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

TO THE CONSERVATIVES OF LIVERPOOL.

GENTLEMEN,-If you wish to be successful in the struggle
which is to take place on the 2d of November, let no trifling
difference deter you from giving your votes in favour of the
candidates chosen by your own party; do not allow any per-
sonal dislike to a certain candidate prevent you from voting ;
if you do, you give your opponents a chance of beating you,
and then they will exultingly taunt you with their success.
I hope the disgraceful proceedings in the revising courts,
and the attempt of the Protector Society to swamp your
honest votes with those of the lowest grade of Irish pig..
drivers, &c., will act as a stimulant to your exertions. Let ,
the electors of Pitt-street and Lime-street wards particularly
exert themselves, and rid the council-chamber of those two
men who were the chief instruments in adopting the popish
system of education in the corporation schools. In the
words of the Duke, I can only say .` up lads and at them !"
Let your cry be " Toulmin and kilshaw for ever !" and may
success attend your exertions, is the wish of one of yourselves,
Liverpool, 23d Oct., 1840. A BURGESS.

MUNICIPAL ELECTION FOR 1840.
RIGHT OF VOTING.

The following letter has been addressel by the Town-clerk
to the Solicitors concerned on both sides in the election. It
will be seen to bear directly upon the tights of burgesses hav-
ing two or more qualifications in several wards :
Town-hail, 29th October, 1839.
Dear Sirs,—l have been this morning favoured with a ccpy
of an opinion of Sir Frederick Pollock, given yesterday, in
London, on the rights at the ensuing municipal election of
a burgess who had distinct qualificat:ons in two or more
wards, but at the election of November, 1839, had exercised
their privilege of selection by voting in one of the wards.
The opinion of Sir Frederick confirms the view which I
submitted to the meeting of Solicitors on both sides, and
which met with their approbation ; and according to which
I subsequently advised the Aldermen and Assessors, viz.—
that every such burgess will, on the second of November
next, be concluded by his selection in November, 1839.
Subjoined is a copy of the opinion.
I am, dear Sir, yours tr-ly,
RD. RADCLIFFE.
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John Pennington, Esq.,
J. G. Snowball, Esq.

OPINION•

I.—l am of opinion that under the circumstances above
stated, " the Roll of 1839 is to continue to be the Burgess
Roll;" (is " to continue in force" is the expression of the
act.) " A new Burgess Roll has not been duly made."
Neglect or informality somewhere must have existed or the
Roll would have been duly made; and clearly either the lists
were negligently and informally made out, or the objections
were so, or both.
2.—1 am clearly of opinion that a duplicate voter cannot
claim to vote in any other ward than the one he voted in in
1839.

3.—A voter duly enrolled, and having more than one qua-
lification, cannot, in my opinion, vote for one ward and after-
wards during the same year, at a casual vacancy, vote for
another.

4.—The voters who, in 1839, exercised their right of voting
in other wards, cannot, at the ensuing election vote for St.
Peter's Ward. ,

The last three points appear to me to be perfectly clear and
free from all doubt, when the language of the acts is duly
considered. By the 44th section of the Municipal Reform
Act, a duplicate voter is entitled " to be ENROLLED
and to vote in such one as he shall select, but not in more
than one. The voter is therefore not merely restrained as
to voting but as to enrolment, in practice ; the name ap-
pears in all the wards where the voter has a qualification,
but the moment (by voting in one ward) he has selected
that ward all the other enrolments become wholly void and
inoperative, just as if he had selected the one ward and
had been enrolled for that only. The Roll of 1839, which
is in force for 1840, is not to be considered a new roll, but
is a roll which "continues in force ; no new selection
can therefore be made, but a voter continues to be enrolled
and to have a right to vote for the one ward selected before,
and no other.
(Signed) FRED ! POLLOCK,
Temple,
28th October, 1840.

We understand the election of Iligh Steward of Cam-
bridge will most probably take place on Wednesday, the 11th
of November.

PRESENT TO HER MAJESTY FROM THE EX-EMPRESS OF
BRAZIL.--WINDSOR, OCT. 20.—This mottling, Capt. Lewis,
the commander of the Braganza steamer, which arrived at
Falmouth on Saturday last, from Lisbon, reached Windsorwith a pair of Marmosets (or Brazilian monkeys), with which
he had been entrusted as presents to her majesty from the
Duchess of Braganza, the ex-Empress of Brazil, and the step-
mother of Maria de Gloria, the Queen of Portugal. The
monkeys (which are male and female) were conveyed to her
majesty in a beautiful mahogany cage, carefully wrapped in
flannel, to preserve them from the change they had undergone
in the difference of the climate since they had arrived in Eng.
laud from the Peninsula. They are not larger than a mid-
dling sized rat, with long bushy tails, somewhat resembling
those of squirrels, though considerably longer. Their colour
is dark grey, with long feathered ears ; the ears of the female
being white, and those of the male of the same hue as the
body. The male is considerably smaller than its feminine
companion, and both could be placed very comfortably in a
quart jug. The monkeys were presented to the Queen, with
a letter from the Duchess of Braganza, and they were most
graciously received by her majesty. His royal highness Prinne
Albert and her royal highness the Duchess of Kent were
present, by whom they were greatly admired.

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