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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

THE ELECTION.-MEETING OF SIR THOMAS
BIRCH'S FRIENDS AT THE ROYAL HOTEL.

A meeting of the friends of Sir Thomas Birch was held
yesterday, at the Royal Hotel, Dale-street, for the purpose
of appointing a committee, and taking such other mea-
sures as they might deem necessary for the certain return
of their candidate.

The meeting was convened by circular from the Reform
Association, and was pretty numerously attended. We
noticed, amongst those present, Colonel Williams, Wm.
Earle, Hardman Earle, Hugh Hornby, William Thorn-
hill, Charles Rawdon, Thomas Booth, James Mulleneux,
Wm. Rowlandson, J. H. Smith, Wm. Rathbone, and
John Smith, Esqrs.
The Chair was occupied by Mr. EARLS, who, in opening
the business, said that he was not ambitious of the honour
which had been conferred upon him, but he thought it
was the duty of every man who had the welfare of any
party at heart, to do his utmost to support it. Therefore
he was present to support Sir Thomas Birch. (Cheers.)
Mr. RAttIBONE then rose to explain the nature and
objects of the meeting. He said that they were all well
aware that the Reformers of the borough had suffered con-
siderable difficulty in procuring a candidate, but that
eventually they had induced Sir Thomas Birch to stand.
He had issued his address, and he (Mr. R.) hoped that,,
as a declaration of principles which they could all under-
stand, it would be fotind satisfactory to the Reform elec-
tors of the town. He did not anticipate that they would
all agree in those principles, for it was very'difficult to find
any candidate who could suit himself to every shade of
opinion which such a body of men as the Reformers of
Liverpool entertained. (Hear, hear.) However, he hoped
that on the present occasion they would have more una-
nimity and ood'feeling than they had hitherto had, and
that, instead of being split and disunited amongst them-
selves, they wOuld, on the day of election, be found banded
together in titre firm phalanx. If they were, he was quite
certain that 'their success would be inevitable. (Hear,
hear, and cheers.) They had, upon previous occasions, lost
th e victory Which was within their reach by disunion amon4st
themselves—a game which he seas 'happy to say their op-
ponents *ere now playing to iris ;and the Reformer's sa-
tisfaction. (Hear, bear, and dicers.) He believed that
Thursday week would be the'day of election, and up to
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their one cattlidate;
he believed that the other party gave them great
edit 'for thei7 moderation. If they had come out
sooner it is likely that they would have united those
parties who were then most' actively quarrelling with each
otherto become united, and that they did not want. It was
nof'for them to become peace makers between the rival
factions of the same party—=they did not desire the bless-
ings of peace-makers least by doing so they might induce
both sides of them to turn round on the Reformers and
injure their chance of success. It would be-their duty -to
watch craftily what they-were about, and light with: the
Utmost caution,—(hear, hear,)—as theywould have
enemies of the utmost- magnitude to deal With. (Hear.)
Col. WILLIAMS then-addressed the meeting' at sortie
length ; after which,

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An ELECTOR in the morn said he should not like to take
any step in the matter until he heard Sir Thomas declare
himself on 'Change, because he could not support any man
whom he knew nothing about.
Mr. RATHEONE,explained that the Reform Association

had held vprious meetings with the view of nominating a
liberal candidate for the borough, ,but, unfortunately,
they could not find a single man who would come
forward for that honour. At length it was determined
to send four gentlemen to London with the view of
finding one there, and he begged leave to assure the
meeting that in such an estimation were the reform
party of Liverpool held by men who might he ambitious
of becoming candidates, that Sir Thomas was the only
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&Ilan Iu y voutu imu woo was waling to stand, tnerefore
he would impress upon them the 'fact that they were in
the position of having the old adage, that "beggars ought
not be chooseri," applied to them. However, as Sir

Thomas would be on 'Change soon, he felt secure in as-
serting, that they:would all be •es satisfied oflais ability
and talent for representing the people of Liverpool as he

It was then resolved that Mr. Earle should'be the chair-
man of Sir Thomas's election committee, end that it
should be composed of the gentlemen present, with power
to add to their number. Themeeting then broke up.

