The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-07 00:00:00

PITT-STREET WARD

The contest in this ward was between Mr. Toulmin,
the retiring member, and Mr. Benn, on the radical interest ;
and from the circumstance of the radical party, and their
extraordinary lively chairman, Mr. David M'Clellan,
having last year succeeded in foisting Mr. Fawcett upon
the ward, it was by them anticipated that Mr. Benn's re-
turn was secure. At an early period of the day, however,
they were disabused of this notion, and at the close of the
poll Mr. Toulmin was returned by a majority of 38 —t h e
numbers being _ _ _

For Mr. Toulmin
For Mr. Benn ...

Majority
The result of this contest affords another criterion as to
the state of public feeling upon the subject of the proposed
dock extension. Mr. 13enn's opinions, with respect to
dock warehouses at all hazards, are well known ; and it is
not unlikely that, had victory shone upon the whig-radical
party, that gentleman was intended to replace Mr. Sands
in the chair of the Dock Committee. Modest gentle-
man !

GREAT GEORGE WARD.
The contest in this ward throughout the day was a mere
farce. Mr. John Sothern, the conservative candidate,
may be said to have been returned without opposition, for
the announcement of Mr. Thomas Taylor's name, the day
before the election, appears only to have been made for
the sake of annoyance, for the numbers polled for him
throughout the entire day would not certainly justify the
committee in putting any gentleman to the expense of a
contest.

RODNEY-STREET WARD.
The contest in this ward was conducted, on the part of
the radicals, with more than a usual display of splenetic
feeling. Mr. Birkett, the conservative candidate, has for
some time past been the object of the slander and vitupe-
ration of the dregs of the radical faction ; and the sup-
porters of the whig candidate Mr. Lassen, seem on this
occasion to have exerted themselves to their utmost to
pander to the malevolent feelings by which that faction
were actuated. Abusive placards were freely circulated ;
and even private circulars were issued, bearing the signa-
ture of the chairman of Mr. Lassell's committee, imput-
ing actual dishonesty and fraud to the conservative candi-
date. All these disreputable efforts failed, however.
From the commencement to the close of the poll the
result was never for a moment doubtful • and at four
o'clock Mr. Birkett triumphed over his traducers by a
majority of 18—the numbers being :
For Mr. Birkett
For Mr. Lassell

Majority
The majority would of course have been much greater
but from the circumstance of a large number of duplicate
voters having been sent to other wards.

ABERCROMBY 'WARD.
We are at a loss, even at the present moment, tho-
roughly to understand the nature of the contest in this
ward. When we heard of Mr. Procter's retirement from
its representation, we doubted where the committee would
obtain an equally efficient member; but when we under-
stood that Mr. Boutflower had consented to supply Mr.
Procter's place, we were in some measure compensated
for the loss of the former gentleman. In Mr. Boutflower
the Council has added to its number a retired gentleman
of the first respectability, able to devote the requisite time
to the constituency whose interests he has been elected to
watch over, and well qualified in point of intelligence and
perseverance to protect those interests. Mr. Boutflower
is, moreover, a firm and unwavering Protestant, and we
feel persuaded that, on no occasion, where the assertion of
any principle is involved will he be found to exhibit the
half-and-half policy which has lately characterised the
party who style themselves " liberal conservatives." Mr.
Boutflower is an old Church of England tore, and we care
not how many of such men are sent into the Council. But
we said that we are not able to assign a sufficient reason
for the opposition manifested to Mr. Boutflower; neither
are we ; not so much on account of the overwhelming
majorities recorded at the three last elections, but because
the gentleman who stood forward as his opponent is well-
known as a staunch conservative, and not likely to be an
accessory to any manoeuvre to darnpg- the interests of the
party to which he belongs. The gentleman to whom we
allude was Mr. Daniel Neilson, Ahem, unquestionably,
we have no hesitation in saying we should be glad to see a
member of the Council, and who would undoubtedly have
been placed there had a signification of his desire been
made at the proper time; for we believe that Mr. Bout.
flower only consented to be nominated after urgent and
repeated requests on the part of the conservative commit-
tee. The majority was sufficiently decisive through the
day, though the late hour at which Mr. Neilson was an-
nounced, and coming quite unexpected on the conservative
committee, naturally caused no little excitement amongst
them. We cannot believe but that Mr. Neilson's best
wishes are with the party to which he has long been at-
tached, and for that reason we are the more unable to
account for the opposition.
Immediately after the close of the poll, Mr. Boutflower,
accompanied by a number of his friends, proceeded to the
Phoenix Inn, where a large concourse of respectable in-
dividuals had assembled, and he was received with loud
cheers.

