The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-22 00:00:00

Tint! LIVERPOOL STANDABO.

THE ROSCOE CLUB.
PRELIMINARY GENERAL MEETING

THE COMMITTEE of the ROSCOE CLUB give
NOTICE, that a PRELIMINARY GENERAL MEETING
of the MENIBF.ES will be held. at the CLARENDON-ROOMS,
South John-street, on THURSDAY EVENING next, the 24th
instant, at Eight o'clock precisely, to receive a Report of the
progress already made, and to adopt such further measures as
are desirable for promoting the early Opening of the Institution.
Persons desirous of joining th ' an ttend the Meeting
on inserting their names in ooks lying for that purpose at
the Banks, Exchange s-room, and Newspaper Offices ; or
at the Office of t üb, where they can obtain a circular of
admission.

CHARLES REDISH, Honorary Secretary
The Roscoe Club Office, 7, India-buildings, Fenwick-street,
Liverpool, June 17, 1847.

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF

LIVERPOOL

GENTLEMEN,
IHAVE have had the honour of receiving a commu-
nication inviting me to become a CANDIDATE at the ap-
proaching. General Election, for one of the vacancies created
by the resignation of your present Members.
In accepting this invitation, I feel most sensibly that I aspire
at once to nearly the highest and most honourable distinction
in public life ; for such an one I hold to be the representation
in Parliament of a constituency so important as that of Liver-
pool, as well by its numbers and intellige ,as by its industry
and its wealth.
Had this choice fallen upon so one eminent in the State,
and whose time and attention already been devoted, with
success, to the public Service should have rejoiced, upon your
owls account, at the selecti ; but as I have been thought wor-
thy to receive this very tering proposal—one peculiarly gra.
tifying,ns opening to a prospect of representing my nativE
town, I accept the er, in the hope that I may, by a zealotu
and independent charge of my duties in Parliament, and ai
unremitting atte tion to your interests, justify, in some degree
the compliment that has been paid to me.
My opinions, I trust, are well known to you to be those whicl
have long guided the supporters of aliberal spirit of legisl -
nevertheless, on some (
ment of peculiar intere
naturally expected from me
Although, by the enlightened policy of the present
ment, duties and restrictions have been removs
leading articles of consumption, and the statut(
cords the triumph of the principles of con
diligence and attention will still be liecessar
.people the full benefit of these important cha
exertion will be required to obtain for them the advan
still further progres
Should I hay
I shalt be prou
for the practin
mitted, to every article of use, comfort, or cot
giving my best assistance to the completion of a tariff, tl
operation of which would not only contnbi "
at home, but, by the enlargement of our
reign countries, strengthen the feel-
and secure to us the inestimable bl
Whilst actively engaged in urging forward t
rnents in our commercial code, as calculated to foster th
industry, add to the comforts, and advance the prosperity a
the Country, I should always take the deepest interest in thos
measures which, by diffusing instruction, and raising the peo
ple generally in the scale of civilization, would have an equal]:
direct and even a more powerful tendency to promote their
permanent welfare and happiness. Strongly impressed witl
this feeling, I shall be happy to be found associated with you
in assisting to establish the most efficient system of moral
intellectual, and reli
I know at
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Lions, which are at t

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of the opportunity, throigh you, of conten
extension of the principles thus already

suctions with fo-

gs of peace.