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HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA. 
 
THE 
 
 JUBILEE REIGN 
 
 OP HBE MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY 
 
 QUEEN VICTORIA 
 
 IN 
 
 JAMAICA 
 
 BEING A COMPLETE ACCOUNT OP THE PEINCIPAIi 
 
 AND IMPORTANT EVENTS WHICH OCCURRED IN JAMAICA 
 
 DURING THE FIFTY YEARS REIGN OP HER MOST GRACIOUS 
 
 MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA, PROM THE YEAR 1837, TO THE YEAR 
 
 1887, ANT) ALSO A PULL AND COMPLETE ACCOUNT OP THE 
 
 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA IN 1887. 
 
 BY 
 
 W. A. FEUETADOi 
 
 KINGSTON JAMAICA. 
 
 [AH Bights BeservedJ] 
 
 JAMAICA : 
 
 PRINTED BY W. Alex. Fbubtado, Cottage Obove, 
 
 TJPPBH Blletson Road, Kingston. 
 
 18 90. 
 
V»/o& 
 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 The grand and successful demonstrations which, took 
 place in Jamaica in 1887, in honor of the Queen's Jubilee, 
 induced me to publish this book, believing that a work of 
 this- kind would be found useful to the public, and I trust 
 that my humble efforts in this respect will prove success- 
 ful. 
 
 I have had much trouble in getting the old newspapers 
 of this island by which the earlier information concerning 
 Her Majesty's Eeign in Jamaica, has been compiled, and I 
 am much indebted to Mr. Lionel Hutchings for his kind- 
 ness in lending me some old newspapers to enable me to 
 prepare the earlier chapters. 
 
 This book will doubtless prove useful to the young as 
 well as to the old, and also to future generations. To the 
 young it will show the loyalty of the people of Jamaica 
 towards their beloved Sovereign ; whilst to the old it will 
 recall to their memory many an incident ; and to future 
 generations, it will show to them the loyal feelings of 
 their forefathers towards their Sovereign. 
 
 The late Mr. Gustos Kemble said (page 84) that "Jamaica 
 had ever been conspicuous for its loyalty" ; and Mr. Barton 
 S. Tucker in his able critic on Mr. Fronde's famous book, 
 said, "No more loyal Colony than Jamaica exists." 
 
IV PRJSFACE. 
 
 Sir Heury W. Norman in his official notification of 3rd 
 August 1887 (page 217) made use of the following ex- 
 pression : — 
 
 "The Governor considers that the loyalty and good 
 "feeling of the inhabitants of this Island have been 
 "strikingly manifested in the manner in which they 
 "have taken part in the celebrations." 
 
 In compiling this book I am much indebted to several 
 of the newspapers of this island, viz. The Morning Journal, 
 The Jamaica Tribune ; The Evening Express ; The Colonial 
 Standard, and the Jamaica Post. The Journals of the 
 House of Assembly, and the Jamaica Handbook also 
 furnished valuable information. 
 
 It is to be regretted that I was unsuccessful in getting 
 the newspapers for the year 1861, containing an account 
 of Prince Alfred's visit to Jamaica. Chapter VI on this 
 subject, however, contains a mass of valuable information 
 connected with the visit of that illustrious Prince. 
 
 W. A. FEURTADO. 
 
 COTTAGE GROVB. 
 
 KINGSTON, JAMAICA, 
 
 24th May, 1890. 
 
CON T E iN T S : 
 
 PART I. 
 
 HISTOBICAL EVENTS :^ 
 
 L ACCESSION TO THE THEONE, 
 
 II. EMANCIPATION IN 1838, . 
 
 III. THE QUEEN'S MARKIAGB, 
 TV, FIRST ATTEMPT ON THE QUEEN'S LIl'B, 
 V. THE BIETH OF THE PEINOB OF WALES, 
 VI. PRINCE ALFRED'S VISIT TO JAMAICA, 
 VII. DEATH OF THE PRINCE CONSORT, . 
 VIII. THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES, 
 IX. BIRTH OP PEINCE ALBERT VICTOR, . 
 X. THE PEINCE CONSORT'S SPEECHES, . 
 XI. THE PBINCBS' VISIT TO JAMAICA, 
 XII. VISIT OP PRINCE GBOBOB OF WALES, 
 XIIL DEATH OP PRINCE LEOPOLD, DUKE OP ALBANY, 
 XIV. HANDS ALL ROUND, 
 XV, TH-E ROYAL FAMILY, . 
 
 1 
 
 7 
 19 
 24 
 27 
 38 
 48 
 52 
 59 
 CI 
 66 
 76 
 78 
 80 
 88 
 
UONrEXTS. 
 
 PART II. 
 
 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA: — 
 I. I'KELIMINAKY ARIIAN&EMBXTS, 
 II. APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES, 
 
 III. THE PnOG-EAMME, 
 
 IV. GATHERING OP THE PEOPLE, 
 V. SPECIAL THANKSGIVING SERVICES, 
 
 VI. PROCESSION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN, 
 VII. DECORATIONS AND ILLUMINATIONS, 
 VIII. OPENING OP THE JUBILEE MARKET, 
 IX. THE GOVERNOR'S LEVEE 
 X. ADDRESSES PRESENTED AT THE LEVEE, 
 XI. THE REVIEW AT UP PARK CAMP, 
 XII. THE PIRE WORKS, 
 
 Xm. JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS IN SPANISH TOWN, 
 XIV. DEMONSTRATIONS IN THE COUNTRY PARISHES, 
 
 XV. JUBILEE NOTES, .... 
 
 XVI. EXIT THE JUBILEE, .... 
 
 95 
 109 
 112 
 115 
 119 
 133 
 136 
 146 
 150 
 157 
 177 
 180 
 186 
 192 
 205 
 213 
 
THE JUBILEE EEIGIST OF 
 
 QUEEN YICTOEIA 
 
 IN JAMAICA. 
 1837-1887 
 
 PART I. 
 
 CHAPTEK I. 
 
 ACCESSION TO THE THRONE. 
 
 On the 20th June, 1837, Her Majesty Queeii Yictoria 
 was called to the Throne, consequent upon the demise 
 of Her Royal Uncle William the Fourth, who was then 
 King of England. 
 
 The Brig., "Velocity," Tatem, Master, in thirty -nine 
 days from London, with a general cargo, consigned to 
 Messrs. Harvey & Darrell, arrived at Kingston on the 
 2nd August, 1837, bringing the afflicting intelligence. 
 
2 JUBILEE REIGN OF QUEEN' VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 About 7 days later, the steamer "City of Kingston" ar- 
 rived bringing Official Intelligence of the sad event, 
 and of the proclamation of the Princess Victoria, as Queen 
 of England. 
 
 The following Notice for proclaiming Her Majesty 
 in Jamaica, was published, in the Kingston Chronicle of 
 10th August, 1837, 
 
 Island Secretary's Office 
 
 lOth August, 1837. 
 
 Notice is hereby g-iven that Her Majesty Queen Victoria will 
 he proclaimed at King's House on Friday next the 11th Instant, at 
 12 o'clock, when the Oaths of Allegiance will be administered to 
 all Public Officers, and such other Gentlemen as may be in attend- 
 ance on the occasion. 
 
 By order of His Excellency the Governor. 
 
 W. G. Stewart, Island Secretary. ■ 
 
 On 11th August, a number of Military and Civil gen- 
 tlemen attended at King's House in Spanish Town, a 
 little before noon. Her Majesty's 64th. Regiment un- 
 der the command of Major Freeth, was drawn up in 
 front of the Court House ; and the St. Catherine's Regi- 
 ment of Militia, under the Command of Colonel Archer, 
 in front of the New Buildings. A party of the Royal 
 Artillery was placed in front of Rodney's Temple. At 
 noon His Excellency the Governor, (Sir Lionel Smith) 
 in full uniform, entered the Council Chamber and took 
 his seat. A paper was read, and afterwards signed by 
 His Excellency, and several of the principal inhabitants 
 of the Island, as well as members of the Council, and 
 Assembly ; after which they proceeded to the Portico 
 where the paper was again read by the Provost Marshal 
 General, when a Royal Salute of twenty-one Guns was 
 
ACCESSION TO THE THBONE. 3 
 
 fired by tlie artillery, and Fe,u de Joies liy the 64th., 
 and Militia, after each seven guns, followed up by three 
 hearty huzzas from the Troops, and all present. The 
 Regiments then marched off in front of King's House. 
 His Excellency the Governor remaining in the Porch 
 until they passed. The Governor then returned to the 
 Council Chamber, and took the Oaths of Allegiance, and 
 of Office, and afterwards administered the same to the 
 Attorney General, Chief Justice, and Lord Bishop. The 
 Oath of Allegiance was also taken by many gentlemen 
 present. His Excellency then held a Privy Council 
 which sat for more than an hour. 
 
 The following is the Document which was read, and 
 signed by the Governor &c. 
 
 JAMAICA SS. 
 Whereas it hath pleased Almighty God to call to His mercy our 
 late Sovereign Lord, William the Fourth, of blessed and glorious 
 memory, by whose decease, the Imperial Crown of the United King- 
 dom of Great Britain and Ireland, and all other his late Majesty's 
 Dominions, is solely and rightfully come to the High and Mighty 
 Princess Alexandrina Victoria, saving the rights of any issue of 
 his late Majesty King Willara the Fourth, which may be born of 
 his late Majesty's Consort. We, the Governor, and Council with 
 numbers of the principal inhabitants of this Island, therefore 
 do no w hereby, with one f uU voice, and consent of tougue and heart 
 publish, and proclaim, that the High and Mighty Princess Alexan- 
 drina Victoria is now by the death of our late Sovereign, of happy 
 and glorious memory, become our only lawful and rightful liege 
 Lady Victoria by the Grace of God, Queen of the United Kingdom 
 of Great Britain and Ireland, and of Jamaica, Supreme Lady De- 
 fender of the Faith &c., to whom, saving as aforesaid, we do acknow- 
 ledge aU faithful and Constant obedience, withaU hearty and hum- 
 ble affection ; beseeching God, by whom Kings and Queens do reign, 
 to bless the Royal Princess Victoria with long and happy years, to 
 reign over us. 
 
 Lionel Smith, (Governor) 
 J. Rowe, (Chief Justice) 
 Christopher, Jamaica, (Lord Bishop) 
 
JUBILEE REIGN OF QtlBBN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 J. Gayleard, (President of the Council) 
 
 Dowell O'Eeilly, (Attorney General) 
 
 W. D. Turner, (M. D.) 
 
 Robert AUwood, 
 
 John Wilson, 
 
 H. Mitchell, (Mayor of Kingston) 
 
 C. P. Berry, (Member of Assembly) 
 
 Edward Panton, (Vice Chancellor) 
 
 F. Batty, (Barrister at Law) 
 Peter Wilkie, (Clerk Peace) 
 John Lunan, (Editor) 
 
 John Edwards, (Receiver General) 
 Robert Page, 
 H. Lowndes 
 
 B. Whittaker, 
 
 Alexandre Bravo, (Auditor General) 
 
 Edward C. Smith, (Solicitor) 
 
 J. G. Swainson, (Customs) 
 
 W. G. Nunes, (Stamp Commissioner) 
 
 William Ramsay, (Custos) 
 
 C. M. Morales, (Speaker of Assembly) 
 Molyneaux Hyde Nepeau, (Clerk Crown) 
 Lewis Bowerbank, 
 
 Edward Dacres Bayues, 
 
 Alex. W. McLeod, [Inspector General] 
 
 Colin MacKenzie 
 
 R. Chamberlaine, [M. D.] 
 
 G. Ouseley Higgins, 
 Samuel Spyer Senr. 
 
 John G. Vidal. [Clerk of the Assembly] 
 
 WiUiam Glrod, [Editor] 
 
 R. Chamberlayne Jnr. 
 
 Edmund B. Lyon, 
 
 Richard Hill, [Stip. Magistrate] 
 
 W. G. Stewart, [Island Secretary] 
 
 Samuel Rennalls, [Clerk Legislative Council] 
 
 On 24th October, 1837, the New Legislature was open- 
 ed by Sir Lionel Smith Governor of Jamaica, who said. 
 
 "The people of Jamaica yielding to no class of subjects 
 in loyalty, will mourn the loss of a Sovereign, who had 
 attached himself to the Colony, from his early youth, 
 
ACCESSION TO THE THRONE. 6 
 
 and who remained, during his eventful reign, warmly 
 animated by the most anxious wishes for its prosperity 
 and welfare. You will, I am persuaded, participate in 
 those universal feelings of sorrow occasioned by his 
 death, and in the severe affliction which has thus over- 
 taken his amiable Consort. By this bereavement. Pro- 
 vidence has called to the throne of her ancestors, our 
 most gracious Sovereign Queen Victoria, whose accession 
 has been hailed by the loyal devotion of all classes of 
 her subjects, estimated by the virtues which adorn her 
 character, and form the auspices of a glorious and happy 
 reign." 
 
 The House of Assembly thereupon appointed the 
 following Members viz: — Mr. Grossett, Mr. Jordon, 
 Mr. Guy, Mr. Lake and Mr. Good, as a Committee 
 for the purpose of preparing an address for presenta- 
 tion to the Queen. 
 
 The following address was read on the 31st October, 
 1837, and ordered to be forwarded for presentation to 
 the Queen. 
 
 To THE Queen's Most Excellent Majesty 
 
 The Humble Addeess of the Assembly op Jamaica 
 Most Gracious Sovekeign. 
 
 We your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Assembly of 
 Jamaica, take the earliest opportunity of condoling- with your 
 Majesty on the great loss your Majesty and your loyal subjects 
 have sustained by the demise of your Koyal uncle, our late Most 
 Gracious Monarch. At the same time we cannot but acknow- 
 ledge the joy and satisfaction we feel on your Majesty's accession to 
 the throne of your ancestors, and to the Sovereignty of this your 
 Island of Jamaica, on which happy occasion, we beg to offer 
 our most sincere congratulations. 
 
6 JUBILEE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 Ships, Colonies, and Commerce liave raised the British Empire to 
 that rank, power and dignity, which it now holds among the 
 nations of the earth, and, of all its Colonies, this Island has hith- 
 erto stood foremost in value and importance. 
 
 We ferv'ently hope, that under the fostering- care of your Ma- 
 jesty's Councils, a happy issue may result from that great and un- 
 paralleled change now taking place in our institutions, and Social 
 structure, and that a long and glorious reign may await your 
 Majesty, diffusing happiness over all your wide spread Dominions. 
 
 On 7th March, 1838, the Governoi- laid before the 
 House of Assembly, the Queen's reply as follows : — 
 
 No. 20i Downing Street, 12th January, 18,S8. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch 
 No. 201 of the 2nd November, transmitting an address to Her Maj - 
 esty on her accession to the throne from the House of Assembly 
 of Jamaica. 
 
 Having laid this address at the foot of the throne, I have to in- 
 form you that Her Majesty has been pleased to receive the same 
 very graciously ; and I am commanded by Her Majesty to instruct 
 you to inform the House of Assembly, that Her Majesty has ex- 
 perienced great satisfaction at the expression of loyalty and duti- 
 ful regard to her person, and Government, which is entertained by 
 the Representatives of her faithful subjectsin Jamaica. Itwill be 
 one of the most pleasing duties of Her Majesty's reign to promote 
 the political and social welfare of all classes of her faithful subjects 
 in that important part of her Colonial Dominions. 
 
 I have, &o., 
 
 GLENELG. 
 
 Lieutenant Governor, 
 Sir Lionel Smith. 
 Jamaica. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 EMANCIPATION IN 1838. 
 
 The first great and important event which took place 
 in Jamaica after the Queen's accession to the throne of 
 England, was the Emancipation on the 1st August, 1838. 
 
 In the year 1834, Slavery was abolished throughout 
 the West Indies, and a. system of apprenticeship was 
 established to last for six years. The Legislature of 
 Jamaica, however, cut the matter short by relinquish- 
 ing the remaining two years, 
 
 On the- 16th June, 1838, the Legislature passed a 
 Law abolishing the apprenticeship of the Prtedial La- 
 bourers within this Island. The Law, after reciting 
 that it had become expedient to terminate the appren- 
 ticeship created by an act for the abolition of Slavery 
 in this Island, and to allow the apprenticed population 
 to pass into a state of absolute and entire freedom on 
 the first of August, 1838, enacted that all and every 
 the persons who on the first of August, 1838, should 
 be deemed holden, and considered within this Island as 
 Praedial apprenticed labourers, should from and after 
 the said first day of August, 1838, become, and be to 
 all intents and purposes whatsoever absolutely freed 
 and discharged of and from the remaining term of their 
 said apprenticeship, raised and created by the above 
 
8 JUBILEE REIGN OP QUEEN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 mentioned act for the abolition of Slavery, and ■ were 
 thereby declared to all intents and purposes free sub- 
 jects. 
 
 On the 18th June, 1838, His Excellency the Gov- 
 ernor (Sir Lionel Smith) issued a Proclamation for 
 making the first of August, 1838, a General Holiday. 
 
 The Proclamation was as follows : — 
 
 Whereas an act has been passed by the Legislature of Jamaica 
 tot terminating the present system of apprenticeship on the first 
 day of August next and thereby granting the. bles^ng and privi- 
 leges of unrestrioted freedom to all classes of its inhabitants And 
 Whereas it is incumbent on all the inhabitants of this our Island to 
 testify their grateful sense of this Divine favour. We do there- 
 fore by and with the advice of our Privy Council of this our said 
 Island, direct and appoint that Wednesday the first day of August 
 be observed in all Churches and Chapels as a day of General 
 Thanksgiving to Almighty God for these His Mercies and of hum- 
 ble intercession for His continued blessing and protection on this 
 most important occasion ; and we do hereby call upon persons of all 
 classes within this our said Island to observe the said first of August 
 next with the same reverence and respect which is observed and 
 due to the Sabbath. 
 
 Witness, &c. 
 
 ■ On the 9th of July, 1838, the Governor issued his 
 Proclamation, for Abolishing Slavery, as follows : — 
 
 PE.a!DiAL Apprentices — In a few days more you will all be- 
 come free labourers, the Legislature having relinquished the 
 remaining two years of your apprenticeship. 
 
 The first day of August next is the happy day when you will 
 become. free, under the same Laws as other freemen, whether 
 white, black, or coloured. 
 
 1 your Governpr give you joy of this great blessing. 
 
 Bemembei that in freedom you will have to depend on your 
 
EMANCIPATION IN 1838. 9 
 
 own exertions for your livelihood, and to maintain and bring up- 
 your families. You wiU work for such wages as you can agree 
 upon with your employers. 
 
 It is their interest to treat you fairly. 
 
 It is your interest to be civil, respectful, and industrious. 
 
 Where you can agree and continue happy with your old masters 
 I strongly recommend you to remain on those properties on which 
 you have been born, and where your parents were buried. 
 
 But you must not mistake, in supposing that your present 
 houses, gardens, and provision grounds, are your own property, 
 
 They belong to the proprietors of the estates, and you will have 
 to pay rent for them in money or labour according as you and 
 your employers can agree together. 
 
 Idle people who will not take employment, but go wandering 
 about the country, will be taken up as vagrants, and punished in 
 the same manner as they are in England. 
 
 The Ministers of Religion have been kind friends to you — listen 
 to them — they will keep you out of troubles and difficulties. 
 
 Recollect what is expected of you by the people of England 
 who have paid such a large price for your liberty. 
 
 They not only expect that you will behave yourselves, as the 
 Queen's good subjects, by obeying the laws, as I am happy to say 
 you always have done as apprentices, but that the prosperity of 
 the Island will be increased by your willing labour, greatly beyond 
 what it ever was in Slavery. Be honest towards all men — Be kind 
 to your wives and children — spare your wives from heavy field 
 work as much as you can — make them attend to their duties at 
 home, in bringing up your children, and in taking care of your 
 stock — above all make your children attend Divine Service, and 
 School. 
 
 If you follow this advice, you will, under God's blessing, be hap- 
 py and prosperous. 
 
 B 
 
10 JUBILEE REIGN OP QUEEN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 This great and glorious event was celebrated 
 throughout the whole Island of Jamaica. 
 
 In Kingston, a Grand Procession was formed on the 
 evening of the 31st July, At half past 6 o'clock, the 
 procession moved from the residence of Mr. Common 
 Councilman Nunes, on the parade, with the Kingston 
 Band, surrounded by a crowd of about ten thousand 
 persons ! It proceeded along East Queen Street, through 
 Hanover Street, to East Street, towards the Race 
 Course, where a splendid and Magnificent Transpa- 
 rency was exhibited, and Rockets let off in great 
 abundance. 
 
 The following Banners supported by the undermen- 
 tioned gentlemen, streamed in the breeze, before the as- 
 sembled and enraptured multitude, who moved along 
 with precision, order and regularity. 
 
 OUR GRACIOUS QUEEN VICTORIA ! ! 
 
 Supported hy Alderman Hart dc Common Councilman Alherga. 
 
 SIE LIONEL SMITH OUE EXCELLENT GOVEENOE. ! 
 By Alderman Lahe d- Common Councilman Vickars. 
 
 MULGRAVE and SLIGO FOR EVER ! 
 
 By Common Councilman Bonitto & T. DaSilva. 
 
 GOD BLESS BUXTON and LUSHINGTON ! 
 
 By Common Councilman Wiltshire <fc Mr. D. Quallo. 
 
 THE BRITISH PHILANTHROPISTS ! 
 
 By Common Councilman DaSilva <k Mr. J. W. Dick. 
 
EMANCIPATION IN 1838. H 
 
 THE LIBERALS OF JAMAICA! 
 By Messrs. 0. DaSilva I' G. Overley. 
 
 PROSPERITY TO JAMAICA 1 
 
 By Messrs. W. Knihhs <& W. Beuaivi. 
 
 LIBERTY!! 
 
 By Messrs. Affuilar and Boog. 
 
 The Transparency on the Race Course was exhibited 
 in a triangular form, forty feet high, and contained 
 the following devices : — 
 
 On the side facing the South was the Column of 
 Freedom, with the Figure of Fame passing over, and 
 proclaiming the Emancipation of the apprentices, im- 
 porting the benefits derivable from freedom, — that it 
 promotes religion, — that religion teaches morality, — 
 that morality gives confidence to agriculture, and com- 
 merce by industry. On the Pedestal, Our Gracious 
 Sovereign Queen Victoria is seated, with the 
 BILL OF Freedom in her hand. 
 
 On the right was seen Justice raising an Emancipated 
 Slave, and in the back ground were three of the peas- 
 antry in a kneeling posture, offering up thanksgiving 
 to the Deity, for the great boon conferred upon them, 
 the Palm tree rising in the Centre of the Landscape. 
 On the Pedestal is inscribed a British Vessel of War in 
 chase of a Slaver. On the left was Britannia with the 
 Cap of Liberty, crowned by an angelic figure, with 
 laurel, England being the Nation which first promoted 
 
1 2 JUBILEE EBIGN OP QUEEN VICTOEIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 the abolition of Slavery. Above were two Cherubims, 
 holding a tapestry, with the Island arms, and the fol- 
 lowing inscription : — 
 
 " For 1839 and 1840. 
 
 FEEEDOM GIVEN BY THE JAMAICA LEGISLATUEE, 
 
 On the M of August, 1838." 
 
 On the Pedestal was inscribed a negro kneeling, who 
 had previously been held in chains, ejaculating "am I 
 not a man, and a brother?" his fetters are seen lyiag 
 at his feet. 
 
 The Managing Committee of the "Friends of Free- 
 dom" were distinguished by long scarfs, worn across 
 their shoulders. The assembled multitude did not 
 separate until the hour of 10 o'clock in the evening, 
 after the Rockets and Cannons had been let off, and 
 the Kingston Band retired, up to which time the great- 
 est harmony and regularity prevailed. 
 
 Thousands flocked to the various Dissenting Chapels 
 which were opened at 10 o'clock p. m., according to 
 announcement, where they remained, praising God, till 
 dawn of 1st August, which was welcomed with deafen- 
 ing shouts of aeolamation, and other demonstrations of 
 feeling. 
 
 They afterwards divided themselves into parties of 
 about forty — paraded the City in a most joyous man- 
 ner, singing Psalms and Anthems till daylight of the 
 auspicious morn, whilst at every corner of the street, 
 the Cry of huzzahs, God Bless the Queen, was 
 heard. 
 
EMANCIPATION IN 1838. 13 
 
 The following appropriate words wore sung to lively 
 and agreeable airs. 
 
 Praise God from whom all blessings flow. 
 Praise Him all Creatures here below ; 
 Praise Him above ye heavenly hosts 
 Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 
 
 Hallelujah Sac. 
 
 From all that dwell below the skies. 
 Let the Creator's praise arise ; 
 Let the Redeemer's name be sung, 
 Through every land by every tongue. 
 Eternal are thy mercies, Lord, 
 Eternal truth attends thy word ; 
 Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore. 
 Till suns shall rise and set no more." 
 
 On the following day, the Memorable 1st August, 
 every place of Worship in the City of Kingston was 
 opened for Divine Service, in accordance with the 
 Governor's Proclamation, and crowded to overflowing. 
 The day was observed with reverence and sanctity, 
 and solemn silence prevailed throughout the Town. 
 With joyous and thankful Hearts, the people manifest- 
 ed their gratitude to Almighty God for the great bene- 
 fits conferred on Mankind by pouring out their sup- 
 plications and praises to Him who is the fountain and 
 source of every good. At night there was a partial 
 illumination ; religious parties met in different parts of 
 the City, these were engaged in singing and praying 
 for several hours during the night. 
 
14 JUBILEE REIGN OP QUEEN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 The morning of the second of August at length ar- 
 rived, the day on which the amusements and festivities 
 contemplated by "the friends of freedom" were to be 
 exhibited. At an early hour active preparations were 
 being made for the bullock roasting, bonfire, fireworks 
 &c. and the inhabitants were seen in dense crowds bend- 
 ing their way towards the centre of attraction, the Race 
 Course. At mid day the appearance of the weather 
 indicated a heavy fall of rain, which would have 
 disappointed the public. The fears of all were how- 
 ever soon dispelled, and a cloudless atmosphere gave 
 promise of a favorable evening. At about 4 o'clock 19 
 Cannons were discharged, agreeing in number with the 
 age of Queen Victoria At 6 o'clock in the evening 
 there were not less than ten thousand persons of all 
 classes, who seemed to participate in the general joy 
 and good feeling which prevailed. The residence of 
 several of the inhabitants were decorated with flags, 
 evergreens, and bouquets of roses. Expressions of un- 
 feigned gratitude and thanks to Almighty God, and 
 the good people of Great Britain, and Jamaica, were 
 uttered by the sable population with an intensity of 
 feeling which bespoke sincerity of heart. 
 
 The bonfire presented a grand and magnificent ap- 
 pearance, 
 
 Mr. Prieur under whose superintendence the fireworks 
 were placed, acted his part with his usual ability, and 
 upon the whole his exhibitions were very commendable. 
 The bullocks were, in less than half an hour, distribut- 
 ed among the people, together with biscuits &c. 
 
 The Transparency was beautifully illuminated with 
 the Cap of liberty on the summit. 
 
EMANCIPATION IN 1838. 15 
 
 The inhabitants peaceably returned to their homes, 
 at many of which were exhibited Transparencies. The 
 town was partially illuminated on this and the previous 
 nights. 
 
 Thus ended the festivities in the City of Kingston 
 connected with a change which is unparalleled in the 
 history of the world. The demonstrations of joy at the 
 arrival of a period pregnant with blessings to hundreds 
 of thousands of our fellow men and which will be re- 
 membered for ages by those who were slaves, and their 
 descendants, a day glorious and honorable to those by 
 whom it was fixed upon as the period of full, free and 
 complete emancipation, and which, as often as it returns, 
 must bring with it recollections of the most pleasing 
 and gratifying description. On this day will those who 
 come after us say, the demon of Slavery was chased 
 into his dark domains, and the land of springs rescued 
 from the evils, and degradation of Slavery. On this 
 day the sun of Freedom rose and shone in all its glory 
 on the Isle, and the slave freed from his shackles, de- 
 clared to an enraptured world that he was "a brother 
 and a man." 
 
 spajstish town. 
 
 A Correspondent to the Morning Journal gave the 
 following account of the celebration of this great event 
 in Spanish Town. 
 
 These are indeed gala days for this old town, let us 
 hope they are the same throughout the Island. What 
 newspaper of any known dimensions, can contain all 
 
1 6 JUBILEE REIGN OP QUEEN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 that can and ought to be said of the surpassing glory 
 of an event which will interest the whole civilized 
 world, govern probably the conduct of a vast portion 
 of it, and of which even what may be called 
 the minor incidents, are aifecting to so great a 
 degree. ? Last Wednesday (first of August) was indeed 
 a day of solemnity : every place of worship was filled 
 to overflowing, and countless multitudes of all classes, 
 conditions, and colours with bended knees and grateful 
 hearts, offered to the Giver of all Good their acknow- 
 ledgments of the transcendant boon which they were 
 receiving at his hands. At the Cathedral his Lordship 
 the Bishop preached a sermon of which we despair 
 of being able to do Justice — appropriate; elegant 
 affecting, and though of more than usual length not 
 long enough for those who heard it, and who all unan- 
 imously joined in an application to his Lordship, that 
 he would cause it to be printed, not less for the benefit 
 of those who heard it, than of those who had not enjoyed 
 that gratification. 
 
 The congregation of the Revd, Mr. Phillippo being 
 far too numerous for his large Chapel were accommodat- 
 ed on the outside — That reverend Gentleman, at about 
 10 o'clock in the morning, accompanied by the children 
 of his schools, in number of about two thousand, and 
 by his whole congregation, and several thousands of 
 persons, attended by appointment, His Excellency the 
 Governor at the King's House, to pay their respects to 
 His Excellency, who addressed them in a speech full 
 of feeling and paternal advice, and the deep impression 
 which it made was quite remarkable in the attention 
 respect and gratitude with which it was received. The 
 
EJIAMUIPATIO.V I.V IS.'i.S. 17 
 
 whole population of the town and neighbourhood seem- 
 ed to have attended to witness this scene. Who can 
 do justice to it ? In the portico, in front of King's 
 House, were seen the Governor, the Bishop, and the 
 Revd. Mr. Phillippo representing as it were the happy 
 union of civil and religious feeling upon this awful, yet 
 joyful occasion, 
 
 The correspondent said he was free to confess 
 that he could hardly refrain from polluting, with 
 feelings of envy, the admiration with which he 
 beheld a man who had brought forward an immense 
 portion of the population who were ready to acknow- 
 ledge themselves indebted under God to him, from hav- 
 ing been rescued from barbarism and sin, and received 
 at his hands the blessings of religion, morality, and 
 education, as was happily said, upon a less important 
 occasion, hope elevated, and joy brightened his crest. 
 The proud trophy of a country's gratitude, to the gal- 
 lant man (Lord Rodney) who had saved it from a for- 
 eign foe, seemed to give an additional lustre to the 
 scene, which appeared designed to show that peace has 
 her victories not less than war. 
 
 The correspondent said he must refrain from pursu- 
 ing too far this enticing subject. 
 
 On the evening of the 2nd August, the Reverend 
 Mr. Phillippo and his wife opened a charitable Bazaar 
 at the metropolitan schools which were most beautifully 
 illuminated and adorned by characteristic transparen- 
 cies. His Excellency the Governor was present, also 
 the Chief Justice, the Revd. Mr. Coward, and the offi- 
 cers of the Regiment. Every respectable inhabitant of 
 
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18 JUBILEE EEIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 the town, and the number of visitors and persons as- 
 sembled could not have been less than four thousand 
 persons. The Bazaar was repeated on the next night 
 and on Saturday 4th August, an examination of the 
 ehildren of the school, and the distribution of awards 
 to them took place. This closed a week in Spanish 
 Town unequalled in the annals of the country, and un- 
 stained, by a single act of intemperance or violence. 
 
 The newspapers contain full accounts of the celebra- 
 tion of this great and glorious event in the country 
 parishes. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 THE queen's marriage. 
 
 Three montHs after Princess Victoria saw the light 
 at Kensington Palace, another infant came into the 
 world at the Rosenau Palace in Coburg, This infant, 
 the second son of the Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Co- 
 burg-Gotha, was born on the 26th of August, 1819, and 
 christened "Albert." It is not surprising that their 
 common grandmother, the clever and humorous old 
 Duchess of Coburg, should have dreamt of a future 
 marriage between the new-born and his Royal baby- 
 cousin, the English "Mayflower." 
 
 The first impression produced by Prince Albert 
 was during his visit to England in 1836. There was 
 no engagement ; but it was an understood thing in the 
 Coburg family. When, therefore, the Queen began to 
 talk of delay, and of being too young to marry, a cloud 
 of anxiety came over the minds of the elders ; and the 
 Prince himself came to England, in 1839, fully deter- 
 mined to withdraw from the position. The Queen has 
 reverently and affectionately taken all the blame of 
 this misunderstanding on herself, and she has done it 
 in words which reveal a nobility of sentiment and fear- 
 less honesty of character that compel admiration and 
 respect. "A worse school" she says, "for a young girl. 
 
20 JUBILEE REIGN OP QUEEN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 or one more detrimental to all natural feelings and af- 
 fections cannot well be imagined than the position of a 
 Queen at eighteen, without experience, and without a 
 husband to support her." But as soon as these two 
 ingenuous souls met again, the cloud passed away and 
 their good angels, "Uncle Leopold" and Stockmar, 
 were made happy in the knowledge that all was irrevo- 
 cably settled. 
 
 On the 16th January, 1840, the Queen announced her 
 approaching marriage to Parliament, and on the 28th 
 of the same month the bridegroom left Gotha for En- 
 gland. The regret in the little German Principality 
 was universal, for the Prince was just the sort of char- 
 acter to endear himself to an affectionate and simple 
 people. Gay in temperament, Uvely in intellect, and 
 with one of the best hearts in the world, the real 
 strength of his character was known to hardly anyone 
 but his brother, for even Stockmar had his doubts. 
 On the Cth of February, Prince Albert landed at Dover ; 
 and on the 10th the wedding took place, in the 
 Chapel Koyal St. James's, 
 
 The Prince wore the uniform of a Field-Marshal, and 
 the order of the Garter, surmounted by two white 
 rosettes. He carried a Bible in his hand, and the strain 
 he was enduring showed itself in the pallor of his 
 thoughtful, amiable face. 
 
 The di'ums and trumpets sounded, the chapel doors 
 were flung open, and the Queen's procession was seen 
 slowly approaching — "plain without pomp and rich 
 without a show." The Queen's sole jewels consisted 
 
THE queen's marriage. 21 
 
 of a necklace of brilliants. They were all clad alike, 
 in dresses of rich white satin trimmed with orange- 
 blossoms, and wore on their heads wreaths of the same 
 blossoms : the only thing that distinguished the bride 
 was the wealth of Honiton lace which enveloped her 
 dress, and the fact that she wore a veil, which, however, 
 did not conceal her face, especially noticeable for its 
 extreme paleness and traces of nervous effort. Next 
 to the Queen walked the Mistress of the Robes, a 
 lady of Majestic beauty, while the procession of brides- 
 maids and ladies of the bed-chamber presented a fair 
 array of aristocratic beauty. 
 
 All the ordinary formula of the Liturgy was observ- 
 ed, no other title being given the bride and bridegroom 
 beyond that of Victoria and Albert. When the Queen 
 was asked, "Wilt thou obey him and serve him, &sc.," 
 she replied in accents which, though soft and musical, 
 were distinctly heard through the chapel. The Duke 
 of Sussex gave away the bride ; and exactly at a 
 quarter to one the guns in the Park announced the 
 putting on of the ring. The wedding breakfast at 
 Buckingham Palace was, with the exception of a few 
 State officials, confined to the Royal family and the 
 Queen's household. At a quarter to four the Royal 
 pair left for Windsor, the sun at that moment shining 
 forth in full strength, and the dull clouds entirely dis- 
 appearing. 
 
 People had noted the amiable expression of the 
 Prince, and had compared it with the more determin- 
 ed look of his brother, but he soon showed himself a 
 man of strong will and purpose He carefully separ- 
 
22 JUBILEE EEIGiSr OF QUEEN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 ated the Queen's i-egal duties from those of a wife, and^ 
 with gentle firmness, claimed and took his proper 
 position as head of the family. In this the clear 
 judgment and right feeling of the Queen second- 
 ed him. Life of the Queen. 
 
 The Queen's marriage was announced to the House 
 of Assembly in Jamaica on the 8th of April, 1840, 
 by a message from His Excellency Sir Charles T. 
 Metcalfe, then Governor of Jamaica. 
 
 The Message was read to the House of Assembly 
 by the Governor's Secretary as follows : — 
 
 "Mr. Speaker, 
 
 " I am directed by the Governor to 
 inform this Honorable House that our Most Gracious 
 Sovereign Lady the Queen has been pleased to ally 
 herself in marriage with His Royal Highness Prince 
 Albei-t of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxe. 
 
 "No official intelligence has yet reached the Governor 
 of this auspicious event, but as there is no doubt of 
 its having taken place on or about the 10th of February, 
 His Excellency cannot allow this session of the Legis- 
 lature to terminate without placing in the possession 
 of this Honorable House information so interesting to 
 the hearts of all Her Majesty's subjects and so import- 
 ant to the welfare of the British Empire." 
 
 The House of Assembly thereupon appointed a com- 
 mittee, consisting of Mr. Farquharson, Mr. Dallas, Mr. 
 
THE queen's MAKRIAGE. 'I'i 
 
 Leslie, Mr. Whitelocke, and Mr. Foster, to prepare an 
 humble, and congratulatory address to Her Majesty 
 the Queen, on the ocassion of her marriage with His 
 Royal Highness Prince Albert. 
 
 The address was prepared and ordered to be 
 forwarded for presentation to the Queen, on the 
 11th April, 1840. 
 
 Jamaica, SS. 
 
 To THE Queen's Most Excellent Majesty 
 
 The Humble Address of the Assembly of Jamaica 
 Most G-bacious Sovereign. 
 
 We your Majesty's loyal and dutiful subjects, the Assembly of 
 Jamaica, bumbly offer to your Majesty our most sincere congratu- 
 lations on your Majesty's alliance in marriage with His Royal 
 Highness Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha. 
 
 We entertain the sanguine expectation, that under the blessing 
 of Divine Providence, this event will be conducive to your Majes- 
 ty's personal happiness, and to the welfare of your Majesty's 
 Kingdom at large. 
 
