From a Photograph] [by F. Frith & Co.

THE JUBILEE PROCESSION PASSING DOWN REGENT STREET.

The escort of Princes in the foreground: the Indian escort immediately precedes the Royal Carriage.

It would be impossible, within reasonable limits, even to mention the various schemes started, institutions founded, or funds set on foot to commemorate the Royal Jubilee of 1887. |The Imperial Institute.| Of these the most conspicuous outwardly has taken the form of that pile of architecture in South Kensington, known as the Imperial Institute, in the foundation, permanent organisa­tion, and direction of which the Prince of Wales has taken as energetic a part as his father had done in the temporary Exhibition of 1851.

T. S. C. Crowther.]

THE JUBILEE SERVICE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, June 21, 1887.

The most conspicuous figures on the Queen’s right are the Prince of Wales and the Crown Prince of Germany (afterwards the Emperor Frederick), and to her left the Crown Princess and the Princess of Wales.

During this year a series of events took their rise out of the publication in the Times of a number of articles headed “Parnellism and Crime,” in which Mr. Parnell and his colleagues were charged with active complicity in the long prevalence of outrage and terrorism in Ireland. |“Parnellism and Crime.”| The facsimile of a letter, purporting to be written by Parnell, was published on April 18, containing the following sentence, referring to the Phœnix Park murders:—“Though I regret the accident of Lord F. Cavendish’s death, I cannot refuse to admit that Burke got no more than his deserts.” This letter was repudiated by Parnell in his place in the House of Commons; but the Government resisted a motion to the effect that the Times, in publishing these articles, had been guilty of breach of privilege. Mr. Gladstone then moved for a Select Committee to enquire into the truth of the charges, but this also was refused by the Government. The request for a Select Committee was renewed in the following year by Mr. Parnell, in order to enquire into the authenticity of certain letters produced in an action for libel brought against the proprietors of the Times by Mr. O’Donnell, one of Mr. Parnell’s followers. |Appointment of Special Commission of Judges.| Mr. W. H. Smith stated, in reply (July 12), that, in the opinion of the Government, a Select Committee of the House of Commons was not a suitable tribunal to try charges arising out of the action of political parties, but that the Government were willing to appoint a Special Commission of Judges to enquire into the whole allegations. Unfortunately, the debates on the Bill necessary to constitute this Commission were excessively heated. The fact, an infelicitous one, it must be allowed, that the Attorney-General, a member of the Government, had acted as leading counsel for the Times in the late trial, gave colour to the unfounded charge that the Government had been acting all along in collusion with the Times.