Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-22 00:00:00

Mr. F. McPhilips acted as secretary to the meeting.

The Chairman' returned thanks for the honour and
confidence placed in him. He then addressed the meet-
ing, and said they desired a man to represent the Ward
who was for progress and reform. (Hear, hear.) He
contended that politics thonld not he imparted into the
Corporation, but such was the fact. He alluded to the
reje ;don of Mr. Preston and Mr Holt as the Mayors of
the town, because they were reformers, and he repudiated
the idea that such should be the case. He contended that
the ward should place the right man in the right place,
and rescue the town from the, degredation in which it was
at present placed. "
Mr. Lowden then proposed the following resolution :
" Resolved, that it is the opinion of this meeting' that a
large and popular constituency such as Scotland Ward
should select a candidate whose political antecedents will
afford a guarantee that his conduct, as their
representative, if returned, will be in accordance
with their views of progress and reform." He said
there was scarcely any difference of opinion on
the point. Their object was to send the best man to re.
present them in the Council, and that was Mr. Liversedge.
(Cheers•) He was well known in the ward, and would be
one of the best men in the corporation. He alluded to the
Introduction of politics into the Town Council, and con-
tended that the people should elect the best man devoid of
politics to represent the ward in the Council.
Mr. Mc Philips said that it was net the desire of the
gentleman named to go into the Council except on princi-
ple. The resolution was then seconded, and carried
unanimously.
Mr. Joseph Healing then, in a brief and able address,
spoke to the next resolution, which was the proposal of
Mr. William Liversedge as a fit and proper person to
represent the ward in the Town Council. (Hear, hear.)
He spoke of the qualities of Mr. Liversedge in high terms
as a man of business and every thing that the people
could desire. After some further remarks on the qualifi-
cation of the gentleman, he proposed that he was a fit and
proper person to represent the ward in the Council.
Mr. Edward Smith seconded the resolution.
Mr. Lloyd here addressed the meeting and caused some
amusement by calling the meeting a "sham from bottom
to top." He spoke about Mr. Crellin, and then followed
a good deal of personalities, after which Mr. Lloyd
contended that Mr. Liversedge was dragged out against
his will.

Mr. Glover said Mr. Lloyd had told him the previous
day that he would support Mr. Liversedge or Mr.
Mus pratt.
Mr. Lloyd : That is an abominable lie. Hero a small
rebellion took place, when
Mr. Lowden addressed the meeting, and, by some
judicious observations, calmed the storm.
Some explanation then took place, when the resolution
was put and carried amid loud cheers.
The Chairman, in reply to a question, said the
candidate was pledged to restore pure water to the town.
(Cheers.) The meeting then pledged itself to support
Mr. Liversedgo, and a vote of thanks being passed to the
Chairman, the meeting seperated.

• ABERCRO MBY WARD.
A meeting of the electors of this ward favourable to the
return of Mr. Robert Hutchison as one of the representa-

tives of the ward in the Town Council, was held last
night in Hope-hall, Hope-street. The 'meting was
numerous, and of an influential character. The chair
was occupied by Mr. Janus Holme, and among the gen-
tlemen present were Alderman Dover, Messrs. Richard
Griffiths, Richard E. Griffiths, Elias Arnaud, Hugh Neill,

J. H. Hudwigien, Dr. Hensm,m, Messrs John Bigham,
Robert Waddington, James N. Holmes, George Webb,

James Webb, W. 11. North, William Nicholson, Charles
Meinche, Richard Holmes, William William 3, Robert

Williams, William Winstaniey, G orge Ladmore, Thomas
Wilkinson, James R. Chambers, William Erlam, John

J. Hatton, C. M. Brownbill, &c.
The Chairman, in a few brief remarks, in'roduced the
name of Mr. Hutchison to the meeting, and observed that
if they returned him as their representative to the council,
they would have selected a gen leman every way qualified
to fulfil the duties of that important office. In Mr.
Hutchison, they would have a gentleman of business
habits, and one connected with the mercantile interests of
the town, and if they elected him, they would find they
had selected a man fit to represent them (Hear, hear.)
Many important questions would be brought before the
council, particularly the question of widening the streets,
and improving the approaches to the pier.heao, and in
the consideration of that question, they would find
the advantage in having the sentiments of men well
acquainted with the in'erests of the town ; and such a
man was Mr. Hutchison. (Hear, hear.) He well knew
the town, apd on the great question of the water supply,
he would corns to its consideration withaut partiality or

