The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-03-28 00:00:00

AGindiftTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, MARCH 28,871.

bones in which she WM belonging toe relation, she
had it rent-free. With the oecasional aasistanoe of a
rebulattiwohnenfromm.m WFisarmi
..outolit:hseh"m.,,ighhetrhpaivolnstice,hatted.„;
indeed • question on how little they could live. Three
vssks ago, we have sinoi learnt, the younger woman
went to • baker's in the neighbourhood to get &little
bread. She did not conplain, but the baker's wife
was struck with her weakness and starved appearance,
and asked if she was is distress. The poor If 01:4111
iwaweria "I have not tvoken my fast for two days."
lest week the friend who sometimes relieved Mrs. I
White went to another part, and the poor souls'
distress increased. But they seem to have been too
independent to make known their case, and they had
none among their poor acquaintance but who were
Poverty and want through badness of
trade. Nbyo cit°
e was rich enough to enquire how they
managed to live, until shout 11 on Monday morning,
Mr. Street called at the house. lie was alarmod that I
he could make no one hear, and milled in two of the I
neighbours' wives. These went upstairs and found the
two poor old souls powerless from want of food,. One
had managed to dress herself, but had fallen on the bed
unable to keep up any looser. The other bad only
been able to get Oa her stookings, and bad sunk power-
less In a chair. They were scarcely able to speak, and
when 'pressed as to what was the matter, could just
gasp out "Starving to death r There was not a bit
of food of any sort in the house. Some port wino and
beef.tes, was procured, and they ware gradually revived.
Fortunately the neighbours who found them were
better off than the majority, and • loaf, butter, tea,
and sugar were carried in. When the old ladies had
recovered, their hunger was felt; they quickly ate
the first supply, some potatoes were cooked and
soon eaten, another loaf was carried in, and that I
was eaten and before the day was out, they were
visited again, and found eagerly eating bisimits. The
house was pothers of furniture - Portland people delight
to have their houses nicely furnished, many of the
poorest parlours contain numbers of pretty article+, and
when they are in deep &street they cling to some of
the goods that remind them of old times- but the poor
weinen are now obliged to part with their furniture
bit by bit, in order to support the lives so scarcely
rescued from starvation. Of course the case we have
last mentioned is that of females exceptionally unpro-
tected; but it would never have happened except in
bad times, for some kind hearts would have found them
out, and relieved them unastentatimuly long ago, but
ballol 00 s• ........• ~....7 one's tn. ...gimp toot his own
to look about for cases of want out of doors. srnat
chews the advocate of additional rates has may be
gathered from the feet that so large is the excused list,
that • petty sessions will be bald on Friday afternoon,
both on the bill and under the hill, to consider the
summed list alone.

THE ROYAL MARRIAGE.
If a happy life be dependent upon • pleasant wed-
ding, no cloud should follow the marriage el" Her Royal
Highness the Prinoess Louise Caroline Alberta, fourth
daughter of her Majesty Queen Victoria and of his
Royal Hjghness La Prince Consort, Hake of Simony
and Prince of Sixe•Cobury and Gotha with John
Douglas Sutberhod, Marquis of 1.-irne, in St (dome's
Chapel, Windsor on Tuesday, Marsh 21, The
public sympathy manifested in the ceremony was due,
no doubt to he unprecedented cirenu.stanee of
Royalty mating vitb a subject.
The morning appropriately op nied with a Scotch mist,
but it was quietly put aside by the sun at the precise
nice of time. Cowds gathered at Windsor.
The ladies wen is overwhelming majority. About 200
Eton bore took op • position on Castle hill to greet
their old Sehoolfillow—a good many of them, perhaps,
thinking with secret chagrin that the number of
Prinoessea In Respond is small.
The Mayor ani Council of Windsor were the hrst
public appearances. They walked in slow and s,rave
prooession, ia tleir civic robes of scarlet and purple,
from the Teen:Wall to the Chapel, and crested a mild
sensation. Flenesforth vehicles drove up the hill in

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quick succession.
