New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-26
THE OPENING CEREMONIES.

THE OPENING CEREMONIES.
LONDON STREETS TnRONGED WIFI PEoPlE-lhE
ARRIVALS AT WEsIMINs IER-THE SCENE IN TIE
PAIACE--DISRAELI.
IFRoM A REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE.I
LONDON, Feb 9.-Queen Victoria yesterday
oncned the fourth session of her present Parliament III
person and the event was attended with all the sendor
and state ceremonial usual on such occasions IL mas
grown years to be the rule rather tn N the eAce
lion for Her Majesty to depue the purely ornamental
task of formally opening Parliament to commission o
Peers and as other she seldom honors te
metropolis with her presence, the event was hatula!N
the cause of some excitement State spectacles are now
very rare in London. London different to other
naccs crowd will draw rapidly here as elsewhere
# ere is only something TO be seem matter whether
it he a Kcncaly demonstration or Her Majesty gong 10
set TO work the machine which controls the AFFAIRS Ol inc
nation do not say that there WAS not larger crown
Yesterday than is generally collected on less important
occasions the spirit of curiosity when DfhGs
large bodies of people together To sec The Clhah's
couusel or any other momcntalily notorious character
was the prevailing iGduCCmcnt III drawing yesief"a!
tlrougs IL could not have been what most OF the I'd
ch papers imply this mornng-a feeling OF Loyalty ana
attachment to he Queen, any desire to welcome hcr
to London the crowd was chilling III the reception
which il accorded to its Sovereign
The usual geneus for such an occasion were Cd
served The route taken from Buckingham Palace 10
the Palace of Westminster was that always takcn'
through st. Jamcs'S Park. the Horse Guards whitehall ana
Parliament ST. Ia Old Palace Yard The line Throughout
was kent 10y police and the Horse Guards ana uhOuSA
fine procession did not start from Buckingham Palace
ill halEpast l O'Clock, spectators began 10 line the
routc lv | and by the press in some parts was
great enough require the combined cXeriohs oil the
police and military to preserve tie roadway. Inc
weather was ali that could Ice desired, ana huch more
than could be expected AZ such time Of year. Let us
take up a special position aud watch The arrivals II Is
ltrlti lilo fs,yiU he
iocnar and they chat the police and the soldiers but
they do rot say any tlng which concerns the great
event OF tie day. Armed with special pass "Eich per
nit, Iuc Tass the police lines, sauuieod down To-
ward PaIlamcut-s,; the crowd in Whitehall Is not Ger
but when arrive in IariamcutsQuarc notice there j.
a dense throug. Right and lett high and low, there are
the ucolc standing, sitting, whatever they can do
hes. tEcrc is no room for another anywEerc The VIII
dos Of all the surrounding buildings are fully occupied
the very Of the houses covered ana lar away
down the Old Abbey stretches the crowd stand has
b,rn erected near the Abbey which commands view Of
the place where Her Majesty aghts. II Is just O'Clock,
and this is the aspect Of affairs when take
my position outside the gates through which members
90 to the House OF Commons just as take mp y posi-
ton plain carriage drives up inside of which the crowd
recognize the face of the Chinese ambassador The
Celestial dppitarv receives slight welcome and he is
shortly afterward followed bv the japanese Legation
IS these pass by am informed that Mr. Gladstone with
his wife and daughter have Just driven down in open
carriage ana that they received warm we come from
the crowd This small squad OF men in quaint uniforms,
yyIo march with precision which at picks them
cut as old military men, Her Maestys IeOmcn Of
Guard The uniform they wear known az Bceioaters,
has been theirs their predecessors from the time OF
Henry the Eighth and the crowd may well laugh at
them They look picturesque enough, Notwithstanding.
That srarc, palc-lOoAng gentleman, who looks both
Young and old at the time, who walks with light
tread and who j. in active conversation with another, is
FaI Granville. the leader of the Liberal party in the
House of Lords the Foreign Secretary III the late GOV
crumeut and possibly ere long the next Premier of En-.
GLAND He is however, uurcCOgEiZcd aud is even chal-
lcngcd BIZ a policeman as 20 whittier he IL gong lie
uttcrs one word, member" and is allowed to pass.
Vow comes hanson cab and the gentle man inside with
the long beard is Sir Wfrcd Lawson. He Is unrecog-
nzed and followed almost Immediately, in another cab,
NV DE- Kcueay, who is recognized; at least
he fakes off his hat and bows the cab
cnerges from ParliamentSt. That exceedingly
Main brougham which now drives past contains tn"
Duke OF TcCk but here comes something al which most
people are looking handsome carriage with STATE trap
ming. and magnificent horses at a fun galOp The srr-
wants two on the drivers box and two behind have uni
forms freely decked with gold braid They each
rcd fcz Yes. the carriage Of Musuls Bcy, the rep
rcscntatiye Porte in London, which contains his
suite as well as himself IL drives rapidly past the lcO
pie look after IT, but the fact of who is in the carriage
does not seem to dawn upon them TIL it is all hut out Of
Westminster Abbey where thousands OF people are
stacked won't undertake to say whether it is
or a cheer. | ask friend who stands by my side He
agrees with me that il is some expression from the
crowd bu, of what nature, he like cannot decide. Let
Ms none for the moment it is cheer for MusuIus is not
man upon whom the sins OF bis country ought to be
visited.
SIN the carriages continue TO arrive In one We Tecog
n,ze the beautiful Countess OF Dudley but as 10 the ma
iority OF Them like the cTOwCt do not know who they
contain But where is DIZZY Z" hear asked, " has
he came down =" No one seems TO know Surely be has
not come down over night TO avoid recognition, or en-
sconced himself in close carriage that no one might
know him. To whom do these carriages which are np-
proaclpc belongf We hear hearty cheering IN the
distance but rs they the corner 1t clear that the
ceer are given to the Prince and Princess for thcic are
the servants on the box wearing the royal lVcrcs.
As the carriage dashcs past prcccdedbya trooPofGuls
n genuine of cheers breaks out which the Prince
and Princess Of Wales acknowledge by repeated
hovys BEFORE the cheers greeting the Prince Of Wales
had dcd out another approaches and those VINO
ara initiated into sncn matters recognize II "a the
prencr's Oh account OF a brown lNcros OF the ser
apts Yes surely enough is the Earl Of B"aconscid
for the pcOpe opposite BEGIN t. laugh, ana We near
sbouts OF DIZZY I" Dzly! TIc cI'Ii1sc comes mp,
and there sits I'm court uniform, ban ily smiling To ;Ac
crowd Iookiu for all the world like Of Trnieis pie
lures i'm Piich the man upon whom more interest," is
conferred to-day than upon any DINER bclhs WHO pASa
mart In the drama or cOmedy-arcr, }Du hAc-Whichls
about 10 take place. IN r0lt OF @ inside tue carriage
is his faithful Secretary MI MCh'aE1 'oi! -""' 'h'y
are NOT in conversation DO not hear cheer neither
do remark the slightest sound 0f disappro'al Every
one treats the thing as good joke, and the Premier
masses on But where IA Lord Salisbury Have not we
missed hint No. he not passed yet, and he VIII not