The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-12-25 00:00:00

No. 8, PITT.B I:" REET W ARD,

At two compartments in the South Free School, in Park-lane,
with a like division of the Alphabet.
No. 9, GREAT GEORGE'S YARD,
At!. Warehouse, east side St. James's-street, near the corner
of St. Vincent-street.
No. 10 RODNEY-STREET WARD,

For all Burgesses in the List for this Ward, whose surnames
commence with the letters A to K inclusive, at a New Shop,
at the Entrance of the New Arcade, from denshaw-street.
For all Burgesses whose surnames commence with the letters L
to Z inclusive, at a window of an empty house, opposite the
Unitarian Chapel, iu Renshaw-street.
No. 11, ABERCROMBY WARD,

At the Phtenix Inn, at the top of Mount-pleasant.
No. 12, LIME-STREET WARD,
For all Burgesses in the List for this Ward, whose surnames
commence with the letters A to K inclusive, at a window i❑
the Blue Bell Inn, London-road.
For all Burgesses whose surnames commence with the letters L
to Z inclusive, at a window in Challinor's Public-house, on
the opposite side of London-road.
No. 13, ST. ANNE-STREET WARD,
At the Pontacks Public-house, in Christian-street.
No. 14, WEST DERBY WARD,
At the Edge-hill Coffee-house.
No. 15, SOUTH TOXTETII WARD,
At the southernmost of the Shops recently built by Dr. Hughes,
on the westside of Park-road.
No. 16, NORTH TOXTETH WARD,

At two Windows of the Royal Oak Public-house, at. the corner
of tpper Warwick-street and Park-place, with a like division
of the Alphabet.
The Polling will commence in each Ward at Nine o'clock in
the Morning of the 26th instant, and will Close at Four o'clock
in the Afternoon of the same day.
. By order of the Mayor,
FOSTER; Towa_Clerjr..

• To THE BURGESSES OF THE ABERCROMBY WARD.
GE:t TLEMEN,
THE honour of having been unanimously selected by Tau at
a General Meeting, as one of the CANDI ATES for
?I)
representing your Ward in the Council of the 13 ough, has, I
can assure yon, been gratefully felt and duly a p emoted.
Should I obtain a seat in the Council, for w ich, under your
auspices, lam now a Candidate; I shall at all Imes be anxious
to discover and to promote whatever objec may be useful to
this great community, and particularly to th ivision of it which
I shall have the honour to represent. On very subject which
comes before the Council I shall endeav ur to obtain the best
information in my power; and I can ass re you that toy advice
and vote shall be given on all occasio disinterestedly, impar-
tially, and solely with a view to the -ge ral good.
All questions relating more particu rly to the public health,
' such as the removal of nuisances, and the prevention of deposits
or works which may vitiate the atmosphere in a way that may be
detrimental to life; the provision of free grounds for exercise
and recreation in the open sky, at a convenient distance from
the town, and of suitable extent; and other sanatary objects,
as my mind may be supposed to be professionally habituated to
them, will naturally be expected to engage my peculiar care.
To these I may venture perhaps to add the establishment of a
public system of education, which, according to the general ex-
pectation, must occupy the early attention of the Council, that
shall be worthy of the enlightened times in which we live; that
shall be commensurate to the present condition and future
prospects of Liverpool; and exempted from those restrictions
and invidious distinctions which, more or less, deform all the
seminaries of education which have had their origin in remote
and herbari's times, and under the influence of a religious sect
predominant for the time. To this great work I shall always be
read to offer my zealous assistance.
My views of politics, or in other words, of national morality,
are well known to be those which are generally denominated
liberal. In proof of this it may suffice to state, that I attended
and took apart in the. proceedings of all those patriotic meetings
which, from time to tithe, were held in Liverpool for supporting
and encouraging the ministry in their protracted and arduous
struggle for varryisig the Reform and Muuicipal Reform Bills.
1 am therefore not now required to come forward and, like my
opponents in this Ward, for the first time to avow my willingness
to give complete " efficacy to all the provisions of the Municipal
Reform Bill;" which in progress they bad always violently op-
posed ; which, had their wishes been obtained, would never
have ben enacted; and without which you would never have
had the power of giving the vote which you will soon have an
opportunity of tendering in the choice of Representatives, in the
execution of your own affairs.
I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your devoted Servant,
JAMES CAR SON, M.D.
Monet-pleasant, Ith Der., 1)33.5.

FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25, 1835.

The London papers of Wednesday night, and our pri-
vate letters from the same quarter, but from various in-
dividuals,—some from gentlemen of the'highest political
connexions,—assure us that the present administration is
at an end. Lord MELBOURNE, Lord GLENELG, and Lord
PALMERSTON have unquestiOnably tendered their resig-
nations to the King ; and, although an'effort will be made
to patch up the cabinet, the public may rest satisfied that
such a desperate contrivance is altogether impracticable.
From what the ministerial papers and the friends of the
administration acknowledge, it is quile'clear that they
are ,not only,in great difficulties, but that the idea of
strengthening the old cabinet by the accession of Lord
STANLEY and the Duke of RICHMOND is altogether falla-
cious. There is, unquestionably, a division between the
MELBOURNE and the Lord JOHN RUSSELL portion of the
cabinet ; and the North Northamptonshire election has
caused such a division in the camp that- vib' are confident
,that the present ministers will never meet the parliament
that is to assemble on the 4th February as the servants of
the crown.

