The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-12-18 00:00:00

" REPORT.

" The committee, in making their report to this meeting, have
to inform them that the first step which they considered it ad-
visable to adopt was to issue an address te the inhabitants of
this town, calling upon them in moderate, and, they trust, re-
spectful language, to dismiss from their minds all rancorous and
party feeling, aud to look only to the character aud fitness of
the individual in selecting him as a candidate for the office of
councillor. They need scarcely say, that this address roused
the anger of the reform party in this town, and produced some
intemperate invectives from that portion of the press which ad-
vocates their views. Determined, if possible, to make the pre=
sent contest a struggle between political parties, and seeing that
their best hope of success existed in that line of policy, they
considered the address which the committee issued as an un-
called for interference with their plan of agitation.
" Upon the announcement of the division of the wards which
was immediately followed by the appearance in the field as can-
didates, of some of the most decided political characters in the
reform interest,• the committee considered it advisable that
meetings should be held in the several, wards. These meetings,
in consequence of the course adopted by the opposite party,
consisted of conservatives only, or nearly so, and the condi-
- elutes-chosen by them, the committee believe, profess the po
litical. principles of that party; but a comparison of the two lists
will satisfy any impartial mind that the individuals selected by
the conservative party are most of themgentlemen of much
more moderate views, in their line of politics, than those on the
reform interest; and, in point of respectability and intelligence,
the committee feel assured that they need not fear to be put in
competition with the opposite candidates.
"The next step which was taken was the formation of com-
mittees in the several wards, which have now for some time
been actively engaged in conducting the canvass, and have
rendered the most important service in this respect, and also in
givireg that information to the solicitors which has enabled
them with much greater facility and success to conduct their la-
borious and protracted duties in the revision of the burgess list.
"Having now stated to the meeting the course which the
committee have pursued, and which they trust will beet with-
the approbation of this meeting, the committee most earnestly
call upon the inhabitants of this borough, ar.d upon the gentle-
men now assembled in particular, to use their best exertions in
assisting the several ward committees during the ensuing week,
and promoting the election of the candidates, whose names will
be communicated to the meeting. The committee most parti-
cularly call upon the mercantile portion of the community who
have hitherto taken perhaps too little interest in this election.
To the tradesmen they return their most cordial thanks; the
zeal and indefatigable exertions of that body are above all
praise."
The reading of the report was received with loud cheers.
After this, Mr. WRIGHT read over a list of the candidates for
the different wards, both conservative and liberal. The an-
nouncement of the names of the conservative candidates for
each ward was received with great cheering and applause,
while many of the names of the liberal candidates met with a
hiss of disapprobation or a laugh of derision.
Mr. C. T. DUNLEvIR then rose and said he had been en-
trusted with a resolution to propose, which he regretted had not
been given to some other gentleman better qualified. He con-
gratulated the town of Liverpool that the selection of candi-
dates—fit and proper to represent this great town in the new
council—as selected by the conservative committees, and ap-
proved. of by the wards—were men of character,, of intel-
ligence, of respectability, and energy, and were individuals
properly qualified to protect the interests of this greatly in-
creased and greatlyincreasing town. (Cheers.) There were
trusts of great moment to be reposed in the new town council—
there were trusts for widows and orphans, and he had very great
pleasure in moving this resolution because the gentlemen• no-
nominated by the different wards were men calculated to uphold
those interests and worthy of guarding those trusts—men who had
been the mainspring iu improving the town and in raising it to
its present progyerity. (Cheers.) He begged to move the first
resolution. Tor this and the following resolutions, see adver-
tisement.'
Mr. JAMES IRVING had great pleasure in seconding the reso-
lution which had just been proposed by his friend, and he hoped
every exertion would be made by the parties present to secure
the return of the gentlemen whom the conservative committee
had brought forwards.
The CHAIRMAN put the resolution to the meeting, who unani-
mously adopted it amidst loud applause.
Mr. RICHARD DAWSON rose to move the second resolution,
" That the list of candidates which bad just been read should
be those to whom the electors should give their support," and it
was with much satisfaction that he looked over the selection,
for be was convinced that there was no election of greater iins
pittance in the kingdom than the one which was about to take
place in Liverpool. Had. it not been fur the exertions of their
opponents, with regard -to-Liverpool, he believed they, ahould
not have had any municipal elections in the corporations of this
kingdorti. Fur years their opponents had been striving to un-
dermine the corporation of the town of Liverpool. lie, how-
ever, only hoped that the gentlemen whO were to be selected to
compose the new town council would as faithfully discharge the
duties that will be imposed on them, and with, the stone regard
to honour and intereerity which they have seen for so many
years.. (Cheers.) He begged to propose the second resolution.
