The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-14 00:00:00

Court of Aldermen.

A Court of Aldermen was holden yesterday in the Long
Parlour at the Mansion-house, at which the Lord Mayor
(Alderman Gabriel) presided for the first time.
His LORDSHIP brieflyaddressod his brethren of the bench
and expressed the satisfaction he felt at the honour he had
received on being elected to fill the office of chief magistrate
of the city of London for the ensuing year. He said that he
had received many instances of kindness and courtesy from
his brother aldermen in the performance of his ordinary
duties, and now that he was appointed to a more important
position he felt assured that they would continuo to give
him the same kind assistance and support that had been
accorded to his predecessors. (Hear, hear.)
THE LATE LORD MAYOR.

Alderman CorELANo then rose, and, as senior memberof

the Court, proposed the usual resolution of thanks to the

late Lord ilayor for the very able and dignified manner in

which he had performed the duties of that office duringthe
past year. lie observed that it was not necessary to expa-
tiate upon the merits of the late chief magistrate, because

he felt assured that every member of the Court would agree
with him, that in dignity of conduct and upholding the
rights and privileges of the city of London tho late chief

magistrate had not been surpassed by any of his predeces-
sors in office. The hon. member then read the resolution.

Alderman WILSON said ho had great pleasure in seconding
the resolution, and ho at the same time referred to an in-
stance in which the late Lord Mayor had specially inter-
fered to prevent the privileges of the Corporation being
interfered with.

Alderman SIDNEY, in supporting the resolution, alluded
to the honour that had been conferred upon the Corporation
by the visit of their Majesties the King and Queen of the
Belgians to the Mansion-house ; and in reference to the Or-
der of Leopold that had been presented to the late Lord
Mayor, lie expressed his opinion that the conduct of the
Government, in refusing Alderman Phillips permission to
wear that order, was " out of place."
Alderman ROSE said that the hon. alderman was not jus-
tified in using the expression he had done with respect to
the Government. Decorations of the description referred
to were not allowed to be worn in this country except for
distinguished military or naval services, and the Govern-
ment, in refusing the permission to wear the decoration in
question, were merely acting according to law. (Hear,
hear.)

The resolution was then put and carried unanimously.

Another motion, by Alderman COPELAND, that the re-
solution be fairly transcribed and signed by the Town
Clerk and pros.3nted to the late Lord Mayor, was also
agreed to ; but a second resolution, that it should be also
written on vellum and emblazoned and signed by the
Town Clerk, and presented to Alderman Phillips, was not
seconded, and therefore dripped.

THE SUMMONING OF JURORS IN THE CITY OF LONDON.

Alderman STONE, the chairman of the General Purposes
Committee, brought up a report from that committee re-
commending various alterations in reference to the mode
of summoning jurors in the city of London to servo upon
special and other juries, the present system having caused
great dissatisfaction. The principal alterations appeared
to be that the deputy and alderman of each ward should
take measures to obtain a correct list of persons liable to
servo on special and other juries, and that the ward beadle
should be instructed to go to every house and office in
each ward and obtain the names of all persons who ware
liable to serve as jurors. The alderman said that he be-

lieved it had only been customary to have the name of one
member of a firm upon the jury list, which was undoubt-
edly illegal, and the effect of the proposed alteration must
that the lists would be much more complete, and the
persons liable to serve on special and common juries
would be properly distinguished.
The report was agreed to.

THE LORD ➢tAYOR'S SIIOW ON TIIE 9TH OF NOVEMBER.
Alderman SIDNEY said that, seeing the hon. alderman,
Sir R. Carden, present, he should like to ask him whether
the statements he was represented to have made on
a recent occasion as to the advisability of abolishing the
Lord Mayor's show were correctly expressed. (Cries of
"Order, order," and "Go on.") Ho brought the matter
forward as a question of privilege. (Hear, hear.) All he
would say was, that if the representative of the Lord 3layor,
and sitting on the bench, did really make use of ouch ob-
servations, the sooner the office was abolished the bettor.
(Cries of " Oh, oh.")
Alderman Sir R. CARDEN, in reply, said that he did make
use of the observations that were imputed to him, and he
felt ho was justified iu doing so.
Alderman ROSE expressed his opinion that a gentleman
who was at the time representing the Lord Mayor was
hardly justified in making use of such observations.
Alderman WILSON said that with reference to this sub-
ject he felt it 'his duty to bring before the Court the sub-
ject of the want of proper arrangements for the accommo-
dation of the distinguished guests who wore invited to the
banquet on Lord Mayor's-day, and should propose that the
matter be referred to the General Purposes Committee, to
ascertain where the fault really lay, with a view to remedy
such inconveniences for the future. (Hear, hear.) Not only
were the arrangements for placing the guests at table most
defective, but those for obtaining the carriages at the con-
clusion of the banquet were productive of very great in-
convenience. The Lord Chancellor had to wait a long time
in the crowd because the police would not allow his car-
riage to come up, and the judges were also obliged to sub-
mit to the same inconvenience. The Lord Chancellor hap-
pened to be a remarkably good-tempered man, or else ho
must have been very much annoyed at the treatment to
which he was subjected. (A laugh.) He was aware that
the Lord Mayor's banquet was almost a European gather-
ing, and that the number of distinguished persons who at-
tended it was very great, but still it was due to
,tho Corpo-
ration to use every means in their power to prevent their
guests from suffering any unnecessary inconvenience.
(Hear, hear.)
Alderman SIDNEY said he quite concurred in what had
been stated by his friend Alderman Wilson as to the want
of proper arrangements for the accommodation of the visi-
tors to the Guildhall on the 9th of November. The dais
was crowded long before the arrival of the Lord Mayor,
and a great many of tho distinguished visitors wore not
placed in the position they ought to have occupied. Lord
Derby, the Prime Minister, did not occupy the proper posi-
tion he should have done, and many of the Foreign Minis-
ters were quite differently placed to what they should have
been, according to the programme. (Hear, hear.) The
Lord Chancellor also was not in his proper place.

