The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-02 00:00:00

THE NEW SHERIFFS.

On Saturday the new Sheriffs of London and Mid-
dlesex, T. Quested Finnis, Esq., Alderman of the
ward of Tower, and Jacob Emanuel Goodhart, Esq.,
were sworn in according to ancient custom, with all
the usual formalities, in the Court of Exchequer,
before the Cursitor Baron, who expressed her Ma-
jesty's approval of the choice made by the City of
London.

On presenting the new Sheriffs Ithe Recorder of
London spoke as follows :
" Mr. Cursitor Baron,—l have the honour to pre-
sent to your Lordship and this Court Thomas Quested
Finnis; Esq., and Jacob Emanuel Goodhart, Esq.,
chosen by the citizens of London to fill the office of
Sheriffs of London and Sheriff of the county of Mid-
dlesex for the ensuing year. Mr. Alderman Finnis is
a younger son of a gentleman of ancient family in
Kent. His father was for fifty years a magistrate of
Hythe. The elder brother of the Sheriff, Captain
Finnis, of the Queen Charlotte, in the Royal Navy,
having on repeated occasions eminently displayed the
talents and gallantry of a British officer, fell in the
service of his country, in an action on Lake Erie,
during a state of war with America. Another
brother of this gentleman, Major Finnis, is ad-
vancing in command of the 51st regiment, native
infantry, to Moultan, the seat of war in India.
To the Sheriff have been reserved the peaceful
triumphs of commercial enterprise, the paths of mu-
nicipal distinction, the rewards of industry and in-
tegrity, and of the virtues that find room for their
exercise in the even tenour of mercantile and private
life. But when inquiry shall be hereafter made to
what family we were indebted for the direct relations
of trade and commerce between the city of Bagdad (in
Asiatic Turkey) and the great metropolis, it will be
mentioned, to the honour of Mr. Finnis and his
nephew, that the first British house of business at
Bagdad was established by those gentlemen. In
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Tower. In the beginning of the present year he was,
on the decease of Mr. Lucas, unanimously elected
alderman of the ward. The livery of London now
present him to this Court as the object of their choice
to fill the office of one of their sheriffs. His year of
shrievalty concluded, he will have acquired the legal
qualifications for the office of Lord Mayor. But the
demeanour of this gentleman, as a magistrate and in
private life, encourages the citizens of London to be-
lieve the claims of Mr.. Finnis will rest on yet
stronger grounds, and that as he advances step by
step to Ascend the highest station it is their province
to bestow, he will achieve a fresh title to
their confidence by new services performed in the
career of official duty that is now opened to him.
Jacob Emanuel Goodhart, Esq., is associated with
Mr. Finnis in the office of sheriff. His family, ori-
ginally of German extraction, has been established in
mercantile pursuits in this country since the year
1752, close upon a century, and the members of that
family may justly challenge the distinction of hold•
ing an honourable and high position amongst British
merchants. For ability, industry, and integrity, none
have been in greater repute than our sheriff. An
ample fortune has compensated his labours, and placed
at his disposal the means of exhibiting a generous
hospitality, of dispensing an enlarged charity, and of
filling a position he has coveted only to employ it to
the benefit of his fellow-citizens and the advantage of
society. The mutual interchange of experience
gathered in active life, and the cultivation of the best
understanding with each other, will facilitate the joint
exertions of these gentlemen in the public service,
and the example set by their immediate predecessors,
cannot fail to direct them in the pursuits of an ho-
nourable ambition to obtain the meed of approbation
of their fellow-eitizens, the just reward of merit in a
public station.
The RECORDER concluded his address to the Cur-
sitor Baron by alluding in a complimentary manner
to the official exertions of Mr. Cubitt and Mr. Hill,
the gentlemen whose Shrievalty has just terminated.
In the evening the new Sheriffs, Mr. Alderman
Finnis and Mr. Goodhart, gave their inaugural
dinner at the London Tavern, the Lord Mayor in the
chair.

After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts,
Mr. Sheriff FINNis proposed the health of the
Lord Mayor, who thanked his brother alderman,
Mr. Sheriff Finnis, for the flattering testimony to his
exertions.

The LORD MAYOR then proposed the health of the
Sheriffs, whose promptitude in coming forward when
others kept back entitled them to the approbation of
their fellow-citizens.—(Cheers.)