The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-29
ALL ENGLAND IS
 CORONATION MAD London Will Be the Hub of
 the Universe ROMAN GALLEY FOUND Was Buried in the Mud of the Thames l for Sixteen Centuries, But Is in
 Very Excellent State of 1 Preservation
ROMAN GALLEY FOUND
BY PHILLIP EVERETT

whom little IS known, put that ne IS spending most of his time trying to act as intermediary between two ambitious women, his mother and his wife, is the principal event of the year.
 Countless are the schemes whereby the conservative papers are trying to win the chief task of the press of the country, in which a bitter struggle for social equal lty is being carried on and whose anti quated constitution is tottering because of the stubbornness and greed of Its up- per classsM Not only are the leaders of the liberal party asked to postpone all legislation of a controversial nature, to masses just claims, that nothing may darken the coronation year." but ap peals are made to these same poor to contribute their units toward costly and useless gifts to their royal majesties. Any person fortunate enough to be blessed with the royal" names of George or Mary is asked to contribute anything from 2c to $5 toward the proposed pres ents, which the King and Queen, if they have any sense whatever of propriety. will refuse to accept. Another plan is ito crown all the hills of Great Britain with fiery piles on cor onation night" an idea which ts by no means new as it was used last at Queen Victorias jubilee, and in former times during certain nights of the year to rid the country of evil witches flying through the air. On coronation night it Is sug- gested to. light flaming fires on every cminence, large or little, from DartmooI to the Grampians The signal to light these fires is then to be given from the Malvern hills in the Midlands, and the lighting of the fire on top of the Worces- tershire beacon will start chain reach ing to the Black mountains in Brecon and all the heights of Wales. to the Breden hills and the Cotswods across to the Chilterns and southward to the Tors of Devon, northward to the Clee and Clent hills to the peaks of Derbyshire, the lake country ranges and the Pennincs, far into Scotland.
 A week from tomorrow King George will drive in state from Buckingham pal ace to Westminster and will open the first session of parliament whose deeds are to be of greater importance to Eng lish politics than that of any other dur ing the last 100 years. He will be ac-
 
 Of Wales.
 In some quarters the impression has been prevalent that the state opening of parliament would have to be dispensed with on account of the fact that the King has not yet been formally invested with his crown.
 On that point an authority on state ceremonial stated that so far from this being the case, precedent to the contrary was furnished as recenly as the reign of the late King Edward, who accompanied by Queen Alexandra opened parliament ' in state more than 12 months before his coronation.
 In view of the approaching opening of the new parliament there is daily in creasing activity in Downing street and all the cabinet ministers are constantly in town MT. Lloyd George was visited by the home secretary yesterday morn- ing, and the chief whip was in freque mt communication with MT. Lloyd George, and also with the prime minister's pri- vate secretary.
 Shortly after the resumption of parlia- Inent an invitation will be extended to the prime minister and Lord Crewe to attend a dinner at the National Liberal club, to be given in their honor.
 In view of the recent crimes committed by foreigners in the East End, which ended with the now famous bomba rdment of the fortress in Sydney street, Q move ment has been stated here to have the city of London acquire this district and transform 1t. as it has already trans. formed the criminal district near Strand where now the magnificent Waldorf-As- toria hotel is the most prominent buid- ing.
 
 ploring the anarchist district in the East End, which surely is disgrace to the wealthy city of London, and ought to have been wiped out long ago.
 The houses are built together in courts, each containing score of dark, dirty, evil smelling novels inhabitated by Poles, Let's. Russian Jews and their lodgers
 Entrance to the court Is obtained through a dark. narrow passage, and once inside 1t Is difficult to imagine how such a place shorld be allowed to exist Each house has a window top and bottom. Every window is closely curtained. The inhabitants have common sanitary arrangements in the yard now and again a woman with a bucket in her hand may be seen sour rying across to draw water from the common pump or to throw refuse on tue common QuSt Heap, ana there IS dn evil smelling atmosphere about the whole place. No children appear in the yard, but at short intervals cries indicate that they are near. The ap- pearance of a stranger brings furtive glances from some of these people, who resent inquiries and answer ques- tions curtly. Yet in the streets beyond artisans did not hesitate to declare that in the novels hidden from the view of passerby were aliens of the most un- desirable type--violent. cruel and dirty, and only to be described as pests.
 The old Roman galley found some months ago by Inrkmen. who were ex- cavating for the foundations of the new Country hall ar Lambath. has now been housed in one of the vaults formed by the arches of the terrace on the river front. It has been treated with sew eral coats of glvcerine and remains In an excellent state of preservation m spite of its 1s centuries burial in the mud of the Thames.
 The relic Is nearly 30 feet long and weighs more th-n six tons In. order to lift 1t a wooden platform was con- structed beneath 1t ana the whole mass moved bodily to It's present resting place The ribs. which have been al- most fattened out by the weight of the mud. which, for so many hundreds of years has rested upon them are fastened to the kee! by wooden pegs. which are still we'll preserved. There Is practically no sign of decay in the whole structure. which is complete. save for small portion of the stern. which. some 20 yearD ago. was accl- dcntally cut away by workmen who were building a warehouse These men treated it merely as buried rubbish and It was not until the present contractors found It necessary 'to gosdeeper into the