In the evening, the metropolis was brilliantly illuminated. The display
was not more distinguished for originality of design than such displays usually are; but what it wanted in value, it made up in quantity, for on no former occasion hate crowns, anchors, mottoes, devices, some good some bad, some appropriate some inappropriate, been more lavishly exhibited. We can spare room to notice but a very few of the- more conspicuous. To enjoy the scene, it was necessary to be in it ; for no description can do justice either to the general effect of the illumi- nation or to its moving acceompaniments of peripatetics, whom it would be requisite to reckon by hundreds of thousands, and of coaches and cars of all kinds and shapes, which rolled on in slow and endless succession through all the principal thoroughfares. The most splendid parts of the metropolis were, as usual, St. James's Street, Parliament Street, and Ludgate Hill. The appearance of the last street was exceedingly striking. Every house was illuminated, and several of them displayed lamps even to the very roof. Run- dell and Bridge had a gas crown, which might have served for the Monument, for size : it was the most brilliant affair we ever saw. The Ordnance Office, in Pall Mall, was very fancifully lighted up: the lamps were arranged in wreaths of laurel, anchors, stars, and crowns, besides- which there were transparencies of their Majesties, and representations of cannons and bombs, and other emblems of that department. The Club- Louses in this neighbourhood exhibited various expensive devices. Crock- ford's, in St. James's Street, was one blaze of light. The Duke of Northumberland's house near Charing Cross, was very tastefully and-bril- liantly illuminated, the numerous windows fronting the Strand being surrounded by double rows of lamps. The Admiralty was very brilliant, and the Horse Guards vied with it. The Guildhall, by means of gas, presented the traces of its Gothic architecture in lines of light. The front of the Mansion House was covered with a gas illumination, con- sisting of a crown, W. R. and W. A. Lloyd's, north side of the Royal Exchange, had a brilliant crown, under it the letters W. R. A., and on each side stars, diamonds, laurels, and other devices, with a large anchor.-
This display was not confined to the principal streets of the town. The streets of traffic were even grander than those which are more especially honoured by the immediate presence of the aristocracy: the brilliancy of Day and Martin's establishment, set off as it was with its enormous flags and ten-feet capitals, and projecting diadem of resplendent gas, threw the petty devices of many of the club-rooms wholly into the shade.
There were several elegant illuminations in Pentonville and Islington. In Greenwich and Deptford there was a brilliant display; almost every
house was illuminated. The Surry side of the water was generally illuminated. Vauxhall Gardens, Astley's Theatre, and the other places of public amusement, exhibited the Royal Crown and the initials in dif, ferent coloured lamps.
We could hardly have believed, had it not been gravely set clown— we did not see it—the Marquis of Londonderry's mansion, in Park Lane, did not show a single light ! In Hyde Park, fire-works; by official person'sfrom Woolwich, and a balloon by Graham, had been announced. The formerexploded between ten and twelve o'clock, and the latter ascended at five. The balloon was visible from all the most frequented thoroughfares for more than an hour; and the fire-works were the most admirable spechnens of the pyrotechnic-art that the metropolis ever saw. All the Theatres were open by Royal command; the company being, by a very proper, regulation, admitted by tickets ; and Vaukhall was cipen durbig the whole of a day toO unsettled in its purpose for any oUt- cif-deors recreation, except a Coronation arcicesaion..
Orstich ceremonies as We haVe been descaibing,;no man ban reasonably hope to see—no reasonable man .would wish to ..see--many repetitions. That it may be many years before we are called on to pen an aceount.of another, is our honest prayer, not coming from the lips, but from the bot- tom- of our hearts, as sincere welliviShers of a good and gracious Mo-, nerds, whose •name *ill be cherished for centuries to come as the REGENERATOR. Orrin CONSTITUTION. OF 'ENCILANu. With these feelings towards the Sovereign Whose venerated head we oh Thursday 'saw en- circled by that golden round which had glittered on the brow of Many great and a .few good men, but of none more worthy of the honour, we sayeas " GOD SAVE KING .11rILLLIPS TEE FOURTit ! "
And let all the people answer-
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