 In offering our congratulations to your Majesty, we beg to renew 
 our protestations of increasing and devoted loyalty to your Majes- 
 ty's person, and to assure your Majesty, that on the choice which 
 your Majesty has been pleased to make, we hail an additional pro- 
 tection to the constitutional and Keligious principles which have 
 placed your Majesty's illustrious family upon the throne of the 
 British Empire. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 FIRST ATTilMPT ON THE QDBEN'S LIFE. 
 
 Royalty has its perils as well as its pleasures. 
 Universally beloved though Queen Victoria has de- 
 servedly been — reigning though her Majesty emphati- 
 cally does in the hearts of her People — she has not 
 escaped the common lot of Sovereigns. 
 
 It was on the 10th of June, 1840, that the first 
 alarming attack was made on her Majesty. The 
 scene was Constitutional-hill, Green Park, quite 
 near Buckingham Palace. On that occasion, a young 
 man named Edward Oxford fired a pistol at the 
 carriage in which were seated her Majesty and 
 Prince Albert. Oxford was a waiter in a London 
 coffee-shop. In his case a plea of lunacy was suc- 
 cessful, and he was sent to Bethlehem Hospital, 
 but was afterwards removed to the Criminal Lunatic 
 Asylum at Broadmoor, where he died about the 
 year 1880. 
 
 The Governor (Sir Charles Metcalfe) in his speech 
 on opening the Legislature of Jamaica, on the 27th 
 October, 1840, said, 
 
 "Gentlemen of the Council 
 
 "Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Assenibly. 
 
FIRST ATTEMPT ON THE QUEEN'S LIFE. 25 
 
 "Since our last meeting, a horrible attempt has 
 been made against the life of our beloved Queen 
 but by the blessing of Divine Providence it was 
 frustrated. It was found to be the act of a madman, 
 and none but a madman, or a deadly enemy to the 
 British Empire, could imagine a crime which, had 
 not its perpretration been averted, would have over- 
 whelmed us all in the deepest affliction." 
 
 The House of Assembly in its address in reply 
 to the Governor's speech, said 
 
 "We hasten to express our gratitude to Divine 
 Providence for the preservation of the life of our 
 beloved Queen from the late attempt at assassination 
 by the hand of a madman, and cordially respond 
 to the sentiments expressed by your Excellency on 
 that atrocious act." 
 
 The House of Assembly then appointed a committee 
 consisting of Mr. Sanguinetti, Mr. Leslie, Mr. March, 
 Mr. Wheatle, and Mr. Guy, to prepare an humble 
 address to her Majesty on the late atrocious attempt 
 on her Majesty's life. 
 
 The following address was prepared on 30th Octo- 
 ber, 1840, and ordered to be sent for presentation to 
 the Queen. 
 
 Jamaica, SS. 
 
 To THE Queen's Most Excellent Majesty 
 
 The Humble Address of the Assembly of Jamaica 
 Most Gracious Sovereign. 
 
 We your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Assembly 
 of Jamaica, cannot resume the discharge of our Legislative 
 
 D 
 
26 JUBILEE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 functions without imploring your Majesty to accept our humble, 
 though sincere congratulations on your Majesty's late providential 
 escape from an imminent peril which none can contemplate 
 without horror. 
 
 We deeply deplore, that within your Majesty's extended Empire 
 an individual should have been found so atrociously wicked, 
 as to attempt an act, which in its accomplishment, would have 
 plunged your Majesty's faithful people, the Assembly of Jamaica, 
 in common with the Empire at large, with overwhelming afflic- 
 tion. It is, however, consolatory to know, that the act was 
 that of a maniac, over whom reason held no sway. 
 
 We pray that Divine Providence, which in that moment of 
 Peril guarded your Majesty's sacred life, may continue to watch 
 over your Majesty's august person, and that He who is Lord of 
 Lords, and King of Kings, may so graciously guide, govern, and 
 direct your Majesty, that counselled by all Holy and Heavenly 
 thoughts, and filled with all virtues which adorn the good, your 
 Majesty may long live to reign in the hearts of a devoted people, 
 and to fulfil the auspicious promise of your Majesty's opening reign. 
 
 On 29th October, 1841, the Governor laid before the 
 House of Assembly, the Queen's reply, as follows : — 
 
 No. 165. Downing Street, 30th December, 1841, 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I have received and laid before the Queen your 
 Despatch No. 420 of the 30th October, transmitting an address 
 from the House of Assembly of Jamaica, on her Majesty's provi- 
 dential escape from the recent attempt made on her life. 
 
 I am commanded by her Majesty to instruct you to convey to 
 the Assembly of Jamaica, the sense which her Majesty entertains 
 of the loyalty and affection which have called forth the address. 
 
 I have &c. 
 
 J. RUSSELL. 
 
 To the Right Honorable, 
 
 Sir Chaelbs T. Metcalfe, 
 
 Crovernor of Jamaica &c., &c. 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE OP WALES. 
 
 On the 9th of November, 1841, at Buckingham 
 Palace, the Queen's first-born son, Albert Edward 
 Prince of Wales, came into the world, now the well 
 honoured, and well beloved heir-apparent to the throne 
 of England. 
 
 This auspicious event was announced to 'the House 
 of Assembly on the 4th of January, 1842, by his 
 Excellency Sir Charles T. Metcalfe then Governor 
 of Jamaica, by a message which was read by the 
 Governor's Secretary. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, 
 
 I am directed by the Governor to announce to this Hon- 
 orable House that the joyful tidings have been received of the 
 safety of Her Most Gracious Majesty our beloved Queen, and of 
 the birth of a Prince, heir apparent to the throne of the British 
 Empire. 
 
 The House of Assembly thereupon appointed a Com- 
 mittee to prepare an humble address to the Queen, to 
 congratulate Her Majesty on the auspicious event of ' 
 the birth of an heir to the throne of the United King- 
 dom — The Committee consisted of Mr. Spalding, Mr. 
 Foster, Mr. Grossett, Mr, Dallas, and Mr. Jordon. 
 
28 JUBILEE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 The address to the Queen was presented to the 
 House by Dr. Spalding who said "He was proud to call 
 himself a native of this Land — ^the Land of Springs — 
 he believed that it was not the custom or character of 
 his countrymen to gloze, and fawn, and flatter ; the lan- 
 guage of sincerity, especially in grief, but also in joy, 
 is proverbially brief ; it is brief and it thus becomes 
 the more powerful and affecting. He should not there- 
 fore detain the House by any lengthened observation, 
 but when he st&,ted that the joyful tidings of the birth 
 of an heir to the Crown of the British Einptfe was re- 
 ceived with as great delight and enthusiasm by every 
 class of Her Miajesty's subjects in this land, he spoke 
 the feelings of every class of the people of this Island." 
 
 Jamaica SS. 
 
 We your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Assembly of 
 Jamaica, glad to embiace the present happy opportunity of ap- 
 proaching your Majesty to express our unchanging attachment 
 to your Royal House. 
 
 We feel grateful to Heaven for the gift of an Heir to the Brit- 
 ish Crown, and we entreat of your Majesty, and your Royal Con- 
 sort, to accept of our most sincere and fervent congratulations 
 on this most auspicious event, which must add much to the do- 
 mestic happiness of your Majesty and your Royal Consort, and, if 
 possible the more endear your Majesty to the people of your wide- 
 ly extended Kmpire. 
 
 We pray that in this distant land, we may speedily receive good 
 tidings of your Majesty to health and strength, and that the in- 
 fant Prince may be spared by Providence to gladden the parental 
 heart, and to be a joy and blessing to a faithful and favored people, 
 so that when His Royal Highness, wisely trained to the arts of 
 government by your Majesty's instruction and eminent example 
 shall, in G-od's good time, be called to occupy the throne of His 
 ancestors, the civil and religious liberties, the far spreading com- 
 
THE BIRTH 0* THE PRINCE OP WALES. 29 
 
 meroe, the glory and the power of the United Kingdom, may be 
 maintained, and transmitted unimpaired to posterity. 
 
 The following other addresses from the inhabitants 
 of Jamaica were also forwarded for presentation to the 
 Queen. 
 
 Fbom St. Catherine. 
 
 We, your Majesty's Loyal Subjects, the inhabitants of Saint 
 Catheiine, in the Island of Jamaica, congratulate your Majesty 
 on the auspicious birth of a Prince, the heir to your illustrious 
 House. It was the distinction of your Majesty's accession to the 
 throne that Colonial Slavery being abolished, your Majesty was 
 called to reign over a free and happy people. All classes of the 
 Colony participating in a common and equal dependence on a be- 
 nign and liberal government, unite in the same felicitations 
 to your Majesty and your iUustrioua Consort, for this pledge, 
 which Heaven has bestowed for the perpetuity of the throne, and 
 the prosperity of the Empire. 
 
 (Signed.) William Ramsay. 
 
 Gustos Rotulorum 
 of St. Catherine, 
 Chairman, 
 
 THE QUEEN'S REPLY. 
 
 The Colonial Secretary officially directed Sir Charles 
 Metcalfe to assure the parties, from whom the above 
 address proceeded, that her Majesty was pleased to 
 receive it very graciously. 
 
 From Kingston. 
 
 We your Majesty's dutiful subjects the Gustos, Magfistrates, 
 Merchants, and other inhabitants of the City and parish of 
 Kingston in your Majesty's Island of Jamaica, yielding to none 
 in loyalty and devotion to your Majesty's illustrious House, 
 
30 JUBILEE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 most humbly approach your Royal presence to join our distant 
 but not less fervent congratulations, with those of the nation at 
 large, on the auspicious event of the Birth of a Prince and Heir 
 to the British Throne. 
 
 Contented and blest under your Majesty's parental care and 
 government, and confident of a continuance of the sanie wisdom 
 and moderation which have hitherto directed your Majesty's 
 Councils, we ardently pray that your Majesty's life may long be 
 preserved to your individual comfort and happiness, and to the 
 satisfaction, honor and prosperity of the people of your Sovereign- 
 ty, and may the youthful Prince under the guidance and 
 example of your Majesty and Royal Consort, prove in due 
 course of time, all that a parent's fondest hopes can desire, and 
 all that can conduce to a nation's glory. With these sentiments 
 of attachment to your Royal House and Family, we join our earn- 
 est prayer that the Almighty may continue in health and safety 
 yohr Majesty's valuable life, and the lives of your illustrious Con- 
 sort Prince Albert, and the Royal pledges of your conjugal affection, 
 the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal. 
 
 On behalf of the" meeting, 
 
 John Mulholland. 
 Custos Rotulorum 
 of the City and 
 
 Parish of Kingston. 
 
 THE QUEEN'S REPLY. 
 
 Lord Stanley to Sir Charles T. Metcalfe. 
 Governor of Jamaica. 
 
 Colonial Office, 1st March, 1842. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I have received and laid before the Queen your despatch 
 No. 66 of the 25th January last transmitting an address to Her 
 Majesty on the birth of the Prince of Wales, from the inhabitants 
 of the City and Parish of Kingston in Jamaica. 
 
THE BIRTH OP THE PRINCE OP WALES. 31 
 
 I am commanded by Her Majesty to instruct you to convey to 
 the parties who signed the address the sense which Her Majesty 
 entertains of their loyalty and affection. 
 
 I have Sec. 
 
 STANLEY. 
 To the Right Honorable 
 
 SiB Charles T. Metcalfe, 
 
 Governor of Jamaica, &e., &c. 
 
 From the Jewish Congregation of Kingston. 
 
 The Humble Address of the President, Wardens, and other 
 Members of the Congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews 
 of the city of Kingston Jamaica. 
 
 Most oeacious SovKEBiG«r. 
 
 We the President, Wardens, and Members of the Congregation 
 of Spanish and Portuguese Jews, in the City of Kingston Jamaica 
 humbly crave permission, in common with the rest of your Ma- 
 jesty's subjects, to congratulate your Majesty on the auspicious 
 birth of a Prince, the heir to the throne of your Majesty's 
 Kingdom, 
 
 This event, so important to the Empire at large, fiUs us with 
 the deepest gratitude to the Great Jehovah, for having thus 
 crowned the happiness of your Majesty, and has afforded to your 
 Majesty's subjects generally, but to us in particular, the pros- 
 pect of a continuance of those blessings which all have enjoyed 
 under the mild rule of the illustrious House of Brunswick. 
 
 May your Majesty and your Eoyal Consort live to guard the 
 early years of your Royal Son. May the Almighty take him 
 under his special protection, and as he increases in years 
 may he increase in wisdom and virtue, that when called upon 
 to fill the High Station which through the providence of God 
 
32 JUBILEE EEIGN OP QUEEN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 he may be called (far distant be the day) he may prove an orna- 
 ment to the British Throne. 
 
 May your Majesty enjoy uninterrupted health and happiness 
 with your illustrious Consort, and may you long reign over a 
 prosperous and united people. 
 
 M. Delgado, ■") 
 
 J. R. Dbcoedova, y Delegates. 
 
 M. Q. Heneiqubs, J 
 
 THE QUEEN'S REPLY. 
 
 Colonial Office, 7th March, 1842. 
 Sir, 
 
 I have received and laid before the Queen, your despatch No. 
 65 of the 25th January transmitting an address to Her Majesty 
 on the birth of the Prince of Wales, from the members of the 
 Spanish Portuguese Jews resident in the City of Kingston 
 Jamaica. 
 
 I am commanded by Her Majesty to instruct you to convey to 
 the parties who signed the address, the satisfaction which Her 
 Majesty received this mark of their loyalty and affection. 
 
 I have &c., 
 
 Stanley, 
 
 Eight Honorable SiH Chablbs T. Metcalfe, 
 Governor of Jamaica. 
 
 Illumination in Spanish Town. 
 
 In the House of Assembly on 18th January, 1842, 
 Me. Osbokn rose to propose a Resolution, in which he 
 said he was sure that there was hardly a member but 
 
THE BIRTH OP THE PRINCE OF WALES. 33 
 
 who would concur. A memorial had been presented 
 by the House to Her Majesty on the birth of the 
 Prince of Wales, and several others would no doubt 
 have fallen from the several parishes of the Island, 
 and so far it was the duty of the inhabitants of Jamai- 
 ca to express their loyalty on the subject. But what 
 he would most allude to, was that His Excellency in- 
 tended to give a treat not alone to the aristocracy but 
 to all the people, for he had ordered bread, beef, and 
 beer, to be served out to the people on the occasion. It 
 was therefore proper, he thought, that the House should 
 bear some small portion in the festivities, and he would 
 propose, as the Square was to be illuminated, that, the 
 portion of that expense should be borne by them ; he 
 would therefore move, that the Receiver General be di- 
 rected to pay to the Gustos and Members of Saint 
 Catherine the sum of £50 for that purpose. 
 
 Mr. Hyslop thought it would be an insult to the 
 parish of Saint Catherine to defray the illumination 
 which ought to be paid by them. (Laughter) 
 
 Me. March (as the Reporter was allowed to under- 
 stand by the noise at the bar of the House) said, that 
 the parish of Saint Catherine had nothing whatever 
 to do with it, nor did they contemplate to bear any por- 
 tion of the expense — if they were even so inclined, the 
 law would not justify them. But it was notorious 
 that the whole proceeding was to be done through the 
 magnanimity of Sir Charles Metcalfe, who if the truth 
 were to be spoken, would rather no other party to in- 
 terfere with him, did it not give occasion for the ex- 
 pression of the feeling of the House. 
 
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34 JUBILER REIGN OP QUEEN VICTORIA IN JA.MA.ICA.. 
 
 Me. Russell thought that even £200 or £300 would 
 CTo but a very little way ; either let the thing he done 
 properly or not at all. 
 
 Mr. Hart said that since the birth of George the 4th 
 we had not had a general illumination. He then pro- 
 posed that £100 be granted instead of £50, which was 
 carried. 
 
 The Governor's Bounty. 
 
 A Spanish Town correspondent writing to the Jamai- 
 ca Standard and Royal Gazette on I7th January, 1842, 
 said : there was some sport on the Parade to-day — Four 
 casks of porter were placed under the Portico leading 
 to the new buildings, by directions of Sir Charles Met- 
 calfe, and broached pro bono publico. It was delight- 
 ful to see the joyous faces going with their mugs to 
 get their quantum and returning with their vessels 
 bi-imful and frothing. Many took their swigs at the 
 tap, and were kept in countenance by not a few re- 
 spectable gentlemen who also partook of the generous 
 beverage. The hurrahs for the Queen — the young 
 Prince — and Sir Charles Metcalfe, were incessant. 
 
 The Governor'.s Ball. 
 
 On Thursday evening (20th January 1842) the Gov- 
 ernor gave a grand Ball at King's House in Spanish 
 Town in honor of the birth of the Prince; it was 
 highly respectably attended, and the evening's enter- 
 tainment passed off with the greatest haz-mony and 
 good feeling. At half past 12 o'clock, His Excellency 
 Sir Charles Metcalfe led Lady Rowe, followed by the 
 
THE biRTI-I OF THE PKINCE OP WALES. 35 
 
 rest of the guests, to the supper table, which was 
 laid out with that profusion and elegance, which char- 
 acterized all His Excellency's entertainments. During 
 supper His Excellency proposed the health of the 
 Prince of Wales; on its being responded to in the usual 
 manner, the Band struck up the national anthem, and 
 on the signal gun, which was stationed on the parade 
 annoimciiag the, fact, a salute of 21 guns was immedi- 
 ately discharged by 2- pieces of Ai-tillery stationed on 
 the Church Parade in Spanish Town. 
 
 After supper, dancing was resumed, and continued 
 until about 4 o'clock a. m. when the company depart- 
 ed, pleased with each other, and highly delighted with 
 their noble host. A few jolly old fellows, not blessed 
 with the companionship of ladies, lingered about the 
 supper table, partaking copiously of the good cheer, 
 and afterwaa-ds departed to their several homes, pre- 
 pared to take a sound morning's nap. The gallant 
 Military Secretary (Captain James M. Higginson) was 
 all life and spirit, and was considered the lion of the 
 evening; we must not omit to notice the a,ppearance 
 of several militia officers in their uniform, amongst 
 which the graceful figure of the Adjutant of the St. 
 Catherine's Regiment (Robert Wilkie Esqr. Clerk of 
 the Peace) was conspicuous. 
 
 The illumination in front of the Court house, and 
 immediately opposite the King's House was extremely 
 beautiful, and reflected much credit on the artist Mr, 
 Swan. It was composed of variegated lamps in the 
 following order : — 
 
36 JUBILEE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 The Koyal Crown 
 X r (Prince of Wales Feathers) A 
 
 God Save them 
 
 and 
 
 Bless the Prince of Wales. 
 
 The other two sides of the Square were illuminated 
 in the same manner as on the previous occasion. 
 
 Ball Dresses in 1842. 
 
 As it may be interesting to our fair readers to know 
 the style of Ball dresses which prevailed in the year 
 1842, the following advertisement, taken from one of 
 the Kingston newspapers, is here inserted. 
 
 Kingston, January 15, 1842. 
 
 FOR THE PRINCE OF WALES' BALL. 
 
 For Sale — At Samuel Lyons, 32 King Street. 
 
 A choice assortment of Elegant Fancy Articles are 
 now to be had, and well worthy the attention of those 
 interested in the above, comprising:-^ 
 
 White Areophane Dresses, embroidered in Gold with 
 rich Blond Flounces. 
 
 Mantua, Florida, and Mandarin Dresses. 
 
 White Figured Mantua, by the yard. 
 
 Superb Figured and Plain French Satin, in all colors 
 
THE BIRTH OF THE PEINCE OP WALES. 37 
 
 Very Rich Chene Satins and silks, in great variety. 
 
 Handsome Shotted Gros and Satin Tures, in elegant 
 colors. 
 
 White Organdy, of delicate quality, having much 
 the appearance of Crape, aud well suited for young 
 ladies. 
 
 Very Broad and Rich English and French Blonds 
 
 Lace Mittens, Demi Kid Gloves, French Satin 
 
 Scarfs. 
 
 Wreaths of White and Red Roses, Plumes. 
 
 Silver and Pearl Bands for the hair. 
 
 Coral and White ditto. White Satin Shoes — and 
 
 A variety of Satins for Slips at 4s. per yard. 
 
 SAMUEL LYONS. 
 
CHAPTER VI; 
 
 PEiNCE Alfred's visit to Jamaica. 
 
 Considerable excitement prevailed in Jamaica when 
 it became known that His Royal Highness Prince 
 Alfred woald visit the Island. 
 
 On the 29th of January 1861. His Excellency the 
 Governor (Sir Charles H. Darling) sent the following 
 message to the House of Assembly: — 
 
 "The Governor is confident that it will be highly 
 gratifying to the House of Assembly to learn that the 
 Island will probably be visited by Her Majesty's se- 
 cond son. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, in the 
 course of the ensuing months of February,and March." 
 
 The Governor also sent a similar message to the 
 Legislative Council. 
 
 On the 6th February 1861, the Governor sent 
 another message to the Assembly, and the Council, as 
 follows: — 
 
 "With reference to his previous message on the same 
 subject the Governor begs to acquaint the House of 
 Assembly, and the Council, that he has received a des- 
 patch from His Grace the Secretary of State intimat- 
 
PEiNCE Alfred's visit to Jamaica. 39 
 
 ing that the "St George" on board which ship His 
 Royal Highness Prince Alfred is serving as a midship- 
 man, would leave England about the 14th ultimo, for 
 the West Indies." 
 
 On the 26th February 1861 the House of Assembly 
 Resolved : — 
 
 "That a sum not exceeding £1000. be granted to 
 Her Majesty to be paid to the Governor, and Executive 
 (Committee for the reception and entertainment of His 
 Royal Highness Prince Alfred on his visit to Jamaica." 
 
 On the 15th March 1861, the Legislative Council 
 passed a Resolution to co-operate with the Governor, 
 and the Assembly, on the reception and the entertain- 
 ment of the Prince. 
 
 On the 21st March 1861, the House of Assembly ap- 
 pointed a committee consisting of Mr. Taylor, Mr. 
 Smith, Mr. Nunes, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Westmorland, 
 and Mr. Williams, to prepare an hximble address to 
 Her Majesty the Queen thanking Her Majesty for 
 permitting her son, His Royal Highness Prince Alfred 
 to visit this her ancient colony. 
 
 The same committee was also appointed to pre- 
 pare a congratulatory address to the Prince on his 
 arrival in this Island, and the Speaker was requested 
 to present the same in the most acceptable manner. 
 
 On the 22nd March 1861, Mr. Taylor from the Com- 
 mittee presented the following address to the Queen 
 
40 JUBILEE RBIGX OP QUEEN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA.. 
 
 which was read and passed, and ordered to be sent to 
 the Governor to be presented. 
 
 Jamaica, SS. 
 
 To THE Queen's Most Excellent Majesty 
 
 The Humble Address of the Assembly of Jamaica 
 Most Gracious Sovereign. 
 
 We your Majesty's most dutiful ani loyal subjects the A?33mbly 
 of Jamaica impressed with the fullest sense of your conlesoension 
 and goodness displayed on all oooasions towards your people, 
 however remote, beg leave to offer to your Majesty an humble 
 and grateful acknowledgement for this particular instance of 
 your royal favor and gracious consideration in permitting your 
 illustrious Son Prince Alfred to favor the inhabitants of this 
 your ancient colony with the high and distinguished honor of his 
 presence. 
 
 It is with sincere pleasure we behold this illustrious Prince in 
 the flower of youth preferring the fatigue and danger of a naval 
 life, to the splendour of a British Court the delights of a happy 
 home, the society of attached and vii-tuons parents, and the affec- 
 tion of the Koyal family. We view this .choice as the surest pre- 
 sage that the page of history will supply ample materials to exem- 
 plify in the psrson of his Royal Highness the true character of a 
 liatriot Prince. 
 
 Sensible as we are of your M.ijesty's anxious regard for the wel- 
 fare and prosperity of every part of your dominions, the only re- 
 turn we can make beyond the sincerest professions of loyalty 
 affection, and duty, is to offer up our ardent prayers to Divine 
 Providence, for the preservation and happiness of your Majesty, 
 and your illustrious family. 
 
 On 21st Nov. 1861, the Governor sent to the House 
 of Assembly the following Despatch from the Secreta- 
 
PBINCE ALFEED's VISIT TO JAMAICA. 41 
 
 ry of State in acknowledgment of the address to the 
 Quean. 
 
 ^°- 280. Downing Street, 30th April, 1861. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I have received your Despatch No. 43 of 23rd ultimo, and I have 
 to convey to you the expression of Her Majesty's gratification at 
 the sentiments embodied in the address which the Assembly of 
 Jamaica have presented to her in anticipation of His Royal High- 
 ness Prince Alfred's visit to the colony. 
 
 I have &;o. 
 
 GovERNOB Darling. NEWCASTLE. 
 
 Jamaica 
 
 Mr. Taylor from the Committee appointed by the 
 House of Assembly to prepare an address to the Prince 
 presented the same which was read and passed, as 
 follows : — 
 
 Jamaica SS. 
 
 To His RoTAL Highness the Prince Alfred. 
 The Humble Address op the Assembly op Jamaica. 
 May it please Your Royal Highness. 
 
 We Her Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects the Assembly of 
 Jamaica offer our cordial congratulations to your Royal Highness 
 on your arrival in this ancient Colony. 
 
 With pleasure we trace, on this auspicious event, a predilection 
 in your Royal Highness for this Country, a circumstance which 
 endears your Royal Highness to us, and our constituents, and 
 enhances the obligation by the character conferring it. 
 
 We appreciate the sacrifices made by your Royal Highness in 
 preferring, in early youth, the arduous duties of naval service to 
 the enjoyments of a happy home; and we trust that at no distant 
 
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42 JUBILEE EEIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 day, the motlier country, and lier dependencies, -will be rendered 
 more happy and prosperous by the virtues, talents, and success of 
 your Royal Highness ; and we cannot doubt that the Navy, favor- 
 ed with the encouragement and bright example of so illustrious a 
 Prince, wiU continue to be, as it has hitherto been, the admiration 
 of the world ; and that under its protection the national commerce 
 will flourish until it encircles the whole habitable earth. 
 
 We pray that a Gracious Providence will preserve your Eoyal 
 Highness and permit your safe return to your native country. 
 
 PRINCE ALFRED'S REPLY. 
 
 On 15th Nov. 1861, the Speaker of the Assembly 
 acquainted the House that, attended by such of the 
 members as were in town after the late prorogation, 
 he had on the 3rd April last, presented the address of 
 the house to His Royal Highness Prince Alfred when 
 H. R. H. was graciously pleased to give the following 
 reply, 
 
 "Gentlemen, 
 
 "As the representatives of the Island of Jamaica I return you 
 my warmest thanks for your loyal address, and for the kind re- 
 ception which I have met with this day from all classes of the 
 community. 
 
 "I have looked forward with much pleasure my visit to this 
 Island, and in thanking you for the kind wishes which you have 
 expressed for my welfare, I earnestly desire that the Colony may 
 continue to increase in prosperity by the development of its vast 
 resources. 
 
 ALFRED. 
 Spanish Town, Jamaica. 
 3rd April, 1861. 
 
 To His Honor the Speaker and the Honorable Members of the 
 House of Assembly of Jamaica. 
 
PRINCE Alfred's visit to Jamaica. 43 
 
 In proroguing the Legislature on 22nd March 1861, 
 Governor Darling in his speech said "It is gratifying 
 to me to record that we separate under cheerful pros- 
 pects, as regards the staple crop ; and that, conspicuous 
 amongst other indications of a prosperous and content- 
 ed people, is that happy union of loyalty to the Crown, 
 and affectionate devotion to the Queen, with which all 
 classes of the inhabitants of Jamaica are anxiously ex- 
 pecting the approaching visit of an illustrious prince 
 of the royal blood." 
 
 In compiling this work we have used our best en- 
 deavours to obtain the newspapers of Jamaica for April 
 1861, in order to give a full account of the landing and 
 reception of the Prince — but we have unfortunately 
 failed to get a single paper of that date. 
 
 We have however, a lively recollection of the occa- 
 sion, and to the best of our ability give the following 
 account :— 
 
 The most active preparations on a grand and mag- 
 nificent scale were being made in Spanish Town, and 
 Kingston, for the reception of the Prince, and when at 
 about 11 o'clock a.m. on Easter Tuesday, 2nd April 1861, 
 H. M. S, "St. George", with the Prince on board was 
 signalled, the greatest excitement pre vailed along Har- 
 bour Street in Kingston. Flags, Banners, Wreaths 
 &c. &c. which had previously been prepared and held 
 in readiness, were hastily thrown out along Harbour 
 
44 JUBILEE EEIGN OF QUEEN VICTOEIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 Street, and with all possible speed put in their proper 
 places. Arches begun to receive their decorations. 
 
 We remember getting on the roof of the store of 
 Messrs Eml. Lyons and Son, and having the pleasure 
 of seeing the steamer off Albion point, steaming down 
 to Port Eoyal. 
 
 The Prince came up to Kingston on the next day, 
 (3rd April) and landed at the Railway Wharf, which 
 was gaily dressed up for the occasion. This wharf 
 has since been called the "Prince's wharf" in honor of 
 the landing of the Prince. The wharf and adjacent 
 places, as was to be expected, were crowded to excess. 
 
 The Railway engine (which was gaily decorated) with 
 two coaches attached, were on the wharf to receive and 
 convey the Prince to Spanish Town. Immediately as 
 the Prince landed on the wharf, a Royal salute was 
 fired, and in less than 15 minutes after, the train ar- 
 rived in Spanish Town. The station was most hand- 
 somely decorated, and crowded with the populace, who 
 were all anxiety to catch a glimpse of the Prince. 
 
 Several triumphal arches were erected in Spanish 
 Town. There was one near the Cathedi-al where a 
 large number of school children were placed, and as the 
 Prince passed through, the children sung the national 
 anthem. On the arrival of the Prince at King's 
 House, addresses were presented, and a Levee held by 
 the Governor, at which a number of gentlemen were 
 presented to the Prince. 
 
 The Prince visited the Cathedral, and other places 
 of interest in the old Capital, and on the evening of 
 
PRINCE Alfred's visit to Jamaica. 45 
 
 the 4th of April, a grand ball was given by the Gov- 
 ernor at King's House. The Parade was brilliantly 
 illuminated. 
 
 The next day (5th April) the Prince made his public 
 entry into Kingston- All places of business were 
 closed. The Prince passed along Harbour Street, into 
 Duke Street, thence to the Parade. At the Parish 
 Church door there was a Canopy prepared to receive 
 H. R. H. and an address was presented by the Common 
 Council of Kingston. 
 
 The Prince then went to Head Quarter House (the 
 official residence of Major General O'Connor) to await 
 the grandeurs of Kingston's hospitality got up in hon- 
 or of his visit. There was to have been a grand Ball, 
 and a Regatta, but the Packet arrived the next morn- 
 ing (6th April) and brought the sad news of the death 
 of the Duchess of Kent (the Prince's Grandmother) 
 which put an end to all further festivities, much to the 
 sorrow and disappointment of the inhabitants generally. 
 
 The following is a copy of the invitation which was 
 issued for the Ball in Kingston :— 
 
 BALL. 
 
 To His Royal Highness Prince Alpeed 
 
 on the occasion of 
 
 His Visit to Jamaica. 
 
 STEWARDS.' 
 
 Hon. Edwai-d Jordon. C. B. Charles A. Price Esq. 
 
 Hon. Alexander Barclay. Captain Cooper R. N. 
 
 Hon. George Solomon. Richard Barnes Esq. 
 
 Hon. W. G. Freeman. F. A. Ebbeke Esq. 
 
 Hon. Alexander Bravo. H. F. Colthirst Esq. 
 
 Charles Levy Esq. W. A. Titley Esq. 
 
46 JUBILEE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 Dr. Lewis Q. Bowerbank. Alexander Aria Esq. 
 
 Edward Lucas Esq. William Wright Esq. 
 
 D. J. Alberga Esq. A. H, Isaacs Esq. 
 
 Peter A. Espeut Esq. Joseph Francis Esq. 
 
 Samuel C. Burke Esq. 
 Constantine Burke. Secry. 
 Joseph Thomas. Treas. 
 Kingston, 1861. 
 
 MEMENTOS OF THE PRINCE'S VISIT. 
 
 In the Legislative Council on 19th November, 1861, 
 the senior member presiding, presented to the Board 
 the following letter which was read and ordered to be 
 entered :~ 
 
 No 473. King's House, 10th April, 1861. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I have much pleasure in acquainting you that His Royal 
 Highness Prince Alfred has honored me with his commands to 
 present to the Legislative Council, in His Eoyal Highness's name, 
 three Lithographic prints, being copies of the most recent lilae- 
 nesses of the Queen, the Prince Consort, and the Prince of Wales. 
 
 I have placed these memorials of His Royal Highness's visit to 
 Jamaica, in the hands of the Clerk of the Council. 
 
 I have &c. 
 
 C. H. DARLING. 
 
 The Hon. John Salmon, President Legislative Council. 
 
 Jamaica. 
 
 On motion of Baron Von Ketelhodt, the foregoing 
 letter of His Excellency the Governor was referred to 
 a special committee to report their opinion to the 
 
rEiNCE Alfred's visit to Jamaica. 47 
 
 Board relative to the framing, and the best situation 
 for placing the Pictures in the Legislative Council 
 Chamber. 
 
 The committee consisted of the Hon. George Price, 
 Hon. Sir Bryan Edwards, Knight, (Chief Justice) and 
 Baron Von Ketelhodt. 
 
 On 5th February 1862, the Hon. Baron Von Ketel- 
 hodt presented the following B.eport — 
 
 •'Mr President, 
 
 "Your special committee appointed to repoit their 
 opinion to the Board relative to the framing, and the best situa- 
 tion for the Portraits of Her Majesty the Queen, the late Prince 
 Consort, and the Prince of Wales in the Legislative Council. 
 
 Report :— 
 
 That in their opinion the spaces between the windows 
 on the right hand side of the President's chair, are the most suit- 
 able for the pictures. Her Majesty's occupying the first position, 
 and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales placed between those 
 of his Royal parents. 
 
 The committee have ascertained that the three pictures can be 
 framed in a befitting manner for a sum not exceeding twelve 
 pounds, and recommend that this work should be at once pro- 
 ceeded with. 
 
 The report was agreed to. 
 
CHAPTER VII. 
 
 DEATH OF THE PRINCE CONSORT. 
 
 The great sorrow of the Queen's life threw the 
 Royal household into mourning in 1861. The first 
 grief of this black year was occasioned by the death of 
 her Majesty's mother, the venerable Duchess of Kent 
 on the Sixteenth March. It was only in the previous 
 autumn that the Queen and the Prince Consort visited 
 together — alas ! for the last time — the birthplace of 
 the Prince at Coburg. In the November of 1861, the 
 Prince caught a cold whilst on a visit of inspection to 
 Sandhurst, in which military college he took great in- 
 terest ; and the end soon came — far too soon, alas ! 
 
 The Prince Consort, one of the wisest counsellors 
 and the best husband a Queen could have, was but 
 forty-three when he died of a fever in Windsor Castle 
 on the Fourteenth of December, sincerely mourned 
 by the nation (which owes him a particularly deep 
 debt of gratitude for his statesmanlike and prudent 
 counsel during the Anglo-American dispute on the 
 Trent affair), his demise well-nigh breaking the heart 
 of the desolate Widow, who found her chief stay and 
 comfort in that time of trial in her beloved daughter 
 Princess Alice, a ministering angel whose tenderness 
 and skill as a true Sister of Mercy were long after to 
 
DEATH OF THE PRINCE CONSORT. 49 
 
 be shown in nursing the Prince of Wales back to 
 health and strength in the dark days of his grave ill- 
 ness at Sandringham. The remains of the lamented 
 Prince Consort were laid at first in St. George's Chapel, 
 Windsor, the sorrowing members of the Royal family 
 attending the funeral on the Twenty -third of Decem- 
 ber. But the body was transferred on the Eighteenth 
 of December, 1862, to the beautiful Mausoleum erected 
 by the Queen at Frogmore. Of the Albert Memorials 
 that abound, the most commanding are the Albert 
 Hall of Music, and the adjacent Albert Monument in 
 Hyde Park ; but the best are the sweet recollections of 
 his pure life, as treasured in an enduring form in the 
 Biography of the Prince Consort, written, with the 
 sanction of the Queen, by Sir Theodore Martin. 
 Life of the Queen. 
 
 On the 9th January, 1862, His Excellency the Gov- 
 ernor (Sir Charles H. Darling) sent the following 
 message to the House of Assembly : — • 
 
 "With the deepest regret the Governor communi- 
 cates to the House of Assembly a despatch from the 
 Eight Hon. the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 
 conveying the melancholy ititelligence of the death of 
 H. R. H. the Prince Consort." 
 
 Downing Street, 16th December, 1861. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 It is with, the deepest regret that I have to communicate 
 to you the melancholy intelligence of the death of His Royal 
 Highness the Prince Consort. 
 
 His Boyal Highness expire! at Windsor Castle on the night of 
 
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50 JUBILEE EEIGN OF QUEEN VIOTOEIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 the 14th iastant, at 10 minutes before 11 o'clock, to the inexpres- 
 sible grief of Her Majesty, the Royal Family, and the Nation. 
 
 I have &c. 
 
 NEWCASTLE. 
 Governor Daelin'G, 
 Jamaica. 
 
 The House thereupon appointed a committee consist- 
 ing of Messrs :- Jackson, Bourke, Geddes, Lynch, 
 Solomon, and Espeut, to prepare an address to the 
 Queen. 
 
 The address was presented to the House on 29th 
 January, 1862, and ordered to be forwarded for 
 presentation to Her Majesty. 
 
 Jamaica SS. 
 
 To The Queen's Most Kxcellent Majesty. 
 The Humble Address of the Assembly op Jamaica. 
 Most Gkacious Sovereign. 
 
 We your Majesty's dutiful subjects the Assembly of Jamaica 
 approach your Majesty with the renewed expression of our devo- 
 tion and loyalty to your Majesty's person and throne. 
 
 We beg that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to receive 
 the assurance of our sincere condolence, and of the deep regret 
 with which the announcement of the demise of your Majesty's 
 illustrious Consort has filled the hearts of all your Majesty's sub- 
 jects in Jamaica. 
 
 United in a common grief with the whole nation, we pray that 
 Divine consolation may temper the aifliction under which your 
 Majesty and your Royal House are bowed, and that your Majesty 
 may long be spared to your faithful people, in whose memory the 
 many virtues of that Prince whom we aU mourn, will long- be 
 
DEATH OF THE rniNCE CJNSOET. 51 
 
 oherislied as bright examples for the emulation and regard of 
 posterity. 
 
