The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-05 00:00:00

BERWICK.

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ELECTION OF ALDERMEN.—The Councillors again met at
twelve o'clOck, on Thursday, whew, they proceeded to the elec-
tion of Aldermen, which was decided in thei- c election of the
following gentlemen :—Messrs. William W.
..in, ironmonger,
George Paterson, draper, Thomas Thom ' . ; harbour-mas-
ter, Charles Robson, gentleman, John Dewail.corn-Merchant,
and Thomas Bocrue, draper. • ...
ELECTION OF 7MA YOIL—The Council held their first quar-
terly meeting to-day, at which they re-elected John Wilson,
Esq., Tweed. House, Mayor ; T. J. Steel, Esq., Treasurer ;
M. Jameson, Esq., Town Clerk ; and at the same time John
Pratt, Esq., was appointed Sheriff'.

PRINZ ANCE.—A few TO'ries have been elected Town-
Councillors here, but the majority are Reformers; we give
the list below. They Mayor and -five Aldermen weree lected
from the. Councillors. Besides this, Mr. P. Paynter having
been elected in both wards, and Mr. Grenfeß having resigned
from conscientious scruples respecting the declaration, a fresh
election will take place to fill up the vacancies.
ST. IVE S. Notwithstanding the spirited exertions of
the Reformers in this town. the local influence of Mr. liaise
prevailed, and the new Town-Council consists of men of his
choice.
HELSTON.—The Reformers have triumphed here, hav-
ing a majority in the Council.
DAVE NT R Y.—lf the information we have received from va-
rious sources be correct, the conduct of certain official per-
sonages at the election of Town Councilmen, has been most
scandalous and disgraceful. We have seen a letter from a
very respectable inhabitant, stating that the poll was taken by
the impartial Bailiff on Saturday evening and Sunday morn-
ing.. That though the result, of course, was not announced to
the Whigs tilrtwo o'clock on Monday : the state of the
,poll
was known to the Tories on the previous morning (Sunday.)
For the sake of the authorities at Daventry, we should hope,
that the above statements cannot be true. If they are, then
the election must be set aside, and the guilty parties be ex-
posed, not only to the contempt of Northamptonshire, but the
execrations of the kingdom. Mr. Geo.:Mallaber was elected
Mayor, and Mr. Burton., Town Clerk.--,Northampton Chron.
The lay Tories at Peterborough have been at their dirty
tricks again. They some time ago put into the noble founda-
tion of Deacon's School such a master as, we will venture to
say, is not to be equalled in the three kingdoms, merely on
account of his being related to a feoffee.—Nor(lianipion Chron.
The first act of the new Councillors of. Carlisle as a legal
body, was highly creditable .to them. Their first resolution
was declaratory of the right of the public to be admitted to all
the meetings of Council. The press will thus be enabled to
keep an ever-watchful eye upon • their proceedings, and to
sound the tocsin of alarm wheneVer they flag in their course,
or forget the principles on. which they were elected.—Car-
lisle Journal. .
DURHAM.—Out of 18 Burgesses returned to the Council,
14 were Liberals, and only 4 Tories. But for want of or-
ganization amongst the Reformers, not a single .Tory would
have been sent to the Council to ;tell that ,body whence he
came. In the Ward, where it was expected they would prove
most. formidable, they were left in ..a clear minority : the
highest Tory was below the lowest Liberal, and the person
they intended to have chosen as Mayor polled less by two-
thirds than the gentleman who is now likely to be elevated
to that honourable situation, notwithstanding the holy aid
of the Bishop of St. David's and two or three Prebendaries
of the Cathedral, who deemed it necessary thus to interfere
in behalf of their waning ascendancy. The vacancies caused
in the Councils at Sunderland and Stockton, by the choice
of Aldermen from the Councillors, are to be supplied by fresh
elections. In Durham a different. course has been resolved
upon. We think this is wrong in law; as well as in principle
and policy.—Darhant Chronicle. . . .