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Show BEACON SJFIELD. Great Popular Demonstration in HoBor ol HIM Ueturn ic London. London, 16. A number of lordt and members of Ihe bouse of com-moDB com-moDB go to Dover to day to welcome ibe Berlin plenipotentiaries. The mayor and corporation ol Dover will present Lord Beaoonefield wi b an address of congratulation, and a private pri-vate train provided lor the pleaipoten-tariee pleaipoten-tariee wilt reach Cbariog Crxw railway rail-way eUtion at 4.45 o'clock. Lord Henry Leoooi has charge of the organized demonstration of welcome. Tickets have ben issued for aa many persona as the railroad Btation will accommodate. Ail metropolitan conservative associations will be rep resented, re-sented, but no address will be presented. pre-sented. All ministers who can be absent from parliament will beat the platform at the Btation. Many liberal members of parliament bave applied for ticket to the platiorm expressing a wish to make the demonstration national. Seats for 500 friend e of the first lord q( the admiralty have been ereoted within the admiralty enclosure in Whitehall. Dowing street will be reserved for members of parliament. Between Charing Cross and Downing street, the general public will be admitted, ad-mitted, so that the spontaniety and warmth of welcome, will have to be judged by the demonstration at this point of the route. Traffic will be stopped from fifteen minutes paat 4 until Beaconafield'a carriage passes. A ministerial banquet at the Mansion house will take place in August. The date of the complimentary dinner ; tendered by the Cartlin club has not yet bsen determined on. The western west-ern platform of Charing Cross station, down which the carriage road rune, has been petitioned ofl and while rows of raised seats tkirt one aide, : banks of rare flowers rise on tne other. Along tbe sidea of the carriage car-riage way the platform is entirely hidden hid-den by flowers, and the walls of tbe i tat ion at tbe entrance are decorated witb flags of tbe nations participating in 'the -congress,: and clusters o national devices and emblems. Tbe r.Keays:: Lord Beaconifield wiU be welcomed toj'fts the chief actor, in ODe of the most honorable triumphs in modern diplomacy of England. To the fame of the distinguished dis-tinguished English statesman he bos added that oi a singular successful foreign minister, and it would be bard, to say what greater distinction can remain for. him.: . . j 4 p.m. Tho vicinity of Charing Cross and Trafalgar squBre are packed witb people. The passage on West Strand and Whitehall, even for pefieatrians, ia blocked. Cbariog Cross hotel and booses on either side of tbe way to Downing strest, are covered witb flags and decorations. Many American flags, are flyiug, including in-cluding a fine display from the Americanexcbange, opposite Charing Cross hotel. Carriages of Ihe nobility nobili-ty are constantly arriving from, the direction of Fall Mall, and each is greeted witb obeers from the crowd. At this hour reserved seats in the station are filled. Ladies are in gala costume, and the soene is very brilliant. brill-iant. 1 i- - 6.30 p.m. Lord Beaconefleld alighted at Charing Cross railway station, at 4.50 p.m. After a brief handshaking, Beacons fie Id and Lord and Lady Salisbury entered their carriages; as tbey drove along West Stmnd there - was one continuous Obeer and ahowur of bouquets. The crowd followed fbe carriage, cheering cheer-ing and throwing flowers, all the way to Downing st'eeL |