The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-25 00:00:00

GREAT GEORGE'S WARD

Last evening, a very numerous and highly-respectable
meeting of the conservative electors of this ward was held
at the house of Mr. J. Kirkham, the Stanley Arms Inn,
Upper Parliament-street. The purpose of the meeting was
to nominate a fit and proper person to be brought forward as
a candidate for the representation of the ward in the com-
mon council at the forthcoming municipal election.
Mr. COURTER, secretary to the ward conservative associa-
tion, said he had been requested to call this meeting to af-
ford the conservative electors an opportunity of nominating
a candidate to be brought forward at the coming municipal
election. The association did not wish to act until after they
had had the concurrence of the electors ; but the electors

having once made their choice, the association would;;-
louslY, and to the best of their ability, endeavour to carry
that individual. (Cheers.) He moved that Mr. Quirk,
vice-president of the association, be requested to take the
chair upon the present occasion. (Cheers.)
Mr. BARON having seconded the motion, it was unani-
mously carried.

Mr. QUIRK, in taking the chair, expressed his regret that
Mr. G. H. Lawrence, chairman of the association, was una-
voidably prevented from attending and filling that office. He
(Mr. Quirk) would merely state the object of the meeting.
It was to nominate a tit and proper person to represent the
ward in the Town Council, and he trusted they would per-
form that duty in a manner that would leave no doubt of the
result. They knew, no doubt, that it was intended to pro-
pose their old and tried member again—(cheers)--and with
these few remarks he should proceed to call upon the various
speakers.
Mr. TOMPKINS was sorry that the gentleman be intended
to propose as a fit and proper person to represent the ward
was not present, but he would be shortly. (Hear, hear.)
He rose to propose a gentleman who had and would again
serve the ward faithfully and honestly. As a tradesman he
was highly respected ; with regard to his political feelings
he was a conservative—(cheers) ; but at the same time he
would do justice, in all matters, both to tory and to radical.
(Cheers.) He had already served for three years in the
Town Council; and the electors had only to look to his past
conduct to be convinced that no man could have served them
more faithfully, or attended more punctually to his. duties,
than the gentleman he was about to propose. (Cheers.)
He had long been a resident hi the ward : he well under-
stood the business of the Town Council. (Hear.) He (Mr.
Tompkins) was sorry to see political feeling in the council,
where political feeling ought not to prevail; but as certain
parties had thought proper to make it a political body, he
would tell the meeting that the gentleman he was about to
propose as a candidate was a sound conservative in principle.
(Loud cheers.) More comment from him was not needed.
In conclusion, he trusted that, in spite of the efforts of the
Precursor Society, the conservative electors of this ward
would return Mr. Cooper to the council. He begged to
propose the following resolution :—" That this meeting do
tender their best thanks to Mr. Joseph Cooper, for the great
attention he has shewn to the general interests of the town
during the time he has been a member of the council ; arid
they respectfully request he will allow himself to be again
put in nomination as a candidate at the ensuing municipal
election." (Cheers.)
Mr. M'Crtum seconded the resolution, and it was unani-
mously carried.

Mr. COURTER said he had just received the following let-
ter from Mr. Sheppard, the conservative candidate for Tox-
;eth Ward :

