The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-04 00:00:00

CASTLE STREET

In this ward, as we anticipated, the contest has been a
keen one. Never on any previous occasion have the conser-
vatives introduced a candidate with any very sanguine pros-
pect of success, but this year, notwithstanding the most
popular man of the party, Mr. Hugh Hornby, was pitted
against us, we entered upon the conflict with pretty confident
hopes of storming this hitherto impregnable radical fortress.
Mr. John Holmes was returned at the last election without

any opposition on the part of the conservatives, as the state

of the registry, and the results of previous elections, did not
appear to justify it. Mr. Glazebrook was the representative
of the conservative interest ; and his staunch Church of
England principles and well known respectability, presented
him as an opponent whom it required all the efforts which ra-

diculism could bring together effectually to oppose. We
wish every contest in the town had been conducted with the
same gentlemanly conduct and kind feeling that have charac-
terised, as far as we are aware, this sharply fought conflict;
but we are sorry to say that the meanness and malignity dis-
played in many other districts of the town forbid us making
the concession. At the close of the first hour's polling, the
numbers were, for—
Mr. Hornby ..

Mr. Glazebio

Majority .
This majority for Mr. Hornby kept increasing until the final
close of the poll.

ST. PETER'S WARD,
(Uncommonly called Gibraltar.)

This stronghold of radicalism has at length yielded to us
every bastion, rampart, tower, and stronghold. There is not
even now A Cliff left defended. Gibraltar ward has given up
the ghost of contention—fired its last radical gun—dropped
the leprous rag of liberalism—and its garrison marched
out with all the honours of war, and dishonours of defeat
Year after year the radical majority has grown " beautifully
less," until last year, when, " well done our sick

' the co-

adjutor of the godfather of St. Peters's new title was left in
a minority of 26, and a new ray of light broke in upon the
destinies of its representation in the council. Knowing
their strength—and

" 'Tis well to have a giant's strength,
But 'tis tyrannous to use it like a giant",

the Conservative electors determined on putting up another
candidate to supplant Mr. (late councillor) Bright, whose term
of office closed with the present session. Who is to be the man
"to fill his vacant place?" One answer only pervaded the
thoughts, tongues, and inclinations of the constituency—Mr.
SAMUEL HOLME! Who so fit ? The man who, as a'
staunch uncompromising Protestant, a strong supporter of
the institutions of the country ; a man who never flinched
from the expression of his honest sentiments—never wavered
one minute—but who, bitting at all times the right nail on
the head, knew well how to drive it home and clench it. He
is the man, tried and trusted, and one in whom confidence
could be reposed. So unequivocal was the call for Mr.
Holme, that he, like Cincinnatus of old, consented to be
dragged from his occupations to serve his fellow-townsmen,
and look after their interests. So unequivocal was the call,
that " they of the adverse side" were scared, and for a long
time feared to bring out a candidate ; but as " never despair"
is a radical motto—and not a bad one, but somewhat musty.
as Hamlet says—they looked about until they perceived A
Cliff looming through the fog of despond, who (to go back to
the tough old Romans again for similies) did not object, like
Curtius, to throw himself into the gulf, and be swallowed up.
So Mr. Cliff permitted himself to be put into nomination,
to help to disturb the peace of the ward—drag the decent
tradesmen from their polished counters and fair customers—
and stand the "hazard of the dia." Although the electors'
have lost their Bright representative, we confidently congra-
tulate them upon having found a Holme at last, in which all
their interests can be safely housed. _ _

At the opening of the poll, there was a great rush of voters.
They came up in considerable numbers until half-past eleven,
when the numbers slackened considerably. Mr. Holme, to
use a sporting phrase, took the lead at starting, and kept it,
increasing his majority every half hour. Mr. Cliff's sup-
porters knew very well at an early hour that there was no
chance for him, and one of his advocates publicly declared that
he did not deserve to win from the little interest he had taken
in the contest, and we cannot but regret that knowing this
as the party did, that they should have made the at-
tempt. The proceedings during the day were of the
most uninteresting kind, and the monotony of the poll-
ing booth was only enlivened by the occasional outbreak
of jokery that struggled for a hearing to raise a laugh. So
much for Peter's Ward—" Gibraltar." At Mr. Holme's
committee room a view of the celebrated rock was very ap-
propriately exhibited ; this tavern henceforth ought to be
called " The Gibraltar." At the close of the proceedings,
Mr. Holme attended at his committee room and addressed
the electors amidst enthusiastic cheering. In the course of
his remarks, he humorously observed, amidst roars of laugh-
ter, that, in reference to Messrs. Woollright and Bright,
whom he described as his personal friends although political
antagonists, the former would now have leisure to prepare
his speeches for the press in two thick volumes octavo, con-
taining as they did such profound maxims of political wis-
dom ; and the latter, having also much learned leisure, might
now profitably employ himself, and enlighten others, by the
production of an epic poem ; and if Mr. Bright was short of
a subject, he (Mr. Holme) begged to suggest that the title of
his poem should be, " The Invulnerability of the Rock of
Gibraltar ! "

Hurrah ! hurrah ! for Church and Queen
No power shall divide them ;
In vain shall traitors lift their hands
With scoffers who deride them.
Rove who will in foreign lands,
No care have we to roam ;
Give us the constitution
To guard our English Home.