The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-03 00:00:00

RD: TO WA- CO UNCHI,

SPECIAL MEETING.—YESTERDAY.
Yesterday, at Tielve o'clOck at noon; a special meeting of
the Salford Town Council was held in the council chamber,
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town-hall, Salft

There was a v€

_ councillors, this being the first nieeting of the council
since the .extension of the municipal borough, which now
includes the townships of Salford, Broughton, and Pendleton.
The meeting of to-day .was held under a special provision of
the Amalgamation Act, for the purpose of electing eight
aldermen, -namely ; four for the wards in the township of
Pendleton, and four for the wards in the township of

Broughton.
His worship, the MAYOR, (Frank Ashton, Esq.,) occupied

the chair.
The TOWN CLERK explained, that if the gentlemen who
had been elected for the representation of Broughton had
agreed unanimously upon a list of gentlemen to be proposed
as aldermen, he believed the Salford councillors would vote
for that list ; and that the same course of conduct would be
pursued in respect of the election of aldermen for Pendleton,
in the event of the gentlemen representing that township,
having unanimously agreed upon a list. If, however, there
should be a difference of opinion as to either list, then,
probably, the Salford councillors would take a part in the
election of aldermen for Broughton and Pendleton. Pro-
bably, the same mode of procedure would be adopted on
Wednesday next, when the Salford councillors would have
to elect some aldermen. If, on that occasion they should
present, for'the adoption of the council, a list of gentlemen
to fill the office of aldermen, which they had unanimously
agreed upon, then, probably, the gentlemen from Broughton
and Pendleton would not interfere with the election. (Hear,
hear.) The Town Clerk then read a document which was
handed to him by the Mayor. It was a protest, signed by
Messrs. Drinkwater, Mellor, and Leigh, against the election
for St. Stephen's ward, Salford, 'of Mr. Jonathan Thompson,
pawnbroker, on the ground that, at the time of his election,
he was a ward assessor. He (the town clerk) apprehended
that, the protest having been read in the presence of Mr.
Thompson, it was for that gentleman to decide, whether he
would make the usual declaration on accepting the office of
councillor, and then it would be within the province of any
burgess, to take steps for the purpose of ascertaining whether
Mr. Thompson had a legal right to take a seat in the
council under these circumstances. That was not the pro-
vince of the council,
.but of the Court of Queen's Bench,
and he did not think it would be proper on his part, as
town clerk, to give any opinion of his own, as to what
would be the probable decision of the court, supposing it

was applied to.
Mr. Councillor THOMPSON said, he asked the town-clerk,
on taking the office of ward treasurer, whether that would
prevent him from taking the office of councillor for one of
the wards in Salford, and he certainly said it would not.
The TOWN-CLERU said that .was his individual opinion ;
certainly he gave it to Mr. Thompson as a friend, but not

as a legal adviser.
Mr. Thompson then made the usual declaration.
Mr. Alderman WORML asked whether the Broughton
gentlemen had agreed upon a list of gentlemen for the office
of aldermen ? . _

