A central committee has been formed, with Lord Morpeth as
president, to advance the scheme for celebrating the Coronation by means of bonfires, and to urge the county and borough officers to undertake the organisation of the arrangements. It is suggested that throughout the United Kingdom bonfires should be lighted on all the principal hills at ten o'clock, except in Scotland, where the hour is to be half-past ten. Various other suggestions are made by the committee in their circular with regard to the details of the scheme, such as the firing of a preliminary rocket five minutes before the fires are lighted, and the substitution of "flares" for bonfires on the most inaccessible heights. We need hardly say that we are entirely in favour of this means of celebrating Coronation Day. No sight could be more impressive than a chain of beacon lights, and none could be associated with a more glorious national tradition.
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