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Show THE CORONATION. Tomorrow will be coronation day in London. The preparations that have been going 'on for . weeks will culminate. Amid all the splendor that ;TeaTtI7precedenran JTnventtorrcomhineffTan produce pro-duce another king and queen will be crowned in England; king and queen of the United Kingdom and emperor and empress of lands so far away, and so eontinuoua that the sun in heaven ia always shining on some portion of them, and so the event, "following the sun and keeping company with the hours" will, aa it exhausts itself in one land be taken up in another, until all the world will bo thrilled by the echoes of (ireat Britain's masty and power. But the chief event will be in London. The great procession, kings and queens, nobles and . knighta of every degree, wise statesmen and juries, jur-ies, soldiers who have at the cannon's mouth earned all the decorationa that cover their breasts, soldiers on horseback and long lines of soldiers on foot, and with British sailors whose mission ia to both aymhol and to guard British power at home and abroad, and then the populace by hundreds of thousanda all singing in unison with martial bands playing "God Save the King." It will be great; it would be a dull heart that would not throb faster to witness the spectacle. Then the most impressivt scene of all in the great old abbey, where the kind's and queens and sages and aoldiera who have made Kngland renowned, atirring in their narrow houacs "(o listen' as one' more pair of sovereigns take the oath to guard and defend the mighty realm; and there will be tl.e" chanting priests and anthems f praise by organ and choir and trumpeta long blown ; t(, add to the solemnity, and the great pantheon, filled with the living and the dead and with the crowding memories of a thousand years oh. but it will be great. True, it is but a little while since a similar accne war enacted : the memery will be fresh upon the i English minds; but he who waa crowned then the s lt.ve and allegiance of the people could not hold among them; the inexorable yeara are perpetually levying tribute and they search out palace and ;huta alike- But then that is fate, and the anxiety . after all ia for the kingdom. Amid all the changes ' is the kingdom secure T That ia the perpetual question and the answer in parliament, in the court i "aye." and from the army and from the great ships the answer in "aye. And all foreign nationa hear the reply, and it would be a bold one that would challenge its truth. The best thing after all about the great display will be that all Biitinh hearts will renew their allegiance alle-giance because of it. It may add to British pride, but that pride which is founded in fealty to native land ia a good kind of pride. It holda men up to " danger and death when a crisis comes; it is always : a notice to the world that the power .that would aeek to subdue British power will first have Jo crush British hearts hy the million. We hope the coronation will be a great success ; that it will not fail in any particular; that no serious seri-ous accident will mar its splendor or damiien the Vy of the people that London will chase away its clouds, and that the full sunlight will stream . through the stained windows of the great abbey and fall upon the brows of the king and queen as tbey receive their crowns, a benediction to them and their people. |