The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-02 00:00:00

WEST DERBY WARD

The e'e_t( n inigsNYard—soon terminated, as the radicals
were aware hem the returns of previous years that any op-
position oa the r part was hopeless, and a useless expenditure
of money. Mr. John Shaw Leigh, the late representative
of the ward, was again returned. Mr. Leigh has won golden
opinions by his attention to the interests of his constituents,
and we rejoice to see him once more in an office which will
enable l.i.m to confer considerable advantage on the commu-
nity, and for the discharge of the duties of which his talents
and energies so eminently qualify him. The radicals must
have been aware of his overpowering popularity, as well as
the conservative strength in the ward, or they would have
offered same opposition to Mr. Leigh's return.

Ainsworth said that there was a very material witness now in
SOUTH TOXTETH WARD. • the Borough gaol for debt, but who could not be allowed to
The contest in this ward was between S. Lee Trotman, give evidence in the court, he having purchased a ticket of a
Esq., a conservative merchant extensively engaged in the watch, which when taken out of pledge and examined was
West India trade, and W. Tayleur, Esq., of the well known found to be altogether useless. Mr. Rushton stated that he
firm of C. Tayleur and Sons—in politics a " liberal" of the was sorry it would be his duty to discharge the prisoner, the
first water, an advocate of the " cosmopolitan" :system of evidence not being sufficiently strong for a conviction. He
education in the corporation schools, a thorough hater of the regretted this the more as he conceived such a system ought
established church, and, in short, a Socinian. The retiring to be dealt with in a severe manner. Had it been possible to
councillor was Mr. M`Kee, a whip-radical; and the contest have had the evidence of the person at present confined for
was scarcely a personal one, as in some other wards, but a debt, and the evidence thereby rendered complete, he would
struggle between the conflicting principles of conservatism, certainly have committed M‘Pberson on the charge of con-
and of the movement towards republican institutions—be- spiring to defraud ; but the evidence not being complete he
tween the supporters of an established church on the one would discharge the prisoner.
hand, and, on the other, of Socinianism, Popery, and politi- TEN LIVES Lowy AT BLYTII.—A truly melancholy ac-
cal dissent of every hue and form, banded together in " beau-. cident happened at Blyth, on the morning of Thursday last,
tiful propriety" for its destruction. The "liberal" party when an lives were lost by the upsetting of the life-boat.
placed their chief hopes upon the efforts which had been It would appear that the Sibsons, of Blyth,
made by the " protectors" to swamp the register, whilst the that place, from Archangel, when the owner of the ves-
conservatives relied upon the reaction which had been gradu• sel, Mr Joseph Hogson who is also intrusted with the
ally taking place amongst the electors, and upon the spirit, charge of the life-boat, resolved to man the boat, as is
which has been excited in. behalf of the religion and the in- customary, to tr had appeared off
if she is sea-worthy, and at the same time
stitutions of their country amongst the operative class, espe- to convey instructions to his ship in the roadstead. Mr.
than,' of that ward. Hodgson, Mr. H. Debord, and a crew of ten men were in
At the opening of the polling-booth at nine o'clock, a the boat ; and when they had got into the open sea, which
strong body of twenty-six, not particularly well-dressed gen- was ver't high at the time, a wave struck the boat and
denier:, about whose nationality there could be no mistake, capsized it. Three or four of the unfortunate men succeeded
presented themselves and took possession of the avenue lead- in getting on the bottom of the boat, which was seen slowly
ing to the booth. The polling went on rather slowly, and where some hundreds of anxious
the conserve- drifting towards the beach,
was marked by no excitement on either side, and at eleven
o'clock the numbers were announced, givingits approach to the shore, and ready
spectators were waiting
to render every assistance ; sea after sea broke over the
tive candidate, somewhat to the surprise of the uninitiated, a hapless men who were still clinging to the boat's bottom,
majority of twenty-one. From ten to eleven the polling con- when the whole were washed from their precarious holding
tinned to go on slowly, and the numbers were announced at : long, however, till they
eleven—for the conservative 86, and for the radical 60. At were drifted within reach of those on the beach, who plunged
twelve o'clock the radicals had reduced the majority against in, with the most praisworthy zeal, to rescue their fellows
them to twelve votes. The polling between twelve and one into the roaring surf. It was not
from a watery grave. In a short time Mr. Hodgson, Mr.
was not nearly so brisk as is usual at this hour ; and the radi- Debord, Henry Kinch, and John Hepple, were got out alive,
cal committee-room exhibited symptoms of considerable dis- but much exhausted ; Mr. Hodgson and Henry Kinch are
may. Mr. Councillor Jordan might be seen ever and anon recovering, but Mr. Debord and John Hepple, expired soon
emerging from the door to cast wistful glances up and down after. The event has plunged several families into the
the road for the coming of the expected forces ; but they deepest grief, and created a general gloom in the neighbour-
came not, and black disappointment gloomed in the coun- hood.—Neweaslle Journal.
tenance of the antiquated radical, whilst the conservatives, Six persons renounced the errors of Romanism in St. An-
toine's church, Dublin, on Sunday.
merryas larks, from this omen began to reekon the game as

their own. Queen Christina is said to have saved 44,400,0004aring
At one o'clock the numbers were for the conservative can-
her regency.
didate 125, and for the whig 111. During the next hour the