Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-16 00:00:00

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'TED ATTRACTION

Return of
MR. BENEDICT VA.IIGIIAN,
The celebrated baritone vocalist and composer.

Every evening during the week, the popular Comic Singer
and Composer,
MR. HARRY SYDNEY,
MILS. HARRY SYDNEY (LATE MISS ROSE HARLEY)
MISS MARY STANLEY,
Guitarist and Vocalist.
FINEST BAND IN LIVERPOOL,
Vocal and Instruinental. Operatic Selections nightly.
Sou) CHAILLES BLAMPHIN.

EVANS,
UPPER DAWSON-STREET (from Covent Garden, London)
close to the Lower Box Entrance of the Theatre.Royal.
Suppers after the Theatres, as in town.

CONCERT
ET, LITERPOOI

I)ARTHENON
GREAT CHARLOTTE-

HALL,

MR. J. G. STOLL

NEW COMPANY

MADAME L AURANZA,
AND HER CELEBRATED TROUPE OF ARTISTES,
From the Walhalla, Leicester-square, London, who will appear
Every Evening during the week, in their
DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENT,
Introducing scenes from all the principal Tragedies, Plays, Dramas,
Comedies, Operas, and Ancient History, in Full Costume.

Immense sneets.ss of
Mr. BLANCHARD and Mr. and Mrs. WILSON,

Duologuists and Comic Singers,

MISS CHARLOTTE BROWN,
The fascinating dancer, will make her first appearance this

evening

Immense success of
JIM MUNDY,
The greatest Irish Delineator of the Age,

Doors open at Half-past Six, Concert to commence at Seven,
Admission: Body of the Hall, ltd. ; Upper Hall, kl.

ISTORY OF THE WORKING CLASSES,
Every Satarday, in the NORTIIBILN DAILY TINES, Price One
Hy.

6tittrat 6lrdin.

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION

-The Committee for conducting the Election of Messrs.
CHEETHAM and HEYWOOD sit Daily, at the Commercial Hotel,
Dale-street. 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 requisition 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
£lO 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 areform would, I believe, be acceptable to a great majority
of the electors of England, and would, I trust, put tut 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.

I now place my services at your disposal, and trust, should you
be pleased to elect me, you may have no cause to regret the confi-
dence you place in me.—Believe me, gentlemen, yours faithfully,
J. I'EMBERTON HEYWOOD.
Norris-green, West Derby, sth April, 1859.

TO THE ELECTORS or THE SOUTHERN
DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER

GENTLEMEN,
HER 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 ca 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 shall 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 £lO 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
B 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
I have always, therefore, been an advocate for the

lot, 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 aetm

urned as your Representative, rc

to the same otject

I have thi

,est efforts shall be directed

honour to be, Gentlemen,

Your faithfu

servant,

JOHN CHEETHAM

Eastwood, Stalybridge, April 11, 1859.

BOROUGH ELECTION

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

TO THE ELECTORS OF LIVERPOOL,

GENTLEMEN,
THE House of Commons having declared, by a majority
of thirty-nine, that the Reform BM introduced by her

Majesty's
Lord Derb

Ministers " would not satisfy that HOuse or the Country

to advise the Queen to appeal to

Though strongly attached to the Liberal party, my ansiot

desire has
the prese

been more for measu

than for men, and so long as

!nt Government acted, as I thOught, for the general good

of the nation, they received from me every fair support.
But the Bill which they introduced for Amending the Represen-

tation of the People was so wrong in principal
industrious classes, in denying to them that share in t

Rd so unjust

to which their increasing Intel

nce and good conduct entitled

them, that I could not hesitate for a moment as to the vote which

I felt it my duty to give

A Bill, thoroughly wrong in principle, can never be satisfacto-
rily amended in Committee. The differences on every clause would

have been so interminable, that nothing but an ultimate
drawal of it could have solved the difficulties by which it was

surrounded. It would have been far better, therefore, to have

substituting another

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