We may, therefore, take it to he decided under these
distressing and overpowering circumstancesthat the whig-
radical and O'CONNELL government has come to an end
by the feebleness of its members, and by the over aielm-
ing disgust with which all their measures and, their rela-
tions to the Irish demagogue have placed them in the
estimation of the people of England.

The Message of the President of the United States is
not expected to arrive in Liverpool before New Year's-
day. The northerly and easterly winds which now pre-
vail will most probably detain the packet at soa truioli be-
yond the period of her usual passage. It is also said, by
those who possess the best information. on the subject,
that the message is expected to reach Havre several days
before it can possibly arrive in Liverpool, inasmuch as a
fast-sailing vessel was to leave another port nearer to
Washington than New York is, and expressli for the
purpose of conveying the intelligence to France.
In the meantime there is considerable speculation at
work in order to supply, according to the respective in-
terests of the parties, some information with regard to
the relative position of- the conflicting powers, but little
or no reliance can be placed on what proceeds from these
quarters. We shall therefore patiently wait the issue, be
it peace or war.

The preparations for the first con testlunder the muni-
cipal reform bill, which takes place to-morrow, engage
almost the undivided attention of the greatest portion of
our readers, and we have accordingly devoted all the
space we can spare to a brief inquiry into the character,
the competency, and the pretensions of the several can-
didates, which we have no doubt will both instruct and
amuse the electors and the inhabitants of Liverpool ge-
nerally. The change in the mode of election of corpo-
rate officers in all the prinicipal boroughs of England,
which is to be tried to-tnorrow, is one 'of the most im-
portant of the many experiments which have emanated
from the levelling and restless spirit of the present ge-
neration. Whether it will work for good or evil remains
to be decided ; but one thing is clenk enough, namely,
that the tendency of this popular election is to divide the
inhabitants of all corporate towns into two great sec-
tions, each pulling in an opposite direction, and striving
to supplant and tyrannise over the other. In these an-
tipathies of party we see the germs of everlasting dis-
cord and contention which will in the end prove detri
mental to the middle classes who engage in the conflict,
and especially to the shopkeepers, who, without reflect-
ing upon the consequences, are anxious to be elevated at
once from their counters to the civic bench, and to mea-
sure out justice in a police court as they measure tape
and ribbons to their customers. Far be it from us to say
that this class of, tradesmen are not qualified to discharge
the.duties of commont councilmen ; but we still think,
with all due deference to them, and—Without meaning
them the slightest disrespect, that the trustees of corpo-
rate estates should be men raised above the level of re-
tailers, and in some degree independent of trade. In a
town like this it is difficult to draw distinctions, and as
few should he drawn as possible ; but at the same time
we would rather leave the choice of interference to the
private judgment and the good sense of the individual
himself than desire to regulate or prevent it by fixed
laws. On this ground we hope that certain candidates
will see the folly of their present position before it be too
late. We would rather counsel them to withdraw frum
the contest than be under the necessity of opposing them ;
for, be they successful or otherwise in the election of to-
morrow, they may rely upon it thatito-morrow is only the
beginning of their troubles—only-the first clay of letting
out the waters, the rushing of which and the chilling in-
fluence of which will annoy if net.-annihilate them be-
fore their first year of office is over. The following are
the candidates:—

Ist Ward.—(Evertors.) The six candidates are all re-
spectable men, against whom .no;o4jection-,whatever can
be taken ; and therefore, the preference given in favour
of the three conservatives, Mr. Alderman Horsfall, Mr.
Hodgson, and Mr. W. C. Molyneux, must have refer-
ence more to their experience, the number of their
friends, and their religious and political principles, than
to any other qualifications. .
2d Ward.—(Scotland Road.) The three radical candi-
dates are Mr. William Thornhill, Mr. Crawford Logan,
and Mr. Richard Shiel. Mr. Thornhill, formerly a su-
gar-baker, at one time in partnership with one Wood,
emphatically, as Cobbett uses to say, called John, and
this John having during his whole life time decried most
lustily against taxes in every shape, has now the honour
of being chairman of the board of taxes in London. Mr.
Thornhill is not now in business; he lives upon a small
competence, and can hardly be called independent, espe-

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cially if we connect him with the management of an itW
portant trust, in the exercise of which, the enjoyment
of patronage, and a voice in all contracts, are by no
means inconsiderable or beneath temptation.
Mr. Logan is a Scotcbman, has resided for several
years in Liverpool, but is very little known. We be
lieve he is some way connected with another party in
making chain cables.