 THE QUEEK'd REPLY. 
 
 No. 422. Downing Street, 6th March, 1862. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 29 
 of 31 St January, giving cover to an address of condolence with 
 Her Majesty from the House of Assembly upon the death of His 
 Royal Highness the Prince Consort. 
 
 I have laid this address before the Queen who was pleased to 
 receive it very graciously. 
 
 Her Majesty has commanded me to instruct you to state to the 
 members of the House of Assembly that their sense of the loss 
 which Her Majesty and the nation have suffered, has been very 
 gratifying and asceptable to Har Mnjesty in her affliction. 
 
 I hcive &c. 
 Governor Darling. NEWCASTLE. 
 
 Jamaica 
 
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CHAPTER VIIL, 
 
 THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OP WALES. 
 
 On 5th March, 1863, Lieutenant Governor Eyre 
 issued a Proclamation declaring the 12th March, 1863, 
 a General Holiday to enable the people of Jamaica to 
 have an opportunity of testifying their loyalty and 
 devotion, by the observance of a Public Holiday, and 
 general rejoicings, on the occasion of the marriage of 
 His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales with Her 
 Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Denmark. 
 
 The day fixed for honoring the occasion, was ob- 
 served as a Public Holiday throughout the Island of 
 Jamaica. 
 
 The Shipping of all nations, in Kingston harbour, 
 displayed their flags, as also the various Consulates. 
 
 At the chief Military Stations the garrisons were par- 
 aded, and fired & feu de joie at 6 o'clock in the morn- 
 ing, and at mid-day the Royal Artillery at Port Royal 
 fired a grand salute from Fort Charles. 
 
 The mounted Kingston Troop, and the two compan- 
 ies of the foot Volunteers of Kingston turned out on 
 the parade at 7 o'clock in the morning, the former 
 under Captain Astwood, and the latter under Captains 
 
THE MARRIAGE OP THE PRINCE OF WALES. 63 
 
 Fingzies, and Arnold Malabre. By the 9 o'clock 
 train from Kingston the volunteers proceeded to Cum- 
 berland Pen, accompanied by a large number of the 
 elite of Kingston, and a delightful day was spent in 
 the enjoyment of various field sports, and games, not 
 forgetting the delectations of the inner man. In the- 
 evening there were illuminations in Kingston, Port 
 Royal and Spanish Town. 
 
 On Tuesday evening, 10th March, B. A. Franklin, 
 Esq., Consul in this Island for Denmark, entertained 
 a select party at dinner, at his residence, Manchester 
 Square, composed of his brother Consuls, several mem- 
 bers of Assembly, and private friends. 
 
 In Spanish Town the Volunteers were reviewed and 
 a Silver Bugle was presented to the Volunteers by 
 John Augustus O'Sullivan, Esq., Provost Marshal 
 General. In the evening, Mr O'Sullivan gave a grand 
 Ball in honor of the Prince's marriage, which was 
 largely attended by the fashionables of Kingston and 
 Spanish Town. 
 
 In the parish of Clarendon the holiday was observ- 
 ed by the good folks of the parish. 
 
 It was indeed a great day with them. Their little 
 village (Chapelton) held its head high ; and old, and 
 young, high and low, seemed to have been actuated 
 with one feeling, that of loyalty to the Queen, and 
 England's future King. From an early hour, the in- 
 habitants began to bestir themselves, all anxious to be 
 in time to accompany the Volunteers on their march 
 to the field of sport. At the sound of the Bugle, the 
 
54 JUBILEE REIGN OP QUEEN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 Volunteers were to be seen hurrying from their homes 
 to the muster ground, in front of the Court House, 
 where they soon formed into marching order, and head- 
 ed by their gallant Captain Hugh Croskerry Esqre. 
 M. D. proceeded to Danks Estate. The people follow- 
 ed, enjoying the music, and behaving themselves in 
 the most creditable manner. The whole day was spent 
 in the most agreeable manner ; Target firing, quoiting, 
 horse racing, dancing, all contributed to make the day 
 one of mirth, and jollification, such as became the loy- 
 al subjects of a dearly beloved Sovereign, on such an 
 occasion as the marriage of her eldest son. 
 
 In the parish of Saint Mary a Salute of 19 guns 
 was fired from fort Haldane at 12 o'clock, which was 
 the signal for the poor to attend a magnificent repast, 
 prepared for them at the Court House. The Custos 
 addressed the assemblage, which was very large, in 
 very happy terms, and they then fell to, and enjoyed 
 the repast. The healths of the Queen and of the 
 Prince were drunk with enthusiasm. The celebration 
 concluded with a display of Fire works in the evening, 
 after which the people retired in a happy state. 
 
 On the 6th. of April, 1863, Mi'. G. W. Gordon in the 
 House of Assembly, moved the appointment of a com- 
 mittee for preparing a congratulatory address to Her 
 Majesty the Queen, on the occasion of the nuptials of 
 of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and in 
 doing so, the honorable gentleman said : — 
 
 I have waited sufficiently long, expecting that some 
 other member more in connection with the government 
 
THE M-ARRIAGE OF THE rRINCB OF WALES. 55 
 
 would have taken the initiative. I however feel hon- 
 ored in having to perform a duty, which in its very- 
 nature, is so indicative of the wonted love, and loyalty, 
 which this house has ever evinced towards Her Majesty 
 and the Royal Family. I am sure the auspicious oc- 
 casion of the marriage of His Royal Highness the 
 Prince of Wales has imparted joy and satisfaction to 
 every portion and section of Her Majesty's Subjects, 
 and the rejoicings have extended to the remotest por- 
 tions of our gracious Sovereign's vast dominions. In 
 Jamaica it has been felt as a great blessing to the 
 Kingdom, and we all feel truly thankful for the many 
 marks of Heavenly favor which it has pleased God to 
 confer on our noble Queen, whose reign will shed a 
 lustre on the pages of British history, which has 
 never been rivalled. The benign influence of her reign 
 is conspicuous in the high state of prosperity which 
 England now enjoys, and for her distinguished position 
 in relationship to other nations, and for the peace and 
 security which even we in Jamaica enjoy, and now we 
 look in hopeful prospect to the succession to the throne 
 on the nuptials of His Royal Highness the Prince of 
 Wales, and all the circumstances connected with it. 
 In this view of the case I am sure this House accede 
 to the motion with hearty acclamation, and I will con- 
 clude, as applicable to the character of our Queen, with 
 a quotation higher than any I could produce :— 
 
 Strength and honor are her clothing, 
 and she shall reign in time to come ! 
 
 She openeth her mouth with wisdom, 
 and her tongue is the law of kindness ! 
 
 She looketh well to the ways of her household, 
 
56 JUBILEE EEIQN OF QUEEN VICTOEIA IN .JAMAICA. 
 
 and eateth not the bread of idlene.ss ! 
 Her children arise up and call her blessed, 
 
 her husband also, and he praiseth her ! 
 Many daughters have done virtuously 
 
 but thou excellest them all ! 
 Favor is deceitful and beauty is vain, 
 
 but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall 
 
 be praised. 
 Give her the fruit of her hands, and let her own 
 
 works praise her in the gates." 
 
 The motion was agreed to, and the following com- 
 mittee was appointed by the House consisting of Messrs. 
 Gordon, Jordon C. B., Leahy, Johnson, R. W. Smith, 
 Osborn, Whiteloeke, Barrow, and Harvey. 
 
 On the 27th April, the committee presented the 
 address which was read and passed, and ordered to 
 be forwarded to the Governor for presentation to the 
 Queen. 
 
 Jamaica, SS. 
 
 To THE Queen's Most Excellent Majesty 
 
 The Humble Address of the Assembly oi' Jamaica 
 Most Gracious Sovereign. 
 
 We your Majesty's dutiful subjects tlie Assembly of Jamaica 
 humbly approacli your Majesty with the assurance of our devotion 
 to your Majesty's throne and person, and of loyalty to your goy- 
 ernment. 
 
 We heartily rejoice in the Divine favor to your Majesty, mani- 
 fested in the auspicious event of the marriage of His Eoyal High- 
 ness the Prince of Wales, with a Princess, whose high station 
 unites the virtues and graces of an illustrious lineage with the re- 
 
THJK JIABKIAUE OF THJ!) FKINCK OF WALES. 57 
 
 uovvn of a valiant people, a, union which we hail as the f orei-iinner 
 of great future blessings to all classes of your Majesty's subjects. 
 
 We sincerely trust that it may please the Almighty Ruler, 
 to prolong for many years, your Majesty's reign, rendered illu.s- 
 trious as weU by the increased comfort and happiness of your 
 Majesty's subjects, as by the example set them of every do- 
 mestic virtue. 
 
 The address was sent to the Lieut. Governor to be 
 forwarded ; and His Excellency sent the following 
 reply to the Assembly. 
 
 "In reply to the message from the Assembly of yesterday's date 
 the Lieutenant Governor begs to acquaint the Honorable House 
 that he will have much pleasuie in forwarding- to the Secretary 
 of State for presentation to Her Majesty the Queen, the address 
 expressing the congratulations of the House on the auspicious 
 event of the marriage of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales with II. 
 R. H. the Princess Alexandra of Denmark. 
 
 The Legislative Council also presented a similar 
 address. 
 
 THE QUEEN'S REPLY. 
 
 >fo. 612. 
 
 Downing Street, 8th June, 1863. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 95 
 of the 1 st May, and to request that you will acquaint the Legisla- 
 tive Council, and the House of Assembly, that I have laid before 
 the Queen their addresses of congratulations on the marriage of 
 
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58 JUBILEE KbllGN OB' CJUKKN VIOTOKIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 H. B. H. the Prince of Wales, and that Her Majesty is much 
 gratified by the sentiments of loyalty, and attachment, which 
 they express. 
 
 I have Sec. 
 
 GovEBNOH Eyee, NEWCASTLE. 
 
 Jamaica. 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 
 BIRTH OP PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR. 
 
 On the 8th of February, 1864, Lieutenant Govern- 
 or Eyre sent the following message to the House of 
 Assembly : — 
 
 The Lieutenant Governor has much pleasure in 
 transmitting to the Honorable House of Assembly 
 copy of a despatch received from the Duke of New- 
 castle announcing that on the 8th of January, Her 
 Royal Highness the Princess of Wales was happily 
 delivered of a Prince to the greatjoy of the nation, and 
 of all the Royal family. 
 
 Downing Street, 1,5th January, 1864. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 It is my pleasing duty to announce to you that on the evening 
 of the 8th inst., at two minutes before 9 o'clock, Her Royal High- 
 ness the Princess of Wales was happily delivered of a Prince, to 
 the great joy of the Uittiou, and of all the Royal family. Her 
 Royal Highness and the infant Prince have through Divine mercy, 
 contrived to do well up to the present time. 
 
 I have Sec, 
 
 NEWCASTLE. 
 
 GrOVEENOR EyRE, 
 
 Jamaica. 
 
 The House of Assembly appointed a Committee to 
 prepare an aldress to the Queen, on the birth of an 
 
60 JUBILEE ItmUN OP QUKEN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 heir to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. The 
 address was on the 16th of February, 1864, presented 
 by Mr. Lewis, and ordered to be passed, and sent 
 to the Governor, to be forwarded for presentation to 
 the Queen. 
 
 THE ADDRESS. 
 
 Jamaica, SS. 
 
 To THE Queen's Most Excellent Majesty 
 
 The Humble Address op the Assembly op Jamaica 
 Most Geacious Sovereign. 
 
 We your Majesty's most dutiful aaJ loyal subjects, the Assem- 
 bly of Jamaica beg leave to approach your Majesty with our 
 heartfelt congratulations on the event which has recently added 
 another member to your Royal house, in the birth of an heir to 
 His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and we embrace the op- 
 portunity afforded us by this auspicious event, to renew the ex- 
 pression of our steadfast and unalterable attachment to your 
 Majesty's Throne and Person. 
 
 We fervently pray that Almighty God may long continue to 
 your Majesty the blessing.^ of hoalt'i, strenjfth, and wisdom to 
 reign over us, a loyal, united, prosperous and grateful people ; and 
 that the numerous offspring, with wiiich Providence has blessed 
 your Majesty, inay_ever follow the bright example of tiieir Royal 
 Parents in all the relations of life, and prove themselves a source 
 of pride and happiness to the Empire at large. 
 
CHAPTER X. 
 
 THE PRINCE consort's SPEECHES. 
 
 In April, 1864, the Lieut. Governor (Mr. Eyre) laid 
 before the Legislative Council, and the House of As- 
 sembly a Despatch from the Secretary of State for the 
 Colonies announcing that Her Majesty had been gra- 
 ciously pleased to present to the Libraries of the 
 Council, and the Assembly, a copy of a collec- 
 tion of "The Principal Speeches and Addresses of 
 His Royal Highness the Prince Consort." In so doing 
 the Lieutenant Governor said he felt assured that the 
 Legislative Council, and the House of Assembly would 
 highly appreciate this additional proof of the interest 
 taken by Her Majesty in this her ancient Colony of 
 Jamaica, and that they would consider the gift as 
 doubly enhanced by the touching presentation inscrip- 
 tion in the handwriting of their Queen. 
 
 DowniBg; street, 24th March, 1864. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to pre- 
 seiit to several of tne more important Colonial Libraries, copies 
 of a collection of "The Principal Speeches and Addresses of His 
 Royal Highness the Prince Consort." 
 
 In convoying to each of the Libraries of the Council, and 
 the Assembly the copy which I have the honor to enclose by the 
 
ti2 JUBIIjKIS IlKIGN OF yUBKN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 Queen's command, you will express Her Majesty's full assurance 
 that it will be valued as a memento of one who took a 
 lively interest in the welfare of each separate portion of her 
 Colonial Empire, and who studied at all times to promote 
 the diffusion of that sound and useful knowledge, which is 
 one of the surest foundations of order, and prosperity in 
 every community, and which Her Majesty doubts not, those 
 Libraries are the means of spreading in Jamaica. 
 
 I have Sec. 
 
 NEWCASTLE. 
 GovBBNOB Byre, 
 Jamaica. 
 
 In June, 1864, the House lof Assembly passed the 
 following resolutions : — 
 
 I. The Assembly of Jamaica, in full appreciation 
 of the high honor of the gift, and in deep earnest 
 sympathy with her most Gracious Majesty, and the 
 people of the entire British dominions, for the occa- 
 sion which has evoked it, acknowledge the receipt 
 from her most Gracious Majesty of a volume of 
 "The Principal Speeches and Addresses by His Royal 
 Highness the Prince Consort, with an introduction 
 giving some of the outlines of his character." 
 
 The Assembly of Jamaica will, with ever living 
 remembrance of the worth ef the departed Prince, 
 in perpetuation of whose memory this gift has been 
 sent and received, be careful to preserve it as a val- 
 ued treasure, and will endeavour, by every means 
 in their power, to give it an endurance equal to the 
 love of this people for her most Gracious Majesty. 
 
THE PKINCE consort's SPEECHES. 63 
 
 II. That Mr. Speaker be requested to take such 
 steps as he ma_y think proper for the preservation of 
 this valuable memento. 
 
 III. That a copy of the foregoing Resolutions be 
 forwarded by Mr. Speaker fro tempore to his Excel- 
 lency the Lieutenant Governor, to be transmitted 
 to the Secretary of State for the Colonies for pres- 
 entation to her most Gracious Majesty, in the 
 most acceptable manner. 
 
 In the Legislative Council the Honorable Mr. Price 
 from the Committee appointed to consider the most 
 fit and appropriate manner of acknowledging the 
 deep sense of the Board, of Her Majesty the Queen's 
 interest in the welfare of this Colony, by her presen- 
 tation to the Library of the Legislative Council of a 
 copy of "The Principal Speeches and Addresses of His 
 Royal Highness the Prince Consort" reported three 
 Resolutions which were severally agreed to by the 
 Board as follows: — 
 
 I. That the Legislative Council of Jamaica records, 
 with loyal gratification, its high sense of the 
 honor conferred by Her most Gracious Majesty the 
 Queen, in having been pleased to present to the 
 Library of this Board a copy of the collected "Prin- 
 cipal Speeches and Addresses of His Royal Highness 
 the late Prince Consort" a memorial ever to be cher- 
 ished of the pure, persistent, and philanthropic la- 
 bours of the lamented Prince for the extension of 
 
64 JUiilLEiS KKIGN OF QQEKN VIUTOREA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 useful knowledge and the furtherance of social hap- 
 piness. 
 
 II. That Her Majesty's autographic presentation 
 at once enhances the value of the highly appreciated 
 volume to this Board, and commands the most loyal 
 and respectful sympathy of all Her Majesty's sub- 
 jects in this Is 1 and . 
 
 III. That means be promptly adopted, consistent 
 with the due care and preservation of it, to render 
 this precious gift accessible to Her Majesty's sub- 
 jects in Jamaica desirous of seeing so earnest a 
 proof of Her Majesty's regard for this Colony. 
 
 IV. That this Board do agree to the above three 
 Resolutions and that a copy be sent to His Excellen- 
 cy the Lieutenant Governor with a request that 
 His Excellency will forward them to the Principal 
 Secretary of State for the Colonies for presentation 
 to Her Majesty the Queen, in the most acceptable 
 manner. 
 
 It was then ordered, that the above mentioned com- 
 mittee be a committee to carry at once into effect 
 the purposes of the 3rd. Resolution agreed to by the 
 Board ; and that it be an instruction to the Librarian 
 of the Legislative Council that under no circumstances 
 whatever shall this gift be permitted to be taken 
 from within the precincts of the Library. 
 
 THE QUEEN'S REPLY. 
 
 On the 7th of November, 1804, the Governor sent 
 a message to the Legislative Council, and the House 
 
THE PKINOJS OONSOUt's SPBJSCHBS. G5 
 
 of Assembly with the following despatch from the 
 Secretary of State for the Colonies in acknowledge- 
 ment of the Resolution of thanks for the copy of the 
 Queen's gift:^ 
 
 Downing Street, 23rd September, 1864. 
 Sir, 
 
 I have had the honor to receive your despatch No. 201 of 
 the 2,Srd June, last, enclosing a Resolution of thanks from the 
 Legislative Council of Jamaica for the copy of "The Principal 
 Speeches and Addresses of His Royal Highness the Prince Con- 
 sort" presented by Her Majesty to their Library. I have also re- 
 ceived your despatch No. 1 98 of the 23rd June, enclosing a similar 
 Resolution from the House of Assembly of the Island. 
 
 I hu,ve duly submitted tuese desputches to Her Majesty, and am 
 commanded to express to you in reply, that the Queen has been 
 very much gratiiied and soothed by the expressions of loyalty and 
 attachment to herself, and of veneration for the character of the 
 Prince Consort which are contained in those Resolutions, and in 
 the addresses which Her Majesty has received from so many 
 other distinguished and honored bodies, throughout the Colonies. 
 
 You will have the goodness to communicate this reply to the 
 two Legislative bodies, from which those Resolutions have pro- 
 ceeied. 
 
 I have &c. 
 
 GovEEKOB Eyee, E. CARD WELL. 
 
 Jamaica. 
 
CHAPTER XI. 
 
 THE PRINCES VISIT TO JAMAICA. 
 
 The two Princes, Albert Victor, and Oeorge Fred- 
 erick, sons of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales» 
 serving as Naval Cadets on board H. M. S. "Bacchante" 
 visiied Jamaica in March, 1880. 
 
 The following account of the arrival, landing, cricket 
 match and trip to Bog Walk, is taken from the Colo- 
 nial Standard Newspaper : — 
 
 On Friday afternoon 12th March, 1880, on the ar- 
 rival of the young Princes, the Honorable E. Noel 
 Walker acting Colonial Secretary, accompanied by 
 Mr. Anthony Musgrave Jnr. the Governor's private 
 Secretary, went down to Port Royal. They returned 
 to Kingston at 11 o'clock on Saturday morning. Mr. 
 Walker was accompanied by Lord Charles Scott the 
 commander of H. M. S. "Bacchante" and the Chaplain 
 and tutor, who proceeded with him to King's House 
 to lunch with the Lieutenant Governor, (Mr. New- 
 ton). 
 
 It was then also publicly notified that their Royal 
 Highness the Princes were to land in Kingston on 
 
THE PRINCES VISIT TO JAMAICA. 67 
 
 Wednesday the l7th March, and would at once proceed 
 to King's House to be the guests of His lExcellency the 
 Lieutenant Governor. They would then return on 
 board the Bacchante on Saturday morning the 20th, 
 and leave Jamaica on Monday the 22nd of March. 
 
 A cricket match between the Kingston C. C. and an 
 eleven of H. M. S. Bacchante was in contemplation, at 
 which the Princes were expected to be present. 
 
 THE LANDING. 
 
 It was pretty well known that the young Princes 
 were to land at the Market Wharf on the 17th March, 
 and proceed to King's House. 
 
 It was equally well known that there was to be no 
 demonstration on the occasion, so there were no pre- 
 parations for any, but thousands of Her Majesty's 
 loyal subjects, desiring to see the landing of her Royal 
 Grandsons went down to the Market Wharf long be- 
 fore noon, and took up, every one, what he thought 
 the best position from which to catch a glimpse of the 
 faces of the Royal Children ; and every window in the 
 route, the carriage conveying their Royal Highnesses 
 was to take, was in requisition ; happy and loyal faces 
 were to be seen peering through them with the utmost 
 anxiety. A squad of sixty constables under the com- 
 mand of Inspector Tivy, assisted by Inspectors Ramos 
 and Samuels, drew up at the landing place, and kept 
 the way clear ; and the greatest order prevailed. At a 
 quarter past 12 o'clock the Honorable E. N. Walker, 
 and Mr. A. Musgrave Jnr. private Secretary to the 
 
(i8 JUMILKK RKIGN OP QUEEN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 Goviernor, drove down to the wharf in a closed carriage 
 followed by another carriage, which was empty/ Mr. 
 Walker was received on the landing place by Mr. 
 Gustos Kemble, with whom were Mr. Parry, city Sur- 
 veyor; Mr. A. E. Burke, Haytian Gonsul; Mr. Thomas 
 Hendrick, Registrar; and Mr. A. H. Jones, J. P. At 
 half past 12 o'clock precisely, a launch with the two 
 Princes; Lord Charles Scott; the Princes tutor ; and the 
 Commodore, came alongside the wharf, and landed im- 
 mediately. As the Princes stepped into Mr. Walker's 
 carriage which was in waiting, a hearty cheer went up, 
 and they gracefully acknowledged the loyal greeting 
 in the customary manner. They were driven off ac- 
 companied by their tutor, and Lord Scott to King's 
 House. 
 
 THE CRICKET MATCH. 
 
 The cricket match which took place in the afternoon, 
 after the Princes landed in Kingston, between 11 of 
 H. M. S. Bacchante, and the Kingston (J. C. was in 
 itself an event of sufficient interest to draw a large 
 number of persons, but the expectation that the Princes 
 would be on the ground in the course of the afternoon 
 had the effect of bringing together one of the largest 
 assemblages that have for many years been witnessed 
 in Jamaica. There was a very numerous attendance 
 at the commencement of the match, and by four o'clock, 
 the gathering had grown to a vast multitude, includ- 
 ing a large number of carriages, buggies &c. and thou- 
 sands of spectatoi-s. 
 
 At a quarter to 5 o'clock the Governor's carriage 
 with the young Princes, accompanied by His Excel- 
 
THE PRINCES VISIT TO JAMAICA. 69 
 
 lency the Lieutenant Governor, and Miss Newton, 
 drove slowly into the grounds, and were greeted with 
 the jubilant excitement, and enthusiastic cheers of 
 loyal thousands. The young Princes, who were re- 
 ceived in the tent by Mr. L. R. Fyfe, Captain of the 
 Kingston Cricket Club, seemed thoroughly to appre- 
 ciate the hearty welcome that they received, and after 
 remaining on the ground for about an hour, they left 
 the camp followed with the thundering cheers and 
 earnest blessings of the multitude. The presence of 
 the Royal Sailors who appeared to possess the delicate 
 features and engaging manners of their illustrious 
 mother, elicited the most sincere and hearty expres- 
 sions of loyal devotion from the great concourse of 
 people, and we are certain that a meeting of this kind 
 tends to foster and maintain the fealty and love which 
 all of England's race and name, entertain towards the 
 Royal Ho»se. 
 
 THE TRIP TO BOG WALK. 
 
 Friday the 19th March, 1880, was regarded in King- 
 ston and Spanish Town by large numbers of the in- 
 habitants as a holiday. The Princes were to pass 
 through Kingston en route to the Railway Terminus, 
 to leave at noon on an excursion to the Bog Walk. 
 
 Long before the hour arrived, the approaches to the 
 Terminus were thronged with eager spectators, all 
 desirous of catching even a glimpse of the young 
 Princes. There was scarcely standing room at the win- 
 dows of the several houses, many of which were deco- 
 rated with flags, and arches of cocoanut boughs. On 
 
70 JUBILEE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTOKIA IN JAMAICA, 
 
 the arrival of the carriages containing the Princes, His 
 Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, and Miss 
 Newton— the exalted occupants were cheered most 
 heartily by the assembled multitude. 
 
 The party arrived at the Terminus at a quarter to 
 one, and were received by Mr. MacKinnon the mana- 
 ger of the Railway who was presented by the Lieu- 
 tenant Governor to their Royal Highnesses. A ring- 
 ing cheer went up, and the Princes stepped into the 
 waiting room, which was tastefully decorated with 
 flags and evergreens. The floor was carpeted ; there 
 was a rich carpet of beautiful design spread from the 
 street door of the waiting room to the platform near 
 the lines. This platform was covered with carpet 
 and flags, and the goods platform, on the opposite side 
 was occupied by a large number of ladies, w hile in the 
 fl'aiting room, through which the Royal party passed, 
 there was special accommodation for those who were 
 to take part in the excursion. The Princes at once 
 took their seats in the carriage, which was to convey 
 them. It was a new saloon carriage, built in the 
 Railway workshop, and handsomely decorated for the 
 occasion. In the centre stood a small round table, 
 covered with an antimacassai- on which was a fancy 
 basket of ferns ; two small occasional tables bore large 
 porcelain vases, the one containing a bouquet, the 
 other rare ferns. The floor was carpeted, and the en- 
 tire fittings were of the most chaste and artistic char- 
 acter. 
 
 In this carriage were the Princes, the Lieutenant 
 Governor, Miss Newton, the Right Honorable Lord 
 
THE PKINUES VISIT TO JAMAICA. 71 
 
 Charles Scott, (Captain of the Bacch<inte) the Revd_ 
 John Dalton, M. A. the Princes tutor. 
 
 In a first class carriage were the Hon. W. J. Ward, 
 A. D. C. Commodore ; Commander A. W. Warry of H. 
 M. S. "Urgent"; Dr. Lloyd, the Hon. Harding, Lieut. 
 Fisher, Lieut. Faulker, Midshipman Weyms of H. M. 
 S. Bacchante, Captain Denniston of H. M. S. Tourma- 
 line, Mr. MacKinnon manager of the Railway, Mr. 
 Barber manager of the Street Car Company, and Messrs. 
 Martin and Thompson, representatives of the Press. 
 
 The train left at 6 minutes past 12 o'clock. The 
 crowd cheering. Spanish Town was reached in 25 
 minutes. The line from the Station in Spanish Town, 
 was thronged for fvilly a furlong with a happy people, 
 who sent forth lusty cheers, as the train approached. 
 
 On the platform of the Station, the reception party 
 headed by the Hon. Isaac Levy Custos of the Parish 
 awaited the train. The reception party consisted of a 
 large number of ladies standing on the right ; and on 
 the left, the magistrates, members of the Municipal 
 Board, and other jj-entlemen, among whom were Judge 
 Kerr, Messrs George Levy, Joseph Reid, S. K. Magnus, 
 R. Fonseca, W. G. MacFarlane, J. A. S. Vaz, A. C. Sin- 
 clair, Dr. Martyn, R. B. Llewelyn, W. T. Jamieson, D 
 P. Mendes, and Inspectiv Crosbie. 
 
 On the Princes stepping out of the carriage. His 
 Honor the Custos was presented to them amid loud 
 cheering. Their Royal Highnesses walked into the 
 waiting room, which was transformed, for the nonce, 
 
/ 2 JUBILKE REIGN OE QUEEN VIUTOKIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 into a drawing room, the couches of the old House of 
 Assembly having been placed there, whilst among the 
 pictures that adorned the walls were a cabinet' sized 
 portrait of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales, and the 
 Princess Alexandra, encircled with a wreath of flowers 
 supported on the right by the Duke of Edinburgh, and 
 on the left by another portrait of the Princess of 
 Wales ; the whole surmounted by a beautiful bust of 
 Her Maiesty the Queen. The other decorations were 
 in keeping with the general good taste manifested in 
 the entire arrangertients. Six carriages were in wait- 
 ing for the excursion party. The first was appropri- 
 ated to His Royal Highness Prince Albert Victor, the 
 Lieutenant Governor, Miss Newton, and Lord Scott. 
 The second was occupied by His Royal Highness 
 Prince George of Wales, the Hon. Isaac Levy, Mrs. 
 Levy, and Mr. Anthony Musgrave Jnr. The third 
 was allotted to the Commodore, and the Officers of the 
 Bacchante. The fourth took Officers of the Bacchante, 
 and the Tourmaline. The fifth took Midshipmen ; and 
 the sixth followed empty. The carriages drove oif in 
 the direction of the Bog Walk at a quarter to 1 o'clock. 
 The Royal Princes we understand enjoyed most 
 thoroughly their trip. On their return from the Bog 
 Walk, they were the guests for a short time of the 
 Hon. Isaac Levy Gustos of Saint Catherine, at his 
 residence Saint Jago Park, to whom on leaving by 
 the train, they expressed themselves in most appreci- 
 ative terms of the hearty and loyal reception they had 
 met in Spanish Town. 
 
 A correspondent wiiting to the Colonial Standaj-d, 
 said, "The 19th of March, 1880, will long be remember- 
 
THE PRINCES VISIT TO JAMAICA. 73 
 
 ed as a most auspicious day in the chronicles of old 
 La Vega. All accounts unite in recording the success 
 of the reception given in Spanish Town to the Grand- 
 sons of our Most Gracious Queen, whilst the enthusi- 
 astic loyalty of the people, and the (Jgcorum with 
 which so large an assemblage conducted themselves, 
 were most pleasing; there was no manifestation of 
 that rough and rude curiosity which, even in more ad- 
 vanced communities, is so apt to show itself. Thanks 
 to the judgment and good taste of the gentlemen 
 forming the committee of management, especially of 
 Messrs Edridge and MacFarlane, the waiting room of 
 the Spanish Town Terminus was exquisitely decorated, 
 presenting a very pleasing and comfortable appearance. 
 The walls were dressed with scarlet rep, festooned with 
 light orange colored alpacca, with the brilliantly vari- 
 egated leaves of the coladium, whilst handsome couch- 
 es were placed around the room. There was a most 
 beautiful display of tropical flowers and plants, lend- 
 ing to the whole scene, the appearance of a rare con- 
 servatory. Nor were the decorations of the platform 
 less interesting, the entire walls were covered with 
 arches formed of coeoanut boughs, interspersed 
 with the lovely Bourganvillia, whilst the gorgeous 
 golden hue of several American aloes (May Polfes) lent 
 a brilliant effect to the evident good taste which per- 
 vaded the whole arrangements. Flags were there 
 also in large variety, waving as it were, in the refresh- 
 ing breeze, a happy welcome to the Royal youths. 
 At noon His Honor the Gustos, and Mrs. Levy ar- 
 rived at the station, and were received at the waiting 
 room by the entire committee, consisting of Messrs 
 Edridge, Fonseca, MacFarlane, Sinclair, and Lyon. 
 
 J 
 
74 JUBILEE REIGN OP QUEEN VICTOEIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 At 20 minutes past 12 o'clock the hoisting of the 
 customary flag announced the nearing of the train, 
 (the engine of which was also tastily decorated) and 
 in another 5 minutes it arrived. The party was met 
 on the platform by a very large number of the gen- 
 try with their wives, and the Magistracy of the parish. 
 
 Hearty cheers were given for the young Princes, 
 when the distinguished party left for the Bog Walk, 
 where elaborate arrangements for the most enjoyable 
 and rare picnic on record in Jamaica had been made 
 by Captain Hartwell Inspector General of Constabu- 
 lary. 
 
 On arriving at their destination it was found that 
 the locality selected, was a picturesque ravine ; only a 
 few chains from the Iron Bridge on the Kiver road. 
 
 The scenery was beautiful, and a striking eflfect was 
 produced by two lovely cocoanut trees, the branches of 
 which formed a beautiful shade for the visitors. Here 
 a rustic tent or pavilion had been erected, and covers 
 laid therein for upwards of thirty guests. The colla- 
 tion was of a character which bespoke the directing 
 hand of a second Soyer, and it seemed to have been 
 heartily enjoyed by the company. After luncheon, 
 the company amused themselves at lawn tennis, and 
 other games. The people ia large number gathered 
 about the vicinity ; but nevertheless behaved with 
 extreme good order. On their return the excursion- 
 ists visited St. Jago Park (the residence of the Cus- 
 tos) where they, partook of refreshments, proceeding 
 
THJa PK1NCE8 VISIT TO JAMAICA. 75 
 
 afterwards to the Railway station where they were 
 received by the committee, the Princes having been 
 escorted to the train by the Gustos, and Mrs. Levy, to 
 whom the Royal Princes bade frequent and hearty 
 adieus. The arrangements for preserving order in the 
 afternoon were, if possible, better than those in the 
 morning, and there was again a large gathering of 
 ladies and the gentry of the parish, with their families. 
 
 The Princes departed amidst loud and enthusiastic 
 cheers from the large assemblage of persons. The 
 Princes expressed great gratification at their days en- 
 tertainment, and remarked that they would always 
 have a lively recollection of the very pleasant day 
 they had passed on their visit to Spanish Town. 
 
 THE DEPARTURE. 
 
 Their Royal Highnesses Princes Albert Victor, and 
 George left King's House on Sunday morning 21st 
 March, and returned on boai:d H. M. S, "Bacchante" 
 which vessel left on the evening of the 22nd March, 
 for Bermuda. 
 
CHAPTER XII. 
 
 VISIT OF PRINCE GEORGE OF WALES. 
 
 On the 24th February, 1884, H. M. Str. Canada 12 
 guns. Captain Durrant, in 2 days from Port au Prince, 
 arrived at Port Eoyal with Prince George of Wales, 
 (the second son of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales) who 
 was then serving on board as a midshipman. 
 
 Atl. 30, p. m. on Tuesday 26th February, 1884, 
 Vice Admiral Commerell, accompanied by Captain 
 Durrant of the "Canada", Prince George of Wales, 
 and midshipman Lord GifFord (son of Vice Admiral 
 the Earl of Clanwilliam) of H. M. S. "Canada," came to 
 Kingston and landed at the Market wharf. The dis- 
 tinguished party was received by Captain Coxhead, 
 A. D. C. to the Governor, who appeared in full uni- 
 form. The Admiral and Captain Durrant also wore 
 full uniform, whilst the two distinguished middies 
 wore the uniform of their rank. Governor Norman's 
 carriage which was in waiting, conveyed the party to 
 King's House, where they remained His Excellency's 
 guests, until in the evening, when they proceeded to 
 Spanish Town to attend the Ball given there in their 
 honor by the citizens of old La Vega. 
 
VISIT OF PRINCE GEORGE OF WALES. 77 
 
 A special train which was provided for the occasion 
 by the Ball committee left Kingston at 9 p. m. with 
 the invited guests, and returned next morning to 
 Kingston at 4 o'clock. 
 
 The Prince returned with Sir Henry Norman, by the 
 road, to Kingston in the Governor's carriage, and re- 
 mained at King's House until the 28th February, when 
 he drove to the Market wharf in company with the Ad- 
 miral, and Inspector Hartwell of the Constabulary, and 
 on boarding the steam launch went up to Harbour 
 Head and thence to Port Royal, and rejoined the Fleet 
 which was lying there. 
 
CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 DEATH OP PRINCE LEOPOLD, DUKE OP ALBANY. 
 
 The telegraphic despatch published on the Slst 
 March, 1884, announcing that Prince Leopold, who 
 was staying at Cannes, died suddenly on Friday, in a 
 fit, was received with profound regret by all Jamaicans. 
 His Royal Highness Prince Leopold George Duncan 
 Albert, K. G. Earl of Clarence and Baron Arklow, 
 Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, was the fourth son 
 of Queen Victoria, and was bom at Buckingham Pal- 
 ace April 7, 1853. He matriculated at the University 
 of Oxford in 1872, and was created D. C. L. in 1876. 
 Parliament voted him a grant of £15,000 a year on 
 his attaining his majorilgr, withan addition of £10, 000 
 a year on his marriage. In May, 1881, His Royal 
 Highness was created a peer of the realm, with the 
 title of the Duke of Albany, and his marriage with the 
 Princess Frederica Augusta, daughter of His Serene 
 Highness the Prince of Waldeck, at Pyrmount, was 
 celebrated at Windsor Castle, April 27, 1882. The 
 Duke never enjoyed robust health, and although a fa- 
 vourite with the people of England, rarely took part 
 in public ceremonies. The despatch said Her Majesty 
 bore the shock well. 
 
DEATH OP PRINCE LEOPOLD, DUKE OP ALBANY. 79 
 
 At a public meeting held in Kingston on the 17th 
 April, 1884, a resolution was passed, "Respectfully 
 assuring Her Majesty the Queen of its unfeigned 
 sympathy with her on the lamented national loss 
 which had been sustained in the death of her fourth 
 son the estimable Duke of Albany." 
 
 A Gazette Extraordinary was published in which 
 the Governor expressed his hope that "the mourning, 
 usual "on occasions like the present would be worn in 
 this "Colony for a period of three weeks." 
 
 The District Grand Lodge of Jamaica, and other 
 Masonic Lodges presented addresses of condolence to 
 the Queen, the Prince of Wales, and the Duchess of 
 Albany. The replies were sent through the Governor 
 and His Excellency published the following notifica- 
 tion in the newspapers on the 13th June, 1884. 
 
 The Governor directs it to be notified, for the information of 
 the "Kingston Lodge" referred to, that His Excellency has re- 
 ceived a despatch from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 
 in which his Lordship requests that the members of the Kingston 
 Lodge may be informed that their Besolution of condolence with 
 Her Majesty the Queen, on the occasion of the death of His Boyal 
 Highness the Duke of Albany, has been laid before Her Majesty, 
 who has desired that her thanks may be conveyed to that body 
 for the expression of their sympathy. 
 
