The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-04 00:00:00

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! ELECTION OF A SHERIFF.
Yesterday another Common Hall was held for the
election of a sheriff. The summons stated that " a
Common Hall would be held, for the election of a fit
and able person to be one of the sheriffs of this City,
and, together with Joha Carter, Esq. and alderman,
sheriff of the county of Middlesex for the year ensu-
ing, in the room of John Hulbert, EEq., who has
refused and neglected to give bond to take upon him
the said office." Notwithstanding all that has been
said in both courts of the corporation in reprobation
of the lone: existing mode of returning gentlemen to
fill the cffice, it was the inapreseicin ainongst those who
know anything of the_Gnildhallonanceavring that the
present election did not 'fierhPan exception to the
practice.
: •
The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs Swift and
Cotterell, and several of the City officers, heving at-
tended in the customary form.
The BeeconDea announced to-the few persons who
attended for the purpOs ee-ofs;h,eleling up their bends,
that they were
again assembled ;to • exercise their an-
cient prescriptive and most utt4ibted right of elect-
ing a sheriff.—(A laugh.) , , .
The CITY SOLICITOR, in the absence of the Coln-
Mon Sergeant (from illness), reed the names ofeehe
several gentlemen upon the list, and seid, in addition
eels that of Mr- ,Benjainin Chandler,
namesaed ironmonger; wieewees nominated by
jtaon
fint.,iaren. thoseidpt
izp2eprnonpproper
H 8 L i i
Me. NV: S. 1-141-1 nod """ded.'ll.7 ARee:"Bennoch, as
person to fill the Office for the ensuing
yeer.
stood forward to propose Mr.
he drser.ibed, as a
.gentleman of
eCxheaenlideinert'cifrleZsir,mestentive fortune, liberal educa-
tion, and abeueding with the other indispensable
ate for an
,office of such im- ,
engagementst o ta keupon
qualifications of a canciid
hho:4elf the office because
Pertanee. While one.gentl
,Ccaild not be tampered ehnlisanbur:tin'uesessd
INI Chandler had
With, and another rejected it
under any circumstances whatever,
office.--(Hear.)
0
is understood, paid
expressed his willingness to serve the e.—(Hear..)
The gentlemen he alluded to had, -e
..,
the several penalties ittadlaed to non-compliance
but the livery muse-know that these penalties
were handed over to the than
children of City freemen, portion
and Aionstituteel-110-P"
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school for the
esaCpassigata-tiateessiporation, and it was right tha"h'" --- is- t,
who neglected to psy in service should be compelled
to pay in. the only other *irreconcilable to the
public interest. Under these -circumstances, andle-
teat the election of Mr. Chandler, jun., lieviog who
was the sou of. Mrefflhandlereof St. Paul's Cburth-
yard, would give 4r tit public satisfaction, he prenosed
that gentleman.—(Loud cheering.)
Mr. BBINNOCII (of the Common Council) seconded
the nomination of Mr. Chandler, jure He seriously
entlernen
disapproved of the practice of nousinatingg
whose en"figetner,es made it impossible for them to
the purpose
out of their pockets, and be con-
of dragging money
devote their time to the office merely for
and by which they
demised the system upon which some under-sheriffs
acted on euch election occasions,
been w
confined to themselves the characters of professional
gentlemen in the odium which should haver .beenl
gentlemen who were wholly incapable of the disre-
putable. course ascribed to them. At, all events it
could not be said of Mr. Chandler, jun., that he was
under any compliment to the jobbery which
had been
so frequently carried on in the Guildhall, as he was
wholly independent of the under-sheriffs who were
here and there to be found in the Corporation.—
(Laughter.) By electing him the city of London
would confer a dignity upon him and an honour upon
itself.