Then the arivalof distinguished visitere at the Great
Western Station which was smothered in azaleas,
camellias, °iteration and lihms ,• from which they issue
out under a trophy of flags and wreaths. To convoy
them to the Castle a cortege of royal carriages was
appointed' the servants in the Windsor livery of gold
and searlet, with powdered liar and Lu portant caved.
The guests began to drop into the Chapel. The Lord
Chancellor, in his robe end wig, among the fist
arrivals; and then 7.stber a rush of notabilities, in-
cluding the Foreign Asubsuadors in various costumes.
Shortly after twelve music announced the coming of
the first part of the procession, and a cloud of illus-
trious persons become visible. The Duke of Argyll
was in the full costume of the Clan Campbell, claymore
included. Uniforms of all descriptions appears!. An
Eastern Print*, his Highness Maharajah Duloep Singh,
who was present eight years ago at the Prince's wedding.
Her Highness the Maharanee wore • reddish veil of
exquisite fabric. whine revered the head, without,
however, unreeling the face, and fell over the shoulders
and body, disclosing a skirt which shone as though of
veritable cloth of gold. Her Highness wore a jewelled
urban of lustrous white, with a coat of dull blue. The
Prince and Princess or Teck, her Royal Highness in a
dress of dark blue satin, and the Prince wearing the
light blue uniform of • revelry officer in the Austrian
service. The Duke of Cambridge, in Field-Marshal's
uniform. Prince Arthur, in the dark uniform of the
Rite Brigade, and Prince Leopold, who wore the kilt,
Princess Beatr'oe cams next, in high spirits, wearing •
pink satin dress, her light hair hanging freely behind.
Prince Christian, in the 'earls: uniform of • Major-
General in the English serrise, with the Princess, in pink
satin. Then the two little children of the Prince and
Ps i swum. ...t Viewka—rcluOe tileulge of Wale@ awl Prince
Albert Viotor, in Highland kilt, scarf, and *preen ;
cheery, bright boys, who insy well gladden a mother's
heart, as they march along, more or less solemnly in
front of her. The Princess of Wales, bowing to all,
and greeted with an almost affectionate greeting by all,
was the last of the I{,yal party. A cloud of Ladies
and Gentlemen In Waiting closed this grand procession,
which ranged Itself, or was arranged, in proper
position before the Alter. For a while the organ ceases,
and presently the Bt'clegroom, preceded by the Lord
Chamberlain and saps nted by his "best men," walks
up the (7hoir and take up hie his position on the
right of the Altar. The Margnis of Lorna did not
wear the kilt. hut the uniferui of the Argyleshire ,
regiment of Volunteer Artillery, of which he is
I colonel. Lord Percy and Lord Ronald Leveson-Gower
I wore a corresponding uniform. It was • trying position
for the Bridegroom, but 111, not necessary to say that
he bore it well. Standing in front of the ti she and Durhese
of Argyll, a little in advance of his supporters, his
fair hair and clearly-out features, which photography
I has made so familiar, were full in view from all parts
I of the choir.
Another interval of suspense, and the bridesmaids I
go out to meet the Bride; and cheers and music (coin
without tell thou inside the Chapel that tho supremo
moment is approaching. A crimson curtain concealing
the door-way is wen drawn aside; this procession
appears, headed by the Heralds, the Lord Chamberlain,
and the Vice-Chamberlale ; and the organ peals forth
Mendelssohn's familiar, but incomparable Wedding
March from datalic. Slowly the procession adrenals
up the Nave and enters the Choir. The Bride is sup-
ported on the right by the Queen and on the other
side by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Saxe-
Coburg and Gotha. Once MOTO all rise end make low
Meteorites an the bridal oorten sweep by. The Prin. I
ceu looked naturally somewhat pale and Agitated, and
her eyes were bent on the ground. But, in her array I
of white satin and vall of Bonito's lace she looked a I
charming Bride, ad excited the warmest interest and 1
admiration is pbe passed by. The Queen wore • black 1
satin dress, relieved by the bread bias riband of the
Garter, and by a fall of white lice, whish reached
nearly to the ground, and materially tempered, though
It did, not conceal, the dark material beneath. The
Prince of Wales wore the uniform of the 10th Hassan,
of which he le Colonel.
