Star.
London, England, 1826-10-02 00:00:00

SWEARING-IN 0# THE NEW SHERIFFS.

At three o'clock on Smturday, the Ceremony of swear-
ing in the new Sheriffs was performed, before the
Cursitor Baron, in the Court of Excliegner, Westmin-
ster. As soon as the.Cursitor Baron took his seat on
the Bench, the Lord Mayor, the Lord Mayor elect,
the tare and present Sheriffs, the Recorder, the Com-
mon Serjeant, and the other principal Officers of the
Corporation of the City of London, entered the Court;
end, after an interchange of the usual obeisances, the
Recorder introduced, in due form, the new Sheriffs to
the Cursitor Baron. In performing this honourable
dirty, he observed, that he presented to his Lordship,
Charles Farebrother an Henry Winchester, Eiqrs
ivhd had been recently elected by their fellow-citizens
to fill the high and honourable office of Sheriffs for the
• City of London, and Sheriff for Middlesex, fur the year
ensuing. This important privilege of election had been
exercised by the Citizens of London during the long
period of 600 years. The office of the shrievalty had
been intrusted to these Gentlemen from the srnse enter-
tainal by their fellow-citizens of their loyalty and
honourable principlei; as well as from a conviction,
arising out of their wealth and independent station in
the community, that they would support that office with
the splendour and munificence becoming a great City,
which had been raised, by the Constitution of this free
coun•ry, into a preeminence over every other metropo-
lis in the universe. These Gentlemen were, he believed,
in every respect competent to maintain the tranquillity,'
which was so indispensable for the character of their
City ; and he had no doubt that he should bave the
gratifying duty, at the end of their year of office, to
Congratulate them upon the entire and beneficial fulfil-
ment of the important functions which were now en-
trusted to them, in the manner in which he was at pre.
sent prepared most confidently to anticipate. The
Recorder then introduced the late Sheriffs, Crowder

and Kelly, to render their accounts to his Majesty's
Exchequer. The sense entertained by their fellow-
citizens, would, however, be best appreciated by his
Lnrdship, when he read the expressive vote of thanks
which had been unanimously passed yesterday, at the
Common Hall of the City of Londen. The Recorder
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concluded by reading an official copy of this vote.
The Cursitor Baron, in reply, said, he could not but
Anticipate that the City of London, in the exercise of
one of its most important privileges, would have acted
in a manner consistent with its high civic honour and
dignity, and returned for the Shrievalty, Gentlemen of
high reputation and worth. So long as the City of
. • London continued so faithful and honourable a prac-
tice, so long would they shew the country at large that
their privileges were as just as they were transcendent,
as useful as they were magnificent, and deeply connected
with the execution of essential duties which were of the
greatest importance to the community. These privileges
were not only an honour to the City of London, but
they were also a great public benefit to the country at
urge, for, indeed, all werg interested in them. It was
not to the City that their beneficial example was con-
fined, for who was not aware of the great, the just, and
natural influence which the proceedings of this metro-
polis had over those of the whole empire. With respect
to the Gentlemen who wale now presented to him to fill
the Shrievalty for the ensuing year, he was confident
they would realize every expectation.
The ancient and absurd performance, on the part of

the City of London, of services to the King, for the
tenure of a manor in the county of Salop, &c. &c. was
then discharged by Mr. Alderman Lucas, who chopped
the sticks, cut the skewers, and counted the half dozen
horse-shoes and sixty-one hob-nails, in such a manner as
to have " good set vice" and •• good number" repeated
by the Officer of the Court.
The Recorder, before he retired with the Corporation; gave the
usual dinner invitation from t►e Sheriffs to the Cursitor Baron,
who politely accepted it.