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London, England, 1859-11-14 00:00:00

THE NOMINA2ION OF SHERIFFS.

On Saturday, at 2 o'clock, being the morrow of
St, Martin's, the ceremony of nominating the sheriffs
for the ensuing year for the counties of England and
Wales, Cornwall and Lancash ire excepted, the nomi-
nation with respect to which devolves on the Prince
of Wales, took place in the Court of Exchequer after
the usual business of the court had concluded. Mr.
Gladstone, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, attended
the ceremony in accordance with ancient custom.
The right hon. gentleman, who was accompanied by
Sir G. C. Lewis, the Secretary of State for the Home
Department, wore his robe of office on the occasion.
The greater part of the judges were present, includ-
ing the Lord Chancellor, Lord Chief Justice Cock-
turn, the Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exche-
quer, the Chief Justice of the Court of Common
Pleas, Justices Williams, Hill, Crowder, Willes, and
Crompton, and Baron Channel!. Mr. W. H. Wal-
ton, the Queen's Remembrancer, was in attendance
in his official capacity, and administered the custo-
mary oath to the members of the Council. The
judges then presented their returns of persons liable
to serve the office of sheriff, and, this done, the
Queen's Remembrancer read aloud the list of nomi-
nations, as follows :
BEDFORDSHIRE.—Joseph Tucker, of Pavenham, Esq. ;
Chas. Longuet Higgins, of Turvey, Esq.; and Wm. Lynn
Smart, of Eversholt, Esq.
BERKSIIIRE.—Sir Claudius Stephen Paul Hunter, of
Mortimer, near Reading, Bart. ; John Sivewright. of Pep-
par-park, near Reading, Esq. ; and Henry Lannoy Hunter,
of Beech-hill, Esq.
Bucxs.—William Tyringham Praed, of Tyringham,
Esq. ; Sir Anthony Nathan De Rothschild, of Aston Clin-
ton, Bart.; and Christopher Tower, of Huntsmoor-park,
Esq.
CAMBRIDGE AND HUNTINGDONSIIIRE.—PhiIip Castel
Shorard, of Glatton, Esq. ; Denzil Onslow, of Great
Staughton, Esq.; and David Veasey, of Castle-hill House,
Huntingdon, Esq.

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CUMBERLAND .—Philip Henry Howasd, of Corby Castle,
Esq. ; Thomas Ainsworth, of the Flosh, Esq. ; and Samuel
Lindow, of Cleator, Esq.
CHESHIRE.—CIement Swetenham, of Somerford Booths,
near Congleton, Esq. ; John Ralph Shaw, of Arrow-hall,
Birkenhead, Esq. ; and Edward Holt Glegg, of Backford,
Esq.

bERBYSIIIRE.—FrancIs Hurt, of Alderwasley, Esq. ;
Lord Edward Howard, of Glossop; and William Thomas
Cox, of Spondon-hall, Esq.
DEVONSHIRE.—Peter Richard Hoare, of Luscombe, Esq.;
Sir John Thomas Buller Duckworth, of Weare Topsham,
Bart. ; and Edward Studd, of Oxton, Esq.
DORSETSIIIRE.—George Digby Wingfield Digby, of
Sherborne Castle, Esq. ; Oliver William Farrer, of En-
combe, Esq. ; and Robert Hassell Owen Swaffield, of Wyke
Regis, Esq.
DURHAM.—Henry John Spearman, of Burn-hall, Esq. ;
Richard Lawrence Pemberton, of Barnes, Esq. ; and George
Henry Surtees, of Dinsdale, Esq.
ESSEX.--John Scrafton Tho•npson, of Ilford, Esq. ; Geo.
Henry Herrington, of Lexden-park, near Colchester, Esq. ;
and Sir William Bowyer Smijth, of Hill-hall, Epping,
Bart.

