The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-01 00:00:00

• Year by year a shoal of empty and
presuming coxcombs were kicked by the honest burgesses of
the town into the insignificance from which they rose. We
infused Conservative blood and honest blood into their disbo-
d jobbing committees. We outnumbered them at
a the council itself ; and we are now, thanks to con-
E: energy and perseverance, a triumphant and over-
ig majority there. A few conceited jays flatter their
?rings and chirrup within the council-chamber, it is true ;
ntial body in that chamber or iu the borough,

g Radic
tnd what, let

1 faction is extinct !
is ask of our fellow-townsmen, are the re-
hich we have already reaped as the fruit of our victo-
We answer, HONEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT. The

impartial d

Lbution of corporate patronage, and the con-
: corporate influence and property to their
iences. We have uprooted the system by
ren of our poor were trained up in popery,
id infidelity, and substituted, in its place, a
_
h the

being educated in the truths of the
nd the faith of our Established Church. We have
the first blow at whig corruption in the management
blic business ; and we trust before long to see it
ration of the sweeping broom. If we
vantages of conservative administra-

up by th,

to enjoy Ally th
i of the affairs of

our town, we must not work with whig-

although we wed(

faction w

iich i 9 nowsprawlin

,g at our

is of the public merely

e can see neither
that delicacy which would convert
his or that servant having been appointed
bserviency to other men into a title to be

lot our political frie.

wisdom

the possession of his reward. We look for honest
and constitutional government ; and, to secure
inds which work must be Conservative as well as

ad which dire

)nsciousness before them that this must be the
r a Conservative majority in the council,
It hard in every contest which we have
t 'which has just terminated it have
although that exertion has
changed tactics. On former
lected to engross the

Whig Radical candidates
your. We had flaming

speeches. multitudinous

ofession without limit. On this occasion,
on has effected prudery—has shunned the

boulders of its friends. Trick has
We have had mine and counter-

no stand-

p fightin

We have been

D be vanquished by a shuffle—by men in ambush—
esstanding behind paper screens ; but we have foiled

and they may no

into any statistical detail and comparison
this and previous years, we will submit a
e respective wards last

t of the polling in

Majority,

Mr. Thos. Shaw (c) .. 330
Mr. Michael Ashcroft (n) 203
Mr. Isaac Holmes (c).... 313
Mr. Geo. Quayle (R) .... 303
No conservative candidate.
Mr. W. Preston (R) elected.
Mr. Jos. Edwards (c).... 308
Mr. Chris. Rawdon (xt).. 264
Mr. John Ridgway (c) .. 300
Mr. Henry Holmes (n) 329
No conservative candidate.
Mr. John Holmes (R) elected.
Mr. Eben. Rae (c) ..
Mr. John Woollright (R) 287
Mr. Jas. Aspinall (c)
Mr. Hugh Hornby (R)
Mr. Jas. Lawrence (c)
Mr. Wm. Rathbone (R) 324
Mr. H. Lawrence (c)
Mr. Chas. Holland (n)
Mr. R. Gladstone (c)
M. James Cooper (R) 257
Mr. J. B. Lloyd (c) 424
Mr. Thos. Morecroft (R). 416
Mr. James Parker (c) 276
Mr. Thomas Chalmer (R) 266
, Mr. J. S. Leigh (c) ....elected
No Radical Candidate.