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

KIRKDALE MICHAELMAS SESSIONS

These sessions commenced on Wednesday last, before
the Rev. Jonathan Brooks, chairman, and a full bench
of magistrates. The calendar contains about the usual
number of prisoners, being in the whole 81 ; of this num-
ber six can read and write well, IS can read and wite im-
perfectly, 17 can read, and 36 can neither read nor write.
The following gentlemen were then sworn on the

GRAND JURY :
Josias Booker, Allerton.
Richard Gardner, Everton.
John Butterfield, North Meols.
Robert Newton, North Meols.
Richard Kaye, North Meols.
Richard Wright, North Meols.
John Davies, Great Crosby.
Robert Johnson, Great Crosby.
John Rawlinson. Great Crosby.
Abraham Gartside, Everton.
Thomas Banks, Everton.
George Pitts, Everton.
John Bent, West Derby.
Arthur Clegg, West Derby.
Thomas Lambs, Toxteth-park.
William Skirving, Walton-on-the-Hill
Edward Willmer, Liverpool.
Edward Bland, Houghton.
Joseph Culshaw, Houghton.
Thomas Watkinson, Liverpool.
Thomas Berry, North Meols.

The CHAIRMAN said he had looked over the calendar,
but was not aware of any case out of the common course,
all of them being of the ordinary character, with which
some of them were well acquainted, but if there should
be any point of difficulty, the court would be happy to
afford Them every information. He was not aware of any
point upon which it would be necessary for him to address
them, excepting one circumstance, which he thought it
necessary they should be made acquainted with, as it af-
fected some points in the administration of justice, and
that was an alteration which had taken place during the
last session of parliament in the law of evidence. As it
stood before that time, persons could not be admitted
evidence who had been convicted and sentenced for any
criminal offence, or who were interested parties them-
selves. The legislature had thought proper to alter it,
and now no person was excluded either on account of
crime or interest. There were one or two exceptions
which related to the evidence of husbands and wives, and
also with respect to tenants against landlords in cases of
ejectment, where there was an immediate interest; but
the rule was generally that persons convicted of crime
might be admitted as evidence. He begged to remark,
however, that in all such cases it would be the province
of the jury to sift such evidence, and give only such credit
to it as it deserved. There was another act with regard
to the administration of justice, but it did not affect any
of the cases which were dealt with at quarter sessions.
The jury were then dismissed to their labours. and se-
veral bills being found, the trials were prnceeded with.

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MUNICIPAL ELECTION.

GLORIOUS CONSERVATIVE TRIUMPHS

Another Conservative victory was vouchsafed to us on
Wednesday ;—another crushing defeat inflicted upon poor
crestfallen Radicalism !—so utter, indeed, and decisive, as
to the scorn in which it is held by the great mass of the
community, that we are only struck with wonder that, in
past years, the same community can have been misled so
far as to pack the Council chamber with men whom they
now evidently despise and detest. Of fourteen wards
contested, the Conservative party have been successful
in eleven. Notwithstanding that in several scarcely
an exertion has been used ; and in those which have been
lost, we feel satisfied that, with a stricter canvass, and
earlier preparations made for the .fight, a victory in the
remaining wards would have been as easy of achievement
as in those which have been carried.

We must confess that the result has surprised us. We

never anticipated it. We expected, in fact, a few weeks
ago, barely a majority of the 16 wards; and our dis-
appointment is therefore as agreeable as it is unexpected.
We imagined, in our simplicity, that that amazingly en-
lightened and industrious body of men, the Antimonopoly
Association, had so inoculated the great body of the con-
stituency with their free-trade views, that Conservatism
was about to be swamped for ever. A ghastly picture of
William Rathbone borne into the Council upon a trium-
phal car made soft by half-a-dozen pair of our friend

David M `Lellan's slop inexpressibles, haunted our visions.
We had a dim jdea of seeing the burly form of Thomas
Bolton seated once more in his wonted place at the Coun-
cil table. We half imagined that the shriek of William
Earle was not to be for ever lost to us ; but, alas for
Whiggery ! alas for Rathbone, Bolton, Earle, and the
rest of the small and large fry, about whose superhuman
claims, our Mercury's and Albion's vapoured and swag-
gered to the last ! Some of these would-be champions
ingloriously fled the fight—cut and tun—whilst the few
who stood up have been sent home so battered and dis-
figured that their best friends did not know them; and
some have not as yet recognised, in the elongated features
which presented themselves in their dressing-glasses, the
same smirki.ig and smiling faces which presented them-
selves in the same reflectors about half-past seven o'clock
in the morning of Wednesday.
Probably a brief state ment of the polling in each of the
wards last November will be interesting to our readers,
prior to offering any comparision as to the voting in this
and previous years
Wards

Everton

Majority
Mr. Francis Shand (C) elected.
No radical candidate.
Scotland Mr. R. Houghton (C) elected.

