The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-02 00:00:00

TO THE ELECTORS OF LIVERPOOL

GENTLEMEN'
THOUGH the Election, now terminated, has resulted in
nmy defeat, I have still the agreeable duty to perform of
thanking you, each and all, for the kindness, and, I may say,
enthusiasm, with which, throughout my canvass, I have been
almost everywhere greeted. From my political opponents
even I have generally received the utmost courtesy. and the
conduct of those parties who, though agreeing with me in
opinion, have withheld from me their zealous support, only
renders me the more deeply grateful to that large majority
of Reformers who, by their assistance, as well as by their
votes, have given me so gratifying a proof of their approval
of my views as a politician, and of their confidence in my
integrity as a man.
Every feeling of personal disappointment is absorbed in
a deeper regret that monopoly and exclusiveness should have
again triumphed, and that Liverpool, owing all its greatness
to home manufactures on the one hand, and to foreign com-
merce on the other, should have given countenance to politi-
cal doctrines equally injurious—nay ruinous—to both. By
our refusal to admit the commodities of other countries, we
lessen the foreign demand for the productions of our own,
while the high price of food, consequent upon our protective
system, as it is called, diminishes the HOME demand for
manufactured articles, lowers wages, and cramps, at the
same time that it starves, the industry of the nation. These
principles are so obvious and so important, that it might be
difficult to understand how, in a large commercial town—a
town at once the inlet and the outlet of the nation's wealth—
they should not have received the support of every intelli-
gent member of the constituency, were the means unknown
that have been unscrupulously resorted to in order to insure
their defeat, which, as some imagine, means their final over-
throw. No misrepresentation has been too gross, no mis-
statement too monstrous, no argument too absurd, no preju-
dice too unreasonable, no feeling too base, to be enlisted in
the cause of enactments by which the few profit and the
many suffer. The hallowed names of Religion and Patriot-
ism have been prostituted in defence of a system that, if per-
severed in, must be fatal to England's greatness, and that is
not less opposed to the will of God than it is injurious to the
best interests of man. _ . _

Regretting deeply, as on public grounds I must ever do,
the result of this Electidn, I would indeed be unworthy of
the principles I hold did I entertain the slightest doubt of
their ultimate success ; they may be suppressed but they
cannot be destroyed ; their triumph may be delayed, but it
cannot be averted ; their success may, it is true,' be at too
late a period, and all Englishmen, worthy of the name, may
see and deplore, the causes that have been long sapping the
foundation of the country's prosperity, when the season for
applying a remedy has for ever passed away. But, I would
fain believe that the great mass of the English people will
not long allow themselves to be blinded by the mists which
a selfish sophistry would spread around them ; that they will
treat as they deserve the fallacies of those who presume to
say that it is for their Country's good that the necessaries of
life should be dear ; and, that they will ere long demand, as
with one voice, that line of policy—at once generous, expedi-
ent, and just—to which an enlightened patriotism and pure
philanthropy alike point. Sustained by this belief, (though
the election here has ended unfavourably, and whatever may
be the result even of the general elections), I regard the pre-
sent contest—which, so far as I am concerned, shall not be
the last—as but the beginning of a series of contests, that
will not cease until the abolition of all restrictions on indus-
try and trade shall either have been achieved by the party
who protest against their injustice and impolicy, or wrung
unwillingly from those who now profit by them, and who
would persuade others that they are the source of general
welfare, as they certainly are of their individual gain.
On the other questions regarding which, in the course of
this election, you have been called upon to decide, I have
nothin,, now to say ; to these, when the excitement of the
struggle has ceased, I may have other opportunities of
directing your attention. Meantime, though I have not ob-
tained the honour of serving you as your Representative in
Parliament, I will still labour for the promotion of your
welfare in other ways. If I cannot serve you as I would, I
will at least serve you as I may.
•
I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,

Your (aithful servant,
JOSHUA WALMSLEY
Wavertree Hall, 30th June,lB4l.