 As the Besolution in question was not transmitted through the 
 Governor, His Excellency is not aware to which of the Kingston 
 Lodges the Beply should be sent, and has, therefore, adopted this 
 mode of giving effect to his Lordship's request. 
 
CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 HANDS ALL BOUND. 
 
 Another attempt on the Queen's life was made on 2nd 
 March, 1882. The Queen was just as fearless on that 
 day when she was really in great danger, and when 
 the instances of the attacks upon the late President 
 Garfield and on the late Emperor Alexander II. might 
 justfy some degree of alarm in the heart of a man, let 
 alone a woman, bearing the highest rank, with all its 
 personal risk. 
 
 On the Second of March in question, her Majesty 
 and Princess Beatrice, who had been on a visit to 
 London for a few days, returned to "Windsor by way 
 of Paddington, receiving the usual loyal and respect- 
 ful salutations from the people. At the Windsor Sta- 
 tion, the Queen and Princess walked across the plat- 
 form through the waiting room to the Royal carriage 
 waiting in the station-yard. The carriage, which was 
 drawn by a couple of grey ponies, was closed, the 
 weather being very cold. Her Majesty and Princess 
 Beatrice having taken tlieir seats, the outrider started 
 on his way to the Castle, and the crowd left the plat- 
 form for the station-yard in order to see her Majesty 
 drive past. While cheers were being raised by the 
 bystanders, a man who was standing at the gateway 
 
HANHS AIiI, ROUND. 8] 
 
 of the yard deliberately raised a pistol and fired it at 
 her Majesty's carriage, which was fifteen yards dis- 
 tant. The shot did not take effect, and the carriage 
 windows were instantly rlj-awn up ; the carriage was 
 at once driven off in the direction of the Castle, hut 
 stopped in High-street, opposite the White Hart Hotel 
 where the Queen suiuuioned her faithful personal at- 
 tendant, the late John Brown, who was seated behind, 
 to enter the carriage and tell her what he had wit- 
 nessed of the affair. The carriage then went on to 
 the Castle; but as soon as the Queen entered there, 
 she directed her Equerry, General Sir John M'Neill, 
 V. C., to return and ascertain whether any person 
 was hurt. 
 
 The man who had fired the pistol was instantly 
 seized by Superintendent Hayes, chief officer of the 
 Windsor police, assisted by Inspector Fraser of the 
 Royal Household police force, a detachment of the 
 A Division, Metropolitan Police. The pistol was 
 wrested from its possessor by one of the bystanders, 
 Mr. James Burnside, a photographer, an assistant to 
 Mr. W. Carpenter, a photographic artist, of Windsor. 
 Two youths of Eton College, named Wilson and Rob- 
 inson, who had been standing, with other Eton schol- 
 ars, close behind the murderous assailant, flew at him 
 with gi-eat fury, and one beat him fiercely over the 
 head with an umbrella, till Inspector Fraser bade him 
 desist. Mr. John Frost, foreman of the locomotive 
 department at Slough, aided in securing the assassin. 
 He was a young man poorly dressed, who gave the 
 name of Roderic Maclean, and his address at 84, Vic- 
 
82 JUBILEE EBIGN OP QUEEN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 toria cottages, Windsor, where he said he had been a 
 week. On being seized by the collar, he said "Don't 
 hurt me ; " and Inspector Fraser replied that they 
 would not. The prisoner then said, "I have done it 
 through starvation." They put him into a cab, and 
 took him to the Windsor police-station, the people in the 
 street showing much excitement. One of the Wind- 
 sor magistrates, Mr. H. L. Simpson, having soon ar- 
 rived, the prisoner was formally charged by Superin- 
 tendent Hayes with shooting at her Majesty the Queen 
 with intent to do her grievous bodily harm. The 
 Mayor of Windsor, Mr. Joseph Devereux ; Mr. H. Dar- 
 ville, Town Clerk ; General Sir H. Ponsonby, (Her 
 Majesty's Private Secretary); Viscount Bridport, and 
 Sir J. M'Neill were present in the charge-room while 
 the prisoner was being searched. Later, he was found 
 insane, and sent to a lunatic asylum. Life of the 
 Qv/'cn. 
 
 The following English and Colonial National Song, 
 was composed for the occasion by the Poet Laureate, 
 afterwards Lord Tennyson, and was sung all over the 
 British Empire on the 24th May, 1882. 
 
 HANDS ALL ROUND. 
 
 First pledge our Queen, this solemn night, 
 
 Then drink to England every guest, 
 That man's the best cosmopolite 
 
 Who loves his native country best ! 
 May Freedom's oak for ever live, 
 
 With larger life from day to day : 
 That mans's the true conservative 
 
 Who lops the mouldered branch away. 
 Hands all round ! Grod the traitors hope confound I 
 
HANDS ALL HOUND. 83 
 
 To the great cause of Freedom diink my Friends; 
 And the great name of England round and round. 
 
 To all the loyal hearts who long 
 
 To keep our English Empire whole I 
 To all our noble sons, the .strong 
 
 New England of the Southern Pole I 
 To England under Indian skies, 
 
 To those dark millions of her realm ! 
 To Canada whom we love and prize 
 
 Whatever statesman hold the helm. 
 Hands all round ; God the traitors hope confound ! 
 
 To the great name of England drink my friends, 
 And all her glorious colonies round and round. 
 
 To all our statesmen so they be — 
 
 True leaders of the laud's desire I 
 To both our houses may they see. 
 
 Beyond the borough and the shire ! 
 We sailed wherever ship could sail. 
 
 We founded many a mighty state, 
 Pray God our Greatness may not fail, 
 
 Through craven fears of being Great. 
 Hands all round I God the traitors hope confound I 
 
 To the great cause of Freedom drink my friends 
 And the great name of England round and round. 
 
 On the 17th May, 1882, a meeting was convened 
 by the Gustos of Kingston at the Town Hall to con- 
 sider the suggestions regarding the singing of "Hands 
 all round" on the afternoon of the 24th of May, at 
 the Parade Garden in Kingston. The meeting was 
 attended by the Revds. East, Griffiths, and Palmer, 
 and by the Revd. Fathers Ryan, and Meyer ; also H. 
 J. Bicknell, Geo. Stiebel, and Simon Lewis Esqrs. 
 
 The Gustos having explained the object of the 
 meeting, and read the letter of the Secretary of the 
 
8-t JUBILEE REIGN OP QUEEN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 Colonial Institute, observed that' the letter emanated 
 froni the Royal Colonial Institute, at the instance of 
 the Poet Laureate. The idea to be gathered from the 
 song, which he had no doubt, all had seen and read 
 in print, seemed to be, to elicit on the same day from 
 all the numerous Colonies of England a simultaneous 
 and spontaneous burst of affectionate loyalty to our 
 Queen and country, in contrast to the "traitor 's hope" 
 to "break the band which" keeps our English Empire 
 whole. Jamaica had ever been conspicuous for its 
 loyalty, and he entertained no doubt that those as- 
 sembled would do their utmost to assist in giving ex- 
 pression to the feelings of loyalty suggested by the 
 poet. He proposed that the song should be sung at 
 the Garden on the Parade at half past -5 o'clock in the 
 afternoon of the 24th of May. Should the weather 
 prevent that, the Town Hall would be used for the 
 purpose. To ensure the music being correctly render- 
 ed, he had copies made and distributed, and secured 
 the assistance of the Choirs of the Parish Church, St. 
 Georges Church, Wesley Chapel, the Revd. Mr. Grif- 
 fiths, and the Congregational Church in North Street. 
 The boys and girls of Wolmers and Mico institutions 
 had also been entrusted with the song. The chorus 
 would be taken up by the multitude. All the choirs 
 would assemble in the Garden, and would be under 
 the direction of Mr. Tillman, Headmaster of Wolmer's 
 School, The sin;^ers were to be admitted within a 
 space lined oil" around a platform, and the members 
 of the Municipal Board, Clergy, Magistrates, Heads 
 of Department, and their families would be admitted 
 within the space by ticket. 
 
HANDS ALL ROUND. . 85 
 
 The Gustos concluded by saying that a force of 
 Constables would be in attendance to keep the peace, 
 and special regulations would be issued to prevent 
 confusion in putting down and taking up persons who 
 might attend in carriages. The meeting was then 
 brought to a close. 
 
 The 24th of May, having arrived, the singing of the 
 song, as directed by His Honor the Gustos, came off 
 in the Parade Garden, in the presence of a vast and 
 loyal assemblage. The crowd gathered in and around 
 the enclosure, in which all the children of the various 
 schools in the city were congregated, was estimated 
 at about 10,000 persons. The children including the 
 choirs of the various denominations, were put down 
 at 1300. 
 
 On the platform were His Honor the Gustos, Messrs 
 Fegan, Robinson, Revd. Mr. Griffiths and several ladies 
 and gentlemen. 
 
 Mr. Tillman who directed the singing raised his 
 baton at 5 o'clock when the young singers in a lusty, 
 cheerful, and happy manner, began singing "Hands 
 all round." 
 
 After the singing was concluded Mr. Morrison M. 
 A. thus addressed the vast gathering : — 
 
 "Friends and fellow citizens. On this afternoon — 
 sanctified in the remembrance of every loyal subject 
 of Her Gracious Majesty — as the anniversary of the 
 
86 JUBILEE EEIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 birth of one to whom at this moment three hundred 
 millions of our fellow subjects are paying honor, per- 
 mit me to ask you, after singing this National and 
 Colonial patriotic song, to join with me in paying 
 merited honor to one of Jamaica's sons, who is to us, 
 in all generous and gentlemanly qualities, a worthy 
 representative of Her Majesty whom we all are so 
 pleased to love and honor. In responding to my call 
 for three cheers to the first Magistrate of Kingston 
 you do honor to one who is the Vicegerent of our 
 Supreme Lady, and you give to the world unmistake- 
 able testimony of the love and fealty which we all en- 
 tertain towards our beloved Queen. 
 
 "To us in Kingston with all our petty disputes and 
 political differences, it is gratif 3 ing to feel that in the 
 first Magistrate of our City we have one whom in all 
 good and estimable qualities Royalty itself might well 
 delight to honor." 
 
 Three loud cheers were then given for the Custos, 
 after which the National Anthem was then beautifully, 
 sung. 
 
 The Custos then replied : — 
 
 "I have been quite taken by surprise at the very 
 handsome compliment you have been pleased to pay 
 me. I am sure it gives me the greatest satisfaction to 
 see so many of my fellow citizens on this occasion, 
 when we are desirous of paying a tribute of respect 
 and affectionate loyalty to our noble and beloved 
 
HiNDS ALL ROUND. 87 
 
 Queen, (cheers) I thank you very much for the kind, 
 manner in which you have responded to the kind 
 words of my friend Mr. Morrison. I thank you most 
 heartily." 
 
 Three loud cheers were then given for the Governor 
 and Lady Musgrave, and the meeting dispersed. 
 
 The song "Hands all round" was also sung in all 
 the parishes of the Island on the 24th May, 1882. 
 
CHAPTER XV. 
 
 THE ROYAL FAMILY. 
 
 Victoria I., Queen of the United Kingdom of Great 
 Britian and Ireland, and Empress of India, born at 
 Kensington Palace, London, May 24, 1819, the daugh- 
 ter of Edward, Duke of Kent, fourth son of King 
 George III., and of Princess Victoria of Saxe-Saalfeld- 
 Coburg, widow of Prince Eniich of Leiningen. As- 
 cended the throne at the death of her uncle. King 
 William IV., June 20, 1837; crowned at Westminster 
 Abbey, June 28, 18.38. Married February 10, 1840, 
 to His Royal Highness Prince Albert, Duke of Saxe- 
 Coburg-Gotha, who was born August 2G, 1819, and 
 died December 14, 18G1. 
 
 CHILDREN OF THE QUEEN. 
 
 I. Princess Royal, Victo7'iu, born November 21, 
 1840 ; married, January 2."), 18-58, to Freidrich Wil- 
 helm, then Prince Imperial of Germany, (afterwards 
 Emperor of Germany) born October 18, 1831; eldest 
 son of Wilhelm I., late German Emperor and King 
 of Prussia, of which marriage there are issue living 
 
THE ROYAL FAMILY. 89 
 
 six children : — 1. Prince Freidrich Wilhelm, reign- 
 ing Emperor of Germany born January 27, 1859; 
 married February 27, 1881, to Princess Victoria of 
 Schleswig-Holstein-Augustenburg, born May 3, 1860; 
 issue, Prince Freidrich Wilhehn, born May 6, 1882- 
 2. Princess Charlotte, born July 24, 1860; married 
 February 18, 1878, to Prince Bernhard, eldest son of 
 Duke George II. of Saxe-Meiningen ; offspring of the 
 union is a daughter, Fredora, born May 12, 1879. 3. 
 Prince Heinrich, born August 14,' 1862. 4. Princess 
 Victoria, born April 12, 1866. 5. Princess Sophie 
 born June 14, 1870. 6. Princess Margarethe, born 
 April 22, 1872. 
 
 n. Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, born Novem- 
 ber 9, 1841 ; married March 10, 1863, to Princess 
 Alexandra, born December 1, 1844, eldest daughter 
 of King Christian IX. of Denmark. Offspring of the 
 union are five children: — 1. Albert Victor, Capt. 10th 
 Hussars, born January 8, 1864. 2. George, Lieut. 
 R. N. born June 3, 1865. 3. Louise, born February 
 20, 1867. 4. Victoria, born July 6, 1868, 5. Maud, 
 born November 26, 1869. 
 
 III. Princess Aliee Maud Mary, Grand-duchess 
 of Hesse, born April 25, 1843, married July 1, 1862, 
 to Ludwig IV., reigning Grand-duke of Grossherzog- 
 thum Hessen, born September 12, 1837, the son of 
 Prince Karl, eldest brother of Grand-duke Ludwig HI- 
 and of Princess Elizabeth of Prussia. Offspring of 
 the union still living: — 1. Victoria, born April 5, 1863. 
 2. Elizabeth, born November 1, 1864. 3. Irene, born 
 July 11, 1866. 4. Ludwig, born November 25, 1868. 
 
90 JUBILEE REIGN OF QUEEN VICT JRIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 5. Victoria, born June 6, 1872. The Grand-duchess 
 died December 14, 1878. 
 
 IV. Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, born Au- 
 gust 6, 1844; entered the Royal Navy, August 31 
 1858; mariied January 21, 1874; to Grand-duchess 
 Marie of Russia, only daughter of Emperor Alexander 
 II. Offspring of the union are five children: — 1. Al- 
 fred, born October 15, 1874. 2. Marie, born October 
 29, 1875. 3. Victoria, born November 25, 187(J. 4. 
 Alexandra, born September 1, J 878. 5. Beatrice, born 
 April 20, 1884. 
 
 V. Princess Helena, born May 25, 1846 ; married 
 July 5, 1866, to Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein- 
 Sonderburg-Augustenburg, born January 22, 1831, 
 Offspring of the union are four children : — 1. Christian, 
 born April 14, 1867, 2. Albert John, born February 
 26. 1869. 3. Victoria, born May 3, 1870. 4. Louise, 
 born August 12, 1872. 
 
 VI. Princess iottise, born March 18, 1848; mar- 
 ried March 21, 1871, to John Douglas Sutherland, 
 Marquis of Lome, K. T., G. C. M., born August 6, 
 1845, eldest son of the eighth Duke of Argyll. 
 
 VII. Prince Arthtur, Duke of Connaught, born 
 May 1, 1850; married March 13, 1879, to Princess 
 Louise of Prussia, born July 25, 1860. Offspring of 
 the union are two children; — 1. Margaret Victoria 
 Augusta Charlotte Norah, born January 15, 1882. 2_ 
 Arthur Frederick Patrick Albert, born January 13, 
 1883. 
 
THE ROYAL FAMILY. 91 
 
 VII. Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, born April 
 7, 1853; married April 27, 1882, to Princess Helena 
 of Waldeck, born February 17, 1861. Offspring of 
 the union is Alice Mary Victoria Augusta Pauline, 
 born February 25, 1883. Prince Leopold died March 
 28, 1884. 
 
 IX. Princess Beatrice, born April 14, 1857; married 
 July 22, 1885, to Prince Henry of Battenburg. Has 
 issue a son, born November 23, 1886. 
 
 COUSINS OP THE QUEEN. 
 
 I. VrmcQ Ernest August, ihivA Duke of Cumber- 
 land, born Sept. 21, 1845, the grandson of Duke Er- 
 nest August of Cumberland, fifth son of King George 
 III.; married December 21, 1878, to Princess Thyra 
 of Denmark, born September 29, 1853. Offspring of 
 the union are four children: — 1. Marie Louisa, born 
 October 11, 1879. 2. George, born October 28, 1880 
 3. Alexander, born September 29, 1882; and a daugh- 
 ter born July 11, 1884. 
 
 II. Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, born March 
 26, 1819, the son of Duke Adolph of Cambridge, sixth 
 son of King George III.; Field-Marshal Commanding- 
 in-Chief the British Army. 
 
 III. Princess Augusta, sister of the preceding, born 
 July 19, 1822; married June 28, 1843; to Grand-duke 
 Freidrich Wilhelm of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, born 
 October 17, 1819. the son of Grand-duke George and 
 of Princess Marie of Hesse-Cassel. Has issue Adolf. 
 Freidrich, born July 22, 1848. 
 
92 JUBILEE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA IN JAMAICA. 
 
 IV. Princess Mary, sister of the preceding, born 
 November 27, 1833; married June 12, 1866, to Prince 
 Franz von Teck, born August 27, 1837, son of Prince 
 Alexander of Wurtemburg and of Claudine Rheday, 
 Countess von Hohenstein. Offspring of the union 
 are four children : — 1. Victoria, born May 26, 1867. 
 2. Albert, bornAtigust 13, 1868. 3. Franz Josef, born 
 January 9, 1870, 4. Alexander, born April 14, 1874 
 
 AUNT OP THE QUEEN. 
 
 Princess Augusta, born July 25, 1797, the daughter 
 of Landgrave Freidrich of Hesse-Cassel; married May 
 7, 1818, to Duke Adolphus, of Cambridge, youngest 
 son of King Georga III.; widow July 8, 1850, died 
 6th July, 1889. 
 
 END OF PART I. 
 
PART II. 
 
PAET II. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS. 
 
 In the Legislative Council, on the 14th October, 
 1886, the Honorable Wellesley Bourke, after a few- 
 appropriate introductory remarks, moved the follow- 
 ing Resolution: "That this Council desirous of joining 
 in the national rejoicings on the approaching Jubilee 
 of Her Most Gracious Majesty will be glad if His 
 Excellency the Governor would consider the subject 
 and propose some plan for a local celebration, or a 
 means of locally marking an event so pleasing to the 
 whole British Empire, and that this Council will be 
 prepared to vote the necessary sum." The motion 
 was seconded by the Honorable William Malabre and 
 after remarks by the Governor, Sir H. W. Norman, 
 expressing gratification at the motion, and acknow- 
 ledging the great loyalty to Her Majesty which was 
 felt throughout the colony, it was carried by accla- 
 mation. 
 
96 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 On the 31st of January, the Governor issued the 
 following notice in which His Excellency intimated 
 the conclusion at which he had arrived that the com- 
 memoration of the Jubilee should take a two-fold 
 shape, namely, in such ceremonies and rejoicings as 
 might be found suitable, and in the inauguration of 
 some permanent Institution, the benefits of which 
 would extend over the island and be of value to 
 different classes of the people, and His Excellency, as 
 regards the second object, invited support to a propo- 
 sal for the establishment of an Institution for the 
 training of Nurses in connection with a Lying-in-Hos- 
 pital : — 
 
 Colonial Secretary's Office, 31st January, 1887 
 On the 14th of October last, the Legislative Council of 
 Jamaica unanimously agreed to the following Resolution, 
 namely : — 
 
 "That this Council desirous of joining in the national re- 
 joicings on the approaching Jubilee of Her Most Gracious 
 Majesty will be glad if His Excellency the Governor would 
 consider the subject and propose some plan for a local cel- 
 ebration, or a means of locally marking an event so pleasing 
 to the whole British Empire, and that this Council will be 
 prepared to vote the necessary sum." 
 
 His Excellency the Governor being most anxious to give 
 full effect to the loyal desire of the Legislative Council to 
 mark the great event of the Jubilee of Her Majesty's 
 Eeign in a suitable manner — a desire which he is satisfied 
 is shared by the whole community — ^has given his best at- 
 tention to the mode in which this desire can be best met 
 and he has come to the conclusion that the commemoration 
 
PRELIMINARY AERANGBMENTS. 97 
 
 should take a twotfold .shape, namely, in such ■ ceremonies 
 and rejoicings as may be found smitable and in the inaugu- 
 ration of some permanent institutian, the benefits of iwhich 
 will extend over the island and be of value to different 
 classes of the people. 
 
 Eegaiding the particular form of rejoicings, and the day 
 or days to be observed as public holidays on this happy 
 occasion, a notification ■will be issued later, on, in ample time 
 to allow of full preparations, but' His Excellency thinks' it 
 right not to delay an announcement with respect to th« 
 Institution which, after much deliberation and after con- 
 sultation with gentlemen well capable of advising upon 
 such a subject, he desires to recommend to the support of 
 the people, and if it is generally approved to solicit the 
 aid of the LegislatiTe Council. 
 
 His Excellency is informed that one of the most crying 
 evils of the community is the absence of trained nurses 
 to attend women in child-birth. The absence of a proper 
 number of such nurses is stated to be the cause of much 
 mortality amongst infants, and of suffering amongst both 
 mothers and children. In former days efforts . were made 
 to meet this want and for some time a very excellent In- 
 stitution existed in Kingston for the training of nurses of 
 this description, but this Institution which depended for 
 support upon voluntary contributions eventually had to be 
 given up owing to want of support, and the nurses surviv- 
 ing, who were trained in this Institution, are now few in 
 number and becoming too old for active work. 
 
 The need of an Institution of this kind was brought 
 forcibly to the notice of the Governor shortly after his 
 arrival, and some steps were taken to prepare estimates, 
 select a site and prepare a scheme of organization, but 
 
 M 
 
98 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 otlier imperative demands upon the public funds prevented 
 His Excellency from putting this project, which he had 
 much at heart, before the Legislative Council. 
 
 He believes that no Institution will confer greater ben- 
 efits upon the people than one of this description, and he 
 proposes that the community generally shall be asked to 
 subscribe towards the construction of a suitable building, 
 which would be always hereafter associated by means of 
 some appropriate name with the Jubilee of Her Most 
 Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria. 
 
 The size and usefulness of the Institution must depend 
 upon the amount of support accorded to it, but if sufficient 
 subscriptions are not forthcoming His Excellency would ap- 
 peal with confidence to the Legislative Council to provide 
 for its future support by regular annual grants, and he has 
 already received assurance of the willing aid that wiU be 
 given by Medical Gentlemen in Kingston. 
 
 A necessary feature in an Institution such as is contem- 
 plated is a Lying-in-Hospital which, apart from the benefit 
 it may confer upon women of the poorer class, will afford 
 the means of instruction to the women under training as 
 nurses. The extent of the Lying-in-Hospital and the 
 number of persons under training must depend upon the 
 funds that may be available, but to make the Institution 
 really valuable it ought to be large enough to provide for 
 the training at one time of twenty-eight women, or two 
 from each parish. A building worthy of the occasion and 
 suitable for the purpose might. His Excellency is informed, 
 be constructed for about £4,000 to £5,000. If less sup- 
 port is forthcoming the quota of nurses under training 
 from each parish would have to be limited to one, a limita- 
 tion which the Governor would greatly regret. 
 
FBELIMnrABr ARRANGEMEKT8. 99 
 
 His Excellency does, not heie. pretend to laydofw^nj any; 
 rules hutjonly to indicate generally.thff project -h© desires' 
 to put - forward. . Datailsy if sufficient support^ is forthcomings 
 wouldihe dealt witbby a Eepresentative 'Committee wHcli 
 the Governor would think it his duty to' appoint^ but he 
 considers it an esseintial part of th& schema that all par", 
 ishes from which substantial aid came should have ■ the- 
 power of having one or more nurses always under train- 
 ing; whx) while at the^ Institution would be maintained and 
 who would be bound" to return to thbir parishes at the' 
 termination of their training, under an obligation to prac- 
 tise their calling for a moderate scala of remuneration, so 
 as to bring their services within the reach, .of ..the. humbler . 
 classes. 
 
 Circulars will be issued inviting the formation of ■ Com- 
 mittees in each parish in view to the proposal- being made 
 generally known and support asked for. Subscriptions will 
 be received by the various Parochial Treasuries and by the 
 Colonial Bank, and when transfers are made from the Trea- 
 suries to the Bank,, lists of subscribers will be sent to enable 
 a general. list to be compiled, for permanent record in the 
 Institution and for separate record in each parish,, of the 
 donors in that parish. 
 
 His Fxcellency is sure that it would be far more gratify- 
 ing to Her Majesty, and in all respects more satisfactory 
 that a sufficient amount should be raised. by numerous small 
 subscriptions, than by a smaller number of large, subscrip- 
 tions, and he trusts that no one will be deterred from, sub- 
 scribing by reason of being unable to afford more than a 
 very small amount. The success of the scheme wUl in the 
 first instance depend upon the proposal being made widely 
 known and its benefits explained to the people, and' His 
 Excellency earnestly invites the early co-operation of all. 
 
100 JU3ILEB REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 gentlemen holding tie position of Gustos, of the Chairman 
 and Members of the City Council of Kingston and of Paro- 
 chial Boards, of Justices of the Peace, Ministers of Eeligion ' 
 Medical Ofiicers and all others who are brought much in 
 contact with, the people, to explain the nature of this pro-' 
 posal and to invite donations suitable to the means of the 
 
 , A further communication will be made by Circijlar, to the , 
 Custodes of Parishes, and otiher gentlemen holding promi-. 
 nent positions. , ■ , 
 
 On the re-assembliiig of the liCgislative Council on 
 the ISth April, 1887, tlie'Governor addressed the follow- 
 ing Message to the Council relative to the question of 
 the manner in which Her Majesty's Jubilee should be 
 celebrated:—, •;,■ 
 
 HoNOBABLK Gentlemen : 
 
 I have to ask your very early attention to the necessity 
 of deciding what funds shall be made available- for the cele- 
 bration of the Jubilee of Her Majesty's Eeign, and I would 
 suggest that the matter beat orice^ referred for the consider- 
 ation of a Select Committee. 
 
 I may mention that the Eesolution passed by this Coun- 
 cil- on the i4th October last, relative to the local celebration 
 of the Jubilee, was duly reported by me to the Secretary 
 of State for the Colonies, who acknowledged its receipt 
 with an expression of much satisfaction at the loyal spirit 
 displayed by the Council. 
 
 It seemed to me that the intentions of the Council would 
 best be given effect to by the establishment of some perma- 
 nent Institution for th§ benefit generally, of the people of 
 
, PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS. 101 
 
 this island, as well as by local rejoiciiags upon the day or 
 days to be fixed by me for Jubilee celebration, and upon 
 these points I took the advice of a small Consultative Com- 
 mittee, composed of the gentleman who was recently Acting 
 4-ttorney General, of the Honorable Member for St. James 
 and Trelawney, and my late Aide-de-Camp and Private 
 Secretary, Captain Coxhead. The suggestions of that Com. 
 mittee will be laid before any Select Committee that this 
 Council may appoint. 
 
 My being called away to England compelled me to issue 
 rather earlier than I had intended a notification in which I 
 recommended a certain Institution to be, established and 
 invited subscriptions to enable it to be constructed, hoping 
 that if funds were forthcoming for the building, the Legis- 
 lature would vote an annual grant for maintenance. The 
 Council, it seems to me, must now decide whether they ap- 
 prove of the establishment of this Institution, or whether 
 they prefer some other mode of permanently commemorat- 
 ing this memorable occasion, and, if so, what view- they 
 would take. as to incurring a permanent expenditure, or an 
 outlay on first construction in aid of private subscriptions. 
 
 I understand that when the project I recommended was 
 announced various other proposals were started. If ^any- 
 thing more generally useful can be inaugurated I shall be 
 happy to aid it to the best of my ability, but I should de- 
 cline to assist in an object avowedly to commeinorate the 
 completion of fifty years of the Eeign of Her Most Gracious 
 Majesty which partook of the nature of a speculation, or 
 which needed to be a commercial success to ensure its com- 
 pletion or maintenance. As yet not much has been sub- 
 scribed or promised to the proposed Training Hospital, but I 
 should be sanguine that if this Council adopts the scheme 
 it will meet with general support. I take this opportunity 
 
102 JUBILEE. REJOICINQa-IN^ JAMAICA. 
 
 of acknowlsdging with, gratitude 'the; munificent contribu* 
 tions for this object of £200 from Mr. Washington Eves 
 and of £100 from Mr. George ' Stiebel. 
 
 With respect to local rejoicings' I am' of • opinion that the 
 Government should not attempt to difjtateto Local Author- 
 ities the exact form of such rejoicings; but'I should- be Tery 
 glad if the Council ■would allo'w- grants to be sent' to '^ each 
 parish to be added to funds locally raised in order to' pro- 
 vide some entertainment for the poor and for the school 
 children. 
 
 Kingston^ as the capital of the island and the centre of 
 the Military and Naval Establishments, is in a dififerent 
 poition from other places, and the celebration of the day 
 must be to a great extent arranged for by the Government 
 in communication -with the City Council and other Author- 
 ities. I have already, under the authority vested in me by 
 the Council and as time pressed, ordered Fire--works for a 
 display upon the Race Course. For the general conduct 
 of arrangements at Kingston I propose to nominate a Rep- 
 resentative Committee ; and if our sanitary condition then 
 admits I would propose to run very cheap trains from the 
 country to enable non-residents of Kingston to see the Fire- 
 works and any other display that may be found practicable. 
 
 To sum up I would say that as far as I can estimate, some 
 £700 would cover all that I should propose for local cele- 
 brations, and for ceremonies at Kingston. In the existing 
 condition of our finances it is with great reluctance that I 
 ask for a grant of public money, but I do so not only in 
 pursuance of the expressed wish of the Council, but also 
 because I am persuaded that the people of this colony have, 
 a hearty desire to show their loyal feelings towards our 
 
PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS. 103 
 
 Gracious Sovereiga upon this memorable and happy occa- 
 sion. 
 
 There remains one object in connection with the Jubilee 
 for which funds have been asked by His Eoyal Highness 
 the Prince of Wales, namely, the Imperial Institute of the 
 United Kingdom, the Colonies and India. I have already 
 invited subscriptions for this Institute from private indi- 
 viduals, and I should be glad to know the views of the 
 Council as to any grant being made from general revenues 
 under existing circumstances towards this great and benefi- 
 cial object. 
 
 The Select Committee to whom the above Message 
 was referred, made on the 28th April, the following 
 Report, which was adopted by the Council: — 
 
 The Committee is unanimously of opinion that the com- 
 memoration of Her Majesty's Jubilee should take a two- 
 fold form, namely, the establishment of a permanent 
 Institution to benefit all classes, and local rejoicings on 
 a day or days to be proclaimed a general holiday or 
 holidays. 
 
 The Committee recommends that Tuesday the 28th June, 
 (Coronation Day) and Wednesday 29th June might be 
 conveniently fixed for the celebration of the Jubilee in 
 Jamaica. The Committee suggests these days, the pre- 
 vious week being mail week. 
 
 As a permanent commemoration of the event the Commit- 
 tee recommends the adoption of His Excellency the Govern- 
 or's suggestion, namely, the establishment of an Institution 
 for the training of Nurses to attend women in child- 
 birth. This scheme has already been approved and 
 
104 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 adopted by most of the parishes, while no other pro- 
 posal has taken definite shape or is in the opinion of 
 the Committee more worthy of support. It therefore 
 recommends that, if sufficient funds are raised ly vol- 
 untary contribution to found such an Institution, its 
 future maintenance should be defrayed from general 
 revenue and its management vested in the Government. 
 
 The Committee suggests that all indoor paupers of 
 every class in the Island should be served with a 
 good dinner on 28th June, and that some addition — 
 in the discretion of the Parochial Boards — should be 
 made to the weekly allowances of all outdoor paupers 
 in money, clothing or otherwise, to mark the occasion, 
 such outlay to be drawn from the poor funds. 
 
 On the ground of expense, and having in view the 
 state of the poor funds in many parishes, the Com- 
 mittee feels unable to recommend any further distribu- 
 tion from that source, neither does it consider it is 
 practicable to organise the rejoicings in every parish. 
 It therefore recommends that the principal Celebration 
 of the Jubilee be held in Kingston, leaving the other 
 parishes to arrange demonstrations on their own ac- 
 count. Kingston, as the Metropolis of the Island and 
 the Seat of Government, should, in the opinion 
 of the Committee, be the scene of the principal rejoicings ; 
 but this Council leaves the distribution among the 
 parishes of the sum of £700 provided by His Excellency's 
 Message to the discretion of His Excellency. 
 
 The rejoicings to be held in' Kingston should, in 
 the opinion of the Committee, be of such a character as 
 will enable all classes of the people to take part in them. 
 In this view the Committee presumes the "Eepresentative 
 
pheliminabt arkangements. 105 
 
 Committee" referred to in- the Message of His Excellency 
 the Governor, to be appointed by him, will arxange such a 
 programme, as will meet the .approval and convenience of 
 the Governor and as may be deemed expedient. 
 
 The Committee thinks the Eailway should offer induce- 
 ments to visitors to Kingston in the form of additional 
 trains and cheap fares extending over the week. 
 
 The Committee recommends that the amount estimated 
 by His Excellency the -Governor to cover the Ceremonies in 
 Kingston be paid from general revenues 
 
 In regard to a grant from the revenues of the Colony 
 towards the "Imperial Institute of the United Kingdom, of 
 the Colonies and India," the Committee does not feel justi- 
 fied at present, and under existing circumstances, in recom- 
 mending any contribution. 
 
 The Governor in a Government notice, dated 29th 
 April, of which an extract is given below^, called pub- 
 lic attention to the decision of the Legislative Council 
 embodied in the foregoing Resolution, to the effect 
 that if sufficient funds should be raised by voluntary 
 contribution to found the proposed Institution its 
 future maintenance should be defrayed from general 
 revenue. 
 
 In the Gazette Extraordinary of the 31st January, 
 1888, the Governor invited support to a proposal for 
 the establishment of an Institution for the training 
 of Nurses in connection with a Lying-in-Hospital as 
 a permanent and useful -Memorial of the Jubilee of 
 
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106 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 Her Majesty's Reign. His Excellency believed that 
 if the proposal could be carried out the several parishes 
 of this island would at no distant interval of time be 
 well provided with trained Nurses, and a considerable 
 amount of mortality and suffering to infants and 
 mothers be thereby avoided. 
 
 The Governor then stated that if sufficient subscrip- 
 tions were forthcoming to enable a suitable building 
 to be constructed he would appeal with confidence to 
 the Legislative Council to provide for the future sup- 
 port of the Institution by regular annual grants, and 
 it afforded much satisfaction to His Excellency to be 
 able to publish, for general information, the 
 following extract of the report of a Select Committee 
 of the Legislative Council which had been adopted 
 by the Council : — 
 
 EXTRACT OF THE REPORT. 
 
 "As a permanent commemoration of the event the Com- 
 mittee recommends the adoption of His Excellency the 
 Governor's suggestion, namely, the establishment of an 
 Institution for the training of Nurses to attend women in 
 child-birth. This scheme has already been approved and 
 adopted by most of the parishes, while no other proposal 
 has taken definite shape or is in the opinion of the Commit- 
 tee more worthy of support. It therefore recommends that, 
 if sufficient funds are raised by voluntary contribution to 
 found such an Institution, its future maintenance should 
 be defrayed from general revenue and its management 
 vested in the Government. 
 
 It now rests with the community of Jamaica to show by 
 their subscriptions whether they desire to have this proposed 
 
PRBLIMIN ART ARRANGEMENTS." 107 
 
 permanBHt and useful MemoTial of the- JuWlsff' of- Her 
 Majesty's Reign. His ExcBllemoy trusts 'that 'his' appeal for 
 subscriptions wiU be responded to and febat-effartB 'wiH .be' 
 made to raise a sufficient sum for tbe erection of tbe requi- 
 site buildings. He desires to repeat bis hope that no one 
 will be deterred from subscribing because of an inability to 
 aiford to give more than a very small amount. A donation 
 of one shilling from every sixth person in Jamaica would 
 produce the sum wanted. 
 
 His Excellency would suggest that supporters of the 
 scheme should help it by collecting from persons in their 
 neighbourhoods "who may be willing to subscribe but are 
 averse to sending small donations to the Bank or to Treas- 
 
 The Governor, after coinsideTatiaii of the Report of 
 the Select Committee o£:tlie Council above quoted, is- 
 sued a Proclamation on the 30th of April, under the Act 
 ■8 Victoria, chapter 30, appointing the 28th and 29th of 
 June, 1887, to be set apart and observed as public 
 holidays throughout the Island of Jamaica and its 
 dependencies for the suitable celebration of the Jubi- 
 lee of Her Majesty's Reign; and from the moment of 
 the issue of this Proclamation the whole island may 
 be said to have become kindled with the determination 
 to do full justice to this auspicious event. 
 
 The Governor's appeal for support towards the per- 
 manent form of commemorating the Queen's Jubilee, 
 namely, by the establishment of an Institution for the 
 training of Nurses to attend women in child-birth, 
 •vvas responded to in such a manner that subscriptions 
 
108 
 
 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 to the amount of £1700, had been received, and the 
 Legislature voted £2300, in 1889, which made up the 
 required sum of £4000. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 APPOINTMENT or COMMITTEES. 
 
 In fulfilment of the intentions announced in His 
 Excellency's Message to the Legislative Council dated 
 the 12th April 1887, the Governor on the 11th May, 
 appointed a Representative Committee for the general 
 conduct of the arrangements for the celebration of 
 the JubUee in Kingston, composed of the following 
 gentlemen : — 
 
 CHAIHMAN 
 
 The Hon. Valentine G. BeU, M. I. C. E, 
 
 MEMBERS 
 His Honor the Mayor of King- Major Glancy, R. E. 
 
 ston. T. Harry, Esq. 
 
 The Hon. H. J. Kemble, Cnstos Major Howarth, 2nd West India 
 
 of Kingston. Eegiment. 
 