THOMAS BIRCH ON 'CHANCE.
Shortly after three o'clock yesterday afternoon, the
Reform candidate left the Royal Hotel, in company with
his committee and a large body of his friends, and pro-
ceeding down Dale-street, made his appearance on 'Change.
He was supported by Mr. Earle and Mr. Rathbone, and
accompanied by many or all of the gentlemen who met at
the Royal Hotel. On entering the square, he was saluted
with a faint cheer, which was more vociferously repeated
on his going into the Exchange Newsroom. On leaving
the room he proceeded across the square to the office of
Messrs. Hugh and Joseph Hornby, from the windows
of which it •was arranged that he should nrlaro.. +►,,.

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For just in the proportion which education was extended
would there be a saving in the national outlay of the
kingdom. When he sat down to calculate the large sum
expended in the relief of indigence, in the detection of
persecution, and the punishment of crime—all evils the
fruit of ignorance ;—and when afterwards they calculated
the cost of educating the people, the balance would be
found in favour of the promotion of knowledge. (Hear,
hear.) And in this calculation, it would be borne in mind
that he made no allowance for the past revenue which
must accrue to the national resources from the improve-
ment of the people in industrious, temperate, and moral
habits. It was his belief that the more they educated the
better would the finances of the nation be. But he would
put the question upon no such low or sordid grounds.
(Hear, hear.) He put it upon higher and nobler grounds
than those, for he believed that it was their duty to the
state, their duty to the people, and their duty to their
Maker, to give the people the best possible education.
Sir Thomas then proceeded to discuss the navigation laws
and the currency question, in both of which measures he
was an advocate of some slight changes. and afterwards
expressed his approval of the new Irish Poor-law Bills,
and concluded by answering some questions touching the
church rates and the game laws, and declaring that if he
was returned at all, he must be sent to parliament as the
unfettered, the =pledged representative of the borough.
Mr. RA.rniiONn next addressed the electors, after which
the meeting separated.

THE PAST SPEECHES AND VOTES OF LORD
JOHN MANNERS UPON RELIGIOUS QUES-
TIONS.

As we fiord that there is some misrepresentation as to
the grounds upon which the Protestant portion of the
electors of Liverpool are indisposed to countenance the
pretensions of Lord John Manners, we give a few extracts
from some of his late speeches; and, lest there should be
any complaint of misquotation, we take them from the
pages of Hansard. One of these grounds of objection is
the share which Lord John Manners had in bringing, with
the sanction of his name upon its back, Mr. Watson's bill
for abolishing the protective clauses contained in the
Emancipation Act of 1829, and sanctioning the settlement
of religious orders in this country, especially the order of
Jesuits. Th- _

lowing are hislCmdsliip's sentiments with
respect to that order, extracted from his speech on the
bill, delivered on the 14th April last :

"They bad been told to look to France. His hon.
friend, and those hon. gentlemen who had spoken on the
same side of the question, had said, See how M. Guizot,
M. Michelet, M. Quinet, and the other writers on France,
have put forth every argument with the view of extermi-
nating the Jesuits and the other religious orders in France.'
Now he (Lord .1. Manners) was not prepared on all occa-
sions to profess his sympathy with the proceedings of the
Jesuits ; but he must say that he did not think that France
had acted rightly in listening to the suggestions of her
liberal and infidel writers with regard to her religious
orders. He believed that in England a far better course
than that recommended by the infidel and philosophic'
professors of France had been pursued by the people. He
thought that if any-sound Protestant member of that house
was intimately acquainted with the doctrinal systems pro-
fessed by those parties, they would not enter into an alli-
ance with them for the purpose of putting down the reli-
gious orders of the Church of Rome. He believed that if
the English Protestants generally knew -the tendency of
these men's opinions, they would hesitate very much be-
fore they acceded to the proposition laid down by his hon.
friend the member for the. University 'of 'Oxford, as to

joining in one common league against the 'religious orders
of the Church of Rome.',

That speech, we may remark, was delivered on the very
evening on which, in giving his hearty support to the bill,
Lord Arundel and Surrey made his memorable declara-
tion as to the persevering antagonism of Popery to the
Established Church until Protestantism should be extinct.