Vauxhall

No radical candidate.
Mr. Thos. Blackburn (R) 138
Mr. Thomas Case (C) 104 34
Mr. J. C. Thompson (C) 186
Mr. John Deakin (R) 165 21
Mr. J. North (C) elected.
No radical candidate.
Castle-street.... Mr. Hugh Hornby (R) 312
Mr. T. I'. Glazebrook (C) 277 35
Mr. Samuel Holme (C) 252
Mr. Adam Cliff (R)..
Mr. William Fawcett (R) 190
Mr. John Taylor (C)
Great George.... Mr. Thomas Royden (C) 177
Mr. E. Chaloner (R)
Mr. J. N. Wood (C)
Mr. James Mulleneux (R) 132 85
Mr. C. Bushell (C) 172
Mr. James Downey (R) 24 148
Lime-street .... Mr. Robert Rigby (C)
Mr. Thos Morecroft (R)
St. Anne's.. ....Mr. Robert Jones (C)
Mr. R. E. Harvey (R)
West Derby .... Mr. James Plumpton (C) 182
Mr. John Smith
South Toxteth .. Mr. Ambrose Lace (C) 142
Mr. F. Jordan (R) 64 78
North Toxteth .. Mr. J. Sheppard (C) 278
Mr. W. Lockerby (R)

St. Paul's

Exchange

St. Peter's

Pitt street

Rodney-street

Abercromby

The conservatives, as will be seen from this statement,
contested last year the whole sixteen wards, and succeeded
in returning thirteen representatives of their opinions to
the Council, whilst the radicals were only able to elect
three members, and those, as will be seen by the preced-
ing numbers, by majorities miserably small as compared
with the numbers in the wards which returned conserva-
tives. It is somewhat remarkable that thirteen conserva-
tive candidates were returned in 1841 and 1842, though
not precisely for the same wards, and this year we have
returned twelve, the same number as in 1840, which is a
gratifying proof that the change in the public mind since
the palmy days of whiggery is not evanescent, but is as
permanent as it is decided.
One or two reminiscences connected with the last elec-
tion are worth recording. The total number of electors
polled last year was 4730, and out of these the conserva-
tives had a gross majority of 828. The total number of
Conservatives polled at the present election is 2914, and
the number of burgesses on the roll for the fourteen con-
tested wards is 8354. Although the relative proportion of
representatives in the Council is not altered by the recent
election, yet the Radicals polled this year nearly six
hundred voters more than last year, whilst the numbers for
Conservatism are increased very little more than a hundred;
but this is, in all probability, owing to the circumstance
of the former party having, last November, left three
wards uncontested, whilst this year they had a candidate
in all but one. There is not much variation in the polling
at the various wards between last year and this. The
Conservative majorities, with two exceptions, are suffi-
ciently indicative of their overwhelming strength—their
highest majority being 98, whilst that of the Radicals and
that in a ward where no adequate exertion was made,
(Vauxhall) was only 38. Three years ago Mr. Toulmin
was elected by a majority of only one, whilst now he has
obtained oxer a very popular man of the Radical party a
majority of 38. In 1830 Mr. Joseph Cooper, in Great
George Ward, defeated Mr. Thomas Taylor by a majority
of only two, whilst, at the present election, Mr. John
Sothern polled, for the same ward, 94 votes more than
the same Radical opponent. At the previous election of
Mr. Sands he was returned by a majority of 31 over Mr.
Ottiwell Wood ; but he has this year succeeded in record-
ing 89 votes more than the rival candidate, Mr. George
Holt, one of the Radical pets. This year Mr. Morecroft
has polled 98 votes more than were registered for him last
year, which is a sufficient reason for the small majotity
of Mr. Kilshaw, though that gentleman has considerably
more votes than were recorded last year for the Conserva-
tive candidate. The Conservative candidates for the two
Toxteth Wards do not appear to have polled nearly so
many votes as were mustered last year, though for what
reason we cannot say.

The following is an hourl3
respective wards : the nun
printed in italics:—

Wards,

1, Everton.
David Hodgson.... 87
Christopher Rawdon 39
2, Scotland.
William Thornhill.. 29
Thomas Vernon .. 56

3, Vauxhall.
Thomas Chalmer 11
Thomas Case 9
4, St. Paul's.
R. 8.8. H. Blundelll33
John Deakin '24
5, Exchange.
Thomas Sands
George Holt 3l
6, Castle-street.
James Aikin .
No opposition.
7, St. Peter's.
J. A. Tinne
Thomas Bolton 47
8, Pitt-street.
Thomas Toulmin
Robert Benn .
9, Great George.
John Sothern 74
Thomas Taylor .... 14
10, Rodney-street.
William Birkett 70
Lassell.... 156
11, Abercromby. 1
C. Boutilower .... 59
D. Neilson....

7 statement of the poll in the
les of the conservatives are
Ma-
fori-
-4 I ty.

167 189
88 102
106 142
109 148

199
116
180
177

68 78
48, 62,

88 125
94 112

1851 211
1151 117

141 1691
145 164
124 145
110 138
130 142
41 49

175 1921
148 1761

1311 146
831 108,

12, Lime-street.
John Kilshaw 132
Thomas Morecroft .42
13, St. Anne's.
Joseph Ihrnby .... 38
H. G. Harbord....i3s

90 1341
97 144

172 217 264 3371
176 222 2681 3341

14, West Derby.
G. H. Lawrence ..
No opposition.
15, S. Tosteth.
T. T. Glazebrook.. 23
John Platt ... 181

127 169 186 210
90 119 152 174

481 60
46 55

16, N. Toxtetb.
Richard Harbord.. 127
William Lockerby.. ilB

67 75
64 72

67 87 95
64 74 79
115 133 167
94 121 155

From these returns we derive the following summary
Conservatives returned....
Radicals do.

No. of Wards,
Conservatives polled
Radicals do.

No. of Electors polled,
conservative
majority
The follow ng is a complete list of the Town Council,
as at present constituted, distinguishing the politics of
the members, and the number of years which each mem-
ber has to serve :

No. I.—EVERTON WARD

Alderman—T.B. Barclay (R)

David Hodgson, (C)
Councillors Francis Shand (C).,
Thomas Shaw (C)

Yrs. to serve,