The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-23 00:00:00

THE POLLING.

The polling commenced yesterday morning with great
spirit, both parties making strenuous exertions to bring
up their men, and great excitement being manifested
throughout the town, especially in those streets adjoining
the polling booths. For the first hour, the Egerton party
took the lead ; and at nine o'clock the state of the poll,
according to their own return, was
Nine o'clock, for Egerton..
Stanley

Majority 3l
The return of the Stanley party gave the same majority,
although 90 voters more are given as having polled ; and
as this discrepancy occurs throughout, and is traceable to
the two returns being made up at different periods of the
hour, we shall adhere to the return of the Egerton party,
although it is quite possible that both may be correct.
At ten o'clock the Stanley party had recovered a little of
their lost ground, the numbers being,
Ten o'clock, Egerton • • ..
Stanley ..

Majority..
At this period of the day there appeared upon the scene
a class of men, who may have been found useful as sup-
porters of losing candidates in some boroughs, but whose
presence we should have thought ought not to have been
required, or even tolerated, by a Whig candidate in the
Whig city of Chester, and that candidate a Stanley. We
refer to gangs of ruffianly navvies and labourers of all
descriptions, evidently primed with beer, and appearing,
by their conduct throughout the day, to regard getting up
a fight and maltreating some of the opposite party as the
day's work to be performed for their gratuitous drink.
During the afternoon, especially, scrimmages occurred
almost every five minutes in the immediate neighbour-
hood of the various polling booths ; and the ancient city
will no doubt be enabled to display to-day as many black
eyes and bruised noses as any place of its size.
From ten to eleven o'clock, the Stanley party took a de-
cided; lead ; and at the close of the hour the numbers an-
nounced were—

Eleven o'clock, EE,,erton 476
/f Stanley
Shewing a majority for Mr. Stanley of 99. This majority
was increased every hour from this time, the numbers
being, at
Twelve o'clock, Egerton 555
Stanley

Majority for Stanley 196

One o'clock, Egerton
~ Stanley

Majority for Stanley . . .
At two o'clock Mr. Egerton's committee published no
return ; and as little way was made on either side from
that hour, we give at once the final close of the poll, as
announced by the sheriff :

FINAL CLOSE OF THE POLL.-FOUR O'CLOCK.
Stanley 986
Egerton ..

Majority for Stanley
The number of voters who polled was thus 1,631. There
were, we learn, a little above 2,100 names on the register;
but many of these being twice on the list, as householders
and as freemen, the real constituency may be considered
as having been polled to a man. Indeed, we may say
even more than this ; for it was ascertained, on examining
the returns, that somewhere about sixty parties, long ago
called to their fathers, had risen from their graves to vote
for the popular candidate. It is we believe, about twelve
years since the City of Chester was contested, which will
account for the irregularities which took place, and we may
mention, lest it should be considered that the defeat of
Mr. Egerton is a signal one, that on the occasion of the
last contest, the Honourable Dudley Ryder, the conserva-
tive candidate, did not poll abovehalf the number of votes
recorded yesterday for Mr. Egerton.
At the close of the proceedings it was announced that
the final state of the poll would be declared in the Town-
hall at 5 o'clock ; and long before that hour it was crowded
by the supporters of the winning candidate, who amused
themselves, up to the hour appointed, with giving three
cheers for every body and every t%ing that could be men-
tioned. Indeed, so desirous of indulging their lungs
were the worthy and independent electors present, and
so far had they exhausted the catalogue of their friends,
that a gentleman at length proposed " three cheers for
nobody," which was responded to as lustily as many other
invitations. The official return of the polling having
been announced, the necessary forms were gone through,
after which Mr. Stanley, the sitting member, briefly ad-
dressed the electors.
Mr STANLEY said that he stood there as their repre-
sentative to serve them in parliament, by the free,
independent, unbiassed, and, in most cases, unsolicited
votes. (Uproar.) It was the proudest situation in which
any man could be placed. They had achieved one of the
noblest victories that had ever been won in that city.
He had not come before them on his own merits ; he
came to represent principles, and by God's help he would
maintain them. (Cheers.) He was proud of being a
Cheshire man, but prouder still to be a representative of
that city. That had been no ordinary contest ; the eyes
of the country were upon them. That was the earliest
election since an attempt had been made to reorganise the
tory party. For the last thirty years their exertions had
been used to carry out the principles dear to their hearts.
After a little more similar complimentary talk, and an
eulogy on free trade, the hon. member concluded by ex-
horting his friends to use every forbearance towards their
opponents. An hour before the close of the poll the
shops throughout the city had been closed. In some
localities this precaution had been observed during the
day, in anticipation of a disturbance, owing to the unruly
conduct of the Stanley mob.

LIBERALITY.—Reporters were not admitted to the
Palmerston banquet, on Saturday, until after the cloth
had been removed, and few therefore submitted to
such an indignity.
THE WEATHER.—We have had continuous fine weather
during the last few days • the heat has approached an
easternintensity, the consequence of which is that the
land has become much parched, and rain is require.d
on
many accounts. Still the present genial weather is in
many respects acceptable to the farmer.
WALLASEY COMMISSIONERS.—On Thursday Messrs.
Littledale, Maddock, Ewart, Mann, Stringer, Livesey,
Penny, Holland, and Barton , were elected to fill the
The following was the result of the voting at ts close :
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163 ;
134 ; Livesey, 146 ; Webster, 174.. Red List—Barton,
178 ; Ewart, 195 • Holland, 183 ; Littledale, 221; Live-
sey,
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Penny, 142 ; Claytor, 154 ;Stßrirnoguegrli, 316838;; HBO°rUrlOthekeeS:
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