" Mr. Sheppard presents his compliments to the conser-
vative committee of Great George Ward, and begs to acknow-
ledge the receipt of their polite note of the 20th instant.
" Mr. Sheppard regrets much that it will not be in his
power to attend at Mr. Kirkham's this evening. Mr. Shep-
pard most cordially wishes their candidate every success.
" Should the ward again deem it prudent to re-elect Mr.
Cooper, Mr. Sheppard feels convinced that this gentleman
will do his duty, for he has seen enough of Mr. Cooper in
public life to make him believe, that a more honest, faithful,
or hardworking respresentative, no ward could desire ; and,
in these times, such a man is invaluable. Huzza, then, for
Cooper, the candidate who can and will maintain your power,
and effectually resist the machinations of those who would
equally destroy the constitution and dismember the Empire!
" Mill-street, Thursday Evening,
" Sept. 24th, 1840."
Mr. R. M. GooRE had had a resolution put into his hands
which be had great pleasure in moving, and which, he be-
lieved, would be cordially responded to by the meeting. It
was a vote of thanks to the chairman and committee of the
Conservative Association of Abercrombie Ward, for the able
manner in which they :lad replied to an article in a public
print, stating that the conservatives were the first to put fag-
got votes on the list. (Hear, bear.) He would mention
that when a leading and respectable gentlemen in the spirit
trade—(cries of " Name")—he meant Mr. James Mulleneux,
on the other side, was told there was not a single faggot voter
in Great George's Ward, he had not a word to say. (Cheers.)
The resolution he had the honour of moving was—" That the
thanks of the meeting be given to Mr. Griffiths, the chairman
of the conservatives of Abercrombie Ward, for their public
and prompt denial of the unfounded assertions in the Liver-
pool Journal of last Saturday, ' that the conservatives were
the originators of the wholesale system of objecting to the
respectable freeholders ;' as it is well known the radicals
commenced it, and have since refused to accept the offer that
both parties should withdraw the:same."
Mr. BUCHANAN seconded the motion, and the meeting
unanimously adopted it.
i :Mr. ROBINSON, one of the conservative representatives
of the ward, rose to address the meeting amidst loud cheers.
He begged to be allowed to bear his testimony to the merits
of Mr. Cooper. There had been great objections to that
gentleman being upon the committees of the council, and it
was only last year that he had been placed upon one ; but
since his appointment no man could have paid more zealous
and indefatigable attention to his duties. He (Mr. Robin-
son) trusted that the next election would place the conserva-
tives in a position, from which, instead of having to beg and
pray to be appointed upon the committees, they would have
the power of forming them. (Loud cheers.) All the corpo-
ration appointments were made by the majority in power ;
the present majority he trusted would soon be changed, and
that we should soon have something like a fair representation
of the town. But it was only by electing such men as Mr.
Cooper—men of independent and tried character, who were
determined to oppose monopolies of all kinds, that the con-
servatives could expect and have fair play. He trusted, there-
fore that the conservative electors would renew their confi-
dence in that gentleman. (Loud cheers.)
An ELECTOR then proposed three cheers for Mr. Cooper
in his absence, and three for Mr. Robinson in his presence,
both of which were given.
Mr. ROBINSON proceeded to say, that for this unexpected
mark of their approbation he begged to return his most sin-
cere and grateful acknowledgments. As long as he had had
the honour of representing them in the council, his votes had
always been given independently, without reference to indivi-
duals or party ; and upon that principle he always intended
to act. (Cheers.)
Mr. JACKSON moved, " That this meeting do publicly re-
probate the system of objections practised by the radicals
against the inhabitants whom they imagine might differ
with them ; and they cannot but regret that the Protector
Society should have placed upon the registry 163 poor Irish-
men in this ward, who eventually will become a burden upon
the rate-payers of the town."
Ths motion was seconded by Mr. WALL, and unanimously
adopted.

On the motion of Mr. GOMM, a deputation was appointed
to proceed to the residence of Mr. Cooper, to ascertain whe-
ther he was willing to allow himself to be put in nomination.
In the meantime,
Mr. ISAAC HOLMES addressed the meeting. He said
that having now taken up his residence in Great George's-
square, he was an elector of the ward, and he assured that
meeting that nothing could give him greater pleasure than to
support the nomination of his friend Mr. Joseph Cooper.
(Cheers.) When he(Jr.M Holmes) first went into the coun-
cil, he found that Mr. Cooper had been a member of it
twelve months previously. His previous acquaintance with
Mr. Cooper, as a member, was through the medium of the
reports in the public papers ; but they convinced him that
Mr. Cooper had not only done, but well done his duty—that
he had exposed the knavery and trickery of the dominant
party in the council, thereby causing a great sensation
in the town. There was not an individual in that
council, therefore, more deserving of the thanks of the
town at large than Mr. Cooper. (Loud cheers.) Be-
fore he (Mr. Holmes) was elected, Mr. Cooper, like himself,
was one of the obnoxious. To be obnoxious to some of the
individuals ruling, there must be a proof to conservatives in
general that that individual had undaunted dope his duty to

