The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-03-23 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

et- We shall be happy, at all times, to receive COMMUnications
on subjects of local or general interest t and if our friends
will be good enough to authenticate the same by their signa-
tures. for our own satisfaction, we shall feel obliged.
"Rev. T. W."—The annual meeting of the Church Missionary
Society will be held in May.
"H. W."—A Field-officer is a mounted officer, that is, a
Major, or any one above him.

Eiberpoof tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, 1852

REPRESENTATION OF LIVERPOOL.
IN our last, we had the pleasure of announcing
that two Conservative candidates were about to
offer themselves for Liverpool ; men of high stand-
ing, and universally esteemed. We also mentioned
that a meeting would be held on the following day,
to adopt a requisition ; and a report of this meeting
will he found in another part of our paper. We
were not prepared, however, for the enthusiasm and
unanimity which that meeting exhibited ; feelings
which were certainly more necessary, but not so
much expected, after the recent attempts to sow
disunion amongst Conservatives. It was delightful
to see a man of high standing, like Mr. ADAM
HODGSON, volunteering to sink a certain difference
of opinion, that he might support the promoters of
good government generally, and the defenders of
our Constitution. The following is a copy of the
requisition :

TO WILLIAM FORBES MACKENZIE, ESQ., M.P., AND
CHA RLES TURNER, ESQ.
We, the undersigned electors of the borough of Liver-
pool, feeling the necessity of supporting the administration
of the Earl of Derby at this peculiar crisis of affairs, and
having confidence in your general and commercial know-
ledge, and in your attachment to the principles of our
constitution, do hereby respectfully and earnestly request
that you will permit us to put you in nomination, as
candidates to represent this town in parliament at the
ensuing election ; and we undertake to use every exertion
to secure your triumphant return.
The requisition has already obtained a large
number of signatures, and those who wish to add
their namee, should endeavour to do so with all
speed. Some are desirous of hearing the statements
of the members in the first instance ; but the requi-
sition is only a necessary means to procure them

that opportunity.
Respecting Mr. CHARLES TURNER, our-excellent
townsman, calumny itself is silent. It has long
been a sort of acknowledged principle in Liverpool,
(on what ground, we are at a loss to conjecture, un-
less it be through petty jealousyi) that none of our
merchants need present himself as a candidate for
parliamentary honours in his own town ; but
Mr. TURNER seems to be admitted, even by his
political opponents, to be an honourable and worthy
exception, as Mr. T. B. HORSFALL would also have
been, had he permitted himself to be put in

nomination.
The fact of Mr. FORBES MACKENZIE having
voted for the Maynooth question in 1845 is raked
up against him by some of our contemporaries, for-
getting, as they make it a point of doing, that this
fact was frankly and voltintarily stated by himself.
His retraction of that unworthy vote, or rather his
desire to retract it, is, however, the head and front
of his offending. In the Albion of yesterday a cor-
respondent quotes from the Scotsman, to the effect
that, of 568 names in the Peebles county list of
voters, 216 were faggot voters. The writer seems
to forget that faggot voters support the " liberal"
policy all over the country, and that the 240 votes
on the side of the successful candidate would leave
the whole 216 foreigners and more to the defeated

opponent.
Of Mr. CARDWELL, there can be but one opinion
among honourable men. The question is not
whether Whigism or Toryism is the better, but
whether, on any side, for any party, among any
set of men, he is a fit and proper representative.
Is it forgotten that he made his friends, Mr.
BRAMLEY-MOORE and Mr. LOCKETT, innocent
instruments in his premeditated deception, when
he stated certain convictions on the Navigation
Laws, which he afterwards laughed at his dupes
for believing ? Let the Roman Catholic supporters
of Mr. CARDWELL beware ! The man who has
bought and sold persons more enlightened than
they, will not spare them when he can obtain his
price, either by place or public favour.
Of Sir THOMAS BIRCH, we scarcely know what
We are told that he has resigned ; and
again, that he has not resigned ! A deputation

to say.

states that he expressed his willingness to retire ;
but certain others assert that, in the announcement,
there were nearly as many lies as lines ! One
thing is clear, that they are a truthful and honour-

able set for any man to trust to ; and that if the
evil genius of Sir THOMAS place him again under
their auspices, he will have a pretty bed of roses to
repose upon. It is a very pretty quarrel as it
stands.

Our counsel to the Conservatives is now as be-
fore—to be united and active, and they have
nothing to fear. And especially, let them avoid
divisions, whether fomented by indiscreet friends
within or avowed enemies without.

MR. J. BRAMLEY-MOORE AND THE
REPRESENTATION OF HULL.

DURING the past week we have not failed to notico a
discreditable side-wind attack on our distinguished towns-
man, Mr. Bramley-Moore. An obscure paper in Hull,
the organ of democrats and radicals, sneers at the idea of
his becoming their representative ; and its remarks we
are sorry to see have been quoted by some of our contem-
poraries here ; but a man who has stood A I in a town
that could swallow the whole municipality of Hull, with-
out feeling much the fuller, can afford to smile in return.
In the debates of our Town Council, we have always ad-
mired the dignified and gentlemanly course that Mr.
Bramley-Moore pursued ; and the following out of a simi-
lar course in parliament would certainly and suddenly
ensure him universal respect. When our principal chari-
ties were at a low ebb, he became their patron ; and not
merely were their liabilities honourably discharged, but a
large sum was funded for the permanent benefit of each.
During his year of mayoralty, he held a reception at the

Town-hall Rooms, unique in character and most admir-
able for all its arrangements ; he also entertained the
learned societies of the town, inviting the Archaeological
Association to meet them, which was then holding its
congress at Chester. When poor Mr. Ramshay had the
whole public in full cry after him, Mr. Moore, who was
an utter stranger to him, urged that at least the Town
Council should not appear in the character of accusers;
and about the same time he was one of the few men in our
Council who advocated such arrangements for the recep-
tion of the Queen, as would have been at once correct and
creditable. Some of those who opposed him at the time,
afterwards apologised in their places, and regretted that
his suggestions were not carried out. If the people of
Hull do not elect him, they will require, but certainly not
deserve, the sympathy of the public. The following is
from the Hull Packet of Saturday :

" We are happy to have it in our power to state that the
resolution inviting Mr. John Bramley-Moore, of Liver-
pool, to become a candidate for the representation of Hull
at the ensuing election, has received the hearty and gene-
ral approval of the great Conservative party in this town.
The letters of all the well-informed and unprejudiced
merchants 10 Liverpool concur in the opinion expressed
by Mr. Beadle last week—" that we may search the king-
dom through without finding a gentleman better fitted to
serve us in Parliament than Mr. Bramley-Moore." Nay,
we believe we are justified in saying, that so valuable are
Mr. Moore's business and personal qualifications, that
not a few of the leading Liberals in this town object to
take any share in opposing his election, but, on the con-
trary, cordially reciprocate the feeling manifested at the
Conservative meeting last week, and will rest satisfied
with his return, along with Mr. Clay. Whether the
Conservative party—decidedly the preponderating ono in
the town—nitimately determine upon putting forward one
or two candidates, we look upon this one thing as quite
clear—that Mr. Bromley-Moore wilt be returned as one
of the members for