The Gazette of Tuesday contains a proclamation on the subject
of the coronation. All the "ceremonies that have heretofore taken place in Westminster Hall" are to be dispensed with ; and " such part only of the solemnity and ceremony as is usual upon the coronation of Kings and Queens of this realm, solemnized in Westminster Abbey, shall take place." There will, therefore, be neither banquet nor pro- cession. The alleged cause of the curtailment is a desire to be eco- nomical. The arrangements have been directed to be "as much abridged and as economical as might be compatible with a strict regard to the solemnity and importance of the occasion."
An extensive naval promotion is intended to take place on the 25th of June, on the occasion of her Majesty's coronation.—Hampshire Chronicle.
It is the intention of her Majesty very shortly to review the Royal Artillery at Woolwich; and preparations are already making to receive the Sovereign in a suitable manner.
Sir William Johnston has been appointed to the Colonelcy of the vacant regiment. Sir John Keane is to be transferred from the Sixty-
eighth Light Infantry to the Forty-sixth Regiment, vacant by the death of General Wynyard; and Sir W. Johnston gets the Sixty-eighth, vice Keane.
Lieutenant-General Lord Dloomfidd has declined the command of the Artillery at Woolwich.
The Apollo and the Inconstant, Queen's ships, sailed at the be- ginning of the week from Portsmooth, for Canada, with the Grenadier Guards.
The Canada civil war just now is curiously enough a godsend to the commerce of the United States: 10,000 British troops, with a whole retinue of the first noblemen of the empire, being about to come over here, must be fed and must be paid. The negotiation for paying them, in all probability, will take place in New York. British Government bills will be sent here, and negotiated for specie.—New York Express.
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