On Monday the Bluejackets and Marines of HLALS. Powerful who contributed so splendidly to the defence of Ladysmith, or fo lit valiantly with Lord Methuen' on the other side of the seat of war, are to be reviewed in the Horse Guards and to have a triumphal march into the City, there to b" entertained by the Committes of Lloyd's at the Royal Exchange, and meanwhile they have paid a visit tthe Queen at Windsor and have received from the inhabitants of the Royal borough a foretaste of the welcome which nwnits them in London, After an inspection by Hor Majesty in the Qoatrangle of the Castle the men were regaled with an excellent feast finishing up. with a hundred bottles of fine old port from the Queen's cellar in which they drank thole sovereign's health. But their greatest reward was Aoubiless the admiration and enthasiasin of their sover 1d the cheering crowds, through which they made their procure-s through the town, ward of decoras tions in connection with the war las already begun, On the occasion of Sir George White's visit to Windsor he was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Victorian Order; and on Wednesday Her Majesty conferred the C.B. on Cip'ain Lambton of the Powerful.
TO HONOUR THE COLONES, Almost daily the Australian delegates who are here to discuss the Comuonwealth Bill are feasted by one or other of the great clubs and institutions of the country but the most brilliant of these banquets was that given by the British Empire League at the Hotel Cecil under the
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