Mr. SAMUEL llocsie then came forward, and said he had
been requested to second the resolution which had been just,
proposed by his friend Mr. Dawson. Although politics was not
the atmosphere which he delighted to breathe, yet he must say,
that an imperative sense of what he conceived to be a public
duty induced him to give utterance to his sentiments in regard
to the gentlemen proposed to constitute the new town coun-
cil. He should be exceedingly sorry, and tie hoped he
should be the first to apologise, if in the first observations
be was about to make, one word should be ascribed to any-
thing like an attack on individuals of any party, or indivi-
duals of any creed ; but he claimed for himself the same liberty
of thought which he conceded to every political opponent.—
(Applause.) Ile believed that the resolution which had been
put by Mr. Dawson, resolved itself into two propositions. The
first was, the qualification of the candidates, and the other, the
interest and support they ought to receive. Now, in regard to
the qualification of the candidates, if he had not seen men of
moderate politics, of high respectability, and of great influence
in the town put forward, and if he bad nut seen them mixed
likewise with some of the tradesmen of Liverpool, he honestly
confessed he would not have come formard to support them.
But he was compelled to believe that the selection which had
been made was a judicious one, and he trusted they would
not go into the council for party purposes alone, but for the
purpose of forwarding their local interests. But he did say that
their political opponents—and in speaking of them he begged
to observe, that he numbered among them some of his most ex-
cellent personal friends, and it was to him exceedingly painful
to differ with some of them, but he hoped that, in opposing
them, he did it with sincerity and honesty, which he trust-
ed, on public grounds alone, would be as strong as his private
friendship for them would be sincere and, lasting (loud
cheering) their- political opponents, he feared, had no-
minated a great many individuals for the purpose of getting
into the town council to forward the political interests of
their party rather than the local interests of the town, (cheers,)
and knowing, or rather suspecting, that some of those gentle-
men were inoculated with a spirit of republicanism—a spirit
which he believed to fie detrimental to the best interests of any
country under heaven. Seeing before him what was the effect
of republicanisth in America, where freedom of thought has
been riot, and where the liberty of the press has descended into
licentiousness; where men are left to the tender mercies of
" Lynch-law;" and seeing what was the working of republican-
ism there, he would ask them if they would wish to live under
its shade? (Cheers.) If he turned his eye to France, where
every kind of government that the ingenuity of wan could de-
vise had been in their turn adopted, what did they see there?
Did they see a man living under "his own vine and fig-tree—
none daring to make him afraid?" No. They saw property
unstable, and at the present moment the liberty of the press was
trodden despotically under foot. (Cheers.) Believing, there-
fore, that a great number of their opponents were favourable to
democracy, however respectable they might be, and candour
compelled him to confess they were respectable, they ought to
look on them with a jealous eye. Fault had been found with
the preSeut council that they had admitted too many persons of
one religious creed; but he aced scarcely remind that meeting,
-that there were sixteen or 'seventeen persons nominated by
their opponents who were of one religious creed, and the mem-
bers of a sect not by far the most numerous in the town.
He would ask, why in the name sit consistency such a majority
ought to be placed there ? He had some conversation the other
-clay with a gentleman of Whig principles, an inhabitant of the
town, and a merchant of considerable influence, and he had de-
clared to him that if the friends of his party had striven their
utmost to injure their cause they could not "have done so more
effectually than by the selection they had made. But, believ-
ing himself in conservative principles, he did not mean to stand
up for abuses, if there were an abuse in God's name let it be
reformed, but let us not destroy; let us reform just as the skil-
ful gardener, by pruning, cuts away the rotten branch, but not, •
alter the manlier of the wayward urchin who, to cut himself a
walking-stick, would destroy the whole tree. (Cheers.) Hav-
ing stated his opinion with regard to anythin approaching to
abuses, he would now say he believed it was for the purpose of
hastening forward the movement principle that polities had
been introduced into this question, fur no man cpuld tell where
this movement would stop, it was progressing with railway I
speed, and whilst there was a propelling power he thought it hut
right that they should have something like a controlling power
lest they go onward down the inclined plane with too great a
velocity—lest the carriage be upset.and the passengers' lives en-
dangered. (Applause.) He would not wish to injure his ma-
jesty's ministers ; by their own acts let them be tried, and by
their own acts let them stand or fall. There was one party with
whom those ministers had formed an unholy connexion, dis-
guise it as they please, who would, if lie had the power, put the
extinguisher on the scriptures, on education, and on the estab-
lished church of the country, (cheers,) an establishment which
it was unnecessary fur him to say had been one of the great-
est blessings to the country in which they lived. Ile believed
they were incited to this conduct by that satyr who alternately
blows hot and cold, and who, whilst he is tightening the rope
which will eventually strangle the present ministry, screens
himself behind a shield, of vshich no man could say whether-it
was the gold or silver shield, save those wretched people whose
last farthing he wrung from their starving offspring. (A pplati;;e.)