 The Hon. W. Malabre, M. L, C. Rev. H. H. KUbnm. 
 The Hon. W. Bourke, M. L. C. Major KnoUys, C. M. G. 
 The Hon. T. L. Harvey, M. L. C. Simon Lewis Esq. 
 J. J. Bowrey, Esq. Commander Littlfedale, R. N. 
 
 S. C. Burke, Esq. Capt. K. H. A. Mainwaring, R. N. 
 
 J. D'Aeth, Esq. Oscar Marescaux, Esq. 
 
 C. E. DeMercado, Esq. M. C. Morgan, Esq. 
 The Rev. D. J. East, Capt. G. E. Parkes. 
 The Rev. J. B. EUis, M. A. Lieut. Pawsey, K. V. M. 
 
 D. Finzi, Esq. Dr. J- C. PhiUippo. 
 
110 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 Capt. W. P. Foi-wood Capt. Pinnock, K. V. M. 
 
 L. R Fyfe, Esq. Lieutenant- Colonel C. J. Ward, 
 
 Aston W. Grardner, Esq. Commanding K. V. M. 
 
 E. Grillard, Esq. 
 
 SBCBBTAKY. — L. R. Fyfe, Esq. 
 This Committee met on the 13th Maj'', and appoint- 
 ed the following Sub-Committees to enquire and report 
 to the Committee at a meeting fixed for the 20th May, 
 on the means of carrying out different portions of the 
 programme of the rejoicings which had already been 
 pro.posed: — 
 
 1. For- the decoratitm-of thfe' Town- Hall' on th'e oc- 
 casion of -the GbvemorVLeVEE and the" arrangements 
 for • his Excellency's' reception : — 
 
 SUB^OMMEFTEEi. . 
 
 His Honor the Mayor (Dr. Jas. Mr. T. Harry 
 
 Scott) Major Knollys 
 
 Hon. W. Malabre Major Howarth 
 
 Mr. S. C. Burke Capt. Littledale 
 
 Capt. Forwood Dr. Phillippo 
 
 Capt. Pinnock. 
 
 2. For the illumination of the Grand Stand on the 
 Race Course and for arrangements for the- accommo- 
 dation of the public on the occasion of the dispiayi of 
 Fireworks : — ~ 
 
 SUB-COMMITTEE. 
 
 Hon, W, Bourk« Mr". R. GiUard 
 
 Mr. .J. D'A:eth . Mr. M. C. Morgan 
 
 Capt. Mainwaring- Col. C. J. Ward 
 
 3. For the arrangements connected with the 
 Juvenile Demonstration, or Procession of School 
 Children : — 
 
APPOINTMENT OP COMMITTEES. Ill 
 
 SUB-COMMITTEE. 
 
 His Honor the Gustos (Mr. H. Eev. H. H. Kilburn 
 
 J. Kerable) , Eev. J. B. BUis 
 
 Eev. D. J. East Mr. J. J. Bowrey 
 
 4. For the arrangements connected with the illumi- 
 nations of the city on 28th June : — 
 
 SUB- COMMITTEE. 
 
 Hon. T. L. Harvey Capt, Parkee 
 
 Mr. Mareseaux Mr. D. Finzi 
 
 Mr. C. E. DeMercado Mr. Simon Lewis 
 
 Mr. A. W. Gardner Lieut. Pawsey, K. Y. M. 
 
 5. For the display of Fire-works : — 
 
 SUB-COMMITTEE. 
 
 Major Grlancy, K. E. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 THE PROGRAMME. 
 
 The Sub-Committees having presented their Re- 
 ports to the Meeting of the General Committee on the 
 20th May, the latter Body was enabled to submit for 
 the Governor's consideration on the following day a 
 complete programme of rejoicings for the two holi- 
 days ; and on the 28th May, the Governor by the 
 following notice in an Extraordinary Gazette an- 
 nounced his approval of the public ceremonies to be 
 observed in Kingston on those two days : — 
 
 Colonial Secretary's Office, 28th May, 1887. 
 His Excellency the Governor, after consultation with the 
 Commodore Commanding Her Majesty's Naval Forces on 
 the Station and the Colonel on the Staff Commanding Her 
 Majesty's Troops in Jamaica, and after consideration of the 
 Report of the Committee appointed for the general conduct 
 of the arrangements for the celebration in Kingston of the 
 Jubilee of the Reign of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen 
 Victoria, is pleased to approve the following Programme of 
 Public Ceremonies to be observed in this city upon the 28th 
 and 29th June, which days have been ordered to be ob- 
 served as public holidays by notificationin the Gazette 
 Extraordinary of the 30th April, 1887. 
 
THE PEOGRAMME. 113 
 
 FIRST DAY — TUESDAY, 28th JUNE. 
 
 6 a. m. — ■■ Eoyal Salute from Her Majesty's Ship "Tour- 
 maline" anchored off Kingston, to be followed by ' the 
 ringiiigof Joy Eells from the Churches for aqufirter of an 
 hour. 
 
 6 to 9 a. m. — Gathering of the people in honor of the 
 occasion at the Victoria Market, with a Band in attendance 
 for their amusement. 
 
 4 p. m. — Special Service of Thanksgiving in the King- 
 ston Parish Church at which the Governor will attend, and 
 at which the presence is invited of such of the leading 
 Citizens of Kingston and Officers of the Government as can 
 conveniently attend and desire to do so. [It is understood 
 that in the forenoon of this day there will be Thanksgiving 
 Services at the Churches and other Places of "Worship in 
 Kingston, and that there will be Service at 4. 30 p. m. at 
 the Eoman Catholic Church with solemn High Mass on the 
 following morning.] 
 
 5. 30 p. m. — Procession of School Children to the Kace 
 Course and singing of the National Anthem, &c. 
 
 8 p. m. — Display of the Electric Light by Her Majesty's 
 Ship "Tourmaline" and such illuminations as may be found 
 practicable in the city. 
 
 SECOND DAY WEDNESDAY, 29tH JUNE. 
 
 11a. m. — ^Opening of the SoUas Market in Kingston by 
 the Governor. 
 
 11. 30 a. m. — Levee of the Governor at the Town Hall 
 and presentation of Addresses. 
 
 
 
114 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 5 p. m. — Keview by the Governor at Up-Park Camp of a 
 Detachment of Seamen and Marines from Her Majesty's 
 ships "Tourmaline" and "Urgent," of Her Majesty's Troops 
 stationed in Jamaica, and of the Artillery, Mounted Eifles 
 and Infantry of the Kingston Volunteer Militia. 
 
 8. 30 p. m. — Illumination of the Eace Stand, and Grand 
 display of Fireworks upon the Eace Course. 
 
 By Command, 
 
 E. N. Walkbb, Colonial Secretary. 
 
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CHAPTER IV. 
 
 GATHERING OP THE PEOPLE. 
 
 On Monday night 27th June, a concourse of persons 
 paraded the streets. Several places were illuminated 
 and several bands formed processions and marched 
 through the streets, followed by immense crowds 
 of people. This continued until a very late hour. 
 Early next morning the people commenced to as- 
 semble at the Victoria Market and at about six 
 o'clock there must have been about eight or ten 
 thousand persons present. H. M. S. Tourmaline, 
 Forward and Mallard which came up the harbour, 
 between three and four o'clock on Monday afternoon, 
 and other shipping in harbour were dressed with 
 flags, and at six o'clock precisely the Tourmaline 
 fired a Royal Salute of twenty-one guns, followed by 
 the ringing of joy bells all over the city, while Watson's 
 Band which arrived at the Market at about five 
 o'clock commenced to play the following well selected 
 programme : — 
 
 1 March — Federal 
 
 2 Polka — Jubilee 
 
 3 Waltz — Spanish 
 
 4 Quadrille 
 
116 JUBILBB REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 5 Polka Mazurka — Greek 
 
 6 Galop— Spirit of the Fleet 
 
 7 Waltz— Time 
 
 8 March— Pride of the Fleet 
 
 9 Galop — Forget me not 
 
 10 Spanish Dance 
 
 11 Polka — Small Favourite 
 
 12 Cuban Dance 
 
 13 Britannia the -pride of the Ocean 
 
 14 God bless the Prince of Wales 
 
 15 Hinchcliff's Song 
 
 16 Governor's Tune — Kalemba 
 
 His Honor the Gustos arrived at the Victoria Mar- 
 ket at 6. 15, and commenced .his inspection of the 
 Market, accompanied by the market officials. His 
 Excellency the Governor, .accompanied by his Private 
 Secretary Captain Owen, arrived at 7. 20, when the 
 Band struck up the National Anthem and the song 
 "God bless the Prince of Wales." On His Excellency's 
 alighting from his carriage he was met by His Hon- 
 or the Mayor and L. P. Branday vice-chairman of 
 the City Council. After saluting the gentlemen who 
 were invited into his carriage, His Excellency proceeded 
 to the market where, accompanied by His Honor the 
 Gustos, the Mayor, Captain Owen, A. D. C. Hon. Mr. 
 Justice Northcote, D. M. Leon, Secretary to the Mar- 
 ket Commissioners, Major KnoUys, C. M. G., Inspector 
 Genl. of Constabulary, and a half a dozen constables, he 
 inspected the Market throughout and expressed his 
 satisfaction with the Refrigerator or cooling room 
 which had just been erected, and with the : appearance 
 of the market generally. As soon as the work of 
 
GATHERING OP THE PEOPLE. 117 
 
 inspection had been completed His Excellency left 
 after spending fully an hour, and visited the SoUas 
 Market. He was received by Mr. D. M. Leon, and at 
 once commenced to inspect the building, and appeared 
 to have been very pleased with it. While there the 
 procession of the order of Good Samaritans and 
 Daughters of Samaria passed on their way to the 
 Parish Church, when His Excellency enquired what 
 order they represented, and on being told by Mr. 
 Leon, was pleased. He then drove away for 
 King's House. Among the gentlemen who were 
 present at the Victoria Market we noticed in addition 
 to the others mentioned above: — Hon. J. T. Wigham, 
 the Clerks of Petty Sessions for Kingston and St. 
 Catherine, Lieut. Col. Ward, of the Kingston Volunteer 
 Militia, several Naval and Military Officers, John 
 McLean, Esq., J. P., St. Andrew, Dr.Phillippo, Kevds. 
 Duff and Spratt, of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, 
 Eevd. W. Griffith member of the City Council and 
 Superintendent of the United Methodist Churches, 
 S. D. Lindo, assistant to the Attorney General for the 
 Western Districts, W. T. Jamieson, Collector of Taxes, 
 C. Binney, member of the City Council, Captain 
 French of the Portland Volunteer Militia ; E. A. H. 
 Haggart, agent of the Clyde Line of Steamers, Inspec- 
 tor James, of the St. Andrew division of Constabulary 
 C. Thompson, Clerk of the City Council, Hon. Col. 
 Secretary, P. E. Auvray, Esq., L. Verley, Esq., A. C. 
 Sinclair, Esq., Superintendent of the Government Print- 
 ing Establishment, Messrs Archibald Munroe, T. W. 
 Rodgers, T. N. Aguilar, Richard White, J. M. Poison, D. 
 I. Motta, George Lyons, jnr., Henry Ford, G. D. Ast- 
 
118 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 wood, E. Wolfe, J. B. Machado, E. Bolivar Wolfe, W. 
 B. Gray, E. C. Hinchcliife, T. E. Robinson and E. Mo- 
 rand, Clerks of the Market, L. G. Gruchy, Captain of the 
 Volunteer Militia Force, E. X. Leon, S. H. Watson, mem- 
 ber City Council, A. H. Isaacs, Kingston and Liguanea 
 Water Works, Inspector Black, Jamaica Constabulary, 
 P. W. Abbott, S. Verley, jnr., Simon Lewis, C. Hannay, 
 Thomas Harry, member City Council, J. B. Sorapure, 
 J. H. Levy, Brown's Town &c. 
 
 There were eighteen cars, employed on all lines — 
 twelve regular and six special. They were all 
 thronged with passengers on leaving the several sta- 
 tions, and at about 8 a. m. all the tickets issued by 
 the company were exhausted, consequent on the large 
 number of passengers. The whole proceedings were 
 brought to a close at 9. 30 a. m. by the Band playing 
 the national anthem. A squad of constables, in com- 
 mand of Inspectors Wedderburn, Church, and Orrett^ 
 attended at an early hour in the morning to preserve 
 order. The behaviour of the people was excellent, 
 and no accident occurred. 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 SPECIAL THANKSGIVING SERVICES. 
 AT THE PABISH CHURCH. 
 
 Soon after tv?o o'clock vehicles and pedestrians 
 began to troup toward the Parish Church and by the 
 time the doors were opened at half past two, there 
 was quite a large concourse of people waiting for 
 admission. A little after three this large and hand- 
 some structure was nearly full, and by twos and 
 threes, people still came dropping in. 
 
 The arrangments were most admirable. A number 
 of clergymen among whom the Revd. J, B. Ellis was 
 specially distinguishable for his indefatigable exer- 
 tions for the convenience of visitors, conducted each 
 one to a seat or directed him where to obtain one- 
 So well had the committee estimated the capacity of 
 the building that no one was in any way inconve- 
 nienced and tho' many preferred to stand at the end 
 and in the corners of the Edifice there was ample 
 seating accommodation for all. 
 
 A short time before four o'clock a long procession 
 of Clergymen of the Church of England marched up 
 the centre aisle two and two, preceded by the junior 
 
120 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 members of the Cloth in the following order of pre- 
 cedence: — Revds. Swaby, McPherson, H. S. Isaacs, E. 
 J. Wortley, Linton, J. B. Ellis, M. A. Rev. Smythe, 
 Dewdney, R. G. Ambrose, R. Harding, J. D. Hunt, W. 
 Simms, M. A, F. L. King, H. Scotland, H. H. Kilburn, 
 E. B. Key, Findlay,— H. H. Isaacs, H- M. F. McDer- 
 niott — Commissaries^G. W. . Do-wner, Very Revd. 
 Douet, Archdeacon. The procession was closed by 
 the Ven. Archdeacon Douet .the preacher for the day. 
 The Episcopalian Clergy filed within the Altar 
 rails. 
 
 'The Clergy of the new Episcopalian Churches 
 thirty in number advanced to seats reserved for them 
 in the centre aisle opposite the Altar and proceeded 
 up the aisle with arms linked. 
 
 Numerous Representatives of the Army followed 
 Col. Clive Justice to their places, their brilliant scar- 
 let uniforms brightening the building with a gleam of 
 rich color as they passed along. 
 
 The Officers of Her Majesty's vessels of war 
 stationed here, also mustered strongly, led by the 
 Commodore, their gold epaulets and facings on the 
 dark navy blue, attracting all eyes. Colonel Ward, 
 Major Macglashan and the Officers of the Volunteer 
 Militia Force resplendent in scarlet and gold or blue 
 and siKer, were placed near to their comrades of the 
 regular services. 
 
 His Honor the Mayor accompanied by a number 
 of the City Councillors also took a place set apart 
 
SPECIAL THANKSGIVING SBBVI0B8. 121 
 
 near the transept, for the City Council. Mbat 
 of the clergy wore their academic gowns and the 
 hoods of their degrees and colleges. The Chief 
 Justice and the Attorney General appeared in wigs, 
 gowns and bands. 
 
 While waiting the arrival of His Excellency and 
 suite the immense congregation which must have 
 numbered close upon 1400, had leisure to examine 
 the decoration of the sacred edifice, and to admire the 
 exquisite taste displayed in the arrangement of floral 
 ornament, rich without profuseness, graceful and 
 effective without pretension. Upon the Altar was a 
 most exquisite cross of Red and White flowers which 
 was of itself a perfect work of art. The standai'd 
 gasaliers within the chancel were adorned with the 
 graceful and delicate leaves of the Pointzianna Regia, 
 and were bright with the scarlet blooms of that 
 beautiful tree. In front of the lectern was a Royal 
 Grown worked in flowers, all the jewels of the band, 
 cross and archers being represented in flowers of 
 brilliant hue. The hanging lamps were ornamented 
 with drooping fringes of the "old man's beard." The 
 seat reserved for His Excellency was marked at either 
 end with a Royal Crown in scarlet and gold set 
 upon wands. 
 
 The capitals of the pillars were most exquisitely 
 decorated with growing plants set in moss-covered box- 
 es and following the angles of the abacus. The plants 
 were principally ferns, caladiums, coleuses and 
 crotons, and the mingling of the tender green of the 
 delicate fronds with the harmonious colors of the 
 
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122 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 ornamental-leaved plants produced an effect at once 
 chaste and charming. 
 
 The Font in the west-end was most beautifully 
 adorned with stephanotis, jessamine and moss, while 
 the shaft was ornamented with blossoms of warmer 
 hue. 
 
 Punctually at 4 p. m. His Excellency entered the 
 building, accompanied by Miss Norman and the 
 Aide-de-camp. At this moment the congregation 
 rose and the choir sung the National Anthem to 
 organ accompaniment with grand effect. The two 
 following verses were added to the national anthem 
 having been specially written for Her Majesty's 
 Jubilee : — 
 
 2. Lift we both heart and voice. 
 With one accord rejoice, 
 
 On this glad day, 
 On our Queen's Jubilee 
 Bend we to God the knee. 
 Singing right heartily, 
 
 God save the Queen. 
 
 3. God hear our Nation's Prayer, 
 Safe in Thy loving care. 
 
 Guard Thou our Queen, 
 Ruler of earth and sea. 
 Through all eternity, 
 In one blest Jubilee, 
 
 Keep Thou our Queen. 
 
SPECIAL THAKKSGIVING SBRVIOES. 123 
 
 The Service then at once proceeded, commencing 
 with the Responses "Oh Lord open Thou our lips, &c." 
 
 Then followed the Te Deum which was most beauti- 
 fully and effectively rendered by the Choir. At 
 the sentence commencing "We believe that Thou 
 shalt come" — a most impressive effect was produced- 
 The Lord's Prayer and Responses "Oh Lord shew Thy 
 mercy" were offered by the Rev. G. W. Downer, 
 Rector, and then special prayers of Thanksgiving 
 for the preservation of Her Majesty's life, the love 
 of her people for the extension of Dominion and a 
 continuance of Divine protection. 
 
 Prayer for the Prince of Wales and the members of 
 the Royal family, followed. 
 
 Psalm XX "Exaudiat te Dominus" was then chanted 
 by the choir. The Rev. McDermott read the lessons, 
 1st Peter ii 6 to 18 v. The choir then sung the 
 following beautiful Anthem, which was rendered with 
 great precision and exquisite effect, giving evidence 
 of the greatest care in training and industry in 
 practice: — 
 
 ANTHEM. 
 
 Blessed be the Lord thy God -which delighteth in thee to set 
 thee on His throne, to be King for the Lord thy God ; because thy 
 Lord loved Israel to establish them for ever, therefore made He 
 thee King over them to judgment and justice. — II Chron. ix 8 v. 
 
 The following prayer, prepared by the Bishop of 
 Jamaica, was then offered; — 
 
 PEAYBB. 
 
 O Lord God Almighty, we this day offer to Thee our united and 
 'hearty thanksgivings for all the blessings which Thou hast 
 bestowed upon Victoria our Gracious Queen, and upon Thy people 
 
124 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 thiough Her instrumentality, during tlie fifty years of Her 
 reign wMch we now commemorate. We tliank Thee for the 
 abundant personal and family blessings which Thou hast vouch- 
 safed to Her ; and for all the help and comfort Thou hast given Her 
 in Her manifold anxieties and trials, in Her great bereavements. 
 We thank Thee that during the reign of our Queen, the Nation 
 has been brought safely through many threatening dangers: has 
 developed into a world-wide Empire ; and has marvellously in- 
 creased in extent and population, in wealth and knowledge, and 
 in aU the arts of civilization and peace. We thank Thee too that 
 (notwithstanding our national and individual transgressions) the 
 increase and extension of the Empire, have been made a blessing 
 to the manifold peoples brought under the sway of the sceptre of 
 our Queen; and that our nation has been used by Thy providence 
 to spread abroad in the earth the principle of Truth, Justice and 
 Liberty, and above all the knowledge of Thee our Father, and of 
 Thy Son Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Spirit the Comforter — one 
 only Triune God. And we who are here assembled do further 
 praise Thee that the people of this Island have enjoyed so large a 
 share of all national mercies which we have this day remembered 
 with thanksgiving before our God. And now we humbly pray 
 Thee Heavenly Father to continue Thy mercy to our Queen 
 unto the close of a long life on earth, and then bestow upon Her 
 the crown of everlasting life ; and mu,y Her children and Her 
 children's children in a long succession sit upon the Throne of 
 the British people and grant that the nation may increase in 
 prosperity and strength, in peace and unity, in truth and justice, 
 in religion and piety, down to the latest generations. 
 
 Hearken we beseech Thee, our God, to these our thanksgiv- 
 ings and prayers, through Jesus Christ our Lord. — Amen. 
 
 The very Revd. Archdeacon Douet then preached 
 a short but impressive sermon from the lesson for the 
 day, taking for the text the vsrords "Fear God and 
 honor the King." 
 
 The preacher reminded the congregation that in 
 all parts of the world the British people were cele- 
 
SPECIAL THANKSGIVING SERTICES. 125 
 
 brating the Jubilee year of the reign of their beloved 
 Queen, and while they honored her humanly as the 
 bodily expression of the highest authority, they 
 also gave honor to the Almighty power by which 
 Kings and Princes rule in this mortal world. 
 
 Her Majesty had identified herself with the best 
 interests of her people. She had shared their joys 
 and sorrows as they had sympathized and mourned 
 with her in her great family afflictions and bereave- 
 ments. 
 
 The preacher instanced the enthusiastic reception 
 which her people had accorded Her Majesty upon her 
 attending the Thanksgiving Service in Westminster 
 Abbey as proof of the continual allegiance borne by 
 the British people to their Queen, which, he said was 
 founded on the piety with which Kings reign and 
 Princes decree justice. The preacher alluded to the 
 Queen's touching words uttered to the Archbishop of 
 Canterbury when the death of William 4th was an- 
 nounced to her. "I beg your Grace to pray for me." 
 
 The intense public sympathy manifested during the 
 nearly fatal illness of the Prince of Wales, was 
 touched on as evidence of the deep seated personal 
 loyalty of the British people, evoking as it did from 
 Her Majesty those touching and affectionate words of 
 thanks to her subjects for their loving concern for 
 her dear son. The Archdeacon concluded with a 
 strong appeal to the congregation for generous assist- 
 ance to the Lying-in-Hospital as a most fitting 
 permanent memorial of the Jubilee year. 
 
126 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 On the conclusion of the Sermon the magnificent 
 Hallelujah Chorus was rendered by the choir in a 
 manner that must have been a most pleasurable 
 surprise to those who had heard that grand outburst 
 of song from the leading festival choirs of England. 
 The perfect time of this most difficult and trying 
 chorus must have been the result of long and patient 
 practice, and the effect of the forte passages, when 
 the small number of voices is taken into consideration, 
 was wonderful, and must have caused great fatigue 
 and strain upon the voices. No one could have 
 thought on hearing the Hallelujah Chorus on Tues- 
 day that so small a number of voices was engaged, 
 and it is marvellous that they should have kept such 
 time, and tune on a hot afternoon in June, in a 
 tropical country and in a crowded building. Too 
 much praise cannot be awarded to the Rector, ably 
 assisted as he was by Mr. Forbes of the Colonial 
 Bank and Mr. Wortley, organist, while to the pains- 
 taking and efficient management of the choir by Mr. 
 Gomel], the bandmaster of the 1st West India 
 Regiment, was due in no small measure the perfection 
 of time and manner displayed by this admirably 
 trained body of singers. Last though by no means 
 least, the choir itself deserved the thanks of the entire 
 community for the splendid manner in which they 
 acquitted themselves in most difficult and trying 
 music, and for the industry, patience and perseverance 
 they displayed, and their great musical and vocal 
 talent, which so astonished even the regular attendants 
 at the Parish Church, so well known for its splendid 
 choir. 
 
SPECIAL THiNKSGIVING SERVICES. 127 
 
 AT THE JEWISH SYNAGOQDE. 
 
 A Jubilee service was held at the Freemason Hall, 
 Hanover St., the temporary Synagogue of the 
 Amalgamated Congregation of Israelites in this city. 
 The service was conducted by the Rev. Solomon 
 Jacobs, Minister, and a choir of well trained voices 
 assisted in the service. The Harmonium was ably 
 presided over by Mi.ss Naomi DaCosta. A special 
 prayer for the Jubilee composed by the Chief Rabbi 
 for the use of the Israelites throughout the world was 
 read in English, and several Psalms were sung by the 
 choir. A special prayer was then read for Her Most 
 Gracious Majesty. A most appropriate address was 
 delivered by the minister who took his text from the 
 7th verse of the 29th chapter of Jeremiah. "And 
 seek for the property of the city whereto I have 
 caused you to be carried away and pray for its welfare 
 for in its well-being shall there be unto you peace." 
 The Service then concluded with the chanting of the 
 National Anthem in Hebrew. 
 
 The congregation was very large, consisting of 
 several hundred ladies and gentlemen, among the 
 latter we noticed — Osmond Delgado, President; Alta- 
 mont DeCordova, Vice-President; Charles DeMercado, 
 Treasurer; Messrs H. Barrow, Herman Stern, Jos. 
 Ashenheim, Fred. L. Myers, L. Samuels, Ernest 
 Samuels, Ed. Jacobs, Uriah Delapenah, J. H. Levy, 
 J. Mudahy, S. S. Lawton, A. Morales, C. E. Simon, 
 P. A. Moodie, D. S. Gideon, A. Delisser, 0. Delgado, 
 jnr., E. deCordova, C. deCordova. Jacob Brandon, D. 
 Motta, Geo. Lyons, H. M. Sollas, Sol. Morals, A. H. 
 Josephs, Isaac Brandon, A. Corinaldi, G. H. Lyons. 
 
128 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 AT THE EPISCOPALIAN CHURCHES. 
 
 From 11 a. m. there were special services held in all 
 the Episcopalian Churches in the city. The Bishop 
 had arranged a special form, of which the following is a 
 synopsis : — 
 
 Hymn 1 — "Oh God the King of Kings" ; Sentence 
 — I. Timothy II. 1, 2, 3; Shortened Exhortation ; 
 Confession ; Absolution ; Lord's Prayer and Versicles ; 
 1st Lesson — ^I. Chron., xxix, v. 10, to end of v. 20 ; Te 
 Deum Laudamus : II. Lesson. — Romans xiii. ; Jubilate ; 
 Apostle's Creed; Special Suftrages; First Special 
 Collect — "Almighty God who rulest over all;" Prayers 
 for Peace and Grace; Anthem or Hymn II. — God 
 save the Queen. &c.; In place of Litany use 2nd 
 Special Collect "0 Lord our God, who upholdest," &c. ; 
 3rd Special Collect — "Most Gracious God, &c., [In this 
 Collect after the word 'disquiet' insert the words "the 
 residue of"] ; Prayers for the Clergy and People ; 
 Ptayers for the Governor; Prayers for all conditions 
 of men; General Thanksgiving; Prayer of St. Chry- 
 sostom; The Grace; Hymn III. — "God of superior 
 dominion," &c. ; Ante-Communion Service ; Special 
 Thanksgiving Prayer — (prepared by the Bishop of 
 Jamaica); The Epistle— 1st Peter II. 11; The Gospel 
 — St.Matthewxxii.lt); Nicene Creed; Hymn IV. 
 — God of the White Eternal Throne, &c.; Sermon; 
 Offertory Sentences; conclude service in the usual 
 way adding the following prayers : — Prayer for Unity 
 — "Grant Lord, we beseech," &c. : Almighty God 
 the fountain of all wisdom," &c. : Benediction. 
 
SPECIAL THANKSGIVING SERVICES. 129 
 
 AT THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. 
 
 At 4 o'clock in the evening a State Service was 
 held at Holy Trinity Church, Duke Street. The 
 Church was crowded, and among the members of the 
 congregation we noticed Colonel Talbott, Captain 
 Kelly and several other officers. The service was 
 conducted by the Very Revd. Father Porter, Vicar 
 Apostolic, assisted by the Revds. Father Dupont, 
 Hathaway, and Bampton. 
 
 AT THE BAPTIST CHAPEL. 
 
 The Baptist congregations met at East Queen 
 Street Baptist Chapel, and a special service was 
 held. 
 
 AT THE NORTH STREET CHAPEL. 
 
 The Revd. Dr. Robb with his congregation united 
 with the congregation of North Street Chapel held 
 a special service. 
 
 AT TUB EAST STREET SYNAGOGUE. 
 
 There was also a most impressive service held at 
 the New Synagogue in East Street, at 11 a. m., at 
 which there was a very large attendance of our 
 Jewish fellow-citizens. Gleaner. 
 
 AT COKE CHAPEL. 
 
 At 11 o'clock an immense yet orderly congregation 
 representing the different Wesleyan Churches of the 
 City, and the Methodist Free Church, assembled 
 at Coke Chapel. At the hour of service the 
 Superintendent minister at Coke (Revd. Thos. 
 M. Geddes) ' with the preacher for the day 
 
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130 JUBILEE BBJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 (Rev. W. Clarke Murray), Revd. A. Taylor, of Wesley 
 Chapel, the Revd. W. Griffith, of the United Methodist 
 Free Church and the Revds. J. Barker, A. E. Smith, 
 H. W. Bleby, D. Reynolds, J. Roberts, (Methodist 
 Free Church) A. M. Geddes, J. Duff, S. Spratt, and 
 J. Smith, entered the chapel in procession, while the 
 special Jubilee Anthem was sung by the choir. The 
 devotional portion of the service was then conducted 
 by the Revds. T. M. Geddes, A. Taylor and W. Griffith 
 after which the Revd. Mr. Murray preached from St. 
 Matthew xxii. 21 v. "Render unto Csesar the things 
 that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are 
 God's." Mr. Murray began by showing that order or 
 rule, is heaven's primal law, and that that rule must 
 be centred in some authority. The Religion of the 
 New Testament does not prescribe any form of rule, 
 or lay down any lines as to the type of government, 
 which may be autocratic, (exercised by one person) 
 oligarghic (administered by the few choice spirits of 
 a country), or Monarchial, but the Bible insists upon 
 rule or authority of some kind ; and whatever are the 
 offsprings of a nations will, or of the spirit of the 
 times that form may chance to be, a providence 
 overrules it, and the powers that be are ordained of 
 God. He then proceeded to show that' never had the 
 ruling power been more wisely or gracefully exercised, 
 than by the Queen whose Jubilee we celebrate in no 
 spirit of mere formality or idle holiday making; and 
 that it behoved all her subjects to render obedience 
 and loyalty to the throne. But we must render unto 
 God the things that are God's, recognize Him as our 
 Sovereign Lord and Master, i-ender Him repentance 
 
■ SPECIAL THANKSGIVING BBRVICBS. 131 
 
 as a tribute to the law we had broken, render Him 
 obedience and the loving service of a life time and 
 particularly in connection with the present theme, 
 render Him thanks for the blessings of Her Majesty's 
 reign, for extended dominion, for the millions brought 
 under her sway, for the beneficence of her govern- 
 ment, the mildness and uplifting tendency of her rule, 
 for the increase of light and knowledge, the advance 
 of science, the march of political progress and liberty, 
 the augmentation of material wealth, the peaceful 
 triumphs of civilization, and above all for 
 the increase of all forms of moral and religious 
 agency. "He alluded particularly to the statesmen 
 of Her Majesty's reign, and paid a glowing tribute 
 to Mr. Gladstone, whose public life had extended over 
 the whole period covered by her Majesty's reign, and 
 finally called on the congregation, in acknowledgment 
 of the hand of God in the bestowment of such great 
 national blessings as those which centred in the 
 present illustrious occupant of the throne, to join in 
 singing "God save the Queen." Express 
 
 AT THE SCOTCH KIRK. 
 
 This Ancient place of Worship was very tastefully 
 decorated for the occasion and suitable mottoes were 
 hung around the building. The Rev. R. C. Guy 
 occupied the pulpit. He had no text but read from 
 3rd Chap, of I Kings and the 13th Chap, of Romans. 
 He said the Pulpit had been in a great measure filled 
 by the Press which had supplied much of the History 
 of the Queen and the incidents of her life. There 
 were two features which he specially dwelt upon. 
 
132 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 Her Majesty's purity of life — and Her Majesty's hu- 
 manity, and her exercise of sacred devotion, her 
 people realized the fulfilment of God's promise "Them 
 that honor me, I will honor." 
 
 AT THE ST. Andrew's kirk. 
 
 On Tuesday the Brethren of the United Order of 
 Odd Fellows went in procession to St. Andrews Kirk, 
 where a special thanksgiving service was held. The 
 Little Kirk was filled. The front seats of the middle 
 of the Church were occupied by members of the G. U. 
 0. and I. 0. M. U. of Odd Fellows in their full regalia. 
 After the opening invocation the Scottish Metrical 
 version of the Hundreth Psalm was sung to its well 
 known old tune. The Rev. James Cochrane, the 
 minister of the Kirk, then read Prov. viii and Romans 
 xiii. The Rev. Henry Scott of Port Maria offered the 
 thanksgiving prayer. Mr. Cochrane preached from 
 Prov. viii 15. By me Kings reign and Princes decree 
 justice: and the Rev. J. D. Robertson, of Ewings 
 Caymanas offered the concluding prayer. The Choir 
 which was in full force and splendid voice rendered 
 the "Te Deum" and the Anthems, "I was glad" and 
 "Make a joyful noise" most effectively. The whole 
 service lasted only an hour. Gall's News Letter 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 
 PROCESSION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN. 
 
 A large number of persons asHembled in Duke St. 
 for the purpose of seeing the school children who 
 were to form a procession and march up to the Race 
 Course to be reviewed by the Governor. H. M. S. 
 Bann arrived from Port Royal with the children and 
 teachers of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, and the 
 Wesley an Church at about half past three o'clock- 
 They numbered about 300 and were all landed at the 
 Ordnance Wharf. After this large number of school 
 children had been placed in position, they passed in 
 the'following order : — ■ 
 
 North St. Congregational Church, West Branch 
 School (in connection with St. George's Episcopal 
 Church). Kingston Parish Church. St. Peter's Church 
 (Port Royal), Wesleyan Church (Port Royal). St. 
 George's Church, Convent School, United Methodist 
 Free Church, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, St. 
 Martin's (Roman Catholic) East Queen St. Baptist 
 Chapel, Ebenezer Wesleyan Chapel, St. Michael's Epis- 
 copal Church, Church of Scotland, St. Mary's Industrial 
 School, Hanover St. Baptist Chapel, Kingston Ragged 
 
134 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 School, and Wesley Chapel. The mottoes were 
 all very appropriate for the occasion. The children 
 numbered 7,800. On arriving at the Race 
 Course we found 15,000, to 20,000, persons had as- 
 sembled. After the children had all been placed in 
 the order arranged, which took a considerable time. 
 His Excellency the Governor and party were 
 announced at about 6 o'clock, and took their seats in 
 the grand stand, when the National Anthem was sung 
 by the children under the direction of Mr. John 
 Tillman, headmaster of Wolmer's School, assisted by 
 Mr. H. W. Cody. "God bless the Prince of Wales" was 
 next sung, and on the conclusion of a third song. His 
 Excellency left the stand accompanied by the Misses 
 Xorman, Capt. Owen, A. D. C, the Revd. D. J. East. 
 Revd. W. Griffith, Revd. J. S. Roberts, Revd. H. H. 
 Kilburn, and Major Knollys, C. M. G., His Excellency 
 proceeded to inspect the children of the diiferent 
 schools, and on concluding his inspection three hearty 
 cheers were given for His Excellency, and three for 
 Lady Norman. His Excellency, in addressing the_ 
 children, said — he was exceedingly pleased to see 
 them, and he was sure every one present was also 
 delighted to see them moving under such good influ- 
 ences, and pleased at their loyal singing. Gleaner 
 
 His Excellency, addressing Capt. Gruchy of the C. 
 Company of the Kingston Volunteer Militia said they 
 were all very much indebted to him for the manner 
 in which the children had been so . excellently drilled 
 and arranged. His Excellency then left the ground. 
 
 Many a young memory will long remain in lively 
 recollection of the preparation for the march up Duke 
 
PROCESSION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN. 135 
 
 St. to the Race Course, the marshalling within the 
 allotted space, the singing, the Governor's visit, the 
 cheering, and the general excitement. The mottoes 
 on the banners will no doubt be best remembered 
 judging by what we read on similar experiences. 
 Christain and Jew, men of the world and those who 
 are best known as Churchmen, Roman Catholics and 
 Protestants alike regarded this part of the proceedings 
 as a great success. The greatest care was taken by 
 the superintendents of the children that they should 
 all be taken to the place of meeting and home again 
 without accident or loss of any kind. "God save the 
 Queen", a text of Scripture a well known loyal or 
 religious sentiment, or something similiar was on each 
 banner diplayed. The children were almost all well 
 and becomingly dress. They behaved remarkably 
 well. The singing was excellent, and the general 
 effect all that was desired. At the close the Governor 
 expressed the great pleasure he had in being present, 
 and was sure he said that the proceedings would long 
 Jive in the memory of very many and would be re- 
 called in some cases many long years after. Privately 
 thanked the members of the committee for the kind 
 and efficient manner in which they had carried 
 through a difficult, yet most interesting and useful 
 work. Express 
 
CHAPTER VII. 
 
 THE DEOOBATIONS AND ILLUMINATIONS. 
 
 From Saturday 25th June the streets had begun to 
 don their gala dress. Along Harbour Street, as far 
 as Duke Street, from the sea to the Parade, along 
 King Street, Church Street and Duke Street, flags 
 and banners of all colors and nationalities were 
 hung "upon the outward wall" of stores and dwelling 
 houses in gay profusion. On Monday the display of 
 bunting was still more pronounced, and visitors from 
 the country, who arrived by the early train noticed 
 mysterious boxes just beneath the upper stories of 
 buildings along Harbour Street, the purpose of which 
 they eagerly enquired from bystanders and found 
 they were intended to shine forth on Tuesday night 
 in all the glory of colored glass and paper, as trans- 
 parencies with Royal and Imperial emblems and loyal 
 mottoes. All during the previous week men had been 
 observed fixing iron pipes upon scantling and screw- 
 ing burners into them to outline the storefront in jets 
 of flame, while on Monday afternoon busy hands were 
 hoisting flagstafi's, and wreathing piazza columns with 
 garlands of leaves and flowers. During this time the 
 fancy stores were doing a roaring business with the 
 
THE DECORATIONS AND ILLUMINATIONS. 137 
 
 numerous country customers who knowing that 
 Wednesday and Thursday would be kept as holidays 
 were anxious to make their purchases at the Metro- 
 politan Warehouses before returning to the country. 
 Starting from the foot of King Street, we noticed 
 that at the market wharf there was a device in gas 
 with the word "Welcome." 
 
