The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-03 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL MUNICIPAL

ELECTION.

LIVERPOOL, Tuunsoar.—The Tories are eo...ii-hearted a
the def, at which they have experienced in the Nluiiicipal
Pant lection, just over. For months past all the pew er of th:. Las been exercised in threatening, coaxing, end bribing 11° timid and doubtful electors ; and in consequence of the
Impression which they thought these acts had had upon the
outtlectors, they boldly declared that they would carry fourteen
false of the sixteen wards. The result, however, showed bor.
L
were their calculations. The result of this election may
VL'e considered, without doubt, the greatest triumph ever
nin,ed by the Reformers of Liverpool, and most clearly esta-
80snes the fact, that were this borough free from the old eon-
-111,e:11c], the corrupt freemen, its late excellent Member
iittlrutra Ewart, and Hovvard Elphinstone, would now be the
rug Members for this great commerci it town. The result
,this glorious victory is great indeed to the Reformers, as it
.I,IIIY establishes their majority in the. Town Ccencil for ano-
ther four years. The present contest was perhaps ono of the
itstins.rpest contests ever fought by the two contending parties,
batriatell beaten Tories admit that they never before fought and
narder
thant they did this. The following shows how
gnally they party are Leaten :
Tory FINAL STATE OF THE POLI.
3lsjority.

P.cform
Majority.
Gross No. polled.
.111 r, ilotsoNnoo. 1, Everton Ward.
2
l‘lr. 3
Quayle*7 258
Mr. Thor Nnhon•i 2, Scotland Ward.
90
Mr. liorsjall* . . 217
No. 3, Vauxhall Ward. --i;
Mr. Preston* ll4
3b. Case* ...
Mr. Pr anklaNnocl**4,..St. Paul's Ward. ---2:
. - 163
Arr. Winstanley* 155
No. 5 Exchange Ward. f
Mr. Sends* ' 204
Mr. He; worth 193
No. 6, Castle-street Ward. --.
Mr. Birch (No opposition) . .
No. 7, St. Peter's Ward.
Mr. Priestley*
Air. Sandbach*
No. 8, Pitt-street Ward. 24
Air. Rathbone
111 r. Aspinall*
No. 9, Great George's Ward. 21
Mr. Coorer* - 172
Alr. Earl,*
No. 10, Rodney-street Ward.
Mr. Lassell
M. Wright*
No. 11, Abercroruby Ward. 14
Dr. Carson
Mr. Gladstone*
Mr. No. 12, Lime-street Ward. 5
Blackburne
Mr. Lace* — 253
No. 12, St. Anne's Ward. 75
Mr, srcao,
214
Vr. Davies*
No. 14, West Dolby Ward. 9
Mr. _Lawrence*
Mr. Holt
No. 15, South Toxteth Ward.
Iklr. Platt
Air. Smith* l'29
No. 16, North Toxteth Ward. 5
Mr. Duncan 232
Mr. ShPppar~*

4 Toles elected.
Reformers elected l 2
Cour,(,,e marked thus (*) were not Members of the former
T "e". Those in Roman are Reformers, and those in Italic

4As,„
—4INGS MUNICIPAL ELECTION.
The R , have in the late con-
test h eiormers n been most triumphant
tYikere• The Tories had succeeded in former years in car-
ol' rhea majority of their own partizans, but the cordial unionA
10ci,,. Reformers, and the active exertions of the Reform s-
alej`in, ha7e this vear secured the wishes of the Liberal
.ok
Thd contest ended as under
EAST WARD.
James Emary (Reformer) 326
William Duke (Reformer)
Thomas Foster (Tory) 214
Rene William L. Yates (Reformer) 206
ter: lected, beating Frederick Ticehurst, the pet of the Con-
jorir,ves, and Thomas Hickes—the latter by a large_ ma-
-11,,fY• A little more exertion would have returned a fourth
tanner in the stead of the old jurat, Foster.

WEST WARD.
fo 14e34rs. Stephen Purtland and Charles Dendney, both Re-
iillners, were returned, beating the Tory, James Rock, by a
le majority.
vot°7 the result of this election, the Reformers gained four
vi,4 in the Council, gaining Duke, vice Hannay; and Yates,
Tieehurst. For the future Mr. Planta had better look to his
,4the late contest chews clearly the real feeling of the town,
there is little chance of a second vote of censure on the Home
liiii,,trarY for putting such men as Messrs. Duke and Man-
(.:o4e7i into the Commission of the Peace; nor will the
the Borgto elect as Alderman a comparative stranger to
11
thermhs and an Ultra-Tory, instead of a man returned
in° ,c'w-townsmen, at the head of the poll, to represent
tue Corporation.

-L MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS,

THIS DAY.

(From the Bristol Gazette.)
STATE OF THE POLLS.

BEDMINSTER INARD.
o, LIBERAL. CONSERVATIV
.u.llll Drake, Returned. I No Opposition.E.
eikne. Y the foregoing it would appear that out of the 18 va-
l. the Liberals return 10, viz.—Bristol 4*, Bedminster
AyDl, St. Paul's I St. James's 1, Redcliff 1, and. St.
jr and Jabob 1; and the Conservatives 8, viz.—Clifton 4,
Cliltagustine 2, Redcliff 1, and St. Michael 1. It' the .1 fur
the j())1 last Week be added to their present 8, and taken from
The iber 10, it gives 9 for each.
v. Declaration will be made on Friday at the Guildhall.
11.P.1.41z----Xlessr Fi'op Fiske, and Prust fur the three years,
lilt, !larwood.foro'n—e'year to' supply the vacancy occasioned by
uek being an Alderman.

ns I make it, to 02'2,657/. His. 10d., in place of only six
oases, and J 65/.

