The last of the Coronation festivities is over, and the owners of houses of business on the route of the great procession are congratulating themselves as much on this fact as on the brilliant success of Saturday's celebration, For they have found in the majority of cases that the profits which they make from the letting of windows and stands docs not, in a pecuniary sense, compensate them for the disturbance of business. I do not mean to say, however, that this consideration doterred them from joining very loyally in the hearty Broctings which the King and Queen received during the "Royal Progress through London," as Saturday's celebration is officially designated, As for the populace, they thoroughly enjoyed it. The day was fine, and the route was far more crowded than on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee; though on that occasion the procession was of a far more interesting character. It is not of course, that our present sovereign is more lar than his revered mother—Kin; Edward would no doubt be the: first to repudiate sich a suggestion. It is simply that the police have learnt since then how to regulate the crowds on these occasions, and we know there is no danger. Thousands kept away from the Jubilee for fear of the crowds, and consequently there was elbow room for all who came. Once since it is true, the police have bungled the day of the C.LV.s) return; but that was because they did not anticipate such enormous crowds, and therefore made no adequate provisions.
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