The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-28 00:00:00

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have not laid myself open to the Charge of
and that those glorious Constitutional. Prin-

ciples, for the maintenance of which you MN, e so strenuously
exerted yourselves on former occasions, may be again trium-
phantly successful, believing, as I do, that such a victory will
be the most acceptable proof you can offer to Mr. Turner and
Mr. Mackenzie of your sincere sympathy with them, and of
your deep resentment of the contemptible and factious pro-
ceedings which have ousted those Gentlemen from the Repre-
sentation of the Borough, and entailed upon the town the ex-
pense and trouble of another Election.
I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your faithful srrvant,
GEORGE H. HORSFALL.

Liverpool, 23rd June, 1853.

TO THE BURGESSES AND FREEMEN OF THE
BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL.

GENTLEMEN,
THE Representation of your important and
populous Town has been declared vacant by the
judgment of the Tribunal constituted for the purpose•of in-
quiring into the proceedings of the late Election. -
It is no business of mine to impugn the justice of this and
other analogous decisions. I have been invited to present
myself as a CANDIDATE for your suffrages by a Requisition
from a large and influential body of your Community, upon
conditions, which must, at least, exonerate me from any par-
ticipation in any possible proceedings which may have a
tendency to sully the purity of popular Election in the eyes of
its self-constituted Judges.

But this has also been the position of many able and honour.
able men, who have, nevertheless, recently been unseated by
the decision of Parliamentary Committees--men who have, in
their own person, paid the penalty of acts done by indiscreet
friends or (it may be) by disguised enemies.

After this preface, for which recent events will at least afford
an excuse, 1 shall be expected to make some statement of my
political opinions. As to the personal qualifications which
have led to my introduction to this great Emporium of Com-
merce, they will be more fitly explained by others than by
myself. It would not be becoming in me to put forward any
claims to the high honour to which I have been invited, further
than to refer to the good opinion of your Fellow-Townsmen
already manifested towards me.

This opinion can only be founded upon some knowledge of
icy past life, the better portion of which has been devoted to
my Country's service in the Commons House of Parliament.
In the earlier part of my public carter I was honoured and
encouraged by the personal friendship of two Statesmen,
whose connection with your Town will ever be a distinguishing
feature in the annals of Liverpool,—l allude to Mr. Canning
and Mr. Huskisson.

Following the example of these illustrious men, I proclaim
myself a Conservative Politician, the defender of the Throne
and the Altar, at the same time yielding to no man in attach-
ment to the Civil and Religious liberties secured to the People
by our matchless Constitution.

With regard to the long agitated, but now settled, question
of what is called " Free Trade," I am content to view it as an
accomplished Fact ; rejoiced to find that a recurrence to the first
principles of Commerce, so long viewed with apprehension by
many, is compatible, not merely with security, but apparently
conducive to the Nistionhl wealth and enterprise. Some excep-
tions may, I fear, still be pointed out in the midst of the
general prosperity, greatly enhanced as that Prosperity has
undoubtedly been by those wonderful discoveries of the precious
metals in the remote quarters of the Globe, which have added
a stimulus to manufacturing industry and created a demand
for Shipping, unprecedented in the history of this or any
other country. But the Merchants of Liverpool must be too
painfully conscious of the deplorable condition of our West
India Colonies (once so flourishing and so wealthy), not to
admit the justice of the allusion in the preceding sentence.
Whether the case of these Colonies be desperate, or whether it
may admit of some palliation, is now one of the most in-
terestiag problems which can engage the thoughts of public
men, and occupy the attention of Government.
Upon the complicated questions of Finance and Taxation, I
shall be prepared to offer in public such explanations as may
be required of me.

I have already given proofs. to which easy reference may be
made, of my devotion to the cause of British Navigation. In
fact, I can only attribute the support and encouragement I
have received in Liverpool to the attentive consideration I
formerly devoted to this great National Interest.
While I desire that all classes of my Fellow-Countrymen
shall enjoy the fullest extent of Civil and Religious Freedom, /
consider that Freedom is best maintained by a resolute de-
fence of the Rights, Privileges, and Property of the Protestant
Church, as by Law . established
_ .

Condirrini, as I do, with the just and emphatic language
recently uttered in the House of Commons by the Noble Lord
the Leader of the Gover►;ment in that House, I regret that the
participation of such sentiments seems to have been disavowed
by the First Minister of the Crown.
In conclusion, I humbly venture to hope that you will
pardon this imperfect exposition of my political opin►ons. A
candidate for popular support, in these days, must rather look
to other and more convenient opportunities of dealing with
important questions than attempt to comprise them all within
the limits of an address.