Mr. BUSHELL (on the party reaching the large room
above) appeared at an open window, amidst much ap-
plause, and, in a brief and neat manner, introduced Mr.
Boutflovver to the assemblage as their successful candi-
date, who, he doubted not, would exert himself in the
council for the best interests of the ward and the town.
(Cheers.)

Mr. Dom FLOWER then appeared, and was enthusias-
tically received. He hoped they had not assembled in
the expectation of hearing him deliver a speech, for if so
they would be disappointed. To make a speech required
a degree of talent possessed by few, and which he did not
profess to be endowed with. In compliance, however,
with custom, and learning, too, that something was ex-
pected, he would offer a few observations. He congratu-
lated them on the result of the election, for it afforded a
gratifying test of the sound principles which influenced
the conservative constituency of the ward. (Cheers.)
They were aware that no opposition was there anticipated ;
their opponents too well knew the conservative strength
of the ward, and their own consequent weakness, to ven-
ture upon a fair stand-up fight. It was not until Mr.
Neilson's voting-papers were issued, and it was ascer-
tained that that gentleman was an assenting party to what
was going on, that the affair was regarded as otherwise
than a trick of the enemy, to embarrass their double
votes. He would endeavour to account for the opposi-
tion. In the first place, he was informed that the state-
ment he had made of his principles some weeks ago, be-
fore the assembled conservative constituency of the ward,
were too strong for one or two liberal conservatives pre-
sent : this they publicly expressed, and the radicals acted
upon the hint in the way they had seen. His second of-
fence was, that he was not sufficiently known amongst
them, and ought not therefore to represent them. But,
if he had the misfortune not to be suffic'ently known, it
happened that others bad the misfortune to be " better
known than trusted." (Laughter.) If his opinions had
hitherto been strong, they were not likely to be less so
from the treatment he had experienced that day. He had
now only to thank the committee, who had so zealously
exerted themselves in his behalf, and the constituency,
who by their votes had placed him in that proud position.
There was also another gentleman who had been most
active throughout, and who was not to he out-generalled,
to whom he owed much : he alluded to Mr. Muncaster,
and called upon them to give three cheers for that re-
spected individual. (Loud cheers for the candidate and
Mr. Muncaster.)
Mr. BUSHELL was then called for, and, in a humorous
address, congratulated the electors on the triumphs they
had obtained, showing, as on former occasions, that they
could achieve victory, whether directly attacked by oppo-
nents from within, or by enemies beyond the camp. He
concluded by stating that he had heard from Mr. Neilson
himself, that he would go to the council if elected ; but
he need scarcely tell them that that gentleman had de-
prived himself of all chance of success, by not coming
forward earlier, when the ward were looking for a candi-
date. (Cheers.)

