The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-16 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY.

The business of the election proceeded for some time withou
any particular manifestation of public feeling. The state of the
poll was not declared and therefore nut exactly known. To-
wards the middle of the day, however, it was rumoured that
Major Marslaud's return was certain. When this, became
generally known au attempt to renew the scene of the preced-
ing day was very general among the ragamuffins who patronized
Mr. Devonport. The agents of this candidate demanded an ad-
journment of the election, which the mayor, as returning officer,
declined acceding to. Between eleven and twelve o'clock
the mob collected in front of the principal booth became so out-
rageous that soldiers were stationed near the entrances to it in
order to protect the voters in their ingress and egress to and
from it. These were continued until five o'clock, when the
state of the poll was declared. The numbers were found to be
as follows:
For Henry Marsland 5BO
For Mar Marsland 482
For E. D.Davenport 362
' As soon as the result of the election was known, the mob
evinced a strong inclination to riot, which was checked only by
the firmness of the magistrates and the presence of the military.
About nine o'clock, when our account closes, another troop of
dragoons arrived from Manchester, and the town was then per-
fectly quiet. In the confusion that prevailed during the day it
is difficult to collect the precise or indeed any detailed account
of the damage done by the rioters. Some shops are said to have
been plundered, and we believe that a great number of Major
Marsiand's friends have'suffered much personal violence in ad-
dition to having their windows broken.

SHROPSHIRE.
(From a correspondent.)

This county has maintained its high reputation for loyalty
and sound constitutional feeling by, returning twelve stanch
conservatives and not one destructive. The whole county was
disgusted with the conduct of the few stray whigs whom it re-
turned at the last elections, and had been some time preparing
and resolved to cast them off. With a feeling—that all the
agriculturists have at stake—was dependant on the result of the
lresent elections. Animated by a spirit of self-preservation,
andlord and tenant, high and low, countryman and townsman,
have made common cause with each other, and have in every
instance rejected the whig candidates—as enemies to the_pros-
perity and happiness of an agricultural community. Every
borough in the county was contested either by whir or radical,
and in every instance were they, whips or radicals, signally de-
feated, as the following statement strikingly demonstrates :
Shrewsbury—State of the poll Thursday night. -
Sir John Hanmer
Mr. Pelham ss7—Conservative.
Mr. Slaney
Gross poll on Friday at two o'clock.
Sir J. Hanmer 760
Mr. Pelham i

Mr. Slaney
The poll finally closed by the too conservatives being declared
duly elected, and they had then a sufficient number of votes
unpolled to have left their opponents in a woful minority.
Ludlow—Close of the poll.
Lord Clive 234—Conservative.
E. L. Charlton... 159? Late a whig but now a ,
5 stanch conservative.
Mr. Romily ls4—Whig. '
Bridgnorth—Close of the poll.
Whitmore .
Pigot 423—Conservative.
Tracey
Wenlock—Close of the poll.
Forrester sl9—Conservative.
Gaskell 4'22—Conservative.
Somerville
SHROPSHIRE NORTH.—Two conservatives, Sir R. Hill,
nephew of Lord Hill, and W. 0. Gore, Esq., both strenuous
defenders of the established and cherished institutions of their
country. Mr. Cotes, the whig, finding he had no chance, and
considering prudence the better part of valour, beat a timely
retreat.
SHROPSHIRE Sourtt.—Two conservatives, Lord Darlington
and the Hon. Robert Clive.

CITY OF DUBLIN.
(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)
WEDNESDAY.--SECOND DAY.

The polling commenced this morning with spirit on the part
of the conservative candidates; but to this hour, two o'clock,
was languid on the part of their opponents.
STATE Or POLL, AT TWELVE O'CLOCK.
West and Hamilton ... 221
O'Connell and Ruthven llO
Majority on this day's poll for West and 111
Hamilton 5 •• •
AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Hamilton '434
\Vest 425
O'Connell 323
Ruthven
Majority —ll9
TH REE O'CLOCK.

Every obstruction is giving to our voters coming up. The
O'Connellites see that they are beaten, and are now about hav-
ing recourse to brute force.
A troop of dragoons have been sent for, and are now patrolling
around the Court-house.
Mr. Ruthven refused to consent to have special constables
sworn in.
The destructives are beaten.
MR. JOHN DAVID LA TOUCHE.

A most extraordinary sensation has been produced by the
appearance of Mr. La 'I ouche, and a still greater one by his
vote, and the observations with which it was accompanied. The
following is an outline of what he said:—
" I beg leave to state my reasons for now opposing the party
with which I have always co-operated. It was not myinten-
tion to have voted at Ihe present contested election; but when
I heard and witnessed the threats and shameful intimidation
resorted to by the opposite party—when I saw that men were
menaced with death's head and cross-bones being placed over
their doors, and that it was threatened that a circle should be
drawn around our shops and our establishments, I felt bound,
as a true friend of peace and good order—l felt myself impera-
tively called upon to step forward, at this important crisis, to
vote for Messrs. Hamilton and West. For although I may
differ from these gentlemen on some political matters; such for
instance as the question of tithes, yet I think that any reform
must be a political humbug which interferes with the freedom
of election by threats and intimidation such as that now resorted
to. I therefore wish to set an example to my fellow-citizens,
to protect their property, their lives, and the lives of their
children, and, what should be more dear than property or life
to preserve the integrity of the constitution."
No language can convey an idea of the manner in which
these sensible and most excellent observations were received ;
nor of the effect that Mr. Latouche's vote and speech will pro-
duce on that class of electors who used to be considered as
liberal.
At the close of the poll on Wednesday the numbers were :
Hamilton
West
O'Connell
Ruthven