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

EVFRTON WARD.

This ward was stronzly 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

Msjority for the former . ... 32
In half an hour more the Conservative candicl4te had in-
creased his majority to 34. 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." The number of cabs, &c., employed towards
the close was great, and each party did their best, to all
appearance, to return their favourite rnan,--the conserva-
tive, however, distancing his opponent by odds. At the
close the numbers were
For Mr. Atherton
Fur Mr. \Valthew

Majority for former..

Mr. Shand was present in Mr. Atherton's Committee•
room towards the finale, but deeming it unnr cessary 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.

V4UXIIALL WARD.
The contest in this ward was comparatively animated,
Mr. Morris taking the lead (against 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. Cha!mer 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 former....
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 tnemb.,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 had 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 and extensive tradesmen
in the ward, would have won his return, had 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 1814, by a majority of 33, in a contest with
Mr. Stitt, the gentleman who has now kieen successful;
and we see no reason why a similar result may not be
witnessed again. Let the register be leaked after.

EXCHANGE WARD.
It is impos=ihle to imagine any justifiable reason for the
opposition to Mr. Tyrer in this ward. The opinions of
the voters has been pointedly expressed more than once,
and Mr. Tyrer's respectable standing and commercial
information ought to have secured him from the annoy-
ance of such a well-known fruitless contest. Mr. Tyrer's
majority continued to increase from the first hour, until,
at last, it reached the very gratifying number of 58.
Shortly after four o'clock, the Committee-room in
Chapel-street, was crowded with Mr. Tyrer's friends,
anxious to hear the final result, although from the decided
lead Mr. T. had kept throughout the day, there was little
doubt as to the place that gentleman would occupy at the
close of the poll. Mr. Tyrer, on entering the room, was
received by loud and continued cheering, which having
subsided, Mr. T. rose and said :—Gentlemen, I can assure
you that I feel the honour you have bestowed in again
returning me to the Town Council. It proves that
the principles I profess meet your approval. I rejoice
in the triumph of those principles more than in any
personal succe-..5. I shall continue to forward the inte-
rests of tl•e town. The greatest portion of my business
is confined to Liverpool, and to Liverpool I will confine
myself. Ycu already know what my principles are. lam
not like ray opponent, saying that there is no political
question connected with this election. I combine the
school question with several others. I assure you,
gentlemen, it is not all play in the Town Council; and it
really was my wish to have retired at the appointed time.
but my friends persuaded me to again come forward.
Your kindness will, however, compensate me. I have
pleasure in stating that the numbers at the close of the
poll were. 129 for my opponent, and 187 for myself.
(Cheers.) It is highly gratifying, and I could hardly have
expected so great a majority, which is probably .as large
as will be obtained in any other ward. This mojority, I am in-
formed, might have been 90 or 100, but our worthy secre-
tary, knowing the ward was safe, prefer►ed sending those
parties who had duplicate votes to other wards, and he was
sure that that plan would be considered the best, inasmuch
as it might be the means of securing them, which was of
more importance than swelling his already large majority.
(Loud cheers.) He begged to thank Mr. Jackson for the
able manner in which he had performed the duties of his
arduous office, and he was sure the thanks of all present
were due to him. (Cheers.)
Mr. JACKSON, secretary of the Conservative Com-
mittee, then rose and said, that, as Mr. Tyrer had ob-
served, it was not all play in the Council, 'neither was it
all play in being secretary for an election committee. If
principles, said Mr. Jackson, are worth preserving, they
are worth contending for, but you cannot enjoy political
privileges without, in some degree, sacrificing domestic
comfort. I feel that I have only done as any Englishman
who values his political privileges ought to do. I must say
that on this occasion the old friends of our cause have
been to a man staunch and true, in spite of the threats
and intimidation of the other party. Mr. J. eulogised
the conduct of Mr. Thomas Littledale, jun., and con-
cluded by proposing three cheers for that gentleman,
which was heartily responded to.
CASTLE-STREET WARD.

