The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-06 00:00:00

MUNICIPALiCinbIY

StATTOrD.
RETIRING COUNCILLOR
Conservatives
Reformers _ _

ELECTED Nov. 2, 1840

Conservatives
Reformers
PRESENT CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNCIL
Conservatives
Reformers `"

STOCKPORT.
RETIRING COUNCILLORS

Conservatives
Reformers...

ELECTED Nov. 2, 1840.
Conservatives
Reformers (one ward uncontested)
PRESENT CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNCIL,
(AFTER THIS ELECTION.)
Conservatives
Reformers

CONGLETON.
RETIRING COUNCILLORS
Conservatives
Reformers

ELECTED Nov. 2, 1840.
Conservatives
Reformers
PRESENT CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNCIL,
(AETER THE ELECTION.)
Conservatives
Reformers

No contest in any ward

SHREWSBURY.
Number of Town Councillors
Number of Aldermen
RETIRING COUNCILLORS.
Conservatives
Whig-Radicals 4
ELECTED NOVEMBER 2D, 1840.
Conservatives
Whig-Radicals 2
PRESENT CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNCIL

(AFTER THIS ELECTION.)
Conservatives
Whig-Radicals

LANCASTER.
RETIRING COUNCILLORS
Conservative.
Reformers
ELECTED Nov. 2, 1840.
Conservatives • .

Reformers

PRESENT CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNCIL, (AFTER TR

Conservatives
Reformers...

ELECTION.)

CHESTER
Conservatives returned
Radicals

PRESTON.
No opposition to any of the candidates for the municipal
representation of this town. All the councilmen elected
were conservatives.

LEEDS.
Conservatives returned lO
Radicals returned.
PRESENT CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNCIL.
Conservative Councillors
Radical Councillors
Radical Aldermen l6 1 32
After the first election, the conservatives had only six in
the council.

SOUTHAMPTON MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—The numbers
of the council remain as they were before ; seven conserva-
tives and three radicals were returned.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.—
The election of town-councillors to supply the place of those
who retired by rotation, took place upon Newcastle•upon-
Tyne on Monday last. There was considerable excitement
throughout the borough, and the result of the appeal to the
electors is highly satisfactory to the rapidly advancing cause
of conservatism, the gain to the constitutional party upon
the returns being THREE, which will count sr( upon divi-
sions. The whig-radical faction feel that the ground is
sliding from under them, and the fair and moderate men of
all parties hail the circumstance with satisfaction, inasmuch
as the declaimers for freedom and liberty, with which the
town has been oppressed since the passing of the municipal
reform bill, have falsified every pledge which they made,
and have exercised an unmitigated system of tyranny, exclu-
siveness, and intolerance in all the affairs of the borough.
MANCHESTER MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—There was no
contest in any of the wards, in consequence of the dispute
relative to the charter being unsettled. All the members
are of course radicals.
BOLTON.—There was no opposition here in consequence
of the validity of the charter being questioned. The council,
therefore, is entirely composed of liberals, and a precious
set they are. Should the legality of the charter be established,
there can be no doubt that the character of the council will
soon be changed.
OXFORD TOWN COUNCIL.—Number of town-councillors
30, aldermen 10. Retiring councillors—conservatives (all
churchmen), 6 ; radicals, two churchmen, two dissenters,
4. Elected Nov. 2ad, 1840—conservatives (all churchmen),
7 ; radicals (all churchmen), 3. Present constitution of the
council—conservatives (all churchmen), 29 ; radicals (nine
churchmen, two dissenters), 11.
OSWESTRY TOWN-COUNCIL.—The council consist of 24,
of whom 6 are aldermen. Six conservatives went out of
office, and, at the election on Monday, 6 conservatives were
returned. The council is " all right," the councillors being
16 conservatives to two whig-radicals.

WELSHPOOL TOWN-COUNCIL.—Four conservative coun-
cillors retired ; four conservatives were elected, This leaves
the corporation as it was, viz., 12 councillors and 4 alder-
men, all of whom are conservatives.
MONMOUTH TOWN-COUNCIL.—Here there are 12 coun-
cillors and 4 aldermen. Four conservative councillors went
out of office, and the same number were elected. The coun-
cil now consists of 14 conservatives and 2 Whig-radicals : these
last are aldermen. . _

10.• •••
BEWDLEY TOWN-COUNCIL.—The return from this bo-
rough is extremely favourable. Three whig-radicals and one
conservative retired from the council, and four conservatives
were elected. The council now consists of 16 conservatives,
and no radicals.

—WARWICK TOWN-COUNCIL—Four conservatives and two
radicals retired. Six conservatives were returned. The
lowest conservative gained 55 more votes than the highest
radical. The council of this borough (Mr. Joseph Parke's
pet corporation), formerly all radical, now stands in favour
of conservative principles—that party having a majority of
three.
WEYMOUTH ToWN-COUNCTL.—SiX conservatives re-
turned.
GLASGOW TOWN-COUNCIL—SiE radicals retired, and four
conservatives. Four conservatives and five radicals re-
turned, being one in favour of the conservatives.
LEOMINSTER TowN-COUNCIL.—Here there are 4 alder-
men and 12 councillors. The 4 gentlemen who went out of
office (2 conservatives and 2 whig-radicals) were re-elected.
The council consists of 12 conservatives and 4 whig-radicals.
READING TOWN-COUNCIL—At the first election under
the municipal reform act. the return was—conservatives: 5 ;

whig-radicals, 18. The result of the election on Monday is—
conservatives, 4 ; whig-radicals, 2. The present constitution
of the council is—conservatives, 14 ; whig-radicals, 10. The
mayor, town-clerk, and all the municipal officers of Reading
are now conservatives. Of the ten whig-radicals now in
office. several remain on sufferance, being moderate men
supported by both parties. Three of them, however, are
violent and virulent radicals pitchforked as six years' alder-
men by the first council; they march out, of course, next
year.