 The Victoria Market was gaily decorated and at 
 the South entrance was a device in gas with the 
 United floral emblems of England and Wales, the 
 "Rose, Shamrock and Thistle." At the West entrance 
 was a large V. R. and the Northern entrance was 
 decorated with a Royal Crown, while a row of gas 
 jets illuminated the eaves of the roof. 
 
 The wharf wall opposite, of Messrs. J. H. McDowell 
 & Co. was outlined in jets of light, and the various 
 stores, and the office of the Street Car Company were 
 bedight with flags. The store of Messrs. E. Lyons & 
 Son had two huge devices of V. R. on the Harbour 
 Street and King Street front, fully 12 feet high. The 
 store of Messrs. Pinnoek, Bailey & Co. was most 
 tastily adorned with flags upon projecting staves on 
 both sides of the spacious iron balcony, the angle was 
 ornamented with a large Imperial Crown. The illu- 
 minations of this old established place of business 
 were most tasteful, consisting of hundreds of Chinese 
 lanterns hung between the supports of the upper 
 piazza, in waving lines, an excellent efiect being pro- 
 duced by supporting the lanterns upon Chinese 
 umbrellas, in the manner of a chandelier, forming 
 altogether a vandyke pattern along the double front 
 
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138 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 of the store. Messrs. Aston W. Gardner & Co. had 
 a transparency representing "Fame trumpeting forth 
 the glories of Her Majesty and bearing a shield," with 
 the legend "The world greets thee." 
 
 Messrs. David Henderson & Co. exhibited lines of 
 hurricane lanterns along the west and south fronts 
 of their place of business. Mr. A. H. Morales exhib- 
 ited a design in colored lights, and Mr. E. D. Kinkead 
 had erected a very handsome transparency, with "V. 
 R. and a Crown surmounting a legend — "A joyous 
 Jubilee to our illustrious Queen," Messrs. W. Mc- 
 Cartney & Co. had their windows outlined in colored 
 lamps. Mr. Crosswell had two transparencies over 
 the piazza ; one had the legend "God save our noble 
 Queen" and the other "Victoria, Queen of Great Bri- 
 tain and Empress of India, born May 24th, 1819; 
 succeeded to the throne June 1837 ; crowned June 
 28th, 1838." On reaching the parade we found a 
 large seven pointed star in gas, erected in front of 
 Metcalfe's statue. Jordon's statue was adorned with 
 a V. R. and Bowerbank's effigy was illuminated with 
 the Prince of Wales feathers. The Jubilee, late 
 Solas Market recently restored after destruction by 
 the hurricane, was most tastefully adorned with color- 
 ed draperies, flags, banners and wreaths of flowers 
 and evergreens. Over the east gateway was an 
 arch of red cloth with floral ornaments, and a device 
 in gas, the Prince of Wales' plume. - The south gate 
 had a similar arch and a device In gas V. R- The 
 Theatre Royal was graced with poles on the summit 
 of the facade and on either side _of the entrance 
 which was illuminated with arches in gas jets. We 
 
THE DECOBiTIONS AND ILLUMINATIONS. 139 
 
 now pass along to Head Quarter House in Duke St. 
 over the Eastern gate of which was a handsome 
 design in gas showing in lines of light the following 
 words: — "Jamaicans hail their Sovereign's Jubilee, 
 God save the Queen." 
 
 Mr. Sinclair at the Government Printing Establish- 
 ment, had surpassed himself in his efforts to do honor 
 to the occasion. The railings in front were panelled 
 with sprays of lignum vitce ornamented further with 
 garlands of crotons and other bright colored leaves, 
 in the centre of each panel was an inscription in cloth 
 of various colors. Some of the inscription were "God 
 save the Queen," "Glory to our Empire," " The land 
 of the Free Press," &c., &c. The gable end of the 
 building was outlined in gas jets and there was tbe 
 blazing sun in the centre, a transparency of "God 
 save the Queen," and lines of Chinese lanterns. The 
 whole of the front of the building was ornamented 
 with flowers and wreaths, and over each pillar of the 
 railing floated a small bright colored flag; the whole 
 ari-angement spoke well for the energy and good 
 taste of Mr. Sinclair and his assistants. On the op- 
 posite side of the street at the end of the short road 
 leading to St. George's Church and schoolroom 
 there was a handsome triumphal arch, with appopri- 
 ate transparencies surmounting the structure. 
 
 Proceeding down Duke Street several buildings had 
 hung out flags, and Mr. George Levy had decorated 
 his entrance gate with lines of light in gas, and 
 displayed a Red Ensign from a flagstaff. 
 
 The Kingston Benefit Building Society had decorat- 
 ed their premises with a handsome design consisting of 
 
140 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 the double triangle, enclosing a circle, within which 
 was the cypher V. R. 
 
 In Harbour St. the Court House, Treasury and 
 Post Office were illuminated in gas lines of jet, outlin- 
 ing the facados of the building. Mr. George Lyons 
 displayed the Cypher V. R. in colored lamps, and 
 Mr. Jacob Brandon had lighted up the fiont of 
 his piazza with colored lights. 
 
 Messrs. Turnbull, Mudon & Co., displayed Chinese 
 lanterns, tracing the columns and cornice of the 
 front of their store. Messrs. Nathan & Co. had 
 fixed at the angle of their building a double colored 
 transparency with the cypher V. R. 
 
 In Church Street flags and colored draperies were 
 freely displayed and in front of the Gas and Water 
 Works Office was a design in gas jets outlining the 
 pillars and rails of the verandah. 
 
 Messrs. P. Desnoes & Son's store showed a heart- 
 shaped shield in small lamps. 
 
 On either side, too, of Harbour Street, the block 
 between Church St. and Temple Lane, were illumi. 
 nated by gas jets, tracing out the columns and 
 cornices of the piazzas, the gas tubes bging erected 
 upon a wooden frame-work. 
 
 Messrs. Ellis & Co. exhibited a large transparency 
 with the words 
 
 1837. 1887. 
 
 Royal Crown 
 
 God save the Queen. 
 
 Jubilee. Jubilee. 
 
 The Commercial Exchange was gaily decorated 
 
 with bunting, colored cloth and green wreaths 
 
THE DEGORATIONS AND ILLUMINATIONS. 141 
 
 covered the pillars, and Chinese lanterns swung 
 from the cornice of the verandah. 
 
 The front of the stores of Messrs. Machado, and 
 Andrew Scott were most tastefully draped with red 
 coolie cloth in festoons, Chinese lanterns hung above 
 the verandah, and this cornice of the piazza was 
 decorated with small many-colored glass lamps) 
 producing a very pretty effect. 
 
 The Model Grocery in King Street displayed its 
 usual M. G. and was adorned further with flags, 
 colored lights were hung under the piazza, the 
 pillars were covered with scarlet cloth and ever- 
 greens, and there were devices in gas of V. R. and 
 an Anchor. 
 
 The Municipal Offices were profusely decorated 
 with wreathed columns, floral festoons, and a red 
 valance with yellow braid. 
 
 At the foot of King Street, we particularly 
 noticed the brilliant eff'ect of the illumination of 
 the office of Messrs Lascelles DeMercado & Co. 
 The front of the building was ablaze with the light of 
 numerous Chinese lanterns. 
 
 The Car Office was lit up with colored lamps and 
 Chinese lanterns. The establishment of Messrs. 
 Simon & LeRay, Messrs. Young & Co. and the Army 
 and Navy Bar were all brilliantly illuminated. 
 
1-1:2 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 / 
 
 It was from the foot of King St. that the majority 
 of the spectators were able to see the beautiful spec- 
 tators presented by H. M. S, Tourmaline Forward 
 and Mallard. These -vessels were anchored in line 
 with the Tourmaline in the centre opposite the 
 market wharf and a dense crowd assembled along the 
 market front and by the courtesy of the Hon. J. H. 
 McDowell, his wharf was thrown open to the public 
 to their great comfort and convenience. 
 
 The men-of-war were brilliantly illuminated from 
 the water-line to the masthead with colored lamps, 
 and the effect of the various colored lights at all the 
 port.s, along the rails and on the spars, yards, and 
 rigging, reflected upon the ripples of the Harbour 
 was most beautiful, and fairy-like. The Tourmaline 
 was ablaze with the sun-like radiance of the Electric 
 Light, and from time to time the brilliant beam was 
 turned upon the market and the other buildings on 
 the soa-front, lighting up thousands of up-turned faces 
 w ith the brightness of day. The statue of Rodney 
 steadily pointing to the fancied Eldorado of the 
 Spanish Main, sprang suddenly on the sight, from 
 comparative darkness, as the bright beam from the 
 ship flashed upon it, irradiating it with a magical 
 eifulgence as though a fiery angel had suddenly 
 alighted on the pedestal. As the ray of light was 
 turned up, the sky and its luminous track was lost 
 among the stars, the people gave vent to cries of 
 admiration and astonishment, which strengthened 
 into shouts of applause, as great bouquets of rockets 
 rushed simultaneously into the air and scattered their 
 fiery gems on high. When His Excellency left the 
 
THE DECORATIONS AND ILLUMINATIONS. 143 
 
 stage and was rowed by the sailors to the Tourmaline 
 ■ the electric ray was turned upon the boat, and as the 
 oars threw up the water every oar blade became bur- 
 nished silver and every drop of water falling there- 
 from was transformed into liquid fire. Until a late 
 hour the magic beam illuminated streets, buildings and 
 people with the brightness of day and played fantas- 
 tically among the shipping bringing in sharp and 
 glittering relief the spars and hulls on vessels that 
 had hitherto remained hidden in gloom. 
 
 In the upper part of King Street above Harbour 
 Street, we noticed some very pleasing effects produced 
 by transparent all colored lights at the stores of 
 Messrs. Milkie, Auvray, Macmillan, Bavastro, Leonte 
 Quesada and others. High up above the trees two 
 light circles of colored light hung upon the steeple of 
 the Parish Church, looking at a distance like a new 
 constellation, that possessed by curiosity had descend- 
 ed from its throne in space to see what the Kingston 
 people were doing, in thus striving to emulate in 
 brightness the very stars themselves. 
 
 In Harbour Street Messrs. Nathan, J. Brandon, 
 Andrew Scott, Machado Henry Lindo, F. Alexander 
 & Co., did honor to the occasion by handsome and 
 tasteful decorations by transparencies, colored lamps 
 and Chinese lanterns. 
 
 The Municipal buildings were most tastefully illumi- 
 nated by colored lamps along the cornices. Many 
 
144 JUBILEE BEJOIOINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 citizens illuminated their gardens with lamps and 
 lanterns, and there were few stores in the principal 
 streets without some luminous display. 
 
 The Colonial Bank shrouded in a stately and 
 magnificent cloak of darkness, made a most admirable 
 and effective foil to the brilliant decorations of its 
 neighbours. The lofty tower overlooked the city like 
 a gigantic policeman asleep upon his beat with his 
 bull's eye lantern extinguished, and his helmet ram- 
 med over his eyes by some passing bacchanalian. 
 
 The Sailors Home was illuminated by the device of 
 an Anchor and Cable in Gas. 
 
 Mr. Adam's Buildings in Church Street were orna- 
 mented with colored lamps, and Mr. DeSouza showed 
 handsome transparencies with the device V. J. R. 
 and strings of Chinese lanterns. Mr. J. Bewley 
 displayed a very handsome transparency with 
 symbolic devices and loyal legends. 
 
 The Gardens and houses of the inhabitants all over 
 the city in some way did honor to the occasion. We 
 specially noticed the grounds attached to the residence 
 of Dr. Ogilvie in Hanover Street, which presented 
 a fairy-like appearance. A large number of Chinese 
 lanterns hung over the gardens and up in the lofty 
 trees. 
 
 The street cars commenced running at five o'clock 
 in the morning, and continued every twenty minutes 
 until eleven o'clock at night. The manager Mr. T. L. 
 
THE DECORATIONS AND ILLUMINATIONS. 145 
 
 Barber was indefatigable in his efforts to cater for 
 the public traffic and was to be seen all day directing 
 and providing for the comfort of all who availed 
 themselves of this means of locomotion — over 20,000 
 persons were conveyed over the several lines on 
 Tuesday. 
 
 All the Churches in the city were lighted up in the 
 evening. 
 
 His Excellency visited H. M. S. TourmaUTie and 
 after remaining there for fully half an hour returned 
 and drove along Harbour Street and proceeded to 
 King's House. 
 
 The Cottage Grove Observatory was also brilliantly 
 illuminated with several transparencies. 
 
 a.O'£ 8 &<7*o 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 OPENING OP THE JUBILEE MARKET. 
 
 At nine o'clock on Wednesday morning the crowd 
 began to gather^in and around the new market. The 
 edifice was handsomely decorated, the columns being 
 wrapped with bright red cloth and evergreens inter- 
 laid with flowers and small flags of bright colors hung 
 from the top of each column. In the centre of the 
 market, at the north end, a platform had been erected, 
 covered over with red coolie cloth ; the steps leading 
 to the platform had pots of beautiful foliage plants; 
 a large Brussel's carpet was spread in the centre and 
 a large easy chair (which by the way no one occupied) 
 stood in the centre. The British ensign was grace- 
 fully draped at the back of the platform, and a 
 portrait of Her Majesty hung on the wall under the 
 flags. Among those present we noticed — Hon. Val. 
 G. Bell, Hon. E. N. Walker, Hon. T. Capper, Hon. 
 Win. Malabre, Hon. W. Bourke, His Honor the 
 Custos, His Worship the Mayor, Councillors Branday> 
 Cassis, Lazarus, Burton, Lewis, Wales, the Consul of 
 the United States, J. J. Bowiy, &c. &c. 
 
 At half past 10 o'clock his Excellency the Governor 
 with an escort of mounted volunteers, arrived, and 
 
OPENING OF THE JUBILEE MARKET. 147 
 
 was ushered to the platform by Hon. E. N. Walker 
 and His Honor the Gustos, market commissioners. 
 
 Hon. E. N. Walker, then said: The Gustos of 
 Kingston, who is the managing commissioner of 
 the market, will with your Excellency's permission, 
 read a short address which he has prepared and 
 which will explain the occasion of our meeting here. 
 
 The Gustos then read as follows : — 
 
 On an occasion like the present, it seems appropriate that the 
 Market Commissioners should present to your Excellency a short 
 "minute" of the antecedent of the "Solas Market;" the various 
 reasons which have led to the erection on the same site of the 
 present building, and the cost at which it has been accomplished. 
 
 The "Solas Market" was named a century ago, after an agel 
 gentleman of the Jewish persuasion, who then did business in 
 the locality. He was a man of considerable wealth and was 
 afterwards brutally murdered, the perpetrators of the foul deed 
 never having been discovered. 
 
 The market was an open space, surrounded by an old wooden 
 structure, devoid of every convenience for those by whom it was 
 frequented. The great number, through rain and sunshine, sat 
 iuddled together on the ground in the centre space, with no 
 protection from the elements. It has long been the intention of 
 the Commissioners to improve or rebuild it, but they delayed the 
 work from time to time, under the expectation (now abandoned) 
 that the site might be required of Government for public buildings- 
 Finally the damage done to it by the hurricane of 1886 forced on 
 the Commissioners the necessity for its restoration. 
 
 The plan ' was designed by Mr. G. N. Cox, Engineer of the 
 Kingston and Liguanea Water Works, and the work was carried 
 out under the immediate supervision of the assistant Engineer of 
 those works, Mr. Fred. Kemble, at a coat of £1,096 3s 2d. The 
 
148 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 building was commenced on 20tli January last, and has thus been 
 completed in about five months, the contractors for the carpen- 
 ter's work being Mr A. T. Sisk and for the mason work Mr. Fred. 
 Shroeter. Both materials and work will be found to be of the 
 best description. There are in this market 30 stalls, and space 
 under cover for 1,000 persons. Ample light will be afforded by 
 ten lamps lighted by gas on the Saturday nights, the only nights 
 on which the market will be kept open after dark, Admission to 
 those who desire to use the market will be procured by tickets, 
 to be purchased at the office. The supervision will be under the 
 Clerk and Assistant Clerks of the Markets, and the Commissioners 
 hope that the improved market will be a factor in the civilizing 
 influences it is desired to bear on the crowds who may fre- 
 quent it, 
 
 The "Victoria Market" was so named by His Excellency Sir 
 John Peter Grant, then Governor of the Island, and the 
 Commissioners venture to ask that this market may now be 
 opened by your Excellency, in this the Jmbilee year of Her 
 Majesty's reign, under the name of the "Jubilee Market," this 
 day and to-morrow, free of charge, and for business on the 1 st 
 July next. 
 
 His Excellency then said . 
 
 Mk. Kemble, Maeket Commissionbks, Ladies and 
 Gentlemen : — 
 
 We are much obliged I am sure to Mr. Kemble for the 
 short and interesting history of the Solas Market and the details 
 he has given us as to its reconstruction and I think we can 
 congratulate him upon the completion of the work. It is not 
 necessary that I should enlarge upon the advantage to the 
 community from well sheltered and well conducted markets 
 which are fully appreciated in Jamaica and I may hope that there 
 will be more constructed all over the Island and I am bound to 
 say that with this market and the Victoria Market Kingston is 
 porportionately as well provided as any town of her size in any 
 part of the world. Hurricanes do a great deal of damage and 
 cause a great deal of alarm, but when we look at this market 
 and recollect that it may have remained in its former very 
 forlorn condition, we see that hurricanes as well as other such 
 
OPENING OF THE JUBILEE MARKET. 149 
 
 misfortunes, though very unpleasant leave behind excellent 
 results. I think it is creditable to the Market Commissioners that 
 thpy have proceeded so promptly to reconstruct the market from 
 designs furnished by Mr. Cox. Yesterday I visited here to look 
 first and see and examine the building, and I think to Mr. Kemble 
 the constructing engineer, is due credit for the excellence of the 
 work and speed with which it has been carried out, and as far as 
 I could judge, economy in its construction. I trust that this 
 market wiU in some degree help the prosperity of Kingston, and 
 I hope that long before the jubilee year of this market Kingston 
 will have so improved that it will require two more markets 
 besides what we now possess. 
 
 I am desired by the Commissioners to give the name to 
 this market, and have much pleasure in declaring that it shall 
 henceforth be known as the Jubilee Market and I trust sincerely 
 that the Jubilee Market will have a long career of success and be 
 a great convenience to the community at large. 
 
 Mr. Walker then addressed His Excellency : — 
 
 On behalf of the Market Commissioners I beg to offer 
 you their thanks for having included the opening and naming of 
 the Market among the Jubilee celebrations. I trust that the 
 premises which have been replaced to-day will be of much use to 
 this community and I hope that when the Jubilee of this Market 
 arrives the future generation will be in a position to give a satis- 
 factory account of its usefulness and prosperity. Again Sir I 
 have to thank you. 
 
 CL^^ ^ BS ' tT^o 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 
 THE GOVERNOR S LEVEE. 
 
 The sailors from the British men-of-war in the port 
 under the able guidance of Commodore H. Littledale, 
 R. N., had done wonders with the Town Hall. The 
 whole of the walls were hung with flags of all nations , 
 gracefully draped and festooned between and over the 
 windows. The bright colors of the drapery were 
 relieved by glittering devices worked out with 
 bayonets, cutlasses, ramrods and revolvers set in the 
 form of stars. Around the upper end magnificent 
 palms were arranged in a semi circle beautifully 
 relieving with their gracefully bending verdant foliage 
 the brilliant colors of the draped flags. 
 
 At this end was placed the Chair of State and over 
 it a towering flagstaff' upon which the Imperial 
 Ensign, the Royal Standard of England, was hoisted 
 when His Excellency the Governor, the representative 
 of Her Most Gracious Majesty entered the hall. 
 
 At the lower end of the hall, flags were draped 
 between the last pair of pillars making a partiere, 
 and the head of the double staircase was adorned 
 with handsome ornamental-leaved plants. The 
 
THE qoveknor's levee. 151 
 
 whole arrangement was carried out with great 
 completeness and reflects the utmost credit upon the 
 gallant officer and his brave jack-tars. 
 
 Immediately after the ceremonies of the opening 
 of the Jubilee Market the stream of sight-seers turned 
 to the Town Hall and every available window and 
 verandah were crowded to their utmost capacity with 
 ladies and gentlemen, anxious to see the Governor and 
 those who were to be presented. By eleven o'clock 
 upwards of a hundred gentlemen who had the right 
 of private entry had assembled in the spacious Hall. 
 Ministers of Religion in their gowns, Judges of the 
 Supreme Court in the wigs and robes of office, 
 Officials, Foreign Consuls, &c., were here congregated 
 awaiting the arrival of His Excellency, who punctual 
 as usual, took his stand at the head of the room, 
 accompanied by his Private Secretary Capt. Owen 
 and Mr. Lucie Smith, who acted as assistant. The 
 presentations commenced, and each gentleman walked 
 past, bowing in graceful manner to the representative 
 of their Most Gracious Sovereign, then took up their 
 positions in a ring till the entire number who desired 
 to do honor to their Queen had been presented. 
 
 His Excellency wore his Windsor uniform — and 
 the scene in that magnificently decorated room was a 
 grand sight — several hundred gentlemen in full 
 evening dress with officers of the army and navy in 
 their uniforms, the several orders of Forresters, Good 
 Samaritans and Odd Fellows with their Aprons and 
 Sashes trimmed with gold lace, blended most harmo- 
 niously. 
 
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 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 The following gentlemen were presented: — 
 
 Mr. Justice Anderson, 
 
 Capt. AUwood, 
 
 Dr. I. W. Anderson, 
 
 O. J. Archer, 
 
 J. B. Armstrong, 
 
 F. 0. Abrahams, 
 
 Capt. J. B. Archdale, 
 
 P. W. Abbot, 
 
 P. Anderson, 
 
 C. Alexander, 
 
 W. C. G. Arrowsmith, 
 
 E. W. Astwood, 
 Bev. R. G. Ambrose, 
 V. G. BeU, 
 
 Lieut. J. E. Beroroft, 
 
 J. J. Bowery, 
 
 Hon. W. Bourke, 
 
 A. E. Bogle, 
 
 R. N. Berwick, 
 
 Rev. H. A."Bampton, 
 
 A. G. Brown, 
 
 R. Batten, 
 
 Rev. W. J. Burns, 
 
 Dr. R. G. S. Bell, 
 
 John Davidson, 
 
 Mortimer Brandon, 
 
 L. D. Beylard, 
 
 TJ. C. Buck, 2nd W. I. E. 
 
 S. W. Blacker, E. A. 
 
 Alexander Berry, 
 
 A. E. Burke, 
 
 R. E. Benson, 
 
 Hon. S. C. Burke, 
 
 F. H. Barker, 
 C. T. Burton, 
 V. G. D. Black, 
 H. J. Bicknell, 
 Dr. Bronstroph, 
 
 J. L. Bristoe, 2nd W. I. E. 
 
 H. Bogle, 
 
 J. S. Brown, 
 
 0. A. Bonitto, 
 
 Rev. D. Baruch, 
 
 J. F. Brown, 
 
 Rev. F. Balfour, 
 
 L. P. Branday, 
 
 T. G. Briscoe, 
 
 J. C. Bryant, 
 
 Rev. James Cochrane, 
 
 James S. Callender, 
 
 T. J. Curphy, 
 
 P. C. Cunha, 
 
 Major H. Chevers, 
 
 John Cassis, 
 
 Dugald Campbell, 
 
 A. Carpenter, 
 
 C. Chadwick, 
 
 P. C. Cork, 
 
 Hon. R. Craig, 
 
 C. M. Calder, 
 
 George Cork, 
 
 J. M. Casserly, 
 
 John Casserly, 
 
 J. M. CroBswell, 
 
 J. B. Chadwick, 
 
 P. E. Chapman, 
 
 Major Daintey, 
 
 Rev. G. W. Downer, 
 
 Rev. J. Dupont, 
 
 John Duff, 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Douet, 
 
 G. M. Duff, 
 
 L. DeCordova, 
 
 M. Dolphy, 
 
 J. DeCordova, 
 
 C. E. DeMercado. 
 
THE GOVERNORS LEVEE. 
 
 153 
 
 J. C. Duhany, 
 
 G. J. DeCordova, 
 
 Altamont DeCordova, 
 
 John D'Aeth, 
 
 J. H. Dodd, 
 
 0. De'lgado, 
 
 C. Dunn, 
 
 G. A. Douglass, 
 
 Capt. E. A. Doultou, 
 
 F. A. Denton, 
 
 Alex. Dickson, 
 
 Elias Dazevado, 
 
 W. Dufe, 
 
 Kev. J. Duff, 
 
 James Dayes, 
 
 C. DeCordova, 
 Rev. D. J. East, 
 E. East, 
 
 A. W. Fouehe, 
 
 H. Ford, 
 
 Rev. A. Findlay, 
 
 J. C. Fegan, 
 
 W. H. Fyfe, 
 
 Inspector Field, 
 
 Capt. George Ffrench, 
 
 W. A. Feurtado, 
 
 L. R. Fyfe, 
 
 Hon. J. M. Farquharson, 
 
 W. Fawcett, 
 
 H. Fray, 
 
 Richard Gillard, 
 
 Joseph Green, 
 
 Rev. W. Griffiths, 
 
 D. S. Gideon, 
 
 C. H. C. Grossett, 
 Er. Chas. Gayleard, 
 Charles Goldie, 
 A, C. Green, 
 Henry Garsia, 
 Capt. Garnet, 
 
 W. B. Gray, 
 Mid. H. GreenfeU, 
 Rev. W. GiUies, 
 Rev. J. H. Graham, 
 W. B. Hylton, 
 Joseph Henry, 
 R. S. Haughton, 
 
 B. C. Hiuchliff, 
 
 A. N. Humphreys, 
 
 C. H. V. Hall, 
 Geo. Head, 
 N. A. Hay, 
 
 W. B. Hannan, 
 J. J. Hart, 
 Thos. Hendrick, 
 Geo. Henderson, 
 T. B. Hendricks, 
 
 B. E. C. Hosack, 
 John Hall, 
 
 J. Hickson, 
 Hon. T. L. Harvey, 
 John Harris, 
 Geo. Hicks, 
 T. Harry, 
 
 C. E. Isaacs, 
 
 Capt. F. S. Inglefield, 
 Rev. H. H. Isaacs, 
 Rev. H. S. Isaacs, 
 W. D. Jamieson, 
 Rev. S. Jacobs, 
 P. H. James, 
 Sgn.-Major, Joynt, 
 W. T. Jacobs, 
 Capt. Jopp, 
 Robt. Johnstone, 
 S, A. Johnson, 
 J, S. Jones, 
 H. R, Jacobstene, 
 A, H. Jones, 
 
154 
 
 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 Lewis Johnson, 
 
 C. W. Kiikwood, 2nd W. I. R. 
 
 J. S. Knox, 
 
 Allen Kerr, 
 
 Capt. P. KeUy, 
 
 Hon. H. J. Kemble, 
 
 A. A. Kildare, 
 
 A, Kennedy, 
 
 P. A. Kenna, 
 
 H. Knaggs, 
 
 Major L. F. KnoUys, 
 
 Major Lamarnie, 
 
 Simon Lewis, 
 
 P. G. M, Lynch, 
 
 W. B. F. Lennard, 
 
 Rev. R. D. Lewis, 
 
 Com. H. Littledale, 
 
 A. Levy, 
 
 M. H. Lawrence, 
 
 J. M. Levy, 
 
 J. V. Leach, 
 
 C. S. Liudo, 
 
 J. J: G. Lewis, 
 
 Geo. Lindo, 
 
 A. M. Lewis, 
 Geo. Levy, 
 N. Leake, 
 M. H. Lewis, 
 
 B. A. Ledward, 
 Rev. A. C. Lewis, 
 M. Lopez, 
 
 S. M. Logan, 
 E. B. Lynch, 
 
 C. P. Lazarus, 
 
 B. H. Lain, 
 
 C. Liddell, 
 
 O. Maresoaux, 
 Capt. Mainwaring, 
 John A. Messias, 
 E. M. McLaughlin, 
 
 H. J. Murray, 
 
 R. W. MUes, 
 
 A. H. Miles, 
 
 C. A. Malabre, 
 
 Rev. J. D. McPherson, 
 
 A. W. Moon, 
 
 Capt. McPherson, 
 
 Inspector W. McLeod, 
 
 Hon. W. Malabre, 
 
 Chas, Malabre, 
 
 Stephen W. Mais, 
 
 John McLean. 
 
 Major Macglashan, 
 
 G. S. McCormack, 
 
 C. McNeU, 
 
 Geo. L. Mills, 
 
 Lieut. Col. Morley, 
 
 W. Matheson, 
 
 Rev. W. C. McCaUa, 
 
 Rev. H. M. F. MoDermot, 
 
 W. McKinnon, 
 
 Sidney Moxsy, 
 
 C. 0. Magnan, 
 
 W. L. Mudon, 
 
 J. W. Middleton, 
 
 A. C. Mais, 
 
 C. L. MaiSj 
 
 Geo. E. Maunsell, 
 L. G. H. Murphy, 
 Rev. H. McPherson, 
 W. H. Miller, 
 
 E. H. E. McLaverty, 
 S. P. Musson, 
 
 D. I. Motta, 
 
 F. L. Myers, 
 
 C. H. McPhail, 2nd W. I. R. 
 J. E. McKeuzie, 2nd W. I. R. 
 Robt. A. Matthews, 
 J. T. Miuot, 
 P. A. Moodie, 
 
THE GOVKRNORS LEVKB. 
 
 155 
 
 W. J. Newman, 
 Mr. Justice Northoote, 
 J. H. NiohoUa, 
 Surgeon Nicholgon, 
 Samuel J. Nunes, 
 W. S. Newman, 
 
 A. M. Nathan, 
 Thos. Oughton, 
 W. H. Orrett, 
 Capt. C. E. Ogle, 
 T. H. Orrett, 
 
 W. H. O.Meara, 
 
 B. Owen, 
 
 T. L. OrsineU, 
 
 E. J. Orrett, 
 0. M. Ogilvie, 
 Dr. James Ogilvie, 
 
 C. T. Ochler, 
 T. B. Oughton, 
 W. J. Pearson, 
 Joh.u Parry, 
 W. A. Paine, 
 Hy. Priest, 
 
 L. H. Pierce, 
 A. B. Parvis, 
 A, H. Pinnock, 
 Major A. A. Parsons, 
 Dr. John Pringle, 
 Ven. Kev. Thos. Porter, 
 
 F. A. Pezet, 
 S. E. Peters, 
 Major Potter, 
 W. J. Pointer, 
 Adolphe PhUipson, 
 Alex. Robertson, 
 H. G. Richards, 
 
 C. Renwick, 
 F. P. Rousseau, 
 Lieut. Rawnsley, 
 F. Euglass, 
 
 Rev. J. Roberts, 
 
 J. S. Eamsay, 
 
 T. W. Rodgers, 
 
 Rev. J. S. Roberts, 
 
 Lieut. E. J.iSannderson, 
 
 S. L. Schloss, 
 
 Rev. H. Scott, 
 
 H. Stern, 
 
 J. Mont. Simpson, 
 
 H. W. Smith, 
 
 E. A. Swaby, 
 
 W. A. Sabonadiere, 
 
 F. Sullivan, 
 A. C. Sinclair, 
 Simon Soutar, 
 R. Stephen, 
 W. Smith, 
 
 A. Shackleford, 
 J. B, Sorapure, 
 E. G. Smith, 
 W. KeUy Smith, 
 Rev. William Simms, 
 
 B. A. Samuels, 
 Geo. H. Thompson, 
 Col. F. Talbot, 
 Lieut, Trydale, 
 Capt. Thwaites, 
 
 P. J. L. Tottenham, 
 H. L. Thomas, 
 Cyril Thompson, 
 John Tillman, 
 George S. Thomson, . 
 Henry Vendryes, 
 
 A. L. Vendryes, 
 Lewis Verley, 
 
 Rev. Robert Wright, 
 
 B. Bolivar Wolfe, 
 J. T. M. Wilson, 
 J. T. Wigham, 
 
 S. S. Wortley, 
 
156 
 
 JUBILEE BHJOIOIN&S IN JAMAICA. 
 
 Rev. E. J. Wortley, 
 
 J. A. Wales, 
 
 S. H. Watson, 
 
 Stephen Walter, 2nd W. I. E. 
 
 Lieut. Col. C. J. Ward, 
 
 Geo. H. Wales, 
 Dr. J. A. Wegg, 
 Rev. C. A. Wookey, 
 J. W. Whitbourne, 
 J. Young, 
 
 OvOO B 'Q-j'p 
 
CHAPTER X. 
 
 ADDRESSES PRESENTED AT THE LBVEE. 
 
 The following addresses to Her Majesty the Queen 
 were presented at the Levee by the several deputations 
 with the request that His Excellency the Governor 
 would forward them in due course. 
 
 ORDER or DEPUTATIONS. 
 
 1. Independent Order of Good Samaritans and 
 Daughters of Samaria, Jamaica, and for the U. S. of 
 Colombia. 
 
 2. Independent Order of Good Samaritans &c. in 
 Kingston. 
 
 3. The Presbyterian Churches in Jamaica. 
 
 4. Mayor and Council of Kingston. 
 
 5. Custos and Magistrates of Kingston. 
 
 6. Teachers Association of Jamaica. 
 
 7. The Sparkes First Lodge. 
 
 8. Amalgamated Israelites in Jamaica. 
 
 9. Ancient Order of Forresters. 
 
 10. Odd Fellows Lodge. 
 
 11. Church of England in Jamaica. 
 
 12. Spanish and Portuguese Congregation. 
 
 13. English and German Synagogue in Jamaica. 
 
 14. Magistrates and Parochial Board of ' Saint 
 Andrew. 
 
158 JUBILEE KBJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 15. Parish of Saint Catherine. 
 
 16. Parish of Saint Mary. 
 
 17. Parish of Trelawney. 
 
 18. Good Templars. 
 
 19. Kingston Ragged School. 
 
 20. Roman Catholic Church, Jamaica 
 
 The following are some of the addresses which were 
 presented. The others, as above mentioned, were not 
 published in the newspapers. 
 
 THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF KINGSTON. 
 
 To Her Most Geacious Majesty Victoria, Queen of the 
 United Kingdom of Gebat Bbitain and Ireland, Empress 
 of India, and of Jamaica, Lady Supreme. 
 
 May IT PLEASE YouK Majesty, 
 
 In the name and on behalf of Your Majesty's dutiful and 
 loyal subjects, the inhabitants of Kingston, the chief town of the 
 largest Island among Your Mafesty's West Indian possessions. 
 
 The Corporation, Mayor and Council of Kingston, pray leave 
 humbly to approach Yonr Majesty with congratulations on the 
 completion of the 50th year of your reign. 
 
 During the 50 years of Your Majesty's reign our Island has 
 experienced many important changes, among them the liberation 
 from slavery of a large number of persons from whom unwilling 
 services had theretofore been obtained by force, and who by the 
 act of emancipation, have during Your Majesty's reign, been 
 taught the benefit of freedom and have been — into good citizens 
 and loyal subjects of Your Most Gracions Majesty, religion and 
 morality have been fostered by acts of justice and example. Our 
 political constitution which had endured for two hundred years 
 was changed to be restored to us, we trust, at no distant jdate, and 
 with such safeguards of constitutional responsibility as local 
 circumstances will admit of Education of, the masses for a long 
 
ADDRESSES PRESENTED AT THE LEVEE. 159 
 
 time, maintained by religious denominations has steadily in- 
 creased and the obligations, of the State in that respect is now 
 f uUy recognized, as is evidenced by our large educational 
 grants. 
 
 The advance which has been made during Your Majesty's 
 reign in art and science has had its beneficial effect upon us as a 
 community. Our agricultural and manufacturing interests, 
 which have been for centuries united in the growth and manu- 
 facture or preparation for market of our staple products, have 
 for reasons variously assigned at times languished, but it is hoped 
 that they will all, within the next decade of Your Majesty's reign, 
 receive much impetus through the fair impartial and earnest 
 consideration of colonial and particularly Jamaica matters, by 
 the able Statesmen which it is Your Majesty's privilege from time 
 to time to call to Your Majesty's aid in the government of Your 
 Majesty's wide and scattered dominions. Our commerce has 
 benefited by the improvements brought about through the aid of 
 science and wise and Imperial legislation, and we look forward 
 to see that commerce much increased during Your Majesty's reign 
 by the greater facilities which the opening of the Panama Canal 
 win afford us, of commercial relations with the rest of the world, 
 while the local improvements we hope to effect in our harbour 
 and the sanitation of our city, together with the extension of 
 railways throughout the island, wiU, we trust, attract enterprise 
 and capital to the further developement of the many resources, 
 of this Your Majesty's productive possession. 
 
 We render our devout thanks to Almighty God, that He has 
 blessed Your Majesty with long life and health and that during 
 the fifty years of Your Majesty's reign He has granted 
 to the subjects of Your Majesty's vast dominions comparative 
 peace and great moral, intellectual and material advancement, 
 which blessings we earnestly pray, may be long continued to 
 Your Majesty and to the people committed to Your care. 
 
 (Signed) Jambs Scott, 
 
 On behalf of the CouncU. 
 
160 JUBILEE BEJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 THE CXJSTOS AND JUSTICES OF KINGSTON. 
 
 To Hbb Most Gracious Majesty Victoeia, Queen of the 
 United Kingdom of Geeat Britain and Ieeland, 
 Empeess of India, and of Jamaica, Supbbme Ladt. 
 
 We Your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Custbs 
 and Magistrates of the City and Parish of Kingston in this Your 
 Majesty's Island of Jamaica, humbly approach Your Majesty to 
 offer our heartfelt congratulations to Your Majesty on this the 
 50th year of Your Majesty's beneficent and glorious reign. 
 
 History records the triumphs of conquerors, statesmen, and 
 orators, and Kings, and other Queens have deserved well of their 
 subjects ; but never has it fallen to the lot of any other nation to 
 record the peaceful triumphs of a Queen, whose dominion extends 
 over nearly one-fourth of the habitable Globe and who for 50 
 years has led her people with unflagging purpose, in the march of 
 religious, moral, social and intellectual improvement. 
 
