The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-06-08 00:00:00

TUESDAY

On Tuesday, being market-day, they attended the Corn
Exchange, accompanied by Mr. Robt. Woodward, Mr.
Duncan Gibb, Mr. T. Bold, and a few friends, and were
introduced to the leading merchants, millers, &c. The
canvass, we understand, was most successful, especially as
contrasted with that made by the Conservative candidates
at the last election, when Brunswick-street was undenia-
bly hostile. When upon the point of leaving the Ex-
change, a very serious calamity occurred, the whole of
the centre flooring of the building giving way, and carry-
ing with it the candidates, their friends, and about a hun-
dred of the corn merchants and others. The scene was a
very startling one ; and those who were standing upon
that portion of the floor which was left entire probably
felt it more than the parties who went down in the cellars
below, being in momentary expectation of sharing even a
worse fate. Happily no serious injury was sustained by
any of the parties in the room ; but we lament to say that
two of the workmen, who were at the time getting their
dinners under one of the arches of the building, lost their
lives ; and that another was seriously hurt. The unfor-
tunate occurrence was alluded to in very feeling terms by
Mr. Mackenzie, at the evening meeting in Rodney-street
Ward ; but—alas for their taste !—it has not, although
thus attended with calamity, escaped being made a source
of Whig-Radical attempts at wit.

On Tuesday evening, Messrs. Turner and Mackenzie
were announced to attend a meeting of the electors of
Great George, Rodney-street, and Abercromby Wards,
on which occasion a demonstration took place that re-
minded us of the old spirit of Lverpool Toryism. A pro-
cession was formed of the trades of the town, which
escorted the candidates from the Adelphi Hotel, down
Ranelagh-street, up Bold-street, and along Berry-street
and Great George-street to the Assembly Rooms, with a
band of music playing, and a procession of banners float-
ing in the air. The procession was of great length, com-
prising a large portion of the most respectable merchants

and tradesmen of the town ; and was heartily greeted from

the well-filled windows of the streets through which it
The candidates had joined the procession in a
carriage and four ; but the horses were taken out by the
populace, and the carriage was drawn by them to the place

passed

of meeting amidst enthusiastic cheering

When the procession arrived at the Assembly-rooms, it
was found that they were not capable of holding a tenth or
a twentieth part of the vast concourse assembled. The

meeting was, therefore, adjourned to the open space op-
posite Dr. Raffles' Chapel, whence the candidates addressed
them, or, at all events, so many of them as their voices
could reach. The lungs of a Stentor, a speaking trumpet,
or a railway whistle would have been required to reach all,
the space being crowded as far as the top of Duke-street.
The fact was rendered unmistakeable by this meeting that
the Conservative candidates, notwithstanding all the hum-
bug about the cheap loaf, are the popular candidates.

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Mr. N. D. BOLD presided at the meeting, which was
addressed by Messrs. Mackenzie and Turner, who were
most enthusiastically cheered. Mr. J. A. Tobin moved
and Dr. Trench seconded the first resolution ; and a vote
of thanks to the chairman was proposed by Mr. Alderman
Cooper, and seconded by Mr. Waddington. Three
cheers were given for the Queen, three for the candidates,
and three for the Earl of Derby, after which the meeting
adjourned to the interior of the Assembly Rooms, which
had been crowded whilst the candidates were addressing
the assembly out of doors. The proceedings were of
same gratifying character which had marked the whole
of the canvass.