The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-12 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY

To-day, at noon. a public meeting of the electors was
convened at the Amphitheatre. and was most numerously
attended. The reception of Mr. Horsfall was enthusiastic
beyond all description, the applause being repeated again
and again, in every possible way—by cheering, Kentish
firing, waving of hats and handkerchiefs, and other de-
monstrations. .

Mr. LIDDELL was also warmly greeted, and in his
speech the bon. gentleman explained his connexion with Sir
R. Peel. When that statesman, he said, was appointed
to the government of the country by the public voice,
there was not a more zealous and consistent supporter is
the house than he was. In 1841 he supported him in
those great and necessary reforms in the tariff which he
then brought forward. In 1845 he considered it to be his
duty,. when Sir Robert Peel brought forward his scheme
for the total repeal of the corn laws, to withdraw from
him his parliamentary support. (Cheers.) The reason
he opposed that measure was because he apprehended a
serious crisis to those engaged in agricultural pursuits.
That crisis had passed. But he considered that he was
sent to parliament to represent the interests of his con-
stituents. and not at once to wheel round with a party.

,Cheers.) The policy of Sir Robert Peel had been carried
out further than they could have expected. The naviga-
tion laws had been repealed. (Hear, hear.) The sugar
duties had followed, and the West Indian interest had
been prostrated through that course of policy. (Hear,
hear.) Upon the subject of the malt tax he thought Mr.
Disraeli's proposition was right in principle, and he con-
tended that it was the very principle which the Free
Traders had insisted on most strenuou:ly when they cried
ut for the repeal of the corn laws. (Hear, hear.) He
'711!-, also, that the duty on tobacco was susceptible
-*Hon, and that it was unfair to tax that article
from three to for,. hundred per cent. (Loud applause.)
He also was of opinion tom„' the opportunity should shortly
be taken to reduce the
-dutte, of French wines and
brandies; but there were circumstance:, onnected with
for
France and her policy towards this country
the present, would not permit such alterations to he i
made. He advocated reciprocity; and, pasi from I
commercial to theological interests, he asserted his pre-
viously expressed opinion that the endowment of the
College of Maynooth was objectionable in principle and
injurious in practice. He then denied the right of their
•
oppotasets to arrogate to themselves the name of friends
of progress, and coniended that he was himself no enemy
to the course of true and constitutional progress.
Mr. T. B. HORSFALL, who was welcomed with loud
and protracted cheers, thanked his fellow-townsmen for
14`e kind reception which they had given, not only to
'himself, but to his brother. He was admiring the
magnificent scenery of-the Tyrol when a communication
reached him to say that his fellow-townsmen had deter-
mined to nominate him as one of the candidates at the
election. He felt it incumbent upon bins to lay pleasure
and relaxation aside, and to hasten and obey what ho
conceived to be the call of duty. -In reference to the
necessity for a new election, he observed :—" It is not for
me to arraign the conduct of those who declare to us that,
from a sense of duty and from pure patriotism—(laughter
and derisive cheers)—they thought it right to petition
against your late members. T am quite content, gentle-
men, to leave them in your hands—(hear)—but I must
call your attention to one remarkable feature which
does not appear to have been noticed, and that is this—
why any omission was made in that petition of the request,
which is usual, that the rejected candidates should be
seated. Why, sir, if there was a conscious innocence—
if the opposing party had not been aware themselves that
there had been something improper on their side, they
would have petitioned, not that Mr. Turner and Mr.
Mackenzie might be unseated only, but that Mr. Card-
well and Mr. Ewart should be seated in their stead."
(Hear, hear, and cheers.) After passing a high eulogium
on Mr. Turner, be referred to a false statement made by
the editor of the Lill, rpool Mercury, to the effect that,
while in Parliament, Mr. Horsfall voted for doubling the
house-tax and for bringing the income-tax to bear on
Persons having an income of only £5O a-year. These were
both propositions in Mr. Disraeli's budget to which he
was determinedly opposed. He also answered some in-
sinuations
thrown out by the Mercuru with regard to the
Derby election, by reading the resolution of the com-
mittee, that the bribe:), was without the concur-
rence
or the privity of Mr. Horsfall. While he was
willing and anxious to support Her Majesty's
government, whoever they might be. he expressed his
dislike to coalitions, and declared that he would not enter
the House of Commons as the pledged opponent or the
pledged supporter of any government. Liverpool and the
country had suffered very much heretofore by beneficial
measures having been made too much the war-cry of
party. The commercial policy of this country, decided
during the last session of Parliament, he should not
attempt to reverse for factious purposes. Ile then alluded