 That Your Majesty may yet be spia,red for many years, to fill 
 the exalted station you have so long adorned, is the Prayer of 
 Your Majesty's most loyal and devoted servants. 
 
 H. J. KEMBLE, CuSTOS. 
 
 THE AMALGAMATED ISRAELITES. 
 
 To The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. 
 The humble, loyal, and dutiful address from the Amalga- 
 mated Congregation op Israelites in Jamaica, to Hbe 
 Most Gracious Majesty Victoria, by the Grace of God, 
 Queen of the United Kingdom op Great Beitain and 
 Ireland, Empress of India, &c., &c. 
 Most Gracious Sovereign : — 
 
 We the Ministers and Wardens on behalf of the Amalgamated 
 Congregation of Israelites in this Island humbly and respectfully 
 beg to approach Your Majesty with sentiments of profound 
 respect and loyal attachment to Your August Person and Throne. 
 
ADDRESSES PEBSBNTED AT THE LEVEE. 161 
 
 On this, the oeoasion of the Jubilee year of Your Majesty's 
 reign, we hasten to tender our cordial congratulations to Our 
 Beloved Sovereign Lady Queen, and to assure Your Majesty of 
 our continued affection, devotion, and loyalty to yourself and 
 Boyal House. 
 
 In common with all our fellow-subjects, we recognize the many 
 advantages and great blessings which have accrued to the millions 
 of beings in your vast Empire during the fifty years of Your 
 Majesty's wise and beneficent reign. Your sway even to the 
 uttermost bounds of the Empire has been founded upon Right- 
 eousness, Justice, and Equality. With grateful recollection we 
 bear in mind that followers of our Faith were under your benign 
 rule, first admitted to participate in the general Councils of 
 their Father-land, and to enjoy those general liberties and 
 privileges in all parts of the world, which tend to bind them in 
 attachment and love to their Sovereign and Country. 
 
 We pray the LoBD God of Iskael The Supebme King op 
 Kings, and the Dispensbe op Salvation unto Monarchs and 
 dominion unto Princes to continue to watch over your Oracious 
 Majesty, vouchsafing unto you unalloyed happiness, healthful 
 years, and prolonged Ufe so as to be enabled to guide in uninter- 
 rupted prosperity, peace and harmony, the destinies of the British 
 Nation. 
 
 In conclusion we beg to assure Your Majesty that we cheerful- 
 ly recognize the laws of the country in which we live, and as 
 peaceful and loyal citizens will ever strive to conform with them 
 respectfully and obediently, and we pray to be permitted to 
 subscribe ourselves. 
 
 Your Majesty's most humble and dutiful subjects, 
 
 S. Jacobs, Minister. 
 Osmond Delgado, President. 
 Alt. DeCoedova, Vice-Presdt. 
 C. E. DeMebcaoo, Treasurer. 
 
 On behalf of the Amalgamated Congregation of Israelites. 
 
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162 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 THE CHXJBCH OF ENGLAND IN JAMAICA. 
 
 To Hee Most Gkacious Majesty Qukbn Victoeia. 
 
 By the Gkace of God, op the United Kingdom ov Geeat 
 
 Beitain and Ibbland, Queen, and of Jamaica Supreme 
 
 Lady, Dbfendbe of the Eaith, &o., &c., 
 May it please Youe Majesty, 
 
 We, the Bishop, Clergy, and Eepreeentatives in Synod of the 
 Lay Members of the Church of England in Jamaica desire to 
 express our con^atulations to Your Majesty, and our heartfelt 
 thanks to Almighty God, that He has been pleased to prolong 
 Your Majesty's reign till the end of its Jubilee year. 
 
 In common with all onr fellow-subjects, we feel how largely 
 the peace and prosperity which have marked Your Majesty' s 
 reign, over the vastest Empire in the world have arisen from the 
 consistently Christian manner in which Your Majesty has used 
 the great power and enormous influence which lay such a heavy 
 burden and responsibility upon the occupant of the British 
 Throne. 
 
 This influence is based upon the firm foundation of the aifec- 
 tion' and admiration of Your Majesty's Subjects, and extends to 
 the farthest bounds of the Empire. 
 
 The fifty yeai-s of Your Majesty's reign cover the whole period 
 since the abolition of slavery in this island, and have been 
 marked by a real and substantial progress in moral and material 
 things, — by a steady growth in general and religious knowledge 
 in all classes of the population, — and by a great developement of 
 Church life and organization — which demonstrates the success of 
 that great act of righteousness; and this success has mainly 
 arisen from the growth amongst us of that feeling of pity for 
 and sympathy with the poor, the uneducated, the miserable, and 
 even the criminal, which has developed so rapidly and struck 
 such deep roots in the hearts of the fortunate classes of Your 
 Majesty's Subjects. This feeling which we can only dimly foresee 
 the great future results, has been largely fostered by Your 
 Majesty's zeal in all charitable works and constant manifestion 
 of sympathy with all human suffering. 
 
ADDRESSES PRESENTED AT THE LEVEE. 163 
 
 Your Majesty's Subjects have always sympathized with their 
 Queen in all her joys and sorrow; "and the touch of nature that 
 makes the whole world kin," has made all races, classes, and 
 tongues feel united with Your Majesty in that domestic life 
 which has been graciously disclosed to us. 
 
 Feeling that the life thus led and the character thus disclosed 
 have tended to purify family life, to check excessive luxury, and 
 to give stability to the Throne and Government of our beloved 
 country we again thank God that He has been pleased to prolong 
 Your Majesty's beneficent reign, and pray that you may still 
 long be spared in health and happiness to continue your work of 
 the last fifty years in a time when your Majesty's influence for 
 good is of daily increasing importance to the national welfare. 
 
 THE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION. 
 
 to the quebn's most excellent majesty. 
 Mat it please Youk Majesty. 
 
 We office bearers of the undermentioned Teachers Associations 
 of Jamaica in name and behalf of the members, beg leave, on the 
 occasion of the completion of the Fiftieth year of Your Majesty's 
 beneficent reigii, to approach Your Majesty with an expression 
 of our profound and dutiful respect, and of our sincere and loyal 
 devotion to Your Majesty's Throne and Person. 
 
 More earnestly do we join in the congratulations which we are 
 well assured will flow in upon Your Majesty from aU parts of 
 your widely extended Empire, and from the many races and 
 tongues of w;hich it is composed all of them rising gradually and 
 surely to a common platform of political privilege, and bound 
 together by bonds of ever-increasing closeness. 
 
 By nothing has Your Majesty's reign been more dtstingnished 
 than by legislative and other measures and popular movements 
 which have tended towards the universal diffusion of the blessing 
 of Education and the consequent enlightenment and elevation 
 
1G4 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 of the humblest classes of your subjects. In the sanctioning 
 and furthering of these measures and movements Tour Majesty 
 had, in the earlier years of reign, the wise counsel and co- 
 operation of the late beloved Prince Consort, whose memory we 
 have the utmost pleasure in recalling, as a friend and patron 
 of Literature, Science and Art. Under this fostering care these 
 great interests have flourished with unprecedented vigour and 
 have spread with such rapidity that the enjoyment of them may 
 be said to have become the common privilege of the people in all 
 lands under your sway. 
 
 In our own Island, beginning with the great and righteous act 
 of Emancipation from the State of Slavery — a boon to all classes 
 alike, and synchronizing with the commencement of Your 
 Majesty's Eeign. Education has made gratifying progress. Ne- 
 cessarily feeble at the outset, it has in the course of years 
 participated in the general progress made in other parts of your 
 Dominions and in recent years has advanced with rapid strides. 
 Between sixty and seventy thousand children are now in atten- 
 dance at our island schools. They aTe under the tuition of about 
 eight hundred teachers. Training colleges, (two of them for the 
 training of female Teachers) have been established. The 
 qualifications and the status of the Teachers have been raised. 
 Teachers Associations for mutual improvement and encourage- 
 ment have been formed. Books and useful periodical literature 
 are being from year to year circulated and read in a steadily 
 augmenting ratio. And we have great pleasure in assuring Your 
 Majesty that we confidently look forward to future happy years 
 of continuous progress as the result of the changes that have 
 already taken place along with anticipated new and wise 
 legislation and many other co-operating cause now at work, — 
 all of them fitted when thus combined to promote the material, 
 moral and religious welfare^ of all classes of your' subjects in this 
 island. 
 
 With one mind and heart we beg, further, to assure Yo»r 
 Majesty that no part of our daily duty is more pleasing to us 
 than that of imparting to the children of our Schools a know- 
 ledge of the beneficent character and the great tending facts of 
 Your Majesty's long and prosperous reign, — of those principals 
 
ADDRESSES PBESBNTED AT THE LEVEE. 165 
 
 of righteousness whicli have been nobly illustrated in Your 
 Majesty's life and government — and of the abiding obligation of 
 that loyalty and obedience to law which are so essential to the 
 stability and the well-being of the State. 
 
 That Almighty God may long spare you to reign over a united 
 happy and prosperous people and witness still further triumphs 
 of personal and political liberty ani eiuoational progress is the 
 earnest prayer of your loyal and devoted subjects. 
 
 Signed in name and by appointment of the respective Associa- 
 tions. 
 
 KINGSTON. 
 
 William Gillies, President, 
 T. B. Stephenson, Secretary, 
 
 St. Oathbeinb, Church of England. 
 
 G. F. Doubt, President, 
 W. J". Dbwdnet, Secretary, 
 
 Stony Hill. 
 
 AiTCHBSON Pindlat, President, 
 Jambs C. Tayloe, Secretary, 
 
 St. Elizabeth, Church of England. 
 
 J. L. Bamson, President, 
 J. B. Ellis, Secretary. 
 
 PoetMaeia. 
 
 Hbney Scott, President, 
 Wm. J, Shaw, Secretary. 
 
 St. Anns. 
 
 JosiAB OoEKi Pr68id«nt, 
 Edwabd Pinnock, Secretary, 
 
166 jubilee bejoicings in jamaica. 
 
 Uppbe Clabendon. 
 
 Alexander Eastwood, President, 
 J. W. Austin, Vice-President, 
 
 North Manchester. 
 
 Andrew Baillie, President, 
 William F. Bailey, Secretary, 
 
 POEUS. 
 
 Jambs Watson, President, 
 H. John McKay, Secretary, 
 
 St. Jambs. 
 
 Charles Browne, President, 
 William A. Bueeis, Secretary, 
 
 Manchester Union. 
 
 Chaelbs a. Wookby, President, 
 Jambs Paekbs, Secretary, 
 
 Annotto Bay, and Disteict. 
 
 F. M. Meeciee, President, 
 W. Teall, Treasurer, 
 
 Teblawney. 
 
 W. M. Webb, President, 
 
 G. T. Atkins, Secretary, 
 
 Wbstmoebland Mountains. 
 
 C. S. Smyth, President, 
 
 B. M. Stephenson, Secretary, 
 
 GrUY's Hill. 
 
 Jambs Martin, President, 
 J. W. Grant, Secretary. 
 
ADJDEBSSBS PRESENTED AT THE LBVEB. 167 
 
 THE TEMPERANCE SOCIETY. 
 
 To Hbe Most Gracious Majesty Victobia by the grace of 
 God Queen of Great Britaik and Ireland, Empress op India, 
 AND of Jamaica, Supreme Lady Defender of the Faith 
 &c. &o. 
 
 May it please your Majesty. 
 
 We the Representatives of the Independent order of Good 
 Templars and others who work in the cause of Temperance on 
 the basis of Total Abstinence desire humbly to approach Your 
 Majesty with assurances of great attachment and devotion to 
 Your Majesty's Throne and Person. 
 
 Deeply interested, as we are in common with Your Majesty's 
 subjects generally and especially those resident in this Ancient 
 and Loyal Colony, in the advancement and progress of the 
 Empire, as weU as the personal happiness of our Gracious 
 Sovereign, we beg permission to express to Your Majesty our 
 unbounded joy and satisfaction and our gratitude to Almighty 
 God that Youi- Majesty has been spared to attain the Jubilee year 
 of a Glorious Reign, begun and carried on in the highest interest 
 and for the most material, moral and social welfare of a people 
 whose greatest pride is to own nationality with Your Majesty. 
 
 We rejoice that, during Your Majesty's Reign, the British 
 Empire has been extended, consolidated and strengthened, and 
 that measures tending to improve the condition of the people 
 have always received Your Majesty s hearty co-operation and 
 support, and especially do we rejoice, that among these may be 
 numbered the Temperance movement upon which we believe so 
 much individual happiness and natural prosperity depend, — a 
 movement that has made extensive progress during the past fifty 
 years and that has in one form or other received your Royal sym- 
 pathy and patronage, we join in the fervent prayer — none the 
 less sincere because general — that long life, continued health and 
 prosperity, may be given to Your Majesty and that the King of 
 Kings, and Ruler of all may so dispose and govern all the future 
 
168 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 years of Your Majesty's life that the greatest possible measure 
 of happiness may always be granted to Your Majesty and the 
 Royal Family. 
 
 Signed by the Executive of the I. O. G. T. and.other Temperance 
 Workers. 
 
 THE PEOPLE OF TRELAWNEY. 
 
 Presented by the Hon. Wellesley Boukke, M. L. C. poe St. 
 James and Trelawnby. 
 
 YOUB EXCEIil/BNCY : — 
 
 I have the honor to present through Your Excellency an 
 humble address of congratulation to the Queen's Most Excellent 
 Majesty from Her Majesty's loyal subjects the people of the 
 parish of Trelawney in this Her Majesty's Island of Jamaica. 
 
 The address contains loyal devout expressions of congratula- 
 tion on the completion of half a century of Her Majesty's glorious 
 and progressive reign — attribute to the influence of Her Majesty's 
 private and social virtues the stability of Her Majesty's throne 
 and the personal interest the subjects of her vast dominions feel 
 in the occurrences which call forth rejoicings or which have 
 unhappily clouded Her Majesty's domestic life. In referring to 
 the great and pleasing subject of emancipation a grateful recog- 
 nition is made to the favor with which Her Majesty viewed the 
 subject and the warm sympathy, and the cordial help she afforded 
 to it, while Her Majesty is assured of the continued loyalty of 
 those whose forefathers assisted when duty required in the main- 
 tenance of the Crown of England. Her Majesty is also informed 
 in this address that the loyalty of these her subjects is never 
 influenced by the tide of fitful fortune. 
 
 And the address concludes with the earnest prayer that the 
 balance of Her Majesty's reign may eclipse the past in the splen- 
 
ADDRESSES PRESENTED AT THE LEVEE. 169 
 
 dour of the moial and material greatness of Her Majesty's 
 dominions and if possible the social happiness which Her Majesty's 
 gentle virtues hare influenced. 
 
 Signed on behalf of the people of Trelawney by 
 
 Leicestee 0. Shirley. 
 Chairman of the Parochial Board of Trelawney. 
 
 THE WESLBYAN METHODISTS. 
 
 to the queek's most excellent majesty, queen op greeat 
 Britain and Ireland, Empress op India, and Supreme 
 Lady op Jamaica, 
 
 May it please your Majesty, 
 
 We, the Ministers and Lay Officers of the Wesleyan Methodist 
 Church, West Indies, assembled in Conference in Kingston 
 Jamaica, approach Your Majesty to offer our loyal congratulations 
 on the occasion of the celebration of the Jubilee year of Your 
 Majesty's beneficent reign. 
 
 We glorify God for His preserving care of you as the Sovereign 
 of this widely extended Empire, and that amidst the personal 
 vicissitudes of fifty years, your anxiety for its interests has never 
 slackened. 
 
 It might be tedious for Your Majesty were we to enumerate 
 even the salient crisis through which the country has passed; but 
 we may say that while we honor the great statesmen, who have 
 formed your Council we have discerned your own inspiration, and 
 been conscious of our Sovereign on the helm guiding the vessel, 
 as she outrode the storm. 
 
 We cannot omit to notice, as the result of the training of Your 
 Majesty's children, that they are devoted to the interests of the 
 country; and we contemplate with admiration the affability of 
 
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170 JUBILEE EEJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, and the fact that 
 one of His Brothers is Admiral of the Mediterranean Fleet, and 
 another is in command of a large division of the Army in India. 
 
 But Your Majesty lives in the hearts of your Subjects who find 
 themselves remembered in their sorrows by their Queen, and her 
 telegrams of enquiry and sympathy are borne here and there, 
 linking the lowest and the highest to the throne. 
 
 The people called Methodists, in the Connexion established by 
 the B.ev. John Wesley, A. M., sometime Fellow of Christ's College, 
 Oxford, have ever been a loyal people and our West Indian 
 Conference, representing over one hundred and fifty thousand of 
 them, offer to Your Majesty heartfelt homage and congratulation. 
 May you long reign over us. May the love of all your Subjects 
 comfort you, and when (may it be at a distant day) Your Majesty 
 shall resign your earthly crown, may a crown of glory, honor and 
 praise to Christ, be on your head. 
 
 We are may it please Your Majesty, 
 Your most loyal and dutiful Subjects, 
 Signed in the name and on behalf of the Conference, 
 
 Gboegb Saegbant, President. 
 Archibald Tayloe, Secretary. . 
 
 THE BAPTISTS. 
 
 To Hee Most Gracious Majesty Victoeia, Qubbn of the 
 United Kingdom of Geeat Beitain and Ihelajtd, with 
 ITS Colonies and Dependencies, and Bmpeess of India. 
 
 May it please Youe Majesty, 
 
 We, the Ministers and Delegates of the Churches of the 
 Jamaica Baptist Union, meeting at Mount Carey in the Parish of 
 Saint James in annual session from the 3rd to the 8th day of 
 February, 1887, humbly approach Your Majesty with sentiments 
 of loyalty, affection and congratulation on the completion of the 
 Jubilee year of Your Majesty's distingo-ished reign. 
 
ADDRESSES PRESENTED AT THE LEVEE. 171 
 
 We are the representatives of 146 churches, having in church 
 fellowship 31,776 persons, with more than double that number of 
 adherents, inclusive of 138 Sunday Schools with 1910 teachers 
 and 21,403 scholars, and 176 Day Schools with 13,809 scholars on 
 the books. We have also a College for the education and train- 
 ing of Ministers and Schoolmasters, with three resident tutors, 
 and buildings for 28 resident students and in connexion with it a 
 General Day School as a practical training ground for teachers, 
 and a High School for the Education of a select class of pupils. 
 Our church buildings are estimated to accommodate 69,000 
 persons. 
 
 Your Majesty may also be interested to know that of our 58 
 ministers, while some are from Europe, the majority are natives 
 of this island, and that our teachers and schoolmasters are, almost 
 without exception, natives of the country.' 
 
 As being amongst the most loyal of Your Majesty's subjects iff 
 this remote colony of your vast Empire, we make gfratef ul recog- 
 nition of the blessings which under the smile of Divine Providence 
 have been diffused not only through the Mother Country, but 
 through Your Majesty's Dependencies in all parts of the world 
 during the past fifty years. 
 
 In reviewing these fifty years we desire to make special 
 acknowledgment of the multiplied blessings which have marked 
 them in the social and religious history of our Island. We are 
 reminded that the year of Your Majesty's coronation was the year 
 of complete Emancipation to the Slave population of your West 
 Indian Colonies. We are well assured of Your Majesty's deep 
 sympathy with this act of justice to the oppressad, a sympathy 
 which was so fully shared and evinced by His Royal Highness, 
 the late Prince Consort of blessed memory. The blessings Of 
 freedom have continued to flow to our people. The administra- 
 tion of justice without partiality of class or colour has been 
 fairly secured. Religious, has happily followed Civil Liberty, 
 ' which in more recent years has been consummated by the asser" 
 tion of the principle of Religious Equality in the disestablishment 
 and disendowment of State Churches in the land. Along with 
 Civil and Religious Liberty, Popular Education has made progress 
 
17 2 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 through the liberal laws which Your Majesty has sanctioned, and 
 by the early help of the Missionary Societies, of the various 
 denominations which had established their agenoies in our midst 
 for the instruction and elevation of our people. 
 
 Their efforts have subsequently been liberally aided by the 
 Government, and we are, not without hope that a more complete 
 scheme of elementary education, by legislative enactment may 
 signalize the Jubilee of Your Majesty. 
 
 Your Majesty's reign has been most remarkable for the progress 
 of the hundreds of millions of your subjects at home and abroad 
 In civilization and social comfort, — progress in which your subjects 
 in Jamaica have shared. Our public Main Roads have been 
 greatly improved, and the facilities of locomotion have been 
 multiplied, not only by transatlantic, but by coasting steamers. 
 We have now our Railroads and Mail Coaches. Our postal 
 facilities have increased, not only by multiplying the number of 
 posts, and the more rapid transmission of letters, but by the 
 reduction of postal rates. Telegraph wires are stl-etched over 
 nearly the whole of the island, and the Telephone is fast making 
 its way. Nor do we overlook our blessings in the cause of 
 humanity which during the last fifty years we now commemorate 
 has been promoted by the institution of an Asylum for lunatics, 
 and a Public General Hospital in Kingston, as well as local 
 Hospitals in various parishes. 
 
 We have these as the blessings of Your Majesty's auspicious 
 reign, and give thanks to the Gracious Providence of Almighty 
 God, which through all its years has watched over Your Majesty's 
 life, and crowned it with so much good to the countless millions 
 under Your Majesty's sway. 
 
 We are not unmindful of the trials and vicissitudes through 
 which the commercial and agricultural classes of the community 
 have passed, and in which all have more or less suffered; but we 
 thank God-and congratulate Your Majesty on the social progress 
 of the masses of our people, some of whom are rising to a position 
 
ADDRESSES PRESENTED AT THE LEVEE. 173 
 
 of comparative wealth, and prosperity, wMoh gives hopeful prom- 
 ise of the future. 
 
 In closing this Address we assure Your Majesty that our prayers 
 to Almighty God. are continually offered for Your Majesty's 
 -welfare, and that your life may be spared for many years to 
 i-eign over your vast and growing Empire; and with the renewed 
 assurance of our affection for Your Majesty's person, and of our 
 loyalty to the throne and family of Your Majesty," &c. &c. 
 
 (Signed) W. N. Brown, Chairman Jamaica Baptist Union. 
 P. Williams, Secretary Jamaica Baptist Union. 
 J. Kingdom, Treasurer Jamaica Baptist Missionary 
 Society. 
 
 E. J. Hewett, Secretary Jamaica Baptist Missionary 
 Society, 
 
 D. J. Bast, President Calabar College. 
 
 J. Seed Roberts, Normal School Tutor Calabar College 
 
 J. Balfour, Classical Tutor Calabar College. 
 
 P. Williams, Secretary Calabar College. 
 
 W. M. Webb, Secretary Day School Society. 
 
 G, E. Henderson, Secretary Sunday School Society. 
 
 J. H. Soley, Treasurer Total Abstinence Association. 
 
 A, G. Kirkham, Secretary Total Abstinence Association. 
 
 THE GOVEKNOR'S REPLY TO THE ADDRESSES. 
 
 Gentlemen, 
 
 In acknowledging the addresses which have now been 
 presented, copies of which I have already had the opportunity of 
 reading, I desire to express the gratification with which I observ- 
 ed the spirit of loyal affection to the sovereign which characterizes 
 the whole of them, as well as the addresses from the inhabitants 
 of Turks and Caicos Islands, and from the representatives of the 
 great bodies of Baptists and Wesleyans in Jamaica which I had 
 previously received and sent home. 
 
174 JUBILEE REJOICINGS W JAMAICA. 
 
 These addreesee come from peraong of all classes and of 
 views that differ upon many subjects, but on one subject they are 
 all agreed. They are loyal to their Queen, they reverence her as 
 their ruler, and they appreciate her as a sovereign who has at 
 her heart the welfare of her subjects, is moved by their sufferings 
 and is anxious for their happiness. These sentiments towards 
 the Queen are, I am certain, thoroughly shared by those of the 
 community who have not had the opportunily of signing address- 
 es. I believe that nowhere in her Empire does Her Majesty 
 possess subjects more loyal than the people of Jamaica, who on 
 this day all over the Island are engaged in various ways of cele- 
 brating the joyful occasion of the Jubilee of Her Majesty's 
 reign. 
 
 The addresses will be forwarded for submission to Her Majesty 
 by next mail, when I trust I shall be able to report that our 
 endeavours here in Jamaica to do honor to the Jubilee have not 
 been unworthy of the event ; — that they have given pleasure to 
 the people, and that no mishap of any kind has occurred to mar 
 our satisfaction. 
 
 I shall not attempt the great task of enlarging upon the 
 history of Her Majesty's reig^i- To those of us who can well 
 recollect that summer morning when we were told that the 
 Princess Victoria had succeeded to the Throne it seems as if the 
 whole world had changed, More change has taken place and far 
 more progress has been achieved in the past fifty years than in 
 any previous century of the world's history. Her Majesty has 
 had her joys and she has had her heavy sorrows, but, and surely 
 this is no light thing to be able to say, she, whom when she began 
 to reign fifty years ago, was welcomed with warm affection 
 strengthened by time and hallowed by many recollections. 
 
 I will not speak of all the triumphs of science and of art, of the 
 enornnous increase of our commerce, of the endurance and the 
 valour of our Sailors and our Soldiers in many climes, nor of the 
 spread of enlightenment and religion that have characterized Her 
 Majesty's reign. They are known to all of you. Nor wiU I dwell 
 upon the expansion — the wonderful expansion — of the British 
 
ADDRESSES PRESENTED AT THE LEVEE. 175 
 
 Empire during this period except to remark tliat wherever that 
 Empire has extended there civil and religious freedom have been 
 established, just laws have been introduced affecting rich and poor 
 alike, and justice has been administered untainted by corruption 
 and free from tyranny. Despite these blots here and there, and 
 those occasional failures that must be looked for in all human 
 systems, we are happy in belonging to an Empire of which we 
 may be proud, and the influence and extension of which have 
 conferred widespread benefits upon a large portion of the human 
 race. 
 
 Prom the sentiments expressed in the various Addresses of 
 which I have received copies, as well as from other and abundant 
 evidence as to the feeling of the people of ' this Island, I felt 
 justified upon the day on which Her Majesty had completed Her 
 fifty years of Reign in sending the following telegraphic message 
 to the Secretary of State for the Colonies : — 
 
 "The Queen's very loyal subjects in Jamaica respectfully 
 "present their heartfelt congratulations to Her Majesty upon tha 
 "completion of 50 years of Her Majesty's Eeign. They earnestly 
 "pray that she may be long spared to reign over her great 
 "Empire." 
 
 In reply I received the following Message from Sir Henry 
 Holland : — 
 
 "Her Majesty commands me to request you will convey cordial 
 'thanks for the loyal sentiments of the inhabitants of Jamaica." 
 
 It only remains for me to acknowledge the support I have 
 received from all classes in my endeavours to make our Jubilee 
 Celebrations a success, and to express my earnest hope that we 
 
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 JTTBILBEI BUJOIOINQS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 in Jamaica may now, under God's blessing', enter upon an era of 
 happiness and prosperity. 
 
 Town Hall, Kingston, 29tli June, 1887. 
 
CHAPTER XI. 
 
 THE REVIEW AT UP-PARK CAMP. 
 
 At half past three or four o'clock the streets of 
 Kingston were deserted, except at the Car terminus 
 at the foot of King Street. Very few persons were 
 to be seen, no wheeled vehicles were to be seen> 
 nothing with four-legs was visible in the streets 
 except the tram-car mules, and they seemed anything 
 but jubilant. 
 
 All Kingston had gone North to Up-Park Camp to 
 see the Grand Review of the Naval Brigade, the 
 Regulars and the Volunteers. Unless one was dis- 
 posed to smoke a solitary cigar on a deserted door- 
 step th& best thing evidently to do was to go to Up- 
 Park Camp. This was our idea. When we reached 
 the Camp it was quite evident there could not be 
 many persons left in the City for at a reasonable 
 estimate 20,000 people were on the Camp grounds. 
 
 Upon the Eastern margin of the ground upon 
 which is the Camp Race Course, a Pavillion had been 
 erected for the accommodation of the fair guests of 
 
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178 JUBILEE RBJOIOINQS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 the day. In front of this floated the Koyal Standard 
 of England its voluminous folds held somewhat in 
 check by a soldier of the West India Regiment, who 
 prevented the banner from sweeping off the hats and 
 helmets of the bystanders. Close to the Staff, seated 
 on a handsome charger was Sir Henry Wylie Norman 
 in the full uniform of a British General, his orders 
 and decorations on jhds . breast^ Ms cocked hat and 
 plume on his head and looking every inch the gallant 
 soldier that he has proved over aaid,iover again to be, 
 Capt. Owen his Aide-de-Gamp was in attendance in a 
 handsome Hussar uniform. The Commodore and an 
 Officer of the Meet whojhad command of the Naval 
 Bfigade, were mounted close "tb His Excellency. 
 
 The men of all arms being drawn up in line, the 
 West Indian in the centre, the Mounted Rifles, the 
 Naval Brigade and Marines on the right, and the 
 infantry regiments on the left of line and volunteers 
 on the left, the interesting and impressive ceremony 
 of "trooping the colors'* took place. The men were 
 then formed in columns of companies, and headed by 
 the Mounted Rifles and Capt. Walters marched past: 
 at a quick step. The Blue Jackets followed the 
 Mounted Rifles, a detachment preceding the rest 
 dragging two small field pieces. The gallant fellows 
 would have been cheered to the echo on any English 
 ground and we know it was only because we in 
 Jamaica so seldom see military spectacles that the 
 ringing welcome was not given to the Companies as 
 they stepped past. 
 
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 A. company of the Royal Marines then passed, and 
 their old reputation for valour and steadiness, "by 
 land and sea." as their motto has it, is assuredly as 
 well deserved now as ever. Then followed the 1st 
 West Indian Companies and then the Yorkshire 
 Infantry of the line, who went by like a wall. The 
 Royal Artillery were followed by the Volunteer 
 Artillery and the Kingston Infantry Companies, and 
 it is justice to say that no troops on the ground, 
 excepting perhaps the Yorkshire men, marched more 
 steadily or in better form than did our own volunteers. 
 More particularly did we notice A. Company, the 
 marching of which would not havfe disgraced any 
 regiment of the line. 
 
 After the march past the men again formed in line, 
 and advancing towards the Saluting point gave a 
 general salute. The command "Hats off" was then 
 given and three ringing cheers were given for the 
 Queen. 
 
 His Excellency then left the ground, thanking the 
 Commodore as he did so for the splendid contingent 
 of Blue Jackets and Marines, which he had sent up. 
 Thus ended most successfully a Military review and 
 spectacle seldom seen by the inhabitants of this 
 island on their own soil. 
 
 The number of troops engaged numbered about 
 800, and it was estimated that over 20,000 people 
 witnessed the review. Gleaner 
 
CHAPTER XII. 
 
 THE FIREWORKS. 
 
 By seven p. m. on Wednesday 29th June, thousands 
 of people had gathered on the Race Course to witness 
 the Pyrotechnic display promised by the programme 
 of events, and up to the time fixed for the beginning 
 of the display, at half past eight many hundreds of 
 vehicles had deposited their freight at the various 
 stands and other points of view on the Course. 
 
 Advancing towards the Grand Stand from the 
 Southern end of the Course, one saw before one a 
 fairy palace of gorgeous gems, such as the genii of the 
 lamp might have raised for Aladdin, and as one ap- 
 proached the Bycicle Rink there was the Grand 
 Stand transformed by festoons and stars and lines of 
 vari-colored lights, and on the panels under the rail of 
 the stand gleamed in huge letters of fire the loyal 
 legend "God save our Gracious Queen." The eff'ect 
 was extremely beautiful and expressions of pleasure 
 and admiration were frequent and constant among 
 the beholders. 
 
 The well-known notes of the national anthem 
 apprised those in proximity to the grand stand that 
 
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 His Excellency the Governor had arrived. His ap- 
 pearance in the grand stand was greeted with 
 cheers. 
 
 The display of fireworks then began, and as the 
 soaring rockets threw their jewels in the air, or the 
 "shells" scattered, with loud report, their hundreds of 
 fiery gems among the stars, bursts of appreciative 
 applause broke from the thousands upon the 
 grounds. 
 
 The device "God bless our Queen" elicited enthu- 
 siastic cheers as the expression of the loyal prayer 
 appeared in fiery characters upon the dark back 
 ground of the hills. The Magnesium Balloons were 
 much appreciated, but the most efi'ective and beauti- 
 ful displays were produced by the "shells" which 
 begemmed the heavens with the most gorgeous hues 
 of fire. 
 
 The "floating stars" discharged from the Parachute 
 Rockets were also deservedly admired. The display 
 concluded with a grand fire-portrait of our Gracious 
 Sovereign, which caused hearty and loyal cheers from 
 the thousands of voices as the well-known features 
 came into view, sketched in lines of fire. 
 
 It is difficult to estimate the number of people on 
 the Course but we do not think we are wide of the 
 mark in putting it at 25,000, and this immense 
 gathering dispersed without, as far as was known, a 
 single arrest being made, orderly soberly, and good- 
 humouredly. 
 
182 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 The whole of the Jubilee festivities from beginning 
 to end have been an unqualified and ^gantic 
 success. Gleaner. 
 
 The following is the programane of the grand 
 display of fire-works on the Race Course : — 
 
 Royal Salute of 21 Maroons, Illumination of the 
 Grounds with 50 Powerful Prismatic fires changing 
 colour four times. Display of 40 Colored Rockets 
 (4oz.) 
 
 Ascent of 2 Magnesium Balloons discharging when 
 at great height Batteries of Fireworks of a novel 
 description. 
 
 Discharge of Shells, 20 (16 inches in circumference 
 introducing all the latest colors and efiects.) 
 
 Salvo of 6 Aerial Saucissons. 
 
 Second display of 40 Colored Rockets. 
 
 Device. 
 
 Aladdin's Jewelled Tree in three transmutations, 
 finishing with Variegated Foliage. 
 
 Ascent of 10 Parachute Rockets, each detaching 3 
 Parachutes. 
 
 Royal Jubilee Battery of Italian Streamers (6.) 
 
 Display of 8 oz. Rockets, fired so as to blend con- 
 tinuously the varied tints. 
 
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 Second illuminatioa'jof thejgrouiids! withjPriamatic 
 Fires. 
 
 Salvo of 12 Fiery Torpedoes. 
 
 20 Shells forming the Aurora Borealisi 
 
 i Shells (36 inches in circumference) forming Aerial 
 Wheatsheaves. 
 
 Second display of (40) 8oz. Rockets viiih. Jewelled. 
 Showers. 
 
 Device. 
 
 Two Fiery Pigeons in their rapid flight. 
 
 6 Heiadea of 7 floating stars, each discharged from 
 one rocket. 
 
 Ascent of 11 Chinese Tjjurbillions, foxrming Golden 
 Cascades^ 
 
 Display of (24) Pains' Congreve Rockets with 
 Pearl Streamers, Meteoric Rain, &c. &c. 
 
 Discharge of (10) Shells, 24 inches incircumference, 
 Mauve and Pink, Blue and Gold, Amber and Purple, 
 Sapphire. 
 
 Pains' Royal Jubilee Battery (3) 
 Discharge of (12) Shells 16 inches in circumference 
 with Chromatic Tints. 
 
 Device 
 
 " God Bless que Queen" worked out in large 
 black letters surrounded by Fringe of Silver Fires 
 Marooned. 
 
184 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 Flight of (100) Colored Rockets. 
 Explosion of (3) Jewelled Mines. 
 
 Salvo of (12) Bayonets, Tourbillions forming Cas- 
 cades of Fire in ascent and descent. 
 
 Ascent of (12) newly invented Sextuple Rockets 
 each one discharging when at its highest altitude 5 
 other Rockets. 
 
 The Mrial Acre of Variegated Gems produced by 
 the discharge of Mammoth Shells (36 inches in cir- 
 cumference.) 
 
 Emeralds and Rubies, Gold and Yellow, Light 
 Blue and Cerise. 
 
 Peacock's Plumes, Turquoise, Light and Dark 
 Green, Light Green and Gold, Amber and Silver 
 Primroses. 
 
 Green, Amber and Cerise, Red, White, and Blue, 
 Opal Shower, Electric Shower, &c., &c. 
 
 Great Jubilee Batteries, (6) Mammoth Golden 
 Clouds produced by the discharge of 2 36inch Bombs. 
 
 Explosion of 4> Cracker Mines, Flight of (40) 8oz. 
 Rockets with Twinkling Stars. 
 
 Pains' Mammoth Spreaders, produced by the dis- 
 charge of 4 36inch Bombs. 
 
 Ascent of (10) Pains' Prize Asteroids, finishing 
 with the celebrated Silver Star. 
 
the fire works. 185 
 
 Final device. 
 
 Colossal Fire Portrait of H. M. the Queen beauti- 
 fully portrayed in lines of fire. 
 
 Finale. 
 
 Simultaneous discharge of large Colored Rockets 
 forming an immense Aerial Bouquet. 
 
 — *- 
 
CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS IN SPANISH TOWN. 
 
 Notwithstanding the spoliation of the town by 
 Governor Grant and the loss of trade thereby, and the 
 general discontent evinced by the nonholding of the 
 State Thanksgiving Service in the Cathedral, it was 
 not hard to work up the enthusiasm of the Spanish- 
 tonians, backed by His Honor the Custos, who gave 
 freely of his time and purse to make the occasion 
 worthy of the event. 
 
 Six a. m. on Tuesday, 28th June, was heralded in by 
 the ringing of joy bells. Soon after a number of 
 persons assembled in the Princes' Market to witness 
 the distribution of beef, bread and sugar, to 300 
 recipients who had seen better days. The market 
 was gaily decorated with flags, the entrance thereto 
 being beautifully decorated by Mr. C. M. Morales at 
 his sole expense. A band of music, playing several 
 popular airs, enlivened the scene. His Honor the 
 Custos opened the proceedings by explaining the 
 word Jubilee, as pertaining to Her Majesty's reign, 
 and by reviewing the private and public life of our 
 great, good and wise Queen, which, he said, had won 
 
CELEBRATIONS IN SPANISH TOWN. 187 
 
 for her not only the respect of her subjects, but that 
 of the rulers, and those they governed throughout the 
 entire world. He was most heartily applauded when 
 he said it was no doubt through her noble example, 
 soon after her accession to the throne, by elevating a 
 Jew, that civil and religious liberty was fought for 
 and won by her parliament. His Honor, in conclu- 
 sion, said that the people of St. Catherine had been 
 paid a great compliment by those in authority. All 
 the policemen had been sent to Kingston. He said, 
 let them go, we don't want them, we will be our own 
 policemen. I will act as your Inspector, and I am 
 satisfied the only report I will have to make to our 
 good Governor will be that the only fight that took 
 place was in trying to emulate each other in doing 
 honor to the occasion and in carrying out in its 
 entirety the Governor's proclamation, which he was 
 confident they would loyally and peacefully do in 
 celebrating the Queen's jubilee. 
 
