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KING EDWARD VII
OPENS PARLIAMENT
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page III
Buckingham Palace to Westminster to
| view the procession We're not nearly so
large as on the occasion of the last OPEN
4 ing OF Parliament. Guardsmen assisted
4 by hundreds of police kept the specta-
tors back but they had little to do. Only
' a few attempts at decoration were visi-
BILE.
| For once royalty was late, and when
the king and queen drove out from the
courtyard in front OF buckingham Palace
; they were twenty minutes behind time
and King Edward was still struggling
with unruly glove.
Their majesties were greeted enthusi-
4 astically. As they sat in the great state
coach. whose gilded pinnacle brushed the
boughs OF the trees in the green park.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra look
ed for all the world Ike a fiattering
painting of Henry VIII and of his
better looking spouses. They bowed
somewhat wildly from their huge gold
and glass frame. which shook and reel
ed on its ancient springs like "a ship in a
storm. The king and queen both looked
extraordinarily well, but her majesty APP
peared to be in specially good health.
What with the two central figures so
easily seen and gorgeously clad, ana
the brilliant escort of Life Guards. whose
bands kept constantly playing, the pub
lie were rewarded for their long. cold |
wait by a spectacle of considerable in |
terest in so far as unrestrained public |
enthusiasm was concerned; but il was |
nothing to what occurred earlier in the |
day when the Guards reinforcementS left |
their barracks en- route to South Africa.
The Guardsmen tramped through the
dark streets of the metropolis at O'Clock
in the morning accompanied by an up
mob of civilian friends, singing
songs TO the accompaniment of the band
The songs and music, however, did not
drown the crying of women, who chung
to the necks and arms of almost every |
man of the contingent.
On alghting at the royal entrance of
the Houses of Parliament. beneath the
Victoria tower, King Edward and Queen
Alexandra We're met by the high officers
of state and were conducted to the rob-
ing rooms Having assumed their Gor-
geous robes. the procession was formed
and preceded by the Duke of. DevonShire, |
Lord President of the Council, beating !
the imperial crown and the herald and
they entered the House OF
Peers amid 4 fanfare of trumpets.
The scene in the gilded chamber was
very brilliant. State officers, embassa- I
iors and ministers in handsome uniforms
and peers and peeresses in vari-coloreu
robes filled every nook.
The king. beneath his robes, Wore a
field marshaFs uniform. The queens g.,
1y robe trimmed with ermine The
all wore ostrich feathers IN
heir hair. and We're richly clad in eve II
hing robes of the most varied colors I
White satin. however. predominating, the | .
display of jewels being unusually daz-
.ling t
The only departure from the extreme Id
V decorous character of the proceedings 4,
occurred when the king referred to the
humanity of the British troops in South z
Africa. This led to an unprecedented
Gene in the House of Lords. Peers and n
,eeresses and high officers of state broke
'ut into 4 prolonged cheer. which was II
epeated again and again. to the evil
lent satisfaction of his majesty. but TO
he apparent dismay OF the officials or
he House, whose sisnalled deprecations
f this departure from ancient traditions d
we're Intellectual to stop the outburst OF
There was only Il meager attendance
f members when the House of Com z
mons met this afternoon to commence
he work of the session. Irish affairs
ropped up almost Immediately. Earl
'ercy. conservative toldest son of the
luke of Northumberland. and member =
or the South division OF kensington), +
loving a resolution TO the effect that the h
lection from Galway of Colonel Arthur
.ynch (''who was commonly and noto- .
Iously reported TO have aided the kings
was an insult TO the House, T.
nd a committee should be appointed to II
onsider the course to pursue. The
peaker. William Court Gully. declined to q
ccept the motion until notice of it was N
iven IN the usual way. II
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir pi
Iichael H!cks-Beach, has given out a on
efnite assurance that there Will be no :"
Iteration of the coal tax in the forth e
omnS budget. u
NJ. MacNeal. Irish nationalist (member V
,r South DonegaD, created the first %
,eue OF the session by deploring the fact I
lat the nationalist members had been u
injured in dungeons at the behest of
r. Wyneham. the Chief Secretary for
Gland" He moved the appointment of
committee TO investigate the matter.
hen the Speaker declined to accept the III
otion, Mr.. MacNeal questioned his rul- e,
g. and was called 10 order
SPECIAL AMBASSADOR.
WASHINGTON. Jan. l6.-Whitelaw m
cid has been appointed special am c.
lssador to represent the United Sc
tates government at the coronation. E,
e will be attended by General James +
IiIson, representing the army. end h
aptain Clarke. former commander % n
lie battleship Oregon. representing the ~ -,
avy. The appointment of NJ Reid ~
yes general satisfaction in London. 90
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