Believing that some of their political opponents would further
views such as these, he thought he was entitled—speaking,, as he
then did, the sentiments of a great number of his fellow-trades-
men—thus to express his opinion, and be thought he was justi-
fied in opposing them •, but, in doing go, he gave theiri the saute
measure of thought which he claimed for himself, and Ire did sin-
cerely regret that party politics' had been made the test of fitness
m: on doccasion ; it would have been much better if t hey h'ad serer
been brought forward ; but now that they were so brought forward
they had no alternative but to pursue tlie samecotirie ;Jet Greek
Meet Greek,_ ?lid let the tug u'f war commence. He, for 6*
Was dispoied to admit that no human institution could be psi:
fect, He at once was disposed inaufully to admit, that theriiwere
dome thingi in the Church of England, whicli at a onSlifenit
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degree irrelevant, he thought he strouldbe permitted to make a
remark on'the p-res-etit ailmininiitration of church property, to
which in some respecti he objected: Ile objected to non-resi-
dence and pluralities, and he objected to one or two other
minor points; and he wished the meeting to take this into their
consideration, that'though the Church of England has provided
for both the rich and for the poor, she has not provided for the
hundreds and thousands of the middle classes; and he believed
that the high rate of pew rents had contributed greatly to the
calumnies with which she teas now tissailecl—had driven num-
bers to dissenting chapels, who were favourable to her coin-
munien, and then, after a few rears bad elapsed, they wondered
at their disloyalty. Convinced as he was that that was a point
which could nu longer he overlooked, he did hope that the
members of their new town-council, whoever they might be,
would-take the subject of church patronage into their hands,
and. by timely reform save that church from spoliation and de-
struction. (Cheers.) The other point to which he would now
turn his attention, was the support which it was their duty to
give to the new town-council. He had, he regretted to say, to
bring a serious charge against the great body of the merchants
of Liverpool. He did so at the desire of a great number of that
body with whom he had the honour to be associated—he meant
the tradesmen of Liverpool. The onus probandi was thrown too
heavily upon them ; and he regretted that the merchants of
Liverpool had with unpardonable apathy, for the most part
slunk into hiding places, and thrown the great burden of
the struggle on the tradesmen. They were willing, to do
their utmost, .yet knowing the great weight which the mer-
chants of Liverpool carried with them he hoped they would
shake off the love of ease with which they had Invested them-
selves, and feel it their duty to come forwards and aid the King,
the Lords; and the Commons. (Cheers.) He believed it was
their duty, in ,a peculiar manner, to stand by the House of
Peers at the present moment. If any man talked of -making
the House of Peers elective, it would be infinitely better for
him to talk of sweeping it away at once, for it was fat better to
be attacked openly ;—it was better for them to have to contend
with an open foe, who attacked them openly, than With one
who secretly undermined the edifice until he brought it about
their ears. (Applause.) He called on the merchants of Liver-
pool to-stand by the House of Peers in protecting their heredi-
tary rights, which they only enjoyed for the good of the whole
community, and he called on them as members of this com-
munity to send into their town-council such men as would sup-
port the institutions of the country—would preserve them from
the ruthless hands of agitators, and use the influence of their
situations for the general good; he would tell them if they did not
do so an extinguisher would be put on their own political in-
fluence for ever in this town. (Cheers.) They had not on this
occasion the old burgesses to assist them. To him it was mat-
-ter of regret, moving as he did between the rich and the poor;
and knowing by experience the soundness and honesty that
really exists in the heart of a poor Englishman, he would say
pe thought it an unjust measure for those who were the advo-
t atm-of-universal suffrage—for those who were.the advocates a
vote by ballot—to endeavour to deprive the poor bUrgesses of
this town of their municipal 'rights. (Cheers.) If they are
qualified to vote for members of parliament, surely they are
qualified to vote for members of the town-council, and he would
remind them that many of the individuals who were most
active in endeavouring to obtain seats in their town-council
were most active in extinguishing the municipal ,privileges of
the poor. He begged to thank them for their patient attention,
and he would again say if he had unfortunately given any of-
fence to any man breathing he hoped he should be the first in-
dividual to make au apology. (Loud Cheers.) Ile seconded
the resolution.

