The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-02 00:00:00

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS-.

RETURNS OF THE NEW CORPORATIONS.
Reformers. Tories.
Banbury
Beaumaris
Bath

17
4
1

Barnstaple
17seycrlcy
Boston
idport
13ridgnorth l2
-*Bristol
Bury St. Edmunds
Cambridge 3O

Canterbury
Carlisle
Carmarthen
Carnarvon
Chester
Chichester
Chesteifield .. 9
Colchester
Coventry
Deal
Denbigh 9
Derby 3'
Devizes
Doncaster ..
Dover
6
Durham
Exeter l9 17
Falmouth . lO 2
Grantham
Great Grimsby
Hereford ......
Hertford
‘it,.) Hythe
moll Ipswich
Kendal
l' 11' Kidderminster
2 16
e,...- : Kingston-upon-Hull 42
~ Kingston-upon-Thames . . 9 9
'ull Leeds
:Al ~,Leicester
Lichfield OO •—• l7 1
Liverpool
1: ',, Lincoln
• - Liskeard l2
Louth lB
Ludlow .. ...
Macelesfield
Maidstone
Maldon
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 3l 11
Newport (Monmouth)
Newport (Isle of Wight) 9 9
Northampton 9 9

3
5
7

Norwich 2B 20
Nottingham
Oxford
Portsmouth..
Preston
Plymouth - 8
Pontefract
Penryn
Reading
Rochester
a; Richmond
4.1...., = St. Alban's 1 11

Ui. ;' Scarborough . l7 1
:VI:: ‘ . Shrewsbury
.M 0,.„ Stamford 4 14
-,,,A1 0,5, Stockport
..3,& r„ Sudbury 8 4
,e,i - Swansea lB
Shaftesbury 7
Tiverton ..
~, , Truro
~'-' Tewkesbury
Tenby 2 10
Totnes 9 3
Warwick
Winchester l3 5
Worcester ... 34 2
Wenlock 6 12
Yarmouth (Great) 34 2
a,, York
..orsof Reformers
..:4 -,•
... 453
...Ittif,a,
~, Tories

5
2
2

Total
* Among the 26 " Reformers" at Bristol are 6 members,
end among the " Tories" at Newcastle 5 members, whose
political sentiments are said to be " doubtful."

BATH.
•
-• (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).
WAVERING CONSERVATIVE WHIG DELINQUENCT.—The
Burgesses elected a majority of what were supposed to be Re-
formers. Since Saturday several meetings of the Councillors
kayo taken place : the results arc the most barefaced jobbings,
which have hardly been equalled by the late 'l'ory Corpora-
tion. Mr. Jones first made a schism amongst the Conservative
Whigs, proclaiming loudly against Mr. Crisp being an Alder-
Man, because, although a very efficient man, he was a shop-
koeperi and contended, if the Councillors were against him,
that he (Mr. Jones) ought to be an Alderman, and for six
;cars, • Several independent Burgesses were then named, and
'universally rejected by the wavering Conservative Whigs, and
amongst others Mr. Allen, although requisitions were sent
from two wards in his favour, -was also refused on the ground
Of having too much Corporation property 1 Mr. Spender, the
Chairman, for reasons too well known to the real Reforming
Burgesses, then prevailed on the wavering Councillors to con-
form to the views of the Tories, and the result was, in their
secluded midnight conclaves, that the Tories should nominate
an equal number with themselves. They arc now shamefully
beaten without a battle—we are now cursed with what is justly
termed " a milk and water Corporation," in lieu of the for-
mer " Pill-box Corporation."
At these cabals the Chairman imposed on the Councillors,
Owed readily acceded to by the tools) that their proceedings
should be private, and considered as " Freemasonry." At
these intriguing conclaves, the former Town Clerk and De-
fputy Chamberlain, and Deputy, are to be continued. Their
our salaries arc 1,3001., besides enormous emoluments !
Others also are to be retained. Mr. Hcllings went deputed
from St. Michael's Ward at twelve at night, it being hinted
there was a "job," and solicited the true Reformers to be firm,
and not to enter into any compromise with the Tories, and en-
Areated them to firmly stand by the Burgesses, and with them
:they should gloriously triumph, or with them nobly fall. This
lad no effect, for many of the Reformers had left, and the
Wave! ers had too far gone into this base coalition with the
deep-united and overreaching Tories. Yesterday the Alder-
:men were chosen, which were agreed to at their secret ca-
bals. As the Councillors respectively entered the ball, the
Burgesses requested their first meeting should be public.
After waiting some time, tho Burgesses (upwards of 500) in the
Mall, were clamorous at the doors being closed, when Mr.
Allen (one of the unsuccessful candidates, and thrown out by
the base and united stratagems of the Tories and Conserva-
tive Whigs), then addressed the Burgesses by stating that,
.23 yea.rs since, he stood on that very rostrum, and in that very
tell, to poll the freemen; and on that occasion expended
1,000/. in endeavouring to effect their elective franchise. He
,contended against hole and corner meetings, and moved and
7arried a requisition that their Conncillors' proceedings should
be open. The Conservative Whigs now in office refused the
requisition. As they retired they encountered groans, hisses
-Ro yells. The universal theme of the Burgesses was, they
ta:ld now be more careful in selecting the 21 Councillors next
IN ',ember, and then they could get a controlling power, and
not be SO basely treated. It turned out that the resolutions at
the cabals had been agreed to, and that the assembling of the
Lucselicillors was a mere farce, and a mere matter of form—so
nleb, for the wavering Conservative Whig apostacy.
(From a Correspondent of the Morning_ Chronicle.)
The election of aldermen has taken place, and confirms
'the fact of the general prevalence of Reform principles. The
new Councillors have made a somewhat amicable arrangement,
not generally approved of in their choice 'of aldermen. 5o
little time, however, was given between the election of Coun-
cillors and the election of Aldermen, that the course adopted
was perhaps inevitable. Eight of the new Councilmen have
been made Aldermen, and six persons, not Councillors, have
been chosen to complete the number of fourteen. Of the
:former, three are Tories and five Liberals, and of the latter,
live are Liberals and one Tory. We then stand thus—thirty-
cAe to seventeen Tories, making the whole Corpo-
ration forty-eight in number, with eight vacancies, which
cannot be filled up until the end of the year 1836. The re-
sult altogether very favourable to the reform interests, and
I have related it to you in its worst aspect; for of the seven-
teen Whom I have called Tories, ten only voted for the Tory
candidate at the last election. Mr. Blair, a very highly re-
spected gentleman,and a thorough Liberal, has been deter-
mined on as the first Mayor under the new Act, and was unani-
mously deputed to announce the names of the Aldermen elected
to the assembled people. When he named Mr. Crisp
among them, who was rejected in a somewhat Tory ward as a
Councillor, and who, during an excited period was chairman
of the local Political Union, the cheering was Ion; and loud,
end was a just mark of the respect for his character.

