3 OCTOBER 1896, Page 2

On Tuesday (Michaelmas Day), in accordance with the annual custom,

the Liverymen of the City assembled at the Guildhall, and returned to the Court of Aldermen two gentle- men as candidates for the Chair,—Alderman Faudel-Phillips and Colonel Davis. Alderman Faudel-Phillips, who was accordingly chosen, is the younger son of Sir Benjamin Phillips, who was Lord-Mayor in 1866. The Lord-Mayor Elect, who will be the fourth Jew to hold the office, is a member of the firm of Faudel-Phillips and Sons, warehouse-

teen and manufacturers. He married in 1867 a daughter of the late Mr. Levy, the proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, and his wife is thus a sister of Sir Edward Lawson. Con- sidering the small number of Jews qualified to occupy the Chair, the fact that the new Lord-Mayor is the fourth since the abolition of the disabilities is a strong proof of how entirely free England is from any race-feeling against the Jews. Imagine Vienna electing a Jewish Burgomaster.