THE QUEEN'S GARDEN PARTY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1654, 5 September 1887, Page 3

THE QUEEN'S GARDEN PARTY.

The garden party which Her Majestj the Queen gavo at Buckingham Palace was m some respects very successful, some 5000 out of 7000 invitations having been accepted. The Queen was at one time mobbed by her guests m a disgraceful manner; theway m which these well-dressed enobs pushed and scrambled m ordor to approach Her Majesty was something awful to behold. Somo hundreds of the company crowded all round the Royal fent, apparently intending to stop there and Btaro ; and so intolerable did this nuisance becomo that Sir Henry Ponsonby, Sir John Cowoll, Lord Bridport, Lord Lathotn, and other members of tho house hold wero obliged to come forward and request them to irove away and " circulate," as tho French say. Tho Queen, who looked very well and m capital spirits, walked slowly about on the arm of thb Prince of Walen, incessantly bowing and smiling, and Her Miijosty shook hands and exebnngod cordjpJ greetings with the Royal guests and tho Indian visitors. One of the most remarkable features of the party was tho obulinnt vigour of Mr Gladstone. As tho veteran Btood bareheaded, with a bright rose m his button hole, before tho Royal tentj making tho Grand Duke Serge laugh by his contagious mirth, he seemed one of the youngest aod liveliest of the festive company. The cares of State have weighed much more heavily upon the Queen than upon tho ex-Primo Minister, who entered Parliament before she ascended the Throne. Mr Gladstone might have been celebrating his fiftieth birthday, co blithe he looked, and so full of animation and high spirits.