The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-14 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL ELECTION PETITION.

PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE SELECT
COMMITTEE.

(FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.)

TUESDAY, JUNE 7.

This was the ninth day of the examination. The com.
mittee met at 11 o'clock, and the first witness called was
Thomas 'Walthew, the person who was under cross-
examination when the committee adjourned the previous
evening ; but Mr. Bodkin intimated that he would not re-
examine him.

'William Stamp, watchcase maker, residing in Bolton.
street, Liverpool, who voted as a householder in 1847
for Cardwell and Birch, and who before the last election
said he would vote for Cardwell and Ewart, deposed that,
while he got a card from the red side, he did not receive
one from the Whig side.
John Hickson, a freeman, voted for Mackenzie and
Turner ; had three days' employment before the election
from Mr. Bremner, in making out canvass-books and
carrying messages; was paid half.a-guinea for the three
Jays by Mr. Wilkin, and received 103. from Mr. Buck-
master for Sunday work done at the Central Committee-
rooms. Was engaged in the Royal Bank-buildings, Ex.
change Ward, and knew that messages were sent back-
wards and forwards from the Bank-buildings to the
Central Committee-room by messengers appointed for
that purpose. Wilkins and -Bremner called at the Bank-
buildings to see how they were getting on. Was a poll-
clerk, acted as such in Lime-street Ward, and received a
card from Mr. Bremner, on producing which the day fol-
lowing at Mr. Bremner's office, witness received payment
for his trouble. _ _

John Qtyle, a physician who has been resident in
Liverpool for eighteen months, was not a voter, but took
an interest in the last election on the side of Mackenzie
and Turner. Was a member of the committee which sat
in the Great George Tavern, Pitt-street, and canvassed
in the Great George ward. Mr. E. M`Keverigan was
absent from none of the meetings. Had never acted on a
municipal committee, but knew the committee was the
municipal one.
Samuel Orme, Burlington-street, Liverpool, porter for
Mead, Corney, and Co., of the Shipping Gazette, was
engaged by Mr. Jonas Gleave, " as outdoor clerk, mes-
senger, and everything in-door and out" in the Lime-
street ward. His in-door business was transacted at the
Swan, whither he was sent by Mr. Gleave. A committee
met at the Swan, at two of which meetings he was pre-
sent, and of which Mr. Lloyd was chairman, Gleave
secretary, and Riding vice-chairman. Knew Smith, the
letter-carrier, but never saw money paid to him at the
Swan. On the morning of the polling-day was in Gleave's
house, and saw him take thirty or forty voters up to the
poll. There were coaches and cars at the Swan, but none
at Gleave's. Mr. Gleave paid him his wages.
Sylvester Redmond, who said he had lived three years
in Liverpool, and was the correspondent of one London
newspaper (a Roman Catholic publication, we under-
stand), dined at the Bee Hotel, Mr. Lawton's, on the
election-day, and saw there Mr. J. Buck Lloyd and Mr.
Jonas Gleave, both of them busy with voters.
Daniel Warburton Kellett, stationer and printer, voted
at the last election for Mackenzie and Turner. Executed
work at the election time by the orders of Mr. Buck-
master, Mr. Bremner, and Mr. John Briscoe, the chair-
man of St. Paul's Ward, and also of Mr. Jackson, clerk
to Mr. Charles Turner, official assignee of the Liverpool
District Court of Bankruptcy, and a voter in Everton
Ward. In respect of all the printing, made out a bill of
£36 10a., £5O of which had been paid to him by Mr.
Thomas Bold, though not before he bad written to Mr.
Molyneur, the chairman. Mr. Hatch also gave orders
for printing. Cannot say the manuscript of the procession
programme was in Mr. Bremner's handwriting, but a
proof of the document was sent to Mr. Bremner as well
as gave him the manuscript. He printed some for the
other side, but the amount of their bill was only £4 10s.
John Taylor, engaged by Mr. Rigby, chairman of
Pitt-street Ward, was engaged at the committee-room at
the Vine Tavern, charged 7s. 6d. per day, and 103. for
the day of the election, and was paid by Mr. Rigby a day
or two after the election. He was employed as messenger.
Mr. Postyn was, he believed, paid secretary. and Mr.
Charles Callis deputy-chairman. Was sent twice or
thrice by the committee to the central office, North John-
street. Sometimes he bad a written and sometimes a
verbal message to deliver. Has seen a gentleman named
M`Keverigan at the committee-room in the Vine Tavern.
Mr. Mackenzie and Mr. Turner paid a visit to the Vine
Tavern one evening, and addressed the electors of the
ward. He is not a voter. Is a house and ship joiner.
Mr. Solomon May was occasionally at the Vine, and he
had been present at meetings of the committee where
coopers and ship srights had come to, but he did not
hear what took place; when he went to the central office
he did not recollect that he saw Mr. Buckmaster.
Sylvester Redmond, the last witness examined, was asked
by Mr. Paget : Did you hear Mr. Gleave order refresh-
ments for those people who had voted ? Mr. Rodwell
objected to the question being at present answered. He
asked the committee to adjourn the proceedings at this
turn of the case, when it was about to be attempted to
fix the charge of treating. He knew that at this moment
his learned friend Mr. James was preparing to argue this
point of the case. The Chairman immediately intimated
that they quite coincided in what Mr. Rodwell had re-
marked as to the importance of the case, and they ac-
cordinglv acceded to the suggestion. The proceedings
then terminated at a quarter to three.