THE QUEEN'S JUBILEE. The Intended Ceremonial.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 206, 4 June 1887, Page 4

THE QUEEN'S JUBILEE. The Intended Ceremonial.

The Queen is to leave Windsor for Balmoral on the evening of May 20th, intendno; to stay in Scotland till Wednesday, June I Jih. It has been discovered that the Jubilee service in Westminster Abbey must be oul \ed by the Queen in council, so a special meeting of the Privy Council is to bo held early next month, at which the i'tu menial and order of service will be definitely settled. The Prince of Wales, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishop of London and Lord Sydney will be especially summoned to attend this council, which will pi'obably beheld at Buckingham Pa 1 ice. As (he Queen enters the west door of the Abbey ibe fanfare, w hich has been a featuie at great court ceremonial since the reign of Charles 11., Mill be played by the Royal Tiumpcters, who are to attend in thei'wate uniforms, and as Her Majesty passes slowly up the nave the National Anthem as ill be played, followed by the overtu 1 c from Handel's occasional oratorio upon the organ. The services will commence w ith a To Dcum, which is to be sung to the rery effective setting of the Prince Consoit, a, Inch happens to be scored for the iiibiiunKnts which are to be used at the Abbey. Then will come a special prayer, •which has been composed for the occasion by the ''limatc, and this is to be followed by sonic i)i the responses from the accession service . Then a short psalm is to be chant eu, piobably the twentieth, after which tie lesson is to be read by the Dean, and th -« r\ ices w ill be closed by Deßridge's new juKlee anthem, the blessing being given by tl c Piimate. Ab the Queen leaves the Abbey, 'he Priests' March in Mendelssohn'^ aihalie is to be played. The decision not to have a sermon is very wise, but it " - a pity on all accounts that the original intention to close the service with either Handel's Coronation anthem, the ZadoU i*l ie->t or Hallelujah Chorus has been depairoi from, and it would be wise to replace one of these and to strike out the lesson The service is to cost the country L 20,000, and a> nobody will see anything of it e\ccp{ (lie repi tentative congiegation inviU-i I-} the Lend Chamberlain, it is manifestly il'^uvble that the public should re ceive tla compensation of a really splendid proce- ion and that the Queon should drive to (he Abbey by a loute which will crve -oiio bundled;- of thousand- of her subjects an opportunity of seeing her pa*---. The state carriage, drawn by eight cream-coloured horses, with the full paraphernalia of royalty, ought to be considered essential, but I am sorry to hear that it is in contemplation for the Queen to go in cno of her ordinary carriages, and that tho piocession about which there is so mud- i >!k is to dwindle down into an affair of a do/en clo-^e carriages. Tf this ill-advised ide.i l- Lamed out there will be universal and ju uiiable grumbling. Lovdon, May 2. — .There is to be a choir oi nearly 250 voices, at the jubilee tlu'nk -,ning sen ice in Westminster Abbey, the singers to be placed in galluiiL- on each side of the chancel In the iii^t fiom the organ loft there will be the whole of the Aobey boys' choir, including a voluntary contingent, and choirs fiom St. Paul's Cathedral, St. George's Chapel, Windsoi, and the Chapels Royal of St. James and Whitehall, and boys from the Temple Church, Lincoln's Inn Chapel, and All Saints, as well as numerous .special singer.-- v>ho are willing to attend. The Queen i-> to sit in the coronation chair, with the royalties and great officers around her, and behind her, in one transept, will be the membu.s of the House ot Lords, and in the other the members of the House of Common-, placed on tieis of seats so that Her Majesty will have a High Court of Parliament on both sides, and she will be in full view of every legislator. Accommodation i.s to be provided, in the transepts for those Pi ivy Councillors who are neither peers nor members of the House of Com moiu-. Mo^r of the loyalties from abroad will be the Qcuui's guests at Buckingham Palace during ihtir stay in London, but except the near i s lative-s from Germany none will remain for more than inside of a week. The King and Queen of Denmark are to be guC-ts of the Piince and Princes of V>\iies ab Mailborough Hou.se, as well a- the King of Gieece. The representaii' <■> of the Court of St. Peters - buig \. ill stay at CLuence Hou'-e with the Duke and Duches-, of Edinburgh. None of theFoioign royalty will stay at Windsor. They ai o to accompany her Majesty there on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 22nd, as her jtain to the castle is to be an affair of mu'-li state and ceremony. There will be a ,-^tand banquet at the castle in the G\eninj; in St George's Hall, and all the gue?ts will return to London nftmvaids. The v, omans Jubilee gifts to the Queen promise to be a great success financially. One d'^tirgui-shed lady, to whom the origin of this pioject is due, has collected and paid iv o\u- L 22,. P 5OO. Money was coming in during the latter part of the month of April at LI ,000 per day, and the managers are -anguine that the total will exceed L 30,000.