The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-28 00:00:00

TO THE BURGESSES AND FREEMEN OF THE
BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL.

GENTLEMEN,
THE Representation of your important and
populous Town has been declared vacant by the
judgment of the Tribunal constituted for the purpose of in-
quiring into the proceedings of the late Election.
It is no business of mine to impugn the justice of this and
other analogous decisions. I have been invited to present
myself as a CANDIDATE for your suffrages by a Requisition
from a•large and influential body of your Community, upon
conditions, which must, at least, exonerate me from any par-
ticipation in any possible proceedings which may have a
tendency to sully the purity of popular Election in the eyes of
its self-constituted Judges.

But this has also beeii the position of many able and honour-
able men, who have, nevertheless, recently been unseated by
the decision of Parliamentary Committees—men who have, in
their own person, paid the penalty of acts done by indiscreet
friends or (it may bel by disguised enemies.
After this preface, for which recent events will at least afford
an excuse, 1 shall be expected to make some statement of my
political opinions. As to the personal qualifications which
have led to my introduction to this great Emporium of Com-
merce, they will be more fitly explained by others than by
myself. It would not be becoming in me to put forward any
claims to the high honour to which I have been invited, further
than to refer to the good opinion of your Fellow-Townsmen
already manifested towards me. _ _

This-opinion can only be founded upon some knowledge of
my past life, the better portion of which has been devoted to
my Country's service in the Commons House of Parliament.
In the earlier part of my public carter I was honoured and
encouraged by the personal friendship of two Statesmen,
whose connection with your Town will ever be a distinguishing
feature in the annals of Liverpool,—l allude to Mr. Canning
and Mr. Huskisson.

Following the example of these illustrious men, I proclaim
myself a Conservative Politician, the defender of the Throne
and the Altar, at the same time yielding to no man in attach-
ment to the ivil and Religious liberties secured to the People
by our matchless Constitution.
• With regard to the long agitated, tad now settled, question
of what is callett "Free Trade,” I am content to view it as an
accomplished Fact; rejoiced to find that a recurrence to the first
principles of Commerce, so long viewed with apprehension by
many, is compatible, not merely with security, but apparently
conducive to the National wealth and enterprise. Some excep-
tions may, I fear, still be pointed out in the midst of the
general prosperity, greatly enhanced as that Prosperity has
undoubtedly been by those wonderful discoveries of the precious
metals in the remote quarters of the Globe, which have added
a stimulus to manufacturing industry and created a demand
for Shipping, unprecedented in the history of this or any
other country. But the Merchants of Liverpool must be too
painfully conscious of the deplorable condition of our West
India Colonies (once so flourishing and so wealthy), not to
admit the justice of the allusion in the preceding sentence.
Whether the case of these Colonies be desperate, or whether it
may admit of some palliation, is now one of the most in-
terestisg problems which can engage the thoughts of public
men, and occupy the attention of Government.
Upon the complicated questions of Finance and Taxation, I
shall be prepared to offer in public such explanations as may
be required of me.
I have already given proofs. to which easy reference may be
made, of my devotion to the cause of British Navigation. In
fact, I can only attribute the support and encouragement I
have received in Liverpool to the attentive consideration I
formerly devoted to this great National Interest.
While I desire that all classes of my Fellow-Countrymen
shall enjoy the fullest extent of Civil and Religious Freedom, I
consider that Freedom is best maintained by a resolute de-
fence of the Rights, Privileges, and Property of the Protestant
Church, as by Law established.
. . _

Concurring, as I do, with the just and emphatic language
recently uttered in the House of Commons by the Noble Lord
the Leader of the Government in that House, I regret that the
participation of such sentiments seems to have been disavowed
by the First Minister of the Crown. _

In conclusion, I humbly venture to hope that you will
pardon this imperfect exposition of my political opinions. A
candidate for popular support, in these days, must rather look
to other and more convenient opportunities of dealing with
important questions than attempt to comprise them all within
the limits of an address. . .

Every honest politician has the same object in view, although
the wisest may differ as to the best means of obtaining it.
That object is the PUBLIC GOOD, or, in the words of a well-
known writer, "the greatest possible amount of happiness
extended to the greatest possible number of the people."
By combining a sound moral and religious Education, with
the progressive discoveries of Science; by strengthening all
that is valuable in the Framework of Society, and improvingall
that is defective, we shall best further this great end, and act
in harmony with the designs of a beneficent and over-ruling
Providence.