A Mr. PINLLY here stood forward upon the hust-
fngs. He said he hoped to prevent the Common
Council from depriving his
privileges. The members of thatw men of their
fellow-liverymen
had nothing
whatever to do with the livery, and odyhdt.
allowed to interfere with the proocuege not to be
livery, who had beaten them upon one ihgs of the
time ago, and would do so again. MucpbolnlLad shortb e
opposed that
said about the holding up of dirty hands in sheriff-
making,en- and those who most strongly
plan were the very persons who had resorted to it
upon all occasions.—(Laughter.) Now, he would
be glad to know who was the worse—the thief or the
receiver ?—(Laughter.) Now, he hoped to be able
to Propose.a resolution which would check the dis-
graceful practice of calling upon persons who were
unable or unwilling to serve, when candidates could
be found who entertained no objection to perform the
duties.—(Hear, hear.) He would propose that a
committee of liverymen be formed to superintend
matters connected with the ehrievalty, and that
2001. a year be granted from the City funds to dis-
charge the expenses of that committee.—(oh, oh, and
laughter.) The members of the Court of Common
Ccuncil had spoken of tho charitable appropriation
of the fines which were inflicted for refusal to
the orphans of the City freemen. He did not think
that donations arhing from such a source could be of
any benefit to the concern they professed to benefit,
Although the City authorities were certainly building
a megnificent place for the diffusion of the charity.
Willa respect to the election of Mr. Chandler, jun., to
the office, why that election was done before the pre-
sent meeting assembled in that hell.—(Laughter, and
is cry of "NO doubt of that.") ____ _
Mr. Deputy LOTT seconded the motion of Mr.
Finley. He did not, he confessed, altogether relish
the resolution; but he would be glad to see a change
in the disgraceful transactions of sheriff-making
under any circumstances.—(Cheers.) The deputy
included in the list of those he denounced some mem-
bers of the legal profession, to which he belonged
himself, who he knew cared not one straw for the
livery of London, but merely looked to the advan-
tages arising to themselves from the manufacture. He
altogether repudiated the idea of fining gentlemen -
whose names were thrust forward for the purpose of
out the system be condemned, for he
carryingloosed
upon it as nothing but robbery to take their
e y .
Upon a recent occasion Alderman Carter,
a3on
who was junior to Alderman Wire, had been elected.
Now, it might be reasonably asked, why bad not
Alderman Wire, who was in every respect eligible,
been elected upon that occasion.—(Hear, hear, and a
cry of " Because Wire didn't want to be sheriff till it
would suit him.") Somebody had observed that
there was want of management in these matters. It
was no such thing. There was too much manage-
ment.—(Laughter, and cries of "No doubt.") Let
the livery lock to the election of Mr. Grissell and
Mr. Moore, and consider that they were both obliged
to pay the penalties. Let them then look to the fact
that Alderman Wire was excused without the fine of
one farthing.—(Loud laughter.) Was there no ma-
ncgement in that ?—(lncroazedlaughter.) "Gentlemen
of the livery," added Deputy Lott, " it is necissavY
something should be doue to meet this intolerable
evil ; and I therefore second the resolution, in the hope
that u change which cannot be but for the better will
arise in some way or other out of it."
The names
up on the hoard, and almost all the balk:
I Chandler,
.were held up the moment the name of to r,
j was elevated ; while so completet
the list were then put
I appsupon the occa-
sion, " management," of the shrieya
were?t
exhibited for
that tot half-a-dozen
bband
al t bu
bghs
any of the other names, most of them were
ywtbeerelivery of London.
observed to be
[ Thewellfknown
whichto andlve
re respectedheld
up
quite clean. announced with shouts of
The triumph 'vas
laughter. then proceeded to the Court of Alder-
men to give i
new .Haaersoet stepped forward upon the
The Sheriffnst
Mr. Der-Cee purpose of opposing the proposition
hustivgg isoirr.
Finley, who, he said, had shown the
made by be return.
aziety to transfer the rights and privileges
greatest S
f ti
fellow-livery
II
man to a mere committee.—(Loud
cries °okusaoniclas any
at the
0 f
e Hear, hear.) They surely-would not be
of such a gross abandonment of duty as to
leave
guilty poscsoeussldionnoot tbthin
f
mercy
so monstrous. If they for a moment contemplated
tehfe a valuable
few—they
so extravagant a proposition, they would deserve to
lose the independence of which they had eo much
reason to be proud—(Cheers and laughter,)
Mr. FINLEr begged that his brother liverymen
would not allow Mr.-Deputy Harrison to throw dust
in their eyes, and he called upon them to show, by
agreeing to his resolution, that they were
ab'e and independent body they were the
alwaysrespect-
known
to h?.—(Loud laughter and cheers )
The resolution having been put, the meeting
almost unanimously negatived it amidst laughter and
applause.
The RECORDER then announced that the office of
Sheriff of London and heiet .c.
eMiddlesex
had
fallen upon Mr. Berjseajin Chandler-silthe er
younger.
The hail was then Clis.solved

BR. -BRADY, M.P.
Dr. Brady has kern i-,disposed for a few days from ibi:
extrnordmary fitigno ha has undereundeera "
the Judi-
canvav3 and contest in Leitrim. u
; rh° of Carrick-
i,c•fli treo.!rn,nt of Surgeon Cunn.n.i mut will pro-
en'Sh":lon, he is now eonva!es,..;.ernion,
ccoompani, d
cced in a f,-;,, eays to ,liao„, whcse sympathy
by his •ei•-"iable and ki:(1-hearted .7
d since her arrival in
fel` tLe tcic'r exi cee( 2 311Ivi b;nudr On the other side of the
,"‘":. Sheh '1.,8 ecirv-- k* purse and iuflurnce, esta-
itto EbY, even in the inclement
cd;.?silhilt,dni.,,,, charitable in
-.' tiiitcurtion in London, at whieh she
1 spends hours during
ihuting food to the pozT Irish who
season of winter, dwurrumbas. She hccrtily sympathises
with Ireland,—
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molar- vitDFU 1:
s.-- (4} IiEItAL 0911.3FFICE, JULY,
1852.—Minor money-order offices will be opened at the
undermentioned pl,ceil
on the respectiveon dates named Yorkshire,
Au
Crowland, Lincoln:lire, August -
August 6; Lambourne, Berkshire, :August 3. On the 2d
August the ma;or money-orer office at Brongh, Westmore-
land, vill be reduced to i% minor money-order office.