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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-31 00:00:00

and success

N'ot only are

ais society

pool since the formation o
there twelve schools in connection with it for the educa-
tion of the labouring poor, but the Collegiate Institution
supplying the demand for sound and scriptural education
in all classes of society, and the Female Orphan Asylnm
providing for the wants of the most destitute, testify that
neither the zeal nor the benevolence of the friends of edu-
cation in Liverpool is exhausted. The meeting, we doubt
not, will be very interesting, and acquires fresh importance
from the effort which the Church of England is now making
to place a religious education within the reach of all her
members.

ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE AT ITALE.-A meeting of
the Floral and Agricultural Society of Hale and Halewood
lately took place. When the business of the meeting was
over, the following extraordinary scene occurred :—Our
patriotic Col. Williams, in his " Russia ducks," mounted
the platform, and expressed his wish to address the people
on the subject of the corn laws, and had assembled not a
few persons to hear his rhapsodies, when suddenly he was
interrupted by the appearance of a gentleman in authority,
who inquired the object of the meeting, and by whose
permission he thus intruded upon the business of the day.

PROSPECTS OF THE APPROACHING ELECTION

We propose, on the eve of our Municipal strt

enter upon a brief and candid examination of the ra

as the data in our possession enables us to do, upon their
relative chances of success. In doing this we shall take
the different wards seriatim, as they stand numbered in
the Municipal Register ; and that we may not mislead any
of our readers into the indulgence of over-sanguine hopes,
or, on the other hand, unduly excite their fears, we must
in setting out distinctly state, that our judgment will be
formed not from any acquaintance with the state of the

canvas in the various wards, but from a conviction, formed

ay be achieved by exertion and energy ,on the part of

the various committees

IVERTON

We comm,

servative wards of the town, the candidates op posed are
Mr. David Hodgson, the retiring conservative member,
and Mr. Christopher Rawdon, on the whip-radical interest.
at the last election Mr. Francis Shand walked over the
'on. In the previous year, haw-
, was contested and won by Mr. Thomas
Shaw, conservative,. one of the present sittitpj ethers,
beating Mr. M. Ashcroft, radical, by a majority of 12-i,
which we may assume to be the present conservative ma-
jority of the ward. The gentleman who now again seeks
the suffrages of the conservative electors has, during his
period of office, fully redeemed every promise made at the
time of his first election ;: and without entering at all into
the merits of the rival candidate, Mr. C. Radon, the
reiected of St. Paul's Wm-tint the teat eleer;n.

ourse without oppos

deserved(

constituents

SCOTLAN

strongly cont

s not the man, if there be such a one

WARD has on 111'
;sted, and with v

t' former vacancies been
ied success. Last year

year precedin

Ised of great

Mr. Isaac Isaac Holmes, after a hard fight, was

returnee!, t'y a majority 0 _the present re-
tiring member, Mr. Thornhill, if we recollect right, only
won his seat within the last few minutes of polling, by a
o! In this ward, therefore, we look for-
and neck race, the result of• which we can-
Mr. Thornhill possesses great interest

n vote

majority of h

the Radicals of the ward, the resolt of his doings
Market and Watch Committees, and has also
subserviency to their dictates sect

l' the calm.:

rice of sc

We may

exertion and even trickery
scure his return. He is opposed on

r. Thomas Vernon, a sound

10 newly embarked upou the arena
nd if his Conservative friends work

o have influence