Alderman WlLsox—He had to move three times before
ho could get any seat at all. (A laugh.)
Alderman SIDNEY went on to say that he did not know
who was to blame for the confusion that existed, but 'he
quite agreed w th the honourable alderman who had brought
the matter forward, that something ought to be (lone to
prevent such a state things from arising on auy future oc-
casion. (Hear, hear.)
Alderman Posy said that there was certainly more con-
fusion and inconvenience at the last banquet than he had
ever seen before on such an occasion. lie had always un-
derstood that it was the duty of the Remembnincer to take
care that the guests were placed according to their rank,
and in due precedence. lie saw that gentleman in the
Guildhall, and he had no doubt that he had a place and a
good dinner, but certainly a great many of the most dis-
tinguished guests were very much inconvenienced, and the
arrangements for the accommodation of the largo number
of distinguished persons who attended the banquet were
very defective. (Hear.)
Alderman WiLsox Said he had attended the banquets on

the 9th of November for 30 years, and he never before saw
so much confusion as prevailed at the last.
The REISIEMBILANCEU (Mr. Corrie) rose, and with some
warmth claimed the right to answer the statement that
had been made by some of the honourable members. With
regard to the dais being crowded before the arrival of the
Lord Mayor and the other distinguished guests, all he could
say was that the great officers of the corporation possessed
the privilege of introducing 340 of their friends, and they
insisted upon ocaupying the position in question.
Alderman WILSON inquired of theartemembraneer upon
what grounds he stated that the high officers of the corpo-
ration claimed the right of introducing so many as 310 of
their friends to the banquet.

The REMEMBRANCER said that the Lord Mayor claimed
the right of introducing 57 of his friends, and the Sheriffs
27 each, and although he was not at that moment in posses-
sion of the precise data upon which he founded his state-
ment, ho believed that it was substantially correct, and that
the great officers of the corporation claimed the right he had
mentioned. He might state also that if that large number
of persons had been kept back from the dais, it would, in
his opinion, have created still greater confusion. As to the
assertion that many distinguished persons, and among them
Gen. Peel, had not been placed in a proper position accord-
ing to their rank, all he could say was, that originally Gen.
Peel was placed in the position he ought to have occupied
according to his rank, but he was pushed lower down by a
number of persons of distinguished rank who had been in-
vited to the banquet, and who assembled in larger numbers
than usual. With regard to the statPment of one hon. alder-
man, thatle had got a dinner, his only-answer was that
ho had got no dinner at all. (A laugh.)
The matter was then referred to the Committee of Privi-
leges, and the Court shortly afterwards adjourned.
In the course of the sitting the Lord Mayor announced
that ho had made an appointment with his Royal Highness
the Duke of Edinburgh to be present at the opening of the
bazaar in the Guildhall, and he asked permission to appoint
Alderman Copeland as his locum tenens during the remain-
der of the sitting, and this was acceded to. The Lord
Mayor would have gone in the usual state to the Guildhall
but it appeared that it was absolutely necessary that the
mace should remain during the sitting of the Ccurt, and the
Lord Mayor was therefore obliged to dispense with the
attendance of that important civic official, the mace-bearer
(Mr.. Beddowe) and his insignia of office.

Total Wreck of the Ship Cyclone.

TWENTY LIVES LOST-PRAISEWORTHY CONDUCT OF

PRINCE SATZUMA.

