CELEBRATION, the last fow attention of the wh has been ecntre-! on in the North Atlantic Oc capital of which a great event ju th brought to conclusion. Amidst the acclamation of vast. multitudes of his loyal ssu jects, with all the pomp and pageantry befitting such an august occasion, Majesty King Edward VIL has crowned in that historic Abbey which is so closely associated with many of the most impressive and stirring events im the history of the British Empire, The world has never before beheld an Empire comparable to the one over wi King has just proclaimed the Sovereign for the what the okt historian would ly sill if hee cout have she recent eclubration, far tie half aaillion enthusiastic ets whom he speaks as having wit-ssud the procession at vie Coromion of ovr late Qrsen, must hare been quartrupled and qtinzupled last Swurday, seeing that the population London alone is now nearly one-third of what it was for the whole of england when Queen crowned. There may be all among us who, leviing back ini dim vista of the past, cin call to remembrance: the Coronaiions King George IV., King Willian IV, and Queen Viet The first has been deseribel as offer: az splenunr"; the sad as "a eompromise bots aviation avd prrsiy": ant the thirl that © it was of the lwtroas lady it great' Empires of antiquity, acfired by conquest, were ineomparahly inferior from every point view tu that mighty strue hich has been gradually reared by indomitable pluck and pers ce of the British people, As Lilly says, "The British Empire over which King Edward VIL rules is assuredly one of the most upendous creations of human valour and human virtue. It is to the courage. the veracity, the energy, the prudence, the lunganimity, the loyalty, the self-sacrifice of the happy breed of men' dwelling in these islands, that the building up of the vast Imperial fabric is due."
For many hundreds of years in unbroken succession British Sovereigns have been crowned, but it can said without fear of contradiction that aever before has the event been watched with such absorbing interest in every part of the world, early two centuries and a-half have passed away since James LI gave up, on the score of economy it is believed, what was, to the common {people at least, one of the most striking and stately pageants connected with the rite—the procession from the Tower of London. According to Macaulay the old practice was partially revived at the Coronation of Queen Victoria, and on that occasion he says, "there was a procession in which many deficiencies might bet noted, but which was seen with interest and delight by half million of her subjects, aad which undoubtedly gave far greater plea" sire, and called forth far greater enthusiasm, than the more display which was witnessed by select circle within the Abbey." It! has been left for King Edward to revive the ancient custom in all its fulness, although of course the route The graphic wont picture given us by Me, Greville in his delightful Memoirs of the day preestiog the may of the Coronation of Queen oturia, more than G4 years may bs appropriately quote Las being applicable to the présnt occasion, ale though we hop: that these mutters are managed better now than they were in, days. He says, speaking of London: "There naver was anything seen like the state of this town. is as if the population had been on a sudden quintupled, uproar, the eonfusion, the crowd, the noise are indescribible,—Horseinen, otmnen, carriages, squeezed, jammd, intermingled: the puament blocked up with timbers, hammering and ku ing, and falling fi its. stttaning the ews and threatening the head: not a mob here ani there, but che town all mob, thronging. bustling, staring and guping ant gazing thing, at anything, or as noshing." Dali must by th wtioas of the Britons "overseas" whos hearts have not been stirred as they have contemplated, an! participated in as fures possible, the universal rej icings which this auspicious event has called forth. The Britons whose lots are cast in this cosmopolitan centre have done rheic best to show to all who care t notice—that their expatriation has not yuen che? in any conceivable degree the patriotic fire that burns in their breasts, or their love for the old country, and we believe that King Edward has no more loyal and devoted subjects than those whose hom are far removed from the capital of his Empire.
Those who were privileged to view he imposing demonstration in celebration of Queen Vietoria's Jubilee, will be able to form some coneaption }from the Tower was not followed,, of the unique spectne'e off rte since this would have defeated the to the applauding multi nds as the object in view—the exhibition of gorgeous procession passed slowly their King to the people. We wonder on its w: from Buckingham Palace
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