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a reward or 100 guineas far the discovery
incendiary. and the villainous attempt of
6 "1.? "Vitra • strong sensation in this city. where
•,ti a slime has hitherto been unknown. On
Monday the Mayor called a meeting or the intui-
t. taw,. when 11.eonlatjgyelyvytematirmopaly adopt!.
0. and the retratittlirtiratatett, ht tylititiosi to the
by the Casts.' and Vicars, offered for the di..
of the offender, which we sincerely Isar.

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live the

Wr beer now tilde doubt but the it Ales were
.rprotely fired. pertieuterty es the follnerlfig letter
use received by the blifirr of the t'ollt shortly
Llfes ihrif destruction. the huthor ul winch firefly
I..ltilird his direst fitilt oaf effintsuso degree of re-
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" Pin—Pleare to tell re& 'MAIM 'to' tar rani es *pip:
11.4(444u Ho" will be 'lasted 01••1.7 • pis( that glory Mosel
Frood.—lo It. Caustebte, CoUccle, iiirerford."—
t lorrial.)

(1141!?IiNG I"NANCiti,BURDETT
• wadkit.* iitiiiimesE.

Yesterday the grand ceremony of chairing Sir
Francis Borden and J. C. Holthonse, Esq. took
place with more than customary splendour. The
onfavourelite appearance of the weather in the
morning excited much disappointment,
;arty after the strong reps emboli held out Iron, the
11COMMOn firieuess of the preced►ng dept. 'the
eclabirating' rays of the suss broke through the
s 'pods about mid-day, and fur a MOITICIII gave pro-
mise of a day cakulated to shed splendour on the
passing scene ; bet the proverbial fluctuation of
April weather was soon observable, and the time
passed away between the genial influence of situ-
thirie and the chilling humidity of heavy showers,
v.liich fell in rapid succession. At an early hour
s ponderable crowds began to collect in the neigh.
1.-ooliood of Hyde Pa►k-corner, and along the whole
lone of Piccadilly. Hackney towhee and carts of
very description were sought for with avidity, us the
speculating oil the curiosity of the crowd,
s:iew up their vehicles at the side of the streets, and
placed them in such positions its they could take
up to afford ■ view of the procession. A wised
throng took advantage of the accommodation af-
forded by these messes, and ',resented in drfferent
swots of the line that humorous amocietion of ob-
jects, determined to be unravel under all weather.,
.thick excites so laughable a sensation in smut of
llogui %Wu pictures of impular subjects. This bite,
which afforded a fair specimen of the composition
of a London crowd, conspcsed of both sexes ■nd
all ages, was heightened by the panoramic effect of
platforms erected in front end at the top of a
Humber of shops, which were crowded with per-
*olio, chiefly females, who determined to gratify
their curiosity, often at the tisk of their necks, from
the frail supporters of the frame-work on which
the scaffolds were erected, and their apparent in-
to quacy to bear the weight under which they were
shinnied to bend; but most happily Sets accidents
eurred upon any of those temporsrj•structures, and
C.e good stars of the Ladies preserved them on this,
as we tru►t they will on every future occasion. to
. cheer end enliven the spectacle in which they seem-
ed to take a share, and to partake of the splendour
sit' a pageant in which they were neither the less
iisteresitiog nor less prominent objects. Before
half-past ten o'clock, different grooms of electors
framed ep Piccadilly, bearing dark blue favours,
with, a shoe rosette in the centre, ott their way to-
• wards Knightsbridge, near which they were to
-knit pie:vines to the final arrangement of the pro-
cession. The principal electors of the several
cri,lies of St. Anne's, St. Paul's, Covent-gar-
den, Sr. Martin-le-Grand, St. Clement I)•unes,
• St. Mary-le-Strand, St. Mertin•in-the-Pielda, St.
• JllMeb'll, St. George Outward, St. Margaret, and
St. John's, met some after nine o'clock at their
r.spective committee-rooms, soil proceeded to their
b`ations beyond Hyde Park corner, in due time,
with the flags and batmen of their parishes.
A bout le o'clock the car was brought front town
to Mr. Collet; s, at Knightsbridge, where it was
fitted up before one o'clock, with the cushions and
draperies provided for the occasion. It is a tri-
umphal car, covered and hoed with 6ne blue cloth,
- with lung drapery of the same material, fulling down
in a broad and graceful form. so as to hide the
• ,wheels. At each side of the platform a sort of rail-
int, of burnished gold, was thrown, tip, resembling,
to stave degree, the form of the Kunlun Curule
• chair, and from the centre a flight of steps led to,
• elevated to a considerable height, a remark-
ably elegant chair, standing on two foillkirf,
• 111441 formed light and solid supporters ; the rail-
ing of the chair was formed of small rods of
barntsl►ed gold, the cushions were blue, and
the pillars covered with cloth of the same colour,
the only ornament or relief to the hue of the
• cloth bring the burnished gold of the chair and,
platform railing, and ofa scroll which was tastefully
• n; ranged in thestrocture, and supported, at the back
of the cart in letters of gold, the expressive words,
aaThe Trivreph of Helena." There was j net enough
of gold to produce a brilliant effect without predo-
minatiog over the richness and grandeur of the
• deep blue cloth, which was tastefully and &bun&
golly displayed over the frame of the triumphal
chair; the favoursof the Members for 11'estminater
awe interspersed in various pasts of the drapety.
- As soon us tire furniture and decorations of the car
• were completed at Mr. Collets's, it was carried to
she Cadogasi Anna in Sloane-street, from which it
was arranged the procession should set out. Towards
elm o'clock an immense multi:side had assettibted

;I:, every direction both 111/011.• %MI b.low Hyde Park-
e orcer, not s window or wall could be found with.
4.111 to cupiAlre, mid the path-ways become so crowd-
.-tl, that at letigtli the spacious rood from Hyde
l'a.k-eorner woo so touch encroached urns by

ile crowds that the stages and coaches from
vie ifietro;mlis could not proceed upon their
“tile without considerable difficulty. Too
o'clock had newly arrived when the ilopetieseolof
be mutinies Avosmoldage, ealwasted by the ems.
',coed and perhaps unavoidable delay of the pro•
cession. was smoked by the -aottooneetneut from
the end of Slassmootteet that all was ready, and the
cavalcade *bawl* odmoce. This notification was
prinuvillyk,reeboodi sod the preeemion moved out
of the Hyde Pork• mow cod of :Sloane-street. ;in
the foilimoierawiet. oh wee popotded•ood seeessi.
peeled by the greatest cot:coarse of peopk we later
irises** t. ores *woo? provisos 'mit%