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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-10 00:00:00

:he other candidates

two committees was

adding 308 to the total number of voters; and making
*Mr. Gladstone's supporters 1,151. . .

SOUTH DURHAM • ELECTION.-The nomination took
place on Thursday. There was no contest, and Lord
Harry Vane (Lib.), and Mr. Farrer, of Inglethorp (Tory),
were declared duly elected. The noble lord was proposed
by Joseph Pease, Esq., of Southend, and seconded by
Geo. J. Scurfield, Esq., of Hurworth ; Mr. Farrer was
proposed by Marshall Fowler, Esq., of Preston Hall, and
seconded by Captain Morritt of Rokeby Park.- This is

the first time a Tory has been returned for this division.
The contest in this district
Mr. J. B. Smith, who, we

THE STIRLING BURGHS

has resulted in the return of

y a Christi
t Mr. Smit

an constituency in Scot-
;h professes Free Trade

land. It i; true, that

principles ; but we regret to think that the electors of
Stirling should have gone to Manchester for a candidate
of such a persuasion. Mr. Smith polled 345 votes, Mr
C. A. Maitland 312, Mr. A. Alison 156
WINCHESTER

Mr. Bonham Carter, 363 ; Sir J. B.
scott, 243. Nothing could be more
complete than the failure of Mr. Escott, his supporters
comprising the very lowest Radicals, with a few of the
Conservative party who supported him on private grounds.
Mr. Bonham Carter is a gentleman universally respected
for his personal worth, and many of the Conservative
party gave him their second vote, as a vote against Mr.
Escott. This accounts for his majority over Sir James
East.

DUBLIN, CITY.—The nomination of candidates to re-
present this city took place on Monday. After the former
conservative members had been proposed and seconded,
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posed and seconded. Mr. Ferrand, late of Kriaresboroiigh,
and Mr. John Reynolds, a repealer, was also proposed
and seconded. The numbers at the close of the poll
were—Grogan, (C) 3,353; Reynolds, (Repealer) 3,229;
Gregory, (C) 3,125. Mr. Ferrand was withdrawn.
DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.—For the representation of the

University of Dublin there has been a sharp contest.
Originally"there were seven candidates in the field,—Mr.
Shaw ; Mr. Hamilton ; Mr. Napier; Mr. M'Cullagh ;
Dr. Giffard, the editor of the London Standard; Mr.
Butt; and Mr. Kyle ; the three latter, however, after
make- A:- These

King their speecnes retirea .rom the contest. -
gentlemen urincipally directed their fire against Mr. Shaw,
the late member, and certainly a more brilliant speech
than that delivered by Dr. Giffard it has seldom been our
good fortune to peruse ; though we do not intend it to be
understood by this that we agree in the propriety and
justice of all that the learned gentleman said of Mr. Shaw,
who is a man very much misunderstood. At the close of
the poll, on Saturday night, the numbers stood as follow :
—Hamilton, 675 ; Shaw, 514 ; Napier, 477 ; M'Cullagh,
324. _ _ _ _ _ - _

NARROW ESCAPE.—At the Peeblesshire election, on
Friday, when the two candidates—Mr. Forbes Mackenzie
and Mr. Carmichael—with their respective friends, and
also the Sheriff, had taken their places on the hustings,
the latter had scarcely finished the reading of the act
against bribery, when the temporary wooden platform gave
way, and upwards of 50 gentlemen were precipitated to the
ground amidst falling beams and planks on all sides.
Great confusion ensued; but it was ascertained that twenty-
Mr. Forbes
Carmichael
was more fortunate, having escaped uninjured. Provost
Kerr was much bruised, and Sheriff Burnet was also hurt,
though not severely.
ESSEX VOTERS.—In a contest in a borough in Essex,
where it appeared there would probably be a close run, a
seaman, a £lO voter, was found to be absent with his ves-
sel, and it was uncertain whether he was at Havre or Ant-
werp. A young girl, one of his daughters, of her own ac-
cord, and quite uninown to the liberal candidate or his
committee, determined to fetch him. All she asked was
to be driven over to the railway station, to meet the third
class train. On reaching London, she went to the station
of the Dover railway, where a clerk, with great civility,
advised her to go by Southampton. So she went on to
Nine Elms. On reaching Southampton, she found a
packet just sailing. At Havre, having hired a guide who
understood English, she searched the quay till she found
her father and his ship, and brought him home.
LONDON ELECTION.—It is worthy of notice, as a cu-
rious fact, that the results of the three last contested elec-
tions in the city, (the bye-election of October, 1843, ex-
cepted,) were not correctly ascertained before the official
declaration. In 1837, Mr. Horsley Palmer's election by
a majority of 13 over Mr. Grote, was decisively announced
by his committee at the close of the poll. The next day,
however, Mr. Grote was declared duly elected by a majo-
rity of six ! In 1841, each party gave up Lord John Rus-
sell for lost, and Mr. Wolverley Attwood was the success-
full candidate—until noon next day, when the sheriff
turned the scale by declaring the return of Lord J. Rus-
sell, Mr. Attwood being left in a minority of nine. The
present case is a third example of this uncertainty. No
one dreamt, until the returning officer opened his lips,
that Mr. Masterman was re-elected, and one of the Libe-
ral candidates rejected.

one gentlemen bad received serious injuri
•

THE WEST RIDING.—On Saturday, the nomination of
candidates for the West Riding of Yorkshire took place.
The area in front of the hustings was crowded with about
20,000 persons. No opposition to the late members was
expected until Wednesday last, when a movement was
made by certain members of the Anti-Corn-law League

to bring forward Mr. Cobden
and Mr. Dunn, of Sheffield, s

h. miner proposes,
Lord Morpeth, and

in doing so took occasion to recommend the electors to
split to Mr. Cobden.
_The Hon. E. Lascelles, and Mr. J.
Rand, of Bradford, proposed and seconded Mr. E. Deni-
son. Mr. Goodman, Mayor of Leeds, and Mr. Wm.
Rand, of Bradford, moved and seconded Mr. Cobden.
Lord Morpeth then addressed the electors, as did Mr.
Denison, after which the name of Mr. Denison was with-

drawn, his proposer stating that they were taken 0Y
prise. Lord Morpeth and Mr. Cobden are, therefore, the
members for the West Riding of Yorkshire, and, we pre-
sume,the latter will resign the representation of Stock-
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port, for which place he has also beer
peth said, in the course of his address,
tenth Wig he had appeared before the electors

that it was the