The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-03 00:00:00

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 1.
This town for some days past has given evidence of the
struggle between the Reformers and the Tories for the
election of town-councillors, which terminated this afternoon
at four o'clock. Placards of exhortation and recrimination,
together with the addresses of the various candidates on
either side, have graced every dead-wall and vacant apace
throughout the borough.
The working of the new corporation during the brief pe-
riod it has been in existence has given general satisfaction
to the people of Liverpool. One of the first acts of that
body was to afford the town the benefit of a strong and
well-organised police, and the result has been a vast di-
minution of crime, as compared with former periods. The
consequence of refusing one or two licences to disorderly
public-houses has been that the great body of the licensed
victuallers of the town, amounting to nearly eleven hun-
dred, have taken offence at what has been termed the are
bitrary conduct of the new police, and this dissatisfaction
has been fanned by the Tories and their organs, for the
purpose of alienating the attachment of the publicans
fronl the new town conncil. They have succeeded, we
regret to say, to some extent ; but the introduction of
the Irish system of education into the schools of the
corporation has been seized upon by the Tories as afford-
ing the best handle by which they could play upon the
prejudices of the weak, and advance their own return to
power in the borough. Another weapon which they have
handled successfully has been the expenditure of the new
corporation. It has been clearly shown in the council that
during the ten months since it has been in power, besides
providing an efficient police, an able legal stipendiary ma-
gistrate, and introducing various improvements, the new
corporation has effected an actual saving of ten thousand
pounds.
The various misrepresentations above noticed have not
been without their effect upon the elections to-day. But
the general result has been satisfactory to the Reformers.
The town is divided into sixteen wards, one of which, in
consequence of the death of a former representative, elected
two members. Of the seventeen members so elected to-
day, nine are Reformers, and eight are Tories.
Last year the Reformers (each ward then returned three
members) got forty-four, and the Tories only four mem-
bers. The majority of Reformers in the new council has
been so overwhelming, that many persons—good Re-
formers—thought its composition would be rather improved
than otherwise by a stronger opposition, and they have
voted accordingly.

TORIES.
James Heyworth
Richard Houghton
William Shand
Job Barton
John Ripley
Charles Lawrence
J. N. Wood
John Smith

REFORMERS.
James Mellor
Thomas Bolton
Richard Bright
Thomas Brocklebank
V. Higgins
James Mason
Joseph Mason
Joseph Platt
George Ramsden

BECCLES, SUFFOLK, Nov. 2.
(FROM ♦ CORRESPONDENT.)
There has been a very severe contest in this Borough for
Municipal Councillors to supply the places of those gone
out of office, which has terminated in the re-election of the
same four (two of whom are Dissenters) in defiance of
every effort of Church goers and Tories to squeeze out a
Dissenter, and make way for a third man of their own,
a thorough going out-and-out Tory. The following is the
result of the poll :
Gilbert, a Churchman and Tory 287
Leavold, a Dissenter and Reformer
Norton, a Churchman and Wormer 284
Barker, a Dissenter and Reformer ..... 240
Newnan, a Churchman and Tory (the rejected) 238
The Council as at present constituted is composed of
four Tories, Churchmen ; five Reformers, Churchmen ;
and seven Reformers, Dissenters.

LEEDS, Nov. 1.
The municipal election for this great borough has this
day ended, in the return of 13 Reformers and three Tories.
In Leeds the new corporation has worked admirably,