The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-03 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

THE ELECTIONS, &c.

(Continued from page 2.)

Sir John Hanmer was elected unopposed on Saturday
for the Flint boroughs.
Lord Brackley—having been driven from South Lan-
cashire, and defeated at Newcastle-under-Lyme, is now
a candidate for North Staffordshire.

BANBURY.—We are sorry that Mr. Mc. Gregor has
been defeated for this borough. At the close on Satur-
day night, the numbers were,—for Tancred, 226; Mc.
Gregor, 164, _ _

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.—On Saturday, the poll at
the close for that day was as follows :—Law, 1,143 ;
Fielding, 880 ; Goulburn, 868 ; Lefevre, 638. The ma-
jority of Lord Fielding is now, therefore, reduced to only
12, and the poll will continue open to this evening.
THE NEW BOTTLE CONJUROR.—The Patriot Harvey
—having slunk from Marylebone—has not only eaten his
own words, but jumped down his own throat. He says in
his letter that the election might " well be coveted by the
highest and purest pretensions." It is then no wonder
that Mr. Harvey should have retired.—Punch.

POLLING AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY. —Sir Robert Peel
voted on Friday for Inglis and Gladstone ; not a plumper
for the latter. Amongst the voters on Friday for Inglis
and Gladstone was also the Right Hon. Charles W. Wynn,
the father of the House of Commons, who was carried into
the Convocation-house in a chair. He was loudly cheered
both at his arrival and departure. Lord Ashley voted on
Friday for Inglis and Round.

The number of members polled is,
Number of members paired,......

Total, .
Above 2,000 members of Convocation have now voted of
paired off.
STATE OF P

Thus far there appears to be a considerable gain to the
ministerial cause. No county election has yet taken place.
The cities and boroughs from which returns have been
made are in number 192. These places have already
elected 325 members of the new House of Commons.
In the parliament recently dissolved, the Protectionists
formed nearly one-fourth of the whole number, and the
Peel party were of almost equal strength ; whereas up to
this period of the election proceedings, the Liberal party
form three-fifths of the number, the other parties_con-
•

ng respectively one-ti
this tim

The numbers of the
.q fnu,,w •—T All/arab::

three p.rf
189 ; Peel

62 ; Pr

This contest

be severe.

The three candidates, Lord Ossulston, Lord
id Sir George Grey, Bart. are all on the spot,
t week been engaged in visiting and addressing
The home secretary had a sort of field-day

Lovaine,
and have 1
the electors

at Alnwick on Monday; but the' reception of the
Hon. Bart. met with was the " north side of frier
and it was remarked that the attendance of count)
tlenien in his cause was lamentably meagre. The c
may be severe, but it will be found that the honest,
yeomanry of North Northumberland will declare I
constitution candidates, and decidedly against the
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'lan of a powerless, incompetent governme,
aster may be read in their unscrupulous ad!
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3ominalile Poor I

country, in order
At a meeting I

.tunity, the protestant people of
to endow the Irish Romanist nrie.f
eld on Tuecd

at Halifax, to 'introdu

T of t

Le electors

Jonathan Ackroyd, a Dissen

at whose hoi

rr, was combating the objections of I
rducation Grant, when he met with sor

excitc
. The r

it Charl,

He spoke with

RIOTING AT PRESTON. At Preston, on Thursday
evening, when Mr. Parker, the Conservative candidate,
was speaking from the Bull Hotel, in Fishergate, the mob
were very uproarious, and loud shouts for both sides re-
sounded through the streets. At this time a large party
of the liberal party came up Church-street, having five or
six colours with them ; on coming up to the main body of
the mob a desperate fight took place ; the blues (the
Conservative party) attacked the flags, and though they
were well defended for some time, they were eventually
pulled down and captured, the poles being broken, and the
colours much torn and defaced were carried in triumph to
the Bull. The liberal members stood at the window of the
Red Lion, and Mr. Parker at the Bull, with many of the
principal gentlemen of the town. A stone was thrown,
which passed through the window directly over Mr. Par-
ker's head, and this was succeeded by more, the mob be-
coming more riotous every moment. There was still one
colour of the liberal party remaining, and an attempt was
made to take it in safety to the Red Lion, but the true
blues made another attack, and after a desperate fight
succeeded in capturing it also, and it shared the fate of the
others. Stones now began to fly thickly, and the shut-
ters of the lower windows of the Bull were closed. The
fight soon became general, and raged most terrifically for
a long time. The pavement of the street was torn up,
and a general attack was made upon the Bull Hotel. The
inn-yard was bravely defended for some time, but the
blues were much out numbered; notwithstanding this,
they kept*their posts for a considerable time, the stones
flying like hail; in and out of the arched entrance a
sally was then made, and for a moment the Liberal
party fled in all directions, the street for a long space
being as clear as possible. _ Two men were left stretched

upon 'the groUnd, but they were carried away by
their respective parties. Upon seeing how few there
were to oppose them, the Liberal force returned
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down the Bull yard, and the doOis, with • considerable
difficulty; were closed. The work of demolition then be-
gan; the shutters of the windows were broken with paving
stones, and the windows, shutters, and frames smashed in,
the upper windows, too, were nearly all broken. The in-
furiated mob continued to throw large stones through the
broken windows, and the furniture in the rooms was much
Several valuable pictures suspended against
also seriously injured. During the whole
n was to be seen attemnting to quell

damaged.
the walls w

disturb;

ject, by

ying on. -0

) or t
colfrt,

who were

lied that tl:

A "pretty slate of

ilful ma

d the protection of property
roceedings without a singl,

ap to them. Some reform
age had been done that it

,nd Fisi

were closec

FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL SUMMARX

As the past week has, throughout the country, been
mostly spent in electioneering, we_have little commercial

intelligence to convey to our readers. Money has been
in demand throughout the week ; and, previously to the
settling day on the Consol and Share Market 6 per cent
was freely paid. Stocks were lower and sellers more nu-
merous than buyers, in anticipation of an increasing scar-
city. The Share market was drooping.
Our Cotton market at the commencement of the week
Was flat, but recovered itself after the arrival of the steamer.
The sales for the week were 18,130 bales, of which 3,500
were on speculation and for export. The imports amounted

to 22,533.ba1e5.
The Corn markets are everyv

to 6s. per quarter on the
and colonial are very lar
In the Manchester an

the excitement of t

Much busi
The numb

owing to t

k. The in

york, per last

I beer

to 61, and money a
"By the arrival of the Indian ma
Commercial Report to the 19th of
Calcutta to the Sth of the same month

ner, m

we have a Bomt

Market in the former market c
the burst of the mo

cotton

lon, on the 2nd of that m

i were ver

2a. to 5

y—ds. 1

sr. la. to 7r.

Of Cotton Yar

Import