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The 9th of November, on which day, " for time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary," the newly-elected Lord Mayor of London has gone to Westminster Hall to be sworn in before the Barons of the King's or Queen's Rvehequer, fell upon a Sunday this year; Lord Mayor's Day was therefore transposed to Monday the 10th. Last year the new Lord Mayor, Sir John Musgrove, gave the citizens an' allegorical procession of beasts from the Zoological Gardens ; this year the new Lord Mayor, Mr. William Hunter, gave the citizens a procession more of the orthodox mediaeval stamp, with the prominent feature of a score or so of mounted knights and esquires in armour, from Mr. Batty's equestrian arena. If one may judge by the numbers who went out to see the sight,

idtrf tnust be awarded to this year's display ; for an experienced re-

&lays, "it is probable that there never was a greater multitude in **eta on such an occasion."

k The procession set out at about eleven, and made its way through spaces kept open with difficulty by the Life Guards in the enormous • *rowel.. The assay differed from the immemorial one only in the feature of the armed knights and their earlobe; win chiefly, rode between the mass of City functionaries mad the cmaiages dee two Lord Mayors, late spa resent. Immediately ober thet Town-Clerkc mrcb Chamberlain, came a troop of the Twelfth Lancern; six lalbeediers follbwed on, foot; and then rode "a knight iat genrour oR dhereign of Franeis the- First,:'' preceded and followed by two

esquires bearing banners. /tiara Lancers, mounted esquires, and halberdiers, then preceded a knight of the City of London, in armour of the reign of Henry the Eighth, mounted on a charger, plumed, with scarlet, white, and gold trappings, with the City arms emblazoned thereon." Then came a group with a mounted knight of the Sheriff of Middlesex, in armour of the reign of Francis the First, plumed, with white, amber, and gold trappings, with the Sheriff's arms emblazoned thereon " ; and there was another group with a second knight for the other Sheriff "plumed, with gold and green coloured trappings:" After the late Lord Mayor's carriage, there followed " a mounted knight of the Lord Mayor " in armour of the reign of Francis the First, " plumed, with rich amber and bright scarlet velvet trappings, with the arms of the late Lord Mayor emblazoned thereon." Then more Lancers, halberdiers, and esquires ; and then "a troop.of twenty knights, three abreast, armed in armour of the reigns of Henry the Eighth and Fi ancis the First, plumed, with richly decorated trappings." Some more esquires, and some more modern lancers, completed the advanced guard of the Lady Mayoress, whose carriage now followed. Some Life Guards, and the gentlemen of the Mayor's

household, immediately preceded the carriage of the Lord Mayor himself, which was drawn by the usual complement of six bay horses. Other officers, a detachment of Lancers;. and a body of Mounted Police, formed the rear- guard of the procession. The march to London Bridge is said to have been not wholly free from misadventure : at some point not specifically mentioned, one of the armed knights either from feeling a greater weight of 'public attention upon himself, or from being more "bemused with beer" than his companions, fell off his horse, or fell down with his horse, and was not protected by his scales of steel from an injury to his shoulder which sent him home to bed and his doctor.

"Shortly before one o'clock the procession reached London Bridge ;- which presented a vast array of citizens, omnibuses, and. cabs. All the piers there- about were densely crowded; and the smart roll of the pistolry of little boys

from the various wharfs ran incessantly through the bass of the cannon dis- charged from the barges and landing-places as the Corporation betook them- selves to the limpid stream of whose waters and. swans they are the natural conservators. The state barges, some four or five in number, surrounded by a flotilla of billybuoys, wherries, and funnies, swept along rapidly with a favouring tide beneath the strokes of the gorgeous-looking watermen; and we are glad to believe that no accident happened, from London. Bridge, to Westminster Stairs, and back to Blackfriars."

