The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-11-12 00:00:00

21/ 2 21/-21 Cork and Bandon, 1.32:: Dublin
1 Bel<fat, 26 ; Great Southern and Westerns, 351.

The market roi• Scotch p'

withatit.e,inno

s., iron has remained this week

•We st?l'lg.uote 425. to 43s
n Wales .44 12s. 61.

—io.day

3d. for mixed

•EASTERN RAILWAY.—An exeureion
Ivey this lime—from Carlow to Kilkenny

Mr. Oollees Exhibition and Sale of Magical Novelties
have lost nothing of their attractions, although lie has now
been in Liverpool eighteen weeks. Indeed
becomes known, added to the lengthening of the evenings,
the more his various amusing articles are in request. Our

he more he

to them, and they are allowed to examine-thewhole of
the apparatus made use of; this makes' the illusions the

r thing in

enablennv

there is no cimiederacy whatever
favour of Mr. C.'s deception is, that he
one, however ignorant of the art, to perform things seem-
iogly the most difficult, with the greatest ease imaginable,
in a very few minutes, so much so, that we have heard of
many purchasers who have been as much surprised at
their own latent powers of manipulation, as at any thing
Mr. C. has shown them.
TUE DAILY NEWS AND THE ROYAL M.ur. SERVICE.
—Serious attempts are being made by the Daily News to
throw discredit on the manner in which the mail service
from this port to New York is performed by the royal
mail steamers. Falsehoods have been circulated on the
subject and comparisons instituted, which are alike disin-
genuous. deceptive, and malicious. We shall not now
enter on the subject in detail; but we cannot permit the
injurious articles of our contemporary to pass into current
acceptation wi'bout guarding our readers against placing
implicit Nth in them. It • may he just to contrast the
most rapid passage of the United States mail service wish
the quickest run of the royal mail steamers, and it may
not be difficult to prove, to the satisfaction of the many,
that the palm is due to our transatlantic rivals ; but, in a
mercantile enterprise, speed is of a secondary considera-
tion when opposed to safety and incompatible with the re-
ceipt of a fair reward for the capital and enterprise em-
barked. We do not. speak with any authority, but we
believe we will not he wrong when we assert, that the
managers of the royal mail steam-ships can at any time
undertake to surpass in speed the ships of American build
provided that the Lords of the Treasury will grant an
amount of remuneration ad«mate to compensate for the
greater risk and loss incurred ; but,in any event, we main-
tain that hitherto no superiority has been gained by rival
lines in this, the finest service of the. British marine ; and
we certainly cannot admit the truth, justice, or good taste
of our metropolitan contemporary's criticisms. We might
enter iota the, details of -sharp bows, &c. opened up in the
disquisitions referred to, but we Are content to leave to
time and -exaerience the task of disproving assertions
ham-deft in so invidious a spirit. We apprehend the
Lords of. the Treasury entertain-very -different views from
those elaborated in our contemporary's coltnnns, and that
they, at least., appreciate the unrivalled ability, regularity
and snelass with which•the public service lr nix tq the
United States ie pedoined by the Ctinerd line.

TOWN COUNCIL MEETING. •
ELECTION OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN

The first meeting of the present Town Council was held
on Saturday. There were not less than sixty councillors
present, exclusive of two candidates for the mayoralty,
out of the entire number of sixty-four; and there was an
unusual bustle in the Council Chamber.

THE ELECTION OF MAYOR

The MAYOR announced that the first business would
be for the Council to appoint his successor.
Mr. Alderman PARKER proposed for the dignified office
Alderman Bent as a gentleman possessing the confidence
of his brother tradesmen, and the good opinion of the
burgesses at large; a gentleman whose connexion with
business was nominal, and whose wealth, effluence, and
sound constitutional principles every way qualified him to
fill that position which he felt assured awaited him.

Mr. PRESTON seconded the motion.
Mr. HUGH HORNBY proposed in very complimentary
terms the election of Mr. Thomas Littledale, and Mr.
SAMUEL HOLME in seconding the motion said, that. last
_ .

year it was the wish of the friends of Mr. Littledale to
put him forward to fill the high office of mayor; but, in
deference to the expressed wish, that. honour should -be
paid .to the then occupant of that office, from age and
cter they had consented mot heartily to.defer his

chara
claims

Mr. Littledale bad served the office of church
h credit and advantage; be was connected wit:

warden wi

one of our largest mercantile firms, which, by its energy
and enterprise was the means of circulating not hundreds
of thousands. but millions annualiy in this town ; and

when Mr. rarker SpoKe or einibut ltkil/110,1 pi
Mr, Littledale's were equal to those of any man in town
He inherited them from his anccstors and was a wor -
successor of one who had formerly
_filled the civic
Mr. Holme said he was far from c
and qualifi ations of Mr. Bent,
friend, and who had, on his motion,

paraging the me

xho was his particular

been appointed al

Littledale, who had twice stood an election, had superior

claims

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After one or two other members of the Council had
expressed their opinions on the claims which the worthy
fin rnimoit airidati

Mr. Ll[
For .2

ppeared 36 votes, for:Mr. Bent, and 26 for

41d. Bent

tors Langscial,

T. Chalmer,

n so n' Freston,
Godfrey, y Holden, Avison, Holt, Ferguson,
Toultnin. Jeffreys, Rogers. Fleming, Neil,

-Briscoe

lomson, Big

Robinson,

and the Mayor
Vedal

Dover, Proctc
For Mr. —Councillors Mellor. T. L. Hod-
son, Tvrer, Turner, Hornby, Fernihough, James Helene.
Wagstaff, Clayton, Jones, Tobin, Hall, Frerne, W. J.
Horsfall, Samuel Helme, and Gregson ; Aldermen Swain-

son, I'. B

Bramley-
Chilton.

lyneus

D. Hodgson, Turne

4r. BENT

d to the room and received

with hearts

e the usual declarati

ce, l'ho