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A Royal Proclamation was made on Thursday announcing that the

Coronation will be held on some day (hereafter to be fixed) in June next year, appointing a Commission to receive and consider the petitions and claims of persons entitled to perform services at the Coronation, and declaring that the services and attendances which, according to ancient custom, have to be rendered in Westminster Hall or in the pro- cession—i.e., the obsolete mediawal ceremonies—are to be dispensed with, as was the case in the Queen's Coronation. We presume that as the Proclamation is issued on June 27th, that will be the date of the Coronation. The time is pro- pitious for the collecting of great crowds, as the days are at their longest and there is reasonable hope of fine weather.

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