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loyalty is a thing which is not exterminable by time, force or argument. At last, when the procession had been on view an hour and a half, carriages began to appear. In the first came a detachment of two-horse ones containing the Ambassadors Extraordinary, in one of them Whitelaw Reid, representing the United States. Then six containing Ministers, foreign and domestic; princes and princesses, and five four-horse carriages freighted with offshoots of the family. The excitement was growing now; interest was rising toward the boiling point. Finally a landau, drawn by eight cream-colored horses,mostly lavishly upholstered in gold stuffs, with postilions and no drivers, and preceded by Lord Wolsley, came along, followed by the Prince of Wales, and all the world rose to its feet and uncovered. The Queen-Empress was come. She was received with great enthusiasm. It was realizable that she was the procession herself; that all the rest of it was mere embroidery; that in her the public saw the English Empire itself. She was a symbol���allegorical of England���s grandeur and the might of the British name. It is over now; the British Empire has marched past under review and inspection; the procession stood for sixty years of progress and accumulation, moral, material and political. It was made up rather of the beneficiaries of the prosperities than of the creators of them. As far as mere glory goes, the foreign trade of Great Britain has HYLAND 23