SCOTLAN D.
The Coronation was celebrated in Edinburgh, on the 28t1), with much splendour and festivity. The constituted authorities of the place appear to have put themselves at the head of the people, and, by a judi- C1011S variation of the amusements and attractions, prevented any thing like tumult. The Edinburgh Weekly Journal says- " The throwing open of the College Mu+eunt, the Botanical Gardens, and other such places of interest, was MI experiment, the result of which was looked to with much anze:y, and the success of which was most satisfactory. Though the eagerness to obtain admission was so great as to put the spectators occasionally to considerable inconvenience, not the slightest infnry was dune to any of the fragile objects of curiosity which thep thronged to examine. Among the public displays in honour of the day, which are fully described in another part of this paper, we must here notice one in particular. We allude to the wildly romantic effect produced by the illumination of Arthur's Seat, and his attendant hills, by signal-fires of various colours and of superb brilliancy. The Loudon displays of rockets, in flights of many hundreds at a time, must have been a trifle compared with the magical scene which these picturesque bills afforded, when lighted up with a blaze which revealed every crag and crevice, while the opposite high grounds emerging from the gloom appeared studded with human faces. A more striking spectacle has seldom been moo. When a pyrotechnic display is attempted in Edinburgh again, the superb effects producible by the means to which we advert, ought always to bear a prominent part in the arrangements."
At Dundee, the close of the day was signalized by something so very boisterous as to resemble a Out ; and indeed it is called a " riot " in one of the accounts,—though with a sort of apology, almost amount- ing to praise, for a public good educed from mischief and danger. A huge crowd bad collected towards night in the High Street. There was a good deal of fun, many practical jokes were played, with firing of squibs and crackers. Nobody was hurt. At length a cry for a bon- fire was raised, and a rush made towards the shipping for materials. A boat was seized, in spite of some resistance by the Police • and then some tar-barrels. But the mob were not content with such insignifi • cant materials ; they wanted a splendid illumination ; and it was pro- posed to burn down the "Circus," or "Scott's Shaksperian Pantheon," a large wooden erection, which seems to have earned a bad rime, by other practices, we presume, than those of a purely Thespian chow- ter. The Pantheon was. doomed ; and away went the crowd with their blazing boat, which was soon put alongside of the building. In half an hour the entire edifice was destroyed. The populace acted as Burke said they are apt to do—" they abated the nuisance—they burnt down the house." The mob then quietly dispersed.
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