Everybody is look-ing forward with the keenest interest to the speech which the Earl of Rosebery is to deliver at Chesterfield on Monday. The attitude recently maintained by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman is such that one can hard y see how Lord Rosebery can do otherwise than advise the Liberal Imperialists to separate themselves from their pr- sent leader in the House of Commons. Last week at Derby a determined effort was made by the Pro-Boers to gain the ascendancy in the General Council of the National Liberal Federation; and although they did not altogether succeed they scored some little victories. In particular they passed a resolution urging the appointment of a special Commissioner other than Lord Milner to negotiate for peace in South Africa, Altogether it is dificult to see how either section of the Liberal Party could have been really sttistied with the vague resolutions to which the Council committed themselves. And yet Sir Henry has written to the Secretary of the Federation a letter in which he says: "T rejoice to find that so completely representative a body has given public express sion, by a practic ly unanimous vote, to views on the South African question so sound and so decided." After this one can see no course open to Lord Rosebery but to see that the Imper'alist Liberals shoald cut thems-ives off from Sir Henry's leadership. That seems to be the only way in which the Liberals can, in the words of Lord Rosebery's memorable speech at the City Liberal Club, form a party " purged from all anti-national elements, and, confident therefore in the support of the country in regard to Imperial and foreign questions of policy, proceeding in the work of domestic reform."
Coronation and Other Proclamations.
Four Royal Proclamation: appeared in Inst Tuesday's "London Gazette;" and yest-relay, in accordance with ancient custom, they were read before the Lord Mayor and sheriffs by the Town Crier on the steps of the Royal Exchange. It was raining hard at the time, but there was nevertheless a big concourse of citizens who, under the shelter of their umbrellas sang the national anthem with zest. The first and most important of the proclamations announced that the 26th of June had been appointed by his Majesty as the date of the coronation; another called upon Parliament to assemble on the 16th of January for the dispatch of divers urgent and important affairs;" another announced the issue on the Ist of January of coins bearing the King's effigy; and a fourth, strangely incongruous, declared the King's' will and pleasure that "'groats or fourpenny pieces should pass as current coin in the colony of Trinidad and Tobago." It is now practically certain that the great procession through the streets of London will take place on th day before, and not the day after, the coronation, The Badge of Wales.
Wales is not to be represented either in the Royal Arms or in the Arms of the Prince of Wales, but the Prince is to bear additional badge above his arms the Red Dragon of Cadwallader, differenced with the heir opponent's plain label of three Belongs to his father as. scversign of ints, to show that the badge really
Wales. The Imperial crest, the lion statant guardant, similarly differenced, is to appear immediately above the Prince's Arms, the ostrich feathers on the dexter, or what those ignorant of heraldry would regard as the left-hand side, and the dragon on the sinister side.' The decision is in strict accordance with the laws of heraldry, for the dragon was not an armorial bearing but a badve, and it was so used by Henry VII in token of his descent. from Cadwallader. The only ional device to which Wales can lay claim is that of the four lions or leopards passant guardant; and to add four more of these creatures to a coat of arms already somewhat overburdened with them would have been inartistic to say the least. of it. Bes des the four lions were the arms of a line of princes who ruled over only part of Wales. Wales asa whole has never had any arms.
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