The CHAIRMAN put the resolution to the meeting, and every
band appeared to he held up in its favour.
Mr. Alderman WRIGHT was then loudly called for, and on
rising was rapturously cheered. He commenced by saying,
Gentlemen, the feeling you have just shown towards -me has so
far overpowered me that, I declare on my honour 1 scarce-
ly know how to thank you. The reason of my not rising to re-
turn you my thanks immediately after the resolution had passed
did not proceed front any want of gratitude on my part, but
from a feeling that there were many other gentlemen present,
who are..caudidates for the new town council, far more able to
thank you for the resolu:ion you have just-passed than I can
be. But as I azt on my legs 1 must thank you on two grounds;
I thank you on one hand, for favours past, and on the other, I
request you to receive my thanks for those which your kindness
may give to me It has been stated by my friend Mr. Dawson,
that the old council did their duty, 1 believe firmly that every
one of them endeavoured to do his duty to the best of his abs
lity. For myself I can conscientiously and sincerely say, I
never gave a vote influenced either by the desire of emolument,
power, place, or any other consideration, except the good •of
the town. I may say this, and, perhaps, not with such credit
as others can, because it so happens that Providence has not
given me any one of my own relations for whom I could ask
'sewer and place. Therefore, it gives me an opportunity of
speaking for others as well as myself. Gentlemen,• I have been
before this town twenty-four years. .I am willing at all times to
own that I may be wrong; 1 have no doubt of having been
wrong in many of my votes in the council ; but I again express
my feeling that I voted to the best of my judgment, and, though
succeeding times have shown that those votes have not many of
them been what I hoped they would have been, yet I assure you
that they were given with the earnest desire to do right. (Loud
cheers.) As one of the candidates for the new town council, I am
willing to abide by the past; for I always hold it wiser rather to
judge of a man by what he does than by what he says. So far
of myself. Now; then, let me, as one of the candidates,-return
you my most grateful thanks in their name for the kind feeling
you have shown us. To those gentlemen who may be here who
are members ,of the several committees of the different wards,
who have canvassed, I am quite sure we are ail greatly
obliged, as on my own part I feel to those who have can-
vassed for me. tut I would turn to the committees them-
selves, and I.would say to them that there is undoubtediy very
great ground for the complaint which Mr. Holme has made
-with regard to the merchants of Liverpool. I must say there is
a foolish dislike to canvassing on their part in the various
wards. I think if those gentlemen will only look back a little
and consider what great men have gone round the town at
various periods, and canvassed for the station of member of
parliament for this town, they will think it rather unadvised iu
themselves not canvassing for the situation of counnou-coun-
cilineu. I, for one, shall du the utmost in my power. To show
-you the benefit of this—l now address myself more particularly
to, the candidates—l know three gentlemen who went round
esttlrday and- the day -before, and•they-have•undoubtedly de-
rived great benefit to their cause by canvassing, by bringing
over many of those who were, when they addressed them, dis-
posed to vote for our opponents, For myself, gentlemen, I
must throw myself on your kindness, and lay my excuse for not
canvassing, in having beets within the last fortnight or three
weeks closely engaged every day in the select committee, for
the. benefit of the candidates generally. I, however, will say to
those gentlemen—to my friends the candidates—that, if from
their engagements they cannot go round and canvass, at least
they can go to their several committees, and if their committees
then would point out to them any gentleman that they ought to
call on themselYes, I do contend that it is not only their duty,
but it should be their endeavour to do so. There is another
thing,. perhaps, I might say, that they ought to do. They who
have it not in their power to go to all persons in their own
wards, might yet greatly advantage their other friends by
pushing their interests among those voters by whom they are
more particularly known. These are merely hints that I would
throw out to try friends who are candidates. o those who may be li
elected, holding opposite political opinions to my-self, as mem-
bers of the new town-council, if.l should there meet them, if
they have anything to say against me I shall be willing to hear
it, and shall endeavour to explain my conduct in such a way as
I trust wilt be satisfactory to them. ( Loud cheer.) I hope, gen-
tlemen, your exertions will be crowned with such success as may
be of advantage to this town. • (Great cheering.)
