Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1859-12-06

Juvenile shouts and songs, and now and
then harmless and solitary squib--rc-
minding one that the powder wasn't all at
the Parliament House, but much nearer
home! Just as VIC were sitting down to
breakfast, q party of half-a-doZen little
boys, bearing the efigy of Guy in chair
came up our street, and catching sight o.
our curious faces, deposited their burden
at our gate, and their leader sung out:
'CIood gcntlefOlks pray,
Rcmemember this day,
| To which your kind notice bring.
| Here's the figure Of ely
Old villianous Guy,
Who wanted 10 murder the king:
| With powder stOro
| lie bitterly swore,
| As he skuIkGd in the vault to prepare
| How the Parliament, too,
| By him and his crew,
| Should nll be blown up in the Hr.
So please to remember tho nth Of November,
| Gunpowdcr treason and plot;
We know reason why gunpowder treason
| Should ever be forgot"
And the rest of the company Joined in the
chorus with lusty huzzA, holding out
their caps for :'a penny to help burn Guy.n
Howe, the great chronicler of ancient
English customs, gives US some interesting
facts upon this day, and if what we saw
and heard is good criterion, the present
show is vastly inferior to that of the good
old times. l suppose it isn't the best way
W ASNu "tStO'TI DuG HANS DCSH ihtCl CStGu
in reading in this connection Ainsworth's
novel of Guy FNwkes. Whether he is an
impartial historian, know not; but con-
1esS to n more kindly feeling for the miscra-
| ule wretch,-the hero of the 9Th of No
vember-than when, in my school-days,
could hardly restrain my exccration, going
SO far in my wrath, as literally to ''stick
him in the cyc"-with IL pin Formerly,
we are told, as many as two hundred cart
| loads of faggots were collected i'll one
place and burned, lighting up the city for
great distance, while tue church bells
were rung and the noise kept up all night.
On Wednesday we had quite another
| spectacle, called the Lord Mayors show.
| ~ course, this, too, was pronounced inte-
rior to what it has been, but it had all the
charm of novelty TO our eyes. and WAS well
worth the looking at. The Mayor is elect
cd from the Aldermen previously, but goes
in state from GuildhHll TO Westminster to
take in the Court of EXchequer his OathsOf
| Office. For many years past, the procession
has gone in bargeS by the river, butthis year
1t proceeded through Cheapsidc, St. PnuIS
churchyard, Fleet street strand, making
the longest tour ever known-and ms
strange TO tell, the day WAS fine, the pcO-
pie thrOmged ut an early hour, filling every
point of sight on the route. The fine,
trim-Iooking police were plenty, and so
too were pickpockets and rogues | can
not attempt to give You i'll detail the order
of the procession.
A staff of police constables came first
to clear the way. Military bands, three
trumpetcrS o score or more watermen in
scarlet frock-cOuts, each bearing :, large
and SPLENDID banner. Clockmaker's COM
pany-ther master in his charot-undcr
city marshal on horse another company
of watermen with banners as before; band
of Coldstream Guards, the two shcriffs,
each with his attendant chaplain Alder
men in the potential mood" as one ex-
pressed it, the Recorder, the Aldermen
who are FIR Mayors. the late Lord Mayor;
servants in state liverieS. another band
mounted, Upper City Marshal on horse,
and then the huge stntc-conch drawn by
six horses, with the new Lord Mayor and
attendants. The Indy Mayoress with three
lady attendants, in her state-cnrriage
Joined the procession on its return: ms
also the members of the court, and cabi-
net, and ambassadors, who were invited to
the grand banquet at Guildhall, served Mt
/ p. N.
This day (9thl being also the 18th
birthday of the Prince of Wales, and ccle-
brated at Windsor, where the Court is
now, many of the chief dignitarics were
absent from the Lord Mayors banquet in
attendance upon the Queen. In the even
| ing many shops in various parts of the
metropolis were brilliantly Illuminated in
Long may his good and beloved mother
reign Ign a,.-,---. a..
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