The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-09 00:00:00

Crier.

A Military Escort.
The procession passed though liiug-street, Queen-
street, Watling-street, Budge-row, Dowgate-hill, Upper
Thames-street, Queen-street, along Cannon-street, Lud-
gate-street, the Strand, to Westminster..
Returning from Westminster by way of the Strand,
Fleet-street, Ludgate-hill, St. Paul's Churchyard, Cheap-
side, King-street, to Guildhall.
The procession, on its return, was joined by the Am-
bassadors,
lity, judges, members of Parliament, and other persons of
her Majesty's Ministers of State, the nobi-
distinction invited to the banquet at Guildhall.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
On the arrival of the Lord Mayor at Westminster Hall,
his lordship at once proceeded to the Court of Exchequer.
The civic party having taken up a standing position in
front of the bench reserved for Queen's counsel,
The RECORDER, in addressing the Court, said he had the
honour to introduce to their lordships the Right Hon. Thomas
Gabriel, elected by the citizens of London to fill the office
of Lord Mayor for the year ensuing. The gracious approval
of her Majesty had ratified the choice of the citizens.
In making their election the citizens had not been un-
mindful of the important nature of the duties devolving
upon the chief magistrate of their ancient city, or of the
qualities which were requisite for their right discharge.
From early life Mr. Gabriel had been engaged in commercial
pursuits, and during the many years he had been so occu-
pied he had maintained the high character which they
fondly believed belonged, with very rare exceptions, to
British merchants as a body. For many years he had taken
part in the municipal affairs of the city, filling many posi-
tions of public trust. He had also acted as a magistrate
in his capacity of alderman, and on all occasions had exer-
cised his functions with perfect honour and independence,
and had proved himself an intelligent and useful man.
The new Lord Mayor was descended from a family which
about a hundred years ago came from Cornwall, and settled
in London. His grandfather founded the business, of
which, under the firm of Thomas Gabriel and Sons, the
Lord Mayor had for several years been the second partner,
and which had long been one of the leading establishments
in the foreign timber trade. Having obtained a position in
mercantile circles, he was elected alderman of the ward of
Ventry, on the retirement of Sir William Magnay, and had
also filled the office of Sheriff with ability and hospitality.
He (the Recorder) had no doubt that the Lord Mayor
would fulfil all the expectations which his fellow-citizens
had formed of him. Ho had also to introduce to his lord-
ship Alderman. Phillips, who had just retired from his year
of office with the highest distinction.
The LORD CHIEF BARON congratulated the new Lord
Mayor on having attained the power which was so highly
prized and eagerly sought after by every citizen. lie could
not think that the present ceremony was a mere idle form,
because the Lord Mayor appeared there before the Court
to claim those ancient rights and privileges which were so
highly valued by the citizens of London, and which had
belonged to the City from time immemorial. He felt
highly gratified at the account that had been given by
the learned Recorder of the career of the Lord Mayor,
and he had no doubt but that during his lordship's
year of office he would exert himself to perform his duties
to the utmost, and that at its termination he would con-
tinue to deserve the good opinions of his fellow-citizens.
He had also the pleasurable dnty of congratulating the late
Lord Mayor on the manner in which he had fulfilled his
term of office, and in returning into comparative privacy
he felt certain he would carry with him the kindest wishes
and the highest esteem of those whose, rights and privi-
leges he had so well guarded and preserved during his
term of office. . .

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Alderman Philllo bOWeti. hig acknowledgments.
The Lord Mayor was then sworn. The late Lord Mayor
was also sworn to render unto her Majesty a Hill aCeolint
of the receipts on account of the Crown during his
mayoralty, and, according to the quaint old terms of the
oath, to behave himself properly whilst he did so.
The other formalities having been gone through, the
Recorder invited the judges to the banquet at the Guild-
hall this evening, when the Lord Chief Baron said some of
the judges would attend.
The Lord Mayor, the late Lord Mayor, the Recorder,
and the officers of the City then withdrew, and, passing
through the other courts, the Lord Mayor, through the
Recorder, invited the judges presiding to banquet.
The procession then returned to the City in the same
order as in its coming.

A marriage is arranged, and will shortly take
place, between Mr. Cecil W. Forester, only son of the
Hon. and Rev. Orlando Forester, and Miss Georgina
Dixie, youngest daughter of the late Sir W. Wolstan
Dixie,lßart., of Dowcilit 1 rk, 14QicoptinAire.

