The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-15 00:00:00

THE CITY REMEMBRANCER,

Yesterday, nt 2 o'clock, a special Court of Common Coun-
cil was held at Guildhall, the Lord Mayor presiding, to
elect a Remew brancer for the City of London, in the plAce
of Mr. Edward Tyrrell, who resigned the &Bee, which is
one of great antiquity, in the summer of lest year, in consi-
deration of declining health and advanced ago, atter a ser-
vice in the corporation extending over half a century. Great
interest was taken in the ceremony by the members of the
corporation, the office being one of considerable emolument,
and there being as many as 11 candidates. By a recent vote
of tiLe Common Council the salary, which until now has
fluctuated in amount, and which of late years had averaged
£2,003, was tared at £1,500 a year, with an annual allow-
ance of £4OO besides for office expenses.
The candidates, statii;:.; their names in alphabetical order,
were Mr. Brandon WoodtLorPe, of Mill-hill, Barnes-com-
mon, barrister, and Registrar ofthe Lord Mayor's Court—
Mr. Henry Edwards Brown, of 8, yarliament-street,West-
minster, Parliamentary agent and so;:citor—
Mr. William
Corrie, 20, Leicester-square, barrister, a 0 magistrate at
Bow-street police-court—Mr. James Crosby, 3, Church-
court, Old Jewry, solicitor—Mr. George Colvve..ll Oke,
Queen's-road, Peckham, ass'stant-clerk to the Lord Ma,"r
—Mr. James Pearse Peachey, 3, New-square, Lincoln's-
inn, barrhter—Mr. Henry Thomas Riley, M.A., 31, St.
Peter's-square, Hammersmith, barrister—Mr. Samuel
Spofforth, 12, Great George-street, Westminster, Parlia-
mentary agent and solicitor—Mr. Ed ward Walmisley, '26,
Abingdon-street, Westminster, Parliamentary agent and
solicitor—Mr. John R. L. Walmisley, 5,. Victoria-street,
Westminster, Parliamentary agent and solicitor—and Mr.
John Samuel Wilde, 10, Sergeant's inn, Fleet-street, bar-
rister and Parliamentary draughtsman and conveyancer.
On the motion of Mr. 11. L. TAYLOR., seconded by Mr.
KEARNS, the Court first reduced the 11 candidates to four
by poll, then from four to two, and afterwards decided the
election by a third poll, which, in pursuance of a standing
order, was kept open one hour. By the first poll seven
of the candidates were eliminated—namely, Mr. Brown,
Mr, Oke, Mr. Peachey, Mr. Riley, Mr. Spofforth, Mr.
Edward Walmisley, and Mr. John Walmisley, and the
field of choice was narrowed to Mr. Corrie, who had 127
votes—Mr. Brandon, 111—Mr. Crosby, S4—and Mr. Wilde,
60. The second operation resulted in Mr. Crosby and Mr.
Wilde being struck off. The contest finally lay between
Mr. Corrie and Mr. Brandon, who by the second poll had
respectively 103 and 64 votes.
At the close of the poll the Lord Mayor stated that 100
votes had been recorded for Mr. Corrie, and 57 for Mr.
Brandon. He therefore declared the election to have fallen
upon Mr. (Jerrie.
The successful candidate did not enter into the competi-
tion until the eleventh hour. The Aldermen almost to a
man voted for him, as did the great majority of the Common
Council, and the result of the election appeared to give
general satisfaction to the members of the Court. It may
bo mentioned as a coincidence that Mr. Carrie polled pre-
cisely the same number of votes (100) when a few years ago
be was a candidate for the office of Judge of the Sheriffs'
Court of the Corporation, and was defeated by a majority of
one. Mr. Corrie was originally educated as a solicitor, but
afterwards studied for the Bar, to which he was called by
the Inner Temple in June, 1836. He practised for some
years before committees of the Houses of Lords and Com-
mons, in the Common Law Courts, and in patent cases in
the Court of Chancery. He was at one time Judge of the
now defunct Palace Court, in respect of which office, on the
abolition of the court, he was allowed a pension until he
became a police magistrate, when he was obliged to re-
linquish it in consequence of holding an office under the
Crown. Of late years he has been chiefly known as one of
the stipendiary magistrates at the Bow-street Police-court.

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.agoons

Horse Guards, Tan. 14, 1661.
After a patient and protracted trial the court lnartial on
Lieut-Colonel Crawley has been brought to a close by the
full and honourable acquittal of that officer.