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prejudice. (Cheers.) •
Mr. Robert Hutchison then came forward, and was

warmly greeted. After thanking the meeting for the
cordial reception accorded to him, be proceeded to say
that he laboured under some disadvantage in coming
forward, for the first time, as a candidate for
the representation of the ward, and particularly
as the successor of a gentleman of such high
character, standing, and ability, as Mr. John
Abraham Tinne. There was a time, he confessed, when

he thought that political opinions should not form a test
of a man's fitness or unfitness for the Town Council, and

although he still adhered to that opinion to a great extent,
he was very well aware that Government could not be
carried on except by party, but at the same time there
was no reason why that strong and bitter party feeling.
which existed to former years, should any longer coutiuue
to exist. (Hear, hear.) It appeared to him that at the
present time more than ever men of all parties could meet
on common and neutral grounds for the discussion of
such questions as were likely to come before the Town
Council. If they took a retrospect of the last thirty
years, they would find that. all the great questions which
had agitated the public mind, and stirred up party
passions, were now removed. In 1827 the Test Act was
repealed ; in 1829 Roman Catholic Emancipation was
granted ; in 1832 the Reform Bill was passed ; it was
tollowed by Municipal Reform ; and soon after came the
fiscal changes of Sir Robert Peel, which ended eventually
in the repeal of the Corn and Navigation Laws. He had
therefore hoped that when his nomination was first
broached the election would have been allowed to pass
over without any ebullition of party feeling, but he war
sorry to say that, within the last few days, there was
some ink'ing that it would not be so. Whe-
ther it was proper that the opprobious epi he s
which were applied to them should be used, he
wou'd leave the meeting to determine, but for his part he
thought it was unjast and calumnious to ascribe to the
conservative party that they were influenced by improper
motives. (Hear, hear.) It appeared to him that within
the last few years a fusion of parties had as it were taken
place, and that all important questions could be now
discussed without any exhibition of party feeling. As
the great organ of public opinion, the Times, in a recent
artic:e observed, " Eh, y should all be c loser vatives in
some way or the other,' and there was evidently a growing
disposition on the part of the leading liberals of the day
not to give way to that innovating spirit which it had ever
been the policy of the conservative party merely to keep
in check (Hear, hear.) Ile would cont. nd that the
party who called themselves liberal were not more liberal
than they (the conservatives) were. (Hear, hear, and
cheers.) The true conservative knew as well as the liberal
did that the safety of all their institutions depended on
their reparation from time to time, and, therefore, the
conservative party had never placed themselves as
obstacles in the way of improvement. (Hear, hear.) It
was only against rash, ill-judged, and hasty legislation
that they protested, and not against improvement. (Hear,
hear.) The leading question which was now before the
Council was that of the water supply. He should confess
that he felt very greatly disappointed with the
Rivington water, but there was no use in discuss-
ing whether that was the quarter which they should
have gone for a supply for the town. It was
sufficient fur them to know that three quarters of a million
of money had been expended on the Pike scheme; and as
it would be absurd for them to throw away what had
been obtained at so great a cost, he did think that the
resolution which the Council came to in regard to it, on last
Monday, was the wisest, under the circumstances. He
was a strong advocate for having the red sandstone water
carried into dwelling houses for dietetic purposes ;
but, as that supply should be supplemented from some
source, he thought it far better to wait the result of the
experiments for improving the Rivington w tter, before
they entered on the expenditure of £155,000, in laying
down a double set of pipes. (Hear, hear.) He con-
side red, seeing that many of the men of business of the
town lived on the other side of the river, that the question
of the improvement of the approaches to the landing-
stage should receive the earnest attention of the Coaucli,
and that the widening of the streets generally also deserved
consideration. He thought. too, that the recreation of
the people should be provided for, by means of public
parks, and that the land suitable for that purpose
should be now bought up, before it reached a
value that would treble the cost to the town at some
future day. (Hear, hear.) He would allude more
particularly to the land, the property of the Earl of
Sefton, known as the Parliament Yields, which lay
contiguous to a very populous district, and was well
suiLd for the purpose of a park ; and without such places
of recreation and health, he did not see how they could
hope for that moral and social improvement among the
people which all so ardently desired. (Hear, hear.)
Another subject, which now occupied the attention of the
council, was the inventory of the corporate property
moved for by Mr.- Robertson Gladstone. He (Mr.
Hutchison) could see no objection in principle to that
inventory being made, but, at the same time, it would
involve much time and expense, and would be, therefore,
of doubtful advantage. As to the town does, they should
recollect that there had been something like 45%000 a