The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-27 00:00:00

TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF CASTLE-
STREET WARD.

GENTLEMEN,
THE request which you have done me the honour to make
at your Meeting, last evening, that I should allow my-
self to be put in nomination as a CANDIDATE for the Re-
presentation of your Ward in the Town Council, conveys to
me an assurance of our mutual sympathy in those opinions
and principles on which it was my privilege to stand at the
last Municipal Election. The natural reluctance which I
felt to add to my numerous avocations has, in consequence,
been overcome; and, still professing the same opinions and
becoming every day still more attached to the same princi-
ples, 1 at once accede to your wishes and accept your flatter-
ing invitation. For upwards of thirty years a resident in your
town, my character as a Tradesman and conduct as a Citizen
are known to you all ; and so long as devoted allegiance to
our Heavenly King,
unchanging loyalty to our earthly Sove-
reign, still increasing attachment to the Established Church,
and " conciliation without compromise towards every mem-
ber of the community, are appreciated amongst you, I shall
not despair of success. On two important topics, which
have lately engrossed a large share of public attention, I deem
it right that I should explicitly express my sentiments.
The first respects the contemplated erection of Warehouses
on the Dock Quays. No one can be more strongly convinced
than I am how desirable it is, that everyaccommodation
should be afforded, and that at as low a rate as possible, for
the loading and discharging of all Vessels arriving at our port,
so that we may be able, in respect of such facilities, to com-
pete with any Seaport in the universe : but, while I very
much doubt the policy of intrusting such work to the exclu-
sive management of any public body, I cannot consent that
those who have so long clamoured against all monopoly
should now be permitted to become wholesale monopolists
themselves.
The next point relates to the system of Education pursued
in the Corporation Schools. To this system I have been, on
principle, from the first, opposed ; and, so long as any re-
striction to the free use of the Word of God continues, my
opposition must continue. The experience of every day, and
the melancholy prevalence of infidelity among those classes
who are deficient, not in Secular, but in Religious know-
ledge, serve every day more clearly to convince every unpre-
judiced mind, that Education and the Bible should go to-
gether in every School for every class of children in the Em-
pire, if we would render such Institutions safe for the Chil-
dren or advantageous to the Country.
Such, Gentlemen, are the principles on which I venture to
solicit your support. Personally, lam indifferent as to the
issue ; but, believing that, at all times, it is the duty of every
right-minded subject to do his utmost for the maintenance
" of Truth, and the promotion of that
exalteth a Nation, I respectfully re Righteousness which
quest of you to rally
round the Principles, not the Man, with a zeal and ardour
becoming the cause. Anxious for the prosperity of my coun-
try and its institutions, both civil and sacred, and in opposi-
tion to those whose creed is without authority, whose opi-
nions are without rule, and whose scepticism is without rea-
son, I place myself in your hands, adopting as my motto, " For
God, our Church, and our Country. '
I remain, Gentlemen,
Your obedient and respectful Servanti
Liverpool, 20th Oct., I£oo. PETER HO E.