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SATURDAY NIGHT.
Results of the Municipal elections in several towns are stated in pro- vincial newspapers of this day's date, received to-night. It appears that in the following places the Liberals have succeeded in electing a majority of Celine'llors to supply vacancies—
Lincoln, Canterbury, Kidderminster, Poole.
Harwich,
The Conservatives have been successful in—
Leeds, Bury St. Edmund's, Liverpool, Eye, Bristol, Kingston-upon-Thames,
Shrewsbury, Cambridge,
Dover, Oxford.
Lichfield,
From the account of the Birmingham elections, in the Birmingham Journal, we gather, that the contest, where there was one, lay between Whigs and Radicals ; the former striving to oust the latter. Thus it is said that in St. Peter's ward- " There was an attempt to get up a couple of Radical candidates in the way of diversion; but the Radicals were not to be caught. When they found that the object was to throw out a Reformer in order to introduce a mere Whig, they at once withdrew their men, and voted for the old Councillors."
In Bordesley ward, last year, there was a compromise between Whigs and Radicals — each party electing three members ; but this year the Whigs endeavoured, but failed in the attempt, to eject the Radical Mr. Feild, In Duddleston ward the contest was of a similar character, and the Whigs triumphed over the Radicals. But what sort of triumph is that for Whigs ?
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