The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-05
CITY INTELLIGENCE.
LyOR ADDIEIONAL IooAI IrEMs snn INsrsn FAsns.l

Coy FAwKEs' DAY-"THR GUNPowDKK TREA-
son AND PLpT"-The attempt OF Guy Fawkes aud his
supremacy IN Great Britain, by wholesale dessruc-
tl9n OF King James and his Protestant Parllauseni
hs such neiaiious 81 heme that down present
6y gay we people OF hngland accustomed to cele-
~ ,neI NellVerance with more or less earnestues3
intended 70 cause the mine placed beneath tn
beT s, I M 10 explode on tue 80 of Oclo
TWO HOUSES. All the preparations had been com.
preparations were made towards carrying The scns ne
niV @ M ana Ia arIans ng the course TO pur
su Oy tne cOhBpratOrB in case OF successful 5sue
, But the King Hne1 pecledy proTogued PARLIAMENT
date the whole scheme was ed to ihe King and
h's Minsseis Thus preventing The history Of religious
would have been utterly without a parallel.
passed making the stu OF Move ii,er a az,
and subsequently spgca church service Tor day
was arranged aud held is place part OF the ritual
OF the Englhh BOOK OF Common rrayer until IL was
Council the Time the special services ioT the
ngrtyrdom OF charles aud the restoration OF Charles
however, sll continue celebrate the 5tR of Soysm
that day efgy OF Guy FawRes s pFepared piscsd
~ ~ GhaE H. a9a tatn & carried ia formal procession
tor s set on very ridculousy II Is attred iu an out
nOuuted by high paper cap gorgeously painted and
decorated with knots of co0red paper strips in imi,
cheap pipe IS inserted between The teeth a dark
the other, with much ado ana " ia lsGues I IN
crowd Of masked urchins follow the eiiigy about
TRe TBRemFffnlGSI' FflS af' NaRe@Seri Se%e nBeri
The Sunpowder treason and plot.
There is no reason
why the GunpOwder treason
should ever be forgot"
"a AT some places these lines are varied the follow.
1.-THE Filth of November;
Since can remember,
GunpOwder treason aud ploI:
IDS T g. Is the The day that God dld prevent.
STICK aud stake
For Vctoria's sake;
Ii you Wont give me one
The better for me,
a no the worse for you"
tho tim far
nrewoo1 they likewise solicit money from the
passeisby, using the words-"Pray remember GuyIT
Please 70 remember Guy ~ or please to remember
the bQnhrel After proceeding through the streets
ine thrOng halts at ughtfalI, and then burns the
image OF lhe cOnspratOr in huge bonfire with cere
MONIES ~ Huch resembling the celebration of election
Formerly the annual burning of Guy Fawkes I'm
LObQOn. was conducted on very inpOs ng scale Two
nuhueu carloads OF fuel appropriated to keep
ing up mons,rous bonfire in LtncOlns Ina Fields
pended on gibbets above IL and committed to the
names. clare Market was also the scene of a great
cunnagraliOn, MAINTAINED by the butchers who sub
sequt nty paraded IN streets In great fOrCa, re-
n usic. Meanwhile the bells would be kept ringing
ana general uproar prevail throughout the city,
Of iate years, The anniversary OF the "Guupowder
treason and plot has been embraced cast ridicule
on prominent pubic characters, maui fest the
hatGed OF he public towards the emies of the ma
ton, In 1850, when the aumosty OF certain portion
OF Ihe public was deeply excited by the so.called
. Paphl Aggression instead CT eiligy of Guy
tHWEeS, Cardinal Wiseman. then recently created
Catholic Archbishop of Westminster was hnnored by
awarded to Nena SahIb, in return for the atrocities OF
Cawnpore,