The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-08 00:00:00

CITY ELECTION.-(TIUS DAY.)

This was the day appointed for the Sheriffs to make
their return of the two Aldermen elected to the Court
of Aldermen.
The members of the Court of Aldermen began to
pass tlirough the Hall to their own Court shortly before
one o'clock, before which the Hall was more than half
filled with the Livery, who received the Aldermen
pretty much in the old way.
At one o'clock the Sheriffs appeared on the hustings,
and the Common Sergeant, in their name, declared the
state of the pull, as we have before given it in our
columns, and that consequently the election had fallen
upon Alderman John Pirie, citizen and plasterer, and
Alderman Thomas Johnson, citizen and cooper.
The Sheriffs then retired to make their return to the
other Court.

While the Court of Aldermen were deciding upon
the case, those assembled in front of the hustings were
much amused by one man, who had some remark to
make upon every one who made himself at all conspi•
cuous. When Mr. Meek appeared, he said, " Ah, Mr.
Meek, how do you do ? It is reported you arc one of
twins, I hope the other is dead ; one of your kidney is
quite enough." " Mr. Meek has gone behind there to
have a chat with Harriet Wilson." " Mr. Meek, Harriet
Wilson wants a lo •k of your hair. She has got a
locket all ready for it. I am told by the Times this
morning that there is a Tory dead—can you tell me,
Sir, where they buy Tories ? are they like donkeys ?
for though you see them here sometimes, you never see
a " I am told they blame me for killing
him, I should be sorry if I did, but I have no doubt
die verdict will be ' fell in de sea.'" " I say Meek
have you heard the news? lam told some most im-
portant ones have arrived from the Cannibal Islands.
It has just been published in a S;:cond Edition of the
1/tiles." " Have you heard of the Insurrection on
Willesden-green?" &c. &c. " Meek has been nick-
named—there is nothing like meekness about him ; he
ought to be called Savage."
In about half an hour the Lord Mayor, accompanied
by many of the Aldermen and the City Officer, and
having Alderman Johnson on his left hand, entered the
Comman Hall, and took their places on the hustings.
'The RECORDER then came forward, and announced
that the election had fallen upon Mr. Alderman John-
son—an announcement which was received with loud
hissing and great uproar.
Mr. Alderman JOHNSON then came forward to ad-
dress the Livery, and was received with tie most dis-
cordant yells from all parts of the Hall, which lasted
during the whole time the worthy Alderman was speak.
ing. The uproar and confusion was so great as to
render it extremely difficult to catch anything that
was said, but as far as we could catch it the
worthy Alderman addressed the Livery as follows :
Gentlemen of the Livery for the honour you have con-
ferred upon me, I beg to return you my sincere and
heartfelt thanks. It shall be my study to do my duty to
the citizens of London and the country at large, in the
high situation to which you have elected me ; and
I can assure my fellow citizens that whenever
they shall require access to too they shall always
find it most readily. I shall always endeavour
to preserve the institutions of the country, and to show
loyalty to my Sovereign, From my earliest youth I
have been taught to fear God, honour my Sovereign,
and love my neighbour as myself. It is my most
fervent wish and hope that our religion, our laws,
and our loyalty will last for ages. The preservation
of the Constitution will be my greatest pride. I should
gladly address you more at length if it was necessary,
but 1 am sure that a lengthened speech will not be ex-
pected from me. It will always bc my endeavour
to support not only the poor and the rich, but also
the laws of my country ; in short, I will endeavour
during my year of office to be the friend of all. 1 beg
again to return you my sincere thanks fur the honour
you have dune me.
The worthy Alderman was then invested with the
chain of office, and took his seat to the left of the Lord
Mayor. All this was done amid the greatest uproar
and confusion.
Mr. Meek then came forward, hut the hissings and
bootlegs with which he was received rendered it impos-
sible to catch a single sentence of what he said, al-
though he addressed the Hail for nearly ten minutes.
THANKS TO TILE LATE SHERIFFS.
Sir JAmEs DUKE then came forward, and was re-
ceived with loud cheering. He said, that having had
occasion to come down to the Chamberlain's Office to
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.ransact some private•businessi-hahad been unexpectedly
•etpostcdtotaketsponhinisellthe pleasing duty& propos-
ing.-a vote of thanks to the late Sherif. (
Althouglehe felt- the greatest satisfaction ("cers
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he regretted tuna so
, doing,
'that this pleasing task had not laden into
hands better able to do justice to the subject. He need