Mr. KN APYER begged to propose as a resolution, that circu-
lars be sent to the merchants of Liverpool, particularly request-
ing that they would take a part in the canvass of the wards in
which they resided. He thought there ought to be some de-
gree of influence connected with the canvassers, as well as the
'activity which had been displayed by the young men who had
hitherto canvassed, and he would urge that every influence and
exertion should be used at this particular crisis, and at this the
eleventh hour.

Mr. PETER WRIGHT suggested to Mr. Knapper that his re-
solution would, perhaps, be better if embodied in the form of a
suggestion to the various committees than as a resolution for
that meeting, to which Mr. Knapper agreed.
Mr. SANDS, being loudly called for, rose and said, that he
regretted being called on thus unexpectedly to address them.
He regretted it not because he did not feel deeply interested in
the cause which had called them together, but becausl be was
quite sure that there were a number of gentlemen around him
who would much better occupy their tune, and give greater
efficiency to the objects of that meeting. (Cheers, and cries of
" No, no.") He was sure he need not state to theia that the
cause which had called them together deserved not only their
support, their concurrence, and countenance, but it deserved
their utmost exertions. (Cheers.) As had been stated by Mr.
Wright, in cases like the present, every man ought to be at his
post. He should not occupy their time further than to state,
that he most sincerely congratulated them on the unanimity
Of feeling and sentiment which appeared to prevail among them,
and he was quite sure that if they gave further evidence of the
sincerity of those feelings by reducing them to active operation
the cause would be won. (Loud cheering.)

Mr. TURNER, on being loudly called for, said it was with
much satisfaction that he took this opportunity of thanking his
fellow-townsmen for the honour they had conferred on him in
selecting hint as one-of the candidates for the new town council
of Liverpool. For this mark of their confidence, unsought for
as it was, on his part, he begged to offer there his most sincere
and heartfelt acknowledgments. Ile was not ashamed to con-
fess that he felt it a very great compliment that he had been se-
lected• by this vast community as a fit and proper person for
one of the town council for this borough; It was also peculiarly
'gratifying to him that it had not been thought necessary to de•
mend of him any pledges fair his future conduct. If be should
.he returned as one of their representatives., he should go into
.the council unfettered, and bound only by what his own con-
science might suggest in the discharge of his public duty.
(CheerS.) But, though he was a decided enemy to pledges—he
believed that professions were generally objectionable, as they
weremore readily made than they were afterwards attended to—
yet, he would nut hesitate to give them some idea of what his
views were on some of the leading subjects likely to be brought
before them. Ile gloried in saying he was what was termed a
conservative. (Cheers.) Ile was also a warm friend of civil
and religious liberty. lie rejoiced in seeing emancipation
granted to the catholics, and he hoped to live to 'see the day
when a silesilar emancipation might be conceded to the Jews.
Ile did not think this would at all impair the British constitu-
tion. They would ever find in him a warm and ucomproinising
advocate of that constitution. (Cheers.) He considered the
establishment of the church in connexion with the state neces-
sary to the prosperity of the empire. Yet he was willing to
render his humble assent to any rational reform, or correcting
any real abuses which might be proved to exist iu that estab-
lishment. Ile thought the correction of those abuses would
only strengthen its stability instead of weakening it. With re-
gard to local politics, he would not detain them long. He was
a warns friend of retrenchment and economy in any public
body. At the same time, he thought every public servant
should receive a liberal reward for his services, as an incentive
for the office, and to ensure the strict discharge of his duties.
He thought the funds of the corporation could not be better
employed than in promoting education and in providing re-
lief fur the iudigenf. He was also glad to see that the
funds of the corporation might he applied to several local
objects, such as lighting and paving the town, and for the
establishment of a sufficient day police. (Cheers.) To the
furtherance of such objects as these, his best attention should
at all times be devoted. He would not longer detain them,
but begged sincerely to thank them for the attention they had
given hint, and to assure them if he should be elected to serve
his fellow townsineu they might depend on his best exertions
on their behalf.
Mr. GRANT was then called for. He was sure that theist
who knew him best would believe that he bad not come for-
ward as a candidate to gratify any private object of his own.
But he took it to be the duty or every man, on occasion# like
the preieht, to place himself at the disposal of his fellow-
townsmen, notwithstanding the liability to censure' and trouble
with which the discharge of his public duties might be attetded..
