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M- We shall be happy, at all times, to receive communications
tn subjects of local or general interest ; And if ourfriends
'will be good enough to p,uthenticute the same by signa-
tures, for our ovrn satisfaction,-we shall feel obliged.

'RADICAL Put:l-ft.—We have been furnished with the names
of four Freemen of Liverpool'who were offered 41 each and
of refreshments, if they would vote for Sir
Erskine Perry. We hare alsn'the names of those who offered
It is needless to add that the attempt was
unsuccessful.

any quantity

the bribes

—The CL

man of till Elcction Committee is chosen by it

Committee of Selection appointed by the Speaker at the
commencement of the session. The other members are bal-
lotted far ant of names ofmembers of the !louse of Commons
not then serving on committees or otherwise exempted.

HozcasTAS.."—We noticed the insinuation attempted tote
conveyed against us in the notoriously scurrilous Saturday
print alluded to. When he thinks he can benefiZ his packet
by so doing, this unscrupulous perverter of facts never hesi-
tates to misrepresent and-rnalign a contemporary ; andevith
regard to public men, -a small order for-printing, or an adver-
tisement,- would, at anytime, secure his favour—and the-less
of it, his wrath—as we wee in a position to prove. We are
under nc obligation to Mr. BRAYILEY-MOORS : we '.first
mentioned his name in connexion with the representation of
the borough, without any communication wills that .gentle-
man or his friends ; but: when the names of two Conservative
gentlemen had been fairly brought before the public,-we at
once accepted the nomination, and -strenuously urged the
importance of union and determination. We had not the
slightest interest in the-euceess or defeat of Mr. BRAMLEY-
nOORE other than as it affected the ascendancy of Conserva-
tive principles in the••representation ;"but we unhesitatingly
assert that, had he been returned -oar Friday, instead of
Mug at the bottom of the poll, there is not an individual
in Liverpool who would have heaped -se much slavish adula-
tion on' Mr. BR.A.MLE-VIZOORE the Arxeessful, as the- con-
temptible scribbler who now pours his coarse invectiveon Mr.
.-e-Alcoan tJre Defeated. Wellave had many nreofs
; and if our-rcadersrequire an example, we need
only refer-them to the fulsome compliments bestowed upon
31r. Forcui.,.s Mac KENZIE during the last twelve months, and
the disgraceful attack upon that gentleman the moment he
ceased to be our Representative, when-nothing more could be
hoped from his favour. We have never,-in a single instance,
been the agg7essor in an uncourteous or ungenerous allusion
to a brother journalist. • We have too touch respect for-our-
selves to pursue a course which, while offensive to our readers,
must tend to lower the .dignity of the press ; and we regret
that we should ,on this occasion have been called upon, in
self-defence, to reply to the malicious attack of a print which
has more than once been designated as• " a DISGRACE. TC
THE TOItY PARTY" in this town.

BRA'ITLE
of this fact

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TUESDAY MORNING, JULY • 12, 1853.

TH.E ELECTION.

THE contest, which was brought to a close on
Friday, was one of the most extraordinary in the
annals of Liverpool, .involving, as it did, a confusion
of parties which left speculation at fault as to the
issue, until the actual polling showed that our advice
of last week had been followed,—that personal.con.•
siderations had been allowed to give way to the
more important end of vindicating constitutional
principles,—and that union and determination had
succeeded in securing the triumphant return of the
two Conservative Candidates. So doubtful was
-deemed the result, owing to the fear that the bring..
ing forward cf Mr. BRAMLEY-MO ORE would weaken
the Conservative ranks, that wagers were confidently
laid on the -success of Sir ERSKINS PERRY ; and,
though all agreed that Mr. HORSFALL would be
at the top of the poll, great difference of opinion
existed as to who would occupy the second place,
until the closeness of the numbers polled for Mr.
LIDDELL at an early hour left no doubt that the
Conservative Electors had justified the confidence
which had been placed in them, and had shown
their determination to win by adhering to their pre-
vious resolulions. Had the contest simply rested,
as it did at the former election, between the Con.
servatives and the Radicals, there never could have
been a vestige of uncertainty as to the issue, what-
ever exertions may have been made by the latter
party to gain their object. They had so thoroughly
exposed the badness of their cause, and the hollow.
ness of their pretensions before the Committee upon
their notorious Petition, that Liverpool rejected them
with scorn and indignation, and the announcement
of a Radical Candidate was only viewed as an
amusing incident to add the semblance of a contest
to what might have been otherwise an unexciting
affair, as even victory loses half its charms when too
easily achieved.
The appearance, however, of Mr. BRAMLEY.
MOORE, a fellow-townsman and a professed Con.
servative, under somewhat equivocal auspices, lent
a new feature to the affair which deserves a passing
remark, particularly as a local contemporary has
ventured an insinuation against ourselves, to which

