Although they have been working quietly, the Conmnittee appel the public meeting of British subj jects held on the 28th of March last has not en idle. At its first meeting om the Jat April, its oticers were appointed, consisting of Mr. P. J. Hughes, HLML''s Consul-General, Chairman; Me. Jamieson, Acting Assisting Judge, Honorary Treasurer; and Mr. R. W. Little, Honorary Secretary. A rough scheme for the celebration, the result of which has been seen in the advertisement published inourdailycolumns on Saturday, was decided on, and a working sub-committee, consisting of Messrs. Grant, Gratton, Jamieson, Little, and Marshall, appointed to carry out the details. The programme as it how appears was settled the working Committee, and' submitted to another meeting of the general Committe: on the 14th of April. It was approved, after slight alterations, by the General Committee, and the necessary subscription lists were then printed, and their circulation taken in hand; with the result that up to Saturday last' something over Tls. 3,500 had been subscribed, the sums ranging from Tls. 250 each contributed by some of the larger firms, downwards. It probable that the Secretary's original estimate of Ts. 5,000 will be reached, and the committee will then have ample funds for the contemplated festivities. It will be remembered that the festivities in connection with the visit of General Grant to Shanghai cost something like $4,000, though the accounts were never published. The programme that has been drawn up will sufficiently fill up the longest day, on which the Jubilee appropriately falls. ' The first duty will be the despatch of the congratulatory telegram to the Queen. It has been suggested that this message should be sent by mail, with one cipher word arranged, to be sent on Jubilee Day as an instruction to hand the message to the Queen; but this of rank, sex or nationality, the British community' of whatever origin acting as hosts. Tt may be expected that some of the Chinese officials will avail themselves of this opportunity to pay their respects to the Queen's representative, and their presence will add to the picturesqueness of the gathering. Meanwhile the bund will wear an wonted air of festivity with its double line of Venetian masts, reaching from the Public Garden to the Yang-king-pang, and adorned with flags and banners. At each end of the line will be a smaller triumphal arch, and at Hsing to a height of & hundied foo the Nanking Road an arch fifty feet square night ten thousand lanterns hung from the rnmata and arches will replooe tha elvoislo lights, and the arches will shew transparent cies with loyal mottoes. 'There will be a display of fireworks on the bund Iayns, or pre-nated by two appropriate set-pieces exch fifty lambly perhaps on the Puotung Point, donia feet high, with V.R., 1887, infirm, and a nuniber of smaller set-pieces,' rockets, coloured fires, ete., ete. Anorder was telegraphed to England for rockets, but the disappointing reply was received that the steamers refused. to accept rockets on freight, and we si have to be contented with the results of yrotectunie act of Chin and Japan. Avery ut feature of the evening celebration will be the illuminated fountain. originally proposed to erect this on the bund foreshore at the end either of the Nanking or Kiukiang roads, where it would have been a centre of attraction to the thousands of Chinese who will come in to sce the display, but for some unexplained reason the Council has not found itin its power to allow the bund foreshore or rads to be used even for a temporary fountain, and it is now proposed to" erect it in the public garden. The basin will be thirty-five fect in diameter, and the main jet will rise through a picturesque triass of rockwork to a height off about tity fect, and it will be illuminated with coloured lime-lights. The water will be supplied by the Waterworks Company, who have under taken the laying of the necessary pipes. Th basin will be so constructed that if neces sary the fountain can remain as a permanent ornament, to the Garden, in which case it will only be necessary to puta stone coping to the basin, and replace the central rockwork with statuary. The farther avenin attraction will be the torch-light parade of the fire-brigade, one of the most effective displays that Shanghai can furnish; and with this the public entertainments will close. Given fine weather, the 21st of June promises to be a-memorable day in the annals of the model settlement; ift should
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