The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-10 00:00:00

LORD MAYOR'S DAY.

THE awn-mum-at
The Lord Mayor, accompanied by the Shen*,
roger-Sheriffs, and other civic dignitaries, having arrived
at the Court of Exchequer, Westminster Hall, the Oeme.
ilea Serjeant, T. Chamber, Q.C., M.P., is pommeling the
Lard Mayor, said—My lords, I have the honour and
privilege, in the unavoidable airtime of the Bight Hon.
the Recorder, of presenting to you the Right Honeemble
James Clarke Lawrence, who having been nominated by
tht Livery received the approval of her Majesty.
I may mention the singular position in which his
lordship now elands ; his late lamented father
having held the *Hoe of Lord Mayor, and
sateequently his elder brother, one of the present mem-
bers for the City of London. And further, I may mention,
that not only has his lordship been • member of the legis-
lature, but at the present time is a candidate for the re-
presentation of the borough of Lambeth, and with every
prospect of seems ; and further, that the subject of
education is one in which he hail always taboo a deep
interest. being a member of the Council of the Middle
Chas School of Education.
The Low Cana Bassos—My Lord Mayor, in add:see-
ing your lordship I regret that in cresseqaenee of a slight
indisposition I am fearfull shall not be able fully to imam
I. your lordship the great satisfaction itallords the court in
expressing its approbation of the choice of the cities= of
London. We have been told by the learned and able
Common Serjeant that your father and brother before you
have filled the civic chair, and that by the unanimous
choice of their fellow-citizens, and thus we learn that a
this country, and in your ancient city especially, honours
may be hereditary. And by the citizens of London it must
be considered as a fortunate circumstance that one so
highly qualified as yourself has been chosen to preside over
their great City, in a most trying and eventful time of our
history, when a new parliament is about to assemble under
a new electoral body, and before which electoral body, for
a metropolitan borough, your lordship is now a candidate,
and at this momentous crisis the great corporation of which
you are now its chief must be on its trial. And with re-
gard to the many changes that must take place in the
municipal bodies of the country, I feel certain that you
will always have at heart the well-being, happiness and
prosperity bf your fellow-citizens. And I am ultimata;
too, that you will continue to deserve and enjoy the re-
spect of your fellow-citizens, that you will apply the re-
sources at your disposal in furthering the administration
ef justice, in promoting the greet 01111/0 of education, to
which I rejoice to know you have so greatly directed your
attention, among all dames, end more especially
amongst your fellow-eitismis in dispensing the blessings
of
charity. in carrying out the vast improvements in your
streets, and in dispensing your magnificent hospitality. By
these and other means you will preserve and maintain the
privileges of your ancient city, which have now been en-
joyed for over a thousand years.
The Loan Cain l3asow, then addressing the late Lord
Mayor, thanked him on behalf of his brethren on the
bends for the hospitality which they had received at his
bands. Many were his claims on the citizens of London
for the great care and impartiality with which he had dis-
*barged the duties of his high aloe, and be trusted that
new, in comparative private life, he would enjoy that rest
to which he was so justly entitle/
The Lord Mayor having taken the oath, the Common
Berjeant invited their lordships, in the name of the Lord
Mayor, to a banquet at the Qaildhall in the evening. The
proceedings then terminated.
The Loam CHIEF Banos intimated that some of their
lordships would attend.