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The Lord Mayor, the fate Lord M
officers of the City then withdrew,
through the other courts, the Lord M.
the Recorder, invited the presiding J,
City banquat.
The procession then returned to the City from
Westminster by way of the Strand, Fleet-street,
Ludgate-hill, St. Paul's-churchyard, Chee.psitle,
Kiug.street, to Guildhall. Tito London Rifle Bri-
gade metthe procession at Temple-bar, and preceded
the Lord Mayor to Guildhall, where they formed a
guard of honour.

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LORD MAYOR'S DAY,

This day the customary civic procession went
from Guildhall to Westminster, where Alderman
William Lawrence, recently chosen Lord Mayor of
the City of London for the year ensuing, was pre-
sented
to the Barons of the Exchequor, sitting in
their court, with all the usual pomp and circum-
stance. The weather was auspicious, and great
crowds of persons lined the whole route through
which the cortege passed.
The procession formed in the open space in front
of the Guildhall at the usual hour, 12 o'clock, and
proceeded by the following route—Gresham•street,
Coleman-street, London-wall, Moorgate-street,
Princes-street, King William-street, Canon-street,
St. Paul's Churchyard, Fleet-street, Strand, to
Westminster.

Mr. Cobden on the Conduct of the British

Authorities in Japan.

The following letter from Mr. Cobden has Lem received
by Mr, Ashworth, Mayor of nodule :--

"My dear Sir,—CircvniamitstanceT
inst., and I fear I shall
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ton Rochdale previous to the 9th
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gpeuuder your presidency as
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loulfhmdave been reading carefully
ence, just published, respecting our recent
teial correspond-
Japan. It is a horrible narrative, which I
Itiosinh,
proceedings in
ad difficult to
treat with calmness. It appears that a despatch was sent
by Earl Russell, instructing the British representatives
that country to demand redress from Prince
Satsuma,
in
one
of its feudal chiefs .or daimios, for the murder of Of
Richardson, and, in default of which, discretion vias,iM, n
"
to our naval commander, either to 'seize or detain'
prince's steamvessels, or shell his residence, or blockade his
port. Thereupon, according to his own despatch, the
British admiral proceeded forthwith to burn the prince's
steamers, and set fire to the town of liagosima, when, to
quote his language, 'the conflagration thus created con-
tinued with unabated ardour np to the time of the depar-
ture of the squadron, 48 hours subsequently to the first at-
tack,' which, he proceeds to say, ' affords reasonable ground
for believing that the entire town of liagesirna is now a
mass of ruins;' and he expresses his 'trust that her Ma-
jesty's Government will be pleased to approve' his deeds.
"It is stated, I know not how truly, that Kagosima is a
city of more than 150,000 inhabitants. In an interesting
account of Japan, which appeared in the Revue des Deux
Mondes of the 15th October, from the pen of M. Adolphe
Lindau, a recent traveller in that country, this place is de-
scribed as ' L'un des plus considerables entrepots du com-
merce de rile de Kiou-siou'

The Lord Mayor was attended as usual by his
ancient knights and esquires armed cap-a•pie, men
in brass and steel, with plumed helmets, lance and
standard bearers, &c., and although the cavalcade
was not as extensive as on former occasions, yet it
was quite as attractive, and pleased the thousands
of holiday makers and sight seers quite as well as
if it had been of more than ordinary length.
The following was the order of procession :
The Band of the London Rifle Volunteer Brigade.
Three Trumpeters.
_

The Band of the Royal Society for the Protection of Life
from Fire.

Watermen bearing the Banners of the following Livery
Companies of the City of London :
Spectacle Makers' Company.
Loriners' Company,
Plasterers' Company.
Coopers' Company.
Inn-Holders' Company.
Painter Stainers' Company.
Saddlers' Company.
Ironmongers' Company.

"CC ' Salters' Company.
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g. Goldsmith's Company. S' 2 5i
ga. Fishmongers' Company. 4c g,4
Vc3, Master and Wardens of Fruiterers' Company in a, 2
W c-) Carriage. . 7_
The Band of the Third Tower Hamlets Volunteer Brigade.
Banner of the Arms of the Worshipful Company of
Carpenters.
Banner of the Arms of the late Sir Win. Staines, Knight,

"Now, let me ask you to consider for a moment what is
really implied by the destruction, with incendiary shells
without previous warning, of a city of even 100,000 inhabi-
tants. There is always in such towns hundreds of infants
at their mothers' breasts, thousands of children under five
years of age, hospitals with their sick, and numbers of
aged and infirm, tottering on the brink of the grave;
shamevri ande
there, too, must be women over whom the pangs of
maternity are impending, and there will be found homes
filled with mourning for the dead who are awaiting the
rites of sepulchre. Such is the normal condition of every
large city, whether in Asia or Europe. Now, picture this
and
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ttesirocn populationi a. l eTnotr ourep
and with
then o
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48 hours to a heap of ashes; try to realise in imagination
crime they had committed to bring on themselves this havoc
must be that this is the way in whioh Englishmen, under
the command of Admiral Kuper and Colonel Neale, ad-
minister justice for the murder of an individual 100 miles
away—of which crime the inhabitants of Kagosima were as
guiltless of all knowledge and complicity as your own
neig
• hbours in Rochdale. It is precisely as though an
enemy should lay Bristol in ashes because an individual
had been murdered on the highway between London and
Brentford. And the chief actors in this outrage en
humanity, instead of expressing one word of regret or
emotion, coolly lay claim to the approbation of their Go-
vernment.

