The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

THE lIVERPOOL STANDARD.

THE ELECTIONS, #c.

Mr. Wyse has lost his election for Waterford through
the exertions of the Repealers.

Earl Fitzwilliam., frej-trader as he is, is much annoyed
at Mr. Cobden's return .for the West Riding of Yorkshire.
The Conservative candidates for the county of Cork
lave suddenly retired, and two repealers will be elected.
DENBIGHSHIRE.—At the close of the poll the num-
-for Sir W. W. Wynn [c], 2055 ; Hon. W.
1530; Mr. Biddulph [R], 1394.

hers were
Bag

NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE.—The following was the statt
of the poll at the close :—Adderley [c], 4083; Brackley
[c], 4071 ; Buller [R], 3350.
The Railway Record gives a list • of sixty-
hers who are chairmen or directors of railway companies
and seventeen of whom are new members.
The polling for the Northern Division of Northumber-
land terminated on Wednesday ; the following is the

;even mem-

1,366 ; Lord Ossulston (c

tether from a paroxysm or per-

From whatever cans(
nanent feeling, the repealers are gaining many important

ave gained from ten to twelve in the counties.
Mr. Cobden left Berlin on the 6th for St. I
nd will, it is said, before he returns to
loscow, Sweden, and the Hanse Towns

Mrs. Cobden

At the North Warwickshire election on Friday, Sir
_ Robert Peel plumped for Mr. Leigh the free trader,

Spooner,

tive candidates

h hustings h
air

len. I

casualty took place just about the close of the proceed-
xnd no injury of any consequence followed.
severe struggle, Colonel Wood
3ernal Osborne, the late radical

IDDLESEX

:ommitt

;he poll

Lord Robert

lirosvenor,
0

borne, 4116; Col. Wood, .3430.
—Of double first-class men

DAD I

first-class men—for Gladstone, 157 ; for Round, 66. Of
the heads of colleges, 16 voted for Mr. Round, and 4 for
Mr. Gladstone- Of _professors and public lecturers, 17
voted for Round, and 12 for Gladstone.

Morgan, a Protec-

merset, a Peat(
g contest. At the close
2327; for Lord G. So-

,merset, 2188.

The captain

The Polling began on Mon

end of that day the protectionist cant

.
tention CO retire from the contest, but subsequently
changed his determination. At the close the numbers
were :—Sir John Tyrrell (c), 2,475; Major Beresford (c),

REGOT

—A committee of

ltlemen has been formed, and circulars issued,
g for their object the collection of funds by which to
at a testimonial to Mr., Macgregor, expressive of their

eiction at Banbury, at which he was a candidate
of the 1

tive in canvassing for subscriptions,
nce, there can be no doubt a very

and, under their

surd cient sum will be raised.
The new House of Commons will contain more ultra
democrats than at any former period. All the leaders of

nen like W. J. Fox is likely to form a source of
Invvaecvnard- 4n 411. rninie4rn7 Tn Son+larld +ha

have chiefly turned upon religious points ; the

Lord John Russell will find this small band oltamero-
nians, who have supplanted some of his staunchest

henchmen, awkward allies

UNIVERSIT

-The booths closed at 5 o'clock

Messrs. Shaw and Hamilton duly elected. The polling
was as follows :—Hamilton, 738 ; Shaw, 572 ; Napier,
40 ; M'Cullagh, 315; Hamilton over Napier, 198 ; Shaw
laration of the Provost was
amidst shouts for Shaw and

The dec

ived ivitli loud cheer

tested election for the University has not taken p:

total Ptlus.

On Friday, his worship thernayor entertained the judges,
the Queen's counsel, and several other distinguished
guests, at the Town-hall at dinner.

The'Guadalquiver steam-ship left this port on Saturday
afternoon, via New York, under the command of Captain
Hosken, with upwards of twenty passengers and sixty
tons of fine goods on freight, but no specie.
Lord Sandon has presented an elegant and costly silver
inkstand to William Wainwright, Esq., of the Liverpool
office, in London, " in memory of a common service of
sixteen years, anct in token of lasting friendship."
FATAL ACCIDENT.—WiIIiam Winter, while in a state
of intoxication, fell into a cellar in Porter-street on Mon-
day, and died the following day. Had the cellar been
railed in, human life in this, as in many other instances,
would not have been sacrificed.

We believe that a meeting will be

eld to-morrow night,

at Whiteman's Hotel, Hanover-street, to consider the
best means of forwarding the subscription for the purchase
of the house in which was " born and nurtured" William
Shakspere.
A brutal duel with knives took place on Sunday week,
near the Dinzle

Six of their comrades stood by as seconds, and
none of them have been arrested. The combatants, who
are frightfully gashed by each other's knives, are in

sailors

separate hospitals in Liveipool.
CRICKET.—On Friday last, the 13th ins
played on the ground of the Olvm