Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-12-07
FROM OUR LONDON CoRREsP oNDENT.
LONDON, NOVEMBER IA, 1850

| LONDON, NOVEMBER H. 1850.
The annual Carnival of this great City and its
crowded and far-extending suburbs, has come and
gone. LORD MAYORS day has this year been at
tended with unusual circumstances as respects the
weather, the condition Of the people, and the cele-
bration ITSELF and all tending to make the day pass
brightly and pleasantly, and to realize the idea of
peoples holyday.
The sky was bright and fair, and the sun shone
as it seldom vouchsafes to do on London in Novem-
ber the air was comfortably warm, and the streets
clean without being dusty. The hundreds of thou
sands OF people, who crowded together in every
part through which the procession passed. were, al
most without exception, neat in their appearance,
and orderly, although excited in their behavior.
There was no gaunt exhibition of poverty, drunk
enness, or disorder and though pressed together
almost to suffocation, and certainly to great de-
gree of inconvenience, the most imperturbable good
temper every where prevailed. Then the process
sion itself was remodeed, and possessed much at
tractve novelty. Instead of the men in armor and
the bygone and misunderstood display Of heralds
and tabards, and knights and banners, we had pa
geant exhibiting Peace and Plenty, and Europe,
ASIA Africa, and America, with appropriate dresses accou
trements emblems &c. Then followed tableau four
beautiful horses emblematcal of Industry, the Fine Arts,
Commerce, and Manufactures. s#
The principal OBJECT IN the moving fd6tedu was car OF
gigantic dimensions In the upper part Of this car which
was made slant towards the ground seated Peace,
statue efgy but real animated goddess, bearing
with her the embems Of her reign and grazing hehaacter
as much by her looks her carriage Below Britannia
also animated figure, looking she has been from time
mmemora supposed TO look when ruling the waves, and
having Of sailors at her feet The whole appearance
of this very striking reminding Of the tumpha
vehicles Of old Rome The peaceful goddess preceded
by four horseback who severay represented the four
quarters Of the globe and whose faces had been submitted
the artist in order that they might the proper hue
In their dress and weapons ALSO great had been taken
complete the illusion. camel represent Asia zooogi
cay. formed another object of interest but the popular
wonder was further increased by the spectacle Of elephant
whose back furnished with one Of those wake
from which eastern achers to have shot forth
their weapons Both the elephant and the camel marched
with much order and proprey though they had been
trained to the business from infancy had personally
sented to hgure in the procession, condition that they
should afterwards dine with the lord mayor. II would
be wrong TO omit 10 mention DEER whose backs
mounted with eay symbols Of their favote hauns and
whose behavior quite in keeping with the occasion.
These deer were the geological emblem Of America Europe
represented by noble horse. The assembled public EVIL
IDENTIFY approved Of this part Of the procession and
parsons were made in the least complimentary to the old
style Of getting up the affair Altogether il day upon
which foreigner might have learned much Of English
and customs, asexhbited by the people large and
Engishman seen much Of his counymen which would have
ga6ed him, and little with which be could Justly have been
dpeased. The usual sumpuous banquet took place the