BURY ST. EDMONDS TOWN-COUNCIL.—Six conservative
elected in place of 5 radicals and 1 conservative, who wen

out by rotation

CAMBRIDGE Tow N- couN c IL .—Retiring councillors—con-
servatives, 1 ; whig-radicals, 9. Now elected—conservatives,
8 ; whig-radicals, 2. Constitution of the council (after this
election)—conservatives, 20; whig-radicals, 20.
COVENTRY TOWN-COUNCIL.—One more conservative has
been elected than retired. The office of town-councillor is
at a discount here. The only incident worth mentioning is
the defeat of two of Lord John's whig-radical magistrates.

LICIIFIBLD Tows-couN cm.—Six town councillors retired,
viz., four radicals and two conservatives. Each party returned
three in spite of the Lichfield influence.
LYMINGTON TOWN-COUNCIL.—Six conservatives elected
in lieu of six radicals who retire.
ST. ALBANS TOWN-COUNCIL.—Five conservatives and
four radicals.
TAMWORTII TOWN-COUNCIL
turned in lieu of four radicals

—Four conservatives re

WALLINGFORD Tows-couNclL.—Three conservatives
and one moderate whig re-elected without opposition.
WALSALL TOWN-COUNCIL.—The municipal election ter•

minated most gloriously in a conservative. triumph. The
town-council was formerly exclusively radical. The radicals
only ventured one opposition candidate in the Bridge Ward,
and the conservatives triumphed by a majority of 450 in 472
I votes.

WINDSOR MUNICIPAL ELECTION.-At the annual elec-
tion of town-councillors for this borough, the six who retired,
after having served three years, were re-elected. There was
no opposition to the return of the conservative town-council-

,ors the liberal party in the town having measured their
strength, and wisely believing that " discretion is the better
part of valour," abstained from opposing their reelection.
BIRMINGFIAM MUNIGIPAL ELECTION.—The validity of
the charter being still in dispute, the conservatives did not
interfere, nor take the slightest interest in the election.
BEDFORD MUNICIPAL ELECTION .—The conservative party
in Bedford have done their duty. Six councillors went out by
rotation, the said six being all whig-radicals ; one of them is
the agent for Mr. Crawley, the whig member, another is the
chairman of a new whig club lately established here. Six
conservatives have taken their places, having beaten them
hollow. The discomfited party, since their defeat, it has been
ascertained, have started an objection, which may possibly
render the election void as regards three councillors; but
should they persist, and it is necessary in consequence to ob-
tain a mandamus for a new election, the whigs will only be
defeated more completely.
BRADFORD MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—Six conservatives
returned.
BRISTOL MUNICIPAL ELECTlON.—Conservative principles
never achieved a more signal triumph. The conservative
candidates, seven in number, were returned by great majori-
ties. Mr. Visger, who is generally supposed to he the fac-
totum of the government in their negotiations with the Bris-
tol liberals, and Mr. Herapath, the quondam vice-president
of the political union, but now, by the courtesy of Lord John
Russell, a justice of th 3 peace for the city, were defeated.
HEREFORD, Nov. 3.—The annual nuisance, known as the
Municipal Reform Bill, did not fail to produce its usual quota
of excitement and confusion. This borough has gained an
unenviable notoriety for the virulence with which the elec-
tions of its representatives have been carried on ; and short
of annual parliaments, no measure could have been framed so
effectually to foster this evil as this precious specimen of whig
legislation. On the present occasion four gentlemen were
put in nomination, and no other candidate appearing for sonic
time. it seemed probable that they would be chosen to the
council without opposition. There is, however, in this' as in
most corporate towns, a certain clique who exist only by agi-
tation, and so quiet a proceeding did not,X course, suit their
views. A fifth candidate, of whig-radical principles, was
started, and every nerve strained to insure his return ; but,
with what success, will be seen by the subjoined statement of
the close of the poll, the first-named being the conservative
candidates originally put in nomination :—Sworder 243 ;
Harris 240 ; Brown 238 ; Cheek 233 ; Thomas 156.
IPswloti.—Eight conservatives out of ten returned.
MAIDSTONE.—The elections in this town complete the re-
action which has been going on for some time past in its mu-
nicipal politics. The " last of the liberals " popularly elected,
who has so often of late been left alone in his glory, has at
length followed his rejected associates, and, but for the three
liberal aldermen, not elected by thehurgesses, but who owe
their seats to the self-election principle introduced into their
own Municipal Reform Bill by the liberals, the
liberal lumber
of Maidstone would be swept clean of the which
the peopleocl
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Rof the radical candidate, Mr. Haymen, for St. Nicholas's
ward, the vacancy of whose seat in the council is now filled
by Mr. C. Bathurst. The struggle was most arduous. Mr.
Hubbard, the former colleague of Mr. Haymen, is re-elected.