RAILWAYS.-The Grand Junction, Liverpool and
Manchester, and Manchester and Birmingham lines, in-
tendftehlelowsiintizeiillGageiosiMrat'eCsa,baet,
g—li At
bYe°fuo'rieg
to amalgamate.—Railway Journal.
wasE hoirinEtZ,zrild.Eamy EbNroTu.
the Police-court, charged with having embezzled a Bank
of England note for £2O, which had been forwarded by
parties in Manchester to a Mr. Stockdale, of this town.
It appeared from the evidence, that the prisoner was Mr.
Stockdale's office-boy ; and that when he read the letter
at the post-office, in October last, he took out the note
and got it changed at the shop of a Mr. Jones. Jones
subsequently paid it into the Branch Bank of England, in
Hanover-street, where it remained ever since. Part of
the change, amounting to ten sovereigns, was found in the
prisoner's box. Ile was ordered to be remanded until
Monday.
COLLISION AT SEA AND Loss OF LIFE.—A letter,
dated Menai Bridge, 30th October, from the agent of the
City of Dublin Company, says :—" About half-past ten
o'clock p.m., on Saturday, the Hibernia, Captain Dani,
was abreast of the Middle Mouse, and well to the north-
ward, to avoid the great number of vessels in the usual
track. Captain Dani was alarmed, when walking the
poop, by a sudden cry of ' Hard a-port ; for God's sake
bard a-port ;' the helm was instantly ported, and by the
time Dani could rush along the gangway-plank to the plat-
form between the paddle-boxes the Hibernia had run right
over a small sloop and sent her down, with the captain
Sr. ANNE'S WARD.
.s and one man. She was lying in the trough of a trernen-
In this ward the conservative party fought at every di s.
dons swithout
ea, a stitch of canvass set or a light to show
"party had their candidate, Mr. advantage. The opposing
Joseph Hornby, in the field for weeks before it was known
her position. It was blowing a hurricane,
and the at-
that the conservatives had even decided upon a contest ; =sphere almost impervious to vision." Shortly after
the
..
,collision it was found that the water was running into
and when, at the last hour, Mr. Harbord was induced to
foretold of the Hibernia in great force, and the take the field, it was discovered by his canvassers that, in ff' f
tain made up his mind to run rond Point Lynas into
cap-
many quarters where they had hoped for support, they
Malfra Roads, and he beached heron a little cove where
had been anticipated, and pledges given either to vote for
there was no swell, and let the ship quietly settle on the
the whig, or to abstain from voting at all. Under these
circumstances, it is not a little demonstrative of the real strand. At low water the cattle were landed in safety,
conservative strength of the ward that Mr. Harbord was and it is not thought the Hibernia has sustained much
enabled to rally to his side 174 good men and true, whilst damage. The passengers evince great gratitude to the
his competitor, with all his advantages, only mustered 210 captain, and say that they all owe their lives to his firm-
votes. From a comparison of the numbers polled in this nese and skill.
ward last year, it is evident that a little earlier effort on RUNCORN GRAVING Docxs.—Several spirited indi-
the part of the conservatives would have insured a very viduals connected with the thriving little port of Run-
different result. Last year the voting was— corn have it in contemplation to build one or more spa-
For Mr. R. Jones, Conservative .. 210 cious dry docks for the building and repairing of vessels.
A large plot of land on the shores of the river Mersey
For Mr. R. E. Harvey, Radical .. 202
(situate between Weston Point and the Duke of Bridge-

LIME-STREET WARD.
The contest in this ward presented no features of
great interest, and was conducted with great quiet-
ness by both parties. Mr. Morecroft took the lead
in the first two hours of polling, and maintained
his position up to three o'clock. He was then
passed by the conservative, Mr. Kilshaw, and finally beat
by a majority of three votes ; the numbers at the close of
the poll being—
For Mr. Kilshaw 337
For Mr. Morecroft 334

Majority

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happens that
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Majority for Mr. R. Jones .. 8 water's dock,) belonging to the Trustees of the late Duke,
holds out all the advantages required for such docks,
Mr. Harbord therefore, on this occasion, did not poll
nearly the number of votes at the disposal of the censer- commanding, as it does, a draught of from 15 to 18 feet
vative party, whilst his opponent polled more; and no
fldri
Messrs. Wright and Tomkinson. Runcorn
doubt some votes would have been given to the conserva-
working
atquarries
water,—and
b y
five side which were run away with by the cajolery of thepog
enu
reni 0
dryr shotquality
dock
f capable the
same
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Whig party and their canvassers. Were the contest to be one small vessel at a time, and it invariably
en
rot
' ic
otanhnteda i most
so tn
within
lsyu
fought again next week or to-morrow ; were the sterling the demand for its use is much greater than they are able
toryism of Mr. Harbord to be weighed by the electors to accomodate. This inconvenience is seriously
against
the milk-and-water whiggery of Mr. Hornby ; number of vessels arriving annually at theport felt. The
were the talent, honesty, independ , enCe and usefulness of corn amounts to very near 3,000, and has
of Run-
of
the former to be set against the partizanship the increasing for several been steadily
years past.
latter, such a result as the return of Mr. Joseph Hornby, is an increase over last • This year alone there
by the electors of this sound and conservative locality, }ear of 300 vessels. There are
at present about 150
would not again occur. This may, however, and we trust ship carpenters employed
rious yards. In th in the va-
will be, a warningkeep their powder arrive. be e graving dock, the splendid yacht,
" Ps)che," the
Liverpool, proert of-----Jones, Esq., banker, of
is undergoing
a thorough repair.
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