In a subsequent portion of the same speech his lordship,
in noticing the objection urged to the bill that it would
legalize the elevation of the Host, and Roman Catholic
processions and displays in the streets, observes :
le had been informed that the bill contained
clauses legalizing the public elevation of the Host in the
streets and-thoroughfares of this country. But he had
greater confidence in the sound discretion and good feel-
ing of countrymen than to believe, that when the
clauses of this Bill were truly and properly and accurately
made known to them, they would oppose its progress."
Obviously his lordship meant it to be inferred, when he
said " if the people knew," &c., that the bill was some-
thing very different., in this particular, from the impres-
sions entertained with respect to it ; that it did not lega-
lize processions and the elevation of the host. But his
lordship probably forgot that he had himself expressly
eulogized those displays in his place in parliament. In
the discussion of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill of 1846
—we-quote again from Hansard—we find the following :

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" Lord John Manners trusted the House would allow
him to make a few observations upon the present subject.
He would first direct their attention to the concluding
Portion of the speech of the honourable member for New-
castle-under-Lyme. That honourable gentleman, in his
anxiety to defend every interest of the Anglican Church,
told the-house that this bill was in violation of its rights,
and likely to deprive that church of its proper authority.
Now he must be permitted to differ from the honourable
gentleman ; the honourable member (Mr. C,olquhoun)
seemed to think that unless they prevented Roman
Catholic Ecclesiastics appearing in 'their dresses, they
er the safety of the Anglican Church. But

fry" either by the state or by this agency. But we pro-
ceed with his views on this subject-Ist Aug. 1843 :
" Schools, hospitals, churches, and cathedrals were
wanted, and, in his opinion, something more, the re-
establishment of religious houses. He never could be-
lieve that the teeming millions of our agricultural and
manufacturing districts would be brought within the pale
of Christian civilization without the establishment of
some sort of monastic institutions—call them by what-
ever name they liked ; but if the poor, the ignorant and
the uncared for, who were now suffering the extremes of
want and ignorance, were to be taught their privileges
as well as their duties here, if they were to have bright
hopes of a hereafter, as well as a sense of happiness here
imparted to them, let not the House flatter themselves
that the Ecclesiastical Commission or Endowment Bills
would effect that object. In saving this he did not mean
to advocate a revival of the monastic system as it once
existed in this kingdom, but he thought with Mr. Pagetthat
—` if monasteries instead of being swept away had been re-
formed, if it had been reserved for persons not tied by
monastic vows, but who satisfied to endure hardness and
content, with poverty, were ready, from the pure love of
God, to devote themselves to nreachinz. study, and prayer,

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our large towns would have been supplied, not as now
some three or fbur overburdened clergymen, but with a
numerous body of men, ready under episcopal guidance to
do the work of apostles and evangelists to multitudes (the
expression is not too strong), now lying in darkness and the
low of death.' He pointed out the repeal of the Mort-
s a means of endowing such institutions."

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LIVERPOOL OLD GAS LIGHT COMPANY

Yesterday the annual meeting of this company was held
in the company's office, Dale-street, at which the follow-
holes Alegraw,T. Dugdale, John
William Alexander, H. B.
H. Lawrence,

ng were present
Yates, Thomas

Rodger

Hornbv, J. Berry, Samuel Sandbacli, (

Parker

H. Thompson, Barton Wilson, NV

racken, Daniel Neilson, John Perr

James Pownall, Esqrs

ir was occupied by S. H. TnomPsoN

Mr. CARSON, the law-clerk, having read the notice by
which the meeting had been convened, proceeded to read
the report of the directors, which adverted to the new bill
of the company for raising £lOO,OOO additional capital,
and related the nature of the proposal made by their
agents to the Corporation, relative to the price of gas and
the manner in which the said shares were to be disposed
of, by which means the Guardian Gas Bill had been de-
feated. The report also recommended the company to
dispose of of £25 each by public
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auction, b-

000 of their nev
whick means part of the capital which they
were empowered to raise by their act would be realised.

Mr. CARSON read a ieries of Resolutions founded on it
enabling the directors to proceed immediately to raise

£100,060, or such part of it as ti

by the issue and sale of shar

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conditions as they m
The CHAIRMAN. i

think fit

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