the conservative interests of the town. (Hear, hear.) Mr.
Cooper, moreover, had frequently come forward in this man-
ner, and upon one occasion, with regard to the rank piece of
jobbing near St. James's Market, he ably exposed the trick-
ery which was attempted to be practised. He believed Mr.
Cooper was the means of completely altering the intentions
of the party as to what should be done, and to make them
completely ashamed of theinselves—
_(Cheers.) Mr. Cooper,
at first, was merely a member 6f one committee—the Gar-
dens Committee ; he was sent (he supposed) to the Mount to
look after the crows—(laughter)—but he had a greater duty
to perform, for there were vultures to be looked after. (Hear,
hear.) In that respect be had performed his duty, for he
had, in a great measure, prevented the vultures from doing
what they wished. Mr. Cooper. therefore, was highly de-
serving of their support at the forthcoming election. (Loud
cheers, and shouts of "He shall have it.") The following
—which was the last—year, Mr. Houghton complained
that he had been placed upon too many committees.
(Hear, and cheers.) Mr. Houghton, be (Mr. Holmes) be-
lieved, was a gentleman who wished to pass through the
world without being much censured or much buffeted ; he
expressed a hope, therefore,that the council would allow
him to retire from the watch committee. He (Mr. Holmes)
moved that Mr. Cooper should be placed on that com-
mittee ; Mr. Houghton seconded the motion ; and Mr.
Cooper was placed in a situation from which he was enabled
to be more useful to the ward and to the town than he other-
wise could be. (Hear, hear.) With regard to himself (Mr.
Holmes) and four or five others, they were not allowed to
have their names upon the list of a single committee. The
individual who was going to retire from Pitt-street ward—
(cheers)—came forward and in the most insulting manner
said (the very words by him should never be forgotten) " If
some of the wards had disgraced themselves by sending cer-
tain members to the council, we will not degrade ourselves
by placing them upon our committees." (Hear, hear.) He
(Mr. Holmes) trusted that Pitt.street ward would not be
again disgraced by sending that impudent and insolent
man into the town-council. (Laughter and cheers.) As he
had stated last night elsewhere, that person's political creed
was totally contrary to the principles of two-thirds of the
electors of Liverpool, and his religious creed to that of 99
out of every hundred. Therefore it would be a scandal to
the ward to return a man who, neither in politics nor reli-
gion, could have any feeling in communion with any ward in
the town. He believed he had told the meeting he was an
elector of this ward •, but perhaps he was not. He had never
yet (although he had formerly opposed the conservative inte-
rest when all were mad for " reform," as it was called) been
served with an objection to his vote. The moment, how-
ever, that he came into this ward, he was served, first, with
an objection to his parliamentary vote as a householder, and
afterwards with another to his municipal vote. (Hear.)
Mr. COOPER here entered the room, and was received
with deafening applause.
Mr. HOLMES proceeded to say that he regarded not the
objection to his parliamentary vote as a householder, because
he was a freeman of the town of Liverpool. (Three loud
cheers were here given for the freemen.) He had four sous,
who were likewise free, and these were four more votes for the
other side to consider. (Cheers.) He mentioned this to
show that the objection to his parliamentary vote as a house-
holder, must have been from sheer malice. (Hear, hear.)
When he received notice of the objection he went to the
office of the Reform Association, and told them that if they
would withdraw the objection he should be obliged, but if
not, that Sir Joshua Walmsley and every radical member of
the Town-council, including both his brothers, should be
served with objections in his own name—that he might meet
them before the Town-council, the revising barrister, and
before the mayor himself. Mr. Holmes then went on to
say, that there had never been a single question discussed in
the counsel upon which Mr. Cooper and himself had not
supported each other. This was very gratifying when they
had the insolence of power to contend against. The meeting
were well aware of a late public meeting of the Reform As-
