The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-03 00:00:00

THE CORONATION

OF HER
Oar GZ., A C 0:j .1-2 STY
QUEEN VICTORIA.

At an early hour on Thursday morning, the streets along
the line of the procession gave sign that the eventful day of
the coronation had at length arrived. Busy, anxious groups,
'regardless of breakfast, and anxious only for places, were
parading up and down the streets. The rightful owners of
those in the different balconies and frontages along the line
were anxiously pressing forward, and rushing in at the dif-
ferent inlets which led to them, but too happy "6 gain an
inch of staircase at a time," happier still if they were not
forestalled by some persevering wight, whose appearance
and looks gave tolerably strong presumption that the owner
.had remained up all night in order to take up his place early.
Preparations for doing all due honour to the day all along
the line of procession were in many places on a very exten-
sive scale. On both sides of the Triumphal Arch at Hyde
Park corner, galleries were erected, commanding a view of
the procession as it- advanced up Constitution-hill. Galle-
ries., of a very massive kind were erected in Piccadilly, in
front of Baron Rothschild's house and Lord Coventry's.
MLiy of the other houses on that side of the way were ele-
gantly fitted up, and evinced much taste in their arrange-
ments for the illuminations. The arrangements in front of
Devonshire House were very elegant. At 7 o'clock the 10th.
Hussars, Royal Horse Guards, and 12th Lancers, passed
this spot for the purpose of taking up, the stations to which
they had been appointed, and the latter during their progress
were loudly cheered by the populace.
In St. James's-street the arrangements were excellent.
Crockford's Club House was conspicuous: the frontage of
that building was thrown into a series of balconies elegantly
fitted up with crimson cloth. Brooks's Club was also ele-
gantly fitted up. White's and Arthur's were not less eons
spicuous; and many of the shops and private dwellings ex-
hibited much taste : some were profuse in their decorations,
and every thing that loyalty could suggest, or the "cunning
hand" of artistical ingenuity devise, were put in requisition
to give éclat and splendour to the occasion. A. balcony was
thrown up at the front of Marlborough House, the residence
of the Queen Dowager, and the profusion of laurels with
which it was covered gave it a very rural and bower-like
appearance. The Oxford and Cambridge Club House had
its balconies elegantly and commodiously fitted up. The
Ordnance Office presented a very-splendid appearance t the
arrangements there were very characteristic. The Opera
House, the National Gallery, and Northumberland House,
were elegantly fitted' up ; and so indeed were nearly all the
houses at Charing Cross. The arrangements at„.the public
offices in Whitehall were splendid. Foremost amongst these
were the Admiralty, the 'Horse Guards, and theiTreasury.'

pA R MENT-STREET AND THE EXTEItH/R,OF .THE , ABBEY,
.
The proceedings of the day ought, perhaps, to be supposed
to have commenced at four o'clock, when the park guns fired
a royal salute; and this was the signal for a merry peal of
bells from the different churches of Westminster, and for
hoisting the Royal Standard at the Admiralty and Horse
Guards. The platforms were beset at an early hour, the
seats let being tilled with company before five o'clock. The
Reform Club- had provided accommodation for upwards of
Six hundred ladies, and the seats exhibited a most brilliant
scene. A large•platform was also raised in front of the Duke
of Bucclench's Richmond Terrace, and the residence of Mr.
Driver, on which the friends• of that gentleman, and the
Officers of Woods and Forests, were accommodated. The
scene in Parliament-street was extremely gay, every house
being thronged with visitors. Banners of all descriptions
were suspended from the windows, and the roofs of the
houses and every erection were decorated with some tasteful
design. By ten o'clock, the members of the House of Com-
mons having passed, the streets were comparatively cleared
of carriages, and the troops were stationed in file from Char-
ing Cross to the Abbey. The House of Commons were
assembled at nine o'clock. There were about 500 members
present, all of whoM appeared iu the uniform of some regi-
ment, or in court costume.

At half-past nine, the Speaker desired all the members to
be seated, and said that the counties would be ballotted for
according to previous arrangement, and that it was desirable
that honourable gentlemen sliould dot leave their places until
their county was called, when they would advance into the
centre of the house, and immediately proceed to the abbey.
The ballotting then commenced : Meath was the first county
called, Perth the second, and the list of counties in Ireland,
Scotland, and Wales, was nearly exhausted before the county
of Southampton was drawn. Sussex was the next in suc-
cession; and all the members having departed in about half
an hour, the Speaker himself left, attended by the clerks and
officers of the house.