THE JUBILEE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1588, 31 May 1887, Page 4

THE JUBILEE.

Mr Edmnnd Yates telegraphs to a New York paper, under dalb of April 26th, aa follows: —“The Queen is to come to Buckingham Palace for one night on May 18th, and to leave Windsor/for > Bah moral on the evening of Friday, the 20th, intending to 6 fay in Scotland until Wednesday, June 15lh. There will bo an immense number of preaentationa at the drawing-room on the 10th and 15th, which will be ihe last of (he season; It has been discovered that the Jubilee service in Westminster Abbey must be ordered by the Queen in Council, iio a special meeting of the Privy Council is to be held early in May, at which the ceremonial and order of the service wiil be definitely settled. The Prince of Wide*, Archbishops of Canterbury and York, Bishop of London and Lord Sydney will bo. especially summoned to attend this Council, which will be held at Buckingham PaUce. The last Council of the kind took place before the Thanksgiving at St. Paul’s Cathedral in 1872, and it was not so harmonious as it might have been, for the programme, which had bean drawn up by Archbishop Tait, was altered her vond recognition, and he resented the interference. A« the Queen enters Ihe west door of the Abbey, which has been a fixture at great Court ceremonies since, the reign of Charles I T ., will be sounded by the Royal trumpeters, who are to attend in their State uniforms, and as Her Majesty passes slowly up the na,ve, the National Anthem will bo played, followed by the overture from Hone el’s ‘ Occasional Oratorio,’ A grand service will commence with the Te Oeuvn, which will be »ung to the very elective seating of the Prince Consort, which happens to be acored for instruments which are to be used at the Abbey. Then will come a special prayer, which has been composed for the occasion by the Primate, and this is,to be followed by the responses 5 then a short Psalm is to he chanted, probably Psalm xx., after which a lesson will be read by the Dean, and the service .will be closed by Dr Bridge's new Jubilee Anthem, and the blessing given by the Primate. As the Queen leaves the Abbey the ‘Priests’ Aiarpli 1 in Mendalssohn's 4 Alhalio ? is to fcjo played. There will be no sermon. The service will cost about £20,000i The congregation will be composed only of those ipvijted by the Lopd Chamberlain. There is some grumbling that the populace cot to be gratifted by the sight of the oplendid procession. The route adopted »t JEJer Majesty's coronation, up Constitution along Piccadilly, up St. James, Pall Mall, thflnpg through Whitehall to the West door of the Abbey, and returning to Buckingham abandoned, instead, the njll go po tpe Abb«y in one of her'ofdjnary carriages, apd phe attendance . jprM dwindle .down (0 half-a-dozeo close carriages, The women’s jubilee gift to the Queen promises ft be a great success financially. One distinguished lady, to whom the origin ot this project is mue, has collected and paid in over £22,500, W coming in during the, latter part of the mopth of April iat the rate of £ISOO pet day, and many are certain tta.t the jbotaj will exceed £50,000/’ , Further particulars of the proposed jubilee services at Westminister Abbey are (0 the effect that the choir will number 260 voice*. The singers are to be placed on each side of the chancel. There will bo the wh°lP °f fc he Abbey boys, and the choir will include a yolpnfary contingent and chorus from St ? ' jP^l's

Cathedral, St. George’s Chapel Windsor, and the Chapels Royal of St. James’ and Whitehall, and the boys of the Temple Church, LincolnVinn Chapel and All Suints, as well as numerous special singers who are willing to attend. Tbh Q'Veen is to nit in the coronation chair, with royalties and great.officers around her. Behind her in one transept will be-the members of the House of Lords, and in the other the members of the Commons will be placed on liers of seats, so that her M«je«ty will hare the, High Court of Parliament on both sides, and she will be in full riew of every-legislator. Accommodation is to be provided in the transept for those privy councillors who are neither peers nor members of the House of Commons.