TO THE GENTRY, CLERGY, AND ELECTORS OF
THE SOUTHERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY
OF CHESTER.
GENTLEMEN,
Dissolution of Parliament being evidently at hand, I beg
1-1 most respectfully to announce that the pledge given by
me to afford you, at thiS EVENTFUL CRISIS, an opportunity
of recording your votes, I am now ready to redeem.
The present Government—, longer an independent Go-
vernment—too weak to administer the affairs of this country,
and too tenacious of the advantages of office to relinquish
them, has succumbed to popular clamour and proposed a
if carried, would not only de-
total change in our just and admirable system of CORN-
LAW S—a measure which,
prive the English landowner and farmer of their property and
the English labourer of his means of subsistence, but the
manufacturer of his best and most certain market, thereby
proving ultimately as injurious to the one interest as imme-
diately destructive to the other.
Members of the huff' ROMAN CATHOLIC PARTY now
form a portion of the administration of the country, which,
in my opinion is incompatible with THE SAFETY OF OUR
PROTESTANT CHURCH AND PROTESTANT LIBERTIES.
A Government thus composed, and so regardless of the
peace and well-being of the nation, as the existing one has
proved itself, by the introduction of measures alike detri-
mental to both, is altogether unworthy, and undeserving of
our confidence.
Having on a former occasion issued an address, I will only
now repeat the declarationand, in the event of a dissolution of then made, that " I submit to the
thraldom of no party "
Parliament, I shall throw myself on the support of those
Electors who, like me, are determined to take that INDE •
PENDENT COURSE which I conscientiously believe the exist-
ing state of affairs requires of every friend (whether Church-
man or Dissenter) to the PROTESTANT RELIGION, and of
every well-wisher to his Country.
_

I have the honour to remain,
Gentlemen,
With sincere respect,
Your vjeoryHfNaithTfuolLseLrEvazAt,
cH. E
Tikton Lodge, May 31, 1841.

BASS AND CO'S PALE INDIA ALE.
THIS ALE, so long celebrated in India, has now become
an article of great consumption in this country, (where
it is almost superseding every other sort cf malt liquor,) that
Messrs. BASS and CO.. of Burton-on-Trent, have estab-
lished a STORE in LIVERPOOL for the SALE of it in
Casks of all sizes to suit their customers.
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Orders will be received, and punctually attended to, by
their Agent, Mr. GEORGE LYON, Ironmonger-lane, where a
Stock is kept of an age suitable for immediate consumption.
BURTON ALE STORES,
IRONMONGER-LANE, LOWER SPARLING-STREET.
April 1, 1841.
A YACHT, of 15 Tons, on Sale.
(One Concern.)

LIVERPOOL DOCKS.—TO BUILDERS.
THE COMMITTEE DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE,
that they will receive TENDERS for the Erection of
Seven DWELLING-HOUSES, for the Residences of the
Dock Masters.
The Plans and Specifications may be seen at the Dock
Surveyor's Office, Trentham-street, on any day after the
sth, and until after the 15th day of July next.
The Tenders must be sealed, and addressed to the " Chair-
man of the Sub-Committee of Works," endorsed " Tender
for Building Dwelling-houses," and sent, under cover, to
the Dock Secretary, on or before, but not later than Friday,
the 16th day of July next.
The Committee do not bind themselves to accept the
lowest Tender.

By Order,
DAM EL MASON, Secretary
Liverpool, Dock-office, 29th June, 1841.

PARISH OF LIVERPOOL.
AT a MEETING of the Inhabitants Assessed and Con-
tributing to the Relief of the Poor, within the Town of
Liverpool, held in the Parochial Chapel of our Lady and
Saint Nicholas, in the said Town. on THURSDAY, the Ist
day of July, 1841, pursuant to Notice duly published accord-
ing to the directions of the Act for the better Paving and
Sewerage of the Town of Liverpool, for the purpose of
Nominating and Choosing such and so many Commission-
ers as would be requisite to supply the subsisting vacancies
in the number of Commissioners, according to the provisions
of the said Act.

It was moved by Mr. JAMES LAWRENCE, seconded by Mr

THOMAS KAYE, and

Resolved,—That John Holmes, Esq., be the Chairman of
this Meeting. _ _

A Summary or Report of the Receipts and Expenditures
of the Commissioners for the year ending the 24th day of
June, 1841, was laid before the Inhabitants, as directed by
the Act, and read.
It being reported to this Meeting, that of the nine Com-
missioners chosen out of the Council of the Borough, there
were three vacancies, occasioned by the retirement, by
ballot, of Mr. Robertson Gladstone, Mr. John Nelson
Wood, and Mr. John Shaw Leigh ; and that of the fifteen
other Commissioners there were six vacancies, occasioned
by the disqualification, by non-attendance, of Mr. Richard
Benson; and by the retirement, in pursuance of the provi-
sions of the act, of Mr. Joseph Gibbons, Mr. Tlibmas Tay-
lor, Mr. James Aspinall, Mr. Edward Gibbon, and Mr.
James Gill.

