The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-30 00:00:00

COMMON HALL.

Yesterday being Aiichaelmas-tiiiyl a Common
Hall was held as usual for the purpose of electing the Lord
.Mayor for the ensiling year. The Hall was very fully attend-
ed, and the Lord Mayor, accompanied by several Aldermen,
the Recorder, the two Sheriffs, and the Common-Serjeant,
having taken their seats on the hustings, the common crier made
the usual proclamations for opening the Hall, after Which
The RECORDER came forward and said, that the duty of
the Livery was to select from a list, which they would have
read to them, .of the names of those gentlemen, .being Alder-•
men, who had served the office of Sheriff, two persons to be
returned to the Court of Aldermen, for them to elect one of
such two, so nominated by the Liverymen, to fill the import-
ant office of. Lord Mayor of this great and illustrious-city.
The duty.. which the Livery had to petform was one of their
most ancient and undoubted rights, and from the list of names.
that they would hear read, on whomsoever their choice shoUld
fall, there could be no doubt but that it would be on a man
who would go through the duties of the office with credit to
himself, and honour to the city of London.
The.CoIIMON SERJEANT then read the following names:—
Robert Albion Cox, Esq.,- Alderman and goldsmith ; Wm.
Venables, Esq., Alderman and Stationer ; Anthony Brown,
Esq., Alderman and Fishmonger; Matthias Prime Lucas,
Alderman and Vintner; William Thompson, Esq., Alderman
and Ironmonger ; John Key, Esq., Alderman and Stationer.
The show. of hands being taken, there was not one for Al-
derman Cox—a strong show for Alderman Venables_abant ten
for Alderman Brown—and scarcely one far any of the others.
The SHERIFF then declared that the election had fallen on
Alderman Venables and Alderman Brown. These names
having been returned to the -Court of . Alderman, the Lord
Mayor and Aldermen shorly returned to- the hustings, when
the Recorder declared that William Venables, Esq., alder-
man and stationer, was duly elected Lord Mayor for the year
. ensuing.
The LORD MAYOR 'ELECT was then invested with the
gold chain, and came forward. He thanked the Livery for the
honour they had done him, and assured them that whatever
ability he possessed should be studiously, faithfully, and zeal-
ously exercised. by him in the discharge of the duties of the
office. He passed a high eulogium on the present Lord Mayor,
and assured them that he would devote his Whole time for the
next.year to the office, and declared it to, be his intention of
going through the whole of the dudes of it with that splendour
and hospitality for which that great city had always been so
distinguished ; he assured them that he would be -ever ready
to call a Common Hall for-the discussion of any public matter,
and would to his utmost protect their municipal• rights, as well
as support the commerce and trade of the city.
A vote of thanks was then moved to the two late Sheriff's,
upon which Aldermen Brown and Key, .the late Sheriffs, re-
turned thanks.
A vote of thanks to the present Lord Mayor was unahimous-
ly passed.
The LORD MAYOR, returned thanks in an appropriate ad-
dress, and the Common Hall was then dissolved. .

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A Court of Aldermen was afterwards held, at which the Lord
Mayor stated, that he had•applied to the Lords of the Treasury
on .thesubject of the new Act for the uniformity of weights and
measures, which is to commence on the Ist- ofJanuaiynext;and
on some difficulties as to the heaped measures, the diameter of
the heaped:bushel only being defined in the Act .;• and laid bt fwe
the Court the copy of a report made to the Treasury by Dr.
Wollaston; thereon specifying the breadth the several measures
should be from outside to outside on the-top. .
• The Court thereupon: directed. th e proper officers, at,Guildli all
to mark such measures only as are made
.conformahle to Dr.
Wollastnn*.s report. and directed particulars thereof to, be pub-
lished in the Gazette for general information. •
. The. Court also approved of new stamps for the-weights and
measures.
• A .petition from the • liberty of St. Bartholornew-the-C.l t rea ,
tilt the.appointment of proper officers to inspect the weights and
measures used in that liberty, was presented and. referred to a
Committee.
Mr. Beddiime was sworn into the office of Common Crier,
and the Court adjourned.