The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-08-16 00:00:00

MAIN OF COCKS, LIVERPOOL AINTREE RACE-
COURSE.

AMAIN of COCKS will be FOUGHT on MONDAY next,
ithe 19th instant, at the New Cockpit, at Aintree, between,
the Gentlemen of Liverpool (Porter feeder), and the Gentle-
men of Manchester (Woodcock feeder), for Five Guineas a
Battle, and One Hundred Guineas the Main. Twenty one
Mains. Two ingoes. Morning at Half-past Ten o'clock. Af-
ternoon at Four o'clock. _

An ORDINARY will be provided at the Sefton Arms
Hotel, at Two o'clock.

Public Vcrbito.

PARIS II OF LIVERPOOL.
A T the VESTRY held by adjournment at the Court-house,
_4-1_ to take the Poll for the Election of Collector, in the place
of Mr. P. S. Dowdall, deceased,'
&W. B. COLTON, Esq. one of the Churchwardens, in the Chair.
The Poll recommenced at Ten o'clock, and at a quarter:past
Two, Mr. Taylor resigned, and at half-past Two Mr. Hart
resigned. At the close at •Four o'clock the numbers on the
gross Poll were as follows: Persons. Votes.
Mr. Z. B. Houghton 426 1107
Mr. James Youds 122 259
Mr. Peter Rotheram - 131 ‘- 237 •
Mr. James Rowe ..... 129 4OB
Mr. AlinSon Heckle 5 6
Mr. Thomas Muir 117 913
Mr. Thomas Pennell 393 B5
Mr. William Whiting' ' 201 522
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Upon the announcement of-the numbers, Mr. Whiting and
Mr. Pennell having resigned, and the time limited by the
Chairman having elapsed, without a Voter appearing for the
other Candidates, Mr. Zachariah Barnes Houghton was de-
clared to be duly elected. D. LOWNDES, '
Thursday Evening, Avg. 15, 1833. Vestry-Clerk.

TO THE PARISHIONERS OF LIVERPOOL.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
/SHE Election having just terminated in my favor, I hasten
_I to return you my most grateful acknowledgments for the
kind suppurt I have receivekiluring thesContest, and to assure
you that it Will ever be my ankious endeavour to prove myself
worthy of tin confidence you have been pleased to repose in
me. I cannot conclude without expressii my sense of the
honourable cinduct of the other Candidath during the Elec-
tion ; and I have also to return my hearty thanks to those
Friends to whose active personal exertions my success is so
greatly to lie attributed.
I have the honour to be,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

Your most obedient servant,
ZACH. BARNES HOUGHTON.
Finch street, Aug. 15, 1831

TO THE PARISHIONERS OF LIVERPOOL.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
I:LAVING resigned the contest as a Candidate for Collec-
tor,k I sincerely return you my. grateful thanks for the
very handsome manner in which you have supported me du-
ring the Election, and I haie no doubt your exertions will be
crowned with success on a future occasion. In the meantime,
I have the honour to remain,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obliged Servant,
August 15, 1833. THOS. PENNEL.

TO ,THE PARISHIONERS OF LIVERPOOL.
•LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
A LTHOUGH not successful in obtaining the object of my
wishes, to serve you in the capacity of Collector of Rates
and" Taxes, I cannot retire from the contest in which I have
been engaged without expressing my warmest thanks to those
Ffiends who have so kindly suppoi ted me. Hoping that at
some future time I may be morn fortunate, •
I remain,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your much obliged servant,
Au uit ItirirlB33. • AIIONIAS MUIR.

AT a Public MEETING of the Inhabitants of the Extra •
parochial Place of Toxteth Park, held at the Public
Office there, to take into consideration the demand made by the
Churchwardens of Walton-on-the-Hill, August 14th, 1833.