The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-08-12
But chiyalry is not gone yet;
 We simply make less fuss.
WHEN THE KING COMES IN.

l
 Ceremonies That Will Be Performed
 By the College of Arms.
 When the time comes (which may
 Heaven delay) for new King ol
 Eugland the College of Arms will pro-
 claim him, just as they have pro
 claimed every monarch for hundreds Of years past.
 Times change-and dynasties. We
 are less like the Englishmen or Ed'
 ward I than we are like the modern Japs We talk a different tongue, we eat different foods. we wear different
 clothes, we think different thoughts,
 Nothing is the same. except the col
 umns on Stonehenge and the College of Arms. The college abides, varying by not so much as detail of proce- dure or a button on a uniform What is is good, and cannot be improved. Therefore the business of proclamation
 will be the same in the twentieth cen tury as it was in the fifteenth.
 When the time unhappily comes for new king to reign, the Privy Council will meet and declare the throne to have devolved on the Prince Of Wales Orders will at once be given to the Earl Marshal and the officers of the College of Arms to proclaim him. The first proclamation will be made in the court yard of St. James's Palace, where the guard is changed.
 Garter King, the chief officer of the college will make the proclamation in solemn form, with the Earl Marshal, the kings, the heralds and the pursuit wants in full uniform and mounted hard by. At this proclamation the monarch is present, sitting at the win dow, where all his predecessors have sat.
 That is the chefest of the proclama- tions; but the news has to be carried far and wide to the distant city, the rank of the proclaiming officer de- scending as the business proceeds. The second pronouncement is made at Charing Cross, and the third at the corner of Chancery Lane.
 At this proclamation there will be modification of the ancient form. owing to the disappearance of Temple Bar Within the City of London the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs preserve their ancient sovereignty, and allow no rules within their gates except after permis- sion asked and granted.
 The old form was of the junior pur- suivant 10 rap at the gate and show his warrant for proclamation. Then the Lord Mayor ordered the gate to 1, ni i,, procession.
 The ceremony will doubtless remain, barring the knock at the gate which does not exist The last proclamation is made either at the corner of Wood- st., Cheapside, or beside the Royal Ex- change In the provinces the proola- nations are made by the local mayors
 Being proclaimed and crowned, the King has to offer to fight for his throne In the olden times, this was a neces- sary formality and because it was necessary once it is done still. But the | King no longer does his own fighting. He has champion, the hereditary champion of England, whose business it 1 Is to do battle with all corners for the | Crown.
 The champion is always a member of | the Dymoke family. When the King is | he rides into Westminster Hall, mounted and in full armor, just as the l champion was six hundred years ago. l He is accompanied by the Earl Mar 1 ;hal and the Lord Great Chamberlain, | llso on horseback. The hall is crowded | with ticketed sightseers.
 A proclamation is read by one of the | leralds challenging anybody who dis l 1utes the right of the sovereign to com- | pat in an open space. The champion throws down his gauntlet as a guaran- zee of good faith, and then the hearts ,f all the ladies futter in anticipation if a fight.
 But it is all disappointing sham l f some enterprising person were to take ID the challenge and the gauntlet he would probably be run in by the police Or creating a disturbance. The herald akes up the glove and hands it back o the champion, and then the King is irmly seated on his throne.-London Nail