The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SAT GTR DAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1861.

ELECTION of LoRD MAYOR.--(THIS DAY.)

Vile afternoon, a coutmuu hall of the liverymen of
the City of London was held at 1 o'clock at the Guildhall, to
elect. Lord Mayor for the en►uing year. The hall nu nearly
filled, the bulk of those assembled immediately in front of
the platform evidently belonging to the middle elaases of
society. Sir henry Aluggeridge, oo his first spleen's.'
io the hall, was greeted with loud and reiterated cheers
end cries of " Muggeridge for ever." There was some less
vociferous cheerio; for the retiring( Lord Mayor. At the
outset all t►e aldermen were present, expt Sir Peter
Laurie and Sir Jumei Duke.

The RPrOKDEII for the t'ity, who presided, in opening the
prrnreediogn said that the aldermen would retire ill order to
leave the liverymen free to exercise their rights.
The 'dilemma having accordingly withdrawn,
The rowurr,i ?SEW t V.CT then read a lint of the aldermen
who had not nerved the office of Lord Mayor, commencing
with the tame of Muggeridge, which again elicited much
cheeriug.

Mr. .1. Joxer, then came forward to address; the livery.
He commenced by saviog that Lord Palmerston's govern-
ment LA three times endeavoured to take (ruin theni the
right which they were assembled to exercise. (Oh, oh.)
That government bad endeavoured to make the Lord Mayor
the nominee of one hundred pemoos. A defence
committee successfully resisted that attempt. There was
one alderman, and one only, who Resi►ted them. (Cries of
" Who khe ':") His name was William Cubitt. (Cheers,
cries of "question," "Time," and protracted uproar.)
William Cubitt ',teml by them, and saved them, and for
.uch conduct they owed him a deep debt of gratitude. He
concluded by nominating Alderman Cubitt for the mayor-
alty rot the ensuing year.

Yr. KISAR:tn secooded the nomination of the present Lord
Mayor, declaring that his sole object was to secure for the
nest year a mayor who enjoyed the respect of the whole of
the Livery.

Mr. MRDWIN then nominated Sir Peter Laurie. (Loud
cnes of "Oh, nh,' and continual interruption.) In doing
that, he said, he was merely followiug preealente. It was
absolutely nem-teary, be added, to send the name of some
gentleman whom the Court of Aldermen would not choooe.
Mr. J. YOUNii, in seconding the nomination, referred to
the reelection of Sir John Key, when, he remarked, the
loonier alikniatem name was sent up.
Mr. P.X. LAURIE said Le had come forward in conse-
quence of the nomination of his father, who would not con.
sent to be an in.trument to deprive another of his
right.. (Cheers.) lie was no party whatever to thin pro.
reeding, he had never been consulted, and be took the
earliest opportunity of setting himself right with his fellow
citizens with regard to what he (Mr. Laurie) would call an
unworthy proceeding.

A letter was read from Sir Peter Laurie, dated Folkestone,
September 211, iu which be protested against his nomination,
and declared, that if elected, he would nut serve.
The Common Crier then took the customary show Of
hands. The first name submitted was that of the Lord
Mayor, for which there was a considerable elevation of
hands sad hats. The neat was that of Sir Peter Laurie,
for whom the show was very small. The name of Sir
Henry Muggeridge followed, and led to a very numerous
display. Two or three hundred hands were held up for the
electioa of Alderman Hale. The remainder of the alder.
manic hat wee gone through merely as a matter of form.
The COMMON Stiuratrr then announced the result in the
following terms:-- Gentlemen, the sheriffs are of opinion
that your choice this day has fallen upon Alderman
Sir Henry Magpridge—(tremendous and long.xintinued
cheering)--awl open the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor.
This result appeared to have been quite unexpected on
both aides. After a short pause,
Sheriff COCIIIMILL announced that a poll had been de-
manded for the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and Sir Peter
Laurie, and that it would be opened at three o'clock that
afternoon, and remain open till four.