At the Guildhall on Wednesday, John Irving Scott, the
editor of the Reporter newspaper, and Andrew IN iltun, the
publisher, were summoned for printing and publishing a
defamatory libel concerning the Queen Life Assurance
Company. The, complainant was Mr. John Elphic Leyland,
the secretary of the company. When the summonses were
called on it was stated to Alderman Cotton that Wilton had
gone to Australia, and that Mr. Scott was unable to attend.
Alderman Cotton said that on the last occasion when the
case was before him he had hoped that an apology would
have been offered and accepted by Mr. Leyland, butes that
had not been done he should allow Mr. Edwards (the solici-
tor to the company) to make a statement in contradiction
of the libel, and then adjourn the hearing until Mr. Scott
was able to attend. Mr. Edwards said he wished to make a
general denial of the libel of which he complained. It was
contained in an article in the number of the Reporter of the
6th of October, 1866. The article referred to a uew so-
called Etna Insurance Company, which was advertised in
the advertisement page, and in the article, which greatly
praised the new undertaking, were the following remarks :
—"And such undertakings directed by men of honour and
position, and not coming before the lieges without tangible
evidence to character in the shape of money actually in
hand, and heavy obligations freely taken upon Atlantean
shoulders, not signatures by the merest men of straw for
fabulous thousands and impossible millions, but in the be-
ginning —e., anterior to the hour when the public are first
courted for patronage—will be sure to receive no stinted
measure of such besought patronage, for at this hour two-
thirds in round numbers of the properly insurable property
in the United Kingdom is at the hour we write utterly un-
covered by insurance. The field of operation is not only
fertile, but widely spread—most lucrative, capable of being
quickly, easily, and profitably worked. Never was a better
time for the projection of a great fire company, with
good names, assured wealth, and a liberal con-
stitution. So began the Royal, the Lancashire,
the Queen (which last is a badly-managed, most
niggard, and hopeless office, and should amalgamate
at once, for it has lost all its reserve fund, and is paying no
dividend), the London and Lancashire, the Mercantile,
&c., and all these companies are transacting enormous
business and are honestly hopeful, with the unhappy excep-
tion we have indicated. During the painful mourning of
her Majesty that regally-named office has heen all the time
in ill luck, and a black flag should be hung over the en-
trance of the head office in Liverpool, and at the portals of
all the branch offices, wherever they may be." The part of
the libel they complained of was that which stated that
they had lost all their reserve fund. Ile was prepared to
prove that, so far as the reserve fund was concerned, not
one penny of it bad been touched; and the assertion that
they had lost all their reserve fund was the din of the
libel. They would not have caked for the term niggaedly
being applied to them, nor would they have cared for the
term badly managed; but the charge that they had lost all
their reserve fund was such a serious affair that they most
strenuously objected to the statement going uncontradicted.
The fact was that at the present moment they were pos-
sessed of a reserve fund of £158,000. He understood that
defendant, in the last number of his publication, had aban-
doned that assertion, and admitted that he had made a mis-
take in it, and that the allusion to reserve fund was an
error; bet still the acknowledgment was so unsatisfactory
that he could not accept it as an apology. Alderman Cot-
ton regretted that an ample apology had not been tendered,
but hoped that explanation would go forth to the public in
order to do justice to the Queen Insurance Company. The
summons was then adjourned.

DEATH OF LADY HOLLAND.—Many persons will
regret to hoar of the death of Sydney Smith's favourite
daughter Saba,. Lady Holland. She married in 1834, as
his second wife, Sir Henry Holland, M.D., D.0.L., F.R.S.,
the eminent physician, Physician in Ordinary to the Queen '
since 1852, and has had issue two daughters by him.
DEATH OF MR. SERGEANT STORKS.—We have to
announce the death of Mr. Henry Storks, one of her Ma-
jesty's Sergeants-at-law, which occurred on Sunday, at a
very alyanced age. He was called to the bar by Lincoln's
tan, NeVember 2d, 1803, became a sergeant 1827, obtained
tt patot of precedence 1834, next after Mr: Sergeant Mere-
Wether, and held a county court judgeship for the London
district Win 1817 to 1858. By his marriage with
her
daughterAild kW-114r cif 14r, T. Trundle he was the fat ler
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marquiss and. Was in hoty orders. He was born on 27th
April, 181.4, and sueceedud hit hi-othef, the late itieriittig,itt
1859. The elevation of the Varl of Tyrone to the peerage,
consequent upon his father's death, will canae a vacancy
in
the representation of the county of Waterfen.A.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—Captain Fox, of the Grena-
dier Guards, second son of Mr. George Lane Fox, of Braln-
ham-park,Yorkshire, who had been out with the Brainham.
moor hounds, was opening a gate at Wetherly yesterday
afternoon when he was thrown from his horse and seri-
ously
injured. At the time there was a high wind, and
the horse suddenly took fright. Mr. Fox was thrown to
the ground with great violence and fell on the back of his
head. After medical attendance had been procured hgyvas
removed to Drataltatu. .

INDIA OFFICE, Bth NOVEMBER, 1866.
BY Order of Secretary. of State for India
in Council.
Notice is hereby given that the Director-General of
Stores for India will be ready on or before Monday, the
19th instant, to receive proposals in writing, sealed up,
from such persons as may be willing to supply
200 Pieces of SERGE,
and that the conditions of the said Contract may be had
on application at the India Store Office, Cannon-row,
Westminster, where the Proposals are to be left any time
before two o'clock p.m. of the said 19th day of November,
1866, after which hour no tender will be received.
GERALD C. 'llium; General Director.

THIRD EDITRON.

SUN OFFICE, 7 O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

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LIVERPOOL RACES.—This DAY.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

SELLING NURSERY.
The Selling Nursery Plate of 50 sovs (Handicap) for two-
yr-olds ; winners this day 81b extra ; the winner to be
sold for 50 sovs. Five furlongs.
Mr T. Hughes's Master Robert (Huxtable) 1
Lord Westmorland's Ada (Kenyon) 2
Mr Gilby's Verity
~ (Craddock) 3
Itch c, Doralice f, Taraxippus,• Esmeralda, Merry Hart,
and Sing Charles also ran. Betting-2 to 1 agst Master
Robert, sto 1 agst Ada, 7to 1 agst Esmeralda. Won by
two lengths.