The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-02 00:00:00

CRIMINAL COURT.—This Day.

This morning her Majesty's judges and tho representa-
tives of the Corporation of the City of London attended at
the Central Criminal Court for the purpose of fixing the
days for the commencement of the Sessions during the
next mayoralty. There were present the Lord Mayor,
the Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Baron Bramwell, Mr. Baron
Channell, Mr. Justice Mellor, Mr. Justice Blackburn, Mr.
Baron Pigott, Mr. Justice Willes, Mr. Justice Keating,
Mr. Justice Shee, Mr. Justice Montague Smith, Alderman
Copeland, Alderman Rose, and Alderman Laurence, M.P.
Mr. Justice Byles met the judges in their private room,
but being unrobed, he did not come into court.
Mr. Avery, the Clerk of the Court, announced that her
Majesty's judges had ordered that the sessions of the Cen-
tral Criminal Court should commence on the following
Mondays during the mayoralty of 1865-6 :-
1865—November 20. I 1866—June 11.

, December 8.
1866—January' 8 and 29.

„ July 9.
„ August 13.

„ February 26.
„ April 9.
I, May 7-
This being all the business
ships retired.

September 17.
1, October 22.

before the Court, their loid-

Presentation of the Lord Mayor Elect to
the Lord Chancellor.—This Day.

This morning the Recorder, Alderman and Sheriff
Gibbons (with his chaplain, the Rev. J. H. Coward, M.A.,
rector of St. Bennet, Paul's-wharf ); Mr. Sheriff Figgins
(with his chaplain, the Rev. James Jackson, M.A., vicar of
St. Sepulchre's, Snow-hill) ; Mr. Thomas Chambers, Q.C.,
M.P., the Common Sergeant ; Alderman Gabriel, Alder-
man Allen, with other Aldermen who have-not yet passed
tho chair, proceeded in state to the residence of the Lord
Chancellor, No. 40, Upper Brook-street, for the purpose of
presenting to his lordship, for her Majesty's approval, Mr.
Benjamin Samuel Phillips, Alderman of the Ward of Far-
ringdon Within, who has been elected by his fellow-citizens
to the high office of Lord Mayor of London for the year
1865-6.

On arriving at the Chancellor's residence the civic
authorities were most courteously received by his lordship,
who was habited in his robes of State.

The RECORDER, in addressing the Lord Chancellor, said
he had the honour of introducing to his lordship Mr. Phil-
lips, who had been elected to serve the high office of Lord
Mayor of London for the ensuing year. Mr. Phillips had
been, from an early period of his life, engaged in commerce,
and, by strictly honourable conduct in all his transactions,
had succeeded in realising a handsome competence. In
1857, on the death of Mr. Alderman Kelly, the inhabitants
of the Ward of Farringdon Within elected Mr. Phillips for
the honour of the vacant Alderman's gown, and he had
discharged the duties of his office to the entire satisfaction
of his constituents and his fellow-citizens generally. In
1859 he served the office of Sheriff. He (the Recorder) be-
lieved that, in the high position he was now about to fill,
the Alderman would continue to merit the approbation of
the citizens of London ; and that, at tho close of his year
of office, they would find that he had worthilymaintained
the dignity of the Chief Magistracy, and carefully tended
the institutions committed to his charge.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said he had no doubt that Alder-
man Phillips would worthily perform all the duties im-
posed on him in connection with his high office ; and, on
the part of her Majesty, he congratulated the citizens of
London on the choice they had made.

The "loving cup" was then handed round ; and, after
an exchange of courtesies, the civic party returned in state
to the Guildhall.

..,
The Lord Mayor Elect will be sworn in on Wednesday
next, the Bth inst., when he will receive tho insignia of
office from the present Lord Mayor (Alderman Hale), and
will at once assume the duties of the Mayoralty. On the
following day there will be the usual State visit to the
Court of Exchequer, and the banquet at Guildhall. Tho
Lord Mayor Elect is a Jew.