The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-02 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.

much cheering. lie alluded to the circumstances under
which he had been induced to come forward as a candidate.
In doing so he had had no other feeling but to
act under what he considered was a sense of duty,
and had only responded to the wishes of the ward.
The result was, that he was now placed in the proud po-
sition of their representative. He should not attempt to
thank them in words. He hoped they would read his grati-
tude in his performance of those honorable, and no less
onerous duties which would now devolve -.upon him, as a
member of the municipal body. While he felt the
honour of being elected their member, he likewise felt
the responsbility of it. It should be his earnest wish
to learn his duties and having so learnt them,
to perform those duties to the utmost of his ability.
(Cheers.) He could only again thank them, and assure
them that it would be his endeavour so to comport himself
in the position in which they had placed him that at the ex-
piration of the period for which they had elected him he
might hope to receive their - approval of his conduct.

(deers.)
Mr. Councillor BECKWITH next addressed the assembly,
and stated that he had been induced to take part in the
contest in favour of Mr. Clint, in consequence of some
members of the political party in the ward, with whom he
acted, having been guilty of a breach of faith on the occa-
sion of this year's municipal register.
Mr. BJtEAKELL, and other gentlemen having spoken, the
proceedings terminated.

SOUTH TOXTETH WARD.
Mr. Samuel Holme (the mayor), re-elected without op-

position

NORTH TOXTETH WARD.
Mr. Matthew Gregson, re-elected without opposition

MANCHESTER AND SALFORD MUNICI-
PAL ELECTIONS.

The following members were returned yesterday for the
city of Manchester :
New Cross Ward.—Messrs

T. L. Williams and John

Gibson.
• St Michael's Ward.—Mr. Hugh Warburton.
Collegiate Church Ward.—Mr. Miles Craston.
St. Clement's Ward.—Mr. W. G. Newton,
Exchange Ward.—Mr. Ivie Mackie.
Oxford Ward.—Mr. James Bake.
St. James's Ward.—Mr. Thomas Goodsby.
St. John's Ward.—Mr. William Bowker.
St. Ann's Ward.—Mr. William Gibbs. •
All Saint's Ward.—Mr. Richard Potter.
St. Luke's Ward.—Mr. Cornelius Randall.
St. George's Ward.—Mr. John Haworth.
Medloek Street Ward.—Mr. Abraham Dearden.

Ardwick Ward. —Mr. William Vickers.
Cheetham Ward.—Mr. George Wadsworth.
The following were returned for the borough of Salford :
Blackfriars Ward.—Messrs. Peter Gerdall and Thomas

Davies.
Crescent Ward.—Messrs. Thomas Barlow and James Hor-

rocks.
St. Stephen's Ward.—Messrs. Jonathan Thompson and
Joseph Lankey.
Trinity Ward.—Messrs. Thomas Marsden and William
Hopkinson.
Seedley Ward.—Messrs. J. Weston, John Parkinson,
John Tyson, Thomas Ashworth, James Gorton, and Jonathan
B. Statham.
St. Thomas's Ward.—Messrs. Wm. Leaf, Henry Dixon,
Wright Turner, Thomas Heywood, John Rowcroft, and
JohnlGreenwood.
Kersal Ward.—Messrs. Pearson, Radford, Pennington,
Myers, Burgess, Lofthouse.
St. John's Ward.—Messrs. Bradley, Cowley, Hoyley,
Long and Trapp.

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.

The West India Mail Steamer Magdelena, ar-
rived at Southampton yesterday afternoon, at three
o'clock, with the usual mails, and 452,192 dols. in

specie, of •'which 28,000 are on account of Mexican
dividends. Her dates are from Jamaica and Tri-
nidad to the 12th, and St. Thomas's to the 16th
inst. The markets were firm, and Exchange on
London was quoted at Jamaica at 91, Trinidad,
61i, and St. Thomas's, 32. The Berkley had ar-
rived out. The new Governor had arrived, and the
inauguration had taken place. The Magdelena
has brought home 43 passengers. The mails will
be delivered here this afternoon.

TURKEY AND RUSSIA.

We yesterday announced, that 26,000 Turks had
crossed the Danube, and occupied Kalifat. We
now subjoin the additional details since received.
From Orsova, another despatch says that 52,000
men have crossed, and that hostilities have com-

mewed.
This news is believed in, although not authen-

ticated.
In the second edition of our cotemporary, how-
appeared another despatch from its Vienna
;pondent, of a more positive character, in
words :

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VIENNA, Monday
The following is authentic :-30,000 infantry
and 400 cavalry, under the orders of Omer Paella,
passed the Danube at Kalafat on the 27th inst. A
great number more were in the act of passing.
An encounter with the Russians was expected
on the 28th.
We place these before our readers without com-
ment. We have no corroboration of them, nor
have we any reason for discrediting them.
The Paris correspondent of The Times has the
following on the present position of the Eastern
question. His information, he says, is derived
from "unquestionable authority" :—" The much-
talked of and dreaded manifesto of the Emperor
of Russia on the receipt of the Turkish declaration
of war, now turns out to have been a very pacific
note from Prince Nesselrode, in which he informed
the Four Powers that the Emperor, his master, re-
gretted extremely that the Turks should have so
misunderstood his intentions as to have pushed
matters to a declaration of war ; • that he deplored
the present state of suspense, and was most
anxious for its speedy termination. As the readiest
way of effecting this, and with a view to the imme
diate evacuation of the Principalities, he proposesthat a Turkish Plenipotentiary should proceed to
Prince Gortschakoff s head quarters, and arrange
the matter on the spot. I am informed that this
propoSition was declined by France and England,
on the ground that matters had gone
.too far
to allow the difference between Russia and
Turkey to be arranged in this summary manner,
but that those powers were ready to draw up
9, new note, based on the evacuation of
the Principalities, in which the portions of
the Vienna note, which had offended Turkish
dignity, should be omitted, or explained in such
a way as to leave no ground for Russian inter-
ference with the sovereign rights and prerogatives
of the Sultan. Such a note lam also informed
has been drawn up, has received the assent and
approbation of Austria and Prussia, as well as of
the representative of the Emperor Nicholas at
Vienna, and is now on its way to Constantinople;
whither the intelligence of its advent has beer
forwarded by telegraph. lam also informed that
the French Government has received intelligence
that Lord Stratford has procured the assent of the
Porte to a note embodied in terms almost identi-
cal with those of the document now on its way to
Constantinople. Such are the details of the pre-
sent position of the Eastern question, which jus
tify an expectation of a speedy arrangement.
The reasons which have induced the Emperor of
Russia to submit so meekly to the buffet dealt him
on the cheek by his Ottoman brother, afford
ample ground for speculation. Ignorance of the
state of feeling as regards Turkey in France and
England, a mistaken notion of the impossibility
of an alliance between those Powers. overweening
confidence in his own resources, and a contempt,
for those of his adversary, may, in the first in-
stance, have combined to induce him to take a step
which a better knowledge of his own position now
makes him desirous to retrace. Though no one
fancies that Turkey can cope with Russia in a pro-
longed contest, yet the chances of success for
the Czar are materially lessened by the certainty
that the first reverse of his antagonist will bring to
the succour of the vanquished the fleets and, per-
b.aps, other forces, of two nations each able to con-
tend-with Russia single-handed. The state of af-
fairs in the Caucasus, where it is now certain that
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