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
l‘l'Murdo Duncan, merchant. Mr. Harbord took the lead
al 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 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
seemed
to require. Inspectors superintended each
warn , . L
tuere were sections in reserve at various points,
in ease their services might be required; and we ob-
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 coca-
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
°ffice, 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
110 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.

none!!!

Conservatives
Reformers
Ten of the reformers who are at present in the council are
Idermen, who were elected during the reform mania, when
ttih
e radicals obtained a large majority of councillors ; but
!licit as been the alteration in public opinion that the con-
lervatives were returned this year without opposition.

MACCLESFIELD

RETIRING COUNCILLORS
Conservatives
Reformers.

ELECTED Nov. 2, 1840.
Conservatives ... lO
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-
Illiaster, has been lately canvassing Cheltenham upon the
conservative interest.

WESLEYANISM OPPOSED TO CHARTISM.—A respectable
friergy.rnan in Wales observes, in correspondence with a
• erm :—" I must do the Wesleyans the justice to say, that
Cleve!lt Chartist affair they have behaved admirably, as I be-
they do as a body in all political movements. In fact,
'eY 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-
.erred to a right perception of religious obligations, and a
illerifice of private feeling to a sense of public duty ; and I
tit
11;1 satisfied this sacrifice does not go unrequited, as the
esleyans certainly possess the confidence and the good will
or
the country." The gentleman to whom these remarks
~ere addressed and who has forwarded them to us, adds—
The: Wesleyans in Wales, both North and South, are as
kotgrthyom of this character, as their brethren :in any part of the
d."

PORTSMOUTH.—The Rapid, 10 gun brig, will shortly be
,;elurnissioned at this port. The following three-decked ships
reordered to be commissioned immediately :—The Caledonia,
b`u, and Impregnable, 104, both at Plymouth, the former as
?-ort flag-ship of Admiral Sir Graham Moore, and the latter
,i;r service in the Mediterranean, to be commanded by Capt.
),„ Porrest. The Camperdown, 104, is also ordered for cow-
mission at Sheerness for the same quarter. It is confidently
grumoured that the Queen, 104, flag-ship at this port, will be
,14 Out to the Mediterranean as soon as her internal fitments
pine Completed ; and that the St. Vincent, 120, will supply her
ee• A large number of 50 gun-ships are in course of
'reparation for the pendant, amounting to 10 sail. The
41tIdus and Vengeance, 84 gun-ships, will be commissioned
vtnlis port about the 10th of November. Great dispatch is
sed in their equipment for the pendant.—Brighton Gazette.
4oreINGLLAR AND PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—The week
'ast, two sinkers were engaged by night in a coal-pit
,I hl?riging to E. Protheroe, Esq., in the Forest of Dean ;
ee:y were sinking an air-pit from one measure or vein of
t' to another, and the pit was then about fifty feet deep.
141 Young man, Thomas Coleman, at the windlass or barrel,
sat down a few minutes, while the other at the bottom
it4l Preparing other work. It being about midnight, he fell
eeP, and had a short unpleasant dream, which excited him
hipluch that he sprang forward headlong into the pit, and
derfab out 25 feet, or midway down, where his life was won-
Of ullY preserved by his foot catching on one of the hooks
hialt,eart bridle, which pierced through the upper leather of
sal, B'loe and into his foot. near the large toe. He was there
iissii'ended for some time, completely out of the reach or
Yousbtance of the man at the bottom ; but being a very active
man, after several efforts he succeeded in reaching the
self ti on which he was hung, and ultimately disengaged him-
11e , Although suffering much pain, be drew up his partner.
ou fult3 been unable to work since, but the wound is going
4vourably.—Bath Chronicle.