CAMBRIDGE, DEC. 31.
The toevvssn councillors to-day followed up the victory which
the burg
in their
eiceesca this independent town won on Saturday last
whole nu,Therl"! by the appointment of ten Aldermen (the
principles__allgmiveenn by the Act) of uncuestionably Liberal
sure that the iim,-b-i, too, of character and property. We are
of
fants must see in
have the interests this act, that the Council
hethe town at heart, for no more worthy
persons could anyN„
be found to fill the important office to
Which these gentleajte
folion7ve been appointed. Their names
and callings are as
Mr. Anderson, merchant : Benjamin Bridges, bookseller
and auationeer ; Ebenezer F.O",
tutner, banker and merchant ; H.
Grafton, a gentleman of for
ireerojector of the gas works
in the town; .C. Hurnfrey, bae);
C. Newby, surgeon ;
James. Nutter, merchant William, P
a man of large fortune; Elliott ~.ni:-..npson, a retired draper,
iith, auctioneer; Henry
Steward, brewer.
To4norroW Thomas Howell, Esq., tnic,,_ fsather of Reform. in
this borough, and a gentleman of inde
k "lent fortune, will be
elected Mayor.
The old corporation have left their successors saddled with
, y., eanbot: but feel
atelarge debt and an empty exchequer : but 'the' town looking
the character of the present governing bod • '
inte-
satisfied that the utmost attention will be paid. to,.m. .
rests, and will wait with confidence the adoption of 'gen.
`uch.en-
sures a 3 may be necessary to finish the good work which they

have begun. Afters() many years of misrule, it cannot be ex-
pected that the body politic should all at once assume a healthy
condition, but under the new management we hope to see it
reeover from its feeble state and become a useful instrument of
local government, instead of the nuisance which it has so long
been. The report of the Commissioners for inquiring into
this Corporation (Messrs. Long and Buckle) is full of instruc-
tive matter, and it will be one of the most important duties of
the new Council to ascertain if any steps can be adopted for
bringing back, for the public service, some portion of the pro-
perty of the Corporation which has, at various times been made
over to the members of the defunct body. In the course of
the inquiry the following colloquy occurred :
Mr. Commissioner Buckle observed that in 1820, the ex-
pense of Corporation dinners was 3771., whilst in 1832, it was
only 271. 13s.
" Mr. Harris, the town-clerk, said, that in the first men-
tioned year the Corporation only spent 841. in law, and had,
therefore, more money to lay out in dinners.
" Mr. Commissioner Long said the Corporation seemed to
have kept a running account between law and dinners, so that
they contrived to leave nothing for the benefit of the town."

Is not this a sad picture ? Here is a Corporation expending
enormous sums of the public money in feasting themselves
whenever their account with the treasurer allowed them to
squander the revenues, and only restrained from doing so at
all times, because the litigation in which they had become in-
volved did not allow of its continuance. We are quite sure
that we shall see no more of this species of corruption in the
Corporation, and we heartily hope that this town will enjoy, in
a large degree, all the benefits which tho Municipal Reform
Act is so eminently calculated to bestow.