The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-10-31 00:00:00

NORTH TOXTETH WARD.

Avery large and influential MEETING of the ELECTORS
of NORTH TOXTETH WARD was held at the house of Mrs.
Hilton, Park-road, Liverpool, on the Evening of Thursday,
the 26th of October, 1854, convened by the Friends of W. H.
OGDEN, Esq., for the purpose of proposing and adopting
such measures as may be deemed necessary to secure the
return of that Gentleman to Represent the interest of the
Electors and Inhabitants of North Toxteth Ward, in the
Town Council of Liverpool.

Mr. JOSEPH BETTELEY haying been called to the Chair,
It teas Resolved, that a Committee be formed to carry out
the intentions of the Meeting, by using every means in their
power to secure the Election of VV. H. Ogden, Esq., as aTown
Councillor to Represent the interests of North Toxteth Ward
in Council, in Liverpool.

A Committee of Gentlemen ~as consequently formed, con-
sisting of upwards of Eighty Gentlemen of standing and
influence in the Ward, with power to add to their number.

It teas also Resolved, that Mr. W. B. Jones be elected
Chairman, Mr. Boyd Vice-Chairman, and the following Gen-
tlemen as Secretaries for the abovepurpose:—Mr.T.Rimmer,
Mr. Evans, Mr. Betteley, and Mr. Miller, jun.
It teas also Resolved, that a Public Meeting of the Electors
of the Ward should be called for Saturday Evening, to allow
Mr. Ogden publicly to express his views and intentions to the
Inhabitants of the Ward.

After addresses from several of the gentlemen present, and
also from Mr. Ogden, who was called upon to declare his
sentiments on the occasion, this large and influential meeting
separated, with an unanimous feeling of respect towards Mr.
Ogden, and a determination to use their best endeavours to
secure his election, and to keen the Ward from " foreign
invasion,"—not one of them doubting but that the sweeping
majority by which Mr. 0,-,den will be elected, will prove to the
rest of the Wards in Liverpool, that they have sufficient
Intelligence amongst the members of their own Ward to have
themselves well and efficiently represented.
JOSEPH BETT'ELEY.

TO THE LNDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF
NORTH TOXTETH WARD.
GH`ITLEMEN,
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I have this day been honoured by a Requisition from your
Body, most respectably and numerously signed, wishing me
to accept the duty of being one of your Representatives in the
Town Council, rendered vacant by the retirement of Thomas
Roydea, Esq.
I am also aware that another Requisition either has been, or
is about to be, presented to a Gentleman who is a stranger in
the Ward, in which there are names of Gentlemen who have
for many years been very large ratepayers in Toxteth•park,
many of them much better qualified to represent you than
myself, and to whom I should have been delighted to give my
support. To these Gentlemen we have generally looked for
the initiative in the selection of a Candidate, and so long as
they have been men well known amongst us, there has not
been much difference of opinion regarding their selection •,
but I think, when there is an attempt to place our Municipal
Honours in the hands of a Gentleman to whom we are entire
strangers, it is difficult to •iew it otherwise than as an
Infringement on our Privileges, and a reflection on our judg.
ment. To this it can scarcely be expected the Electors of
North Toxteth will quietly submit.
I assure the Electors that I accept this invitation with the
greatest diffidence. but I indulge in the hope that, if I should
have the hanour of being elected, and there should be any
reason to complain of neglect of duty on my part, I shall
obtain their forgiveness amid the recollections of the kind
and pleasing associations which, for a period of twenty-four
years, I have the honour of enjoying amongst them.
I am, Gentlemen, with sincere respect, your most obedient
Servant, W. H. OGDEN.