sociation, and of the trepidation in which the radical mem-
bers of the council now were. Mr. William Rathbone was
dreadfully afraid of the forthcoming election ; and he be-
lieved that the greater number of the objections in Pitt-
street ward had been for the purpose of causing the
election to be taken upon the old register which was much
better for radical purposes than the present. They were made,
he repeated, to return Mr. Wm. Rathbone, because with the
list as it stands he would have no chance whatever. (Cheers.)
The speaker then proceeded to comment at considerable
length upon the proceedings of a reform meeting in Exchange
ward, and upon the gratuitous insult in Mr. O'Connell's
speech at the Queen's Theatre upon the natives of the prin-
cipality, and upon several topics of a local nature. He con-
cluded by an energetic call upon the meeting to return Mr.
Cooper which was responded to by loud cheers and cries of
determination to do so.
Mr. CooPER (having been introduced by Mr. Robinson)
then addressed the meeting. He said that after having served
the burgesses for three years, it gave him great satisfaction to
learn that he still retained their confidence. (Hear.) If
it were any gratification to him in the first instance to have
been surrounded by numbers who had voted in his behalf,
how much more gratifying must it be to his feelings, after he
had been weighed in the balance, to find that he was not
considered wanting. (Cheers.) It he had studied his pri-
vate interest or comfort, he should have retired on this oc-
casion; for his business, and the number of men in his ser-
vice, required-a great portion of his time. But when he saw
an unconstitutional step taken for bringing in the constitu-
ency of New Bird-street against the respectable constituency
of Great George's Ward, he could not refuse to come for-
ward to aid in averting the downward course. (Cheers.) A
great deal had been said against the old freemen, but he
must say of them, that he had never yet known them to
break their word, and that it was infamous on the part of
government to disfranchise them from the right of electing
the mayor. (Hear.) Why were they deprived of that?
The freemen of Liverpool ought to have had a vote in the
election of the chief magistrate, and for the other members
of the corporation. (Hear.) We had heard a great deal
about the liberality of the liberals, and he would point out an
instance of it in the Town Council. Great George's Ward, it
was well known, returned three conservative members. It was
usual for the members of a particular ward to have the care
and control of the markets in that ward ; but although they
had had seats in the council for three years they were denied
a vote upon the Market Committee, and not one of the mem-
bers for the ward had a voice in that committee: (Hear.)
To whom was the care of St. James's Market resigned? To
one man from Scotland and another from Ireland—Mr.
Jordan and Mr. Duncan ; and he (Mr. Cooper) appealed to
the meeting whether under their management the " widow's
landmark" had not been removed in that market. (Hear.)
It bad ;—(cheers)—and if a very strict look out bad not been
kept over those gentlemen many more things would have
gone wrong. He considered the next election as one of mo-
mentous interest. It affected the question of how the poor
should be educated—whether, indeed, the poor should be in-
structed in the entire word of God, or whether they should
have unitarian principles thrust upon them. (Loud cheers.)
At the last municipal election they had sixty hostile voters
thrust upon them for this ward, but still the bur-
gesses nobly did their duty by returning Mr. Robinson
by a majority of 22. (Cheers.) Having that example before
them, he felt perfect confidence that they would be able again
to return him (Mr. Cooper) to the council. (Cheers.) But
to accomplish this it was of deep importance that every man
should put his shoulder to the wheel, especially as nearly
every vote in the ward had been objected to in a roost infa-
mous manner. Mr. Cooper proceeded to detail a case of one
conservative burgess (Mr. Orton), who had lived in the same
house for 35 years, having been objected to, and to enforce
the necessity of attendance on the revision. He concluded
an energetic speech by calling upon the burgesses to take
care of the registration, as the only certain means of carrying
the ward for the conservative interest

