The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-07 00:00:00

THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER.

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN ST. SAVIOUR'S
On Tuesday evening the service appointed for the tenni-
verss.ry of the Gunpowder Plot was performed at St.
Saviour's, Southwark, when every part of that spacious
edifice was most densely crowded. The sermon was
preached by the Rev. W. Curling, one of the chaplains
from the 3d Epistle of St. John, T. 9, 10; it oceupicd
one hour and a half in its delivery, end was listened to
with the most sedulous attention to the end. The ser-
mon produced a great sensation, and when the congre-
gation arose to leave the church at the close of the ser-
mon, the organ began to play the air of the National
Anthem, upon which the congregation suddenly com-
menced the words, and sung two verses with great an-
thusiasm. Mr. Curling then succeeded in procuring a
pause, and remarked that as some expressions in the
remaining verses were not qeite befitting the sanctity of
the place, they had better substitute the Doxology. The
organ then began to play " The old hundredth," and the
people sang " Praise God from whom all blessings
flow," with a fervour and universality that evinced their
cordial concurrence in the suggestions of their pastor.
The immense concourse then separated.
DOVER, WEDNESDAY.—There was great excitement
in this town yesterday, the designs of the Bishop of
Rome having induced a more than ordinary demonstra-
tion of good old English Protestant feeling on the anni-
versary of the Gunpowder Plot. Effigies of the Pope
and his cardinal, dressed in showy and grotesque scarlet
apparel, were stuck up in a waggon, and driven about
by a particular black friend of theirs. Atter being
paraded about the streets, amidst the cheering and scof-
fing of a well-pleased multitude, " his Holiness" was
taken out to sea, where, his conscience being heavier
than his body, he wallowed about in the water for some
time, and at length departed to the regions below. The
cardinal was not born to be drowned; " his Lordship"
was reserved for another fate, and in the evening ex-
piated his sins of omission and commission in a bonfire,
in the presence of a great concourse of people.
HEREFORD.—The usual preparations were made in
this city to commemorate the day and to give " Mister
Guy's" representative a warm reception. Squibs,
crackers, and other fusible missiles, have been in great
requisition, and no sooner had the shades of evening
closed over the Castle-areen than numberless " halt-
penny fires" were set going. A capital effigy was pre-
pared as usual (lantern and candle of course included),
and a pile of a hundred faggots erected whereon it was
placed, in traitorial dignity, and burnt to ashes.
LIVERPOOL.—The annual commemoration of the
Gunpowder Plot was this year observed with increased
ec!at. Several of the established clergy had Divine ser-
vice performed in their churches both morning and
evening. Dr. M'Neilo preached from these words,
" What mean ye by this servit e?"
G EVLDFoRD.—An effigy of the Pope and his Arch-
bishop of Westminster was burnt in this town on the
sth of November. A placard, with the following in-
scription, was placed on the breast of" his Holiness:"—
" We, Pope Pius IX. and St. Impudentia, our Cardinal
Archbishop of Westminster (whose evil counsel has
brought both us and him to this untimely end), are
doomed to be burnt this evening, November 5, 1850."