The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-10 00:00:00

TO THE CONSERVATIVE ELECTORS OF
LIVERPOOL.

GENTLEMEN.-With heart and soul I now congratulate
you upon the result of the late municipal struggle. It was
indeed a glorious victory ; and more so, because by many
of you it was wholly unexpected. Our enemies had
painted everything in the most favourable colours for
themselves; their papers had said week after week that
you were sure to be beaten ; and horn the constant recur-
rence to the topic you began to believe that there was
some truth in the assertion. In future, gentlemen, place
no reliance on Whig-Radical electioneering statements.
Our adversaries, probably deceived by the flattering re-
ports of hired canvassers (for such I saw canvassing in se-
veral of the wards), knew not the real state of some of the
wards which they had the hardihood to contest. In Kirk-
dale, for instance, which was not canvassed by the Tories,
or a single vote asked for in favour of Mr. Atherton until
the Saturday evening previous to the election, they
boasted of "haring a clear majority of seventy-one; they
had also a majority in Everton, and Mr. Walthew's suc-
cess was certain :' these words, Gentlemen, were spoken
to me by one of the Radical canvassers.
Now let us see what became of this much vaunted ma-
jority. It became "fine by degrees and beautifully less,"
for on the day of polling it dwindled away to fourteen !
Mr. Atherton then recorded eighty-two, and Mr. Wal-
thew ninety-six votes, from Kirkdale district.
Honour, I say, to the truly independent men of Kirk-
dale ! richly do they deserve more praise than it is in my
power to bestow upon them—they have done their duty.
. .

Gentlemen, our enemies, elated by their success in the
revising court, (though what that success was I have yet
to find out,) impudently told us we "should only have
four wards." At four o'clock on Tuesday we had won
eleven ! So much for Radical promise and Radical per-
formance ; our foes were indeed " lion talkers but lamb-
like fighters."
To succeed in eleven wards is truly gratifying, but how
much greater would that gratification have been, if the
cand'dates for the lost wards had been earlier in the
field ? Gentlemen, I hesitate not to say, that we should
have won- the whole fifteen : it was quite as easy to win
fifteen as it was to win eleven ; and next ycdr we must have
the former number. The power to do this is yours, let
not the will be wanting; you have a giant's strength, and
use it like s giant. _ -

I have before-time, and in this paper, congratulated
you more than once upon winning thirteen wards, and I
hope next year to have the inexpressible pleasure of con-
gratulating you upon a much greater triumph. But to
effect this you must make early preparations; fix upon
your candidates ; let their names be in your mouths "fa-
miliar as household words ;" look to the registry; let
each man see that he is properly described upon the rate-
book ; and if he knows of any bad votes belonging to the
enemy, let the proper legal means be taken for striking
them out. In short, Gentlemen. let us all pu_t
,our
shoulders to the Conservative wheel; let us all work to-
gether in unison, and in defiance of the efforts either of
open enemies or deceitful friends, on the first day of No-
vember, 1847, the fifteen wards will be our own.
1 am, Gentlemen, your ever faithful servant,
AN ELECTOR OF EVERTON WARD.
1816

Nov. 9

ENTERTAINMENT ON SHIP-HOARD.—On Thursday
last, a splendid and sumptous entertainment was given on
board the Camillus, in the Albert Dock, to a select party
of the friends of the captain and owners, Messrs. R. and
A. Henderson, which included a number of ladies. The
dinner, consisting of every variety the season could pro-
vide, was served up hot, in four courses, on silver, by the
worthy host of the Brunswick, and was altogether a splen-
did affair.

MILK PUNCH.—Those who have not yet tasted this de-
licate and exhilarating beverage should refer to the adver-
tisement in our first page, containing a curtailed number
of the critiques of the press, which in themselves speak
volumes in its praise. There is no amalgamation of liquors
known to the general public that produces a mixture half
so palatable. The agent is Mr. T. F. Ashe, South Castle-
street.

THa Bust' PEOPLE.—There is now exhibiting in
Bold-street a tribe of the natives of the interior of Africa,
whose claim to public attention, from the peculiarity of
their tribe, is not of the ordinary character. They are
decidedly original, and as specimens of our own race, are
truly astounding. They do not exceed five feet in stature,
and, being in their native dresses, are partially naked, but
by no means offensively so. The party who has brought
them to this country cannot himself understand their
language, but by signs intimates to them that the com-
pany require amusement, on which three of them, two
males and a female, commence dancing to the rude music
of the fourth beating her hands. In the midst of the
dance they perform the most strange antics, and even-
tually get their movements to such rapidity that every
nerve may be seen to move. They appear to have no
dread of those around them, and, crouching before the
fire, amuse themselves in smoking and examining the
various curiosities of their country hung about the room.
The exhibition is decidedly an interesting one.