The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-04 00:00:00

PLYMOUTH.

JANUARY, 1.

Sißf—Having seen an inaccurate statement in the Globe of
the result of our Municipal Elections in this town, I hasten to
communicate to the public, through the public spirited medium
of your volumes, the results as far as they are at present known.
By the Municipal Reform Bill, this town is intitled to 36
Councillors and 12 Aldermen, namely, six Councillors and two
Aldermen for each of the six Wards into whieh the Borough
II" been divided. The election of Councillors took place on
Saturday last, as provided by the Act, when the results, not-
withstanding all the hypocricy, cant, and intrigue of the Ob-
structives, were in the several Wards as follow :
I. Frankfort Ward (in which the Tories are
strong)
2. Drakes Ward ..
3. Charles Ward
4. Sutton Ward (through divisions
among the Liberals) 3 3

5. Vintty- Ward 5 --- 1 ---

6. St. Andrews Ward (like Frankfort
Ward)

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Yesterday the election of Aldermen came on, when the
twelve following Gentlemen were elected, of whom three,
namely, two Liberals and one Obstructive, were taken from the,
body of the Council, and the remainder from the burgesses
at large :
G. Pridham (Liberal) 27 votes.
W. H. Evans (Liberal)
W. Eastlake (Liberal) 24
R. Fillis (Liberal) ..
R. Bayley (Liberal) - 2l
H. Knight (Liberal)
W. H. Hawker (Tory) Councillor for
Sutton Ward l6
J. Collier, M.P. (Liberal)
T. Gill (Liberal) Councillor for St. An-
drew's Ward)
T. W. Fox (Liberal), Councillor for
Vintry Ward l5
J. V. Fawnes (Liberal)
C. Talcher (Liberal)
Making a total of eleven Liberal to one Obstructive. So
uch for the cockoo cry of re-action here, so imprudently re-
echoed by the Peel Wellington faction. The election of
Mayor comes on to-day, when it is anticipated that Mr..l
son, a man of high professional respectability,ali
the Councillors for Frankfort Ward will ber..714 ism. t :as, how-
ever, I am summoned from Plymouth for the day, I shall not
know the result before to-morrow.
In accordance with the principles upon which the Municipal
Reform Bill is based, the election of Mayor and Aldermen
ought to have been vested, like that of the Councillors, in the
Burgesses at large; and the proceedings of the body, as being
representatives of the town, and not a self- constituted body,
should have been open fo the public. Whether this will
be the case, or whether, like the old Corporators, their pro-
ceedings will be secret, is a question time only can solve.
JANUARY 2.
It appears that the choice of a Council has fallen 'upon Mr.
Gill, one of the worthiest and the most enterprising merchants
of Plymouth, and one well known for the liberality of his po-
litical opinions. He had been previously elected, as you will
observe from the preceding list, a Councillor and an Alderman.

ANDOVER, JAN. 1.
The following is the result of the Andover Municipal elec-
tion :—Seven decided Reformers, three rampant Tories, and
two gentlemen of independent principles, whose politics have
never yet been fairly tried; I think, however, they may be
fairly styled " Conservative Whigs." We have had a fight
to-day for the Mayor, but it has ended as it should have done
in the election of a stanch Reformer (Robert Dowling, Esq.,
of Cold-harbour)—to the no small annoyance and complete
discomfiture of the Tories. How are the mighty fallen I

DEAL.
The spirited Reformers have in this town done their duty
by the election to-day of Comfort Kingsmith, Esq., Mayor;
B. Hulke, Esq., banker and solicitor, Town Clerk, in the
room of James Leith, Esq., resigned ; Dr. W. Hulke, M.D.,
banker, treasurer of the Borough-fund. Thomas Langley was
re-elected town-sergeant, after 36 years of faithful service.

