The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-09 00:00:00

ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.
COURT OF ALDERMEN.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
Alter some confusion, Mr. Alderman Wool) replied.
After going over a considerable portion of tly. ground
traversed in his first speech, the worthy Alderman con-
cluded by throwing himself and his cause on
the justice
of the Court. He was willing to submit to any investiga-
tion, to lay his case before any tribunal, and he relied
with confidence on the justice of the public.
Mr. Alderman COPELAND moved for a committee, to
inquire into the whole matters with which Mr. Alderman
Wood was alleged to be connected.
After some considerable discussion for and against
how-
the
motion, an amendment wasp rcyosed,which was
ever lost ; and the original motion having been put,
Mr. Alerman HEIAPHERY moved, as an amendment,
that the Sheriff's report be read.
A show of hands was taken, when there appeared—
For the amendment 9
For the original motion 5
A division was afterwards called for, and the numbers
were ascertained to be—
For the amendment 7
For the motion
The names being for the For the amendment—
motion—
Aldermen Kelly Aldermen Hurephery
Copeland Wilson
Laurie Maguey
Duke Gibbs
Hunter Farneoinbe
Moon Hughes
Sidney
Aldermen Sir George Carroll and Wood did not vote
The Lord Mayor gave his casting vote for the amend-
ment.
Alderman SIDNEY then moved a further amendment,
that the papers (relating to Mr. Alderman Wood) be
read, which was lost by a majority of three.
The Sheriffs then announced the names of the two al-
dermen returned by the Livery, and the public were or-
dered to be excluded from Court.

COMMON HALL.
The hall was opened yesterday, at twelve o'clock, by
Mr. Harker, the crier, when the Sheriffs and the Se-
condaries having taken their places on the hustings,
Mr. Sheriff stsa.t.t.ts announced that the poll-books
having been opened and cast up yesterday, in the pre-
sence of the agents for all parties, the following was
found to be the official state of it :
For Mr. Alderman Wood 1,644
„ Sir Geo. Carroll 1,653
„ Mr. Alderman Hooper
„ Mr. Alderman Farncomb 1
„ Mr. Alderman Moon 3
The SHERIFF then declared the election of the Livery
to have fallen on Alderman Thomas Wood and Sir Geo.
Carroll, and those two gentlemen would be returned by
the Sheriff to the Court of Aldermen for that Court to
elect one to serve the office of Chief Magistrate for the
year ensuing.
The Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs, and Secondary then re-
tired to the Court of Alderman to make their return to
that Court. After an interval of upwards of three hours,
the Lord Mayor, accompanied by a large number of the
Court of Aldermen, entered the hall. Among them
we noticed Aldermen Sir G. Carroll, Humphery, Laurie,
Wood, Duke, Copeland, Farebrother, Sidney, &c. On
the Lord Mayer taking his seat,
The RECORDER came forward, but was for some time
unable to obtain a hearing. Silence being in some de-
gree restored, he said—" Gentlemen of the Livery, I am
directed to inform you that the election has fallen on
Alderman Sir George Carroll, citizenand spectacle-maker,
to be Lord Mayor of this metropolis for the ensuing
year." The noises that shook the hall on this announce-
ment being made were fearful, and the Learned Recorder,
although he patiently awaited a calm for some time, was
at last obliged to make a precipitate retreat.
Sir GEORGE CARROLL, having been invested with the
insignia as Lord Mayor elect, then came forward and
said—Gentlemen, by your suffrages, I have had the dis-
tinguished honour of being returned as one of the two
senior Aldermen in rotation to fill the distinguished
office of Chief Magistrate for the year ensuing.—(Cries
of " Oh, oh," and cheering, the former greatly prepon-
derating.) I need scarcely assure you that it will be
my pride and pleasure to support all your rights and
privileges, and to exercise all those hospitalities which
my predecessors have done.—(Cheers and groans.)
Gentlemen, I beg leave to thank you sincerely and
kindly for the support you have given me, and to assure
you that I will endeavour so to do, that, at the end of
my year of office, you will have no reason to complain
that your choice has fallen upon me.—(Cheers and con-
fusion, in the midst of which the Mayor elect retired.)