The peal thus commenced will continue for seven days,
sad emissiqueatly the election will Dos terminate until this
day woe. The Court of Alderman will, of course, remain
passive la tie matter in the interim

Pench-coloared tale is very pretty, tr:mmed with white
and black lace, disposed in hands on the bottom of the
skirt, headed with a full ruching of white and black lace.
The body is round, and low ila vierge, with two town of
white and black lace. Spotted muslin* and tarlataues are
in universal demand,

Elegance in morning dress increavee daily ; the simple,
pthered peignor is no looger allowed, but must be replaced
be the csaaque, over a skirt of the same material. The
choice is varied : a casaque, with a jaconet skirt, with nar-
row tucks and magnificent embroidery ; an embroidered
muslin, with rich laces ; or the more simple skirt, edged
with a broad black or red velvet, must be accompanied by
the braided magus of black taffetas or whits quilting.
Caps and bead-dresses have not greatly varied as yet.
We have seen a very becoming cap of English lace, triruimal
with a rose and long gr..ss. The rose is placed very high,
and is without leaves. The stnngs ere of broad pink
ribbon.

Mem raps are ,omposeil of white and black lace, mixed
with ribbons and bowers ; and most young married ladies
wear a white coiffure, however boautiful and luxuriaut
their hair. It is quite the Lishion in full dress.

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

tar rucnuo iILEGRA2.I.)
MANCHESTER MEETING.—(THIS DAY.)

LICENSED VICTUALLERS' HANDICAP. About one

lac
Willie Wright, Harriet, Deserter, Beverley, and Philomel
ere here.
STAMFORD HANDICAP. Three quarter, of a mile.
Silkstooe, Miss Mary, Sir v./ Stafford, Captain Crow, end
Forster are ham

NORTHERN HANDICAP PLATE. One mile and a
quarter.
Oldminster. Maid of Che.terfield. Wynnstay. Sheffield,
Bradfield, Dosfoot, Squire Peurse, North Lancashire,
Pebble, Rats Avis, Harriet, and Deserter are here.

SELLING STAKES. T.Y.C.
Deserter, of Lyme, Cumber Laid,
and Captain Crow are here.
GRAND STAND PLATE. One mile.
Rajah Brooke, Htirrllli, North Lancashire, Dubious, Miss
Mary, Wanabeck, Deserter, sad D U are here.

SCURRY HANDICAP.
All are here.
OTHER ARRlVAlA—Oidilmia and Fairy Kamm

THE DECAY OF STONE AT THE NEW PALACE,
WEsTHINOTEE. —Th is morning the report of the committee
appointed by the First Commissioner of her Majesty's
Works and Buildings to inquire into this subject, was
issued. The committee recommend that the architect of
the Palace at Westminster, assisted by scientific chemists,
should examine and record the actual state of the stone
work of the building at the present moment ; that experi-
ments should be made by their direction, under various
conditions of height, exposure, and aspect, with such pre-
servative materials and agents as the chemists may sug-
gest from time to time, and that researches should be coo.
Canal into the effects of the various alkaline silicates, the
phosphates, and other substances which have bees brought
under the notice of the committee, or suggested ix Oet•
many, France, or elsewhere ; that where decay WWI from
damp, means should be taken to probs:t the stone, as has
been before suggested ; that any stone extensively decayed
should be removed and replaced ; but that in particular the
earliest symptoms of decay should be carefully watched and
examined, with the view to the application of some imme-
diate remedy. The committee believe that a very large
portion of the stone in the Palace at Westminster is of a
very durable nature, and they entertain a confident expee.
tattoo that a remedy will soon be found to arrest or control
the decay when it ha. unfortunately begun to appear.
Colonel Dixon, C. 8., commanding the 9th depot
battalion, Colchester Camp, has been attacked with partial
paralysis, and fears are entertained that he will not again be
able to resume his duties as commandant of the battalion,
which is temporarily placed under the charge of Brevet Lieut..
CoL Lye. Strangely enough, Colonel Strut, C. 8., the com-
mandant of the other battalion, has been attacked with
serious Ulnas at Dover. The command of the 10th batta-
lion has been ghosted to Major West.
It is with much regret that we (Arno, and Navy
Oa-ette) hear of the serious illness of the Right Hon. Sir
Edward Blakeney, G.C. 8., Governor of Chelsea Hospital.
Few odious now alive Lave seen such long and varied active
service as Sir Edward, dating so far back as the capture of
the West ladiao Islands in 1796.

Two good-eurviue pensions of 1001. a year each
have been placed at the disposal of hie Royal Rieman the
General Cummawling-in.Chief by the death of General
Dennis Herbert.

The Army awl Nary Gazette says :—" We hear a
whisper, at present faint and low, yet menacing, of which
we feel bound to take some notice. It Is not a whisper of
alarm, inspired by apprehensions of external dangers. It
has nothing to do with a ' panic like that which foreign
journalists choose to describe an the normal condition of
England. It comes from within, and threatens to sap the
base of our new system of national defence. It is in every
sense the whisper of a faction. We are told that the ex-
cellence of some battalions of volunteers, and the greet
nominal effective of the whole body, are to be used as argu-
ments next session, perhaps before the session, for a reduc-
tion of the regular army."

