NEWS BY THE MAIL

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1163, 20 April 1872, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL

THE RECOVERY. OF THTPBINOE .:;,:;.,. . , :i < OF V- .{ American papers received by ~W6 San Francisco mail contain fuller particulars of the grand procession to St;' Paul's, on the day of thanksgiving for the recovery ' of the r Prince^ ot Wales,' than.' w.ere forwarded by. telegraph. ,-" jßfie follqwing account. of this. , impressive incident is dated London, February 27 :— - :u< •The celebration in hotior of the'reoovery of the Prince of Wales was of the grandest character. The procession commenced to come from Buckingham Palace at .halfpast eleven a.m. As the Queen left the courtyard? "of Hkhe f ; 'palace,' l^the voices of thirty thousand children sang the National Anthem, " God save, /the Queen." The services of St. Paul's consisted' of flinging a grand Te Deum chorus, written^ for the occasion from the words of tfie : ilsth Psalm, followed by the reading of prayers and a sermon by theArohbishop ofOajnter* bury. Fifty seats in the Cathedral were set apart for workingtraenlree of expense, at the special request of the Queen., The choir was composed of pickedtsingbn'from the Various Royal chapels. ,Xt.^ie ; conclusion of the religious servioesj the pro- ( cession formeiagairf and moved westward. The whole, fonte^|and; from the Cathe- , dral was Jengtßf and the 4 procession "was 'four in r position. The decrationVare saidto have suroassed anything ever before, known. Mues of the distance were given out on contract to be ornamented rat the- expense of the metropolis. At the crossing at Farfingd/tn. •street was a splendid triumphal arch; the erection of which csst E4ooo.' Another, hardly less ; splendid, , spanned Oxford street^ Flags, t " fepto&nsy' 1 and tapestry wreaths of'"every ;i c6nceivable character were displayed' from . house, to, house, ■from windows, and^across streets, and there was a perfect wilderness" of scarlet; 3 gold^ i and blue' doth^ gold fringe, and other gorgeous decora? tions. The best estimates place the gum- , ber of spectators who witnessed its passage at 4,000,000. There were 11,000 .troops, besides the London police force, engaged in keeping the streets clear, that there might be noHnterniptions or accidents. Along the entire route strong fences 'ha.d been erected, besides three ! double- lines of police, to keep.the -eager, crowd from overthrowing thebarriersand obstructing , the passage of the prpcession,;:-Eyery shop and house brought a fabulous rental for seats. Ordinary four : storeyi buildings « -were let for LI OO for the^ay. "Oneyacant space brought L4OO. ' GreaV preparations were f made for "the illumination of the western ' front and "entire i? d6me' of St. Paul's, with; ship lanterns and lime. - The Bank- of Engknd,.-club ~house«, all public : dwellings, : and appointment stores were illuminated, and thousands of private dwellings and stores are making similar preparations. The" streets through which the proceedings, passed were fes- -* tooned with parti-colored lanterns along the entire routed The illumination; wifl be to-morrow night. ; Several serious accidents happened owing to the pressure, of the great' mass of spectators on,.the. line of . the-procession.-:- Onet man was crushed ,to death in Trafalgar Square, and numbers' of people'^ more or less injured. Two stands, each containing 150 persons fell, and many were badly bruised. Despatched from Dublin state tha^ the celebration there was a. splendid sucoew, There was "a "procession to St. Patrick's /. Cathedral, where s Te.Dpiim was sang in presence of the Lord Lieutenant and all the principal officers of ' the Government. In the evening the city was illuminated, -f