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eagles hoisted, trailing banners and waving oriental palms.
The chryselephantine papal standard rises high, surrounded
by pennons of the civic flag. The van of the procession ap-
pears headed by John Howard Parnell, city marshal, in a
chessboard tabard, the Athlone Poursuivant and Ulster King
of Arms. They are followed by the Right Honourable Joseph
Hutchinson, lord mayor of Dublin, his lordship the lord may-
or of Cork, their worships the mayors of Limerick, Galway,
Sligo and Waterford, twentyeight Irish representative peers,
sirdars, grandees and maharajahs bearing the cloth of es-
tate, the Dublin Metropolitan Fire Brigade, the chapter of
the saints of finance in their plutocratic order of precedence,
the bishop of Down and Connor, His Eminence Michael car-
dinal Logue, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland,
His Grace, the most reverend Dr William Alexander, arch-
bishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, the chief rabbi, the
presbyterian moderator, the heads of the baptist, anabaptist,
methodist and Moravian chapels and the honorary secre-
tary of the society of friends. After them march the guilds
and trades and trainbands with flying colours: coopers, bird
fanciers, millwrights, newspaper canvassers, law scriven-
ers, masseurs, vintners, trussmakers, chimneysweeps, lard
refiners, tabinet and poplin weavers, farriers, Italian ware-
housemen, church decorators, bootjack manufacturers,
undertakers, silk mercers, lapidaries, salesmasters, cork-
cutters, assessors of fire losses, dyers and cleaners, export
bottlers, fellmongers, ticketwriters, heraldic seal engravers,
horse repository hands, bullion brokers, cricket and archery
outfitters, riddlemakers, egg and potato factors, hosiers and