The procession to St. Paul's on Sunday to offer a
thanks- giving for the King's recovery was a much quieter affair, as the rain kept back the crowds; but the scene within the Cathedral was one of historic grandeur, and the grave demeanour of the Xing and Queen deeply impressed the vast congregation of notabilities. The sermon of the Bishop of London, which dwelt on the fact that the King had had twice in his life to offer the same thanksgiving in the same Cathedral, was most eloquent, its drift being that such warnings were calls to his liaje8t7 to recollect and fulfil the noble motto, " Ich Dien,— I serve." The King both in going and returning showed his kindliness and contempt of a prudence which he would have thought unworthy by keeping his carriage open, though the rain was too much for his attendants, and the entire occasion impressed spectators with the sense of a grand solemnity. On Monday the King reviewed the Guards on their return from South Africa, and ex- pressed in the heartiest terms his thanks to them for having throughout that long and arduous campaign "upheld that good name which has made every one who has ever served in the Brigade of Guards a proud man." The speech was really remarkable for its tact, as uttered by a Con- stitutional Monarch, and its entire freedom alike from any spirit of boastfulness and from "militarism."
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