National Republican., 1883-03-06
The Cznr,s Coronation.

Great preparations are being made for the
coronation of the car at Moscow, which event
is ordered for the twenty-seventh day of May
next. recently issued ukase directs all the
marshals, the nobility, the projects Of the pro-
vincial capitals, except those of Siberia, and
the presidents of the rural and urban admin
istrations to be present. The ceremonies,
which will be the same as those observed at
the browning of the cars father, will be of
the most imposing character. The officiating
prclates will be the archbishops of Moscow
and Novgorod After the holy banner of
Russia has been blessed the ceremony of in
vestiture will take place. An important part
of tho service consists in making the car
the Lords anointcd." 1t is done in
this wise: The archbishop of Mos
COW, holding n silver bowl containing
holy oil, in which fragment of the
crown of thorns" " has been immersed takes
a golden palm branch and, dipping it into tho
oil, touches with it the cars brow his eye
lids, ears lips and the palms of his hands,
after which the attendants open the mOnarch's S
vestments so as to lay portion of his chest
bare, and the archbishop traces q cross on the
skin with the oil. When this has been done
the clergy PROSTATE themselves before the
czar the choir breaks forth into a Te Deum,"
and the people present raise a loud acclama-
ton A st. Petersburg letter to the London
I(WtS gives lIb lOllOMluB Vi lIS pre-
paratory preparations now going on: "On the
plain, which is partly occupied by the
buildings of the recent exhibition at Mos
cow eighty-five circular counters are being
constructed for the distribution of 100000
pies to the Moujilis, and sixteen watts TO hold
$4,000 bottles of beer for free consumption
by the people attending the open theater and
other places of popular amusement now in
course of construction. The municipality of
Moscow has voted 10000 rubles to be spent
on preparations for the grand entry of the
imperial family into the city, $4,000 rubies
for illumination, and 100000 for popular
fctes. Enormous quantities of small presents
for the populace have also been ordered.
For the illumination of the kremlin forty
electric globes, to give II brilliancy equal to
400 candles each, with six versts of wire con-
ductors, are being made, and electric engi-
| neCrs from England have arrived to aid in
| fitting up. Very costly presents, in the form
| of gold and silver groups representing the lib
Grafton and protection of the smaller Slavonic
states by Russia, have been made for the
| princess of Bulgaria and Montenegro and the
king of Servia. The massive gold and silver
plates for the presentation of the SlavoniC
| bread and salt Mt the coronation have been
made by hundreds for the zemstvos, muuici.
palities, and other local bodies. Many oi
these bodies, although over head and ears in
| debt, owing to agricultural and commercial
| distress, nave yet voted hundreds OF thou
| sands of rubles in this way to swell the mag
! nifcence of the approaching ceremony. Sev
eral triumphal arches are to be constructed
for the imperial entry, at one of which is ia
be an orchestra Of 1000 musicians and 5000
chorstcrs. 1t is proposed to ask Robinster
to write march for the occasion and to direc
the orchestra in person. A list of the impe
rial aud royal porsonages to be asked to tn,
ceremony is given in one of the daily jour
] II nj "a
heads of Europe and Asia. Two high Off
cials, it is said, will shortly be dispatched, ont
to Europe and the other to Asia, to deliye
| the invitations"