The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-01 00:00:00

THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION.

THE election of sixteen members of the Town Council,
in the room of the same number who retire by rotation,
takes place this day, and we hare reason to believe that
the result in those few wards which are to be contested,
will be satisfactory to the Conservatives. It is one
among the many circumstances of which Liverpool has
reason to boast, that her Representatives in the Corpora-
tion comprise some of the most respectable, intelligent,
and substantial of her inhabitants,--a. fact which gives
•dignity to their proceedings, and enables her to take the
first rank in the local communities of the kingdom, not
.even yielding to London, where party spirit has banished
all the merchants from the Council, and left it a mere
clique of Radical tradesmen. This pre-eminence, how-
ever, Liverpool wall not continue to enjoy, unless the
.electors maintain the same spirit which has animated
them heretofore, and return only such representatives as
will.do credit to themselves and the body of which they
.form a part. It :is a strilting fact, that while the majority
of the Town Council are men of Conservative principles,
they leave not carried out party views in Corporate pro-
ceedings, or made politics a question of difference ;
whereas, in almost.every cnsp in which their re-election
.is opposed, it is done by Radicals, expressly on political
considerations, having no other -qualities to recommend
them. The electors should 'be especially careful that
their Interests are ,represented at the Council Board by
,men of standing, respectability, ,and high personal •cha-
racter—qualities which are usuallyfound unitedin candi-
dates Of known Conservative principles ; whereas, if, for
reasons of mere party politics, they give their votes to men
of opposite character, they will find themselves made the
:tools by .which to gratify personal ambition, and the Town
Council sill, in time, be converted into a bear-garden, in
which aspiring politicians and embryo Chancellors of
the Exchequer will emulate the doings of Marylebone
Vestry, or the Cogers' Debating Society. The truest
advocates. of economy without parsimony, and the best
friends of the rate-payees, are Conservative gentlemen,
and this truth should be lept inview when the electors
give their votes to-day in each ward where the represen-
tation is to be contested.

In the opposition which has been got up in Aber-
evamby Ward to the re-election of Mr. R. C. GARDNER,
the conduct of Mr. ROBERDSON GLADSTONE is in no
war defensible. The latter was himself elected from
the belief that he would prover useful man in the Coun-
cil, .and he has now the presumption to dictate to the
electors as to their choice of a ectleagne. There are few
men better qualified for a seat in the Town Council than
Mr. G4iIIDNER, and we cannot believe that: tie electors
will be 40 forgetful of their own interests as to reject
him for dile young gentleman nominated by 'Mr. GLAD-
STONE.

The follisseingis allis of the retiring cotuielilom.and
the candidates in the several wards :

Wards. Retiring Members. Candidates.
Everton
Scotland John Woodruffe....
( John ‘‘'oodsuffe.
lames .Jack.

.3411cholson.
Wllll3[lllol ' .„ Wm. . { Yanalie! Powell.

at. Pitnl's .. Oliver Holelen Oliver Holden.
Exchange. ... Charles Turner Charles Turner.
Castle-street.. .....George_ifolt.. George Holt.

St. Peter's Jamie Ho'me, James Holme.

- - - W.
Pitt -street W. P. Jeffreya....... { P. Jeffreys.
John Smith.
Great George . W. A. Clayton Alexander Shand.
Rodney-street J A. Tobin ....., L A. Tobin.
Abercrosaby R. C. Gardner. fR. C. Gardner.l
J. H. Brancker.
Lime-street J. B. L10yd.... ..„ .J. B. Lloyd.
St. Anne-street John Nicholson...,,, John Nicholson.
West Derby.
J. M. Wood" " • • " 1i William Earle.
F. A. Clint.
South Toxtetb. Samuel H01me........ Viamuel Holme.
North Toxteth, Matthew Gregson..., Matthew Gregson.
WARD MEETINGS.

A public meeting of the burgesses of Great George
Ward, favourable to the return of Mr. Alexander Shand,
was held on Wednesday, at Great George's Tavern—Mr.
Wagstaff, T.C., in the chair. Alderman Cooper moved the
first resolution, which was agreed to unanimously.
On Friday, a meeting of the friends and promoters of
the return of Mr. W. P. Jeffreys, as a member of the Town
Council for Pitt-street Ward, was held at the Vine Tavern,
Pitt-street. Edward Rimmer, Esq., presided. A resolu-
tion to support Mr. Jeffreys was agreed to unanimously.
On Saturday, a numerous and influential meeting of the
electors of Abercromby ward, in favour of Mr. R. C.
Gardner, was held at the Phoenix Inn, Mount-pleasant—
Mr. R. Griffiths in the chair. Amongst those present
were Mr. Elias Arnaud, collector of Customs ; Messrs.
Waddington, Toulmin, Christian, Nicholson, Danson,
J. S. Gardner, Sre. The resolutions were agreed to unani-
mously.

A numerous meeting, in support of James Jack, Esq.,
as representative of Scotland-road ward, was held yester-
day, at the house of Mr. Owen Davis, Scotland-road. A
similar meeting was also held yesterday, at the Lamb and

Flag, Burlington-street, and at both meetings resolutions
were carried to support Mr. Jack.
Yesterday a numerous meeting of the supporters of Mr.
Nicholson was held at the house of Mrs. Hays, Vauxhall-
road. Alexander Shand, Esq., in the chair. The resolu-
tions in support of Mr. Nicholson were agreed to unani-
mously.

It is understood that the following gentlemen will be
proposed as the new aldermen in lieu of those who retire
on the 9th :—Mr. Thomas Littledale, Mr. Samuel Holme,
Mr. J. B. Lloyd, Mr. J. A. Tobin, Mr. Edmund Moly-
neux, Mr. Jos. Cooper, and Mr. James Parker. The only
opposition to this list which we hear of at present is a
proposition to substitute Mr. George Holt and Mr. Robert-
son Gladstone for Messrs. Cooper and Parker.
GROSS INTIMIDATION.—The re-election of Mr. Nichol-
son, as representative for Vauxhall Ward, has been opposed
by bringing forward Mr. Daniel Powell, a Romanist, at
the instigation of Messrs. Bradley and Moss. Our readers
must be in some degree familiar with the unscrupulous
means resorted to when the minions of Rome have any
object to gain, but they will scarcely credit the kind of
influence which has been brought to bear in order to thrust
Mr. Daniel Powell into the Town Council, at the loss of a
far better man. The majority of the voters have been
threatened with personal violence, and unless the most
efficient precautions are taken by the police, scenes of
bloodshed are apprehended, and the dread of these san-
guinary ruffians, who have been called to the aid of Mr.
Powell, will have the effect of deterring many of the
electors from recording their votes in favour of Mr.
Nicholson. As a proof of the reign of terror which has
been organized, we may state that a supper for thirty
having been ordered at a house in the Waterloo Road, the
landlord, who was not at home when the order was given,
wrote to say that he could not allow it with safety to him-
self or his property, as he believed the house would be
pulled down over him. Radicalism is bad enough, but
Romanism is the incarnation of evil.