The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-16 00:00:00

several court officials, will raise the train of tho royal
mantle.

The Queen will then proceed to the foot of the altar, and
pray in silence, his Majesty remaining near. After this the
Queen's chief L dy of Honour, accompanied by several
ladies of the court, will approach her Majesty, and will in-
vest her Nt ith a mantle carried by Count Dohna -Schlobitten.
The General of the cavalry (Count von der Groeben), who
bears the Queen's crown, in the meantime draws near her
Majesty, who will take the crown and place it on her head,
whereupon the consecrating clergy will also recite a prayer
composed for the occasion. Their Majesties wil'•. then turn
to the altar, and will kneel upon cushions placed for them,
whilst the clergy will bless the royal pair.
In the meantime the bands will cease to play, and the
chief chaplain of the Ist army corps (Dr. Rachler) will re-
cite the Coronation Prayer. The organ will then play, and
their Majesties will return to their thrones, their trains
borne by the officials appointed for the purpose. The organ
still playing, the three cushions on the altar will be raised
by the dignitaries, and accompanied by the Chief Bnrgrave
with the sword of state, .tnd the Chancellor with the seal,
their bearers will return to the places they occupied at the
beginning of the ceremony.
The Consecrator will again return to the altar, and intone
the " Te Deum."

Whilst the King and Queen rise to return to the palace
in procession, the cathedral choirs will sing the Twenty-
first Psalm. Their Majesties will be accompanied to the
entrance of the church by the clergy in the same manner
as on their entrance. The troops will present arms on their
Majesties appearing at the entrance of the church, and the
music will cease for a time, when the Coronation March
will be agais begun, and played while the King and Queen
are in sight.

On reaching the grand outer steps their Majesties will
separate from the procession ; and the heralds, pages,
royal chamberlains, and others, who will line the steps,
will remain until the King and Queen have reached the
palace.

The King will proceed to the throne-room, and on his
entrance the hereditary office-bearers will place themselves
opposite the throne. The ministers of state, the PI ivy
Cabinet Councillors, and the chief presidents, will take up
positions on the left of the throne, and on the right will be
the Royal Princes, the Knights of the Order of the Black
Eagle, and the generals and adjutants of the King. The
Court officials will place themselves near the hereditary
office-bearers, in order to precede them again. The bearers
of the royal ic, signia will then proceed to the right and left
of the steps of the throne. As soon as the King has
mounted the throne, the General Field-Marshal, with the
banner of the kingdom, will take his station on the midile
step of the throne towards the left, or a little to the rear.
The Crown Prince will stand on the same step to the right.
The heralds of the Order of the Black Eagle will then pro-
ceed to the entrance of the ante-room.

After the King shall have signified his desire that the
Catholic clergy be introduced, the Chief Master of the Cere-
monies will order the door of the ante 'chamber to be opened,
and will accompany them to the King's presence, and after
an address has been presented by the chief of their body,
they will retire, and in like manner various members of the
nobility will be received.

In the meantime the guests invited to the ceremony will
have arrived from the church, and will have been conducted
to their places by the marshals.

When all have been arranged, the Minister of the Interior
will notify this to the King, who will then go in procession,
accompanied still by the bearers of the royal insignia,
through the red chamber to the throne tribune. The Crown
Prince will occupy the highest step of the throne on the
right, while the royal princes will place themselves on the
right of his Majesty, and the bearers of the insignia will
take up positions to the right and left. The ministers of
state will be stationed on the left of the throne next the
Minister of the Interior. On the right of the throne, and
behind the royal princes, the Knights of the Order of the
Black Eagle, the officers of the court, the general and other
adjutants, and the privy councillors, will take their places.
The hereditary office-bearers will then advance to the grand
staircase, and will place themselves two on each step in the
places yielded to them by the court pages.
At the same time the Queen, the Crown Princess, the
Royal Princesses, and distinguished guests and their suites,
will take seats at the windows overlooking the proceedings.
The addresses of congratulation offered by those invited
or commissioned to attend the ceremony will then be read
by an official in front of the throne. After his Majesty has
received these addresses, tile Minister of the Interior, by
command of his Majesty, will announce the promotions of
the nobility, and the various acts of grace accorded. There-
upon the royal herald, on horseback in the court-yard, will
shout " Long live King William 1" and whilst the kettle-
drums beat, the trumpets sound, and the spectators thrice
repeat this cry, the cannon without will fire a salvo. In
conclusion the choir, accompanied by the spectators, will
sing the hymn "Now all thank God." At the same time
101 guns will be fired.
Their Majesties will then retire to their chambers, and the
ceremony will be concluded.

