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The county papers teem with descriptions of the rejoicings in every part of England in honour of the Coronation. It would be impossible with the limited space at our command to detail all the rare doings— the processions — the thinners— the balls — the races — the fairs—the illuminations—avid, not least, the charities of that day in every town and village of importance in the kingdom. Children and the poor seem to have been sumptuously provided for in all parts. Every pro. vincial journal that we look into, from those of Cumberland to those of Cornwall, mention thousands of' children who were regaled on that day. The best spirit seems to have animated the people everywhere. Although such multitudes were on the move, we do not hear that any breach of the peace was committed, or that any accident took place.— Courier.
Many of the provincial papers have favoured their readers with large wood-cut representations of her Majesty's Coronation, which profess to have been token on the spot. The artist, we presume, was so much dazzled by the splendour of the scene that he saw things which had no reality. The Peeresses are represented to have large head- dresses of feathers; whereas in fact they wore no featherp whatever, as such a head-gear would have incapacitated them from putting un
their crowns. Again, the Queen is represented as crowned, whilst the Peers and Peeresses have their crowns in their hands; and her Majesty is holding both sceptre and orb, whilst, if the artist bad cor. rected his dazzled vision by a reference to the programme, he would have seen that the orb was laid on the altar before the sceptre was deli- vered to the Queen. Her Majesty's dress when crowned appears also to have afforded another curious instance of optical illusion.—Globe.
A printer in a small town in 1Vorcestershire having been applied to to print a notice for closing the shops for the day of the Coronation, by some mistake, purposely or accidentally made, the letter c was put in the place of s; which made it read as follows—" Notice is hereby given, that all the tradespeople have agreed not to open their chops on the Coronation-day." This, of course, was an unlucky announcement for many when the roust beef and plum-pudding came in view.— War. wick ildcerlizer.
Six persons were killed at Coryton, a village about seven miles from Tavistock, by the bursting of a cannon which one of them was firing on the 28th.
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