Lord Mayor 1801.
Banner of the Arms of the late Alderman Lawrence.
Banner of the Arms of Robert William Kennard, Esq.)

M.P.

'. Banner of the Arms of Alderman James Clarke 0
a Lawrence. R'
a. The Union Jack. r
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0 Banner of the Arms of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor. g

-ight tsou.The Royal Standard.
The Beadle bearing the Company's Mace.
The Clerk of the Company, in his Chariot.
'4ll The Members of the Court of Assistants, in their
Carriages.
e.,3 The Wardens of the Company, in their Carriage. `.:l
The Master of the Company, in his Chariot, attended
by the Chaplain.
Watermen bearing the following Banners :
Royal Standard.
Banner of England. Union Jack.
Banner of Scotland. Banner of Ireland.
Six Streamers of the City Banner of the City of
Arms. London.
The Band of the Grenadier Guards.
Description of the Armour worn by the Knights and
Esquires in the Procession.
First Knight,

"There has been much criticism in this country on the
manner in which the civil war has been conducted by the
Americans. We have been prompt to condemn a people,
over whom we have no control, for acts for which we are
in nowise responsible. I remember the indignation with
which the Prime Minister denounces General Butler's pro-
clamation in which he threatened to consign to the cats-
bouse those women who should insult his soldiers in the
streets of New Orleans. Will he and his colleagues now
make themselves and the country accomplices after the
fact in these atrocities of their own agents, who, in con-
temptuous disregard of the instructions of their Govern-
ment, have brought this heavy disgrace upon the country ?
I trust not. But, at all events, let us not forget that our
moral power in the world is at stake ; that if, as a people,
we condone such crimes as these, when penetrated in our
~name by, thog) for wb.om, „.p,nd.erkteitadig &a, lone
sponsible, we shall only invite the scorn of mankind by
assuming to sit in judgment, as moral censors upon the
delinquencies of other nations.—Believe me, yours sincerely,
"Mr. G. L. Ashworth, Mayor." "R. COBDEN,

In a plain Cap- -pie Suit of Armour of the early part of the
17th Century, attended by Two Esquires; one a Swords-
man in a Suit of Black and White Armour, the other in
a Detai-Lance Suit.

Second Knight,

In Tilting Armour, early part of the 16th Century, attended
by Two Esquires; one in Cavalier Suit of Langruned
Armour, the other in Cavalier Suit of Bright Armour.
Third Knight,

In Tilting Snit of the Second Half of the 16th Century, at-
tended by Two Esquires; one in Half Suit of Bright
Armour, the other representing a,Demi-Lance.
In a Cap-a-pie Suit of Engraved Armour of the First Half
of the 16th Century, attended by Two Men-at-Arms in
Foot Armour.

Fifth Knight,

In a Cap-a-pie Suit of Bright Armour of the First Half of
the 16th Century, attended by Two Esquires; one in a
Suit of Splints with engraved Moricn, the other in a
Back-plate of Steel.
Sixth Knight, _ _

In a Cap-a-pie Suit of Black and White Armour of the
First Half of the 16th Century, attended by Two
Esquires; one in Maltese Armour, the other in Italian
Armour.

The Band of the Irish Rifle Volunteers.
The Two Under Sheriffs.
The Officers of the Corporation of London.
Three Trumpeters.

Mr, Sheriff Cave, in his State Chariot, drawn by Four
Horses, Attended by his Chaplain.
Three Trumpeters.
Mr, Sheriff Nissen, in his State Chariot, drawn by Four

Horses, Attended by his Chaplain.
The Band of the Hon. Artillery Company.
The Aldermen who have not Passed the Chair.
The Recorder.
The Aldermen who have Passed the Chair.
THE LATE LORD MAYOR.
The LADY MAYORESS, in her ST ATE CARRIAGE
Will Join the Procession on its return
from Westminster.
The Lord Mayor's Servants in State Liveries.
The Band of the Ist Life Guards, ounted.
The City Marshal on Horseback.
Gentlemen of the Lord Mayor's Household.
THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD MAYOR.
In his State Carriage, Drawn by Six Horses,
Attended by the Chaplain, Sword Bearer, and
Common Crier
Guard of Honour, on Horseback.
The Military Escort will be a Detachment of the
12th Lancers.