In addition to all this Sir Joseph has just been unanimously elected by the liveryinen of London to the office of Chamberlain of the City, an office which has been kept vacant for him ever since the death of old Jderman Cotton nearly a year ago.
agement was recently denounced Daily News" as a flagrant job, the otice being described as a sinecure. the face of it, it would certainly seem that an office which can be kept vacant fora particular man for all this time must be something in the nature of a sinecure; but the corporation have decided that it shall not be so in future. They have raised the salary irom £2,000to£2,500, rising to £3,000 a year, and they have stipulated that the holder' shall carry on_no other profession or occupation. The City Chamberlain ix the Treasurer of the City, the custodian of its funds and all its valuables; and if he does not delegate his duties to others he will have plenty to do. Sir Joseph does not, however, intend to give up his seat in Parliament, and the new Lord Mayor holds that he need not, as membership of the Commons is "neither a profession nor an Most M. P's are inclined to think their duties give them consid able occupation. The "Daily News" in its strictures overlooked one important point. The City Chamberlainship is by ancient custom always given to an ex-Lord Mayor; and it is impossible to point to any other man among the aldermen who have passod. the chair who is nearly so well qualified TY for the office as Sir Joseph Dimsdale.
The Lord Mayor's Show. unuel, the new Lord Mayor, ally pretty and interesting Lord. 2 Monday. The particular companies to which the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of the year belong always take a prominent part in these pageants and Sir Marcus is a member of the Gardeners and Spectacle Makers. The first contributed a magnificent floral car, and the second a car representing the condition of optical science and the making of optical and other scientific instruments in the Sixteenth Century. Then another striking feature of the show was the inclusion of cars illustrating three epochs in the evolution of our navy—one bearing a huge model of H.M.S. Great Harry of the time of Henry VIII, another, one of Nelson's Victory, and a third of H.M.S. King Edward VII, the latest and most. modern of battleships.
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