The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-05 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STAIN-DATM, TrESDA_Y, JULY

r Liverpool on this and similar occasions. (Loud cheers.)
He was also gratified at the extraordinary accuracy with
which every word which fell from the lips of those who
addressed them was, in the course of a few hours, reported
in their journals, and he was gratified at this accuracy,
because all he desired was, that whatever fell from him
should be faithfully reported. {Applause.) He re-
ferred to the question of Mr. Walpole's proposed mea-
sure to stop bribery, treating, and intimidation at
elections ; and replied to some comments on his Am-
phitheatre speech, published in one of the local papers,
finding fault with his expressed opinion, that the
House of Commons ought to resign its judicial powers
in all matters connected with the trials of controverted
elections. In reference to some personal observations in
the same paper, the hon. gentleman said he put forward
no claim to represent Liverpool; but if they wished to
know his qualifications or his knowledge on commercial
subjects, ask him and they should hear what he knew.
(Hear, and cheers.) He did happen to know something
of trade and commerce. For fourteen or fifteen years he
had represented, in the House of Commons, a community
as great in their commercial pursuits, as numerous, and
more numerous than the community of Liverpool—as
intelligent and as capable to judge of the qualifications of
their representative even as the electors of Liverpool.
(Hear, hear.) Commercial matters had been made
familiar to him by the intercourse he had with this indus-
trious community. The article wound up by saying—
" Mr. Liddell is a respectable country gentleman." He
(Mr. Liddell) was very much obliged to him for the com-
pliment paid him. He assured him it was a great honour
the appellation of being a respectable country gentleman ;
but he said, " he is a respectable country gentleman, with
a family of some -fifteen or sixteen little Hannibals to pro-
vide for." (Great laughter and cheering.) The editor of
the Times had given him two more—(children)— than the
Almighty had thought proper to give him, and he had not
all at present. He had eleven children, and out of them
only four could be counted as Hannibals, because only
four were of the male gender. (Cheers.) The great
Carthagenian warrior was sworn by his father, on the
altar of his country, never, so long as he lived, to desist
until his wrongs were avenged. (Cheers.) If that
were the reason that his children were called Han-
nihals, he was content to devote them to his country.
(Hear, and great applause.) But, more than that, he had
devoted them to his country. (Continued applause.)
His (Mr. Liddell's) youngest son was at that moment
quartered in the Amatoro Mountains, engaged in the war
with the Kaftirs, and exposed to all the dangers of that
barbarous warfare, and last time he wroth to him he said
what a luxury it would be to be again in a bed, or under
a roof. (Cheers.) His second son was about to embark,
at Cork, with the 81st Regiment, in which he held a cap.
tain's commission, to join the forces in India. (Cheers.)
He was a midshipman at the age of 13, and fought through
the whole of the China war as a mere boy. (Applause.)
He, young as he was, wore a medal on his breast for the
dangers he went through, and the privations he endured
in that war which they had read of, but which none of
them experienced. (Cheers.) He, young as he was, was
absent for five Christmasses running, four of which were
spent in the four quarters of the globe. (Cheers.) He
was the second Hannibal, who, according to the Liver-
pool Times, I want to quarter on the country. (Cheers
and laughter.) His (Mr. Liddell's) eldest son was en-
gaged in the service of his country in the Commons
House of Parliament, representing a great and enlight-
ened community ; and, although in delicate health, he
was one of those who sat last on the benches of the
house of Commons in order that the writ might be issued
for the borough of Liverpool. (Cheers.) He (Mr. Lid-
dell) had but one more Hannibal to provide for—
(laughter)—and he was incapacitated by real infirmity
from taking an active line of life ; he was engaged as a
clerk in a public office, driving his fingers off with accounts
repugnant to his feelings and nature, at the enormous
salary of £9O per year. (Cheers.)
Mr. G. H. HORSFALL came forward, and was loudly
cheered. He referred to an artiele in the Mercury,
charging him with presumption in having accepted the
requisition on the part of his brother, and asked was it
presumption that he should act on his brother's behalf
the second time the honour had been offered to him ?
(Cries of " No.") He then referred to a speech delivered
in Newcastle, in 1844, by Mr. Geo. Stephenson, who
stated that the first locomotive engine he ever constructed
was for and with the money of Lord Ravensworth.
(Cheers.) Was any one who could appeal to such an
antecedent as that a stranger in Liverpool ? (Hear, and
cheers.) They might fairly trace their vast railway enter-
prise to Lord Ravensworth,—and there stood his son.
(Great applause.) He inculcated strongly the necessity
of union, which would cause them to be triumphantly
successful. (Cheers.)
Mr. NIXON proposed the following resolution :—" That
this meeting, from the admirable sentiments enunciated by
the Hon. Henry Thomas Liddell this evening, and at the
other meetings which he has attended and addressed the
electors, and from the well-known opinions held by our
respected townsman, Thomas Berry Horsfall, Esq.. (so
ably represented by his brother, George Henry Horsfall,
Esq..) think them highly qualified as candidates for the
representation of this borough in parliament, and hereby
pledge itself to use every exertion to secure their return."
Mr. RIDING seconded the motion, which was unani-
mously agreed to, and after a few words from Mr. BOLD,
and a vote of thanks was given to the chairman, the pro-
ceedings terminated.