The Conservatives have, for several years, declined to
offer any opposition to their opponents in this ward.
thereby setting an example of forbearance which the Radi-
cals are slow to imitate. Mr. Aikin was again returned
yesterday, and we are most happy to see this gentleman
once more in the Council. He and the other two repre-
sentatives for the ward, Mr. Hugh Hornby and Mr. John
Holmes, are indisputably most respectable specimens of
their political party.
SAINT PETER'S WARD.
It is, perhaps, the highest compliment that can be paid
to Mr. Tinne, and equally honourable to himself and the
electors of the ward, to state that not the slightest oppo-
sition was offered to his return. This gratifying result is
due, without reference to party feelings, to the just esti-
mation in which his private character, and his unwearied
exertions for the interests of the town, are held by the
burgesses at large, especially as an ardent advocate of all
measures tending to promote the health of the town, and
as an active and intelligent member of the Highway Board.
PITT-STREET WARD.
The contest in this ward we looked upon from the first
as a hopeless effort of Whig-Radical spleen. The candi-
date (Mr. George Holt) opposing Mr. Toulmin, was not
one in whose favour the probabilities were very great.
On more occasions than one he has appealed to constitu-
encies in Liverpool, and been defeated. In 1E:43 he was
left by Mr. Sands in a minority of 89, in Exchange Ward.
In 1844 North Toxteth rejected him by a majority of 60.
Why Radicalism will thus bring forward, year after year,
ite rejected candidates, it is difficult to conceive. We
should certainly, wars our case that of Mr. Holt, feel

that we had beenEscurvily used by our party:in being
selected so frequently for a losing game. The polling
during the whole of the day was in favour of the winning
candidate, Mr. Holt never having a shadow of a chance,
and Mr. Toulmin being ultimately returned by a majo-
rity °fit:36.lon 1843 his majority was 33 over Mr. Robert
Benn.

i7.7,..4-: GREAT GEORGE WARD.
Mr. Joseph Cooper was opposed in this ward by Mr.
W. P. Freme—of course a purely factious opposition, for
not an individual in the ward ever expected that the Ra-
dical had a chance against an opponent so universally re-
spected by all parties. The fight was a winning one
throughout on the part of Mr. Cooper, and was only
enlivened by a vain effort made by that gentleman, at a
late hour, to assist his opponent by voting for him. We
are not aware that Mr. Freme returned the:compliment.

_ RODNEY-STREET WARD. _
This ward has this year been the scene of a contest un-
precedented for the bitterness of animosity with which it
has been carried on by a clique of the professing liberals.
It is one of the dark spots of these annual elections, that
out of trifling causes, or, more frequently, out of no
cause at all, they raise up personal passions and preju-
dices, which are a disgrace to the town, and which unhap-
pily endure long after the occasion of them bag passed
away. Mr. Samuel flohne, the Conservative candidate
for the ward, has keenly experienced these passions and
prejudices; and, as may be expected from his eminent
and unsullied character, he has passed through an ordeal,
most trying to the temper, with increased reputation :
and we hope, now that the battle has been fought, and
the victory w, n, that dissension and misrepresentation
will quickly pass away.
But although this is our hearty desire, we must advert
to some facts in order to enable our readers to appreciate
the victory that Mr. Holme has won. The Whigs, to do
them justice, exhibited gteat tact in their selection of his
opponent. Early last month, they induced Mr. Thomas
Booth, in an evil hour for him, to consent to be put in
nomination ; and with two such men it was expected the
contest would be exceedingly close. Some Conserva'ives
gave way to what may be termed municipal despair, be-
cause the registration had tieen so grossly neglected that,
on the examination of the list there appeared to be a clear
majority of forty Whig votes. This feeling was not at all
consoled by the most significant fact that the numbers at
the contest last year between Mr. J. N. Wood and Mr.
Harvey were equal, and that upon the decease of the late
Mr. Pemberton, a few months since, Mr. Robertson, a
Whig, and perhaps something more, was returned without
opposition. The ward, in fact, was decidedly Liberal in
aspect, with the disadvantage of a defective registration,
and a positive majority of at least forty. These are the
circumstances under which Mr. Holme was invited to be-
come a candidate, and under which he accepted the invi-
tation and won. Like another Caesar he may say, " Veni
vidi vici."

