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

DEVIZES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR—Devizes bas at length redeerned its honour. On Sa-
turday lait, the-bUrgesses of the North Ward elected by a
considerable majority nine decided Liberals, being the whole
number of councillors allotted to each of the two wards, into
which the borough is divided.
In the South Ward, the Tories being stronger, and the
Liberals not so united arid active as they ought to have been,
only two out of the nine chosen were Liberals;, the seven
were members of the old Corporation. Two or three, how-
ever, moderate men.

, This day, the Council met and elected their six Aldermen,
one from the Council and five from the Burgesses, and to their
honour be it written, all firm and consistent Liberals, and men
of respectability and talent. The gentlemen elected, are—

NORTH WARD.

SOUTH WARD.

LIBERALS.

Mr. Bullock.
Anstie.

OLD CORPORATORS AND TORIES.
Mr. Butcher.
William Tanner.
Joseph Tanner.
William Chandler.
John Neate, jun.
John Crook.
John Bayly.

Fowler.
Wall ( Alderman for six
years).
Paul Anstie.
- Whitchurch.
James Randell.
Robert Valentine Leach.
Charles Hook.
Dr. Brabant, Alderman for six years.
Mr. Richard Biggs, ditto ditto.
Robert Waylen, ditto three years.
Thomas James Heard, ditto.
William Cunnington, ditto.
SOUTH WARD.

Mr. Henry Saunders
}Councillors.
William Bently Cartwright
Seven or eight more votes would have secured the election
of three more Liberals, in place of three of the Tories. But
when it is recollected that the Liberals made no canvass, and
spent no money in the election, and that the Tories canvassed
most actively, and kept the public-house near the Town-hall
(the place of voting) open the day of the election, and had
recourse to the various tricks of changing the voting papers,
getting names erased, &c., and threatened and cajoled the
needy and the ignorant of the burgesses—it must be confessed
that the election of the Town Council consists of sixteen firm
Liberals, and only seven Tories, is a triumph for the Liberal
party, and a most decisive proof that the inhabitants of De-
vizes are favourable to the principles of liberty and reform,
and a fair augurY that the day is not far distant when they will
return to Parliament two Liberals ; notwithstanding the in-
fluence of a neighbouring estated gentleman and his wily Tory
friend, whose power is so greatly augmented by the lucrative
()Me he- holds under a Whig Government.
Hbw long ,will this anomaly last ?
I am Sir, yours &c.
A REFORMER.

Devizes, Dec. 31, 1535:

NORTHAMPTON,-THURSDAY.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
The Tories in this borough have gained all that can be de-
sired. They have succeeded in getting three Councillors,
and the appoinment of the Mayor. Yes ; the appointment of
the Mayor !—and that, too, a day before the time. They
have proved themselves in this case to be the better generals,
and we are defeated.

The circumstances are briefly these :—At three minutes
before twelve o'clock today, Mr. Charles Markham, a red-
hot violent Tory, got up and proposed that Dr. Robertson
take the chair. There was one of the Liberals absent, and as
both parties' Were equal in strength, tit.: absence of one gave
the Tories the majority. One of the Liberals, Mr. Sharpe,
spoke on the indelicacy of commencing so soon ; and the wor-
thy gentleman sat down. He kept his seat but a few seconds,
for, immediately on the parties commencing, he again rose
and made the.same motion. Mr. Sharpe met it by a counter
motion—" That he do •not take the chair ;" and while the
eight Liberals were holding up their hands on that question
the ninth entered, and as the motion was not again announced
he did not vote on it. The Liberals therefore lost, and Dr.
Robertson took the chair. After that the Tories named their
six Aldermen; and it was only by a compromise that 'the Libe-
rals have been enabled to get three. The compromise was—
that the late Mayor, Mr. Charles Freeman, once a Tory, then
a Whig, and now a Tory again, should be Mayor for the year
ensuing. That question will no doubt be settled to-morrow
as it is decided, to-day ; and, therefore, it will be needless for
me to write another word on the subject.