The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-22 00:00:00

Crrtion.

TO THE ELECTORS OF SCOTLAND WARD.
GENTLEMEN, •
T HAD determined to withdraw from the Council, but I
1. was strenuously solicited not to abandon the Ward; and
a Requisition so numerously signed, desiring that I would
allow myself to be nominated at the forthcoming Municipal
Election, having been presented to me, I therefore state,
that, if elected as your Representative ,to the Town Council,
I shall have great pleasure in serving yop, and shall endeavour
to promote the welfare of my native town.
You say that my votes and conduct in the Council for the
last three years have been satisfactory. It is, therefore, un-
necessary for me to say anything relative to my political sen-
timents, or what line of conduct I shall pursue in local affairs.
I firmly 'adhere to those principles, and shall continue to
endeavour to effect those measures hich have obtained your
approbation.

I remain, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
It. HOUGHTON.
Great Nelson-street, 12th October, 1839.

TO THE ELECTORS OF VAUXHALL WARD.
GENTLEMEN, • -
IN answer to a Requisition most respectably signed, inviting
me to offer myself as a CANDIDATE for the,Represen-
tation of your Ward in the Town Council, although my own
inclination would lead me to avoid such publidsituations, as
it seems unfortunately difficultpto approach without becoming
absorbed in the vortex of politics and party spirit, yet I do
not think it right to refuse, when thug galled upon, to place
at your disposal any services it may b Ifk my power to render.
If elected, I shall endeavour to charge the important
duties of the office independently an usefully.
To remedy the old evil continued to us by the rash parti-
zanship of the first Reform Council, in selecting all the
Aldermen from one political party, (a step which the sober-
minded among them have since, I believe, much regretted,)
belongs to you Gentlemen, the Electors, and to you alone,
by selecting those for Councillors whose position among you,
and whose conduct in that position you have observed to be
such as to qualify them to govern the Town for the Town's
good, instead of those whose politics constitute their only
claim, and who, therefore, may be expected to decide local
questions more with reference to their political bearings than
to their proper merits ; and to spend that time and labour in
the promotion of political objects, which ought to be devoted
to the multifarious duties that properly belong to the Muni-
cipal Body.
Such are my views, and if they meet with your approval I
shall deem it an honour to be elected your Representaive.
I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
[
• Your most obedient Servant,
HENRY R. SANDBA.CII.
Exchange, 16th October, 1839.

TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF

VAUXHALL WARD.

GENTLEMEN,
THE honour which you have done me in requesting,
through your deputation, that I would permit myself to
be put in nomination as the Candidate on the Reform inte-
rest for your Ward, and the subsequent favourable manner
in which you have been pleased to receive my explanation of
the line of conduct by which I conceive any gentleman placed
in the Council ought to be guided, has been so flattering (more
especially from having been neither solicited nor sought for
on my part), as to induce me to accept with pleasure your
offer, and to assure you that no efforts of mine shall be want-
ing to justify the good opinion which you have been pleased
to express of me.
1 have, for the last three years, openly expressed my re-
gret that the only test of the fitness of an individual to be-
come a guardian of the public property should be his
adherence to a particular line of politics, but I have found
that though all parties are agreed that the system is bad, yet
each is unwilling to give way. It is consequently almost an
impossibility for any one to steer clear of the contending cur-
rents. I have, therefore, preferred continuing with that
party with whom I have invariably acted, and whose opinions
are most in unison with my own ; at the same time (in the
event of my election) reserving to myself the right of voting
upon all questions solely according to their intrinsic merits,
.without reference to the party from whom they may emanate.
Sincerely attached to the Established Church, in the prin-
ciples of which I was educated, I view with the utmost tole-
ration the opinions of all those whose religious views differ
from my own.
Fully aware of the value of education, both as a barrier
against idleness, the parent of all vice, and also as a means of
raising and improving the condition, both social and moral,
of the working classes, and believing that the system of edu-
cation now pursued in the Corporation Schools is well calcu-
lated to advance these objects, I shall give that system my
ready support.
With regard to the administration of the public funds, my
motto is—Economy, without parsimony; and whilst I shall
be at all times willing to allow the expenditure of such sums
as may be necessary for the due support of the dignity of the
town, I shall still consider the Corporate income as the pro-
perty of all classes, and use my utmost efforts to procure its
expenditure for the benefit of all..
I have the honour to subscribe myself, Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
THOMAS CHALMER.
34, Mansfield-street, Oct. 16, 1839.

r obe SOLD, Two excellent HOUSES, nyotlY-erected,
and in the Elizabeth style of architestoie, situaie on
_lip
Mossley-hill, near the residence of Char s/Lawrence' Esq.
The Houses are built of Stone, and are Ved up with Baths
and every convenience for a large Farni4 They have double
Coach-houses and Three-stalled Stables, and command
beautiful and extensive views. Apply to Messrs. SMUEL
and JAMES HOLME, Seel-street.
T

HE Advertiser, a Young Man, having a fevi hours each
evening to spare, would be glad to devote the same to
the Adjustment of a Set of Books, or in anrway in which he
could be of service. Respectable reference will be given.
Letters addressed (post paid) to J. C. H., Standard-office,
will be duly attended to.

DOCK WAREHOUSES.
jiPUBLIC MEETING of MASTER COOPERS,
CARTERS, PORTERS, and'', WAREHOUSE
KEEPERS, and all others Opposed to the Erection of
Warehouses by the Dock Tinstees, will- be held, in the
LARGE ROOlll OF THE YORK HOTEL, on FRIDAY next, the
25th instant, at Twelve o'clock.

ESTABLISHED CHURCH.
A PUBLIC MEETING of MEMBERS of the CHURCH
La. OF ENGLAND will be held on FRIDAY EVENING
next, the 25th instant, at the Music HALL, )3Dld-street, for
the purpose of Forming an Association, t 9 b€ entitled " THE
YOUNG MEN'S ESTABLISHED CHURCHOOCIETY.”
CRESSWELL CRESSWELL, Esq.; M.P. will preside.
The Rev. HUGH M‘NEILE, and other Clergymen, will
address the Meeting.
'The Chair to be taken at Half-past Six o'clock precisely.

THE LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES AND
INFIRMARY.
THE Public are respectfully informed, that, on the last
Sg.)tnAy in this month, the 27th instant, SERMONS
will beTFeached and COLLECTIONS made in all the CA-
THOLIC CHAPELS of the town, in aid of the Funds of
the Liverpool DISPENSARIES, and that one-third of the
proceeds will be appropriated to the INFIRMARY.
The alarming state of the Finances of the above Charitable
Establishments, as reported by their respective Committees,
has induced the Catholic clergy to make a general appeal to
their different Congregations ; and they sincerely hope the
necessity of the case will induce every individual, who has it
in his power, to respond to the call.
No grievance would more deeply affect the poor and labour-
ing class, or more seriously endanger, from the contagion of
neglected disease, the general health of this populous town
than the suppression of the Dispensaries; and the continually
increasing demands on These institutions for medicines and
attendance have left them in such arrears that their tot d ces-
sation, or reduction to almost nothing, unless a powerful ef-
fort be made in their favour, will be unavoidable.