In addition to these adverse circumstances, Mr. Holine,
from day to day, and week to week, has been assailed,
both by Radical and Tory papers, with the most inge-
nious and persevering misrepresentation. He has been
positively hunted by anonymous slanderers. All his
contracts, whether with the Corporation or otherwise,
have been made evidence against him ; and bricks have
been levelled against brains, because the calumniators
fo'snd it easier to find one commodity than the other.
Poetry—and such poetry—was often called in aid, and
much prose run mad has been perpetrated to deceive the
Electors. It is not our business to notice these miserable
shifts of a despairing faction. We can only testify to the
fact, that instead of deceiving the Electors, they only
disgusted them ; and that happily victory sided with truth
and justice.

The polling booth in Renshaw-street was exactly op-
posite Mr. Holme's house; and on the east side were
the committee rooms of the two candidates, in most
neighbourly conjunction —simificant of the private friend.
ship between them.' I❑ the language of the turf, Mr.
Hahne took the lead, was never headed, and won in a
canter. To give the poll hourly would be a waste of
space; and we shall, therefore, content ourselves with
naming the foal result at four o'clock :
For Mr. Holme
For Mr. Booth..

Majority for Mr. Holme.. 77
Or nearly double the supposed liberal majority. We
cannot conceive anything more gratifying than this re-
sult must be to Mr. Hokne, end its announcement eli-
cited long, loud, and general cheering.
At the dose of the poll, Mr. Holme and a number of
his Committee crossed over the way, and from the window
of his drawing-room, he addressed a vast crowd, which
had assembled in the street. On making his appearance
he was received with many hearty cheers ; which having
ceased, he epoke as fo!lows : —Gentlemen, I should, indeed,
be ungrateful if I did not return to you my most heartfelt
ti anks, for the triumphant position in which you have
placed me this day. (Hear, hear.) This position is
the more gratifying to my feelings, because it has been
a triumph gained over a gentleman for whom I have
the greatest regard ; and even if I had been defeated,
it would have been some consolation to me that I
had been defeated by such a man as Mr. Booth.
(Hear, hear.) I beg, however, to say that I attribute very
much of the victory which has been 'achieved this day to
the vials of abuse which have been so unsparingly heaped
upon my head,—(hear, and applause)—by men who had
not the manliness, and who dared not, when I gave
them the challenge, to come forward before my face.
(Cheers.) Therefore I treat, as I ever will treat, every
anonymous slanderer, who has not the courage to say
to a man's face what he insinuates behind his back
—with perfect contempt. (Hear.) In prose and in
poetry, have I been figuring upon the walls ; and I now
beg to say, that the poet who has done tee the honour to
placard me through the town during the last few weeks.
may go, as soon as he pleases, and exercise his poetical
skill by writing a parody upon the words :
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you. Mark, I say, what has been the result. I state it
now publicly that I did not put myself forward.
I was
anxious to have remained. as I have for some years, in
private life. But a requisition, numerously and respect-
ably signed, was presented to me ; and I have ever advo-
cated the principle, and I always shall, that no man
has a right to live exclusively for his own
benefit; hut
that it is his bounden duty to do as much good to his
fellow creatures as he possibly can. (Hear.) I ask what
has been the result? Why, that a number of tradesmen,
honest independent tradesmen, men wielding power, and
wielding it well, have been indignant at the course which
has been adopted be—not a number of the respectable
Whigs of this ward, but by a small, and insignificant, and
contemptible clique, whom I set at defiance. (Cheers.)
The result has also been that my brother James has been
brought out for Scotland Ward, who, probably, would not
have become a candidate at all had it not been for this un-
mitigated abuse. Thus a just retribution, and a just
reaction takes place when men depart from the principle
of rectitude, and do that which is mean and despicable.
Let me further say, although you may accuse me of
i partiality, that f. the electors of Scotland Ward return
