The Sun. — 1834-01-13 (London, England)

CITY OF LONDON CORPORATION :COMMISSION.  (Continuer) from The Sun of Saturday.) Mr. Tyrrell, City Remembrancer, examined—He attend! both Houses e f Parliament, and looks after the Bills coming on in which the Corporation is concerned ; he also takes the propr means of having addresses, on the part of the Corporation, presented to the King and Queen ; he attends the presentation of all petitions to the House of Commons, he obtains the summer and winter venison warrants, and delivers them to the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Recorder,Common Sergeant Town-clerk, Chamberlain, and Remembrancer; by those warrants, which come from the Warrant-office, Somerset House, and which, no doubt, were intended by the King as commutation for the right of bunting in the Royal parks, the Lord Mayor receives six bucks an six dots ; each of the Sheriffs three bucks and three does; tie Recorder two bucks and two does; the Chamberlain and Remembrancer each two bucks and two does ; and Town clerk one buck and dce. Mr. Woodthorpe was again examined about the functions of common pleaders. He said, they are allowed 4/. or 5/. a year for a living, and their emoluments are derived from their exclusive practice in the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs' Courts. Both plaintiffs and defendants must employ them. Mr. Wire stated that it frequently happened that the Common Pleaders got blank briefs, but bad their fees, as they must be employed in those Courts, whilst the real and filled up briefs were put into the hands of foreiFn counsel (meaning by foreign, any counsel except the City Pleaders), who, of course, were also paid. He stated this to show the injustice of the Common Pleaders' monopoly of exclusive practice in those Courts, and be adihd, that another effect of it was, that it drove the busineis out of them.  Mr. Woodthorpe's cross-examination resumed, relative to the Sword•bearer—lle is marshal and regulator of the officers of the Lord Mayor's household, and first officer attached to the Lord Mayor ; he constantly attends the Lord Mayor, from 10 o'clock daily until his Lordship quits the Justice-room, and then he inquires if his Lordship has any further commands, and he sees them executed by the proper officers ; he may be considered as a species of Lord Chamberlain to the Lord Mayor, and he is the medium through which licenses for concerts and occasional public entertainments in the city are obtained ; the Lord Chamberlain cannot grant a licence to any theatre within the city ; the Swordbearer is paid by fees, and not by salary ; on fixing the seal of the office of Mayoralty he receives a fee, and he has been entitled to the price of admission into the galleries of the Old Bailey ; this right is, however, at present disputed ; by a Report of the Cumtnon Council, dated 1819, it appeared that the gross emoluments of the Sword bearer, fur 14 years, were 17.1341., making a yearly average of 1,2231. ; but on account of certain deductions and alterations, the emoluments of the office may be considered at 6041. II s. The galleries of the Old Bailey formerly belonged to the Lord Mayor's servants, and they received the money paid by the public for entering them. The officers and door-keepers of the Old Bailey have no right to take fees, and ought to admit the public gratis into the body of the Court. 11r. Wire stated that Mr. C. Pearson once knocked at the Court door and applied for admission, but was told that the Court was full ; through the square hole in it he showed the door-keeper a half-a-crown; the door was opened instanter, but the moment Mr. Pearson got inside. be put the balf_crown in his pocket, and in that way baulked the door-keeper. Mr. Payne, the Coroner for London and Southwark, was examined as to the duties of his office—The nature of his office is judicial and ministerial ; be summons juries on the view of all persons who die of violent deaths in London and Southwark, and pronounces verdicts as to the cause of their deaths, and in cases of culpable homicide he issues writs for the apprehensions of offenders. lie did not think the Lord Mayor was ex officio Coroner, though the opinion of Mr. Alderman Venablea and the City Solicitor, as given in their former evidence, went to show that he was. For each inquisition he receives a guinea ; he is also Chief Clerk of the Justice-room at Guildhall, and receives a salary as such of 4001. a year. After some other evidence of no public interest the Court adjourned to Monday morning.