MILITARY AND CIVIL. I41 
     
    
   
   
    
     On Saturday, the 28th, the Island received a distinguished 
     
     visit from His Royal Highness, Prince Arthur; third son of 
     
     Her Majesty Queen Victoria. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Preparation for his reception had previously been made , 
     
     the Colonial Building had been fitted up with much taste, as a 
     
     drawing room. ball room, banquet hall and refreshment depart- 
     
     ment. 
     
    

    
     The volunteers comprising the guard of honor under Colo- 
     
     nel Beer, consisted of several companies ; they formed in open 
     
     ranks on the wharf and Queen Street, where they were joined by 
     
     the Free Masons in regalia and other societies taking part in 
     
     the demonstration. No. I Artillery under Major Morris, man- 
     
     ned the battery at Fort Edward, and fired a royal salute of 21 
     
     guns 
     
    

    
     Handsome arches had been erected for the occasion; the 
     
     motto on one of them was inscribed thus : “Welcome to Prince 
     
     Arthur, son of our beloved Queen.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     On the signal being made that H. M. ship Dart, with the 
     
     Prince on board, was approaching the harbor, all whose duty 
     
     it was to receive, assembled at their posts. His Royal High- 
     
     ness stepped on the wharf midst the firing of artillery, present- 
     
     ing of arms, sweet strains of music, and enthusiastic shouts of 
     
     the people; then His Honor the Administrator—with great 
     
     courtesy—welcomed the Prince to the Island, after which he 
     
     was conducted to Government House, and presented with an 
     
     address by Mayor DesBrisay, and members of the Corporation. 
     
    
   
   
    
     On the day following the Prince attended divine service at 
     
     St. Paul’s church in company with His Honor the Adminis- 
     
     trator. 
     
    

    
     A regimental band of thirty instruments was forwarded from 
     
     Halifax, and remained in the city during the sojourn of His 
     
     Royal Highness. 
     
    

    
     On the evening of the 23rd, the city was brilliantly illumin- 
     
     ated, and a grand display of fireworks was set off on Queen 
     
     Square. The Halifax military band enlivened the occasion 
     
     with music; but its waltz and quadrille music, during the hours 
     
     of the ball in the small though gay Assembly room of the 
     
     Legislature, called forth the loudest praise. 
     
    
   
   
    
     About IO o’clock, the Prince was escorted from Government 
     
     House to the Colonial Building by a torchlight procession;