The Warrior, annOrdiug to present arrangements,
will be undocked at Portsmouth oa Thursday next. Her
bottom is now receiving the outer coat of Hay's compost.
tine, and the workmen of the Thames Iron `.Shipbuilding
Company are busily engaged in fixing the screw rivet* in
the plates where the launching cleat. have been taken off.
Judging by the number of people who go to visit the ship,
who are freely admitted on board by the authorities while
she is in dock, the interest she has excited since her arrival
at the port is daily inersasing. She bee cut into her mid-
ship blocks under her keel loins two inches—much less than
had been anticipated from her enormous weight—nearly
9,000 tau

Mears. Saunders and Otley Lava in the preen a
work by Lord Robert Montagu, M.P., on " The Revel►tion
of the Church and State, and the Nature and Mete of the
Established Religion."

The Grand Duke Constantine of Ruaeia and the
Grand Duchess have arrived at Biosterd House, near
Ryde. The Grand Duke's household im served frau
the cuisine of the Pier Hotel, Ryde. The Grad
Duke would have preferred as abode near the
Ryde pier, but the private and extensive Kenton at Bleated
House was an attraction fur the Grand Duchess. Hyde ap-
pears to be a very favourite spot for distinguished ltuadan
families. Vontoor is for the American upper ten thousand.
. . . . . _

The trial trip of the Lady of the Lake, a
new Southampton and Isle of Wight steamer, took
place yesterday. Amongst the persons invited by the
proprietors of the new boat to witness the trial
trip were the mayor and corporation of the town,
for whom a banquet was provided on board. The
Lady of the Lake, like its sister steamer the Lord of the
Isles, is built after the model of American river steamers,
with saloons on deck. The farm between Southampton
and the Isle of Wight have been reduced, and a coasider-
able increase to the passenger traffic is the result. There
are now nearly a dozen steamers employed in runaing
between Southampton and the Isle of Wight
DETERMINED SETrIDE AT HAMPSTEAD HEATH.—
' This morning at $ o'clock, a man mimed Barton, while
pissing a pond on Hampstead-heath, known as the " Leg
of Mutton Pond," and which is near the spot where the lete
Mr. Sadlier poisoned himself, found a man's bat, and from
some recent foot-marks on the side of the poor'. he con-
chided some one wax in the writer. No accordingly gave
information to Mr. Inspector Webb, of the S division, at
the Hampstead Police-station, when the drags were imam-
diately sent, wheo, after being used for some time, the body
of a man was found. Dr. Brown, of Heath .street. who had
been called by the police, was present when the body was
found, and examined it, but although the bony was warm,
life was quite extinct. The body wall taken on a stretcher
to the ilead.honse, New End, Herniate's!, and information
forwarded to the coroner. Soon after the body arrived at
the dead-house it wee identified as that of John Hesketh,
aged CZ, of No. moreplate, Hampstead, which resi-
dence he left this ing, but without the slightest idea
being entertained by his friends that he contemplated
suicide.
Wisseen.—Tau IR/VER.—It is now several years
since our river presented so animated en appearance ea
during the past week. Every day there have been arrivals
of ships from foreign ports laden with timber •, and at the
time we write the harbour appears to be quite full of vessels.
It is next to impossible to end a labourer unemployed, snot
some of the ships cannot atprosent be unloaded, owing to
the scarcity of porters. An immense quantity of wheat has
this week been shipped for France, and some ships of nearly
four hoodred tOO% burden have been taken tip for the maw
and are sow loading. This is a pleasant state of
'
S*e'which we hope will continue.—Casibridge lade-
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SHARE LIST 8.-{THIS DAY.)

Two o'Cules.
The railway share market to-day is inactive and
Ihmvy. A fall of 4to # per cent. has taken place
in Great Western, London and North Western, Mid-
land, and Lancashire and Yorkshire stocks. Other
descriptions are less affected. The settlement
engages some attention. London and North
Western stock is now quoted 911 to 924 • Great
Western, 68 to • Midland, 124/ to 1; Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 1041 to 1 ; South Eastern, 78 to 1 ;
Caledonian, 1031 to ; and Eastern Counties,
52 to I.
%his and Dutch Rhenish railway shares are
steady. Other foreign lines are very quiet.
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