The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-30 00:00:00

THE GREAT BRITAIN.

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LIVERPOOL, TuEsDAY, r.m.--No further accounts
have reached town to-day from the Great Britain. It is
apprehended that the strong winds with which the
Channel was yesterday visited may have occasioned
further injury to the ship. To-day, however, the
weather has again moderated to a gentle breeze from
the north-west, and better anticipations are indulged in.
The catastrophe still remains a subject of wide in-
terest. Inquiries are constantly being made as to the
cause, and the most contradictory statements are cur-
rent. On the one band, an assertion is made that the
Isle of Man was distinctly seen, and that therefore the
plea of the light of St. John's being mistaken for that of
the Calf of Man is unwarranted; on the other, it is
asserted that the island was not seen. By others the
catastrophe is ascribed to the effects produced upon the
compass when the ship is propelled by a submerged
screw. But these various statements are entirely un-
supported by reliable proof; and while we mention them
as the topics of the time and the occasion, we by no
means desire to express an opinion ourselves as to the
causes by which the noble steamer has been stranded.

THE MENAI TUNNEL SUSPENSION BRIDGE.—The
foundation stone of this stupendous work across the
Menai Straits was quietly deposited, in the presence of
the engineers of the district and the contractors, on
Friday last. The erection of the bridge is expected to
occupy three years.
REPRESENTATION UP' ROORE,TER.—A requisition
very numerously signed, having been presented to R.
Bernal, Esq., from the freemen and electors of Roches-
ter, requesting that gentleman to become a candidate
,or the representation of their city at the next general
leetion, he has assented ti9yheir wiehee.

ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.

(Cotititnied from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

• At four o'clodk the state of the poll was declared
to be— _ _ _

For Mr. Alderman Wood . 152
Sir George Carroll 6B

Alderman Hooper 3l
This announcement was received by a crowded hall
with loud cheers.
Mr. Alderman WOOD then came forward to ad-
dress the Livery, and was received with most enthu-
siastic cheering. After it had in some measure subsided,
he said he thought the meeting. would admit that he was
not wrong in his anticipations of success.—
(Hear, hear.) He bad thrown himself entirely in
the hands of the Livery--(Hear, hear)—be was
not sorry that he had done so, and that
was the best test of his competency to fill
the high and honourable office to which he aspired.
Because he was not the most opulent man in the world
he was to be oppressed and prevented from filling an
office which, he must confess, he thought he had as much
right to as any of the other aldermen of London who
had not yet passed the chair. —(Hear, hear.) He had
done all in his power to explain away transactions that
ought never to have existed, and for which he ought
never to have been run down in the way he had been.
—(Great cheering.) He had been a magistrate of
this City for eleven years, and he appealed to the Livery
whether or not he had discharged the duties of that
office impartially. He felt proud to think that his
brother Liverymen had entered heart and hand in the
cause. He had been -the object of their choice for four
years as chief magistrate, and he had failed in his hopes and
wishes without any reasons having been assigned for his
rejection. It was the exclusive privilege of the Livery to
elect their own magistrate. They had with one voice
alerted him for the last four years, but in other
quarters, for what cause he knew not, he had been
rejected.—(Hear, hear.) He had embarked in the
present contest from no inclination of his own—(Hear)—
it had been forced upon him at the eleventh hour.
He called upon the Livery not only to keep him in the
proud pre-eminence in which he then stood, but to return
him to the Court of Aldermen by.an immense majority.
Alderman Hooper had manfully stated that he had no
desire to be elected out of his turn, and he had depre-
cated the whole of the proceedings that had taken place.
—(Cheers.) Ho was sure if the Livery would as one
man, with one mighty energy, continue to persevere in
the good cause they would be. triumphant.—(Cries of
" We will.")
The Hall was then adjourned till to-morrow morning
(this day) at nine o'clock.