Arrived at the Court of Exchequer in Westminster Hall, Mr. Recorder Stuart Wortley went through the routine of introducing the Lord 31a.yor to the Barons, with a short but impressive eulogistic biography. Alderman Hunter, it appeared, is of a family which " originally sprang from. Scotland ": his father settled at Bury St. Edmund's; where the Alder-

man himself " had the good fortune to receive his education, from the

venerable parent of one who has become one of the most distinguished Prelates of the country ": young Hunter settled in London in 1807, and founded that extensive and lucrative business which he subsequently carried on with so much success ; having been elected Common Councillor m 1825, he subsequently became Alderman on the resignation of Alderman Heygate ;_ and " thenceforward retired from all commercial pursuits, and devoted the

of his energies to the advantage of his fellow-citizens." Among other re- commendations bestowed by the Recorder on the new Lord Mayor,. was one

hunded on the chance, " from outward appearances," that "proceedings on the Continent might call on• him to adopt vigorous steps for the maintenance of quietude and peace within the range of the metropolis." 'Should such measures become necessary, their Lordships [the Barons of Exohequerj. might rely upon the Lord Mayor, with the able and willing assistance of his fellow- citizens, exercising such authority and taking such steps as would tend to the full maintenance of peace and quietude within his precincts, as well as the maintenance of the law of the land inviolate."

The Lord Chief Baron replied in a corresponding strain' of compliment. " The pageant which took place on that day was not without great nificance, and was well worthy of observance ; the it was one of the ;me- morials as it were of what was due to the- chobioof the people:" His Lord- ship was glad to hear that the Mayor was prepared to preserve the peace of the city, but confessed he did not apprehend that any necessity would arise, such as had been alluded to. The part taken by the late Mayor in forward. leg the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations ought to share the credit of the effects of rearing that great temple of Peace; in binding together by

feelings of good-will and one common interest all the nations who had contri-

buted to its display and witnessed its scenes. The Chief Baron apprehended, that " wherever education should have thoroughly been carded out and when mankind had experienced the blessings and the advantages which were con- sequent upon peace, wars would be no more; and that, instead of meeting, as formerly, different nations in war, they would henceforth consider them as brothers of one great family, having common and general duties to discharge the one towards the other. '

After these sayings, the various official forms were gone through; the usual invitation of the Judges to the evening banquet. in Guildhall was given and accepted'; and the civic authorities reembarked for the East. An admiring reporter sketches the scene on the lending at Blacicfciars Bridge, and adds a little tale which. tells its own municipal moral "The disembarkation at Blackfriare Bridge was a picturesque scene. Here the long line of piers, thrown out for the publio aecommodation, gave, to what little there was of procession• observed in landing, a great effect. You might see the barges stop, the various civic dignitaries, the Sheriffs and the Lord Mayors, past and present, land, and walk, preceded by their Companies' bands and banners, along a lengthened line of platforms to the bridge. There was a pleasant little incident as the Lord Mayor was standing here, waiting for his carriage. Is that the Lord Mayer ? asked a little urchin in front of the crowd. Yes, my little man,' amid the goodnatured civic func- tionary, ' I am the Lord Mayor now, and you may be Lord Mayor route of these days.' " At half-past three o'clock, Ludgate Hill was filled with a solid mass of people ; while a multitude so vast crammed the route from Blackfriars to Guildhall, that, says one account, " it may be fairly estimated not less than a quarter of a million of people witnessed the procession." The re- ception of the mounted knights and their appearance are more brought out in the descriptions of their return from Westminster, than in those of their voyage outwards. The-same reporter who saw the landing of the marshalled statesmen and warriors at Blackfriars Bridge, with an eye for the picturesque, thus describes the scene on Ludgate Hill- " From Ludgate Hill up to St. Paul's, the appearance of the procession was very striking.. The armour, and the banner; looked real by the more

mellowing- light of the aftemonne. the colours were less. glaring, and the ancient and the modern: tended neareato a. harmonious blending:

But the reporter of the Times, less filled. wittithe-enthusiasm of heraldic chivalry, describes the armed men with more sorry terms—fust„ however, duly signaliaing the chief performer among. them, "At the head of the esquires, radianb with. those smiles which have so often lighted the chivalry of Astley's to vietory.-im every region of the globe and over every foe, rode Widdicombe, reining, his proud steed and kissing nie.gloved hand right royally to the fair ladies. in the windows."