GLOCESTERSHIRE.—John Edward Dorrington, of Lyp-
piatt-park, Stroud, Esq. ; William John Phelps, of Chestal-
house, Dinsley, Esq. ; and John Waddingham, of Gulling-
grange, Winchcombe, Esq.
HEREFORDSHIRE.—Andrew Rouse Boughton Knight,
of Downton Castle, Esq. ; Robert Henry Lee Warner, of
Tiberton, Esq. ; and John Davenport, of Foxley, Esq.
HERTFORDSHIRE.—James Bentley, of Cheshunt, Esq. ;
William Jones Lloyd, of Abbotts Langley, Esq. ; and John
Hodpsm, of Gilston-park, Esq.
KENT. —Sir Courtnay Honeywood, of Evington, Elm-
stead, near Canterbury, Bart. ; Alexander Randall, of
Foley-house, Maidstone, Esq. ; and Henry Bannerman, of
Hunton-court, Maidstone, Esq.
LEICESTERSHIRE.—Edward Henshaw Cheney, of Gad-
desby, Esq. ; Richard Sutton, of Skcffington, Esq. ; and
Jsmes Beaumont Winstanley, of Braunstone, Esq.
LINCOLNSHIRE.—Sir Glynn° Earle Welby, of Denton-
hall, Bart. ; 'Weston Cracoft Amcotts, of Kettlethorpe,
Esq. ; and Thomas John Dixon, of Holton-le-Moor, Esq.
MONMOUTHSHIRE,—The Hon. William Powell Rodney,
of Llanvihangel-court ; James Proctor Carruthers, of the
Gronira, near Chepstow, Esq. ; and Abraham Darby, of
Ebbow Vale, near Newport, Esq.
Nouromi.---Henry Birbeck, of Stoke Holy-cross, Esq. ;
John Thomas Mott, of Barningham, Esq. ; and Henry
James Leo Warner, of Little Walsingham, Esq.
NoILTILAMPTONSIIIRE.—WiIIiameapeI Clarke Thornhill,
of Rushton-hall, Esq. ; John Edmund Severn°, of Then-
ford, Esq. ; and William Smyth, of Little Houghton, Esq.
NORTHUMBERLAND.—William John Pawson, of Shaw-
don, Esq. ; John Cookson, of Meldon-park, Esq. ; and
William Cuthbert, of Beaufront, Esq.
NorrINGnAmsIIIRE.—Ed ward Valentine Pegg° Bur-
nell, of Winkburn, Esq. ; John Henry Manners Sutton, of
Kelham, Esq. ; and Henry Savile, of Rufford-abbey, Esq.
OxrounsnmE.—John Weyland, of Woodeatan, Esq. ;
John Fowden Hodges, of Bolney-court, Esq. ; and Henry
Birch Reynardson, of Adwell, Esq.
ItUTLAND.—SamueI Hunt, of Ketton, Esq. ; Alexander
Doria, of Manton, Esq.; and William Fluyder, of Ayston,
Esq.
SHROPSHIRE.—Sir John Emerick Edward Dalberg Ac-
ton, of Aldenham-hall, Bart. ; Sir Charles Henry Rouse
Boughton, of Downton-hall, Bart. ; and George Pritchard,
of Broseley, Esq.
SOMERSETIMIRE.—Robert James Elton, of Whiteste.un-
ton, Esq. ; Francis 'Wheat Newton, of Barton-grange,
Esq. ; and Ralph Neville Granvill, of Butleigh- court, Esq.
STAFFORDsHIRE.—Richard Howard Haywood, of Brown-
hills, Esq. ; John William Philips, of Heybridge, Esq. ;
and Newton John Lane, of Elmshuret, Esq.
SOUTHAMPTON (County).—William George Craven, of
Brambridge-house, Winchester, Esq. ; Charles Seely, of
Brook-house, near Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Esq. ; and
John Deverell, of Purbrook-park, near Coshant, Esq.
SUFFOLK,—Thomas Thornhill, of Riddlesworth, Esq. ;
John Berners, of Wolverstone-park, Esq. ; and Edward
Robert Starkie Bence, of Kentwell-hall, Thetford, Esq.
SURREY.—Wm. John Evelyn, of Wootton, near Dork-
ing, Esq. ; Samuel Gurney, of Carshalton, Esq. ; and Sir
John Cathcart, of Cooper's-hill, Egham, Eart.
SUSSEX.—Charles Scrase Dickins, of Coolhurst, Esq.;
George Gatty, :of Felbridgo-park, East Grinstead, Esq. ;
and the Hon. John Jervis Carnegie, of Fair Oak, Seaford.
WAnwfcßsuittn.—Henry James Shelden, of Brailes-
house, Esq. ; Richard Greaves, of The Cliff, Warwick, Esq. ;
and Washington Hibbert, of Bitton-grange, Rugby, Esq.
WESTMORELAND. —Matthew Benson Harrison,of Amble-
side, Esq. ; William Hopes, of Brampton Crofts, Appleby,
Esq. ; and Lieut.-Colonel Frederick Gandy, of Heaves-
lodge, Kendal.
WILTSHIRE.—Horatio Nelson Goddard, of Cliffe Manor-
house, Esq. ; Charles Penruddocke, of Compton Chamber-
laine, Esq. ; and Thomas Fraser Grove, of Ferne, Esq.
WORCESTERSHIRE.—The Hon. Charles Grantham Scott,
of Great Malvern ; James Moilliet, of Abberley-hall, near
Worcester, Esq. ; Ferdinando Dudley Lea Smith, of the
Grange, near Halesowen, Esq.
YORKSIIIRE.—James Garth Marshall, of Headingley,
near Leeds, Esq. ; Sir George Orby Wombwell, of New-
burgh-park, Bart.; William Frederic Webb, of Pepper-
hall, Esq.
WALES—NORTH AND SOUTH.

