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

and Imposing Ceremonies.

Especial Cable Dispatch to the New York
Herald.l
We make the following extract from
a lengthy Cable dispatch from Pesth.
giving an account of the coronation of
the Emperor Of Austria as King of
Hungary, with all the pomp and
grandeur of the ancient Kingdom.
The dispatch is under date of the
9th inst:
THE CEREMONIAL.
The browning of an Emperor of
Austria as X ing of Hungary is con-
Quoted with very gorgeous ceremony,
Is exceedingly elaborate In detail.
solemn in its religious grandeur and
completely different in many points
from the coronation displays in other
countries. A vast concourse of per-
sons always attends, and on the pres
ent occasion there were large num-
bers present. The outside crowd was
diminished considerably by the prog
ress of the contemporaneou attrac-
tons of the Paris Exhibition. The
Austrian ministers of State, the great
magnates of the empire, the foreign
ministers, genera representatives sent
visitors from abroad and the people
at large, were present IN Pesth in
goodly numbers, SO that His Majesty,
the King of Hungary, has to-day no
reason to complain either of neglect
or slight when he takes up the sword
of State.
Six or seven weeks since the Due
de Grammont had taken the first
floor in one wing of hotel at Pesth,
paying four thousand forms for the
hire of it during the days of the cor
onation. u
Prince Mustapha Fail Pacha had
also sent to have an apartment taken
for himself and suite, so that he might
be present at the ceremony, and it
was hoped in Vienna that the Princes
Charles OF. Roumania, Michael of Ser
via and Nicholas of Montenegro
would attend the coronation of the
Emperor as King of Hungary.
THE PROGRAMME. s,sv6 Il
That the religious element FREEDOM
mates during the coronation has been
already made known by our reports
of the Hastings and prayers and sinvo-
cation of saints observed and sent up |
by the Emperor Francis Joseph dur |
ing hisarecent journeyings from the I
of Vienna to the shrines of
Pesth, and thence to- the affairs of
Buda and back again to the cloisters
IN Vienna. The same fact is also set
forth by a perusal of the programme
of the coronation, which says:
/. The King prepares for the cere-
mony by three days fast.
2. The King must take the oath
publicly.
3. The Bishop prays that the bless
ing of Heaven may descend on him
who is about to be crowned. 81
4. In the litanies the intercession
of the saints is invoked in favor of him
who is about to be crowned, and who
all the time is kneeling.
3. The Bishop annoints the right
arm of the King at the wrist, the
elbow and the shoulder.
6. Then commences the solemn
mass, which proceeds as far as the
epistle, when the bishop takes the
sword and, after prayer, delivers it |.
to the King, saying, "Gird thee with
this sword, but bethink thee that the
saints conquered by faith and not by
the sword"
z. He places the crown upon the
kings head.
8. He places the sceptre in his
hand
8. He conducts him to the throne,
and the mass then proceeds to its
close. The Prlmate of Hungary per-
forms the part of the Bishop in this
and as regards tae oath
which the King takes to preserve the
that is point to be set
tied between the king and the gov
ernment.
CORONATION HILL.
The portions of the coronation
ceremonial, which took place outside
of the churches, were conducted on
Coronation Hill, high mound raised
by contributions of earth, carried by
the faithful people" of the empire
from their counties, cities, villages
and gardens during the months pre-
vious, to Pesth, as it would have been
to whatever place else the King of
Hungary may be crowned. Previous
to the year 1913 the Kings of Hun
gary were crowned at Presburg, and /
the historic elevation called Presburg
Hill, which stands near that old town,
was raised in this manner. It is +
regarded as holy ground, and it was
debated some time since whether it
would not be proper to transport it to
Pesth on the present occasion. 1t |
was decided, however, in the con-
trary,s so that Presbnrg retains its /
consecrated mound and the people
have been afforded an opportunity of
erecting another at Pesth, on which