The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-02 00:00:00

LEICESTER CONSERVATIVE SOCIETY.

On Thursday .the annual meeting of this society was held at
the Three Crowns Hotel, attended- by most of the influential
conservatives in the neighbourhood. The business of the day
was conducted with a spirit which showed the prosperous state
of affairs in that part of the country. Thomas Frewen Turner,
Esq., late member for the southern division of the county, was
unanimously elected president, and the Hon. G. Butler Dan-
vers, Sir John L. Kaye, Bart., George Shaw, Esq., M.D., John
King, Esq., and several other highly influential supporters of
the conservative cause were vice-presidents. Our limits will
not allow of our giving more than a general outline of the re-
port, a document which, however, well deserves a perusal, being
written with great spirit and ability. The committee state that
a re-constitution and a renewed exertion of the association are
become desirable and necessary to counteract the additional
strength and,influence which the revolutionary party have been
put in the way of acquiring by the recent changes in the mode
of municipal election, add by the system of constant politi6al
agitation and excitement to which recent events have given rise.
They express their conviction—a conviction of long standing—
that it is impossible but that the resources of the country would
rise with its necessities, and they state that they have now the
high satisfaction of saying that almost every conservative of
weight in the town and neighbourhood has joined the society.
A declaration of sound and genuine conservative principles in
church and state then precedes the recommendation by the com-
mittee of the means which they think should be employed in
promoting those great objects in the neighbourhood of the asso-
ciation. The main point, they say, is the parliamentary and
municipal i'egiitration, fi-ir'while two branches of the state, and
more than half the members of the other are conservatives, the
ministry are now kept in power by only a very small majority
of their supporters. They recommend the appointment of a
committee for the express purpose of its superintendence, and
further that all minor disputes of a merely local or municipal
nature shall succumb' before the necessity for securing the go-
vernment of the parliamentary. representation. The same ma-
chinery will afterwards serve for municipal purposes. They
propose also the constitution of ward committees for the super-
vision of the several districts into which the borough is divided,
the chairman of each of which is to be a member of the great
central committee, thus extending the power of the latter over
the whole of the sphere of action. Each ward committee should
be sub-divided into a district committee, each individual of
which is to take a'stieet or a portion of a street, where his local
knowledge may be most nseful ; and he is to inform himself of
the principles and situations of every householder and freeman
in that stieet. The reports of these several ward committeemen,
formed upon the reports of the district committeemen, are to
be transmitted to the great central committee, thus forming a
complete system of organization. The benefit of the same
system they farther propose to extend to the villages and coun-
try districts in the neighbourhood. Strongly also do the corn
mittee urge the desirableness of addressing the efforts of the
committees of organization to the humbler classes of society, so
as to enlist them under constitutional banners. The honest
shopkeeper, the industrious artisan, and the operative, not less
than the man of commercial influence and large possessions,
have an;-interest in the peace and safety of the country. The
one expects to enjoy his property; the other depends on the
peaceful progression of trade and commerce for his daily bread ;
and law_and order are the only means by which each can ac-
complish his several desires. The committee conclude their
report by a strong appeal to the friends of the cause for pecuniary
support.. These great operations cannot be carried on without
extensive funds; and such an application to the good sense as
well as the generous feeling of the wealthy and influential
inhabitants of the borough cannot fail of success. It is needless
to say that the meeting went off with eclat.