Year: 1878

that glorious Empire on which the never sets has
sped our cry of 'Hail' Now among US, be it your
pleasant lot each day to receive proofs of afec
ton and respects each day to dwell more lovingly on
the memory Of the hour when first you set foot on
Nova Scotias shore to become the happy rulers of
happy people. Our streets blossom and bloom to-
day. And see, mingled with tho evergreen is the
white heather, Highland symbol of good luck and
prosperity"


WONDERFUL ESrHUsrAsM


If this can be beaten by any rapturous scribe
let all the British colonies compete. The excuse for
it is that it did not exaggcrate the general feeling
here, which devoted, this morning the streets
and on the roofs and in the windows Of a thousand
ancient and modern buildings. For week carpenters
and decorators have been busy; arches have been
rising, and every countryinan's cart approaching
town has been laden with pncbopshs and spruce and
cedar No merchant felt it safe to neglect the
mentation Of his store The public places Of
have been profusely adorned. Government buildings
fling out flags from their windows, banners from
their balconies and ensigns and streamers from the
stafs above their roofs At every turn this morning
met with everqreens. notices, trophies and all
sorts of loyal symbols in the air.


BRILLIANT NAVAL SCENE.


The Sarmatian having anchored in the harbor, as
described last night the expected naval ceremonial
in fact omitted and of the sketches already
sent on in advance to the New York and London illus
trated newspapers will have to be revised in
with later facts. The feet to accompany.
rather pilot the steamer into port in two columns.
and that spectacle. together with the anticipated
broadside salntcs would have been well worth jour
avir Fort A .fac1n in f1lp
harbor was brilliant enough to satisfy any not
used to great naval displays. The sarmatian had
anchored at such point toward the harbor's mouth
as compelled her to steam past most of the forts
and ell the vessels before arriving opposite the
dockyard where the ocial landing take place.
She did not raise her anchor until halfpast ten
o'clock A. NJ and long before that time three fourths
Of the local population together with thousands Of
strangers were assembled at the best points for the
first vew


LOUISE GREETED WITH SUNSHINE.


The proverbal "royal sunshine which is said to
burst great occasions upon scons of the reigning
house Of England, wherever they may be- did not fail
victorias daughter this occasion. The sun Glove
the clouds almost at the instant she assembled from
her cabin to the sarmatians deck, at which moment.
ten A. NJ. the officers Of the ship were watch to
greet her with uplifted hats. The Marquis Of
Lorne himself had been up for an hour and
more. and while traversing the deck of the
steamer spoke with of the officers OF the beauty
and of the harbor and listened in return
to q description of tho harbor Of New York. The
islands here reminded his companion Of the famous
metropolitan port; but just the Sarmatan started
her way toward the city and the guns Of York Re
doubt belched forth their thunders His Excellency
sad:-


We'll, I'll not believe that New York Harbor can
look better than this at the present moment"


Indeed. at that instant the inspiriting
as to justify the Marquis doubt.


MOVING TOWARD HALIFAX.


The whsrves Of Halifax were packed to their edges
with black crowds. and the steamships, merchant
sailing vessels and lighters in the slips all bright
bunting from hull to truck. Many docks were
spanne by green srches and every available outpost
showed signal. denoting the observance Of the
general holiday. Two or thr-e privileged steamers
started ont snd followedtAe ssrmatian bearing the
members OF the Rnlish Canniann and american press
As the steamship moved up tho port the echoes of
the salute from York Redoubt were mingled with the
reports Of cannon from Fort Clarence, the oppo-
site shore The great guns on the summit and in the
Nasemates Of st. Georges Island waited until the
Sarmatian got fairly by them before the word was
given for them to speak, for when their voices began
the windows Of the rcmotest hut in the suburbs OF
the city felt the conclusion through miles OF air. TIE
topmost cannon fred frat, six OF them with an
inerission of fifteen seconds between each discharge
Then the believing from the casematcd ten-inch
coumbiads began. making the island to sound like
a den Of colossal lions. Smoke enough from the
mouths OF its sodded to almost obscure the
eastern extremity and when the sarmatian appeared
beyond the western rim she seemed. with the rolling
smoke above her, to have escaped from hostile
nonade. She was then quarter Of mile distant
from the British vessels tho Bellerophon Black
Prince, PERT Rover. Constant and the Argus: These
had taken mp positions opposite the dockyard where
the Sarmatian would have to pass between them
three each side of her.


HUZzAHs FROM THE TARs.


The Bellerophon. ram. is Admiral Inglcfeld's
vessel and the Black Prince the Duke Of Edinburghs
As the Sarmatsn slowly approached, the Black Prince
was the first to yards. Up went the men into
the rigging climbing in groups. while the band at
the stern struck up in notes which could be heard all
over the harbor, .God Save the Queen" Lord Lornc
who is not the most imprcssionable of his country
men, invol,lntarily lifted his hat when he
heard this familiar strain and then the
Princess Louise, turning to Lady Sophia Mac
namara, said something in an undertone
about her royal mother The thought of the Queen
was naturally uppermost in the minds of both tho
Marquis and the Princess at this hour for il is under
stood that Her Majesty chiefly interested in pro-
curing for the husband of her favorie daughter his
appointment to his new and responsible post. The
marriage between the two decidedly one of choice
and not of political convenience. Tho Marquis hav
ing been descended from the Duchess Of Sutherland
mistress Of the robes Of the Queen tho latter had
much 70 do with his early education In her journal of
our Life in the Highlands Her Majesty wrote OF
the Marquis when boy :-"Outsdc stood the Marquis
of Lcrne. just two years DID, dear white fat fair
little fellow. with reddish hair but very delicate fea-
lures. like both his father and mother" and subse.
quently the young noblemsn. who has got over being
fat and little, much praised by her. Ar he cast
his eyes, therefore, aloft ut the sailors who in few
minutes. assumed their stations the spars Of tho
Black Prince. and noted the other handsome prepare
ons around him, the Marquis may well have thought
that for young he had lost all recent possible