Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-08-08
voToRlA's CORONATION.
4 Description Of the Event as Seen by the
 Famous Dean Stanley.

Description Of the Event as Seen by the
 Famous Dean Stanley.
 The following concerning Dean Stan ley's view of the coronation of Queen Victoria is taken from a recently pub lished life of that remarkable man:
 At half-past ten another gun an- nounced that she was at the abbey door, and i'll about q quarter of an hour the procession appeared from under the organ, advancing up the purple ap- proach to the ehaneel everyone lean ing over-and in they came. First, the great dukes, struggling with their enormous trains; then bishops. etc, and then the queen. with her vast erim- 'son train, outspread by eight ladies all in white, followed by the great la dies of the court in enormous crimson trains, and the smaller ladies with delicate siky-blne trains trailing along the dark floor. When she came within the full view of the gorgeous abbey she paused, as if for breath. and clasped her hands The orchestra broke out into the most tremendous crash of mu- sic l ever heard. ''I was glad when they said unto me Let us go into the house of the Lord '
 Everyone literally gasped for breath from the intense interest. and the rails of the gallery visibly trembled in ones hand from the trembling of the specta- tors. l never saw anything like it.; tears would have been a relief; one felt that the queen must sink into the earth under the tremendous awe. But at last she moved on to her place by the altar, and (as I heard from my cousins, who had place close by1 threw herself oa her knees. buf'ied her face in her hands and evidently prayed feryent- ly. For the first part the silence was so great that at my extreme point I could hear quite distinctly the tremu- lous but articufate voice of the arch bishop; afterward it was quite in audible The great drawbacks were the fcebleness of the acclamations- hardly any ut all at the recognition and only tolefable at the coronation. That was the crisis of the ceremony, and the most striking part. The very moment the crown touched her head the guns went off the. tlumpets be- gan and the shouts. She was perfectly immovable, like a statue. The duchess of Kent burst into tears, and her lady had to put on her coronet for her. The amounting was very beautiful from the cloth of gold; the homage also, from the magnificent cluster in the very center.
 1t was take-ofE though a necessary one, l suppose, that throughout her face was turned away from the specta- tors toward the altar All the move mepts were beautiful She was always accompanied by her eight ladies float ing about her like a silvelv cloud It was over at 8:36.-i. e.. she went out then with her crown, her orb, and her seepter, walked home. T3e. rest had to wait till eight for their carriage, which was forced back by the length of the line to Remington common, The crowd in the streets to see the re- turn of the procession was stapendous Itwas all more like dream than real ity-more beautiful than could have conceived possible. should wish al- most never to sec her again: that, as this was the first image 1 had ever had of her, so 1t should be the last. Pitts burph Chronicle Telegranh