Yesterday a despatch was received at the Foreign-office

from her Majesty's Consulate at Nagasaki, transmitting the
official deposition taken on oath of the three survivors of
the British ship Cyclone, belonging to Aberdeen, which has
been totally lost on the south-west coast of tho island of
Tanega Tima, and 20 of her crew drowned.
"We left Sydney on the 22d of last June, bound to
Shanghae, and experienced strong fair winds until about
lat. 6 S. ; afterwards winds light and variable. On the 12th
of July, in lat. 12 N., lost our fore and main topmasts. On
Thursday, August 8, it was blowing a gale from S: to S.E.
with a very low glass and heavy sea, steering W.l N. At
4 p.m. gale increasing; hauled to the wind on the port
tack, under close-reefed fore and maintopsails, and foretop-
mast-staysail. During the night wind still increasing, very
datk, with vivid lightning and heavy rains ; glass 29.30 ;
ccrpusants flying about on the yard arm. At about 1.45
a.m. on Friday, 9th, was roused out of bed with the cry of
Land to leeward.' Jumped on deck, the captain going up
at the same time. Tho ship having scarcely any headway
on her, tried to wear her, but whilst hauling in the weather
main braces she touched on a reef, but went over it, and
the next sea was broadside on against the rock, the light-
ning showing it to be about 50 feet high, completely
smooth, and up and down ; the second sea the masts went,
and the third she turned over on her beam ends, deck to-
wards the rock, and went down, she being almost entirely
broken up. Not more than five minutes elapsed from the
time she first touched till she was completely broken up.
I was in the water about three-quarters of an hour on
some of the spars, when I managed to reach another
island at daylight ; found that I was on one of a group of
five small islands close to the main land, and the rock on
which we had struck was about half a mile to seaward.
I managed with the help of a spar to reach the main
laud. As soon as 1 landed the Japanese went off in their
boats, and found Thomas Guymar, A. 8., and Gao. Brown,
the cook, on another island. All of us were badly cut and
bruised. All that wo saved from the wreck was two shirts
and a pair of trousers, which the natives picked up on the
beach and brought to us. On Saturday we found the body
of Joseph Macnamara on the beach, and we buried him in
the afternoon, the natives digging the grave for us. On
Sunday afternoon, the sea having gone down considerably,
the Japanese officers took me off to the rock the ship struck
on, and likewise to the other islands: There were no pieces
of wreck on or about the suck ; but the weather bays of all
the other islands were full, even the lower masts and beams
being splintered up into small pieces, and some of the wreck
jammed into the crevices of the rock 40 or 50 feet high.
During the three days we stopped in the village no other
bodies were washed on shore. On the 12th we went in a
junk to another village along the coast, and there took
ponies across the island to a town on the other side. We
stopped there, lying in a temple till Monday, August 26th.
We then started in two junks to Prince Satzuma's head
town, Kagosima. It took us three days to get there. Left
Nagosima for Nagasaki, in a Japanese steamer, belonging to
the Prince of Satzuma„ on Tuesday, Sept. 10th, and arrived
in Nagasaki on the 12th. The Prince of Satzuma was most
kind to us, supplying us with clothes and whatever else we
required, and forwarded us at his own expense to the COLL-
sul at Nagasaki. We were never without guards, and
wherever we went the people followed us in hundreds and
treated us kindly. We cannot refrain from testifying our
sincere thanks to Prince Satuzuma and his people, for the
affable and kind manner in which they treated us during
the time we were in their country, which we shall ever
bear iu remembrance. (Signed)
" FREDERICK TAILOR, Second Mate.
Thomas GUTMAR, A.B.
" Declared before me, at this her Britannic Majesty's
Consulate, Nagasaki, Sept. 15, 1866. (Signed)
"Matters FLOWERS, her Majesty's Acting Consul."

The list of the crew drowned is as follows :—Captain
Alexander Bruce, master, of Peterhead ; Mr. John Leslie,
first mate, of Aberdeen, shipped at Liverpool; G-eo. Stevens,
carpenter, of Peterhead, shipped at Liverpool; John M'Kay,
sail maker, of Peterhead, shipped at Liverpool; Peter La
Tourer, steward, of Genoa, shipped at Liverpool; Geo. Law-
son, A. 8., of Liverpool, and shipped at Liverpool ; Joseph
Alacnamara, A. 8., of Liverpool, shipped at Adelaide ;
Daniel R. Fowler, A. 8., of Aldear, shipped at Liverpool ;
John Reed, A. 8., of Newcastle, shipped at Valparaiso ;
Robert Matheson, A. 8., of Aberdeen, shipped at Valparaiso;
Forbes Jose, A. 8., of Aberdeen, shipped at Liverpool ;
Andrew Colluhoun, A. 8., of Aberdeen, shipped at Liver-
pool; John Johnson, A. 8., of Plymouth, shipped at Sydney;
Frank —, A. 8., of Prussia, shipped at Sydney ; James
A.B , of Deptford, shipped at Adelaide ; Alexander
Duncan, apprentice, of Aberdeen; John House, boy, of
Liverpool, shipped at Liverpool.