Influenced by feelings like these, though having ttaluieh greater
inclination for private life; he had collie forward; influenced by
the samu feeliegs whiclf had been so ably eep}•essed by Mr.
Wright and Mr. Turner, he•Shiild not at that Moment allude
NOre pa'rticularly to the subject, as he should Breve the honour
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ward, when he should endeavour to express his sentiments more
.dearly, and with a little more preparation. (Loud cheers.)
He agreed entirely with Mr. Turner in what. he had uttered
with regaid to the established institutions of the country, and was
also anXioti4 that every think bordering on abuse should be
rectified, lie would be guided by nu other motives if eleeted
as a couticilmen, but what in his conscience he believed to be
beSt calculated to promote the good of the
:public, and if it were
their pleasure to place him in that situation, they might depend
upon his best exertions in their behalf.
Mr. HENRY LAWRENCE, being called upon for Soule expres-
sion of his sentiments, must say, with sonic diffidence, that he
Was not in the habit of public speaking. (Cheers and laughter.)
For a lawyer this might at first appear ridiculous; but lie did
assure them that this was the firSt time he had ever addressed
any public meeting except on professional bUsiness: On all
other occasions he had been accustomed to advocate.the. ,cause
of others, and not his own. (Cheers and laughter;) On the
present occasion he was called on to speak on his own account,
and, therefore, he could not do it without some considerable
hesitation. When some of his neighboUrs of Rodney-Street ward
called on him to come forward as a candidate, he confessed he
hesitated some time about accepting their proposal; but, cons
ceiving it to be the duty of every person who has the welfare of
his country at heart to come forward when his fellow-townsmen
should deem him worthy of their notice, be had consented to
come forward at their request. Having once fairly embarked
in the cause, he did feel great anxiety in his success. He felt
highly indebted to those gentlemen who had advocated .his.
Cause and canvassed for him. After the short address which
himself and friends had put out together, they had been charged
with a degree of egotism which did not belong to them. A very
worthy gentleman had said they had praised theinielves so
much in it, that they had nut left anything for their best friends
to say in their behalf. (Laughter.) What he had said was,
that they hoped to be supported on account of their past con-
duct. to the observations which had been made by Mr. Holme
and by some others of the worthy candidates, he perfectly
agreed. The only difference between Mr. Turner and him Self
was, that he was one of the old despised constitutional wings.
(Laughter.) 'He had always professed himself an advocate for
reform and. for civil and religious liberty. When, however, he
found that the best men who had constituted the administration
of Earl Grey were deserting one after the other, and to use the
able simile of Mr. Holine, that the remainder were going with
railroad velocity down an inclined plane, without a check on
the wheel, in a course which he did not-.approve, lie was obliged
to desert also. He would now say, however, that theysvere the
tree reformers; to use the language of his friend—"they wished
to prune the excrescences froin.the tree of the constitution, and
not to destroy it altogether." He begged to thank the meeting
fin- the attention which they had paid to him.
Mr. Asrenose Lace then Caine tbrivard. As much had been
said of what ought to be the conduct of those who got into the
new town-council he should not trouble them with any remarks
oji that subject. One thing, however, he must say, he thought
this question irid very impr6perly-beeu Made .a
- The very object sought to be. avoided -in the muatcipal
reform- bill was to prevent corporations from being made
political -engines. Now, if this conduct is to be adopted, they
Will be as much political engines as they ever have been. They
had heard it said that those candidates whi. Were supported by
the reformers—and he confessed that to a certain extent he was
a reformer—were the only 'gentlemen to whom they could look
for good and efficient government in the new council. He con-
fessed that if this were true he should be ashamed to stand there.
He hoped that he and every other candidate who was in that
room were as much opposed to misgovernment and extrava-
gance as any one among their opponents. He did not know
why any party should arrogate to themselves alone economy
and pod government. They were men alike, and he trusted
they should all do their duty, looking only to the advantage of
the town. He cared not with what party any measure might
originate, haviug that end in view, for it he would vote. (Great
cheering, and cries of .‘ Bravo.")
No other gentleman coining forward, the Chairman said the
business of the day being finished, the meeting was dissolved.
Mr. Alderman WRIGHT then proposed a vote of thanks to
the Chairman for his able conduct in the chair, which was se-
conded by Mr. KNA PPER, and unanimously carried amidst
loud approbation, and the meeting separated, having first given
three enthusiastic cheers for the success of the conservative
cause.

