Unfortunately the "New Journalism has enormously encouraged the lying spirit. Smee his operation no one has been admitted to the King's presence but the nurses, the doctors, and his nearest relatives. "All of them occupy much too responsible positions to retail idle gossip about the King's condition or about the momentous decisions which depend upon his recovery. All information, therefore, except such ax is embodied in the bullet tins and semi-official statements is absolutely unreliable, and the "new journalist " can obtain absolutely no more information on the subject than anyone else. Therefore he inven's. One day we are told that the postponed Coronation is to take place early in August, another day that it is to be inthe late autumn, Now we hear that it is to take place so soon that all the Colonial troops are to remain for it. Then an official intimation of the almost immediate departure of troops proves the earlier statement. The fact is, nothing has been decided yet, and nothing will he decided until the King is obs In ely out of danger. All that can be said with any degree of certainty is that there is a eneral desire on the part of those concern: ed that the postponement shall be as bei of as. possible; snd! if this desire is realised it follows thit the caleb-at on will be on a much less elaborate seals than was originally contemplated. At the same time we may be sure that the King will be most anxious not t> deprive his people altogether of the pageant to which they had been looking forward sv eagerly.
The Indian and Colonial Reviews.
In the meantime, as soon as the King was pronounced out of danger, steps were taken to provide some little compensation for the disappointment whic the Royal and Imperial guests had suffered. On Tuesday the Prince of Wales, in the presence of Queen Alexandra, reviewed on the Horse Guards farde' the Colonial troops who had come over for the Coronation, together with the troops who left South Africa in the Bavaria peace was proclaimed; and on Wednesday there was a review of ths Indis troops on precisely similar lines. And it may be truthfully suid that these reviews were in themselves worth travelling many hundreds of miles to see. Neith-r at the Jubilee of 1887 nor at that of ten years lat-r had any thi like so representative a body of 8 British troops of all races, colours and uniforms, been brought to this country and certainly not even Rome in. the zenith of its glory could have proluecd such splendid evidences of " world wide Empire. They were not only most int-resting pageants, but they must surely have impressed the great body of Royal and distinguished foreigners who witn se l them with the strong filial affection of our Colonies towards the mother-country, and of the enthusiastic loyalty of the alien races of all colours which flourish under British rule and protection.
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