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

14.-WEST DERBY WARD.

We did not expect that Mr. Booker, the retiring
member, would this year have met with any opposition ;
neither would he if the Liberals had been true to their•
professions of not making party politics any ground of
opposition, provided the candidate was possessed of the
necessary intelligence and respectability. They have not,
however, made any way in the district since the last con:
test ; and we presume, that after Mr. Beckwith's defeat
yesterday, they will not again disturb the peace of t__,ll2
ward. We rejoice in Mr. Booker's re-election; he cow
not have been spared from the Council.

15, 16.—NORTH AND SOUTH TOXTETH.
After the Conservative defeat in these wards last year a
little apprehension was felt, yesterday, as to the prospect
of f,+uccess for both North or South Toxteth• It was
known that the Radical ascendancy party in the Vestry
had been successful in swamping the votes of many of
the electors, known to entertain Conservative opinions ;
and if there were no other grounds of trepidation for the
Conservative Candidates, the elation of the Radical
party previous to the Election, fully warranted some de-
gree of doubt.
Mr. Mann took the lead of his opponent, Mr. Freme,
at
the
commencement of the,h
a Psollilighngtly;
vaarndymmaminatjaoirnietyd
such
lead
up to 12o'clock, irit
from hour to hour.' At 12 o'clock, Mr. Freme'
's friends
evidently made a push ; but they were manfully met br.
Mr. Mann's supporters, and nothing was lost. Fr°lll
1 o'clock to the close the Conservative majority increased ;
and at the close the numbers were—
;For Mr. W. !Mann ..... 281
~ Mr. W. P. Freme ...... 230

Majority for Conservative ..... 51
In the commencement of the day's polling we observed
the Head Overseer of Toxteth Park, Mr. Applebee, and
several of his friends particularly energetic; and running
alternately in and out of the parish-office and the Whig
Committee-room—a public-house. next door but one—
with anxious haste. Later on in the day, however,—
" We miss'd him in th'accustomed place."
He had vanished : had perhaps sought for consolation
sowewhere)ut of the reach of the taunting looks of mis-
led friends and insulted opponents ; and long before the
close of the contest, whig-radicalism in this ward seemed
to have given up the ghost.
In the south ward, the fate of which was even more
feared than the north, Mr. R. L. Jones also took the lead
from the commencement ; and steadily increased it to the
close of the poll, when the numbers were,—
R. L. Jones ( Conservative) 220
T. Avison ( Radical) lB5
Majority for Jones.;.. 35
A few minutes after four o'clock, the committees for
both wards assembled at Mr. Atkinson's, the Royal Oak,
in the Park-road, in front of which was a large concourse
of voters and others, belonging to both wards, waiting
to learn the state of the poll at its close, and to hear an
address from the two successful candidates.

We
cardheersfirst
;liesern. MedN' himself,tl the
member
erfocranthineg Northfor three
for-
their triumph, stated that he had entertained little tANa
ex-
pectation of having the pleasure of addressing the electors.
of North Toxteth as the successful candidate. Instead
of occupying his present position on the poll, he expected
to have been 100 votes below his opponent. The num-
bers recorded on the poll were 281 against 230, leaving a
majority of 51 against his opponent. He thanked them
for this signal proof of their confidence ; and it would be
his study, as it had always been, to repay it by an earnest
attention to their interests. He would now consider him-
self as one of the representatives for the whole of this
ward ; and nothing would give him greater pleasure than
to receive and attend to the communications of his con-
stituents of both parties. It was not essentially necessary
that a member of the Council should be a strong party
man. He himself entertained the good old Tory princi-
ples—good church principles—and most sorry should he
be to see the ultra Radical principles again dominant in
the Town Council. Having thanked them, once more for
the honor they had done him, and congratulated them on
the victory they had achieved, Mr. Mann begged to,
make way for his colleague, the successful candidate for
the south ward, Mr. Jones. Before retiring, however,
he informed them that the Conservatives had been victo-
rious in every ward except one ; and called for three more
cheers for the good old cause, which were given with en-
thusiasm.

Mr. R. L. JONES then presented himself, and was re-
ceived with renewed cheering. After thanking the
electors warmly for the support afferded him, he pro-
ceeded to congratulate them upon the successful result.
He was not a speaker; but he prided himself as being a
man of undeviating truth. As a merchant, connected
with them in interest, he pledged :himself to use his
best efforts for the maintenance of the welfare of the
wards, undeviatingly and fearlessly. The electors had
proved themselves good warriors ; they had fought well,
and the battle was theirs. Mr. Jones, after paying a
well deserved compliment to his colleague, Mr. Mann,
emphatically denied a statement which he said had been
made, that it was his wish to take away the timber trade
from the centre of the town, and concluded by again cor-
dially thanking the electors for their support.
Mr. J. SHEPHERD then presented himself, and briefly
congratulated the constituencies of the two wards upon
the glorious victory which they had gained, expressing, in
very flattering terms, his sense of the character of the
two gentlemen elected.
The proceedings went off with the greatest good hu-
mour, the Radical party being invisible at the close.

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TUESDAY, NOV. 2, 1847.
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