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REPRESENTATION OF LIVERPOOL.

GRAND CONSERVATIVE DEMON STRA-
TION AT THE AMPHITHEATRE.

We announced in our last publication that a requisi-
tion, signed by nearly 3,500 of the Conservative electors
of Liverpool, had been presented on the previous day to
WILLIAM FORBES MACKENZIE, Esq., M.P., and CHAS.

TURNER, Esq., soliciting them to come forward as can-
didates for the representation of the borough ; and that
both gentlemen had acceded to the prayer of the requisi-
tionists, and would present themselves to the electors on
the Thursday following, at the Amphitheatre. On Wed-
nesday, accordingly, Mr. Forbes Mackenzie arrived in
town, and proceeded with Mr. Alderman Molyneux to the

latter's residence at Childwall Hall. where he spent the
night. A little before eleven o'clock on Thursday
morning he returned to Liverpool, and, accompanied by

his fellow -candidate Mr. Turner, Mr. Alderman Moly-
neux, Mr. Alderman J. Bramley-Moore, Mr. Alderman
Bennett, Mr. Alderman Procter, Mr. Alderman J. N.

Wood, and Duncan Gibb, E. W. Moss, John Lockett,
Robert Rankin, George 11. Ilorsfall, Thomas Bold,
Arthur Henderson, James Robertson, James Tyrer,
Joshua Prowse, Richard C. Gardner, Henry Cleaver
Chapman, Francis Shand, Esqrs., was escorted on 'Change,
to be presented to the merchants assembled there. On
no previous occasion, we are assured by some of those who
have had most experience in Liverpool elections, were
candidates more favourably and even enthusiastically re-
ceived. Not a single mark of disapprobation was ob-
served amongst any portion of the numerous body assem-
bled. After having passed through the News-room, and
being introduced to many of our leading and most in-
fluential men, the candidates proceeded to the Underwri-
ters' Room, where they were received with the same cor-
diality. and, after a short stay, left, to proceed with their
friends to the Amphitheatre.

Although the meeting had been called for half-past
twelve, the various entrances to the Amphitheatre were
besieged by eager crowds for above an hour before that
time. A portion of the platform was occupied before
twelve o'clock, and the pit was beginning to fill. About
a quarter of an hour afterwards, the doors were thrown
open, and the building was in a few minutes crowded
from the back of the stage to the gallery, every sitting or
standing place being occupied ; and many parties went
away without being able to gain an entrance. To those
who, in our own neighbourhood, are acquainted with the
capacity of the building, we need not say a word as to the
numbers Rho attended on the occasion ; but, for the
benefit of other parties, we may state that the lowest
computation places it at about 5,000 persons. The stage,
which had been cleared of scenery, and fitted up with
forms for the occasion, was occupied by a large number
of the leading gentry and merchants of the town, amongst
whom we observed :—Messrs. Nicholas Robinson, Richt].
C. Naylor, J. H. Webster, J. T. Bourne, S. Downes,
Joseph Steel, H. Thornton, Edward Tennant, Joshua
Pro wse, James Campbell, Thomas Bold, Wm. Fisher,
jun., Gilbert 'Winter Moss, Francis Shand, Adam Hodg-
son, Joseph Need Walker, Robert Rankin, Ireland
Blackburn, Josias Booker, George H. Horsfall, William
Mann, John Myers, John Worrell, W. Warner Shand,
Duncan Gibb, John Lockett, Henry Cleaver Chapman,
Janes Bourne, Christopher Bushell, David Hodgson,
Charles Groves, William Jones, John Langton, John
Campbell, Edward Jones, R. C. Gardner, C. J. Wad-
dington, 'William French, M.D., Charles Calles, Robert
Frodsham, J. B. Drinkwater, Percy M. Dove, Edward
Lawrence, Robert Horsfall, Edward Byford, John Ewd.
Naylor, George Scholfield, Ralph Clay, Oliver Hatch,
Joseph Brereton, J. B. Molyneux, J. B. Amey, George
Thompson, Thomas Branch, John Peacock, Jonas Gleave,
John Higson, A. R. Lafone, John Atkinson, Thomas
Wignell, James Poole, Joseph Robinson, Wm. Wagstaff,
T. A. Anderson, Wm. Marwood, S. L. Trotman, John
Troughton, Robert Hughes, R. M'Neile Crawford, Adam
Norris, John B. Cooper, W. Walcot Shand, Wm.
Trougliton, James Robertson, James Bold, Lawrence
Peel, 11. B. Molyneux, Edward Guy Deane, Archibald
Sinclair, Francis A. Clint, Weir, S. J. Arnold, James
Brebner, James Byrne, G. Bryce, E. M. Brodie, Charles
Batten, Henry T. Browne, G. R. Glover, F. F. Chitin,
John Clint, Joseph Cook, W. D. Chidson, Thomas
Dowdall, Hilton Halhead, George Hargraves, Joseph
Hargraves, Glazebrook, H. Glynn, Wm. Hall, James
Harding, Hamilton, Joseph Harrison, Jacobs, W.
B. Jones, R. Kneeshaw, Thomas Kaye, J. B. Leather-
barrow, G. H. Loxdale, John Montgomery, M'Con-
nell, Samuel Martin, Thomas Molyneux, Wm. Rowett,
R. A. Payne, J. C. Roper, James Royle, Ambrose Byford,
John Sparks, Thomas Sparks ; Aldermen Bramley-Moore,
James Parker, Win. Bennett, Joseph Cooper, Thomas
Robinson; Councillors Arthur Henderson, Samuel Holme,
James M. Wood, Jas. Aspinall Tobin, John Buck Lloyd,
Hugh Neill, John N. Wood, James Tyrer, Thomas
Fleming, John Gladstone, jun., R. M. Beckwith, Thos.
Roy den, Thomas Wagstaff, A. F. Jones, Robert Aked,
Walter P. Jeffreys ; Churchwarden Thomas Clarke ; and
others, whose names we could not so well gather, were
accommodated in the side boxes and the front seats of the
pit. The theatre was decorated with banners for the
occasion,—some of which have stood the brunt of many a
former contest, and one or two of which we noticed on a
similar occasion at the last election, when a gentleman,
now discarded for having turned his back upon himself,
was the chosen of a large portion of the constituency ;
and upon the entrance of Messrs. Mackenzie and Turner,
with their friends. the splendid spectacle which it pre-
sented appeared to take the former entirely by surprise.
The chair was taken by EDMUND MOLYNEUX, Esq.,
who, on rising, was most enthusiastically received. He
said,—Gentlemen, as I have the honour to take the chair
on this occasion, I beg to observe that, from recent public