not tell them that the gentlemen whom they had last
scar elected to the high and important office of Sheriff,
had performed their duty in such a manner as to entitle
them to the thanks of their fellow citizens.—(Cheers.)
Whitever difference of opinion there might be as
to the late election, he felt that they would all
be unanimous in passing a vote of thanks
to the late Sheriffs, who had not only
performed all the duties of their office in a most effi-
cient and a most humane manner, but had upheld the
dignity of it by their hospitality and by the exercise of
all those qualities which entitled them to the gratitude
of their fellow-citizens.—(Cheers.) It must be
most pleasing to those gentlemen after having
performed their duties in a manner which entitled
them to the approval of their fellow-citizens to
retird into private life, having received the award of
their thanks.—(Loud cheers.) He would not occupy
their time further. He regretted Ile was not better
prepared to do justice to the resolution he was about
to propose. Ile would only say that from having per-
formed the dull: s of the effiee himself, he was fully
aware of the onerous nature of those duties, and lie
knee; uo gentlemen who were better entitled to the
thanks of their fellow-eitzens than Widiarn Evans,
Esq., and John Wheaton, Esq.—(Loud cheers.) He
therefore proposed a vote of thanks to those gentlemen
for the very efficient manner in which they hed, per-
formed the duties of Sheriff of London and Sheri;
of Middlesex, that by the conseienticus fulfilment of
their oath, preferring a long imprisonmeut of their per-
sons for the purpose of upholdir'r the majesty of the
law against the privileges of the House of Commons,
they had entitled themselves to the lasting eAcern of
their fellow-citizens. The latter part of the resolution
was received with cheering, mingled with expressions of
dig approbation.
Mr. ANllrmror* had great pleasure in seconding the
resolution. If there was one duty the perforatance of
which was more gratifying than another, it ,was that of
returning thanks to those to whom thanks were due.—
(Loud cheers.) No persons had ever gone through
the office of Sheriffs with greater credit to themselves,
or had given greater satisfaction to the country, than
Meters. Evans and Wheelton. They had discharged '
all their duties faithfully, honestly, and efficiently,
and they deserved the thanks, not only of the citizens
of Landon, but of the country at large for those ser-
vices—(Loud cheers)—which being in the recollecting
of all it was unnecessary for him to refer to further.
There were various opinions on that matter in dispute,
bet let them look at the conduct of the She-
riffs. Those gentlemen conscientiously believed that
they were bound by their oaths not to suffer the ma-
j. sty of the laW to give may to the privileges of the
House of Commons ; and in the discharge of this, ,
which they believed to be their conscientious duty, they
had consented to suffer a long imprisonment not
en y to their own great discomfort, but
to the very great discomfort of their families also.
The men who had so discharged their duties were well
entitled to the thanks of those they served.—(Cheers.)
Therr could he no doubt that the late Sheriffs, in the
course they bad pursued, had acted upon a right prin-
ciple. They had considered themselves bound to take
the part they did, and such being the case the Livery
ought to pay deference to them for doing that which
they considered they were compelled to do in the
discharge of their duties.
The vote of thanks was then put to the Livery, and
declared by
The Loan MAYOR to be carried with acclamation,
one hand only being held up against it.
On the motion that the resolution should be adver-
tised in the usual Morning and Evening Papers, cries
resounded, from all parts of the Hall, of " Not in the
Times—not in the Times."
Mr. ANDERTON—eII, let us except the
then.—( Great cheering.) Times
Mr.
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Mr. 14:yetis, the late Sheriff, then came forward, and
was most enthusiastically received. He said Gentl-
emen of the Livery, I thank you most sinc.e-ely f
co or this
flattering mark of your approval of ource of
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as one of your late Sheriffs. It has been a sublic nduct
high satisfaction to me to learn that the conduct my
colleague and myself thought it our duty to pursue en a
late memorable occasion of the collision with the House
of Commons, when we endeavoured to support the
supremacy of the throne and the majesty of the law,
has met with the approbation of may fellow-citizens and
the country at large.—(Loud cheers.) I never
envied the feelings of the tyrant majority of the House
of Commons who deprived my colleague and myself of
m
liberty for two months—(Cheers)—and it is a pleasing
satisfaction for me to know that my successors will not
havo the danger of meeting with similar