The wedding dress of Princess Louise was of a rich
white satin covered with • deep flounce of Honiton
point lace, trimmed with cordons of orange blossoms,
white heather, and myrtle, and a train of white satin,
trimmed to emu-vend with the dregs. Her Royal
Highness wore • wreath of orange blossoms and
myrtle, with • yell of Honiton lac., heldby two diamond
pins in the form of daisies, the gift of Prince Arthur,
Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice. The dress was
made by Kiss Unitt, and the lowers supplied by Mr.
Nestor Sirard. Her Royal Highness also wore •
diamond nesklace, to which was attached a largo erns-
ment of pearls and diamonds, with • sapphire in Cis
centre, the gift of the Marquis of Lorne, and a diamond
and emerald bracelet given by the Prince and Princess
of Wales. Her Royal Highness likewise wore a diamoud
bracelet which bad belonged to the Duchess of Kent,
and the one given to her by the people of Winder.
The bridesmaldstwere —the Lady Ersabeth Campell.
the Lady Mary Cull, the Lady Mary Butler, the Lady
Florence Montagu. the Lady Florence Gordon Lunar
the Lady Grace Gordon, thegAgly Coastline Seymour,
and the Lady Fitszereld.
The Bridosureids' dresses were of white glace silk,
trimmed with satin, and a tunic of gossamer and fringe,
cerise roses, white heather and ivy, with wreaths to
correspond.
The Princess advanoes to the altar and kneels, as her
Majesty also does; mother and daughter for a moment
praying together. Then when they have risen, the
nuptial service oommences.
Happily all ladies, married and unmarried know
this service by heart. There is no need, oonsequently,
I. follow the choral portion of the Right R d
the Bishop of London as he admonishes the youthful
pair of the sanctity and obligations of wedlock, and
Wide them towards their interchange af troth. It was
an incident which lent special force to a critical point
in the ceremony that the Queen herself gave away
the Bride. In the utterance of the "1 will" the
voice of the Princess is distinctly heart more clearly
and firmly than the correlative declaration of the
you Lord; but both repeat their vows in a suppressed
and serious tone and their hands are joined and re-
joined in what seems at • slight distance almost like
silence. Then they kneel together. tau and wife,
te receive new warnings and benedictions • ' and as
they rise the sonorous waves of the organ Pcala Win
Into the air a tender and pathetic but most royal
musical blessing of Beethoven, admirably rendered by
Dr. Elroy. The exhortation is res./ by tho Peahen of
Winchester.
When the time came for putting on the ring the
bride took off her glove, which, with Ito bouquet, the
Queen offered to take. The Printer, however,
evidently did not observe the gracious attention, and
handed them to :Lady . Florence Lennox, who let
them drop. May this be an owes that dowers may
strew the ground wherever the Princess's future life
nui_r lead her I
When the ceremony is cioncladed. her Majesty, draw-
ing the Princess to her bosom, kisses her with motherly
fervour upon the fair cheek. The thrioe-and•four-tinies
fertunate Marquis is at this moment just • little in the
cloud.; but Gold Stick-in-Waiting, not being engaged
himself in the act of marrying • beautiful Princess of
, &gland, is naturally more alive to the exigency of the
I moment, and whispers& word to the happy BMW.", tn-
He turns with quick, glad gesture, and, bending low,
till his knee tenches the ground, reverently kisses the
extended hand of the Queen. Then turning round,
and Preceded still by the dazzling indeuribable heralds,
the happy pair lead the way down the crimson path-
way ; the Princess linking her bend with a quick readi-
ness upon the area of her yoana husband. The Questa
and the Batt AMMO come after e wedded 00uPla
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lights It up with • natural diadem of ReaVegell geld.
Who is there in the great throng now meltinj away—
who is there, indeed, In all the Woad land of England
—that does not wish the omen of that sunny coronation
fulfilled to her and to hers, and the finwer of her
young life made glad and radiant with soft light like
that which falls from above as she walks, a Wedded
Wife, and thus gilds the orange-blossoms upon her
brow?
