The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-16 00:00:00

COSERVATIVE TRILINIPEI AT BRIDGEWATER.

(Front a Correspondent of the Times.)
The election of four persons to fill up vacancies in the town-
council, occasioned by the resignation of that nriniber of coun-
cillors, was held on Saturday last. The result has just been
declared. Four Conservatives Were at the head of the poll, but;'
in consequence of a quibble raised on two voting papers, two
Radicals are declared to be tchirned by aniajority of one each !
A rapacious gang, headed by Independents, Quakers. and So-'
ciuians, who have lately grasped some of the charitable fund:t.
of the church, made every possible exertion to otaiutain
ascendancy, originally procured by corruption, and upheld by
the basest trickery and fraud ; but these sordid jobbers have
been at length JO fir defeated by the returning good sense of the
burgesses. •
Twelve months since the conservatives. of Bridgetrater, al-
though possessing the greater part of the property of the parish,'
h
were unable to return even one man to the tewn council; theyave now an admitted majority for four persons in lieu of that
number of councillors who had resigned, and they had a decided
Majority at -the late election for six persons to supply the place
of six who went out by notation. If in this part of the kingdom,
which has obtained so disgraceful a notoriety from the conduct
practised
are
tiseiico,mmptlileetemly? open to the infamous
Other towns might have been equally disturbed by violence
of some of its representatives, such a change has been effected.
in the short space of twelve mouths, what may not be expected'
whenfrauds
the
which ey,
eshaoyfet he
beenpe
o
and tumult, but we believe nn, other pact of the kingdom has
been disgraced by such a display of knavery as has been ex-•
hibited at Bridgewater by the-•llisseuting supporters of that
honest young legislator John Temple Leader. But the days-
of their' fraud and plunder are numbered.-- Let them look to
the result of the election for town-councillors; there can be no•
mistake in this matter. The bubble -is bursting. The reign of
knaves and - fanatics; of bubblemougers, share-jobbers, and
church-plunderers is virtually:.at au end ; but whether these cor-
morants can be made to disgorge their plunder is matter for
future consideration. It is enough fur the present, that after
having insulted and cheated their townsmen, they have now been
defeated, not merely on an
election
fur
two or three councillots,.
but for an election of ten consecutively, as the quibble by which
they claim two of these does not alter the real majority.

MARCH OF INTELLECT.—As a proof of the rcat sa:zacity of
the new corporations, and their freedom from-all vulgar preju-
dices,, the Bath corporation have taken into their .viiiploy a
man in the service of a Mr. Hancock, to•.vo councillor, who'
pretends to find water by the diVining-ri,- for the purpose
of availing themselves of is supernatural Bath Chru-
nicle.

Portsn LOYALTY.—At a Roman Catholic dinner given to the
titular Bishop of Cork the first toast given- was, ''The father
of the Christian world, the representative i 4. the majesty of God, '
the centre of peace and unity .on earth, the great effectual pro-
meter of religion and civilization on earth—the Pope." Ano- '
ther Catholic Bishop provised, ,!“.The king, the first servantof
people."—Cumberland l'ae!,•re,.
chapel at
theAwFut. II Y POCRISY.—A
Thomas Warren°
Kidderminster as a Methodist preacher, named
vile miscreant, who had a
Walker,. and who was committed to• Worcester gaol as a_rol
and vagabond, for deserting his wife and family, atrd
he ahg-
a young. girl, a class-teacher in his chapel,-
With
handcuffed,
sconded, has been recognized as a -deserter7hie-t,:ilMo
naent of foot, -and was On Tuesday mar;!li,iin
where he will
under an escort, to join his regiment at Dot
cleser'tiou.— Worees-
be tried by a regimental court-martial, fo •
ter Journal. , ‘l'lle 46th regi-
e 'coned at Egham Park
The following singulur circu
mstta- u-rWl'illsi Colonel Salwey was
on the evening of 'Tuesday lalusimur,rs who were employed in
SAGACITY OF A- DOG, AND PRRILOUS SITUATION OF A DEER.
eel down (.1ii,,1,1 by. the violence of
1 v was excited liN the earnest at-
the late hurricane, his curios
~ . _
hint in
I ~
te•terner to lead lin in i w direction of a
tempts of a fayoute
the extremity of the Park. On direct-
biggh iron-spiked gate at ,
perceived. mute
of. t
suspended
T.iarileigd thein (glirroetentricigofwtrineliei:,
"on to the spot. ne e lee
le his atteetiwhich,upon a nearer approach, proved to be
from the spikes. , . . s
Hi • Majesty's Swinley deer,•,strugghei, violently, but
one of s' • '
ineffectually, to obtain its i. . . the time he had reached
the gate the wretched animal had become perfectly fixed and
motionless, the legs being firmly twisted within the bars, and
the head impaled on one of the sharp iron spears, which in conse-
quence of the whole weight of the body restint4 upon it, had caused '
a dreadful wound and laceration of the threat. The snuggles of .
the animal were truly distressing; it was, however, speedily con- '
yeyed to a stable, the v ound carefully dressed, and evens precau-
tion taken to save its, life, This ill-fated deer had eforded much
amos,,merrt to a numerous field of sportsmen on the previous day,
.having been turned out at the Magpies on Hounslow-he4th, front
•wtience it hid run •in the direction of Staines, where it swam
-the•tiverl),o escaped. Ou the following day it was discovered
quietly grLiiing iu the fields near Runnymede; but being as-,
sailed by a number-of dogs, escaped into Eghaut-park, and in •
endeavouring to clear the lofty tron gate met With this cruel
disaster.—Wmchur Express.

1A
.y'•'