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

NORTH TOXTETH WARD.

In this ward the conservative candidate was Mr. Richard
Harbord, warehouse-owner; and the radical, Mr. William
M`Murdo Duncan, merchant. Mr. Harbord took the lead
it an early hour, and kept it in good style to the close of the
contest. Here, too, the election went off in a perfectly
Peaceable manner.
Harbord • ..
Duncan.

Majority for liarbord .

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
seemed to require. Inspectors superintended each
"'all; there were sections in reserve at various points,
In case their services might be required; and we oh-
served Mr. Whitty at various parts of the town during
the day, giving most 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..
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
Mich 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
PRESENT CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNCIL,
(AFTER THIS ELECTION).
Conservatives (councillors 29) 29
Reformers (aldermen 12—councillors 7) 19
The numbers once were—conservatives 3 ; reformers 45.

Richard Roy, Esq., of Great Stanhope-street, West-
Ilainster, has been lately canvassing Cheltenham upon the
Conservative interest.
WESLEYANISM OPPOSED TO CIIARTISM.—A respectable
Cirgyman in Wales observes, in corresondence with a
frtend :—" I must do the Wesleyans the justice to say, that
hl the Chartist affair they have behaved admirably, as I be-
lieve they do as a body in all political movements. In fact,
LheY appeartry, to me to feel a consciousness of their might in
`ue coun 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-
[erred 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
tlf 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
worthy of this character, as their brethren :in any part of the
L of the
PORTsmOuTH.—The Rapid, 10 bun brig, will shortly be
`oMmissioned at this port. The following three-decked ships
Litre ordered to be commissioned immediately :—The Caledonia,
1,20 and Impregnable, 104, both at Plymouth, the former as
Fort flag-ship of Admiral Sir Graham Moore, and the latter
qii'e service in the Mediterranean, to be commanded by Capt.
~.4.;•Porrest. The Camperdown, 101, is also ordered for com-
mission at Sheerness for the same quarter. It is confidently
"'Moored that the Queen, 104, flag-ship at this port, will be
4eht out to the Mediterranean as soon as her internal fitments
are completed ; and that the St. Vincent, 120, will supply her
"'ace. A large number of 50 gun-ships are in course of
reparation for the pendant, amounting to 10 sail. The
nuus and Vengeance, 84 gun-ships, will be commissioned
,f this port about the 10th of November. Great dispatch is
need in their equipment for the pendant. —Brighton Gazette.
SINGLLAR AND PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—The week
beforeb last, two sinkers were engaged by night in a coal-pit
`hey to E. Protheroe, Esq., in the Forest of Dean ;
were sinking an air-pit from one measure or vein of
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another, and the pit was then about fifty feet deep.
h" Young man, Thomas Coleman, at the windlass or barrel,
wad sat down a few minutes, while the other at the bottom
448 Preparing other work. It being about midnight, he fell
tio eeP, and had a short unpleasant drelm, which excited him
fehtauch that he sprang forward headlong into the pit, and
de" about 25 feet, or midway down, where his life was won-
of rfully preserved by his foot catching on one of the hooks
I,ia cart bridle, which pierced through the upper leather of
4„7_ tihoe and into his foot. near the large toe. He was there
as fur some time, completely out of the reach or
yrstance of the man at the bottom ; but being a very active
b..uPg man, after several efforts he succeeded in reaching the
ten Ori which he was hung, and ultimately disengaged him-
-11 Although suffering much pain, he drew up his partner.
04',111111 been unable to work since, but the wound is going
+avourably.—Bath Chronicle.