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A ROYAL DAY. LANDING OF QUEEN ALEXANDRA. MEMORIES OF 60 YEARS AGO.
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20TH, 1913.
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assembled an impressive array of seventeen j thousand Volunteers, then a comparatively now force, doomed to be for many years the bust of caricaturists and other jesters ! m
cortège passat at walking paco Be
co between the double line of Yolun teers and when the glittering throng This is the anniversary of the day, bal
testimony to passed, sufficient Saturday, March 7th, 1863 (saya The Times) beauty of the Princess was afforded by when the Princess Alexandra of Denmark the universal admission of officers and mon that they felt *awfully jealous. whogover landed in England for her marriage to the
she bowed
to the other side and not to them. Prince of Wales. It was a day of ext. So magical, indeed, was the influence she ex- ordinary happiness, when the Princess, inercised that from a few of the Volunteer her radiant young boy, first captured the Corps she charmed all apparent recollection heart of the British people.
of discipline, leading the rank and file not only to cheer with all their might, but in isolated cases to break from their lives and pursue the carriage.
The Times of Monday, March 9th, 1863, is a production of absorbing interest to every one possessing the historical sense. All three leading articles are devoted to dif forent aspects of the Royal marriage, and one of them makes the carious suggestion that posterity will perhaps consider the country celebrations crea uzore remarkable than those in Londoo.
But that Saturday was London's Day, The twenty columns of descriptive reporting, which show the Princess prival at Grave sond, her reception by the Prize3, and their progress through the City to Paddington Station and so to Windsor, certainly bear
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Curious proofs of the extent of the enthusiasm are afforded in the advertise menta Even the hairdressers, doubt- size, the opportunity of the marriage. It is easier
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bald, and
the authors, aptoan's!
the test of time. The native is simple less remembering that post est ocean
its dignity lessened by the obvious enjoy. ment of the writers in their work. We do not miss the flourishes. of headlices and
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would decorate the story of a similar Royal The essentials of good progress to-day. roporting, which are permanent, are all This is how the Princess looks when the Hoyal yacht comes into Clave
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▲ CORDIAL RECEPTION,
She was dressed entirely in white, with the exception of a few light-coloured flowers in her bonnet, and wore what was apparently a very warm white shawl. Her colour was heightened as if by nrrous excitement, but there was an expression of pleasing astonishment at her reception which was unmistakable and she did not, or perhaps could not, check the frank display of wondering pleasure with which she looked from side to side, bowing her acknowledgments, and every now and then speaking earnestly to her mother, who stood near her.
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annoancements that the Government have decided to throw open six theatres-the Haymarket, the Adelphi, the Lyceum, the Royal Surrey Theatre, the Theatre Royal Westminister (Astley's), and the St. James's--free to the public on the tay
Tickets have to be wrallinsr got beforehand, but there is no charge. Would that be done on a silmiar occasion, nowadays, we wonder? Or would a com- economical Government leave Bo magnificent a gesture to the loyal enthusiasm of the theatre managers themselves ?
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of 9,18 inches.
April 19th at 11.53 -Plewore has decreised Occasionally as the port side spectators grew deafening in their cheers-asa geatle moderately from Vladivostock 3. W. Japan, It bus iceressed considera lyst Saughai reminder that they were there as well as and slightly from For oss to Hongkong, the visitors on the pier-she went to that
The anticyclone has stren, thard. "It is side also, but, as may be guessed, her apcentral over N.E. Clin pearance did not stop the cheating. No A depression is shown over the Sea of thing did, in truth, till she withdrew at intervals altogether, but not for long. Her white bonnet and delighted face were soon to be seen peeping round from some un-January 1st, 8.42 inches, against an average expected widow, when in a second she was discovered and cheerod till she came for ward and bowed and bad to go to another.
The protraits of herself and the Prince of Wales together which were taken at Hongkong to Gap Rock winds, Brussels ara precisely like her. The Paris photographs taken frim a painting done more than a year ago not only are not so like, but do her an injustice, inasmuch as they reader anthing of the expressions of thorough good natura and good humour which beam from her countenance, aud light it up into a look which is almost fascinating when she speaks.
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The meeting with the Prince, and his hearty kits of welcome, were witnessed by innumerable spectators. Firat we are shown the Prince, bis face radiant with bap. piness," ready to board the yacht. Then- The Princess watched his coming from the window, but, as he neared the vessel, first came to the door and then, after a Barometer moment a hesitation, went out upon the Temperature
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The Princess, before landing changed her dress for a manve-coloured silk bich "made her look less youthful than when she wore white only, and her hair, smooth- ed down op eituer side of ber forehead, took away partly from the almost childish expression with which she appears in ber. portraits."
On the pier-bead there was a ludicrous incident. A general officer, whose name. is mercifully withheld, trod on the skirt of her robe and brought her up with a jerk," and the Prince also. The happy pair were evidently in the mood to appreciate such an unrehearsed effect, for we are told that they could hardly restrain their smiles.
The railway then ended at Bricklayers" | Arms Station, where goods were more encouraged than passenger. But gallant efforts had been made to convenitis ugliness with lavish decoration. On Loc. don Bridge the decorators had broken out into ravens, elephants, tripods burning incense, and figures of huge Danish war
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One gathers a vivid inpression of the enormous crowds. A woman throws a baby into a passing carriage to save its life in the crash, and the narrator thoughtfully in- forins her where she can reclaim the child. In the City the populace in their enthusiasm want to take the horse out of the Boyal carriage and drag it themselves. But Lord Alfred Paget, riding ne equarry beside the carriage, is equal to the occasion
By an adroit mixture of firmness and "ood humeur, and a skill in chaffing which harmed the multitudes, be coaxed a passage where it was impossible to force it, and again and again rescued his charge from what might have proved a serious embarrassment.
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At St. Paul' School, then still in the City the captain presenta a copy of Latin verses understood to be from the High Master's pen. But there is no time for a transition, and on we go through old Temple Bar, a mase of elbeorate decoration, surmounted by a white statne of Hymen to Hyde Park. There is
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