Richard Shiel is an Irish Roman Catholic, almost a
stranger in Liverpool, and was once a purser's clerk is
the navy, has little or no property in Liverpool, has na
claims whatever upon the burgesses of Liverpool, and has
pushed himself fokward into the ranks of a political fac-
tion by sheer impudence. He is supposed to be an ora-
tor, but he has an awful and intolerable brogue. He is
a liberal in the worst sense of that term. He is perpe-
tually prating against the national debt, and yet be is a
pensioner of the crown.

Opposed to these, on the conservative side, are Mr:
Richard Houghton, Mr. James Heywortli,- and Mr. Wil-
liam Foster. Mr. Houghton belongs to one of the old.-
est and most honourable families in Liverpool. He is a
man of large fortune, is in no business, and .has for
many years devoted his time to the management of the
public charities, to which he himielf has been a liberal
and bountiful contributor. He gave the land, as a pre"
sent,. to the church of England, on which the parliamen-
tary commissioners built St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, in
which upwards of seven hundred sittings are provided for
the poor for ever. We cannot too strongly recommend
Mr. Houghton to the electors of Scotland Ward.
Mr. James Hayworth is a merchant and ship-owner,
whose character is unimpeachable, who has talents of
the first order, who is of good business habits, holds
considerable property in the town, and has always been
beneficent towards the charitable institutions.
Mr. Foster is a master tradesman, a native of Liver-
pool, and employs a considerable number of workmen,
and has front his property a large stake in the town.
3d. Ward.—(Vauxhall Road.) The conservatives are
Mr. Alderman Wright, Mr. Joseph Ackers, and Mr. H.
Copeland. Nothing need be said of Mr. Alderman
Wright, who has twice had the honour of filling the civic
chair, as the first magistrate of Liverpool, and who on
all occasions has upheld the dignity of his station with
an impartiality which reflects upon him unbounded credit.
He was the champion of the deeply injured freemen in
the worst and most corrupt times in English history. He
has an independent fortune, is not engaged in any busi-
ness, and if elected, as we hope he will be, histime
would be, as it hasititherto been, entirely at the service
of his native townsmen. .

Mr. Joseph Ackers, independent of his own qualificar
tions, is the brother of the late and much lamentedJAms
ACKERS, who rendered more important and valuable ser-
vices to the " good old town" than any man in his day.
Had he been living we feel confident that no appeal of
this kind would have been required in his favour. Ins
name alone would have secured his triumphant return;
and we trust, from a sense of gratitude, the electors of
this ward will, upon a fair trial, find that the mantle of
the deceased has fallen upon his brother.

Mr. Henry Copeland is also a native of Liverpool.
He is a young man of excellent talents, of sound judg-
ment and correct principles, and sincerely attached to
the church and the institutions of England.
The three radical candidates are Mr. Enoch Harvey.
Mr. John D. Thornely, and Mr. Egerton Smith—men
sufficiently known for their notorious ineligibilityand
better known as belonging to one of the most jobbing.
dishonest, and treacherous of all the religious sects la
England—the UNITARIANS !! ! Not one word more
need be added to induce the electors to reject with indig-
nation, and with some contempt, the above candidates.
4th Ward.—(St. Paul's.)-L-The radical candidates for
this ward are—Mr. C. Rawson, Mr. W. Stuart, and Mr.
A. M'Gregor. The first is an unitarian,—an insuper-
able objection to him ! The second is also understood to
be, or to have been, an unitarian ; but we believe there
are very -few people in Lit erpool who know or care
whence he came, where he was born, or what he is. -

Mr. A. M`Gregor—comes from Scotland, but he is not
exactly a Rob Roy. He has Rob's talents in a certain
way, without his gallantry or his generosity. All, we
have to say abput him is to express our hope that this
man will never be allowed to be a common councilman
in Liverpool.
The conservatives are Mr. Richard B. Hollinshead,
Mr. W. Shand, and Mr. John Barton. Of Mr. Hollins-
head it surely will not be expected of us to say much.
He is the son of the late Henry Blundell Hollinshearl,
who served the office of Mayor of Liverpool three timea—i-
he is the brother of the late Jonathan Blundell Hollins-
head, who also served the officik.of Mayor twice—his an-
cestors established the Blue Cast Hospital—he is de-
scended from one of the oldest anti best families of which
Liverpool can boast—they resided For many years in the
ward which he desires to represent; and if there be one
spark of good feeling, or any recolleCtions of gratitude,
he will be returned by an immense majcrity.
Mr. Wm. Shand is an extensive shipowner, and in that
capacity employs a vast number of Liverpool workmen.
He is an admirable man of business, and, in every sense,
well qualified to fill the office of a common councilman.
Mr. John Barton is a highly respectable masttr trades-
man, employs a large number of workmen, is a rittive of
Liverpool, and a staunch member of the church of Btag-
land !

sth Ward.—(The Exchange.) The conservatives kre
Mr. Thomas Sands, Mr. George Barton Ham, and Ms.
John Bent. The first is a gentleman extensively engaged"
in the American and East India trade, has a good pro-
perty embarked in business, the employment of which is
advantageous to all classes in the town; is a man of
sound judgment, of irreproachable charaCter, and is a
liberal contributor to all the public charities.
Of Mr. George Barton Irian), son of the late lamented
George Main, and a member of the old and highly respected
firm of Barton, Irlam, and Higginson, we shall say Ile
more, than that we trust that all those tradesmen who are
electors, or the sons or relatives of those tradesmen, who,
in the hour of peril and necessity, were supported by the
said firm, will manfully do their duty and rally round the
descendant of one to whose father and mercantile con-
nexions they are under so many obligations.