It was moved by Mr. SAMUEL HOLME, seconded by Mr
JOHN LEYLAND, and

Resolved unanimously,—That the 'following gentlemen be
chosen to supply the vacancies in the number to be chosen
out of the Council, viz :
• Mr. Robertson Gladstone,
Mr. John Nelson Wood,
Mr. John Shaw Leigh.
It was moved by Mr. SAMUEL HOLME, and seconded by
Mr. JAMES I4AWIZENCE, that the following gentlemen he
chosen Commissioners to supply the vacancies in the number
to be chosen out of the Rate-payers, viz.:—

Mr. James Gill,.
Mr. Edward Gibbon,
Mr, Joseph Gibbons,
Mr. James Aspinall,
Mr. Henry Copeland,
Mr. George Holden.
It was moved as an amendment by Mr. JOHN DIGNAN,
seconded by Mr. Jolly FORBES, that Mr. William M‘Gee
be chosen a Commissioner instead of Mr. James Gill.
The amendment and motion having been proposed from
the Chair, and the amendment having been carried on a
show of hands, a Poll was demanded by Mr. Samuel Holme
and Mr. James Lawrence.
No objection being made to the other Gentlemen, they
were declared duly elected.
JOHN HOLMES, Chairman.
It was then declared by the Chairman that the Poll would
be taken at the Sessions House, in Chapel-street.
The Chairman having left the Chair,
It was moved by Mr. WILLIAM BIRKETT, that the
Thanks of this Meeting be presented to Mr. Holmes for his
impartial conduct in the Chair.
EDWARD G. DEANE,
Clerk to the Commissioners.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the POLL on
the Amendment and Motion above-mentioned will take place
at the SESSIONS HOUSE, THIS DAY, (Friday,)
the 2nd day of July instant, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon.
EDWARD G. DEANE,
Clerk to the Commissioners.

A SUMMARY of the ACCOUNTS of the COMMIS-
SIONERS under the " PAVING and SEWERAGE
ACT," with the PARISH of LIVERPOOL, from the
24th June, 1840, to the 24th June, 1841.
Paving and New
RECEIVED. Old Sewers. Sewers.
s. d. s. d.

To Balance, as per last Account,
in the hands of the Treasurer.. 0 19
Paving Rate for
1840, collected
at Bd. in the
pound
Paving Rate for
1839, collected
at Bd. in the
pound
Paving. Rate for
1838, collected
at 7d. in the
pound

Sewerage Rate
for 1839, col-
lected at 4d. in
the pound.... £2,951 16 5
Sewerage Rate
for 1838, col-
lected at 4d. in
the pound.... 157 15 4 .. 3109 11 9

Amount received from the Cor-
poration, in conformity with
the Act of Parliament, being
an annual sum in lieu of
Paving and Repairing certain
Streets and Sewers
Amount received from Ditto,
being balance of amount to be
applied to the purposes of
the New Sewerage only
Amount received from Ditto,
for making Sewers in Laurel-
street and Olive-street, and
laying out and paving the said.
streets 6BO 0 0 795 18 1
Amount received from
The Liverpool Gas-
light Company,
for Paving £395 13 3
The Liverpool New
Gas and Coke
Company, ditto.. 237 3 8
TheLiverpool(Boo-
tle) Water Com-
pany, ditto .. 113 4 3
The Corporation,
for Paving, &c.,
in Drury-lane and
Water-street.... 145 17 3•
Sundries for Paving 90 10 6.
Ditto for Paving
Stones
Ditto for Flagging,
and Asphalte
Footpaths
Ditto for Crossing
Stones B7 2 7
Ditto for Flags 3l 13 7
Ditto for Altering
OldßranchDrains 817 0
Ditto for Old Iron 214 5 1594 1 100 • • • ' ' •

Amount received
for sundry Branch
Drains..
Amount received
for the privilege of
connectingßranch
Drains in the Out-
Townships with
the Main Sewers
in Liverpool ..

Amount received from Sundries
on account of Law Charges ..
Amount due Leyland and Bul-
-IMs . £7,088 16 2 viz. 4598 19 7 2489 16 7

98 60' 49 3 0

£32,278 511 6961 10 0

PAID.
By Amount due Leyland and Bul-
lins, as per last account ...... 2578 8 6
PAVING, FLAGGING, OLD
SEWERS, &C.
By Amount paid for
Wages to Paviors,

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