This question was answered in the affirmative
Mr. Councillor CAwLEY begged to announce the names of
the gentlenien proposed as aldermen, as they had been unani-
mously decided upon by the councillors for Broughton.
And he might be allowed to say, that the Broughton coun-
cillors were proud in proposing, as one of their aldermen, no
ether a person than the worthy Mayor
,who presided over
tiem. (Applause.) The gentlemen they proposed were the
fdlowing :—Mr. Frank Ashton, merchant, Prestwich ; Mr.
John Haden, corn merchant, Broughton ; Mr. Richard
Radford, solicitor; Broughton ; Mr. William Rearson,
manufacturer, -BrOughton.
Mr. CoUncillor WESTON stated, that the following gentle-
men had been unanimously agreed upon by tlie Pendleton
councillors, as fit and proper persons to be elected aldermen
for that township : —Mr. George Smith, solicitor, Pendleton;
Mr. Wiliam Wanklyn, silk manufacturer, Pendleton ; Mr.
Stephei Heelis, solicitor, Pendleton ; Mr. William Ross,
gentleman, Pendleton.
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The MkTOR : I declare the above named gentlemen to be
duly elected to fill the office of aldermen for the borough of
Salford. ',Applause.) •
The Tovic CLERK said, he was directed by the mayor to
take that opportunity of informing the councillors present,
of the course which it was proposed should be taken in order
to get the council perfect by the 9th of November. It was
proposed first, that if the councillors of Broughton and Pen-
dleton should elect members of the council as aldermen,
their places should be filled up by elections to be held on
the Bth of November, so that the council might be complete
on the 9th. The election of aldermen having fallen upon
two members of the council for Broughton, it would be re-
quisite to have another election for Broughton on the Sth of
November, for the purpose of electing two gentlemen to re-
place them as members of the Town Council. The election
of the mayor as alderman for Broughton, would cause a
vacancy in the representation of St. Stephen's ward, which
ffould be filled up on the Bth of November. Then
both as regards*Broughton and Pendleton, it would be re-
that some of the councillors, who had been returned
)y au equality of votes, should have a meeting to decide
Vhich of the councillors should first go out by rotat.on. And
le would suggest that the councilors of Broughton and
lendleton should meet together as soon as they conveniently
mid, in their respective board-rooms to decide these points.
Aid then it was desirable that the Broughton and Pendle-
tot councillors should come to some resolution as to the
conmittees they would wish to have appointed to manage
their respective districts, and as to the gentlemen they would
wisi to have nominated on those committees. Then,
again, it would be necessary that they should have
a preliminary meeting of the whole council for the
purpose of fixing upon some gentlemen who would be willing
to uniertake the onerous duties of Mayor, so that some gen-
tlemai might be agreed upon who, on the 9th of November,
shoulc be elected unanimously. He suggested that that
meeting should be held on Friday morning, at 9 o'clock.
After tie election of Mayor, the Salford councillors would
have to elect aldermen in room of those who retired by rota-
tion. And if the Salford gentlemen agreed upon gentlemen
to be ele;ted as aldermen unanimously, probably the coun-
cillors of Broughton and Pendleton would not interfere with
the election, in the same way as the members for Salford
had that Oay declined to interfere with the election of alder-
men for Broughton and Pendleton. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. LoraiousE was of opinion that it would be desirable
to have distiict committees appointed as quickly as possible.
The Tow, CLERK said he should be glad to attend any
meetings the Broughton and Pendleton gentlemen might
appoint, at which they might require his presence, with the
view of giving them all the assistance in his power. (Hear,
hear.)
The aldermenelected were then duly qualified, and assigned
to the several wkxds, as follows :
BnovonToN—St. John's Ward Messrs. Ashton and
Sladen, on the Motion of Mr. Lofthouse, seconded by Mr.
Bradley, SersalWard—Messrs. Pearson and Radford, on
the motion of Mr:Cawley, seconded by Mr. Myers.
PENDLETON-St. Thomas's Ward—Messrs. Smith and
Warklyn, on the notion of Mr. Weston, seconded by Mr.
Barrow. Seedley 'Ward—Messrs. Heelis and Ross, on the
motion of Mr. Weston, seconded by Mr. Barrow.
It was then arranged that a meeting of the Town Council
should be held on Friday morning next, at nine o'clock.
The MANOR congratulated the members of the council and
congratulated himself on the present, their first, harmonious
meeting. (hear, hear.) And he hoped that they would con-
tinue to act as a corporation in a united manner, and for the
benefit of all parties, (Applause.)
The meeting then broke up.

A GLASS COLIIMN.—The popularity of glass as
a milding material—arising out of Sir Joseph Paxton's Crys-
tal Palace and Conservatories—will cause glass to be employed
ins thousand ways, to which no one dreamt it was applicable a
few years ago. The Prussians have just resolved to make it
sere for public monuments. A column, consisting entirely
of Mass, placed on a pedestal
_of Carrara marble, and sur-
mounted by a statue of Peace, six feet high, by the celebrated
sculrtor, Rauch, is about to be erected in the Garden of the
Peace, at Potsdam. The shaft will be ornamented with spiral
lines of blue and white.

Maiame de Stael, one night, expatiating on the
merits ot. the French language, and illustrating her meaning
by the wird sentiment," which has no exact equivalent in
English, '..,ord Palmerston answered her that the Americans
had a phrase which to a nicety expressed the " sentiment" of
the French—namely, " Tis all my eye and Betty Martin."
A SAD ,hKE.-A publisher of a newspaper out
West, in the irst issue of his journal, returns thanks to those
who have loantd him pecuniary means, and gratitude to heaven
that there is nolaw in that State enforcing imprisonment for
debt. . .

SANTA ANNA—It is stated that great discontent
with Santa Anna's Eovernment prevails among the intelligent
portion of the Mexico people. Conspiracies and plots abound,
though notices of then are suppressed in the papers, which
Santa Anna has gagged with an efficiency only second to that
of Louis Napoleon.
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Ambition is frequently the only refuge which
life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide
at the grasping eye, the dariig wing, the soul that seems to
thirst for sovereignty only, anr., know not that the flight of this
ambitious bird has been from a Bosom, or a home, that is filled
with ashes.—W. G. Simms.

WRITERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.—The
writers were few and intellectual; and they addressed them-
selves to learned, or, at least, to studious and diligent
readers. The structure of their language is in itself an evi-
dence that they counted upon another frame of mind and a
different pace and speed in reading, from that which can
alone be looked to by the writers of these days. Their
books were not written to be snatched up run through,
talked over and forgotten ; and their diction, therefore, was
not such as lent wings to haste and impaticice, making
everything so clear that he who ran or flew night read.
Rather it was so constructed as to detain the reader over
what was pregnant and profound, and compel him to that
brooding and prolific posture of the mind, by which, if he
had wings, they might help him to some more genial and
profitable employment than that of running like an ()Arieh
through a desert,—Taykeg "NM en Ate."