Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-06-23

oi thc palace, there were
many signs OF the coming ceremonial.
Goiseously attired servants gathered
near the scarlet-carpeted staircase
which was lined with rare flowers. while
the strains OF the national anthem. as
band passed the palace. announced that
the Colonial procession had. started. AT
the same time. the special envoys who
we're TO take part in the procession be-
gan 10 arrive in the great quadrangle.
Hon. Whitelaw Reid was the first
special envoy TO appear. He drove In.
accompanied by one OF the Royal equer-
ries, the latter being all gold, scarlet, and
feathers, while Mr.. Reid was quietly at
tired, wearing an Inverness coat an
opera hat, and white tie. He drove up
TO the great door OF the palace. where
he was saluted in passing by dozen
men in gold. and was escorted to the
waiting-room by the master Of cere-
monies, Colonel, the Hon. Sir William
James Colville.
A minute or so later General Nelson
A. Miles representing the United States
army, rode up on a splendid horse, and
in full uniform. lie fingered for a mo-
ment there. without any one attending
him. and then rode out. After leaving
the quadrangle General Miles took his
place in the procession with the naval
and military attaches.
In alphabetical order. beginning with
Austria and ending with the United
States. this column was arranged. Gene
raj Miles. representing the United States
ARMY. riding with General La Gren,
representing the President of France,
NJ. Faure, and these two officers bring
ing up the rear of the portion of the
procession formed by the military at
taches.
BY 1920 A. NJ. the ENJOYS carriages
were loaded. and took up their position
in the centre of the quadrangle. Shortly
afterwards the Queens superb coach ar
rived. and it had hardly come TO a stand
still when the landaus. with the ladies
and lords in waiting. and the princesses
were in their allotted positions. All the
ladies wore light toilettes of blue, green,
lilac, and pink. the latest Partisan dain-
ties.
The ENJOYS landaus started. The
princes next mounted their horses and
ranged themselves in groups OF threes.
THE QUEEN
At II 10 A. NJ hustle on the main
staircase announced the coming of her
Majesty. Queen Victoria slowly descend
cd the stairs, assisted by scarlet-clad
x.-If4 It3in ant
She was dressed in black. wore a black
bonnet, trimmed with white, and carried
a white sunshade.
At the foot Of the stairway her Majesty
paused for a minute and touched an cleo
tric button, connected with all the tele-
graphic system throughout the British
empire, and it flashed around the world
the message: From my heart, 1 thank
my beloved people. May God bless them"
Her Majesty then slowly seated herself
in her carriage. the Royal trumpeters
sounded a fanfare, the Princess of Wales
Joined the Queen and then the Princess
Christian Of Schleswig- -Holstein Joined
the party.
The procession was the most brilliant
affair of it's kind ever witnessed in Len
don, and represented all the nations over
which her Majesty rules. Everywhere the
Queen was received with the widest en-
thusiasm. At Temple Bar the Lord
Mayor and city officials received her Ma
jesty. Approaching her carriage, his
Lordship, with all due obeisance, present.
ed the hilt of the cty's pearl-handled
sword, which was undrawn. This was
the ancient ceremony of dutiful submits
sion. The Queen lightly touched the
weapon, thus returning it 10 the Lord
Mayor in token that his submission was
graciously accepted by his Sovereign.
Her Majesty then commanded the Lord
Mayor and Sheriffs to proceed. The
Sheriffs took their places with the Alder
men and Commoners. Immediately after
the field marshals the Lord Mayor rode
bareheaded Immediately before the first
part Of the Sovereign's escort of Life
Guards, and the procession moved towards
St. Paul's amid roars of cheers, that
seemed in the narrow streets TO be echoed
and re-echoed.
After the service at st. Paurs, in which
the Archbishop of Canterbury and other
leading clergy participated, the Queen
returned to the palace. She was very
much pleased, and smiled, and was not
over-fatigued The whole affair passed
off without a hitch.
GRAND ILLUMINATIONS.
Tonight London was illuminated on a
grand scale. With illuminations how
ever. which are universal in every city,
town. and hamlet OF England, Wales, and
Scotland. and in some parts of Ireland
there yet remains TO be mentioned the
final touch-the lighting of the Empires
torch-the ancient form of giving warn
ing or sending joy-the beacon fires.
AS 10 o'clock struck at the Greenwich
Observatory a tongue of fame shot up
ward from Great Malvern, the back
bone of the Midlands." 1t was the jubilee
beason fire. Hardly had the spectator
time TO look on it before another nared IN
the ditance on the right, then again on
the left, on the north. south, east, and
west.
Peak answered peak, until from Ber-
wick on Tweed to Rough Tor and Brown
Willie. I'm Cornwall; from the Cathedral
towers of I.itchheld, Worcester, Ripon,
Lincoln. and Durham; from Skiddaw to
81 Heilers S; from Hastings to Cader ldris
and across the water TO Donegal and Dub
lin a thousand beacon fires blazed up
-, =. o..ooo of LOYALTY 10 the SOye-