The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-06-13
THE EVANSVILLE DAILY JOURN

happy inspiration, directed by divine
grace, that moved this last-named
Holy King. the Apostle of his Tartar
people, to ask the crown, not from
neig boring Emperor, but from the
Vicar of Jesus Christ, the Pope OF
Rome. That circumstance gives, they
remark, to the royalty of the Huns, IN
former times the terrible Legislators
of Europe, stamp of CHRISTIAN
grandeur, and from that memorable
event, they allege, this crown be-
comes a rampant against infdelty, and
acquires the apostolic title inherited
by the Emperor of Austria, giving the
King of Hungary the right to be pre-
coded by cross.
THE GROWING.
Francis Joseph. as King of Hun
gary, having signed the document
which binds, him to. observe the laws
and the constitution, was conducted
yesterday to the Cathedral church at
Pesth, and there crowned with re-
igious pomp and ceremonies much
like those of other nations. The
Hungarian crown, however, is in the
custody of certain magnates who are
appointed its custodians, and was by
them handed to the Palatine, who as.
sisted the Archbishop in placing it on
the head of the King. The Judex-
curia handed the King the sceptre,
and the Ban of Croatia placed the
orb in his hand. while the Primate
girded him with the sword of St.
Stephen. The monarch, crowned and
girded, walked from this church along
tri-colored carpet to another
church, where he seated himself on
throne and conferred the honor Of
knighthood with the sword of st.
Stephen on several gentlemen whom
the Palatine presented to him to be
created Knights of the Golden Spur.
ON CORONATION HILL.
Here the ceremony was completely
public and of character calculated
to fatigue q man more advanced In
years than the Emperor of Austria.
Francis Joseph is, however, q lover of
outdoor sports and manly exercises,
and no doubt bore it WE'LL and re-
mains grateful, perhaps, to-day, to the
Hungarians for affording him an op-
portunity to work for such prize.
Leaving the second church just
mentioned the King mountedsa mag
Danube, proceeded at once to the
public squares of zPesth, where he
took the constitutional oath, In the
presence of the people, on the cross of
st. Stephen. He then rode to an
other square, in which sloping stage
had been erected on the mound or
coronation hill, and squirting golien-
shod steed up the stage at a gallop, he !
reined him in, and wheeling rapidly
round, brandished the sword in the
air, describing with its point a cross
towards the four principal points of
the compass, as sign of his readiness
to defend his kingdom, if attacked,
from any quarter.
THE CORONATION
to this hill included the
of all portions of the
with their banners, display
ing even the banners of the provinces
no longer belonging to the kingdom
.Roumania ,ESerria, Bosnia, Galicia,
and others.
The Minister of Finance, during
tho progress of the procession, threw
Ga very poor economy gold and silver
money among the crowd, who had
scramble for the golden shoes of the
charger, they being contrived to drop
off on the stage, as we'll as for the tri-
colored carpet over which the process
sion had moved. s-ssfsz = -
Besides the scattering of gold and
silver by the Finance Minister to the
crowd-a most unusual proceeding
for Finance Minister-each deputy
of the existing Hungarian Diet will
receive three coronation medals, one
of gold and the other two in silver,
as memento of the fetes.
1t is also announced that the Aus
tro- Hungarian Court will pass four
months of every year in Hungary, of
which two summer months will be al |
ternately at Buda and Gedella, and
two in the autumn exclusively to the
former place.
Preparations are also being made
for their majesties to pass the carni-
val alternately at Vienna and Buda,
and the woods of Gedell@ are to be
stocked with all sorts of game from the /,
imperial preserves.
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