The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-26 00:00:00

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shevtight—(bear)—and that be might hail that day as a day
of triumph, instead of using his lungs in calling upon them
to exert themselves in the good old cause.. (Cheers.) Per-
haps if he took a retrospective view of affairs, he need not
call their attention to the most respectable and the most in-
fluential vestry which had ever existed in the town of Liver-

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measure the new poor law bill—(hear, hear)—for he should
always consider it one of the greatest curses ever brought
upon the land. ( llear, hear.) But it having become the
law of the land, it was their duty to obey it, and he for one
had used his utmost exertions, not only to carry .it into

upport it

hear, and ]oud cheers.) Much against his own
he had yielded to what he had always held to be a

stumbling

ism, namely, to what

expeuiency. e was one of those willing to conform to
the•list of poor-law guardians made by the churchwardens
of Liverpool, in order to keep the town quiet from the tur-
moil of a contested election. (Hear.) Tnat list had been

❑like the corporation which

would not have one among them except radicals, and in
which there was only one conservative returned out of forty-
eight radicals who were selectod, what did the churchwardens
do ? Why, they not only gave the radicals every one of the
radical members of the vestry, but they offered to give them
more; indeed, to make them stronger than they had been

for years. (Hear, hear.)
vestry consisted of twenty

Ed mention ihat.the old
nembers. Out of those

twenty-eight, there were twenty-one conservatives and seven
radicals. Twenty-five guardians were to be elected, and they

were offered nine radicals to sixteen conservatives. (Hear,
hear•) That was 16 to 9 ; which was greater streng,th than
they could boast of for many years. Now, what did they

sistent to that which they had ever held to he tbr the good
of the country, and willing to prevent any tumult which
might arise from an election, they made this concession for
the sake of the peace of the town. Bit what did the radi-
cals suspect ? They suspected the conservatives were weak,
and in consequence what did they demand? Why, they
demanded twelve radicals for twelve conservatives, and to
toss up for the other (hear, hear), well knowing that
there were seven magistrates of the county residing in the
town of Liverpool, four of whom were radicals, and three
conservatives, therefore giving them a majority of one vote,
so that if they lost they would be equal, but if they gained
they would get two. (Hear, hear.) Could the conserva-
tives stand this ? (Cries of " No, no.") He readily yielded
to the churchwardens; and here let him express his thanks
to two gentlemen whom he should always respect for their
honourable conduct, for their integrity, and for the manner

were two radicals, nevertheless the town was under an Obi:.
gation to. them, Mr. Paton and Mr. Tate. (Hear, hear.)
Presuming himself, on the part of the conservatives, to judge
what might be done, he had acted on their behalf, and those

two gentlemen had acted oti the part of the reformers. They
had asked for certain names to be put upon the list, for in-
stance Mr. Urquhart instead of Mr. Slater, who had left
the town, and Mr. Samuel Thornley instead of Mr. Watson,
and he had assented. The churchwardens would bear him
(Mr. Aspinall) out, if Mr. Palin did not go out of the room
perfectly satisfied with the list, but the Reform Association
rejected it. Where

;entienien said they were
3g to do with the Re-
ervatives) had acted
support them.
le conservatives must ac-

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on. this occasion. (flea