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On Thursday, the Lord Mayor Elect, attended by the Recorder and other City officers, was presented to the Lord Chancellor, at the Chan- cellor's residence in Bruton Street. The Recorder dwelt in the usual complimentary strain on the high character and valuable services of Mr. Cowan ; he also touched on his genealogical respectability— He had lived fifty years in the place in which he at that moment carried on business; and he was descended from a family who were highly respected in Stirling and Perth, in one of which towns an ancestor of his built an hospital, which still went by his name. Mr. Cowan fully sustained the character of his progenitors; and the Recorder felt confident that it gentleman so well qualified an every respect, and possessing in so high a degree the respect and esteem of his fellow citizens, would be approved of by her Majesty as Lord Mayor of London.
Lord Cottenham briefly expressed her Majesty's high approbation of the choice of the citizens of London.
The route of the Queen to the City on Thursday next is not exactly known ; but it will be either along Pall Mull, or through the Horse Guards by Charing Cross to the Strand, and thence by the principal streets to the Guildhall. The shopkeepers and inhabitants are making preparations to accommodate spectators, and considerable sums are asked and given for good seats. Covered benches have been erected on the sides of the churches in the Strand, and Fleet Street, and St. Paul's. The gates at Temple Bar have been repaired and painted; and even Child's banking-house, for so many years dingy and dirty, has assumed a cleanly and cheery aspect in honour of the great day. The Police Committee have issued from the Guildhall the following programme of the civic procession.
1. Tied the Lord Mayor, Aldermen. and Sheriff's receive her Majesty at Temple Bar, awl precede her Majesty on horseback to the Goildhall.
2. That upon her Majesty entering the City the Lord Mayor deliver to her Majesty the Sword of State according to Ilsual custom.
3. That the procession from Temple liar be formed lathe following order; Police Officers, The Six Members appointed by the Court of Common Council, in their mazarine gowns, two abreast, each attended by a groom. The Sheriffs, in full dress, in their scarlet gowns and chains, each attended by a Sergeant ancl a Groom, The Aldermen, in full dress. in their scarlet gowns, those past the chair in their chains, with their Beadles carrying their maces on their right side, and a grown each on their left, two abreast, the Juoiors first, and so down to the Seniors.
The Sword Bearer aud the Mace.Bearer.
The Lord Mayor, in full it with a crimson velvet robe, and collar of SS. immediately ineceding her Majesty. 4. That the Levi Mayor. Aldermen, Recorder, Shears, awl City Officers, his Lord. Slop in his entertaining Roan, with the collar or SS and jewel ; the Aldermen in their scarlet gowns, those past the chair in their chains ; the Sheriffs in their scarlet gowns and chains; and the Recorder and City Officers in their gowns, attend at the entrance of the Guildhall to precede Iter, Majesty to the Council Chamber, and attend her Ilajesty till seated, alien the Recorder should address her Majesty with suitable eoropinnents. b. 'flint the Aldermen and Sheriffs, with their ladies, be intro limed to her Majesty in the Council Chamber, upon her Majesty's arrival there. iu like manner as upon former occasions.
6. Tina the Lord Mayor, and not leas than sin Aldermen, according to seniority, with the Recorder and sheriffs, precede her Majesty to the Royal table iu the uild- lhallond attend upon her Majesty at dinner. 7. That the Lady Mayoress be requested to receive her Majesty at the entrance of the Guildhall, and also to attend upon her Majesty at dinner.
S. That the Aldermen be requested to be in their carriages with thick ladies, awl enter the barrier at Temple Bar by a quarter of an hour before two o'clock at the latest and, as WW1 as the A idermen alight. that the carriages, a ith their ladies, im. snediately proceed to the Guildhall, so that no interruption may take place to Inc Idajesq's procession.
There will be a general illumination in the evening, "wind and weather permitting." A foolish intention of the Lumber Troop to fire a salute from the roof of Anderton's Coffeehouse on the arrival of the Queen at Temple-bar, has been prevented by an order of the Police Committee, prohibiting the discharge of fire.arms.
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