The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-05-11 00:00:00

had recently experienceda difficulty in findingsuitablemen

Parliament, and
:1 back with shame to the period when they had

to come forward to represent their tow

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presented to their choice the clog

of Cant-,

g, and

the ability of Huskisson and Sandon. (Loud cheers

The old freemen of Uverpool returned these men as their
representatives ; they were never disgraced until they
returned a Ewart, and he trusted they would not return

Evart, to Parliament, and were afterwards branded as
having taken bribes, the freemen

'ere not the pa

who were most to blame

-When left behind on the

day's poll, and it was resolved by his friends to resort to

bribery, Mr. J. C. Ewart was one of the midnight
council who met to buy the election, and one of
the most active agents in tempting them to their
destruction. (" He was—We'll have none of Ewart.")
Mr. J. C. Ewart was an advocate of annual parliaments,
of vote by ballot, of free trade, and talked about a large
loaf. Had they ever asked him if he was an advocate of
free trade in religions Was he not the nominee of the
Roman Catholics of Liverpool ? (" He is.") The free-
men were, he was sure, not prepared to vote for him.
With regard to Mr. Cardwell, he referred them for his
character to his former friends. He (Mr. Shand) had not,
been deceived by him at the last election, even when he
stood with the Chairman of the Dock Committee on one
hand, and the Chairman of the Shipowners' Association
on the other. He used on that occasion words which had
a double meaning : one as lie interpreted them to himself,
and the other as he intended his hearers to interpret them.
He (Mr. Cardwell) had lately paraded some figures in his
election address, showing a great increase in the trade and
prosperity of the country ; but he appealed to the com-
mercial men of Liverpool whether this prosperity was
shown in their ledgers. (" No 1") Was it experienced
by the tradesmen and shopkeepers ? (" No, no !")
He warned them not to trust in Mr. Cardwell's
figures, or they would be deceived. He now came to
consider the claims upon them of Mr. FORBES .111 AC
KENZIE, a gentleman whom Mr. William Earle calls " a
goose." (A voice: "Not a Yorkshire goose.") In
doing so, Mr. Earle uses words suitable to the company
he keeps. 1t was enough for him (the chairman) that Mr.
Mackenzie had been selected as fit to fill a most responsible
office by Lord Derby, than whom a more high-minded
and honourable statesman did not exist. Mr. Mackenzie
was a perfect man of business; and one of his political
opponents in Liverpool had stated to him that he had
never met with a better. With respect to the other can- -
didate, Mr. Charles Turner, he was well known amongst
them. On all occasions he had fulfilled his duties to the
people of Liverpool; and in conducting the business of
dock chairman he performed duties than which those of
few members of parliament were more important. He
was a clear-headed man, who never made use of words
which he did not mean. The Chairman concluded by
recommending the two candidates to the approval of his
brother freemen. (Loud cheers followed the conclusion
of his speech.)

