The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-21 00:00:00

FRIDAY

1, JUNE 17

The petitioners closed their evidence on this the 18th
Many witnesses in the lobby were

day of the inquiry

not called

e first called was

John May, licensed victualler, Windsor-street, Tox-
teth-park, deposed that be had seen Mr. Mackenzie and
Mr. Turner in the neighbourhood walking, and in a car-
riage with Mr. Henry Steel, Mr. Duncan Gibb, and Mr.
Buckley Jones ; that they were sometimes walking and
sometimes in a carriage, Mr. Buckley Jones giving direc-
tions where the candidates were to go ; that, at a meeting
in the Toxteth-hall, a fortnight before the election, he
saw the members go into the Hall accompanied by Mr.
Jones, who was one of the speakers ; that he had come
up to London that morning, a message having come to
his house in Liverpool the previous evening at six o'clock ;
that Mr. Sharpe, solicitor, Southampton, came with him;
that his examination hao been taken down by that pen-
man; that Mr. Sharpe did not say anything to him about
Mr. Buckley Jones; that he voted for Ewart and Card-
well ; that he was on the hustings at the election, and " a
deal of corruption he saw there ;" that on one occasion
he got up a cheer against Turner and Mackenzie, and got
them hissed out of the street ; that he did not canvass
one voter himself ; that he followed Mackenzie and
Turner through the streets in which they were canvassing
in order to watch his opportunity to get them hissed, and
partly because he did not like the principle of members
canvassing for themselves.

Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKE then contended that the
agency of Mr. Buckley Jones was proved, and he proposed
to recall the witness whom it WEI 3 proposed to examine
yesterday - 1.

hen the objection w

Mr. 11, SMITH cornmeatou —wig terms on
nature of the testimony which had been brought forwar,
after the decision of the committee yesterday, in order
to make out a case against Mr. Buckley Jones. The man
who had been called for this purpose was a strong parti-
san, and indeed ono more hostile to Messrs. Mackenzie
and Turner could not possibly be conceived. Mr. Smith
alluded to the manner in which the witness gave his evi-
dence as to the presence of Mr. Buckley Jones with the
members—to his hesitation, and first of all naming Mr.
Buck Lloyd, which certainly indicated that ho spoke more
from previous " preparation " than from perfect recollec-
tion and personal knowledge. The committee ordered
the room to be cleared, and on the readmission of the
public the Chairman announced that the committee had
decided that the agency of Mr. William Buckley Jones
was sufficiently proved for the examination to proceed.
Felix M'Levy, recalled, deposed that he got some re-
freshment at Evan Jones's house, the Old Oak, on the
election morning - that Mr. Buckley Jones was there;
and that others besides himself were procuring refresh-
ments, but he did not see any one pay for anything.
John Folds deposed exactly to the same effect.
Mary Hiles, landlady of the Sefton Arms, Parliament-
street, Toxteth Ward, stated that, on the election day a
number of people went from the house to the pall ; that
no refreshments in particular were 2upplied, and she was
paid for what the people got at the time it was called for;
that she had only one account, and that was against Mr.
Walthew, a carpenter ; that she had not sent it in
because he was a had payer; that Mr. Buckley Jones's
overlooker, Mr. Fisher, was at the house on the day of
the election, and gave her money for drink for the free
inen. Mr. Smith objected, and the witnPe
,L..f.v-n, it being endersto)d that he-
fee nothing unless she was recall

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