The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-30 00:00:00

CLOSE OF THE POLL IN 1839

Wards Conservatives. Radicals.
verton. .. Mr. F. Shand 303 Mr. G. Quayle. .. 304
Scotland... Mr. R. Houghton 232 Mr.H.T.Atkinson 191
Vauxhall... Mr. H. Sandbach 110 Mr. T. Chalmer.. 91
tt• Paul's.. Mr. J. Barton 178 Mr. J. Deakin ... 177
Exchange Mr. A. Lace 192 Mr. J. Me110r.... 193
Castle-st. .. Mr. P. Hope . . 222 Mr. T. 801t0n.... 245
St. Peter's . Mr. T. F. Roskell 0 Mr. R. Bright.... 0
Pitt-street.. Mr. J. Bibby..
Gt. George. Mr. T. Robinson
Rodney.... Mr. J. N. Wood 274 Mr. G. Loch 225
Abercromby Mr. C. Bushell.. .. 318 Mr. H. Ripley.. 3lO
Lime-street. Mr. R. Rigby..... 405 Mr. V. Higgins 371
St. Anne's.. Mr. R. Jones . .... 192 Mr. J. Mason 173
West Derby. Mr. J. Smith 164 Mr. E. James.. .. 102
S. Toxteth.. Mr. J. Sheppard 143 Mr. F. Jordan.... 148
Ditto _ Mr.T.M.Gladstone 141 Mr. W. M`Kee .. 144
N.Toxteth.. Mr. H. Harbord 233 Mr. D. Mather .. 257

SUMMARY
Conservatives
Radicals

Total number of conservatives p011ed.... 3342
Do. do. radicals

Total number of electors polled

Total conservative majority

Our readers will thus perceive that the conserva-
tives, with a little more exertion, might have carried
twelve or thirteen wards last year ; and as the polling
this year is on the same register, there is no reason
why they should rest satisfied with a smaller number
than " a round dozen" at least. We shall feel greatly
disappointed if they do not secure a majority in four_
teen of the wards.

As so much depends upon the issue of the approach-
ing election, it may be naturally expected that the ra-
dical faction will not leave a single expedient untried
f°l' the sake of retrieving their recent losses in the re-
vising courts. Bribery and intimidation are among
the most conspicuous weapons to which they have
already
had recourse. But we understand that the
Plan on which they chiefly rely for success is that of
" bottling" the conservative voters, in those wards
esPecially in which the radicals are conscious of their
Iveakness. The machinery for carrying this notable
scheme into effect is already in full operation. It is,
therefore, incumbent upon us to warn the conservative
oters lest they should fall into the trap which has
°eon so cunningly laid for them. .Let them not suffer
themselves to be called from home on Monday next,
until they have previously recorded their votes in fa-
vour of the conservative candidates in their several
wards. Let them not listen to any idle tales which
illaY null thew, in order to prevent them from voting

In spite, however, of all the trickery and low prac-
tices to which the radicals may have recourse, we
confidently maintain that the conservatives have the
battle in their own hands. They have within their
reach the elements of certain success. They far out_
number their opponents. The last municipal contest
may be adduced as a conclusive proof of the truth of
this assertion. All that is necessary is, that they
should be true to themselves and to the sacred cause
in which they are embarked. It will be a lasting re-
proach to the conservative electors of Liverpool if they
suffer their enemies to steal a march upon them. The
magnitude of the interests at stake—the unprincipled
manwuvres of the enemies of rational liberty—the
nefarious conduct of the party that has so long
had the ascendancy in the Town Council—and the
consciousness of superiority among the elective

body, ought to stimulate our conservative friends to
redoubled exertions, in order that they may inflict a
blow upon the hideous monster, miscalled liberalism,
from which, in the town of Liverpool at least, it can
have no chance whatever of recovering.

To the conservative merchants, in particular, we may
" Set an example to your humbler brethren, by
going to the poll the first thing on Monday morning."
We regret to say that the wealthier classes of conser-
vatives in `t its town have, as yet, been too lukewarm
in the good cause. They have not displayed the same
alacrity in voting for the conservative candidates as
the tradesmen and operatives. The great mass of
unrecorded votes, at previous elections, will be found
to be those of the wealthier classes. This ought not
to be any longer the case. If there be a class more
imperatively called upon to come forward boldly and
unequivocally to place their sentiments on record, in
the struggle for municipal ascendancy, it is the mer-
cantile class, whose interests are so deeply involved in
the great questions which have been so long at issue
between the "tyrant majority" in the Town Council
and the influential classes of the electors. We call
upon the merchants to come forward manfully in the
approaching contest.
Let the electors of Liverpool look at the conduct of
the majority of the Town Council on Monday last.
Look at the daring and even insulting manner in
which these overbearing tyrants urged forwards the
warehouse project on that occasion. They well knew
that sixteen of their numbers would have to vacate
their seats in one short week from that day. They
knew, moreover, that there were strong probabilities
that the constitution of the next council would be very
different from that of the present. They dreaded that
a further infusion of conservatism into the council
might deprive them of their vaunted majority on the
dock warehouse question. Hence their indecent haste
to carry their ridiculous scheme into operation, per fas
et per nefas. Hence the insolent contempt with which
they have treated the electors, whom they have sought
to deprive of an opportunity of adjudicating upon the
question. Such has been the conduct of those men
who have constantly made such loud boasts of their
deference to the " popular voice." Once in power,
they immediately set that voice at defiance, and laugh
to scorn the remonstrances of their constituents.

The warehouse project has already caused an expen-
diture of nearly twenty thousand pounds of the public
funds of the town. An expenditure for what purpose ?
Merely to augment the patronage, and thereby increase
the political power of the Whig-radical faction,
Are the people of Liverpool 'prepared to submit to
this ? Will the electors pass over unrebuked such a
gross and deliberate insult as that which was offered
to them on Monday last ? Will they tolerate the rule
of men who have set public opinion so utterly at de-
fiance ? Let them answer these questions at the hust-
ings on Monday next, and let the answer be one which
will strike terror and dismay into the ratilsfr-bf the
pseudo-liberal faction.
" A long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altOgether,"
ought to be the motto of the conservative electors of
Liverpool, while preparing for the contest of next
Monday. If they succeed in returning twelve mem-
bers, there will be a majority of conservatives in the
town council before the expiration of 1841. Let this
stimulate them to increasing activity. Above all things
let them record their votes early in the morning. The
evil of delay was never more strongly exhibited than
in the case of Castle-street 'Ward, last year, when, at
the very last moment, a body of conservatives, suffi-
cient to turn the scale, Were waiting round the booth,
but whose votes could not be recorded. Let this
egregious mistake be avoided in future. Once more
we call upon the conservatives of Liverpool to be true
to themselves, their country, their Queen, and their God.