Mr. John Bent is universally respected for his upright,
independent, and straightforward condtict. No better
man could be named for this ward.

Now for the Whig• radical candidates... The Orst; Mr.
Lawrence Hey worth, is a respectable man, and if be had
not made his appearance in Clayton7quai-e, inthecapa-
city of an orator, for which nature never designed him, be
would have stood much higher in the estimation of ths
respectable part of this community.
Mr. Henry Holmes, brother of Mr. John Holmes; can-
didate for the first ward, is a respectable inhabitant of the
town, of which he is a native. Considering his quiet and
unassuming disposition, we are a tonisbed that he should
have allowed himself to be put in nomination, or that be
should have mixed himself up in this struggle, which must
interfere greatly with his peace of mind. Of all the op-
position candidates we consider Mr. Henry Holmes the
least objectionable. We believe that Mr. Holmes, on a
recent occasion, signed a requisition calling upon Sir
Robert Peel to become a candidate for the town of Li-
verpool.
Mr. Mellor is a flaming radical, without either judg-
ment or discretion. He has no talents to qualify him left
the office to which he aspires. He is comparatively a
stranger in Liverpool ; he is only known in a limited
circle; he cannot Command public confidence, for the
public know little about him; and it will reflect a deep
reproach upon the town if he should be, unfortunately
for himself and the burgesses, returned to the common
council.

6th Ward.—(Castle-street.)--The conservatives are.
Alderman Sir Thomas Brancker, Mr. George Grant, and
Mr. John Nelson Wood. The first gentleman bears a
name, and sustains a character, fo'r honoiir, and Indus-
trious habits as a magistrate, and is withal so pure and
so honourable in the dikharge of his several duties, that
no man, even his bitterest -enemy, can offer a single ob-
jection to him. Of himi.therefore, sie.need Say nothing
more.
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The second,
,Alr. Creorge „'Grant, is a merchant, a
member of a long established firm, and a gentleman of

DECEMBER 25, 1535

Unquestionable honour, of excellent business habits, and
a fit and proper person to discharge the duties of any
office under the new corporation. He is a large.ship-
owner, gives employment to vast numbers of persons in
Liverpool, and on that score alone, apart from his other
qualifications, may be considered to have strong claims
upon the suffrages of the electors.
Mr. John. Nelson Wood is the third candidate for this
ward. He is an extensive shipowner, is deeply interested
in the prosperity of Liverpool, an old freeman, having
served his apprenticeship to the late William Ewart, and
is, by the character he bears, ~the _talents he possesses,
and his staunch attachment to the clinrsh of England,
as worthy of support as any nfthe candidates oil'
the list.
The radicals are as-follows,. Air. Thomas Bolton, who
is now a burgess, but 'who had, the singulir assurance of
calling himself one some :few, weeks before he Was a
burgess. He is well known in the town of Liverpool
.and in the 'courts of law.., He. is an. UNITARIAN I
He has been put forward, or he has. unfortunately put
himself forward, as. -the champion of Civil and religions
liberty, upon. Which.-Ale :tramples with scorn in his own
person, inasmuch as being a narrow and. bigoteil secta-
rian, he would level all
.persuasions to his own, and if
possible take possession, of the established churches, as
his friends, who dishonestly call themselves presbyterians,
have taken possession of some hundred chapels in En- -
gland, and have converted ,them into places of desola-
tion. From his litigious habits, from his sour temper,
from his disagreeable disposition, Ile is the most danger-
ous and exceptionable person who appears upon the list
of candidates.. If there he any sense or spirit among the
electors, Mr. Thomas Bolton must be rejected.
Mr. ,Walrnsley is only known as a corn-broker, and
that not much. beyond ,the Corn Exchange. What his
qualifications are for a seat in the council are totally un-
known tons, and we believe to the burgesses generally.
Mr. Charles Birch is one of ttre-proprietors_ef:a weekly
paper called The Albion, and, to give him his due, is a
very reSPeciable. man.
7th Ward.—(St. Peter's.) The conservative candi-
dates are three of the most influential and respectable
merchants and shipowners of the town, who are deeply
interested in its prosperity, and upon whose enterprise a
very large number of tradesmen and artisans are depen-
dant. Mr. Thomas Tobin is: connected with several
mercantile establishments, and is otherwise so well known
and so highly esteemed- that no further notice need -be
made of him. Mr. William Potter is-a native of Liver-,
pool," a partner in the extensive mercantile house of
Taylor, Potter, and Co., is a gentleman of superior
acquirements, and of unblemished -honour and repu,
tation. . • -