So much for the candour and the pure immaculate adnil-
nistration of the Post-office under Sir Francis Feeding, end
the attempts made by him and his approvers to run inn
down, and fasten upon me a criminal information for libel.
But it is the system I have always dealt with ; and have
only resorted to the exposure of those who were the official
organs of that system, and I h eir defenders and a;provers,
when I saw -it to be necessary to do this, in order to
strengthen and confirm my own position.
In order to do this at the present moment, and to prove
how little Postmasters-General really did know of what was
going on—for ignorance and inefficiency have been my
chief allegations against them-1 shall here quote the evi-
dence given by th Duke of Richmond when he was Post-
master-General, before the Select Committee, for the reduc-
tion of salaries. The Committee sat in 1831 ; the Re-
turn commences with 1829, and includes 1536. The
Duke's office was bestowed on Lord Conyngham in 1834,
so that his Grace had ample time to inform himself',
and correct any error of judgment he might have
fallen into. His Grace thus expresses himself :—" The
Secretaries, both Sir Francis Feeding and Mr. Free-
ling, who is the Assistant-Secretary, are very efficient and
zealous officers—and I must say, from what I have been
able to see, that the Post-office Establishment of England
is carried on in as perfect a manner as possible." Again—
" I do not pledge myself that there may pot be some im-
provement practicable in the English Post-office, but I
found there were safety and security to the public, and that
it was under very efficient management."
Those who have attended to the discussions and disclo-
sures which I have had and effected, will judge now whe-
ther the Post-office of England was then, or has since
been, carried " on in as perfect a manner as possible ;" and
whether those compelled to use it have found " safety and
security to the public, and very efficient management ;" and
whether the Duke of Richmond and his successors in office,
with all the advantages of rank, station, and emolument,
and with two public Secretaries and a private Secretary,
paid all three by the nation, as they have been—or myself,
without any one of these advantages,--have been ab!e best
to comprehend and exhibit in true colours the real state of
what must designate as a wasteful, confused, self-suffi-
cient, and highly discreditable Public Department.
One of two things cannot be denied—either the Duke
of Richmond and his successors knew of the deeds brought
to light by my Return, or they did not. , It is not my pro-
vince to incline to either view of the question—the time
will come for its disclosure. It is enough for my purpose
to exhibit, in the meantime, by the abstracts appended
hereto, that in eight years, 10,293 cases of loss, disappoint-
ment, purloining, and abstracting of money, have occurred
in England and Wales alone—for the Irish and Scotch
plunder Returns are not yet circulated—and that the
amount involved in this astounding expose. is no less, as
I make it, than 618,9511. 15s. 11 id. ; besides 696 cases
without their amount being stated.
The questions for the nation are—Shall we be subjected
longer to Postmaster-General's law, and to this base sys-
tem ? Shall we be chained-to this grievous monopoly,
which, being held in spite of us by irresponsible hands,
violates our seals with impunity, and prys into our family
and domestic concerns and secrets, endangers the credit
and respectability of commercial men, and commits whole-
sale robbery upon our monies, when entrusted to its care?
Shall we have no redress ? Will the Executive Govern-
ment compel the Post-office to make good the sums which
the Return I am commenting on shows to have been en-
trusted to its care, and lost to the rightful owners—or
must they be losers, and go without, redress at the hands
of a revenue monopoly ? Will the Ministers of the Crown
sanction the continuance of this odious system—or will
they apply themselves, fearlessly and immediately, to find
a remedy for the evil ?

These, Sir, arc proper questions to be put, in both
Houses of Parliament, to the Ministers of the Queen.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
ROBERT WALLACE.

A RETURN of the Number of Cases which have occurred from
Jan. 5, 1829, to Jan. 5, 1834, in cash Year, of LETTERS, con-
taining MONET, BILLS, or NOTES, which have been Secreted
or Purloined, in whole or in part, by any Person in the Employ
of the GENERAL. POST OFFICE, after being put into any Post
Office of GREAT BRITAIN or• IRELAND, directed to LownoN,
in so far as this may be known, with the Amount found deficient
in each Case, and in each Year respectively.

Years. I Number of Contents of the I Amount deficient
Cases. Letters. in each Year.

1829...... None
16'30...... 1 101. Bank Note £lO 0 0
1631 None
1832 2 . 5/. Bank Note ''--
285 0 0
2301. ditto
1833 3 151. ditto
50/. ditto 70 0 0
i Sovereigns
6 I 1 £365 0 0

A RETURN, in detaa, of the Number of Cases which have oc-
curred from Jan. 5, 1829, to Jan. 5, 1837, in each Year, of
LETrEns. Franked or Unfranked, addressed to Persons in LON-
DON, DUBLIN, or EDINBURGH, or which have been applied for
through the GENERAL POST OFFICES of those Cities, contain-
ing Money, Bills, Bank Notes, or other Propert, which have
been Secreted or Purloined by any Person in the Employment of
the Post Office Department, with the Amount thereof in each
Case in each Year respectively, as far as relates to LONDON, in-
cluding ENGLAND and WALES.

Number of Description of Amount
Years. Cases in Property in each in each
each Year. Case. Case.
-
18'29 1 Bank Note
1630 5 Sovereigns
Sovereign
Bills of Exchange
Bank Note
Bank Note
1831 3 Bank Note
Bank Note
Bank Notes and Bills }
2,185 15 9
of Exchange
1832...... 1 Bank Notes
1833 5 Bank Notes
Bank Note
Bank Note
Sovereigns
Sovereign
--
.1 15 £3,213 11 9

From th

would appear