The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-03 00:00:00

MUNICIPAL' ELECT

Some of the subjoined intelligence is supplied by our
own Correspondents, whilst other informatiott-Tegarding:th&:
progress and result of the Municipal ElecfibrisA34/ keen
obtained principally from our Provincial Contemporaries
TOTNES, DEVON.
The election of four Town Councillors for this Borough
took place on Thursday, when the Reformers carried their
four men by larger majorities than at any previous contest.
Among the defeated Tory candidates was Sir G. Adams, the
disappointed candidate at the election of Members of Perlis_
meat for this borough. This is the fourth time his fellow_
townsmen have plainly shown him they do not want his ser-
vices in the Town Council, or in the Imperial Parliament.
This election has excited considerable interest, as the Tories
have for some time boasted of an increase in their ranks ; but
on the first occasion they encountered the Reformers they
have experienced a most signal defeat. The two Aldermen
to be elected will be staunch Liberals. Sir G. Adams having
given up all attempts on the Borough, Mr. Baldwin, a former
Member of this Borough, under the old regime, and a late
Commissioner of French claims, has been induced by the
Tories to offer himself, and to furnish the cash for the monthly
Tory swill, but we fancy the result of this battle will prevent
his wasting any more money.
The result of the Parliamentary Registration is, that the
present Members arc stronger than at the last election.

STOCKPORT.
In every Ward of this Borough the Liberals have secured
large majorities.

POOLE.
It appears somewhat anomalous that this far-famed
borough should send two Liberal Nlembevs to Parliament, and
yet have had an almost exclusively Tory Town Council ; the
cause of the latter, however, is traceable to the gross frauds
perpetrated at the first election, in 1835, which were so fully
exposed and unanimously admitted by a Committee of the
House of Commons.

Even Poole Tories, however, will be compelled to admit
" honesty is the best policy." At the late revision of the
Burgess List the Mayor and one of the Assessors were of the
Tory party, and on that revision the Liberals had 55 voters
disfranchised in one Ward, upon an alleged defect in the Over-
seer's List. They nevertheless determined upon starting three
Councillors in each of the two Wards, and despite of Tory
gold, Tory constables, Tory misrepresentations, and Tory
tricks, have succeeded in electing the whole by a majority of
27 in one Ward, and 24 in the other.
The result of the late revision of the List of Parliamentary
Voters is the most satisfactory. The Reformers have added
very considerably to their previous majorities, and must, render
any hope that a Tory may have of representing Poole utterly
hopeless.

TRURO.
The contest, if contest it can be called, was carried on very
quietly. Six Town Councillors went out, and six came in.
Of their politibal opinions not a word is said.

NORTH DEVON.
The elections have terminated by the return—in the North
Ward, of Messrs. John Gribble and Richard Thorne (Libe.
rals), and Mr. Henry Martin (Tory); and in the South
Ward, of Mr. Marsh and Mr. Arter (Liberals), and Mr. W.
Young (Tory). We understand Mr. Dicker had no parti-
cular desire to be re-elected., and did not therefore persevere
presented a differ ent
in his canvass with mresultuch acttvity, or the election might have

NORWICH.
The Tories were here in a wretched majorit

LIVERPOOL.
There are of the 48 Councillors 32 Reformers and 16
Tories, and the 16 Aldermen being all Reformers, gives a
majority of 32 to the Reformers, there being in the Council
48 Reformers and 16 Tories. In the last Council there
were 14 Tories, in the preceding one 11, and in the first
only 5. This year only two out of the sixteen Members
of the Council retiring were Tories, and one of them,
from motives which have nothing to do with
has been suffered to be re-elected without politics,
Opposition.
The Tories, therefore, could hardly fail to gainpon this
election. Next year eight of tho retiring councillors, or ex-
actly half the whole number, are Tories. Then will come the
tug of war. That the result will show that they have no
chance to the conviction, if not to the satisfaction, of the most
sanguine amongst them, we have not the slightest doubt. In
1835, four Tories were returned ; in 1836, eight ; in 1837,
four ; and in 1838, either four or five, just as Mr. Isaac
Holmes is to be classed amongst Tories or Reformers. So
much for re-action

KINGSTON. UPON-THAMES.
The Tories here have been at their old vocation, and the
consequence is, that their trickery has even theril a tempo-
rary triumph.

HARWICH.
Here the Tories were beaten.

