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London, England, 1868-09-29 00:00:00

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lIER MAJESJ'Y.

BALMORAL CASTLE, Sept. 28•

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
Princess ChriStian, and Princess Beatrice, drove
out in the morning and afternoon.

111 E IVETV SHERIFFS.

Yesterday Mr. Alderman Cotton and Mr. Charles
William Hutton, the Sheriffs elect for London and

Middlesex, were publicly inducted into office at
Guildhall, in the presence of the Lord Mayor, the
members of the Court of Aldermen, the high officers
of the Corporation, and many of the principal
citizens. Before being elected to this ancient and

responsible office both gentlemen bad come promi-
nently into public notice, Alderman Cotton as
havisg taken a conspicuous part with the late
Lord Mayor Cubitt in organising the Mansion-
house Committee for the relief of the distress in

Lancashire during the cotton famine, and Jr.
Hutton as having been an energetic member of the
Cholera Committee during the mayoralty of Sir Ben-
jamin Phillips. They had been elected to the office
of sheriff without opposition, and yesterday pre-
sented themselves to be sworn to the due execution

According to custom the Lord Mayor went
'rout the Mansion-house to the Guildhall in State
:o preside at the ceremony, and the Sheriffs elect,
with a long retinue of friends, proceeded thither
from Haberdashers'-hall, Gresham-street, of which
company Mr. Alderman Cotton, the Senior Sheriff,