These gentlemen are Apposed by Mi;TlfOri: Blackburne,
who we understand is a,surgeon, residing in some part of
the town, but where. we cannot exactly tell. If he have
any practice his time 'ought to be better employed than in
playing leech to the corporation—if he have but an indif-
ferent practice we would earnestly recommend him to
study the best practical and rational means of increasing
it. 'The corporation has been sufficiently reformed al-
ready, and does not require the use of the lancet or any
more physic, unless administered by more skilful hands.
The second radical
_is Mr: Joseph Langton, brother-in-
law of Mr. Wm. Earle, candidate for Abercrombv ward,
cousin of Mr. Joseph Hornby, candidate for Everton
ward, and:cousin of Mr. Hugh Hornby,, candidate for
Pitt-street ward—all in the family way, according to
the strict. principles, of. reform. Mr. Langton'e family
we understand wgeall noted for their loyalty and their
attachment to, tory:principles ; where and When the pre-
sent candidate wa,slaten, and imbibed his new ideas, we
do not preten4 to know.
Mr. Robert Roskell is a Roman catholic, but we make
this distinction in his favour, he is an English'iloman
catholic, and a vet respectable and wealthy man.
13th Ward.(St. Anne's.) The radical candidates
are, Ist, Mr. Richard Alison, jun., son of the deeply la-
mented and excessively benevolent Richard Alison, Esq.
Whether his lamented father left him a legacy of intellec-
tual qualities equal to the money he bequeathed him we
have no means of ascertaining; but this we will say, that
if in his intercourse with the world he has picked up a
sufficiency of- ideas to qualify him for the office to which
he aspires, he has done more than those who know him
best gire him credit for, We have only to add, and the
word is enough—he is an UNITARIAN
2d, Mr. Edward Cropper, brother to Mr. John Crop-
per, jun., candidate for South Toxteth Ward, is a mer-
chant, and was a Quaker; what he is now we cannot tell.
3d, Mr. Thomas Coglan, the inventor and proprietor,
at least in part, ,of that magnifint thing, the pride of
Liverpool -and the admiration of all strangers, which
adorns the fair bosom of 'the river Mersey, and is called
by the profane the floating tub,",where old men smoke
their pipes and are delighted with the gambols of aquatic
bipeds—drink beer in summer by day and something.
stronger than beer by night. He is, besides, an auc-
tioneer and an UNITARIAN! These certainly, be-
yond all denial, are splendid qualifications for a common
councillor ! ! !

Mr. Nathan Lithetlancl is also a native of Liverpool,
is an extensive -West India merchant of the firm of
Heyes, Litherland, and Co., and is intimately connected
with, and deeply interested in the town, and trade of
Liverpool. The above candidates are. all firm and sin-
orre members of the Church,of 'England
Opposed to these valuable members of this community
are tc'o shopkeeperfi, and one that was a shopkeeper.
The two first (Mr. Woollwright and Mr. Bright) sel loot-
tops and 'silks by retail, the one in 80ld-street, and the
other we do not exactly know where. Our recollections

of the last (Mr. Rushton) begin and end with his shop in
Pool-lane. They can have no practical interest or influ-
ence except behind their counters, and they give employ-
ment to few persons besides those who attend upon their
customers. What pretensions, then, we ask, have such
men to seats in the Common Council of Liverpool?
Bth Ward.—(Pitt-street.) The radicals are William
Rathbone, Hugh Hornhy, and W. R. Preston—the first
and last are-;--UNITARIANSI. Mr. Hugh Hornby is
brother of Mr. Joseph 'Hornby, candidate for Evertor),
ward, upon the old reform principle that two (too) many
members of the same family ought not to be in the same
council. Mr. Win. Rathhone is. particularly esteemed
for his courteous demeanour towards our late respected
representative, General GascOyne. He is in the Ameri-
can trade, and his manners as well as his principles are
purely republican: W.-Preston is, we believe, an iron-
founder—a young man of no experience, and very little
known.-

;Apposed. by three conservatives, Mr. John
Bibby, Mr: Aldernian Peter Bourne,' and M. Thomas
C. Molyneuicair sta-rotch members and supporters of
the church of England. Mr. Bibby has been a resident
in Liverpool for upwards of thirty years, and h 4 been
engaged, and still is 'engaged in mercantile paeuits,
which give employment to;vast numbers of worlimen,
and promote the prosperitYoNhis town. He is also a
large shipowner, and is Otherwise a gentleman of great
enterprise, of much pia6tical' knoWledge, of unspotted
eputation, and unquestionable independence.
Mr: Alderman Peter' Bourne and Mr. T. C.Molyneux,
are both natives of Liverpool, the former having served
with great credit the office of mayor, and devoted his
time to the ardtions duties of a magistrate for many
yeati-L—the latter is an independent man, and well qua-
lified to fill the honourable office to which he aspires.
.9th Ward.---(Great- George's.)—The conservative

