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 corning 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 zea-
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 fit and proper person to represent the
ward in the Town Council, and lie 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 he 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 loolc 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 in 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 ; and
they respectfully request he will allow himself to be again
put in nomination as a candidate at the ensuing municipal
election." (Cheers.)
Mr. M'Cuukt 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-
teth 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, 1540."
Mr. R. M. Goonk had had a resolution put into his hands
which he 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 had replied to an article in a public
print, stating that the conservatives were the first to put fag-
got votes on the list. (Hear, hear.) He would menticn
that when a leading and respectable gentlemen in the spirit
trade—(cries of " Naine")—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 fidr 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 Ifi3 poor Irish-
men in this ward, who eventually will become a burden upon
the rate-payers of the town."
The motion was seconded by Mr. WALL, and unanimously
adopted.

On the motion of Mr. GOORE, 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 (Mr. 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 done his duty to