The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-06-25 00:00:00

STO'r/ITIRIDGE MISERVETt.

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ASTER the ..hief Jahilee c,ll-e7n-uly ,-)f
th--3 Thankgg;ving Service at Westminsttr,
n,nd the wonderful aggretration of glinting
light and glowinz co:ours wYell. made.
London a blaze of brightness on Tkiesday
night, nothing pertaining to the Jubilee was
more Markworthy than the beaconiq and bon
fires that flared on so many an eminence up
and down the kingdom, A flight of rockets
sivead the intelligence at ten o'clock at
night that, a heacon.had beeu lighted on rho,
g-IlPgt point Of the Malvern range and,
fiery signals at once went nn West,.
south, and north, till the sky wer all these
islands was suffused with a red reflected
glare; and those who esgayed to give a
i,-tic]rendering of Lord iVacartlav's picture
of a rnemoral)le 0ec,.1,4,11 in Qaeen
reign have every 1::::C011 to he 2atied
with the success of their efforts.

Txti Trinity Elo-use anthorit:es were cer-
tainly justified in issning the warning ti
mariners which they published some weeks
back that all sorts of strange lights were
likely to be visible on (J.- about till! British
coasts on the night of Tuesday last. What
with the beacons on scores of headlands and
lesser bonfires along shore in many spots,
together with the public and private illu-
minations on a greater or lesser scale at
almost every port, and in many a little
haven also, there must have been much to
bewilder and mislead sailors who came into
British waters had they not been posted in
the details of how we intended to celebrate
the Queen's Jubilee. The dusk nig4-
,matitle which is'wont to hang overhead
was for some hours of Jubilee night trans-
formed into the semblance of a brignt
aurora.

FOItEIGMEitS cruising in sight of our coasts
on Tuesday night and not cognisant of the
celebration which was being so brilliantly
honoured might well wonder at first whether
some terrible conflagration had not 'befallen
Britain, so wide-spread was the evidence of
fire ; and, on closer approach, puzzle them-
selves with the question as to what gave
rise to such a festivity as esiciantly was be.
lug accentuated by picturesque illumination.
The new light of this century sent forth far-
reaching beams of brilliant whiteness from
towers and spires hero and there ; gas devices
were discernible for many miles from high
structures and points of eminence.. french•
people were startled at seeingwith the naked
eye after the first nightfall of the summer
L•olistice the frowning castle which tops the
white cliffs of Dover plainly outlined in
letters of fire, though at broad daylight the
ramparts of the fortress can but 1) diicerned
across .the channel by the aid Of a gla'Ss. On
Shakespeare's cliff, too, blazed a big •b..infire,
visible for miles along the coast o France.
The Dover illumination, including- as it did
the limning of the lett r " V.R." in monstre
letters of fire on the front of the commanding
castle keep, was among the most effective of
picturesque efforts to mark by pyrotechny
the completion of the Queen's Jubilee.

THE slight accident to the I%laripais of
Lorne as he played his part in the stately
cavalcade of princely relatives of the Queen
who formed her Majesty's body guard during
the procession to the Abbey service on
Tuesday was sufficiently startling, but hap-
pily had no result of a character, calculated
to cast a gloom over the brilliant memories
of the day's pageant. Her Majesty's Scottish
son-in-law was pronounced unhurt, and his
unmanageable steed having been exchanged
for a more docile animal from the Palace
stables, the husband of the Princess Louise
was able to ride by a short route to West-
minster in time to take his proper place in
the procession on foot into the sacred Lane,
much to the relief of the Queen and the rest
of the Royal family. One or two fatalities
occurred, and a number of injuries to the
person of a.more or• less serious character
were sustained, but on the whole the great
pageant passed over with much less mishap
than could have been expected.

Evelawlnals the chilth'en • -have been kept
well in view when arratigetnents for the
Jubilee celebrations were being - made, and
5h15 was well The young of to-day are the
men and women of coming time, and meet
it is that so great and important an event
should be deeply graven on . their memories.
So enthusiastic has been the festivity, and
so widespread and sucressful the efforts to
give the young e share in it, that the Jubilee
of Queen Victoria's will literally be an indi-
vidual reminiscence of a
.red-letter order
when all our babes are old. The fortunate
thousands who were congregated in
Hyde-park and favoured- with a sight of the
Sovereign Lady of the land have m,,st.cause
of congratulation; but multitudes more of
juvenile scholars held high festival during
the Jubilee week in L4ndon, and myriads
also assembled in " school-feast" order in
the towns, cities, and villages of England,
Wales, Ireland, and !7.cotland ;* and it can
safely be said that the National Anthem was
sounded nowhere sweeter or more heartily
than by their fresh young voices.

THOUGH the Jabilee;Gazette was a big one,
it cannot be said that the completion of the
half-century of the Queen's rule has been
characterised by such a shower of hoitoms
as some had anticipated. • In municipal
circles especially there is disappointment, as
many a man who will have to remain plain
esquire had, misled by a, widespread licinour,
expected to have the distiEction of a
knightly pronomen., The Colonists are also,
in a measure, out i,n,the cold, for no repre-
sentative of oar dependencies has prefer-
ment in the roll of honour Of the United
Kingdom—except some creations and pro-
motions in the soraewhat lightly-esteemed
Ordeir'' -pecnliar to those who have done
Colonial service, that of St. Michael and St.
George. Sir Henry Norman-is a Colonial
Governor, but his decorAion is for military
service, not, in reward of his good "work in
Jamaica. Looking down. the line of those
who are honoured, the distinctions which
have cauelgreatest comment are the peer-
ages conferred on the Chairman of the
Metropolitan Board of Works, while the
Chief Magistrate of London City 9ains a
commoner; the making of Sir WihiaiuArm-
strong of gun-making renown, into a lord;
the conferring of a baronetcy and knight-
hood respectively on the proprietors of the
Morning Post and Sheffield Telegraph, both
journalists ; and the grantirg of patcnts of
knighthood to Mr. Doulton, of poitery-ware
celebrity Mr. Holloway, w 11( S e father
manufactured pills and founded gigantic
philanthropic institutions ; 4nd Air. Arnold
White, pressman and worker for the good of
his fell jws.

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