The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-22 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday a Court of Common Council was held for the de-
spatch of general business.
Mr. PIACOCK said, he had had cards put into his hands, re-
commending two persons as candidates for the office of Sheriff.—
He knew neither of the gentlemen, and, as far as he could learn,
they were unknown to the great body of the Livery. He consi-
dered it of the highest importance that the Livery of London
should know who the persons were whom they appointed as She-
riffs, and he deprecated such a mode of getting strangers into the
office. Jobbing atturnies were in the habit of pushing forward
gentlemen, with the view of getting made Under-Sheriffs to the
candidates, if they were successful. He hoped the subject would
be brought forward ou the hustings by those who had the ear of
the Livery, It was well known that on the last election they
would have been saddled with two persons as Sheriff', whom per-
haps they (the Corporation) would not afterwards" have so well
fancied, bad it not been for the two gentlemen who now so well
filled the office coming forward. For this act the Corporation
were much indebted to them.--(Hear, hear !)—He considered
that the ancient mode of nomination should be reverted to.—
(Hear, hear !)

Mr. S. DIXON said, he found in • morning paper, a statement
that Mr. Winchester and Mr. Farebrother had been introduced on
the hustings by Mr. Alderman Lucas and Mr. Alderman Thomp-
son to the Lord Mayor, as candidates for the office of Sheriff nest
Midsummer-iiay. This, he presumed, was a pt/'T prelimioary.
He agreed that it would be highly advantageous that the ancient
mode of nomination should be reverted to, and that the choke
should be made from the list formed by the Lord Mayor 'forth*
time being, who, they might hi sure, would nominate sumo but
fitting persons, as he was responsible fur their eharactere.

Mr. Alderman LUCAS ssid, the Gentleman who had brought
forward this subject was hardly justified in the course lie had
taken with respect to the two candidates. They were nut, as had
been stated, strangers to the Livery though they might be to that
worthy Member. One of them, Mr. Farebrother, was a Gentle-
man of independent fortune, who had long belonged to his (Mr.
Alderman Lucas's) Company, and was highly esteemed. The
other (Mr. Winchester) was Master of the Cutler's Company. If
the Gentleman who brought forward the question had any thing
to object to their characters, the hustings was the proper place to
state it. He (Alderman Lucas) considered that it was proper the
candidates should be known more publicly, and that they should
be more particularly known to the Lord Mayor; and he therefore
introduced them to his Lordship. Air. Alderman Thompson
knew the Gentlemen equally well, and was equally free from any
intention of dictating to the Livery in the course they had taken.
(Hear, hear.)

The Loan MAYOR said, that neither himself nor his predeces-
sors had drank to gentlemen or nominated them, in the ancient
mode, as fitting to serve the office of Sheriffs, beeline. the Livery
had nit, for some time, been in the habit of paying attention to
these nominations. They did not think it right to inconvenience
gentlemen by putting them in nomination, where the probability
was so remote. At the same time, he considered it would be ad-
visable to revert to the ancient practice, for considerable inconve-
nience had resulted in consequence of the departure from the an-
cient practice._( Hear, bear !) .
Mr. jamas said, that nearly the whole of the gentlemen whose
names were inscribed on the list, had, on one ground or other, ex-
cused themselves from serving the office. He never had the good
fortune to obtain the office of Under-Sheriff, and never expected
to do so. That consideration should never prevent him propoiing
those whom he thought fit to serve the office, and in nominating
one of them, as he intended, he thought he should render a servios
to his fellow-citizens.

After some observations from Mr. Alderman %Valium/4w and
Mr. Faviat., the discussion terminated.

George Gregory, Esq., a very mild and humane
country gentleman, residing at hie mansion on the road from
Ashford to Willesborough, having recently received au anony-
mous letter, couched in the most violent language, stating that hr
would be murdered, if he did not, on an evening named by the
writer, fill a purse with sovereign' that was placed empty the day
before by the writer, in a hole in the earth, at 'one aid, of the
gates leading to his shrubbery, a friend suggested to Mr. Gregory
to deposit, in the purse halfpence, (instead of what was demanded
by his anonymous correspondent), and to place a person to watch
on the occasion ; which was accordingly done ; when at about
eleven o'clock on Monday, (12th of June,) a fellow named Joe
Finn, of Willesborough, a labourer, came and took the purse from
its depository, and immediately was taken into custody by the
watchman, when, on being examined before the Magistrates at
Ashford, satisfactory evidence was produced to warrant the tom,
minnent of Finn, and his accomplice Mrs. 13ennett, to take their
trial for the offence, at the next assizes for Maid.stoue.— cinyue
Ports Herald. •

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bad all landed except two.young men,
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.-21,1.geNtaVetdhieleeSdutuayb:
irs
marriage party had gone on a trip from
in a boat, from which they
joiners by trede, who, preferring aquatic stpusement, proposed
to sail about until those who laid gone ashore would return..._
There were no oars on board, and they, being unacquainted with
the trimming of sail., were somewhat awkWard iA the ~,aliaget
ot the sloop which had hurtle-
ment of the boat, and making a wrong matneuvre unfortunately
threw themselves in the track of a 'loop which was scudding be-
fore the wind, by which the boat was run down, and with it
aucrsettnueeut,frowmallthpeict'kreetlvup, but the other young many.
the two young men instantly disappeared.
had sunk to rise no One of them shortly
after re-appeared struggling on the bosom of the watere, and by
pdwirhaoteomstepytnpuine
is
Hendry,
olui'e• The news of
the catastrophe soon reached the ears of his friends on shore, and
the festivity and joy with which they had ushered in hod were
.crowning the day, were ere the evening co erred into mourn-
ing and grief for the unhappy fan: via promising young
1,01, thus preinaturetY 'matched friint the world, at a time
too when 'revi,i!-Ilk afire to all those pleasurable sensations
which the nature of their meeting was so calculated to in-
spi„, Every effort was made on Thursday in searching for
the corpse without effect, and: the wind semi so sttzt that the
. .
F. boat. engaged in trawling had to desist. is supposed the bnily
is entangled about the boat, and may not probably be got till lobe
! F is raised.-4'tlinburph Courant,'