ANGLESEA.—George Richard Griffith, of Pencraig, Esq. •
William Bulkeley Hughes, of Plas Coeh, Esq. ; Robert
Davies, of Bwlchyfen, Esq.
BRECONSHIRE.—John Evans, of Brecon, Esq. ; Charles
Augustus Parkinson, of Sunny-bank, Esq. ; Walter de
Winton, of Maesleugh Castle, Esq.
CARNARVONSIIIRE.—JDhn Whitehead Greaves, of
Tanyrallt, Esq. ; Owen Jones Ellis Nanney, of Gwynfryn,
Esq. ; J ohn Priestley, of Braichybib, Esq.
CARMARTILENSIIIRE.—AIan James Gulston, of Llwyn-
berilan, Esq. ; Arthur Henry Saunders Davies, of Pentre,
Esq. ; Sir John Dandas, of Velinvole, Bart.
CARDIGANSHIRE.—WiIIiam Jones, of Glendennis, near
Lampeter, Esq. ; Pryce Loveden Gogerddan, Esq. ; and
Herbert Vaughan, of Brynog, Esq.
DENBIGIISIIIRE.—James Hardcastle, of Pen-y lan,
Ruabon, Esq, ; Charles John Tottenham, of Berwyn-hall,
near Llangollen, Esq. ; and Hugh Robert Hughes, of Kin-
mel, near Abergolo, Esq.
FLINTS It I RE.—Howel Maddock Arthur Jones, of Wepre-
b all, Esq.; Robert Howard, of Broughton-hall, Esq. ; and
Philp Pennant Pearson, of Bodfari, Esq.
GLAMORGANSIIIRE.—George Grey Ross, of Court-y-
-ralla, Esq. ; Edward Robert Wood, of Southall, Esq. ;
and Sir Ivor Bertie Guest, of Sully-house, Bart.
MONTGOMERYSIIIRE.—WiIIiaM Curling, of Maesmawr,
Esq. ; Pryce James Drew, of Glanhafren, Esq. ; and James
France France, of Yystymcolwyn, Esq.
MERIONETIESHIRE.—David Williams, of Dendraeth-
castle, Esq. ; John Williams, of Castellfawr, Esq. ; and
Robert Nanney Hartley, of Llwyn, Esq.
PEMBROKESIIIRE.—Georgo Augustus Harries, of Hilton,
Esq. ; Edward Wilson, of Haen-castle, Esq.; and James
Bevan Bowen, of Llangwano, Newport, Esq.
RADNORSIIIRE.—Henry Thomas, of Pencerrig, Esq. ;
Henry George Phillips, of Albany Cwmhir, Esq. ; and
Georgo Greenwood, of Abernant, Esq.

WooLwicir, Nov. 13.—Sir W. Armstr3ng, C. 8.,
recently appointed, in conjunction with Mr. Anderson (late
Inspector of Machinery), to superintend the whole of the
royal gun factories at Woolwich Arsenal, has been fre-
quently in attendance during the past week, for the purpose
of making the requisite arrangements rendered necessary
by the recent decision of the War Department to suspend
the manufacture of the ordinary description of ordnance,
and to produce an unlimited supply of rifled guns for mili-
tary and naval service. The subject ofprovidingan improved
description of gun-carriage, to enable the Armstrong gun to
be used with efficiency on board steam or sailing vessels, is
now occupying the attention of the Ordnance Select Com-
mittee for experiments. Sir W. Armstrong has produced
a carriage composed chiefly of iron ; and three carriages,
each differing in construction, have been manufactured at
the Royal carriage department, to be experimented upon at
Shoeburyness. One of these specimens is from an idea sug •
gested by a workman in the establishmen named Allen, and
which has been highly approved by several practical and
scientific men. Mr. Viningham, foreman of the foundries
at the 'Dial-square, has been appointed by Sir W. Arm-
strong to proceed to his works at Newcastle, t) be employed
in a shnilar capacity ; and Mr. Ideate, who has for some
years superintended the casting departmenotu,rhasswreerseigyneesd.
office under the new direction. In consequence of the
altered arrangements, 20 artisans and 40 laber
terday discharged frcni the Royal gun factories,