The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-02 00:00:00

12.-LIME-STREET WARD.

From the first the success of Mr. Lloyd, the retiring
candidate, was by his own party held as certain ; but the
vigorous exertions used by the opposing candidate's (Mr.
Picton's) friends were such as needed the sturdy energies
of thorough Conservatives to meet. At nine o'clock
there was a rush of the friends of each party to poll, but
out of a dozen votes tendered, the first and nine following
were for Mr. Lloyd, and from; that time he continued to
improve his position in a well contest to the end,
the result of which will, no doubt, be more gratifying to
Mr. Lloyd, as in the two last years his Conservative col-
leagues were defeated.
immediately after four o'clock, Stubbs's Royal Har-
monic Band struck up " Oh, dear ! what can the matter
be ?" a somewhat popular tune in the ward ; at the con-
clusion of which Mr. T. Parkinson appeared at the window
of the central committee room, Mr. Prescot's Swan Inn,
London-road, and stated that he had the great gratifica-
tion of announcing another glorious victory that they had
that day achieved. The state of the poll at the close
was,—for Mr. Lloyd, 313; for Mr. Picton, 282.; leaving
a majority of 31. He concluded by introducing them to
the gentleman they had returned, and who for the next
three years would represent them, and felt satisfied, from
a personal knowledge of his character, that he would fully
warrant the estimation they had formed of him. Amidst
the most enthusiastic cheers, John Buck Lloyd, Esq.,
appeared, and after thanking the electors for the honour
of having returned him as their representative in the
Council on three successive occasions, said that he would
be wanting in gratitude if he did not, after the response
that had been made, lay before them, in a few words,
some explanation of the malicious reports that had been
circulated with a tendency to injure him. When oppo-
nents descended to personalities, it was ever a proof of
the weakness of the cause they had to support; but
there was to the burgesses of the ward some explanation
due, and he felt a gratification in giving a faithful ac-
count of his stewardship. The town of Liverpool was so
rapidly improving, and new streets so speedily erected, to
meet the growing influence of its proudly acknowledged
eminence, that in the promotion of sanitory measures it
was necessary to use the most strenuous exertions. It
was not the duty of a member of the council to discuss
the currency question, but the sewerage question. They
wanted fewer politicians and more workers, and from the
first he had heen a worker. In reply to the charge of his
not having attended the duty required by the ward, he
might state that he held in his hand a return of the
attendance of the members of the Town Council ; and by
that he found that his attendance not only equalled that
of their last returned representative, Mr. Danson, but far
surpassed that of his colleague, Mr. Vincent Higgins.
The duties of such an office were by no means light.
There had been within the past year, special and general,
twenty-five Council meetings, and he had been charged
with attending more to his professional business than to
the interests of his constituents ; but after what he had
stated, he thought a confidence might be extended to
those who were diligent in their private business ; for ihat
formed, in some measure, a guarantee that they would
discharge well their duty to the public. He then elo-
quently alluded to the contemplated measures of the new
Council—amongst them, the furthering of the provisions
of the sanatory act by the purchase of the existing water
company's works ; the erection of public fountains,
troughs for cattle, &c.—and said, that with the increasing
value of property, the increasing commerce of this now
greatest port in the world, and the increasing magnitude
of the town, he conceived that, under the guidance of the
Council, they would be able be able to supply water, year
by year, at a yearly decreased rate. (Cheers.) But this
and all other measures that involved a considerable expen-
diture should be so arranged as not to fall immediately on
the town, but to be extended over a series of years.
(Cheers.) He then urged the necessity of the electors
calling periodical ward meetings, at which they might
express their wants, and be aided by their representatives
in obtaining their desires, either by memorials or through
the committee. After again returning his thanks to the
electors, and also to the ladies of the ward,
,he retired.
amidsfloud applause, and was accompanied• by many of
his friends, headed by a band, tp, procession W the
Town.ball,