The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-03 00:00:00

NORTH TOXTETH WARD

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,_ln this ward the conservative candidate was Mr. Richard
Larbord, warehouse-owner ; and the radical, Mr. William
NtalVfurdo Duncan, merchant. Mr. Harbord took the lead
at an early hour, and kept it in good style to the close of the
Contest. Here, too, the election went off iu a perfectly
Peaceable manner.
Harbord

Duncan

Majority for Harbord

The police were on the alert during the day, without
Interfering with the'business of the election beyond the
necessary maintainance of order, when a breach of the
peace was threatened or had commenced. To some
of the wards only six officers were appointed, and in
others various numbers up to twenty, as the occasion
Zed to require. Inspectors superintended each
; there were sections in reserve at various points,
in
case their services might be required; and we ob-
served Mr. Whitty at various parts of the town during
the day, giving_ moat efficient and impartial instruc-
tions to those under his charge.

No means, however trifling, were disregarded by the
liberals to avoid the mortification of defeat. For in-
stance, circulars were sent round to gentlemen of their
mode of thinking, requesting them to interfere with
their servants, and others connected with them to in-
duce them to vote for the radical candidates. We,
Ourselves, saw one dated October 22, addressed by Mr.
Wilson Ledger,'to Mr. John Cropper, in which he
stated that he had been instructed by the central com-
mittee to request him to call upon John Dalton, of
Mill-street, and endeavour to prevail upon him to vote
for the reform candidate, in South Toxteth Ward, Mr.
Platt. The circular also gave the information that the
Committee were sitting every day at Mr. Rathbone's
office, No. 10, South Castle-street. This is an incident
not very important in itself, except as showing that
the mania for reform in Mr. Dalton and others was by
no means so strong as in the central committee them-
Selves, but that the persuasion and character of Mr.
Cropper were deemed indispensable to induce him to
vote for the radical candidate.

WIGAN MUNICIPAL ELECTION,
RETIRING COUNCILLORS.
Conservatives
Radicals
ELECTED Nov. 2, 1840.
Conservatives

Radicals none ! ! !
PRESENT CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNCIL,
(AFTER THIS ELECTION).
Conservatives
Reformers l3
Ten of the reformers who are at present in the council are
aldermen, who were elected during the reform mania, when
the radicals obtained a large majority of councillors ; but
such as been the alteration in public opinion that the con-
servatives were returned this year without opposition.

MACCLESFIELD.
RETIRING COUNCILLORS.
Conservatives
Reformers 6
ELECTED NOV. 2, 1840.
Conservatives
Reformers 2
PRESENT CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNCIL,
(AFTER THIS ELECTION)
Conservatives (councillors 29)
Reformers (aldermen 12—councillors 7) 19
The numbers once were—conservatives 3 ; reformers 45

Richard Roy, Esq., of Great Stanhope-street, West-
/ninster, has been lately canvassing Cheltenham upon the
Conservative interest.

WESLEYANISM OPPOSED TO CIIARTISM.—A respectable
clergyman in Wales observes, in correspondence with a
friend :—" I must do the Wesleyans the justice to say, that
in the Chartist affair they have behaved admirably, as I be-
lieve they do as a body in all political movements. In fact,
they appear to me to feel a consciousness of their might in
the country, and to consider themselves more as an integral
Part of the state, than as a sect with detached exclusive in-
terests. In this there is much wisdom ; this must be pre-
ferred to a right perception of religious obligations, and a
sacrifice of private feeling to a sense of public duty ; and I
am satisfied this sacrifice does not go unrequited, as the
wesleyans certainly possess the confidence and the good will
of the country." The gentleman to whom these remarks
Were
addressed and who has forwarded them to us, adds—
' The Wesleyans in Wales, both North and South, are as
Y orthy
111 of this character, as their brethren :in any part of the
ingdo."
PORTSMOUTH.—The Rapid, 10 gun brig, will shortly be
commissioned at this port. The following three-decked ships
lire ordered to be commissioned immediately :—The Caledonia,
120, and Impregnable, 104, both at Plymouth, the former as
!ion flag-ship of Admiral Sir Graham Moore, and the latter
Tr
service in the Mediterranean to be commanded by Capt.
.1% Forrest. The Camperdown, 104, is also ordered for com-
mission at Sheerness for the same quarter. It is confidently
rumoured that the Queen, 104, flag-ship at this port, will be
sent out to the Mediterranean as soon as her internal fitments
al'e completed ; and that the St. Vincent, 120, will supply her
Pia Ce. A large number of 50 gun-ships are in course of
reparation for the pendant, amounting to 10 sail. The
adus and Vengeance, 84 gun-ships, will be commissioned
at this port about the 10th of November. Great dispatch is
Used in their equipment for the pendant.—Brighton Gazette.
"SINGULAR AND PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—The week
before last, two sinkers were engaged by night in a coal-pit
belonging to E. Protheroe, Esq., in the Forest of Dean ;
they were sinking an air-pit from one measure or vein of
,°al to another, the pit was then about fifty feet deep.
wadyoung man, Thomas Coleman, at the windlass or barrel,
wilad sat down a few minutes, while the other at the bottom
axis preparing other work. It being about midnight, he fell
lieeP, and had a short unpleasant dream, which excited him
f°, Much that he sprang forward headlong into the pit, and
',ell about 25 feet, or midway down, where his life was won-
derfully preserved by his foot catching on one of the hooks
h cart bridle, which pierced through the upper leather of
shoe and into his foot, near the large toe. He was there
~"Pended for some time, completely out of the reach or
;sslstance of the man at the bottom ; but being a very active
ei°l4lg man, after several efforts he succeeded in reaching the
self,
on which he was hung, and ultimately disengaged him-
bq Although suffering much pain, he drew up his partner.
ell fa
c has been unable to work since, but the wound is going
vourably.—Bath Chronicle.