The conservatives for the above ward, in opposition to
the two UNITARIANS and the candidate who was a
Qualimr, are Mr. Richard Jones, of the firth of Jones,
Mann, and FoSter, Mr. Edward Gibbon, of St. Anne-
street,
who has devOted many Of the most anxious years
Of his life to the maintenance of the public charities, and,
lastly; Mr. John Davies, a well-known and universally
esteemed merchant. All of these gentlemen possess
qualifications that admirably • fit them to discharge the
duties of the Office to which they aspire. They are all
true and sincere members of the Church of England!
14th Ward:—(West Derby.)—The conservative can-
didates are, Ist,.,Mr. John Shaw Leigh, a gentleman of
immense property, who, with his family, have rendered
eminent services. to 'the town of Liverpool, who is a mem-
ber of the corporation, and who has, by the urbanity of
his manner and the kindness of his disposition, endeared
himself to all classes'of his fellow-toatnsmen.
2d, Mr. Joseph Sandars, is well known as one of the
original projec4ers of tho Liverpool and Manchester
Railway---a gentleman of acknowledged talents, of

candidates are; Ist; Mr. Alderman Lawrence, a gentle•

man whOse character is above saspiciod, who has long
served in the town as an able and efficient magistrate,
and who, as a large shipowner and extensive merchant,
employs numerous tradesmen, anti is considerably iden-
tified with the prosperity of Liverpool. 2d, is Mr. James
Lawrence, who is extensively engaged in trade, is gene-
rally esteemed, and would malip a very useful member of
the council. The 3d, is Mr. Joseph Cooper, a most
respectable tradesman, who has served on the select
vestry for many. years, and :has accordingly rendered
gratuitous and invaluable benefits to this community.
These three candidates, we are glad to say, are all mem-
bers of the established church'!
By a singular and rather comical coincidence these
three gentlemen are. only oPposed by two reformers.
The one Mr. JaMes Aikin, a merchant, who has the
extensive liberality to. build :all his ships in the Isle of
Man, no doubt ferthe purpbse of advancing the inter-
ests of the shipwrifhts of Liverpool. 'He is a Scotch-,
man, but we belieV'e,: nOt'a unitarian. The other is Mr.
Wellwood Maxwell, a respectable man, who is, we un-
derstand, about to return to hiS 'native country, as soon
As the nevi house he ishoildiUg there is prOPerly warmed.
In that case it will be exceedingly inconvenient for Mr.
Maxwell to be in Dumfrieshire, and in the Common
Council Room of LiverpoOlatthe'Sanie time.
10th Ward-.—(lfodney-Street)- The whig candidates-
ire Mr. Thomas Holt'-an UNITARIAN!—Mr. Eyre
Evans who is a merchant and shipowner, of good family
connexions, but who, unfortunately,- has .mixed. himself
up with a political sect to the great disparagement of his
acknowledged talents—and the third, Mr. Lasscll, swine-
merchant, a respectable' enough person in his way, but
of no standing whatever to entitle him to a seat in the
new corporation. Mr. Thomas Holt, we beg to observe,
is related by marriage to Mr. Thomas Bolton, the candi-
date for the Castle-street ward. The electors of Liver-
pool know little, and care less, about Mr. Thomas Holt—
the Excise know a great deal about him !
• Opposed to these, .on the
..conservative side, are Dr.
Brandreth; Mr. Henry -Lawrence, and Mr. J. H. Turner
tnembers of the Church of England! The merits
of these three gentlemen are so well known, that to dwell
Upon them would be superfluous. The eminent talents
of the son of one of .the most distinguished of our
English physicians give him high claims upon ,the
suffrages of the electors.
. 11th Ward.-L(Abereromby.) The conservative candi-
dates are Mr. Robertson Gladstone, Mr. William Ripley,
and Mr. Thomas Kaye. We need hardly remind the
electors that Mr. Robertson Gladstone is a partner in
one of the most eminent mercantile firms in Liverpool,
served the gratuitous and laborious office of bailiff and
coroner, aiid acquitted himself during the whole of "his
connection with thecOrporation in a manner which gave
'the hiohett titisfaction an.' reflected upon him great
credit. •

Mr. Win. Ripley, is a gi ntleman of. private fortune
and independence, was a m !mber of the common coun-
assidudas in the discharg e of his official duties, is a
native of Liverpool, and of Unblemished reputation.
M. thcithas Kaye is paqprieior of the Liverpod/
*idtri trt lewd moderate. prititiples, is esteemed

assiduous business habits, and extensively engaged in
mercantile pursuits.

