The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-28

Eev the sheriRs Of Loadon and Middle
sex are Installed In Once.
Attended by pageant only inferior
In splendOr to the historic procession
through the city on Lord Mayors day,
and favored by splendid weather. the
sheri1s of London and Middlesex were
recently installed into their Office for
the coming year, the elected occupants
of the distinguished position On this
occasion being Mr.. Aid. Henry Aaron
Issacs and Lieutenant Colonel Alfred
Kirby. As usual, the city companies
Of which these gentlemen are mem
bers, accompanied by the portable
civic panoply which many predecessors
have bequeathed. joined in the display
and with banners. trophies. bands, vol
unteers and officials arrayed in garb
Of oil hues, succeeded in forming O
shrieyal show of no mean dimensions,
and certainly attracted great crowds
of spectators along the streets it ira
vcrsed. At noon the sheriffS met their
friends at the Albion in Aldersgate.
police, a mounted detachment Of the
Tower Hamlets engineer volunteers
and a guard of honor from the same
corps. followed by the company Of
spectacle-makers, with the banners of
many Lord Mayors and sheriffs who
have been members of that ancient
guild, numbering, among many others
those of the venerable and esteemed
Sir Benjamin Phillips. Lord Mayor in
1866, Sir Z. n. Fowler, Sir ii. f.
Knight, Sir III. Hansen, Sir w. Near
thur and Sir L. Dakin. Succeeding
them came the drums and flies of the
postal and telegraph service. and the
company of shipwrig hts. also bearing
the arms of distinguished citizens who
have deserved well of their brother liV-
erymen. They again were followed by
the band of the Third Middlesex artil
bery volunteers, acting as heralds tk
che company of lawmakers. The last
OF the companies were the loriners-
the makers of bits and spurs and
knightly accoutrements of the past age
to WHOM, the band of the First Mid
dlesex rifle volunteers (Victoria)
showed the way. Next came the state
carriages of Mr.. George Rose-Innes
and Mr.. Algernon Sydney the under
sheriffs. The band of the Tower Ham
lets engineer volunteers followed, and,
after them the state carriages of the
sheriffs themselves. the occupants
being loudly eheered all the way along
Jewin street, Fore street, Moorgste
street and Gresham street to the Guild
hall. In the great hall of that building
the ceremonies which have for years
accompanied the installation of the
sheriffs were duly observed, and the
usual hoSpitable invitations extended
TO the members of the corporation and
the officials of that body. After due
proclamation and recognition the new
dignitaries made the declarations re-
quired from them by tine town clerk.
MIR. Aid. lsaacs and Lieutenant
Colonel Kirby were then clothed in
&heir gorgeous robes of Office, chains of
gold were hung about their necks, and
they were announced TO be the sheriffs
of London and Middlesex during the
next twelve months. The under sher-
ills were afterward initiated into their
Office, and this concluded the proceed
fngs at Guildhall.
Returning by way of King street,
and st. Martin 's-le-Grand.
the procession arrived at the Albion at
two O'Clock, when the sheriff's break
fast was served. -Lossdoa Telegraph.