Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-24
THE JUBILEE.
The Lords and Commons Congratulate
the Queen in a Body.
LOYAL SCHOOL CHILDREN.
Her Majesty Interested in Ten Thousand
Young Scholars Who Greet Her on Con-
stitutlon Hnl-The Jubilee Flashed
Around the World.

LONDON, June 23.-For the first time
since the reception of the queens mes
sage announcing the declaration of the
Crimean war against Russia, the mem
bers of the house of commons called
in body on the queen to-day, and for
the first time since the early '4Os, when
addresses were made congratulating
the queen on the failure of attempts at
assassination, did she receive the two
houses together, There were brief
formalities at Westminster prior to the
reception, the two houses meeting
and the formal announcement being
made by Lord Halsbury in the
house of lords and Mr.. Balfour in the
house of commons that the queen
would be pleased to receive the two
houses. Then all proceeded, in state
procession, to Buckingham palace.
There they assembled in the ball room
and, after brief delay, the doors were
thrown open and the announcement
made that her majesty was pre-
pared to give them audience. There
upon the lord chancellor and the
speaker of the house of commons adj
vanced side by side to the throne,
each followed by the members of
his own house. Lord Chancellor Halls
bury knelt at the foot of the throne,
read the address on his knees and
handed it to the queen. After the
parliamentary ceremony the queen re-
ceived in the same manner the mayors
and provosts of provinces, and chair
men of county councils, who were
afterwards entertained at luncheon in
the palace.
The queen left Buckingham palace
soon after $3.50 o'clock and returned to
Paddington railroad stationby the same
route as was followed on her arrival
Throughout she was greeted with en-
thusiasm. On Constitution hill, near
the palace, in the grand stand used to
view the procession yesterday, were
10000 children from the board schools,
Church of England schools, Wesleyan
schools, Catholic schools and Jewish
schools These were inspected
by her majesty. Each child
wore special medal and
red badge and the teachers wore
blue badges and white dresses. All
the children were dressed in their best
and joined in singing the national
anthem, led by band. The marquis
of Londonderry, as chairman, present
ed to her majesty an address in behalf
of the school board and the bishop of
London and others did the same in be-
half of the other school bodies. Among
the members of the committee present
were Cardinal Vaughn and Baron
Rothschild. There was tremendous
outburst of cheering as the queen left
In the afternoon the queen returned
to Windsor, and her progress was a
triumphal procession. The final cpl
sode was at the castle gates, where the
addresses from the Windsor bodies
were received. As the queens car
riage appeared at the entrance to her
home the national anthem was chant
ed by 300 voices. The days festivities
were brought to an end by an illumina-
ton Of the palace.
AS ten o'clock struck at the Green
wich observatory last night tongue
of flame shot upward from Great NAL
vern, "the backbone of the Midlands."
1t was the jubilee beacon fire. Hardly
had the spectator time to look on it
before another fared in the distance
on the right, then again on the left,
on the north, south, east and west.
Peak answered to peak until from Ber-
wick-on-Tweed to Rough Tore and
Brown Willie in Cornwall; from the
cathedral towers of Litchtield, Wor-
cester, Ripon, Lincoln and Durham;
from Skiddaw to st. Helicrs; from
Hastings to Cader Idris and across the
water to Donegal and Dublin, thou
sand beacon fires blazed up their
message of loyalty to the sove-
reign. Half an hour later the
lowlands, the highlands, the Hebri-
des even to Ultima Thule, sent
answering signals to the sky. Then
slowly, as day passed into evening
round the world, the empires torch
was lit. From St. Heliers the signal
leaped to Gibraltar, to Malta, to Cy-
prus, to Ceylon, to India, where it
blazed triumphant on the Himalayas;
to China, to Australia, to Canada, to
the West Indies, the empires torch
shed its radiance over the universe.