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

Alderman

G. H. Lawrence (c)
Councillors... {James Plumpton (c) 2
Josias Booker (c) . 1
No. 15.—SOUTH TOXTBTH WARD.
Alderman .. W. P. Bushby (c) 4

Councillors... .
Ambrose Lace (c) 2
R. L. Jones (c) . 1
No. 16 —NORTH TOXTETH WARD.
Alderman Thomas Chilton (c) ...... 1
{Robert Bean (a)
Thomas Lloyd (n) ..
William Mann (c) 1
The state of parties in the government of our munici-
pality is now, therefore, (allowing for Scotland and South
Toxteth, as we have represented,) as follows :—Conser.
vatives—Aldermen 16, Councillors 34 ; total, 50. Radi-
cals—Councillors 14. Conservative majority, 36.
Next year, Aldermen Houghton, Griffith, J. H. Tur-
ner, Crook, Nicol, Bramley-Moore, Molyneux, and Chil-
ton, will retire—their period of service (six years) having
then expired ; but our readers will perceive at a glance
that there is not the remotest probability of any one of

Councillors

lowing that party the utmost possible success at the next
election. We are not, therefore, likely to be under Ra-
dical domination for many years to come, let the exertions

ents be what they may;

but the Cc

ye no stone unturned, not merely to " bolt
their own," but to improve their numerical position.
We now give a detail of what took place in the variou
wards.

Lives must

RVERTON WARD

ward was stron

conteste

candidate obtained a large majority at O.
ment, which he maintained during the day
o'clock the numbers were,—
For Mr. Atherton
For Mr. IValt hew

commence-

At two

Majority for the former....
In half an hour more the Conservative candidate 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 man,—the
Live, however, distancing his opponent by odd,
close the numbers were
For Mr. Atherton
For Mr. Waltbew

rnserva-
At the

Majority for former.

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.

the contest last year bet
Harvey were equal, and
Mr. Pemberton, a few
Whig, and perhaps som
but the Conservativel opposition. The ward.

aspect, with the disadvantage
and a positive majority of at I
circumstances under which M
come a candidate, and under c
tation and won. Like another
vidi vici."

In addition to these
from day to day, and week to
both by Radical and Tory pal
nious and persevering misrepr
positively hunted by anonym
contracts, whether with the

The polling booth in Rer
posite Mr. Holmes house;
the committee rooms of tt
neighbourly conjunction—sigl
ship between them. In tbi
Holme took the lead, wns
To give the poll ho---'
and we shall, tht
naming the final result

two care

canter

For Mr. H
For Mr. E

Majority

,amstanc

the me

have been made eviut..,
been levelled against brains,
((nod it easier to find one c
Poetry—and such poetry—wa
much prose run mad has been
Electors. It is not our business to notice tiles
shifts of a despairing faction. We can onl,-
fact, that instead of deceiving the F"
disgusted them; and that 1,--
and justice.

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