DEVIZES, JAN. 1.
The Council* on the 31st elected the following persons
Aldermen :—R. Waylen, gentleman, R. B. Brabant, physi-
cia►n, J. W. Wall, solicitor, T. J. Heard, chemist, J. Dredge,
brewer, and R. Biggs, schoolmaster—all Liberals.
Henry Saunders, Esq., banker, a Liberal has this day been
chosen Mayor. The Corporation therefore consists of 23
tone ;of the Councillors, J. W. Wall, having been chosen
Alderman), 16 of whom are Liberals, 6 Tories, and 1 doubt-
ful; therefore this Tory borough, and which in former days
was styled " Lord Sidmouth's borough," at the time he was
Recorder, has now quite changed the character of its Muni-
cipal governors.
* We published the names of the Councillers on Fri-
slay last.

DOVER.
'The following gentlemen have been chosen Aldermen :
Cap,t. Edward Boxer, R.N. ; Captain William Rastall Dic-
kinso.n; Joseph Webb Pilcher, Esq. ; William Cocke, Esq. ;
Edward Rutley, Esq. ; Edward Pett Thompson,Esq. With
the exception of Captain Dickinson, the whole of these gen-
tlemen- were jurats of the old Corporation. Edward Pett
Thompson, Esq., has been elected Mayor of the borough, and
George William Ledger, Esq., re-elected Town Clerk and
Clerk of the Peace, with the additional office of Coroner for
Dover and ,its liberties.

DURHAM.
The Council -net on Thursday to elect the Aldermen, when
it was determined to choose one from the Burgess List and
lye from the Councillors, by which means the inconvenience
.lind delay of new elections would be prevented. Mr. Allen
I,:villiam Hutchinson, wine-merchant, _
_was elected from the
Bin-gess List having twelve votes. Mr. Shields, draper, had
r ; four '
Anthony Wilkinson, Esq., a Tory, one ; and Mr. John
Hall, c,rt.,-er, a WhiffV
but an old corporator who had opposed
the Reforma Zlill, one. The Aldermen chosen from the Coun-
cillors were--,z Ir. n •
; ,err. Robson,* upholsterer ; Mr. Bram-
well,* solicitor
..John Burrell,* solicitor ; John Trotter,
M. D. ; and Mr. j. ;T.
Marshall, solicitor.
Those mated ,r. to -s
Aldermen
for six, and the remainder for three
years. All the cre Liberals.—Leeds Mercury.
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In Leeds the result election
LEEDS.he lictio
of thas been highly satisfac-
tory. Of the 48 Councillors
returned, 42 are Municipal
-Reformers ; the remainder
either members of the old cor-
Toration, or candidates put forward in
ierity of the Reformers is larger than litiheir interest. The ma--
18 we anticipated. Our
eyet burgesses have
beyond all
cal-
culation did not exceed 30 to iu
sbown their attachment to reform
ba, the reforming
zed" our expecta-
ti,cas, highly as we had always thought
of
zea,l of this town. There is in the Council
nothing exclu-
sive: ..Re have persons of various
political 0, ,is.__c'me% about
all the principal religious denominations. 14 Lti?e List of the
!nion! and of
Munieli Igi ounc l Cillors We 'l-
v- • find twenty C