Mr..l\rif,ir. Bushby, is an extensive genenil
brol:er,.he is of unblemished integrity, is universally re-
spected, is a gaeital man of, business, and in every way
qualified, to reesent the• town in the new corporati6n7

The above candidates, we are delighted to say, are all
members ofthe church of England ! And we do hope
that the electors-uf West Derby will study their own in-
terest by returning men so well qualified to the new
town council.
They are opppsed to the following radical candidates-
-Ist, William
.I3lain is a Quaker! 2d, Mr. George Holt
is an UNITARIAN!!, and 3.1, Mr. W. P. Frame is, we
understand, in,the. corn trade, and is also an UNITA-
RIAN ! ! Quaker, when elected, can, according
to bis ..conscien,tious scruples, make the solemn declara-
tion that is.re,quixed by law, we shall then be enabled to
cangratulate_bini upon the new reform which has taken',
place in the ilsinciples of his particular sect. As to Mr.
.Frerne, he is entirely beneath our notice. Of
Mr. George Holt, we have Said quite enough already.
15th and 16th Wards.—(North and South Toxteth
six. radical candidates are, Mr. W. M.
Duncan, Mr. W. W. Currie, Mr. W. Sharples, an
English Roman catholic ; Mr. John Cropper, jun., a
Quaker; Mr. .Francis Jordan, and Mr:. Charles Tay-
leure —the last .two being decidedly UNITARIANS! !
The whole of the above have uniformly supported radi-
cal, democratical, and church-levelling principles; and
the only one of the number who has been placed officially
before the public, is Mr. W. W. Currie, whose principles
and factious politics are too sufficiently known to require
any comment. . ,

The six conigyatives opposed to the above, are Mr.
Alderman Nichplas Robinson, Mr. AleXander Smith, ju-
nior, =Mr, John. :Fletcher,. Mr. John Troughton, Mr:
James Dempsey,,,nand Mr. Joseph Gibbons.
The Ist is Mr. Alderman Robinson who has had the
honour of being mayor of Liverpool, and who served
that office to the entire satisfaction of all classes of the
community ; b6isn gentleman of considerable opulence,.
and undoubted independence, and. there is no one better
qualified to discharge the duties of a common touncil-
man. The 2d is Mr. Alexander Smith, junior, son of
Mr. Wm. Smith, of Fulwood Lodge, a gentleman who
from the most meritorious motives embarked a considera-
ble fortune in the trade and commerce of Liverpool, and'
who,-by the urbanity of .his manners and the integrity of
his character,Starids eminently high in the estimation of
all who know him: The candidate, Mr. A. Smith, junr.,
is a partner with his father, and a true representative of
bis ftrifie',4 Character and principles, and we are sure
Elias§,9oll/ hiteth Ward cannot have a better advocate
in ifiS R' Oirporation.. The 3,1 is Mr. John Fletcher;
i 4 d &UitleThati Of property; intelligenCe, and inde-
Kiiiii6EE6; • ale fit and proper person' to represent the

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who know him, is of competent fortune, and a man of ward in the common council. The 4th is Mr. John
undoubted integrity. , •• .: Troughton, a highly respectable master tradesman, who
These are opposed by the following ultra radieals and e!nploys. a large number of Wdikmeri, and is of irre-
A member of the proachable character,' .•: . '
levellers, viz., Mn William Earle, jun.,
corporation, a county magistrate, recently created by the Tlie above four gentlemen, we' are glad to announce,
are all members of the Churchi. Of England ! The fifth
whip, and vilio distinguished himself .at the last election
by a declaration of his principles, which we hope he will candidate' is. Mr. James Dempsey. well knoWn for his
live to repent—Dr. Carspp, a Scotchman, who is chiefly extensive commercial operations, partiinlarly- in• the
known in Liverpool for his violent and factious politics, timber trade-Its man of ample fortune and undoubted
independenCe. . .
and who would discharge a worthier duty to himself and
the public by attending to his professional duties, instead The sixth candidate is Mr. Joseph Gibbons, a native •
of troubling himself with the affairs of the common coon- of Liverpool, and a member of the Church of England!
We rejoice` at the opportunity of stating, that no man
cii, which he cannot' possibly understand—and by Mr.
h
Thomas Brocklebank, a merchant, who is so excessively has higher claims upon the electors of Liverpool than
attached to the interest's of the burgesses of Liverpool, this truly esteemed and much benevolent gentleman. In
him the poor of Liverpool have found a generous friend,
never dreaming of his oWnythat-he builds and repairs all
his ships in his own ship.buildingyard, in the convenient who has not spared his own comforts under any circurn-
town of Whitehaven, which, we believe, is in Cumber- stances in administering to their wants and comforts.
Mr. Gibbons is well. known to have devoted many years•
land. He has occasionally figured' on the balcony in
of his . life to the regulation and direction of the Work-
came there i Clayton square; withontwbeing able to explain how or
house of Liverpool, in which he has laboured with almost
why lie . ; 'fie certainly is not shaped; even
unprecedented diligence in rendering the situation of
in Whitehaven fashi4n; for an orator, and the sooner he
confines himself to (alkir r' than to speaking he those there placed by misfortune or indigence in a condi-
g-rathe
will have fewer absurdities to do penance for. •
The tion as agreeable to_ their habits of life as the rules of
Roman catholic Priest Who lives nearest to him will charity and beneficence could dictate. Almost every day
perhaps explain what we-mean—gratis! , . of his life for a series otyears has been directed to the
12thi Ward. (Lime-street.) The conservatives are
development of every remedy calculated to render the
.
inmates of the workhouse morreconcileable with the
Mr. Ambrose Lace, present bailiff in the corporation,
domestic comforts of an Englishman's own fireside.
Mr. J. Todd Naylor, and Mr. Robert Rigby. They are
And, in addition to all this, we have great pleasure in
all members of the Church of England! Mr. Lace,
stating, that Mr. Gibbons, in his capacity of corn mer-
having been for some time before the public, requires no
chant, has with the utmost diligence and circumspection
recommendation at our 'hands. Mr. J. Todd Naylor is
purchased, without any.charge of commission whatever,
an extensive and highly honourable merchant in the
all the corn and flour required by the consumption of that
South American trade. He is .a man of independent
most benevolent institution under circumstances which
principles, of sound judgment, and every way.qualified
have, in an economical point of. view, saved a considera-
to perform the duties of a councillor. Mr. Robert Rigby
ble expenditure to the parish fund of Liverpool. We
is a Most respectable tradesman and timber-merchant, is
have `only to add,'that Mr. Gibbons, having by his zeal
of good business habits, and is greatly esteemed- by all
and industry attended ft? strictly to the administratiOn of
who know him- _
a •nrkll le fund, hai been the means of reducing the

