The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-02 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL ST.4NDIRD.

SIR,—In a notice of the family of the noble candidate for the
southern division of Lancashire which appeared in the LIVER-
POOL STANDARD of the 3011 i December, the honour of con-
cpiving and executing the hut plan for inland navigation, by
Ale system of canals, is ascribed to his Grace the Duke Of Bridge-
'water, a statement in making which I think it will prove you
;have unintentionally fallen into error. My decided impression
s-that the first navigation of this description executed in this
,k,ingdom, viz., the Sankey Canal, was completed on the jtlau,
and tinder the direction or my great uncle, the late Henry
Berry, of this town, at one period, also, engineer of its docks.
Owing to tecent change of residence, I do not possess access
to papers which would clear this point; but I doubt not your
superior means of information will enable you to correct me, if
in error, and that I shall, at all events, stand excused for wish-
ing to assert the right, if well founded, of a very estimable and
talented but unostentatious man, to the credit of an achieve-
ment, which, in his day, was regarded with little less astonish-
ment than our more modern and wonderful conveyance by rail-
way.—Your's,
Liverpool, Jan. Ist, 183.x.H EN ItY BERRY.

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PEASANTRY OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL.—I was greatly
struck, in the course of this day's journey, with the very ap-
pearance of the peasantry. A ragged, rather than a whole,
coat was now a rarity ; and the clean and tidy appearance of
the girls was equally a novel as it was an agreeable sight.
The farm houses, too, were of a superior order; I do not mean
merely that they were larger, or better built; this can be ac-
complished by any improving and considerate landlord. The
improvement was visible in things which depend upon the
Occupant. Most of the houses had enclosures, and clumps of
sheltering trees; and the epithet "slovenly," could have rarely
found any subject for the application.—lng lis's Tour in Ireland.
A RESPECTABLE-LOOKING IRISH TOWN.—I found Enninslril-
len one of the moat respectable-looking towns I had ever seen
in Ireland;—its population by far the tna.t respectable-let:Acing
that 1 had anywhete Vet seen. I speak of course of the lower
classes ; and I make on exception of either Dublin or Cork,
or any other place. I saw a population,—the finest I had yet
sf:ert, without rags; I saw scarcely a bale foot, even among the
girls ; there was a neat, tidy loo': anintiv, the xvonten, who- had
not. as in bther‘places, their uncomited hair hanging about their
cars; and the men appeared to Inc to have a decentifarmer-
.ike appearanoc.--Ing/i4's Tour in Ireland.

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THE LEVERPObT, ELECTION.

On Tuesday afternoon Lord Sandon appeared on 'Change,
for the first time since his return from town. A number of
gentlemen were congregated on the flags awaitinn,e• his approach,
and on his lordship coming up, attended by Alderman Law-
rence, Alderman Sir Thos. Brancker, Alderman Wright, John
Moss, Esq., Alderman Sandbach, C. S. Parker, Esq., Alderman
Horsfall, T. B. Horsfall, Esq., Joseph Sandars, sq., Adam
Hodgson, Esq., and other gentlemen, he was welcomed with
loud and hearty cheers, and after receiving the congratulations
of his friends, he proceeded to the office of Messrs. Sandbach
and rom which it was expected.he would address the elec-
tors. C0.,0n presenting himself at the window, his lordship was
again received with enthusiastic applause, the .assembly below
forming now dense mass, and as soon as silence was restored,
his lordship- spoke as follows :
Gentlemen,—Having so lately addressed you in a very full
and circumstantial manner upon the grounds on which I again
present myself as a candidate for your suffrages, I should not
have thought it necessary to -have troubled you at this time;
but I feel I should not be doing justice to my own feelings .if
I did not take this opportunity of returning you my heartfelt
thanks for the warm and cordial manner in which you have
received me.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen. I do not come here to
make any new professions. lam an old friend in the midst
of old friends.—(Loud applause.) You have no longer mere
professions to look at, but the conduct of a known and tried
servant.—(Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) Ido not, gentle-
men, come as a stranger sent down by a junto from the me-
tropolis,—(laughter, and much applause,)—l do not come here
asking you to add another vreight to the already overgrown
metropolitan representation.—(llear, hear.) Ido not come as
the deputy of a London corporation, to neutralise, if possible,
the opinions of the free commercial community of Liverpool.—
(Tremendous cheering.) I stand bele, as I always have dune,
on the ground of being willing to investigate, and on investi-
gation to reform, whatever abuses may be found in our valued
institutions—(cheers,)—but not, under the guise of reform, to
promote secretly the cause of revolution.—(Much applause.)
Gentlemen, I have been told, since my arrival, that the com-
mon cry amongst a certain party in this town is, that we have
thrown off the mask. But who, gentlemen, is it that has thrown
off the mask? Is it not those who have told you that they were
advocating reform in one branch of the legislature, while they
meant to merge the whole legislature into one?—(Loud cheers.)
Is it not those who have told you they meant to reform abuses
in the church, and have now proclaimed that they intend to
sacrifice and destroy the Establishment altogether?—(Hear,

hear.)
Gentlemen, my conscience tells,me that I have acted through-
out a fair and consistent part.—(Hear, hear.) I supported re-
form in one branch of the state for the purpose of removing
some corruptions that had grown about it, but I supported it
with that sole.and single purpose, and not with the intention,
while raising a cry for reform, to drive the car of revolution over
the institutions, the interests, and the property of this country.
—( Loud applause.)
Gentlemen, it will, perhaps, not be necessary for ma, after
having so recently explained my sentiments upon the leading
1.01.;‘3 of Lilt day, to outer intu tlicw. more at large—upats
occasion. There will be other opportunities, I trust, before tho
day of election. In the meantime let me remind you that we
have already fought and conquered; and I have no doubt that
the same spirit will animate you on the next occasion, and that
you will rally round the same standard and carry it triumph-
antly to the poll.—(lmmense applause, and shouts of " We
will."). Since the beginning of my connexion with" this town
you have had ample means of' ascertaining whether I have
honestly and strenuously maintained its interests,; whether I
have asserted your rights individually and as a body, and whe-
ther I have acted up to those great commercial principles which
are most conducive to the trade and prosperity of a community
such as this,—or whether, as another gentlemen may feel him-
self bound to do if placed in a similar situation, i have studied
the welfare of any other community or corporation more than
yours.—(Hear, hear, and much cheering.).
Gentlemen, I thank you again most sincerely for your re
-
Tested kindnesses. I hope to be able, in the course of next
week, to devote much of my time to coming amongst you per-
sonally, in every part of your town, and I have not the least
doubt, if I find your confidence and your friendship towards me
undiminished, of being placed by your exertions in that honour-
able post to which it is the height of my ambition to aspire.
Lord Sandon then retired from the window, amidst the loud
and enthusiastic plaudits of" his friends, both inside and out of
the room. . •