we have alluded elsewhere. It will be remem-
bered that, when the Committee on the Petition
had commenced their investigation, we suggested
the names of Messrs. HORSFALL and MOORE as
eligible candidates, in the event of the decision
being unfavourable. At that time no other names
had been proposed, and it was not until after the
Committee had concluded their labours that the
name of the Hon. H. T. LIDDELL was mentioned.
In our next publication we adopted the proposition,
and when on last Tuesday a doubt was thrown on
the definitiveness of the refusal of Mr. BRATIILEY
MOORE to accede to the request made to him to
become a candidate, we unhesitatingly accepted it
as a refusal, applauded it as such, and urged upon
the Conservative Electors the importance and ne-
cestity of acting with union in support of Messrs.
HORSFALL and LIDDELL. We regret exceed-
ingly that Mr. MOORE should have been over-
persuaded by those who influenced him from
ulterior motives, and allowed himself to be placed
in the invidious position which he occupied at
the election. He deemed, perhaps, that considera-
tions of personal favour towards himself would have
secured his return, and he permitted himself to be
guided by the solicitations of others, when his own
better judgment would have taught him that the
certainty of two Conservatives being returned—and
which could only be accomplished by union—was
of far higher consequence than the triumph of any
particular individual. The mistake which he com-
mitted was evident in the low position which he
occupied on the poll ; but we have no hesitation in
asserting that Mr. MOORE is far more gratified at
the paucity of his own votes securing the return of
Mt. Lxraaas.z., ilton Ito nytenla Lew° boon boa Me
higher position, by dividing the Conservatives,
permitted the Radicals to occupy the second place.
We cannot congratulate our political opponents
on their felicity in the choice of acandidate, though
there is very little doubt, from the long delay which
took place, that he was the last resort of an expiring
faction. He commenced with the advantage of
not being known; but he availed himself so well
of the opportunity afforded him, that the Electors
of Liverpool must now feel grateful for being spared
from the infliction with which they were threatened.
Last week we exposed the absurdity of his preten-
sions, from the fact of his being a retired Indian
Judge, who had been twelve years absent from
England. We carefully abstained from hazarding
a syllable against his personal qualifications, from
unwillingness to prejudge him, notwithstanding his
Radical professions ; but we have since heard him
on his own behalf, and feel ourselves at a loss to
do lnstice to his claims. Sir ERSKINE PERRY,
'fresh from his infidel proteges in India, is a genuine
specimen of 'the genus Radical iu his untamed fero-
city. His speech on the hustings on Thursday was
a model production in matter and in manner—a
combination of ignorance and impudence in full-
blown luxuriance, in which it is difficult to say
which predominated. He accused the Liverpool
Merchants of the grossest ignorance of their own
interests, and then betrayed his own by asserting that
the 150 -millions of the inhabitants of India would be
eager consumers of the woollens of Yorkshire and
Scotland, if the Ministerial India Bill were allowed
to pass. Their religion forbids them to wear any
animal production, and be himself—this immacu-
late Judge—avowed that he would prevent them
'from being converted to Christianity until they had
arrived at an age when conversion was almost hope-
less. It would be, however, a waste of argument
to refute the absurdities of which this pragmatical
upstart was guilty, and "the House of Commons
should be grateftil to the Electors of Liverpool
for having saved them from the annoyance

which his presence there must have occa-
sioned. We must refer 'to our Radical con-