"The crowd shouted. and cheered; but it must be admitted, too, that they laughed immensely. They laughed at halbenliers, banner-bearers, esquires state carriages, knights, policemen, at everything, in. filet, but the Lord Mayor's carriage„ the Hussars, and the band of the Life Guards. The troop of knights riding two abreast was a. terrible failure ;, so were the knights of the City generally. Their armour might have been real, but it looked very like the produce of a little ingenuity among the kitchen utensils; and whether an iron waistcoat and steel pantaloons be en faiwurable to one's eques-

trian prowess or not we are unable to aver, but certainly most of the knights sat their war-horses uneasily; and their appearance forcibly recalled to our recollection the passage in some old author, who mentions as among the desa- gre'mens of a metallio clothing, that once a knight was down he could not get up again without assistance."

The Lord. Mayor seemed, from the hearty and general cheering, to be popular. It was past four o'clock before the procession reached St. Paul's ; and for hours afterwards the Strand and Fleet Street wore in a state of extraordinary crowd, turmoil, and dirt.

The banquet at Guildhall had no very notable features. Lord John Russell and the Chancellor of the Exchequer were the Ministers present.

Mr. Sheriff Swift is a Roman Catholic ; and among the guests were Dr. Morris, " the Roman Catholic Bishop of Troy," and Mr. Philip Howard, M.P. None of the Foreign Ministers were present.

In acknowledging the toast of her Majesty's Ministers, Lord John Russell, one of the Members fur the City of London, said- " My Lord Mayor, I never can visit this corporation without a feeling of respect towards that body which for so many centuries has preserved the respect and attachment of its fellow-citizens. It is impossible to regard without reverence a corporation which has stood all the shocks of time; which has stood all the attacks that were made, whether by arms under the Plantagcnets, or by judicial tyranny under the Stuarts, and which has in every crisis preserved its attachment to the liberty of the country ; and like-

wise, let me say, which has even in the most perilous times known how to separate liberty from licence, and which in the person of an early Lord

Mayor struck down the disturber of social order. And, let me add, it is im- possible, even with regard to the element of time alone, not to look with re- spect upon a body which saw the timbers of Westminster Hall yet fresh, and which has survived to uphold and encourage the erection of a Crystal Palace. For these reasons, therefore, I always look with regard towards the history of the City of London and its Corporation, and am disposed to say, with the last words of Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries, Este perpetua.' And now, my Lord Mayor and gentlemen, I would say a few words, and but a few, on what I should say ought to be the policy of this country at

the present time. I believe that the main object should be peace. (Loud applause.) My opinion is, there is nothing in the present aspect of affairs which should induce this country to depart a single hair's-breadth

from that pacific line of policy which it has adopted, and which is im- perative not only for its own welfare but for the welfare of the world. The maintenance and inculcation of peace is the duty, interest, and policy of this empire ; and let me add, that I trust the Exhibition which we have witnessed in the present year, bringing as it has done various nations to- gether, will do much towards dispelling the fallacy which at one time had

great prevalence, that it was the interest and wish of England to embroil other nations, and to provoke dissensions among them. I think all nations will now be convinced, that supposing we had no regard for what is our duty—

supposing we were not animated by sentimentsof humanity and benevolence —it is our interest as a nation to see other countries prosper, and that iu their prosperity and advancement in wealth and eivilization, we will find the source of our own wealth and prosperity. Even on the score of self-interest, I would say, that while we maintain peace we are most anxious that all other nations should make advances in material prosperity; convinced, as we are, that the more they flourish and advance, the more happy and pros- perous shall we ourselves become, and the more likely shall we be to con- tinue with them in the relations of peace and concord."

