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and with them samples of all the whites that inhabit the wide reach of the Queen���s dominions. The procession was the human race on exhibition���a spectacle curious and interesting and worth traveling to see. The most splendid of the costumes were those worn by the Indian Princes, and they were also the most beautiful and the richest. They were men of stately build and princely carriage, and wherever they passed the applause burst forth. Soldiers���soldiers��� soldiers���and still more and more soldiers, and cannon and muskets and lances; there seemed to be no end to this feature. There are 50,000 soldiers in London, and they all seemed to be on hand. I have not seen so many, except in the theatre, when thirty-five privates and a general march across the stage and behind the scenes, and across the front again, and keep it up till they have represented 200,000. In the early part the Colonial Premiers drove by with the host, and by-and-by, after a long time, there was a grand output of foreign princes, thirty-one in the invoice. The feature of high romance was not wanting for among them rode Prince Rupert of Bavaria���who would be Prince of Wales now and future King of England and Emperor of India if his Stewart ancestors had conducted their royal affairs more wisely than they did. He came as a peaceful guest to represent his mother, Princess Ludwig, heiress of the house of Stewart, to whom English Jacobites still pay unavailing homage as their rightful Queen of England. The house of Stewart was formally and officially shelved nearly two centuries ago, but the microbe of Jacobite HYLAND 21