The Express. — 1853-07-05 (London, England)

NORMANBY—against Church Reform—against the whole spirit and current of improvement—Mr. LIDDELL, when in Parliament, ever voted. In the House of Commons he rarely spoke without creating a smile, and on one occasion he covered himself with universal ridicule by a cock-and-a-bull story of untold deaths or murders in tho Sunderland Workhouse. But now, looking back again, as he always does when in a pickle or a dilemma, to the memory of CANNING, and the recollection of HUSKISSON, we are told Mr. LIDDELL is " a sort of Liberal." Will he vote for an extension of the suffrage? Let Liverpool ask the Honourable H. T. LIDDELL that. Will he support Free Trade principles as carried out in Mr. GLADSTONE'S Budget ? Would he have upheld the DERBY Government ? These are questions for the canvass and the hustings. Mr. LIDDELL'S liberalism is about on a par with his sanctity and Protestantism—it is the sickly reflex of Mr. DISRAELI'S modern Bolingbrokeism, jug as Mr. HORSFALL'S religion is merely Dr. M'NEILE'S bigotry at second hand.  Admirably selected by Mersey Toryism, Mr. HORSFALL is to play second best to Mr. LIDDELL'S first man. Bribery and corruption in infinitesimal doses, on a homoeopathic scale, voided Mr. TURNER'S election. So the Liverpool Tories (or rather the more violent of them) seek for a successor in a gentleman who bribed and corrupted Derby in a more substantial manner; after the old allopathic fashion. Having recalled Mr. HORSFALL from his continental tour, we presume they will also summon Mr. FLUL from his barber's shop at Shrewsbury, and Mr. MORGAN from his bricks and mortar, to repeat at Liverpool the services they rendered Mr. HORSFALL at Derby. Opposed to Tory Frineiples and Messrs. LIDDELL and HOP9FALL is Sir ERSKINE PERRY an old and tried Liberal, son of PERRY of the Morning Chronick in its old successful days. He is a retired Indian Judge, and, in the beet sense of the word, a gentleman. Though the son of a man who in the worst of times, and under circumstances  the most adverse and disheartening, kept the beacon of liberal principles steadily shining until better days dawned on them, Sir ERSKINE PERRY needs no borrowed lustre from the services and memory of his father; for he has acquired reputation of his own. Distinguished as one of the best Judges that ever sat in, and at last presided over, the Queen's Court at Bombay, Sir Easaisv l'eatav was first and foremost in the great cause of native education. He did not while away his vacations at the hills ; but rendered himself familiar with the internal condition of India, saw fur himself how justice was administered in the  country, and studied the native character and wants where few Europeans ever penetrated. By such means Sir ERshINE won the confidence of the natives in the Bombay Presidency to an extent unequalled by any other functionary; and lately in  England he has been one of the most able and Intel. ligent of the witnesses examined before the Lords' and Commons'Committce on India. But Sir ERsiilN2 PERRY'S qualifications to represent Liverpool are not confined to his general political opinions, or to hie special Indian information. Since his return home he has laboured assiduously as a Law Reformer, and is evidently prepared to carry out in rarhe, ment the experience he has gained on the Beach. Mr. MACAULAY, in a recent speech, regretted the want and absence of men of this class and calibre from the House of Commons. Here is one without the disqualification of being on the Bench. It is, then, for Liverpool to say whether she will give to Parliament the benefit of his mind, learning, talents, and liberalism, or whether—preferring the inanity of a LIDDELLand the stolidity of a llonsFALL—she will reject Sir ERSKINE PERRY,and so still further damage her political reputation and perpetuate her political shame.