A vote of thanks was then presented to the chairman for
the able manner in which he had presided. The compliment
was suitably acknowledged by Mr. Quirk.
Mr. COOPER then moved a similar vote to the secretary,
which was seconded by Mr. J. W. WAGSTAFF.
Mr. COURTER briefly replied.
Mr. ROBINSON proposed, and Mr. COOPER seconded, a
resolution of thanks to the committee of the Ward Conser-
vative Association, which was passed unanimously.
Mr. E. WRAY, the conservative candidate for St. Peter's
Ward, and Mr. WHITE next said a few words; and when
they had concluded, the meeting dispersed, highly gratified
with their prospects of success in the forthcoming contest.

FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIR,—We are still in a state of uncertainty relative to the
eastern question. It seems probable, if we place credence in
the exertions of M. Thiers' deputy with Mehemet Ali, that
they have been crowned with partial success. It appears,
then, that the bon: office: on the part of France have been
duly appreciated by the conqueror of Syria ; and, in conse-
quence, he dispatched a courier to Constantinople to convey
this important submission to the Sultan, his master. But
the mediating system of M. Thiers is nothing but a non-
sensical comedy, in which the two premiers perform a most
miserable role. In a few days we shall hear the denouement
of this complex affair.

The RevUe de Paris has a very inconsistent article on the
eastern question. It asserts that, in spite of her just com-
plaints, France has not refused to offer her interference for
the amicable settlement of the eastern question ; that she
has induced Mehemet to accept the conditions imposed upon
him, and laid out for him a plan of wisdom and conciliation.
This news emanates from M. Mignet, who is in the pay of
M. Thiers. The Rime de Paris should first have proved
these complaints. Such allegations are used for the purpose
of shielding Thiers from public indignation, and imply that
such language is requisite to justify his foolish armament.
M. Thiers has no more complaints to make against the Eng-
lish government than I have against Lord Palmerston. He
uses every instrument he possibly can think of to keep him-
self in his situation. He knows perfectly well that he has
lost the confidence of the conservateurs ; and as to the party
of Barrot, it is on the verge of leaving him in the mud. The
republican party despises the man ; so lie has the alternative
of fortifying Paris, and every town in France, to defend him-
self against nobody.
Louis Philippe, the man of the barricades, in company
with some generals and officiers du ginie, took an airing, on
horseback, in the bois de Boulogne, to superintend the forti-
fications that are going to be erected there on his property.
This royal visit to the works speaks volumes. The man who
has been made king of the French, and never king of France
—what a mortification !—seems to be very anxious about the
immediate surrounding his royal residence, and his brave
Parisians, by strong walls, to shield them from foreign inva-
sion. What a loyal act ! The indefatigable Thiers has been
giving orders to make bombs and all sorts of combustibles,
to repulse the enemy. What farcical proceedings ! Some
of the newspapers exclaim that M. Thiers is the only man in
France that can maintain her dignity and national honour.
The Siecle is the forerunner of them. It is manifest that M.
Thiers is on the point of being expelled from his office by the
indignation of the nation. I allow M. Thiers a few days
more to indulge in his dangerous pursuits. Three regiments
of the line, the 17th, 19th, and 46th,are forthwith be billeted
on the inhabitants in the environs of the capital; and fifty
villages will be erased from the map, to enable him to carry
his designs into effect. Does he think that he will, by the
sight of a million of bayonets, crush French blood? Never,
The reign of discontent is already beginning td manifest itself
in the estansinets. Where are the fathers, the mothers, the
daughters, the children inhabiting these fifty villages to be
housed? This is an important question yet to be considered.
Paris, 22d September, 1840.

MR. GELLARD'S PICTURE OF ADAM AND EVE.—This very
splendid picture continues to attract a great deal of attention.
It is one of the finest specimens of modern art, either for har-
mony of colouring, poetry of design, or artistical execution.
The effect of light and shade is exhibited in a most extraor-
dinary manner. The touching simpli,:ity and beauty of the
female figure cannot fail to be admired, while the muscular
and manly grace of Adam strikes every beholder. The lovers
of the fine arts must not omit seeing this picture. It is now
lighted by gas, producing a singular effect.
WOMAN DROWNED.—An inquest was held on Monday_
last at the Veteran public-house, in Salford, on the body
the
f 43
Margaret Gibson, aged 61, who was found drowned
uinca
Leeds and Liverpool canal, at Grimshaw-park,
on Sunday
morning last. The deceased left home the
evening before
about nine o'clock, without stating wither she was going. She
had a son living in Grimshaw-park, and it is supposed
VerdictsuPpo d she
was going there, but accidentally fell into the canal.
---accidental death.—Blackburn Standard.

The.fillowing paragraph is copied from an Irish provincial
journal :—" We have been informed by a Nenagh correspon-
dent that the tee-totallers of that town are in the habit of
parading the streets on the Sabbath evenings, accompanied
by the chapel band, and which plays nothing but party tunes
for their amusement, and for the purpose of annoying the
respectable inhabitants."