temporaries for a -report of his harangue, for,
otherwise, it might-be deemed incredible that any
individual pretending to the dignity of a senator
could have uttered such a farrago.of insolent bom-
bast. When the conclusion of the,poll had con-
vinced him of ' the utter hopelessness of his preten-
sions, be addressede crowd in Clayton-square, and
we must do him the justice to say that he then spoke
with more sense and better temper. On the latter
occasion he was supported by 'Mr. ROBERTSON
GLADSTONE and %Mr. JEFFERY, whose remarks
are
tal scarcely
departure
deserving of comment, except for that
o
ture from truth which even the excite-
ment of an election cannot justify. It has long
been believed that-a renegade Conservative makes
the wore,- Radical, and Mr. GLADSTONE seems
determined to prove the truth of the saying, though
we can readily suppose that in his. sober moments
he would regret his 'profane allusions to Christianity
and his unjust aspersions on Liverpool clergymen,
for which he had not the shadow of a foundation.
Mr. JEFFERY is, no doubt, a respectable man in his
sphere -of life, but his veracity may be called in
question when he asserts that of the ten thousand
he saw before him, (which were, in ,reality, not
above two- t7wusand) there was not one intemperate
person, and that of the vast crowd assembled before
the Adelphi Hotel, to listen to the Conservative
members, three out of every four were it a state of
intoxication. If a man will permit himself to wan-
der so widely from the truth, he must not be sur-
prised at an, epithet more forcible than courteous
being applied to him.
We have little to comment on the Candidates who
have been returned. Their position on the poll,
with such overwhelming majorities, is a sufficient
-reply to all that can be given utterance to by disap-
pointed ambition.; and, -though some hints .have
been thrown out about another Petition, we can
afford to smile at such impotent malice. The
Election was won "by the spontaneous votes of the
Electors, who knew low to appreciate constitutional
principles ; and. though the foul.ca/umny against
the Freemen is repeated, that they waited till the
afternoon to be bought, and that their votes could
have been purchased -to secure. the return of the
Radical, candidate, the most complete answer will be
found in the hourly state of the poll, by which it
will be seen that Messrs. HORSFALG and LIDDELL
:were in a majority at nine o'clock, and steadily
increased their majority hour by hour =Ail the close.
The following are the numbers as declared by the
Mayor on Saturday :
Mr. T. B. HORSFALL.. 6,o34—majority, 1,261
Hon, H. T. LIDDELL.. s,s43—majority, -8".0
Sir E. PERRY .... 4,63
Mr. J. B. rslooßE . 1,2';4
The following were the numbers at the close of the
election last year :

Mr. CHAS. TURNER .. 6,693—majority, 1,446

Mr.W. F. MAcKENzlE.6,377—majority, 1,130

Mr. E. CARDWELL .. 5,247

Mr. J. C. EWART .• .. 4,910

So that, allowing for the smaller number who voted,
the preponderance of Conservative votes is about
the same.

THE LIVERPOOL CONSTITUENCY.
THERE is a class of persons who, having taken
up an idea for party purposes, are impervious to all
proofs of its falsity, however strong and convincing
they may be to unprejudiced minds. Such is the
position of those who wildly adhere to the assertion
that the Electors of Liverpool, especially the Free-
men, are corrupt and corruptible, and that Con-
servative majorities are only obtained by practices
unsanctioned by morality, and which the law has
declared to be illegal. It would have been thought
that the recent inquiry before the Committee of the
House of Commons had demolished this filthy
web of foul scandal against a body of men whose
sole offence is that they are not to be bought with

and so it has, in the mind of every one but a de-
mented Liberal, who has neither the sense to per-
ceive nor the ihonesty to acknowledge when he is
wrong. The foolish men who were not content
with spending £12,000 to gain an object which is
further than ever out of their reach, have through
their organs repeated the slander upon which their
claim was founded, and must now stand published
to the world as wilfully guilty of the grossest men-
dacity. This is not a simple question of rival par-
ties contending for the hononr of a prize, but one
in which the character and reputation of the town
are concerned ; and while we are zealously anxious
for the good name of Liverpool, that the Electoral
body, and particularly the Freemen, should stand
in the eyes of the world at large free from the foul
charge, we are compelled to acknowledge that the
greatest blot upon its fair fame is having among its
own sons the men who have made the accusation.
There is an old saying, that it is a bad bird which
fouls its own nest, and Liverpool must remain
under the stigma of having her worst enemies
within her own bosom; men who not only sought
to have their fellow-townsmen convicted of corrup-
tion, but who did it with the moral certainty that
there was not an atom of truth in the charge. It
was proved before the Committee ; but the last few
days have shown the infamy of the falsehood in a
still more striking manner. In the first case, they
resorted to the miserable plea that working-men
had been paid a day's wages when they did not
work, but this paltry subterfuge will not avail them
now, for none were paid, and yet the two Conser-
vatives have been returned by enormous majorities,
Locating hie rtivdionl oompPf;thr by
almost as large a major.ty as that by which Mr.
CHARLES TURN ER topped the renegade CARDWELL.
The Election of last week was a model of purity, as far
as the Conservatives were concerned; and if any
money was illegally spent, it was by their opponents,
as their last desperate chance. The Freemen, how-
ever, stand acquitted in the eyes of the world of
the slightest approach to electoral impurity,—they
have nobly vindicated their character so unjustly
assailed,—and if any one dare to repeat the charge,
it may be flung back with all the indignation
which such a foul calumny justly merits.
There is something more than ordinarily gratify-
ing in being able to refer to the Election of Friday
last as one of the grandest instances on record of a
popular constituency being actuated by the truest
spirit of independence, and, at the same time, sup-
porting the great principles of our Institutions in
Church and State. It was no wild mob joining in
an insensate cry for the specious projects of some
popular demagogue; but men of all ranks and con-
ditions of life, from the princely merchant to the
humble artisan, each one independent in his own
sphere of life, possessing the electoral franchise, and
showing by their votes that they could appreciate
the blessings of good government and the mainte-
nance of the British Constitution in its integrity,
unbiassed by the thousand schemes of innovation
with which the Radicals delude their victims.
Liverpool may boast her Docks and her Shipping,
which penetrate every port in the habitable globe.
She may proudly claim to be the capital of that vast
commerce which the world never saw equalled;
but, after all, her proudest boast will be the glorious

