The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-03 00:00:00

THE PRESENTATION OF THE LORD MAYOR

ELECT TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR,

Yesterday Alderman Hooper, the Lord Mayor
elect, was introduced by the Recorder of Landon to the Lord
Chancellor, for the purpose of receiving the approbation
of her Majesty as regards his election to the mayoralty.
There were accompanying the Lord Mayor elect upon the
ceremonial, Aldermen Sir Chapman Mar hall, Hughes
Hughes, Challis, and William Hunter, the Chamberlain, the
Sheriffs, Under Sheriff Wire, the Secondiries, and the City
solicitor.

The Recorder addressed the Lord Chancellor in nearly the
following words :—My lord, I have the honour to present to
your lordship Alderman John Hooper, recently elected by
the citizens of London unto the office of Lord Mayor for the
ensuing year. It is my pleasing duty to state that the great-
est harmony has prevailed on this occasion between two dis-
tinct branches of the corporation in which are noosed the
several trusts of nomination and selection of a fit and proper
person to fill the office of chief magistrate of our ancient
city. The nomination of Mr. Alderman Hooper by the livery
of London was at on 7e responded to by the act of his unani-
mous election in a very full court of the Lord Mayor and
Aldermen. The Lord Mayor elect has been a resident of
the ward of Queenhithe, over which he now presides
as alderman, for five and twenty years. In 18.42 he
served the office of sheriff. The legal qualification of a
candidate for the office of mayor is perfected by the at-
tainment and service of the respective offices of alderman
and of sheriff. But Mr. Hooper had previously acquired the
confidence of his fellow•citizens in other trusts and employ-
ments—as • common councilman and deputy of his ward
for more than ten years. The gown vacant by the death of
Mr. Alderman Venable* was conferred upon Mr. Hooper
with the same free good-will and general concurrence as are
now manifested in the universal desire that he should
assume and exercise the higher functions of the mayoralty.
In noticing the public career of this gentleman, which he
du so well and faithfully punned, I may be permitted to
had that his name and that of his father and grandfather
were long and honourably distinguished as denoting mer-
chants of high credit and respectability, and of extensive
dealing in the foreign wine trade. By a skilful adaptation
of business and industrious employment of time, Mr. Hooper
has made to himself opportunities to fulfil all the re-
quirements of a British merchant, to _ether with the
duties of a representative citizen and magistrate of London.
With what integrity, success, and stability of character he
has discharged these duties his present intended elevation
will abundantly testify ; and I have it only further in charge
to represent to your lordship that in the person of Mr. Hooper,
a tried and faithful servant of the crown and of the corpo-
ration, her Majesty may repose her entire confidence.
Upon these grounds, and in accordance with the custom
our charter prescribes, I have the honour to solicit at the
hands of your lordship the gracious approbation of her
Majesty of the choice the citizens have made.
The Lord Chancellor said it gave him high Fratification to
a.sure Mr. Alderman Hooper, that her Majesty decidedly
approved of the choice made of him by his fellow.citizens
for the ensuing mayoralty, and to express her Majesty's con-
viction that he would fulfil the promises held out by his
performance of the official duties assigned to him as sheriff
and alderman to the complete satisfaction of the public.
Her Majesty believed that the Lord Mayor elect would
make every exertion in his power for the preservation of
the public peace, and perform all the functions of the
office to which he had been appointed in such a manner as
would secure the good opinion of his fellow-citizens.