The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-06 00:00:00

TO THE ELECTORS OF RODNEY-STREET WARD

GENTLEMEN,
HAVING been requested at a numerous and influential
Public Meeting, of the Constituency of your Ward, to
offer myself as a candidate at the approaching Municipal
Election, to represent you in the Town Council, and having
accepted the invitation, I have now to solicit the favour of
your votes.
Should you place me at the Council Board, I shall advo-
cate all those measures, which I consider conducive to the
prosperity of this my native town, and more especially such
as may be calculated to ameliorate the physical and conse-
quently moral condition of those classes of the community,
who, from their numbers and destitution, have the strongest
claim on any disposable public funds.
Convinced that it is the first duty of a Government to af-
ford to all classes a sound and comprehensive system of edu-
cation, without interfering with their peculiar religious tenets,
by committing them to the exclusive control of any one de-
nomination of clergy ; and believing that true knowledge is
Tavouiatuv LO mOtallty aod religion, I shall give my support
to the present system of the Corporation Schools, as best
caleulated to effect this object.
Satisfied that the prosperity of this town is based on its
commercial facilities, I am in favour of having Warehouses
on the Dock Quays, as a measure highly conducive to the
despatch of business and security of properity ; while the
constitution of the Board to whom the management is in-
trusted, guarantees the due protection of both public and pri-
uate interests.

As an advocate for Freedom of Trade, I am opposed to all
monopolies and legislative enactments in favour of any par-
ticular class, at the expense of the rest of the community
and especially to what I consider the most unjust and im-
politic of existing monopolies, namely, that of the article of
food.

If I am honoured by a majority of your votes, I shall de-
vote myself to a conscientious discharge of my duties to you
and to the public. I am, Gentlemen,
Yours faithfully,
CHARLES HOLLAND.

TO THE ELECTORS OF ABERCROM BY WARD.
GENTLEMEN,
I'AVING accepted the invitation of a large and influential
body in your Ward, I offer myself a CANDIDATE,
and solicit your votes for the honour of representing you in
the Town Council.

My politics are Liberal, and I have always been found as-
sociated with those who range themselves under the banner
of Civil and Religious Liberty.
An ardent admirer of the Constitution under which we
have the happiness to live, I am of opinion that the unceas-
ing vigilance of the Reformer is essential to the maintenance
of its purity, and the undiminished enjoyment of its advan-
tages.

Though a member of the Established Church, I am of opi-
nion that no man ought to be deprived of, or limited in, his
Civil Rights by reason of his Religious Tenets, provided they
do not tend to the subversion of order and good government.
Believing Education to be the best mode of enabling men
to judge for themselves, and the surest protection against
the attempts either of power or faction, I will do all in my
power to promote its extension, which I think the Corpora-
tion Schools, as at present conducted, admirably adapted to
effect.

I consider the Corn-laws, as they now exist, to be equally
impolitic and oppressive, and will continue to contribute my
humble efforts for their amendment.

My opinion is, and always has been, in favour of Free
Trade.

To the proposal of erecting Warehouses on the Dock Quays
I give my cordial assent, and will do all in my power towards
forwarding that object.
Should the above sentiments meet the approval of such a
majority of you as would be the means of placing me in the
Council as your Representative, my unceasing efforts will be
directed to promote the good of the Town and the interests
of the Ward. THOMAS TODD.
Abercromby-square, Oct. 3, 1840.