. Peter's
Ward Election, by the miscon,truction of a sentence we
did Mr. Banner an injustice, for which we take •the
earliest opportunity of making the arneade. In referring
to the Maio anti Female O;•phan Asylum the paragraph
read

They tell ns that Mr. Banner has given us our Asylum
for Male and Farnale Orphans. and that "he has erected
a church for that asylum." This reads very like a libel
on the very long lists of subscribers who p aid down their
money for those good and holy purpo?es ; and on these
lists the names of a large numher of the Liberal Electors
of St. Peter's and other Wards will be found recorded.
True, Mr. Banner headed the lists in question, and he also
took an active part, iu getting the church built; but when
all was finished, Mr. Banner gave the church with HA
annual stiponi to his own son. •
Zit will be seen that the asylum aul the church were
accidentally coupled tog3ther, and hence the casual reader
might suppose that the subscribers w4l paid money for
the erection of the asylum were also contributors to the
church. Tili3 was not so, the church lassie.: b?en built
solely with Mr. Banner's funds. We had written thus far
when we received the following note from Mr. II tralood
W. Banner :

Dear Sir,—l see that you say in an article in your paper
of to-day, referring particularly to my father and the
approachiaz contest in St. ?titer's Ward—

i‘ They," that is, as I read it, the supp3rters of 'my
father,) " Cell us that M. Banner has given us our asylu-n
for male an 1 female orphans, and that he has erected a
church for that asylum. This reads very like a libel on
the very long lists of subscribers who paid d3w❑ their
money for those good and holy .purposes ; and on these
lists the names of a large number of the Liberal Electors
of St. Peter's awl other Wards will be found recorded."
I hive not seen my father this morning, and have no
idea whether or not he has seen the article in qnestion ;
but I can state to you. from my own knowledge, that the
church to which you refer was built entirely at his own
cost, not one penny having been contributed by any other
person. This having been the case, I presume that ho
vas at perfect liberty to present it to whom he pleased,
and little fault can be found if that presentation was made
to his son.

I quite believe that, even in an election contest, you
would not knowingly state anything that was untrue or
likely to mislead, and I feel that I may rely upon yottr love
of fairness to insert this letter from, yours very truly,
lIARMOOD W. BANNER.
North JThn.street, Oct. 27, 1857.
To Chat les Willmar, Esc'
Northern Daily Times.

There is only one remark in the 10ove letter to which
we need refer. Mr. B timer had no doubt a perfect right,
and. we readily admit it was a very n aural act, to appoint
his own son minister to the church he bad built, but then
his friends have no right to make political capital out of
the transaction, or to claim any credit for peculiar
philanthropy., In conclusion we may state that the article
to which we refer was not written by Mr. Chas. Willmer.
as represented in an advertise rent published in another
column, and which has been extensively placarded through
the Ward; and the attempt to make it a p'rsonal matter
is, therefore, not justifiable by the circumstances.