MR. EVERETT S ADDRESS TO PRINCE

NAPOLEON.

At a dinner given to Prince Napoleon on Wednesday
evening, at the Revere House, Boston, U.S., by a number
of gentlemen of that city, the Hon. Edward Everett pre-
sided on the occasion, and welcomed the Prince in the fol-
lowing address :
" May it please your Imperial Highness and Gentlemen,
—ln discharging the agreeable duty of the chair on this
occasion, I feel that I shall conform not less to the dictates
of propriety, than to the well understood wishes of our
illustrious guest, by dealing as little as possible in the
ceremonious forms of public and official entertainments,
and giving the plainest and most direct utterance to the
cordial feelings with which we desire to welcome him.
Regretting only that his visit is too short to enable
us to offer him all the attentions, public and private,
due to his rank and character, we are gratified that
our industrial and educational institutions—our
colleges, factories, libraries, and schools, public works, and
historical localities—have been the subject of his acute ob-
servation and intelligent curiosity, competent and disposed
as he is to appreciate whatever of merit or interest they
possess, and to make due allowance for anything in which
they fall below the standard of older and richer States.
Our illustrious guest will remember that, compared with
the empires and kingdoms of Europe, we are, even in
the first settled parts of the country, a people of yester-
day; that while Louis XIV., in the Augustan age of the
old regime, was shaking Europe with the terror of his arms,
and France was adorned with celebrities in every depart-
ment of science and literature, which have not yet, and pro-
bably never will, be eclipsed, the little republics of New
England, which he has seen so populous and flourishing,
then numbering all told not above 80,000 souls, were
waging a doubtful contest with the children of the
forest. But even at that early period— and, in fact,
long before—the intimate relations of Franco and
America had commenced. While the continent of
North America, which our illustrious guest in his recent
Our has seen covered with the works and monuments of a
most rapidly advancing civilisation, still lay in a state of
nature, two of the leading Powers of Europe struggled for
its possession. Leaving South America and Mexico to Por-
tugal and Spain, England, more disposed to maritime adven-
ture, occupied the coast of North America; France pene-
trated the interior; nor do I know, sir, in the history of
civilisation a nobler sweep of exploration and colonial en-
terprise than that which was made by the Government of
France, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to that of
the Mississippi. You have recently retraced the northern
and central portions of that magnificent line of posti,
military, commercial, and missionary, and followed in ima-
gination the gallant adventurers who first ascended the St.
Lawrence and the great lakes, first launched the frail barques
on the Illinois, first of civilised men, followed its course to
the Father of American Waters, descended the mighty
stream, and planted the banners of France at the mouth of
the Mississippi. The names of Jacques Cartier, of Cham-
plain, of Marquette, of La Salle have received the tribute
of your admiration, on the spots for ever rendered famous
by their achievements, their noble toils, and their heroic
sacrifices, not made alone for military aggrandisement
or commercial gain. A spirit of ci ..:;sation, enlight-
ened beyond the standard of the -s, accompanied
their progress through the wilderness. The "Relations
des Jesnites" (of which the late republication at Que-
bec has, I. dare say, attracted the attention of your
Imperial Highness), remains to this day the most instructive
record of the early progress of discovery and settlement in
these regions. There is nothing, so far as lam aware, in
English colonial literature to be compared with them.
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scenes of that great Seven Years War. Two years bfeore
it was declared in Europe it had its effective origin in the
struggle between England and France for the possession
of the interior of this continent, and the first blow was
struck in the expedition sent by Virginia, under her youth-
ful Washington, against Fort Duquesne. That Pittsburg
which, I believe, sir, you have lately visited, containing
with its suburbs not less than 120,000 inhabitants, the seat
of a vast manufacturing industry, and a steam navigation
approaching 100,000 tons, occupies the spot then covered by
a little stockade fort, erected in 1754. That little fort was

constructed by a skilful French military engineer named
Mercier. Ido not know whether our honoured guest, the
French Minister, is of his family, or whether engineering
skill has descended with his name. I have not heard that
his excellency, since his residence in this country, has en-
trenched himself on his beautiful villa on Georgetown
Heights, or anywhere but in respect of the Government
and the good will of the people of the United States.
There he is strongly fortified. Well, sir, that little fort, as
you well recollect, became next year the intended prize
of the most formidable military expedition which, up to
that time, had ever been set on foot in North America.
Two veteran' British regiments, under a commander of 10
years' experience in the great wars of were met a
few miles from Fort end it may be pertinent to
obsprvo .6 the present day, when a good deal is said of milli j
tail' Panics, were put to ignominious rout by a detachalaa