The project for a central railway terminus in the City of London, mooted by Mr. Charles Pearson in 1837, and revived' unsuccessfully in 1845, is now again presented by its author to the citizens, and has been dis- cussed this week by the Court of Common CounciL On Saturday evening, the new Lord Mayor performed one of his first acts of office, by acceding to

a requisition signed by one hundred and fifty Members of the Court of Common Council requesting him to call an early Court for the considera- tion of the plan. He gave orders for the convening of the Court on Thursday. At the same moment, he acceded' to the request of Mr. Pear- son to be allowed the use of the Egyptian Hall on the Wednesday to ex- hibit a model of his plan, and give a personal explanation of it to such members of the Court and their families and friends as would attend, so that the project should. be well understood at the discussion on Thursday. The exhibition of the plan and the explanation of the project took place on Wednesday. Mr. Pearson proposes to fill up the valley of the Fleet by a. trunk railway of several lines of rail, on the existing level of the valley ; over the railway, upon vaulted arches, he will build a new street from Farringdon Street to Clerkenwell, on the margin of which shall be arranged rows of houses, and markets for meat and vegetables. The railway will be in immediate connexion with the Great Western, North-western, Northern, and North-eastern lines; and will afford the means to upwards of twenty thousand merchants and clerks living out of the City to go to and fro between their residences and the City, at a cost of three pounds a year ; and it will bring meat and vegetables direct by the railway-trucks on which they are loaded in the provinces, to im- proved markets close to the hands of the population who require them. Mr. Pearson dill not then state the cost; but at the meeting of the Com- mon Council on Thursday, he affirmed that he has had detailed estimates made, and they limit the sum necessary to carry out the scheme—after allowing for the value of the improved rentals—to 500,000/. The meeting- of the Common Council on Thursday to consider the plan was a very full one. Mr. Deputy Harrison moved' that the plan be re- fbrred to a Ward Committee, and that the Committee have power to give the necessary Parliamentary notices for carrying the plan into effect in case the Court ultimately decide in its favour. Alderman Sidney moved as an amendment, that the power of the Committee to give Par- liamentary notices be omitted : the plan was in. every way deserving of praise, but the Court shnold well count the east before taking any step. Alderman Cubitt seconded the amendment; because he doubted whether the plan. ie practicable—the houses over the railway would be untenant- able from' rom the noise and the jets of steam of the engines underneath. The other speakers on the side of the original motion. were Ma. Dakin, Mr. Rose, Mr. Bennock, Deputy Obbard, Deputy Stevens, Mal. De Jersey, Alderman Moon, Alderman Lawrence, Sir John Key,a nil Mr. H. Blake ; against it, Mr. Lambert Jones, Mr. Elliott, Mr. T. Hall, and Mr. Low. The amendment was negatived by a large majority, and the original mo- tion was carried. with cheers.

The Metropolitan sympathy with M. Kossuth has been manifested this week by the presentation of numerous addresses from the inhabitants in the Metropolitan boroughs; and by the unusual eclat of the ball at Guild- hall for the relief of the Polish and Hungarian exiles, at which M. Kos- suth was induced to show himself.

The addresses were presented at a meeting in the Hanover Square Rooms. As among the addresses presented was one from the worn et of England, the audience included a large number of ladies. Lord Dudley Stuart presided. The addresses were described by the Chairman as adopted by public meetings in Westminster, Southwark, Marylebone, Lambeth, and Finsbury : the Tower Hamlets was not represented, from some " peculiar local causes," to which Lord Dudley Stuart alluded with grief, but which he did not specify. The address of the women of Eng- land was presented by a deputation of twelve ladies, whose names are not mentioned ; and it was read to M. Kossuth by Mr. J. B. Smith M.P. M. Kossuth acknowledged the honours by a speech, a chief point of which was an exaltation of the glorious lot assigned to women. " The Author of Nature has decreed that every man, whomsoever he may be, whatever his condition, whatever his fate, should bear throughout his life the seal which the angelic hand of a mother has impressed upon him." . . . . " God bless you, ladies, for having given me the approbation of your smile. Here I swear, before you and the Almighty God, that you have added strength to my strength, and that I will go on in my work truly, honestly, and energetically, to the end of my life." The other points were, diluted arguments addressed to the members of the Peace Society, a gentle recommendation to the incorporate boroughs of the Metropolis that they should secure municipal existence for themselves, and a suggestion that any existing bodies of the nature of Chambers of Commerce might assist his cause by discussing and affirming the point that the free- dom of trade is in intimate connexion with the freedom of the world.