THE KING'S FERRY ON THE DES.—We are authorised by
his worship the Mayor, to state, that the corporation of Liver-
pool have from the commencement taken a deep interest in the
completion of the King's Ferry, according to the ingenious and
admirably adapted plans of Mr. 'James Boydell, jun. The
corporation at an early stage of the undertaking, and at the re-
quest of Lord Mostyn, sent their surveyor, who reported of it in
the most favourable terms, and in consequence of this they Ten,
dered all the aid in their power to carry the bill through parlia-
ment. The ferry is, indeed, by means of Mr, Boydell's appa-
ratus, one of the greatest improvements in this part of the coun-
try, and reflects the highest credit on the inventor of submarine
endless chains. The contrivance, we venture to 'say, is the
simplest, the safest, the most expeditious, and the most effective
that ever was constructed orapplied to rapid rivers.
, "young
gentlemen ROTA INSTITUTION.—Yesterday tne young
gentlemen of this institution underwent a public examination
in the hall of the institution, before a number of ladies and
gentlemen. Several of the young gentlemen gave very pleas-
ing evidence of their ability and attainments in oratorical de-
livery, by reciting chosen pieces of considerable length. Master
Fletcher delivered, in very good style, and with appropriate
emphasis, "Cataline's exhortations to the conspirators," in
Latin; and Master Foreshaw displayed great effirt of memory
in reciting Cambridge's prize poem, " Venice." Prizes are,
we understand, to be awarded to the pupils according to merit.
EXTRAORDINARY DISPATCH.—The Barque Barbadian, Jer.
Nagle, master, belonging to Messrs. Heves, Litherlaud and
Co., arrived here on Tuesday evening from Barbados, .after
having completed her twelfth voyage in the space of three years,
ten months, and seven days; the lest four voyages have been
made in thirteen months and seven days—dispatch which is
without a parallel in the annals of naval history. .

CRUELTY—CAUTION TO CART DRIVERS.—On Wednesday,
at the Dock Police-ollice, an information was laid before Mr.
Alderman Sandbuch, by Foster, Esq., surveyor to the cur-
poration, against Isaac Litley, the driver of one of Mr. Robert
Emery's carts.
.Mr. Foster stated that he was driving in his
gig-past the end .of Duke-streetovlien.he could not get on for
defendaut's cart, which obstructed the road. On loi.iking at it,"
he found it heavily laden with earthenware, and but one horse
in it, which was unable to move it any further, and the per-
spiration was actually running down the poor animal; he told
the man he should inform against him, and afterwards it ap-
peared he had yoked another horse to the cart and proceeded.
A constable stated that, on being sent to the carter, he found
him in the act of borrowing another horse. His own had been
down from fatigue, and was most shamefully abused. ,The carter
was find 10s. and costs.
THE INJUNCTION.—We understand that a full detail of the
proceedings before the master of the rolls, on the clergy endow-
ment question, will be speedily published in the form ut a
pamphlet.
Passengers per Barbadian, from Barbados, Mrs. Lovell, Miss
Austin, Miss White, Mr. Major. Miss Major, Master C. Major,
Master it. Major, Mr. Applewhaite, Mr. Grant, Mr. 'amiss,
Mr. Jones, and a servant. .
STREETS.—A correspondent requeits us to call the at-
tention of the parish authorities to the dangerous state of Upper
Oakes-street, a considerable thoroughfare near St. Jude's Church.
A child, six years of age, was nearly killed on Monday by a
cart being upset owing to the almost impassable state of the
road in this street.
INFoassazioNs.—Ou Wednesday, Michael M'Kinnon was
fined by Mr. Alderman Robinson, 12 and costs, for having his
beer-house open after the hours allowed by law.—Jane Murphy
was fined £2 and costs, for allowing beer to be drunk in her
house on Sunday last, during the hours of divine service.—
Elizabeth Meadowcroft, who keeps a beer-house in Peter-
street, was tined dOs. and costs, for allowing card playing in her
house on Saturday night last.—Thonias Stockdale, soap-manu-
facturer, of Canning-street, Vauxhall-road, was fined ss. and
costs, for allowing his cart to stand in the street without any
one near it, for upwards of half au hour, on Monday afternoon
last.—Thomas Stockdale, the younger, soap manufacturer, of
Canning-street, was fined ss. and 3s. lid. costs, for allowing his
cart to obstruct the thoroughfare on Monday afternoon last.—
William Garner, of London-road, tobacconist, was fined ss. and
3s. 641. costs, " for exercising, his worldly calling on the sabbath
day;" he having been charged with retailing some snuff on the
afternoon of Sunday last.—Michael Cunningham and Owen
Mellin, who keep provision cellars, were each fined ss. and
3s. 6d. costs; for selling potatoes during the hours of divine
service, on Sunday last.--Catherine Thomas, who keeps a :hop
in Kaye-street, was fined ss. and costs, for selling flour at her
shop on Sunday morning last, during the hours of divine
service.—John Smith, of Burlington-street, was fined ss. and
3s. 6d. costs, for allowing his chimney to get so foul as to take
fire on Sunday evening last, to the great danger of the sur-
rounding neighbourhood.—John Camden, the driver ;of Mr.