. ,
Mr. ROBERTS, as a brother freeman, proposed the first
resolution, which will be found in our advertising columns.
He contended very ably that the foreigners had all the ad-
vantage of our present unjust system of miscalled Free-
trade; and any one would acknowledge it when, in proceed-
ing along our line of docks, he saw so many British ships
laid up, with the broom at their mastheads. The Chair-
man had very ably dissected the four candidates before
them ; and he accepted his dissection. With respect to
Mr. Cardwell, he had always said that lie had been brought
up in a bad school ; and he urged his brother freemen
to give their confidence to the men who would support the
Earl of Derby's administration. Mr. Roberts concluded
a forcible address, by referring to the sin and hypocrisy of
those who destroyed the West India interest, and after-
wards admitted foreign slave-grown sugar duty free.
(Cheering.)
Mr. COLBORNE, as a member of that much maligned
body, the old freemen of Liverpool, had very great plea-
sure in seconding the motion. (Cheers.) Being a ship-
owner, he felt that he had a considerable stake in the
prosperity of the town ; but it was not because of the in-
terest he felt in that particular trade, but because
he considered the shipping interest to be the real bulwark
of the country. (Cheers.) Destroy the wooden walls of
old England and her greatness was gone. (Continued
cheers.) The question, however, for decision at the next
general election in Liverpool, was not one affecting free
trade. The Roman Catholics had done in this town what
they had not ventured to do in any other part of the coun-
try. (Hear.) They had attempted to dictate to the elec-
tors of this Protestant community in a manner such as no
section of that party dare attempt in England since the
reign of James. (Applause.) It appeared to him most
astonish;ng, that in the year 1852 they were called upon
to settle the question whether there should be Roman
Catholic or Protestant ascendancy ; yet it was quite clear,
that because Sir Thomas Birch, a Free Trader, bad voted
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of the Roman Catholics. (Hear.) The question, however,
was not so much one of free trade as of free imports ; and
therefore it behoved them to support men who would, by
their measures, restore this town to that prosperity
which it enjoyed before the introduction of this one-sided
system. (Loud cheers.) When men like Lord Derby,
who was a man of ability, of rank, of fortune, who had a
large stake in Liverpool, in the country, is Ireland, had
taken Mr. Forbes Mackenzie into his counsels, he (Mr.
Colborne) for one considered that a sufficient recommen-
dation, and should vote for him, feeling perfectly confi-
dent that so high-minded a nobleman could not fail to
have discovered talents and capability for office, or he
would not have been selected. (Hear, hear, and cheers.)
As to Mr. Turner, he need say nothing—they knew him—
he was brought up amongst them. He had filled the most
important office connected with the commercial affairs of
the town ; and as he had shown that he could take care of
their local funds. they might depend upon it lie would
take care of the funds of the country. (Hear, bear.)

The resolution was then put and carried with loud
acclamation.

Mr. JAMES TAYLOR, in proposing the next resolution,
said that the election which would shortly take place was
one of the most momentous that had taken place for years
past. He trusted, however, that they had not so far de-
scended in the scale of society as to support a branch of
the Ewart family—a family which had done their best to
rob them of the privileges they enjoyed. Sir Thos. Birch
had been: rejected at the demand of about 1200 Roman
Catholics, whilst the same parties professed to treat with
contempt about 2500 of the old freemen. (Hear, hear.)
After expressing a hope that they would exert themselves-
in behalf of the Conservative candidates, the speaker con-
cluded by proposing the motion, which was seconded by
Mr. BOLD and carried unanimously, and amid great
applause.
The CHAIRMAN said that was the whole of the busi-
ness on the paper for that evening. When he consented
to take the chair, he told the parties who waited upon him
he hoped they would have a room large enough. He was,
however, sorry to find it was not half large enough, but
it rejoiced him to find they were so earnest and unani-
mous in the cause. (Cheers.) They know as well as he
did that they had been going down hill for some time, and
therefore it was gratifying to find that they were deter-
mined to reverse the order of things, and support the
government of Lord Derby. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. ROBERTS then proposed a vote of thanl,
chairman, which was seconded by Mr. JACKSON, in an
able speech of some length, which we regret we have not
room for; and after three cheers had been given for the
Queen, for the candidates, for the Earl of Derby, for
the chairman and for the freemen of Liverpool, this satis-
factory meeting separated ; previously to doing so however,
it was suggested that the next meeting ought to be held
in a much larger room, as the Carpenters'-hall, Bond-
street, and the Chairman said he should be happy to at.
tend on such an cfrasion.

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confederating with other desperate characters wherever
they went to commit plunder. A policeman on the
Eastern Counties Railway, near to Peterborough, was
knocked down and robbed, and, because he resisted, his
life was taken. The body was then dragged across the
tails, so that the next train going thereon might run over
the lifeless body, and make it appear that the poor fellow
had lost his life through an accident. For nearly thirteen
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