New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-16
INCIDENTS OF THE JUBILEE.

THE LONDON sHoPKEEPERs ELATED-RoYAL
COURTEsIEs - STREET DECORATIONS - IN
TERES ED LOYALTY-AMUsEMENTS OF THE
POPULACE.
IFROM an OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE
LONDON Feb. 27.-The London shOpkeeper
got his will Royalty He has got the Queen
into the streets with blaze OF parade beyond
all his expectations For years there have been "hOw
ing and gnashng OF teeth" among court tradesnen
the Queen did not hold frequent courts and
lace and ribbons and bonnet to be disposed
o. The Thanksgiving day resolved upon TO their
great delight. Whether they will be equally delighted
with it is another question. Their business
pended Saturday. On Monday they blockaded;
to-day their shops built up and they
easting their customers instead Of fleeing them
Tomorrow there will he no business done. 1t
will be 1hursday before they have cleared away their
decorations and lmproyised verandahs Beside having
spent considerable sums OF money and lost the services
OF their servants and missed all the business Of street
customers, many Of them must be paying dearer for
their loyalty than they intended and not at all in thanks
giving mood. Many, doubtless have done well by their
sale OF seats One gentleman wrote TO member Of Par
lament. Offering him private room for seeing Her
Majesty pass Fleetst for 100 guineas The letter was
shown 10 me, might he supposed 10 be writing cred
ulously II much business was done this scale OF
charge, why some tradesmen must have pro6ted. An
American walking through streets to-day, from
Buckingham Palace TO St. Paus Cathedral, would be Of
opinion have spent enough loyal money TO pay
the indirect Alabama claims" of. At Temple Bar,
where the site of the great Law CoursOr rather
great OF the Law Courte for the Courts do mt exist
ye-a little city of has been put by an enerpris
ing The price of these seats wonderfully
enhanced by repetition In the papers OF the historic
fiction Of Her Majesty knocking at the door OF the city,
and claiming admission Of the Lord Mayor, when the
gates TO be grandy opened after great perform
in heraldry. Her Majesty did by the gates as she
does the addresses presented 70 her She takes the
addresses read and took the gates opened The
Lord Mayor presented she paused on her way, the
keys and sword OF the city, which she graciousy
touched and then the Mayor mounted his horse and
ceded Her Majesty, indicating that her proud self
wed and independent eges OF the famous old City OF
London. condescended 10 admit Her Majesty within
their walls or Temple Bar has been won
derfuly furnished up II has decorations OF gold and
velvet quite touching TO behold The Kings Charles l.
and H., the Queen Anne, and others, have long
reposed murky majesty hiding from anxious eyes
their regal glores II is about century ago from this
time that Of the heads of the traitors hung upon
temple Bar fell down. Any one may measure the pro-
sfess Of civilization by this incident AT that time
heads and quarters Of bodies were suspended there and
People had trade selling the use OF Eyeglasses to
enaoe the curious contemplate the last agonies of the
ue"o ana nnal Disagreement OF their bodies. II would
pe utterly Impossible do anything of this kind, or
" "ho ~ brutal an exhibition The barbsrous specta
o "ouo SEM thrill Of horror through Europe. Unl
this decoration took place the nas still remained in the
par on which the heads were suspended. have not
peeh abe 10 observe, under the decorations whether
ney are yet there or are removed II they are. proba
S narhu" has bought them for his museum. The gates
pesneared with the mud and sludce OF a million omn
pnses and cabs rushing through them every year. had
very grim look To-day they are resplendent in paint
ana the old iron nails driven into them have their heads
GUIDED and the knoeker 1t looks dainty enough for
queen TO raise As the passed through the Bar
f Her Majesty had Gone no, they ralssd the knocker
nu oeA. tattat that might be heard ~ GuiIdbaI but
"'''o''hng legal to-day which v net rtctcus, the