Mr. Alderman WOOD then stood forward, and the ap-
plauses which greeted him were so deafening that we
were for some minutes unable to hear a word. The
cheering having subsided, the worthy Alderman said—
Gentlemen, I regret that you did not hear Sir
George Carroll.—(Cheers.) (Here a person strode across
the vacant space in front of the platform, and with the
most itfvmperate action, and his " eye in a fine frenzy
rolling," shouted out " You have stained your gown,
air; resign your gown, sir." Confusion became worse
confounded, and some " gentle voices" urged that the
violent gentleman should be ejected from the door by
a rather summary process. The police having politely
waited on the offending party to the outside, the pro-
ceedings were again allowed to proceed.) I have had in
this contest no personal feeling with Sir George Car-
roll, nor has he had any with me ; neither will I
complain with regard to the accusations made
against me. The return whiCh the Livery ultimately
made was the very same for which on the first day the
show of hands was taken.—(Cheers.) We have been
occupied since eleven this day in the' Court of Alder-
men discussing a question which might have been settled
in a quarter of an hour, and at its rising the Court re-
fused to read the documents which their own committee
had sent up in reference to the charges against me.—
(" Shame.") I do not wish to cast blame or censure
on any one. It is my duty to thank you, and to repu-
diate those calumnious newspaper reports which have
appeared in the shape of anonymous letters. These
reports I have this morning already demonstrated to be
utterly destitute of truth.—(Cheers.) I only advert to
the circumstance for this purpose, to assure the gen-
tlemen of the Livery, some of whom have expressed
to myself the fact that they withheld their votes from
me because they were imposed on by the statements
in a letter signed Truth"—( Cries of " Shamel—that
that letter contained the most infamous falsehoods ; but
although I had prepared in the Court of Aldermen this
day papers which belied the allegations of " Truth," I
was not allowed to enter upon them. Whether that
man is in my hearing or no I care not ; for I am aware
that these words of mine will go forth to the public—
but I say that he has imposed upon a respectable journal,
he has imposed upon the public at large, and I challenge
him to come forward, and I will brand him with infamy.
—(Cheers). " Resign your gown," said a person in
passing. I will do no such thing.—(lmmense cheering).
I have a great work to perform. I have a paramount
duty to discharge, and 1 will do so before I retire from
my aldermanic position.—(Great cheering.) While I
live, and while I retain the feelings and the
heart of an Englishman, my time and my atten-
tion shall be devoted to the service of those
brave and good men who have recorded their
names on yonder lists.—(Loud cheers.) Some have
ventured to impugn their respectability, but, thank
God, there are names there that will rank with any
other name—ay, let it be the first, the most respectable,
the proudest in the city of London. Gentlemen, in every
contested election there are different classes who re -
corg their votes on one or the other, or on the
same side. They exercise the legitimate fran-
chise, but shall it be said that the vote of the
man of humble circumstances is not as good as that of
him placed in a higher station?—(Cheers.) To cast
such an imputation upon some of those who have re-
corded their votes in my favour is therefore unworthy
of citizens and discreditable to Englishmen.—(Loud
cheers.) Gentlemen, the struggle was not between
myself awl Sir George Carroll, er, as I will now cal!
him, the Lord Mayor elect. The object of those who
used the name of Mr. Alderman Hooper was evidently to
give the Livery an opportunity of disgracing me by not
returning my name to the Court of Aldermen at all.
That object has been signally and triumphantly de-
feated.—(Loud cheers.) You have confirmed the
show of hands taken, but the Court of Alder-
men have seen fit to reject me, although the
senior Alderman in rotation.—(Shame.) Gentlemen,
I am neither dispirited nor disheartened ; I leave
these hustings with the kindliest feelings for you all—
Cheers)—and with the expression of my earnest hope
that we shall one and all of us live to see each other yet
under happier and more triumphant circumstances.
Mr. PRYOR said that when last he had the honour of
appearing before them it was to propose a vote of thanks
to the Sheriffs of last year, and that vote had been
passed unanimously, but he found that, according
to the terms of the Common Hall to render the vote
formal, it was necessary that the Lord Mayor should be in
the chair, and as their esteemed chief magistrate now
presided, the vote he was about bringing before the
citizens of London would be in regular form, and not
even technically mar the sense they entertained of the ser-
vices of the respected gentleman who served the office of
Sheriffs during the past year. The vote he had
to submit to them was —" That the thanks of the
Livery in Common HAI assembled are justly due,
and are hereby given to William Chaplin and
John Laurie, Esquires, for their humane and
benevolent attentions to the unfortunate persons
under their care as criminals ; for their earnest endea-
vours to mitigate the effects in after life of their present
punishment, by the exercise of a judicious and temperate
policy; for the manner in which they upheld the
,just
rights of the Crown, and supported the rights of the sub-
ject; and for directing so forcibly the public attention to the
present state of prisons, and endeavouring to cause the
introduction of a better and more effectual system of se-
condary punishments, and, by obtaining employment for
criminals on their discharge from custody, enable them
to support themselves, without being compelled by in-
evitable necessity to resort to their old courses." Having
read the motion, he thought it would be su
pererogation if he were to address any obser-
vations in support of it to persons who had so
many opportunities of observing the conduct of Messrs.e
Chaplin and Laurie during their term of office,
must have observed the great and benevolenl)exertL all
ns
faT
made by Mr. Laurie for the amelioration of
ot e social
and moral condition of that miserable class
who, in many cases, are found by necessity to throng, l.Y'
the gaols ; and he was sure they would all join with him,-
when he said that few men in later days had done more
towards effecting this object than the worthy Sheriff.
Mr. KING, in seconding the motion, said, as his
friend had alluded solely to Mr. Laurie in pro-
posing the resolution, he (Mr. King) thought
it his duty to say a few words with respect to
Mr. Sheriff Chaplin.—(Hear, hear.) He believed that
in bringing the name of Mr. Chaplin before the Livery-
men of London, he was submitting to them the name of