----
Every honest politician has the same object in view, although
the wisest may differ as to the best means of obtaining it.
That object is the PUBLIC Goon, or, in the words of a well-
known writer, " the greatest possible amount of happiness
extended to the greatest possible number of the people. '
By combining a sound moral and religious Education, with
the progressive discoveries of Science; by strengthening all
that is valuable in the Framework of Society, and improvingall
that is defective, we shall best further this great end, and act
in harmony with the designs of a beneficent and over-ruling
Providence._

I have the honour to subscribe myself,
Gentlemen,
With great respect,
Your obedient, faithful servant,
HENRY THOMAS LIDDELL

London, 23d Jnne, 1833

LIDDELL AND HORSFALL FOR EVER.

EXCHANGE WARD.

AT a MEETING of the CANVASSING COM-
MITTEE belonging to this WARD, held at the house of
Mr. Cutts, Chapel-street, on THURSDAY, 23rd instant,
JAMES TYRER, Esq., in the chair,
It was moved by THOMAS LITTLRDALR, Esq., and seconded
by Mr. TAYLOR,—" That this meeting views with regret the
decision of the Parliamentary Committee as regards Messrs.
Turner and Mackenzie, the late Representatives for this
Borough, and begs to thank those gentlemen for their services
to the good old town s that this meeting highly disapproves of
the rroceedings adopted by the opponents of the late members,
and believes that its members have this opinion in common
with a majority of their fellow-townsmen."—Carried nem. con.

It was moved by J. LONOTON, Esq., and seconded by Mr.
JONES,—" That we highly approve of the nomination of the
Hon. Mr. Liddell and Thomas Berry ilorsfall, Esq., as can-
d►dates to represent this Borough : we consider that, by their
return, the town would have the benefit of ability, influence,
and integrity in its representation."
The above resolutions met with the unanimous approval of
the Gentlemen assembled, and were carried with applause.
JAMES TYRER,
Chairman of the Canvassing Committee of Exchange Ward.

A SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the
TRUSTEES of the LIVERPOOL ROYAL INFIRMARY,
LUNATIC ASYLUM, and LOCK HOSPITAL, Y
will behol
den
th holday
den
in the Board-room, at the Infirmary, On MONDA the I
of July next, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, to obtain their
sanction to the expenditure of a sum not
,exceeding Five
Thousand Pounds, for the purpose of
.carrying out certain
alterations in the Buildings of those ns
Ititutions.
June 23,1853. JAMES BOURNE, President.

LIVERPOOL DOCKS.
LOANS OF MONEY.
CIIIIE COMMITTEE of the LIVERPOOL DOCKS
j_ do hereby give Notice, that they are willing to receive
eorffeorfa If:e be ad
Liverpooldre s s e d
Docks, t o G Eo a
Do io,. c\k" V. TIAcN.-:
TON,
Liverpool.—By order, DANIEL .11ASON
or
LOANS OF AIONEY, on the Security of the Bonds of the
Trustees of the Liverpool Docks, at the rate of *3 10s. per
centum per annum interest, for periods of either Three, Five,
or
s .ofie
Dock-office, Liverpool,February 10, 1853. , ,ecretary.
SevenE
sci Years..,

BOROUGANS OF
H OF LIVMONEY
ERPOOL.
THE COUNCIL of theBOROUGH of LIVERPOOL
do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that they are willing
orto
receive LOANS, to a limited amount, for THREE, FIVE,
SEVEN YEARS, bearing Interest at the rate
FIFTEEN SHILLINGS PER CENTUNI rEaAoNfT
Nuna for the re-
of the several PAVING and SEWER RATES r!
in
Townships of
spective Districts of the Parish of Liverpool,l/t the Township of West
Everton and, Kirkdale, and of so much THREE
tEon security
Placeo of Toxteth-park, re
Derby, and of the Extra-parochiala Boroue
sP
madee etiNaenl(Yl '
levieda
t jbviue'4la'l.:l; der ess e d to 6'
Improvement of the Se-
tuled "An Act for the
of Liverpool, and for
Drainage of the Borough
Sanatory Regulation of t'
ietrhitniletlie s
areun'Zl.
provisions for the.visions of an it,..
ninth and tenth years of the reign of her preschit lilaj
paid Half-yearly, on
All letters to
andrr The
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said Borough

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AstiLis,
Liverpool

By order,
WM. SRCTTLEWOBTB, Town Clerk

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