to the government bill on India, to the subject of Custom-
house Reform—in connexion with which he expressed the
hope that ere long a Commissioner of Customs should be
in the House of Commons—to the promised Reform Bill,
which he should oppose, were it proposed to disfranchise
the freemen ; to the Ballot, which he opposed warmly,
because if once adopted at elections it would very soon be
adopted in the House of Commons ; and to the inconsis-
tency of the " Liberals" in taunting his friend Mr.
Liddell with being a stranger, while they themselves had
brought a candidate not from Northumberland, but
all the way from India. He expressed his dislike of
the words which Sir Erskine Perry had used in regard
to the constituency being unworthy of the franchise,
if they did not vote for him, and contrasted the lan-
guage of the Liberal candidate with the frank and
manly declarations of his friend, Mr. Liddell. He
stated that since he had come into the Amphitheatre,
a copy of the Madras Native Herald bad been put into
his hands, which gave some account of Sir Erskine. That
paper said :—" Before we leave this subject for the present
we must request the attention of our readers to a very
singular exhibition which took place not long ago in the
Bombay Presidency. (The date of the paper is the 20th
of April in the present year.] We allude to a Town-hall
oration by Sir Erskine Perry in the presence of the
Governor, the leading members of European and native
society, and the professors and students of the Elphin-
stone Institution. This gentleman holds the high office
of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. and has been for
many years President of the Bombay Board of Education.
The speech, too, his parting speech, put forth deliberately
and with pretension, and intended to be a gift to the com-
munity of the accumulated wisdom and experience of his
Indian education career. That career has been suffi-
ciently original, and more distinguished for zeal than
sobriety." But (said Mr. Horsfall) the passage to which
I particularly direct your attention, and I do so that Sir
Erskine Perry may have an opportunity of answering to it
or denying it, is this :—" England will learn with amaze-
ment that a British judge and Christian statesman shame-
fully misused the golden opportunity by virtually assuring
those interesting young men that it was their bounden
duty, until they reached the years of majority, to continue
in idolatry." He called upon the electors of Liverpool
not to send him to parliament with Sir Erskine Perry, but
with Mr. Liddell. In regard to the charge which bad
been urged against him that he was a bigot, Mr. Horsfall
said be was for the most perfect toleration to all men ;
but he opposed the Church of Rome, because she would
not tolerate any other church. He did not blame a Roman
Catholic for supporting a grant to Maynootla ' • but it was
a strange inconsistency on the part of a Protestant member
of the House of Commons to pay for teaching what he
believed to be error.
In a characteristic and loudly-applauded speech. Mr.
Alderman PARKER moved a resolution in favo
Murr .o f Messrs.
Liddell and Horsf.,ll, which, seconded by Tomsof
Messrs. T. and 11. LITTLEDALE and Co., was carried
almost unanimously—one hand only being heldupagainstit
Mr. JOHN BUCK LLOYD, who was called folr., said he.
he could not help expressing his regret that his
valued and respected friend, Mr. BramleyMoore—(hisses
h. to be heart
e had enjoyed
and great confusion)—whose friendsh p
for years, bad not been upon that platfoi m
and band with that numerous meeting in forwarding the
return of the Hon. Mr. Liddell and 'Mr. Horsfall. (Great
cheering.) He moved a vote of thanks to the chairman,
which was seconded by Mr. J. TYREA, who said he was
afraid Mr. Bramley-Moore had been betrayed by some
pretended friends, and he was sincerely sorry for it ; but
he hoped he still would have the good sense to return,
like the prodigal son. (Laughter and cheers.)
At three o'cloak on Wednesday, Mr. Horsfall, accom-
panied by his friends, appeared on 'Change, where his
reception was overwhelming. Mr. Horsfall, having passed
through the news-room, then crossed the flags to Messrs.
Littledale's office, the balcony of which was again called into
requisition, as a platform for the candidates. Fortunately,
on this occasion, the weather was beautifully fine. The
attendance was more numerous than that which greeted
the Hon. Mr. Liddell, when he was introduced on Monday
week. Having been introduced by Mr. E. MOLYNELJX,
Mr. BOHSFALL addressed the assembled multitude,
briefly reiterating those opinions and sentiments he had
expressed at the meeting in the Amphitheatre.
The Hon. Mr. LIDDELL, in answer to a loud and ge-
neral call, also addressed a few words to the meeting, and
the proceedings terminated with three cheers for the Con-
servative candidates and other demonstrations.
THURSDAY.—THE NOMINATION•
The Conservative demonstration of this day was one
which will not soon be forgotten. It was decided by the
leading friends of Messrs. Liddell and Horsfall, from the
beginning of the contest, that, in the shape of an unex-
ampled procession, the inhabitants and freemen of Liver-
pool should evince their sense of the utter contempt in

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