le workliou&
• e,
rates- levied upon' d - inhabitantd of Liverpokfor the
relief of the poor' to an extent that must commanTilie"
thanis and the grail-tilde of every honest and respectable
ratepayer in the parish of Liverpool. • '•
Having submitted these most :undeniable facts, we
honourable to Mr. Gibbons, to the electorS of North
Toxteth ward, we feel confident that every burgess of the
slightest pretensions to respectability will consider it his
duty to press forward to the poll and tender his vote for
this truly conservative candidate, and return him tri
umpliantly !
These, electors of Livei pool, under the new municipal
bill, are your candidates !
Be pleased,. therefore, to take into your serious
deration the claims which bind you and the obligations
which:conned you in interest•with the conservative can-
. didates. •
On the other hand, contrast the'talents, the principles,
and the respectability, if any such they have, with those
to whom they are opposed. We see virtue, integrity,
responsibility, and a sincere attachment to religion and to
the institutions of our country on the one hand; and on
the other, the, shallow pretensions, the hollow and deceit-
ful principles, the infuriate doctrines, and the downright
impudence of the radical candidates..
Here we have integrity and principle—there we have
impertinence, presumption, ignorance, and faction. We
see on the one side men properly qualified to do their
duty in an honest, an upright way, for the good of the
town of Liverpool—men who, regardless of all party
connexions, seek nothinz but the welfare and prosperity
of this large commercial community—men who are pre-
pared to make every sacrifice that private interest can ren-
der, and personal comfort can offer, on the shrine of public
duty. The elect Ors of Liverpool must therefore see that
they have
.character and integrity on the one side, and
empty bombast, shallow philosophers, and heartless pro-
fessors of falSe political principles on the other.
It would be a false concession on the side of liberality
were we to deny that the grand conflict of all parties in this
country is `tiii'lae sustained and resifted to the Ultimate
issue of victory between the' Church of:l4,:ngland and her
determined and unprincipled enemies.. • •
-We have arrived at a juncture when men's minds.have
for the first time for the last fifty years been fairly awak-
• ened all the -deceitfal_autLappar.ently unprestnnilax en-
croachments of Popery, on the one hand, and Unitarian.:
ism and_ infidelity on the other. The .time has come

when every sensible and really re ligicus man in England
must prepare himself either to vindicate, at all hazar4
and under every extremity, the truth and justice of the
principles he inherited from his forefathers, who sleep in
our sacred churchyards, and over whose remains, although
the tombstone may be mouldered and unlettered, there
are still under that cold stone all the spirit, and all the
honour, and all the remains of courage and principle
which belonged to our noble ancestors.
With a ministry which has no claims upon any but the
sacrilegious and unprincipled part of the community,
who care nothing for England but every thing for place,
who have made an Irish ruffian and a rebel the arbiter of
their councils, and who have shewn a strong disposition
to make the protestants of England the handmaids a nd
slaves of popery in Ireland—with such a government
impelled by so reckless a disposition, we .have no middle
course, we must_ either in the spirit that animates the veins
of us all, crush it, or be its victims.
These sentiments we particularly address to those who
.are the .candidates in the election of to-morrow ; for, de-

ny it as we may, what are the principles which regulate
public opinion in the empire at large, is the opinion

af~;a•inatr.which►in our own behalf ilie electors of Liverpool
•
are called upon by their oath of allegiance to suppress,
and utterly eradicate.
In conclUsion, we 'trust that the 'electors of Liverpool,

seeing the important game 'which' they are called upon to
play, the violence of the principles of .those who are in
the field, and the dead seethat is.made by'radical aspirants
to power, in uhom the creditors of the corporation of
Liverpool can have no Confidence—under those circum-
stances, we confidently trust that every churchman, that
every loyal and independent man who has a stake in his
country, who has any thingito lose, or respects the place
of his birth, or the pure religion in which he has been
educated, will take care to be first at the poll, to tender
his vote in favour of the sacred institutions of his Country.