Star.
London, England, 1829-09-30 00:00:00

ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.

Yesterday a very• full meeting of the Livery took
place at the Guildhall, for the purpose of electing a
Lord Mayor. Upon entering the Hall the Lord Mayor
was most rapturously greeted. and Aldermen Key and
Crowder, the two aldermen next to the chair, were also
received in an enthusiastic manner. Of the other
Aldermen below the. Chair there was no remarkable
notice.
The RECORDER having stated, according to the usual
forms, the names of the Aldermen eligible to the Chair,
the show of hands'for Aldermen Key and Crowder ap-
peared to be nearly the same, and the Common Serjeant
declared that the election fell upon Aldermen Key and
Crowder, whose names were accordingly handed into
the Court of Aldermen. On the return of the Aldermen
to the Hall, the Recorder stated that Alderman Crowder
had been elected unanimously. This announcement was
received with the utmost approbation.
Alderman KEY stood forward, amidst cheers, to ad-
dress the Livery. He apologized for having stepped out
of the usual course by addressing them thus early, but
he was convinced that the occasion would amply excuse
him. He felt most grateful for the warmth with which
he had been received, and he felt at the same time that
it was due to his honourable friend (Alderman Cro'vder)
to wait for another year, in order to give the wet-thy
Alderman an opportunity of gratifying the wishes of his
fellow-citizens, who were fully sensible of the extent of
his long services, by filling the Chair which was about
to be vacated. (Loud applause.) He (Alderman Key)
was F►r from wishing to shrink from the duties of the
elevated station to which he aspired, and he trusted that
in the year ensuing he should be considered worthy of it,
and be retur►ed by the unanimous vote of his felloe -

citizens. (Applause.)
Mr. Alderman• CROWDER then came forward, evi-
dently affected. He was immensely cheered. He said
that he appeared before the Livery much agitated when
he considered the high and dignified station to which lie
had been raised. He felt a degree of incompetency
upon looking at the nature of the duties he should have
to perform ; but, as his fellow-citizens were pleased to
call him to the office, he should enter upon it with the
most ardent feelings of a zealous mind. He had passed
much of )16 life in, the service of the Corporation, and
might be supposed to have acquired the knowledge which
would qualify him for-the performance of the duties. As
far as experience had mellowed and matured his mind,
its energies should be devoted to the performance of
those duties. He, however, must look to his brother-
magistrates for co-operation, and he knew he should
not .be disappointed. He was totally unoccupied, free
from the trammels of business, and he hoped he might
add, that he was possessed of another quality—an inde-
pendent mind. (Cheering.) Relying upon the con-
fidence of his fellow-citizens, he would not hesitate to
say, that all his energies should be devoted to the service
of his fellow-citizens.
Mr. Tic AN Elt rose to move a vote of thanks to the
Lord Mayor for his admirable conduct in the Chair, fron►
the moment of his appointment to the present time.
After having borne testimony to the talents, zeal, cha-
ritable disposition, integrity, and hospitality of the Lord
Mayor, he moved the thanks of the Hall.
Mr. HUNT then stepped forward to second the vote of
thanks to the Lord Mayor, and he did so because he
considered that excellent chief magistrate most unequi-
vocally entitled to the gratitude of his fellow citizens.
He (Mr-Hunt) wished to show, by the part he was
taking, that, on the question of the Lord Mayor's claim
upon the gratitude of the Livery, there is but one opi-
nion ; that Whigs and Tories, and Radicals, all agreed
upon that subject, although they might occasionally
differ upon others.—(Langbter.) Mr. Hunt then entered
into a long detail of the manner in which the City's re-
venues were managed, and concluded by complaining of
the way in which he was treated after serving the office
of auditor for two years.
The Loan MAYOR, amidst loud cheering, returned
thanks. He expressed his high sense of the confidence
which the Livery had placed in him, and of the good
opinion which had been so unequivocally expressed. He
had had to discharge duties of an onerous and difficult
nature, and his fellow-citizens had approved of his exer-
tions. He regretted that he could not congratulate the
Livery upon the condition of the poor during the eleven
months which he had nearly accomplished in office. He
could not say that any improvement had taken place—
distress prevailed to a great degree. He knew that his
worthy successor would do every thing in his power to
assuage and mitigate the sufferings of the poor whom be
should see in discharging his duties. After h win!:
spoken in terms of high praise of the late Sheriffs, his
Lordship said he should soon retire into comparative pri-
vacy, and that •he should do so with feelings o( the
deepest gratitude and respect towards his fellow-citizens
—(Cheers.)
Mr. PEACOCK moved the thanks of the Livery to the
late Sheriffs.
Mr. STEV ENS seconded the motion, which was car-
ried unanimously.
The Hall then broke up.

Three little children were burned to death, by falling
into a lime-kiln. at Kilgarean, in the county of Kerry, last week.
They were literally burnt to a cinder.—Tipperary Free Prem.
LONG Wo it DS. —Very fortunately for the nurEe• y,
that class of words vulgarly calkdjaw-breakers are not of unma-
nageable length in the modern languages of Europe, or in the classic
languages of Greece and name. It is not so in the Sanscrit. Ge-
neral CASSAC communicated to the Asiatic Society the trat•Lation
of an Indian grant of land made in the year 1018 The original
contains one eempornd word, consisting of not less than a hawked
andfaily-swe syllabics! and words of equal or greater length are nut
uncommon in that very ancient and curious language.
An extraordinary and very novel circumstance occurred
lately Dear Ramsgate. A Custrini-house officer. observing a remark.
able obiect floating at a short di-unce from the Lind near Pegwell
Day. went out to it to satisfy his curiosity, and was surprised at the
discovery of about 2S tubs of spirits tied together, a d a dead man
entangled in the ropes. it is supposed that be bad been en-
deavouring to tow the tubs ashore by swimming, and bad pet Weed
in the attempt by sinking into the sand at low water, or that, be-
coming exhausted. he had been carried away by the current. In
either use it is probable that he suffered a dreadful death by star-
vation. He was recognised as a gardener belonging to Ports-
mouth. who was not generally suspected of being engaged in illicit
trade.

CORN-EXCHANGE, MARK—LANE, Seer. 30.
Our market was in a lifeless state this morning, sithnts,th there
were some country buyers; and Monday's prices were demanded
for fine samples of Wheat, Barley, and Oats.
114,0111TATIONS SINCE MONDAY.
Wheat, English (qrs.) . 5,400 Barley, Foreign
Irish • . Oats, English •
Foreign . 2.550 Foreign
Barley, English • 700 Irish .
Irish . . Floor (sacks)

4,50 u
. 4,11 v
. 1,600

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COAL MARKET—Tins DAT.
Harr-easy Oros—There was a good hupply of Sunderland and
Newcastle Coals at market to-day; 56 •Itois have arrived bince
Monday bst, making on tbe week's arrival a total of 98 eldps The
Coal Exchange was not numerously attended by merchants to-day,
and no great business was done.
Ships arriveddurlng the month .
Best Welland Coals .... 351. 6d. 365. Od.
Other sorts
Ships at Market

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