SHREWSBURY.
The result of the election of representatives of the people,
for the Town Council here, leaves parties as they met, with
the exception of the vote of Mr. W'Jodward being displaced by
that of Mr. Robert Haycock. The Shrewsbury Chronicle
says, the efforts made by the Tory party to win a greater raa.
jority were very extraordinary and criminal, and show that to
reimburse themselves from the public purse for the outlay they
have made, and the pollution they have committed among the
poor electors, they will put to defiance all popular opinion, all
sense of decency, and will openly stand forth unabashed
bribers, corruptors, and traders in men's consciences—on one
hand the " supporters of the Church—on the other, " Ene-
mies of Morality," the instigators of iniquity—the propagators
of every vice of which perjury, hypocrisy, drunkeness, and
every other social crime is the parent or accompaniment.

COVENTRY.
With the exception of Bishop-street Ward, where a mock
contest was got up between Mr. Mercer and " Mr. John
Scott" (there being no such name on the Burgess list), the
elections passed off in every Ward without opposition. The
number of Burgesses who voted was consequently extremely
small, and the whole of the business was got through before
twelve o'clock.

HULL.
The Hull Municipal Elections have terminated in the return
of ten Reformers and four Tories the latter party, for the
first time these three elections, obtaining the advantage, and
that only in a small degree. This result is deserved by the
Reformers in the Wards for which Tories have been returned,
for to their indifference and want of management is it only
to be ascribed. The Tories made great use of the Borough_
rate to prejudice the Reformers. They put out a bill, headed
" Retrenchment and Economy," in which Mr. C. Hammond,
of electioneering notoriety, and Mr. G. Popple were lauded
as the champions of these essentials to good Government.
This produced a reply. In those Wards where proper advice
was taken, and the canvass strictly attended to, though some
of them were far weaker as to the numerical strength of the
Reformers, the Tories were triumphantly beaten.

OTTINGHAM.
The Liberal cause hags decidedly triumphed in Nottingham,
and the Tories arc reduced to a less number in the Town Coun-
cil than at any period since the abolition of the old corporation.
The principal reason for this is, we apprehend, the growing
information of the people, and their increasing conviction that
Tory principles are injurious to the well-being of the commu-
nity. By the result of the elections, the Liberals have gained
ten votes in the Council more than they had before.

CAMBRIDGE.
The Tories were successful here in three wards ; in the
others the Reformers prevailed.

The local Gazette DONCASTER
gives the names, but no indication of the
politics, of the Councillors elected. We may supply the de-
fi cien cy on Monday_

THE HURRICA The storm that visited the
metropolis appears in the reports given by the Provincial
Papers to have extended on Sunday night and Monday morn..
ing all over the kingdom. The gales are described, as all ante-
cedent gales have been reported, the " most terrific within the
memory of man." Fine cows have been killed, corn-sheaves
strewed, mails impeded, trees deracinated, houses unroofed.
&c., &c. The southern and western parts of the country ap-
pear to have had the worst of it.
The Derby Reporter contradicts a statement that
appeared in a Contemporary, calling in question the conduct of
the Derby Postmaster, and observes, " We have always been
treated with the greatest courtesy and attention by Mr. Bain-
brigge : and no instance of such partiality, as the True Sun
has charged him with, ever came to our knowledge."
At a numerous meeting of the parishioners of St.
Luke's, Chelsea, held on Thursday, it was resolved unanimously
....." That a committee be now formed to draw up a memorial
to the Secretary of State to annul the union of the Poor Law
Commissioners as far as regards the parish of Chelsea, or to
adopt such other measures as they may consider necessary.
THE LATE H URRICA NE.—A pilot of the name of
Harrison, belonging to South Shields, who was at sea during
the dreadful gale of the 11th instant, arrived at home in
safety on Tuesday last, having got on board a vessel,whic
was blown so far away from this coast as to have to put into
Hamburgh.—Scotsman.
C lIAMBERLA IN.--The principal
the Town-Council last Tuesday was the election
Mr. Chamber.
the late Turnbull.
lain for the city, in the rooombusiness before
D. J. Robertson,
There were only four candidates,
A present clerk in the
present City Accountant ; Mr.
South Bridge ; Mr. Henry
Gardner,Thomas Blaikie (late Council.
nvdoirzfe"wMSrc.ott, late
Chamberlain's office ; and Mrt.reet.
The contest lay bets
then. former of whom carrit,d the
lor), spirit-dealer, Hanover-street.
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from Protestantism . . tit a few years ago,
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Rev. G. Spencer, brother. of the present Earl, and who was
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a Catholic gentleman idnisPtianrctisi
Phillips,
and eldest son of the late Member for the northern division,
busily occupied in forming an association of prayers for the
conversion of England to the Roman faith. These gentle-
has been latelystoppinogf
men have had several interviews on this subject with the Arch.
bishop of Paris, as well as wit :a other Prelates resident in the
capital; and the Clergy in the diocese of Paris have received
instnetions to repeat prayers to this effect in their memento.
Several religious societies (the Gazetteadds) have commenced
similar prayers, and these regutittions are about to be adopted
in other dioceses,