The ball at the Guildhall in aid of the Polish exiles was this year made a " Polish and Hungarian" demonstration ; and as it was announced beforehand that M. Kossuth would be among the attractions provided by the Committee, there was a notable accumulation of com- pany. M. Kossuth entered the great hall soon after eleven o'cloe'r, to the sound of trumpets, and preceded by the City functionaries. After walking round the hall, smiling and bowing and receiving cheers, ho re- mained for a short time seated; then he was taken into the concert-room, and arrangements were made by which "the company defiled past him," as they do at the Queen's levee !

Another revolting murder is added to the Metropolitan records of crime. Thomas Bear, a tobacco-pipe maker, in North Street, Marylebone, had constantly ill-treated his wife, and driven her to leave him and seek her own living; he had repeatedly hunted her out, taken her home, and intuited new persecutions on her. Her last place of retreat, in North Street, he dis- covered ou Saturday evening ; and finding that she was not at home, he waited her arrival,—charging her, to the owner of the lodging, with ineon- tinency, and with theft of his property. Ou her return he entered her roam ; soon after a loud screeching, and the noise of heavy falls, were heard, but no one thought of interfering. After a. time, Bear brought some boxes out of his wife's room, and went to a public-house. As he left this house he (*- served to a policeman, that he had done something to his wife, which no doubt would require his attendance at the Police-office ; and while lie spoke, a man came up and gave him into custody for murder. His wife had been found dead on the floor of her room; her body bore more than a dozen punctured wounds; and under the fender were found a sharp-pointed saw- file, and its broken handle.

The inquest, on Monday, terminated with a verdict of " Wilful murder" against Bear. He was examined at the Marylebone Police-office, iota re, mended till next Monday, when he will be committed on the capital cli urge. The evidence was similar in both inquiries. Bear had been drinking, was noisy and excited, but not actually drunk. Before the Magistrate, his de- meanour exhibited great callousness ; he coolly cross-examined witnesses, but without much reference to the charge against him. The lad of seventeen who went with Bear to take away the boxes, Mr. Broughton would lint put on his oath, as he seemed to have no notion of the existence of a GA, and no sort of religious feeling. A surgeon found sixteen wounds up el the deceased, on the head, face, and in the chest ; one had penetrated the e,wer- ing of the heart. The prisoner has two children,—a boy, who was living with him, and a girl, "upon the streets." Ha attempted no defence ; he had " nothing " to say to the charge.

At the Middlesex Sessions, on Monday, Henry Martin, a young man of twenty-one, was convicted of inciting Charles White, a boy of twelve, to rob his master. White was employed as an errand-boy; Martin accosted him in the street, induced him to purloin a pistol, and then by threats of making this crime known, compelled him to steal a silver fork, a sovereign, :Ind a watch. Martin has been thrice convicted of felony : he is now sentenced to fourteen years' transportation.

Fletcher, a whitesmith of Tewkesbury, has been arrested in London for not paying a poor-rate at Tewkesbury. When produced before Alderman Wilson at the Mansionhouse, it appeared that the rate was 8s. 6d., and the expenses 71. 19s. The Alderman thought this an extraordinary claim. Fletcher said he was in London, out of work, when the original summons was issued ; it was served upon his wife ; he was not able to pay the rate, and the c ifitly proceedings against him were the result of spite, as it was known th..t he could not pay either rate or expenses. The Tewkesbury constable affirmed the parish debtor's ability to pay. The upshot with, that Fletcher was taken to Tewkesbury, of course at a farther expense.

Mr. Edward Parry, a young man, a coal-merchant at Hackney, has been accidentally shot dead, at a rabbit-shooting match at the W kite Hart, Tem- ple Mills. Mr. Stephen Wells had been firing, and was reloading, when, as he grounded his gun, holding it in a slanting position, the charge exploded, and the shot entered Parry's neck and head.

Dr. Hooper, a medical gentleman residing in Newington Butts, has lost his life from the effects of a fall from a carriage.