The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-24 00:00:00

TILE QUEEN'S VISIT TO COB URG.

EMBARKATION AT GRAVESEND.
On Saturday, at 5 20 p.m., ber Majesty the
Queen and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort,
with her Royal Highness the Princess Alice, em-
barked on board the Royal yacht from the Terrace-
pier, Gravesend, proceeding on a visit to their
august relative the reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg
Gotha.

Notwithstanding the comparatively private
nature of the occasion, the town and corporation of
Gravesend, unwilling to lose any opportunity of
testifying their loyal attachment to her Majesty,
bad made every preparation to give the Royal party
a gay and cordial greeting. The streets through
which the Royal cortege was to pass from the rail-
way to the pier were perfect vistas of flags, ban-
ners, and floral wreaths, disposed in the most
tasteful and ornamental manner. The Assembly-
rooms and other principal buildings had each
sap-
propriate decorations in flowers and evergreen
but the flags, banners, and colours of all nations
which were suspended at regular intervals
across
the streets from windows and house-tops were
Decorative
evidently disposed by direction of a
Committee, and gave at once unityand
coup effect to the
d'ceil.
Over the entrance to the Terrace-pier was placed
a painted escocheon, emblazoned with the Royal
arms, the gateway being draped
flags, and ornamented
A draped with variegated.
bunting, surmounted with
with floral devices. Along the centre of the spa_
cious covered pier there
witho stretched from end to end
a gangway carpeted
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scarlet cloth, a portion
on either side being boarded off and seated to ac-
commodate a numerous
Mayor and
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Corporationoo tickets
to companyke
To these seats 1,400
an hour before the arrival of the Royal
more than
seat and stand was occupied, the
party every
greater part of the assemblage being ladies elegantly
dressed.
From the pier-head the gangway was continued
by a wooden bridge, also carpeted with crimson
cloth and draped with union jacks, to the Royal
yacht, the state of the tide not permitting her to
come close alongside.
The gangway was kept by the Mayor and mem-
bers of the Corporation, who were habited in
their robes and had white winds of office. The
inside roof of the pier was decorated with union-
jacks, intermingled with the colours of all nations.
The outside displayed a variety of flags and orna-
mental devices. The arrangements within the pier
were well conceived, and executed in a courteous
but businesslike manner„so that there was accom-
modation for all who had received tickets, and no
confusion in any quarter.
Those who had not tickets for the pier were ad-
mitted to the Terrace-gardens, from which a good
view could be had of the Royal yacht and the
Queen's embarkation.

The decorations were not confined to the buildings
on shore. Afloat, too, there were all the indications
of a gala day. The Osborne, anchored off the Town-
pier, with the Black Eagle and the Vivid lower down
in the stream, were all " dressed." The river
steamers and other vessels also displayed their
colours. There was scarcely a boat to be seen with-
out its company in holiday, dress, and waving a
unionlaok in honour of the Queen. The Rol