The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-05 00:00:00

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

Yesterday, at 1 o'clock, the members of the Court
of Aldermen held a meeting in their chamber at
Guildhall for the transaction of business, the Lord
Mayor presiding. There was an unusually large
attendance of members, one only of the body being
absent. The Recorder, Mr. Commissioner Ker, Mr.
Woodthorpe, the town clerk; Mr. Scott, the Cham-
berlain; the Remembrancer, the City Solicitor, and
other officers of the corporation were also in attend-
ance. The sheriffs, Alderman Abbiss and Mr.
Lusk, presented an official report as to the state of
the gools, stating that in the prison of Newgate
there are at present 54 prisoners, not one of
whom is in the infirmary ; in the Debtors' prison,
in Whitecross-street, 200 prisoners, of whom
seven are in the infirmary ; and in the city
prison at Holloway 349 prisoners, 10 of
who are in the infirmary. The report was accom-
panied by the surgeon's certificate in each case
that the gaol was in a fit sanitary condition. Mr.
Orton, one of the attorneys of the Lord Mayor's
Court, prefented the return of the election of Mr.
James Clarke Lawrence as alderman for the ward
of Walbrook, in the room of Mr. David Williams
Wire, deceased. Mr. Lawrence, the alderman
elect, was then introduced to the Court by Mr.
W. Frederick Rock, one of the principal inhabitants
of the ward, who said the duty had devolved on
him in the unavoidable absence of Sir Anthony
Rothschild. It afforded him pleasure, he added,
to present Mr, Lawrence to the Court in the capa-
city of a member of their body, inasmuch as his
(Mr. Lawrence's) family were well known to them,
his father, now dead, having filled some of the
highest civic offices with propriety and dignity,
and his brother being already a member of the
Court. At the recent contest Mr. Lawrence
had to contend against an able ; opponent,
a gentleman well worthy of the confidence of the
electors of the ward, but Mr. Lawrence, by ,a majo-
rity of voices, was held to be still more worthy.
These were times in which it was peculiarly desira-
ble, whenever an occasion arose, to refresh the con-
stitution of the Court of Aldermen by the introduc-
tion of persons of wealth, station, influence, talents,
and integrity ; and it might be important in coming
time, as it had heretofore been, should the corpo-
ration be assailed by persons whose aims went tfar
beyond its reasonable and legitimate reform, to have
among its constituent members those who were
capable by intelligence and influence to defend it.
If time had at all impaired its efficiency, or if its
excrescences still remained, Mr. Lawrence was a
man who would assist in removing what was obso-
lete, and in invigorating what was weak; and
that he would do it with a tender, kindly hand,
desirous at the same time of preserving the corpora-
tion, if it should be thought to require reform, in
its integrity, as one of the guardians of popular
liberty, not only in the city of London, but to some
extent throughout the country at large. He trusted
Mr. Lawrence would be found a fit successor of the
worthy gentleman who had preceded him in the
office, and that he would fulfil the duties devolving
upon him in his new capacity with credit to him-
self, to the ward which had returned him, and to
the advantage of the citizens in general. The oaths
customary on such an occasion having been admi-
nistered to Mr. Lawrence, he assumed the violet
robe of an alderman, and, receiving the congratula-
tions of the Lord Mayor and the other members pf
the Court, took a seat among his brethren. The
Court was about to proceed to the consideration of
the petition of Stavois Dilberoghu and others, com-
plaining of the conduct of George Henry Darby
Lawrence, a broker ; but, Mr. Lawrence not ap-
pearing hen called, and proof having been given
by Mr. Sewell, the sword-bearer, of an ineffectual
attempt to serve him with the summons, it was
resolved, on the motion of Mr. Ald. Carter, that his
sureties have notice to attend the next court, and
either produce their principal, or return an answer
to the allegations in the petition. The Rev. J. Owen
was then elected chaplain to the prison at Hollo-
way, in the room of the Rev. Mr. Cohen, resigned,
by 16 votes, as against 6 recorded for the Rev. C.
J. Hutt. The Rev. G. Acres was also, with Mr.
Hutt, an unsuccessful candidate. The court then
adjourned.

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