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

COVENTRY, Dec. 31.

Twelve Liberals of the right sort were elected this morning.
The Reformers will not throw a chance away. We are now
therefore completely relieved in this city from the old incubus
of exclusive Tory Corporators-4 Tories only remaining to la-
ment the decease of their late short-sighted coadjutors in office,
who systematically excluded from their body the Coventry Re-
formers. The following are the names of the aldermen :
H. C. Adams, Esq. ; C. Harris, Esq. ; C. H. Menidew,
Mr. John Phillips, of Stoke ; Mr. Beyan Dunn, Mr. Tho-
mas Tann, Mr. John Smith, Mr. Samuel Hannell, Mr. Jo-
seph Howe, Mr. Joseph Newton, Mr. William Sergeant, Mr.
Mark Pearman.

EAST R
The following gentlemen hav
eillors for this borough :
J. Cottam
W. Mee 147 G. K. Holmes . ........ ... 118
J. Bullivant.. 146 R. Oates
J. Hudson
J. Mae
F. Parker

ETFORD. •
'e been elected Municipal Coun-

This list, comprising a majori
spectable names, will show holy
in the corporation of Retford.—

•ity of Liberals, and mostly re-
► great a change has taken place
—Lincoln Mercury.

GREAT GRIMSBY.

The following is the result of the election of Councillors
for this borough. The Tories expected to elect the whole
batch, but could only manage a fourth, or three out of twelve,
as the following list shows. Those with an asterisk (*) affixed
are Tories, the remainder Liberals :
Hobson, brewer 313
Croft, Miller 303
Brooks, solicitor 2821
Bennett, merchant 268
Warburton, spirit-merch. 267
J. Marshall, merchant 251
Unsuccessful
223
218
213
203
201

*Darin, innkeeper 251
,Harrison,
, ditto 245
IT. Bell, surgeon 245
*J. Brown, baker 238
*Bancroft, gent. 236
Gooseman, maltster 230
l Candidates.

*Phillipson, tailor
*Whitlam, gent.
*J. Bell, surgeon
Winteringliam, gent.
Kenningym, tailor

*Corder, gent. 189
*Bancroft, butcher 179
*Skinner, schoolmaster 172
"Gilliatt, publican 141
l*Bowman, pawnbroker 25

—Lincoln Mercury.

HYTHE.

The choice of Town Councillors for this borough, notwith-
standing all the arts, tricks, threats, intimidations, promises,
&c., of the Torics, both in town and the country round, has
proved glorious to the Liberal cause. The names and num-
bers arc as follow :
Liberals.

Tories.

G. Shipdem
E. Andrews
W. Marshall
Capt. Hart
W. Fritton, sen,
W. Rayner
J. Horton
J. Cox

151 J. Watts 123
135 1-1. Mackeson 112
107 Capt. J. Mackeson 102
97 G. Finnis 104
94
94
93
91 —Kent Herald.

LIVERPOOL-THURSDAY.

The town has hardly yet recovered from the splendid vic-
tory achieved on Saturd iy last. The return of forty-three
Reformers to the new Town Council, in conjunction with five
Tories, is an event as important as it is gratifying. Liver-
pool, in the opinion of many, has long been considered a
strong-hold of Toryism; but the contrary is the fact. The
impression has, doubtless, arisen from the return of Lord
Sandon as its Representative. But this will not appear very
surprising, when it is remembered that the town labours under
the incubus of the old freemen, amounting to nearly 4,000 in
number, all of whom, with the exception of about 800, vote
for his Lordship, and against his Liberal colleague, Mr.
Ewart. The fact is, that the defunct Corporation, on ac-
count of its immense patronage, most materially influenced
the men who employ the old freemen ; and as this patronage
will, for the future, flow through a less corrupt channel, the
chances are, that the great change which has taken place in
cur local constitution, will be followed by another important
change—the ejection of his Lordship at the next election.
His fliends begin already to quake with fear.
But nothing can so clearly demonstrate the feeling of tht
great mass of the people of Liverpool with regard to Toryism
so powerfully as the elections of Saturday last. On that
occasion the old freemen were not permitted to vote except as
householders, and there are not more than three hundred out
of the four thousand who possess a household qualification,
which will convey a fair idea of the wretched class to which
they belong. On past occasions the rotes of the old freemen
swamped the votes of the householders—on the present occa-
sion the latter stood alone. What was the result ? Why,
that the Tories, unassisted by the old freemen, were only able
to carry four out of their forty-eight candidates! The Mayor
has returned five Tories to the Council ; but the fifth suc-
cessful candidate polled the same number of votes as one of
the Liberal candidates, and the Mayor gave his casting vote in
favour of the Tory. This was to be expected, and has excited
no surprise.
The glorious victory of Saturday has been followed up to-
day in the same spirit, by the election of 16 Aldermen, whose
names I subjoin :—Mr. Joseph Hornby, Mr. Eyre Evans,
Mr. William Stuart,,Mr. W. P. Freme, Mr. William Blain,
Mr. William Brown, Mr. Thomas Leathorn, Mr. Thomas
Smith, Mr. R. Berm, Mr. C. Hayworth, Mr. C. H. Jones,
Mr. J. Bully, Mr. T. B. Barclay, Mr. Thomas Booth,
Mr. George Robinson, and Mr. James Moon.

The first five names in the list are those of the Liberal can-
pidates who were displaced by the five Tories; so that every
candidate who came forward on the Liberal interest is now in
the town council. The other gentlemen arc all persons of
-large property and high respectability, as any one at all ac-
quainted with Liverpool will immediately perceive, and are all
Liberals ! The Tories claim one of this number—Nr.
Hayworth. Admitting the last-named gentleman to be a
Tory, which it is said he denies, the new town council of Li-
verpool, nevertheless, consists as at the present moment of
fifty-eight Reformers—men who deserve the name, and feel
proud of it, in the widest acceptation of the term, and six
Tories

Poor Toryism 1 we have, in this community at least, put our
feet upon the head of the monster, and all but crushed it for
ever !

A good deal of amusement has been caused here by an at-
tempt made in the London Standard to account for the turn
which the Municipal Elections have taken in this and other
large towns, viz.—the absence of a religious feeling among
the voters. What a pity the writer in in-the Standard was
_not in Liverpool on Saturday last to witness theztOlite.peace-
able, sober, and becoming conduct of the householders in ten-
dering their votes for the respective candidates, which, if he
ever witnessed a Liverpool election under the old system, he
might have contrasted with the brutal, drunken, disorderly, and
licentious conduct of the old freemen and their abettors.