The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-26 00:00:00

TO THE ELECTORS OF LIME-STREET WARD.
GENTLEMEN,
• KVING, a few days since, been honoured with a Requi-
• sition, signed by a numerous and respectable portion of
the Electors of your Ward, inviting me to become a CAN-
DIDATE for the seat in the Town-council which becomes
vacant in November next ; and having been received by you
last evening, at a Public Meeting, in a most flatter g man-
ner, I cannot hesitate to accept your invitati ; and, in
doing so, I beg you will permit me to offer my w• mest thanks
for these marks of your distinction.
lam fully aware that a personal Canvas ,in most cases,
equally as disagreeable to the Electors c nvassed as to the
Candidate, but still, being unknown to many of you, I shall
endeavour, between this period and the day of Election, to
become personally acquainted with each of you.
It is, perhaps, necessary for me to declare that I am a sup-
porter of the general policy of those distinguished indivi-
duals who have been recently called to the Councils of her
Majesty, believing, as I do, that their firm and unhesitating
manner of conducting the public affairs will be the most ad-
vantageous to this great Ltupire, and tend to restore confi-
dence in the Government. I am ready to admit that there
have been several good measures carried by the late Admi-
nistration, and which, during their discussion, received the
support of some of the present Alinisters.
The question which now engages the attention of the coun-
try, as regards the course at present pursued by the American
Government, is one in which this Town is most deeply
interested, from its connexion with the American Trade, and
I trust that every exertion will be used to prevent hostilities
between the two countries, which could not but prove most
calamitous to this great commercial port.
It is to be regretted that so much party feeling has been
introduced into some of the local questions which have been
brought before the Town-council; but it is gratifying to ob-
serve that the important question regarding the Dock
Estate has been so equitably arranged.
If I should have the honour to be returned as your mem-
ber to the Town-council at the approaching Election, allow
me to assure you, that no exertion on my part shall be
wanting to promote the general interests of the Town.
am, Gentlemen,
Your obliged and faithful servant,
JOHN B. LLOYD.
Liverpool, October 14, 1841.

TO THE ELECTORS OF ABERCROMBY WARD.
GENTLEMEN,
THE very kind and flattering invitation I have received
from a numerous and highly respectable body of Electors
in your Ward, to offer myself again as a CANDIDATE for
the representation of your interests in the Town Council,
demands from roe the expression of my grateful thanks ; and
as the period approaches when I must resign into your hands
the trust you so liberally reposed in me three years ago, I
cannot longer delay avowing more formally my readiness and
my intention to accede to the wishes of my friervis, and to
solicit once more a renewal of your confidence grid support.
Having now resided for a considerable period in Aber-
crombie Ward, and during that time become personally ac-
quainted with many of you, it would be a perfluous in me to
enter into any detail of the opinion entertain, knowing
that, frem past experience, they mu' e familiar to you; I
have, generally speaking, oppose the measures of the
hitherto predominant party in the until, because I believed
them to be wrong. calculated, probably, to gratify the feel-
ings of some, but in no way tending, as I conceive, to ad-
vance the real and permanent welfare of the community.
Nor is it easy to reconcile the inconsistency of that Party,
who, whilst they pretend to lament over the angry expres-
sions so frequently made use of in the Council Room, are
still willing to approve the conduct of those Representatives
who add fuel to the flame by the introduction of topics for
discussion, purely of a Political character ; and which, in my
judgment, have no connexion whatever with the duties of a
Town Councillor, thus increasing the very evil they are so
loud in condemning ; I therefore refrain from offering any
opinion on subjects of political interest, believing that my
duty, should I be returned as your Representative to the
Council, will be to beware of incurring the reproof given by
Lord Stanley, at Lancaster, to the Manchester Manufactu-
rer, when he said, " Don't you think, Mr. Brookes, that it
would be better if every body attended to their own busi-
ness ?" It has been the practice with some of those whose
best security has been in the majority they could command
in the Council-room, to taunt the party with whom, on most
occasions, I have the pleasure to act, with illiberality—with
feelings of hostility towards others—and with being unfriendly
to the education of the industrious classes. That the pre-
sent syetem adopted in the Corporation Schools has appeared
to most of us to be objectionable, there can be no question ;
but that we are illiberal, or unkindly disposed towards any
class of the community, is an assertion without proof, and,
therefore, valueless; and with respect to our being opposed
to the advancement of Education,- there are fortunately nu-
merous institutions in Liverpool for Religious and Moral
instruction, more than sufficient to satisfy every honest mind
that the charge is wholly unfounded, and the object in making
it a questionable one ; examples of illiberality, in this re
spect, which it is no idle boast to say, the party complaining
would do well to imitate.
I will only further state that, should I succeed in being
chosen as your Representative, it will be my earnest desire,
as it has hitherto been, to endeavour, to the best of my abi-
lity, to discharge the duties confided to my care with zeal
and fidel itY.
I am, Gentlemen, with much respect,
Your faithful and obedient Servant.
ROBERTSON GLADSTONE.
24, Abercromby.square, 22d October, 1841.