The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-14 00:00:00

THE YOMINAT lON OF SIIERIFFS.

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 Lancashire 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.
BERKSHIRE.—Sir Claudius Stephen Paul Hunter, of
Mortimer, near Reading, Bart. ; John Sivewright. of Pep-
par-park, near Reading, Esq. ; and llenryLannoy Hunter,
of Beech-hill, Esq.
Buoxs.—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 HUNTINGDONSHIRE.—PhiIip Castel
Sherard, of Glatton, Esq. ; Denzil Onslow, of Great
Staughton, Esq. ; and David Ycasey, of Castle-hill House,
Huntingdon, Esq.

CUMIiERL.:tND...—PhiIip Henry Howasd, of Corby Castle,
Esq. ; Thomas Ainsworth, of the Flosh, Esq. ; and Samuol
Lindow, of Cleator, Esq.
CIIESITIRE.—CIement Swetenham, of Somerford Booths,
near Congleton, Esq. ; John Ralph Shaw, of Arrow-hall,
Birkenhead, Esq. ; and Edward Holt Glegg, of Backford,
Esq.
DERBYSIIIRE.—FrancIs Hurt, of Alderwasley, Esq. ;
Lord Edward Howard, of Glossop ; and William Thomas
Cox, of Spondon-hall, Esq.
DEvoNsumE.—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-
combo, Esq. ; and Robert Hassan Owen Swaffield, of Wyke
Regis, Esq.
DURIIAM.—Henry John Spearman, of Burn-hall, Esq. ;
Richard Lawrence Pemberton, of Barnes, Esq. ; and George
Henry Surtees, of. Dinsdale, Esq.
ESSEX.— John Serafton Thompson, of Ilford, Esq. ; Geo.
bleary 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, Diusley, Esq. ; and John Waddingham, of Guiting-
grange, Winchcombe, Esq.
ITEREFORDSHIRE.—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
Hod; elm, 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.
LEICESTERSIIIRE.--Edward Renshaw Cheney, of Gad-
desby, Esq. ; Richard Sutton, of Skeffington, Esq. ; and
Jsmes Beaumont Winstanley, of Braunstone, Esq.
LINCOLNSIIIRE.—Sir Glynne Earle Welby, of Denton-
hall, Bart. ; Weston Cracoft Amcotts, of Kettlethorpe,
Esq. ; and Thomas John Dixon, of 11°1ton-10-Moor, Esq.
MONMOUTIISITIRE.—The Hon. 'William Powell Rodney,
of Llanvihangel-court ; James Proctor Carruthers, of the
Gronira, near Chepstow, Esq. ; and Abraham Darby, of
Ebbow Yale, near Newport, Esq.
NORFOLK.—Henry Birbeck, of Stoke Holy-cross' Esq. ;
John Thomas Mott, of Barningham, Esq. ; and Henry
James Leo Warner, of Little Walsingham, Esq.
NoRTicAMPTONSIIIRE —Will iamCapel Clarke Thornhill,
of Rushton-hall, Esq. ; John Edmund Severne, of Then-
ford, Esq. ; and William Smyth, of Little Houghton, Esq.
NORTHUMBERLAND.—WiIIiam John Pawson, of Shaw-
don, Esq. ; John Cookson, of Meldon-park, Esq. ; and
William Cuthbert, of Beaufront, Esq.
NOTTING triltsittnr..—Ed ward Valentine Pegge Bur-
nell, of Winkburn, Esq. ; John Henry Manners Sutton, of
Kelham, Esq. ; and Henry Savile, of Rufford-abbey, Esq.
OXFORDSIIIRE.—John Weyland, of Woodeatan, Esq. ;
John Fowden Hodges, of Bolney-court, Esq. ; and Henry
Birch Reynardson, of Adwell, Esq.
RVTLAND.—SanmeI Hunt, of Ketton, Esq. ; Alexander
Doria, of Manton, Esq.; and William Fluyder, of Ayston,
Esq.

SHROPSHIRE.—Sir John Emerick Edward Dalberg, Ac-
ton, of Aldenharn-hall, Bart. ; Sir Charles Henry Rouse
Boughton, of Downton-hall, Bart. ; and George Pritchard,
of Broseley, Esq.
SOMERSETDIII RE.—Robert James Elton, of Whitestaun-
ton, Esq. ; Francis 'Wheat Newton, of Barton-grange,
Erq. ; and Ralph Neville Granvill, of Butleigh- court, Esq.
STAFFORDSIIIRE.—Richard Howard Haywood, of Brown-
hills, Esq. ; John William Philips, of Heybridge, Esq. ;
and Newton John Lane, of Elmshurst, Esq.
Sourrin.mrrom (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 Coshans, Esq.
SITITOLK,—Thomas Thornhill, of Riddlesworth, Esq. j
John Berners, of Wolverstonc-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, Bart.
SUSSEX.—Charles Scrase Dickins, of Coolhurst, Esq. ;
George Getty, :of Felbridge-park, East Grinstead, Esq. ;
and the Hon. John Jervis Carnegie, of Fair Oak, Seaford.
WArtwicasirtnn.—Henry James Shelden, of Brailes-
house, Esq. ; Richard Greaves, of The Cliff, Warwick, Esq. ;
and Washington Hibbert, of Litton-grange, Rugby, Esq.
WEsnto RELA.ND. —Matthew Benson Harrison,of Amble-
side, Esq. ; William Hopes, of Brampton Crofts, Appleby,
Esq. ; and Lieut.-Colonel Frederick Gandy, of Heaves-
lodge, Kendal.
AVILTSIT I RE. —Horatio Nelson Goddard, of Chile Manor-
house, Esq. ; Charles Penruddocke, of Compton Chamber-
laine, Esq. ; and Thomas Fraser Grove, of Ferne, Esq.
WORCESTERSIIIRE.—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, Bait.; William Frederic Webb, of Pepper-
hall, Esq.