The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-04 00:00:00

66 TO THE QUIP ('8 MOST MCI:MIST MAJESTY.

'• May it please your Majesty,—We, the president and
members of the Royal Academy of Arts, humbly beg leave
to approach your Majesty, with the dutiful assurance of
our devoted loyalty, gratitude, and attachment, and to offer
to your Majesty our moat respectful and heartfelt congratu-
lations on the happy occasion of the marriage of his
Royal Highneu the Prince of Wales with her
Royal Highness the Princess Alenndn of Denmark.
The expression of sincere felicitation universally called forth
on this occasion bjthe personal virtues of the illustrious
Prince and Princes., and by their mutual affection, is en-
hanced by a loyal and affectionate sympathy with your
Majesty, and by the hope that so auspicious an event may
be to your Majesty a source of Listing consolation. Those
feelings have been especi►lly manifested in an eothusiutic
welcome to the amiable Princess who is now a distinguished
member of the royal family, end who, in adding, as we trust,
to the happiness of your Majesty, will ever find the surest
access to the hearts of your Majesty's subjects. That your
Majesty's reign over a loyal and contested people may con-
tinue to be bleued with peace, and adorned by the cultiva-
tion of art and science, is the prayer of your Majesty's most
devoted servants."

At a recent special general meeting of the Most Honour-
able and Loyal Society of Ancient Britons, held at the
office of the moiety, 55, Charing-cross, Sir WATILIE WIL-
LIAMS WYNN, Bart., LP., in the chair, supported by the
Earl Vane, Mr. Alex. Wood, Mr. J. R. Kenyon, Q.C.,
Colonel Studbolme &amnia, C. 8., Mr. R. A. Hawkins,
Mr. John Propert, Mr. William Jones, and other members
of the society, the following addresses to her most gracious
Majesty the Queen, patron of the institution, sod their
Royal Highnesses the Prince end Princess of Wales, were
unanimously adopted ; and they were referred to Sir
Watkin Williams Wynn, the preeideat, vice-presidents,
treasurer, and vice-treesurera of the society, to be presented
in such manner as will be most acceptable to her most
gracious Majesty the Queen and their Royal Highnesses the
Prime and Princess of Wales :
"TO TEE WIENS'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
" We, 7our Majesty's most dutiful subjects, the Most
Honoaeable and Loyal Society of Ancient Britons, thank-
fully bearing in mind your Majesty's gradous patronage and
support to our society and its valuable charity, the Welsh
&tool, beg now to offer our respectful and affectionate eon-
gratulations to your Majesty on the marriage of your royal
son the Prince of Wales with the Moms Alexandra of
Denmark. We venture, in humble reliance on that
Almighty Providence which has so favoured this nation, to
anticipate from this union much of happiness to their
royal highnesses, and much of good to our country.
We fervently pray that these our hopes may be fully
realised, and that your Majesty may loog be blessed in
witnessing their happiness, and their increming value to
your people, and have therein, and in their warm love for
your Majesty, a rich reward for the training and education
which, in conjunction with your Itte revered and deeply-
lamented Consort, your maternal love has provided for his
royal highness ; and for which, as one of the beat of gifts to
your subjects, we feel sod beg to express the deepest rats-
tude.—Given at London, under our common seal, this 31st
day of March, in the year of our Lord 1863."
"TO TEEM ROYAL BIGHNENSER ALBEET EDWARD PEDICZ OF