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Jury 2, 1887
THE PENNY ILLUSTRATED PAPER 3
Hews in a Hutshell.
—
THE QUEEN GAVE A STATE
BANQUET
at Windsor Castle on Saturday night, to which
many of the illustrious personages attending the
Jubilee celebration were invited. The festivities
attracted an immense number of spectators, and,
the weather being fine, the gaily- decorated
streets of the Royal borough were thronged with
sightseers. The Royal guests began to arrive in
Windsor about six o’clock: The Marquis of
Salisbury, Viscount Cranbrook, the Lord Chan-
cello, the Archbishop of Canterbury, several
Jadies, Lord Arthur Somerset, the Ion. A.
Yorke, Colonel the Hon. C. G. Eliot, and a
number of foreign military officers, arrived at
Windsor at eight o’clock by Great Western train.
The State banquet took place in St. George’s
Hall, to which the Queen, Royal family, and
visitors proceeded about half-past eight o’clock.
Covers were laid for upwards of a hundred
ests, and the banqueting-room, which is
hung with the flags of the first twenty - six
Knights of the Garter, and, decorated with the
arms of those subsequently created, presented a
splendid appearance.
Her Majesty gave a State dinner at Windsor
Castle last Monday evening, to which the
Ambassadors and other distinguished personages
were invited. Covers were laid for about one
hundred guests in the Waterloo Chamber.
HER MAJESTY
held a Jubilee garden -party at Buckingham
Palace on Thursday, and comes to town again
on Saturday to review the Volunteers at
Buckingham’ Palace; and once again, next
Monday, to lay the foundation-stone of the
Imperial Institute on the site of the late Col-
Indian Exhibition at South Kensington.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES,
accompanied by Princess Victoria and the Crown
Prince of Sweden, were present at the perform-
ance of ‘ Der Freischiitz’? by the pupils of the
Royal College of Music at the Savoy Theatre last
Monday afternoon.: The Countess of Macclesfield
and Colonel Clarke were in attendance.
The King of Denmark, the King of the Hellenes,
the Prince’ and Princess of Wales, Princesses
Louise, Victoria, and Maud, the Crown Prince of
Sweden, the Duke of Sparta, and Prince George
of Greece went to a bazaar on Monday, held at
Willis’s Rooms, in aid of the French charities in
London. Colonel Clarke was in attendance. The
Crown Prince of Sweden called at Marlborough
JIouse, and remained to luncheon. Prince Albert
Victor and Prince George left London on Monday
morning on a visit to the Lord Lieutenant of
Treland (the Marquis of Londonderry), at the
Viceregal Lodge, Dublin. The Duke of Abercorn,
Captain the Hon. A. Greville, and Lieutenant
Gough, R.N., were in attendance.
ADMIRAL THE DUKE OF EDINDURGIL
Jeaves Clarence House to resume his duties as
Commander - in - Chief on the Mediterrancan
station.
“THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE.
The foundation-stone of the Imperial Institute
of the United Kingdom, the Colonies, and India
will be laid, as aforesaid, by her Majesty the
Queen on Monday, July 4, at half-past twelve
o'clock, the site being on land lately occupied by
the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. The cere-
mony will take place in a specially-constructed
pavilion, in the presence of the Royal family,
the foreign Sovereigns and members of foreign
reigning families then present in this country,
her Majesty’s Ministers, the great officers of
State, several Princes and distinguished natives
of India, the members of both Houses of Parlia-
ment, representatives of foreign Powers, and
ublic officials and delegates from the United
Kingdom, the Colonies, and India.
The District Railway Company’s subway from
South Kensington Station will be open before and
after the ceremony for the convenience of visitors
travelling by the railway.
A BRONZE STATUE OF SIR WILLIAM WALLACE
was unveiled on Saturday, at the National
Wallace Monument, Stirling, in the presence of
a large gathering of people from many parts of
Scotland. ‘The monument issituated on a height
300 feet above the plain, and on this, fifty feet
from the basement, is placed the figure, which
stands twenty-one feethigh tothe tip of the sword,
PARLIAMENT AND IRELAND.