On the conclusion of the ceremony & Royal salute
was fired, The Royal personages and • large party of
distinguished guests then partook of • " wedding
breakfast" at the Castle. Shortly after four o'clock
the newly-tnarried pair left the Castle for Claremont,
where they will spend the honeymoon. An open car
nags and four greys with one outrider was prepared
for the Marquis of LOllll3 and Prince's Levine, and
another eqnisage for Lord Mountoharles and Lady
Churchill. There was also an escort of the 2nd Life
Guards. AN the bride and bridegroom left the Palms
their numerous relatives, inoluding the Princes and
Princesses of the Royal family, showered over them a
quantity of white satin slippers, and following an
ancient Highland custom, a new broom was thrown
after them as they got into the carriage. Her Royal
Sighness wore a white corded silk dress. trimmed with
swansdown and fringe, and • white chip bonnet, with
wreath of lilies of the valley and orange blossoms.
They were enthusiastically cheered by the crowd. The
Prinoess seemed to have regained her usual cheerfulness
and good apirits, and ackno /lodged the greetings of the
crowd with cordial enprestement:

LORD BROUGHAM'S GHOSTLY VISITANT.
One of the rest remarkable stories recently told
appears in Lord Brougham's autobiography, which had
just been issued by Messrs. Blackwood :—" A most
me —:inregmar.
Akfaterbieltbakatt
the High School I went with 0---, my most intimate
remarkableimull
tal theth o
storyh s
friend, to attend the dame in the Univenity. There
P fromPs a.
dt
It
was no divinity class, but we frequently in our walks
disclosed and !sperailisted upon many grave subjects—
among others, on the immortality of the soul, and on
• future state. This question, and the possibility, I
will not say of ghosts walking, but of the deed appear-
ing to the living, were eubjere of much rpm:dation ;
and we actually committed the folly of drawing up an
agreement, written with our blood, to the effect that
whichever of us died first should apper to the other,
eeedihs wawa city doubts we had entertained of the
' life after death. After we had numbed our awns
at the pollee, 11-- went to India, having got an
appointment there in the civil service. lie seldom
wrote to me, and after the lapse of • few years I bad
almost forgotten him; moreover, his family haring
little connexion with Elinburgh, I seldom saw or heard
anything of them, or of him through them, so that ell
the old schoolboy intimacy had died out, and I had
nearly forgotten his existence. I had taken, as I have
said, • warm bath; and while lying in it, and major
log the oomfort of the heat after the late freezing I
had undergone, I turned my head round, looking to-
wards the chair on whir& I bad deported my clothes,
as I was %boat to get ont of the bath. On the chair
sat 0-- looking Grimly at me. How I got oat of the
LW: I know not, but on recovering my senses I found
myself sprawling on the floor. The apparition, or
whatever it was that had taken the likelier of 0--
had disappeared. This vision produmid such • shook
that I had no inclination to talk about it, or to 'peak
of it oven to Stuart ; but the impression it made upon
me was to vivid easily to be forgotten, and so stroegly
was I affected by it that I have here written down the
whole history with the date. December 19, and all the
particulars, as they are now fresh before me. No
doubt I had fallen asleep, and thet the appearanee
presented so distinctly to ;my eyes was • dream I can-
not for a moment doubt; yet for years I had had no
communication with G—, nor had there been any-
thing to remit him to my reeollestion. Nothing had
taken 'place during our Swedish travels either soft-
netted with 0— or with India, or with anything
relating to him or to any member of his family. I
recollected quickly enough our old dissuasion, and the
agreement we had made. I mild not discharge from
my mind the impression that 0-- must have died,
that his appearance to me was to be received by me
sq a proof of a future state." This was on December
19, 1700. In Ostober 1862 Lord Brougham added as a
postscript :—" I have just been copying out from my
journal the account or this strange dream. C,rtissina
nyrrtis iinvo / And now to finish the story began
about sixty years since. Soon after my return to
Edinburgh there arrived a letter from India announc-
ing o—,rio.th, and stated that he had died on
December 19!'

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