Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-23
PREPARING THE CEREMONIES
That VIII Attend the Proclame ii o.
of Edward VII as King of England

IONDON, January 22.-At the Of
fees of the Lord Chamberlain, at st.
James Palace; of the City Rembrancer,
at the Guild Hall, and at the College of
Heralds, the officials were busy to-day
even before the death of the Queen
was announced, preparing for the for
malltles which will attend the pro-
claiming of new ruler of the United
Kingdom and India. All the ancient
gazettes, court circles and other pa
pers which describe the ceremonial of
1887 has been taken from the libraries,
that the officials may familiarize them
selves with the forms of pageantry
whereby sovereign is proclaimed. The
City Rembrancer said to-day:
1t will depend on the pleasure of
the new monarch to decide how far
the ancient customs will be modified
to suit modern methods, but in a coun-
try where precedents are so firmly ad-
hered to as England, it may be antici-
pated that We shall follow closely on
the acts which prevailed when the
Queen assembled the throne. The privy
council, which is very large body,
will meet at once at st. James Palace,
claring that We etc, with one voice
and consent of tongue and heart de-
clare and proclaim the high mighty,
Prince Albert Edward ETC., who by
the death of the monarch has become
our only lawful and rightful liege,' etc.
This proclamation will give the
new title the King may assume but
this is not yet announced to us. The
proclamation will then be sent to the
Heralds College and the Following
day the Earl Marshal, the Garter King
at Arms, the Heralds Pursuivants and
other officials, the college members
with the household troops, will pro-
coed from the palace, clad in their
splendid surcoats, and proceed to
Trafalgar square. There the king at
arms will halt, command silence and
read the proclamation. Proceeding
down the Strand to Temple Bar, a
halt will again be made to demand
an entrance into the city to proclaim
the King. There the Lord Mayor and
sheriffs in their state carriages, will
form a great procession and when the
Earl Marshal's party comes just with
in the city boundary, the proclama
ton will be read again and the pro-
cession will pass down Ludgate Hall
and Cheapside to the Royal Exchange
where similar ceremonies will close
the spectacle"
This evening there were few visible
signs in London that anything unu-
sual had happened A drilling rain
kept most people within doors. Those
who were turned away from theatres
or music halls wandered along the
streets of the West End without spe-
cial object. No large crowds gather
ed anywhere.
The shops closed as soon as the
bells began to toll and the blinds of
the Mansion House were drawn down
as soon as the message from the
Prince of Wales was received by the
Lord Mayor.
The bell tolled at St Paul's Cathe-
dral was the gift of William Ill, and
is used only on occasions of the death
of royal personages. archbishops of
Canterbury, Lord Mayors of London
and Bishops of London. The tolling
continued for two hours to-day at in
tervals of a minute and could be
heard for miles in the direction of the
wind
Some hundreds of people stood In
front of the Cathedral around the spot
where Queen Victoria prayed on the
sixtieth anniversary of her accession
to the throne
At the usual dinner of the hilary
term of Grays Inn, the master teach
err said:
Amid great sorrow we must follow
the practice of the constitution and
recite God Save the King
The chapel bell tolled 80 times and
the benchers drank the health Of the
King
At late hour this evening it was
not known whether the king would
return to London before morning but
it was expected that he would hold a
privy council at ST. James Palace ear
ly tomorrow, Wednesday, morning.