eight Methodists, ten Independents and Baptists, and the
remainder of the number consist of Unitarians, Quakers,
and Catholics. On this part of the subject we may remark,
that every Methodist who was proposed as a candidate in
the Liberal interest succeeded, and that all those mho were
proposed in the opposite interest were rejected without ex-
ception.
The effect of this election has been to throw the Leeds Cor-
poration perfectly open, so that no man's fitness for office will
in future be measured but by the standard of public estimation ;
and thus in reality a new and powerful motive is given to all
the inhabitants of the upper class to obtain the public estima-
tion and confidence. Corporate honours cannot be applied
to a better purpose ; and if there was no other benefit to be
derived from the Municipal Act, this new inducement to con-
ciliate general esteem would be sufficient to recommend it to
public favour.
On Thursday the Councillors met for the first time, at the
Court-House, when they elected the gentlemen mentioned be-
low as Aldermen.
Yesterday the Council again assembled at the Court-House,
for the purpose of electing the Mayor under the new Muni-
cipal system, when George Goodman, Esq. was elected
to that office ; and James Nicholson, Esq., was elected
Town-clerk.
ALDERMEN.—No. of Votes.—William W. Brown, Esq.
45 ; George Goodman, Esq. 41; * Thomas Beckett, Esq.
40 ; Hamer Stansfeld, Esq. 39 ; Thomas William Tottie,
Esq. 37; James Williamson, M. D. 35 ; James Holdforth,
Esq., 34; Thomas Benyon, Esq., 32; * John Clapham,
Esq. 32; * Griffith Wright, Esq. 31 ; * John R. Bywater,
Esq. 31 ; William Pawson, Esq. 29; * James Musgrave, Esq.
25 ; William G. Scarth, Esq. 23 ; * Thomas Hebden, Esq.
21 ; Henry Hall, Esq. 21. '
(Four of the above are Tories, and the remaining twelve
Reformers.)
The eight Aldermen whose names are marked with an as-
terisk (*) retires at the end of three years ; the remainder six
years.
Total number of persons who have voted at the Leeds Mu-
nicipal Election :
West Ward, 421 ; Mill Hill Ward, 539 ; North West Ward,
233 ; North Ward, 239 ; North East Ward, 153 ; East Ward,
171 • Bramley Ward, 1,212 ; Holbeck Ward, 867 ; Hunslet
Ward, 676 ; Headingley Ward, 119 ; Kirkgate Ward, 304 ;
South Ward, 220—Total number 5,154.
AGORRGATE MAJORITY.—The number of electors who polled
at the Leeds Municipal Election last Saturday, in the respec-
tive wards, including Headingley Ward, in which there was
no contest, stands thus :
For the Municipal Reform Candidates... 3,025
For the Tory Candidates , 2,129

Majority for Reformers ...

MAIDENHEAD.
The following is the result of the Election of Councillors :
Charles Williams,'Esq., ( Mayor from October 1834, to the
"eriod of his election), 157 Joseph Clark, 154 ; John Ed-
wards Langton, 142 ; Robert Nicholson, 117 ; John Higgs,
junior, 102; William Payn, 100; William Rivers Fletcher,
99 ; Richard Saunders, 95 ; John Green Bishop, 93 ; Charles
Plumridge, 88 ; Richard Swallow, 86 ; James Richmond,
77. The first four were members of the late Corporation, and
the only Tories out of the twelve Councillors are Messrs.
Payn and Bishop. The high position which Mr. Williams,
the late Mayor, occupies on the poll—although as Returning
Officer he was precluded from engaging in any active canvass
—shows how highly the rectitude and impartiality of his con-
duct has been appreciated by his fellow townsmen ; and it is
equally gratifying to perceive that three other Liberal Mem-
bers of the old Corporation closely follow him, in point of
numbers.
The Council have chosen for Aldermen two from their own
body, viz., Joseph' Clark, Esq., and John Edwards Langton,
Esq. • and two from the town, viz., Sir John Phillimore,
K.C.8., and Richard Goolden, Esq. (the latter a member
of the late Corporation). Joseph Clark, Esq., was elected
Mayor; James Smith, Esq., Town-clerk (with a deputy),
John Lewington, Esq., Treasurer, and Mr. William Buffett,
Town Serjeant.
It will be seen, therefore, that the Council have filled up
the offices of Mayor and Aldermen entirely with Liberals—a
line of conduct which should have been adopted in all Corpo-
rations, as affording the safest guarantee that the Government
of the borough will in future be conducted upon good, sound,
and Liberal principles.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.
The following gentlemen were chosen on Thursday by the
Town Council Aldermen of Newcastle :
Charles John Brigge, - Anthony Easterby, Dr. Headlam,
A. L. Potter, T. R. Batson, John Speddiug, James Losh,
Esq., John Fenwick, Esq., Colonel Robert Bell, James
Ridley, Esq., George Thomas Dunn, Esq., John Fife, Esq.,
Armorer Donkin, Esq., James Hodgson.—They are all Li-
berals.—Leeds Mercury.