The Judge-Advocate General has submitted to her Ma-
jesty to confirm and approve the proceedings, and the
Firld-Marshal Cottananding-in-Chief has recommended to
her Majesty that the verdict of the Court should. bo now
carried out.

Lieut.-Colonel Crawley will therefor: resume the com-
mand of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons with the least p(•,s-
sible delay, and his Royal Highnese trusts that he
prove by tact and judgment In the performance of his

duties that he appreciates the
,importane.._t of hi •-; position as
a commanding. officer, and that the painful experience of
the pest has nor. been lost upon hirn.

For it is only by a happy cembinnti4n of temper, judg-
ment, and discretion, united with firmness, that the con,_
!nand of a regiment can be pi-61)&1y conducted, and the
more difficult the elements with which a commanding cill-
cer may have to deal the more requisite is it for him to pos.
secs and exercise those qualifications for command,

The Court has remarked on the animus displayed by
Major Swinley in giving his evidence, and has further no-
ticed the evasive, hesitating, and unsatisfactory character
of the evidence of Surgeon Turnbull and Lieutenant and
Adjutant Fitzsimon.

In the proceedings of the Mhow court marti,.l both Ma-
jor Swinley and surgeon Turnbull were similarly reflected
upon.

His Royal Highness was disposed on that occasion to
gii7e these officers a further trial, and did nor, remove them
at thar.period from the Dragoons, brit he feels
that he cannot again treat them with alike leniency.
Major Swialey has unfortunately not availed himself
of the forbearance then shewtt to him. He has not ceased
to entertain feelings which strike at the root o ail dis-
cipline.

His continuance in the 6th Dragoons can thereforn no
logger be permitted, and he will be removed from ate regi-
ment accordingly,

Surgeon Turnbull, in like mannar, has laid himself open
to the gravest censure. His conduct with reference to the
entries in the hospital records will become the subject of
further inquiry, and should his explanations not prove
satisfactory, most serious notice must necessarily be taken
of his proceedings ; but, at all events, his continuance in the
Inniskilling Dragoons has become impossible.
Lieutenant and Adjutant Fitzsimon has by his replies and
evasive answers proved himself utterly unfit for the post of
adjutant, the duties of which he carried out in so unsatis-
factory a manner, as proved by his own evidence.
It is further most undesirable that he should continue in
the 6th Dragoons. He therefore will likewise be removed
from the regiment.
The general tone and temper evinced by a portion of
the officers of the luniskilling Dragoons is most deplorabia.
When the Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief issued his
Memorandum on the Mhow court-martial he was not, as ho
is now, aware of the extent of ill-feeling which actually
prevailed.

Discipline cannot be maintained when such views are
entertained by any portion of the officars of the regiment,
and it greatly redounds to the credit of tha corps generally
that its efficiency did not suffer more by the insubardinate
and defiant tone manifested by same of its leading mem-
bers.

The sad and painful lesson which has been experienced
by all will, it is hoped, not be forgotten by those whd havo
escaped censure.

Without discipline an army is worse than useless, and,
under all circumstances, it must, therefore, be maintained.
His It)yal Highness, having had a personal and inti-
mate knowledge of what the Inuiskilling Dragoons were in
former days, is must painfully impressed with the a tered
tone of the regiment in respect of too many of its officers
which is now brought to his notice. Bad elements must
have been introduced, which have tended to this lament-
able change in a corps second to none in former days, both
as regards discipline and effi.iiency.
The Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief trusts that the
decisive steps now taken may at once and for ever put a
' step to similar practices, alike destructive to the interests of
the corps and to those of the individuals concerned.
His Royal Highness cannot conclude these remarks
without observing that he considers it due to the Comman-
der-in-Chief in India to state that, while he is still of opi-
nion that the character for sobriety of Sergeant-Major
Lilley up to the period of his arrest was supported by the
evidence before the Court, statements were subsequently
made to Sir H. Rose, borne out by the opinions of -toe :me-
dical officers of the regiment, which explain to the Field
Marshal Commanding-in-Chief the grounds upon which
that 6islinguished General officer made the observations on
that portion of the case incluhd iu his remarks on the
Mhow court marttal.

By command of his Royal liighnrss the Fi,Ad Marohal
Commanding
W. F, FonsTEn, Military S,:cr,Jary.