The House of Lords epent two or three hours
on Monday evening on the English Land Transfer
Bill, which passed through Committee. It is
time England had her turn.
Mr. W. I. Smith stated the same evening in
the Commons that the Irish Land Bill would be
introduced into that House early next week. On
the consideration of the Criminal Law Amend-
ment (Ireland) Bill, as amended, Mr. John
Morley moved the insertion of a clause limiting
the duration of the measure to a period of three
years. This was opposed by the Government
and supported by Mr. Gladstone and other
Liberals, as well as by the Parneilites. On a
division, Mr. Morley’s proposal was negatived
by 180 votes to 119. Several new clauses moved
by Parnellite members were also rejected.
BRITAIN, TURKEY, AND EGYPT.
We regret to say that French and Russian
diplomatists in Constantinople—very different
from the estimable French Minister at the Court
of St. James’s, M. Waddington, who deserves
one day to be President of the French Republic—
are labouring to undermine the good under-
standing existing between England and Turkey
with regard to the occupation of Egypt
Replying last Monday to a question in the
House by Mr. Pickersgill, Sir James Fergusson
said the Government of the Porte had expressed
a strong wish that the ratification of the
Egyptian Convention should be postponed till
Monday next, and her Majesty’s Government
had thought it right to accede to the request.
THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY.
There can be no question that, by his manly
and chivalric bearing, the Crown Prince of
Germany won golden opinions from all sorts of
people in London on Jubilee Day. We rejoice
to learn that so marked is the improvement in
the German Emperor’s health that itis hoped
that his Majesty will be enabled to start for Ems
early next week.
AUSTRIA AND SERVIA.
Frequent conferences have taken place at
Vienna between King Milan of Servia and the
Emperor of Austria and Count Kalnoky. On
Monday also a military council, presided over by
the Emperor, was held at the Palace. In the
evening, the Scrvian King was entertained at
dinner by the Crown Prince Rudolph.
THE FRENCH CHAMBER
last Monday discussed a motion for urgency to
consider a Bill proposed by Major Labordére for
modifying the method by which the Senate is
elected. Ile said his object was to provide for
the election of Senators by universal suffrage.
The Government opposed the motion, which was
rejected by 317 votes to 205.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC
was present last Monday at the double ceremony
of the civil and religious wedding of his nephew,
M. Léon Grévy, Maitre des Requétes at the
Council of State, and Mdlle. Louise Labiche,
daughter of the well-known Senator of the
Department of the Eure-et-Loir.
ANOTHER PARLIAMENTARY VACANCY
is created by the death of Mr. Lionel L. Cohen,
Conservative member for North Paddington, who
succumbed to an attack of pleurisy on Sunday
night. Mr. Cohen had sat for the constituency
since 1885, and his majority on re-election last
year was 911
DUBLIN’S RECEPTION OF PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR
AND PRINCE GEORGE OF WALES.
On Monday last, Prince Albert Victor and
Prince George of Wales arrived in Dublin to
represent her Majesty in the Jubilee festivities
arranged for this week. ‘Their Royal Highnesses
were warmly greeted at Kingstown on dis-
embarking from the stcamer, and received an
address from the Town Commissioners, to which
Prince Albert Victor replied in his usual modest
and clear fashion. On reaching the Irish metro-
polis another address was presented, and the
Prince in reply alluded to the gratification with
which he heardof the loyal sentiments entertained
by the citizens towards the Queen. The visitors
were cordially cheered as they assed through the
streets, but groans were audible at some points,
and the general populace were anything but
enthusiastic. After a short stay at the Viceregal
Lodge the Princes dined with the Benchers at
King’s Inn, and later in the evening attended
the citizens’ ball at the Leinster Hall. The
gallant young Princes, brought up by their
father and mother in the best of schools, that
of the world, under good guidance, personally
merit the heartiest welcome the kind-hearted
Irish people could give them.
THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE, DUKB OF CONNAUGHT,
Prince George of Greece, and a number of
officers belonging to the English and foreign
armies, left Charing-cross Station by special
train on Tuesday morning for Woolwich to
attend a review on Woolwich-common.
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