Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-10 00:00:00

he position of mayor. He woul

ao intention ofsaying:

word but for the remarks of Mr. Gladstone, and he.Wmild
repeat that he had come in uncanvassed by Mr. Turner or
Mr. Anderson, or by any person on their behalf. He had
supported Mr. Turner on a former occasion, and he was
prepared to do so again with great satisfaction.

The votes were then tak
follows : •

And the members voted a

F<>> Hr. 7'. D. Anderson.—Aldermen :—J. B. LloTd,
W. Bennett. G.- H. Horsfall, J. Parker, T. Robinson,
J. Cooper, R. C. Gardner, F. Shand, R. W. Houghton,
S. Holine. Councillors :—D. Crosthwaite, J. Crellin,
J. Shimmin. W. Barton, 0. Holden, T. Littledale, J.
Tyrer, C. Turner, S. R. Graves, T. Ridley, W. P.
Jeffreys, T. Wagstaff, J. A. Tobin, R. Hutchison, G.
Nickson, F. A. Clint, J. Farnworth, J. Robertson, T.
Vernon, J. W. Cropper, J. G. Livingston.
Far .31-1.. I. H. Turner.—Aldermen :—T. Dover, J.
Bramley-Moore. Councillors :—J. J. Stitt, R. Sheil,
J. Woodruff, C. J. Corbally, R. Haydock; J. Clerk, E.
Estill, T. Avison, J. Steams, C. T. Bowring, D. Rae,
H. C. Beloe, J. Rogers, J. H. Wilson, C. Mozley, T. B.
Job, R. Gladstone, W. Earle, J. Johnson, J. A. Picton,
J. R. Jeffery, J. Kitchen, T. L. Hodson; R. M. Beck-
with, J. Stewart, and the Mayor.
The' Mayon then said :—The number of votes for
Mr. Anderson is thirty-one, the number for Mr. Turner
is twenty-eight. I. therefore declare Mr. Thomas
Darnley Anderson, elected Mayor.
Mr. Anderson, the Mayor elect, was then escorted into Hods
o_ room by his mover and seconder, Mr. F. Shand and Holden Oliver
Alderman Cooper. The new Mayor having signed the Holme James..
necessary declarations, Holme Samuel
Mr. PRESTON, the retiring mayor, said—Mr Anderson, yous Xthi
noit
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—lt is my duty—my pleasant duty—to announce to you HutChison R.
that the Council has this day elected you to the high. and Jeffreys W. P
important office of chief magistrate of this borough. I 'jelegio'lm. B.
trust, sir, that you may, during your mayoralty, be Johnson Jame
blessed with that, of all blessings the highest— Kitchen Joseph
good health; and I trust, sir, that when your time of Lloyd
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office expires, that you will go into the arms of your Livingston J.t.,
fellow-townsmen and family with satisfaction. MellorJames,.!
The MAYOR (Mr. Anderson) having shaken hands Moore J. B.
with his predecessor, took his seat. He said—Gentle-
NicksoriCaaorrl e s
men, I can assure you that I find it very difficult to Parker James..e
express my feelings on the present occasion, and to thank Preston Wm...
you as I would wish to do for the distinguished itteDr :Jo ind J...
honour just conferred upon me, in electing me chief Ridley Thoma
magistrate of this important town for the ensuing year. Picton J. A...
lam fully sensible that there are many gentlemen in the Robinson Thot
Council better fitted than myself, from experience and ItofeersjJohn
ability, to have occupied this chair; anti that I am Shand
indebted to your partiality and kindness for the honour, ShandFrancis
rather than to any merit of my own. I can only Shfilßi.uchard.
promise you, gentlemen, that it shall be my StearnslunjamJes.
earnest desire, by strict impartiality in the Stewart John...
discharge of the duties of the office, to justify, in some Stitt John J.
measure, your choice. And while I speak, of the honours Pobi,iinni4ami?isios!'
of office, I hope I will not forget its 'difficulties and Turner Charles
responsibilities; and if I did not feel sure that you Turner JohnH.
would extend to me the same indulgence and support TryernrerouJrararhioess..::
which have always been given to my predecessors, I Wagstaff Thos.
should not have ventured to take the office. If my pre- Woodruff John
Wilson J. H....
decessors felt it necessary to ask for your support to en-
able them to conduct the deliberations in this room with
that dignity which becomes this. assembly, I can say I
shall feel it much more. In accordance , with the
usual most excellent custom, I shall attend St. Peter's
Church, on Sunday morning next, when a sermon will
be preached and a collection made in behalf of that ex-
cellent institution the Bluecoat School ; and I shall con-
sider it a favour, if as many members of the Corporation
and their friends as can do so will, attend. Again I
thank you sincerely for the honour that you have con-
ferred upon me. (Applause.)
The election of Aldermen was then proceeded with
to supply the places of the subjoined out-going gentle-
men :—Messrs. Thomas Bold, James Parker, Joseph
Cooper, Richard C. Gardner, John Bramley-Moore,
Francis Shand, Thomas Toulmin, and James Holme.
After the retiring members left the Council Chamber,
Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE addressed the Council,
and said that they now had come to the question of the
election of 'Aldermen, upon which he wished to say a
few words, more especially. to the party supporting them.
(Hear, hear.) The men who had retired from office
were not the men for the progressiye age in which they
lived. They had been long enough engaged in the
poesitsion they held, and they were gettinc, worn out in
th ervice ; some of them were almost blind, and others
were lame—in fact they were more fitted for a blind
hear,_ and cries of ~
asylum, where they would be taken care of. (Hear,
as he said before, Ott, oh.") They were far behind, •
An alderman should ebepraogressive spirit of the age.
and
bebaltleto carry out the duties
; h shouldi also
matters
slsof to state distinctly
devolving upon him,
importanceb that
left the room,-ay
by
and clearly his views upon
might arise in then Council
to write his own me also. It a.," be qualified
sought
re-elect the eight men who had just
was against
the party in that Council who agreed with them in
politics. (Hear, hear.) He asked was such a course
had been
either just or fair; mind he would, say also, that if the
Council did so they would commit a gross blunder.
tNhoemt o;nlayndthneiorwa,ge,
thatb ut theirtheseeight incompetencygentlemen
w"th
so long floating in the smooth water,, their
exteriors could not be but well tarnished
.1 both
and the shells
a graving dock until the weeds „ oh
sea weed and shell. They should be laid up in
t pos_t_on
Those seekin,?; to be elected to the importan h
were scraped off them. (Hear, and o . )
of aldermen in that Council, should be men w o were

