London County Council, gave a banquet the other day to the Lord Mayor of London and the twenty-eight new Metropolitan Borough Mayors; and among the guests invited to meet them wore ths Prince of Wales, the Duke of Devonshire, the Earl of Rosebery, and Mr. C. 1. Ritchie, whom the London County Council, and therefore indirectly the Burough Councils, may look up to as its father, for it was his Act of Parliament which brought the County Councils into existence. It was in many ways an interesting eccas: when the heir of a lino of some six hundred Mayors and Lord Mayors of Lonilon sat for the first time at table with twenty-eight other London Mayors. Som of these mayors are, I believe, alrendy in possession of maces'and chains of offic: and aldermanic gowns have been selected in some of the new boroughs; but over the heads of them all will be the head of the London Coun: y Council with no higher title than that of plain Mr. Chairman, The Duke of Norfolk, as mayor of the city of Westminster, was their spokesman in replying to the tort of their healths,
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