The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-21 00:00:00

EXPENSES OF THE MAYORALTY.

Sir PETER LAURIE said that the question he had to
submit to the Court was one which, in his view, em-
braced many important points in the privileges of the
Court of Aldermen. A report lately made to the
Court of Common Council by the Committee in rela-
tion to the duties and emoluments of officers and the
City's revenue proposed several alterations, but that which
struck him as most prominently calling for the notice of
the Court related to the transfer of the management of the
entertainment at the Guildhall on Lord Mayor's Day from
the usual authorities to a Committee of the Common
Council, to be appointed yearly for that purpose. Under
the present system the Lord Mayor appeared as the principal
host to the illustrious company which assembled on the 9th
of November ; but under the system which the report re-
commended the Lord Mayor would not he more than a degree
higher than O'Toole, the toast-master.—( Laughter.) He
was anxious that all future Lord Mayors should enjoy, as
completely as he had enjoyed them, the privileges and honours
of the office, and he was convinced that such an interference
with the day, of all others the most important, would very
greatly detract from the dignity of the Mayoralty. It had
been said that the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs would be re-
lieved of the expense of the entertainment by the grant of
2,1501. from the city funds, and that was the set off against
the project of making the Chief Magistrate a cipher. But
putting the Lord Mayor out of the question, the sup-
porters of the proposition had no right to relieve the She-
riffs of their portion of the expense. For his part, he con-
sidered that things should be exactly as they were. Al-
terations might, if they pleased, be made in the procession
of the Lord Mayor ; but he could not think of giving up
the state carriage until the Queen gave up her state car-
riage, and the Speaker of the House of Commons gave up
his. The word " ridiculous" might be applied to the using
such appendages ; but what symbol was there that did
come under that denomination ? "What was there half so

ridiculous as a Barrister's wig ?—(A laugh.) Sir P. Laurie
concluded by moving " That it was inexpedient that the al-
terations recommended in the report of the Committee
upon the expenses of the mayoralty should be adopted."
Alderman COPELAND seconded the motion.
Alderman FAREBROTHER objected altogether to the sug-
gested alteration as to the entertainment on Lord Mayor's
Day.
Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL also objected to the proposi-
tion of the Committee.
Alderman VENABLES thought the matter too frivolous
to be discussed.
The Court agreed to the motion of Sir Peter Laurie.

THE CITY STATE SWORD.

Sir C. MARSHALL submitted that as the Queen was to
come into the city on the 9th of November, it would be ne-
cessary to repair the sheath of the City State Sword, out
of which several- pearls had dropped on State days.
The sword was here produced, and
'The RECORDER sharply observed that it appeared to him
that the pearls which had dropped out were the very best
that had adorned the sheath.
The subject was referred to the Entertainment Com-
mittee.—Adjourned.

Commissioner Sir Thomas Ussher, an intimate
personal friend of his late Majesty, whom he accompanied
on his short continental trip in 1829, arrived in town on
Saturday, from Bermuda, where he has filled the appoint-
ment of commissioner of the dock-yard.

LT FE OF SIR EDWARD CORE.-Mr. Colburn,
of Great Marlborough-street, is about to publish a Life of
the above distinguished lawyer and politician, from the pen
of Cuthbert Johnson, Esq., the Barrister. It is an extra-
ordinary fact, that of this truly illustrious man's public and
private life we have to this day no consecutive record, and
indeed, no notice at all beyond a few careless pages in our
Biographical Dictionaries, except those desultory memo-
randa that arc concealed in the scattered volumes deposited
in our public libraries of reference. The public will, there-
fore, be gratified to learn that so discreditable, a hiatus in
our biographical literature is on the point of being filled
up, and in a manner likely to leave little or nothing want-
ing in the fulfilment of the task. The work, too, as we
understand, will receive great additional interest and value
from the circumstance of its including numerous sketches
of the most remarkable of Coke's contemporaries, such as
Pyra, Hampden, Selden, Raleigb, &c.