After the election of aldermen had

was moved by Mr. John Stewart, and seconded by
Mr. W. Preston, that the usual allowance of £2;000 be
voted to the Mayor, to defray his expenses during his
year of office, which was carried unanimously.
The minutes of the last special council meeting were
read and confirmed.
The three quarterly meetings of the Council for
1859-60 were appointed to be held on the first Wed-
nesday of February, May, and August. - '

appointment of a'n'nual ()freers and directors was
then proceeded with.•
The standing orders for the regulation of the pro-
ceedings of the Council, and for the government of
committees, were then read.

APPOINT

711EliT OP COMMITTEES

Mr. STEWART said it would be his duty to move the
formation of the finance committee, and he then read
over the names of those who formed the members of the
committee for the last year. He would not attempt to
interfere with any of the members, and be had only to
say that the committee had attended to their duty, and
been as good.a working committee as any of the Corpo-
ration. , He would therefore submit the names in the
order that he had named them ; and, first of all, move
that Mr. Samuel Holme be a member.
Mr. J. H. TURNER seconded the motion.
Mr. STITT wished to call attention to a resolution
passed by the Council on that day twelve months, and
this resolution (which he read) was to the effect that no
member of the Council should be called upon to serve on
four or five committees while others only served on one
or two, but that the work should he equalised.
Mr. STEWART then moved that the following gentle-
men be members of the committee—Mr. J. Bramley-
Moore, Mr. James Parker, Mr. J. H. Turner, 4r. James
Cooper, and Mr. James Tyrer.
Mr. SHIM. moved that Mr. Robertson Gladstone be a
member of the Finance Committee in place of Mr.
Tyrer. He thought Mr. Tyrer would second the motion,
,
a
because he must feel it very tedious to be retained on a
committee that he bad never attended a meeting of,
and therefore it was surely very disagreeable to him to
attend. When it was considered that he had never
attended a r
would
de
fmeeelemtinugeh,.
ohelitgheodugf,ht that be a
sufficient reason for displacing
b hina - and he had no doubt
ttitre. Tyrer