The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-04 00:00:00

THE MINISTERIAL RE-ELECTIONS.

There is nothing particularly striking in the addresses
which the candidates for re-election to Parliament have
made to their respective constituencies, but we subjoin
extracts of the most interesting.
In' appealing to the electors of Carlisle, Sir James
Graham says :—" I am about to act with those who re-
pealed the Tests and Corporation Acts, who emancipated
the Catholics, who abolished slavery throughout the
British dominions, who passed the Reform Act, who ra-
pealed the Corn Laws, and who, at length, have finally
succeeded in establishing Free Trade as the rule of our
future commercial policy. In a Cabinet so led and so
constructed the past is the surest earnest of the future.
What has been done we shall steadily maintain. What
remains to be done we shall endeavour to accomplish by
cautious but progressive reforms, based on a desire to im-
prove the condition, to extend the education, and to en-
large the liberty, both civil and religious, of the great
body of the people."
In his address to the electors of South Wilts, Mr.
Sidney Herbert says, " I still believe, as I have always
done, that in the maintenance of public credit, in the pro-
motion of the comfort of all classes of the community, in
the dissemination of sound education, and in the advance-
ment of well-considered reforms in all departments of the
state, lies the best security for the permanent conservation
of our institutions."

On Saturday, the following returns were made without
opposition :—Sir W. Molesworth, Southwark; Right Hon.
E. Strutt, Nottingham ; Right Hon. Sir James Graham,
Carlisle ; Earl of Mulgrave, Scarborough ; Hon. W. Cow-
per, Hertford. Sir George Grey was also returned for
Moroeth, in the room of Captain Howard.
The elections for Halifax and Tiverton took place yes-
terday ; and to-day the following will take place :—City
of London, Lord John Russell : University of Oxford,
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone ; Wolverhampton, Hon. C.
P. Villiers ; Brighton, Lord A. Harvey ; Leeds, Right
Hon. M. T. Baines ; Lichfield, Lord A. Paget ' • Marl-
borough, Lord Ernest Bruce; City of Gloucester, Admiral
Berkeley. To-morrow : Southampton, Sir A. E. J. Cock-
burn. Thursday : Aylesbury, Mr. R. Bothell, Q.C. The
elections for South Wilts, and for the Irish and Scotch
counties and boroughs made vacant, are not yet fixed.
Besides these, writs have also been moved for the following
places : County of Cavan, Sir J. Young ; Scotch boroughs,
Right Hon. J. Moncrieff; Dumfriesshire, Lord Drumlan-
rig ; County of Limerick, Mr. W. Monsen ' - Borough of
Carlow, Mr. John Sadlier ; City of Lichfield, Lord Alfred
Paget; and Haddingtonshire, Hon. F. Charteris.
It is said that Mr. Gladstone will be opposed at Oxford
University by the Marquis of Chandos ; Sir A. Cockburn,
at Southampton, by Mr. B. Cochrane ; and Admiral
Berkeley, at Gloucester, by Mr. Hope.
In consequence of Sir W. P. Wood, M.P. for Oxford,
being appointed Vice-Chancellor, in the room of Lord
Cranworth, made Lord Chancellor, a vacancy has occurred
in the representation of that city, of which Mr. Cardwell
has availed himself, and ,has issued the following address
to the electors :

" Gentlemen,—Sir William Page Wood has been ap-
pointed a Vice-Chancellor, and his place in parliament is
vacant. You cannot but receive with regret the intelli-
gence which separates you from so faithful a servant, but
I think you will recognise in his appointment a determi-
nation on the part of the Queen's ministers to place on
the judicial bench those who are best qualified to discharge
the solemn duties of that high trust.
" For more than 20 years I have enjoyed the personal
friendship of many most respected citizens of Oxford,and
I venture to believe that my political opinions are in uni-
son with those of a majority of the electors.

" Those opinions hive been recorded in.former parlia-
ments, and, in the hope that I may obtain your approba-
tion, I would wish to refer to the votes which I have given
in favour of free-trade, of civil and religious liberty, of
Protestant education, and generally of all those measures
which have tended to remove oppressive taxes and to pro-
mote the public good.
" The Reform Act was passed when I was a resident in
Oxford ; and my earnest approbation of that change was
always openly expressed. The act of 1846, which abolished
the tax upon corn, was contested in parliament when I
was a member of the House of Commons, holding office
under Sir R. Peel ; I appeal to your decision whether the
happy condition of this country, while every other coun-
try of Europe has been disturbed, may not, under Divine
Providence, be attributed to the conjoint and beneficial
operation of those great measures ; and whether the policy
by which they are directed may not, therefore, be re-
garded as at once resolute and enlightened—at once Con-
servative and Liberal. The authors of the Reform Act
are associated in the present government with the survi-
ving colleagues of Sir R. Peel, and I have accepted office
with the confident belief that the policy of the cabinet will
be animated by a spirit of progressive reform.
, The controversies which have occupied the last ten
years are now finally set at rest. To place upon a sound
foundation the public finance ; to promote the extension
of knowledge, to increase the comforts of the community ;
and t) administer the affairs of the nation in accordance