The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-10 00:00:00

The most momentous day in the civic ealen•llr
clo
• sed yesterday. after Ihr usual manner, I,‘, 1 G.,,q
in Guildhall. The appointment 'differed little from
:hose which have glittered in other yuar. Th•J
only striking aheratinu was a ',lll/Etitution of a jarle:
mirror in the place of the gothic window at the end
Cl!' the iliiN. 'ilk is doubtless an improvement, but
iii a hot and crowded room the effect of a mirror
must necessarily be injured in a great measure. It
became very hazy in the course of an hour. The
star placed over the principal table was very superb
ir measured, we were told, tifreetrfeet from point t-,
►
point, perpendicularly. There seas no ether novelly,
we believe, to grace the inauguration of the new
Lord Mayor; and yet Gog and Magog, see thought
looked more ~crious and thoughtful than usual; but
that might have resulted from their being not a little
ashamed of the misetable choristers who every now
and then annoyed the company with what they called
singing. These gentlemen chaunted as indep.cle.
dent:). of each other as if they had not been hired
to sing together, which, however, was doubtless
their engagement. But this drawback is :scarcely
worth mentioning, when the dinner was excellent,
and every body good-humoured. Among the guests
on this occasion, we observed many who are not or-
dinarily accustomed to visit the east. Of his Ma-
jesty's Ministers present, the principal were the
Duke of Wellington, Mr. Secretary Peel, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, and Sir George Murray.
Of the Judges, the Chief Baron, Barons Vaughan,
Garrow, &c., the Chief Justice of the Court of
Common Pleas, Mr. Justice Park, and Mr. jt;s; ico
James Parke. The Solicitor-General was the arty
law officer of the Crown whom we observed, but.
the' Serjeants-at-law were numerous.
After dinner, the usual civic toasts were drank
with applause. Then " The King," " The Dtik,!
of Clarence, and the rest of the Royal Famil4,"
were drank with three times three.
The LORD ALIYOR proposed " The health of turn
Duke of Wellington, and the rest of his Majesty's
Ministers."—(Loud applause.)
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The Duke of WELLINGTON returned thanks in a
few words. He thanked them for the bottom- they
had done him, and observed that to %I-tacit ot-cr tha
interests of a country like this was at once an im-
portant and an interesting duty, but that it etto,l
only be made a grateful and an useful task whi!e Id
Majesty's Ministers enjoyed the confidence of th!l
people.—(Cheers.) congratulated them on thu
auspicious choice they had made in eleetinJ.:
Mr. Alderman Crowder to the mayoralty, and begacd
to propose " The health of the new Lord Mayor."
The LORD MAYOR returned thanks, but we e-
gret to say that not one word he uttered reached us.
The health of Mr. secretary Peel was received
with loud cheers.

Mr. Secretary PEEL returned thanks. rai,t
that he heartily concurred in the sentiment eNpresrvc;
by his illustrious friend (the Duke of Wellington j:
This, perhaps, was all that it was necessary for him
to say, and yet he could not lie!p feeling that he
had that day entered the hall in a new Chilli:o er.--
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(Cheers.) He was proud to say that he had befit
enrolled a member of that honourable Corporation.
—(Loud cheers.) Ii it were possible that any
thing could make him take a deeper interest in the
welfare of the city of London, it was this honour,
which was rendered more valuable to him by the

manner in which it had been conferred.-4Lond

cheers.) His illustrious friend had proposed the
health of the Lord Mayor : he bcgged kayo to pro-
pose that of the Lady Mayoress. Ail who krww,

the worth and virtues of that lady would be f.itt..

prised if he did Hot add to his toast a ropte,t that it

might be drank with every demonstration of respect.
The health of the Lady Mayoress was then drank
with three times three, and the Lord Mayor rc-

turned thanks.

The healths of his Majesty's Min4ters were drank
separately, and the Right lion.. Gentlemen severally
returned thanks.

Shortly after ten o'clock the ladies retired, and
the majority of the company departed.
The festivities of the evening passed off very
agreeably.

The Lord Mayor's dinner is perhaps the most at-
tractive of all entertainments of a similar character,
and the popularity of the present Mayor made this
more so than usual. This annual festival, too, pos-
sesses an advantage which is too frequently banished
from civic feasts. We mean the presence of tho
ladies. Our fair readers will be curious to know

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how they were dressed, and the gentlemen will ask
how they looked. The latter know that gallantry
no less than truth prevents our answering their in-
quiries in any but one way ; and for the former let
the dress of the Lady Mayoress satisfy them. Her
Ladyship wore a splendid dress of tulle over white
satin, richly embroidered in gold lama, with wreaths
and columns of raised gold flowers; with a supers)
border to correspond, elegantly finished Avid] bou-
quets of gold roses and drooping flowers. The body
and sleeves trimmed with rich Chantille blond, and
blond seduisantes. A manteau of white satin, beau-
tifully embroidered with a broa'l wreath of. raised

gold lama, and trimmed with blond. The head•

dress was composed of a beautiful plume of white
feathers, diamonds, and broad bland lappets.

THE LATE SMUGGLING TRANSACTION.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)

We learn, by a communication from Paris, that
Lord Stuart de Rothesay, the British Ambassador,
has dismissed from his establishment every indivi-
dual on whom a shadow of suspicion rested, as hav-
ing been in any the most remote degree implicated
in the late attempt to introduce contraband commo-
dities into France.

We understand that his Lordship, with a proper
feeling of what was due to his own character, and to
dint of the country which he represents, instituted
a scrutiny of the most minute and rigorous deFerip.
Lion, and the result has been what we hare already
stated—the punishment was not confined to those
for whose advantage the transaction wai inter) 'led ;
but included all who, by concealment or connivance
forwarded the affair, even without a prospect of di-
rect participation in the emolument.

It may be said, that this step on the part of the
Ambassador was nothing mere than the nature of
the case imperatively required, and the observation
has our unqualified concurrence; but there is an in-
ference to be drawn from it, infinitely more import-
ant than anything directly appertaining to the ob-
scure and culpable individuals who have been de-
servedly punished. The point we desire to enforce
is this—that the Ambassador, by fearlessly and in-
discriminately discharging from his household every
domestic to whom suspicion attached, no matter

how remotely, establishes incontestably the fact
which we have uniformly asserted, upon authority
perfectly unquestionable, that his own character was
entirely unassailable. Had he felt the possibility of
being personally implicated by any investigation, the
last step that be would have adopted must have
been that of discarding the individuals who, from
the nature of their previous occupation, were of ne-
cessity most cognizant of all the details of the trans-
action; and who,in addition to the motives of self-
interest common to all informers, would feel the ad-
ditional and effectual stimulus of resentment, to
urge them to establish the guilty participation of
the principal, who had not hesitated to sacrifice his
accomplices.

Between eleven and twelve o'clock yesterday
forenoon, as the Lord Mayor's state carriage was proceed-
ing from the Greengard in Whitecress-street, where it
usually stands, towards the Mansion-how, in passing
through Coleman-stteet, the crowd was so dense that a
young lad, an apprentice to a baker, was forced under the
horses' feet, trampled upon by them, and the wheels of the
carriage passed over his body, by which his arm was broken
to pieces, and his chest dreadfully crushed and lacerated.
The unfortunate youth wtut immediately carried to the
house of Dr. EDINBOROUGU, closely adjoining, by whom
every possible assistance was rendered, but apparently to
little effect, as he was carried to St. Bartholomew's Hospital
without any hopes of his life being fnellerted.