fact, that out of her large constituency overwhelm-
ing majorities of unbought and almost unsolicited
votes returned two Conservatives to represent her
interests in the Commons House of Parliament. The
closing of such a day as Friday last would wipe out
the stain of years of corruption, if it ever existed.
The Freemen have made their own best defence to the
charge which was to effect their disfranchisement
and should it ever be repeated, the expressive
Alable with which their own native Saxon

language tersely describes a falsehood will be the
only answer required.

THE NATIONAL REVENUE.

THE usual quarterly statement of the National
Income up to the sth of July, which was pub-
lished on Wednesday, presents, as we antici-
pated last week, a very favourable view of the
elasticity of our resources, and the increased
prosperity of our home trade. Upon the account
for the year there is a net increase of £1,922,954:
arising from Excise, £531,195; Stamps, £474,487;
Taxes, £51,345; Property-tax, £225,169; Post-
Office, £25,000; Crown Lands, £172,888; Imprest
and other Money, £163,785; and Repayments of
Advances, £479,583; from which are deducted a
Decrease on Customs of £57,412, and Miscella-
neous, E 143,086. The account for the Quarter is
stili more favourable, there being a net Increase of
no less than £1,146,636: arising from Customs,
441,173; Excise, £352,101; Stamps, £48,322;
Tares, 6,776; Post-office, £21,000; Crown Lands,
14C,888; Imprest and other Money, £44,071 ; and
Repayments of Advances, £207,921. The only
items on which there is a decrease are Property-tax,
£3,034, and Miscellaneous, £111,652. The sum
-which has to be invested during the quarter for
the reduction of the National Debt amounts to
£615,185, which is larger than during any of the
preceding quarters of the years, and will, no doubt,
have a favourable influence on the value of Public
Securities, as it will tend to relieve the market
of so much floating stock, or lessen the amount
which the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER will
have to provide for the repayment of South-Sea
stock, which the holders have refused to convert.
This improvement in the position of the national
finances, arising from industrial activity and the
capabilities for the consumption of duty-
paying commodities enjoyed by the population, is
of course eagerly seized upon as irretragable testi-
mony in favour of the success of Free-trade policy,
which, we are glibly told, has removed the fetters
from the springs of industry, and shown an
admiring world what Commerce can do when left to
its own energies. Such a conclusion should be
arrived at with wore caution than our Liberal con-
temporaries bestow on a consideration of this ques-
tion„ or we may be attributing effects to causes
which have had nothing to do in producing them.
The especial object of the modern code of financial
policy was to increase:the power of consumption by
a general reduction of prices, and thereby to dimi-
nish the value of labour, and in a proportionate
degree to enhance that of capital. It was for this
alone that the manufacturers so cordially joined in
the movement, as they confidently hoped that a
reduction in the price of food would lead to a general
lowering of wages, by which they would have been
enabled to undersell their competitors in Foreign
markets. Providence has, however, worked against

greater

them, and, by the enormous discoveries of gold,
enhanced not only the value of commodities gene-
rally, but that of labour in a greater degree, as the
flood of emigration has tended to reduce the com-
petition of workmen. While Free-trade, therefore,
would have operated to lower prices, the gold dis-
coveries have been the main cause of raising them,
so that our commercial prosperity, and the conse-
quent increase in the National Revenue, are owing
to causes directly the reverse of those to which they
are attributed. The gold-fields of California and
Australia have saved us from a monetary crisis, into
which we should have been precipitated by Free.
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