The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-03 00:00:00

EVERTON WARD.

This ward was strongly contested, but the Conservative
candidate obtained a large majority at the commence-
ment, which he maintained during the day. At. two
o'clock the numbers were,—

• For Mr. Atherton ..
For Mr. Walthew

Majority for the f0rmer.......
In half an hour more the Conservative candidate had in-
creased his majority to 31. There was considerable, but
good humoured, "excitement at and about the polling
place, (in Great Homer-street,) during the day, the com-
mittee-rooms of the respective candidates being " just
opposite." Tee number of cabs, &e., employed towards
the close was great, and each party did their best, to all
appearance, to return their favourite man,—the conserva-
tive, however, distancing his opponent by odds. At the
close the numbers were
For Mr. Atherton .
For Mr. Walthew

Majority for former 23
Mr. Shand was present in Mr. Atherton's Committee-
room towards the finale, but deeming it unnecessary to
record his vote in that quarter, drove off before the hour
of closing, to another ward to assist a conservative more
in need of his suffrage.

VAUXHALL WARD.
The contest in this ward was comparatively animated,
Mr. Morris taking the lead (agair,st Mr. Chalmer) from
the beginning, and keeping it up to the close. At ten
o'clock, an hour after the opening, the numbers who had
voted stood—for Mr. Morris 43, and for Mr. Chalmer
only 22. This start was not, however, quite maintained
in equal numerical proportion throughout. At one
o'clock the votes were—for Mr. Morris 82, and for
Mr. Chalmer 49. At three o'clock Mr. Morris had
obtained 104 votes, and Mr. Chalmer 70, being a ma-
jority of 34 for the Conservative. There was considerable
excitement towards the close, and cars and coaches were
flying about in all directions—on the one side-to redeem
losses, and on the other to render the victory doubly se-
cure. At a quarter before four o'clock, the votes were—
for Mr. Morris 110, and for Mr. Chalmer 78; being a
majority for the former of 32. At the close (four o'clock)
the members were—
Mr. Morris
Mr. Chalmer ......

Majority for the f0rmer........
In this ward not a single duplicate voter was called out
of Scotland Ward, for which the election, owing to the
absence of the returning alderman, will take place this
day, when the services of all who can vote in that ward
will be in requisition to secure the return of the candidate
of the right water—Mr. James Holme. Mr. Thomas
Littledale, junior, voted in Vauxhall Ward in favour of
the returned menib r. Immediately after the election,
Mr. Morris met a very crowded body of the electors at
his committee-room, and addressed them in feeling and
appropriate terms ; • but the crush and the enthusiastic
cheers of the electors were such that it was impossible
for our reporter to take any notes of the proceedings.
Mr. Morris purposes to meet his friends hereafter, and
we shall endeavour then to do him justice.

SAINT PAUL'S WARD.

We are sorry Mr. Briscoe was not brought forward
earlier, as he would evidently have been successful ha-1 he
been so. Notwithstanding the adv ,ntages which his op-
ponent had. he could only secure a compratively small
majority. The standing which Mr. Briscoe has acquired,
as one of the most respectable arid extensive tradesmen
in the ward, would have won his return, bad the an-
nouncement of his intention to seek the suffrages of the
electors been made a little earlier than the morning of
the election. We hope another time the Conservative
committee will be more on the alert. Mr. Hill gained
this ward in 1844, by a majority of 33, in a contest with
Mr. Stitt, the gentleman who has now been successful;
and we see no reason why a similar result may not be
witnessed again. Let the register be looked after.