Lord Mayor's Show

London, Nov. 9. - In spite of a thick drizzle and a heavy fog the ancient oustom of presenting the elected chief magistrate of London to the representatives of the sovereign and to the people was observed with success. The usual throng ined the route and the decorations wera more numerous than customary. They consisted mainly of triumphal arenes, Venetian masts, floral festoons, and a. liberal display of bunting. "The show," although attractive as a mere spectacle, looked even more tawdry than usual in the fog, rain and mud, although to many these circumstances did not make it any less attractive" as a historiral relie, a survival of the days when the eorporation of the city of London played lts part, and that no light one, in the contest for constitutioral freedom and material well being. "Brltlsh Spori." The procession included a car representing "British Sports," with a huntsman, bicyclists, etc, including an Indian, representing Prine Ranjitsinghi, illustrating cricket. A nother car depicted the "Founders of Greater Brltain," including Sir Walter Raleigh, Admiral Penn, Warren Hastings,, Lord Clive and Cecil Rhodes. An old stage coach cf the year 1837 was followed by a motor car, presenting a striking contrast of the modes of loecmotion in the past and present times. Then there were the usual contingenta of soldiers, sailors, firemen, artillery and the city companies, the whole thickly interspefsed with bands of music. When the procesgion reached the law courts the lord mayor, in full civic robes, preceded by the recorder, Sir Forest Fulton, and attended by the retiring lord mayor, the sheriffs, the mace-bearer. sword-bearer, chaplain, aldermen in thelr sabletrimmed gowns, together with other civic functionaries, proceeded to the court of the lord chief justice, where they were received by the judges, attired in scarlet robes, full-bottomed wigs and cocked hats. Solftmn Courtesieft ExrliRiicprl. There the usual solemn courtestes were exehanged, the lord mayor, in exeroise of an lmmemorial right, remainIng covered white the recorder read a eulogistic review of the new lord mayor's career, referrir.g to his blameless youth, successful commercial career and ■well-spent life, crowned by the attainment of the highest clvic honors. From this court, after the retiring lord mayor had been formally presented to the judges by Sir Forest Fulton, the procession went to the court of appeala and was recelved by the master of the rolls and the appeal Judges, attired in their robes of black and gold. The ceremonies here were merely formal. The dignitaries then returned to thelr coaches and resumed the march to the city.