The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-29 00:00:00

7HE NEW 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 had come promi-
nently into public notice, Alderman Cotton 88
haviiag 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 Mr.
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
of it. According to custom the Lord Mayor went
from the Mansion-house to the Guildhall in State
to 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 dace,
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 Ace,
and the retiring Sheriffs, Alderman Stone and Mr.
M'Arthur, having divested themselves of their otfi-
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 01
the 25 civic wards, the retiring Sheriffs and Under'.
Sheriffs, many of the past Sheriffs, and the
principal officers of the Corporation. Right
and left of the chair where Mr. Goschen,
Alderman Sir F. G. Moon, Alderman Sir Robt, W.
Carden, Alderman Sir Benjamin Phillips, Mr.
Hicks, treasurer of St. Thomas's Hospital ; ~
Alderman Gibbons, Mr. Aldeiman Causton,
William Leaf, Major-General Scott, Alderman Bes-
ley, Mr. ex-Sheriff M'Arthur, Alderman Sir Sidney
Waterlow, Sir William Bodkin, Assistant-Judge ;
Colonel Jeakes, Sir Francis Lycett, Mr. W. 1-114 wt
and Mr. James Johnstone. Opposite the Sheriff
sat the Rev. F. G. Bloomfield, M.A., and the
W. F. Elliott, M.A., their respective chaplains ;
and Mr. Under-Sheriff Crosley and Mr.
The
der-Sheriff Slee occupied the vice-chairs.
Master and Wardens of the Haberdashers' Co1(1.;
pany were also among the invited guests.
the removal of the cloth the customary loyal and
constitutional toasts were given from the chair.
Alderman Sir Benjamin Phillips, whose name had
been associated with the toast of The Right 110%
the Lord Mayor and the City Magistrates," said
excellent friend Mr. Sheriff Hutton had spoken e.
the Lord Mayor and the Corporation of London
er-
a time-honoured institution. He might be
mitted to express a hope that it and kindred insti4
stitutions, forming as they did a material part .e
the life-blood of our social system, might endurn
without interruption for the benefit of the huhla-,,
race. To say that they had faults was, in oat:
words, to say they were human institutions, but
it was to him most gratifying to find, by the inhrue
ential assembly in Guildhall that day, that
was life in the old dog yet." The enemies ofth
't had
Corporation knew but little of the great works
executed from time to time in the public interest, '
in which it was now engaged, and he hoped the day.d
was far distant when any Minister would be heel.t
enough to lay a destructive finger on that great
municipality, believing, as he did, that it was 113,3
stituted in all its integrity for the common ben o,
eiveu
of the community. This sentiment was ree
the
to
~
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with cheers. Mr. Goschen, M.P., replying
toast of " The Houses of Lords and Cornraons.,,...
which had been given from the chair by Mr. Sher.lll,
Cotton, said it would ill become' him on th"
festive occasion to refer to political discussionS
which were likely to agitate the future Parliament'
What was wanted was a common ground, and n
common ground was to be found. There were
plainly matters in which Liberals and Conservatives
There was work to be done which might one
might co-operate for the welfare of the country.
well by either party which happened for bede .
to hold the reins of power. We were conten
to a certain extent with the triumphs of the pa,,,r_t
but there were other matters in which we
lie was
labour to introduce a better state of things.
convinced the new Parliament would endeavour to
rival, if not to outstrip, the present. The lle
tu._
ele-
ments that had been introduced into the ChetCnsi
owed their admission to both sides of
boHubound,
of` Commons, and both sides were
A"
to welcome them, seeing that both eVWer b°u:a
up in the success of the new Parliament. e
in
of °II. arrived at a point which might be a landm ",.
our history. We saw before us fields worth
ioY
otisres
efforts, and both parties, without imputing,.ooon
to the other, might labour to advance the `',ll/ the
weal. Mr. Goschen concluded by propo_P,.e_.-wero
toast of c, The Sheriffs," remarking that th2(ed the
part of the municipal institutions which for.' _f the
• llibertieß
groundwork and basis of the political haa
adden •
country. The City of London, he al insti-
always been foremost in defending nitthici__PithilliPS
tutions, and he agreed with Sir 13enjunaw, would
that the Minister would indeed be bold ViUu cute
"
attempt to tamper with it. Other toastsa.P,Prld the
to the occasion were given from the chair
company separated.
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ORDINATIONS.—In the list of gentlenien 0
tsmnoioffioannnedesise. acll33„.oitteaor,
to Deacon's Orders' at the Bishop of Ripon's Orclins'l4. unar
the 20th of September, the name of IT. D. Cost te °f
St.B.A .Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Cutrilloa of
Andrew's, Leeds, was omitted. At the Ordinaoarat°
tehfeßishop of Glocester, the Rev. Walter BeglePaospel,
azd Weston-sub-Edge, was appointed to read the ,le
the not the Rev. W. Syson, as stated on Virodnesa6t aria
list of the Ordinations of the Bishop of Grlo°°//steit of
Qxßristol,e read the Rev. Charles E. LittlsdalP, •'''' ~
en's College, Oxford, not of Dublin, as state3.aotide"
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n the parish, and that the minerals therein are 0t iyia
value. This quite sets aside the theory of c°3l iii. For
the east side of the valley of the River -1-4.eeide. for
cently the Notts Waterworks Company wer°,6:l:ithe''aisl,
water near Bulwell Forest, and found CO' ."." coal i"
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fore prove very important to this district as .°
town of Nottingham.