events, and from the probability of a dissolution of par.
liament taking place shortly, it has become requisite that
the inhabitants of this great town should consider who
are fit and proper persons to represent their principles,
and the great and extending interests of this important
emporium of commerce. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) I
think the majority of the electors of this borough will
agree with me in thinking, that our present members do
not enjoy our confidence—(hear, hear) ; and, therefore, it
is necessary and proper that we should look out for others
—for two other gentlemen who would more fully repre-
sent our views, and our principles, and our wishes.
(Hear, hear.) We have found two such gentlemen in
Mr. William Forbes Mackenzie and Mr. Charles Turner.
(Hear, hear, and cheers.) A requisition has been
signed and presented to those gentlemen, and they have
cordially accepted it. (Hear, hear.) This meeting
has been called to-day in order that they may communi-
cate to you their opinions, and that you may hear what
they have to say on all the affairs relating to ourselves
and the country. (Hear, hear.) I hope, gentlemen, you
will give these two excellent gentlemen your kind atten-
tion, and also, you will pay the same respect to those
other gentlemen who may favour us with their observa-
tions. (Hear, hear.) When the day comes for the
struggle, I hope you will all be at your posts—(hear,
hear) ; and that we shall be able, by our united exer-
tions, to return Mr. Forbes Mackenzie and Mr. Turner
triumphantly to the next session of parliament. (Hear,
hear, and cheers.) Gentlemen, I will not detain you
longer, but beg to introduce to you Mr. Mackenzie. (The
Chairman resumed his seat amidst great applause.)
Mr. FORBES MACKENZIE then came forward, and was
received with loud and long-continued cheering. He said,
—Gentlemen, from the bottom of my heart I thank you
for the magnificent reception which you have this day
given me. When the proposition was first made to me
that I should come forward and represent this place, I
doubted as to the propriety of my accepting it ; not that I
undervalued the high distinction that the representation
of Liverpool would confer upon me, nor was I insensible
to the compliment you paid me in so offering to support
me in that representation ; but, gentlemen, I felt my own
unfitness to represent the various and complicated inte-
rests of so great a place as this. When I received

your requisition, signed so numerously and respectably as
to leave no more doubt on my mind as to your wishes on
this point, I could hesitate no longer (cheers) ; and I now
appear before you, to place myself and:my political pros-

pects unreservedly in your hands. (Cheers.) Gentlemen,
I hope my friends have told you that Jam no orator. I am
not used to make speeches to public assemblies like this ;
but if you will accept sincerity instead of eloquence—if,
in place of flowers of rhetoric, you will accept a sincere,
earnest, and anxious desire on my part to do my duty, in
whatever situation I may find myself placed,—then I
think I may assure you, that should you do me the dis-
d honour of returning me to the House of Corn-
one of your representatives, I will devote myself
11 my energy and ability to the discharge of the
sed upon me—to the discharge of your local
g the welfare of the inhabitants of