Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-06-13

2lSt She will drive in seHi-State lhfoubh
HYDE Park from Paddington station. She
will 20 directly 20 her apartments al
Buckingham. and thence TO royal
luncheon party which has been arranged.
In the afternoon she viii receive an ING
imperial and royal guests from abroad
At o'clock Monday evening theIe VIII
be a state banquet, which IS TO DC an eN-
ceed,nqlv fuu-G.ess affair This viii be
followed by an evening party TOT an per
sons In whose veins flows royal blood,
the dinIomatic corps. the ministers, and
the suites of visitors from abroad. mat
is the programme for Monday as 1t VIII
be carried out. Tuesday the Prince oil
Wales will preside at the palace banquet
after which there IS to be a royal eve
ming marty in the ballroom. Wednesday a
garden party IS 10 be given at Bucking-
ham Palace, and for this the Lord Cham
berlain has issued 5000 invitations. The
Queen. the representatives Of royalty
and members Of the court will be group
ed in a marquee on the lawn during the
garden party. and the guests are 10 pass
i'm front of this marquee as they enter.
At night there will be another state BAN
ouet. after which the royalties as they
are called, will 80 to Lady Salisbury's
bail at the Foreign Office.
The King Of SaXony has been invited to
come TO England for the jubilee fete by
the Queen herself. and he will be her
guest at buckingham Palace and Wind
sor Castle for a week or ten days. one
of tho functions of the week of celebra-
ton which he will attend VIII be din
ner party given by the Duke and Duchess
of Fife TO King Albert and the Prince OF
Wales. The queen has given orders
A. hot 70
prise a good many persons and which
will be rather hard to obey. most people
think. She has declared that the horses
for the cavalcade Of princes. which win
follow her own carriage, are to be quiet
and carefully trained animals. All of
which proves that the Queen has a MEM
ory. for al the jubilee Of 1857 she received
a great fright just as she left Bucking-
ham Palace by seeing Lord Lorne thrown
from his horse. Now she is resolved that
on this occasion, at least, she viii not
run the risk Of a recurrence Of such an
accident.
THE NAVY.
1t has been decided that the navy is
to take an important part in the COM
memoraton i'm London on June 22d.
From Portsmouth. go seamen are TO
come, under the command Of Captain
w H. May. Of II. NJ. 5. Victory. Of
these 100 will form the guard OF honor
at Buckingham Palace. and 100 viii
form another guard outside st. Pauls
churchyard. These men. with their Off
GERS, will be drawn from the Excellent,
the gunnery establishment at Ports
mouth The other 100 men are 10 be
drawn from the ships in commission at
Portsmouth. which will then include the
Channel feet and the ships especially
commissioned for the naval review on
June 25th These men will be formed
into two battaiiOns, one 400 strong and
the other 300 The former is 10 be sta
toned IN Trafalgar Square and the
other battalion viii occupy an important
point on the line of route. The Ad-
miralty have definitely arranged 10 take
Portsmouth Town Hall for the last six
days in June. the proposal being 10
entertain the foreign naval officers at
tending the naval review at an official
banquet there on the 18th.
on the occasion OF the Queens re-
turn TO Windsor Castle after the jubi-
lee celebrations in London, she will en-
ter Elton College by a triumphal arch,
from which it is proposed that heralds
announce her arrival. Eton is TO be
decora ted with flags and Chinese Ian
terms, and from Windsor Bridge, where
another arch is 10 be erected Thames
street will be lined with Venetian masts
as far as the Hundred Steps, in ad-
dtion TO the handsome arches which
the Southwestern and Great West
ern Railway companies have pro-
missed 10 place upon the Royal route
in the vicinity Of their stations. Vene-
tian masts will also be placed in High
street and Park street to the Long
Walk, where the Queen drives TO Wind
sor Castle the north front OF which is
TO be Illuminated at night.
The open-air service at st. Paul's Will
really be limited 10 the duration OF the
actual ceremonial on the steps OF the
Cathedral. First OF all, the TIE Deum
Laudamus. especially composed for the
occasion by DR.. George c. Martin. the
organist OF ST. Paul's, will be sung.
The choir. with its $50 voices. drawn
almost entirely from the churches or
London, will be assembled upon the up
per portions of the steps leading 10 the
west door OF the Cathedral. while the
massed bands OF the Royal artillery and
Of the school Of military music. num-