The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-03 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL.

The annual election for sixteen councillors in the town
council of this borough was held on Saturday last. It was
unusually quiet. Of those retiring fourteen were Conserva-
tives and two Reformers. In lieu of these, seven Conserve-
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tives and three Reformers were returned without opposition.
Six were contested ; at the close of the poll two Conservatives
and three Reformers were returned, leaving one of the wards,
Rodney-street, undecided, as the numbers for each candidate
were alike, namely, 275. The result of these elections is a
gain of three votes to the Liberal party in the town-council.
NOTTINGHAM.

SATURDAY.—Up to the present week little was known or
done relative to the municipal elections which have taken
place to-day in this borough, and yet matters have been so
contrived as to have a contest in every ward. Last year
thousands of pounds were expended in treating, bribery,
and election hand-bills ; this year very few pounds, and
yet some few have found their way into the pockets of the
electors. On Tuesday ten out of the fourteen retiring
members issued their addreFse, offering themselves again
as candidates in the same wards for which they had pre-
viously sat, but on Wednesday and Thursday various
changes were announced, owing, as it was reported, to
several railway projectors having concocted a scheme to
get into the council certain parties, large shareholder:,
with a view of obtaining votes from the Corporation
in particular lines of railway about to be taken to Par-
liament. How far this is correct is not yet known; but
certain it is that a general excitement prevailed en the
subject throughout every district in the town. There is
little doubt, had the candidates stood for the wards they had
been so long members for, that very little opposition would
have arisen, as the heavy-expenses of the last and previous
years had cooled the feelinge of the defeated parties.
Chopping and changing, however, to make way for new can-
didates who were known to be the friends of the parties
alluded to, raised a general opposition, and on Saturday morn-
ing it was found arrangements had been made for contesting
every ward. The elections went on in some wards with
great spirit, and in all the poll was kept open till four o'clock,
at which hour there were ten Liberals and four Tories re-
turned. Notwithstanding the opposition, the railway party,
both Whig and Tory, succeeded in getting their candidates
elected. The council now consists of 14 Whig aldermen, 20
Tory, and 22 Whig councillors.
PORTSMOUTH.
The election of town councillors, in the room of those who
go out by rotation, took place to-day. The following was the
result :—St. Thomas's Ward : The business in this ward was
very quickly settled. At half-past ten Mr. Child had polled
14, Mr. Hoskins 12, and Mr. A. Heather 10. No other voter
presenting himself for art hour, the poll was closed, and the
election declared to have fallen on the gentlemen named. St.
George's Ward : Messrs. Ellis and Smithery re• elected. Sr.
John's Ward : Mr. G. Pratt 208, Mr. E. Gain 177, elected.
St. Paul's Ward: This ward was strongly contested; the
following gentlemen were elected—Mr. Marks 391, Mr.
Hearn 387, Mr. Palmer 381. All Saints' Ward : This ward
was also strongly contested, and the battle won by Messrs.
Sheppard, Oalsworthy, and Smith. St. Mary's NV DA: Mr.
Goldsmith was re-elected.—Hampshire Telegraph.