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been rather anxious about the meeting. How- 

 ever, it went off very well ; the members were 

 very well behaved." The Progressives had re- 

 turned eighteen out of nineteen candidates that 

 they had put forward. On February 1 the 

 meeting, adjourned from the previous day, was 

 resumed. On the 11th the second formal meeting 

 of the Council was held, at which Lord Rosebery 

 was elected Chairman for the year, with Sir John 

 as Vice, and Mr. Frith as Deputy. 



The Times said with regard to the original 

 voting : 



By far the most interesting and important of the 

 returns published yesterday of the elections to the 

 London County Council is that for the City of London. 

 Alike in its choice of representatives and in the number 

 of votes recorded for them the City has established its 

 claim to be regarded as the leading constituency of the 

 new County. 



Sir John Lubbock heads the poll with 8976 votes 

 and Lord Rosebery follows with 8032, the two other 

 successful candidates, Mr. Benjamin Cohen and Mr. 

 Henry Clarke, being several thousand votes behind. 

 This is altogether as it should be. Sir John Lubbock 

 has every claim to be chosen as the first representative 

 of the City of London on such a body as the County 

 Council. 



As Lord Rosebery said in his graceful speech at the 

 declaration of the poll, the electors have rightly placed 

 at the head of the poll one who not merely possesses 

 personal and hereditary connexions with the City of 

 London, but is also a man of great talent and high public 

 spirit. They have done equally well in placing Lord 

 Rosebery second on the list. 1 



The calls which the County Council made upon 

 him, for some while during which its procedure 

 was being determined, seem to have been in- 



i Times, January 19, 1889. 