Wainwright's cart, was tined ss. and costs, for driving his cart
full gallop down Park-lane, on Sunday afternoon about three
o'clock, to the great danger of the passengers.
FUNERAL OF SIR H. P. HoGnroN, BART.—The remains of
this lamented gentleman were interred in the family sepulchre
at Walton, near Preston. The funeral, by particular desire of
the family, was strictly private, and was attended solely by the
relatives of the deceased, the medical gentlemen who ba-d at-
tended him, and the stewards. The procession consisted of a
hearse, three private carriages—in which rode Sir Henry Bold
Hoghton, Batt., (son and successor of the deceased, It. T.
Parker, Esq. and J. Clegg, Esq.—and three mouruing coaches.
About half-past ten the train reached Walton church, where a
considerable number of persons had assembled to witness the
ceremony. The funeral set vice was read in a most impressive
manner by the Rey. H. W. M'Grath. Sir H. P. Hoghtou,
who was much esteemed as a private gentleman, but from bodily
infirmities had mingled but rarely in public life. *as chosen one
of the members for the borough of Preston (conjointly With
Lord Stanley)lu 1796, and served a short session in parliament.

WIGAN MurnCirAL Avyants.—(From our own correspon-
dent.)—The appearance of matters in this old corporation
borough indicates a severe trial of strength on the 26th, The
radicals here, like Most places, have made the nomination of
town council a party question, and, therefore, out of 30 they
placed in their list 21 Roman catholics and dissenters, and of
the other nine professing churchmen, nothingtonians' not more
than
jhree hold opinions favourable to tho viistence of a church
establishment.. But we have the satisfaction of statiag, from
the best information, that the government of this borough is not
likely to fall into the hands of such men. The-conservatives
have now been roused to a state of activity, and no doubt
remains of the result being favourable to their cause.,,'

THE IRISH CLERGY.—MILETING AT WA RRINGTON:—A
meeting was held on 'Thursday, in the Sessions'-icnn, War-
riogton, fur the purpose of taking into consideration the case of
.the Irish clergy, and of entering into a subscription for their
relief. The chair was taken by John Clare, Esq., constable of
thefborough, and several resolutions for the above purpose were
passed, and a subscription entered into iu the room. A coin.
milieu was appointed to solicit further donations from the in-
habitants. • The meeting was addressed by J. W. Patten, Esq.;
M.P., J. I. Blackburne, Esq., M.P., the Rev. 'l'. 0. Boyne,
and the Chairman.
• Lord Dinorben and the llon. Misses Hughes are in Paris,
and will probably remain there for the winter. The family wilt
not visit Kimmill Park before the spt lug of the next year.
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APPOINTM RNT.—Mr. S. Burridge, principal officer of the
Customs at Poulton, has been appointed by the commissioners
for executing the office of Lord High Admiral receiver of the
droits, rights, and perquisites of admiralty for Ptesten, Lytham,
and the coast to R“ssall and Pilling, including the waters of
the Ribble and the Wyre.
CENTRAL AGRICULTUE /IL MSOCIATION.—On Tuesday a
meeting of landholders, eigriculturisq, and deputies from the
several associations throughout the country, was held at the
Freemason's Tavern, Louden. Mr. Ormsby Gore, fur
Shropshire, was called to the Chair. The object of the meeting
was tire formation of a central agricultural association, in order
to bring into one focus the strength and influence of that in-
terest, with a view to obtain a parliamentary inquiry into the
causes of the present distressed state of the agriculturists, and
the best means-of obtaining relief.' The necessary resolution,
for the formation of the society Were proposed and carried una-
nimously.
On Sunday, the 6th instant„, five respectable Roman Catho.
lies received the sacrament of the Lord's Supper in St. Audoen'ti
Church, Dnblin ; and we have beard that eighteen others intend.
to eonfortn in the same manner on Christmas