these not being forthcoming, he was sent to prison. On entering the
hackney coach, he instantly smashed the windows with his elbows, and
screamed out to the sentinels: "Guards of England, do your duty, and
rescue your Sovereign." He was, after a very short imprisonment,
confined in a lunatic asylum.

The other case was a German baker, but he only uttered threats against
the Queen and her mother, and he, too, was put in an asylum.

A great event, and a very grand sight, was the Queen's visit to the City
of London on 9 Nov., when Alderman Cowan inaugurated his mayoralty. The
Queen went in State, attended by all her Court, her Ministers, the
Judges, etc. The procession started from Buckingham Palace soon after 2
p.m. and reached Guildhall about 3.30.

The interior of the Guildhall was "exceeding magnifical." There was a
canopy of carved gilt, with draperies of crimson velvet and gold fringe
and tassels, its interior, being also of crimson velvet, was relieved by
ornaments in silver and a radiated oval of white satin with golden rays.
The back was fluted in white satin, enriched with the Royal Arms in
burnished gold. The State chair was covered with crimson velvet with the
Royal Arms and Crown, with the rose, thistle and shamrock tastefully
interwoven.

At each end of the Hall, the walls were covered with immense plates of
looking-glass. The window at the eastern end of the Hall, above the
throne, having been removed, a gigantic wooden framework was substituted,
on which was erected a gorgeous piece of gas illumination. Above the
mouldings of the windows, and over the City Arms, waved the Royal
Standard and the Union Jack. Above was the Royal cypher, V.R., in very
large characters, surmounted by the appropriate word "Welcome," the whole
being encircled by an immense wreath of laurels, which terminated, at the
lower extremity of the framework, with the rose, thistle and shamrock.
Over the clock at the western end, and reaching nearly the whole breadth
of the Hall, with Gog and Magog on the right and left, was placed an
immense stack of armour, with upwards of 30 furled flags as an
appropriate background. Immediately above was the magnificently radiated
star of the Order of the Garter, surrounded by crimson drapery, and the
scroll "God save the Queen" entirely composed of cut glass, which, when
lit up, seemed, literally, one continued blaze of diamonds. The whole
was surmounted by the imperial crown and wreaths