is a member. On arriving at Guildhall the civic
dignitaries, wearing their robes and badges of office,
assembled first in the Aldermen's Chamber, and
went thence in a body to the hustings in the great
hall, where the ceremony was to be conducted. There
the new Sheriffs and Under-Sheriffs in turn made
and subscribed the customary declarations of ()ince,
and the retiring Sheriffs, Alderman Stone and Jr.
M'Arthur, having divested themselves of their offi-
cial robes and badges, asssisted the new Sheriffs in
assuming theirs. This done, the new Sheriffs re-
tired into a room in Guildhall and formally received
from the out-going Sheriffs the keys of the City
prisons, which they immediately afterwards re-
turned to the respective governors. From Guild-
hall the new Sheriffs, escorted as before, returned
to Haberdashers'-hall, where they entertained about
230 persons at luncheon, including the members of
the Court of Aldermen, the Chairmen of the vari-
ous committees of the corporation, the deputies of
the 25 civic wards, the retiring Sheriffs and Under.,
Sheriffs, many of the past Sheriffs, and the
principal officers of the Corporation. ltiO
and left of the chair where Mr. Goschen, neat
Alderman Sir F. G. Moon, Alderman Sir Robt. WT
Carden, Alderman Sir Benjamin Phillips, Mr. F.
Hicks, treasurer of St. Thomas's Hospital ; Mr'
Alderman Gibbons, Mr. Aldeiman Causton, 11.-
W illiam Leaf, Major-General Scott, Alderman Bee
ley, Mr. ex-Sheriff M'Arthur, Alderman Sir Sidney
Waterlow, Sir William Bodkin, Assistant-Judge i
Colonel Jeakes, Sir Francis Lycett, Mr. W. navies,
and Mr. James Johnstone. Opposite the Sheriffs
sat the Rev. F. G. Bloomfield, M.A., and the Rev*
W. F. Elliott, M.A., their respective chaplains'
and Mr. Under-Sheriff Crosley and Mr. Un-
der-Sheriff Slee occupied the vice-chairs. Ille
Master and Wardens of the Haberdashers' Com-
pany were also among the invited guests. 011
the removal of the cloth the customary loyal and
constitutional toasts were given from the chair;
Alderman Sir Benjamin Phillips, whose name 133'1
been associated with the toast of " The Right kW'
the Lord Mayor and the City Magistrates," said his
excellent friend Mr. Sheriff Hutton had spoken °f
the Lord Mayor and the Corporation of London as
a time-honoured institution. He might be Per-
mitted to express a hope that it and kindred just':
stitutions, forming as they did a material part et
the life-blood of our social system, might ender
e
without interruption for the benefit of the human
race. To say that they had faults was, in other
words, to say they were human institutions, hn"
it was to him most gratifying to find, by the Ole-
cutial assembly in Guildhall that day, that " theiar°
was life in the old dog yet." The enemies of
Corporation knew but little of the great works it bad
executed from time to time in the public interest, ar"
in which it was now engaged, and he hoped the d'lla
was far distant when any Minister would be he t
enough to lay a destructive finger on that gre.3
municipality, believing, as he did, that it was ana;
stituted in all its integrity for the common hen° a
of the community. This sentiment was receive. _
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with cheers. Mr. Goschen, M.P., replying
toast of " The Houses of Lords and Conirenils!ff
which had been given from the chair by Mr.
that Sheri
Cotton, said it would ill become him on no
festive occasion to refer to political discussto.
which were likely to agitate the future Parliamentpd a
What was wanted was a common grounds
° were
common ground was to be found. There -.
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plainly matters in which Liberals and Connervato'
might co-operate for the welfare of the eenuitro3r;
There was work to be done which might be un.
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well by either party which happened for the timed
to hold the reins of power. We were contell
to a certain extent with the triumphs of the past,
but there were other matters in which we might
`vas
labour to introduce a better state of things- lie ` to
convinced the new Parliament would endeavnurie,
rival, if not to outstrip, the present. The flew ~°,ot,
meats that had been introduced into the Constituu
~.0
owed their admission to both sides of the ant7a
of Commons, and both sides were honuA
We bv
to welcome them, seeing that both were botielhA
up in the success of the new Parliament.
our history. We saw before us fields worthy of.oers arrived at a point which might be a landmark
ti_
efforts, and both parties, without imputing motives
to the other, might labour to advance the co. m the
'sag that they were
toast of " The Sheriffs," remark'
weal. Mr. Goschen concluded by p
• ' al institutions which formed tbe
part of the municipal roposmg
of London, he added, b3a
country. The City andti-
basis of the political liberties of the,
municipal i.n. 4
groundwork
Benjamin Plllllll3l
tutions, and he agreed with Sir
w;eerin foremost in defending
ri3te
attempt to tamper with it. Other toastsapproP, the
that the Minister would indeed be bold who Nvoll`h
to the occasion were given from the chair, aud
company separated.
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ORDINATIONS.—In the list of gentlemen adinitte3
Deacon's Orders at the Bishop of Ripon's Ordination Oe
to
the 20th of September, the name of H. D. Gust 14:1:0131
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8.A., Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Gut
of
St. Andrew's, Leeds, was omitted. At the Ordination to
the Bishop of Olocester, the Rev. Walter Begley, C'lr:
of Weston-sub-Edge, was appointed to read the aesreia
and not the Rev. W. Syson, as stated on Weduescl4' a/la
the list of the Ordinations of the Bishop of Gloceste: - a
Bristol, read the Rev. Charles E. Littledalo,
Queen's College, Oxford, not of Dublin, as stated'
NOVEL SCENE IN THE SERPENTINE.--"A
man named Collard, in order to test the diving clu'-",or-
tions of the swimmers of the various clubs in rescuiog Da
sons from drowning, caused the effigy of a renli tc)l
made of full weight, and yesterday morning, silt itn
feet of water, opposite the old elm tree in tit" oag
pentine, and fifty yards from the shore. A silver 563
offered to the swimmer diving and bringing tile_r,):ol.4,
body on land. Only four competed, all, liewe'lnion
first-rate swimmers—viz., Charles White (ell'uur
the Thames), C. Coulter, F. Purfett, and I‘-1 NIVVAI.I
each being allowed three trials. White alit" egeci
failed to bring the effigy on shore, ihough they it'
it some distance. Coulter then succeeded Ia'ldbi°;"010
thus winning the prize, and was loudly cheael
spectators. Nrorrs'
DISCOVERY OF ANOTHER BED OF COAL I- fps'
—A professional survey of the villige of 0i Jo 1.4
ford, thre miles from Nottingl.o,m, has beet' 1113stere`i
Hr. Bond, e sen., the eminent engineer, who has d'e-anio,
that coal seams extend under the lands of :Nil'. 13°3.f gait'
in the parish, and that the minerals, therein are 19,
value. This quite sots aside the theory of coal 110:1' ily *
ou the east side of the valley of the River LeVa
cently the Notts Waterworks Company were isilithis
water near Bulwell Forest, and found coal. lu :oat
ll tDeVai;
trict of Basford are numerous bleachworks,
consumed in large quantities, and the discovery will 0 tp
fore prove very important to this district as We
town of Nottingham.