The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-11-04 00:00:00

THE NEW MAYOR.

The election of Town Councillors on Saturday
last passed off in a satisfactory manner upon the
whole. Although in one or two wards the best
candidates that offered were not selected, the new
council, taken altogether, may be considered an
improvement on the old in point of talent, respecta-
bility, and conservative opinion. On Monday next
the highly important duty will devolve on this body
of choosing a fit and proper person to fill the office
of Chief Magistrate of the Borough, and we enter-
tain the most confident hope that they will dis-
charge this function without undue affection or
favour, but solely with the view of placing in the
civic chair the gentleman best qualified by his
social position, his character, and his general bear-
ing, to occupy it. We believe that only two
candidates are to be proposed for the distinguished
office of Mayor of Liverpool on the 9th instant,—
Mr. Thomas Littledale and Mr. Samuel Holme.
Both are gentlemen evidently qualified for the high
station they aspire to on the grounds of public
estimation and private worth. Mr. Holme has
devoted his energies and abilities to the service of
his fellow-citizens for a great number of years, and
has been a leading promoter of some of the finest
buildings and institutions in the town. We parti-
cularly allude to St. George's Hall, of which he
was one of the originators, and to the Collegiate
Institution, of which he was one of the founders.
His liberality, in• the proper sense of the word, is
too well known to be more than merely mentioned,
and his excellence as an employer of a vast number
of workmen needs not be dwelt upon, for it requires
no amplification. Mr. Littledale, on the other
hand, has also many peculiar and all-acknowledged
qualifications for the post of honour in question.
He unites hereditary claims to distinction in the
town of Liverpool with a personal character of the
very first rank as a merchant, a citizen, and a
gentleman. Moreover, it is understood that when
he resigned the chairmanship of the dock com-
mittee there was an honourable understanding that
he was to be Mayor elect for this year. Under these
circumstances we believe we are right in surmising
that Mr. Holme will waive his perfectly legitimate
and well-founded claim to the civic chair on the
present occasion, and that Mr. Littledale will be
elected without going to the vote. Should this
gentleman attain the Mayoralty, we feel convinced
he will fully maintain the dignity, the hospitality,
and the commercial character of this great muni-
cipal borough, and that, in whatever novel or
distinguished position he may be placed during his
year of office, he will reflect as much credit on
Liverpool, as Liverpool ever must reflect on her
first magistrate.

COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY NEWS,

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MONDAY NIGHT

Our Sharemarket is without any new feature this week.
There has been very little business. A quiet, steady mar-
ket, with scarcely a fluctuation all week. A gradual con-
sumption of stock is going on, which must soon tell upon
prices. We annex this day's quotations :—Birkenhead L.
and Chesh., 11,1 d ; late Ches. and B'head, 161 ; £22-
shares, 6ld ; Old Leeds, 541 51 ; L'pool Crosby & S'port,
2gd; London stock, 1131 c 1131 ; Do. new Quarters,
p ; Midland, 481 48 ; Erewash Valley, 63.1- ; North
Staffordshire, 81d ; North Western, 14d ; Old Dovers,
NI a ; York and North Midland, 19.1-; Borough Bank,
101 114 ; Do. new £lO-shares, 3.16 p.
There continues to be a large business done in Sugar,
but at lower prices. On Saturday and to-day 2500 bags
of Benares found buyers, at 365. for low, to 41s. 9d, for
fine white. In Tea, Coffee, and Rum there is little stir-
ring ; indeed, in business generally there is an absence of
all that vigour which we have invariably experienced after
a good harvest ; but times and things are changed, and we
suppose we are now enjoying those glorious times which
were to spring up under the fostering care of that great
bugbear—Free-trade.
The accounts from America point to a large Cotton-
crop, but the market here has been very steady, and the
sales to-day reach 8000 bales. The accounts from India
by the last Overland Mail were of a most unsatisfactory
nature. _

We have had another dull week in our wool market
but as stocks continue light, there has not been much
giving way in prices. In Ireland business is very quiet,
farmers are asking more than the staplers can afford to
give; little has changed hands in consequence. Messrs.
W. Greame and Co., in their monthly circular, state that
the market throughout the past month has been very
quiet, and the demand—with the exception of a few spe-
culative purchases in Australian Wools—has been chiefly
confined to the immediate requirements of the trade.
METALS.—Messrs. John Hill and Co., in their circu-
lar of Nov. 1, state that the demand for Manufactured
Iron continues slack. In Scotch Pig there is a fair busi-
ness doing for shipment and consumption. Copper is in
fair request, and prices firmly maintained. English Tin
firmer than we have known it for some time. In Straits
Tin, Tin Plates, Spelter, and Lead, little doing.
With respect to the market for cotton manufactures,
Messrs. M•Nair, Greenhow, and Irving, in their monthly
circular, published on Saturday, state that although they
have " to report the existence of a dull, drooping, and de-
clining state of things, yet a large amount of business has
again been transacted during the month. The difficulty
of reconciling the outward appearance of the market with
its actual working, still continues. Both Goods and
Yarns have undergone, in most instances., during the
month, a. material decline in value."d