my brother, and ne makes half as good a Councillor as
he has been a brother, an exemplary man in every rela-
tion of life, and an honest and straightforward tradesman,
they will to-morrow make a choice that will be a benefit
to the inhabitants at large. (Cheers.) Some of you will
have observed a paragraph in the Albion this morning,
to the effect that every vote given to my brother
and myself will be thrown away. I beg to contradict
that statement. (Hear, hear.) When last in the Coun-
cl, for the purpose of recognizing a salutary prin-
ciple, but contrary to the opinion of the Town-clerk,
so far as the law was concerned ; first, in conformity
with it so far as the spirit of the act was concerned, I paid
the fine. Though I bad nothing to do with the Corpora-
tion, yet, for the purpose of keeping myself clear and in-
dependent, I did see fit to resign my seat in the Council.
You have called upon me now : it was no act of mine
that I came forward ; and in coming forward, I took that
which I think was the most straightforward course. I called
a public meeting of the electcrs of Rodney-street Ward, as
the jury to whom I appealed. (Hear.) They have
responded to the appeal ; they have pronounced
their
opinion ; and I shall now go to the Town Council inde-
pendent, unfettered, and ss anxious as any man can be to
forward the best interests of Liverpool. (Cheers.) lam
sure, gentlemen, that all of you, whetherwither you agree with
in political opinion or not, will coincide with me in
this, that we should have no small measures for a port
like Liverpool. The extent of our commerce requires ex-
tended accommodation. The state of many of our streets
—what is popularly called the sanatory condition of the
town—requires great and vigilant attention; and that at-
tention I shall be most happy to bestow. It is to me a
mark of great gratification, that I have had the cordial sup-
port of so many of my fellow-tradesmen. I see faces among
you with whom for years I have been in the habit of hold-
ing friendly, nay, affectionate intercourse. It is indt ed a
source of rejoicing to me, that my conduct has met with
their approval, for I have never been the man to grind them
down in their prices, but, on the contrary, always to act
upon the principle of " live, and let live." (Hear.) These
principles have gained me yeur support, and I hope they
will enable rr..e to preserve it. But, whilst I say that, I
will never be one to endeavour to force a great num-
ber of tradesmen into the Council, so as to take entire
possession of it, because I wish to see ourselves repre-
sented by men of all descriptions ; and at the same
time I will never be one to assent to the opinion
that because a man is a tradesman be is to be ex-
cluded from the Council ;—(cheers)—for if there
is any
one thing more 'offensive to me than ancther, it is the
aristocratic feeling of some of those who call themselves
republicans and levellers. (Cheers.) I fear lam unable
to make myself audible to all of you. (Cries of "Go on,
go on.") lam suffering from a severe cold and I must
conclude by again thanking you for the way in which you
have so triumphantly returned me as your representative. I
beg you to accept those thanks from the very ground of my
heart. And, now—whether a man has been opposed to
me or not, I beg to say that no political or personal feel-
ing on my part shall influence my conduct in the Town
Council ; I will endeavour, to the best of my power, to
carry out those measures which are for the benefit of the
inhabitants at large. (Cheers.) There is, however, one
thing I wish to mention before I conclude. A
paragraph appeared in the Journal of Saturday last,
stating that I had lent myself to some small clique
to exclude Mr. George Hall Lawrence from the mayor-
alty. It was scarcely honourable, I think, to say that
upon the eve of the election, (hear) for although the editor
said lie did not believe any such thing, he did not hesitate to
publish the insinuation; (Hear, hear.) I beg t.o state
distinctly, as I have already in a letter to the Albion, that
the statement is entirely a febrication—a fabrication fro
if
mbeginning to end. And I state now, thus publicly, that
i
assiduity and attention to business, fren!lemauly feeling,
.
and if being a member. of an old. Liverpool family, are
any passports to the mayorality. I do not think the
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