The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-23 00:00:00

FARRINGDON WITHIN (14).

Mr. Alderman Kelly presided at this wardmote.
Mr. Hayward (deputy), Mr. Eagleton (deputy), Messrs.
Rutter, Holt, Ridley, Virtue, Harley, M'Lauchlan, Blake,
Phillips, Morris, Humphreys, Young, and Watkinson, were
all unanimously re-elected.
FARRINGDON WITHOUT (16).
The Lord Mayor (Sir James Duke, M.P.), who is alder-
man of the ward, took the chair at two o'clock.
The Loan MAYon said he was glad on this, the first occa-
sion on which he appeared before them as Chief Magistrate
of the City of London, to avail himself of the opportunity
of thanking them for having attended in such large numbers
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as Lord Mayor—(Applause)—and that after his year of
office he should return to them with unimpaired efficiency,
and an increased desire to perform his duties in the ward to
their satisfaction.—(Applause.)
Mr. Robert B. Seeley, of Fleet. street, was proposed as a
new candidate, but declined the nomination.
Mr. W. T. REEVE proposed that the wardmote should elect
Mr. Benjamin Fowler, who would endeavour to promote a re-
duction in the gas and water-rates, which pressed so heavily
upon the citizens.—(Applause.)
The name of Mr. W. Kirk was also proposed, but that gen-
tleman expressed his wish that there might be no contest.
Mr. MARRIOTT objected to raising a contest in the
wardmote, when it was not alleged that any member of
the Common Council had done anything to deserve oppo-
sition.— (Yes, yes.)
Mr. LEE denied the latter proposition of the last speaker,
and proceeded to impugn the conduct of Mr. Anderton at the
Court of Common Council, on the 23d of November, in the
present year, on the occasion of the presentation of a petition
from the ward relative to the gas question.
Mr. ANDERTON with great spirit and manliness defended
himself from the attack of Mr. Lee. The petition in question
had not been agreed to at a wardmote, but had been sent
round from house to house ; and it was presented without his
knowing its contents.
Mr. BACON said he would never consent to reject so
faithful a servant of the ward as Mr. Anderton had been be-
cause he had made a single mistake, or committed one error
of judgment.
Mr. Few Lax expressed his willingness to serve if elected,
and promised, if returned to to the Court of Common
Council, to do his utmost to relieve the inhabitants of the
ward from the " grievous robbery" to which they were
at present subjected in the high price of gas.—(Applause.)
If he were successful on this question, he would next turn
his attention to the high rates demanded for the supply of
water.—( Applause.)
A show of hands was then taken, and the LORD MAYOR
declared it to be in favour of the following gentlemen ;—Mr.
Robert Obbard (deputy), Mr. Samuel Sabine Edkins, Mr.
James Anderton, Mr. Nicholas T. Isherwood, Mr. Edmund
Hodgson, Mr. Henry John Lias, Mr. George Walter, Mr.
Richard Taylor, Mr. John Buckinaster, Mr. Joshua Thomas
Bedford (deputy), Mr. James Michael Barnard, Mr. Thomas
Henry Fox, Mr. Richard Williams, Mr. Thomas Turner, Mr.
George Wylde Lees, *Mr. Benjamin Fowler.
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la:3t year declared reelected by the Lord Mayor with
the exception of Mr. Theodore C. Bates, on whose behalf a
poll was demanded.