The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-24 00:00:00

THE LIVERPooL STANDARD

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further than to undeceive our fellow-townsmen with

respect to the asserted enormous addition to the
debt of the dock estate—to the amount, we are told,
of a million and a half—which is to he the result of
these purchases. The securing of the land is all
that is contended for; and that object, with the
docks in the first instance contemplated, can be
achieved with an outlay of under half a million.
There are few men, save the alderman himself, who
will maintain that the same amount of benefit, pre-
sent and prospective, can be secured by the expen-
diture of an equal sum in the erection of his favour-
ite dock warehouses.

Independent of a little bitterness of feeling, known
to exist in the mind of Mr. Evans towards the Har-
rington Company, and which he gratifies by an
unjustifiable attack upon the motives of that body,
and upon those of a gentleman—(the mover of the
resolution in the committee, whom he represents as
" recently the chairman of the Harrington Dock
Association," when he might have known that that
gentleman had retired from office a year before the
act of parliament was obtained, and is now not even
a shareholder)—the animus of the present energetic
opposition of the alderman is easily seen through.
Extend the boundary of the dock estate, and Mr.
Evans's pet warehouse scheme sustains a " heavy
blow and a great discouragement." Coop up that
boundary, by the erection of valuable property
around it, and enclosed docks with warehouses are
assumed to be our only resource! This is distinctly
admitted in the article under notice. " Had the
advocates of dock warehouses," says the writer,
" listened to suggestions urged upon them by insi-
dious or timid advisers, to go for an open dock, and
to take chance for getting warehouses afterwards,
Liverpool would never have seen a warehouse upon
the dock quays; and if the present attempts to im-
pose open docks upon the public succeed, the fur-
ther acquisition of those invaluable instruments of
trade, dock warehouses, will be rendered for ever
unattainable." Cruel deprivation ! May the pro-
phecy be realized; and so it will be if the council
and the public can once be convinced that this op-
position of the worthy alderman is only the ware-
house movement in a new and ad captandum shape!

We have abstained hitherto from referring, ex-
cept incidentally, to the municipal contest, to be
decided on the first of the ensuing month. The
near approach of that perio 1, however, leads us to
enter upon an examination of the prospects of the
Conservative cause, and the characters of the re-
spective candidates about to he submitted to the
choice of the constituencies. In doing this, how-
ever, at a time when the whole of the candidates in
the Whig inte est are not officially announced, and
some not even hinted at, we would earnestly caution
our Conservative friends against placing the least
dependence upon the apparent inactivity of their
opponents. We told them, months ago, that the
organization of the Radical faction throughout the
borough, was perfect; that, if they seemed to sleep
up to the last moment, they would start up with
unexpected vigour, when it might be too late to re-
pel their onset; and we tell them now advisedly and
seriously, that on the day of election they will find
in every ward a candidate, with a body of canvassers,
prepared to strain every nerve in the effort to secure
once more the predominance of Whig-Radicalism in
the corporate body. It will be, Conservatives may
depend upon it, no light struggle in which they are
about to engage. It will require no slight amount
of energy and perseverance to carry them to a suc-
cessful issue; and we implore them, therefore, to
lose not a moment in devoting themselves to active
preparation for the day of conflict ; to pause not one
moment in their exertions, until the final close of
the poll assures them that their exertions are
crowned with triumph, or that they have been put
forth in vain.

In glancing over the name of the candidates
proposed for the various wards, we must he excused
if we pass somewhat briefly over those of some of
our friends, against whose return, although an op-
position may, and undoubtedly will, be offered, if
only to deprive the candidates in other wards of
their double votes, we are confident that such oppo-
sition will be vain. Thus, in No. 1, Everton Ward,
we have Mr. David Hodgson, at present unopposed;
and in his recommendation we feel that we need say
nothing. In No. 2, however, Scotland Ward, we
have as the retiring candidate, Mr. W. Thornhill ;
and of him we feel bound to say a few words.
If to have been the tool, and the thoroughgoing,
and wholesale one, of the Whig faction be a
recommendation to the Conservatives of the ward
to be inert and divided in their efforts, then Mr.
Thornhill is the man of all the retiring Council
whose claims are most to be respected. He is op-
posed by a " good man and true"—a man of in-
fluence in the ward—Mr. Vernon ; and if the Con-
servative constituents respect themselves, they will
not leave an effort unmade to secure a triumphant
result of the contest..

For Vauxhall Ward, we have at present as a can-
didate, on the "liberal" side, Dr. Chalmer—not
him of pulpit fame, but the same disciple of Escu-
lapius who has heretofore been rejected by St.
Anne's and other wards. Surely the Conservative
party will not allow such a man to walk the course!
In St. Paul's Mr. Blundell, the retiring member,
in whose praise we need not say a single word, is
opposed in the Radical interest by Mr. Deakin—
nlso one of the reje ted.

In Exchange Ward Mr. Thomas Sands, the
present respected member, is opposed by Mr. G. Holt.

In Castle-street, Mr. James Aikin stands, so far,

unopposed

In Pitt-street, the retiring candidate, Mr. Toul-
mM, comes forward again, and is as yet unopposed.
For Great George, Rodney-street, and Abercromby
Wards, the candidates are Messrs. Sothern, W.
Birkett, and C. Boutflower. To none of these gen-
tlemen is opposition at present offered ; or, we feel
assured, can be successfully offered.
In Lime-street Ward, however, we feel that an
arduous contest is before us. Mr. Kilshaw, the
retiring member, stands in the Conservative interest,
and has already gathered round him a body of
strenuous supporters, who are fighting his battle
manfully—as well indeed as he deserves that they
should. Although seldom presenting himself be-
fore the public as a speaker, there is not in the
council a harder worker, or a more stanch member
of the Conservative party. That such a member
should be lost to the council, and to his constituents,
would be to us a subject of deep regret ; and we,
therefore, earnestly entreat of every Conservative
in the ward to be unceasingly active, and, above
all, of those who possess influence amongst the con-
stituency, to rally to his side. He is opposed to one
of the picked men of the Whig-radical party—one
who, if elected, would prove a thorn in the side of
the Conservatives; and we need not assure our
friends in the ward that no effort will be left untried
to place the whig-radical lawyer in a position upon
the poll above that of the good specimen of an
Englishman who now represents
.the ward;

For West Derby Mr. G. H. Lawrenc€
t unopposed. and is unassailable.

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In South Tox-

opposed by Mr. T. GlLzebrook, a Conservative of
the right sort; and in the North, Mr. R. Harbord,
of whom we need say nothing in praise, is opposed
by Mr. W. Lockerby, of whose claims the ward has
heard before, and we trust will never hear again.

LIVERPOOL OCTOBER SESSIONS

(Before Gilbert Henderson, Esq., Recorder.)

These sessions commenced yesterday morning, at ten
o'clock. After the court had been opened with the usual
formalities by the clerk of the peace, the following gen-
tlemen were sworn on the