The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-02 00:00:00

Councillors Russell, GeC.. Duncan, Dobson, Grierson.

Councillors Hunter, Dr. Macaulay, Maitland, Thomson.
The City Assesors.
The ceremonial of the presentation of the Keys being over,
the carriages will drive forward in order, and each gentleman
will resume his place in the carriage in which he left the
Council Chamber. The carriages will then form part of the
procession.

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The Council-Officer will attend to the arrangement of the
carriages at the Council Chamber and at Henderson Row,
and each gentleman is requested implicitly to attend to his
directions.

With regard to the procession from the barrier, the follow-
ing programme is given of the arrangement of the different
public bodies who are to line the streets to-day :
The High Constables of the City will attend as the official
guard of the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council, at the
east end of Henderson Row.

The Deputy-Lieutenants and Justices of the peace of the
city will attend on the other side of the roadway. The
Deputy-Lieutenants and Justices will assemble in the square
of the Royal Exchange one hour after the firing of the signal
guns from the Castle, and having chosen one of their num-
ber as Marshal-man, will proceed in a body to the place
above assigned to them.
The General and Resident Commissioners of Police will
proceed in a body, and take up a position on the east side of
the roadway immediately to the south of the Justices of the
Peace.

To the south of the Police Commissioners, and also on the
east side of the road, the Merchant Company and Guildry
will take up a position.
The Incorporated Trades of the City will take up a position
as they arrive, on the west side of the roadway immediately
to the south of Henderson Row.

All other bodies will assemble in such place of the City as
they themselves shall determine : and having arranged in
order, will have positions assigned to them, in single file, as
they arrive on the line of her Majesty's route.
The line of route by which her Majesty is to proceed by
Granton to Dalkeith Palace, about which some doubt has
hitherto prevailed, as no official communication had been
made to any of the local authorities, has been now arranged.
The royal cortege will proceed by Inverleith Row, Pitt, and
Dundas-streets, Hanover-street, to Prince's-street ; but
instead of halting at Holyrood, it will pass on by Norton
Place and Jock's Lodge, nearly to the entrance to Porto-
bello, where it will turn to the south, taking the road to
Dalkeith. This arrangement will allow full scope to the vast
concourse of spectators to get a view of her Majesty and
suite. No doubt it might have been more gratifying to us
had her Majesty's first entrance into the capital of her an-
cient kingdom been surrounded with somewhat more of the
ccairtly pomp and parade that attended the visit of Geo. IV.,
but we must keep in remembrance that it is the express wish
of her Majesty and her illustrious consort, that her visit
should be conducted with as little public ceremony as it is
possible to observe consistent with the dignity of the royal
personages. It is for this reason that her Majesty dispensed
with the official services of the Lord Mayor of London ; and
for the same cause the addresses of the different public bo-
dies of Scotland are not to be received in person. Under
these circumstances, it would be unreasonable, however
strong may be the feeling of Scotchmen on the subject, to
complain that the present royal visit is not to be on the same
scale of splendour that we witnessed twenty years ago.
Meantime, there is every appearance that her Majesty is
to rective a most cordial and enthusiastic welcome from all
classes of her Scottish subjects, who are looking forward to
her arrival with unmingled delight. On every hand, prepa-
rations are going on with surprising activity. Tailors, shoe-
makers, hatters, mantua-makers, milliners, and indeed all
connected with fashionable apparel, are in full employment.
A splendid bonfire is in course of preparation on the crest of
Arthur's Seat, which, when set a-blazing, will be the signal
fop a number of similar fires on the tops of many hills
throughout the country. Not less extensive are the prepa-
rations making to gratify the wishes of the people to have a
sight of their Sovereign. The windows along the line of
road through which she is to pass are taking at sums vary-
ing from three to five guineas, the latter sum being a com-
mon price for one in a commanding situation. Then there
are galleries erecting in almost a continuous line along the
road from Granton Pier to the City barrier, in Pitt, Dun-
das, and Hanover-streets ; and again in Princes-street, along
the Regent Road towards Holyrood. Amongst the most
judicious of these arrangemonts, and one that must produce
a beautiful and pleasant coup d'ceil, will be the assemblage
of the youths attending the High School, who are to be ac-
commodated in front of that building, one of the finest of
the many splendid edifices that adorn the city. The Auxili-
ary Committee for building the Scott Monument are also to
erect a gallery in front of that site, the proceeds of which,
we have no doubt, will more than compensate any loss
which might accrue from the clearing away of their building
sheds, &c., during the royal procession.
Her Majesty and suite will proceed by way of Piershill
Toll, Duddingstone House, Niddry, and thence by the high
road to