 Addresses were also delivered by Archdeacon 
 Douet, Rev. Mr. Chapman, Dr. Wegg, and an oration 
 given on the Queen's life, by Mr. S. J. Edwards, 
 schoolmaster, a black gentleman, was attentively 
 listened to. After singing the National Anthem 
 and giving three cheers for the Queen, Sir Henry 
 Norman, and His Honor the Custos, the repre- 
 sentative of the parish, and his amiable Lady the 
 first event of the day was over. 
 
 At 10 a. m. the Thanksgiving Services were held 
 at the Cathedral, and other places of worship. 
 
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188 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 At 12 a. m. fifteen hundred school children assem- 
 bled in the square and were duly marshalled, placed 
 in position and reviewed by His Honor the Gustos, 
 and under the direction of Archdeaeon Douet and 
 and Mr. Cox, sung the National and other Anthems, 
 and gave three cheers for the Queen, the Royal 
 Ensign being dipped several times during the 
 ceremony. Preceded by a band of music, the 
 members of the lodges of the Good Templars and 
 Good Samaritans, in full regalia, and by the students 
 of the Training College, they marched in procession, 
 carrying over one hundred banners denoting the 
 schools they belonged to, and with various loyal 
 mottoes inscribed thereon, to the grounds of the 
 Poor House, where each was handed a bag with cakes- 
 and confectionery, and their thirst quenched by flagons 
 of lemonade. After being addressed by the Custos 
 in appropriate and feeling terms, they were dismissed 
 to take part in the several games and sports provided 
 for them. The inmates of the Aim's House and 
 Lepers' Home sat down to a sumptuous dinner 
 provided for them. There was a grand display of 
 fireworks on the Alms House grounds under the 
 direction of Mr. Edridge, and a small display at the 
 Lepers' Home, to which the public were admitted 
 free. A band of music was on the grounds and 
 played several popular airs. 
 
 The next event on the programme was the lighting 
 of the huge bonfire on Beacon Hill. This grand sight 
 was witnessed by an immense crowd, and the loyal 
 enthusiasm that was evinced by those present when 
 it was in full blaze, coupled with the National 
 
CBLEBEATIOKS IN SPANISH TOWN. 189 
 
 Anthem being sung, accompanied by a band of music, 
 was most deafening, and added grandeur to the sight. 
 The illuminations and decorations were a grand 
 success. The buildings forming the King's House 
 Square were illuminated with hundreds of valuable 
 lamps, draped with scarlet cloth and decorated with 
 Venetian flags. British Ensigns floated from the 
 King's House, Court House and Training College. 
 In the centre of the latter there was a large trans- 
 parency exhibiting a large device. The square was 
 also illuminated with red and blue flre. The 
 illumination of the Public Buildings and lighting of 
 the bonfire were under the direction of Mr. Edridge 
 who imparted a lot of Kentish fire thereto, and was 
 deserving of thanks for his arduous and voluntary 
 labours. The Custos's residence was gorgeously 
 illuminated with Vauxhall lamps and Chinese lanterns, 
 in the centre the words "God save the Queen," with 
 V. R. in the middle appearing in large letters formed 
 by variegated lamps, with a transparency of the 
 Queen above. Opposite, a large ensign floated from 
 his private office. The residence of Mr. D. P. Mendes 
 was beautifully decorated with flags and illuminated 
 with variegated lamps and Chinese lanterns, with the 
 device of V. R. and a crown in the centre. Mr. 
 Gayleard exhibited a colossal likeness of the Queen 
 with the aid of a magic lantern. The residences of 
 Messrs. Boettcher, C. M. Morales, C. M. Mendes, 
 and William Messias were beautifully decorated and 
 illuminated, likewise the restaurants of Messrs. 
 Marrerri, M. Morales and Campbell, and the stores 
 
190 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 of A. M. Nathan, D. P. Mendes, C. M. Mendes, H. 
 Barrow and Co., Nembhard, J. A. Ernandes, Thomas, 
 and others. 
 
 The several churches and chapels, and the synagogue 
 were also illuminated — in fact there was not a 
 dwelling or a shop that was not more or less illumi- 
 nated and decorated. We must also add that the 
 residences of Mr. G. F. Judah and Mr. Maclaughlin 
 were grandly illuminated. It is estimated that over 
 3000 people promenaded the square and the town to 
 witness the illuminations, .fee., and that the same 
 number witnessed the other spectacles ; His Honor the 
 Gustos and his amiable wife being present at each 
 event, fraternizing with the people in their demon- 
 strations of loyalty. 
 
 On the 29th there were social gatherings, picnics, 
 and bands of music parading the town, the bulk of 
 the Spanishtonians leaving by the special train for 
 Kingston to witness the fireworks. On their return 
 11. 30 p. m. a mass meeting was held at Mr. Marrerri's 
 hotel at which a vote of thanks was passed to His 
 Honor the Gustos for his formulating the programme 
 of the celebrations and for his liberality and 
 indomitable perseverance in bringing the same to a 
 successful issue. Three cheers were then given for 
 His Honor the Gustos, and thus terminated the 
 festivities. To the honor and loyalty of old St. Jago, 
 be it said, that the Queen's jubilee was celebrated 
 without a single fracas, or a single case of drunkenness 
 being observed, and without the escape of a word 
 
CELEBRATIONS IN SPANISH TOWN. 191 
 
 that would shock the feelings of the most sensitive. 
 That this decorum was maintained throughout in the 
 absence of police supervision must be highly compli- 
 mentary to the Gustos who vouched for the good 
 behaviour .of the people when he consented to the 
 drafting of the constables to Kingston. Jamaica Po st. 
 
 -?*ftar^sasa,**-i~- 
 
CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 DEMONSTRATIONS IN THE COUNTRY PARISHES. 
 PORTLAND. 
 
 Hope Bay. 
 
 On Tuesday the 28th June, according to the 
 Bishop's circular, Divine Service was held in the 
 Church, and although the rain fell heavily just about 
 the time of commencing, yet the Church was densely 
 crowded. The people, we are glad to say, acted quite 
 in the spirit of the thing. They were to be seen at an 
 early hour bearing flowers etc., for the decoration of 
 the Church, which was very tastefully don^ by the 
 ladies. The word Jubilee was very nicely woiked 
 in flowers by a lady, and placed on one side of the 
 gallery, whilst a banner was inscribed with Victoria 
 Jubilee, with a crown artistically done in the midst, 
 by Mr. C. L. Deleon the Dispenser at Hope Bay, and 
 fixed opposite the pulpit in the west side. 
 
 The Anthems published in the Jubilee tract were 
 all well sung by the Choir, the National Anthem 
 being taken the las^ whilst the collection was being 
 made. The Acces^on Service was read, with the 
 
DEMONSTRATIONS IN THE COUNTRY PARISHES. 193 
 
 modifications introduced by the published form of 
 service by the Layreader. Anthem. Service by the 
 Rector, and Sermon from Prov. 8. 15: By me Kings 
 reign and Princes decree justice. The discourse went 
 to show that the kingly form of government, when 
 not despotic, is decidedly the best and surest. That 
 the first intimation of the old Testament Scripture of 
 a regular government after the flood or mention being 
 made of any before is that of such a form, mentioned 
 Chron. 10. 8 — 10. and that the nations from Ancient 
 days generally preferred it, that it took its rise from 
 the Patriarchal, which was the germ, or first beginning 
 of all governments, and the peroration, of course, had 
 its bearing on the English constitution, government, 
 empire, reign, and personally in the Queen and 
 Royal family of England. The contrast of the 
 privileges, civil, political, and religious of the emanci- 
 pated slaves, and their descendants under freedom 
 was very forcibly and pathetically dwelt upon by 
 the preacher. 
 
 On Wednesday 29th June, the grandest display, and 
 turning out of the people that was ever witnessed in 
 the little town, took place. There were near upon a 
 thousand. The whole of the day scholars and 
 Sabbath School children were out accompanied by 
 young people and adults. There was not standing 
 room to be had in the Church. It was crowded to 
 suflFocation. Addresses appropriate to the occasion, 
 and adapted to children, were delivered by the Rector, 
 the Revd. Andrew Willis, (Presbyterian) and the 
 Layreader, Mr. J. Williams, which were listened to 
 
194 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IX JAMAICA. 
 
 with marked attention. Afterwards the whole 
 multitude, was arranged in marching order with music 
 at its head, and marched up and down the town for 
 some time. The ladies wore on the left side of their 
 bosoms a knot of red ajid blue ribbons, called Victoria 
 BEAU, as ordered by the Rector, banners were carried 
 on which were inscribed "God Save the queen" 
 
 "VICTORIA jubilee" "GOD BLESS THE ROYAL FAMILY" 
 
 &c. And in the centre of the town a beautiful Brit- 
 ish Flag, done also by Mr. C. Deleon, on red cloth, 
 was hoisted, around and under which the assembly 
 marched, and at intervals cheered lustily for the 
 Queen, the Royal Family, the Governor, &c. &c., in 
 ,the midst of deafening voUies which were fired. 
 
 The people after they had enjoyed themselves to 
 their hearts content, marched back to Church, and 
 were regaled with lemonade and buns. And after 
 rehoisting Her Majesty's Flag and saluting it, they 
 dispersed, being well pleased that they had celebrated 
 the Jubilee of the reign of "Misses Queen." 
 
 This was the Churches Jubilee. Another appointed 
 by the committee came oif on the 5th July when the 
 children were treated to a picnic. Express. 
 
 Port Antonio. 
 
 Royal Salute by the Volunteer Militia : distribution 
 of beef and bread to the poor; Thanksgiving Service 
 in the Parish Church : procession of school children 
 through the principal streets to the Fort, headed by 
 
DEMONSTRATIONS IN THE COUNTRY PARISHES. 195 
 
 the Volunteer Militia Band; singing of the National 
 Anthem and three cheers for the Queen ; parade of 
 Volunteer Militia and sham fight : bon-fire on Navy- 
 Island and illumination of the town. 
 
 Manchioneal. 
 
 Distribution of beef and bread to poor persons ; 
 procession of school children to, the Village : procession 
 of "East Caribbean Lodge of Odd Fellows" ; singing 
 of the National Anthem, and three cheers for the 
 Queen and the Governor. 
 
 Buff Bay & Cedar Valley. 
 
 Procession and entertainment of school children; 
 various amusements provided for them; singing of 
 the National Anthem. 
 
 HANOVER. 
 
 Shettlewood. 
 
 A large and lively demonstration in celebration of 
 the Jubilee of Her Majesty's reign was held at 
 Shettlewood pen in the parish of Hanover on the 
 22nd June. The demonstration took the form of a 
 Sunday School Procession and festival, and a public 
 meeting. The Schools and congregations represented 
 
196 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 on the occasion were those under the pastoral care of 
 Revds. E. J. Hewett, and P, Williams, viz. Mount 
 Carey, Bethel Town, Shortwood and Mount Peto 
 which are situated in three different parishes. Besides 
 the two pastors, the following ministers were present 
 and took part in the proceedings, Revds. J. H. Gayle, 
 J. H. Soley, and A. C. Kirkhara. There were at 
 least seven thousand persons on the ground, of whom 
 two thousand five hundred were Sunday School 
 scholars belonging to the afore-named schools. The 
 crowd was enthusiastic and jubilant, and entered 
 most heartily into the proceedings. Numerous 
 specially prepared banners were borne aloft in the 
 procession, and afterwards displayed in different parts 
 of the field, and a number of hymns, specially printed 
 for the occasion, were joyfully sung. 
 
 At the public meeting the vast assembly most 
 enthusiastically adopted a loyal telegram to be sent 
 to His Excellency the Governor, and rent the air 
 with their .glad shouts when it was proposed that 
 they would give "Three cheers for the Queen." 
 No heartier cheers were given in any part of the 
 Queen's Dominions. After the public meeting all the 
 Sunday School children were plentifully supplied 
 with refreshments, and then indulged themselves for 
 several hours in various field amusements. From morn- 
 ing, till evening the utmost good order and 
 heartiest enthusiasm prevailed. It was a right happy 
 Jubilee day, and will be remembered for many 
 years, to come by those who were privileged 
 to be present. Express. 
 
DEMONSTRATIONS IN THE COUNTRY PARISHES. 197 
 
 SAINT ANN. 
 
 The Celebrations at St. Ann's Bay were kept 
 in a grand style. From early morning till eleven 
 o'clock a. m. every road or track leading into the Bay 
 was thronged with riders or persons trudging along 
 gaily on their own feet. The occasion of all this stir 
 was of course the Jubilee of the Queen. To make the 
 most of it the local authorities had arranged that the 
 Jubilee in that parish should not be kept until a week 
 after the Kingston one. In this way the parishioners 
 or at least many of them could double the expression 
 of their loyalty aud increase their own pleasure. 
 The St. Ann's contingent which came to Kingston last 
 week was a large one, as the sale of the Railway 
 tickets at Ewarton showed. Their enjoyment in 
 town seemed only to have whetted the desire for 
 enjoyment in the country, for in proportion to 
 population probably no local demonstration was so 
 successful as that of this parish. At five o'clock a. m. 
 the Constabulary bugler began ■ the work of the day 
 by sounding out in his best style the general assembly 
 at Lemon Corner, the market, the Court House, 
 Kerr's wharf, Lee's wharf, and the Light House. 
 At six a royal salute fired from Windsor's Hill. At 
 the same time the joy bells were rung out wherever 
 there was a bell to ring. The people flocked to the 
 market place, and the band played. Meanwhile, as 
 already said the people flocked in from all parts 
 around. For fifteen or sixteen miles around every 
 available bus, buggy, or carriage, was pushed into 
 the service of the loyal spirit of the people. By ten 
 o'clock every yard where horses or mules could be 
 
198 JUBILKB BEJOIOINQS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 hitched up was crowded. Bunting was displayed at 
 all available points. The more serious business of 
 the day then began. At the time a procession began 
 to be formed of Masons, Forresters, and Constabulary. 
 The magistrates and members of the Parochial Board 
 joined the procession shortly before eleven o'clock and 
 marched to Church. We believe that such a congrega- 
 tion has never been seen here before — for numbers, 
 representative character, and enthusiasm. At noon a 
 procession was again formed, this time of Forresters, 
 Constabulary and School children. They met at the 
 Court House and marched to Drax Hall common. 
 Here a series of games and Athletic sports took place. 
 In the evening a display of fire works took place, the 
 parish having secured a portion of the stock imported 
 by the government and not used in Kingston. The 
 Queen's Jubilee will long be remembered in St. Ann's 
 by the thousands who assembled there. Express. 
 
 SAINT ANDREW. 
 
 In the absence of any town in this parish, and in 
 consequence of the facilities offered to the inhabitants 
 from the propinquity of the two parishes sharing in 
 the festivities of Kingston, no festivities on a large 
 scale were organized; but the people generally kept 
 high holiday throughout the two Jubilee days. 
 Commemorative Trees were planted by His Excellency 
 the Governor, Miss Norman and other residents 
 along the road from Halfway-Tree to the junction of 
 
DEMONSTRATIONS IN THE COUNTRY PARISHES. 199 
 
 the parish with that of Kingston. A Thanksgiving 
 Service was held in the Parish Church at Halfway- 
 Tree and a dinner was given to the paupers of the 
 parish in the Kingston and St. Andrew's Union Poor 
 House. The inmates of the Boys and Girls Reforma- 
 tories were also treated. 
 
 Thanksgiving Services were held in most of the 
 Places of Worship in this parish. 
 
 SAINT THOMAS. 
 
 Movant Bay. 
 
 Assemblage of school children in front of Court 
 House, who sung the National Anthem ; general pic-nic 
 and sports in the afternoon in the Rectory grounds : 
 dinner given to the paupers in the Alms House. 
 
 Golden Grove. 
 
 School children with banners marched through the 
 Village singing the National Anthem. 
 
 SAINT MART. 
 
 Port Maria. 
 
 A salute of 21 guns from Fort Hill; distribution 
 of beef, bread and beer to about 1,200 persons ; 
 
200 Jumi.EK REJOICINOB IK JAMAICA. 
 
 Thanksgiving Service in the Parish Church ; Proces- 
 sion of school children and teachers ; singing of the 
 National Anthem ; laying of foundation Stone of the 
 principal entrance to the Victoria Park, so named 
 in commemoration of the Queen's Jubilee; presenta- 
 tion of clothes and small sums of money to the poor ; 
 sports and distribution of prizes. The town was well 
 decorated, and a band of music played at intervals. 
 
 Annotto Bay 
 
 Thanksgiving Services in the various Places of 
 Worship ; loyal and patriotic addresses to the people 
 by some of the leading inhabitants ; distribution of 
 beef, bread, and lemonade to the poor to the number 
 of 500. 
 
 TRBLAWNEY. 
 
 Falmouth. 
 
 Ringing of joy-bells; Thanksgiving Services in the 
 Churches of the different Denominations ; firing of 
 Royal Salute and feu-de-joie, procession of Con- 
 stabulary, Magistrates and Members of the Civil 
 Service, Members of Ancient Order of For festers. 
 Members of Good Templars Lodge, Children of Day 
 and Sabbath Schools with Teachers, Firewardens 
 and Fire Brigade, and Trelawney Corps of Mounted 
 Rifles of Jamaica Volunteer Militia under command 
 of Capt. Shirley, to the Victoria Park where a com- 
 
DEMONSTRATIONS IN THE COUNTEY PARISHES. 201 
 
 memorative Tree was planted. The town was gaily 
 decorated and many thousands visited it from other 
 portions of the parish. 
 
 SAINT JAMES. 
 
 Montego Bay. 
 
 Ringing of joybells; Royal Salute from Fort 
 Montego ; gathering of the populace in the Albert 
 Market; Thanksgiving Services in the several Places 
 of Worship ; gathering in the Square in front of the 
 Court House of the Sunday School Children of the 
 Non-Conformist bodies of the town and neighbouring 
 districts to the number of about 2,000; singing by 
 them of the National Anthem ; special official Service 
 of Thanksgiving at the Parish Church; second 
 gathering at the Square of children of Sunday Schools 
 attached to all Places of Worship in the town num- 
 bering 2,030; singing of the National Anthem and 
 procession to the Barracks; display of Fireworks in 
 the Harbour and general illumination of the town. 
 
 WESTMORELAND. 
 
 Savanna-la-Mar. 
 
 Royal Salute of 21 guns; Special Thanksi^iviii;,' 
 Service at the Parish Church ; presentation to tli j 
 
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202 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 Parochial Board on behalf of the town by Mr. E. J. 
 Sadler of a handsome drinking fountain and trough; 
 assemblage of school children to the number of 500 
 who were presented with sixpence each, the gift of 
 Mr. Sadler; dinner to 85 paupers in the Poor House, 
 who also received a suit of clothes and one shilling - 
 each. The following may be stated in regard to the 
 parish generally. The out-door poor on the lists and 
 and the casual poor, 325 in number, received an extra 
 dole amounting to two weeks allowance; and large 
 numbers of persons other than paupers were provided 
 with beef, bread, rice and sugar. Twenty-five blind 
 paupers received four shillings each, and 355 poor 
 persons, not actual paupers received from two to four 
 shillings each. 
 
 The children of the Day and Sunday Schools in the 
 Sav-la-Mar, St. Paul's, Trinity, St- John and St. 
 Thomas Districts, numbering over 6,000, were assem- 
 bled and addressed by many Clergymen and other 
 gentlemen, and were regaled with buns, cakes, bread 
 and meat, and amused themselves with various 
 games. 
 
 A large and handsome school house was dedicated 
 to public use at Kings in this parish ; and at Morgan's 
 Bridge the foundation stone was laid of another 
 proposed large school house, both in commemoration 
 of Her Majesty's Jubilee. 
 
DEMONSTRATIONS IN THE COUNTRY PARISHES. 203 
 
 SAINT ELIZABETH. 
 
 Black :River. 
 
 Assembl£(ge of the inhiabLtants at the Cgurt House, 
 hoisting of the British Ensign and t.playing of the 
 National Anthem by the Black Eiver Band ; address by 
 His Honor Gustos Coke ; three cheers for the Queen , 
 salute of 21 guns. Special Service in the Parish 
 Church, assemblage of Magistrates and Members of 
 the Parochial Board at the Court House and drinking 
 of the Queen's health, as well as that of His Excellency 
 the Governor and the Custos, regatta in ■ harbour, 
 grand display of fireworks, assemblage of schiool 
 children to an estimated number of 1,400 at the 
 Court House, procession through the town to Lower 
 Works Common, where they were treated with 
 refreshments, special Jubilee Concert by the Black 
 River Band, and second display of fireworks. 
 
 MANCHESTER. 
 
 Mandeville. 
 
 Assemblage of school children and singing of the 
 National Anthem,- public meeting of * inhabitants, 
 address to the Qiieen read by.the Custos and adopted 
 by the meeting, athletic sports, treat to school children 
 and paupers, and grand display of fireworks. 
 
204 JUBILEE BEJOIOINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 CLARENDON. 
 
 Jubilee Concert at Chapelton, Jubilee Concert and 
 Theatricals at May Pen, athletic sports at Healthfield 
 in Vere District, very largely attended, Jubilee picnic 
 at Sheckles Pen. 
 
 SAINT CATHERINE. 
 
 Old Harbour. 
 
 Thanksgiving Service in Churches, procession of 
 400 school children of all denominations through 'the 
 town, headed by a band of music, horse races on 
 Bodies Common, Parade of Volunteer Militia, Royal 
 Salute of 21 guns, and firing of feu-de-joio by the 
 Volunteer Militia, playing of the National Anthem 
 by the band and three cheers for the Queen. 
 
 Linstead. 
 
 Thanksgiving Services in Places of Worship, 
 entertainment of the poor and school children, illumi- 
 nation of the village and grand display of fireworks. 
 
 Scdnt John's District. 
 
 Entertainment of the poor and of school children, 
 amusements of various kinds, and bonfires on three 
 elevations in the vicinity of Point Hill. 
 
CHAPTER XV. 
 
 JOBILEE NOTES 
 
 Evening Expreee. 
 
 July, 1st 1887. 
 
 From first to last the Jubilee Celebra,tion8 have 
 been a great success. Everything with few exceptions 
 may be said to have gone as was desired. The 
 Governor's Ball comes off to-night, and the Jubilee 
 Concert tomorrow evening, but from Tuesday morn- 
 ing tni this afternoon at the hour of publishing, 
 every thing connected with the occasion has passed 
 off as the most loyal subject of the Queen could have 
 desired, and in the spirit of the carefully weighed -and 
 well chosen words of the Governor which we 
 will give in their proper place, — ^in connection 
 with the Levee of yesterday. 
 
 The loyalty of the people of Jamaica was not called 
 in question anywhere, and it could not be, but the 
 intelligent manifestation of it must have satisfied the 
 most cautious minds that there is in the island a real 
 political life and an intelligent consciousness that we 
 possess an honorable place that is growing and will 
 
206 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 grow in importance as a part of the great federation 
 of the future. This idea is distinctly referred to in 
 the addresses which we have already seen. The 
 future of the political life of the island is shadowed 
 forth in the loyalty, the consciousness of political 
 identity with the interests of the Empire, and the 
 review given of the great events of the past fifty 
 years. Archdeacon Douet referred in his sermon 
 to the 'great and righteous act' of emancipation from 
 the state of slavery as the beginning of a new day 
 here, and nothing could have been better said. The 
 "new Jamaica" dates from that event and it has for 
 the last four years been growing soundly and well 
 under our present Governor, with every prospect of 
 further and better developements. The absence of 
 riot under excitement and of criminal offences under 
 the opportunities afforded by such an occasion, say 
 much for the people, and will raise the island in the 
 estimation of the population of the mother country. 
 
 Nineteenth Century. 
 
 . . Joyous and exciting as was the eventful scene of 
 the 28th and 29th of June, 1887, the celebration of 
 the 50th year of our Most Gracious Queen's reign, yet 
 how pleasing was the aspect, and how remarkable the 
 circumstances which attended the ever memorable 
 occasion throughout! We allude especially to the 
 state of soberness which was maintained by every 
 one; — it was conduct we might safely say, never 
 before witnessed in this or any other community, on 
 so joyous ;a. public occasion. , It is the more strangely 
 
JUBILEE NOTES. 207 
 
 SO, when account is taken of the gladsome feeling 
 exhibited by thousands giving reign to loyal senti- 
 ments in such a marked manner as to reach up to an 
 exciting and enthusiastic character. 
 
 There was none of that obnoxious sight which tells 
 of the progress of intemperance among our people, 
 neither was there revelling of any kind, on 
 the contrary, every one though roused in spirit, 
 studiously abstained from marring the liappy time in 
 drunken revels so debasing to human beings. 
 
 It was gratifying to hear the genuine greetings of 
 loyalty as friend met friend, in the firm grip and 
 shake of hand so characteristically English : and this> 
 too, confined to no one class, but evidently permeat- 
 ing all those with whom we were thrown in contact 
 on these two memorable days. 
 
 The cause of Temperance is waving its banner 
 triumphantly over the people, while civilization, 
 moving in steady order to the frontier, fails not to 
 further the retreat of other evils from the country, — 
 for, notwithstanding the immense throng, aye the 
 multitude of country persons recruiting our town 
 population, — persons of both sexes and all ages, and 
 closely packed as they were in the Square and streets 
 adjacent^not a quarrel arose, not one accident 
 resulted. 
 
 There is but one and only one cause for the order- 
 liness of this aggregation of human beings — viz. the 
 absence of alcoholic stimulants, and, thank Goil 
 Jamaica is free from pickpockets, roughs and such like 
 
208 JUBILEE REJOICINGS UC JAMAICA. 
 
 gentry, whose special aptitudes are brought into 
 requisition on these occasions. 
 
 Jamaica Post. 
 
 July, 2iid 1887. 
 
 The Jubilee of the Queen baa come and gone, and 
 below will be found a digest of all that has occurred. 
 The one feeling predominant throughout has been 
 that of intense loyalty, and Jamaica has in no respect 
 been behind any in manifestations of regax-d for our 
 Sovereign. Despite all that has been said of present 
 "hard times," money was freely spent on decorations, 
 illuminations, and fireworks, &c. and some of the 
 displays were indeed creditable. Crowds of people 
 from the country poured into the town, until the 
 streets seemed moving masses of humanity. The 
 trains could not contain them all, and though ample 
 provision was made by the railway officials the train 
 accommodation can scarcely be said to have been 
 adequate to the demand. Indeed the number of 
 passengers was altogether unprecedented. The car 
 company, it is to be regretted, lost hundreds of 
 pounds by their absurd running of the cars. These 
 were in no way equal to the number of passengers 
 who sought to travel by them, and it is a notorious 
 fact that on nearly every public occasion, instead of 
 serving the public and making money, the ear compa- 
 ny show their independence, their autocracy, by 
 jumbling up the service or stopping it altogether — 
 in other words, cutting off their nose to spoil their 
 
JUBILEE K0TE8. 209 
 
 face. For instance, the cars could not hold the crowd 
 that came from the railway.' they were stopped 
 altogether for an hour at the time of the review ; 
 and on the night of the fireworks, instead of having 
 the whole service on the East Street line at the 
 conclusion of the fireworks, there were only two cars 
 capable of holding at the most 40 persons, to take 
 away about 10,000 people. True, a number of cars 
 came up, half an hour after these two had gone, but 
 by that time the crowd had almost all melted away. 
 We would strongly advise the car company, and the 
 indefatigable manager, to suspend their ordinary 
 service on great public occasions and run cars every 
 five minutes. The inconvenience to which the car 
 company put the public during the Jubilee days calls 
 for the strongest condemnation. The loss to the 
 company during the hour they suspended traffic at 
 the review must have been considerable, while the 
 bigger half of the people who witnessed the fireworks 
 would have driven down had there been cars for 
 them, so that by their mismanagement or something 
 else the car company allowed fully 10,000 frftes to 
 slip from them. The public are to be congratulated 
 on the admirable order which prevailed. It was cer- 
 tainly most remarkable that in this land, where rum 
 is one of the staple product, only one or two in the 
 immense crowd were drunk, and these one or two 
 were not natives. The churches have gone heartily 
 in for the celebrations, and the heads of the different 
 denominations deserve the warmest commendation for 
 the zest with which they carried out their manifesta- 
 tions of loyalty. The Revs. Mr. Downer and J. B. 
 
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210 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMA.ICA. 
 
 Ellis are specially to be thanked for their untiring 
 and indefatigable exertions on behalf of the State 
 service in the Parish Church. 
 
 Oall's News Letter. 
 2nd July, 1887 
 
 Enjoyment, it is said, consists in the anticipation 
 and the remembrance of our pleasures. If this be so 
 — and a little reflection in respect to our own experi- 
 ence will prove to each and all of us that it is so — 
 then the people of Kingston including the large 
 concourse from all other parts of the island by whom 
 the citizens were joined in their celebration of the 
 Queen's Jubilee, have had a full measure of enjoyment; 
 for, not only had they anticipation of much in the 
 way of general rejoicing: but they are able to look 
 back with pardonable pride and gratification at the 
 large amount there was to enjoy and the heartiness 
 with which people of all classes and all conditions 
 entered into the enjoyment. 
 
 And now that the festivity is over and all of us 
 feel some need of rest from the fatigue of rejoicing* 
 there can be hardly any among us who must not feel 
 that two days of it was as much as our energies, not 
 accustomed to so much excitement, could possibly 
 undergo. So much was crowded into the appointed 
 forty-eight hours, that hardly breathing time was 
 
JUBILEE NOTES. 211 
 
 allowed between one event and another. A good 
 Pragramme was prepared, and as we have had regular 
 Jubilee, weather for the occasion, the programme was 
 carried, through, without a single hitch, every circum- 
 stance, being.crow.ned with, success and attended with 
 the utmost eclat. The Jubilee of our great, and noble 
 Queen was looked forward to with anxious expecta- 
 tion, and when it came it received a truly loyal and 
 right royal welcome. 
 
 During all the previous week visitors were coming 
 into the city from even the most distant parts of the 
 island : but on Monday they came in droves. Our 
 forty miles of railway were brought into such 
 requisition, and contributed so much in the way of 
 cheap, comfortable and speedy travelling to those 
 coming from the western side of the island, that there 
 ought to have been many converts made to the 
 policy of general railway extension. 
 
 On Monday morning the first trains from Porus 
 and Ewarton were so crowded that cattle waggons, 
 luggage vans and everything in the shape of a car 
 had to be pressed into the service. At every station 
 the numbers increased and the cry was still they 
 come : and the result was that hundreds had to be 
 left back. It is stated that 1700 passengers came 
 over on Monday, and on Jubilee morning over 600 
 more. We have not ascertained the whole number 
 up to the end of the second day ; but if we compute 
 the balance and take into account the large number 
 arriving by sea, or in vehicles over land from places 
 
212 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 not intersected by the Railway; as well as the droves 
 of the peasantry who came over the hills, trudging it 
 on foot, from St. Anns, St. Mary, Portland, St. 
 Andrew and St. Thomas, we are safe in concluding 
 that the floating population during the two days 
 must have been increased by many thousands. 
 
CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 EXIT THE JUBILEE. 
 
 The following Gazette Extraordinary was issued 
 on Saturday last :— 2nd July, 1887. 
 
 The Governor congratulates the people of Jamaica 
 upon the happy manner in which the Jubilee Celebra- 
 tions have been carried out in this island. His 
 Excellency has only witnessed the proceedings in 
 Kingston but he has had reports from Spanish Town 
 and from various country parishes in which the 
 celebrations have already taken place, which shows 
 that there has been a display of good feeling and a 
 success in the arrangements elsewhere similar to that 
 which has been seen in this city. 
 
 The display of loyalty and affection towards the 
 Queen has been most marked, and the good order and 
 good temper of the large crowds that have assembled 
 on various occasions during the jubilee holidays have 
 called forth the admiration of those who witnessed it. 
 The absence of drunkenness has been very gratifying; 
 and His Excellency can truly say that while he has 
 seen many crowds of persons in other parts of the 
 world he has never witnessed more orderly, well 
 
214 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 conducted or happy assemblages than those which 
 were seen in the streets of Kingston and at various 
 spectacles in and about the city during the present 
 week. His Excellency too was pleased to see the 
 British soldier and sailor mingling happily with the 
 people upon these occasions. 
 
 The Governor has already conveyed to Commodore 
 H. Hand, R. N., and to the Honorable Colonel W. C. 
 Justice' C. M. CL, his condial thanks . for. the .aid given 
 by the navy and - the army to do honor to the 
 occasion. 
 
 The spectacles of the ships of war illuminated and 
 the review of seamen, mariniesi soldiers and our own 
 volunteer militia were gratifying to the people: and 
 and will not soon be forgotten. 
 
 Thanks are due to the preliminary committee over 
 which Mr. S. C. Burke presided in Januaiy last, and 
 which pnepaisd an outline scheme for the Jubilee 
 celebration and to the Honorable Mr. Bell, the 
 chairman, and the general jubilee committee for their 
 efforts to make the celebration eftective. Especial 
 thanks are due to Major Glancy, of the Royal 
 Engineers, who managed the fireworks display and to 
 those who: lacted: under his orders; to the Mayor of 
 Kingston, the Gustos of Kingston, the Honorable 
 Wellesley Bourke and the Honorable T. L. Harvey, 
 who all acted as chairmen of sub-committees; to the 
 Rector of Kingston for his efforts to ma/kei .the. State 
 Service of Thanksgiving impressive and apprxjpriaie ; 
 
EXIT THE JUBILEE. 215 
 
 to all ministers of religion for readily adopting the 
 suggestions made as to thanksgiving services; to the 
 ministers of religion and other gentlemen who 
 organized and conducted the successful demonstration 
 of several thousand school children upon the Race 
 Course; to Mr. D'Aeth, District Engineer, for effect- 
 ively carrying out the requirements made upon his 
 department ; to Commodore Littledale, R. N. and the 
 men under his orders for the tasteful decoration of 
 the Town Hall; and to Mr. L. R. Fyfe, the inde- 
 fatigable secretary of the general committee for his 
 exertions. Nor must His Excellency omit to thank 
 the numerous inhabitants of Kingston who took 
 pains in decorating and illuminating their houses 
 and shops and thus made the city look cheerful 
 by day and by night. 
 
 The conduct of the constabulary has been most 
 praiseworthy, Major KnoUys, C. M. G., the Inspector 
 General, deserves high credit for the excellence of 
 the police arrangements as well as for his useful 
 aid in matters outside his regular duties. Mr. 
 Wedderburn, Inspector for Kingston has shown 
 himself to be a good and active officer, and to him 
 and his sub-inspectors and the non-commissioned 
 officers and constables of the force the Governor 
 accords his commendation for their unwearied exer- 
 tions and for their tact and good temper in 
 regulating traffic and in preventing confusion. 
 
216 JUBILEE REJOICINGS IN JAMAICA. 
 
 His Excellency esteems it a privilege to have taken 
 part in the Jubilee celebrations in Jatoaica, and 
 will always look back with pleasure to the interest- 
 ing proceedings of the week which is now ended. 
 
 The Governor also issued the following notification 
 in the Jamaica Gazette 3rd August 1887. : — 
 
 In Government notice of 2nd July, published in 
 the Gazette Extraordinary of the same date, the 
 Governor, in congratulating the people of Jamaica 
 upon the happy manner in which the Jubilee celebra- 
 tions had been carried out in the Island alluded to 
 reports which had been received from various Country 
 Parishes in which the Jubilee celebrations had 
 already taken place as showing the successful 
 character of the arrangements elsewhere than in 
 Kingston. 
 
 2. The reports thus alluded to were in the form of 
 Telegrams which had been transmitted to the 
 Governor and did not embrace the whole of the 
 parishes; but siiice the issue of that notification His 
 Excellency has received written reports from all the 
 Custodes, or senior Magistrates of parishes entering 
 more into detail in regard to the festivities 
 and rejoicings which took place in honor of the 
 auspicious occasion. 
 
 3. In general a prominent feature of the programme 
 was the holding of special Services of Thanksgiving 
 
EXIT THE JUBILEE. 217 
 
 to Almighty God; and next to this tribute to the 
 Almighty, consideration for the aged and infirm poor, 
 and for the school children seems to have held the 
 chief place in the thoughts of those who organized the 
 Jubilee celebrations. The paupers were in all cases 
 treated to a good dinner, whilst in many instances 
 presents of money and of clothes were also made to 
 them; and treats of various kinds were organized 
 for the school children ; wherever it was practical, 
 Royal Salutes were fired ; bands of music played; 
 and the Corps of Volunteer Militia paraded. The 
 towns were gaily decorated; bonfires were lit; grand 
 displays of fireworks took place; Concerts were 
 given; Athletic sports and regattas were organized 
 and successfully carried out; and everywhere through- 
 out the Island the National Anthem was publicly 
 sung with the. greatest enthusiasm. 
 
 4. It is a matter of sincere satisfaction to the 
 Governor to be in a position to state after a perusal 
 of the reports above alluded to, that the arrangements 
 throughout the whole Island of Jamaica for doing 
 honor to the Jubilee of Her Majesty's Reign were not 
 only admirably conceived but were also most 
 successfully carried out. The Governor considers 
 that the loyalty and good feeling of the inhabitants 
 of the several parishes of the Island have been strik- 
 ingly manifested in the manner in which they have 
 taken part in the celebrations. 
 
 5. The Governor takes this opportunity of publicly 
 tendering to the Custodes and Senior Magistrates, the 
 Chairmen and Members of the Parochial Boards, the 
 
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218 JUBILBB REJ0IC1N08 IN JAMAICA. 
 
 general body of Magistrates, the Ministers of the 
 various religious Denominations, and other leading 
 residents of the several parishes, his grateful acknow- 
 ledgments for their efforts in organizing and helping 
 to carry to a successful issue the various arrangements 
 for celebrating the Jubilee of Her Majesty's reign, 
 and His Excellency sincerely congratulates the island 
 on the good order observed during these celebrations 
 
 6. The Governor proposes to send a copy of this 
 notification to the Secretary of State for the Colonies 
 for the information of Her Majesty. 
 
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