The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-18 00:00:00

giunitipai Chalon.

TO THE BURGESSES OF GREAT GEORGE WARD.
GENTLEMEN,
HAVING been called upon by a numerous and respecta-
ble portion of the Electors to offer myself a CANDI-
DATE for representing your interests in the Municipal
Council, in compliance with such request, I deem it neces-
sary that I should sacrifice some personal convenience,
rather than jeopardise the Conservative cause.
Having for many years carried on an extensive business in
your Ward, and during that time become intimately ac
quainted with many of you, I think it unnecessary for me to
enter into minute detail of my political principles ; I am sure
they are well known to all of you. In the Elections, both of
Parliamentary and Municipal Representation, I have been
always at my post, as the staunch supporter of the Conser-
vative cause.

I have ever been and will still continue the firm, unflinch-
ing, and uncompromising defender of OUR GLORIOUS CON-
STITUTION IN CHURCH AND STATE. I love my country,
and deeply should I regret that the rude and destructive hand
of Democracy were permitted to injure those blessed bulwarks
of our constitution which, in my mind, can only be pre-
served by imparting to the rising generation a SOUND SCRIP-
TURAL EDUCATION.

If elected as your Representative, you may rest assured
that I will to the best of my ability promote your interests
with zeal and fidelity.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
THOMAS ROYDEN.
'Upper Parliament-street, October 15th, 1842.

TO THE ELECTORS OF EXCHANGE WARD.
GENTLEMEN,
AVERSE as I have always been to undertake the duties
of public life in any form, it is impossible not to accede
to such a Requisition as I have just received, comprising
also among its numerous signatures so many names which I
have long held in esteem and honour. I therefore very
respectfully announce myself a CANDIDATE for the Re-
presentation of your Ward.
In this position it is fitting that there should be no mistake
between us as to the principles which would actuate me in
the .Council-room, equally as they have hitherto been the
rule and guide of my every-day life, and the avowal, whether
for good or evil, is made the more necessary by an impres-
sion which perhaps exists (nor altogether unjustly,) that I
am disposed to carry out those principles to what some may
consider extreme views. True, it is, that I do not affect
much moderation in the pursuit of what I believe to be right,
nor will I, under any circumstances, shrink from maintain-
ing, in its integrity, " the faith that is in me." But I also,
know that zeal without discretion, and some knowledge, is
little worth ; and it is with a reasonable mixture, as I trust,
of both tempers that I now proclaim that in politics I yet
adhere to the old-fashioned Toryism of by-gone days, while
every, feeling of my nature vibrates to the emotion with
which, to•a religious community, I make my profesSion of
earnest, faithful, reverent High Churchmanship.
The first of those terms conveys to my mind the whole
duty of a subject; the latter embodies what I feel to be the
right view of the doctrines, discipline, and services—the true
" beauty of holiness"—of the church which I revere so
much. I use neither expression uncharitably, nor in party-
spirit, but only for distinctness sake, and that (as I have
said) there may be no room for misunderstanding between
us. I may fail of obtaining your confidence, but I will never
abuse it. . . .

Such, Gentlemen, are, very briefly, the principles upon
which I ask for your support—whether rightfully or not,
" judge ye." I make no promise except of such practice as
those principles lead to, nor pledge myself to anything except
to discharge, according to my humble ability, whatever duties
may devolve upon me.

I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
JOHN NORTH.

Exchange alley, Oct. 14, 1842.