I have the honour to subscribe myself,
Gentlemen,
With great respect,
Your obedient, faithful servant,
HENRY THOMAS LIDDELL.

London, 23d June, 1853,

LIDDELL AND HORSFALL FOR EVER.

EXCHANGE WARD.

AT a MEETING of the CANVASSING COM-
MITTEE belonging to this WARD, held at the house of
Mr. Cutts, Chapel-street, on THURSDAY, 23rd instant,
JAMES TYRER, Esq., in the chair,
It was moved by THOMAS LITTLEDALE, Esq., and seconded
by Mr. TAYLOR,—"That this meeting views with regret the
decision of the Parliamentary Committee as _regards Messrs.
Turner and Mackenzie, the late Reprettentatives for this
Borough, anti begs to thank those gentlemen for their services
to the good old town : that this „meeting highly disapproves of
the rroceedings adopted by the opponents of the late members,
and believes that its members have this opinion in common
with a majority of their fellow.townsmen."—Carried nem. con.
It was moved by J. LONOTON, Esq., and seconded by Mr.
JONES,—" That we highly approve of the nomination of the
Hon. Mr. Liddell and Thomas Berry Horsfall, Esq., as can-
didates to represent this Borough : we consider that, by their
return, the town would have the benefit of ability, influence,
and integrity in its representation."
The above resolutions met with the unanimous approval of
the Gentlemen assembled, and were carried with applause.
JAMES TYRER,
Chairman of the Canvassing Committee of Exchange Ward.

ASPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the
TRUSTEES of the LIVERPOOL ROYAL INFIRMARY,
LUNATIC ASYLUM, and LOCK HOSPITAL, will be bolder:
in the Board-room, at the Infirmary, on MONDAY the 11th day
of July next, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, to obtain their
sanction to the expenditure of a sum not exceeding }lye
Thousand Pounds, for the purpose of carrying out certain
alterations in the Buildings of those Institutions.
June 23, 1853. JAMES BOURNE, President.

LIVERPOOL DOCKS.
LOANS OF MONEY '.
t PHE COMMITTEE of the LIVERPOOL DOCKS
1 do hereby give Notice,DtlAitEheLy
sair.,e‘sNsoilNlin, gsetcorerteacreyie.vee_
LOANS OF MONEY, on the• Security of the Bonds of the
Trustees of the Liveroo_ol-Docks, at the rate of .t '3 10s. per
centum per annum interest, for periods of either Three, Five,
or Seven Years. All offers to be addressed to GEORGE V Teo,
TON, Esq., Treasurer of the Liverpool Docks, Doek:otii . -,
Liverpool.—By order,
Dock-office, Ltrerpool, February 10, 1853.

LOANS OF MONEY.
BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL.
THE COUNCIL of theBOROUGH of LIVERPOOL
do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that they are willing to
receive LOANS, to a limited amount, for THREE, Fivz, or
SEVEN YEARS, bearing Interest at the rate of THREE POUN.D.
FIFTEEN SHILLINGS PER CENTUM PEE ANN• La, Nnid, ofno:etprgN,
of the several PAYING and SEWER RATES in
the TOWHSInpfI

neciive Districts of the Parish of Liverpool,
Evertor and Kirkdalc, and of so much of the Township of Wes,
Derby, and of the Extra-parochial Place of Tart eth-park, re,
.v, as are within the said Borough, authorised to be
made and levied under the provisions of an '
•

spectiel

act passed in t

ninth and tenth years of the-reigu o
tilled "An Act for the Improvement o
Drainage of the Borough of Liverpool, an
provisions for the Sanatory Regulation of the
The Interest will be paid Half-yearly, 34 t
nnderSigned ; or to CAPES
Treasurer,addresse4 to the Public Offices, Cortmallis-street
Liverpool
and the Ist of July.
All letlerEsstgo.,he
ASHLIN
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By order, xcill
WM. S HI; TTIAL W Ulf** *TY
Town-hall, 9th ,func, 1853. , , •