The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-04 00:00:00

SCOTTISH AGENCY.
ON SABBATH next, the Gth instant, a SERMON will
be Preached, in the SCOTCH CHURCH, Oldham-
street, by the Rev. Dr. MACKAY, of Dunoon, when a
Collection will be made in support of the Agency among the
Scottish Poor of Liverpool.
Service to commence at Eleven o'clock.

TO THE BURGESSES OF CASTLE-STREET WARD.
GENTLEMEN,
HAVING received from your body a Requisition
nu-
merously and respectably signed, that I should consent
to be put in nomination as a Candidate for the epresentation
of your Ward in the Common Council of Li rpool, I signify
hereby my acceptance of your invitation.
As I freely recognise your undoubted right to full informa-
tion concerning the principles of those that solicit your
Votes, I shall endeavour briefly to lay before you a summary
of those by which my public conduct shall be governed.
I am not ashamed to acknowledge my duties to Goo to be
of primary importance and superior to all others in my esti-
mation.
An attached Member of the Protestant Church of England,
by Education and Conviction, I am determined to support
Her to the uttermost of my power in all her integrity, so long
as the purity of her Doctrines attests that she is founded on
the WORD OF GOD; with respect to those who differ from
me in Religious sentiments, my motto is " Conciliation
without Compromise," the right hand of Fellowship to all
who hold the essential Truths that are taught by the Church ;
to all, others, Goodwill and Charity, but no surrender of
.Prixeipk. lam also of opinion that the Holy Scriptures
should form the.hasis of any system of NATIONAL EDU-
CATION, and ,am unalterably opposed to any Scheme, by
which either Religion is wholly excluded during the ordinary
School Hours, or all Religions, true or false, placed on a
footing of equality.
My Political Principles are, that the happy form of Govern-
ment under which we live is the best calculated to promote
the well-being of the Community ; and while I am the Con-
sistent Advocate of all such Reforms as may be proved to be
really necessary, (and there are no human Institutions that
in the lapse of time are not liable, like the human body, to
infirmity and decay,) I am decidedly hostile to all innova-
tions on our time-honoured Constitution, that are desired by
the mere love of novelty or thirst for change, and that have,
in my judgment, a Revolutionary tendency, leading the way
to the overthrow of the Church, and to Anarchy and Confu-
sion in the State.

I solemnly pledge myself, so far as may come within my
province, to the maintenance and support of our existing
Institutions, in, if possible, improved efficiency, nor will I
ever lend myself to any plan or project which may tend to
weaken or undermine them.

I have resided in Liverpool for the last Thirty Years, dur-
ing twenty-eight of which I have contributed to our Local
Rates, and that principally within the boundary of your
Ward. I have seldom interfered with its Local Government,
but I have not been an indifferent spectator of public affairs,
nor have I withheld my humble support from those Municipal
Institutions which I thought likely to advance the prosperity
of the Town and its Inhabitants. I can never feel unin-
terested in what concerns their happiness and good Govern-
ment.

And now, Gentlemen, permit me to say in conclusion,
that while I freely confess you might easily have selected a
Candidate more able and efficient, (which would have given
me unfeigned gratification,) I do lay claim to honesty of
purpose, and purity of motive, in which 1 am unwilling to
acknowledge myself inferior to the ablest or wealthiest of
your respectable inhabitants.
Should I be so fortunate as to become the object of your
choice at the ensuing Election, you may depend upon my
endeavouring to maintain the principles above professed to
the utmost of my power.
I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen,

Your most respectful and obedient Servant,
PETER HOPE.

Whitechapet,lst October, 1839.

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